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II II RJI R ATTORNEY AT LAW, McDonough, Ga. Will practice in the counties composing the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court o Georgia, and the United States D.stnct Court. marltMy .». itr. s<« ' attorney at law. McDonough, Ga. Will practice in all the Courts of Georgia Special attention given to commercial and other collections. Will attend all the Courts at Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over The Weekly office. J F. WAIX, ' * ATTORNEY at law, McDonough, Ga. Will practice in the counties composing the Flint Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme amt District Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention given to collections. oet.>- 7!t •yy A. IIROW.A. ‘ ATTORNEY AT LAW. McDonough. Ga. Will practice in all tlie comities compos ing (he Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court ol Georgia and the United States District Court. .i-'ul-l.v ATTORNEY AT LAW, Hami-ton, Ga. Will pi Ai l ice in all I lie couiilii'i coiiipoainp the Flint Judicial Circuit, th • Supreme Court oI Georgia and the llistriet Court ot the United Statig. Special and prompt atten tion piven to Colleetiona. Out S, ISSS Jno. D. Stiowakt. j H. T. I'aniki . STKWAIiT * I»AAIK«., ATTORNEYS AT LAW, OrikkiK, Oa. J|B. K. .1. Ai:\OI.I». llamiton. Ga. I hereov tender my professional service to the people of Hampton and tuirrnumlinp coun 1 lv. Will attend all cal's night and day. LA II VAltl>. I have opened a law office in Atlanta, hut will continue my practice in Henry county, attending all Courts regular'v, as heretofore. Correspondence solicited, AV ill he in Mc- Donough on all public days. Office—Room -dti. Gate City Rank liuild in,r, Alabama street, Atlanta, t.a, JOHN I, TYE. Janiiiirv Ist, ISH.'i. ALL Notes and accounts of 1). KNO'I I A CO., must he settled now. l'lease eall on me at tte old stand and find out your in ehled ness. We need the money and know that vou cannot censure us tor piling this, our last w„ruing. M. C. LOW E, Tm Aiilire —Kceood Koumt. Hampton, Monday Oct. *?H Sixth, Tuesday ** -11 Stockhridgc. Wednesday “ lilt Shake Rag. Thursday “ ill Brushy Knohh, Friday Nov. I lanes’. Saturday “ 2 Tussahaw, Monday 41 4 McDonough. Tuesday “ 5 McMullen’s, Wednesday “ ti Bersheha. I’liursilav ** 7 Sandy Ridge, Friday S Locust Grove, Saturday “ !l Lowes’, Monday “ II ' solomon king, t. c. griffin foundry AND Machine Works. ttre announce to tire I’uld’e that we are it prepared to manufactme Engine Boil ers : will take orders tor all k'nds of Roll ers. We -ire prepar. d to do all kinds of repairing on Engines, Boilers end Machin ery. genera'lv. We keep in stock Brass fittings »f all kinds: also Inspirators, In jectors. Safety Valves, Steam Guages, Pipe and Pipe Fittings and Iron and Brass Castings of every Description. OMKOU.Tf A WAIA’OTT, THE COQUETTE'S ALBUM. Upon tho tabl-* small Letweeu The window and the painted screen, You'll find the volume full in view— 'Tin claspod with £okl and bouud in blue. Come, sit beside me here, I pray, Aud see mo turn the years away. With every pictured and call Them back to me, my lovers s'L This was a j oudr: divine, whose eyes Saw nothing lower than the skies, Whose every toue ami look and pace Was full of light nml saintly grace. When at the church I saw the light From windows stained with colors bright, In rainbow glory round him fall, I thought I loved him best of aIL This was a youth whose eagle glance Had swept the prairies' wide expanse; Whose arm hod plied from shore to shore In waters wild the fearless oar When first 1 luip|>eued to behold His bright dark eye aud bearing bold. His graceful figure straight and tall, I said- “l loved him best of all !** Here Is a face In which the pride Of ancient blood is soon descried; And yet on Mount Olympus trod In days of old uo Grecian god More beautiful, and when above My chair he leans, and breathes of lovo. In summer, soft aud musical, 1 knew I loved him best of aIL The light Is growing very dim. And we will close the book with him. Tears on my cheek, you say? Ah, no 'Tis but the fire's 100 ardent glow One—'tls the young divine —is wed; And one —the dark eyed youth—is dead; One, In far lands beyond my call. And yet I think I loved them all. —Bert Ford in Brooklyn Eagle. Asleep In a Country Churchyard. An old man who sleeps by the road sido yonder, and upon whose tomb arc the familiar lines beginning, “Remem ber me as you pass by.” spent the greater portion of the last ten years of bis life by his wife’s grave. lie came in the early morning, and after remov ing any