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About Crawfordville democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1881-1893 | View Entire Issue (May 2, 1884)
CRAW FORD VILLK. GEORGIA. ODDS AND ENDS. Obomira prevails at Aspinwal). Eom are five cents a dozen in Texas rr» liiicliKaro *,J t )i6 school . , children . , , in . urego" Hsrrii Gkkkh u»restocking Laae George will, trout. Cora wifi soon have her first refinery for sugar. KiM'RUOi; ViLiiUH of Germany is 87 years of ige. MAijr ANoi'UhON'H fortune is estimated at (SB) Me", |triy will be the next oresi dent if im ,, MfusaoKiRii, who ia now seventy-two, ... urn s not dye. Thk population of Belgium is about 5,500,000 souls. Puivs building wtui introduced into London m 17.18. 'fuu State of Texan now has 172 or gani/ :d count. ; j . Tuh UovermH-of Mussowab, Kgypt, is ’ % Maryland ‘ ami) feu wry■ novel printed m England , , «.u art. t< |t.< ten. <);t a v im a hi 11.1 mi ranee has reappeared in f ail Giver. Jtfuss. Two German Anarchists have boon ar rested it . rrbourg. 'It'. iVesidunt’s daughter Nellie dres « s V-rv stniply. Tim oldest log cabin in the country ia near Montgomery Wife Ala Moshucliu A mr.i, to flog heaters passed tho '*11s 11 1 mso 1 miponaMaint.y Japan has . OK . 1 . u geneamgy ot emperors li« CriroAfKi's twelve new public height. buildings are to stories in A wiiAi.i; sixty feet long has been killed oft Beaufort, H. O. 'i'll,: loss of property by the Ohio flood*, is over $10,000,000. A i icn i oot alligator w'hh captured n ,., u VVaxaliatchie ’ ' Texas .. . d i d suddenly of fatty " " 11 ' ‘ ‘ ‘ L. in ukn TrtorHANo homofitmils wero euterisl in Florida Inst year. Gkouui. CiUUiN, founder of Ououlo Obm in unit y, is dead, aged 75. Fi hhtunbtet p, in Germany, bouts of the oldest tree in Hie country, An I'klinbtirg fish denier hits paid 87f> ’ - 000 for Scottish salmon rentals. liii'iia! o N |.i.l,’n!nil.l' ,, . sTi*i'i! , ° l M 0l>Cra ' in ‘ ' l UK** are nearly 10,<I(W direetOTB of companies in (treat Britain. Tnmtie are 1L.0 jiupiis in tho Italian government school iu Nebraska. ’ MontkuaIi claims to have made about $1,000,000 by her ico carnival. Knhi.anu is moving for tho abolition of tlm actum ior breach of proto too ..su ..., i'...ji .....___ ■»*,. ...... tin f to tui was eaiumvo m Gcoru *, .1 l . a km.. .m in the • Vj dime HUtm , are builuiug tlienmelves ey. oni pits. roitfi.AND, Oregon, pi oplo lost $2,500, U00 by the Northern I'actflo collajiso. Oxford University decided to grant women the i-xaminatmu given to men. FuuUPa has a row horn 4 feet 11 Inches t ing un'd 18 iuohes in diameter, 'She uftlHi cave lu 000 francs to the poor <>ii Hie anniverf utrof his coronation. Tnr Now York *in" so a has * had a colored man \ tor at Was ‘ toil for u long k time MnHMOKfi iiri? trying t<» make , converts iu Mmnohota, union# tho Sommumvians. Jlp.HTi rs colored teachers arc cm ployed in the Nashville, Tenu., schools. Thk Government envelope factory at Hartford, Ot,, uses a ton of gnma week. Last year $27,000,000 worth of matches wore consumed iu this oouu try. A l’Aiirv of Baton Bongo, I.a., bird hunters recently klik'd 1,-PHI robins with sticks. Thk Earl of Buckinghamshire, British ninety years, is Uu» oldest poer of the realm. Tire largest bidl in the world is at Kink), Japan; 24 foot high, lti inehus thick. liiiiBrTBKN thousand homesteads have been entered iu Florida during the past year. Lots have been drawn by four Irish Invincible* to kill McDermott, now iu Pan*. MariUpfe ef Blacks and Whites. An important case has been decided in the' tViloo Oonrt of Toledo, t)hio. Bohert Bailey, colored, w as married to a young "Uite woman. Under the sta¬ tutes ot Ohio, the marriage or eohuhita tion of white persons witli those having tlie le ist laiut of African blood is a crim¬ inal act. On compkuut aud lx>iug made, Bailey was arrested tried for tho oflYuoo. He wus ctuiviettij and swi tetuvd to pay a tine .it jlUO and costs, aud to l»e imprisoned three mouths. His eoHi'St l en'iM'od r niotio i at onee for a new trial .and gave trail tor a hearing of the ease at the next