Tie MmMfi Dewi.
JOHN M. GRAHAM, Pi«>prjetobIp
CRAWFORD VILLE - - GEORGIA.
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NEWS GLEANINGS.
One of the most successful cotton
grvwtn in Alabama is a negro.
Texas will have over 200 new distil¬
leries by the close of the present year.
The oolored Baptists in Tennessee
number 60,dbo and have 160churche».
Work on the jellies in harbor at
Ctytrleston, South Carolina, hal been
resumed.
In spite of the overflow, probably in
consequence of it, the Isiuisiana sugar
erop is the best since the war.
Jack Butler, who burned *bi» little
child to death at Florence, Ala., ha*
been sent to the penitentiary for life.
The Nickle church, to be built at Pal¬
estine, Tex., is t* be paid for by not less
than 200,000 person* contributing a
nickle a piece.
Para grass grow* to an enormous
length in Florida. Near Orange City
aome is growing that is eighteen feet
and a half long.
A terrapin farm ha* it* existence at
Waveland, Mi**., and tost week 900 lit¬
tle turtle* were hatched. They will lie
full grown in three year*.
In Heard countv, Georgia, resides a
fnmily of eight persons, numrd Key, al
of whom lire deaf mutes. Nevertheless,
they are all industrious and .happy.
The average corn erop in Tennessee is
60^000,000 bt ehel*. but it will reach
100,000,000 bushels this year. The r ~
wheat crop will reach nearly 12,000,000.
The Farmer’s Co-operative Union, of
Florida, are said to have secured « sim¬
ple but effectual plan for p re paring or¬
anges for market in such a manner that
they will keep for months.
The monument to be erected at Vicks¬
burg, Miss., to the memory of Gari¬
baldi, will Is- surmounted by a life sized
statue of that persona (, anil will lx-one
of the finest in the United (states.
A large shot-tower is to be erected in
New Orleans by a local company who
have abundant nieens and plenty of ex¬
perience. The tower will lie the eleventh
in the United (Hates w hen completed.
The progress of railroad building and
railroad business in the South last year
was un precedented. About 1,500 miles
of road were put in operation, ar.d the
gross earnieg* amounted tc $63,000,0(0
Robert* & (salter, ’of Bullock county,
Ala had twenty-six acre'* of heavy
limbe n-i bottom l .nd which y y,
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with 200 leg rollers nnd brush pilem
completed the job.
•n.not s* r « ? .h«a.v.
i) tut lit mtervHtion «t Hot “pring ,
Ark., is to be strengthened and protect
ed from sewage water and refuse, and
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provements put on it.
The Times-Democrat, in an article on
the health of New Orleans, claims that
there are m> less ..ill than 11,. 000 lumnla 1 1 in
that city over sixty year* of age or one
eighteenth of the population, while 195
have passed ninety. ’
Dallas, Tex., is said to be built over a
grave yard of mastodons, and for five or
six years past excavations for buildingo
have seldom failed to bring up ‘ their
bones. A large numlwr , of , these lna-to
don remains were unearthed a few days
ago, aud some of the bone* were of enor¬
mous size.
The officers of the I’awnee, Stonewall
Jackson, A-Vthctie and Chief Marriage
Associations of Little Rock, Ark., have
v been r fined iftor $25 each \ t for violating * ^ a city
ordinance which prohibits “gift” enter
priiw* being conducted in that city. The
^tate Gazette dulw them, “Wildcat
scheme* to fleece the innocent.”
A colored man, J. R. Ballard, was re
«ntly ordained in Bt. John’s church,
eacksonville, FIs., whieh is called the
most artistic church in the State, by
Bishop Young, in the presence of a dis¬
tinguished audience. It was the first
ase in the State that a colored man has
been otoained iti a white church.
At Griffin, Ga , a very curious spider
has been captured. It has on its back a
, hard, ...... thick formation, very much . reso.n
Mine h soft bin'll ttab or a turtle, alx>ut
a quarter of an inch across. This shell
hs* eight horns, from all of which the
spider . , spins . a web \ at the same time. 1 He ,
is an active, and, as Artemus \\ aril
would say, an ‘ amoosia’ little cuss.”
