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W, F. £r$!TH, Publisher,
VOLUME IX.
H.YVS GLS N!NGI.
Louis hum has good rice crops. - t-.
i*:irge elicit nut crop in Tennessee! *
will have street ears hi a
-hort time. *
I he; Texas Pacific railroad is ! within
100 mile* of JEi ro|o
Albany Georgia has a new six-hundred
dollar iirc alarm hell.
1 l)C corn cr “I> in Georgia will. be an
average one.
An Altanta hotel includes ten elec
tric lights among it’s attractions. *
Gen. Gordon will soon start a cotton
factory at Carfollton, Miss.
In Florida SI,OOO worth of arrowroot
IS f >n an acre of land. g,'
New Orleans has a butter iae facto
’) *hat turns out 12,000 pounds per day.
Ue baptist of iLyncbburg,-
iiav-e. completed a £22.1)0# chtm br -
If’ Unit, of Mt. La* 4ir
nved, arid. is and >mieiled at the Louisville.
l>r. John Phinter, Grand is at
tne Galt house.
he . ppen) says the grand jury will
indict the “Bucket Shop.” .. . A
I be Nashville grand jury has indicted
ahout twenty-five or thirty pool buyers;
Alex. Beil, of Pike county, Ga., is 14
years old and weighs 355 pounds. *
II is estimated that gold, si!ver~nnd"
copper mines of the south will yield
$20,000,000 this year.
Mr. E. \ oung, of I‘oimsyl vanin, ha§
SIO,OOO fora prospective,ggid mine
in Goochland coiinty, Va.
* n artesian well hi Durham; (J.
lias reached a depth of 1,6 0 feet
out any indio&tiotlH of wjitor. * ' *
.loliM Stewart, tlie oldest.nian in Ala
‘•Mina.lis <t*ad in Hhelhv* cmYntyr awd
102 years. •/ * n
M, (Richardson, of Mississippi.,
1118 V!llHe<l 12,500 hales of eoftftu Ais
vcai\ '• ' *
Translucent porcelain was first manii-’
factured in the United States at Slew*
Orleans last spring. (
It is a crime in Georgia'fo point a gun
or a pistol at another in fun yj;.„m:ilict\
whether tlie weapon Is loaded q^n^t.
I he seventy-five members of_ the' new
1 at. NashvilleJare^wcltli
iu the aggregate, $4,000,000.
A Chaqpery case eleven years oRl; has
Iwen decided at Troy, Alabama. The
plaintiff got judgement for $l5O~
1 uo American rifle team is arranging
tor a shooting tournament sometime
during the exposition at Atluntu.
Nine hundred acres of land wore re.r
eently sold by the sherfff*of MaOon
county, lla., for eleven cents aii acre.
MePho son Barracks, at Atlanta, will
broken up. The troops will go to
N>’cw York harbor to take the place of
the third regiment.
Eureka Springs, Ark., has' 15,00 Q in
habitants, and is beginning to ape city
manners. The latest affection plas
tered rooms and brick chimneys.
Forty thousand dollars for building
ami twenty thousand dollars for a site,
will be expended for an opera house at
Dallas, Tex.
The old city park of Charleston, S. C*
has been re-christened Washington
Square. A rtatue of the.father of his
county will soon be erected there.
The Sloss furnace now building at
Birmingham. Ala., will cost when com
pleted $180,000; will nmploy 250 men,
and have a capacity of 80 tons per day.
Anew town is springing up at the
terminis of the Pensacola and Selma
road, thirty-two miles from Pensacola
Junction, in Conecuh county, Ala.
It is expected that that the canal
around Muscle Shoals will be completed
in two years, when the Tennessee will
be navigable from Paducah to Knox
ville, a distance of 500.
T here is great excitement in the local
ity of the zinc mines, in Tazew ell county,
Tenn , over new ‘-finds” supposed to be
silver. It must lie valuable, as they
will not sutler so much as an ounce of
the ore to be lost.
One year ago, near Clmrleston, Miss.,
a Mrs. Orogby gave birth to triplets, a j
few days ago Mrs. C. did nothing less ]
than repeal the performance. Ihe chil- I
dren are all alive and kicking, and it is '
presumed that Mr. U is going through a
similar exercise.
r i he contract for that portion of the
Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad not
heretofore let, ephsUilng- of about one
hundred utiles indhe center of the line,
has been awarded to A. J.
gggggggggg
of Macon, Ga. The contractors will
transfer about ode thousand men to the
Pensacola and Atlantic from the New
Orleans and Pacific railroad,' where they
are just finishing a large contract.
