Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

W. F. SMITH, Publisher. VOLUME VIII. NEWS GLEANINGS. In Mississippi there are 5,024 public schools and 909 private schools. The little county of Wythe, Va., pro duced last year $1,000,000 worth of iron. During March the yellow pine lum ber shipped from Jacksonville, Fla., amounted to 4,831,779 feet. The Houston (Texas) Post says that over 100,000 people petioned the Legis lature on the prohibition question. The Vicksburg (Miss.) Herald says that the cotton factory at Water Valley, which has been idle for some years, will soon be put in repair and run again. Col. James Crook, one of the Alabama Railroad Commissioners, told a reporter of the Atlanta Constitution that Gen. Gordon owns 279,000 acres of the finest coal lands in the world. Gainesville (Ga.) Southron: The gold mines of Northeast Georgia are yielding large dividends, with all the drawbacks of a winter and spri ig unequaled for se verity in half a century. The rainfall in March and April largely surpassed that of any season within the memory of the oldest inhabitant. Memphis (Tenn) Appeal: With the city-debt bill in force, and also the State debt bill, the rate of taxation in Mem ph is will be as follows; State-debt com promise on the SIOO, fifty cents; city debt compromise on the SIOO fifty cents; city taxes for all purposes, $1 GO; State and county tax, seventy cents; total amount of tax, $6 30. Columbus (Ga) Advertiser: Numbers of our planters are now paying high prices for hay to feed stock on, and in a short while will be paying nearly the game per 100 pounds to have the grass killed in order to make a bale of cotton to an average of three and a half acres >f land. This is one reason why our far mers can accumulate no money, and in a great measure accounts for the many poor horses, cows and hogs to be found in this country. Emigration lias set in from the Valley of Virginia to Piedmont, Va. A num ber of fanners in the valley have recent ly sold out and bought farms in Fauqui er and Piedmont counties. At Warren ton, last week, a farmer arrived from Rockingham county seeking suitable farms for twenty-five neighbors in that county. The cause assigned for the change is that Piedmont (Va) lands be ing cheaper, the farmers can own laager tracts. Tuscaloosa (Ala.) Times: Tuscaloosa has three newspapers and one magazine ; a Methodist, a Catholic, a Presbyterian, a Baptist, an Episcopalian, and several colored churches; a University, two High Schools for boys, and a number of good schools for small children; two j banks, one national and the other pri vate ; two cotton factories, two planing mills and furniture manufactories and a cotton-gin factory; an Insane Hospital, and a Theological Seminary for colored preachers; and fifty business houses. Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution: Mayor] English told me yesterday that the in crease in city property this year would go sharply over $1,W0,000. Bob Griffin, one of the assessors, estimated that of this amount fully $500,000 was in new houses that had been added during the year, and the ballance in increased val ues. This is a capital record for a young city and puts our total assessments above $20,000,000. The debt of the city is about ten per cent of the total value, but it is decreasing while the city is growing. Mayor English thinks that in three years the debt will have shrunk to sev en per cent of the total value, which is highest rate permitted. The outlook for building next year is quite as good as last. A writer in the Reidsville (N, C.) Times, speaking of the birthplace of Ed Richardson, said to be the richest man in the South, says that he was born in Sergcansville, Caswell county, N. C. He and Esquire Samuel S. Harrison were born not half a mile apart and within two weeks of each other. The I old ladies used to say that when one died of old ago the other would quake with fear. His name is Edmund R Richardson, not Edward R. ‘‘He first set out as a young man clerking in Dan ville at Sullivan’s Hotel, the “Old Bell lavern.” Forty years ago he drove all the way from Mississippi herein a sulky, and there wasn’t a railroad to be seen ; now see the difference. They wanted him for Governor, but he wouln’t hear to it. When spoken to about it he said was the very last place he should think of; he would as soon have the town constable’s,'’ M ifife ffengja Devoted te Industrial Interest, the DjfTn>ion of Truth, the Establishment of Justice, and the Preservation of a People’s Government. Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer-Bun: Whe the grange was a flourishing institution in Oglethorpe county, some years since it was customery, when a member want ed credit for a committee to examine in to his solvency. If found solvent the officers of the grange would give him a written recommendation. In numerous instances these debts were not paid and now the officers are being sued. If the court decide that these written recom mendations are binding, the officers will be bankrupt. Orangeburg county item in Charles ton (S. C.) News and Courier: The ques tion of fencing crops or stock was dis cussed two weeks ago at a meeting of the citizens of Pine Grove township, and a vote ol those present taken to test the sentiment of the people on the question. The result was an almost unanimous vote in favor of the law as it now stands, and it is thought that there are not more than twenty or twenty-five citizens of that section who favor the new law, that is, fence in the stock and not the crops. Tampa, (Fla.) Tribune: Capt. James r. McMullen, living near Bay View, in the Clearwater section, has a citrus tree which bears both oranges and lemons, which was never grafted and bears the characteristics of the sweet orange tree. What is further remarkable about it is that some of the oranges arai one-half yellow and one-half red, each color be ing confir ed to one hemisphere, and the line of demarkation between the two col ors being as distinct as if the coloring had been put on with a painter’s brush. Capt. McMullen sent us several speci mens of this fruit for inspection. Columbia, (S. C.) special dispatch to the Charleston News and Courier: Ten immigrants arrived this morning, and a party of eight or more will reach the city to-morrow, it will be seen that arrivals are of almost daily occurrence, and they are prbmtly engaged. Of those not hitherto disposed of, J. W. Davis, of Ridgeway, Fairfield county, takes seven; Edward P. Mobley, of Fairfield, three; and C. C. Montgomery, of Richland, sev en. Two of these gentlemen had obtain ed members of the first party, and was so much pleased with them that they have secured more. Reports come in that they do twice as much daily work as the negroes, and do it well. From March 18 to date (about three weeks) 144 immi grants have been received and settled by Col. Butler. This does not include those who will arrive to morrow. Col. Boy kin will probably leave here t,o-morrow for New York in place of Col. Butler, and will make a personal examination oj the method of securing immigrants to the Castle Garden and familiarize him. self with the work before him. For Rheumatism. Many persons along the sea coast in this country recommend and use sand baths in July and August for the cure of rheumatism. In Greece, near their sea coasts, it is one of the sure remedies used by persons affected with chronic rheumatism, anchylosis, and chronic synovitis of the knee joint. The pa tients bury themselves in the sand or cause others to cover them with it, so that only the head, which is covered with a night cap or straw hat, remains free It is a ludicrous sight to see twenty or thirty such odd-looking heads sticking out of the sand. In conse quence of the. weight and the saline character of the sand, the skin of the patients becomes so red that when they emerge from their sandy bed (which they occupy as long as possible) they look like boiled lobsters. Wooden huts, or tents improvised with oleander and plaintain branches, are used as bathing houses, and a piece ol bread, some grapes and a glass of wine, generally constitute the meal of a patient. Fighting a Bull With an Ax. [Richland (Iowa) Special.] While R. D. Hooker, of Richland, was engaged in chopping pumpkins for his stock, and was on one knee, paying no attention to his cattle, without warning a bull came at him, striking him on the right side and shoulder and prostrating him on the ground. Though severely bruised and hurt, Mr. Hooker got on his feet before the animal had time to make a second attack, and, as it rushed at him, struck it with an ax just under the horn and above the eye. The blow, however, seemed to have little effect on the angry beast, stopping it for a moment. It again pitched at Hooker, one horn gor ing him in the arm and the other inflict ing a wound on the face. By this time the case looked desperate, but as the ani mal came at him the fourth or fifth time Hooker managed to plant a blow on its forehead that felled it to the ground, and before it had recovered sufficiently i to renew the attack, he had got out of its reach. Aim prosperous men can give good | counsel, and they like to do it; it costs them nothing. It is easy to declaim I against feasting, when the stomach is frill. * INDIAN SPRINGS, GEORGIA. A Thrilling Sketch. One warm day in August, upon the bank of the muddy Colorado, we chil dren were lazily sitting about on the ground. One sister was stringing beads taken from an old moccasin, and most of the men were sleeping under the wagons through the heat of the after noon. There was a great stillness upon everything, save for the children’s chat ter, and a heat rose from the ground that smote the eyes. Suddenly there was a dreadful scream, echoed, re echoed, multiplied ; then another, and another, as when one strikes the hand upon the mouth, till in one second of time the air seemed rent and tom with yells. In just that second the close chapparal had become black with Indi ans, who had crawled, serpent-like, on hands and knees, till, right upon us, in concert they could leap into sight. They wore cloths upon their loins, and had some feathers wound in their hair, with