Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

i ' (Fine f&ttimu Sullivan Brothers, Publishers. Subscription Itateg: One Copy one year - - $2 00 « “ six months - 1 00 « “ three months - 50 v 0 si T I V E L Y CASH. Yolume 2. Waynesboro, Georgia, Friday, February 29th, 1884.. Number 41. Advertising: llaOg t Trunslput mlvs. payable In advance. Font root mlvs. payable quarterly. CoiiununlelltioUH for pcisoiml benefit wlllbo elmrj'ed for us mlvs., puyublo In mlvunce. Advs. occupying upoelul position charged 25 per cent, additional. Notices KinoiiK rending matter 10 cents per line, each Insertion. Notices In Local A lluslnoss column, next to remllnst, •"> cents per line each Insertion. All notices will be placed among rending mutter If not specially ordered otherwise. For terms apply at thisolHce. lion. George F. Pierce, jr., Solici- (or-Gcnoral of the Northern Circuit, is dead. A jury <>f womei) tried a divorce C11S0 nt Chenc, Wyoming, recently. Tlic poor husband suffered. A man and his wife, in Gaines ville cat over 1,200 pounds of Hour list year, and their combined weight is less titan 200 pounds. A white man who is deaf, dumb, ;j ot c and friendless, is in the poor house at Lexington, pending an of ficial attempt to learn of the where abouts of bis relatives. England lias presented the Uni ted States with a vessel to search for tin- Greeley expedition. After awhile another vessel will he need ed to go after the searchers. The Dahloncga Signal says that there is evidently not a man in Lumpkin county who could not run some other man’s business better than the other man is doing it. Manatohia and British Columbia have been on the edge of trouble for some time, and the drift of events in Canada is strengthening the tendency towards separation. English railroads are adopting ears m which there are boxes fitted up inside with india-rubber panel ing and floor covering, for the trans portation of valuable race horses. Albany Medium: If the “old moss backs” arc successful, the next Legislature of Georgia will be “Joe Brown” in sentiment. From such a curse, good Lord deliver us. A gentleman who once lived in Athens, was bitten on the hand bya womanman. The wound at once began to inflame, and resulted in death. [She must have been the “pizen”sort.l The election on the sewerage ques tion, with the privilege of taxing property one-fourt h of one per cent., which came off in Augusta Tues day, was carried for sewerage by an overwhelming majority. Old Simon Cameron passed safely through Georgia last week, to Jack sonville, Fla. And yet some of the “Christian statemen” of the Radical party would have the world believe that the white people of the South are professional murderers. On Saturday a lady visiting Chi cago, and stopping at the Palmer House, while in her private parlor was assaulted by a man who choked and chloroformed her, and then robbed her of $100. When she re covered the robber had fled. Columbus Times: Farmers from different sections report that the young oats are looking fresh and green, and that if the weather from this on continues to he propitious, u large crop of grain will be harvest ed this year. This is good news to ns, and we hope that all will yet turn out well. Calhoun Times: One of our col ored merchants finding that his cash did not balance with his sales concluded to search his little col ored clerk. Upon an examination the boss found in one of little cuffy’s inside pockets, two dollars and the left fore foot of a graveyard rahit.— The balance was complete. Lincoln News: Flocks of wild geese are on the rampage up and down the Savannah river. They enter upon and destroy whole fields °f grain. Mr. N. W. Stevenson tells us that much of his best wheat has been completely ruined by them.— ft is said that no vegetation can survive their venimous touch. There is a farmer in Berrien county who gathered 700 bushels of corn from a 25 acre field last year, f lic same farmer plants a JO acre Held in cotton, from which he lias gathered an average of 80 hales a year for the last eight years, the highest number of any one year being 88 heavy hales. Still we know men who travel half over the I ulon for good farming lands. In Macon county Miss Lula Jolly Inis a school, and Miss Lula Bar- Held is a pupil. The youg lady was standing very near the fire and her dress caught on fire, and she was Instantly enveloped in flames.— Miss Jolly saw the great danger of 'be young lady, and rushed to her assistance, and with great presence °f mind pulled off her own cloak, •nnl threw it about the head and shoulders of the burning young la dy, and extinguished the flames.