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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.
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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,
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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.
