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IDWABD Proprietors.
Pnbli«her« and
GEORGIA "7“
OEAWFOP.DV LLE :
KLWS GLEANINGS.
There isn’t a public clock in
'Uuuu»*bi|»* 162,000,000 worth of
annually.
North Carolina ranks thud in the
«if cotton-producing State
Eight hundred listeria n fin igrant*
thinking of settling ia Georgia.
Ijiwrence county, Georgia,
it* population in the last ten y<ar.-.
Tlie total acreage of cotton last
In Tennessee was 722,502, yielding
ttl hides.
Charleston, 8. C., ha* decided on
pai<l fire company, which will cost
000 a year.
Macon, Ge<»rgia, will have a
canning factory, owned aud
by Northern men.
Tennessee will realize a* much
her fruit crop this y<ar as she
dis s from her wheat crop.
Four thousand men are at workon
E/i*‘. Tenne-sce, Virginia and
railroad from Atlanta to Home.
Y ta/ o county, Mi**i-dppi,
more cotton last year than any
in the cotton region. It turned
4*,82! lades.
The Constitution says over
worth of real estate has lieen
at Atlanta by the Coal railroad* in
past four months.
Gen. Peyton Wine ha* been elected
till the office of bonded tobacco
at Richmond, Virginia. The salary
only $12,fin0 a year.
Among the exhibits at the
county, Georgia, fair were l,26h
men* of minerals. The owner
twenty-five years colli eting them.
The Florida Aprieulturalist says this
is the last year cheap orange lands ear,
be procured. There i* very little left,
except in private hands, and it will
bring Mg prices in the future. ■
Two paupers in the Aiken, H, (!., poor
house have so arranged it that their
heart* will hereafter boat the State as
•ne. The beautiful and accomplished
groom i* only seventy, while the bride
t* ugly and tfdrty-thfee,
&pnug* Herald: A suit,
for damages by a colored w idow of this
county against tho L. and N. railroad
for killing her husband wa* recently
compromised for $500, The lawyers
got $250, her advancing meirhant got
$126 for looking after the nflnirand tho
“lone widow” got $125 to soothe her
_grief. Nothing like an equitable divis¬
ion of spoil*.
Pt. Louis Republican; 1 here is doubt
less no child now living that will see
New Orleans a greater exporting port
than New York, hut the next few yeur*
will see it make a demoralizing advance
on New York. Within the Inst three
years it has advanced ahead of Philadel¬
phia, Boston aud Baltimore, aud within
ihe next three it will make enough
progress to came lots of trouble for New
York, however impossible it may lie to
aurpass the trad* of that city.
Nashville American: For snuft-dip
ping aud sneezing the people of Tenne*
sae annually par over $1,000,000. A
denier in snuff informs us that the Nash
srille merchant* annually pay over $800,
•00 for snufl, and the merchant* of the
_*.jtv of Memphis more than that amount.
'J'lu- people of the Southern States eon-
111111 ) annually over foS, 000,00(1 of that
article, while the people of the Northern
Slates use comparatively none Two
firms of New York supply the Smith.
A l’ike county, Alabama, r.cgro first
stole a hat, a bridle from a near neigh
bor’a next stuck to his hands, going
farther a mule’s head became fastened
in the bridle, proceeding on his journey ani
a stable furnished harms* for the
nial, and a few miles further on a farm
er’s spring wagon had joined the cara¬
van. then aojne one else * bale of cotton
that wouldn’t get out of his wa >" w *“
trans,erns. to i «• wagon, and the pro
cos-ion arrived at l nu n Springs, when
the police jailed the manager as he was
bargaining to get rid of his booty. He
resisted ami cut one of ti e policemen’s
tlitoat.
Pr. iprssos Ai i xani-kk Wiv.sov, of
Dublin, lias ulated the amount ,>(
sugar coutkiniHl in the calyces of differ
cut kinds A-f flowers, and the proportion
of honey which iusiot.s can extract fnan
it He calculat s that alxiut 125 clover
ErrEuSS'srKA’s,
kilogramme of sugar, and as honit-y ix>u
tains 75 per c. at. of super, it
B.GKl.OOO calyet-a of choer to vie d a
kilogramme of Un> form.-r, 11 , ee we
amy imagine the ivutir-ess mi; - ,r
fiowera that bees mwt vwt b W ato, to
• ws ut. l ' ,s *• t- e\.
