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THE SUN.
UAKIffKIIi, HART COUNTY, W. 1.,
AYEKS AflloGlLL,
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BY JASfKB T. PIKI.Of
It <9 k nvlfil***. taotblen wigtt.
And <x*uii*ti>uo.U J J V I 1
Who may neglect to call.
The knave deal* out inflated corn
And other flufly thinga,
(■uin-balla, and mlaceHamaiua pin
And doughnut* aliaped like rings;
The pra-nut branch he also pile*,
As all day long he singa.
O urchin rude, of manners crude, .
Of uuangeilc voice,
Pray lell me true, young rufllan, do,
If thus you live (loui choice,
Orff ia ynur ituballojkivi was
TouVeAllyHon’/ rejoice. /
Tour afs are tfisaligirUm*,
* Tout carols an theaame,
Your Ih>Ul career fa frauglit with fear,
Your traffic one of shame—
A dark, mysterious, dreadful trade,
A deed without a name.
Boy, cease your harmful, dreary notoa,
jj, v* tit t
Some cove in Baffin’s Bay:
Expenses out (but no return)
Myself will gladly pay.
The rogue looks up.wlth knowing leor,
And bida UV not reoine,
Tfcll aim* a missile at ffiy heal,
With phniae that’s not divine,
rind croaks a still more dismal song—
The words, alas! are situ*/
PASSION IN TATTERS.
“She has got a face like one of her
own rosebuds,” said Mr. Ejf.z,alan
“l’ve heard of her more than once,”
returned Frank Calverly. “ ‘The pretty
flower girl,’ the people call her, don't
they? Old Frixliam has doubled his
custom since she came there. ”
“And the best of it all,” added Fitza
lan, with a laugh, “is that she is quite
unconscious of her own attractions—a
little oouutry lassie, who thinks only of
herown, business, and never dreams that
shenertojf is the sweetest flower of all
the assortment.” *
e* .*! \ f*
“Let’s go in and buy a Mnrechal Kiel
bud and two or three sweet verbena
leaves,” said Calverly. “I should like
to see this modem Flora of yours.”
Dorothy Penfield stood behind the •
counter of the florist’s store, sorting over
a pile of fragrant blossoms which lay on
a tray of damp, green moss. Trails of
smilax wove their groen garlands up to
the codling; heaps of gold and rose
petaled buds lay in the window; tufts of
purple heliotrope perfumed the air, and
white carnations lay like hillocks of snow
against the panes of the show-window,
while spikes of porfgmed hyacinths and
cape-jessamine flung their subtle scents
upon the air.
And Doily herself, with her round,
dimpled face, pink cheeks, and soft,
brown eyes, exactly the shade of the
rippled hnis, \vhiuh> was brushed simply,
back from the brbadj- low brow, was a
fitting accessory to the scene.
tilie looked "up as the two gentlemen
entered, and a soft, crimson shadow over
spread her fact! for a second.
“ Have you got one of my favorite
bntton-holo bouquets made up, Miss
Penfield?’.’ Fitzalan asked, with a care less
bow and smile.
“I know,” said Dolly, softly. “A
rosebud and a sprig of heath, autl two or
three myrtle leaves; that is wlmt you
like. No; I have none made up, just at
present; but I cun tie one up in about
half a minute, Mr. Fitzalan.”
“One for me, too, if you please,” said
Calverly, touching his hat.
“Just the same?”
Dolly lifted her long eyelashes, which
were like fringes of brown silk, and gave
him a shy glance.
“A little different, please. Consult
yonrown tasto, Miss Penffeld,” *
“I like the double blue violets,” said
Dolly, gently, “with geranium leaves.”
“ Then thev Bliall be my favorite flow
ers also,” said Calverly, gallantly.
The gentlemen had hardly taken their
leave, when old Frixham, the florist,
bustled in, with round, red face, sliiping
bald head, and an air of business all ever
him.
