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CBAWFOEDV LL1 - - CIOIGU.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The brain of the assassin was found to
bo in a healthy condition,
Guiteac’s skeleton will adorn the
Army Medical Museum at Washington.
The Pope is of opinion that tho po¬
sition of tho church in Italy is worse
than ever.
Govebn’ob Blackburn, of Kentucky,
, lias become a member of Christ’s Church,
Louisville.
There are now 40,000 postoffices In
the United States, an increase of 1,700
during the past year.
There having been a good deal of dis¬
pute as to tho boundary lino between
Montana and Wyoming, it in to bo ro
surveyeu ttus ran.
Rix weeks ago the town of Garfield
•prang into existence in tlie oil regions
of Pennsylvania. To-day it has a popu¬
lation of 8,000 people.
Con. Ch as. II. Crane has been nom¬
inated to bo Burgeon General of tho
Army, in place of Burgeon General
Barnes, retired on account of ago.
Political platforms nro constructed
similarly to a gallows. The candidates
are placed upon it and a number of tho
planks drawn from beneath their feet.
A pine of 8100,000 on railroad com¬
panies for every death due to prcventible
accidents is a Now York suggestion
which moots with general and puldio
approval.
Chioaqo bus just opened an institu¬
tion for the reformation of inebriate and
opium eating women, called tho Martha
Washington Department of tho Wash¬
ingtonian Home.
Ir wb are to go to war to assert tho
rights of Irishmen to resist English law,
would it not be cheaper to buy Ireland of
tho British Government and declare its
independence?
As to “ what ia rarer than a day in
June?” tho Boston Advertiser replies,
“taking their number into considera¬
tion, a day in February." And so it is
in other respects, for some of them are
positively raw.
.87’ stuTTO verity-two
engaged rndo failed. Thus far in
1882 only one man to every one hundred
and twenty-eight has failed ; this, in tho
face of the drouth of hist year, and the
hard times now complained of.
It is found that the mind of Undei
Secretary liurko’s §istcr, who lived with
him, has given way. She has not shed
a tear, and sits at the window, exclaim¬
ing at every footfall, “He is coming.”
It is impossible to divert her thoughts
from him.
Says the Toronto Globe: “Tho
Northwest is strongly opposed to mu¬
nopolies, The practical experience that
tho people of Manitoba have already had
of the workings of the Pacific Syndicate
monopoly has converted Tories to op¬
ponents of the Government by tlie
thousand.”
, tj.1 Havino humiliated herself ------rr by ~ - twining . .
her arms around her husband s neck,
Mrs. Christianoy should have held on
until tho old gentleman surrendered uu
conditional!v. It is hard to understand
how tho old fellow eould resist the * ap- *,
peat of so beautiful a woman under such
*’divine’’pressure.
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A Kentuckian was sentenced in the
court at Frankfort to one year in the
penitentiary for stealing eighteen head
of cattle. Then a negro, who had stolen
*20 worth of copper, received a three
years sentence, and lie told the Judge
he had nothing to say except he was
sorry he hadn’t stole a drove of oxen.
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Recent criminal trials prompt a co
temporary to remark: “It is a great
let-down in our criminal jurisprudence
tlmt after a serious charge is made, and
• . p ra/aeir ^ . case at . least , , established iu
the graud jury room, tho indictment
should be so drawn as not to cover tho
facts. and the prisoner has to be ac¬
quitted.”
The clearing of the forest lands has
probably something to do with the late
tornadoes, aud it is just possible that
the telegraph wires aud long parallel
strips of steel and iron rails on the rail¬
road tracks may have some hand in iu
tensifying the fury of the storms, which
art>, without doubt, electrical in tLeix
every feature.
Mb. YT. YY. Shat, of Rome, Georgia,
has been experimenting in extracting
sugar from watermelons. He has ascer¬
tained that they contain seven per cent
of saccharine matter, or pure sugar, and
that on acre of good land would produce
34,500 pounds of melons, from which
2,415 pounds of sugar could bo extracted,
worth, at ten cents, $241.50.