hideous paint glowing on face and breast. I gazed in dumb anazement, benumbed with surprise, and then I think I awoke to the excitement of the occasion. The women and children, through an air thick with flying arrows, were marshaled into one covered wagon, and there my mother wrapped us all round with feather beds, blankets and comforters. Ido not think I was fright ened, not because of any precocity of courage, but because of a wild excite ment that filled me. I half leaned upon the knee of my sister. She said she was conscious of no pain, she felt no sudden pang, but something warm seemed running down her side, and, looking down, she saw an arrow which had pierced her flesh and protruded its flinty head from the wound. “Mother,” she exclaimed, “I am shot,” and fainted. My mother, the woman whose spirit never failed her in this or the dreadful trials which succeeded this disastrous fight, put forth her hand and drew the arrow backward through the wound. It was while thus supporting the head of the girl she supposed dying, it somehow became known to her that her husband was lying quite dead and filled with ar rows under the great cottonwood tree under which the'camp was made. It was but a few moments more till one of the men spoke from the front of the wagon. Saidhe: “Ourammunition is giving out and we do not know but it may come to a hand-to-hand fight. Get out the knives you have in the bed of the wagon.” Through the backward march which fol lowed it was ever the women who rose superior to suffering and to danger. The men lost courage, hope and spirit, but the women never. A few moments after the demand for the knives a Methodist preacher, who had seized my father’s rifle, aimed at the chief with the dinner bell depending from his belt, and saw him fall. In five minutes not an Indian was to be seen, the living dragging with them the dead as they went. In the mean time, under cover of the fight, our great herd of cattle had been made to swim the river, and were safely corraled in the Mojave villages.— Kate Heathy in Janu ary Californian. Tilings Hard to Understand. Why an endless procession of drinkers from a public dipper will, without ex ception, drink close to the handle. Why half the human race was not born without hearing and the other half without speech Then the talkers might talk on in uninterrupted flow, and the hearers exercise their especial gift with out their present pruriency to speak. Why people will go into society to get bored,’ when they can get bored just as well at home. Why the young lady who will eagerly chew boarding house mince pie will carefully eschew boarding house mince- meat. Why a man’s stomach will be so ever lastingly squamish at home, and at the I eating house display a faith like a grain of mustard seea. Why a woman will make excuses for her bread when she knows it is the best she ever made, and knows her “com pany’’ knows it. Why a “young gentleman” swears so much louder and more copiously when stranger ladies are within ear-shot; or in other words, Why the desire to make a fool of one’s self springs eternal in the human breast. Why we are so much angrier against him who shows us our error than him who leads us therein. Why evervhody is so prompt to an swer, “ How do you do?” when you ask that inevitable question. And, Whv you seem to be perfectly satis- j fied with the information contained in this echo. Why one’s piety strengthens as his health weakens. Why people will get married when courtship is so sweet. Why a man who claims to have found marrying a delusion will again embrace that delusion upon the first convenient opportunity. Why cold weather comes during the season when it is least agreeable. Whv it is so much easier to be polite to people whom we shall probably never see again than to those whose good opin ion we have reason to cultivate. tt hen a young man gets a cutaway coat that buttons from the watch chain up to the shirt collar, and can hold an inch stub of a cigar between his teeth and look unconcerned, he s entitled to quotation, and it’s an ungrateful public that fails to notice him. What incen tive has a young man to effort in a world that persistently refuse to recog nize merit? “Downy” way of putting it—Men jure geese, women are ducks, and birds of a feather flock together. The Great Bridge. [Boston Transcript.] Work on the great East River Bridge, New York, is continued vigorously, about nine hundred men being employed at the present time. The work upon the superstructure will be continued through the winter, except in the most severe weather. One thousand tons of steel are to be delivered this winter. The first suspenders for the support of the roadway were placed in position last week. All those for the Brooklyn side will be in position wdthin a week, and after that those on the New York side will be placed. There will be thirteen suspenders on each of the four cables on each side of both towers, making 204, all of which wili be put up during the winter. The longest measure 128 feet. These suspenders are of steel wire rope, If inches in diameter, with a socket