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THE HENRY GOD MY EKHY. L. XIV. ■pi ■ WrAJ ■ fe",i; ■; Paw?! 0 I po mm ■ , Absolutely Pure. powdei \< . » ' A imnvcl ->■ Hfritv, (■♦rciißfli :n.'l wti •l. sfin)tMn'!*». .Mm. Pimoniienl th: n rli«- i.iiiiiiari kinds. am EjntlOt !*• .-oi" in ■ . i.o .oil : w i tl m • Hnnii- of liai t -1. .»!•* : ! "•- im'.ii ■ Efts'iliitU .."i-v- i ci... ■teYu. B/.kivi I ' 1 • «• '!,<•, i Sicw York. ii. .S.ii P rum asm ox a / < u. r. < ini'um.i . DENTIST, McDonouoh, Ga. Anv one desirin'; work done can l< eoinni minted either by calling on me in pet -on or addressing me through in noli Perms cash, unless special ait one ’■ im are otherwise made. -r ' ; r.F.o W. Bur in j W.T. Bickes. KKVA> A DICK US, ’ v attorneys at law, McDonoich, Ga. Will practice in the counties omposiny he-Flint .ludicial Circuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia and the United States District Court aprtf-lv j \H. 11. TI KAUK, .. ATTORNEY at law, McDonoiuh, Ga. Will practice in the counties composing | t,b« Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court ot Georgia, and the United States District ! Court. marl 6-1 y tli • V. ■'—— p .1. ATTORNEY AT LAW. McUosornu, (# a . Will practice in all the Courts of Georgia Special attention given to commercial and other collections. Will attend all t lie Courts af Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over The Wkukiv office. j I’. WAMa |P , -T ATTORNEY AT LAW, Ssh 'McDokouoh, Ga . Will fh-actieein the oounties composing the Flint Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme and District Oouri sof Georgia. Prompt attention given to dSAections. octn- <9 V*7 A. BBOH H. ’ ATTORNEY at law, ... ■ McDonouoh, Ga. * WtU practice in ad the counties compos in'* the Fffitf SfrVtiit, the Supreme Court of Georgia and the United States District Court. fon'Ry jj * ATTORNEY AT LAW, HaMI'TON, U a. Will practice in all the 'unities composing the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court of Geftrgla slid the District Court oi the United States. Special and - prompt atten tion given to Collections, Oct H, ISNS Jno. D. Stewart. j U. I. I’aniei. STUWAKT At E> ATTORN ICY S AT LAW, GrisEin, Ga. J. Ainoi.D. .Hampton. Ga. I hereby tender my professional service to the people of Hampton and surrounding country. Will attend all cal's night and dav. LA W CARD. 1 nave opened a law office in Atlanta, but will continue my practice in Henry county, attending all Courts regular'v, as heretofore. Correspondence solicited. V\ ill tie in Mc- Donough on all public days. Office—Room 2(>, Gate City Bank Build in", Alabama street, Atlanta, Ga. JOHN L TYE. January Ist. ISBS. ALL Notts and accounts of D. KNOTT k CO., must lie settled now. Please call ou l.if at tl e old stand and find out vonr in fitted ness. We need the money and know tliaf vou cannot censure us for gi'.TKg this, our last warning. M. . 1.0" L, tin police—*econ<t Bound. Uamcton, Monday Oct. 'M Sixth,’l ui sdai . Siockloidgc. Wednesday “ ; {0 | Shake itag. i'll irsdnv “ J;inshy Kno'ub, Friday Nov. 1 L ives'. Saturday “ * Tush haw, Monday ‘‘ f McDonough, Tuesday ' •' Me VI it I loti's. Wednesday ® Bersheba, Thursday ' Sandy Ridge, Friday Grtfve, Saturday " •* L -Lowes’, Moudav “ ‘I »'• ' SOLOMON KING, T. 0. L?„'il !• i\ lul XiffiY AND Machine Works. Jflksfe announce to tiie Public that we are prepared to .ciim.'aetmi' Engine ffnil- H|; will take orders for a!! k'nds of Boil- We are prepar' d to do all kinds of on Kagines, Boilers and Machin generally. We keep in stock Brass W' ,r« of all kinds : also Inspirators, Tn . Safety Valves, Steam Ganges. Ad iind Pine Fittings Iron and Bras? of everv 'Ye script ion. ■ r , OXDOIO & M tIXOTT, ANGLO INDIAN HOUSEKEEPERS. Trial* Pul Upon the Meimaliib by Her HmiMtful of Peculinr Xallve >ervanti*. The niemsahib's housekeeping re solves itself much into a close scrutiny of accounts and watching of supplies. This is easy, since she uties not feed her numberless servants, and orders her substance only through one. He is the khansainah, the head butler, usually a )>erson of great pomposity find spotless raiment, with a dignified capacity for robbing you of annus and pice which would qualify him any where to represent a municipal ward. Especially when a visitor arrives does tlte heart of the khansainah rejoice within him, for then is his glorious op portunitv. Limes every clay for the visitor's Lath) hut the visiting tnemsa hib has ordered it. according to the khansainah, and you cannot very well ask her. The towels, even the sheets of the visitor's bed, disappear the day of her departure! The khansainah looks sorrowful and deprecating, but thinks the visitor's ayah must have been an extremely dishonest person. And the unhappy visitor has probably had one lime for her bath during the entire length of her stay; and the towels have brought two annas apiece at the bazar, which goes into the secret wallet of the khansainah. Next iu rank comes the kitmutgar, who brings the dishes from the kitchen, helps to wait at tables, but is an inferior person. A favorite term of obloquy among Anglo Indians is “He looks like a kitmutgar,” which is much worse than being compared to a khansainah. The baburchi is the cook, and he has a menial in the mus galehi, who washes the dishes. “Bear er” is a more or less general term, but when you call the bearer among your household staff you mean the man who trims the lamps and dusts. He will not f weep—not lie!