Jcst now, when everything else is so
high and the complaining so general, it
is a con sola tiou to know tL.st there " 1
be no lack ot fruit, which has so mnc.i
to recommend it on its own account,
More use of it and less use of meat at
this season has always been urged by
medical authority, and compliance with
the advice seems now likely to be invol¬
untary.
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Tun revenue of the United -tate from
its mails is now greater than that of
fir,at Britain, and is almost equal to the
British B r< r l c i >“ from mail J, aiid J,, telegraph Z
combiiKifl. . Hjc A(lrnini r.t i > u : , > ,
congratul d,d upon Us great ad,me
ment of keeping expenditures w.tbm 1 ,.,
revenue, and yet succe - mg m giving
the k,'4-W- people better mail faciiiti than
A reporter on the New York World
■interviewed several of the one" thousand
m that city from Europe w route to
f tail. One of them gave the foUowwg
reason w l,y lie took the Mormon view of
the lawfulness of polygamy:
The Scriptures is in favor of this thing
of havin’more wives as one. Revelations
tells of how in tlie last days seven women
shall take hold of one man. Abraham had
a lot of wives and so did David.
David might a' went wrong, hut faults the Scrip¬ for
tures miy n how as a man’s is
give. That’s the reason we think we have
got the law of God on our side.
ABAiuBEYhas stirred up the fanati¬
cism of his co-religionists in Egypt to
sack a degree that if he were to yield
in tho present crisis lie would have as
much to fear from their resentment as
, lie now has from tho , wv Western i powers,
Ilia followers are .earnestly awaiting the
manifestation of El Mohdi, the Messiah,
on tho 12th of November, and the Sultan
donbtless has an understanding with
Germany. The widespread preparations
:» to *!*"*****, u »t
the opening of hostilities is not regarded
as any child's play or mere demoustra
tion against an offensive Egypt an
Cabinet.
Ex-Senator Chiustiancy liad a lu
dicrous interview with Mrs. Christian
ey the other day. Passing b her house,
i.„ 1 11 ,»n»»i i* * 11 the n window, . , and !
1
looking, saw the author of liis domestic
troubles waving a letter at him. He
concluded to get the letter and with
that purpose in view, started for the
■>“v reached 7* it, and before lie was able to en
ter, a pair of white arms was clasped
around his neck. What did he
Well, ho was stem—loosened her hold
and nnshed her nsiite mul in r (V;, ,w»i,. i
I _ ,,p, . , mu uacK 110 t0J 1 “ rr
> i
,,v No; not , to-day, , nor at any other time,’ I
ftnd withdrew. !
Alexandria ., ~T the (i7 * port * . of # Egypt t’ t I
now ,
ireatenod with bombardment by the |
beets, is a mty ol
250,000 inhabitants. It lies flat, ga well
built in tho Euroiiean quarter, while
the Turkish section is squalid and dirtv.
Its its ancient ancient walls walls are are broken broken, but but it it iris h..s
two strong fortresses. It has two ports,
an eastern and western, the latter some¬
times called the Old Port, being the
larger and better of the two. It is about
a mile and a half wide, and lias three
entrances. The foreign war vessels in
the neighborhood numbered thirty-two
a week or two ago, and their aggregate
bastille roast'd. The period is a critical
one. England has determined on ac¬
tion, and France scorns to have thrown
off her fears of Bismarck, and M ill join
in tho bombardment of the place, unless
Arabi Bey backs down, of which there
is no probability.
A Senator’s Experience.
One day in 1864 Senator Zaoh Ohan
Idler was a passenger L^g on tho train from
0woMO and, strangely
enough, no one in the car had any idea
of his identity. Two men had tlie seat
behiud drifted him. and from talking and of war
the J Randier to politios became natnrallv
enough s name red hot mixed
up. Both* men were against
i 1 j uli alld directly wonder one of them that observed:
" It’s a to me someone
doesn’t shoot the old blood-letter! ”
“ Oh I he’ll got his dose yet, and don’t
yon ‘ forget it! ” replied the other, J
T ll ° Z Un, '. d T’Y' ’
* good look at botb ’ “ tl then
B ““ Gentlemen, please speak a little
lower—I am Senator Chandler frozen myself.” solid,
He thought mistaken. he had them hail scarcely
,,nt wlw < He
turned his head when one of them
leaned forward and replied :
“That’s all right, pard, if yon can
beat the conductor with it; but don’t
trv to stuff us 1 We met the old chap
back in Owosso not an hour ago, waiting
to go East, and it coet me $22 cash and
ft wa teh to call his hand 1 If you’ve
a new racket trot it out—we are not
giveaways ! ”
A Considerate Husband.