Emt.kation to this country amount
to l,b>) souls a ilay, or &h?,0O) a yesr.
EitkaojsimmzRY atmospheric
•no have been predicted for November.
Govkiui. Grant carries ?i 00,000
poli< a on bis life.
Exn.irnu.vTs are to lie alo of
p, *fi air motors on tins New York tie
ratal ItuiroaL
A mw ag -d ninety-two, at Des Moines,
Iowa, is suing bis wife, aged eighty--five,
tar divorce.
Hkxbv J Gra.t, implicated in
murder of the Chisholm family, is a can
didittc f.c the Legislature in Mississippi,
A Mormon elder is in prison at Ham¬
burg for trying to m ike proselytes. The
Bar - always per- mited.
Ciih ao:> has canceled the order which
forbade th phi pioyment jmbiii^.chool*. ot jtoiirrievl
women as ti-n liers in the
It is ii*l there -.ab fewer oil ice-seekers
in Washington.now thafi there has been
for Teari
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Miss AHTlirn, the daughter of the
Prevideut in a blonde itt haired vouug lady ‘
who is 7 iow at school Albany.
Mr*. Cdukwallw West, the lieauti
fill, and Adelina Patti, the yji-iftia donurt,
two noted women, have airived in this
country from En gland.
Thb Jftte Gov Wiitz, of Louisiana, loft
his widow and live children in poverty,
and the citizens of the State are appealed
to to provide for them,
The stock of the wrecked Newark
Bank was worth 1H(). After the cashier
made a pontessioo it wasn’t worth a cent,
One word from his lips killed it.
Tub Zulu Chief Cetawayo, is coding
the British Government about $20,000 a
year. He ia rather an expensive pris
oner.
Gov. Boil ruth, of Texas, says ho
would rather Walk than to ride on a rail
>® s8 - V, ’“- '"dess there is Bume
hlt, ’ lu -‘ tl U> 11,0 l" 1 " 8 to <lra « U
A cannon weighing 58,000 pounds
has been oast at Beading, Penn, It is
of rifle pattern, neatly and strongly
molded, aud will carry a ball weighing
150 pounds a distance of twelve miles.
It is suggested that Arthur, tho wid
and Q.ieoii Victoria, the widow,
JHM «>) thoff '“"f”” m,,t K'-ff us a cheap, i
i- ■ Jrnmoit. yht- idea iT a oopitui one;
The Presi'Wnt ought to take it under con¬
sideration.
Thk Pittsburg Port if of the opinion
that tho demand Confederate bonds is
brisk enough to start the printing presses
to going again. During the war tho
winked at tho Northern
of Confederate money and
bonds.
Talmaoe thinks there ought to be
of journalism. There is. Thera
re over 8,0(K) newspapers in this country.
are ail schools of journalism. Ihit
can no more lie taught in col¬
than can fishing, and some men
can learn how to fish.
Presiiirnt OuKvr, of tho French Re¬
public, receives tho modest salary of
200,000 a yoar. This, in connec
tion with the fact that Franco is no
larger than an ordinary State, is enough
to make an Aiuericau President feel
pretty blue.
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3 !tR estimated cost of tho Mississippi
River improvement is $50,000,000. There
is a diversity of opinion us to whether tho
i, I ho ov, '. improvement rumon * “ U F-A will to bo bear directly the expense.
felt by
the Western States, but uot by the East¬
ern, hence the East will use its endeavor to
oppose tlie matter in Congress.
Tun hat of the fashionable woman is
Bomething smaller than a wagon wheel,
church, where the fellow
j«»* behind is anxious to take a nap, they
>* 0 /ure.recllenrr, but in the theater or
°' r 3>1,u ' r8 " f Mnnsemeut ‘ wlure th ' ,ro
!® ft 3 , wa y® ,m uuxioty to knowwh-t ia go¬
‘ Ug “ llSt U> anawflU Wo ’
Tire prefect of one of the first cities of
Italy, who is a rich landowner, has, in
this civilized age, resorted to a feudal
custom, obliging iron his during field laborers to
wear an muzzle the grape
harvest, to prevent them from tasting a
few bunches of gropes. Stingy men who
wad this may be expected to turn green
with envy.
