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THE HENRY COUNTY W EEKLY. A JOURNALDEVOTED TO HOME RULE, TARIFF REFORM AND BOURBON DEMOCRACY. VOL. XIV. PS Li &AKjfi 6 POWDER Absolutely Pure. Thip |K>H»k» ih'Vh vsu .rs A marvel -a4' pui i( v, st: oiiirt •:• ii»l w i.(>!.•<«mviu srf. More economical Mum l!u- oniiniirv kirnls, and < aiinot l»e sold in compelil ion wiili the mul titude of low t. st, short weight alum or phosphate powders. Sold only in cans. Koval Baking I'uwiiki! ( «».. MMi \\ all street, New York. novl3-ly (il!l FFhN I’ulJXmtY AND Machine Works. \y, Tiunounce to the Pußi.c that we are \\ prepared to manufacture Engine Boil ers ; will take orders for all kinds of Boil ers. We are prepar* <1 to do all kinds of repairing on Engines, Boilers dmJ Machin ery, genera’lv. We keep in fetouk Brass fittings of all kinds; also Inspirators, In j odors, Safe tv Valves, (luages, Pipe and Pipe fittings and Iron and Brass Castings of every Description. OSItOU\ X WALPOTT, p R O FE&S lO NA L C A ItDSm | |i:. ■*. < ampiu ij. D ENTIST] McDonough C*a. Any one desiring work done can >w. ac* com modal ed either Bv calling on me in per son or addressing me through the mails. Terms cash, unless special arrangements are otherwise made. ako W. Buy an j W.T. Dicken. imVA> A WICKIIX. attorneys at law. • McDonough, Da. Will practice in the counties composing ilie Flint Judicial Circuit,th<‘ Supreme V.mi t of (Jeor"iu and the United States Distnet Court. . a P r27 - 1 - v j ts. 81. TI mi.K. attorney at law, McDoNOI'GH, < i A . Will practice in the counties composing ,V, e Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the United Slates Distnet Court. __ marl( ’- |v ]7 J u,A “ 4> attorney at law. McDonough, D a . Will practice in all the Courts ol Deorgia Special attention given to commercial and other collections. Will attend all the Courts at Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over The Weekly office. J « « attorney at law, McDonough, Ga . Will practice in the counties composing tbe Flint Judicial Circuit, ami the Supreme and Dist rict Court sof G?orgia. Prompt attention givm to collections. octs-’79 a. ilieoU’A. ’ ATTORNEY AT LAW, Mi Donouor, Ga. Will practice in all the count ies compos ing the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia and the United States District Court. ianl lv fj a. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Hampton, Ga, Will practice in all the counties composing the Flint Judicial Cii cifit, the Supreme Court of Georgia and the District Court ot the United States. Special and prompt atten tion given to Collections, Oct S, 1888 Jno. D. Stkwart. J K.T. Danikl. STEWART A ItA.TIEE. ATTORN FA’S AT LAW, Griffin, Ga. . I jlt.K. J. ARAOt.D. Hampton. Ga. [ hereby tender mv professional service to the people of Hampton and surrounding country. Will attend all calls night and d»y ; J OHA I-. TVE, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Gate City Natioal F.ank Building, Atlanta. Ga, Practices in the Stale and Federal Courts. For Sale or Kent. TVKhaveA -phndid farm of Ititi acres I) lvingt miles from Stockbridge, Ga., near Flat Rock, known ns the Nancy E. Crumbley place, for sale or rent. Will sell for $1,200, one tenth cash, and the lialance in ten equal annual installments, Bej inter est on deferred payments, payable annually: or w ill rent lor third and fourth to good parties. Apply at once to C. M. sI'KKi:. MeDonough.Ga. FOB MEN ONLY! LOBT or FAtUKO MANHOODt 511 and NERWJS DEBILITY; ITaj MlAf* [WaikmeM of Body and Mind, Effect* liJiULiJof Error* or Excesses in Old or Young, fit,butt. >ObU BaNHOOD ftiilT lUatorroi. Haw to enlarft and fit rm* *lk« WKAK, I VDtTKLOPED OKhAXS* FABTSOF ftODT. iinJu,',;, HBfaitlaF HOSE TREATMENT—Bea*Ct« la a daj. m r - , if'tlfj from ou BtMtem ana r»rci»» l ■ -sStr*.i-s, ffriii itta. *>r *r’ he Book, eii-laaetlen and proofs autlled tea led fre*. 