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lILEJ • iliiliifiii uUJiMl’i :i.U liJjl, VOL. XIV. > B OY AI |P iMYA^yWfIJ ” POWDER Absolutely Pure. This powder never varies. A marvel of puritv, strength and wholescmeness. More economical than the ordinary kinds, and cannot lie sold in competition with the mul titude of low test, short weight alum or phosphate powders. Sold only in cans. Bov si. Bakisii Piiwmtit Co., 10(i Wall street, New York. novl3-Jy PROFESS lON A L CARDS. jji{. t;. V. «ANPMA DENTIST, McDonough, Ga. Any one desiring work done can he ac commodated either by calling on me in per son or addressing me through the mails, lerins cash, unless special arrangements are otherwise made. Geo W. Betas j W.T. Dicken. BRYAK & MCKHK, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, McDonough, Ga. vVi 11 practice in tiie eounties composing .fee Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court of tfeorgia and the United States District Court. apr27-ly j If. TI BYHR, attorney at law, McDonough, Ga. Will practice in the counties composing ilie Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the United States District Court. marl 6-1 y |* J. REAGAN, attorney at law. McDonough, Ga. Will practice in all the Courts of Georgia j Special attention given to commercial and other collections. Will attend all the Courts at Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over The Weekly office. J F. WALL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, McDonough, Ga. Will practice in the counties composing the Flint Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme and District Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention given to collections. octo- 79 A. UROWN, ' ATTORNEY AT LAW, McDonough, Ga. Will practice in all the counties compos ing the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia and the United States District Court. janl-ly jy A. pr.EPI.FA ATTORNEY AT LAW, Hamutok, Ga, Will practice in all the counties composing the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia and the District Court ot the United States. Special and prompt atten tion given to Collections, Out 8, 1888 Jno. D. Stewart. j R.T. Daniel. RTEWART A WANIIII,, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Gkikkin, Ga. | |K. It. ABNOML Hampton. Ga, I hereby tender my professional service to the people of Hampton and surrounding country, Will attend all calls night and day. LA If CARD. 1 have opened a law office in Atlanta, hut will continue my practice in Henry county, Attending all Courts regular'v, as heretofore. Correspondence solicited. Will tie in Mc- Donough on all public days. Office—Room -26, Gate City Bank Build ing, Alabama street, Atlanta, Ga. JOHN L. TYE. January Ist, 1885. ALL Notes and accounts of 1). KNOTT A CO., must lie settled now. Please call on me at tte old stand and find out your in- elited ness. We need tiie money and know that vou cannot censure ns for giving this, our last warning. M. C, LOW E, Tax Aiitire-Second Hound. Hampton. Monday Oct. 28 Sixth, Tuesday “ ”9 Stockhridge, Wednesday “ 30 Shake Rag, Thursday “ 31 Brushy Knolib, Friday Nov. 1 Loves’. Saturday Tussahaw, Monday “ 4 McDonough, Tuesday “ o McMullen’s, Wednesday •’ 6 Bersheba, Thursday “ 7 Sandy Ridge, Friday Locust Grove, Saturday “ 9 Lowes', Monday “ D SOLOMON KING, T. C. till IFF IN FOUNDRY AND Machine Works. \\Te announce to the I’ubl'c that we are \ V prepared to manufacture Engine Boil ers : will take orders tor all kinds of Boil ers. We are prepared to do all kinds of repairing on Engine*, Boilers pod Ma, inn erf, genera’lv. Me keep in stock Brass fitting* of all kinds: also Inspirators, In jector*, Safety Valves, "team Ullages. Pipe and Pipe Fittings ami Iron and Brass Castings of everv Description. ONBOU.Y & WAUOTT, AN OLD RIVER SPORT. Oeor|fc Dctol, ** Oner Famous Gambler on tliv MltfUsippi Steamboat#. A representative of a generation fast dying out was in Memphis the other nav. It is a generation of men that flourished and decayed with the steamboat interest on the southwest ern rivers, and though not commend able from tiie moralist’s point of view they were an interesting part of life from Cincinnati to New Orleans a score or two years ago. Tiie visitor was a man of 60. well preserved and stoutly built, with hairy, muscular hands; a big head, from which time is plucking the strands of sandy hair; a short beard of the same color tinged with gray, and gray eyes, with the quick, keen glance peculiar to men who have carried their lives in their hands and who search in that swift moment the features of people they meet for the first limn. It was George Devol, an IshmaeiTte of the lshmaelites. for forty years the king of river gamblers, who in ins eventful career has seen more of the seamy side of existence on and along the Mississippi than any other living man, and whose name is as familiar ns pig tracks U> ;>eople who have traveled ou