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from a want of disposition to i a vest and under a belief that prices would go lower. If trade could be left to its legitimate channels a healthy and prosperous condition would ensue. • + + The Georgia legislature adjourned on the 20th after a long and labori¬ ous session. Some persons are dis¬ posed to criticise, but thiy must re¬ member that no legislature in Georgia ever had more peplexing problems to solve and questions to meet. Their enactments have been wise and con¬ servative and good will result. Reader. Mulberry ttrovc Dots. Wet and rainy. The Atlanta exposition was well attended from the Lower 19th. All have returned pleased with their trip. A little stranger came to Mr. An¬ drew Huling's last week. Mr. Hu- 1 mg’s face is as long as a maypole; he wanted a boy. Mr. A. J. Gordon left last week for Birmingham. Our best wishes follow him. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Gordon visit¬ ed their son, R. W. Gordon, last Sat¬ urday, to see the strange little lady that came to Bob's house last week. Bol) is all smiles. Mr. Sharp is thought to be im¬ proving slowly. Mr. Cardwell is on his feet again. He went to see his new grandson Sunday. Mrs. Houston spent the day with Mrs. George Gordon to day. Regina. Mountain Hill Maypruing*. Where are our young folks. We are all back from the Exposi¬ tion. Rev. C. A. Martin is remodeling his dwelling. Mrs. M. E. Campbell spent last week with relatives in Troup county. Mis.- Willie Clines has been on a two weeks visit to relatives near West Point. Your reporter feels completely Bugged since no one jelsc saw the pumpkin as big as the balloon. The colored school will close next Friday with an examination and ex hibition at night, Prof. Middle brocks, (col.) is held in high esteem by both white and black, and has done credit to himself in teaching the Mountain Hill school Much land is to be sold here next Tuesday. Many people will be in town, if you owe the Journal for subscription or advertising please drop in and settle, We need the mqpey and will count it a favor if our lriends will heed this call. DIFFERENT SPECIES OF BEAR. Much Controversy as to the Various Kind* Found In the Kocky Mountains. There is among western men much controversy as to the various kinds of bear inhabiting our western Alps; but the number of those who, from personal observation, are capable of forming an opinion, is very small. In the first place, for aM the sanguinary talk around the stove, there are not a great many men who liave made a practice of hunting bear at all. One such incident as that which occurred, two years ago, in the Big Horn scares a good many. A poor fellow there came on a bear, a small cin¬ namon, feeding on an elk he had killed. He fired and wounded it; the bear re¬ treated, and he followed. Coming up with it, again he fired, when the bear charged him. Trying to reload (he used, I heard, a single shot Sharp rifle), the ex¬ tractor came off the empty shell, and, of course, he was defenseless. He evidently drew his knife and used it desperately; for when they found him the bear lay near him, dead, w ith many knife wounds in it, but it had killed him first. In short, both on account of the danger and by reason of the great difficulty of seeing them, it scarcely pays to hunt bear alone. There are comparatively few men, I say, whose opinion is worth much; and sonic of these seem to have an idea that, for the credit of the mountain land they love so well, they are bound to ]>eople it with as many different species of bear as they can. Now, as a matter of fact, I believe that almost all the liears ranging in the Rocky mountains occasionally breed together; certainly, brown and black sometimes do. Our party once shot a black bear with a large brown cross, extending from the tail to the back of the head and down each shoulder. Just as certainly the brown and grizzly on occasions intermarry. My hunter as¬ sures me he lias shot gray cubs with a brown sow. I may be wrong, but I can¬ not myself see any difference sufficiently marked to warrant the idea that the cin¬ namon Ixiar of the Rockies is not the coarser, larger brown bear, the result of some crossing between the grizzly and the brown. Then, some men insist that among the gray boar tliero are no less than three distinct varieties—silvertip, ronchback and grizzly. As I have said before, I cannot say anything al out the California grizzly, though I do nut think, from skins l have examined, he differs materially from his neigh lor of the mountains; but as to these differences of color indicating a distinct variety, I cannot believe it.— Rev. W. S. Rainsford, D.D., in Scrib¬ ner's Magazine. Tho Chinese giant, Chang, is eight feet three inches. Garpolus tells of a young giantess who was tea feet high. A giant eight feet high was exhibited at Rouen in 1755. Local speuks of a Scotch giant eleven feet six inches in height The Grecian giant, A wanab, now 18 years old, is seven feet eight inches tall. The giant Gille de Trent, in the Tyrol, and one of tho guards of the duke of Brunswick, was more than eight feet four inches in height. The Austrian giant Winekelmeier, who was recently exhibited in Paris, measuring eight and a half feet, may be regarded as a specimen of tho highest stature ^attained by the human species. A Swedish peasant, cited by Buffoon, was eight feet and eight inches in height, and the stature of the Finnish giant Cujanus wus the same, while Frederick William, king of Prus¬ sia, had a guard of nearly equal stature. At the opposite extremes may bo found numerous dwarfs not more than twenty iuches, and Some even os little a* sixteen and even twelve inches in height; but sucb dwarfs ore only monsters with limbs or rivisted backbones, or stunted in¬ fants whose age fa usually exaggerated their Barnums.