4fcm* ERIE MEDICAL CO., BUFFALO. N> V. MEER.CATS AS PETS. They Arc Very Cunning, bat Are Terribly Liable to Consumption. Old travelers are often asked to sug gest an outlandish [>et, us we can testi fy. but the demand is not easily an swered. Doubtless lueereats lire the best all round, hut they have their faults, and besides they are terribly liable to otmuouuption. Our damp win ters, and, above till, our draughty floors are very frying to animals that live un derground in South African veldt. We ourselves kept one for nearly three years-, having caught it when a I wety. The xceriesof its Illness and death from iiriiuninwtion of the lungs are pathetic to the ik'gree which only those who have kept nieerents could credit At thepirsf sigji y£ indisposition we seig. its successors to the Regent's park, and the authorities were overjoyed to re ceive them, sixteen years ago---the first male they ever had and the third fe male It may comfort some of those who cherish those pets to learn that the former must have been 9 years old when it died and the latter 12; they may have been much older. It is not worth while to describe uni trials so easily observed tit this day. In brief, the meercat resembles a chubby weasel, nine or ten inches in length, the tail included, with gray, broken fur, mu/.z.le. and ears of black velvet, the loveliest of eyes and the silkiest of lashes, a small, unceasing, cooing cry most restful to hear, and endless pretty ways. To behold one of them sitting upright by the hearth, with pendant paws, us its manner is. watching every movement in the room—or even outside the whitlow—changing its note contin ually, ;ts fancies pass through its shrewd little brain, delights the dullest soul.' It has an extraordinary range of voice, mounting from the soft coo to a bark of passion—by no means so agreeable to hear. One could hardly exaggerate the charm of this pet. Upon the other hand, we must not conceal, that the meercat has disadvantages. Though loving, it never yields its independence, and if otto be resolved to forbid any di version on which its little heart is set, our experience strongly advises that it be thrust into a cage with the utmost promptif udo. Those pretty teeth are sharp as needles anil keen as razors. It cannot be induced to respect the carpet, scratching it up like a terrier at a rah bit hole, chattering the while in an eager, hustling tone, most musical, which wants tLie housewife, fortunate ly Special care is needed, however, when you interrupt your “cat” at this work. And those we have known would not endure a dog. We have known tin exception to this rule, but it is taken for granted in South Africa. The dauntless rage of the tiny creature as it springs t o attack a mastiff or New foundlaud. with a kind of choking scream, appears to terrify the fiercest dog We ‘never saw one stand its ground, and they say on -the veldt that the meercat is always victorious, leap ing to his enemy's throat at a bound and severing the jugular.—London Silt unlay Review Ili‘g Your Pardon! What talismaiiic virtue there is in the three brief words, “Beg your par don 1" You dig your elbow into a gen tleman's ribs in making your way through a crowd, and as he turns, irate, to administer the “upper cut” you ut ter tile magic phrase in deprecating tones. Down drops his arm, his honor is satisfied, and notwithstanding the blue murk on liis intercostal region lie grins horribly a ghastly smile and bows his head as if in acknowledgment of an act of courtesy Passing along the avenue of knees in a street car. in obedience to the “move up" of the packing agent of one of those social Black Marias, you come down with maddening emphasis on an unpinned corn The furious exclama tion which follows the deed as natural ly as foam from the drawn cork of a bottle of champagne is arrested in the middle with an obsequious “Beg your pardon!" and the expletive never reaches Heaven's chancery to trouble tile eyes of tile Recording Angel. You tread on the “trail" of a lady and “r-r-r-ip” go the gathers. In trem ulous semitones, plaintive as the “last sigh of tlie Moor." you solicit forgive ness, and she —no, beg pardon, she does not forgive you, but with a scowl that reminds you of the most vindictive of the Don’s tormentors she passes on, thinking daggers but sayiiig nothing.— New York Ledger. A TriOer. Mother—Lucy, busn’t Mr. Jinks pro posed yet? Lucy No, not yet, mamma. Mother—He helped you to put on your gloves last night.. Lucy (shaking her head;— I know tie did, but there are six buttons on the gloves, and when he buttoned the fourth button he asked me if that wasn't enough. It only took him a minute. If lie had any serious Intentions it would have taken him half an hour at least. 