Charlotte, (N. C.) Ol server: It lias
only , . been a , few mouths since ■ ,, 1 ref. , W
E. Hidden, an employe of Edison, the
distinguished electrician, in search
platinum, 1 discovered in Alexander Co.,
and , brought , .. to the , attention .. of . the ,
world the now far-famed hiddenite. lb
has now discovered another stone only
a little less valuable, if any. than the
gem which hears liis name. He lx-iieve
it to be a new mineral, unknown to sd
entific geologist*, perfeetlv transparent.
resembling ., the ., diamond, ,■ . but , , nelonrinr <
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different geological! , arailv. It
to a is ont
degree softer than quartz, of higher hn
ter, tvwplex form, and he propo t*
call it Ediaonite. It is found in the
neighborhood of the plj£e in Alexander
eounty where he discovered the hidden
ite.
Urn Probable Wheat Yield.
The only statistics which have yet
been given for the yield per acre of the
present crop are those of Illinois, where
ihe official report places the yield in at 1880. 18 j
bushels per acre, against 17-7
It is. of course, not assumed that the
yield cepted per acre in Illinois is to be ac¬
as the average for the United
States. But there are some reasons
why accepted the yield per index acre in Illinois the may
be as an to average
yield of the United States, in p reference
to accepting the yield of almost any
other one State as suoh an index: First
—Illinois the is the Union, largest and wheat-raising in the three
State in
years from 1879 to 1881 Inclusive pro¬
duced about twelve per cent, of all the
wheat raised in the United States.
Second—Illinois Ues nearly in the center
of the group of ten States comprising
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wis¬
consin, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska,
Kansas and Missouri, which produced
in 1880 about three-fourths of the wheat
erop of the United Slates. Illinois may
therefore be the presumed meteorological to represent experience t be
average of
and crop conditions of this group of
States. In 1880 the average yield per
acre in Illinois was 16-7 bushels, while
that of the United States was 13-1
bushels per acre. Illinois was thereto e
22 per cent, established above tho general that the average.
It is an fact average
yield of wheat p er acre in different sec¬
tions of the United States con¬
tinues at about the same rela¬
tive difference, as, for instance,
tho averago in tho Southern States is
always only almut half as much per aero
as in tho group of States above men¬
tioned white in the far Northwest the
yield is always greater per acre than in
the ten States mentioned. There seems
no objection, therefore, to assuming that
certain States arc always above and oth¬
ers always below the"general averago of
the United States. Now, if we may as
smile that Illinois tho present is yield of 22 18}
bushels in also about per
cent, above the average, it would make
the average for tho United States say
14 4:1-100 bushels per acre, or just about
10 per cent, over 1M8H, which, upon an
area of 37,000,000 acres, would be 533.
910,(HJ0 bushels, a result which differs
less Ilian tho half of one per cent, from
our previous estimate, which was made
without any such calculation us produces
the present figures.
Some argument will of course be made
against ii'snining an increased averago
yield per aero of ten per cent, over the
crop of 18 hh. But it will be remember¬
ed that there has been no year before
this when tho crops of soring wheat and
winter wheat were botli good -except
possibly 1*77, when the average crop of
wheat throughout the United States was
13 86-100 bushels per acre, or only have about
four per cent less than we as¬
sumed us the average j icld per acre tor
the present crop to bushels produce an aggre¬
gate of 6.'>3,91o,000 on 37,000,
000 acres.— N. Y. Eveninu Post.