‘ ‘ Isn’t it time you had the theater bou
quets ready?” said he, looking critically
wound, and moving a glass of freshly
cut callas out of the level sunset beams
winch at that moment fell, liko a sheen
of golden laces, # thwart the deep bow
wiado*.” - , . „
“I shall have them ready directly,
said Dolly, starting from her reverie,
“ the flowers are all sorted out.”
“We have too many carnations on
hand/” said the florist fretfully; “and
those gaudy cape bells are so much dead
oss. Let the man from the greenhouses
fenow, please, there’s a domafld for half
open rosebuds and forced lilieS-o&thi
valley.”
“Yes ” said Dolly, dreamily, “I vil
tell Itim- vheu he copies.”
The dosed country wagon withuh
freight of fragrant leaves and deliciouslj
scented flowers, came early in the morn
ing, long before the fat florist was out of
bed, and while the silence almost of an
enchanted land lay. npon Upper Broad*
lint Dolly Penfield was there freshen
ing up tlm stuck of the day before with
wet moss andtrool water, and clipping
the stems of the rosebuds.
“ Noon ore carnations, John,” she said
briskly, ‘ ‘ nor amaryllis flowers, and we
want plenty of camellias and geraniums,
and those bright flowers.”
“I thought, perhaps,” said honest
John Dead wood, who measured six feet
in his stockings, and had, the face of an
amiable giant, “you might want to go
back with me to-dav, Dolly. Tour aunt
has come on from Kansas, and there is
going, to tte • danoe out in the old bam,
with plentv of candles and evergreen
boughs. And mother said she would be
proud to welcome you to the old farm
house, Dolly. Your oleander tree is
kept carefully at the south window,
and ” ___
“ Dear me !*’ catelessly
Dolly; “ why don't they put if in the
greenhouse?”
The Hartwell Sun.
By AYERS & McGILL.
toA.iv/ no; u)
“Because, Dolly,” said the young
maa, reddening, “it reminds us of you.
And the meadow-lark in tho oago sings
beautifully; and old rod brindle has a
spotted can."
“ Has she?" questioned dolly indiffor
if J f I rI
■Telia Doddwood looked hard at, hep.
“|)<Jly,’f said he, “you din‘t care
about tho old homo any longefr 1*
“ Yes, I do,” said Dollv, rousing her
self “ but——
Blio paused suddenly, tho rosy color
rushed in a carmine tide to her cheek,
sarfle dfajtfjf* tlfc <Sp£*av<
of her fresh lips as she glanced through
the smilax trails in the window.
John Dead wood, following in tho di
rection of l#r eyes, glanced, .too,/just
‘iixohAl to Sue®' > full e entMfmfn mt his
hat and bow as he went jauntily past.
“Is that it,” said John, bitterly.
, “Is what?” petulantly retorted Dolly.
“I’m Sftrev I don/t/know why we are
standing hero waiting for and I with
twenty-eight bouquets to make up by
2 o’clock. That’s all, John, I think.
Don’t forget the lilies of tho valley.”
“But you haven’t answered me, Dol<
ly.”
“Answered yon what?”
“About tho dance in the old barn, and
coming back with me when the wagon
returns at 6 o,’dock.”
“It is quite out of tho question,” said
Dolly, listlessly.
“Dolly!”
“Well.”
“You promised me years ago—”
“Nonsense," said Dolly, flinging the
azaleas and pinks wound in fragrant
confusion. “1 was only a child then.”
“But you’ve no right to go back od
your word, Dolly, child or no child.”
“I never promised, John.”
“But you let me believo that one day
you would be my wife. And I’ve lived
on the thought of it, Dollv. ever since.
And if this eitv situation of yours should
break up my life’s hope—”
“Don’t hope anything about me,
Joluil” brusquely interrupted the girl.
“Here comes a customer. Please, John,
don’t stand there any longer looking hke
a ghost!”