N ot long since one of the Schaumburg
girls married a man who was celebrated
tor his poverty and other bad habits.
Yesterday, Gilhooly met Mose and Schaum¬
burg li how on his Austin married avenue, daughter asked
in was coin
ing on. wish , doing . ,, Her , huspand
-Mie line.
wish so k ml. He schoosts puts her
ew'ry dings she vants. lie vash so gout
mit her. He shoosts pays her ebery
rings. id
■I f/' am glad that he is so eons
crat
“\ ell, , 1 vasn . t glad , , dot , he , vash , so
k ! 'd mit m\ darter.
“Why not. all pills vash
“Because do sent to
me to be paid. I vish he vould pe
a little more rough nut her. Ho vash
t> <i kind nut my money. 7rants
SiiU
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“A fellow must sow his wild oats,
yon know.” exclaimed tlie old adolescent
John. “ Yes,” replied Annie, “but one
shouldn't^ begin sowing so soon after
rraui uig.
^ »»»■■<*••■*«mm
Sho&speare ansi ike Bible.
Thu but is the a waythatse-ur.tii end thereof the right to
man, arc ways
of ck-th.— Prov.xvi., 25.
i . i:-e «o «:r.iye but
■; e /' * ;[ -° Z A " '-‘'f 7 ■” : outer jsrfi..
How y^, bmg . ^eakgwd ,
esm
t.migh. froni an em source uuj not genuine;. Proceeding
' wVor.'.’-n V ’ uncBan mhd “Smematioua cavrfcs virtu
q Vu go
™ too. th Alls > Well That l/nds l }Vcif, a i., 1. 1
Another law in my•members waning
?gainst the law ot my mind. Kora.
Ihc fo nd is at mme Goow and tempts
?!^ Vo’- do not ran - sc. hm vmth
. ,’ 7 „ «Itiutee ” -’ i' mieml
* * iiude-e not ” sav - m p^ienco —
ere. H •, ^ tusorrov r J < ^wM.^ *. to 18 in
L Aae sito! ^
As v i/io-i 1
l, T yet vet uot not x. l -fm/ uai. n.^.
i i» V e a kind of sell rutaahut i®i you,
Bu . an UB kmd m;t, that stlu itavo
To lie asotlitr’a tool,
Trail, and Crett., Hi., i. I
the whole
law and yet offend ill 'liut, he ia
° ^ulty of all .—James iQ
Tit at tbe»o men
Carrying Hhaii, in the Hie general (stamp, I censu nay, re, of,ij^^e'ect, j^g 4 > non u ption
—Jlamlet ^ From Doth hosoever ail i.. ilut the 4. purticular noble liateth subitance fault, In.^brother f pfi . drain doubt. of ill ia a
murderer. * —John itL, o. ’
riares Hates any any man man the tne thing uimtr }jc fic ^ would not
kill '/—Merchant oj Veni¥i iv.
!
India Proofs.
There are various ways...in which de
‘•options are practised. For instance,
‘‘unlettered India proof,” as it is
very much superior to what is called a
; “lettered India print,” which is obtained
off after the many ongraving, impressions and have' .been taken plate
when the
has, picture consequently, clearnew becom7L worn, and
tlio lost its and sliarp
ness of line. To turn an “India print,”
therefor,ywiiito India print cut au down “ Indurtjroof all round ” close tho
is
to the engraving. A clean sheet of
Indii paper, of the same tone as the
India print, but of a larger size, so as to
® how a clean, blank margin, is then
tuounto ' 1 P ic f, tr.iirs of ^iH^arger plain
sssiaat g
show the usual margin all round. Before
drying, tho manipulated prfht is sub
jocted to immense pressure, which so
lorees die mounted print into the India
l' a l )or as to entirely the hide tho difference
in the thickness of material. A true
impression taken off ronr.d|'ie a plate leaves the
mark of the plate all picture;
and proof, to add plain this to stool tho “ doc| 7*^1 X>b ’’ India
a or cop f < '
tho p roper sizo is kud^i, \r • ,.