term of the Court of UoiuuoMi Pleas. It is said that there Mf ov v r Hk).Africans married to white women in Toledo, and another hun¬ dred living w ith white women without iiavmg only , , tHvsn white married , Jo . in tliejp Toledo There r „, hvrng is . one man her, with and a black seems woman. as much Jlci^ nttacheil married to her Ui as though she were of t.ic purest Anglo - 8axou blood. The authorities an? await uig the D suit lxu.ey * Mwe, whirii is • U) break the Bonds alu-ady forme 1 lie tween the whites and blacks iu the State, The white girl in thc Bailey case him been aeiiU uct-d to U.e Workhouse for a long term, liaviug no means with which to pay her tine. r ■ssritiars dogs moved iu among them. NEW YORK MASK BALLS. WI1AT A I.OVAI, PAPER UAH TO HAY A HOI T THEM THIS WINTER. Pfopk OrenneA In Bad TflMfl-Hceiiffi of IliM-vIptttlofi OcPHrrJn* that Cun not be !>«»<• rf bed. [Front the h'tw York Hour. 1 The popular notion of masked balls is that they are the joiliest, gayest, most delightfully wicked places m tl.e world, The accue m BTippoaed to be ono blaze ^ ijghfc and flowers, while sweet strains of voluptuous music float gently through the perfumed air. Beautiful women in masks and dominoes whirl to and fro in tho mazes of the round dances, or stand or sit iu retired grottoes and arbors, flirt ing with handsome and elegantly-dressed believed cavaliers. The revelry is but to wax madder as the night goes on, still to be fascinatingly my stem .us. In cver y unknown lady charming it is the correct thing to see some woman of the world who has disguised herself and Hto len away to enjoy a few hours of for bidden pleasure attended by some safe and discreet escort. Men are supposed to fall madly in love with some domino ( ,r mask who flutters around them, and no end of romances are expected to flow from chance meetings at the ball. In a word, a masked ball in popular credence is a garden of unmixed but mysterious delights. Tho fact is, ' a masked hail in New ^ ^ „ di ffereUt fro m the general ideal as it is possible to imagine. Look a f „ne of them, either at the Academy of Music or at the Madison Square Oar den. The place is more or loss deco rated witli huge plants, banners, electric lights and gas jets. But generally the effect of tho decorations is to give the room a barroom-liko appearance with the odor of a circus. Toward ten ( '"< :1 ? ck thc e J owJ V,fi ^ DS to a PP ear - It ls made up of a good many women in masks and fancy dresses. Home men n ro in oodtume also, lint they are not of the class who are usually called gentle , n( > n . Men of good social position do not mask. No natter how good their reputations may lie they will not tic* hurt by going to ono of these balls. People do not think midnight anything the about it nowadays. By place is jammed and the tloor is so crowded with dancers that it is almost impossible to move. The first thing that strikes ^ obMrVer 1B the absence of all mys tory. If a mask is worn it is simply to curry out the idea of tho costume. Tho last thing tho wearer desires is to con ceal her identity. Home of the cos tumes are pretty; most of them nre in exceeding bad taste amt, having been hired for the occasion, they generally fit lmdly. Tho women, almost without exception, are the women of bad repu tation from all parts of the city and oo casionally from other cities. They do not need to disguise themselves and they do not care to do so. In fact, the more they can advertise themselves the hotter. The men ore generally there as spectators. They move almut in pairs smoking,occasionally going out to drink. ‘J'lioy tiro not guy unless tney are pretty well intoxicated, which is also true in regard to the women, and there is little eh »iting faith |hc tho opposite sex. there Every ln» /of ttir of only being to look mi; *^iii expecting to seo great fun, lmt not g it Next to the absence (( j mystery Che most striking feature of (| 10 performances is their vulgarity. There is no air of refined vice visible. Everything is coarse and common. The gavetv do*>s not flow from animal spirits but from