And honest, heart-broken John turned
and went with heavy heart out to where
the wagon stood, apd old Loan was wait
ing with down-drooping head and half
closed eyes.
“It does seem to me,” he muttered be
tween ‘Ms-'tveth, ‘ ‘that Rhere ii -nothing
left to live for any longer."
Dolly looked half remorsefully after
him.
“I’ve almost a mind to call him back,”
said she to herself as she picked out a
bunch of white violets far the newcomer.
I do like John Dead wood; but I think ho
has no business to consider himself en
gaged to me, just because, of tliat bqy
and-girl nonsense. One’s ideas change
as one gets on in life.” , ‘l'
And Dolly’s cheek was like the reflec
tion of the pink azaleas as she thought of
Mr. Fitzalan and the 'urnnoise ring tliat
he had given hoi oS a troth, plight.
And Mr. Frixham came in presently.
“I’ve a note from the Sedgewicks, on
Fifth avenue,” said he hurriedly. They
always order their flowers tjronj Ser*ss,
btli Servoss has disappointed them. They
want the house decorated for a party to-
not ajtujnflto to lose. I’ve
telegraphed to for one hundred
yards of smilax and running fern and
one hundred poinsettas; and 1 think wc
can manage the rest ourselves. You had
better go at once, Miss Penfield, and
plan the decorations—you've a pretty
taste of your own—and I’ll send up the
flowers with Hodges to help you. T ANARUS" t
And Dolly went, her mind * still ofl the
turquoise ring, with a band of virgin
gold and its radiant bine stone.
The Sedgewick mansion was a brown
stone palace, with plate glass casements,
and a vestibule paved with black aild
orange marble.
Mrs. Hedgewiek, a statelyjadv, in s
Watteau wrapper and hlonai rmp, ’ re
ceived Dolly in the great drawing room.
"Oh!” said she, lilting her eye-glasses,
“you’re from the florist’s, arc .you:
Well, I know nothing about these thing*
—I only want the rooms to look elegant.
Tell yotir husband to Bjrare no expense. ’’
“Mr. Frixham is not my husband,”
said Dolly. ~r ■ ;•
“Your father, then.”
“Bat he isn’t my father,” insisted
Dolly, half laughing. He’s no relation
at add. I will tell him, however.”
“Exactly,” said Mr*. Bedgewiok. “I
particularly desiru plenty of white roses,
as I anr told they are customary at fchie
Sort of affair. It’s an engagement party. ’
“Indeed!” said Dolly, trying to look
interested.
“Between my daughter Clara and Mr.
Alfred Fitzalan,” said Mrs. Sedgewick,
with conscious complacence.
Dolly said nothing, but the room, with
its fluted cornices and lofty ceilings,
seemed to swim around her like the
waves of the sea. And as she went out,
with Mrs. Sedgewick still chatting about
white rose-buds end begonia-leaves, she
Eassed the half open door of a room, ail
ung with blue velvet, whore a yellow
tressed beauty sat smiling on a low
divan, with Fitzalan bending tenderly
above her.
“He has only been amusing himseU
with me,*’ said ftelly to hereof/.
There was a sharp ache at her heart:
but after all, it was only the sting oi
wounded pride. Thank heaven—oh,
thank heaven, it was nothing worse than
that!
Honest John Dead wood was driving
pld Roan steadily and solemnly along
past the patch of woods, the vel
vet-mossed bowlders la/ like dormant
beast* of prey in the spring twilight
Hartwell, a„ December i. isso.
when a gray shadow glided out of th*
other shadows, and stood at his side.
“.Lihn!" she whisjmred.
* l l >olly! it’s never you ?”
•• Yes, John," said the girl, gently but
steely. ‘Tin going back hom£ with
“God bless you,,Dolly,” said tho young
man, fervently.