1 see he is only trifling with my young a flections. —Chatter. A Macon, Ga.. salesman while travel ing on a southern road was greatly sur prised when a woman occupying an ad joining seat whispered in his ear that his iiersonal beauty had captured her susceptible heart. She was a woman of 45 and by no means beautiful. He took another seat, but she followed him and continued to pour into his ear her tale of passion until every person in tbe car •was laughing. Finally it transpired that the woman was crazy and was then on her way to an asylum. McDQjJOUGH, GA., FRIDAY. JUNE 27. |8»<). Hiiuntcd Hotel Rooms. “Yes, a man who commits suicide in a hotel causes a vast deal of trouble," said an old hotel clerk. “If the nuin l>er of the room in which the deed was committed gets out we always have to renumber the room before we can get anybody to occupy it. I recall an in cident of ti few years ago that is inter esting. A well known Richmond man had committed suicide in one of the Indianapolis hotels. About the time the corpse was removed some of the electric wires in the building got crossed. “That afternoon a traveling man was occupying ii room several doors from tlie one in which tfie suicide laid oc curred. livery time he would call fora Isi_v the register on tlie clerk's desk would point to the number of the room In which the suicide bad occurred and from which the corpse had been re moved only ii few hours before. A boll boy answered the first call and came back white as a sheet, with the an nouncement that no one was in the room. 'Tiiig-a-ling-ii-ling' went the call hell again, and once more tlie regis ter pointed to the ■ room in which the suicide had occurred. A second bell boy was sent to the room, and he came back as badly scared as the (irst, with tint statement that no one was in the room. “ ‘lt is the dead man's ghost,’ said a guest who had become interested in the proceedings. "Again the bell rang, and for the third time the register pointed to the suicide’s room. I ordered a third bell boy to go lip and make sure that there was no one in the room. Not much; lie wouldn't go. Said I wasn’t going to steer him in among spooks. T screwed up my own courage and started up stairs to make an investigation myself. My breath was beginning to come short when I let the traveling man on his way downstairs, fuming because his calls had not been answered. It oc curred to me in a moment that the wires had become crossed.”—lndianap olis News. Why Floys Leave the Farm. Farmers have themselves often to blame for the dislike their sons take to a business in which they find only the rough and hard side of life. Farm work is not so hard and disagreeable us it used to be before the introduction ol much labor saving machinery that now lightens it. Still, though less disagree able, the boys do not like to imve its roughest and worst features put on them. Nor will it make it any bettei fortlio father, who now shirks whatever he dislikes, to tell his sons how much harder he had to work than they when lie was a boy. Farm work is easier than it used to be, and the boys should be the first ones on the farm to find this out practically. Then fewer of them would be led from tlie farm by the attractions of city life. So far ns possible boys ought to have a personal and pecuniary interest in everything they do, and the girls also for that matter. Their labor legally belongs to the parent until they become of age. but he is indeed a strange father who keeps his sons or daughters at work without pay merely to save the wages of hired help. This working without pecuniary interest in what one is doing is too much like slavery. Just as soon as the pressure is ruinpved, and the eliild becomes legally its own master, all restraint is thrown aside. Every young person should have some chance to work for himself on some corner of the farm, and whatever he thus earns should bo his, to be saved or spent tin der parental supervision. In this way the habit of earning money, and tlie knowledge of what it costs to procure it. as well its the best means of using it. may be learned. The farm has undoubtedly greater opportu uities for teaching both boys and girls this practical knowledge of money and its value than any other business in the city can possibly enjoy. A great part of the advantage of living in the country for bringing up a family of children will bo lost unless this oppor tunity is utilized as much as possible.