the great river before and since the war. “Everybody gambled,” ho said, as sat in the olhee, “and all had stull' to lose. 1 handled every sort of tools them days monte, faro, roulette, short cards and everything you want ed to bet on. I bad the ‘privilege’ ou all the big boats runniu’ out of Or leans, and it wasn't much of a week when 1 didn't 1 draw out live or ten thousand. Now I’m glad to get a hun dred sellin’ a book, it was the monte that used to slay the most lambs, though. It wasso simple, you see, and they all just knew they could beat it. It caught the fellers with the big wal lets tiiat thought they could bust any little machine like that Did they ever bust it? Well, not as I remem ber. It wasn’t built that way. Yes, I’ve been a pretty hard one. “One thing 1 can say that lots of men that think they are better than me can’t—l never beat a friend, or anybody that 1 knew and liked. I never would give up money that 1 won when there was a bluff made, but many’s the thousand dollars I've given back to men that couldn’t af ford to lose it, and many’s the time I’ve given back diamonds and such to ladies on boats when their husbands would lose’em to mo. Eights! Well, rather. “I’ve been cut and slashed and shot all over, but I’m here yet. you see. Look at that gash on my throat; see that wrist shot all to hinders; and there's plenty more signs where you can’t see ’em. My main holt in a rough and tumble tight was buttin’. I win most of my fights that way. I never wanted but one pass at a man anil I haul him. My head’s as hard as iron. I’ll bet money that I can split the skull of any nigger in America, and there’s mighty few doors I can’t bust in. Of course, I wouldn’t be here if the steamboat men hadn't been my friends. I stood in with the barkeep ers and mates and pilots, and the ofli cers liked me ana wouldn't see me hurt by a mob if they could help it. Still, I’ve had to take water more than once to save iny bacon when there was a gang after me. “There are just as many suckers on the big Atlantic liners as you can lind anywhere on earth, and they are gen erally well fixed—tour of Europe and all that, you know. I’ve worked ’em many a time to the queen’s taste. The purser stood in with me. I’d go aboard and put my tools in his office and he would point out to me the passengers most likely to bo worth my while. 1 always put a stock of good liquor, wines and cigars iii my state room and after I got acquainted I would in vite the fellers in to sample ’em, and then I had the game in my own hands.” —Memphis Avalanche. The Dreaded Man with tlio Lantern. “One of the greatest terrors in the oil regions,” says an old lime operator, “is the man with the lantern. Holms been the cause of more needless con flagrations among oil wells than any other thing, and has cost the region ■millions of dollars. He is usually an employe about the wells, and nine cases out of ten a man of experience and intelligence, but he will persist in taking the chances in paying a visit nowand then to some g:-s enveloped tank, carrying his lighted lantern with him. Tho result isn’t always dis astrous, but that isn't the fault of the man with the lantern. Usually an explosion results. If a destructive fire does not follow the explosion the fact will 1h: without precedent. Some times the cause of a tire of this kind will not be quite certain at first, but it only needs a roll call of tho employes of that particular property and tiie taking of an account of the tool house stock to ascertain the cause. There will be one employe short, and tho number of lanterns will be loss by one. Then it is known that the mar with the lantern has been walking. He always disappears on occasions of this kind, anil instances are rare when even a piece of his ear is ever found. But he is uot iii ad. The man with the lantern never dies in the oil regions. He will be sure to walk again not long after he has disappeared, and will continue to walk at disastrous in tervals as long as oil wells last.”— Philadelphia i .ess. Why Mortar Harden#. Jntil very recently it was held by most engineers and architects that tho solidification of mortars took place in consequence of the absorption of car bonic acid gas by the lime during tiie process of crystallization, but it has been fairly objected to this theory that the quantity of carbonic acid gas con tained in tile atmosphere which could be brought into contact with a large body of cement would not suffice to saturate the latter. The generally re ceived opinion on the subject now is that lime hardens simply in conse quence of the combination with water whioh takes place during the slacken ing, and that the rapidity of the set ting and the permanence of the newly formed hydrate of lime depends upon its being combined with some other Lit, the pure hydrate of lime is, in fact, soluble, the hydrated silicate of lime is tolerably insoluble, but it form* slowly, while the hydrated double sil icate of lime and alumina, or of lime and magnesia. are practically inanln mcdonouoilga., Friday.November,a»,who. bie. 