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Wp'-; . % cool iBTfUtloa. [Lito-l 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 ] a 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.