— American Cultivator. According to Size. • “Now, I'll show you over tlio house,” said a friend to mo the other day. She had moved into a south side residence whose numerous bay windows give one the impression of a roomy interior, when in fact the reverse is true. She had made many improvements and was anxious that I should see what n good housekeeper she was. On tlie third floor she threw open a door disclosing an apartment about the size of a bathroom in the average flat, and in which she stored her trunks, va lises, etc. “This,” said sho, "wus the room oc cupied by the former tenant's inaid-of all-work. ” “Was there a hole sawed in the par tition through wliicli to extend her feet (" I inquired, as the story related by Frank Stockton flashed through iny mind. “Oil, no. Emergencies are met in better fashion in Chicago. Instead of making the room tit the girl, as Stock ton did, the girl is selected to fit the room. The lady who formerly resided hero told me that slie lia/1 a small mark on the purlor door, and in choos ing her tielji if the Applicant came up to the mark she got the position, hut if beyond it she had to go, rio matter how superior her qualifications wen-.” —Chicago News. An English naval officer has invented a pneumatic line throwing gun, very light and portable, which fires a hollow shell bearing the cord to a wrecked ’ves sel or into a burning building on dry land. LOST INSTINCTS. i Sounds, Slghtii ami Conn** Known to Aut mult au<l Not to Man. If the doctrine be true tluit man is really the heir of ail the various species and genera of the animal kingdom it seems a little hard upon us that, even by way of exception, we inherit none of the more marvelous instincts of those species and genera, and have to be content with those greater hut pure ly human faculties by which the most wonderful of animal instincts have been extinguished. Sit John I.ubboelt maintains there are Insects, and very likely even higher anidwls, which per i eeive colors of whicj&we have no glimpses and hear sounds which to us ; tire inaudible. Yet we never bear of a j human retina that includes in its vision those colors depending on vibrations of the ether which are too slow or too rapid for our ordinary eyes, nor of a human ear which is entranced with 1 music that to the great majority of our species is absolutely inaudible. Again, we never hear of a human be ing who could perform the feat of which we were told only recently of a blood hound. In a dark night It followed up for three miles the trail of a thief with whom the bloodhound could never liave been In contact (ho had just pur oined some rolls of tan from the tan yard in which the dog was chained up), and finally sat down under the tree in which the man had taken refuge. Why, we wonder, are those liner powers for discriminating and following the track of the scent, which so many of the lower animals possess, entirely ex tinguished in man, if man be the real heir of all the various genera which show powers inferior to his own? We see no trace in animals of that high enjoyment of the finer scents which make the blossoming of the spring flowers so great a delight to human beings, and yet men are entirely destitute of that almost unerring power of tracking the path of an odor winch seems to be one of the principal gifts of many quadrupeds and some birds. It is the same with the power of a dog or cat to find its way back to a borne to which it is attached, but from which it has been taken by a route that it can not possibly follow on its return, even if it had tho power of observing that route, which usually it has not. Nothing could bo more convenient than such a power to a lost child. But none ever heard of p, child who possessed it. Still more enviable is that instinct possessed -by .so mar«y "bh-As of crossing great tracts of laud and sea without ap parently any landmarks or seamarks to guide them, and of reaching a quarter of the globe which many of them have never visited before, while those who have visited it before have not visited it often enough to learn the way The migratory birds must''possess either senses or• instincts entirely be yond the range of human imagination, and yet no one ever heard of the stir vival of such a sense or instinct in any j member of our race It may be said, indeed, that men have either inherited or some way reproduced the slave mak ing instinct of some of the military ants; but this only enhances the irony of our destiny if we do indeed in any sense inherit from these insect aristoc racies one of the most disastrous in stincts of the audacious but indolent creatures which light so much bettor than they work. What is still more curious is that even where human be ings have wholly exceptional and un heard of powers they betray no traces of the