Tire opinion prevails that Baldwin
should have stolen the safe also out of
the Newark Bank. This is a reflection
on his business shrewdness. The safe
have been missifi—that is. profia
T it would have been, but there i* no
«*» >-«««
Inx'ks ami that would have satisfied
»*«*>•'* -' -sv «««i
hwikiug laflance-shect.
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Bore vno has struck npon a happy and
economical process of dealing with
mendicants. Alt the charitable 1 stitu
in that city have been me,-god into
or.e, and thus the relief of one family
societies at the same
is an impossibility. All applies
Kns for aid are th roughly investigat'd
before relief is (granted and the result is
that liegging is discouraged and idlen
effectually rebnked.
A new religion* project is on the top • fe
It is that of attaching a Gospel car to
railroad trains for the delectation of all
who are religiously inclined and for the
conversion of those who are not re
ligionsfv inclined. It is proposed that
instead of a card talile there be a pia 930
or organ, instead of spittoons, acart-et.
„f eiuvl*, a |}j We a;i d by*,,
books. Alt seats will lie arranged to
face* the GQXilur of the ear where a inj**
good man may stand to preach, exhort
or txtjound, as the case may lie.
Bev. „„ Taomaoe has preached a sermon
on the newspaper Wueei. When
swd «a newspaper»the greatest tempo
ral blessing Gisl has given, tins ouButrf*
nrnl, “if I had to choose between a
ernment without the newspaper, and a
newspaper without a government, i
would choose the latter,, his words were
golden, but his opinion that the person*
alityof writor*ahonMt>e disclosed
Ilia'lade of experimental
Manv persons J unknown to the worl 1 arc
our “ ,rt 'st , newspaper writers, ... ami it fn&
tlier t,lim thi ’» " l0 newajvaper reader of
tr>-'biy does not stop tb inquire who
wrote this article or who wrote tbal,
He wants a record of the events of the
day, and he wants them in*a condense#
f. -rm, and he maaea no more inquiries wno
the author is than does the epicure 1 ....
propnre.l . ,. Ins lUnuer. ..
I-non ,, the , London T* ~ World “7 get "
we mi
inkling of the reason why there is a dfe
maud just now for Confederate bonds,
Bays the World: “The raoiay result
Ing from the Confederate aotton S,“ loan was
uot advanced becaus- the
Uw.k the bi.n.lH hmA j ‘ .itoto 1
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a Southern ,, States, u, . but , because we needed
the cotton ; ana before making the ad
vance pains were taken to ascertain front
the highest legal authorities that it was
a jierfectly legitimate transaction,
that thero was nothing to prevent anyof
our our merchant* merchant, ne»A«in» agree,ng to tort. tt Tl.e The eet cot
ton on which the loan was secured was
taken by the United States, who there
fore remain subject to all the agreements
made in respect of it b/the
rates. There is not much c-liaaco of tliis
view , being admitted , . by the Cnttod .
States ; but as it is vouched for oy so
lugli a legal authority as Lord Hather
ley, it may lie worth mentioning.”
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Plums and apples have been short in
quantity this year, while pears and
grapes have Como to the front splbt
iliilly. The two former require mire
moisture thau they got this year, wjgte ’#«
the latter want omy plenty of heat.
is Shown bv y the • fact that ' **'Wkt
•
,,‘e leaves , whan . the fruit
pucy, wtnio pemM^id umditmm,.
brittle, showing tr .. they have given up
their moisture to feed the fruit. In New
Jersey Nortli Carolina and a few parts
of Ohio and in Arkansas ’ it failed ut
tcrly, , and was only medium in . Michigan ...
and Pennsylvania. Among vegetables,
potatoes will be high this winter. New
■lersev produced the most, in Arkansas
fair, although the latter ones are Kansas’ ixior
aud the blurs ' * ruined d them m in ln ftansas.
, Tomatoes r . are not . a full . „ supply, sweet
potatoes are plentiful, turnips are poor,
Nid onions are not plentiful.
