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Newspaper Page TextTbe CrawfnrtTille Dunn. CRAW FORD Vi RLE - GEORGIA. NEWS GLEANINGS. Edgefield, S. G\, is to have a cotton *eed eil mill Some 40,000 silk worms are to In: dis¬ tributed in Kentucky. Tusoai.OOsa, Ala., will soon have a cotton seed oil mill in operation. Florida lies built 235 miles of rail* road during the past year. Knoxville, Tenn., will probably sell 10,000 barrels of coal oil this year. A whiskey bar for Texas is being made in Cincinnati which is to cost $ 10 , 000 . Pine lands in Putnam county, Fla., worth $8 an acre two years ago, are now wiling for $25. There are now 191 cotton factories in operation or in course of erection in the southern states. It is estimated that there are twelve hundred towns west of the Mississippi river, without churches or preaching of any kind. The decrease of the public debt for April, $2,857,402.05, is the lowest figure that ’las been reported for years. There are 000 deaf mutes in Missis a’ppi, 822 males and 284 females; 818 are white and 288 colored, All are natives of the State except two. The Jefferson monument was taken from Charlottesville to Monticello ]«*( week. It was mounted on a truck especially made for the purpose, and it required two horses to draw the load. Several thousand Georgia and Ala¬ bama cattle have been shipped to Te XMK recently. They will he returned south by way of Chicago with gome accessions of tallow, but with few evidences of tenderness. Aw a good deal or discus-ion has been rife concerning Gen. Grant’s pecuniary Means, it may bo interesting to know tie exact truth. The entire property of General and Mrs. Grant yields them an annual income of $9,000. THE New > irk Tribune wants a cover over the East River bridge to keep off Ihe sun and rain. This, with free sodn water, , f e cream, a hand of music and pienty of chairs and settees, would make >• yerv popular sunm.er resort. "“'Ziutirr Nr A ! l 1 " ,,! «oat ..... impossible to <»■ any ; church When wo*doing t^L clergyman. in llent^T, ^,ted Iowa at « om ,t v if anybody had aught unit^i to y MI} , ,'hy the pair should not tie „ girl arose and raid, “I have confuyi lie i*Vng,iged to me.” There was some on , but the cer¬ emony was completed. The expovts March exceeded the jm|«»rts or - That month $16,912,703. The imj orts »>e still large, but the bet* ' ter opinio® is that there will soon be a heavy decrease in imports. If so, and if we have good crops this year, all talk about panic or hard times may as well be dismissed. The Times-ITnion thus describes Jacksonville since the close of the sea¬ son : “No base ball; no yachting: no rowing ; no fa-t driving ; no gymnas¬ ium ; mighty little sparking—nothing hut dreary loafing and the labor of hol¬ ding up the lamp posts. Can’t we start something fresh ?” The Michigan legislature, as well as the Pennsylvania and Connecticutt Legislatures, last week killed resolutions proposing a prohibitory amendment to the constitution of the State. In Iowa the Supreme Court decision invalida¬ ting the prohibitory amendment has postponed prohibitory legislation for some years. Montgomery Advertiser Now comes the Anniston factory and ships 1,009 bales of cotton goods to China to make baggy breeches for the heathen. Tee South not only proposes to squeeze the I’ttritans out of the West, but the Britishers out of : he East. The South i» getting hoggish about this los-ines-, ar.d we are clad of it. MinhI Preservation. The improved wood by Fivueh luetliod of linn' pie oervmg the application of is said to be f und to work well. The plan i - to pile the planks in a tank and put over all a layer of quicklime, which is gradually slaked with water. TimU r for mines reipuros alniut a w«<*‘k to Ih 1 thor< Highly mipn-gi ated, and other w >s?l more or less time, according to its thick¬ ness. The w«ks 1 acquires remarkable consistence slid baldness, it is statid. ou being subjected to this simple pro¬ cess. and the assertion is made that it will la-ier rot. Beech wisvl iuvi>ar,sl in this way for hammers and other tools for iron works is found to