c .. '
surejand th O deception
plete as almost to bahle u|j'i •’ * *
Vl, hitoe belonging to a oollecli| v ,np
P® 14 ^ contain Lidia paper r.p- isions
of engravings to the Value ok*.. ■■ ■ , but
oll examination they aero t i d to be
“doctored plates, not wol :h £30 id
all.— Chambers’ Journal.
To Sleep, But Onion k
I venture to suggest a new 1 >ut simple
remedy ho for want of sleep, s sys a man
tv has had experience. I pintes, in
any form, even the liquor opii s<dat and
chloroform, will leave tiac s o : their in¬
fluence next morning. I, therefore,
prescribe for myself — and 'have fre¬
simply quently done so onions, for others-—onions;
common raw, But Span¬
ish onions stewed will do. All know tho
essential taste of onions oil contained ; this is in dne this to ijnost ja peculiar valu¬
able and healthy root. The oil has, I
am sure, highly soporific powers. In
own case never fail. If 1 am
much pressed with work and feel that I
shall not sleep, I eat two or three small
onions, and the effect is magical. Onions
are also excellent things to eat when
much exposed to intense oald. Finally,
if a person cau not sleep, it is because
the blood is in the brain, and not in the
stomach. The remedy, therefore, is ob¬
vious. Call tlie blood down from the
brain to the stomach. This is to be
done tiy eating a biscuit, a hard-boiled
egg, a bit of bread and cheese, or some¬
thing. milk, Follow this up with a glass of
or even water, and you will fall
a-sleep, and will, I trust, bless the name
of the writer.— Exchange.
Chinese as Printers.
A Chiuamau offers his services to the
publisher of a all monthly the paper his in this
city, to set proofs lip of forms of article, paper,
send him each and
make the corrections 'marked in the
proofs when returned, and convey the
forms to and from the press-room for
seventy-five cents a Column. There are
forty-eight columns in the piper, each
column twenty aud one-half riches long
by two ard one-quarter declined, indies wide.
Tlie offer was whereupon the
Chinaman said he was doing foe same
work for two other periodical u the city.
They learned the business in Long Kong
and C a-it English on, where papers are wberqChina- published
in the tongue, and
men are drilled into the work on jccount
of the scarcity of white laboi —San
Francisco Bulletin.
Pearl Fishing ou an American ( oast.
Pearl Fishing on the coast ofLower
California is au important induJrv. no
j loss bringing than 1,000 the divers costly being black emptied p<.*arl in
np which
» found in u great state of perfection in
the deep waters of Paz. Tie pearl
oTstere are found from one to si; miles
off shore iu water from one to w«jty.
one fathoms deep. Merchants > Aide
hats, ecution diving of the appartus. business, etc., for tjfpros
that on c.xdition
found, they can purchase all the pearls
These boats, at prices to be agreed upon
which are usually olalxmt
five tons burden, sail nn and do-a the
coast from May to November ses ehing
for '
treasures. Tho product of r rear’s
work is about $300,000, estimate ; tne
pearls st their first value.— Alta Caii
fot matt.
—Pride that dines on vanity tips on
eon tempt
Aadersomille as It Is.