at each end. The upper socket is fastened by means of a bolt 1£ inches in diame ter to a band of wrought iron five inches wide and five-eighths of an inch thick, which is bolted to the cable. At the lower end of the suspenders are two bolts inches in diameter, through cast-iron sockets, by which to attach tne beams to the suspenders. After the beams are in place, the trusses will be erected. The thirteen suspenders to be placed this winter will extend nearly one hundred feet from the piers. The cables are to be swayed thirteen feet nearer together than they are now, the outer ones being brought six and one half feet nearer the centre. A strain of twenty two tons will be required to draw them together. They will then be con nected at intervals with wire rope stays. This will secure strong lateral bracing for the whole structure, and add im mensely to its ability to resist the winds. Sixty or seventy men will be employed during the winter. If all the work that is now laid out is accomplished, about one hundred feet of the superstructure on each side of both piers will be com pleted by spring, except the flooring Elank. Four thousand tons of steel will e used next summer, in addition to the thousand tons to be used this winter. The security Disraeli GaTe. London papers, in noticing the death of Mr. Henry Padwick, which occurred recently, tell an interesting story con cerning the deceased gentleman and Disraeli. Padwick began life as a money-lender, and Disraeli, quite at the outset of liia political career, finding himself pressed for money, went one day to call on Padwick, who knew him by sight, of course, perfectly well, and frankly asked him for an advance of several thousand pounds for a certain time. When Padwick inquired what security his distinguished client had to offer, Mr. Desraeli quietly said: “The security of my ambition and my genius.” The two men looked at each other for a few moments, when Mr. Padwick said: “Well, Mr. Disraeli, this is an unbusi ness-like sort of transaction, but I will think of it. Could you call on such a day ?” The day came, Mr. Disraeli made his appearance, mastering as well as he could his anxiety, and Mr. Pad wick, opening a portfolio, took out and handed him a check for the required amount. In many ways it proved to be the best investment the shrewd man of money had ever made. The Remedy He Needed. “ Can you cure my eyes?” said a man to Dr. Brown. “Yes,” said the Doctor, “if you will follow my prescription.” “O, certainly, Doctor,” said the pa tient; “I will do anything to have my eves cured. What is your remedy, Doctor?” “You must steal a horse,” said the Doctor, very soberly. “ steal a horse, Doctor!” said the pa tient, in amazement. “ How will that cure my eyes?” “ You will be sent to State Prison for five years, where you can not get whisky, and during your incarceration your eyes j would get well,” said the Doctor. The patient looked somewhat incredu lous, but he did not adopt the Doctor’s remedy. ■ It Was Bitten Off. The andedote of the inquisitive man, who asked another how he lost his leg, and, after having promised to ask no further questions, was told that it was “bit off,” lias been variously told, and often wrongly attributed. The incident is properly told in Scribner , in a paper on Copley, the American artist of the last century. The incident occurred be tween Brook Watson, afterward Lord Mavor of London and his servant, who, in pulling off his boot, was warned in vain that if lie was not careful He would bring the leg off too—-which, much to his astonishment he did. As a matter o. fact, Watson’s leg had been bitten off by a shark in the harbor of Havana; an J event commemorated in a famous picture I,y Copley, which is engraved with the above mentioned paper. A London journal says of Mayo in “Davy Crockett:” “He has many per gonal advantages; a manly figure, ex pressive features, a fine voice. His elocution is admirable, and he knows how to infuse many shades and changes of expression into the pronunciation of a monosyllable* by subtle inflections of voice. He use* this power with equally happv results in comic scenes and is those" which call for pathos or vigor. Mr. Mayo carried the audience with him, and his picturesque, natural, quaint, and pathetic impersonation ol Davy Crockett deserves to become as popular here as it has been in America.