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Ho Woo Captured.
[New York Mall and Express.)
A middle-aged man, with what appeared
f ° » load on bit mind, visited the Andie
Thetis yesterday and seemt-d inter*
rS ^ in what ho saw.
""•y ” h« aaid tb the officer on deck. “Pd
““to I® on the next expedition.”
Tt i awful cold up there,” remarked the
®™°*f dUcouragingly.
*'I don’t care for that”
Jou’d hare very little to eat, and yon
"“tf« starve to death.”
.ilP 141 wou ^ n ’fc m pleasant,” said the
t utter.
,’’Isboold say not,” returned the officer.
.\6djr° u miebt be eaten by your comrades.”
m* would be tough.”
tben ’ M continued the ^iMcer, ‘^ou
iMdhSr^i ^ JOV Z. W| T for W* F«urs, or,
MdUy lonter. ”*YbB know you can’t take
**f with you.”
returned the old gentleman, after
p * u **i “I guess you can put iny name
wn on your books. Your last argumeut
t H*cres mo."
*uhlagtoa Was Not Bow-Legged.
[8an Francisco Poet ]
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Croat Smoky Msutsia People.
[Hartford Times.]
A pension office examiner who has
•pent several months in the mountains
{ of Tennessee and North Carolina gives
I ah interesting account of the people
I and their habits. Outside the villages,
: he says the houses are wide huts, with
j one room, in which the family eat and
I •J ae P» anti thy guest is entertained,
j there are noTindows, and the light
| and air come in through the do.»r$.
They usually have four beds, ono in . well accorded with his pictures pm sur-
! ea ?“ corner of the room. These r.re Groundings. He received me cordhllv, j
I not hung with curtains, and there are ; and kindly showed me over the cabin, j
j not oven chalk lines on the floor to * saying that for fifteen years he hud i
a P ar ^ meu ^' been wandering about over the face of :
i the stranger that is within their I the earth, and that he was glad to feel |
I gates seeks his coach in the presence of j that he had at last a place he could I
all, and each in the morning takes his j call liis homo.
JOAQUIN MILLER’S CABIN.
The Poet of the Sierras Settled in
Ilia Mew Home.
fCTasbinvtnn Correspondence.]
Joaquin Miller, the poet of tho Sier
ras, has just got into his log cabin. T
called upon him in it and found a tall,
well-made, blue-eyed man of 45, witli
long, tawny hair flowing out from under
his slouch hat, with pantaloons tucked
into a pair of liuo boots, and a good-
natured air of western wildness, whi *!i
A Grand Revolution
COf ARE TBS OLD'PRICES WITH THE if'
Ue* I uwl thmigii 1 had extracted the
invitation to call with a corkscrew.
She* Well, I hope you will enjoy it a*
nuch a* you do other thing* you extract
ritb a corkscrew,
An Obitlnate Corpae.
[San Frandeco Post]
jfrs. Cunuingbam. of Montreal, aeeme to
the*latest victim of misplaced confidence.
<ome ten years ago Mr. C. concluded to
jfht out for parte unknown, and kept his
thereabouts at much a mystery as though
he bad been a cashier in a discouraged sav
ings bank. Finally a hotel burned down
tome where in the weat, the register being the
,nlv thing saved, and upon which was
ound the name of a Cunningham with the
am* initials. The apparent widow there
,non charged one roost husband to her km*
(•«mnt, and collected hie Insurance, which
•npnened to be in for a considerable amount,
week the ex-dlcio Mr. Cunningham
imed up at his wife’s residence and insisted
;pon being recognized aa alive issue. Hi*
slleged relict argued the point with him iu
ibe kindest manner, and endeavored to con*
vince him of the absurdity of being alive
*btn the insurance companies and the
newspapers had officially declared him de
lunct She explained that part of his iusnr-
»nre money had been Invested in Eastlakc
furniture and a considerable portion in now
dresses, and showed that it was impossible
ro recognise him otherwise than transferred
into new parlor carpets or velvet overskirts.
She would revere his memory as connected
with the Steinwav grand, and would always
refird the French china and bric-a-brac
with emotion, but that* was the best sin*
could do. We trust Mr. Cunningham will
be persuaded to stay dead. This habit of
departed husbands turning up at incon
venient moments is getting alarmingly fre
quent of late, and ought to be put down at.
sac*.
The Prime melon.
(Harper’s Bazar. 1
-AT-
turn at a common basin to perform his
ablutions. The women out tho wi oil.
drive the team, hold the plow arid Jo
menial work generally. The food is
simple, the meat being principally pork
in the form of bacon. The men ait
down to the table first and are served
by the women, who wait upon them
selves at a second table. After all have
finished, a dish of snuff is passed
around for tho gratification of the fe
male sex. Each dips into this with a
small stick, prepared for the purpose,
and fills her mouth. The exhilaration
cornea from chewing it as a man would
tobacco, aud most of them will expec
torate with as much unction as an old
tobacco chewer.