acquire the hardlie-s of elasticity oak, without parting and with any of its or toughness, it -jhitso Isistt* ionprr. TOPICS OF THE DAY. Gks. Strother, Consul General to Mexico, reports a general impetus in mining and other public enterprises in that country, the result of the rapidly growing railway system. Thf. number of graduates from West Point this year will not equal the vacan¬ cies iu the roll of Second Lieutenants in the army, and the deficiency will be sup¬ plied from civil life. It is reported that one of the largest amounts ever granted in any oountrv as com pensation for a railroad accident to one person was recently given iu Scot¬ land to an engineer. The loss of a foot was compensated by £8,250 or $41,250, Some of the best English jockeys are women; daughters of farmers, or of country squires, who have lost their for¬ tunes. They have been accustomed to ride to hounds from their childhood, are perfectly fearless, and their light weight in the saddle makes them desira¬ ble as jockeys. A bill has been favorably reported in the New York Legislature, compelling all makers, proprietors ano venders of medicel preparations “affecting the hu¬ man or animal body,’’ to place upon the label a full and true statement of the ingredients of which it it composed. The sale of all medicines without such a label is made a misdemeanor. If passed, the law will he what the Yankee deacons call very ‘‘s’areliin’.” The Farnham type-setting machine has l*een on public exhibition in the Goodwin block on Haynes street, Hart¬ ford, Conn., and attracted immense crowds. It both sets and distributes type, and, it is claimed, can do the work of five compositors. A syndicate of Connecticutt capitalists have pur¬ chased the patent., and will soon take measures to bring the machine into practical use. It appears that, Brinish capital is about to be invested in American land to a large amount. A son of an M. P , who now is visiting this country for the purpose of buying land, says that there is an enormous amount of capital lying idle in England, and that syndicates have been formed to invest in this coun try . Among those investing are Baring Bros., the bankers, Mr. Labouchere, of Truth, Sir Thomas Brassey, civil 1 <>-d of th(> (l fi, Y q ra tty, an^. jpanv of the bank -*• -_ £— A of Genc*^u Ilobt. E. Lee, the S' i r leader during the civil .......^ the president ... of educational W"i» 1,1 an institution at Lexington, Va., and the desire and taste to aid in the solid and disciplining of the post-bellum genera¬ tion in the South of which this is an example, lias many other illustrations. One of Lee’s staff, Maj. McClellan, is similarly situated at Lexington, Ky., at the Savle Female Institute, and Gener¬ al Kirby Smith is n member of the fac¬ ulty of the University of the South, at Sewanee, Tenn.; Gen. J. L. I>. Stuart s widow controls an Episcopal school in Staunton, Va. Prof. Spencer Baird, of theNation al Museum, has acknowledged to Gen¬ eral Superintendent Kimball, of the Life-saving Service, the receipt of a re¬ markable specimen of the whale family, which was captured off'the New Jersey const by a Life-saving crew sever a' days ago. Prof. Baird says the porpoise proves to represent a species never tie fore seen in the United States. It belongs to a group of small sperm whales characterized by the absance of perma¬ nent teeth in the upper jaw. Its pro¬ jecting head and general appearance are not unlike the sperm whale, although in miniature, this specimen being about nine feet in lenzth. Tt is now being cast in plaster for exhibition at the Na tional Museum. The cart er of female lawyers has not been extraordinarily brilliant in this country. They seem unable to ro<i«t tl;c temptation of “sassing” the judge when that authority overrules them. Kate Kane of Milwaukee, who last week threw a glass of water in the judge - face, became he assigned another law¬ yer to thedefense of a burglar, appeared to think herself governed by sanitary rather than jersonal motives, because she remarked s- she threw it: ‘‘Take that, you dirty dog !” t?he adorned him w ith other