“For good and all, Jolui, if you’ll take
me,” said slowly. “I've had
quite enough of city life;.and I’ll hplf
you with fno preen house*, and Til tty
and be a good little housekeeper at home,
Mludl I, ,fohu?”
5 put hjtuimi arofiud her an* bug
ged her updo his side.
“Darling!” said he, huskily, “it’s
most too gopd mows to bp true; but. il
my word is worth anything, you al i all
never re past dour doeiMon of thin day.”
Ro the pretty flower girl vanished out
of the bower of smilax and rosebuds.
The Hedgewictt mansion wasn’t decorated
at all, and Mr. Frixliam had lost his new
customer. And the turquoise ring came
back to Mr. Fritzalan in a blank en
velope.
Household Perils.
Undo* this head the Boston Jtturnal of
Chomiatfy names aevariil daugenui* sub
stances winch nnd tlleir way intehouse
holds. There are two or three volatile
liquids used in families which are par
ticularly dangerous, and must be em
ployed, if at all, w ith special caro. Ben
zine, ether and strong ammonia consti
tute this class of agents. The two first
named liquids are employed in cleans
ing gloves and other wearing apparel, and
in removing oil stains from carpets, cur
tains, Arc. The liquids aro highly vola
tile, and flash into vapor as soon as the
cork of the vial containing them is re
moved. Their vapors are very combust
ible and will inflame at long distances
from ignited candles or gas tlatnes, and
consequently tbev should never bo used
in the evening, when the house is lighted.
Explosions of a very dangerous nature
will occur if the vapor of these liquids is
permitted to escape into the room in con
siderable quantity. In view of the great
hazard of handling these liquids cautious
housekeepers will not allow them to be
brought into their dwellings, and this
course is commendable. As regards am
monia, or water of ammonia, it is a very
powerful agent, especially the strouget
kinds sold by druggists. An aceidenr
in its use has recently come under our
notice in which a young lady lost her life
•from taking a few drops through mis
take. Breathing the gas under certain
circumstances causes serious harm to
the lungs and membranes of the mouth
and nose. It is an agent much used at
the present time for cloansing purposes,
and it is unobjectionable if proper care
is used in its employment. The vials
holding it should be kept apart from
others containing medicines, kc. , and
rubber stoppers to the vials should be
used. Oxalic acid is considerably em
ployed in families for cleaning brass and
copper utensils. This substance is highly
poisonous, and must be kept and used
with great caution. In crystalline struc
ture it closely resembles sulphate of
magnesia pr Epsom salts, and, there
fore, frequent mistakes are made and
lives lost. Every agent which goes into
families among inexperienced persons
ihould be kept in a safe place, labeled
properly and used with care.
(’aroHnn’s Sweet Sixteen.
A curious petition was that addressed
in 1733 to the Governor of South Caro
lina by sixteen maidens of Charleston. It
ran thus :
“The humble petition of all the maids
whose names are underwritten. Where
as, we, the humble petitioners, are at
present in a very melancholy disposition
of mind, considering how all the bache
lors are blindly oapti vated by widows, and
our own youthful charms are thereby
neglected; in consequence of this, our
request is that Your Excellency will for
the future order that no widow presumo
to many any young man till the maids
are provided for; or else to pay each of
them ,a fine for satisfaction for Invading
our liberties and likewise a fine to be lev
ied on all such bachelors as shall be mar
ried to widows. The great disadvantage
it is to us maids is that the widows, by
their forward carriage, do snap up the
young men, and have the vanity to think
their merit beyond ours, which is a great
imposition on us, who ought to have the
preference. This is humbly recom
mended to Your Excellency’s considera
tion, and hope you will permit no further
insults. And we poor maids in duty
bound will ever pray.”
The forlorn sixteen would have very
mnch approved the edict of the Portu
guese King, which forbade widows more
than fifty years old from remarrying, <ju
the ground that experience taught that
widows of that age commonly wedded
young men of no property, who dissi
pated the fortunes such marriage*
brought them, to the prejudice of clrik
dren and other relatives.
intimately.