intoxication. Hooting, howliug, kicking, swearing ami an occa sional fight mark tho performance. till Aud this sort of thing is kept up morn when tho drunken fools wearily ,lm « themselves homeward, or are drugged there by friends. for masked balls in New York in general. A word now for these w ( llo h have taken place this winter. They have never been surpassed in in decency. In Irving Hull, aud in the Academy, on two successive occasions, have been seeu exhibitions of indecency and vulgarity which could hardly lx surpassed. It is needless to say that it would 1 h> improper to describe them in any reputable newspajier. A number of arrests were made and a good many women and meu escaped arrest who richly merited it. And during the orgy, which lasted from midnight to five iu thc placeutly. morning The the eiq.tain po ice linked of the precinct on com was in the lobby with a large force of men, lmt he was more anxious lest the cheating tricks of tho givers of the ball should bo avoided by some of the guests than that order nud docent lie havior should prevail. Of course, these things ought not to lie; and they would not be, if the daily newspapers of tho city would only make a few remarks on the subject. It will be noticed, how ever, that they have not opened their months in an unpleasant way this year. So license and licentiousness have reigned supreme at these public entertainments. We are not of the opinion that these balls do a great deal of harm in an act¬ ive way. They art* the result of the vice and , drunkenness whicti ..... prevail in New York, and m no way their cause. Their influence is not particularly for'it cor ruotnig, we should imagine, Ls only hsnlened, depraved men and wo men who tuu uttc ad them uiul tiud any enjoyment there. And one who is not entirely lost would be shixokod by the first half hour, only too glad to leave the disgusting scene behind him. It is not that vice has no attractions, but that vice as it aptH'ars at New York masked v >oi!s is rx oitiug. But, iu behalf of taste, for the sake of our repnta tion as a decent city, which laments its wickedness, or at least does not wish to flaunt it in the face of the wvrld, these ^j-farmauci" Granted that on^ht to be stopped, we have no virtue, let us ---*-- They have as much cause for com l^ vUaat m Georgia as elsewhere. A local T ^ivs -.-Young folks should not so ( ar forget themseives at any time as to misbehave m church. Whispering is lunl. but writing aud passiug notes is worse. Young friends don’t—for your 7.3 wih. WHAT A GKKW.IX' BOY DID. The Htory nl the invention «f I'ornrlain — lta inventor’n Kod. The spinning-wheel bad been pnt away, the rnsh light had burned out, and the tired mother with her son sat in the warm glow of a log fire. “Johann,” said she suddenly, “how fares it with thee at the castle? Me thinks thou art now too old to Vie a seal lion. ’ Then, after a pauge: “A travel ing monk brought me to-rlay a letter from thy good uncle at Hanover. He would apprentice thee to better work than thou lias there. How likest thou the thought?” rough The boy moved nervously on his seat. "Perhaps it would be better,” he said slowly; “yet, mother, thou knowest not what I dream of in my sleep and at, my work. I wish to reach something higher than selling drugs. I desire my work in life to be of great use to others—of use to the whole world ! My talents, be ] know, are mean; but what cannot done with patience and perseverance? I have not told thee of my wish till now, because I held it as an idle dream; but the good priest has promised to teach me, and, since the way of learning is now before me, I ought not to turn chemist—to away. My mother, seek the I famed wish philosopher’s to be an aj stone!” for a long time the good dame was silent, but surprised and sorrowful. Finally sire firmly said, “Johann, it ill becomes me as thy mother to indulge thee in such dreams. Leave it to tho wise and old to benefit tho whole world, but do thou thy simple duty and leave the world alone. Johann, thon shalt go to thy uncle; but thy pay and all spare time tliou mayst spend in