choice names, and wss taken howling out of the eouri-mom. declar¬ ing she would rot in jail Indore she would contribute her tine to the court’s treasury. Sne insists that the judge has been t-rvine to drive her from practirin: in his court, lie seem* to have succeed¬ ed Tor thirty d. ys at snv rate—unles *he pays her fine. An old lady says it is remarkable foreign the number of jvsiple w illing to take missums, and she fears the home ims limiary cause w ili suffer. Mr. Spoopendyke and the Dog. J “Look here, my dear,” said fir. Hpoopendyke, as he led a huge fool got shaggy dog dog into friend his wife's of mine room, gave “J|’vi lie-. a a What “ Good do you gracious think of !” him ejaculated ?” Sfjr j Spoopendyke, mounting a chair in | • may. “Is he mad?” I “ No, Mrs. Spoopendyke,"retorted isn’t mail, te r husband, “he not only either, bird hint he isn’t a stepladder nor a - eye view’. He’s a dog, and, if you deni l.jite t get out of that chair, lie’ll probably your legs off. ” Mrs. Spoopendake sat down on iber feet and eyed the brute with some tri jpi dation. I 1 she “Maybe he’s by got the of hydrophobia,’ hearty suggested, way a •,< • come. “P’raps he has, he ’ agreed Mr. Spopp- in endyke his pocket. ; “but, Come if here, has, doggee, lies gut doggo it-, . d.iggeer and persuasively. Mr. Spoopendyke snai .- i lus lingers “Why don’t ho come when you hi him ?” asked Mrs. Spoopendyke, d< ply i" teres ted in the proceedings. “ Because you make such a dod gu it; d noise you scare him,” explained 10 Spoopendyke. doggee !” “Come, doggee, dogy' i , “ I don’t quite objected _ like the way Spoopeiid- lus tongue hangs out,” Mrs. K . “ it don’t look natural.” £ “Maybe you don’t like the was 17is tail hangs out, either. P raps you ilm.k tlittt s artificial, too. With your n on mation about dogs you only need a plat bottom and a broken hinge to be ataig pound. Keep quiet now, while I t j u n him some tricks. Come here, doggee . 8itup, sir!” stretched his legs, I The dog out op j, u a mouth like a folding bedstead ^ growled. makes him do that? "What a: ; i-U Mrs. Spoopendyke, sitting on the bacu of a chair with her feet in the seat. ( “ i>od gast it! howlod Mr. Spdop endyke. “Who do you s pose him do it? Think he works on a w ie. Got a notion he goes by steam ( b don’t, 1 tell ye, ho s alive, and h , it because that s the bent ot his me .> mind. What are ye sitting up for? Can t ye see lie don t like - Now, you sit still. Here doggee, n gee, Spoopendyke good doggee, sit held up and beg ! / Mr. up an r.i.: tory linger. ’ The dog eyed Mr. Spoopendyke glance. anything but an assuring “ He s hungry, suggested .I Spoopendyke. “ Dogs do like h >> when they want to be taken down 1 1 t yard and be fed. “Of course you know, grumbled . Spoopendyke. “All you want 1- T;" 1 feet ignorunoe on the part ot the p.Mi to be a dog light. Got anything in 1 house for him to eat t “There’s some cold oyster stew an piece of custard pie— fct “ That’s it! raved Mr. Spoopei^M. “That’s wliat’s the matter with Ho wants pie ! You ve got lt.MMii i only need a commTtee and a.ligh^b, a 1 tench show. Where s the oysM’n ! yMEyf Dgjkye see got the dog pmmg cold for coll oyijgjs? ye sorno >r K^HBWive him a lemon to s* 1 . aud Mr. Spoo |kht upiivthe air an mnr-, atm itir. Spotipt"“4 of himself lodxg. twelve baskets ana ]|, ter 1 ns prize. mind, dear,” said Jits. “Never Spoopendyke, soothingly, “lie’ll d >me back ” “If he does I’ll kill him,” shouted Tve Mr. Spoopendyke. You made “See lose what yo dog done. me my and torn my trousers. Auytl Got, ing more about dogs you don’t know ? any more intelligence to impart al out (logs? All you want IS tt bucket or brandy around your neck and a si} ow storm to be a monk of St. Bernard,” with which logical conclusion Mr. Spoopendyke began possible exploring his mt- ule lying districts for bites, w his wife speculated upon the salvn ion of the cold oysters and the custard pie by the sudden and eminently satis factory disaffection of the dog.