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About Crawfordville democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1881-1893 | View Entire Issue (July 14, 1882)
Tte CiwlMtl Deiffll. EDWARD TpUKG & CO, Mdtftri «twi FrofrUlort 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. —_ > • --- 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. ------- ♦ . --- 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. —-- 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 __ “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 - ---- 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. ■ __ 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.’*.
