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: N<.... tniMAI ON “MIM'ING.” 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. R. T. BRUMBY & CO, DRUGGISTS and PHARMACISTS, DEALERS IN DRUGS , CHEMICALS, PATENT MEDICINES, DRUGGISTS’ SUNDRIES, Window Glass , Paints, Oils, Lamps, Glass Shades, Chamois Skins , Sponges, 4" c m §' c -> Manufacturers of King’s Toilet Powder, Agents for F.. Otto A Son*' Surßlral Instrument*—Sold at New York I*rice*. College Avenue, between Bookstore and Post-Office, 11 ATHENS, GA. CHEAPEST AM) BEST STOVES & TIN WARE IN THE SOUTH. A T A. K. C111L1) S k CO S, ATHENS, GEORGIA. *, Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral IFoi* Diseases of the Throat and Dungs, such as Coughs, Colds, Whooping Cough, Bronchitis, Asthma, ’ and Consumption. 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