Nashville ’World : Considerable snr
-I'rise was caused yesterday'by the sale of
in'Con federate bonds, part of
the as lots of the Bank of Tennessee, for
?S.D(fO. he Sile was effected by Robert
Ewing, Clerk and Master, ‘as Receiver
fur the bank, and the buyer was Raphael
J. Mf ses, Jr., of New York. One mil
lion dollars more in Confederate bonds
is in bis posse*-ion.
Columbus Enquirer-Sun : A gentle
man from Elbert county and a lady from
Franklin had agreed to become one.—
! he license was procured, the minister
present, and the twain stood on the floor
ready to join hands matrimonially, when
a former flame, of the. lady stepped in
arid asked the groom expectant if the
Jady would prefer to marry him would
lie Interpose any objection*. He answer
ed favorably, so did the lady, and the
ceremony proceeded with anew groom.
Lotteries In Italy.
Italy, however, is afflicted with another
plaguo, even more destructive than that
of oounterfciting, more tremendous iu
its evil results,* and which invades every
, department and every class. The Gov
ernment itself regulates the lotteries,
with the idea, probably, pf limiting what
could, not be avoided, ana profiting by it.
It is said that the ammal fief profit which
it derives from this tutelage is $15,000,-
000. But it is considered only a tem
porary measxufe, the final aim of Italy’s
statesmen being to abolish a vice which
habits.of .industry and encoiir
*ng< s crime. It-fuay.be e'omKmjpd uodbt
. fnj. whether this is tlmbesfc waV to do it,
butjthe habit was footed
in fhVcharacter of the Italians. It is
flow at least conducted witlj perfect lion
'esty, tlio highest fuationajios of the city
taking part in the extraction of the num
bers. T 1 lis ceremony takes place in
Home every Saturday afternoon in a
semi-circular building off the Via Ri
pelta, and is one of the relics of old
fames which is destined to pass away.
In a high balcony in. the center, of this
• copvex semi-circle are seated a delegate
of the Prefect and several ‘other gentle
men, wlio pass the fortunate number
from one to tlie other antil it is held up
to the people aud called out by a* city
.guard. The people stand on the street
with their luiuls raised and. their
fixed on the balcony until hope is
quenched in Certainty or‘satisfied with
: success. The part of'ltaly most infected
'with this vice is Campania, hvhere the
annual average for* eaolii inhabitant is
about $1.50. Home is second* then
follows Tuscany, while: Liguria sixth
upon the list* Another of citizens
iu Rome redeem it from this stray by
industry and saving, the ahmral medium
for every person bl-irig ’thirty-one francs.
The system of savings bankw is wisely
encojyyged by a few a .social econo
mists, among whcqnjs, a Jew
and a member of Parliament. This is
the true weapon with which to noaibat
the vices of idleness, long encouraged
by the Papal Government The people
have responded to the mvitationevith far
greater promptitude than could have
been expected. —Home Correspondence
Cincinnati Gazette.
Kind Words.
“ I saw in de papers de odder day,”
began the old man after carefully wiping
the top of his head, “a leetle item ’bout
speakin’ kind words to our feller-men as
we trabble de highway of life. Pat’s
easy ’miff to do an’ a mighfV cheap way
of serubbin’ Tong, but I doan’ want no
body to practice it on me. If I use men
right, dey will use me right, au’ we kin
trade kind words. If you meet a man
in de gutter, do;m’ stan’ on de sidewalk
an’ tell him dat you am ready to bust
wid sorrow*, an’ dat you solemnly wish
he wouldn’t do so aov mo’. Stau’ him on
his feet an’ start him fur home, an’ let
bis wife an’ tie poker run de kind word
bizness, or hunt fur a purleeeman an’
have tlie drunkard boosted for sixty days.
If you meet a poo’ man whoa* wife atn
lying dead in de house ’den wipe yer
eyes an’ rattle yer chin an’tell him you’d
join de funeral pmCeshun if ymi only had
a mule. Walk right down inter yer we t
pocket fur half yer week’s wages to help
pay fur de coffin an’ odder expenses. If
you meet a feller-man who am out of
wood au’ meat au’ flour an’ lias a broken
arm to excuse it, doan’ pucker yer
mouth an’ tell him dat de, Lawd will
purvide. De Lawn doan’ |mnish pur
vishuns fur dis market. Instead of
droppin’ a tear of sorrow on de doah-step,
stop aroun’ tor de wood yard an’ de gro
cer sand lay down de cash to feed an’
warm de family fur a fortnight.