'I his muj 7 be taken as an explana tion of the general conditions which arise, but the obscure subject of the chemical action which takes place under the influence of high degrees of temperature has not yet been tlior ougty investigated, and offers a most interesting livid of exjierimont and re search.—New York Star. WAS HIS NEW WIFE A WITCH? The OKI Man Thought So, but Was Soon Quieted of Ilia Fean*. Old man Bill Buggs had for some time been a widower for the second time. lie grew tired of single cussed ness, and as he is so ugly none of the Tallahassee girls would have him. The old man grew desperate and advertised in a matrimonial paper of Chicago for a wife. Ere long he received a dainty missive through the mail. It contained the photo of a witching, black eyed maid who wanted a home and did not require youth and beauty in a husband. It did not take them long to fix up matters, and now she is queen at the old man’s country residence. Bill was delighted with his third draw in the matrimonial lottery. She is domestic and quite handy about the house, comely of person, and of a naturally happy disposition; but wbat worries Bill is that she will not breathe one word of who or what she was before be coming Mrs. Buggs. The old man is somewhat superstitious, is a firm be liever in witches, ghosts, spirit rap pings, etc., and his wife# silence as to herself tore him all up in the mind. The other night Bill awoke with a start. A shadowy form was Hitting around his couch, and in its out stretched hand was some vessel in which burned a ghostly blue flame. By tho light of tht blue and mystic fire Bill saw that the shadowy form was that of his new wife. She was re peating in a soft solemn tone words that Bill could not understand. His heart thumped loudly against his ribs. He felt as if he were shrinking small er and smaller. His eyes rolled and he tried to draw in his head as would gopher. Was his new wife a witch, of which ho had read so much? Was she working some unearthly charm about him? What was he to do? Tho mystic Mire came nearer his face. Now it was immediately over his head, lie thought ho saw a long, blue tongue of flame leap downward as if to con sume his pent up breath. lie gave vent to a fearful yell, straightened out with such force that the foot board of bis bed was shivered into pieces, and leaped out and into a cor uer, where he shivered and moaned. “What’s the matter, you old tool ?” screamed Mrs. Buggs, almost as fright ened as he. “Oh, please don’t witchcraft me,” moaned Bill. “I’ll do anything. I’ll give you a deed to tho farm. I’ll buy you a new bombazine dress. Oh, I’ll do anything if you'll only put out that infernal ghost fire and let me alone.” “Shut up, you old crack headed idiot I Como right hero and nail this bedstead together again,” snapped Mrs. Buggs. “If you had the sense of a dead frog you would have known that I Was only burning camphor to get rid of these blamed mosquitoes. Witchcraft, indeed! What do you suppose I know' of such things?” “Oo oo —oo!” puffed Bill. “I wasn’t scared. You spilled some of the fire down my neck; that’s all what was the matter with mo.”—Tallahassee Floridian. Impartial. It is a common experience for edi tors to reject their own manuscripts, but they do not often go about it in so methodical a fashion as did a man of whom Tlio Boston Transcript tells a story, lie was a newspaper editor, and one day wrote an article of a light and entertaining character, suitable, as ho thought, for some magazine. lie kept it by him for a while, occa sionally reading it over and retouch ing it, all the time uncertain whether it really had any particular value. Finally he hit upon a plan for get ting his own impartial judgment, lie would mail to his own address, receive it and road it in the regular course of business, and see bow it would stand the test. He addressed a note to himself as editor, inclosed stamps for a reply, and sent out the manuscript, just as if lie hud been sending it to The Atlantic or The Century. The envelope reached him early in the afternoon, but, as usual, he* al lowed it to lie for some fime upon his desk unopened. Toward night, when weariness had brought him into a de clining mood, he took up tiie parcel, and read the proffered contribution. Apparently ho succeeded in judging it without personal bias. At all events be picked up one of the ofiicial letter heads, wrote a brief note to the would be contributor, inclosed it with the manuscript in a big envelope, and dropped this into tlio mail box. Next morning lie received this en velope, with the restof his letters, and, on opening it, read with great interest this note: ‘‘Unavailable. Too discursive arid trivial in its tone. Should have been elaborated with more cam Many pas sages not needed for the presentation of the