—you must have a rnat.er to sweep, who is of very low cdste indeed. The ayah is the niemsahib’s maid, and she cannot get on without one. The durwan is the gate keeper, who sits all day long beside the door to at tend to callers and messengers, and does nothing else. Beside these the sahib must have a syce—groom —for each horse. No syce will take doublo pay and attend to two horses—that is not the Aryan way. And if there is a garden there must be a malice to take care of it, and for the most menial work of the house there is a beestic or water carrier, whose name is admira bly approbriate, and who skulks about his business under the opprobrium of all the rest. The dhoby is the washerman, whose peccadilloes are interestingly “naife.” He has been known, for instance, to dismember certain garments of the sa hib and send them in separate legs, in order to show the proper number ou his list and yet retain a shirt or a handkerchief. There is the dhurrie, too, who is a joy in India, and who comes and sits and sews all day on your veranda for fourpence! Very imitative, indeed, is the dhurzie, not to be trusted with anything, even to bodices and skirts, for which he has a pattern. Anglo-India tempers arc short, and the khansainah knows their brevity better than anybody in the world. A favorite expression of abuse in con nection V, itii undergone mutton per haps, is in exciting Hindustanee “Son of a pig! which hurts tiie gen tle Hindoo’s feelings as much as anything. But tiie gentle Hin doo usually replies conciliatory y in some term of deep respect and admiration ; and certainly the uncon scious khansainah got the best of it, who replied to this expression on the lips of his irate sahib, “Sir. you are my father and ray Mother!” —Garth Grafton in Montreal Star. To li e«'p Up with the Dance. Time was when a lady or gentleman who, after a term or two at a dancing school, could waltz fairly well, could polka or schottisehe a little and walk through a quadrille without a blunder, considered his or her terpsichorean education complete. Not so nowadays. No longer is the graduate “called out” for the guidance of the dancer. The cotillon, with the military and ancient minuet features Of tiie early part of the century has been revived, and new dances arc brought out every season. Many of tl.cm are quite intri cate. They are know n only by* their names. No word of direction is spoken. The person who desires to he up to the usages of polite society as ex emplified in the bull room, must, there fore, bo they ever so graceful or expe rienced dancers, take a few lessons at the outset of tiie social season or run the risk of being surprised some even ing in, may I call it, the meshes of a new cotillon, to his or her deep cha grin and mortification and the un mistakable annoyance of the others who are so unfortunate as to have their pleasure marred by a blunderer, for one person ignorant of the figures is cnougii to disconcert the remaining seven uancers. —Dancing Master in Globe-Democrat. .a - Title Pa;™. A magazine has just begun to write "The History of a Title Page.” It rnay =oem u snialf subject, but it isan inter esting one. It has also a very marked bearing on the history of literature. In volved in it we find the questions of titles, new. borrowed or imitated; of authorship, real or assumed; of dates accurate, inaccurate, or absent alto getier. In the mere arrangement of type or the title page, not much vari ety i* to be looked for. Home origin ality in that respect is show n now and then bv publishers with taste and fancy, tut it is obvious that not much novelty is feasible. Every now and then we have the name of the author at the top of tho page, instead of in the middle, after the French fashion; the effect is quaint, and pleases. Now and again, the title of the book spirts at the left hand top corner, and is run on like a sentence till finished, iusl cl of being divided and sjnead out ovef the page, in orthodox style. But when all d no that can be done in tins and other directions, the present dav publisher soon discovers that the variations are by no means endless. Tbe only device which has not of late been greutly f exploited is that of the illustrated title pa_.:. with its broad margin of artistic design in closing the smallest possible amount McDOXOUGII, GA., FIUr>AY\ DKCEMB 211, (>, 1881). or type, nils used to tie Very popular, hut has now