“ When i meet a leetle gal who has
i lost her doll-baby, or a leetle boy who
i has stubbed his toe, I take ’em up in my
■ arms au’ Vipe deir leetle noses an 5 sot
! ’em down wid a handful of peanuts.
When I meet a widder who am out
of wood, an old man who has biu turned
out doahs, or a workin’ m%n who’s home
am under de shadder of death, I doan’
lean on de fence an’ look, to Heaben for
relief. If I’ze got a dollar I han’it out.
I lend it or give it or make ’em take it,
an’ if Heaben does anyfing f urder dat’s
extra. When you read dat it am easy
to speak kind words j- st reileet dat it am
also de cheapest way in thq world to help a
uavbur. Turnips atp quoted at forty
cents a bushel; kin !' words have no
walue in de market.— Lim# Kiln Cluh.
Deutfd to
INDIAN SPRINGS, GEORGIA
TOPICS OP THE DAY.
Sleet and snow storms are prevailing
in Austria.
Mexico is in for $87,000,000 in rail
road subsidies.
Nast, tliq caricaturist, sunk $30,000 in
a Colorado mine,
A tree -PL anting holiday ha3 been
established in New Jersey.
President Arthur’s weight is 215.
Fat old widower, ain’t he ?
Ex-Cadet Whittaker is reported to
have joined a miuistrel troupe.
A traveling paragraph says Nasi gets
S2OO a week from Harper's Weekly.
— . ar
Parnell’s admirers denominate him
the “Uncrowned King of Ireland.”
Mormonism' may be doomed and all
that, but their converts are increasing
10,000 a year.
A locomotive now being built at Jer
sey 6ity is expected to run ninety miles
an hour.
ThE new lecture of Judge Tourgee,
“Give Us a Best,” will meet with a
hearty response.
Vernor is still contending for an open
winter, notwithstanding all theories tend
to the contrary.
The expectation that the world will
momentarily wind up its affairs is
losing its grip very perceptibly.
According to the Boston Herald, Dr.
Bliss Blinks that $25,000 will impart a
laudable character to his purse cavity.
Miss Adelaide Fletcher purchased
the Baltimore Protestant Episcojml
C/wMh News at auction last week for
SIOOO.
California is again coming to the
front with the cry, ‘ ‘ The Chinese must
go.” The subject had been almost for
gotten.
Ghevy did a most excellent
thing. Iriffionor of his daughter’s mar
riage hp gave the poor of Paris 20,000
francs.
’
Sun spots are held responsible for
meteorological wonders, as severe varia
tions in the weather invariably occur
during their presence.
In nts Iwok the Shah of Persia says
he did hit come to America “because of
a diseh.se there called the ague, which
kills foreigners in three days.”
Twenty more Mormon missionaries
deft a few. days ago for England. Eng
land seems to be a good field for the
Mormon idea to operate in.
•■i- ♦' *
An edition of “ Uncle Tom’s Cabin ”
is printed in London in such small type
and in such condensed form that it is
profitably sold at a penny a copy.
The breweries iu Kansas all sus
pended operations after the passage .of
the prohibitory amendment, bat accord
ing to accounts they are all starting up
again.
Mr. Chas. Darwin, the great English
naturalist, has inherited a large fortune
from his late brother, Erasmus A.
Darwin. It amounts to nearly a mil
lion dollars.
The renomination of Thomas L.
James as Postmaster General means that
he shall remain in the Cabinec until he
shall have concluded his Star Route
prosecutions.
The Mayor of Pittsburg vetoes every
ordinance passed granting permission
for the erection of telegraph fades. He
holds that they are a nuisance to prop
rty owners.
The excitement in Ireland consequent
upon the arrest of Parnell and other
leading agitators is subsiding and arrests
are still being made daily with no opposi
tion save that of growling.
"Washington is an unhealthy place,
but there is one good thought about it:
None except politicians are obliged to
abide there, and they are pefectly will
lug to take the chances.
Richard Watson Gilder will succeed
J. G. Holland, deceased, as editor of
The Century (Scribner.) Gilder began
literature in the capacity of reporter,
and latterly was assistant editor on The
Century.
Gf.n. Grant is to have a family re
union on next Thanksgiving Day. Mrs
Bartons and her cliildren will sail from
England in time to be present, and it is
thought that seventeen members.oi tne
family will sit down to dinner. The re
ception will be given in the new family 1
mansion, now about completed.