idea. Contains promise, how ever; the author is advised to try again. ” How Papen Are Head. “It is peculiar how personal charac teristics manifest themselves,” said an elderly gentleman in the elevated cars to his equally elderly companion, ’and perhaps not the least noticeable is the way different people read news papers, especially in public convey ances. Everybody has his own pet way. Take the way th< -j#iiold them. Did it ever strike you in how many different ways this can beandisdonei” This peculiarity had never struck his friend, so the elderly gentleman, who wore a shining silk hat, a pair of gold rimmed spectacles and a white lawn tie, continued his aphorisms. “Just look across at those men on the other side. No two are reading their papers in the same way.” The eaves dropper at his side also looked across, and the observation was true. One man had doubled his sheet, another had made it into a quarto, still an other bad folded it into three straight sections the full length of the column. “1 have found,” continued the ora cle, “that a large proportion of the men read tbepafiprs folded in half. tij,e .itirvrr.-r section '(Wli come next, and ‘tnu full length socHnnists next. It is ro.reh you see two-men sitting side bv sale reading a pajier ibo someway. There was a momentary pause filled by the rustle of some assenting news paper, and the orach) again remarked: “ The way of holding a paper shows the man as surely as the way he walks. The refined, educated man carefully crosses his paper, sees that it is in compact shape, and then goes systematically through it, passing from column to column and page to page, with ease and facility, whereas the shiftless, uncouth man bunches it into wads and goes through it as if hunting for something in a rag bag." —New York Times. HOW TO COLOR A PIPE. A rolmrconlat Givun a llpporlur So*m» puiutH m Unrolling a JHporM’ltmnn. “Now, I have about ns good a nicer srhaum pipe ns one wants to see,” said the writer to a tobacconist and pitie maker, a foreigner, vi ho learned nis trade in Vienna, by the way, “and 1 want to know howl shall start in to color it." “It is well you ash i?id If you don’t know,” was the reply, “for if yon at tach anything more than a sentimeut al value to the pipe you can just about double its value by careful coloring. "Meerschaum pipes need about as much care as a baby. First of all you must get a false bowl, that is a bowl of brier wood or meerschaum which vou must fit into the top of your pipe. Don’t use tho lower bowl for smoking at all, but the false one, or you may burn your pipe and almost spoil it. Then, too, you must keen your pi]>e case well brushed out. If pieces of tobacco are allowed to get in it they harden and scratch the pipe all up. And you must keep tho pi]>e wiped, too, for tho same reason, and also so that it won’t have u dirty look. Your false bow 1 must be wet just a little on the inside before you use it, and lie smoked very carefully until it gets a crust, or you will have to throw it away and get another. “i’lug cut tobacco is the best to use, as it is not as hot as most line cuts and is uot as likely to burn the bowl." “Isn’t a meerschaum pipe ruined after it has been? burned once?” asked the writer. “No. That is a mistaken idea. If you burn your pipe so that you find it won’t color any more, bring it in to us and we will boil it in wax, and then you can try your luck again. All meerschaums are boiled in wax; and when a pipe is overheated that waxy polish on its surface disappears, and it looks (hill and chalky. In making a carved pine they cut out the design in the rougn and boil the pijie in wax. Then they finish the carving and boil it in wax again, and the pipe is really for market. “Now r , here is a pipe in the shape of a woman’s head, with a wreath of flowers across the forehead. The wreath, you seo, is white and chalky, and the rest has tho familiar wax fin ish. That is because, the wreath was curved after the pipe had been boiled in wax the second time; in carving the wreath the workman cut below the wax finish. When the pipe is colored the wreath will remain white as you see it now, and the effect will bo very fine.” “Where are the moat meerschaums made?” “In Vienna. Pipe making is a trade there and there are very few first class pipe makers outside Vienna andPestli. American work is often pretty, but it lacks the finish of the European. Foreign pipes are lighter and more graceful tlmn the American. “In a first class pipe half of the value ought to be in the amber; but both meerschaum and amber are of all qualities. For instance, one bundle of meerschaum may be worth SSO, while another exactly the same size may be worth SSOO. The lighter the better is the general rule.” “Where do you get most of your meerschaum.” “We get most of ours from Asia Minor, where it is mined, the town of Fouish furnishing the principal sup plies. The Austrian merchants buy it at Smyrna. Meerschaum