A correspondent of the Buffalo Courier
describing the present condition of the
Andersonville prison pea, says : Passing
along the memorable causeway, on either
side of which the scrub oaks grow thick
ly, ^ I soon come upon the red banks of
t e 0 i d earthworks that guarded the
ma in entrance, and to the line of de
ca ved and fallen timbers of the outer
st «ckade. Inside o£ tids > aud to the
right, arc the ruins of the old bakery,
now simply a mound of earth and broken
brick from its chimney. Climbing the
rail fence that oceimieB {££’ P fItockS the place “rating of the
0
npon its p ii C8 0 f fili len decaved timbers,
j cross the « dead line” and stand within
space where eighteen vears a»o,
diseased and starved human beings were
huddled, bur to wing in the ground, lying
under tents of ragged blankets, striving
j timbers have in great part rotted
off next the ground and fallen, lying
lik « two great windrows, marking the
confines of the ground. But wherever
there was a timber of heart pine it is
8tilI stan di n g, its pitchy fibres as sound
as ever; and there are enough of these
to enable one to readily trace the course
of tlie stockade nearly around the entire
place. The traces of the old, sad days
are distinctly visible on every hand. The
mounds and cavities of the thousand
dens and burrows are everywhere. It
would be exceedingly perilous to attempt
to cross this space in the night ; and
one must have his eyes open in the day
time, as he is constantly coming upon
the yawning mouths of the old wells and
entrances of tunnels from fifteen to
thirty feet deep.
The wells toward the northern part of
the ground are the deepest, several of
them being thirty feet deep, the stiff red
clay prechiding any danger of their
caving in; and in fact now, after the
lapse of years, there are but few of them
that are not as perfect and their walls
as hard and smooth as the dav 7 when
they were completed. The walls very niches
that were made in the to ascend
and descend the walls by are still plainlv
visible, Some of them are partially
filled with brush and sticks that have
been thrown into them, but most of
them arc entirely empty and open. The
stream which runs in at the west side
and out at the east had, at the time of
my visit ’it a flow of fifty gallons per
minute, does not have a rapid cur
rent, but it is bo broad that I eould not
iump across it. and is about a foot deep,
lutely Many of our orchidaceous plantsabso
require the visits of moths to
remove their pollen-masses and thus to
fertilize them. 1 have also reason to
believe that humble-bees are iudispensa
ble to tho fertilization of heartsease,
(Viola tri-color), for other bees do not
visit this flower. From experiments
which I have lately tried, J have found
that the visits of bees are nccessaiw for
tho f rtiliz tiou ol ».,«.• kip , ,.f otover;
a.l "a- ,, «—,.t
.
(Trifolium pr as other
be, s cannot reach the nectar. Hence I
have very little doubt that if the whole
genus of humble-bees became extinct or
the very red rare clover m England the heartsease and
would become very rare,
humble-bees or wholly disappear. The number of
in any district depends in
a great whicli degree on the number of field
mice destroy tlieir combs and
nests; and Mr. H. Newman, who has
long attended to the habits of humlile
bees, believes that more than two-thirds
of them are thus destroyed all over
England. Now the number of mice is
largely dependent, as every one knows,
on the number of cats, and Mr. New¬
man says : “Near villages and small
towns I have found tlie nests of humble
bees more numerous than elsewhere,
wliioh I attribute to the number of cats
that destroy the mice." Hence it is
quite credible that the preseuce of a
feline animal in large numliers in a dis¬
trict might determine, through the in¬
tervention first of mice and then of bees,
the frequency of certain flowers in that
district. — Danvin.
Appearances of Arsenic Eaters.
“Whenever you clap your eyes on s
milky woman whiteness as plump as a partridge, with a
of complexion, puffy
eyelids and swollen skin, you’ve found a
victim of the habit, ” said a physician to
a reporter, in alluding to the* growing
use of arsenio among ladies. “If there
is a delicate tinge of red on the cheeks,
don’t be deceived. Paint, not Nature, is
responsible for the bloom, made hideous
and whiteness ghastly by contrast with the corpsey
of the rest of the face. The
arsenic eater is seldom downcast or de¬
spondent, come what may, for the drug
mental not only affects tho skin, but produces
exhilaration. The plumpness
produced by arsenic is not natural
plumpness, but rather a dropsical condi¬
tion of the skin. Cessation of the habit
causes this water-distended skin to col¬
lapse, and wrinkles and sallowness ore
the inevitable results. Of course, no
woman is willing to submit to this ordeal
when it may be prevented, at the mere
sacrifice of 'health and intellect, by a
continuation of the use of the drug. ’"The
inevitable results of the arsenic habit
are hideous aud incurable cutaneous
eruptions, loathsome diseases of the
scalp, and falling out of the hair, dropsy,
oftentimes insanity. But- what care
tho footlight favorites or the society
belle for those trifling after-inconven¬
iences so long as they cau borrow illu¬
sive eliarms aud fictitious beauty by the
use of the deadly drug ?”
