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About Crawfordville democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1881-1893 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 26, 1881)
ins onfMiiib Qifflt. J6DWARD YOUNG A CO., Publiniuw* and Proprietors, Sr A W FORD V 'LEV. : GEORGIA NEWS GLEANINGS, Mississippi's population ha* increased 300,000 in ten years. 7 Carolina’* cotton crop will U f>t»6,200 bales of 400 pounds each. There are 3,010 prisoner* in the Tc xas penitentiary. The public debt of Tennessee is 000 , 000 . There are 70,000 head of cattle and 35,W0 head of sheep in Mitchell county, Texas. Georgia has forty cotton mills, and they pay from eight to twenty-five [>t r c™.. m «I*. ~~r s-w An eighteen pound sweet potato » among the Georgia exhibit# at the At lantn Exposition. A fig bush in Mobile, Ala., is credited with producing annually 300 bushel* of wheat. Birmingham, Ala., expects two rail¬ roads to center there within the next three or four year*. Tlie city council of Knoxville, Tenn., ha* paused an ordinance preventing the sale of parlor or other explosive matches within the corporate limit*. The Atlanta ConstitutionTrcprinU an old freight bill i*#ued for the Georgia road forty-one years ago. Dogs and ne grocs were chnrged $3 each. Forty-eight application* for divorce Were filial at Chattanooga from July 1 to November 1, *nd only 110 marriage licenses were issued. Tlie citir.cn* of Hparta, Ga., have not paid any municipal tax for over two yearn The retail liquor license* have more than paid the expense* of tbe tow#. The cotton crop of Alabama for the present season, notwithstanding the drouth ami other disaster* that beset it during the year, will not fall more than ten per rent, lwhind that of la*t year. The largest Mock of marble ever got ten out in Hawkins county, Tennessee, con¬ tained tSfi feet and weighed 24,000 pounds and required twenty-four horse* to draw it. |F A bale ot cotton Ira* sold at Wayne* boro, (<«., n few days ago, tbut had 200 pounds of *and concealed in the center of it. The negro whe owned it acknowl¬ edged the sand. Three lengthy, Ga- annular I/ women DtrC.^- —fie, lt join the Mormon*. They said the sionarv told them they could get hu* hunds by going to Utah. Eureka Spring*, Ark., ky authority of the Governor, is now declared a city of the first-ela**. Within two year* mid three months from the building of the first cabin, it has become second in pop¬ ulation in the Htste. It is occasionally a long time between drinks in Texas. Local option is en¬ forced on the road between Benham and Crook*, and for sixty mile* the law doesn’t allow tlie traveler to wet his lip# Opie Read’s “Uncle .Terry” philoso¬ phises: Ito ole time nigger is pas*in’ away. When dese ole bones Ls laid to rest in de narrow 1**1 of eternal sleep, my sons, wid dar young buckish way* will l*> goin’ rulin’ declarin’ dat dar fodder want neldsw a slabe. Chickasaw (Ark.) Messenger: On the morniug of the election we at« us nice biscuits, in which the cotton seed oil was used, as we ever saw, and we here and now declare we take no more lard incurs. The oil is cleaner and cheaper than lard, and has a better flavor. John Greenwood, of Walker’s Station, Itesri River chnnlv, Texas, oilers $1,000 reward for the return of a boy child nineteen months old, white-haired, blue eyed, with fair complexion, which was taken from Shawnee Prairie, in that county. Tlie child had a very dim scar on tlie Duck of the left hand, and a sear on the left side, a few inches below the arm-pit. Jacksonville (Fla.) Union : Mr. David Dyal. of Nassau county, Fla., lias gone to the Atlanta t'ottou Exposition. He took along with hint, just to show what the re is in Florida, what he calls hi walking stick, which is ninety five feet king, is perfectly straight, hewn to an eight square, and fifteen inches in diarn etcr lie also took a cabbage palmetto stalk, sixty ne , , <u.g o iu , l '’’ * m and with the haves is m\(\ ~* v> ■ *" lonp; also, * pine flag-p.de eighty long, a t*op!ar Asf-polc sixty-one feet long, and a poplar stalk rly teet long and thirty-two indies iaineter, eight square l’vori.E who live remote from the s» a allure can make a good artificial clam by rolling . of . sand nml a piece soap u ashes, and eating it when i» is »K>in half cook This is rather lsetter than the real clam, but it will give the iu landers an approximate idea of the lux urv. TOPICS «F TKF. DAT. AvToffg campaign in New York test him $200,000. The temperance bdal wave is cruising about in Iowa. The Government pud $40,000 for the T iktown celebration, Smalleox is so bad in Chicago that aB '1 -mlemic is feared. Thirteen member* of the next Legis ialUiC o! Yiigim* will L- colored men. Eiuhti newspapers published in Ne braska favor women suffrage. The wife of Mackay, the millionaire, rid* a in a carriage iu Paris which coat $30,000. Tint word “ grease” is no longer in de Wb “» aoi hntt, r » atd rice vena. T „ jfcUri m . 