“ A Mean Business P
A few years since I mot a gentleman,
marriage, of a goml which farm had on been the Con- well
m-cticut River,
managed by tho father in-lnw and his
^”^'£.1"'^.^
f arni au( | gtook were divided; and the
homestead, and a good-sized buildings, farm, with
good hlr convenient went to
iz
young, strong and healthy, with a very
high estimate of IBs ability. He tried
the experiment. The first season hedid
bot succeed to his expcctatiotis, al
though he had experienced farm help
orH . the second season satisfied him, and
he was hoard to say, “Farming is a
^“rtwmT'the’faSi L© ^ ^
observation of this man’s experi
© n co has led me to rolled upon what
qualifications are requisite in a practical
firmer to insure success Given as
abovo. a strong, healthy body with a
g, H(d cJuoation and a good farm, with
nfl tho necessary appliances of conduct¬
ing it successfully--this is not all in
wider to meet with success, or oven to
make a living and not to go into debt.
Good farming involves as much thought
as any other vocation. No doubt had
this same man nut as much thought into
bis farming * as he afterward, as well as
before> fo und 0(Wt ntial in his pro .
fession, ho would have met with success,
with time and practice; but courage and
perseverance failed him.
The. conditions of success in fanning
are quite No as complex lazy, listless as in any other
calling. dnidgerv man, who
dreads the of thinking and
working, can over become a successful
farmer. Neither wilt a mere acquaint¬
ance with tho idea* and practices of our
best progressive There must farmers bo practical warrant experi¬ suc¬
cess.
ence on the farm, some degree of prac¬
tical work, and constant oversight and
attendance by the the owner. lack Many this. fuil
ures result from of e<pe
eially with men who disdain to learn
the wavs of common averv-davfarmers.
ift the a . sl!ran deal , ( , thsl tlll ,yVaa do as well
or a j^reat botu r. I'his is a «^reat
mistake. »'«** If anything needs understand improving.
a thorou^hlv , , fequlsUe ite? methods is to and manage*
• A who wisho< become
lm>nt reatt u> a
superior farmer must first learn how to
be a good common farmer; until this is
learned, it is best at first to attempt no
innovations on the, established wavs of
m%hborhoo>1 rndoubtc.llv ‘ im
.
l'*'* let incuts then? are bo suggested possible, but it practical is better
to »'5p?rienc«. This possibly by
may not ao
cord with the ideas of “young Amt: n
caD " projrn , g . s . but it will’ be sure, and
may save a mortifying failure. Having
become a common farmer, there is more
fanner. hope that Thought, one may become a aud sujH'rior work
usuallv economy
wiil make success pretty eor
tain. Work is only the fulfilling of the
original ing avoid decree it is passed upon of hard man; limes try
to one cause
and failure: when we all work and
economize to the best of our ability, we
shall be a happier and more prosperous
community. — IE if. White, in Country
Qentkman. _ .. — _
TOPICS OF THE DAT.
A yocno Boston widow this season
wore a bathing snit of full mourning.
Henatou Pendleton's new home in
Washington has large gilded sunflower*
at the top of the lightning rod*.
A French artist has represented Time
as a woman instead of a man. He ar
gm s that women have mere of it than
i»nyixj«ly else.
Tin? centennary of Bolivar is to be cel¬
ebrated on July 24, 1883, at Oaraccas,
Veneznela, by the dedication of a statue
of Washington.
The Flathead Indians have agreed to
allow a railroad to be built across their
reservation in Montana, upon the pay¬
ment of $23,000. The price asked was
$i,ooo;ooo.
The 81/100,000 liequeathed by Mr.
Lewis, of New Jersey, to the govern¬
ment, to Be applied towards extinguish¬
ing the national debt, will make, its ap¬
pearance in the next monthly statement.
Robert T. Lincoln has shipped from
Springfield, Illinois, to Washington
sixty- two trunks belonging wil|j|i|b’ess tv his
n other, w hich were tilled
goods and trinkets purchased in ^trope.
Mr. Burnham, a scieutic Gqpnecti
ent farmer, recently sold one of his young
cows for $-1,800. This animal, ,in 372
days, has given in milk ten times her
own weight—10,000 pounds— and 1,000
pounds of butter.
