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About Crawfordville democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1881-1893 | View Entire Issue (April 27, 1883)
MaiMfl Mmi 4DRAWFORDVJLLE - - OEORtiSA. NEWS GLEANINGS. <GoId has lxi«i discovered is Alachua county, Fla. JSicbmond, Va., now claims to have a population of 71/400. “Blighted Hope* is the sui^estive name of a saloon at Malvern, Ark. A large mine ot Plumbago has been oiaesvered on the farm of Jame-s Htoue, in Ktaflord county, Va. An artesian well four hundred feet deep, at Parna-us, Va , has been finished and affords excellent water. The Atkansai Legislature has paseed a bill prohibiting the sale of liquor within two miles of any church. Arkansas has doubled her population within the last ten years, and is ranked *r the fourth cotton State in the Union. The Florida coast is to have three new light houses—at Mosquito Inlet, at Caj»e Sun Bias and one further down the coast. Over 40,000 acres of timber land will be sold in Randolph county, Ark., this month under the provisions of the over¬ due tax law. A sweet potato put to boil on the atove of a lady in Natchez, Mj-w, ex¬ ploded with (erriffic force, nearly killing the lady. Florida fruit growers intend cultiva¬ ting the Grape on an extensive scale. They claim that they can be as success¬ fully grown as in California, A gold vein lias been struck at Gains ville, Fla., by men digging an artesian well. It is believed that it will assay $500 to #1,000 i>er ton of ore. The grange co-operative store at Me¬ ridian, Miss., which q^rted business in 187ft with a capital of $50, sold last month $5,800 worth of goods. A capitalist contemplates the estab¬ lishment of n larger bucket snd broom factory 011 the Island near the railroad -bridge at Chattanoochee, Fla. It is said that the Jacksonville Fla., liquor dealer* have raised a fund of $ 2 ,- 1)00 with which to pay lawyers to contest the validity of the new liquor law. After a protracted suspension, it is said the Roan iron-works, at Chuttrnoo ga will resume operations this week, furnishing employment to many people. OTsLiviToT in Florida, which will before long be brought to public atten¬ tion and fully developed by Georgia capitalists. The University of Georgia has at last accepted the f50,000 given 1 ! on certain conditions. The Trustees voted thin, teen to one on the proposition, Boh Toombs voting in the negative. The peach farm of Mr. Burnell, broth rr of Charles Stewart Baratll, the liidt agitator, six miles below West l’oiiit, Ga., contains 700 acres, and lias 125,000 peach and a number of other trees. There is a determined effort on the part of some of tho pzople of Florida to divide the State into two parts, to lie kuown os North and South Florida. It is said the interests of the different parts arc not identical. A movement is on foot iu Havanna'i meeting with great encouragement to organize a company to commence man iifacturing rice ibis season. It is Ge¬ lieved that it will prove a profitable business here as elsewhere. An aged gentleman at Gridin, Gu , has buried five wives, and by the side ot each w ife is buried a little child, the ofiepring of the mother by which it rests. Home women never learn anything, even with the aid of a diagram. I he dredge Alabama, which has been at work in Tanfpa harbor, has cut a channel nine feet deep, seventy-five feet wide and 80J feet long, a portion of which was solid rock. The channel must be extended 1,000 feet further to makes nine foot channel to the town. The application of the Favannah Mu teal Gat Light Company, ts new eon oem, to lay their pipes through the streets, was denied by the Sanitary Board on the ground* that it is injudL emus to tear up the streets this season. They will have to wait till cold weather. There are fifteen out of eighty ebil dreu in the rhate Rlind Asylum at Ma eou, Ga , who* sight can be partially «>r fully reston d by an operation. Dr. C'alhoun, of Atlanta, generously offers to operate on these children free of charge, and they will be sent to Atlanta for that purpose. A movement is on foot to hoi ad grand reunion of the army of Northern Virginia, on the field of the second bat¬ tle «l Manassas, during the coming sum¬ mer. AU the survive!