000,000 last year tl.noo.000 more than tLu State ol California, A war In# been begun in Chicago on retail grocery stores for selling beer by tho bucket to minors. The Irish National Laud League of this country has sent $127,835 to Ireland during the past throo months. Stationabil* wage*, with on increased cost of the necessaries of life, will have a tendency to produce strikes. “With malice aforethought” is what rile# Uintean. He is sane enough to know that tfiut sort of thing won’t do. The simpler the ceremony the more fashionable the wedding. Dame Fusluon unite* on the poor at last. Brbmn has a Snuer-Kruut Exchange. We thought the Germans wosld eventu¬ ally corner that article. Dakota Territory, anxious to ha ad¬ mitted into tho Union as a State, claim* u population of 150,000. Thk Prince of Wales was forty-two year* old the »th of November, aud ho hasn’t sowed all hi* wild oata yet. Seven comets have bobbed up severely this year, still the old world rolls along without a jar in tb# Kamo old rut. Talmaok sayB when a lioy isn’t good for anything they make a preacher of him, and that is what ailea tho ministry. It m expected that this country and Mexico will tie in direct telegraphic communication with Peru aud Uracil bv j(- - - fir r * Inclpdinu magazine# and other peri¬ odicals, there oro 11,418 publications in the United States. Of tins number 982 •ro daily papers. Welle#, who attempted to blackmail .lay Gould, is said to lie respectably con nected. That always seems to lot tho cnminaldowu easy like. Senator .She km ah wants a law by which a creditor may jiersuo a dobtor from ono State to another. Ho can do that now, it ho so desires. Tiie White House so completely torn upside down by carpenters and plasters, that Arthur i* beginning to de¬ spair of gutting into it. Jewish refugees from Russia and Gex many arc flocking to America by the hundreds. It is expected that 5,000 wiii eonifl hero duriug the winter. Gov. John D. Lomu, of Massachu¬ setts, accompanied his Thanksgiving proclamation with on original hvmn of four stan:*ae, in common meter . -- , . . Blaine is worth $1,0110,000, and yet his |Kitifieiil ambition will not let him stop at Unit. “1884” looks just os big to him as it docs to any oue else. Tits Chicago Tariff Convention asked for tho abolition of the luterual revenue, and declared for "i» wise protection sys¬ tem.” This of itself is somewhat vague. Gov. St. John*, of Kansas, charges the Brewers' Congress at Chicago with authorizing the expenditure of au un¬ limited amount of money to defeat the prohibitory law in Kansas. Adelina Patti lias condescended to appear before* tho Cincinnati public in tlm oratorio of tho Messiah, Deeotn'xsr 2*. Beer and nundo in Cincinnati will TO1 ,ti mu * to go hand in hand, Strako* thinas tret into journal some fareign newso Mtcra. A Russian relate toifc* reader, that President Arthur is au I i-Ounau vvuowas driven from his coun try bv*Eug»Md’k a»i#rwfr. Tub State Auditor of ludiania has !'• eu advised by Attorney General Bald win to «>i*eu a war on rhe Graveyard In s.uuueo Compauies of other State# who have been operating iu Indiana, So u exs boys iu Baltimore liavo been JiUaJ!T injam i t „., nHth Hie handling ol “toy pistol” that a city ordi-oioo i YftS been pueed making it unlawful tc M \ll the article within the city limit*, Tbb fact is recalled that Judge Folger, the w Secretary of th# Trensury, was v one of the nine raen iu tha SV* York ■ Tjegwlature in 1WT who voted in favor j ol giving woman the baijot. T Ltot T D. „ Ttm, rtbH of , 3m T _ Fist, . writes a C«r»l to the IIOwYofk Jerald m de fense ot the chanty o, Jay G-nta. She Eurm he has always ftwodsd to her actual needs since the death of her husnand. Oi-itesc mar be insane, hot at ;Le tame time he ia sane enough to know that his life ia in