A Californian has invented a sheep
counting machine. It counts up to
10,000, registers the number, then gives
a snap, jumps back, and begins count¬
ing again. It never misses a sheep, old
or young, fat or lean.
Hon. James G. Blaine has sent lii.s
check fori $50 toward the monument
proposed to be erected to the memory of
the late .Senator R. H. Hill, at Atlanta,
<ia. Though differing in politics, Messrs.
Hill and Blaine were warm personal
friends.
Fifty young ladies from six counties
of No 111 Carolina, took part in breaking
ground for the Clinton and Point Cas¬
well Railroad, near ltaleigli, recently.
They plied their shovels with great
vigor, and were applauded by 5,000
specialors. •
Mua Langtry, according to the latest
rumor, will he accompanied to this
country By a band of undo admirers,
something ufter the style of the lovesick
maidens in “Patience.” An English
nobleman, it is tunl, will be the leader
of the party.
President salary Barrios, of $1,000 of Guatcm^a, He re¬
ceives a
bus been in office twelve years, and is
worth $8,000,000. The debt of his
country is $9,000,000 and growing,
which would seem to indicate that he
does not allow any one else to take
much.
Acting on the suggestion that letter
postage be reduced to two cents u half
ounce, a Post office Department official
has figured out that on that basis the
deficit of last year, one of the most pros¬
perous in the history of the service,
would be $10,000,000, instead of a sur¬
plus of $1,500,000.
Kings and Princes are getting down
nowadays to the same prosaic, business
like ways of thinking and doing as other
mortals. Oscar II., sovereign of Swe¬
den and Norway, beiug about to under¬
take a journey to the latter country, has
ha<l his life insured in favor of liis fatn
iiy for the sum of 6,000 crowns.
A training school for servants has
just been established at St. Louis under
the .. management . of , leading , , ... ladies ,
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that city. Practical housekeeping m all
its departments will comprise the course
of training, and a nursery for poor ehil
dren, where they shall also be taught to
“sew and sweep and spin,” is to be at
inched.
It is proposed to jierform an operation
on the eves of Thurlow Weed, who lias
been blind for live years, with the hope
of restoring his sight. It is intended to
cut away the double cataract over his
eyes and tit a double convex lens of glass
uc 'iirately in front of the eye, so focussed
is to properly cast un image upon
retina. If the retina has not lost its
i ........ s tivvness it is thought that he will
lie able to see.
The sealskin clothes worn by Engi¬
neer .Melville during bis terrible experi¬
ences in tin Arctic regions are objects of
much iut. rest at the Navy Department,
Washington. Among the relics is »
br.uiantiy c,■■lor d toxsian cap belonging
to Lieut. Beiiy. which was presented to
>nm by an Esquimaux damsel. She eon
nr.'Iiv .'Cited his i old cap because it was not
„„ bin, on.- ’ she had ' made
herself m return.
a \ xi-’w n. use u. t has mis Ikx'u i nu discovered ULscoverea for io.
potatoes. They can be converted into a
substance resembling celluloid by peel
mg them, and after soaking in water,
impregnated with eight parts of sulph
uric ueid. drying and pressing between
of Plotting paper. In Fnuice.
pip s are made of this substance, scarce
y distinguishable from meerschaum. By
subjecting the mats to great pressure
billiard balls can be made of it rivaling
ivory in hardness.
A nf.w style of car is about to be in¬
troduced on tne Southern Pacific Rail¬
road, destined to be run from California
to the gulf as wheat cars, and on their
return as emigrant cars. The interior
will be like other freight cars. Along
the sides will lie sleeping banks, lowered
and suspended by an iron rod and hinge,
but capable of being closed up flash
when freight is carried. There are win¬
dows, of course, and it is said the cars
will be as comfortable and warm as tne
most luxurious Pullman sleeping car.
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At the marriage of Mr. and Mrs.