An old lady who was in the habit of
declaring, after the occurrence of any
event, that she predicted her it, was one day
cleverly like “sold” by worthy spouse,
who, many others we wot of, had
■rot tired of hearing her eternal “I
told you so.” Bushing into the house
breathless with excitement, he dropped
into a chair, elevated his hands and ex
clrdmtd: “Oh, my dear, what do yon
;Ihnk ? The old cow has gone and eaten
up our grindstone ! ” The old lady was
ready, and hardly waiting to hear the
last V. rd, she screamed out at the top
f her lungs: “I told you so! You
always would let it stand out of
k-ors 1’
A- Always ways there “ere is is s a blacklist b spot in m our o^r
SMstoae-il u It* shadow of ourselves,
Exterminating Eats and MIee.
Mice and rats seem to increase very
rapidly in the haunts of civilization, es
particularly pecially in large cities. Seaports are
infested with them, as New
Yorkers know but too well. These ver
min have grown to be a supreme nni
sance there, notably in old houses, which
are fairly overrun. They multiply every
year, ^ time appearing in numbers where a
How to get rid ago of they were hardly seen.
mice and rats is a se
nous problem with householders, who
are often forced to move on their ae
count. Even an entirely-new J house iq
apt to be invaded after few months,
and to be seriously hurt as a place of
residence by the ravages of the nos-
10U s animals. Traps, however «%o ingen
do m.
good after a brief while, as the cunning
creatures detect their purpose, and
«ther avoid them or secure the bait
months become indifferent to what has
been ite favorite pursuit. And any or
dinary maybe, cat and is will afraid of rats, as well it
seldom venture to at
tack them. are
wary for a terrier, which, with all hri
vigilance and ferocity, is deceived by
them. It is thought that the introduc
of ferrets into houses would mill
S ute tbe annoyance. They are often
lbin, employed in Europe to destroy such ver
and were so employed by the old
Homans. If kept from the cold they
though are readily taken care of, and, jj.
not docile or affectionate, they
arti ranked as domestic animals. They
are natives of Africa, and dependent on
mai b both here and m Ern-oye, as with
out his aid they would perish. They will
soon rid a house, it is said, of mice and
rats, which have a natural dread of them,
all<1 have been known to desert premises
that they occupy. They are a t-mble
tumal, !U -* (l unrelenting sleeping foe. They are aoc
watclit'nl at night, nearly when all the day, household and very
pests commit most of tlieir depredations,
Their smallness and slenderness enable
them frequently to follow rids into holes
a *d kill them'in a trice. The general
belief that they destroy life by sucking
blood is erroneous, notwithstanding the
statements oi‘ naturalists, from Buffon
Cuvier and Greofi’rey St. Hilaire.
A-fter death they, like other members of
die weasel tribe, doubtless suck the
blood of their victims, but they kill too
been quickly shown, for so by slow repeated a process. experiments, It has
that they often inllict but a single
wound, which proves almost instantane
ously fatal. They then, as a rule, quit
their victim at once and kill another in
the same way. The simple wound is
under or behind the ear, and mayor
may not pierce the largo blood-vessels.
The canines enter the spinal cord be
tween the skull and the first vertebra of
the neck, destroying the victim as the
matadore pierce the medulla destroys oblongata, the bull. tho They
of life, and immediately extin- very
center
guisli motion, consciousness and sensa
tion. This is one of tho many instants
in which the instinct of animals has
;-r SB, > ■ •
Tho ferret is so
slayer that there seems to be every
son lor introducing him into our
economy, as he will accomplish what
trap, poison, cat and dog have not and
cannot.
How to Say It.
Say “Iwould rather walk,” and not
“ I liad rather walk.”
Say “I doubt not but I shall,” and not
“I don’t doubt but I shall.”