jeopardy, and there is not a level-headed lawyer in the country who has afccener appreciation of the in sanity plea than he. Cisctvnati has figured largely in the Atlanta Cotton Eiposition. You see, there is a railroad from Cup-innati to At lnnfa ’ and it is fondlv \u.ru. l ‘ „„ „ line of trauspo . . ion it wil , have about all it can do in the future. Tmt newspapers published that Jessie Baldwin, of Youngstown, Ohio, had a quantity __ at gold in his house. Thieves went and blowed Baldwin’s safe open and carried off his gold to the amount of 130,000. This ia additional evidence of the value of newspaper advertising. ♦ • God had , commissioned , Welle# _ „ to kill Jay Gould, but Welles was willing the Divine command should miscarry, vided Gould would give him a pointer on stocks. This is precisely , , a parallel case to Guiteau’s, with the excep tion that Guitcan was permitted to ex ©cute the command. ' Hewbt E. Aiibet has engaged Patti for thirty concerts at something over $4,000 s night. Those concerto will be divided up among the large cities of the conti¬ nent. The highest price of admission Abbey asserts, will be five dollars, with a eliding scale downard. Patriotism, in Ireland, takes some curious turns. For instance, when a farmer pay# his rent, a lot of patriots go and cut the tails off of one hundred of hi# cattle, in the name of liberty. How they propose to free Ireland with there tails is more than we know. "V If the word of a crank is of any force, God is appointing a great many people in this country to go about killing tbeii fellow men. If wo should get in the habit of stringing cranks np as fast as they pop to tlie surface, there wonld sdBu bo a ccsaation of Divine murderers. Henbt Ward Beecher being adver tt^d 4 . , to . , lecture . . before . ai the Young v .r Men . a Hebrew Association, a correspondent of tbe J<'wish Messenger objects, because Mr. Beecher once said that the “ancient Jows hadn’t much moral sense and Jacob’s twelve sons were little better tbiouttlirottts.- , , . ^ The Now York Christian Dwottryiraks In the highest terms of the devotion ot Edwin Booth to his wife, whose death has just l>een recorded. “Evil-minded persons,” it says, “would be put to shame if a statement of the character of Mrs. Booths illness and tho divobon and tenderueBB of her husband, were made public.” Eballt we take comi>wwAm on those persona who put so much faith in Mother Shipton’a prophecy. Their con¬ fidence in prophets is sadly shattered and they certainly feel bad over it. Mother Shipton’-s trash, like herself, is now dead, and it should lie buried very deep. Superstition ha# seen its best day by all odds. Because Colnmbier claims to have written the Bernhardt book. Sarah Bernhardt takes occasion to remark that “ if Colombier were a man she’d smash her head.” Now thon, wouldn’t it looks just os angelical for Bernhardt to smash o woman’s head ns it would for her to smash a man’s ? Let the smashing gc on. The Protective Tariff Convention at Chicago recommended that the Presi¬ dent appoint a commission “to revise our revenue system, including our tariff laws, in the interest of protection and for uceded revenue,” ami passed a roso lotion asking for the abolishment of in¬ ternal revenues. In other words, it has asked for a revolution in the tariff sys¬ tem. Mr. Price, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, has at last shed a ray of light on the vexatious Indian question. He says we feed tlie White River murderers while we compel the Usntachs to largely care for themselves, and as a consequence of this cause of treatment ttie Indians are taught to believe that if they are to get favors from the Government they must refuse to work aud commit depredations against the Government. It does look as if there was some truth in this state¬ ment. While boring an artesian well in the vicinity of Richmond and Carr streets, Cincinnati, a stream or vein of gas, was struck at a depth of eighty-three feet A “cap” was put on the pipe which had been driven down, and rivited to confine the gas, but the force of the gas burst the cap off. A pipe forty feet in length was thou attached to the driven pipe to convey the gas from the building, and to test the quality ol the article a match was put to tbe gas ss it escaped at the end of the attached pipe, when it ignited and a blaze shot out seven feet produc¬ ing light equal to 500 orduurj gas bum-'Tbe pbfconi’Bi is prodr,-tug oonsi.