— Miss Barfield was badly burned nlnuit the head, neck and shoulders, ll| nl it is thought that it will prove hital. Miss Jolly was painfully burned about the hands in her ef- lorts to put the tire out. The Woman win Shuts her Kyea. A contributor to one of the mag azines knows a woman who lias the habit of shutt.ng her eyes at certain points of her conversation, and, in deed, whenever she sees or hours anything of which she may not ful ly approve. Ho seems to think that this is such a rare instance that its Importance justifies a magazine article, and lie sketches discriptivc- ly and discursively thTs peculiar trait of the woman he knows. His acquaintance with the sex must he very limited, observes the Louisville Courier-Journal, if only one such woman lias come under his observation, for the woman who shuts her eyes is everywhere, and his lot must indeed lie cast in social sterrility who does not know her by the dozen. In conversation, this habit is at once an armor and a weapon, ca llable of the most effective and the most varied employment. One of the most common impressions which it produces is of an in ward contemplation, a spiritual ex altation which shuts out as with a subtile barrier the person to whom her oral language may he address ed. Then, again, it seems as an em phasis to the most trivial and con versational remarks. What young man has not felt a wave of eestaey undulate through his being when this woman makes some conven tional observation as to the bulle tin from the signal service oflice, and closes her eyes in that demure way which tells him eloquently that her thoughts are not of wind and weather? There is a way which she has of shutting her eyes which shuts the favored man in with her, and her alone, and shuts out all the world beside, just as if she was pulling down the blinds and draw ing the curtains; and there is an other way she lias of shutting them, however generous, gentle and kind ly may be her words, which shuts him out from her as completely as if the gates of S f . Peter had been slammed in his face. It is a sweet characteristic of woman that she oftentimes consid erately drops her eyelids when she finds it necessary or advisable to say the most disagreeable and cru dest of tilings. The man who finds that he lias run short of change, or who has left his pocket- book in his other clothes, generally observes that she shuts her eyes in the most complacent and exas perating manner when she accepts an invitation to stop in a restaurant after the theatre and take some re freshments, although there are philosophers who hold that she does not shut her eyes so much to prevent herself seeing the pain she inflicts, as in anticipation of the pleasure she is to receive from the refreshments. The woman who shuts her eyes— and opens her mouth—may he seen anywhere, standing on a chair when anyone may chance to yell “mouse.” She can he seen whenever she attempts to Hit anything with a stono or other projectile, or when ever she proposes to strike the “hull’s eye” with gun or pistol. She can ho seen any Monday at the street-crossings when there hap pens to ho two of her who delibe rately determine to cross double-file in spite of the masculine pedestrian who may he trying to keep from being shoved overboard into the mire. She generally shuts her eyes per sistently and blindly during the in teresting period of courtship, and it is the mistake of her life that slie does not keep them shut after mar riage. Rare is the woman so hap py as a wife as she who shuts her eyes to the real nature ot the man whom she idealized into a demigod before marriage, and rarer is the man so content as a husband as he whose wife shuts her eyes to the crochets and eccentricities, the go ings and comings, the doings and not doings, hut particularly of Him she lias sworn to honor ami obey. The woman who never shuts her eyes except in sleep, has either not yet arrived at the years or state of womanhood, or is incapable of expanding into the fullness of real womanhood. There Is one infallible test of this. A few years ago there was much talk about what was termed tho “Abbott kiss.” The form of oscu lation was so named by a class of emotional or empiric paupers, who either were constitutionally inca pable of comprehending the nature of a true kiss, or whose experience had been so limited that they laid not discovered it for themselves— Consequently, when these people behold a practical Illustration ot such a kiss on the stage, they forth with moved among themselves, and they exclaimed one to another: “Behold! this is something new ami soulful in a kiss. It is altogether different from tho conventional lip contacts, the touch-and-go pecks, tHo resounding “busses” which we have known among ourselves.— Verily, this deserves to he set apart from other kisses, let us designate it the “Abbott kiss.” “Abbott kiss,” indeed! Boor, pit iable, narrow, starved, rhinoceros- skinned wretches, who did not know a real kiss until it was shown to them. As if tho “Abbott kiss” was not as old as lips and love; and as if its desecration, its impious mockery on the stage, before the glaring foot-lights and the eyes of staring hundreds, should give it, a name. This aside, however, it is noticed as a characteristic of this kiss that the woman is the one who shuts her eyes. It is indispensably so.