Mu. Walter, proprietor of the Lon
don Times , known the world over as the
Thunderer, is in this country with hie
wife and family. He is of small stature,
recent, but agreeable in his conversa
tion, and, above all, regards America as
singularly attractive. This is his third
visit to this county.
Borert Bloskie, who has just died in
Wabash, Ind., had for nine years lived
chiefly on dog meat, which he declared
to be wholesome and palatable. His
family relished the same food, and pro
p to continue its use. This may be
a slanderous statement, but it seems to
have emanated from good authority and
passes without contradiction.
Sag administration in Spain is
giving signs of almost republican radi
cMism. Civil marriages, trial by jury,
a M the legitimization of children born
ont of wedlock are among the provisions
of varying merit by which the most con
servative of European nationalities is
now startled.
Colonel Steuben and party, the
descendants of the collateral relatives of
the illustrious officer who ivas the friend
of Washington and the engineer of the
siege of Yorktown, were warmly received
and highly entertained at Cincinnati.
They are the Nation’s guests, and are
enjoying a jaunt over the continent in a
most agreeable manner.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher has re
signed the editorship of the Christian
Union, but states in his valedictory that
the paper will continue to publish his
sermons, and lie will m future occasion
ally contribute to its -columns. His age
-sixty-seven years—is telling on him,
and his x>°wer of endurance is by no
means what it was a few years back.
There lias been entirely too much rain
in the West and Northwest for tho good
of crops and much damage has been sus
tained. The lowlands adjacent to the
Uxiper Mississippi were flooded for a
week or more, the river having risen
higher by eight inches than in June of
1880, and higher than it has been for the
j>ast thirty years. * * '
A writer who claims to have thor
oughly investigated the matter asserts,
that the publishing house of Harper &
Brothers is a strictly family affair, and
that in tlie establishment there are
fathers, sons and grandsons. None of
the family can be admitted to the firm
unless they have practical print
ers, and each one has his specialty iu
the office work. The Harpers are all
blondes and all look alike.
Respecting Guiteau’s autobiography
the London Neivs' says : “ Guiteau has
an idea that the whole civilized world is
waiting to hear the minutest details of
his career. The whole civilized world,
on the other hand, is waiting to hear
that bis wretched mischievous life has
been abolished, and that the earth no
longer supports this quintessence of
murderous selfishness and silliness.”
New Jersey owns the ideal juror of
the age. He had not heard of or read
of the case at issue ; does not take any
newspaper ; does not know the name of
the President of the United States; does
not know anything about tlie sanctity of
an oath, but knows that an oath is a
good thing to use when the hogs get
into the garden ; does not know how old
he is, and doesn’t care.
One thousand dollars has been sub
scribed among the Free Thinkers of Tor
onto to aid in the publication in Toronto
of the two prohibited works of Paine
and Voltaire, “The Age of Reason”
and “ Pocket Theology.” A well known
bookseller is prepared to undertake the
publication. He has ordered from New
York and Chicago fifty copies of each of
the works, and he will not be in the
least put out if the books are seized.
The amount of money which the Peru
vian Government has received from the
sale of guano is estimated at $2,400,000,-
000 of dollars. All it has to show for
this large sum are four or five railroads,
which have cost 8150,000,000. On the
night the contract for the Oroya railroad
was signed Meiggs, the contractor, is
said to have presented the wife of the
President of the republic with a hand
some bouquet, concealed in which were
bills to the amount of $500,000.
Granite begins to yield at a tempera
ture between 700 and 800, sandstones
show greater* power of endurance, mas
sive limestones still greater, and marble
the greatest. Conglomerates are among
the weakest stones.
“There are Christian families," says
the examining committee of the Boston
Public Library, in its last annual report,
“in which the Old Testament is a for
bidden book to the young. ”
me reniuij oi a imj n nmituiiiropj.
It’s a great thing to be a philanthro
pist. So Mr. Goodlveart thought, and
at the suggestion of his neighbor, Mr.
.Snide, he resolved to have a grand pic
nic for the poor bootblacks of the city at
his elegant country house. So he sent a
man to hunt up a lot of the boys and
bring them out there one fine afternoon.
They came, a good hundred of them,
and the old gentlemen received them
with smiling faces and kind words.
“Make yourselves right at home, boys,
and have just as grind a time as you
know liow to,” he said to them. Then
he left them to go it and went into the
house. In about fifteen minutes his
head gardener came in and asked him if
he had given three of the boys permis
sion to ride upon his Alderney cow, and
to throw rocks and bard names at who
ever objected. Mr. G. said “ No,” and
went out to soe about it. He finally in
duced the boys to quit that amusement,
and then his coachman came and said if
he wanted to have any fish in his trout
pond he’d better go and stop the boys
from fishing in it. He did so and began
to feel rather annoyed at their proceed
ings. But he stood it and didn’t scold.