- :rabie excilem ut. . CoMUMW* n , .CHix-.a, r„, el ,« too ti.e is>7* lineal I J.avr, has denrered a coti.se of ketnrc# Cbickoriag ;«oeaiU# Rsfli. Sw roach York, Ul tst.at- N-.rth j } na ln.w it i- to the p u , >e , |V Cue^ne was an of:i or i ' expeditor jrj { , p rH ntlin-«ra- h >s. {{ , d( . simlt0 bo aooocip cited by Lieu- j tenantry tenant Schwstka. . .aum. Tb-* n- id's -• h to 1 go " in * rebels in thespnng, until travel by Jm* pr j> - -s becomes dangt-roua, c-;d then to coniine in balloons, tine ia number, each balloon carrying three nt-a, a sledge, E-.iuimaux dogs, provisions, and instruments The uistauco eaicaiateJ n t 69(5 Bailee, can be made ic eighteen to twi . u *.-.f.,ur hour* cl the rate of thirty „;oer " “ hour L, __ _ forced ttsrclies. j... Frfd , nck the Great marc)ied ri „, at W) miles *20davs; and rgsin, after Ro»barh, a little greater oistauee in 15 days, nut lost 000 men through eihaus tion. Io 1760, with 40 000 m-n and 1.000 wagons, he accomplislud about the >-0 miles in 5 days. Ti e same year Aii'.trian General Lascv. with 15,600 men “knocked off’’ 180 miles iu 10 days. Prince Eugene, of Wurtemtierg, to re¬ lieve Berlin, made a forced march on the 4th of October, 1760, of 36 mil-s 1 d a v. This latter does not approach tbe of the Sixth Corps—35 m les in 19 It may be remembered by many °* ti ),>se who s*-rve.l with the Army of the Potomac that Bimey’s F.rst iBe<l Diamond) division of the Thir l Corps had won for themselves the nickname of “ Biniey’s Foot Cavalry,” and this title was suliec-quently Tmrd applied to the Second combineii Corps after the In regard Corps was the with it. to Thml Corps, Army of the Pot mac, the writer feels that it ileserves equal pre¬ eminence with the Third Corps of the French Army of under Napoleon the latter organi¬ in the campaign 1800. Of said Napol¬ zation, Marshal Da voust to eon during this, the Jena campaign, mirati® when the Emperor expressed Ins ad a^ts of its achievements and his grief heavy 1< sees, “Sire, tbe soldiered the Third Corps, will ever be Cmsar.’^(Alison, to yon Vmt the Tenth L-gion mis to ii., 457, 2). The ac¬ tivity Secoud-Tllird of the Third and of the combined Corps rivaled that of Oudinot’a Grenadier’s, in October, 1805, when they actually ontiuiuolied cavalry, accomplishing 12 leagues a day, and contributed chiefly to tin- capture of the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand's col¬ umn, which bad escaped from TJlm. In tlie pursuit of the Sixth Corps kept up with the cavalry on the 6th—so sax s Col. Archabald Hopkins, Thirty-seventh Massachusetts Volunteers, in his account of (Little) Sailor’s Creek, 6th of April, 1865—and it is .claimed that the Fifth Corps had likewise equaled the speed of the horsemen, prior l to tlie concentration at J( , terBviiIp> ( wniug o{ the 5th T ic infantry, both of the Army of the Do: O mac and of the Army of Northern Vir ginia, justitied Lieut-Geu. Baron Ain solders, magniftceut eulogy on the foot whom he styles ** thes.m-w# of au armv. Gen. Itoche-Avmon savs tlmt cavalry is to inf.-udry wi.at postry these words express. It is not a bed oomtmrison, inasmuch as the world might go on without poetry, while it would be utterly impossible to get along Moreover g.md poetry * not fa while al 1 very fi ne. is at best no more to real life than what dessert is to a dinner .—The United Service. Fears of Heath. but Why should men ever be afraid to die that they regard the spirit as sec ondarv to that which is but its mere appendage its and convenieney, its symbol, soul word, its means of visibility ? If the lose this poor mam-ion of hers by the sudden conflagration of disease, or by the slow decay of age, is she there¬ fore houseless and shelterless ? If she cast away this soiled and battered gar aient, is she therefore naked ? A child looks forward to n new* suit and dons it joyfully We ; we cling to our rags and foul¬ ness. should welcome death as one who brings us tidings of tbe finding of and long lost titles to a large family estate, though, set out gladly to take possession, it may be, not without a .nat¬ ural tear for the humbler homo we are leaving. Death always menus us a kindness, though he has often a gruff LowclL way of offering it. — Janus Hassell The Sun Worshipped From a Volcano. I write this from Mount Friji, the highest immense