learning.” So tho boy went to the city, where he worked at his trade by day and pondered at ni « ht ’ Ono . after, .. the .. morning, years faces of all the alchemists of Han over paled with terror had been at the posted news in that a proclamation effect their the public square to tho that most gracious prince had been pre sented, by a traveler, with a cup of ex traordinary beauty and rarity, neither glass nor pottery, yet like each, almost transparent, and of a milky white color; that his excellency could made have no Test, his till a set to match was among own snbjects; and that tho chemists must produce it within a fortnight under pain of death. Among those whom the proclamation disturbed was our friend Johann, now a man, aud, indeed, alchemist; but the object of his search, like a will-o’-the wisp, had each time flitted from his grasp. Now, he gave up his studies and weut bravely to work as the proclama tion decreed. At last the fortnight clasped , and 1 tho porcelain did not appear. Many a 1 wearied alehemist, after working all day | and all night, was tied to the whipping post to enliven his energies, or cheering was ear riml off to execution by way of up the rest. At length one morning poor Johann beheld a company of soldiers marching toward his own home, and, without looking at his ovens, despairingly drank of.tho rioisoA from his own suel^ when the soldiers of found death, him they cohesive weut in the agonies away. his , fate, His mother, in ignorance of 1 looked by chance into the ovens, and f there, behold! was the very thing the prince had sought. She hurried as fast as her tottering limlis could liear her to her sou. He had partly recovered con Bciousucss. “Mother,” ^ 1m gasped faintly, “rather this than public execution.” “Oh, Johann ! Dying! Why hast the thou killed thyself ? See ! Here is very porcelain. And she held out to him one of his enps. “Oh, mother !” lie said as he lay gaz ing eagerly at his last work, “then I have not lived iu vain. 1 have learned the lesson of life in the hour of death. I leave this as my parting gift to tho world. My arrow of life, aimed at tho j heavens, has fallen upon earth, but | has hit a much higher object than if I had directed it with a surer but lower 1 aim.” “ - .... rjnie-Kilu / 1 .. 1 . * _ .. Jndge ” Cadaver will please step dis s jd Brother Gardner, as he mo tiom , a t0 Samuel S hm to raise the alley window and let out the odor of burning j bootleg. Judge forward with The came a pres j sure of 250 pounds to the square inch, t and the President continued: j I “Judge Cadaver, a society at Defiance, O., known as‘De Aggregation of Phil osophv an' Science,’ has requested mo to send ’em down some member ob dia club who kin deliber a iecktur' full of interest an’ iustruckshun. .1 has selected you. Heah am eight dollars in cash an’ a railroad pass, an’ you will leave hear to-morrow artornoon.” The Jndge looked so meltinglv * sweet that overvbodv began to grin. “1 now desiah to resident, spoke a few remarks to von,” said the as he laid aside his spectacles. “You are gwiue smong strangers. Yon will meet with black-legs and bondholders an’ all odder classes of men taik'too “l),v. ln ' much wid vour moaf. , <q Wt (rv to make auvbodv - behevo I ^ i-i)^,;- yon ,, m ^ m p|yunaire * j et op to'l-et ou de string game I ; or three-card monte p Ur tend von know what * vou Joan’ know an' nebber heard of. j "Boau’ stop to arsrv religun wid in ; « d >is D< ,r ix-llvticks wid a vouno ° mau j ! _. b cau q woteL ‘ “If anvboilv calls von ‘Kenml’ vou neeiln t stop to explain his mistake, but : at q u , s:UUt , time doan’hire Mivone to j cal’ von ‘Perfessor.’ “if vou lose your money bv playin’ policy‘while vou am gone come home , }* m Y oa “U k ^ed down an °n^t^ robbed 1 you I , t roost — u&rou * rres*. g” resame - ver - j Tits key to every man . is his thought .. 