is also found less abundantly in Greece and some of the Grecian islands; in Moravia and in Morocco, where it is used when fresli as a substitute for soap. A variety used as a building stone is found in South Carolina. Its name, ‘meer schaum,’ is the German for sea foam, and is given it only because of its ap pearance. “An imitation meerschaum used for making pipes is made of hardened plaster of Paris, treated with paraffin and colored bv gamboge and dragon’s blood. The French also use as a sub stitute for meerschaum a preparation made chiefly of potato. The artificial meerschaums cannot easily be distin guished from the real, but they aro usually heavier and freer from blem ishes, caused by the presence of foreign minerals in many genuine meer schaums. “By the way, that new pipe of yours is now worth from sl2 to *is, Color it up well and in two months you can sell it for $25. Yes, tips false bowl will cost you twenty-five cents.”—Bos ton Globe. KTlJiernfflfs tbfl Silkworm. If Moussa Effendi Khouri is right, the value of silkworm* will soon be very much depreciated. This gentle man is a Syrian and a native of Bey rout. For years he has been trying to manufacture silk without the aid of silkworms, and now he claims he has succeeded. He has patented his in vention in the east and in all the countries of Europe. In this country he has also filed an application for a patent. After studying for a long time the manner in which silkworms do their work Moussa Effendi Kliouri came to the conclusion that quit.) a line silk could be made out of the twigs and bark of the mulberry tree, as is made at present from the leaves. lie there fore experimented with the hark and twigs, discarding the services of the worm altogether, and, after years of labor lie succeeded in producing a silk which has been pronounced by Euro pean experts to be no whn inferior to the article manufactured by silk worms. In appreciation of Moussa Effendi Khouri's devotion to science, the Tur kish government has granted nun certain rights over all the mulberry trees. ,in. fh&. guiUta’ts- domains “fiu mug as 1 have enough mulberry trees, say* Khouri, "1 can produce silk at less than half what it costs when produced by silkworms.”—New York Herald. Till© Ttiv;©*. A magazine lias just begun to write “The Ilistorv of a Title Pago.” It may seem a small subject, but it isnn inter esting one. It has also a very marked bearing on the history of literature. In volved in it we find tho questions of titles, new, borrowed or imitated; of authorship, real or assumed; of dates, accurate, inaccurate, or absent nlto gather. In the mere arrangement of type ot tho title page, uot much vari ety Is to be looked tor. Some origin ality in that respect is shown now and then by publishers with taste anil fancy, but it is obvious that not much novelty is feasible. Every now and then wo have tho name of the author at the top of tho jiage, instead of in tho middle, after the French liqdtiou; tho effect is quaint, and pleases. Now and again, tho title of the hook starts at the left band top corner, anti is run ou like a sentence till finished, instead of beiug divided ami spread out oyer tho page, in orthodox style. But when all has been done that can bo done in this unit other directions, the present day publisher soon discovers that tho variations aro by no means endless. The only device which has not of late been greatly exploited is that of tho illustrated title page, with its broad margin of artistic design in closing tho smallest possible amount of type. This used to bo very popular, but luus now fallen into almost entire disuse. Tho preference now is fog title pages of simplicity in design ami brevity in wording. In tho latter re spoct we go, perhaps, to an extreme, reserving uil our explanations of tho volume’s scope for the preface, and thus giving trouble to tiie casual in spectors of books. On one point one might almost ask for legislative enact ment—on tho point of including on every title pago the date of the year in which the work is published. Tliero are publishers who systematically evade this duty, and tho result is that ono cannot tell whether their publi cations aro old or new, without mak ing inquiries which cost lime, and which should not ho forced upon tho weary student. —London Globe. Aborting; a F©lon. Ho who discovers a sure means of aborting a felon will make his name immortal. None need bo told that it is a most painful utfection, and one not wholly devoid of danger to life. Now methods of treatment tocut them short aro constantly being devised, and as far as the writer knows, none absolutely certain in all eases lias as yet been found. Tho troublo is that all felons are not near alike. In some deejicr tissues are involved than in others, and a remedy which might act well in ono ciuso would prove absolutely useless in another. r uio latest additions to the list of abortive methods is recom mended by