mountain volcano, iu nearly Japan. It is au high, 13,000 feet ami a famous lesort for pilgrims. I am told that during the season when it can be ascended, which is in Julv ai d August, tbe number of piligrims visiting it average about- five hntidrt d per day. The ascent is very steep and difficult, yet it can lie made in a day. There arc numerous stations or resting-places on the wav up—little stone huts covered with boards and heavily laden with stones by to keep them from being swept away the high winds. The scene from tbe summit at sunrise is indescriba¬ bly grand and it is an object with the piligrims to bo there at that time and hundreds worship the rising sun. This morning of them wore hand!, gathered in its ervst, with clasped and chanting their prayers with a loud voice, their voices sounding far off through the dear an *.—Japan Letter. Thebe is a married couple in Milan county. Texas, who have a strange mixt¬ ure of names, and are now about to cele¬ brate marriage. the fiftieth On anniversary 16th of* of their the October, 1830, in Caldwell couutv, 'Lneretia Kv., Dsurv Mitchnson Kevil married Kevil MJehnson, and she became Lueivtia Kevil Mitchoson Kevil. They are not at all related. He was born in 1778, in of his Kentucky, future wife, and and named for the father she was born in Sonth Carolina in 1810, and named for tbe mother of her future husband, and they hare been mixed generally ever since. _______ Buckwheat middlings are extensively employed to adulterate ' ground spice* Fallls* Stars. Astronomers divide meteor* into sev¬ eral classes—aerial ineteors, as Winds, tornadoes, etc.; acneoiu L ‘ iu . meteors, -as _ rain Riiow e c . etw or those due to ti-.e action of dementi in the air. as rainbow* halos. ,, dr helias, mi ages, etc.; electri -al meteors, igneous as lightnings, shooting ra-, ete.;^aoJ Telling meteors as or stare, star-showers, bolides or hrs-balrs aerolite# or metef intas et o. " c usage, savs Protesser Newton, the term meteor js'generallv limited to the The bust group, or to the igneous meteor-*. nw^iites musdl autkontv, iu the heavens, to gjtgnt, at least. gw.ui**l in streams aud along the orbit* of known origin coaiets. wi h them. hence have a common The ooB*i:i:atv of the*- -u—e:.- t e double and multiple character of liia'a's . and other comets, and the steady/iiiaia ntion of comets ui brilliancy of eoutiuu success ive returns, seems to argue a >ns breaking up of the c met into fragments b Y some cause, probably by the sun s heat This view is strengbened by tie fact tliat tlie m**Teonc irons and stones brmg with them carbonic ao:d, .. winch , . , is . known to form so prominent a part of the comet’s tiuL It is now universally admitted that igneous mot sirs ai*e cause 1 by amal bodies wbusli. base; SiSS£f£^2s r 1 and, in general the shape of broken fragments of stone. The outside is usually covered with a thin black crust, which is evidently due to a melting of thesurface in the atmosphere. There have been found at various times aud plaoes, loose iron masses that are as Burned to be of n?oteoric origin, l^ecause their pecnliar form, their peculiar chemi cal comjtosition, and th. ir peculiar crystaliue structure are like those of the iron masses that have been seen in sev eral instances to come down from me toons. Shooting-stars are they seen leave on any be clear, moonlight them, night; bright cloud of hind, many of a and phosphorescent light ; the colors—white, meteors their trains have various green, blue, yellow, scarlet, etc.; the duration of the flight is generally brighter less than a second of time, hut the ones may last several seconds. The me¬ teorites contain no elements, so far as we know, whioh have not been found on the earth, but- these elements are com¬ pounded differently from any terrestrial minerals; sometimes they reach the earth, and again are consumed in their «irse .