’Ahe clothing woni is made from kor-
soy, which is homespun and fulled bv a
process called “kicking.” When* a
quantity has been mude up, the neigh
bors aro invited in, and they have wlmt
iu the north would bo called a “kicking
bee.” The cloth is well soaped, laid
upon the floor, and tho compauy, bare
footed, then proceed to finish it by
sliding upon it, kicking and dancing
ing upon it. Then it is wet and
wrung dry, all participating. After
this comes a supper and speeches, if
there are any majors, colonels, judges
and outsiders present. It is a country
with great natural advantages, but lit
tle or no progress is made from year to
year. The people are content to live as
their ancestors did before them.
A Beautiful Kxperiment.
[IV. H. Maxwell]
In Profeasor W. H. Dudley’s lecture
on water, at tho Ohio Mechanic’s Insti
tute, he gave as an illustration of the
expansion of water in freezing the ex
periment of the bomb-shells tilled with
water, corked and frozen, in which one
shell was burst and the water fro. en in
tho shell without spilling, from w hich
ho inferred that it did not become ice
until after tho shell burst and the pres
sure was removed, when it froze in
stantly.
That this inferenco is correct cun be
easily demonstrated by patting a par
tially filled seltzer-bottle into a frooz-
ing mixture until it is a few degrees be
low the freezing po nt, tho pressure of
tho gas preventing tho expansion of the
wator sufficiently to crystallize, and bv
having it partiallv filled the bottlo will
not bo brokon. By opening tho valve
ice crystals will issuo from the clear
wator, and crystals will begin to form
inside the bottlo gradually us tho pres
sure is removed, until it is a solid mass
of ico crystals.
Tho experiment is a very beautiful
and intere ting one, and was discovered
accidentally by a young friend of mine
leaving a bottle of seltzer out in the
window on a very cold day, and when
he attempted to draw some of it for me
instead of water thore was a stream of
ice crystals from a bottlo which was
then unfrozen, but it immediately froze,
ilthough in a warm room.
Tesayson's “Cycle of Cathay.**
[Pall Mall Uuette. j
It was shown in this column a short
lime sinco that a celebrated line in ono
of Lord Tennyson's poems lias under
gone more than one change. The other
ovoning, at the dinner of the “Odd
Volumes,” where several Oriental au
thorities were assembled to bear Mr.
Qtiaritch’s lecture, it was mentioned by
a Chinese scholar that whon Lord Ten
nyson wrote “Locksley Hull” he could
uot have been aware of the exact nature
of a Chinese cycle. “Better,” he ex
claimed, “fifty years of Kuropo than a i
cycle of Cathay.” It being granted
that Cathay is pootical English for |
China, it was stated, with the complete
concurrence of an eminent muuduriu
who was present, that a Chiueso cycle j
consists, and has for some centuries con- j
stated, of sixty years. By these cycles i
the lapse of time has been computed iu j
China during the whole of the present .
dynasty. Our poet, therefore, was less |
complimentary to Europe than be wrob- i
ibly intended to be when ho said that j
fifty years of Euroim were only equal \
to sixty years of China. Perhaps he |
was not so far wrong after all.
The cabin is on the heights at tho
head of Sixteenth street, the great
street of tho Washington of tho future.
As Wank non says, “The president's
house is at ono end of it and his hut is
at the other, but that whilo lie lias a
cabin the president lias only a cabin-et.”
Sixteenth is a great wide street paved
with asphalt and lined alternately with
*50,000 mansions and $50 negro huts.
Tho White House, almost bathed by
the Potomac and faced by Lafayette
park, is its starting point, mid
half way up toward Mr. Miller's
cabin is a green plat in which
a bronze equestrian statuo of
Hen. Heott looks at tho executive man
sion. Tho street steadily rises, carry
ing with it old JSL John's Episcopal
church, Georgo H. Pendleton’s man
sion, negro laborers’ cabins, Senator
Camerou’a great palace, and aliko mix
ture, till it reaches the boundary of tho
town, where there is a jump upward in
the shape of a fifty-foot hill or plateau,
running back into tho country. On this
plateau Joaquin Miller has bought a
lot and put up one of tho prettiest of
log cabins.
The lot runs almost to tho edge of
the hill and the view is certainly ono of
the finest in tho United States. Mr.
Miller says ho has nover seen
anything to oqual it, aud that if
man can write poetry anywhero • ho
ought to bo able to writo it hero.
Stand iu front of the large yard of the
cabin, under ono of tho groat oaks
which shade it, all Washington lies be
fore you surrounded, by hills which
make it look as though tho nature
around w as a mammoth coliseum of tho
gods and the national capital the sccno
going on in tho arena below. Tho
Teat white, classic capitol is plainly
eon, the Potomac Hows along tho edge
of the arena, und oil on neighboring
bills you can look into Alexandria and
at the tombstones of Arlington.