exceptional and unheard of pow ers of tlie races whose vital organiza tion wo are said to inherit. The occasional appearance of very rare mathematical powers, for instance, so far from being in any sense expli cable from below, looks much more like inspiration from aofeve. The cal culating boy, who could not even give any account of the process whereby he arrived at correct results which the ed ucated mathematician took some time to verify, certainly was not reviving in himself any of the rare powers of the lower tribes of animals. Nor do the prodigies in music who show such mar velous power in infancy recall to ua any instinct of the .bird, the only mu sical creature except ourselves. Still less, of course, does great moral genius, the genius of a Howard or a Clarkson, suggest any reminiscence of lower an imal life.—American Analyst. Chicago Street Scene. Peter Lynch was awarded a verdict for §485 in liis suit before .Judge Mc- Connell against the Chicago Lumber company for §1.500. Lynch Ills an ex tensive cabbage patch near the corner of Ashland avenue and Thirty-fifth street, immediately north is the lum ber company’s planing mill, lie claims that in the summer of 188.'! the defend ants heaped a huge pile of shavings be hind their-mill, and the wind distribut ed them over liis cabbages. The crop of 1883 was buried out of sight and ruined, while, Lynch says, the ground was so poisoned by the shavings that it was unproductive all the following year.—Chicago Times. Orlj-ln*l Meaning of Cheater. Cheater originally meunt esclieator, or officer of the king's exchequer, ap pointed to receive dues and taxes. The present use of the word shows liotf these officers were wont to li< -eee the people.—Dry Goods Chronicle. It Would Suit. “Now, madam.” said the gentlemanly clerk, “this carpet can't be beat.” “Then I don't want it." replied the shopper. “I always take up my car pets in the spring and beat them." Epoch. $ 1.00 CASH, $ 1.50 ON SPACE : AND WORTH IT. \Tliman's Wit to tho Uoncuo. A last and pleasanter instaneo of tho ready wit of a woman, more instant ! and efficient than ali the wisdom of two philosophers, is the ono told with great enjoyment by was it Edward or Charles Emerson? concerning tho dif ficulties into which Ralph Waldo Em erson and himself found themselves led by a frisky calf, and the solution of these difficulties by the ready wit of their Irish maid. A young calf had got out into the barn yard, and the philosopher and his brother were called upon to drive it back into the barn. They pulled gently at the rojie about its neck, but it load. Then they pulled luxrd. tin did tiu* calf.** Tlie inqiellmg force was then applied from behind. The calf lay down. The two wise men then drew to one side for a few moments and applied their deepest philosophy to the solution of the problem. Tlie result was that they settled upon the “shooing” process that is the favor ite amusement between women and hens. This went on for some time, both men scampering hatless and breathless about the farm yard, the elate calf bounding and running in the wildest manner, and leading in every direction but toward the barn door. Then the Irish maid to tho rescue! With a sniff of unconcealed contempt she stalked before the outwitted sagos up to tho calf, thrust t»vo of her lingers into its mouth and led it, eager and docile, into the ham.—New York Even ing Sun. Tlie Vain litre Hat. A great many Mulhatton yarns have bedn told by travelers about the "ter | rible bloodsucking vampires." The | reader of S >uth American travel is al ways treated to a dish of this kind of j stud, which, if half were facts, would ! make a fellow's hair stand on end to I think of being compelled to sleep in open air in any part of northern South America. The facts seem to be that there is a specie* of bat, phyllostomn spectrum, inhabiting the Central Amor icon republics and South America as ! far south as the yakada, which it pressed for food will fasten itself on animals and tho exposed parts of the j human body for tlie purpose of sucking 1 blood. That sleeping persons are not awak ened by the bat, and that tho incisions through which the blood is drawn readily heal, should be takoti as prooi positive that tlie vampire bat stories, like tlie human vampire stories of Hun gary, are but fabrications of diseased imaginations. The little vampire is an insect eater, perfectly harmless, and not at all feared by tlie natives of tlie re gion which it