Say and “for you and me,” and not “for
you I. ”
Say “whether I be present or not,”
and .7 -;t not “present “ r . ________” or no.”
Say “not that Iknow,”andnot "that
I know of.”
turn Say it it “return back back to to me.” it to me,” and not “re
m me."
Say I “I ’ seldom ‘ see -- him,” - and not
“ that seldom or ever see him.”
Say “fewer ” friends,” and not “less
friends.
I Say “if I mistake not,” and not “if
am not mistaken.”
Say is “game is plentiful,” and not
"game Say “I plenty.”
am weak in comparison with
you,” and not “ to you.”
“it rains and not
“very hard.”
Say “in its primitive sense,” and not
“primary sense.”
and Say “ he was noted for his violence,”
not that “ he was a man notorious
for violence. ”
“this Say “thus much is true,” and not
much is true.”
up.” Say “ I lifted it,” and not “ I lifted it
And last, but not least, say “I take
my paper and pay for it in advance.”
The McSplilkins family Galveston. is one The of the old
most fashionable in
man, however, is not as nice as lie ought
to be, but the rest of the family are
highly aceomplishecL Somebody was
speaking of them the other day, and he
remarked how they all played on some
instrument.
‘ ‘ W hat does the old lady play.
asked She a bystander. the
“ And plays youngest on piaUo. daughter
“ the t
“ She plays on the harp.
“ And the next daughter ?
“ She is very proficient on the guitar.
r And the boy?” ofd d
: r WeE!XTtke does. e He mRn plays play the ? ”
r You bet he stay
inest islanfr-Galvcston game of draw-poker on Galveston
Xcws.
Princess Louise's Tart.
The Princess Louise is a lady of much
good taste, with a large fund of common
sense. The supervision model of her character- house
hold affairs is npon the
istie of all well-appointed English
households. apricot A gentleman dined who with has a
weakness for tart her
a short time before she left for En
gland. To his delight apricot tart was
included in the menu, and he expressed
his fondness for it
“ I am so glad you like it,” replied his
hostess ; “ because I made it myself,
Let me give you the recipe,” and* with
interest she detailed its ingredients,
“ Remember, when you get home, to
Mrs ‘, J - that a P ncot should
al , aJ -8 have an upper crust. —TAc
Uw
Jute.
I East The India extraordinary jute, consumption of
and its now conceded
tight to ciaun a permanent place among
“the raw stuff” for carpet mills, calls
! periodical attention to the future of this
homely weed. “But what,” it may bo
: inquired, “has jute to do with carpets?’”
W ith some carpets nearly as much as
wool, and with others a great deal more,
On an average fourteen ounces of jute
liters ka <* of each yard of
standard tapestry carpet, while each
roll yard of of decorated American floor-oilcloth is but a
jute. The bright--and 0
taking hemp carpets, so-called, are in
reality Aside, also, not from hemp but made of jute,
those fabrics, which,
boast little of their jut© per tt-a&k centage,
too «,-e carpet, wind, claim
foie ^°.. o£ constituent. The l singularly fiber being smooth capa
a an<
pds, , and the goods which for some
T “P«- their very thread
being made of East India jute-are as
tomsmngly like the wood-faced article.
fute hosiery is made colored into silks elegant and other curtains, fine
textile fabrics. Jhite bales our American
ceti°n crop, and saexs our gram crop,
and it is subdy entering nearly every
j^nc invented for the comfort of man-
| Iiegaraed nity years ago as a fibrous
f weed of uncertain
found future, juto has since
a quoiation in every civilized
; market, and adapted itself to infinite
»eec!s. ho commodity save cotton
promises just now to run the sheep so
clo f.» race; none does so much, so well,
an d for so little, as does this mysterious
Hnlian plant. Its peculiarly wool-like
affinity for dyes gives it fitness for the
£ac ® ® f B ° I ? e J a ^ rl ‘f • a certain ad
qu ? ht -7 ^? U< ^ ers *
fl ““.V S “ ^“ , ^ ew others. ^P 01 ™ These ^ 0
, tile present efforts to cultivate India
Amerncan sod and the yarns
now shown of Louisiana and Carolina
growth are claimed as equalling in soffc
‘“J? ‘ ° £ ^
» an ^e and Scotland rn.ds._IAe Car-
1 ' auer -
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Density of Population.
