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St Lnmi Christian Advocate.
Dear Children: I was at Chnrch lust
Sunday. Nothing strange about that, since
I have been going to Church pretty regu
larly for forty years, or thereabout. Vet
I saw something Ahat was very strange to
mo— 1 had never seen be
fore.
A brother invited me to go with him to
dinner. I got in his wagon to ride.
It asides the man and his wife there were
three young ladies in the wagon. I noticec
all of these had sticks about as large and
long as your little linger, sticking out of
their mouths. I noticed that they kept
spitting like their mouths were sore.
Then there was a dark streak reaching
from one side of the mouth to the other,
circling under the lower lip, in shape like
Presently one took out her stick, which
had a swab on the end. dipped it in some
thing and put it back in her mouth again.
Then it occurred to me, that is what is
called “ dipping.” So it was.
I soon found out that I was in a neigh
borhood of regular “dippers.”
I had a conversation this morning with a
good woman, the mother of three children,
who is herself a “dipper.” She snid, “it
is wrong : and as you do not use tobacco,
I cheerfully receive your reproof; but they
who chew and smoke ought not to con
demn us.” True.
••They that live in glass houses ought
not to throw stones.”
Dipping, like smoking, drinking, playing
cards, etc., is a social evil. 1 do not say
it is worse than other evils. Hut Ido say
it is vile, flirty, llthy, wicked, wrong.
Lot me beg my nieces, who have com
menced dipping to quit it. And those who
who have never done such an ugly thing to
promise me they never will.
There are but lew things that would pain
me more than Lo see my own daughters en
gage in this vile practice.
Please, my little ladies, keep these ugly
sticks out of your mouths.
Slate News.
The foxes in Jefferson county have begun
to eat calves.
A squad of Gypsies made a tour through
Lincoln last week.
Randolph county lias experienced “the
crazy end of a cyclone.”
A sixteen-pound baby was born in
Twiggs county recently.
The Cnion Sabbath School at Toccoa is
in a nourishing condition.
There is not a Radical white man in this
county. — Warrenton Clipper.
Hon. John C. Ragsdale died at his resi
dence in DeKalb county recently.
Mrs. Jacob Eberhart, of Madison, died
in Elbert county on the 10th of March.
Log rollings arc the most fashionable and
aristocratic gatherings in Lincoln county.
A Cobb county man has recently found
a half bushel of grasshoppers on a piece of
stubble land on his farm.
A negro man in Twiggs county named
Bud Cole, has not slept in a bed for ten
years. He sleeps standing.
The Mayor of Smyrna wants to go to
the Constitutional Convention.he says he is
in favor of rubbing out and starting anew.
A coach on the Central railroad was re
cently tired into by some unknown person.
Judge Hcrsohel V. Johnson was a passen
ger on the coach.
The proprietor of the Savannah News
offers two liberal prizes for original stories
to be published in the Weekly News and
Sunday Telegram.
A woman who was the principal witness
against the woman who murdered Mrs.
Sotheru in Pickeijg county some time ago,
has herself been murdered.
An old lady, named Mrs. Cogswell liv
ing alone in Butts county, was burned to
death recently. A neighbor calling on
her the other day found only her charred
remains lying upon the floor.
Peter Walker, colored, died in Gordon
County recently, lie was over one hun
dred years old, and was the father of 2<i
children, and the last act of his political
life was to vote the Democratic ticket at
the State and national election last fall.
Mr. Thomas Vickery while posting up
his books on the night of March 21st was
stightly paralyzed, about 10 o’clock, be
coming unconscious he remained in the
store all night alone, the door was opened
tho next morning by his brother, when he
was found still unconscious ; he was taken
home and a physician sent for. —Toccoa
Herald.
Dr Potter, of Griffin, according to the
papers, has invented an electric motor
which bids fair to supercede the process
of steam. He has sent a model on to
Washington, and will follow in a few days
himself. Dr. Potter, it is stated, can gen
erate electricity with his motor in qualities
heretofore unparalleled, and with this he
proposes to decompose water into a vapor
or gas nianv times more powerful than
steam, and this is to be used in propelling
machinery. By the same motor he propo
ses to generate burning gas, and with this,
as it is stated, the lights now so costly will
be made very nearly as cheap as moonshine.
These, at least, are the predictions and we
await the result in patience, if not hope.—
Allanta Constitution.