— The kiss would he a complete iail- ure otherwise. A man may set it down, therefore, as a rule, to which there are no recognized exceptions, that the woman who keeps her eyes wide open while taking part in one these performances is not a genu- uine woman, and is not, therefore, worth kissing. And there is not a man in a hundred so obtuse that lie will not shun as he would a pesti lence the woman who, when en gaged in one of these lingering kisses, does not intuitively and beautifully close her eyes, instead of staring imperturbably at the fig ure on the wall paper, or criti cally examining the mole dh his nose. But it were vain to attempt the enumeration of tho different varie ties of women who shut their eyes. The above examples are only reci ted as an indication that she is not so rare as the writer of magazine article seems to think. Now, if he knows some woman who shuts her eyes when she passes her own sex, who is particularly well dressed or particularly ill dressed, then indeed he might appropriately embalm her in a magazine or even in a hook. A Novel Cose. Cor. Augusta Nows. Atlanta,Feb. 25.—Rather a nov el law ease came up in the courts of one of the lower* counties. The in surance laws of the State provide that any one acting as the agent of an insurance company not author ized to transact business in the State, is liable for all taxes, fees, etc., and in ease of loss in damages to tho insured. In addition to this, he is liable to punishment under section 4310 of the code. For fail ure to make its semi-annual state ment, last July, the authority of a life insurance company was with drawn. The agent not having the fear of the law before his eyes took an application which was rejected by the company. The applicant, however, was not satisfied, hut met tho agent under the code, and is preparing to make it hot for him.— The sheriff of Decatur county was here a few days ago, and arrested him. Thus the ball open, and the agent will have a lively time. This sort of under ground insurance is constantly being done though this is the first ease which has resulted in a suit. I learn that the plaintiff has other charges against the agent, and lie evidently does not intend to give him a chance to escape. A Living Ileath. A horrible discovery was made one morning recently in a box-car on the C., N. O. and T. B. railway. The ear was what is known ns the hoarding-car, used for section men and had been side-tracked for sev eral weeks in the yard at Ludlow, Ky. It was locked, and an employe had reason to open it, when lie was nearly overwhelmed by a terrible stench issuing from the inside. In vestigation discovered a negro who was still alive, but whose feet and legs wore literally decomposed. Medical assistance was at once summoned, Hut a careful investiga tion was for the time impossible.— The sufferer told the following sto ry: He laid entered the car one night a few weeks ago to sleep, and while there was accidentally lock ed in. The weather was very cold, and he froze both legs, and thus lay for two whole weeks in a ghast ly condition, his logs slowly rotting away, and still lie was unable to secure his release. lie had a chunk of meat which lie gnawed at inter vals, and thus managed to keep himself alive. The man was still conscious when found. Ho was removed by train to Cincinnati for treatment. A lady returning home later than usual, found her little three-years old girl in lied. The latter was ask ed: “Lillie, have you said your prayers?” “Yes.” “To whom did you say them, Lillie?” “There was nobody here to Hay them to, so 1 said ’em to God.” CotiKrrfts Fighting tho L«ttorlo«. On Tuesday Mr. Wilson, of the Senate, reported favorably, with amendments, from the committee on postofiiees and post roads, the hill introduced by Senator Sawyer to prohibit tho mailing of newspa pers and other publications contain ing lottery advertisements. The hill as it was introducod provided that it should he unlawful to depos it in any mail receptacle, postal car, post-office or to convey by mail or to give to any employe of the postal service to he sent by mail any newspaper, pamphlet, or other publication containing an advertise ment or other notice of a lot'cry, or agency of a lottery, or ot a lottery drawing, and prescribes penalties for the violation of these provisions. The prohibitions contained in the original hill are retained in the hill as reported, hut the hill is amended by striking out the penalty section, and the substitution therefor of the following: “Any person engaged in publishing a newspaper ns owner or part owner, proprietor, agent, manager or superintendent, presi dent or other officer connected therewith, and any person engaged in conducting a lottery as owner, or part owner, and any person com nected therewith as superintendent, manager, agent, or in any other ca pacity, violating the provisions of this act, upon conviction thereof, shall he liable to a fine for each of fense of not less than $200, with the costs of prosecution, or imprison ment for not less than thirty days nor more than one year, or both at tiie discretion of the court.” It is also amended by an addition al section, ns follows: “All other persons not embraced in the foregoing section, who shall violate the provisions of this act, with intent to give circulation to any advertisement or notice of a lottery, or any agency thereof, or any notice, report, or statement of any drawing of a lottery, shall ho subject to the penalty prescribed in the first section of this act.” The minority report, signed by Senators Jackson, Maxey and Groome oppose the hill on constitu tional grounds. It is a very long argument, most of which is that the general government lias no power to suppress gambling in any State, and consequently no power to pro hibit the use of the mails to news papers published in the States con taining lottery advertisements. LongNtrcnt’i) Accounts. Washington, Feb. 27.