OnrwAYO, the dethroned king, -A it
Oude Monlen, a pri-onor yat to the
English Government. A recent letter
from a lady who saw the ex-Africav
potentate, Bay*: “The gTeat change I
noticed in his appearance made me ex
claim involuntarily, ‘ Is he ill ?’ as I
Stepped across the threshold, to which
the interpreter replied, without referring
the question to Cetowayo : * He is not
very well, but he has never been well
since he has been here.’ After shaking
bands, I said to him : * Do you like
Oude Monlen better than the castle?’
To which he replied very sadly : ‘ It is
all the same to me where I am without
my freedom.’ In saying good by, I
said that 1 hoped he would try aud cheer
up and not fret, as lie would make him¬
self ill, and that fretting could do no
good. But I 10 shook his head and ex¬
claimed. • I cannot help it.’ adding, as
lie shook hand* with me, that he ‘hoped
Gcal would bless mo for my kindness.’ ”
Wires a cashier who has stolen $2,-
600,000 is admitted to $25,000 bail, and
the fact iff the theft is almost forgotten
within a week, tho ordinary man is at a
loss to collect his senses. The whole
transaction from beginning to end is
beyond 'u belief. Baldwin’s stealings be
ga in the year 18715, by his own eon
fusion. That was eight years ago.
The bank examiner makes his rounds
>ix times , vear> ^ hence tin- affairs of the
* lecllM 1 i 0 „. Wil8 sub j ect , 0 hjg
inspect i on n pou fortr-eight different
lKV;li icm S . It seems that on each of
these visits the Bank Directors, must
have, without knowing, testified to the
accuracy of the Casl it-r's reporta Thau
what? The Directors in whose hands
the bank is supposed to be, knew noth
ing of its affairs, and the President was
a mere figure head The Casan-r s
could not be doubted. He stood high
in the church and came from a good
funily. All his brothers stood high in
the business world. Dishonesty there
lore was out of the question. But dig
honesty «vpt ui a ,d after eviry thing
had been stolen that:was avudahfo leav
ing oalj the safe and the stove, Bal-Vut
calls the Directors about him to say he
has stolen $2,600,000, and if he was not
a cowarf he would sh ,x t
: ,i L*-n< 5 rea<iy to go toprtzat-,. Bat
«•. • put him in iiiiw.r., oh, ,. 0
i- fixed at Si'.wk), j ti
|<»U .t he La* stolen. it d f I til
Li. K he is a free mam Who enf
tins? Certain’y not t :e
1 ".. ■ lav** does -lot li *id t" 1 * m
t <* it onglit fo >. if their
ne 11 -* eriimoal, it oug.lt
they ■ there for s. i to j,
a ffii ins of the *b k *
el t il to mate a :»> the
m api their p-sdnci n-ji, :• i>e
ruuaeQtii u • T
cuiastanccs thirvfl.gis ei tc* ged,
! ItlJl tli -'ie is not n.oTe !G;r.i
rs in the n or iiit ue than there
fi en, it will be liecante there are no
uisi, cc.a o.-i-s.
( A Tea _ of Truth. ,
Whv » it that, in a major!! v of cusea
the news, vipers, in record ; . t.my
| mvolvi p -rtaining s a hi m-.-dmu conn a utal of ,,, -..s,.u - i •
v or
*««•«*. emp.oy tlm «eiu v «•« ’ y
j ^ nSd^Sv ttL-‘ 1 ,V u-T -.".
unfortmab-lv tils it is to tiuAe e
derate**! i:. couzdr v a: th
jtv of r«* • rs nr# nU at . it ji .
the si-o.iliciiuce '
of the r l. ..
Amercrm tike any int r-stia a «-.’win
fla"-tufr lie wants <> ifnow how ... -. v
f , tr it. Ls - ’ » r j. | ‘ • ., . , ‘ ;
til( . 7- of Vk v
. iii e<,t ! l( - ! io : r . >,. ■ , tl
to his mind. If h ; . , _ . i
m ■ 1 it.: i kil . r .mm ,*1.- ■ i .a,
to , . th idea. Tn-S--’ -.il
- M| .h. and the pi
- alih- 1 n„*s ,» th e«mtmr; .Uu-h
th vime mawbcsanlof the en;- .nvim-nt
of ;- tl , p.ml pi,r.c.a in u i i Jall .