* of that army wili hetnvited, and it is proposed to ask Oeu Fita. L-e to order the Virginia volunteer fore » to Lav* their scanner -«itc*jupm«ut there. Mr. Matt. Hunt, of the Mobile and Montgomery railroad, says that the-ooal boom -has passed away Leyond figuses, and that shipments from Warrior,Pratt ' and New Castle and other mines along the-Ssuth and North road to gulf ports is absolutely stupendous, Arrange^ merits are being made hv which Ale ham a coal will he sbippeu from New Orleans, Mobile and Pensaeola to all ports of (Europe. Mr Hunt, who has studied this question, believes there is enough coal,.n Alabama to sappiy IV 00,000 of people for 100 year* to e->ine. Albany, (Gc.) special: Capt. Jol#n P. Fort, of Macon, the pioneer o( artesian welisin Southwest Georgia, is experi• mendng in his (taky Woods plantatirm, draining off the ptods and slushe 3 there¬ on by boring dowvx through them and Jetting the surface water off through the underground streams known to exist all through this sectioo. This will give hundreds or acres of the most fer tile lands for cultivation, and of its sue cess there can be no doubt. Several large, sickness-breeding ponds have thus been drained off within the corporate limits of Albany within a few years In Prison. Ex-Warden Huynes, in bis “Picture* of Prison Life," gives the following inci¬ dent in connection with the work on the enlargement of the old Massachusetts Penitentiary. ample It affords tender a strange aud the ex¬ of the way the terrible aro sometimes associated in a criminal’s jiersonal history. employ <4 It was necessary to some the prisoners outside the walls, and who I se¬ lected a man for that purpose had always behaved well, and who had hut a short time to remain. Very much to my stir prise, ho objected to going outside to wor rTt. This was so unusual that I inquired hut the fi¬ cause. He hesitated 'a moment, nally told me. Ho had a wife and two who were ignorant of his being in prison. In the opposite small yellow his cell-window house, he said, directly and near where he would have to work, should ho go outside, they were then living. children ail through He hail watched his tho summer, playing in ft vacant lot of land belonging to tho prison, directly that under liis window, and so near him he could hear the voices; and he could see liis wife passing in and out of the house, or sitting at her window, little dreaming that he had liecn so near them for almost two years. This man’s crime was theft. He had left his family in Boston and gone to the western part of the State to obtain work, but failing in that, and without money to return, he took a watch whose owner had left it hanging in liis office, into which this convict had stepped for a moment to make inquiries. In the meantime, his wife, not hear¬ ing from him, had come to Charlestown to live, and taking Uiis tenement in plain sight, and within a few rpds of liis cell. was allowed to serve out liis sentence without being discovered. This story of mortified affection is simply gestions told, but its situations and sug¬ of suppressed feeling might tempt a dramatic writer. A man chained in his own disgrace and continually tan¬ talized with the sight of his bettor days is ft subject worthy of Greek tragedy. An American Lord, Mr. William L. M inims, who was de¬ feated the other day in London in his great lawsuit against his landlord, Mac¬ kenzie, is a member of the Baltimore family of that name, but he has long lived in the British capital and will his prob¬ ably spend the remainder of life there, us he luis a horror of crossing the Ocean, and has been heard to sav that ho would not do so again for a million dollars. He has rented a deer-liunting range sixty miles long, extending elear across Scotland. Jt was all to other compel one of tlie owners to evict tenants of the property that he brought tlie suit which he has just lost. Air. Minima's enormous wealth is principally lives invested in in London real estate, and he one of the finest private houses in that city. One of his great passions is to attend tin 1 circus. It is related that once a certain circus manager tried to play upon this fondness by charging Air. Wtnans and his companion extortionate prices for seats. The millionaire indig¬ nantly asked if tlie other wanted him to pay for every seat in the tent. “That's just what I do want you to do,” replied the knight of the sawdust. “Very well,” said Mr. Wimuis, “I'll lake every seat, but uolnxly except myself and a friend t am going to