fallen into alr.u■ i entire disuse. The preference now is for title pages of simplicity in design and brevity in wording. In tho latter re "sjiect wo go, perhaps, to uu extreme, reserving all our explanations of the volume's scope for the preface, and ilius giving tremble to the casual in s i tors of books. Ou one point one might almost ask for legislative enact ment—on the point -of including on every title page the date of the year in which the work is published. There aro publishers who systematically evade this duty, and tho result is that one cannot tell whether their publi cations aro old or new, without mak ing inquiries which cost time, and which should not bo forced upon tiie weary student. —London Globe. “AFTER DINNER WALK A MILE.” Tin* Time When We K»t, However, Mako* Suiiic Difl^retirr. “After dinner sit awhile, after sup per walk a mile.'' That was suitable advice for the ‘ good old times when dinner was taker, at noon." “Tiie wise man changes his mind.” We moderns tiave changed GUl's and our habits, too. The couplet may be changed to suit the new circumstances. “After lunch eon sit awhile, after dinner walk a mile.” This advice is by no means universally followed. It may he doubted whether it is universally given or believed in. One thing, how ever, says The Hospital, is certain: the mile, and much more, ought to be walked some time during the twenty fourliours. Nay, it must be walked if health is to tie maintained. Indoor air cannot be breathed all day long with out serious injury, nor can a sufficient measure of physical exercise bo dis pensed with. Nature is stronger than all the doc tors and drugs iu the world, and she will not let a man lie well who per sistently disobeys her. Site has made our limbs for movement and our lungs for pure air. If we do not use the limbs sufficiently and breathe enough of perfectly pure air, she insists upon storing up quantities of poisonous waste in the system, and makes the arms and legs as limp asajedv fish. Men of business and professional men seem to have no time for walking and taking the-air except in the evening. But how can a man walk after a heavy dinner? Most true; and there fore a man should not eat a heavy dinner habitually. Whether he walks or not the heavy dinner will do him nothing but harm, and all the more harm it he does not walk. Most men eat a good meat lunch. Many take both meat and pudding; in fact, to all intents and purposes they dine. They do not then need a heavy meal in the evening. After a substantial lunch eon at 1, a moderate dinner at 6 or 7 is all that is required. If such a meal be taken, followed about 8 o’clock- by a cup of hot coffee, the man who has not been overworked during tho day i should feel perfectly fresh for a walk i at 8:30. If lie then goes out and walks i until 9:30, he will soon begin to find I his walk a great pleasure, and the nd ! vantage to his health will be marked, indeed. Does he fear tho night air? That is nonsense. Night air is as go id as any other air, except that it is a lit tle colder. He can provide against that by wrapping up a little more. For getting ltd of the cares of the day, for producing a pleasant sense of relaxation, for purifying the L >od, for raising tho spirits, for encouraging sound and refresning sleep, there is nothing better than an evening walk after a moderate dinner. To those who have not practiced the habit, the first few walks may prove fatiguing and dis appointing; but let thorn give it a fair trial. Perseverance will amply justify what some may consider rather novel advice. —London Globe. SEWING FOR THE DEAD. (ilrl* Who IVliiko Gooil Wage* and Ar« Contented in an Undertaker'* Shop. “Isn’t it lovely?" asked a young sewing girl, holding up for inspection something of white satin and lace. •‘We are crowded with work JflHt now, so I brought this home to finish it to-night.” “You have a trousseau on hand, then? I suppose that fancy garment, whatever it rnay be, is fora bride.” Tiie sewing girl opened wide her ey*es. “We don't make no trousseau,” said she. “Did you think I worked at a dressmaker’s?’' “Yes? Aren’t you with Mine. X. ?” “Not much! 1 left there a month ago. The madurne gave me too much sass and too little pay. I’m in Y ’s undertaking establishliient and am earning half as much again as I did at Mnie. X ’s, who is the most awful screw in this city*. The season is longer too, though of course there ain't half the number of girls employ ed where I am now that there were at uiadame’s. When I worked there i was laid off regffUr three months in the year, while four weeks is the long est "that the girls at the undertaker’s are idle. When there is a full supply of robes in stock they are put to mak ing coffin linings, which most of ’em like because ft isn’t fussy work, though, for that matter, none of their work is half so fussy as what 1 had to bother with when 1 sewed for live people. Miss B (she is our fore woman) used to