sn ■} No Am-r c.i:i is s m u’ d that
h ( ..u.not understand all . i e.umdy- i:n4
a. . <n .!:» e nwyed in p'niu
ti ;• Ii- with this er.eepti. . t .t thero
words and phrases in h>i- i >■ ( ton totes
th ' ;t innctiadiy’*untrau B latat»:e,and
‘ ^'idcr *'*% them into V English. ^ J lut I ties-)
words anil jihrases are generally find.iir,
and m common use in English eonverm
tion. Such words aud phrase; are of
con s-. allowable. Butr tie use of a
French phrase that can bo Understood
'Y oue veiaed in tiie l iun -h Ian
is snobbish. The journalist who
to ‘ l, ' 3 -'^ 8 in tlie ptoctice of pep;xuing iiia
toanusi-not . with foreign words
run a
great risk. The intelligent compos tor
may wake sal work of his best efforts,
1111,3 ‘ 3 ngerous to repose unlimited
conlid.-;,.- • m the pr of-ivad-.-r. It Ls no
evidence to the mmd of the r-.d-r that
the writer became m possessed of any particular
erudtrion he is able to handle
Lat n, Grc -k and Ficnch freely. Any
body, with a dictionary of those lau
K»“gcs at his elbow, cm ilo the same,
What the general read r wants is a plain
*to r y. plainly told, in words that he can
uuderUmd -Dmton /too- k
Mortimer Collins . Ldlle liieu.l.
Collins loved to not e and make
^i.-nds with the birds and “ small deer ”
Lnt il!,! • , ' 3 » r '-'‘ m3 !,im - 11 “ P’- pa »
uit r-ourse was earned on between
■.< Uil, Th,.v,.u«, tlMHgh ill a 1 -ss ji
h *>' ' ' ' v 3 >‘>«' *» nuiK- f.lends
with the feathered folk that, built their
nests in his trees; and the intimacy
Ke ' ws to liavo proved n re. able on b th
*V les - Here m a bit of ehe;rful go-sip
about a winter guest;
“J have made a and" very pleasant acq nn
tanee—a young vivacious person,
kiudiu musical am] garrulous, grateful for small
sw.-s, aud m ver a bore. H- is, to
avoid tb, ‘ inysterious, a robin red breast
—» young cook, whose waistcoat lias not
t attained ita fullest scarlet nor his
BOU g its comp! -te music. Thcr.- are lots
of them on mv lawn, in various sti gei
°f adolescence; but tliis lit T- beauty got
mto my book room one morning, aud
flow in a fright against thy window
when I entered, i*r. 1 f 11 un die ffo >r half
stunue 1. I took him up, mid got him to
drink a little water, and put him on t i e
grass. He soon recovered, aud now he
follows mo all over the place, lie wa Is
t<> welcome me the fust thing in the
morning. Hu perches on my knee us f
sit writing on the lawn, and twitt-rs out
a tive sweet low song, fie is very inqui i
about every thing n wthat e- mes
out when we encamp under the tre s.cx
amining work-baskets, writing-ba-kets,
Straw hats, w th an evident thirst fir
kaou 'e ,J ge. II comes on my writing
dar-s table 1 .1 pick up crumbs; then suddenly
away in a hurry to seize something
more longlcgs, enticing—-a fat spider, or a daddy
or a butterfly. There is some¬
feathered thing curious in the friendship gratitude.” of this
atom h rn out of
Mrs. Collins add. in a not;: “He
continued to be friendly until the spring
of the following year, and spent the
greater pint of tho winter in t lie house,
thereby othci robins, causing great jealousy to t wo
who were gr. at favorit-s,
who used to watch for him to coma out
the house and attack him .—Tltc
Spectator.
TVI 13 Immigrants Shim the South.
Tiie St. Lo-iis R'-ptUdir n, tini^ defines
the two chief causes for the lack of im
rnigr itiou to the South :
First, tin- existence of the large
m..vo population ia the South; second,
information wide-spread misrepresentation the social and false
as to and political
condition of that section.”