— Brook lyn Eagle. Mining Altitudes. A good deal of nonsense is being in¬ dulged in by contemporaries about the altitudes at which mines, and especially silver mines, are found ; and one para¬ graph, the Louisiana evidently started lowlands," by a man from that “ says “scientific men have proved by actual measurement that most of the great sil¬ ver mines lie 10,000 feet above the pres¬ ent sea level, and among the richest are some 2,000 feet higher still.” Job, ol the laud of Uz. who was doubtless bet¬ ter versed in practical geology, mineralogy, met¬ allurgy of and editors mining who than keep many the tlie scissors aliove quotation afloat, said: “Surely then* is a vein for the silver, and a pm -e for gold where they fine (refine or purity > it,” Rich silver mines have been found as high as 10,000 feet, and many of them as much as 10,000 feet above the level of the sea, but it docs not follow that silver mines are found only at such alti¬ tudes. Comstock The highest croppings considerably of less the famous are than S.tHHl, and the Eborhardt, of White Pine—the richest silver mine in the known world—is barely 9,000 feet above the sea level. The Carthagenian mines of antiquity, which at one time em¬ ployed 40,(kK) operatives, were scarcely 5,000 feet high, and the rich mines of Tombstone in Arizona do not attain even so great an altitude. In all the broad mineral region of Nevada, no paying vein of silver on' has ever Iteeu found at an altitude of 10,000 feet. It does not billow oven that Kcause veins of silver are usually found iu the older rocks of lofty mountain ranges, they mav not alsci be found in the sandstones and otb er sedimentary rooks of the rallevs. * as in the case of Silver Reef, Utah. The speculation as to the “altitude of mines’ is all noimem-e, f, r “snrelv there i- : vein for the silver.” and that vein is as likelvtoliefound.au other conditions being favorable, at an altitude of 4.0 * as at one of 10,000 Vet.-/,' / , F.„ /’/•< SA. ♦ When they build , a railway tue , mM . ihmg they do is to break ground, T:o-- lb ' -s .ften dime with peat ceremony they break the shareholders. Ibis -j done without ceremony. EDUCATION. Comparative titatiatica as to Kle mentary Education Throughout the Civilized World, In a paper prepared by the United States Bureau of Education is included some mteresting and valuable statistics, compiled from the latest official reports, showing condition certain facts relating to the of elementary education throughout the civilized world. Among the facts exhibited regarding each eoun try are the total population, the school a ge as established by law, the total school population, the number of schools, the number of pupils enrolled, and the most interesting facts thus to be pre¬ sen ted are given in the table printed herewith, it will be observed, upon reference to the following table, that in some of the countries the number of pupils en rolled in schools exceeds the entire school population. For example, the school population reported of England and Wales while was at 2,500,000 in 1870, the number of pupils enrolled in schools in the same year was 3,710,883. This ap parent discrepancy the official is explained bv ‘those the fact that school age in countries comprises only children from 3 to 15 year . s 0 ld. including those in in fant schools. The 2,500,00J school popn lation is an estimate, and included only those cliildrcn who were between the ages of 7 and 13 years. Of the 3,710,- 883 pupils enrolled, 1,208,010 were be tween t]ie ag08 of 3 au< j 7 yc . ars 2,333, 973 were between the ages of 7 and 13 yearfj) an q 168,894 were over 13 years 0 j ( ] In nearly all the Continental conn trie3 of Europe the school age covers a period ally of only 13 seven or eight years, usu from 6 to or G to 14; and conse qucntly many older than children younger enrolled than 6 years or 14 years are as pupils in the schools, although they do not form a part of the school population. In the u nite d States the school age varies greatly in the different States. Xhe longest period is seventeen years, tr „ m 4 to 21 (in Florida, Maine and New Hampshire), and (in Texas). the lowest School six years, from 8 to 14 age in the United States covers