infests. A recent traveler (Clarke, 1888) says: “I have slept out in the open air in tlie Xingu country in all kinds of weather; have seen hundreds, yes, thousands, of vampire bats, but have always found them perfectly harmless, as much so as j the native black bat of Pennsylvania and York state.” —Bt. Louis Republic. ; IlirriH That l>anco. In his “Pioneering in South Biuzil" Mr. Brigg-Wither relates that one morn ing in the dense forest his attention was roused by the unwonted sound of a bird singing, songsters being rare in that distriet. His men, immediately they caught the sound, invited him to follow them, hinting that ho would probably witness a very curious sight, Cautiously making their way through the dense undergrowth they finally came in sight of a small stony spot of ground at the end of a tiny glade, and on this spot, some on the stone and some on the shrubs, were assembled a number of liltie birds, about the size of tomtits, witli lovely blue plumage and red topknots. One was perched quite still on a twig, singing merrily, while the others were keeping time with wings and feet in n kind of dance, and all twittering an ac companiment. lie watched them for some time, and was satisfied they wore having a ball and concert, and thor oughly enjoying themselves. They then became alarmed, and the performance abruptly terminated, the birds all going oil indifTerentdlrectious. The natives told him that these little creatures were known as the “dancing birds." Gen. Male. In a conversation with Judge Joseph Co*, who Is a very pleasant talker and full of anecdotes and information, he said: “1 was talking to Gen. W. T. Sherman, several years ago, about rid ing horses anil mules, and he said: ‘Cox, a mule is the easiest animal to ride in the world. I always preferred to ride one during the war. In a picture rep resenting the burning of Atlanta tlie artist lias me seated on a fiery steed, with fury in his eye, etc., while the houses are burning and the sol diers are tearing up the railroad iron. Well, I was there; but I was not on u prancing horse, but I was straddled on a plain, common, everyday mule.’ ” Hut of course it would ruin a historical picture to put a great general on a mule instead of a Uery charger.—Cincinnati Porcupine. Now Alloy for Watches. A new alloy is coming into use in stead of steel in the manufacture of various parts of watches, such res the balance wheel and hair spring, so as to obviate the disadvantages which follow their magnetization or oxidation. The alloy is composed of gold, palladium, rhodium, copper, manganese, silver and platinum. The copper and man ganese are first to lx* melted, and the other metals afterward added, or the whole of the constituents may be placed in the crucible at once, with the manganese ut the bottom.—New York Telegram. A GIGANTIC HORSE. A Queer Mounter Tluit llan KxUteit in LtitcluiKl for Over 1,000 Year*. About fvo miles to the north of Liunbonro*, in Berkshire, England, is White Ilorsc hill, on tho summit of which there is a large Rot inn entrench ment called Ufßngton castle. A little below the castle on thp steep side of the hill facing the northwest is the figure of a gigantic white horse, the dimen sions of which extend < vor about jui acre iJ ground, its head, nock, bodv and tail e-must of o ic white line, es does also each of it: i'our legs. Flit* out lines of this monstrous specimen of tlie genus cqu i a. v f I by cutting trenches in tlie cluilk. t f which the hill is maliily eonijvosed, the ditches being 2 or 11 feet in depth jihfiUt JO foot wide. Tlie elt.ilk of Jt.. T mSfrft being of a beautiful white < olr r, and the sur rounding turf the greenest of green, the figure of tlie horse etui be plainly scon at a distance of twelve miles, end even farther, it raid, if the sun i shining brightly. A white horse is known to have been tin* standard of the Buxons, and some have supposed that this monster em blematic figure was made In- Hengist, one of tho Saxon kings Mr. M r i»;', an author who has written much of the celebrated white horse of Berkshire, bring: several arguments to prove that this figure was made under order of Al fred during the reign of Ethulrc 1, his brother, and that the figure is a momt meat to a victory over the Danes in the year 1)71. Oth r well known writers arc of the opinion that tho wonderful white horse is a natural freak, rate of nature's oddest oddities. Ashme.nl Burton thinks that the early tribes noted the outlines