The venerable Lovick Pierce, D. D., the
oldest Methodist preacher in America,
preached in the First Street Methodist
Church Sunday. Though bowed with the
weight of nearly a century of years, and
though his voice has grown weak with age,
his mind is still as grand as it was in his
palmiest days, and his faith in his religion
grander than ever. To see him totter into
the church one would hardly have suspect
ed that he was much more than au invalid,
hut when he became warmed up with his
subject the whole congregation felt that
they were in the presence of a great old
man, whose time had run to the very verge
of eternity, and on whose face the radiance
of Heaven shone above the lines left by the
plowshare of time.— Telegraph and Mes
senger.
Items of Interest.
The Iron Age says that paper ear wheels
have run 300,000 miles, and promise to last
one or two thousand more without anew
set of tires.
Gov. Hayes is fifty-five years of age,
and is said to be in robust health. Elect
ed “outside of the Constitution.” it is
lucky that he has a good one of his own.
When the Breton mariner puts to sea his
prayer is: “Keep me my God; my boat
is so small and Thy ocean is so wide.”
Does not this beautiful prayer truly cx
iress the condition of each of us ?
The author of the phrase “ Invincible
in peace, invisible in war,” which has
been ascribed to Hen Hill, was the late
Captain George 11. Derby, better known
as “John Phoenix,” who while in San
Francisco, at a public dinner of the State
militia, gave it as a toast to the California
militia.
Frenchmen are eating more and more
horse flesh. The first horse butcher m
Paris opened his shop in 1866. Hast year
!),<)!K> horses, 643 asses and ‘23 mules were
eaten in France. A philanthropic Freudi
an has offered 1,100 francs and a medal
to the first horse butcher who shall estab
lish himself in London.
Brigham Young, Jr., is organizing in
Salt Lake City a company of 500 Mormon
families, which will colonize in Sonora,
Mexico. The Mexican authorities have
promised perfect religious toleration, and
large grants of land. A rendezvous of col
onists will he established at St. George,
L'tah, and the march to the new land will
he taken up on the 10th of April.
Report lias it that a river of genuine ink
lias been discovered in Algeria. It is form
ed by the union of two streams, one com
ing from a region of ferruginous soil, the
other draining a peat swamp. The water
of the former is impregnated with iron,
that of the latter with gsllic acid. When
the two waters mingle, the acid of the one
unites with the iron of the other, forming
a true ink.
Hayes has a little trick that is very amu- |
sing—one that consoles many of the hungry |
office-seekers who continually call on him.
lie listens to their story very attentively,
first telling the applicant how many min
utes he will allow him. In case the visitor
makes strong points in his appeal, llayes
draws from his pocket a little card and
makes a note on it. This the applicant
sees, and imagines that he has made an im
pression. lie leaves with the idea that
every thing is all right. But in case he
looked in the room ten seconds after he left
he would see that llayes quietly throws
the card and notes on it into the waste bas
ket, instead of tiling it for future reference.
The Rev, Mr. Alger will not eat meat
| because, having once met the gaze of a calf
on the way to the slaughter house, he was
deeply touched by its expression of almost
human grief ami fear. This calf's face
haunted the minister for days and induced
him to make a solemn vow never again to
eat animal food. Mr. Alger is a sensitive
man, but it is well for the butchers and the
cattle industry that ho is an exceptional
person, though it is often true that you en
joy your dinner better if you keep away
from the kitchen, and doubtless the meat
will taste better if you avoid the shambles.
Still, as man is a carnivorous animal,
calves must die to furnish him food.
A naturalist walks boldly to the front
and announces, that the preservation of
Jonah in the whale's belly, was not a mir
acle. The throat of the whale is large, and
is provided with a bag of intestine, so con
siuerable in size, that the whales frequent
ly take into it two of their young ones
when weak, and especially during a tem
pest. As this receptacle is furnished with
two vents that serve for inspiration, it is
claimed that Jonah could have lived there
comfortably, and, with a reasonable
amount of furniture, for many years, pro
vided he could obtain food ana drink.
It would be natural for a whale to pre
serve its young during a tempest, but it is
quite above nature to preserve a human.
It would have been natural to have deliv
ered his young in the bosom of the sea.
but it is quite above nature to have deliv
ered a human upon dry land. The preser
vation of Jonah was therefore a miracle.
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