an aver a while g e period in European exceeding fourteen years, countries the average jieriod is a little more than one-half as long. It. would not be fair to conclude that, because Saxony reported more than 100 per cent, of her school popnla tion enrolled in public schools in 1878, she xva ; therefore, in an educati >niil sonse, ahead of the United States, which reported only enrolled G4 per cent, the of the schools scht o’ population I11 in Saxony public the school m samu year. age covers a period of only eight years, while, as has been shown, in the United States the period exceeds fourteen years, tliis table the school population of Russia is estimated at 15,000,000 in round numbers. This, and the reported school population mentioned, of England and only' Wales already are the esti mateH in t j 10 table. Of the 69,527 teachers reported in England and Wales, 29,710 arc certified teachers,0,010 are as- 8istaut teacher*, and 33,195 are pupil teachers. Following is the table above mellt i onec i. School Number COUNTRIES. Popula - Enrolled. Pupils Teachers. Number ti<rn. jutes.. l4,r>9klB3j 9 f 873.J95 63 271,U4 2-10 — , ^ V,T ' '” ! ' 8 . .............. 3,122,802434,68*1 ■24:},r,r,?j 31,100 vi5 t :m a,eoi Belgium 772,070 087,74b! 31,808 Brazil. ........... No report 187,915 No report Sriii“h"m”n.«L. > ...... 17,892 89,292} 17,31* N t M Ilo report 2,784 2,194 o report British Columbia os J|^ lmliu • No report 615,744 No report Denmark.'.’.'.'." a 745,251 841,894 11,1.21 240,5 'U 241.95! 9,468 Egypt........... No report 107,17. No report jmfamd! 2,5oo,ooo 8,7io,88. 09,5-7 842,280 20,279; 532 Franco......... 0,409,087; 240,000 4,710,9:5j 8i,440| 310,709 1,205 <0 islands ti>'.: Jo report! 44,3101 48,8481 7,755 i No ^ report 1,820 Hawaiian j ....... 2,127,950! report' 1,559,039 20,747 Italy?. «o 4,527,582, 1,031,995] 1,931,017] 10,489 47,085 ........ Jamaica........ ,.. ]No report 52,243 No report l ..... ... 5,251/09 2,16 ,902 « ,825 33,0 ortl 0 39,477 6'iO .......... ... No rei 7.746 No report Mex co.......... No report 349,0 0 N o rei ort 5:6,691 4^6,737 12,692 ijewBrunmriek. 51,684 51,472 No report New south w»'<* ... No report 128,1.5 1.824 ^oviTscotii ” 302,0j0 261.62’. I3U ... No report 84,35 а, nil Ontario..... 494,424 487,012 б, 596 Portugal......... 615,949 198,13! No report Prussia......... . .. 4,396,738 4,007,77b 57,93 i Quebec.......... ...i No report! report; 239,808 6,132 Queensland...... ..No 1 41,383 924 Rou mania....... ...i 700.00D , 103,824 3,6 1 Russia........... ... 15,000,000 1,213 825 No report Saxony ......... 448,814 471,324 7,219 Scotland....... 561,600 508,472 9,477 Servia.......... .. No report 22,7.0 617 South Australia. .. No report 39,127 .88 Spain........... ... 2,603,265 1,410,476 29,013 9,311 Sweden......... 765,645 598,354 Switzerland..... No 441,794 411,754 No 10,156 Tasmania....... .. report 12,45: report Victoria......... .. Norepovt 231,16: 4,006 Wnrtemberg ... 295.928 No r*-por 5.887 Rapid Transit. Uncle Mose owns several small shan¬ ties ou Galveston avenue, which he rents out, but one ot the tenants is rather slow iu coming up with the rent, so Old Mose had to make him a pastoral visit. Just as he was coming away from the house, Old Mose met Jim Webster. “Jim,” said the old man, “ which am de fastest trabbeler yon eber keerd tell about?” “Dev say dat de ray of light trabbles more den 200,tO) miles a second, but 1 nebber timed it myself,” replied Jim. “Dai’s a man in Galveston what can gib de ray ob light fifty yards start and beat it wust kind. ” “G’way, ole man. Lyin’ is sir.ee ketchiu, de and I hain’t been vaccinated wah.” “Hit am jess so as I tole yer. Gabo Suodgiuss, what owes me four muml’s back rent, can outtrabble de light. ’’ “Did yer see him do it?” “I went to de front doali, and jess as his wife opened de front doali I seed Gabe slide out de back doah. ‘ IsGabe 8a -’ s l : ‘Jone gone to Houston says she. flit am fifty miles Houston and he must hab made de 1 “- loo ^ ul f , l » m ° f 1 hde v( ' r • [»*J ^ ht ; ha '‘ to rau, l’ totseff to esteli np wid tnd>o Snodgrass I comes tor de back rent, den Ise a frol-d at s all. ^ ___ f“STMethJdS*ehu^h Fa fiexed party of voting af loaf er Wa '' aUli , , night .... carouse *.'