A large negro population in Texas and
Arkansas does not deter white* immi¬
grants from settling everywhere in those
States. “False inf.uruation about social
md political conditions” may nave had
something to do with preventing immi¬
gration, lint the chi-f cause for the im¬
migrants shunning the South is a lack of
information concerning the facilities for
obtaining cheap land. Cheap laud is the
"teat attraction in the West. Cheap
bind taxi-s t.i • immigrant to Arkansas
uim to Tennessee and other Southern
States when he can have the assurance
that he can get it hi those-States. — Mcm
phis Avalanche.
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Ptovkhengf, in England, has Iwen
V,i..p,u ^ but on -'em" *'-it aeti rvfiv..s
it opinion that it dates sti l farther
p. 10 k and belonging was a temple of thefirew- .r
shippers, to the Bronze Period
of Northern arehieologists.
Feeling Hurric-d.
Probably nothing tires one so much
as feeling harried. When in the early
morning the day *» affairs press on one’s
j attention the wonder lie how forehand, the and world there comes thing
j in every
is to be aecoBjpli'hed, when every iu
! terrnpticn is received impatiently, and
the dock is watched in distress as its
moments flit then the mind tires
the sly. We are wrong to drive our
selves with whip and spar in this way.
Each of us is promised strength for the
day, and we must not wy-ar ourselves out
1/ by crowding only two days’ tasks into one.
; allowing we OUrselvtS can keep cool and calm, not
t. » be flustered, we
shall lie let ied when w. have
reached the even-tide. The children
maybe fi actions, the servants trying,
the fr;en.i we love may fmt to visit ns,
the left, r we expect may not arrive, but
»* nl Preserve demeanor, nir tranquillity ef
s f * we shah get
through every tnmg .•rcditauJy.
J-si>eciaLy atlas good airi e f»r
weather. Blmfet-Js the last most?
'wL tvthe , ^ wT*
day ,°whc iumente thri k
^ • warm, ami watches the tliermome
ter ^espairipg hot before certainty that it nev
er Rifles was so her ; who, in short, in
own discomfwt and ailds to
” f «“*» b v thinking of
Monica who - in-doors
:t ‘ can stay have
the advantage of men in warm weather,
it is wise to air a house thoroughly in
the early morning, and to keep it, as tar
a- s possible, middle.of close and darkened through
t.ie the day. Dispense with a
!V at lire m t.ie kitchen nuige. and let
the c^suig be moderate Fruits, salads,
1,1 i't°l ,tr *ooaa tot summer. A gas
f “ u economy anil a comfort,
r ind the coolesft place to sit, go quietly
about a nd >“**« 88 1‘ttle fuss
utirt” be about its . being warm. Let
“ ,e children have frequent baths, and
d° not encumber them with heavy cloth
!“?’ Common sense and an easy mind
S un SueTcW mtte rnett on,..... ^ ^ ^
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ti T,,<> /< * Drought n ,, of LSlf).
At Pleasant Hill, Ky., I conversed
"dh au intelligent and pious Shaker,
")m held to the doctrine of final perse
verance in hig undying faith in the good
ucss of God, in not suffering a total fail
ut» of crops to occur. He was a young
man m 1819, the year of the “Great
Drought,” the middle when from early summer to
of January there was no rain,
when the air was hot aud dry, when the
« 3 "«d* refused to form and ^condensed
m to showers, when the dew-point was
seen, when the stagnant pools of
water in creeks anil branches became so
that thoroughly the cattle car)amizedandmiavmiferous
utterly died, ami all vegetation
destroyed. was During parched up and apparently
that terrible drought
the cattle became afflicted with the “hot
lu^lm in ttoflr frm’tic efforts^to^serateh
themselves to relieve the intolerable
itching. black Deer and horses died with
listless tongue; fowls aud birds became
and stupefied, moped in despair,
lost tlieir. pintuage and itildton died in utter
misery. Jlen, womepaufl grew
sick with disappointed hopes for the
bonized healing showers, drinking the foul car
water and eatingdusty food, and
many died of disease not known before
or since. Maddened with the intolera
blc itch and frantic with eating the drv
and desiccated grass, deprived of all mi
tritive elements by the long drought, ’ the
cattle, sheep anil horses roamed the
fields and through the forests, moaning
and howling, or pawing the earth in im
potent the rage. Added to these horrors,
fields and forests took fire and
bumeil for weeks and months. The Mr
was filled with smoke and shape'of ashes, produo
ing another horror in the some
form of ophthalmia that was almost in¬
tolerable. ~
Fresh vegetables were soon exhausted
the cattle were too diseased to lie used
for food, water was scarce aud unfit to
drink, fires were raging, and the whole
population afflicted with disease in some
shape. middle This state of things lasted until
the of Jainmrv, wnen the blessed
rain and the realty beautiful snow came
and saved the country from utter anui
hilation.— Cor. Louisville Courier- Jour
rial.