microscopic weed that might have snowed itself since the previous evening, would light his pipe and sol emnly contemplate the stones in his vicinity. He went away regularly to his meals, and as regularly took his afternoon nap on the grass by the graveside. Shortly before his last vis it to tho cherished spot he requested me to decipher for bun the dates upon several of tho gravestones; and wo conversed about many we had known in life, and who had passed away. I remarked that the churchyard was a very pretty place, and his face lighted up as he rejoined: “Ah, mester, I’ve always thought I should like to be buried here, for,” looking around, “you see, there’s such a splendid view from here.” This was uttered 1 11 good faith, and the old ruan seemed con vinced that neither coifin lid nor churchyard clods would obstruct his view. Perhaps they don't! In a few weeks he came to his favorite haunt to stay. “Poor old William,” the flowers upon your grave have run wild long ago, and lie one seems tore member you us they pass by.—Cham bers’ Journal. A Prudent Courtier. Frederick the Great, of Prussia, who had a violent temper, was in the habit of playing at dice with one of his adjutants, using a cup and two thee of solid silver. One day Frederick complained that the game was rather dull when there was not money at stake, and proposed that they throw for a penny a throw. “Not much," replied the adjutant, who was a plain spoken sort of a man, “I think we had better not risk any money. As it is now, without any moneyed inducements, when your majesty loses you throw the cup and dice at me. What will become of me if there should he money on the game and your majesty should lose ?” -Texas Siftings. “Pour Le Uni Do Prusse.” In the beginning of the Eighteenth century the now no powerful Ger man empire was nothing me-e than the little kingdom of Prussit. having just dropped its title of Duchy of Brandenburg. The country was very poor and the military discipline very hard. Frederick Wilhelm 1 was very harsh, cross and stingy, and did not even know, perhaps, what it was to make a present. And his reputation was so well grounded and so widely spread that it became a byword to say that a man hud worked for the king of Prussia when he hud done some un profitable job.—Notes and (Queries. Carpet I'ugfi. Some Augusta housekeepers think they have disu*vem. the origin of the buffalo bug so far as that city is con cerned. They claim that every carpet under which u certain kind of patent carpet paper has been placed has suf fered. while those spread over old newspapers, straw or burlap have es caped. This theory will yet have to be further tested before it is proved, but it is worth something to have even a theory to work on in the effort to head off these ] tests. —Lewiston Jour nal. None of HU Hi.-iness. 1 was sitting with sonic friends tit sunset among the ruins of Karnak with a group of Arabs round us. One of our party said: ‘’Mohammed, why does tlie sun rise here and set over there?” The youth looked puzzled a moment, and then, with acquiescent content, answered: “That is the busi ness of my God, and not the business of me.” —The Spectator. Journalism in Jitpau. Journalism in Japan presents many peculiarities. As it has existed only a short time as yet. there is no paper there as important and as widely cir culated as the principal journals of Europe and America. There are now in Japan 570 periodical publications. Tokio alone possesses seventeen daily journals, circulating an aggregate of 3,906,000 copies in a month, and 116 periodical publications, circulating 495,000 copies. It may be seen, then fore, that the circulation <>f each is very small, the largest Is ing n* t more than 10,000 copies, half of which are sold at Tokio and the olht ■ haif in the provinces. The Japanese newspapers insert very few advertisements, but get very good rates for them. They contain no sensational news or arti cles. In general apiiearar.ee they re semble Lite French papers much more McDonough, ga., Friday. January, 8, ir-ii cioseiy man ti'.ose of lAjndon or New York? In the preparation of the Japanese newspaper many difllculties are en countered which are unknown in Eu rope or America. There are uo loss I lean 14,000 Japanese characters, 4,000 of which are used constantly, and lienee the compositor has to have cases containing 4,000 compartments. The compositor must be carefully trained in his art, possess excellent sight, and oven use magnifying glasses. Each compositor has several assistants, who hunt the cases for all the ideogrannncH that appear in any given article. The compositors