Chicago** Bilttcrlne Production.
[Chicago Times. ]
Few imagine tho vast production to
which the manufacture of buttcrinu or
bogus butter has grown in this city. A
witness, while testifying boforo a com
mittee in tho Now York senate in refer
ence to butter adulteration in that state,
incidentally statod that some thirty or
forty manufactories iu Chicago were
engaged iu producing bogus butter, and
his statement is perhaps not far astray.
The state of New York bought and used
last year 40,000,000 pounds of but-
terino, aud the cities of New York and
Brooklyn aro credited with producing
but 3,000,000 pounds of that amount.
Chicago may safely father tho bulk of
tho remainder, as well as the chief sup
ply to other sections of the country'
Tho reason so much is produced hero
is because tho supply of raw material
is so abundant. Chicago'can find at
her great pork-packing establishments
aud abattoirs a superabundance of urn
ferial for butterino—cow and bog fat.
principally tho latter, for by odds tho
most profitable dairy cow nowadays is
a doud bog. Tho business possesses
two startling foaturcs. It has grown
to such vast proportions that it sceius
likely to wreck tho dairy interests of
tho wholo country, but particularly of
the west. Tho second alarming
fouturu is a still weightier considera
tion—its sanitary pliaso. Tlio raw
matorial from which butterino is pro
duced must be, from the cost to nmnu*
facture, an average of 14 cents por
pound, of tho cheaper grades of uuimal
fats. These are reduced to a pulp,
heated somewhat, und then treated
with acids. Forhups iu most cases this
raw material would not bo generally
regarded os wholesome. Tho heat sup
plied may not always be sufficient to
destroy any aiiimul or diseased gorms.
Schumpert & Roney’s,
THHi« ONLY
a
Spot Cash Store’
XJXT AMEimCXTS.
Tho Flint Duel in Kentucky.
[ Exchange.'
“Feller-citizens, them’s my senti
ments! It won’t do for this fight to go
on! The Bnrgravs people, v.lrnr ’.Squire
Tlirnston lives, will k \or lm fit for 12!
cents; iml them bad town Ik>vh, where
’.Squire Harrison live*, whon he
runs them out of hta watermill ion
hatch,will call him *ol«l lightin’Opence.’
I like a good fight better than a hot
toddy of a cold nigh:, but I hate a bad
light worse than u ne- t of ysiller-jackets.
r There ain’t no good iu this fight,
iris*finished i nohow. 1 don’t like the weapons,
uutlicr. Hides is nil rigid fer Injuns
and bars, but are aw till tilings agin
friends. If you hud painted yer eves
blue!; with yer fists, or even doubled
one another up by kick*, when you
quarreled, it would haw been reg’Iar,
but to go borin' holes through one
auothor with rifle hulls like augers
thiough poplar logs, won’t do at
all. The commandment of tho
ripter says, 'Tliou >halt not kill,' hut
A Hhert-lron Hen.
[Inter Ocean. J
An ingenious fellow in Ohio has con
structcd a sheet iron hon that promises
to lay him a golden egg. It is finished
tip to life, full size, cackles, clucks, aud
looks with one eve at a time so natur
ally that it will deceive the oldest lien-
hawk in the county. It is so arranged
th»t when a hawk, mink, or polecat
pounces on to it tiro back springs open
and the wings ily np and loree
tho assailant on to a ravenous buzz
saw that makos 1,700 revolutions
|,cr minute. Alter moving halt a min
ute tho saw stops, the lieu closes up, . —
folds its wings, ond begins to cackle as >[ don t say thou shall not bit with the
,t..it. hn,l inst laid an einr. vino list, and kick with the font wlicu u fel*
Wr promised iu issue of the Rkcordkii of Jmnmry 2d, to give you some prices so soon os
we arranged and marked down our goods. We are now prepared and ready to give you more
goods tor less money than any house that, sell goods on thirty days time.
Contemplate a few quotations and note the difference in SPOT CASH prices and thirty
days credit:
Flour. Flour.
In this article we stand head and shoulders above everybody, having ransacked the big
markets of the West and Northwest in search of the best, and paid the CASH DOWN. We
will sell you First Patent, (entire Holler system)
For 50 pounds, $1.75. Old price, $2.15.
2d Pat., for 50 pounds, 1.65. “ 1.90.
Fancy, for 50 pounds, 1.50. “ 1.80.
Choice Family 50 pounds, 1.35. - 1.65.
We guarantee all these Flours as represented, and if not satisfactory you can return then,
and we will cheerfully refund the money.
In future we will keep on hand the best grades of GRAHAM FLOUR—cheap.