bring shall enter, and you are to give us everything on tho bill. I have bought the whole performance, and 1 mean to have it.” True to his word on the appointed night Mr. Wiuans and a solitary friend appeared and had tha whole circus to themselves, Mr. M'iuan* carefully studying up the hand-bills t* see that nothing was left out. “Talk about memory,” said an Ai kansaw man. * ‘ I’ve got tho most iw Unlive memory of any man in the country. I eatt remember things that occurred when 1 was child.” "I tliink that Tour memory is so very good,” said au acquaintance. “ You borrowed 310 from mo sometime ago and yon have forgotten the circumstance." “No, sir, you are wrong. You have doubtless noticed that 1 keep out of your way. Well, that is on account of my memoiy. — finrekr. On Dim.—The fireman detail 'd for duty hi the stage of a San Fianei-w o theatre had not l«s n told that a ootids gratiun was otic of the acvtu flash s of a new play. When he saw th, of the dame he concluded Uiat the house w : ,s on tire. Seeing an ax, he ebopj-'d d,-wu a big piece of the se n\*r\ bef>> ;»# vs'oUl be st.-p>\'l TOPICS OF THE OAT. Mcbderebc tin France, if theyfo^e money, are compelled under the uevr law to pay a large cum to the family <i their victim. General Ta zbvgu Lee is making ar¬ rangements to hold a reunion of the sur¬ vivors of the Army ot Northern Vir¬ ginia at Manaseas ne^t -summer. ^ ^ cremaUon ^ makjn(? 0Kch progrefl8 in Japan that it is said ako pt q.ooo bodies are annttaliy disposed manner. Elder W. P. Stratton, <*ne of the liest known pioneers of Cincinnati, who died a few days ago, married in that city more than two thousand couples. French policemen in Park we paid rewards of from one to five dollars for making urrests and capturing.offenders, and the Minister of Justice has decided to increase these by one-third A couple of ostriches in a California zoo got into a fight recently fene^aown, during and which they knocked the ran over a crowd of school children, in¬ juring several of them severely. Frederick Douglass is soon to marry a young woman, who is described as “nearly white.” Mr. Douglass is sixty years old, and receives large fees as Recorder of the District of Columbia. General Lee’s monument at Jjexing ton, Va., will be unveiled on June 5. Jefferson Davis will preside, General Joseph E. Johnson will be chief marshal and Major John W. Daniel orator. Malaria affects by preference low and moist localities. As Buch localities are the natural abode of mosquitoes, a sci¬ entific gentleman asserts that malarial diseases are produced by the bites of tliese insects. Mr. Tabor, the one-monUu Senator, said to a reporter the otherffay; “I never saw the like of some of these newspaper meu—telling how much a man pays for his night-shirts aud all that sort of thing.” ■f Judge David Davib proposes to turn “Dlirley Hall,” the principal house of amusement at Bloomington, Ill,, into a business place and to build in the same town a theatre that shall surpass any¬ thing of the kind in Illinois. A Over 12,000 persons wai 1 in the drizzling rain to have a last Ik at the face of l’eter Cooper as he dead in his coffiu. Among tho pi sion was an old gentleman who had » ed with Mr. Cooper at the funeral og ruehing toa. Persons in this ' Hjpble iat as many as 20,000 deaths occur annually in India from snake bites, and since 1870 from 150,000 to 200,000 perilous iiave perished in this way. Matthew Arnold insists that in re¬ vising the Old Testament, beauty and power shall not he destroyed, even to obtain a more correct rendering, aud that even where tho meaning is not at all clear, tho charm and music of the old words shall remain. Racing iu Paris has become a species of fashionable madness. With the mul¬ tiplication ot suburban race courses, horse racing has become a colossal swindle, like thimble-rigging and card sharping, carried on by associations of thieves and blacklegs of all categories. A new way of stopping horse cars has been introduced on the Sixth Avenue Railroad iu New York. Straps hang igniust each window -ash, and when the passenger who wishes to alight pulls one of these, a whistle is blown. The conductor then nulls the strap, which runs along the roof of the car, and ti c hell sounds to slop the ear. The Society f->r the Prescrvalio i f the Irish Language has made a report which shows that at the beginning * 1 the present