—Chicaoo Inter Ocean. An Ingenious Kascal. The theater of Ofen (Buda-Pesth) was the scene of his debut, though this was made in a loge, not on the stage. It ap¬ peals that a certain Hungarian couutess, well known for her riches and seconded beauty (the same spirited lady graced who with her her brother in a duel) presence the performance at the Aresa, or summer theater. On one of her lair lingers my lady wore two splendid dia¬ mond rings, exactly like each other. During au entr’ avle there presented himself in her box a big fellow in gorge¬ ous livery—six feet of The finest flunkey imaginable. Quoth he, in finest Hunga¬ has rian : “ My ladyship, mistress, Priucess P—, sent to your to ask the loan of one of your rings for fire minutes. Her highness has observed them trom her i. rW ntfrl iq*. orivi.ato^ i'huq one made after tlie pattern. Without an instant’s hesitation the couutess handed a ring to “Jeames,” who bowed with respectful dignity and retired. The performance over, the two great ladies met on tho staircase, aud the couutess begged her friend to keep the ring at her convenience. “ What ring, my dear?” Denouement! Tableau! The “pow¬ dered menial !” was no flunky at all, but a thief, aiul the ring was gone. The police were informed of the impudent trick. Justice seemed to ln»ve over¬ taken the culprit in a very few strides, for next morning the countess, while still tn rubc-clv-chmnlrre, received a let¬ ter informing her that the tluef had been caught and the ring found »n his per¬ ron. stoutly “Only,” added the nate, “tho man denies the charge and de¬ clares the ring to be bis own. To clear np all doubt play come at once to the police station, or semi tho duplicate ring by bearer.” To draw the second ring from the finger and intrust it joyfully ts the messenger—a fiuo fellow iu full pdice uniform, together with a hand¬ some the “ tip,” for the glorious news, was work of a moment. Only when my lady an hour later betook hersalf radiant to the police-station to recover her jew¬ els, a slight mistake came to light. “ Well, my rings ? I could not come to myself the instant I got your letter.” “ What letter, madam?” Denouement! Tableau No. 2 ! The thief had got them both .—London Globe. The remarkable discoveries of Jenner, Pasteur, aud others, showing that some of the most fatal virulent diseases may be rendered comparatively harmless by iuoccnlation with a weakened virus, have led to tho suggestion of the pos tibihty of combatting tuberculosis in erally the same believed manner. It is now quite gen¬ that this disease, iiiii smallpox, due chiokeu cholera aud anthrax, is to the very rapid increase of cer¬ tain minute organisms in the body, and it seems reasonable to hope that inocu¬ lation with its weakened germs may produce us favorable results as have been achieved iu the case of the other maladies. This is au important prob¬ lem for bcieiic - to solve. One of Those “ Mash ” Letters. When Horace Weston, the colored banjo player ot the Plantation troupe, was traveling in Europe with the Jarrett A* Palmer Unde Tom Combination, he received a large mail daffy. One day he was shoving his letters to Mr. Jarrett. who wa- h reading rued them read. to him, Suddenly as he had never t to Mr. Jarrett was overcome with emotion. " Where did von get that letter ? ” ha asked, holding out one with the royal msiguia printed on the corner, and signed “Dat by a court official. pocket one? week.* Why, I’ve carried dat in my “Why, a you idiot!” shouted Jarrett, “ that is a command to appear bef ore the Queen, and is worth $16,060 to he company for an advertisement.” “Is dat so?” replied Weston, “ M thought it was one of dean mash letters, - —New York Sun. BUXOBS OF THE BAT. A aoo d port rait—§5 a bottle. Xiao ; aba Falls— and what’s to prevent S ? ’ Em Perkins is rail mad, spelled back ward s. p OE8 it follow that a woman raises thunder her because she puts lightning in bread? & TOr ^ at to get ridh/mount a mule, ’ Weans** when vou are on amnia Tnn t , r t t - r off ^ n ,, . . . ^ t * Thev «-e s * often*onThc osoms o( guch heavy swells, Soso of the Sinus Chief as he leaves the wigwam of his Laughing Water: “Oh, Sionx-snna, don’t you cry for me. “ Do tou know who built tbe ark ?” asked a Sunday-school teacher ltetle fcjlow o f «little street Arab; and the re plied:. “ Saw '” Chicago lias a violinist who plavs with hi3 feet But nobody play but his a feet— resident of Chicago would with yew York Telegram. A poet who was fond of oysters— gh6 j le _ * Ditt0j (Ktt0( ten ^ius—Bowles, d 0 goft-shells—Crabbe. Do. do., bottles—Suckling. 9ajd that , ^ rl who wears No . 2 ghocs and beautiful hose can be scared wood or stone «'r‘“«• she sees is a mouse.