have the same place at a dressmaker's, and she says she Iris -grown, ten year; younger since she went into the i >bo making busi ness, because she fcas so much less worry of mind. H’a ■ sometimes used to have to keep l| r girls up till 12 o'clock Saturday night to finish a dress for some rich customer, and early Monday morning here would come tho dress hack again -to be altered, and a sassy message along with it about its want of fit. Now, there ain’t any par ticular fit about a burial robe, as you can sea by this; it is made only to go over the corpse. Miss B says it is a great comfort to her to know that lu tu ai wears’em don’t make no com p'aint, and in tiie main they are be coming, which can’t be said of live dresses —I mean the dresses live pao pie wear. “To see them in their coffins you would think they were completely dressed, but really all their finery is on top. Even the men’s solid looking black c sits and smooth shirt fronts cau go on and off without removing tiie corpse. What iam making is for a young gar! who died vesterdav. and will be biuieiTtomo ’renv. Sue was to have boon married iiwrt month, and her trousseau was ,vgun at Mine. X ’s before 1 lei i there. She will ■ look just as sweet in this robe lam making for her as she would have done in her wedding dress, “Afraid of the coffins') Not after the lirst day. it w, aid be a pity if wo were, as our sewing room is at the end of the loft where piles upon piles of them are stowed away. Wo talk, and laugh, and sing, just as we did at Mute. X Valid Jiiss 13 is uu awful lot nicer tliaa the forewoman wo hud there, because, as 1 have id ready said, she isn't being constantly worried out of her life by fussy ladies; and, as it is piecework, she never has scold tho girls for loafing. She says that what she can’t get used to is to have to go downstairs and take orders for robes for folks that still have breath in their bodies. Some (xiople seem to be in an awful hurry to get their dead put under ground When Miss B jwas downstairs to day at noontime, mid tho rest of us were eating lunch one of the girls had her chair break' down under her. and as there was ut> other to be had, what did she tio Jett go out and drag ina coffin t'i s 'L-Ji! When we had finished our lu .cE wo took and lain her out in it and covered her with a robe; and then we began to cry, and talk about tho virtues of the deceased, and were having a real jolly wake, considering their Jrtras no candles, when in come the boss. We didn’t know but we'd all !>o tired out formed dling with the coffins, but all he said was that it would bo money in his iiocknt if wo lazy loafers were all of us in our coffins, as cur custom would pay him better than our work. The girl in the coffin —she’s awfully cheeky jumped up and told him it was play time, as it was not yet half (.last 12, and then he said what was tun to us would lie considered death by most folks, and with that he went out. One of the girls aid he was in a good humor because there was tulk of tiie yellow fever coming hero this summer, but that wasn’t so. Under takers ain't no more heartless than other men, and when it comes to pay ing their girls they ain’t half such skins as some women.” —New York Tribune. Kay* 110 Choked a Hear to Death. A man named Robert Brown, who resides near Fox Hollow, is credited with having killed tt bear about five miles from Edgevtlle, a Cats kill mountain hamlet. The animal was no larger than a Newfoundland dog, but it was fat and plum)). Brown killed tho bear, but he says he used neither firearm nor missile of an y kind. He choked it to death with his brawny right fist. Tho animal was'feeding on tome berries when Brown first espied it. Taking off his coat, the hunter crept stealthily up to withip “throwing” distance, when ho covered the brute’s head and face with the'gannent. Be fore bruin could free Himself from the unweleotpo covering, Bfowu had got ten close eupngh to the shr.ggy brute to get* his .ihiofcro nrertfid" fwjthivsyt. Ho squeezed mightily, and the bear slowly but surely succumbed to tho killing pressure :uid feil dead at the hunter’s feet. The carcass weighed 110 pounds. Bear steaks were dis tributed around, and “home folks” and a score or more of early* Catskill mountain guests ate bear meat for the first time in their lives. • Brown says ho chokud a wildcat to death last winter. Tltere are people who doubt this Samso iian story, but, be that as it may*, the, steaks were a retiuty.