century there were not m >tv than UK) persons who could read *nd write Irish, while at present 050.000 spmk tlie old language. This marly equals the number of Welsh speaking people. A new enterprise in illustrated jour¬ nalism has been undertaken by the /*Mortal World of London, for whose proprietors Cap’. Morton, the aeronaut, has just built a balloon. They intend to send experienced artists iuto the upper air iu charge of experienced aeronauts, and the result* of their work aud a de¬ tailed account of each voyage willappear in the Pict- iia f 11 Id. They have also urrangi d for a series of experiments in balloon photography. Dr. rjeHAriffthinks that trees in streets do more harm than good, because they impede the circulation of the aix,* while p ro f. D 0 vet says tliat the evaporation from their leaves keej»s the surrounding air moist and cool, and that thev arc a protection against dust; they absorb the carbonic acid and send out oxygen. w hile their roots draw up stagnant water, and al>sorh tlie organic matter in the fliltli from which the streets of a town are never free, acting as a disinfectant, Tuts year’s Hood on the Mississippi has been followed by swarms ot gnats u the river t>ar«he«» ■ 'f 1 . *’ is,,ms and Mississip pi. in the suite m ■jut r as tho overflow of last v ar. and cattle, horses, and assies • -«ar are falling 'before their deadly attacks. The Vicksburg Herald reports that in the neighborhood of Monnd Landing, in Bolivar County, Miss., forty-seven fine mules fell victims to these dreadful peste ■on Thursday and Friday of the first week in April. Several counties above Vicks¬ burg have been invaded by the gnats. , L/HJUor ■ _ p llf i sec i strange devices *aa order to conceal their contraband wares. On a recent police raid in that stab', in one house the t>otties , f . , - .. .• - *i were un , „ y corked and with etrmgs round their necks for convenience in raising. Iu another the bottles wcs-e under the cook imr range in the ashpit. One liquor ' seller, ii a __,______, v„, ( ( i„ ’ hooked belt winch the under . to a wore her overskirt, and another dealer con cealed his under a trap-doer beneath a pile of hay in a cock loft. _____— ^ .----- Catt. ’ Holstein, of the Danish army, , invented, , for , the ,, . lnfautr . . . has use or J - diers, a shield, which, though weighing only seven pounds, is bullet proof and handy. It is of steel, twenty inches long by 3 eighteen broad. ' Two spikes at the bottom enable the soldier t# fix it firmly in the ground, and a hollow at the top can he used as a rest for his rifle. The experiments that were made with the * shield . ., at . Copenhagen ~ i a short i , time ago were deemed highly satisfactory, but will be repeated on a larger scale before th%I)ft!iirih Government decides as to its adoption for the army. ___—. ♦ ,___ Tue reports from the great cattle ranches of the West and Southwest in dicate .. .... that the ,, cattle have wintered j well ii and are in fine condition. Already large numbers of them aro being gathered for ihipment and driving in Louisiana Texas, Kansas, Arkansas and Indian Territory. Prices are good and the ranchmen are jubilant over the prospec. of a prosperous year. The business is likely to be very largely extended in Indian Territory, through a system of leasing large tracts from the various •HU, «ho occ» ra scclioB. Th. public aie waiting anxiously lor the business to increase sufficiently to in dnee lower prices for loef. ----* ♦ *---- Chart.es F. Freeman the religious fanatic of Pocassat, Mass., who, in 187ft, slew his little daughter as a sacrifice to God, has been pronounced aud , -ii sane, now have to he tried on the pending in rlictment for murder. He now says that, he was instigated by the devil, aud his religious belief is io ent.rely ,.„i„ nvwtnmwl overturned. Mrs.,1 roemau, too,hasrenounced the . c oud Advent delusion, and leels more keen ly than does her husband the terrible man ner of her child’s death. Tho Attorney General will bring the case to some set .1 Ik meat . before , , the Supreme Court at at Ba rest able m May. I reemanwnl proL i.V t,e aWMto* on gnmnu «i sanity, or be allowed to go on his own recognizance. ..... - ---- A new remedy for the headache has Incn found by Dr. Haley, an Australian physician, who says that for some yearn past he has found minimum doses o. iodide of potassium of great service in frontal hoailache; that is, a lienvv, c!nli headache, situated over tl- brow, and. V hv 1 l-nnnior -i liners ard a : nl ° 11 1 ” '' ditaste tor food, which sometimes nj> I’' or,dies to nausea, can be completely removed bv a two-grain dose dissolved r ,‘u half *i sinned'’thewho..n-mtiSbeii” wineHasshil of water and this quietly m V sipped, the wnote quantity otm_ taken in about ten minutes. In many cases he adds, the effect of these ^ -m ut doses has been simply wonderful, as. for instance, a person who a quarter c.