a physician of Algiers. He says it is sufficient to moisten slightly around it with some water, and to pass over this surface a stick of nitrate of silver. A few hours ufter ward the skin becomes black, all pain disappears and the inflammation is ar rested. Tho blackened epidermis re ceives no dressing, and in six days tho black color disappears. The author was induced to try tliis remedy in a case of a lit of gout. The patient had his great too swollen at its base; it was painful to the touch, a tittle red, ana tho seut of lansinating pains, which hindered tho rest of the patient. The painful urticulation was moistened and rubbed over with a stick of tho nitrate of silver; the next day the joint was diminished in size, and was covered over with a black skin. Tho pain completely disappeared a quarter of an hour after the paint ing, and the patient got up to follow his occupations. The victim of a felon can safely try this treatment; it can do no harm. Too much confidence must not, however, lie put in it—Bos ton Herald. The Crista at Waterloo. All at once camo the tragedy. To the left of tho English ana on our right, tho head of the column of cui rassiers roared with a fearful clamor. Arrived on the ridge, wild, furious and running to tho annihilation of tho squares and cannon, tho cuiras siers saw between them and tho Eng lish a ditch —a gravo. It was the sunken road of Obain. It was a fright ful moment. There was the ravine, unlooked for, gaping, before their very horses’ feet two fathoms deep be tween its banks. The second rank pushed in the first and tho third push ed in the second. Tho horses reared, fell backward, struggled with their feet in tho air, heaping up and over turning their riders. There was no power to retreat; tho whole column was but a projectile; the momentum gathered to crush tho English, crush etl the French. Tho pitiless ravine still gaped till it was filled. Riders, horses, rolled in together pell mell, mangling each other, making com mon flesh in this gull; and when tho gravo was full of living men, tho rest rode on over them and passed on. Al most a third of Dubois’ brigade plung ed into this abyss.—World of Adven ture. Killed by a MoccoalA*# Kite. About a month ago Curtis Mcßur rows. an 8 year old child of William Mcßurrows, colored, grabbed with his left hand at a fish in a pool which he and others had muddied, near Ilaw kinsville. As ho did so a water moc casin, which had been unseen, struck its fangs into tho fleshy part of his hand, between tho thumb and fore finger. The child grabbed tho snake with his right hana and tore it loose, but the. snake instantly coiled around the left arm and inflicted several bites on it. The child’s arm was treated by his parents, who applied to it such remedii s as they could think of. but it steadily grew worse. They brought him to Hawkinsville to Dr. Taylor. Tiie arm was dreadfully swollen, and tho whole body seemed to be poisoned. Amputation \v:;s decided to be neces sary. and tho arm was taken off at the fio, ier by Dr. Gua Taylor. The child r;;!ii i after the operation and bade fair i>> get well; but inflammation of toe L .-./eis set in, and lie died.—Haw kinsville Dispatch. UUll ; f! I l.glUll. I b - ■ oft n beard that the English taketb r pleasures sadly. ! am not prepare 1 to say that 1 indorse, this opinion, but 1 can affirm that the French haven wonderful capacity for enjoying tlicmselvos. They know how ana when to throw off conven tional restraints. Take/ watering places for example. \V\3 Ine oppor tunities the English seem to throw away there for enjoyment. In French places' of tho kind, rll holiday makers form mt ono big fam ily, as il were. Tho i hildren play to gether without restraint. In tho even ing “the children of a largcrgrowth meet at the Casino, where, oy paying $5 a month, they can enjoy good mu sic, have the use of the billiard rooms, smoking rooms, reading rooms, etc., and tho entree of frequent halls ami soirees. All mix ana all aro happy. I have seen aristocratic ladies of the most haughty typo— persons who in Baris or their country homes would not think of associating with any ouo outside their own class—put in an ap pearanco nt these Casino balls and danco with the first coinor who asks them for a wait* or a polka. These acquaintances are niado for the pleasure of the moment and do not lust. No Frenchman takes advantage of such an acquaintance to go and call on tho poojue he thus moot* —nav, more, if he meets elsewhere a lady with whom he has danced at tho sea side he lints her completely at her ease by not showing signs of recognizing her, unless she herself makes advances. If ho behaved otherwise he would bo immediately stamped as an ill bred fol low. Tho Englishman who passes his tiino in standing sentry at the door of his dignity is almost always bored to death at resorts, if ho have a large family ull may go well, but imagine an Englishman with a wifo mm a daughter