* Mxlbcbn, the blind preacher, says that Carlyle, in a conversation, foretold the downfall c f Louis Napoleon, whom he likened to an opera singer whose opera house was soon to be blasted by an 1 earthquake God, _ A Clerical Ancedote of the Olden Time. An old Connecticut clergyman, once upon a time, while his wife was absent from home, was invited by one of bis parishioners to diue with him, which in vitation he accepted? The first proposition made, on entering the house, was, that they “take some thing,” to which the minister assented. The liquor furnished was old Jamaica rum, and the visitor drank as was his wont—as he would have drank tho rum he usually purchased of his deacons, both of whom sold it. Just before sitting down to dinner the host produced the decanter again, and again the twain partook. The meal was eaten, pipes were smoked, and, by and by, before setting forth into the chill autumnal air for the afternoon meeting, the host offered the decanter once more. The good old clergyman thought he knew his own capacity, and he drank accord ingly. It made him feel good. The rum was excellent—smooth as oil—the best he ever drank. And on his way to the church, in the chill, bracing air, he was all light. But, alas! upon sitting down in his pulpit, with the great box-stove, at the head of the broad aisle, directly below him. sending up its heat of old hickory wood, the strong rum began to take serious effect—so much so, that tho poor old clergyman could not deliver liis sermon! His friend, with whom he had dined, saw the trouble at once; and, hav ing explained to the congregation that the good man had complained of feeling very unwell at his house, lie summoned the assistance of the deacons, and helped the unfortunate man out into the open air. Of course, this made a stir; and the good deacons, feeling themselves called upon to uphold the morals of the people, proceeded forthwith to make complaint against the minister, and to summon him before the church for trial. The day appointed for the trial arrived, and the minister was called upon to con fess, and, if lie wished, to explain. He did so, as follows: “Brethren —I confess my misfortune; but, let me assure you, I was led into it through a misconception of facts. I took dinner with our good Brother Arnold. He, as usual, offered me the friendly cup; and I imbibed as had been my custom. As many of you are aware, I have been in the habit of drinking spirit as fur nished by our worthy deacons; and I knew not, at the time, that Brother Ar nold had another article entirely. He has explained to me, however, that the Jamaica rum which he furnished on that occasion was procured by him directly from the importer; whereas, you will remark, I measured my allowance in the belief that it had passed through the hands of our deacons! I can only say, that I have learned a lesson, which 1 trust will be of profit to me.” You can imagine, I fancy the appear ance of those two deacons on that occas ion. Suffice it to say, they did not press the complaint any further. But those were things of the past. In those days a wedding without wine would have been no wedding at all; and your total-abstainer was as rare in the pulpit as he would have been in regimentals ! New York Ledger. In the Australian Bush. I was terribly frightened one night in Queensland by a dead man riding up to my camp-fire at midnight. I was quite alone. I heard my horses neighing and another answering in the Malgas bushes, so I got up and put wood on, making a bright blaze, and presently into the cir cle of light came a horseman bending i over his pommel, with his large straw hat slouched over his eyes. I took my revolver off my saddle and sung out: ' “Good-night, mate! You travel late. Will you have a drink of tea ?” Not a word of answer. Just then my two dogs, who were sniffing about, set up such a terrible cry it made me jump again. After a bit I began to open my eyes to the state of affairs and mustered courage enough to walk up to the horse and take hold of the reins. While doing so I touched the rider’s hands, which were cold as ice. I tried to get him off the saddle, butit was of no use. His legs were out of the irons and wound tightly round the mare. I had to cut the reins from the grip of his fingers. I packed him on the horse when sunrise came and led him into Tambo, where I found he was well known as a digger. He had set out thence that morning—after drinking nearly a bottle of brandy—to go to a place distant about forty miles, and I was only twelve miles from the township when he paid his ill-timed visit. There was no doctor within 200 miles at that time. How ever, they held a kind of inquest, at which the P. M. talked learnedly of muscular contraction and sunstroke, and was puzzled to decide whether the brandy had anything to do with it, as he could swear, from his own experience, that the liquor was first-class. He praised me more than I deserved, for I had half a mind to run away at first. When I am camped out even now alone strange thoughts of that nocturnal horseman come into my head. If any one had told such a story to me I should hardly have credited it. I mean that a man should stick to his horse in that way without any other help than his saddle straps afforded. His little mare was very quiet, though, and was evidently attracted by the sound of my horse bells. —JSiew South Wales letter. A sea captain was brought before a justice in Marseilles and mercilessly at tacked by his opponent’s lawyer. When it length he was suffered to speak, he *aid: “Your honor, I ask a delay of one week in the proceedings, so that I may find a big enough liar to answer that nan."’ His request was granted. SUBSCRIPTION—SI.SO. NUMBER 36. BITS OF INFORMATION. One cubio foot of water measures gallons. Wood will furnish, when properly burned, 16 per cent, of coal. Senators and Representatives each receive an annual compensation of $5,000. Knives were the earliest branch of cutlery, and were first manufactured in England in 1563. Pliny tells us Dsedalus invented the saw. The earliest saw-mill of which we have record was built in Madeira in 1420. In England and in the United States here are 43,564 square feet to the acre, oi Germany there are about 28,316* square feet to the acre. The first historical appearance of gyp sies was found 450 years ago, or there abouts, in the City of Luneburg, on the Elbe. They came from Egypt. Black is not the only color worn in mourning. In China and Siam white is worn, and white was also the color of mourning among the ancient Romans. The greatest number of vessels of war at any time in the service of Congress, during the Revolutionary war, was twenty-five. Our little navy captured over 800 vessels during 1776-77. Thf, Gregorian calendar was adopted by Germany in 1700, and by English law in 1752, when the Julian calendar gave place to the new style, by dropping eleven days from the month of Septem ber, that year. yAfter the restoration of Charles 11., England, that King had the mean ness to order the bodies of Cromwell, Bradshaw and Ireton to be dragged out of their tombs, and hanged upon the gallows at Tyburn. The first income tax was passed by Congress July 1,1862, and took effect in the year 1863. It taxed all incomes over S6OO and under SIO,OOO, at the rate of 3 per cent., and on all over SIO,OOO it levied a tax of 5 per cent. By an act of March 3, 1865, the income-tax law was amended so as to increase the 3-per-cent, tax to 5 per cent., and the 5-per-cent, tax on incomes over SIO,OOO was changed to a 10-per-cent, tax upon the excess over $5,000 income, the exemption of S6OO remaining the same. The act was further amended March 2, 1867, so as to increase the exemption, then standing at S6OO, up to SI,OOO. At the same time, all discrimination as to the taxing of large incomes a higher rate was abol ished, and the tax fixed at 5 per cent, on all incomes over SI,OOO. The act also contained a limitation or proviso that the taxes on incomes should be levied and collected until, and including, the year 1870, and no longer. The tax was renewed for one year by act of July 14, 1870, the rate at the same time being re duced to 2b per cent., and the exemption increased to $2,000. The bill repealing all income tax passed the Senate Jan. 26. 1871. and the House March 3. Aaron Burr and Mrs. Hamilton. When on an official visit to the United States in 1853, I spent a day or two at Mr. Stuart Browne’s place on the New Jersey shore of the Hudson River, above Hoboken. General Tayler, of Ohio, waa another guest, and as the house was at no great distance from the spot where the fatal duel between Burr and Hamil ton took place (July 12, 1804), a conver sation arose on the event, and the char acteristics, public and private, of the two men. General Taylor told us that wheD a very young man, studying at West Point, he was one day on board a rivei boat, and among the passengers were Mrs. Hamilton, widow of Alexander Hamilton, and Aaron Burr, who had re turned to the States after his enforced absence in Europe, in consequence of his proved treasonable practices. Burr waa then an old man, but still retained much of his former confidence and manner, es pecially with ladies. To the astonish ment of those who knew him, on discov ering that Mrs. Hamilton was on board the steamboat, he approached her, took off his hat, and bowing, said: “Mrs. Hamilton, I believe? My name is Burr. The effect upon the lady, now well stricken in years, was electric. Rising from her seat, she gathered up her dress, as if to touch Burr with it would be con tamination, drew herself up, and looking at him from head to foot, swept away with a dignity and grace worthy of her best days, and left him standing abashed, if he were capable of feeling so, before the spectators. Burr replaced his hat upon his head, and slowly moved hack to the reat he had left purposely to make this experiment upon the feeling* of the widow *bf the man he had slain, for one can not suppose that he had any intention to apologize or explain, since this was impossible. —Notes and Queries. . __ The Square Man. The square man mezzures the same each way, and haint got no winny edges nor shaky lumber in him. He is free from knots and sap, and won’t warp. He is klear stuff, and I don’t care what yu work him up into, he won’t swell and he won’t shrink. He iz amongst men what good’ kil dried boards are among carpenters, he won’t season krack. It don’t make any difference which side uv him yu cum up to, he is the same big ness each way, and the only way tew get at him, enny how, iz to face him. He knows he iz square, and never spends enny time tneing to prove it. The square man is one of the beet shaped men the world has ever produced. He iz one of them kind ov chunks that kant alter tew fit a spot, but you must alter the spot to fit him. —Josh Billings. Happiness and unhappiness are qual ities of mind, not of place or position.