then set up the article with these characters and the forty-seven syllabic signs also used in Japanese writing. The persons employed in the prepa ration of a journal—for instance, the Niclii-Nichi -Shim-boun —are distrib uted as follows: A political director, an editor in chief, live assisUmt ed itors, four proofreaders, one copyist, twelve reporters, and three or four compositors? each of whom, as above stated, has several assistants, besides a certain number of type distributors — in all, 150 persons. The reporters are the most important, yet they can scarcely hope to earn more than $lO a month; consequently, ■ much of their news is invented. The most import ant sheets have social correspond ents, who generally belong to tho edi torial stalls of papers published in other cities, or else are young persons who have studied in Europe. Many journals are subsidised by wealthy and iifilueutial men. —Transatlantic. rollle and Untruthful. It is possible that there is such a tiling as being too polite; at least, one may err in tho direction of a too obse quious courtesy. It is said that a roy al personage once asked a courtier what time't was, and the man replied, with a low rcvereuco, and with hated breath: “Whatever time your majesty pleases.” Doubtless the king would have been better pleased with a less flattering and more definite answer. There is a tradition in a certain house that one of its guests was so polite that none of her preferences could bo ascertained, and the follow ing incident is always quoted in illus tration of her phenomenal courtesy. “Now, Kitty,” said her hostess one morning, “we can either row or drive this morning, which would you pre fer!” “Thank you, that will be charm ing,” was the non-committal reply, and, as her hostess afterward declared, “wild horses could not liavo drawn from her a further avowal.” Such careful courtesy is often ex ceedingly amusing, and, when used by an Irishman, one can fancy that it would be provocative of smiles. An Irish sailor once called the captain of his vessel from a coffee house with the flatteriug statement: “An’t pluze yer honor, tho tide is waiting for ye!” Surely the captain might have thought himself more than the equal of King Canute, who found, by actual experiment, that he was unequal to controlling the sea. Perhaps the advice of a certain dear old lady applies to etiquette, as well as to other affairs of life. "Speak the truth always,” she was wont to say, "hut speak it gently.”—Youth’s Com panion. DMi’t Kill Too Soon. It is a great mistake, often a fatal one, to kill a dog that has bitten a per son, until it is established that the dog is mad. Imagination causes more deaths by hydrophobia than neglect does. Once the dog is dead there is no chance of proving it had not rabies; the patient is predisposed to think it did. llis fears get hold of his nerves and work on them until they induce the dread disease, visions of which are be ing constantly conjured up to the mind’s eve. A dog after indicting a wound should bo caged and watched, and it were even well if some dissiinu lation were practiced to make the pa tient believe the dog was all right, even should it develop symptoms. If people only knew how powerful caut erization is as a remedial agent, few would die of rabies. —Physician in St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Caviare for the Million. Russian caviare is the title given at the English embassy to the mottled mass of printers’ ink which the censors block on to any passage they dislike in a hook or paper. Any English paper you take up in St. Petersburg is sure to have one or two passages thus blocked out. Thee, r-vors read through an entire work like ''.diver's (lonvet-sa tions Lexikon” or the 1 vitish Kncyclo nediu. and block vut >u re and there before they allow the books to be sold. The National Review. Some Hop**. "Now, don’t you think he looks just like his father?'’ inquired the fond mother of the honest visitor, as she held up her year-old baby to admire. “No,” said the honest visitor, hesi tatingly. “I cannot really say I do. But perhaps he may, you know, after he gets his whiskers grown.”—Somer ville Journal. Scientific Information. Professor—Have any of you expe rienced an electric shock? Impressionable Pupil (diffidently)— Yes, sir; I have. A touching of hands —you know. And (impulsively) she felt it, too. Professor (severely)—Young man, that was not electricity. That was ga 1-van ism. Pittsburg Bulletin. ITow the l»oy Viewed It. •‘Let’s get some o’ them apples.” “I don't want any o’ them. They let ycr take ’em. Come on dowu to Bankers’ and steal some o’ his.”