at the sea. If a week of wot weather set in, poor fellow ! What resources bus ho but the local library ? On the beach ho looks around, and says to himself that all the people look decent enough, but there is no know ing who they aro at homo. Tlmt man over there looks jolly; but, alas 1 per haps his grandfather kept a shop. It is too horrible to think of the risk one may ho running by making acquaint ance with him. Ho John Bull retires into his shell I—Max U'Rell. Mr. Dockery Wim There, Wo were about to leave Louisville on a down river steamer, and tho anon were just hoisting in the gangplank when a tall, slim young man, with n great deal of cunning in his compo sition, leaned on the rail of the prom enade deck, scanned the crowd of 200 on the levee and called out in a thin voice; “Hay I is Mr. Dockery there?” “Ho is I” promptly replied a voico. “Then tell him that I’m coming back in about a week to sandpaper Ills head. 1” It was intended for a joke but no one laughed. Just at that minute the gangplank was dropped for a belated passenger, and a man from tlio crowd rushed along it to tho boat, dodged up stairs lilco a monkey, and next instant appeared before tlio astonished smart Aleck. “Sandpaper my head, will you,” lie hissed, us he reached out for hair. “Oh. now, but you aren’t Mr. Dock ery,” snouted the young man. “Aren’t I? Don't I know my own name, you luscious persimmon? Take that—and that —and that I" And ho banged him right and left, lifted him up and down, und ended by spreading him over the deck as far as lie would reach. Then ho skipped off to he received with cheers, while the young man gathered up the fragments anil splinters and retired. He was on the boat tlireo da; s with us, und dur ing that time I never saw him but once. Then ho bail bis head out of the stateroom window to view the scenery ou the Arkansas shore. Ono of the boys yelled "Dock ry I" and tho head vanished to be seen no more. —New York Sun. A New lUnuluny. A patent has been obtained by M. J. Dickens, of Bromley, England, for an invention which consists in placing wedge shaped or round courses of stone, brick, terracotta, wood, rubber or other material (softer than the ma terial of which the road iscomj>OHod) at regular intervals, such courses to be either at nn angle of 90 (legs, or less to the direction of tho road, according to tho gradient of the same. These courses to bo imbedded on concrete and surrounded with asphalt, comeut or other paving as preferred, harder than tlio intermittent courses. Tho upper surface of tho common paving will wear slightly rounded, leuving the softer courses slightly lower than the general lino of surface; the corruga tion will then give the necessary foot hold ; and form depressions for con ducting tho surface water to the chan riels at the siilo of tlio road. —New York Telegram. Fating Fruit. Fruits, to do their best work, should be eaten either on an empty stomach or simply with bread —never with veg (.■tables. In tho morning, before the fast of tho night lias been broken, they aro not only exceedingly refreshing, but they serve as a natural stimulus to tlio digestive organs. And to produce their fullest, finest effect, they should ripe, sound, and every way of good quality; moreover, they should be eaten raw. What is Letter than a bunch of luscious grapes, or a plate of berries or cherries, on a summer morning the first thing on sitting down to breakfast? and yet I know a man who could never eat (fruit except late at night—New York Mail and Ex press. Salt and Nuts. Salt is a natural digestive when taken in conjunction with many arti cles of food; as, for example, with nuts. Upon the latter salt almost acts as a natural solvent when once they have boon taken into the inner system. There are many people who think they cannot eat nuts at all. Let them try salt.—Exchange. A machine that cuts match sticks makes 10,000,000 a dav. They aro ar ranged over a vat, and have the heads put on at the ratoof 8,000,000 per day by one man. Killing » 1t.,11. Olio of the most curious sights in Tobolsk was tho lCamaoulio Koloko, or "brli with tho ear torn off.” It was koi't in a kind of shod near the archbishop's palace, and its romantic history is often Tobolsk. In the Sixteenth century Prince Dimitri, tho rightful heir to tho Russian throne, was deposed by a revolt led by Boris God uno if, who was then proclaimed czar. Tho seat 'of government was at (Jglich, and there Dimitri was sent to be under tho immediate control of tho unlawful ruler. The usurper, fearing that tho popu lace might awake to the claims of the young prince, planned his assassina tion, and he was one day stabbed in a court yard. None of the bystanders showed a disposition to aid him. A priest, however, saw the crime from the catliedral belfry, and imme diately began tolling the great bell, which was held sacred, and only rung on unusual occasions, such as tlie cor onation or death of a czar. Furious