■• » » with whisky ana cords. As there was n o ixmoe force that coald be called in, the paster wrapped lumseif m a sheet, emerged from lieluud the pulpit, and spok- m such a ghostly fashion that the intruders fled mdismay, A NEW PHOTOGRAPHIC WONDER. Tlae Faintest-MotIon or Animal Life Laid Bare The zoopraxeoscope is a long name to give to a very simple apparatus, but probably briefly none other conveys an idea so of its objects, uses and capabili¬ ties. The instrument itself is the zoogy roseope in an improved form, and by the revolution of two discs parallel with each other, bui revolting in contrary di¬ rections, certain visual illusions are ob¬ tained which are as astonishing as they are their inexplicable—-excepting so far as effects are governed by the general laws appertaining to 4he persistency of vision. the Many of our readers will remember surprise and delight afforded them by an exhibition in this city, last year, of the attitudes of animals in motion, of which this instrument furnished so im¬ portant and entertaining a feature, and people were therefore somewhat which pre¬ pared for the improvements visit, a Post man expected to see by a a few days ago, to the studio of the inven¬ tor. Apart from many essential modifica¬ tions in the instrument itself, quite a large number of movements of various animals can now be illustrated, including in one picture, horses executing various movement, ami traveling in different di¬ rections at various rates of spaed; a race¬ takes track, wliereiu one horse gradually and over¬ his competitors in the race, a number of excited spectators are waving their arms and throwing up their hats ia celebration of the victory of their favor¬ ite; a deer hunt, where a deer, followed successfully by dogs and horseman, tra¬ verses over the illuminated screen. An acrobat turning a somersault upon the back of a horse. A man pursuing the even tenor of his way is suddenly as¬ tonished by the appearance of a wild bull, and seeing no other means of escape turns a somersault over the animal’s back. When it is remembered these are sim¬ ply reproductions by photography limbs fr om the life, with all the movements living of animal, exactly without as made imaginary by the interpolations, any scientist is their value to the artist aud self-evident. For the purpose of attempting to study the movements of the horse, Meis sonnier leased a railroad and chartered a locomotive and car, wherein he patiently sat day after day, watching the animal as he ran or trotted at a similar rate of speed on a race track with the railroad. With what intense gratification would the artist. Meissounier or the scientific Marey watch the movements of animals as delineated by the zoopraxeoscope, and obtain in a few minutes the information they have been for years patiently inves¬ tigating, without securing the results they have so earnestly desired. The first crude results of the experi¬ ments made at Palo Alto created a sur¬ prise and satisfaction in Europe as in¬ tense as any revelation of the nine¬ teenth century. Both Governor Stanford aud gized—one Jlr. Muybridge the public were f^iirit warmly and eulo¬ lib¬ for erality the displayed experiments; in instituting the other and for caus¬ the ing unwearied zeal aud fertility of his re¬ sources in bringing the subject to a suc¬ cessful termination. It is understood to be the intention of Governor Stanford to send the entire equipment of electro ABliui-afallUft jurya <m3 also, to entertain the various art and scientific societies with a series of enter¬ tainments, for .which it is safe to bespeak for him an appreciation most gratifying. —San Francisco Post. _ m -___ rite Pueblo Indians and Their Religious . Beliefs. The word Pueblo means villages; and the tribe of Indians that have lived in this region take their name, -Pueblo, from the fact that they lived in Pueblos, or villages. Pueblos peculiar ideas The have some O' the future. They believe that at death they will