How Barbers Learn to Shave.
“ How long does it take a man to learn
the barber business ? ” asked a reporter
while undergoing a tonsoris operation
at the hands of a colored professional.
‘‘Well, dat depends on how much
talent ho has for de business,” was tlie
quiet reply; “ generally takes ’bout a
year.”
“How- do they begin,” asked the te
jiorter.
“Dev gene lly begins by blackin’
boots. Den dey star;’ round an watch
U!1 *'le barber strop his razuh, an’ watch
him shave. After a while dey lets’em
)>«t de lather on. Den pretty soon he
tries his ban’ at sharin’. Somebody
comes in dads very good natared, or
niebby ain’t very particular how he’s
shaved, an' dey put dar new- man on to
try liis lian’; but some ole barber always
strops his razah, an’ keeps an eye on
him.. Mebby .It- new man does fust rate,
an' mebby ho doesn’t. It all depends on
his confidence. Confidence is da main
thing in learning de barber business.”
“ Do barbers shave themselves? ” que¬
ried the reporter.
“ No, dey shaves one aatidor. Mlien
s barber wants a sliave, he asks a friend
to do it, an’ den be shaves de other man.
Barbers never pays nuthin’ for shaves,
unless thoy’se away from home.”
“ Doesn’t a professional c urtesy exist
among barbers everywhere ? ”
"I reckon it does, but I never heard
it called by dat name afo’.”
Is obdeb to cure her husband of
drinking, a colored woman in South Car¬
olina put concentrated last lye in his whisky
bottle. The words he uttered were
to the effect that it would be a relief to
him to last drop words into hades to cool off', and
the the widow spoke to the
outside world, as she dodged into jail,
were: “I nevali seed sieh weak stom¬
achs as de niggah are gittin' nowxdaw;
day can’t stand nuflin !’—Free Press" x
Mrs. Belta A. Lockwood, T the woman
Lwy c-r of IV ashington, is sard to ride a
tr-cycle ai,d to make long excursions
about the city.
PACTS FOR THE ClRIOrv.
Oct of i very 100 inhabitants of the
Clilted States sixteen live in cities.
A lOCOJfOTiVE .lriuks forty-five gal
ions of water evei y mile it travels.
T me finest thread in a spider s web ia
composed of no less than 4,000 strands.
When an n g-outang dies the others
cover up the body with great branches
of trees. » **
M. Le Gr at saw in Java a female
chimpanzee that made her bed very
nftji tty every day, lay upon her side and
COVfc red herself with" the clothes.
The heat on the Colorado rt is
fre- ,
: rritic. At Yuma die theraionv .er
quently registers 125 degrees and the
air is so ra reded that objects 100 miles
distant appear very- near,
r x is note a as a curious fact that no
-president, from Washington to Garfield,
, vaB born in a eitv, and that oaiy the
second Adams wsi even nominally a
sklent of a eitv ' when elected.
’^h, j. . t{ themilves eoanterfetting grad®
will B ufl« to be
<*»% roasted without moving a single
joint “I have pierced spiders with
prn< ^ Mr . Smellie, /‘amltorn them
! ? «* ho ? t their inuieatmg the
b ^iarks o A pain.
Ihe water-boatmen, among the mo..t
agile “™g of uuder-mde water insects, upiwrmost. row them^lvea iueir
u&oit of moving upside now a is of
great use to them in feeding, for many
of their victims have hard backs, so the
water-Ujjiimen dive down and come up
under their prey, thus attacking them
on tneir soft side.
The unicorn still exists in the interior
of Thibet. It is there called the one
horned tso-po Its hoofs are dividedi;
it is about twelve or thirteen hands
high; it is extremely wild and fierce.
yot associating like in large herds. boar, Its and tail its
„ shaped is that of a
horn, which curved, glows out of ita
forehead, it is seldom caught alive.
l.ut the Tartars frequently shoot it, and
use its flesh for food.