1 ; sturdy 5‘fe“-jsj£uiss and defying though he look, he : WANT TO GO 05 THE 3 A DMKA8B BY WHICH TO 1 YOUMi FF.tlPl.E ARE AEFI.I Tin- Obhlnctes Inlhe Wny ot Hpc Actor—The Crowd* W*iiiD« id ga^Fuient. (From the New York Sun.;;] ^ correspondent in a South as [. a UH a question deservescar which at?! mjud() that it k lad* “There are two young who are exceeding^' anxious the gta „ e an ,j have reqnestet wnte and see if you coni t k em a q necessary informat! g arf i to the matter. If* there j n York where persons theHHH arB {or tlle 8ta ge ? Who are charge® an(1 what terms do they j wou (j thev have to study before the are a n 0 wed to appear in publie? j have done all in my power to try and ,ij SHUIU i e them from" their intention, but wlt)lout ava jj _ j have seen ojie of the ln , 1ia g on t jje s tag e several times, that is, j n private theatricals, and I must admit t5lat s ( ie j u , s a gr ea t deal of talent in tlia |. j( ne _ Beside this, she is very Bifghly educated, and I think if she had a chance would make a success.” There are in NewYorkseveralmem bers of the theatrical professionVho de vote their spare time to preparing pupils f ^ts V gtago and some of them are lrigh landing, who must lie altogether competent for the dnty. We do not know what are their prices for tn ition but they are probablyreason a j,j e _ As to the time reqnired toget the a q fc q na te training, that must depend on the aptitude of the pupil. Awhoiehfe tim a 0 f study would not make an actor 0 f one man, while another might master in a few months all that his professional teacher had to offer him m the way of technical instruction. i> llt even a fter the pupil has passed {rola tll0 j iau j. s G f his theatrical pre ce) ,t or it Ls likely that it will be impos- 8 ibl e for him to get a chance to actually a pijear on the stage in any part, which ga t,i s fji-s his ambition and gratifies his van jfy_ He will come in competition w fth many experienced artists who are Ending around Union Square, waiting { 0 r an engagement, and whose illusions af) j, 0 fjjeir abilities and opportunities j bXrsh e j )een pre tty thoroughly novice! dispelled expmence. The if lie „ e ts on the stage at all, must expect nothing more than a very minor and jjnmble part; he must be prepared to enC0 unter sharp criticism iu the green ro0 n), and to do without the praise of his professional associates. What seems histr.onic genius to his partial friends w | 10 vpplaud his amateur performances, will be very ooldly judged in the green zoom I u fine, he will have to make his way a <? a i;),st obstacles which will subdue his spirit and hurt his self-love most keenly, au J las progress upward will be Blow, it he gets up at all. He will have to work lxard and submit to indifference, and w hat seems to him injustice. Besides, he will get poor pay at the beginning, au j w ji( i,e lucky if he cau secure an eu ®,g eme nt which will give him even t)l Tess l>i«te*dily. the Inste^’lof great city, makiqg he ij grand be 8U id. may obliged to travel with strolling com panies, and have to wait for years be j 0 re obtaining an opportunity least' to appear in a leading theater, at in any ex Ci ,pt a small part, where he has no c ii ance to gain the particular attention of the aiulience. A woman cannot hope to fare any otter. Her stage trials may be even i mr der to bear, and more destructive of her peace and happiness. Scarcely any thinks of acting in any other than the leading parts in which she has seen q le mo8 t famous and most experienced the artists. She wants to jump up to a tonce, and all her theatrical dreams are basod on the assumption that she w qj do q_that she will be the heroine Q j the play, and that she will live in an atmosphere of intoxicating applause and adulation. Instead of that, if she gets on t (, e stage at all, she supernumeraries is likely to be at g rs t on ]y one of the wbo s j au d about to watch the triumph 0 { the heroine and assist in making up the stage picture of which another is the central figure. which tho two Southern These are facts girls must look squarely in the face if they think of going on the stage. They must understand that they propose to enter a very difficult profession, and one in which there are ten, nay, a hundred, chances of their failing to one of their succeeding. If a woman rises