— “ ■>' Boston Post. “A labor part of oar hap pines says Mr. Beecher, “is due to our mis takes. The printer who got bounced for setting up “infernal reception for “ informal” reception may coincide with Beecher, but we doubt it. bI ?,'? T eT f r * ,, ® u J*®* 0,1 • Jorr b r m*ld, , And think aa thou ww’at thow rich red lint of the "unkiwed kiswa’’ tin-re? Because if thou clid’st not, this is a good time to begin’st. — Steubenville Herald. Tom Hood’s most successful poem was the “ Song of the Shirt.’’ A great many American poets don’t sing that sort of a mug, because the subject is in use seven Jays in tbe week, and it hasn’t time to ^ snng about—Steubenville Herald. Sick w«trs finest diamond? aud lac^s. And is worth half a million, th©f say; Her set socialistic embraces The fashion and wealth of th# day; Her lace is a model of beauty— Her praises are sung o’er and o'er; But what are her wealth and her booty, When a foghorn can’t equal her snore? - Detroit Free Press. A woman* may offer in excuse for her red nose that she laces too tightly, but what shall a man say ?— Exchange. O, he can offer the same excuse. He also gets —Norristown too “ tightly ” by so-lacing himself. Herald. Although the marriage of Miss Nellie Grant to Mr. Sartoris, of England, was criticised in this country at tlie time, Nellie did well. Her husband has an income of about $10,000 and one baby a year .—Kentucky State Journal. A ballet dancer is not good for much unless she learns her business iu toe toe. —Boston Courier. If her teacher knows his business heel teach her to keep in¬ step.— Yawcob Strauss. Must she put her whole sole into HI—Steubenville Herald. Here’s a positive fact that occurred iu one of the public schools in this city re¬ cently : A small boy was asked to name some part of his own body. He thought IOi » «ic*i replid: “©<jW«da, „ which are five in number—a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes w aud y.—Philadelphia Bulletin. “Was it the drum major brave?” asked one soldier of another, “Of course,” said the other; “how can I get up the necessary excitement, if fife nothing to stir me ? ” “Oh, well, a man musket courage somehow,” said the first; “ I suppose most any one cannon o.*ca sion. “Y’es, that is the general order, and I’m a bayonet,” said the other “ though I wish I’d never be gun.” On the Safe Side. A Michigander who was riding along the highway near Charleston, Virginia, a ’ few days ago, came across a negro who was grubbing out a stump near the meadow fence, and, after a few questions about farm products, the Wolverine asked: “What do you get for taking that stump out?” •' Jist fifty cents,” was the reply. “ How long have you been workin 60 at it?” “Wall, nigh 'boat a week, I reckon. ‘ “And how much longer will it take ?” " Wall, I specks I could finish it to rnorrer, but I reckon I won’t do it afore Friday.” “ Wail, Why ?” “ heah am de plot. If I finish it to-morrer an’ git my money I’ll be bound to drap down to Hallton an’ bet on a boss-race an’ lose it all. Ef I wait till Friday I kiu hab de means ob givine inter de circus at Charlestown. I knows my weakness, boss, an’ so I’ze gwine to sot lioah an’ fbg a leetlean’ sleep a leetle, circus he’ chop ho’iis off de las’ root when I heah de blowin’ on top de red skule housa lull.” The petty Duchy of Baden is a funny little kingdom, wrth a funny, fussy little court, as full of ceremony, equipages, hveries, powdered wigs, and elaborate officials as any of tho big courts of the German Empire, and its parallel is not hard to find in Offenbach’s sprightly satire upon the doings in the Grand Duchy of Gerolstein. However little the Duchy may be, it is largely connected, for the Grand Duke is son of Princess bophia of Sweden, and his wife, Louise is daughter of the Emperor of Germany' The ducal pair, having married Sept em- ' ’ ber 20, 1856, the 20th of last Sept * their silver wedding, ’cele- was brated aud it was in connection with the gorgeous marriage of their daughter to Prince Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, cianihllng. disastrous Gambling in any form is. In the end. to the one who is not “ with the bank.” No matter what its appar¬ ent inducements may be. the loser is the investor, the gainer the person who holds out so many inducements to the unwary. It is stated by those who have made some kinds of calculations that, o« au average, the investor stands from ona chance in five to one in twenty of gain* ing anything, It does not pay as a mon¬ Give etary all transaction; it is rain ona morally*. games of chanee a wide berth.