George Harris, at Mount Meridian. Vir¬
ginia, the bride refused to say “Yes" to
the question whether she would obey
her husband. She said that she saw no
reason in such a promise, and he con¬
cluded that no harm would be done by
omitting it, since he intended to "make
her nrnd anyhow.” Two years elapsed,
and a few days ago the unsettled ques¬
tion arose again. George ordered his
wife to fry a chicken for dinner, and she
insisted on roasting it. He brought in a
horsewhip and declared that he would
fp,,, }, er until she obeyed. She shot and
killed him.
A French savant has culled in the aid
of Darw in’s theory of evolution to ex¬
plain the graceful gait of the Parisian
ladies. According to his reasoning the
streets of Paris were for a long time af¬
ter the foundation of the city in a very
poor condition, its is indeed apparent
from its original name—Lntetia, or the
“City of Mud.” The Parisian ladies, in
order not to soil their shoes, were forced
to walk on tip-toe, which in due time re¬
sulted in high heels, and finally in that
charming gait which is the admiration
and envy of all the women of the civil¬
ized world.
Chinese Iiifiinticid".
Wo have all heard the Chin 3.40
charged with infanticide. We beliero
that crime to be less prevalent with them
than it is with us. If children are ever
exposed, as has been seen on a wayside
a tar near Honam, we believe that bitter
want and a hope that charity would
provide for the child better than the
mother could have been the moving
causes. As a general bar rule, self-interest this vice.
acts as the strongest to
That the life of the male children should
be preserved is most important, as the
Chinese law will compel and the the sons to
maintain their parents, in event
of all the offer sons that dying worship no one the would tomb be of
able to at
the father and mother on which their
happiness in another state is supposed
to depend. With the girls and preservation
is almost as important, they are a
marketable commodity either as wives
or as servants. Indeed, it is no very rare
thing to see a basketful of babies sent
down from Canton to Hong Kong $2 $5. for
sale at prices girls. ranging In denying from the to
These are all ex¬
istence of infanticide it is necessary to
make one exception. This is among the
Tan-kia, or boat population. These are
a race of people of different descent and
religion from the Chinese, Governed by
their own magistrates, and so looked
down upon by the other classes that no
child of a boat-woman can compete in
the literary examinations, or, whatever
his ability may be, become an aspirant
for office. This class is excessively stated su¬
perstitious, and we have heard it
by missionaries that when a child be¬
longing to people of this class suffers
from any lingering malady, will and recovery it
becomes hopeless, they put cruel¬ to
death with circumstances of great
ty, believing it not to bo their child but
a changeling, and fancy that a demon
{" J^^of emaUtog'on [hem’ex^use could
ftn( i trouble for which they never
g©( any return.— Temple Bar.
Reinitig a Horse.
One of the most senseless, and yet a
very common habit of the American
people, is the reining of driving horses
so tight as to inflict upon them a great
deal of pain, under the mistaken idea
it adds to the stylish appearance of
the animal. When people £ faring see a horses
head drawn up by tl rein, and
pei . } U1U stepping short head and champing
the harness, bit, tossing his and rattling the
they assume that he is acting
in the pride of his strength and fullness
of spirit, whereas the animal is really
suffering agonies of pain, and is trying
to gain by these movements momentary
friele. To our view, a home looks het
tor, and we know he feels Wrier, when
pursuing a natural, leisurely, swinging
gait. It is as necessary for his head to
oscillate in response to the motions of
his body os it is for a man’s hands to do
t ] i( , 8an3e thing. A horse allowed his
head will work easier and last longer
than one on which a check is used.
Blinds are another popular absurdity
. the of horses. Ihey collect dust,
m use
pmmd the eve and are in every ’j'/'’ u
nmsamv A horse that cannot be driven
with safety without them should be sold
to a railroad grader. No colt should t*
broken to them. Lincoln (iVc6) • /uUr ’
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A Chase for a llaitr.