-f an hour before was feeling most m rabic aud refused all food, wishing „:dv fer ouiotneas quutnes., world a a Dir now t t..u.e ike a .. «,ooJ 1 me me- d and resume his wonted clieci uilness. L tins v .ire of Dr. Hueys is in reality a practical one, ho will merit for the dw covery / the gratitude of Milkriug mil Pine Forests. A coiTx spoiul'.M ot the Scientific; Ai>u ri‘ ( 0 ) writing' from Johnson ville s \ (’., incidental! v mu.tions ' f nrums “- journals ■ , m . contiol- , . , ling “ r preventing i«<i«-st grow ths, it appears that the fondness of hogs tor the juiev roots of voting pirn s leads them to seek’them assidiouslv, so that-where hogs arc allowed t<> roam in that region one can hardly find a young long leafed pine iu a thousand acres ot pine forest. There being no young trees to take the place of the old ones used up by the lmnliermeu and turpentine gatli erers. that species of pine timber is rapidly being exterminated. On* of the mottoes posted up at the dairr fair in Milwaukee this week, rays: “A little rancid butter in some unseen nook will soon leaven the whole lump." That’s probably the trouble with a good deal of this boarding house and rcstan- in rant butter, a rancid chunk has crept »nd was overlooked by the proof reader, and when the edition was run off it was found that the whole batch had become leavened. to» go» me,,™,-!. »»-, *» poned to a Peoria distiller. It has lieeu discovered that liis whisky barrels hold two gallons more than the standard bar n Is and he is to be prosecuted that by the he government The explanation is forgot to pay the tax on the extra two gallons, and the government hw been losing $1(H1 ft day iu that distillery. OEMS WITH A HISTORY. Tlie Kennion of Twin Diamonds that Once Belonged to Warren Hastings. “There are the §100,000 twins— ■brought together by chance, separation, after more than a quarter of a century' of and never to leave this country, now we’ve got them.” The } speaker j f wholesale was a German diamond gentleman, import ICS/ 0 a ing house in Maiden Lane. As he spoke he took a packet of silken tissue paper ff«ot a big safe behind him and dropped it ujaon a counter covered with green j )a j ze ^ at which the reporter seated liim self. \ wire gate slammed to and locked the prisoner in without seeming to have imprisoned him, and the German gentle mau 1 ,e g an to °1 ,MI the tissue paper packet. Two lustrous gems, which blazed with a pure bluish-white fire gleamed big around side by side. three-cent Each was piece, about but as as a what was more striking than their size was their identity of appearance and beauty. They are cut alike, weigh alike (eight and mineral one-half carats each), and are veritable twins. “I could create a sensation and make a fortune with them in Paris,” said the diamond merchant. “They are old In dian mine diamonds, and have a history that puts them in tlie catalogue of the famous gems of the world. I have proofs that establish their identity. They must have been in the possession of Warren eral Hastings India when Previously he was Govemor-Gen- they had been of the J jewels of a rajali, i and alter they left cured H ings - s Russian iewe l ca ket they were during se by a nobleman a mutiny sterdam, in where India. skillecWDutch He took them lapidary to Am a reeut them, thereby only greatly enhancing their beauty while slightly decreas ing their weight. The nobleman lost possession of one of them at Re cede brated erammg ^ table of M. Blanc, ’ at Mon aco _ it is sllpposed h lost it gaming, sale for it was only recovered of Mme Blanc, at the auction of the effects the widow of the famous gambler in Paris, a year ago. I secured it through an , ^ nude!” "continued the jeweler, «*lia<l a no less eventful career. It found -way to a French jeweler, who sold it to the Duke of Brunswick, lavished who, with eccentric prodigality, which