— E«jch. A Sufo Transaction. !- irst Jeweler—Are you the party t:.. • advertised an opportunity to in vert in a safe transaction ? : .iu! Jeweler—Yes; I'll sell you ur. oiil safe for that amount.—Jewel er: Weekly SHE SAW A BULL FIGHT. A Girl Tell* How th-j lm|»riw*ed Her. A Baltimore girl, who faints at the sight of a caterpillar, turns green at the flow of blood, and is in every way of a most gentle and kindly nature, thus writes homo about her visit to a bull tight— the occasion being the farewell to Paris of the prince of mat adors, Ixiii is Mazzantini: “At last 1 have seen my first bull tight, and I trust, my last. You could not liuve borne it five minutes, and 1 scarcely know how I did. “Imagine an immense arena, with 22,001) people packed in circles, while innocent little white clouds floated over an intensely blue sky. At times the tender hearted clouds shut the sky entirely oil from all view of what was going 011 beneath in the arena, while frequent short April like showers of tcare (!) fell from them, and it is to be hoped soothed the wonous • J the six enraged hulls that succeeded each other to death. The occasion was Max zautini’s farewell to the Parisian pub lic, which has made such a hero of him. Not only had fatted calfs been j killed in his honor in appreciation of the fatted hulls which Mazzantini had killed with such glory, but hats and handkerchiefs waved, presents of sil ver, of gold and jewels were thrown to liim after his little speech of fare well, and flowers in forms of wreaths, bouquets and hearts soon covered the gore stained ground. Of all these gifts the only ouo tho Spanish grandee noticed at all was a simple bunch of violets. This ho stooped to pick up, and hissed in the direction of the fair dame who had thrown it. His two valets raised the more valuable gifts from the dust, while Mazzantini him self never deigned to even glance at the rich jewels scattered at his feet. “It was a wonderful sight, exciting past belief. lam glad to have scon it, for I learned something, but the one lesson completes the course. I’ll see no more bull fights. The orches tra played the music of ‘Carmen’ us we came out, and I stopped to study the faces of the audience that but a few minutes before were in such ex tremes of excitement, shouting and hissing when the poor bull, tjerritied and smarting, tried to save himself in stead of showing the proper amount of tight, and I remembered that I, too, at the moment had arisen to my feet and rejoiced when a well planted lance, which I thought was costing the picador Ins life, as he stood direct ly in front of the bull’s hurts, pierced the bull's shoulder just as he lowered his head to strike. Then the marvel ous Mazzantini leaped over the head and stood quietly waiting until the now maddened creature turned on him with sufficient ferocity to satisfy the most exacting hisser. “Nothing can express to you the in tense artistic aspect of the perform ance. One lias to sec it to understand the science of these superb men. They ! walk with the dignity that princes are 1 supposed to have in and out of tho | jaws of death —a leap not any higher or less calm than just enough to keep •them this side of eternity. The little scarlet cloak, tlieir only defensive weapon, and with this alone, they lead the infuriated animal to the exact spot where they wish to kill him. and then kill him, not at any haphazard mo ment t» suve their own lives, hut only at the signal given by the president. In*Paris they do not kill the hull in the arena, but when the signal to kill is given, the matador’s personal dan ger is all the greater for not killing, as he must touch tho bull in the vital spot above the head between the shoulders, just as the bull lowers his head to gore him, thus going through the form, after which tho bull is taken out by oxen and killed out of sight. Each bull, usbicli is of a very high breed, belongs to some well known Spanish senor. ami is wortli a good many hundred dollars. But they say it cannot tight twice, as it must be put an end to; the honor of the family to whom it belongs isnt stake by the way it fights. “A wonderful sight, aud always : shall it live m my memory how tne urtistic superseded the human side of ; it in my eyes. I had to grasp the , smelling suits in one hand, for you know how I turn sick at the sight of blood, and to see those poor blind fold- 1 3<l horses raised on tho horns of the ; maddened hulls made me turn faint for tlie moment, while the next I was fascinated by a wonderful science that turned life into a plaything. The cos tumes and all the raise en scene are the most picturesque things imagina ble. In fart, everything is done to make it endurable. Fierce feelings that I never imagined I had took pos session of tne, and I could scarcely realize my own lack of heart. For once amj the lust time 1 have seen this relic j of a past barbarism, and I am glad to have had tho experience.”