—Kingston Freeman. Aborting a 3elon. Ho who discovers j sure means of aborting a felon will make his name immortal. None need be told that it is a most painful alSpetion, and one not wholly devoid oi danger to life. New methods of treat! jont to cut them short aro constantly (lieing devised, and as far as the writir knows, none absolutely certain in ill cases has us yet been found. The trouble is that all felons are not near alike. In soup deeper tissues are involved than in j others, and a remedy which might act well in one case would prove absolutely useless in another. The latest Additions to the list of abortive metiods is recom mended by u physkym of Algiers, lie says it is sufficient to moisten ■slightly around it wijli some water, and to pass over this surface a stick of nitrate of silver. A few hours after ward the skin becomes black, all pain disappears and the inflammation is ar rested. The blackened epidermis re ceives no dressing, util in six days the black color disappear^. The author was induced to try this remedy in a case of a fit of gout. The patient had his great too swollen at its base; it was painful to the touch, a little red, and the seat of lansinating pains, which hindered the rest of the patient. The painful articulation was moistened and rubbed over with a stick of the nitrate of silver; the next day the joint was diminished in size, and was covered over with a black skin. The pain completely disappeared a quarter of an hour after tho paint ing, and the patient got up to follow Ids occupations. The victim of a felon can safely try this treatment; it can do no harm. Too much confidence must not, however, bo put in it.—Bos ton Herald. Tho Crisis at Waterloo, All at once, camo the tragedy. To tho left of tho English and on our right, the head of the column of cui rassiers reared with a fearful clamor. Arrived on the ridgo, wild, furious and running to tho annihilation of tho squares and cannon, the cuiras siers saw between them and the Eng lish a ditch —a grave. It was tho sunken road of Obain. It was a fright ful moment. There was the ravine, un looked 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. The horses reared, fell backward, struggled with their feet in the air. heaping up aud over turning their riders. There was no .power to retreat; the whole column was but a projectile; the momentum gathered to crush the English, crush ed the Fvench. The pitiless ravine still gaped till it was filled. Riders, liarw..collet Together pell jrelL «'••>£ r .< ■ > WhV »’ ‘king com n oil fii « in this golf; mid when the i£y *ti ■ full of living i fiir re.* rod.-on over them and p:t> alon. Al most a third of Dubois' brigade piling Oil into this abyss. -- World of Advcn tu ro. tviUtHl by a BoccMln'i* Hit#'. About a month ago Curtis Melhtr rows, an B.year oltl child of Wii'-atn Ale Burrows, colored, grab'ied with his left hand at a fish in a pool which he and ot : .<n» had muddied, uear Haw kiusvuhv As ho did so u water moc casin, which had been unseen, struck its fangs into tho fleshy part of his hand, between the thumb and loro finger. The child grubbed the snake with his right hand mid tore it loose, hut the snake instantly coiled around the loft anil and intlicted several lutes ou it. The child’s arm was treated by his parents, who applied to it such remedies as they could think of, hut it steadily grew worse. They brought him to Hawkinsvillo to Dr. Taylor. The arm was dreadfully swollen, and tlte whole body seemed to be poisoned. Amputation was decided to be neoes sary, and the arm was taken off at the shoulder by Dr. Gun Taylor. Tiie child rallied after tbe operation and'bode fair to get well; but inflammation of the bowels set in, and he died.—rllaw- Irinsvfllo Dispatch. THE RAG PICKER’S INDUSTRY. Nothing Caw 110 Thrown Away That I* Not of Use to the Italian*. Rag picking is daily becoming more and more of an industry among a cer tain class of Italians in Boston. At daylight every morning 200 or more persons of both sexes, who dwell at tho North end, set out from their mis erable quarters witlflargo gunny bags slung across their shoulders to over haul such ash barrels and rubbish boxes as may bo found on street side walks and alleys. Tho majority of them have their regular routes, and they make vigorous protests when any encroachment is made upon their ter ritory. Tho men generally overhaul the rubbish, and impose upon the wo men tho task of liiggi.tfc the bags, which are often as largo, When filled, as cotton bales. Having a load as large as can ho cm cit'd, they tnako their w;iy to the shop of some favorite junk dealer in the neighborhood of either Causeway, Charlestown or En dicott streets. Having reached a junk store, both men and women dump tho contents of their bags into tho gutter ami ussort the articles. Bot tles, boots, rags, bones, junk and tin ner stock aro carefully inspected. Tho Italians having received their money for their goods, start off on another trip. Their daily earnings rurely ex ceed fifty cents. If they make a dol lar it is considered unusual luck. Liquor bottles of ordinary uso aro a drug in Boston junk shops., and com mand only u quarter or half a cent apiece. There was a time when saloon keepers paid tho junk men two or three cents apiece for them, and afterward sold them to customers who purchased linuor Tor five and ten cents. Now, saloon keepers never think of charg ing u tiuctomcr