of a horse on the hillside and gradually worked it Into its present graceful symmetry. However this may be, it has been a custom since time out of memory foi tlie neighboring peasants to assemble on a certain day of each year, usually about midsummer, to clear away the weeds from the White Horse and trim tin edges of the troncli so as to preserve flic color and shape. This task is known for miles around as “Scouring the Horse.” A large uiound at the foot of White Horse Ilill and almost directly under the "Horse'' is called Dragon Hill. Here, according to tradition, Bt. George killed tho dragon. On the top of this mound, or “barrow," there is a space about fifty yards square upon which not a B[>ear at grass has grown during the last thousand yuan. Tim peasant* say that the grass cannot grow on ac count of tho ground having been poi soned with the dragon’s blood at the time Bt. Georg® gave him tho fatid wound.—St. Louis Republic. "Down on the Null.” This is a well known half slang phrase used for a cash payment. Of its history I cannot sjicak, but I con fess to feeling startled when I found it, as it seems to me, in a parliamentary deed of King Robert tile Hruce. By indenture dated July 15, 132fi (Scots Acts I. 17(ij, a tenth penny wis cove nanted for. payable to the king. On bis part ho agreed not to evict certain prises and carriages unless he was puss ing through the realm,-after the eas tern of his predecessor, Alexander 111, ‘‘for which prises and carriages full payment should he made supi r un guem.” (The .words are, ‘‘Pro quibtis prisiset cariagiis plena flat soluclosuper unguem.") 1 am aware of the classical use of the pliraso “in unguem,” or “ad mi guem,” signifying “to a nicety,” but it does not seem to apply here. At the same time the corresponding French phrase “payer rubis sur bougie" may make this doubtful. Just below tho passage cited occurs another, In which payment is to be made “in tuanii.” Both in my opinion refer to ready money, and 1 do not hesitate to trail* late “super unguem” "down on the nail.” Hitherto I liavo supposed the uuii to bo a figure of sjieech for tho counter on which the coin was told. Apparently this is erroneous, as it is clearly the fingernail which is referred to.—Note* and Queries. Old I'ukliloupil I*ur»oiirt. The old fashioned country pursonsof the English church lived more on the social level of tho farmers and yeomen than of tho squires, though in many cases they were men of culture. The Rev. S. Baring Gould tolls an anecdote of a parson of this class who was in vited to spend two days with a great squire some miles from tho parsonage. He went, stayed his allotted time and disappeared. Two days later the lady of the house, happening to go into tho servants’ hall in the evening, was amazed to find her lute guest there. After he had finished his visit upstair* he hud accepted the invitation of tho butler to spend another two days be low. “hike Persephone, madam,” he wild apologetically, “half my time above, lialf in the nether world.”- Youth's Companion. Pianos, which have long been con sidered necessary school furniture in American schools, are being introduced into English Ixmrd school*, in which all sorts of devices for' accompaniment haxe been used previously. One teacher complained that the whistling of tho Ixiys frequently was too shrill and drowned the girls’ voices. The effect of the electric current on the compasses of some vessels is so great that it become* necessary to determine how many hours the dynamo has been running before working out the ves sel's i tokening. for ft 3larlno llftrometcr. A suggestion for bettering weather predictions lms boon made by C.ipt. Franklin Fox, a well known English Seaman. During January, 1890, when terrific gales burst upon tlio Ilritish islands, he finds that barometers at London gave no reliable monitions of theso disastrous cyclones. Ills own idea is that the atmospheric power of rising or depressing the mercury in a barometer is affected by the amount of electricity in the air at the moment, and tluit * ‘to have strict,reliable weather glasses wo require electric tests of the conditions of the atmosphere attached to them.” It may be true, os Capt. Fox has sup posed, that electricity has nn effect on tho oscillations of the mercury in the glass. During {he passage of au eko tric storm over a station the mercury, for reasons never fully explained, al most invariably rises or falls very rap idly, though it