_ i
Sugars. Sugars.
.$1.00.
Will sell you 10 pounds Granulated Sugar lor
“ “ 11 pounds New Orleans Clarified for 1.00.
“ “ 111 pounds New Orleans (Bellewood) Clarified, for 1.00."
“ “ 13 pounds New York Sugar, lor 1.00.
In this line we arc fully up and advise everybody to seize the golden opportunity and pur
chase at once it sufficiency for the year’s comsumption.
Coffee. Coffee.
In this article alone (by buying from us) we can save you money enough in one year to buy
all the “Santa Onus” you want for the little ones. We deal (>] pounds Choice Pio Coffee for $1
Thurber’s No. 41, (Roasted) a combination of Java, Rio, and Mocha, for 23c per pound.
Salt. Salt.
Liverpool, full weight, lor $ 1.20 per sack. Fine Salt, seamless bags, 150 pounds,J$l.05 per satk
Bran. Bran.
We are slaughterin'
SEED POTATOES.
• at the very low price of $1.00 per cwt. to make room for a car load oi
*» old lady of Chlrago, 94 years of a»e,
JJ.U Uat th. UM4 to sit to Washington's
Si Mfnta. Ui. slander that the f«-
-«_of Mi country wm so bow-legged that
“ l »*Pi»'company" he had to t .
"•••WngW.cross hu knees for Martha to out fn the lun to dry last
•wlii'nli nllvaetofl tlm niton
though it hod just laid an egg. One
winding up will answer tor three mas
sacres, providing the rather delicate
machinery does not got clogged up ton
much with tho blood, bones and
feathers. He set a freshly painted one
■ • • 1 - We'
Whiskies. Whiskies.
In this line we are full to overflowing, nnd to unload we have reduced the price on all gradra
from 25c fo $1.00 per gallon. Think of it! Cox, Hill & Thompson’s genuine Stone Mountain
Com Whisky for $2.20 per gallon, usually sold at $2.50,
Tobacco and Cigars.
We can undersell anybody—we offer “Lucy Hinton” »' 57c per pound, nnd all other grade*
proportionately.
Wn regret that we have r.ot spnne Riitlleicnt to give Tull and nomplne quotations on all of our goods, bnt
you will hear from us oceasionally. Kemoinlicr that by bLiving your goods from us and paying SPOT CASH
you do not pay front 2f> to 50 per cent, for bad debts, as usual in credit store.
A Word as Regards tiie Penny !
®“*jhgt<»Hawkey.; AtUgsrstown. Md., I ?>d eat belonging to » doct,
2* to® >»» • snmk. (nth. mountain been poking * great dost of
tW. bit. num in th. hMl of tk. hoot, fool thing. Tho lieu is tti
vnyT*’ * man in tne Heel or tbo boot.
snake, killed the
•ore 25® B **rf*l the man’s widow aud
J"™*®*raanVboots, and killed the slice-
darj. I? 0 /' 01 * 61 * 1 lb * boot* At last ac-
. Po *? s A clergyman was ouce
m JLJJ* 0 a congregation that persist-
’ednostlay,
which attracted the' attention of a fine.
doctor who had
fun at the
tltere but th*:
hence.
f'remntlen Becoming Fopnlar.
(London Telegraph. 1
Cremation has been gaining ground
in England ever since Justice Stephen*
ruled that it waa lawful. The London
city authorities have resolved to estal
Irr makes you inad. f propose, llmr-
four that we wind up this fi^ht with a .
shootiif match, fur a gallon of whisky. !
Our side agin your side, will shoot at a I
true tho kIzo of a man, sixty yards, at |
the word, and tho .-liot nearest tho j To all those who scout :il the idea of introducing the Fenny in Atnericus, we say that we stand ready
’"’stTsoou' as Sullivan finished hi, to rcJat[n ln goods or the cash any amount from 6c upwards, iiring them along nnd get their fall v*l»o at
?qM>ech, Tlirnston and Harrtaou who
hud both been compelled to laugh at
its oddity, simultaneously expended to
one another tho right huud. A hearty
shake followed, and tho difficulty was
all over.
Stanley has visited tho Congo valley
north of the oqnator, and finds a dense
aud enterprising population of probft-
dty autnonues nave vmmv*» *-» .. 40 aqa onn,
lish a crematory at Ilford, a suburb of » *
the East End on the recommendation of Indianapolis Journal t An intelli*
tho medical officers that cremation if , cent ballot is as MCtIMff IS SB kMl
M*i°SLtX b iSa°idiU. k ' ,own; Swffwk
THE ONLY SPOT CASH STORE IN AIRIGPS
FIRST DOOR SOUTH OF J. W. WHEATLEY & CO.’S BANK.
A ery truly,
SCHUMPERT & RONEY.
I Americus, Ga., January 11, 1884.