high in the theatre, she gets better but pay she than remains she can earn elsewhere; if in the lower or middle ranks ot the theatrical profession she will only make )Q His Scarlet Coat. Mangm . the ,, Pencil maker of Pa t>, is ileaL. He drove every day m an open stands carnage e.ther at tended by a servant to his by the column o the Place Vendeme or on the Place de la Bourse H.s servant handed lnm a case, from which he took large portraits of himsed and medals with descriptions of his pencils, which he hung on either side of liiw. lie then replaced lus round hat with amagmheent burnished helmet, mounteil with brilliant plumes. For his overcoat he donned a costly velvet tunic with.gold fringes. He then'drew a pair of polished steel gaunt lets upon Ins hands, covered his breast with a brilliant cuirass, and piaced a richly mounted sword at his side. His servant then put on a velvet robe and helmet, and struck up a tune on an or gan mounted in gold. To the crowds /gathered around he then exclaimed; “I Mangin, the great charlatan of France ! Years ago I hired a modest shop hi the Bue Kivoli, but could not sell ■ m T X and glitter, 1 sell millions of pencils.” This best was true. His verv * - Ykvick pjjovides the world with and tlle Values of Europe. Asia 1 , A { j dispose of them bv swallow suayas.'sisrii-sa t ea | win fed be bed I iu frost istine prent. j with I, the [colate taste, pocoa- in pne fuld be land to gj v Htable Hut the fire, add the eggs, a pinch of salt, and one cup of flour. Pour this over frmt laid iu the pudding dish. Bake in a quick oven. Some of the peaches which flavorless, were canned last year were almost and they have not improved in that re¬ spect by keeping. If, when you open the can' you find them like this, put them in a dish, and after cut-’ing some oranges in very thin slices mix them with tlje peaches, sprinkle powdered sugar liberally over them, and let them stand for an hour, and you have a deli¬ cious dish. A good plain pudding is made of one cup of sour cream, half a cup of molas¬ ses, half a cup of melted butter, one tea spoonful of soda, a little salt. Mix the molasses and butter together and beat them until they are very light Stir iu the cream aud flour, beat until the bat¬ ter is perfectly smooth an-1 free from lumps. Butter the pudding mould and pour in the batter. Let it boll for an hour and a-half. Serve with sweet wine sauce. A very nice way to cook eggs for breakfast is to break them upon a pie plate, sprinkle pepper and salt over them, and put a few small lumps of but¬ ter on them; let them bake for five min¬ utes in a hot oven; meanwhile have a thin slice of ham broiled, and when the eggs are done remove tho ham to a hot plat¬ ter, and lay the eggs on the top; or the eggs may be served with thin slices of buttered toast. Egg balls for seasoning soup are made by boiling two eggs until they are hard. When cool rub the yolks through a sieve; mix with them the salad yolk of oil, one raw egg, one teaspoonful aud enough of flour or to of melted butter, form a paste; cut this in small pieces and roll in the hands in the shape of balls; drop them into the soup about five minutes before it is ready to be served. The whites of the eggs may be cut m rings, and be used as a garnish for meat. How T9 Prepare Corn Soup. —Put the contents of a can of corn in a chop¬ ping-bowl, chop very fine and place over the fire with three enps of milk. Sim¬ mer very slowly for three-quarters of an hour, using tho greatest care to prevent scorching. Strain and press the pulp through dd a colander; t^blepoonful return ch to the sauee- in pan; a a it pfpper butter, cut bits an fl rolled in our, and salt to taste and enough of the stock mentioned above to make the desired quantity. This soup is helped by the addition of the croutons and minced parsley, and is a very pleasant change at this season of the year HIT AM) WISDOM. Trust iu God, but do not stumble yourself. A shoemaker says bis first work was his last. Whhn is a habv not a baby ? WheD ■'t’s a little cross. It is not what we intend, but what we do, that makes us