Presently his dog flew by with a bottle
attached to his tail, and the whole gang
set oil in pursuit, and ran over his flow
er beds and into the conservatory and
upset valuable plants, and did a neap of
damage. Then he ordered the gang
started for the city, and in hunting them
up four were found to have just got the
barn afire by smoking in the hay. Vig
orous efforts, however, saved the build
ing, and the boys were shipped away'*
And then Mr. G. sadly told his men to
try and repair the wreck while he went
over to see the neighbor who suggested
the affair. And they parted foes. And
Mr. G. declares he is not and never will
be a philanthropist. It’s harder than
heimr a hern. Rosirm. Pont.
Dogs as Sentries.
When any one devises something sen
sible every one wonders why no one
ever thought Of that particular thing be
fore, and on Ibis principle a great many
people, on learning that Russian sentries,
on outposts, are to be assisted by dogs,
will pronounce the change exactly the
thing. All harm to sentries, and,
through their death or capture, to the
foi ee of which they form t part, comes
from enemies who approach stealthily ;
the first shot is almost invariably fired
by the foe instead of the guard. Against
an enemy on the sentinel,- who must at
night strain Lis eyes in every direction,
is aha great dis advantage, whereas a dog
lying near lfini, or in advance of him,
would be quick to note any movement
iR his neighborhood, and thus put the
sol-tier on the alert. In the United
States at the present time the dog might
not oe of much service to llm army, but
it Is strange that his peculiar faculties
are not appreciated ’by private indi
viduals who require a guard. Adosrin
side a house, is worth two watchmen
on the outside, for while the latter may
be bribed or surprised, the dog cannot
be reached, except by some one entering
the house, and before the same could be
done, the animal would have alarmed
those inside, and given them an oppor
tunity to defend their own. A lively
r dog, and the smaller he is the more
satisfactory he will be for household
purposes, will scare a burglar- away as
'soonas lie raises his voice; for no mat
ter how brave a thief may be he sees no
profit in entering a ilouse where the
people are aroused in time to fire on him
from the dark. If instead of cherishing
huge brutes to lie out of doors after
dark, make night hideous and go visit
ing while they are supposed to bo on
duty, the householder would devote his
attention to a Skye terrior and give him
free range of the house at night, he
might consider his property safe from
molestation by thieves. —New York
He y aid.
A story is told of an exchange of
courtesy betw*een a Scotch minister and
liis parishioner, which is characteristic
of both. The minister was introduced
into a country living, and, in his round
of parochial visits, called at the cottage
of a Tittle tailor. Taking a seat unin
vited, he proceeded to talk, but found it
hard work, as he met with no response.
The tailor sat upon the table, stitching
in sulky silence. At length he spoke.
“ Sir,” he said, “I regard it as an un
warrantable intrusion your entering my
house, and I ask you in whafc capacity
you come?” “My good man,” was the
reply, “ I come as your parish clergy
man—it is my duty to know all my
parishioners. I know you don’t attend
church, but that is no reason why we
should not be friends. ” To which the
tailor responded ; “I dinna regard ye
as a minister of Christ, but as a servant
of Satan ; if ye come as a gentleman,
well aud good ; but as a minister I refuse
to receive you,” which could hardly be
called courteous, but the tailor’s polite
ness was outrivaled by his minister’s,
who, rising, said ; “My good fellow,
be pleased to understand that it is only
as your parish clergyman that I ever
dreamt of visiting you ; when I visit as a
gentleman I don’t visit persons in your
position in society,” with whieh he de*
narted.
A Georgia School Teacher.
A colored “schoolmarm” in fhis
county has a number of men with fami
lies attending school—one forty years
old. Among the number is the man
with whom she is boarding, and one erf
the first to receive the rod of correction
was her landlord. He says she is right,
and if, while he attends her school, he
disobeys her commands or Jrails to com
ply with her regulations; that she ought
to*whip liim, and his duty is to submit
to the chastisement without complaint, s
—Marion Cos. (Ga.) Argus.
SUBSCRIPTION--11.68
NUMBER 12
POPULAR SCIENCE*
• *
Soda put into sea water makes it fit
for waslnngblothes.
The nearer a rain-cloud is to the
earth, tho larger the drops.