There was a funny chase for a baby
at l'iaiuville. < onn., on Wednesday
nr ruing. A woman stepped from a
train a moment to question suddenly the a_ent, w.tli
and the train pulled out
cut her. carrying off her baby. Her
frenzy moved Bristol the good order ticket the agent baby to
telegraph to and infant
returned. The train dropped the
?, 1 ?‘ ld *, fo ? te d
it thither and lugged the baby back , to
piaiuville. The mother, meantime
grown impatient, had g ne to Forest
ville on the engine of a gravel train. So
back went the good man with the babv
to Vorestville, there to learn that the
S^^e^L^hen'Tdep^nS which
woman tost '-ot -'ill half ail hour
she did, and back her infant. -
Springfield (Mass.} Bepublican,
The Piano.
The old ides was that s piano was
bought and brought to the nouse with
much bruising of its beautiful legs and
much muffled profanity on the part of
the draymen, to be played on What
superlative nonsense. What a stale and
preposterous suggestion? W hat a relic
of barbanc ignorance! So A piano to be
plaved on! to days of such
Thank the stars the stu
pidity are over, and the' true, sole and
natural use understood. of a piano is becoming is
generally A piano put
into a house ior these simple pur
poses and none other. Its top is de
signed bum, as brilliant a place lamp-mat for a photograph arnla al- of
a vase
fiowers. Its rack is intended as a rest
for an open book-an open book cov
ered with pictures of farm, and fences,
upon which are Its perched stool placed innumerable there
black birds. is
for the nervous young man in company
to sit on and whirl, and writhe and
wriggle. sprawled Its for richly sighted carve,1 and legs awk- are
out near
ward being people solicitously to run asked against, the and hostess upon
hurt, reply, by with the hot
if they of are anguish to gushing into their
tears
eyes: “Not in the least; only just grazed
it.' 1
Such are the legitimate uses of , an
able bodied and well-limbed piano in
its various narts and uronortions As a
nobler purposes. The one is “ imparts
character, stateliness and a c air of
affluence to a household establishment.
The proud-spirited host points to the
rosewood in-un ment and seems to sav
to his assembled guests: “You behold
that majestic instrument. It is grand,
square and upright. Is it not symbolic
of its owner—is lie not grand, nobody square
and upright?” Of course can
play on it—not one of his quartet of
daughters—but it is to be remembered
that it was not put there to play on, and
who would ask itsowner to put it to per
verse use?
But after all the real mission of a
piano in the house is this—a place for a
young lady to sit and idly turn the
leaves of a blackbird book, and a some
thingfor and a young and gentleman then breathe to softly hang
over now
in the young lady’s ear to let her know still
that he is growing weak, but he
lives. It is an affecting sight piano. to observe Few
a young man know hang over a hang
young men how to over a
piano in good lorm. One must not
bend too low, as if he were looking for a
lost sleeve button or a nickel, nor yet
be too soldier rigid and weather inllexib’e, 4ne. like a A wood
en on a com
promise of 1 hese attitudes with alittle ob
liqtie tn leaning & toward the stool and its
o n ‘„ bo, “ ,ho
attempt is made on a grand social occa¬ dis¬
sion to actually play the piano. A
mal young man leads an exhaustive
young lady to the piano. An awful
silence pervades the drawing slowly lifts room. the
The somber young man
lid, as if he was about to view the re
mains of the last relative he had on
earth. The young lady wildly runs her
lmgers over vociferation the keys—there violent is a grief, sob, a
wail, a of a
cry of comfortless despair and ah is
over. The young lady sinks upon *ha
nearest sota. Ihe young man lowers
the lid, turns.away his head and is seen
no more.
Verily, the day ot superstition and
mistaken ideas is over, and piano play
ing has passed away with the many fol
lies and foibles of our purblind and un
fcuitured ancestry.—New London TeU
arum.
Beans as Food.
The nutritive value of beans is very
great—greater than almost any other
article of food in common use. Gonsid
erino- their richness they are probably
the cheapest food we have, but some
what difficult of digestion, rarely probably cook
owing to the fact that we
them enough and masticate them in
sufficiently. In preparing beans for the
table (hev should first be well soaked
in cold water and then thrown into boil
in- v ater and cooked until of a medium
consistency between a fluid and a
solid--neither too thick nor too thin.