—Baltimore Bub. THINGS MAN CAN'T DO. n « Ilan Acromplsheri Wonder*, No Doubt, Hut llcre’ii Where Ho Stumble*. There is always something comical about a man's attempt to do a woman’s work. And tlie fun of tlie thing is that a mail never realizes that he can not do it properly. There isn’t a man on the footstool who does not pri vately entertain the opinion that, if he should only set himself about it, lie could do anything better than any woman. But lie can’t, and all the women know it. lie means well, no doubt, but some how he doesn’t seem to have the fac ulty. llis wife goes on a visit to her mo ther, and he keeps house. Now, lie will teH Brown that he can cook a meal as well as the best woman that ever lived; hut if he should see Brown and some of the boys coming up to his house to dinner, lie would bolt the door and lie low till they went away. lie never can touch a kettle without getting soiled. lie dan t handle the fire irons without burning his fingers. He never thinks to hang up any tow els; he keens them on tlie floor, where they will lie handy. A man cannot do two things at a time. A woman will broil a steak, and see that the cof fee does not boil over, and watch the cat that she does not steal tlie remnant of meat on the kitchen table, and dress the youugest boy, and set the tabic anu seo to tno toast, and stir the oat meal, and give orders to the butcher, and witness the way her neighbor across tho street is Imaging out her clothes—and she can do it all at once and not half try. Is there a man living who can hold fifteen pins in his tnouth. nml lit a dress waist, and talk over tho scandal about tho new minister at the same j time? Of course there is not, and yet a woman can do it easily, ami enjoy it, too. A man will work diligently half tho forenoon to find a shirt button, and when ho has found it, it will be three sizes too large for the bugonhole, and then he will begin to thread his noo dle. And ho will squint, and take aim, and sweat, and swear, and the thread will slip right by the needle every time, and if over lie does get tho needle threaded it will he such a big needle that it will split tho button clean in two, and ho will find himself exactly where ho started from. Man has done wonders since ho came before (Tie public. lie bus navigated tho ocean, ho has penetrated tho mys teries of the starry heavens, he has har nessed the lightning and made it pull street cars and light the great cities of the world. Oil, yes, we are willing to admit that man lias done his part, but lie couldn’t pour castor oil into a colicky baby without spilling it all over the baby’s clothes, to save his life! He can’t find i> spool of rod thread in his wife’s sowing machine drawers— no, he can’t; and after he searches half an hour, and manfully keeps his tem ]k.t meanwhile, ho will appear with a spool of blhe silk, and vow that such a tiling us red thread has no existence in thut house. A man cannot hang out clothes and get them on the line the right end up. He cannot hold clothes pins m his mouth while he is doing it, either. lie cannot lie polite to somebody ho hates. He would never think of kiss ing Ids rival when lie met him, as a woman will kiss her rival, lie can't chew gum. lie can’t sit in a rocking chair without banging the rockers into the base hoards. Ho can't put tho tidy on the sofa pillow right side out. ife can’t wear No. 3 boots on No. 5 feet. He’d die with corsets on I He'd get his death of cold with bare arms and neck. And yet people who do not know call women tho weaker sex I—Kate1 —Kate Thorn in New York Weekly. Tilt) lutext Feminine I'ihiml. Two young and pretty women (‘ti tered a Broadway cur, each carrying in her arms a little parcel in the must tender and motherly fashion. So so licitous were they over their respective parcels that a lullaby*Beemed almost bursting from their lips. They were not nurse girls, so they must bo mo thers, although it was apparent that they were young mothers, and very handsome ones withal. Half a dozen men jumped up to offer them seats. The girls giggled as they sat down and no wonder, for the bundles they carried in such a motherly fashion had been deftly improvised, under a sud den inspiration, to represent babies. There was little of them except a crook of tho arm and a lace handkerchief to cover a supposititious bids:, but enough to deceive poor, trustful man. The gig gle was general, for tho girls had ob tained seats on a now and original plan.