for n bottle. Izigor hqer bottles are the most acceptable to the junk dealers, as they can get a good price for thorn, especially in the summer time, from wholesale beer bottlers. A junk dealer pays, perhaps, two or three cents for such a bottle, and the wholesaler gives him live or six cents for it. The latter charges his customers ten cents for each bottle when delivering lager beer by the case, and refunds the money if none of the bottles are missing when the case is returned. Empty alo and por tor bottles «nd champagne bottles are always readily sold to tonic beer bottlers. Medicine bottles aro of little vuluo. Old shoes and boots aro carefully examined by tho Italians, and if any are thought fit to be repaired, they are taken to some second hand dealer, who touches them up, and sells them whenever an opportunity presents. YVomout slioes are purchased by tho junk dealers for a trille, and are sold in large quantities to customers, who grind them up and make shoddy “pancake" leather out of them. This shoddy business lias grown rapidly of late, and there is a good demand for old tops and uppers from the manu facturers. Old rubbers aro also ground up, and tho material made over into new rubber. After rags have been purchased, ton or a dozen of tiie junk man’s em ployes, men and women, make a sec ond assortment of them. They are separated by color, texture, cleanli ness and condition of material. The first quality of white linen and cotton rags is packed tightlv in bales bv hand machinery, and sold to kucb_ paper manufacturers as may have a demand for them. They are then put through certain processes and made into paper. The colored rags are also pressed into bales, and are disposed of to manufacturers of shoddy cloth. The larger quantities of white paper picked up from ash barrels and gutters are made over into new paper, Brown paper is made into paper board stock. The soap grease man or the fertilizer manufacturer buys the bones, while the major part of the old iron, mainly horseshoes, is taken by the various forge works and foundries in and about Boston. The industry of tlio Italian rag pick ers has given an impetus to the junk business in Boston. Nothing that any body throws away or casts tiff escapes their eyes or hands. They live very cheaply, and sleep together in separate gangs. The women are as active, strong and vigorous as tho men.- Bostotr Ilerald. So mo Paroons Dandle*. Such men as Aristotle, Marcus An tonius, Sir Humphrey Davy, Lord Palmerston, Byron, Thackeray and our own George Washington were regular dandies in their (lay, while even in our own times men like Conk ling, Hill and Tiiden were exquisites in their dro s. Of the present New York bar, Chaunocy Depew, one of the leading spirits, is also one of the best dressed men of that city, with Dan Dougherty, late of the Philadel phia bar and now of national fame, a close secon d. Of the Philadelphia bar, Brewster.attorney general under Presi dent Arthur, was, during his life, one of the best dressed men, being sur passed in this respect only bv Richard \ i\ an .fin- K aicr ot tliOßumo bar. i’tiere in ii gi’Mi deni cf difference lie f\Ax a a ilandy and a dude, for while ,i dandy dresses only when lie lias n. th" i:. to do, a dude does nothing else but dress. But a man may dress elegantly without being either, and tin -, t:- tho happy medium to bo nought. •—Nashville Ainerioan. Darla!* 1n f*te S<*u. The td'origines < f tho Chatham i.lands bury their a. ad in tho sou. When u fisherman rues they put a hatted rod in his hand, aud, alter lash ing him fust in a bout, send him adrift. Among the Norsemou the great chiefs, when dead, wore placed with much pomp and ceremony on their war ships and sent out to sea; and sitni-r lurty among the Sea Dyuks, ft dead chief, with uis favorite weapons and the lirst part of his property, Is placed in his canoe and cast adrift. It is the custom of some tribes of modern Guinea, on tiie western const of iutor tropical Africa, to throw their dead into tho sea. By doing so they think they have got rid of cornso and ghost together.—New York Telegram. BOGUS DIAMONDS. It I* « flitrtl Matter Now to Tell Them I'm in tlio Uiiil Article. Of Into years jewelry, and female jewelry, in particular, as it were, has lie come very numerousund ostentatious, so to speak. Formerly tho possession of a pair of diamond earrings envelop ed tho happy female in a hallow of alllueneo that caused her to bo regard oil as a modified female Count DeMon to Cristo. * A minstrel troit|io, whoso perforin unco we attended not long since, made a pointed allusion at tho increased cheapness of getus. Tho interlocutor in conversation with tho genial etui man, congratulated that dusky huino rist because ho had been seen on the streets accompanied by a beautiful young Italy. The happy end man in quires if the interlocutor lmd observed ttio elegant sealskin cloak worn bj tho lady. The interlocutor had no ticed