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era® 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 ———— ♦ ......... 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. _ 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. ^ _ 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 ■ 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.” --- —^----- ^ 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. ' "" :_ - 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,..... ^ ^ ^ ....... 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.