be carried away in some mysterious manner to a place beneath a vast underground lake, where melons and peaches and beautiful maidens and horses are in never-ending supply for the good. The Zuni Indians have a tradition that they were placed where they are in order to be out of the reach of tiio deluge, of which they have some account. The tradition relates how the Great Spirit -ot them apart as a c’-osen people, tribes and preserved them while all other md nations were drowned. They also believe that all the people of the earth are descended from the Zuni thus > aved trom the deluge. This tradition has its parallel with that given us in the Sacred Scriptures. in vil¬ They also believe that Pecos (a lage) Montezuma was born; that he grew up with extraordinary mental powers; that he traveled a great deal and taught •lie people many good things; that he usually rode on ahead the back of an who eagle and always went of those trav¬ eled with him, and thus was, as was the star to the wise men of the East, a guide to them both day and night, and, whenever the eagle stopped at night, there was planted an Indian Pueblo. The sign where alighting the great of capital should i 10 built was the the eagle upon a large cactus-bush, and there devour¬ ing a rattlesnake. This, tradition has it, was on Montezuma’s journey south, and was his great and last journey. The eagle stopped where the City of Mexico now stands. The Mexican Government has adopted the alighting the of the eagle as the design of national seal, and thus made memorable the legend. The same design is also stamped on Mexican coin. Montezuma never returned from his southern passed trip, but in some the mysteri¬ ous manner away to land of the blessed, aud since leads liis people by his spirit. The City of Mexico was founded iu 1325.—New Mexico Cor. Chicayo Tribune. ..L Bcondeau gives . the following „ re¬ ci The P e toi purifying and bleaching sponges teped : sponges are first washed m *hich aud lu hydrochloric acid, frees , the pores from the carbonate of lime. To bleach them they are im merst ^ for twenty-four hours in a sola tion composed of five parts of hydro cldoric acid to 100 parts of water, with jj le at p]pi 01 j pi u ts of hyposnlpliate In this way sponges may lie ble-o-oli- l more effectuallv aud rapidly than with sulphurous acid. BITS OF INFORMATION. Three attempts have been made to assassinate Queen Victoria. The theater of Marcellus, at Rome, was capable of seating 20,000 persons. It has been estimated that 2,000,000 men perished in the wars begun to re¬ cover the Holy Land. William Henbi' Harrison was the oldest man elected President, and Gen. Grant the youngest. An Italian writer says that 40,000 operas have been written sine j 1000, of which 10,000 have been produced by the sons of Italy. It is stated that it takes 20,000 roses to produce half an ounce high of the attar, which accounts for the price de¬ manded for the pure article. England produces more tin than any other country in the world. There are tin mines in Bohemia, Saxony, Spain, Portugal, Malacca and Australia. Warren India, Hastings, tried the Governor General of was by peers of Great Britain for high crimes and misdemean¬ ors. One of the charges was his accept¬ ance of £100,000 from the Nabob of Oude. The trial lasted seven years and three months, terminating in his ac¬ quittal. The White House was first built in 1792, at a cost of 8330,000. It was not occupied until 1800. It was rebuilt in 1818. Its porticoes were not finished until 1829. Altogether, it is computed to have cost for building, rebuilding and furnishing about $1,700,000. The whole structure has a frontage of 170 feet and a depth of 68 feet, and its vestibule is 50x40 feet. The garden and park which inclose the mansion occupy twenty acres. The Cabinet-room, 40x30 feet, i-, on the second floor. The White House was modeled alter the palace of the Duke of Leicester. The phrase ‘ ‘ Speaking for buncombe ” originated near the close of the debate on the famous “ Missouri Question,” in the sixteenth Congress. It was then used by Felix Walter, who lived at