it," With reversed thumb the end man intimates that ho hud ho stowed it on tho attractive female. “It must have cost you quite a large sum of money," replies the interloou tor, who for ftotne inexplicable reason ignores the negro dialect. “Yes, salt, SSOO, aud did you see detn nr torches?” • “Those what?” “Detn torches, I mean denis lamps, hanging in her ycuhs.” “Oh, you mean t.lioso largo solitaire earrings. Yes, I saw them. Ttiey must have cost you at least $1,BOO.” “Thirty cents,” replies the end man, reaching down for Ins bones, or rather the bones with which he makes discord. Tho shabbily dressed, poorly paid shop girl wears gems that Hash in n dozen different colors, while the young boy, who gets a week in a button factory, carries on his soiled hand n diamond ring that might tie a prince’s ransom in olden times—if it were real. Y.et jewelry, which was formerly suppose d to bo expensive, is now worn so generally as to create a suspicion thin t! 'o cord rtepeoM* are being *mh joc uM fo an olamiiug <jrm*r. None very body knpws that it takes an experienced jeweler to depict the real from the bogus diamond, rienTw i# frequently happens that grown up persons undergo a similar experience to that of the little girl who complain ed to her grandmother: “Ma told mo it was a diamond, but I have found out that it was nothing but a grindstone.” A member of the famous “poker legislature" of Texas once said that the most expensive diamonds were those that staid in the pack when lie had four of them in his own hand.— Texas Siftings. Danger, ut Ullllu^agufte. It is pleasing to learn from one of Mr. Lawrence Hamilton’s recent let ters that, in addition to its old famil iar shortcomings, Billingsgate is po culinrly favorable to the development of bacteria, microbes, and all the ole inonts of putrefaction in which dead lisii are specially rich. Tho walls, floors and stalls of a fish market ought, by rights, to bo faced with some hard, smooth, non-absorlient material, such as marble or glazed tiles, which will afford no harbor for these microscopic abominations. It scorns, however, that at Billingsgate tho stalls are mostly of rough wood, tho walls of plain brick, and the iloors of porouß stone, and all are worn, honeycombed and rugged with ago. The whole place is consequently impregnated with putrefying tilth, with not merely its peculiarly ancient aud fish like smell, but also with tho most objec tionable results to such wholesome fish as are brought into it. For oil this we have to thank Gog und Ma gog, who not only keep up this out rage on civilization, hut cliaxgo rents ranging from 6d. totld. per square foot , for such accommodation as is to be found there. —London Truth. Wliat la the Hwm? But when wo look at the moon with our telescopes, do wo see any traces of water? There are, no doubt, many large districts which at fy first glance seem like oceans, and were indeed termed “seas” by the old astronomers, a name which they still absurdly re tain. Closer inspection shows that the so culled lunar seas are deserts, often marked over with small craters and with rocks. Tho telescope reveals no seas and no oceans, no lakes and no rivers. Nor is tho grandeur of tho moon’s scenery ever impaired by clouds over her surfaco. Whenever the moon is above the horizon and terrestrial clouds arc out of tho way, wo can see the features of her surface with distinctness. There are no clouds in the moon; there are not even the mists or tho vapors which invariably arise wherever water is present. And therefore astronomers nave been led to the conclusion that our satellite is a sterile and a waterless desert—Btory of the Heavens. Generating Steam. It is said that a new method of gen erating steam has met with remark able success in England. The inven tion is adaptable to any ordinary Cor nish, Lancashire or marine boiler. The apparatus for perfecting the com bustion coj lsistd.of an air tube placed t>ii Mu' BOOToi tun rurn&ce, j*.TiorA..eci ou each wide, iu communjMiym at the outer end with a mam air condtiit, and at the inner end with a hotair receiver, or air diffusing pipes, where tho air become* highly heated, and delivered by a large number of iet* into tho escaping gases from the fuel chamber. The air is obtained by means of u fan driven by a small en gine.—New York Telegram. As an example of tho spirit which animates the German army, and which doubles in force, Prince Kraft Hohen lohe tells a iino story. At the battle of Cliateaudun a battery found itself without ammunition under a heavy tire. What was to be donei The offi cer commanding ordered the gunnera to take their places on the limbers and sing tho “Wacht am Rhein ’’‘ in or der,’’ as Prince Kraft says, '‘that they might pass the tit e agreeably while waiting for fresh cartridges.” Molhi'i* IbtrnstMl Iu Th#*tr Daughter*. 