—New Y’ork World. Florida himl LomoiiN. Florida will soon bo the greatest lemon growing country in the world. Lemons weighing a pound eacli arc common in Florida, and along tho banks of Caloosuhatchie there is a sin gle tree which bears 5,000 lemons, many of which weigh a pound each. But, except for show, such large lem ons are of little vulue, as they are course grained and pi ay. The best lemons aro grown on poor soil; and for that reason they aro a very profitable crop. This country consumes more lemons every year than all other coun tries combined, and the consumption is constantly increasing.—New York Tri bune. Ancient History. “Ah.” sighed Brown, as ho- gazed into the face of his tiny son and heir, “think of tho trouble before himj But,’’ hecontinued, as he hurriedly re viewed the world's events, “there will bt» a powerful lot behind him, how ever." — Harper’s Bazar. California** Floral Wealth. Tho evergreen redwood rises straight as an arrow to the height of fromzOO to 800 feet. There aro whole tribes of the coniform, dozens of specimens of cypress and cedar, a variety and re lationship of the oaks that drives the botanist wild, ravines filled with the flowering dogwood, sweeps of glisten ing mnnzanita, spattered patchesof the red borrii d buckthorn, rifts of tho pink pctaled rhododendrom, sanguin ary patches where stands tho Judas tree. In this favored country also bloom and bear the pomegranate, fig, olive, almond, apricot, lemon, orange and tho nectarine. The camelia is a tree, the heliotrope a stout shrub; ger aniums aro used for scarlet hedges; the callalily is a weed. —Harper’s Maga zine. After the Little One*. “Improve tho golden hours; seize them as they pass you by,” said the parson impressively, as ho opened the conference. “I ain't after ■ such big game.” said the reporter who had nailed a chair close to tho recording secretary, “but you can bet your tyeavesTll collar tho minutes.” And he did. Wore they were an hour old. —Burdette in Brooklyn Eagle. Metallic Wall Cover*. For years the proprietors of a patent papier inache wall covering have imi tated repousse work in metal by cover ing their material with bronze powder or metallic paints, hut this latest deco ration shows that the real metal is coin ing into use. It is rolled almost as thin as note paper, and then put through patterned rollers that leave raised fig ures upon it. By means of grooved edges, such as are put on me al tiling, the sheets are perfectly adjusted. Then ! they aro nailed to the wall with small i brads. —New York Telegram. HOW IT FctUS TO DROWN. Oiifl Who * i jim Had Che Experience T#*lla All About It. Tho ship was the George Pollock, Cnpt. Wilbers, bound from London to Lyttelton, New Zealand. Wo were about 1,000 miles south of the Cape of Good Hope, a very co’ J latitude in tho month of Octolx'r. 1 was a saloon passenger, and had been fishing for al batrosses and mollyiocks over tlio stern with a long hue and hooks baited.witli salt pork all tho morning. About midday wo went down to din ner. but 1, being anxious to catch a bird, made a hurried meal and has tened back on deck. The Kir George Pollock was an old fashioned ship with a high poop, and, as we had cows on board, number of trusses of hay hud been las lied to the stern taffrail, where they were less liable to bo wet by the sea than elsewhere. When 1 got on the poop, no one else being there but tho man at the wheel, 1 found my line hud got tan gled with the rudder. I climbed on to one of the trusses of hay with the in tention of casting the line loose, and was leaning down to do so when the shin gave a pitch. 1 lost my balance and tell plump into the sea. From where I was perched on tho hay to tho water, as the ship rose on the wavo, was a clear drop of twenty feet or more, and ns I fell flat on my chest the wind was knocked out of me and I was half stunned for tho moment. When I came to myself I was floating pretty comfortably, my thick woolen clothes supporting me, and my wide awake hat floating by my side. There was a heavy swell, and as I rose to the crest of a wave, I saw the ship, looking very small, as if she were already a long way off. I noticed, however, that she was hove to, and 1 felt sure then that 1 should ho picked up. My only fear was that the alba trosses might swoop down upon mo and kill me with their terrible beaks, us they had tho carpenter of the same ship the voyage before. A long time passed hours it