A gentleman who lias a bill against Gil
hooly lias been bothering that distin
guished Galvestonian for weeks for a set
tlement. Tho other dav he called on him
and said: “Now, Mr. Gilhooly, I want
vou to tell me when you will pay that
bill.”
“Didn't I tell you I was going to pay
it ultimately?”
“Yes, but I want you to set some day,
so I can make my calculations.”
“I’ll pay it ultimately.”
“Can’t you be more definite? When
will you pay it ultimately?”
“Well, I will pay it very ultimately.
Now, I hope you are satisfied.”—Galves
ton News.
Devoted to Hart County.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Fburcounties In Georgia, two of which
are jn Alex. 11. Stephen’s district, did
not cast a vote for Gat field.
Toe assessed value of taxable property
in Georgia has increased #14,000,000
during the past year.
Weaver carried Walker county, Texas,
by a majority of sixteen over Hancock
aml'Garficld combined.
Tike cupola of tho court-house at
Aim taville, Teun., is surmounted by a
1 1 rain eagle measuring twelve foot from
tip lt> tip.
A huilding erected at i/oxington, Ga.,
for a dancing hall when that town was
in toe zenith of its glory is now used as
a stable.
The Appeal says that the all night
houses, where men can be around, drink
and quarrel, are the cause of nearly all
the lows that occur in Memphis.
Tlu (’ity Council of*Fort Smith, Ark.,
has passed an ordinance prohibiting the
carrying of pistols in the city limits in
nay other way except in the hand.
The city board of health of Vicksburg
has petitioned the National Board of
Health to have a sanitary survey made
of thb city and fits surroundings.
Nearly one hundred more marring
licenses have lawn issued to colored cou
pies in Meeklenlmrg county, N. 0., this
year than to whites.
The new Mississippi code fixes the
fee of a Coroner for holding an inquest
at #6 Instead of $lO, the former figure,
and same of the Coroners are resigning
iu consequence.
A projiosition is about to bo submitted
to the Little Rock City Council for the
construction of new water-works. A
number of prominent citizens have a
new organization in contemplation.
Cotton seed was first planted In the
United States, in 1621 in Virginia as an
exj)crfhtrnt. It was first planted in
Georgia and the Carolina* in 1773-74,
and in Louisiana in 1742.
A water-wheel put up for a (louring
mill at Augusta, Ga. v weighs 6,000
pounds and is to furnish 135-horse
power. It was manufactured in Chat
tanooga.
At a fashionable masquerade party at
Vicksburg, two Italics who attracted
much attention and admiration during
the evening were found to he young men
whea the unmasking took place.
The finest dress ever seen in Atlanta
was worn at the inaugural hall by Miss
Lelia Austell, of that city. It cost
$2,000. and was trimmed witli lace pur
chased by her in Paris, at S2OO per yard.
A boy in San Antonio, Texas, while
standing in front of his father’s house
eating a jeice of bread, was suddenly
attacked by an electric flame, which is
supposed t) have come from a lightning
rod near by and was badly burned.
(len. l’hinney, at the Georgia Mining
Company, has thoroughly tested the
Robertson process for reducing ores,
and the tests show a yield of $K to $l. r >
per ton from ore that yielded only sl.. r 0
per Jon. Works will soon be erected at
Gainesville. >
The cotton crop of Texas was closed
by a killing frost. The total will amount
to 1,250,000 hales and $00,000,000. The
Chicago Texarkana Mexican Centra!
cotton factory, with a capital of s2oo,o<io,
was started here to-day. Forty thous
and dollars was subscribed in Dallas.
The new statutes of Mississippi pro
vide that in cases where persons are doing
business as agents, or in their own
name, with the goods and capital of
other people, the principal’s nama must
be conspicuously di-played at the plrc s
of business, or the goods shall be liable
for the debts of the person conducting
the huaUrtsa.