at this tacit expression of re proach, tho czar commanded that tho priest should betorturodand executed, and the boll taken down and placed beside tho body of its ringer. The or der was literally fulfMled, and the bell was bcaton with clubs by the entire populace, with tho Czar Boris at their bead. But this whs not all. In those days Siberian exiles were tortured before setting out on their journey bv having thoir nostrils torn off with retf hot pin cers. The czar now decreed that tho laill should bo exiled to Tobolsk, but as it had no nostrils, he commanded with a certain grim humor that one of its hangers should lie removed, to indicate its disgrace. Tho |>eoplo of Tobolsk are very fond of this trophy, and one sees bells every where in tho town; as signs over the inn doors, toys, workboxes, cigarette eases, and even sleeve Links.—Youth's Corri|)anion. Tl»« Veritable Fonutaln of Youth. Patrick Dunn, the locator of the fountain of eternal youth, writes its follows to an intimate friend in rela tion to his succoss in renowing the youth of a veteran four time loser of above three score years, whom he re cently took to what he terms his magic spring, located somowhero in the north east cornor of Btorey county, to further test tho rejuvenating virtue of the water: Tim tost on old Jeff is succeeding yond my most sanguine expectations.' It is scarcely u month since he left the Comstock —a venerablo, gray haired patriarch, whoso form was bowed with iho weight of 65 winters, and hard ones at that. For the first two weeks, after bathing him four times daily in tho spring, and having him drink copiously of the water, Ids snow white beard and hair began turning dark at tho roots, and tn« wrinkles at tho corners of hia eyes and mouth began to and his step as elastic as that of a youth of 20, and hia cheeks are assum ing tho roscatic hue of perfect health, and I am now confident that I have made tho most important discovery in tho history of the world. I will bring old Jeff to tho Comstock about tho middle of September looking os youth ful as a man of 20 years. I will make my next teat on a millionaire, who must ugreo to give me 75 per cent, of his wealth for restoring his youth.— Virginia (Nev.) Chronicle. A Dclgliiia OuaL A canal lias been constructed In Bel gium in whioh, instead of locks, the boats are hoisted by elevators from one level to another. The canal ex tends from tho coal region in the in terior of Belgium to Brussels, crossing several other canals at the same grade, so that Belgian coal can be brought directly by boat to Paris, as well us tho principal towns in Belgium and Holland. As the Jine passes over a rather hilly country, various ascents and descents must oe made, and to savo tho long delays incidental to pass ing tho locks tho oliango of grade is made by means of hydraulic ele vators. The boats, which measure about seventy tons, are towed at the low level into an immense tank, witli gates, whioh is submerged in tlie ca nal. Tho gates are then closed and tho tank, which rests on the pistons of a iiugo hydraulic elevator, is raised to tho upper level, when connection is made with tho next section of tho canal by means of double gates and tho boat prooecds on its way.—Fire and Water. A Perplexed Preacher. An old preacher after servico one Sunday, announced his reading for the following Sunday. During the week, sonic mischievous boys obtained his Bible and pasted two of the leaves to gether, right where he was to read. Sunday morning coming, the aged divine opened his book, and read as follows: “And Noah took unto him self a wife who was” —and here he turned the leaf—“forty cubits broad, one hundred and foity cubits long.” With a look of astonishment, he wiped his glasses, re-read and verified the passage, and then said: “My friends, although I have resd the Bible many times, this is the first time I have ever seen this passage, but I take it as an other evidence of the fact that man is most fearfully and wonderfully made. ” -Sau Francisco Argonaut The Onestion of Burial. The lower classes, especially in the north country, are often accused of a lack of tenderness in their domestic relations. One of the saddest of Dean Ramsay’s stories is ‘.hat in which the Highland wife, when on her death bed in Glasgow, beseeches her husband to let her be buried in her own country among the hills, since she is sure her bones will never rest in that hateful town, to which he replies: ‘Til bury you in the Gorbals first hinny, and if Vou don’t lay quiet there I’ll see about It" But it is not always so. A poor wo man in Scarborough the other day ex pressed a similar wish to be buried in her native place, and her husband, haring noolner means of transporting the body, wheeled it on a hand cart seventy miles of hilly road to carry out her wishes. Their little son ac companied him ofi that miserable jour ney, which was accomplished in wet weather.—London New*., NO. 41.