^ * «. A Chance for an Inventor. The Associated Press lias taken up tht typewriter, and now employs many of these useful instruments. All its tele graphic reports are sent in to the news papers in type written copy. On the thin, yellow ‘•flimsy” paper used the typewriter will give a score of duplicate copies if necessary. It is one of the fun¬ niest things in the world to see a teleg¬ rapher use a typewriter. The fastest telegrapher using the Morse alphabet is slower than the slowest operator on the typewriter. For instance, it takes four dots to represent the letter H on the telegraph instrument, while one stroke witii the finger imprints any letter on the typewriter. This gives the transcriber on the typewriter plenty of time. He generally sits with his coat off, in an easy and picturesque attitude, often with his legs rei*>sing on the table on each side of the typewriter, and thus with careful deliberation he clicks out letter after lefter as if he were merely fooling away his time and didn’t care whether school kept or not. The slow clicking of the typewriter is quite a contrast to the rattling chatter of the telegraph instru¬ ment, and the moral seems to be that the person who talks the fastest doesn’t nec¬ essarily say the most. It seems to me that the typewriter and the telegraph might be wedded closer than they are. Here is a great chance for a future inventor. If a couple of typewriters could be attached by a wire in such a way that when the performer played his tune on one instrument the letters would be recorded on the other it would be a great step in advance of the present mode of telegraphing. Some time ago I saw the announcement made that such an invention had lieen com pleted, but as nothing seems to have come of it I imagine that the scheme was not as successful as at first announced.— Luke Sharp in Detroit Free Press. Terrible Process of “Marooning.” 4. Maroon—to put ashore on a desert isle, as a sailor, under pretence of having committed some great crime. ” Thus our good Noah Vv ebster gives us the dry bones, the anatomy, upon which the ira agination may construct a specimen to suit itself. It is thence that the marooners took their name, for marooning was one of their most effective instruments of pun ishment or revenge. If a pirate broke one of the many rules which governed the particular band to which he belonged he was marooned; did a captain defend his ship to such a degree as to be un¬ pleasant to the pirates attacking it he was marooned; even the pirate captain himself, if ho displeased his followers by the severity of liis rule, was in danger of having the same punishment visited upon him which he had perhaps more than once visited upon another. The process of marooning was as sim¬ ple as terrible. A suitable place was chosen (generally some desert isle as far removed as possible from the pathway of commerce), and the condemned man was rowed from the ship to the beach. Out he was bundled upon the sand spit; a gun, a half dozen bullets, a few pinches of powder and a bottle of water was chucked ashore after him, and away rowed the boat’s crew back to the ship, leaving the poor wretch alone to rave away his life in madness, or to sit sunken in his gloomy despair till death merci¬ fully released him from torment. It rarely if ever happened that anything was known of him after haring been ma¬ rooned. A boat's crew from some vessel, sailing by chance that way, might per haps find a few chalky bones bleaching upon the white sand in the garish glare of the sunlight, but that was all. And such were marooners.—Howard Pyle in Harper's Magazine. Eight dogs belonging to the Duke of Sutherland are in Germany being treated for the gout. An Almogt Human Monkey. Massiea was a female chimpanzee, ke in the Dresden zoological gardens. Sffl was but remarkable, in her disposition. not only in At her liabiwj nA one ment she would sit still, w r ith a bi\^S ing air, occasionally darting amischievoB glance at the spectators; at another, sfl took pleasure in feats of strength, ■ roamed about in her spacious inclosu ® 5 like Massiea an angry beast frequently of prey. ungovemde. ^ j was She would obey no one but the dir tor of the garden. Sometimes when she as in a good humor she would sit upoihis^ tout knee, and put her muscular arms his neck, with a caressing gesture put, j , in spite of this occasional clemenc he was never safe from her roguish trie-. vingS She knew how to use a gimlet, handkeihief out wet clothes, and put a to its legitimate use. If allowed to <> so, she would draw off the keeper’s lots, scramble with them to some place ct ol reach, and then throw them at his ►'ad. Once she succeeded in opening theocki of her cage, and, having done so, dole the key. It was kept hanging. 01 the wall outside, and Massiea, observii; it, took it down, hid it in her armpit and crept quietly back to her cage, Yhen occasion again served her purpose she easily opened the lock with her key and walked out. She died of consumption. Just before her death she put her arm about the director's neck, looked at him kissed him three times, stretched out her hands to him and died.—Youth’s Com pamon. Vegetable Pearls. If has long been known that in some specimens of bamboo a round stone is found at the joints of the cane. This called “tabasheer, ” and is supposed to deposited from the silicious juices of cane. Another curiosity of this sort is the “cocoanut stone,” found in the. endosperm other East of India the islands. cocoanut It in is, Java anc| j ri g to Dr. Kimmins, a pure carbonate of lime, and the shape of the stone is some times round, sometimes pear shaped, while the appearance is that of a whito p C arl without much luster. Some of the etones are as large as cherries, and as hard as feldspar or opal. They are Very rare iy found, and are regarded us precious stones by Orientals, and charms aganst disease or evil spirits by the Stones of the kind are also found in the pomegranate and other East India friits. Apatite lias also been discovered in the midst of teak wood.—Engineering, * A Conception as to Colors. Experiments made by scientific nj prove that much dullness of conception to colors of shorter wave lengths, such green and blue, exists among rude j tions. Some aboriginal tribes of ij have the color sense developed o^# far as red, their knowledge of ymj green, blue, being most limited and; mentetfy; the uncivilized Damaras give names to blue and green and such colors need no names; while Nubians are very indifferent to colors middle and shorter wave lengths. dullness in regard to shorter wave is in sharp contrast to their ease inld 1 tinguishing red. My own observations, which are nene^ sarily limited, indicate that average lqflfe wf prefers red first and blue next; and the shorter wave lengths are approacMI differences his interest and jiower of distinguish! amtt| * I become less, and only the most highly cultivated are the soB shades Most of color preferred or enjoj® B women will agree with me that average perception man when rivals he the matches barbarian in cq^U |j|| worsted buys a bonnet. Experiments on a h HI mm scale might result in proving that color sense has been equally develope ill HR W man and woman, but hardly that Elizabeth lias reached Clarke superior in Home development.—Iw| Journal, 'mm