During the last three years nearly
400 people from North Georgia have
been converted to Mormonism, and emi
grated to Almaso, Col. The people of
the colony oppose polygamy and there
is only one polygamist among them.
The colony is still growing, a party of
fifty lieing ready at present to start from
Virginia to join it.
A man by the name of Albert Green,
while walking with a young lady on
Sunday, in Cleburne county, Texas,
was approached by Kllen Powell, whom
Jie had ruined. At night, Green and a
companion blacked themselves, forced
an entrance into the woman’s house and
struck her brutally, then dragged her
out of the house. She held a pistol in
her hand that w ouldn’t stand cocked and
shot him dead.
$1.50 Per Annum
WHOLE NO. 222.
A cave in Kjkst Tennessee is two miles
in length nnd lias openings at both ends.
The dwuur of the ground around each
entrance charge for admission, and ueted
a. guide for visitors. Their rivalry led
to serious fights in the cave, for each
held the other to lx> a trespasser. Then
one of the contestants hit upon a novel
and effective means of ruining the
other’s business. He sunk a shaft so as to
admit a large stream info the cave alxmt
the center, and as there was as incline in
a favorable direction, tho water |s>ured
out at the enemy’s portal, while his own
was unobstructed. The matter Is to be
made the subject of a lawsuit.
A Good Horae.
" I can’t explain what u real good horse
is," said one of the beat Matured dealer*
iti tho street. " They are ua different as
men; in buying a horse you must look
first to Ins head and exes for smm "I
intelligence, temper, courage, ana hon
esty. Unless u horse lias brains you
can't tea<’h him anything any more than
you can teach a half-witted child. Moo
that tall bay there, a tine-looking animal,
about fifteen hands high. You can't
teach thathorse anything. Why? Well,
I’ll show you a difference in bonds, but
have a care of his licolh. Look at the
boast’a hood—that rounding nose, that
tailoring forehead, that broad, full place
below the eves. You can’t trust him.
Kiok? Well, I guess so! Tbit him in a
ton acre lot, where he has plenty of wing,
and he'll kick the horn ofl tho moon.”
Tho world’s treatment of man and
Ixilist has the tendency to enlarge and
intensify bad qualities, if they predomin
ate, This good-natured phrenologist
could not refrain from slapping In the
face the horse win se character had been
so cruelly delineated, while lie lntd bnt
tho gentlest treatment fir a slick-limbed
sorrel that pricked her ears forward find
looked intelligent enough to understand
all that was being said.
“That’s an awful good mare,” ho
added. " Hhe’s ns true as the sun. You
can aeo breadth and fullness between tho
oars and eyes. You can’t liiro that mare
to act moou or hurt anybody. Tho eye
should be full, and hazel is a good color.
I like a small, thin ear, and want a horse
to throw his ears well forward. Look
out for the brute that wants to listen to
all tho convorsutiou going on behind
him. Tho horse that turns bock his ears
till they almost meet at the points, take
my word for it, is euro to do somotliing
wrong. See that straight, elegant faco.
A horse with a dishing taco is cowardly,
and a cowardly brute is always vicious.
Then I like a square muzzle, with large
nostrils to let plenty of uir to Urn lungs.
For the underside of a head a good horse
should be well cut under tho jowl, with
jaw-bones broad and wide apart under
the throttle.
“So much for the Jroad,” he! contin
ued. “ Thu noxt thing to consider is the
build of the animal. Never buy a long
legged stilty horse, bet him have a
short, straight lm< k and a straight rump
and you’ve got a gentleman’s horse. The
withers should ho high ami the shoul
ders well set hack and broad, but dou’t
get them too deep iuthc chest. The foro
legs should be short. Give mo a pretty,
straight hind-leg, witli the hock low
down, short pastern joints, and a round
nmlisli foot. There are all kinds of
horses, but the animal that has these
points is almost sure to lie slightly grace
ful, good-natured and serviceable. As
to color, tastes differ. Hays, browns mid
chesimts are the best, itoans are very
fashionable at present. A great many
grays anil sorrels are brought here for
shipment to Mexico and Cnba. They do
well in a hot climate, under a tropical
sun, for the same reason that you find
light-colored clothing most serviceable
in summer. That circus horso behind
?mu is what many people call a calico
torse; now, I call him a genuine piebald.