seemed to me and, my clothes having become soaked, I floated low in tho water and could no longer empty my mouth fast enough to get breatn or keep the ship in sight. Every wavo that came sank me deeper and made me swallow more water. I begun to feel deadly cold, and 1 thought it was all over with me. I could not help blaming my friends on tho ship for their cruelty in letting me drown, when they might so easily have sent a Unit for me, but 1 forgave tie in and said my pruyersto myself. All 1 could do now I could not keep rny head above water, and at last 1 saw it green over my eyes as I looked up, my head swam round and I thought I was going to sleep. I was aroused by some thing touching me, forcing me down in tlio water, and then drugging me out altogether, and tho next thing 1 knew 1 was among men who were talking, though I could not under stand them for the rushing and whiz zing in my ears. The first words I understood were something about “handing me up,” and at the same time I felt myself ue ing lifted up to the ship’s side and seized by a number of arms. Then my clothes seemed to come off all at once they’ had lteen cut off bv tho doctor with a shurp knife—and then I felt warmth all over me. Boon I knew that I was lying in warm blankets with hot bottles under luy armpits and feet. 1 could hear voices round I me and knew what they said, and I could feel hands nibbing my limbs and turning mo about. But I could not speak or move, or show any signs of life, and in my inside I still felt so cold 1 thought I must die. At length I felt something very hot | in my mouth, and 1 gulped and it j went down my throat. It came again j and again, and warmed tno and made j me feel better, though fearfully sick, i Then 1 felt a terrible pricking and } twitching (like “pins and needles,” when your foot has gone to sleep) all over me. After that I got drowsy, and the next thing I remember I was ly ing in my own berth with my father and sister sitting by me. I was still very weak, and I had a very had cough, but I was out of danger and fust recovering. Two days later tho children in the saloon, who were all great friends of mine, yvere allowed to come and see me, und bring me littlo presents they bad ready forme, and in a fortnight I wus up und again catch ing seabirds over the stern. I had ac tually been half an hour in tho cold yvaters of the Southern ocean, and it was two hours liefore they could tell for certain whether I wus dead or alive.- Edward Wakefield in New York World. % Sioux Surpriae I’urty. A gool many writers have asserted that an Indian is a lsirii stoic, and that the reason he doesn’t laugh or cry or express surprise or astonishment lies in the fact that nature did not intend him to. That’s all nonsense, how ever. The Indian puts it all on for ef fect. I’ve heard him laugh as hearty as any white man, and I’ve seen them when they were positively thunder struck with amazement. In 1800 the hostiles got to attacking one of the stage routes into Julesburg, and after they had killed a dozen people a part of my company was sent out to give the red man a set hack. We rode over a section of the route one day, and toward evening se en te<l ourselves in a long, dry ra vine, to bee what would happen dur ing tlie night. The stage was due there about 10 o’clock, and soon after owe got a surprise. A band of twen ty-three Indians came in from the west, struck tho trail just above us, and came down and laid themselves away almost on top of us. We had our horses down around a bend, with guards to look after them, and the In dians had left their ponies at some other point. We were back in the dark, where they could not see us, while they were at the mouth of the ravine and every man of them showed against the starlight sky. We knew what they were after, and prepared ourselves accordingly. There were twentv-eight of us, and we crept up inch by inch until, when we finally heard the rattle of the stage coach, we were not over twenty-live feet from the hunch of marauders. We could hear and see them making readv. and ,iust as iney were aooul to dash out on the trail we gave them a volley. Talk ulxmt an Indian not feeding surprised! Why, they yelled out like so many old women scared by a cow, and two or three of them shouted to the Great Spirit to save them as they ran. We killed nine and wounded four with that one volley, and only one of the wounded lived beyond two days. The survivor was a middle aged warrior, bearing the scars of many buttles. I was asked to ques tion him, and as he saw my purpose lie shut himself up liko a clam. 1 started off with. “Has my brother