useful. There is generally not much bustle in the outskirts of the city. Sweet are the uses of adversity, but most people prefer sugar. It is not what we eat, but what we digest, that makes us strong. It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us wise. Moke money aud less credit will bring more happiness and less misery. The world is a comedy to those who think—a tragedy to those who feel. A wise man ought to hope for the best, be prepared for the worst, and bear with equanimity whatever may happen. The reefs on which mankind are wrecked are not confined to old ocean. Wall street has some very deadly ones. It is very strange that after a horse is broke he is worth twice as ranch, while after a man is broke he isn’t worth a cent. It is a sad fact that prize fighters are receiving too much attention from the newspapers and not enough from the police. If Prince Bismarck will come to this country and blow out the gas before re¬ tiring, all will ba forgiven. — Norristown Herald. “Yor'r.n the greatest woman lever heard of." said the bnv to his mother: “you toll me I have a bad temper and yet blame me for losing it!” Japanese soldiers carry fans. If they are all as ugly as those sent to this coun try we don’twonder that they are con sidered more effective than guus. Frank Bande, “the Brilliant Bandit of the Wabash,” killed nearly a score of men and then killed himself. What a pity that he did not begin at the other end! “Were yon ever caught in a sadden squall ?” asked an old yachtsman of a worthy citizen, “Well, I ffuess so !” re¬ sponued the good man. “I have helped to bring up eight babies !” Said the conductor of a slow-eoing train to au impatient traveler: “What’s the use of being in a hurry ? You might as well be on this train as in that town, for it's so dead there’s nothing to do there.” “I saw a capital thing in that last pamphlet of yours,” said O’Connell to a conceited scribbler. “Indeed,” rejoined the delighted perpetrator, with a beam¬ ing smile; “what was it?” “A pound of batter.” EGGS FROM THE OLD WOULD. They Com* to ns From all I’artsof Fnrope, Even Turkey—flow they are Kept* This importing of eggs from abroad, says a New York city importer, began about four years ago, in small lots, and has been growing ever since. The eggs are shipped chiefly from Copenhagen aud Hamburg, which are great egg cen¬ tres. That is to say, eggs collected from nearly all parts of Europe are sent there, and thence are distributed to the London and other markets. The eggs are produced largely in Italy, They Austria, Denmark, and Turkey. are packed in straw, in cases containing 50, 60, or 120 dozen. Some of them have been cured for winter keeping, like onr domestic eggs, by being kept in lime water, which fills up the pores of the shell and renders it possible to keep the eggs in good condition for months after their removal from the water. Most of the imported eggs are fresh-laid, how¬ ever, and, after a voyage of two or three weeks, will keep for a month or six weeks longer. Some of the lots are graded according to size, as is the cus¬ tom in certain parts of Europe—the im¬ ported eggs, on the average, being a little smaller than the domestic. They are sold here at from one cent to three cents per dozen less than the marker price of domestic eggs, according to size and quality. It is necessary to examine them here, of course, but the work of inspection is much less than might be supposed. As a rule it is not necessary to hold an egg opposite the flame of a candle in order to see the condition of its contents, which an expert cau detect by ordinary handling and inspection as quickly as a money-changer arid can judge by the weight feeling of a coin whether it is true or false. Of the for¬ eign eggs received in this market, a great number areconsnmedinN. Y. city and neighborhood, while others are sent to points in New England. March 1, “In the last year, say from 1883, to March 1, 1884, I have handled about 8,000 cases of imported dozen eggs, on an average of fifty or sixty to the <V K-, I suppose that in all some 10,000 or 17,000 eases