iSew Yoik is . tlie most populous of the
States, containing about one-tenth, of
{be entire population of the Union, but
> f bas not the densest population. The
Census Bureau reports that the number
of square miles in tlie Republic, not in¬
eluding ti.e Indian Territory and some
unorganized tracts, is 2,900,170. Ihe
population in 1880 mile. was 50,155,778, Rhode or
17.29 per square But in
Island ihe population is 254.87 per
square mile, in Massachusetts 221.78, in
New Jersey 171.78, in Connecticut
128.52, and in New York 106.74. Oaf
State, therefore, ranks fifth 4n density
o£ population, of future and there is an which indica- but
tion a greatness of
few have probably thought iu the fact
that it has room for so many more In
habitants. The population of the Dis
tnct of ( olumbia is 52,960.40 per square
n< '
fjay’ s 1 u irul n^fjovnit populitfSn
a of .,uW
re iuCl« our Government will go ’'with t®
! pieces, is not generally regarded
other interest than curiosity by Ameri
cans; but were.it a demonstrable fact, foi
itwonkl it would l, have a ™ r,n no in,,™,ikt, immediate i,™ terror for
this people. There were 90,019 immi¬
grants who arrived at Castle Garden last
month, but were the rate of immigra
tion to remain the same, it would re
quire more than 500 years to give the
mile. country The a population of 200 per square
205 population mile. of Germany is
now per square It conveys a
vivid idea of the future magnitude of
this nation to say that when its density
of population United is equal to that of Ger
many, the States will have 594,-
534,850 inhabitants, not including th®
Indian xnuian Territory xemiory and some tracts now
unoccupied.— ’ ’ N. Y. .Mail. ■
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A Wild Boy in Texas. v
Mr. Ed Good writes that he found s
‘ ‘ wild boy ” last week at the Sulphuj
Springs, Tex., about fourteen milei
north of Jasper. He describes him at
appearing from his size to be about ten
or twelve years old, hair rather a light
color and banging below his shoulders,
and his body in a perfectly nude state—
not a particle of clothing of any kind
about him. He was picking and eating
berries when seen. Mr. Good approached
within a few rods of him, by moving •
stealthily, The before the boy perceived him.
latter fled precipitately. Ed be
lieves it to be a veritable “wild boy.’’
If that be so he might be captured and
the mystery of his life unraveled.-—
Detroit Ft ee Press.
Marble Heads In a Gold Mine.
Dr. Cary Cox has a gold mine in Cher
below they came upon two pieces of mar-—
ble hewn into the shape and size of the
human head. The work had evidently
been done with good tools and, while not
entirely finished, showed that it was a
skilled artist who handled the chisel
The heads were found under six feet ot
clay, which, to all appearances, had
never been disturbed and lay directly
upon a bed of slate. Near the mine is a
bed of marble, such as the heads ale
hewn from. The question is, who made
the heads and how did they get under
six feet of clay ?—Atlanta Constitution.
Recognizing the Cook.
F a P ers makin S a S reat ado
. b^se Queen Victoria has the of
name
tke co .? k J ntte “ beside every dish on
the , bilkof-fare . at her dinners, so she
knows who cooks every article on the
table, and can compliment or censure,
as she pleases. That is nothing. For
fifteen years we have adopted the same
plan, and when the liver comes on a
little burnt, or the codfish is underdone,
we know who to blame, and we know
that all we have got to do is to go and
pay the girl her back salary and it will
be all right. We don’t see that Queen
Victoria holds over us very much on
style.— Peck's Sun. «
—Old Scotch gentleman sitting in %
Toronto car— a voung lady enters and
makes a rush for the topmost seat. The
car starts rather suddenly, the young
ladv lands on the old gentleman’s knee,
blu'shimr and exclaiming: “Oh! beg
yolir pardon.’* Old G.: “Dinna mem
tion it. i-assi: I'd rather hae ye setun*
oa mv knee than stannin’ on ceremony.’*.