Thoy require some acid on them when
eatv-n, and a sufficient amount of salt to
render them palatable. other They vegetables may bo
ea'en with potatoes or
which contain more starch and less albu
men rather than with too much bread
or meat. In Germany there is a process
minous patented, seeds by which reduced beans and all legu- tine
are to a very
Hour and rendered capable delicate of being
used as food by the most of this flour, per
sons. We have samples
which equal in fineness the best wheat
flour, and it is invalids. listsl extensively These for
making soup for soups
are worth a hundred times as much r.s
beef tea. There is a fortune awaiting
am one who will prepare a flour from
beaut as perfect as this flour from Ger
nianv. Bean soup, and rightly wholesome, made, is and ex
cee linglv delicious
oit'dit to be used more extensively ‘ than
it is.— Sanitarian.
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Wanted to Move Slowly.
_
Last fall, when one of the small towns
ou t, West got the manufacturing fever,
tbe citizens held a meeting to see what
indll( , ements should be held out for cap
iulists t0 come there and invest. One
e;lker said t ] iey could afford to donate
t p„ ;lcres of ground for could a factory. add 500,000 An
other said the town
brick. A third moved that the citizens
turn out and give 100 days’ work on the
building. A fourth said he could prom
j s e a house for the superintendent to
live in, and a fifth would s'art a sub
scription paper to bny the machinery
and boilers for the factory. During old a
break in the popular enthusiasm an
tanner arose and solemnly said: “Gen
tiemen, I think the enterprise of our
town will build the chair factory, fur
n ish houses, rent free, for all the oper
arises, and buy a year’s supply of beyond lum
ber to work on, but when we don’t go
that let’s move slowly. We want hair
to promise to buy the foreman any whether
oil or hair dye until we know
he is bald-headed or not! —UallStreet
Bows.
__
Ai ways punish a child for wilfully
disobeying you. but nerer puuish him
m anger, and never let him know that
’ ' exe “ J '' 5 ‘
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
—Ben Hill’s last words wore Evans, spoken
to his pastor, Rev. C. A. and
were: •• Almost home.”
yr^uklin, is eaS^p^rfec?jdctoreof and with good Benja^n for
reason,
Franklin - s mother was a Folger.
—Says „ „ F. J. _ lunnvall, the Shakespe- ,
rian critic: “Shakespeare s own five
signatures prove that the most authentic
form of spelling h s name is ‘Shako*
pere. ^
—Roza Bonheur is sixty-two years old
and has quit wearing pantaloons Thin and
dresses like any o her woman.
leaves Mary Walker in the monopoly.— full enjoy
ment of a dangerous
Bau-keye
—Hans Von Bulow, the pianist, is go
jng to marry a woman named Maria
Amalia Katharina Josepha Schauzer.
When she adds Von Bulow she will
have a real seven-octave name .—Lowell
Courier.
—I?o r ioz, the compos r. when ha
waj3 in love> sa j d to the adored one:
..Ariel, I adore you, I bless you: in a
word> j love you more than the weak
]. r ench tongue can say; give and me :m or
c!iegt , a 0 f loo and performers I tell a ” chorus
of 150 voices can you.
—The best prose sentence ever writ
tt>n on ,his side of the Atlantic, accord
R P. Whipple, Shakespeare, is this from
Emerson s lecture on
recitation begins; one all golden this
' vord leaps out immortal from
painted pedantry, and sweetly torments
1,8 "''Hi invitations to its own maccessi
hie homes.
- Some Sanscrit manuscripts of parts been
of the bible of the Buddhists have
found in Japan. It is thought that
many relics in Sanscrit of great value
may yet be discovered in China and
Japan, though probably not any that
will have any important Jews bearing of upon the
Christians.— the religion either U/iicayo of Journal. Ihe or
—Antoine Gerin-Laioie, who recent
] y died at Ottawa, will be in long Canada, remem- for
bered by his countrymen
he wrote their national song, “Le Ctv
nadien Errant.” There is hardly a man,
wornan or child in Canada who does
not know the simple song by heart, and
it L .., n i je heard almost any evening
amnn g the Canadians of New England settle
f ac t, r , towns and in the French
me nts of the far West.— N. Y. Sun.