money city on precious stones, he left to the pought it, but search made afterward for f] l( > mate, which the Duke of Brunswick had bought, revealed the fact that it lia /1 disappeared. found months ago—and “We it two how, do you think? Why, my partner »» !t s P«rklmg merchant. “ He could hardly rol \\ 0 be- a Chicago he secured Jieve it. But hv a stratagem j]ie means of comparing the gems, and proved their identity to his satisfaction. The merchant said he had bought the stone in England from a Jewish diamond illdnced mcrehant Lolldon> He wa8 P) pa rt with it at a handsome figure. “Thus they came together,” said the owner, as he rewrapped the “and sparks thus of mineral fire with tender care, they stay. They’ll never be separated ogam b if we can help it. T«- ***** -- - A Western Congressman tells , „ the . . . ]owmg Lincoln anecdote concerning Secretary Clove to a correspondent ot the £'’ mv district had .enlisted in the Regular Army and wanted a dts charge. The circumstances of Ins en listment were peculiar. He had been gom^-to si'.igoI at J olaw-aio College, m Ohm, and had rcc--iv<- i a not. - from homo his mtl w had lmt-d a,.d that he «« ;;r 3t ]w c,mk1 > at once. Ly ruts o<., <>t t money. His family could send Inn*none. He knew and the lamily liod nothing at home, sioi’t at ion andtrouolo were staring mm V 1 [ ! u % ‘ !‘ h lce ° ^ * ot ??■ V An ?* h’ m ' mg officer mot lmn and in a fit of do Xv, and'hmll’iu iu'theArmyn..wthivc years, and liis conduct liad been so favor able that lie was now granted a forty days’ furlongn. I told the story io Ihe War Secretary. He said; •!_ would like to discharge hil l, and I will if lean, but 1 d,W 1 tIuuk thm ' w :in >' , Uoas iire s0 numerous that we cannot grant any more discharges, it- is against the principles of tho department. “i then reminded him that these do sertions were largely dm to the in.iints ' which the West Point graduates delight- 1 ed in putting on the soldiers, and that their insulting manner was such that few Americans would stand it. Most of th ' common soldiers are foreigners. j ‘But. said h< v . 4 I can t iu ip that. I have nothing to do wifn M e.-ff IVant. “‘Yes,’replied 1 ‘but this man you can discharge. He has done his duty for three years. A highstrung, h sensitive, the cultured young man. lias borne cuffs and abuse and has acted so well under them that he is granted afttrlough for good conduct. If you want to keep lnm in the army you can do so. He will staud it or die. He is too honorable to desert, and he will go back to suffer and to work.’ “The Secretary looked up and said emphatically, ‘No, I will discharge him,’ and ho did. Wh- u he made the remark he looked like liis father, and the act re¬ minded me of old Abe.” 4 “corker:” “What’s your occtipa tion?” asked a judge of a drunk, that came up for inspection in the morning, “I’m a calker, sir,” was the reply. “A c alker !” exclaimed the judge; “what an inaptitude of language; I should sav you were au uncorker. Give him sixty days.” “That’s a‘corker,’surely, Sentinel. was the victim's retort .—Rome ats : ; x S 3 ’ slafs 01 tne su p; J ec t y.—- ^ heeler u Britton a poem " A ba. Are _stars ' Sav mg They ue p - J? wdnR that • - the ■ Ifl cloudy weaker give, 1 no chance to shine. 1 One of Forrest’s Good Deeds. Alxrat twenty years ago Edwin Forrest, the actor, did a very kind act; to-day the daughter One of his friend relates it here. afternoon, as Edwin Forrest and my father and mother sat chatting together, Madame M.-, who had bat a short time before buried her husband, a celebrated magician, entered the room. The necessary introduction having been performed, the conversation soon drifted around to Madame M-’s own affairs; wherenpon my hither remarked:— “I have been thinking that Madams M--might footsteps. follow m her husband® She has been his confederate for years, and is quite capable of doing so.” “ Hum ! not a bad idea, George,” answered Forrest. Then, turning to Madame M-, he observed: “Why don't you adopt the plan, madarne ?” Madame M-hesitated a moment, colored slightly, and then replied frankly:— “I would lie glad to do so; lmt un is fortunately, all of Mr. M — ’s apparatus held for debt, and I have not the money to redeem it.” “How much would it take?” came the question, in Forrest’s rather abrupt way. “About a thousand dollars,” replied Madame M—-, looking rather surprised at the