It’s a freak of nature and may happen
anywhere.”— Scrilmer’s Monthly.
“First Efforts.”
I long for some pate nt method for con
vincing every man, woman and child,
who is poor, unhappy, or wants pin
money, that they cannot rush into litera
ture pell-mell, and make money at will.
Alsove all, I should like a legal penalty
imjiosed upon every ono who sends a
“first effort” to me. It is an equal
“effort” and by no moans my “first”
for mo to read their poetry, and for them
to . write it. I am fast becoming a
misanthrope from the amount of trash,
garnished with neither sense, grammar,
/hyme, nor metre, that my fellow crea
tures perpetrate with a view of fame and
fortune. Will anvono ever convince this
crowd of imbeciles tliat to write oven
decently demands previous cultivation,
information, and common sense; or that
real genius is like any otlier diamond,
and needs careful cultivating and polish
ing? I supiiose not! —Atlantia Magazine.
Pat’s Speech.
Pat—“Och, Bridget, did y e ni ™ r
hear uv my great mnicho afore the Hi
bernian Society?” Bndget-“No, I at,
how should I? for sure T was not on the
ground.” Pat— “ Well. Bridget, ye see
I was called upon by the Hibernian So
ciety for a spaeho; and, be jabbers, l
rose with tho enthusiastic cheers of thou
sands, with me heart overflowing with
gratitude, and mo eyes ti led with tears,
and divil a word did I spake.
Tub reason why the poets always
speak of October as “ sober” is because
sober is tbe only word they can find to
rhyme with October.
FACTS FOR THE < IRIOOH.
It is reported tliat 320,000 hole* were
lx>red iii the execution of St. Qoihord
tunnel, 080,000 pounds of dynamite con
sumed, and 1,060,000 drills Worn out.
AsHra William Thompson has shown,
the siui, if it ww oompoaod of Ratal
coal and produced its light by combus
tion, would burn out in Uwa than 6,000
years.
Tacks. —Two hundred and fifty differ
ent kinds of tacks are manniiuftiWed
from brass, oopi*er, zinc, iron and steel.
Tho material from which tucks nre made
is first cut into long strips as wide ,as
the required length uf the Uk. It is '
then put into a machine which cuts it
iuto tacks or nails, os the ease may Tie
as quickly and as easily as a boy would
munch a stick of candy.
Tins Cnnard line has lost two vessels
iu thirty-seven years, but lifts never hist;
a life nor a letter. The Colombia, one
of their first vessels, went ashore lx>-
tweon Halifax and Boston. The passen
gers and cargo wore landed iu safety,
but the vessel could not lie got off. 'Dm
Tripoli went ashore near Tuakar,
off tho coast of Ireland, alsiut six years
ago. Tim passengers anil cargo were
landed safely, but tho vessel was brokeu
up.
“Train catching," says the Hour,
“is the cause of more ill health than
is generally supposed. Those who *lwlt’
their breakfasts, in order to lie in time
for the morning train, know that sueli a
course leads to dys}xq>nia, with its at
tendant ills, and the violent exertion
which iH made by those who just ‘save
their distance’ produces an excitement
of tho heart and blood vessels which, if
frequently repeated, is likely to end iu
serious organic disease."
Elhotbicitt is used in Paris to con
trol vicious horses. A conducting wire
runs from au electro-magnet in the seat
of the wagon through tho reins to the
horse’s bits, liy turning the crunk of
the magnet a current uf electricity is in
duced and seut to the uuimaJ’s month.