The equatorial diameter of the earth
^ tw thau the ^ by ^ tllirty .
four miles. While the center of gravity
remains as now the polar and equatorial
regions will remain substantially the
same ; but if from any cause the polar
shall preponderate, then a change in
polarity wiJi the ensue. Such, w ithout
doubt, was case when the tropical
elephants were incased hi the icebergs b
of Nova Zemblaand Spitsbergen.
mintinmnl tl.» oiwiom
K how that ‘ we cannot mix n-intsrs well
Je .. l'r j manufacturinff SLle metals tliev
we 0 superiors They a sword so
exau •} i s itelv thatitcould beTmtinasheath -..F
. ,,, . . ^ ,
mw® h ad ^ the St ^°°°
^“ ^ £ -Ti*
j ’ ous each emnloved^SGO The pynim iabftilU men’for >00
B n 000
huugeFZ twenty years sSty Twelve millions billion* ^un“s -ev.-n o1
l
granite wero used in its eocstniction,
aut3 111 dimensions it was 460 feet high,
Astbokomebs say that the average
number of meteors that traverse the at
Biosphere, be visible to and the that naked are large at enough place, to
eye one perl
« the su-i, moon wAstars would
mit > w forty-two n houis, or 1,000
daily. The apparent, ze of nteteoig is
greatly magnified by irradiation. Some
of them have been computed to have a
diameter of 10() or 20 > feet, anil others
I. OfkO up to 5,00(1 or 6,000; but this
must be regarded as the diameter of the
blaze of light which surrounds the
meteor. The meteor itself, before it
takes lire, may have a diameter of only
a few feet, or perhaps only a fraction of
an utchi Tlic mean distance of meteors
from the observer is about 105 miles.
Debris of Old Buildings.
[New York Industrial World.]
The varied materials collected from
old buildings in course of demolition
form enormous accumulations in some
of the upper wards in New York City,
where one can purchase anything in the
building line from a piece of lead pipe
to a magnificent French plate glass.
Timber of all sort, from giant cross¬
beams to little joist posts, can be had
in these yards, window where there are also win¬
dow sashes, weights, doors,
shutters, iron and wooden staircases,
window tiling, frames, wainscoting, doorposts, flooring lath
: ng, bricks, brown
stone fronts, granite steps, granite col¬
umns, iron girders and iron fronts, iron
stair-frames, and, in fact, anything and
everything that Door has ever been used in
a house. knobs, bell handles,
iron railings and balconies, not to men¬
tion the cornices, are there in profusion
and confusion. The profits of this busi¬
ness arc said to be great, and while it
frequently piaid for happens that large figures
are some houses, the profits are
correspondingly great. Recently some
houses on Twenty-third street were
taken down, and as they were finished
in hard wood,-ornamented with mirrors
demanded and great spacious fire-places, the price
brass work was very large, but the old
and glass atone piaid the pur¬
chaser for what he had invested, and
the wood, stone and brick of the house
was all clear profit. The two firms who
do the largest traffic of the kind carry
to their yards about fifty truck-loads of
material a day. The - there are dozens
of others in the trade who do a much
more modest bush_
A Sure Remedy.
There is no remedy for trouble equal
to hard work—labor that will tire, you,
physically, to such have an extent that you
must sleep. If you met with losses,
you don’t want- to lie awake and think
about them. You want sleep—calm, sound
simp, and to eat your diuner with an
appetite. If But you can’t unless you
work. you say you don’t feel like
work, and go loafing all day to tell
Tom, Dick and Harry tlie story of your
woes, you’ll lie awake, and keep your
wife awake by your tossing, sjioil your
temper and your breakfast next morn¬
ing, and begin to-morrow feehng tea
times worse than yon do to-day. Thor®
are some great troubles that only time
can heal, and perhaps gome that can
never be healed at all; but all can b©
helped by the great panacea, work.
The peculiar color imparted to silver
gp. ons used in eating eggs and fish, and
ife, bles. blacking is solelv of whits lead paint in sta- of
talic owing to the formation
me sulphides.