interrogation, “ Hum ! a thousand dollars. I’ll let you have it. ” The offer was so wholly unexpected, and being rolled out in Forrest’s gruffest tones, that Madame M-, whose nerves were very much unstrung from all she had at that time gone through, burst into tears, aud hurried out of the room. “ Go alter her, George,” cried Forrest to my father. “I was too rough with the little woman. Tell her it’s all right. I will give you the check for the money to-morrow. ” Edwin The Forrest following handed day, true father to his word, my a check for the thousand dollars. Madame M-redeemed her husband’s parapher¬ nalia, and as a magician, earned a very good living for herself and two children. I know not if Madame M-still do; if lives, but probably they her children heard the story so, of doubtless have this kindly act done to their mother in the hour of her great need; and the name of Edwin Forrest must have a warm place iu their hearts. Going to School. •1 _ “Class in geography, come forward, and j n case any of you drop a pencil, cough, look out of the window, or school utter in a at I will keep the whole re¬ C ess. Now, then,where is Green Cheese Creek?” They _ it “Wiiat! give up. able to None of you answer that question ? Here are twenty hoys and who expect to become business men, seven gills who will become wives and mothers, (jheese and not one of you know that Green Creek rises in the sonth eastern part of Hindostan, and flows in a northwesterly course for seventeen miles and twenty-two rods, and empties into Ham River! You hoys would look nice starting out- as lawyers, doctors and bookkeepers, ’ woman t you l Go to your 6eat * as a punishment each one of ; writs! fifty words and give !he\amo must urn of every President in tlie Unf ted States. „ claSfS in arithmetic, step this way, nU(1 , )e carpflll ll0W y011 steporyou won’t g( 1 j. any d i nnel . to-day. Now, James, ‘4o„ ” doff t ?’You are expecting to gi-cw up and become a clerk in a clothing gtor au d von don’t, know whatarliom ], (tI \|j s o A rlioinboid, sir, is a paralklo griun whose opposite sides only right are angles. equal, und whose angh s are not Take your seat, and don’t you dare to look lip until yon have committed seven j teen pages of history to memory. tho'amount “X u w, Thomas, what is ; due on a note for $167.19 -J, given nine-tenths for one year, impute, one- dav, one hour and ■ '* » and hearing seven and three ; eleventil3 pev C8Ut . interest? Come, j ?’ ; can’t Only vesterdav you told j j me that- you intended to run a grist-mill I when you grew up, and here you can't j answer a simple question in mathematics l You’ll never be able to run one end of a 1 ^ru-shellcr. and I might as well tell you j s0 now . Go to vom-seat and cipher out | one hundred and sixty examples in vulgar \ fractions j “Class in ancient history, now advance, ! When was the first rebellion against tho j Assyrian King Sardauapalus ?” ? No answer. “James, Henry, Charles, Samuel— what! None of you able to answer this question ! You are prepares no go out into the world as insurance canvassers, j telegraph operators, bank clerks and j Board of Trade s^-cidaiors, and behold j v(mi . ignorance! What would any of j Von do in case you were walking through ; au alley on a dark night twenty years hence,* and some one this should question suddenly ? Tho s f op V0)I dismissed." and ask vou class‘is How the next-genera tion will manage to run stores and fac Tories alld keep the wheels of commerce and progress moving, I don’t know.”— Detroit Free Press. There is a dignity in all poverty which makes itself entirely independent oi the wealth of others, aud which is unwilling, even though pressed, to share it, a dignity which consists partly in the characteristic consequences simplicity of orderly self-restraint, partly in the of feeling and taste which results from con¬ stant and straightforward life. Indeed, contact there with is the realities of fastidious and real strength lost in all hyper-sensitive lives, real strength gained by habitual contact with toil and want and good and evil in their least disguised and most naked forms. rmwo iisiiy j tremens, and assured him that he saw nothing. After that he became more { frantic, aud in the morning was found dead. The monkey was no the c.-U delusion, however, but had got into liter ' escaping from its owner, an mearcemted ’ grind,-r. organ