—General Longstreet United States Marshal of tiie Northern District of Georgia, was examined to-day by the com mittee engaged in investigating the expenditures of the Department of Justice. He produced a letter writ ten to the Attorney General in June, 1882, in which lie says that it was one year, less twenty-two days, since ho had taken charge of the office, and that during that time he had received no instructions as to his work, or the manner of making accounts. He asked that an exam iner he sent to look into the ac counts of tiie marshal’s office before the close of the fiscal year. The At torney General complied with tiie request, and sent an examiner to Atlanta. General Longstreet said that the examiner called at his office, remained hut a few moments and failed to give any instructions. The accounts that year, the witness testified, have not yet been settled. Statements were produced showing that the almrgos made by the mar shal in civil eases were the same as those made by sheriffs in Georgia. General Longstreet said that a combination had been formed against him in 1882 to effect his re moval, and secure the appointment as marshal of J. E. Bryant, and ns ills chief deputy Examiner Ballin. Suggestion* to llualiauili. Do not Jest with your wife upon a subject in which there is danger of wounding her feelings. Remem- that she treasures every word you utter. Do not speak of some virtue in another mail’s wife to remind your own of a fault. Do not re proach your wife of personal defects, for if she has sensibility you inflict a wound difficult to heal. Do not treat your wife with inattention when in company; it touches her pride, and she will not respect you moro or love you better for it. Do not upbraid your wife in the pres ence of a third person; the sense of your disregard for her feelings will prevent her acknowledging her fault. Do not entertain your wife with praises of tiie beauty and ac complishments of othor women. If you would have a pleasant homo and a choorful wife, puss your even ings under your own roof. Do not he stern and silent In your own house, and reinarkublo for socia bility elsewhere. MnJ. (Jeo. T. Ilarncs' Interviewed. Atlanta Constitution special. Washington, February 27.—Mr. George T. Barnes has been the rep resentative of Georgia on the Nat ional Democratic Committee since 187(5. lie has represented the State at large in every national conven tion since the war, except that which indorsed Greeley at Balti- timrre. Few men are better posted in polities than he. He said to me, after coming down from the Arling ton the other night: “We have had a sort of love feast. I never saw a meeting pass off more har moniously or leave a healthier im pression.” “Was there any speciul signifi cance in the call ?” “No. It was purely a business matter. Chicago was chosen over St. Louis, because St. Louis allied itself to an early date and the sense of the committee favored a late date. I don’t know that we called the convention late enough.” “Did the members of the com mittee talk much of candidates?” “I heard very little said on the subject. I don’t think it was our business to discuss such questions, and so far as I know no man’s boom was promoted by the trans actions of the committee.” . “Is there anything in the talk that tiie defeat of St. Louis was an unfavorable event to the old ticket?” “Nothing whatever. That is one of the idlest of the many idle ru mors in connection with the pro ceedings of the committee. “Do you believe that Mr. Tilden is a candidate?” “I enn’tsay. I have seen nothing from him to guarantee the state ment that he is a candidate. I have not seen Mr. Tilden in a year or two to talk to him. When I was in New York lust summer I went up to Greystone, hut missed him. I saw him at a distance riding in his carriage. I seriously doubt if lie is ever an active participant in political affairs again.” “Is the feeling of the committee hopeful?” “Very. The party may not he exactly in as good shape as it was six months ago, hut a healthy feel ing pervades it and I am quite con fident that we can win this time with any degree of prudence to di rect us. The representatives of the committee generally think so and we go into the campaign with more enthusiasm than we have had since the war.” “Who is your favorite candidate ?” “I have no pet ambition in that line. We have several men who can lead us to victory and I am for any of them.” Oil on the Waters. Manchester Courier. Experiments took place a few days ago from Folkestone pier and beach illustrative of tiie effect of oil upon rough seas. The life-boat fully manned, was used to test tiie difference between the ordinary sea and the oiled arer. There was a stiff breeze from the southwest, and the sea was tolerably lumpy, with a strong tide running eastward.