-A , correspondent , . relates , . , the follow
mg . mordent in the life of the Rev. W Ji¬
Arthur, /“ lher ot
“ Whde °" ev th ?
on Ehureh the hymn ,n . West with Joy. variations his choir , whmh drawled did
tr sr
in your pocket. Deacon Jones,’ said he,
‘you had a long sing, and now I am go
ing to preach till 1 get through.’ ”—
Chicago Herald.
„ Harmony . in lr Human ___, Life. ..
0ur surroi mr:n>r, should be harmoni
ous with our life. It is not necessary
■ sound tJle produce
to same notes to
harmony. f The word implies blending,
but it a most forbids repetition. Nat
ur g j s t] le teacher. Her means
ends are. consistent with <k«eb other, of
Nature understands too well the art
harmony to attempt mark, impossibilities. but she does She
js a i ways up to the
no t overstep herself. Where the soil
W1 p not o. row pii es aTU j roses, she con
tents herself with daisies, but left to’
herself, she will always cover man’s
mistakes with a carefully spun shroud.
It is to learn this lesson more drawn perfectly
that in later life we are away
from mankind to live with Xa ure. A.
fuller growth takes place when we feel
ourselves in unison with all we see. and
when intercourse with nature restores in
us the balance that human conflict baa
destroy ed. Life m great cities is m
iniical to harmony. The clash oa interests
js fierce, and those who In e moon
m great centers of human effort cannot
s ' 18 !, ' n ! Be sense of narmons. unless
they come away for a time. Ihe form
and manner of modem society increase
the difficulty. Ihe multitude ot ac
quaintances, and the little time given
to each, make intercourse necessarily
broken and unharmomous. < onversa
Hon takes the form of epigram, and
each sentence must be cast mo sueii a
form as not necessarily to demand a
second for its completion. By degrees,
our thoughts follow our words, and
each opinion becomes rounded and
finished oft'to fit into each question that
may arise. Nothing can be viewed as
a whole—we are too near to its de
tails. So near are v,e in great cities
, that it is almost impossible whole, not then to take
! each detail ior the arises
irritation, from the sense of the un
j fitness of each separate opinion ex¬
; pressed to bear the structure of onr
whole line of thought. v\ e have
uttered an epigram, but we have not
stated our judgment as it really is. lo
do that requires time and opportunity,
! which society, neglectful of the in
- dividual in its care for the whole, can
not afford to any one of its members.
The utterance, unfathered and without
offspring, must stand or fall by itself,
1 while we may be thankful if we are not
through it labeled and placed m a
pigeon-hole to which we are as foreign
as a dove to a hawk’s nert. ihen it is
that we fall back for consolation upon
ourselves as a whole.— l.ond u Spccta
tar
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I —Sage and other herbs which you
wish t<Tkeep for use in da\. the winter If should
j perfectly fie gathered dry on when a dry gathered they are
you can
sift them at once, and with very little
trouble. Put them away in tin cans
’ (the cans in which prepared co oanut
comes are nice for this purpose); keep
them where it is dry. Herbs which you
j do not care to sift can be tied in bundles
and hung up after the fashion of out
grandmothers.— B. Y. Post.
| _ A Nevada lover, learning that death
i n .«i .shminu 1 ^whieh’ mxrlt enve his rival in'rl a
, ,• B - j rauo-ht f the
d «. now t 4 e f eUow wants 0 ]alow
the m g oldarne a things in the
j Dapers- ”_Chicago Inter-Ocean.
_-rijg extraordinary vitalitv of “Enela
Tom’s single Cabin” mail is illustrated last % the fact
that a week brought the
0 „blishers orders for 2,185 copies of that
1 hook. tf. Y. Christian Union.