UNDERsanqx wheels require a much
larger body of water than over-shot.
The diamond is rather more than
three , and one-half times heavier than
water.
Oil or essence of pine apple is obtained
from the product of the action of pufjrid
cheese anil sugar.
A HORNBTB nest—being the finest
woolly substance known —is the best
polisher for glaSs lenses.
According to fceameu, a green hue
of the oeeari indicates soundings, an in
digo blue, profound depths.
Spirits of daibphor makes a good
barometer, as it is cloudy before a storm
and clear in fair weather.
Leeches may be induced to bite inoro
readily by bathing the surface to which
they are applied with milk.
A body which iveighs one pound at
our equator would weigh live ounces six
drachms at that of the planet Mai - *.
A bar held in the natural direc
tion of a needle, and struck several blows
with a hammer, will become magnetized.
Pencil quarks can be rendered indeli
ble by dipping the paper in skim-milk
and ironing on Tire wrong side after dry
ing. " *
The largest bituminous deposits in the
world are in Asphaltic Lake, or Dead
"Sea, in Judea, arid Tar Lake, in Trini
dad.*
The icebergs of the Southern hemis
pheres are much larger than those of the
Northern, and frequently attain a height
of 1,000 feet. . *
We cannot determine the sound of a
string wliich makes less than thirty vibra
tions per second, or of one which makes
more than 7,552.
Paper can be made transparent by
spreading over it,’ with a feather, a very
thin layer of resin in alcohol,
applied to both sides.
In a number of examinations of the
heart-beats of • the dying, Bonchat re
corded six seconds as tha longest interval
between the pulsations.
The diamond is the purest crystal car
bon found ill nature, Plumbago, pf
which lead pencils are made, is the next
purest. Coal is crude carbon.
It is a popular mistake to call a thin,
flaky, semi-transparent mineral isinglass.
Isinglass is fish-glue, and lias notiiing to
do with the mineijai, which is mica.
Birr articles of delicate shades should
not be in white paper, as the
chloride of, lime jised In bleaching the
paper will probably impair the color of
the silk. . q * ~ *
Dissolving five ounces of niter and
the same quatity of sal-ammoniac, finely
powdered, in nineteen ounces of water,
will reduce the heat of the liquid forty
degrees.
A good microscope may be made by
boring a small hole iu a piece of tin and
filling it with one clear drop of the balsam
of the common fir. It will magnify sev
enty-five diameters.
The sunbeam is composed of three
distinct rays, one of heat, one of light,
and one called the chemical ray. The
biue or chemical ray is greater in spring,
the light ray in summer. The chemical
ray is less in autumn.
Ip a lamp chimney be cut with a dia
mond on the convex side, it will never
crack with the heat, as the incision af
fords room for expansion, aud tlie glass
after cooling returns to its original shape,
with only a scratch visible where the cut
was made.
Arsenic is not freely soluble in any
organic mixtures and may generally be
found as a white sediment, which, when
thrown upon red-hot coals, gives out a
strong odor like onions and a thick
smoke. Common arsenic can not be de
tected by the taste.
To Husbands.
Always complain of being tired, and
remember that nobody else gets tired.
Your wife should have everything in
readiness for you, but you should not do
anything for her.
When your wife asks for money, give
her a nickle; ask her what she wants
with it, and when she tells .you, ask her
if she can’t do without it. Then go down
town and spend ten times the amount
for cigars, for they are a necessity.
Go down town of an evening, stand
around on the street corner and talk pol
itics ; its more interesting than to stay
at home with your family.
Charge your wife not to gossip, but
yon can spin all the yams you wish.
Have yonr wife get up and make fires,
but don’t get up yourself till the rest of
the family are eating breakfast, as you
might take cold.
Wear old clothes, and make yourself
as untidy as possible until your wife’s
health fails; then it would be best for
you to fix up some, fpr in all probability
you will want another when she is gone.
Have a smile for everybody you meet
but get a frown bn before you go home.
— Physiologist.
“ Jerttsha, lovest thou me?” “Yes,
Michael, thou knowesfc I love thee.”
“ Lovest thou me more than all else?”
“Yes, Michael, thou knowest I do.” “It
is well/’ said he. “But,” said she, gaz
ing fixedly at the north star, “ who loves
Jerusha?” “God, God who hears the
widow’s and the orphan’s eery; God loves
Jerusha. ” —Chicago Nettm Letter.
A steel bar held in the natural di
rection of a needle, and struck several
blows with a hammer, will become mag
netized. -