often returns to its pro vious level when the storm is past. There is little doubt that the electrical shite of clouds, as Lord Itayleigh has shown, determines their precipitation, and the down rush of rain, always ac companied by a down rush of air, will tend to sustain or elevate the mercury —an effect likely to be intensified when tho descending air Is filled with the smoke and dust arising over a great city. When, therefore, a great storm is ap proaching. and clouds In its front are in that electrical condition which fa vors heavy and prolonged precipita tion from them, tho effect may very naturally account for the barometric phenomenon noted by ('apt. Fox. At all events, tho series of experiments which he proposes could not fall to throw new and valuable light upon the degree of reliance to be placed upon the weather glass. If the invention of a reliable marine barometer should be the result of such experiments it would be the means of saving thousands of lives and ships from the ocean cyclone. —New Orleans Picayune. A (ifiMM-mu Farmer. Rev. Smith Baker, of Lowell, Mass., formerly of Maine, while in Saco told of an experience he once had while holding a pastorate near Bangor. There was a well to do farmer who lived on the opposite bank of the Penobscot from Mr. Baker’s residence who one spring, whentho ice on the river was breaking up, lost a daughter. Mr. Baker was asked to officiate at tho fu neral, which lie did, being obliged to biro a horse and carriage to make the journey, tho nearest bridge 1 icing some distance up tho river. Nothing was said about paying him either for Ins services or his expenses. A little while afterward another death occurred in tho family. Mr. Baker was again a ked to conduct tho services, which lie did, this time hiring a man to row Idm across tho river, tuid agtdu witli no mention of compensation. Tho next spring the farmer's mother passed away. Mr. Baker was obliged to make tlio Journey tts ho did tiro first time by carriage. This time tlio farmer went to Mr. Baker and said: “Mr. you have been very kind to come over hero to conduct these funerals at at such an expense to you, and 1 feci that it is asking altogether too much. I want to pay you something. So next fall, when theapplcw are ripe, you drive around and you can help yoyrsclf from my orchard.”—Lewiston Journal. lie Didn’t Tell HU l’lirentH. “1 liavo never been so happy before in all my life," said Henry Soulen, the father of* a 15-year-old boy who fell from a fifth story window in the Now Insurance building, and was saved from a horrible death by alighting upon a mass of telegraph wires. Mr. Soulen was talking about his soil’s escape, and. although two days had elapsed, his voice trembled with emotion. “I have just been over to tho scene of the acci dent,” ho stated, “and consider that my boy’s escape was simply wonderful. The wires upon which he fell are not more than a dozen in number." It ap [tears that young Soulen did not tell ids parents of liis frightful experience. “John reached home Saturday even ing,” suid his father, “ate his supper, and acted as if nothing had hap pened. Ho thought he might as well keep quiet so long as ho had not been hurt. In tho evening my son Herman, who had read about tho affair wiiilo down town, rushed into the house, grabbed John in his arms arid thanked God that ho was still alive. Then we heard for tiro first time of John’s fear ful experience.”—Milwaukee Wisconsin. Sevt’Uty-thrce Roses on 111 m Coffin. A pretty little episode in tho life of the late I)r. Byford was revealed at his funeral. The noted doctor had many devoted friends, and among them were Dr. and Mrs. Henrotin. The latter lias for a number of years been in the habit of sending Dr. Byford a white roso on his birthday. She carried the rose to liim on the last anniversary, and he then said to her: “You must bring seventy-three roses next year, for i shall be that many years old.” The doctor died before his seventy-third birthday arrived, but Mrs. Henrotin at tended the funeral and brought tho seventy-threo white roses which wero laid on liis casket.—Cliieago Herald. Embroidered handkerchiefs had eouio into use in Shakespeare’s time, as is proved by the important part which Desdeuiona's handkerchief—or “nap kin,” as it is called—plays In tho trage dy of “Otliclo.” But as yet the pos sessors of handkerchiefs were lords and ladies. Even iu the Seventeenth cen tury the common people knew no such luxury. NO. 45