were received here dur¬ ing that period. The late shipments have been especially heavy, because the win T ter has been mild in England, and Lon¬ don has consequently been a poor mar¬ ket for imported eggs. Many which would otherwise have gone to London have therefore naturally been sent to New York, where the price of fresh-laid domestic eggs reached nearly fifty cents per dozen during January. The price would have gone higher but for these importations, which have had the effect of making eggs cheaper throughout the country. What affects the egg market in New York affects it in all parts of the United States. Ordinary freight rates for eggs from most of the Western States to New York are higher than the heights from Europe.” The Two Different Kinds. “I don’t know,” says the bad boy, “about this thing of waiting till you find out about a giri’s religion before you love her. Sometimes you can't do it. If a girl has not got any oi' sign out warning a fellow whaft kind religion she haa ,gpL concealed about her person how ii he going to know until it is everlastingly toe late. When a young feller falls in love with a girl, it is like falling down ou skates. Everything seems to give way atonce. It strikes him like a sand bag, and there he is, asphyxiated the first thing. He knows that she is perfect, and he takes her right into his heart and and wraps his heart around her, and puts rubber weather strips on all the cracks so she can’t get ont, and her religion is the last thing he thinks of. If her re¬ ligion pulls her one way, and his heart pulls her ’tother way, something’s got to bust, sometimes it’s the religion that busts, and sometimes it’s the heart. I think there ought to be a convention composed of delegates from all kinds of religion, and let them make a law that any religion shall be legal tender anywhere, like a gold dollar. Beligion ought to be pure gold, good anywhere. If a man comes in here to buy soap, and gives you a gold dollar, coined in Borne, or .Jerusalem, or California, or China, or Bnssia, or the Feejee Islands, he gets his soap. But if your son is in love with a Hebrew girl, her religion says your son’s religion is counterfeit, and goes to her grave with your son’s love in her heart, and he goes to the bad with her image in his heart, and both are ruinecl for life ’cause they couldn’t match their religions. A Bap¬ tist girl falls in love with a young fellow that is a perfect specimen of manhood, brave, noble, intelligent, tender to hei and as kind as a man can be, and they begin to plan for the day when he world can take her to a home and be all the and a small section of heaven to her, when some day a friend says to her; ‘Youi lover is one of the noblest men 1 ever saw it is pity he is Catholic. " Then but a a the trouble commences. He believes his religion is the grandest in the world,and she believes hers is no slouch, each tries to induce the other to adopt another re¬ ligion, but it is a failure and they drift apart in all except the buried love that c in never be quenched on earth, or in heaven. I tell you it is pretty tough to have so many different kinds of religion Hi at can t be made to jibe, on t yon think so 'i —Peck s Sun. White scattering a few crumbs for the sparrows this severe weather, don’t forget to throw out a lot of old tomato cans, barrel hoops, and cast-off shoes for the poor goat, which has as much right to live as the imported feather biped. “Yes,” said the man who was “it is always hard uv lucky ir. stock speculation, went down. I to explain xvhy that stock think folks must have heard that I had some of it and concluded that it was sure to uo to the bottom. ”—Boston Post. Gilding Five-gent Nickels. —Major McElrath, Chief of the Secret Service of New England, has made a timely dis¬ covery of the gilding of the recent issue of the five-cent nickel by mailufactnrers of cheap jewelry, by which the coin is made to look like a $5 gold piece, and might have been sold to the public as such. The manufacturers expressed surprise when informed that they were violating the law against counterfeiting.