a glass in which to see his face i*’ “Why should I have?” he queried, interested at once. “To see that your hair has turned as white as the snow.” “No! It can’t be 1 Get me a glass, quick 1” At that the group around him burst out laughing, uud tlie warrior looked up with rueful expression and said: “1 thought it wm true. I was so scared that my heart stopped boating!” —New York Sun. Fuctfl for Travel** ni by Sea. Ocean voyagers enjoy ono advantage over their overland brethren—They never get stained with tho dust of trav el. Tailpieces of ocean —Fins. A vessel under steam—The tea ket tle. Tar and feathers Jack and Mother Cary's chickens. A practice ship—Courtship. A water lower —An iceberg. An old mill or—The letter D; it lias followed the C a good many years now. A down y couch—Tho ocean bed. A jolly boat—Tho craft of funny men. The milky way —To tho cheese fac tory. A crazy craft The hark of a mad dog. A breaker—The Ci«y of l’aris. Tho keelson is a model young man —Always keeps on the right track. An old tar—Gibraltar. An earthenware vessel—A continen tal basin. A deceased count —A dead reckon ing. Seasickness—A yachtijig fever. A Yankee skipper-The Canadian refugee. A had breaker —The careless stew ard. A bad business—Keeping u fish mar ket—it makes a man sell-fish. Old ocean is a had sleeper— Tosses on his bed all night. A trim craft—Tailoring.—Ocean. Tl»<; ropo’ii Gol<l lUims The gold rose, of which so much is erroneously written, is not a rose at all, but a rose bush or plant, perhaps eight inches in height, showing leaves, 1 buds and several fall blown roses. ' The design is worked in gold wire and is as accurate a copy of nature as the artist could be expected to produce. It is always planted in a decorated (lower (>ot filled with Roman soil, and, being the giftof the pope, a special messenger delivers it. The gold rose j is only bestowed upon princesses of Iho highest rank, which limitation disqualifies all American ladies. Right here it may be stated that tho late wife of Gen. Sherman did not re ceive the gold rase nor any gift or fa vor whatever from the sovereign pon tiff. The queen regent of Spain was honored with the gold rose for some very beautiful consideration of her subjects, and the last recipient of the precious rose plant was the empress of Brazil for the part she took in bring ing about the freedom of slaves in tho valley of the Alhazon.- New York Sun. The IJv«il Teoplo. The Norwegians, it seems, are the longest lived people under the sun. So we learn from an elnborato “Livs og Dodstubeiler for det Norsko Folk," or tables of life and death among the Norwegian people, just published by the Norwegian official statistical bu reau. Tho average duration of life in Norway is 48.33 for tho men, 51.30 for the women and 49.77 for both sexes. The director of tho bureau also shows, by comparison with earlier decades, that the average longevity of the Nor wegian folk has considerably in creased. "If the mortality in Norway,” he writes, “is 17 per cent, more favor ublo than in central or western Eu rope, it is greatly due to the compara tively slight mortality among our youngest children.” —London Stand ard. 1 A might Child. Mrs. A. —Just think, Mrs. 8., my little Mollie lost a dollar bill on her way to tho grocery. Mrs. B. (proudly)—That couldn’t happen to my little Funuy. She is toe smart for that; ain’t you, Fanny. Fanny—Guess 1 couldn't lose my dollar hill when you never send any money to the grocer’s. He always writes It down in a book, and when ne wants any money from us ho has to come five or six times. —Texas Siftings. Tlie Mil® In All Countries. Hid you ever stop to think that all countries do not use the same standard for a mile that we do. end that we do notu.se those of all other countries, and that if we did, what a badly jumbled mess we would have? Not only the mile of the separate countries dillers greutly in the number of feet and yards comprised, but those of the same countries vary in different pro vinces. Thus tho English mile diners from the statute mile, and tho French have three sorts of leagues. The English mile consists of 5,280 feet, 1,760 yards, or 8 furlongs. The Russian “verst” is about three quarters of an English mile. The Scotch and Irish mile is about one and a quarter English. The Dutch, Spanish and Polish mile is three and a half English. The German mile is four times as long as the English. The Swedish, Danish and Hungarian mile is from five to six and a half Eng lish miles. a The French common league is three English miles. The English marii.o league is throe English miles.—St. Lotus Keuublic. NO. 36.