1 was in a b<x>l{ store the other day when a lady came in and asked for a line of juvenile literature. After she had gone out, the salesman said: “If the daughters of Chicago do not amount to anything it will not bo the fault of their mothers. There is a course of lectures being delivered in a quiet way iu various part* of the city which are for tho benefit of these cnildren. Their mothers support the movement. When u lecture is delivered, the mo thers attend with their daughters. Sometimes these lectures are given at the homes. The children do not know their mot hem are interested in tho movement. If they did, they wouldn’t want to go, in all probability. It seems to be a part of a child's nature not to appreciate what tho mother does for it. In this ago of the world, when croakers are going up and down pre dicting that the next generation won't know enough to get iu out of the rain, it is some consolation to know that tjiere are a few women who are striv ing industriously to cultivate the nupds of their little ones.’’—Chicago Tribune. To Ouru Profanity. Atlanta, Ga., la raid to havo a queer way of punishing profanity in the public schools. Tho boys oaught at using bail language nro mado to wash their mouths out with water infused with quassia. The bitter stuff is con sidered a cure; at least it is not so easily forgotten as a licking ora scold ing. Is it not an invention worth more general use? Our family disci pline is a poverty stricken affair— mostly made up of jawing and thrash ing; although some New Euglanders still pray with their offending off spring. Why not have a family quas sia cup, with say another containing salts, and a third with ricinua com munis, that is to say castor oilf— Louis Globe-Democrat. One of tho reasons for the stronghold tlie chrysanthemum has upon popu lar regard lies iu the fact that it is an old fashioned (lower. It has a claim upon tho affections of many people through early associations and chud hood remembrances thAt tho later trjqjyplig of the florist's art can never a*ttam. t i ' A. Turk lull Behoof Children. ► TWkish boys and girls are of tie race which has given tho alphabet iftid tho sciences of numbers, jjatrigatiqp and astronomy to tho world; InSthOy study only one W*>k now and learn only one science. They study the Ko ran, from which thev learn to read, and tho science of MiJiomot’s religion, os soon us tliov can commit sentences to memory, either by having it read to them or by rending it to themselves. /They study aloud ns hard as eter they ’can, each beginning with a different sentence, rocking to and fro, “weav ing trouble” meantime. If they falter in their shrill repetitions the master's duty is first to admonish, and. if this is unheeded, to spare not the rod. There is a lull when the “muezzin’s” call is heard at noon from tho mosque minaret near by, and then tho master and pupils, with faces turned toward Mecca, drop to their knees and say a prayer. When the priest’s call ceases and the prayers are over, the voice of tho artful candy man is often op|>ortunelv hoard near the school, for candy is peddled uliout on trays there, and not sold at shops as with us. Tho new scholar is permitted to “treat all round” on tho first day, and there are no better sweets than “Turkish do- ’ lights”—pasty, creamy, crackly things made up from rose leaves, violets uud ‘ poppies, nuts, dates, grapes and pontj}-.' granules, delicately mixed with honer. sugar, sirup and spice. I’ure coil , water after sweets is known by ad Turks, young and old, to bo the most.* delicious of luxuries, nnd this the school children often enjoy, for the waterman is cunning enough to fol low closely in the wake of the candy vendor, anxious to lighten his burden and draw a profit, as well as spring water, from tho tanned skin of a pig, which he carries strapped to his shoul ders like a bagpipe —the Turkish water bucket.—Cor. Wide Awake. Mohammedan Sciioolships. Tho greatest Mussulman educational center m northern Africa is tho uni- , versity ut Gareuin. in Morocco. The] students number unout 700 and there ] are forty professors. Work begins at | half past 2 and 5 in the morning, Itip-,l tip - , cording to the season. The first in struction consists of comments on the Koran. At sunrise the second batch of professors—about a dozen or so— discourse on law and dogma. In the afternoon grammar and rhetoric are taught, and later, logic, astronomy, arithmetic, geography, history, Mus sulman literature and the science of telismanic numbers or the determina tion by calculation of the influence of -1 angels, spirits and stars on future events. The fore-determination of the con queror and conquered in a coming war or battle seems to be a special branch. There is the greatest diffi culty in obtaining a professor intimate t with the principles of the science its entirety. There are no examinafl tions. Every professor is supposed hfl k'i,nv tiio.se among ins hearers who worthy of diplomas. The rue very highly valued, and give holders great prestige in the world. —Loudon Globe. NO. 32.