No violent shock is given to baaurah or
greatly alarm the horse, hut the slight
pricklmg sensation peculiar to electrical
influence surprises and subdues hiui.
Au electric whip, to prevent rearing or
turnuig suddenly, is another ingenious
invention.
From inquiries conducted by Prof.
Hermann Cohn, of Breslau, since 1865,
it uppours that short-sightedness is rare
ly or never born with those subject to
it, and iB almost always the result of
strains sustained by the eye during study
in early youth. Myopia, as it is culled,
is seldom found among pupils of village
sehiMils, anil its frequency increases m
proportion to the demand made uixm
the eye in higher schools and in colleges.
A better construction of school desks,
an improved typography of text-lxxiks,
and a sufficient lighting of class-rooms,
are tho remedies proposed to abate this
malady.
Saturn’s flings.
We had a view of Saturn a few evenings
since through the fine telescope in Mr.
Seagravo’s private observatory, that will
long lie remeniiiered for its exceeding
bounty. 'I bo night is rarely favorable
for star-gazing, tho definition jierfect and
the atniosphero serene. The picture is
one of surpassing loveliness, Hio most
snberb telescopio scene in the heavens.
Tho orb is resplendent in coloring, bluish
at the poles, pale yellow elsewhere,
crossed by two creamy central belts, arid
flecked with spots tliat suggest light
scudding clouds. There is no appuar
auce of a flattened disc, but the rounded
outlines of a sphere, seeming about the
size of the full moon, stand out in Imld
relief against tho azure blackness of the
sky. Around this softly glowing conter
oxteud the wondrous rings, onioning wide
their encircling arms and cradling tho
planet in their protect ing embrace. Every
detail of tiro complex ring system is
sharply defined and vividly painted on
the celestial canvas. Tho outer and tho
Inner rings, tho dusky ring, tho space
between the outer and inner rings and
oven the division in the outer ring aro
plainly visible, while six of the eight
moons dot the dark sky witli jioints of
golden glow. Tho six moons wo see
one of them is larger than Mercury
circle around their primary within an
extreme spun of four milliou miles. Tho
beautiful rings lie within the path of tho
nearest moon and span a spoce of about
one hundred and seventy-six thousand
miles. The narrow dark space between tho
inner and outer rings, is seventeen hun
dred miles broad, and the dusky or third
ring extend* nine thousand miles within
the inner or second ring.—Providence
Journal.
A sinoct.ab phenomenon has been
commented on by tho French scientific
papers. At Bonneville and other places
a slight shower of yellow rain fell. M.
de Candolle, to whom were handed sheets
of paper stained by tho rain, has pro
nounced the coloring matter to be of an
orgnnic nature, consisting of vegetable
det>ris, among which could be observed
the spores of cryptogams. Tho shower
seems to have taken place simultaneously
over a large extant, hut the composition
of the coloring matter was not every
where the same—‘that collected at Duifie
being essentially of a mineral character.
Contented with His Lot.
A Sunday-school teacher said to little
Johnny:
“You must never envy those little
children who aro rich and wear fine
clothes. ’’
“ I don’t, not the first dog-goned bit.
“Why don’t yon envy them, Johnny?”
“Because they have to wear cleat
clothes, and they can’t wade about in
the mud, and they have to say please to
everybody, whoopee!” —Galveston News.
UV Danville paper tells of a man who
fainted dead away while being measured
for a suit of clothes. It was not so much
on account of the novelty of the thing as
tho fact that ho happened, to glance uji
at the back end of the store and saw tho
legend “No Trust” Clothing dealers
should have more regard for the health
of their customers. Tho dreary sign
“Terms Cash” has prostrated many a
fair and “promising” youth. — Norris
town Jfcrald.
Atlanta, Ga., has anew enterprise—
a watch manufactory. It begins with
facilities for turning out six watches
per day.