Waynesville, in Haywood, the most western county of North Carolina, near the adjacent formed*part county of Buncombe,, which of his district. The old man rose to speak, while the House was ” impatiently several calling members for the “ques¬ tion and gathered around him, begging him to desist. He persevered, however, for a while, declar¬ ing that the people of his district ex¬ pected it, and that he was bound to “ make a speech for Buncombe.” The phrase “According to Gunter ” refers to Edmund Gunter, a distin¬ guished English in mathematician, died in who was born 1581 and 1020. lie is known as the inventor of the chain commonly land, used by surveyors flat for meas¬ uring and of the woouSn rule marked with scales on equal parts of sines, chords, etc., and also with loga¬ rithms of these various parts, which is used to solve problems in surveying and navigation mechanically with the aid of dividers alone. Hence in the use of the phrase, anything is “according to Gun¬ ter ” which is done quite right ami ad¬ mits of no improvement. A London paper once printed the fol¬ lowing in making regard to fools the “origin of the custom of on the 1st of April:” “ This is said to have begijn llbve out of tui'ftrk before’ttw wiVe^iiKft? abated, on the first day of the month, among the Hebrews which answers to the 1st of April; aud to perpetuate the memory of this deliverance it was thought proper, whoever forgot so re¬ markable a circumstance, to punish them errand by sending them upon some sleeve¬ less similar to that ineffectual message upon which the bird was sent by the patriarch. The custom appears to be of great antiquity, and to have been derived by the Romans from some of the Eastern nations. Slow Uie Snake Gets a New Suit. “ Some people think that snakes only shed their skins at certain seasons of the year," said the keeper, “That’s a mis take. If they are well fed and kept right warm they change their coats about every eight weeks through the vear. ” “ Does it pain them ? ” “ Not a bit of it. You see the skin of a snake does not increase in size as the reptile grows, as with us. While the old skin is getting smaller by degrees, a new one is forming underneath, and the other gradually loosens gets dry. When it is ready the to shed, it around the lips, and reptile rubs itself against the earth or the rock in the cage, and turns the up¬ per part over the eye and the tower part over the throat. Then it commences to glide around the glass case, all the time rubbing itself against something until the entire skin is worked off. Sometimes this takes three days ; occasionally in they get rid of the incumbrance a few hours? I don’t believe they have a bit of intelligence. For all I feed them and care f -r them, they would as lief bite me as any stranger. I can handle a good many of them safely, but it’s only the knack of the thing—not that they won’t bite, but that they can’t get the chance.” Squeaking Shoes. A correspondent of the Country Gen¬ tleman gives the following remedies for th": above nuisance: Not long ago I went to my slioestore and asked if the squeaking could lie pre¬ vented in my shoes. I was told it could be very easily, and it was done by open¬ ing the soles of my shoes at the shank, pouring in powdered soapstone, taking care to have the sole well-filled to the toe, and then pegging or sewing them np again. My shoes did not squeak after that. A shoemaker’s receipt to prevent so leaking is to put a piece of cloth (sheeting) between every two lay ers’of leather on the sole. Last sum¬ mer I purchased a pair of fine boots, which annoyed me very much by squeak¬ ing. So on very hot (lays in having I turned them up to the direct rays of the sun and put on grease; as fast as it dried up I applied more, until they would take no more, and they have nev er troubled me since. Our own plan is. to stand the shoes in a hollow pan and then 1 pour m lukewarm water until tfie soles are nearly immersed. Keep the water twentv-four'hours, as nearlv lukewarm a.s possible for and put ou the shoes while the soles are still damp, Th v should not iiecome wet inside.