— Twenty-five gallons of oil were forced through a pipe laid 500 feet westward, which rapidly spread on the surface, and for ten minutes its effect could he seen in no broken wa ter appearing anywhere within tiie oily area. The crested waves rolled up to the outer edge and then sub sided into a swell. The current in a very short time carried the oil a mile'to the eastward In line with the end of the pier, and this acted as a breakwater, so that the broken water on the land side gradually became much smoother. An ad journment was subsequently made to the beach, where some patent shells, containing a gallon of oil, were fired seaward from a mortar. These hurst, and the oil was dis tributed on the surface with a sim ilar calming effect. A long flexi ble hose was also projected into the sen, through which oil could he pumped if necessary. Both shells and hose are intended to he used in the ease of stranded vessls. Duck* unit (lulls Fighting fur Fish. Portland Oregonian, February lflth. Since the cold spell set in the river in front of the city lm* been frequented by large numbers of “fish ducks,” attracted probably by fact that the river is kept open, the fishing is good, and they are not molested by the hunters. Yester day forenoon, a large number of them were busy fishing In tho rivt r off the Ash street dock. Their mo tions could he plaluly seen through a glass. Down would go a duck here and another there, and after what seemed a long time to the watcher up they came, and in near ly every instance each with a fish in his hill. A crowd of hungry gulls who could not dive were on the watch, and the moment a thick came to the surface three or four gulls would pounce down upon him ami strive to tear the fish from him. They succeeded in many in stances, hut in most cases the thick, while being chased, managed to Hip the fish down his throat. When a gull did got a fislt away from a tluek all the other gulls went to him and sometimes several gulls would have hold of a fish at once. CllIlRKNT (ILKAMMtS. Boys Killed. Omaha, Neb., February 27.— Four boys, ten to seventeen years old, while hunting south of the c ity this afternoon, exploded a powder house containing over six tons of powder. All four were blown to atoms. Turn About that Isn’t Fair I’Uy. Cummlng Clarion. Senator Brown wants “missiona ries” sent to the Mormons. That would he nice. Send missionaries to them to convert the men while they send missionaries to North Georgia to convert the women. A Mules Thrilling Adventure. Butte Inter-Mountain. The mule which fell two hundred feet down the Moulton shaft yester day is still there. He has been hacked up against the fnce ot the three hundred feet west drift and is kicking down ore at the rate of five tons per day. The kick of a mule is considered equal to two stocks of giant powder and it is likely that the latter will be dis carded and mules substituted. Unsympathetic. A Kentuckian named William King was recently converted at a revival meeting in that State, whereupon he publicly confessed he had robbed a store twenty years before. He paid the proprietor the value of the stolen goods with in terest, hut the unsympathetic groceryman threw him into jail, where he now languishes and ru minates on the very little encour agement that Kentucky otters to the erring sinner to repent. A Monster Whale Captured near Port Royal. An immense whale has just been captured off the coast and towed into Fort Royal. The whalers often come down as far as Hilton Head and Tybee, and in this instance they ha^e made a famous catch. The liarpooners have anchored their burden on the dock and are prepar ing for active derations. The monster measures 75 feet in length and stands or lias 18 feet high in the dock. The size of the whale war rants an estimate of 1,000 pounds of bone and 400 barrels of oil. The value of the whale will thus he about $17,000. The scene about the big fish is said to resemble a regular whale fishery, and some reports from tiie coast give evidence of big excitement about the pet of Fort Royal. Tlio Jeannette Victims. N. Y. Tribune. The final act in the tragedy of the Jeanette expedition is ended. With the last echo of the volley fired over their graves DeLong and his dead companions passed into history. The man who hoped so much, accomplished so little and died so heroically, sleeps well upon the snow-covered hillside, sorround- ed by five of those brave seamen who shared liis fate. It seems bet ter to think of his lying where “Of his ashes may he made the violets of His native land,” than resting amid tiie iiorrors of tiie region where lie lost His life. The body of All Sam will go hack to China, that of Collins will rest beneath the green turf of his loved Ireland. Dr. Ambler will he buried in his native State of Virginia, and Boyd in Philadelphia. Though those who suffered and died together will thus rest far apart, every grave will tell a tale of devotion and self-sac rifice that will never bo forgotten. Tho IMaputoil Treasure. Washington, February 27.—Mr. Mahone introduced in the Senate to-day a Joint resolution for the re lief of Win. II. Isaacs, of Richmond, Virginia. Tho resolution lias ref erence to tho joint claims of the Exchange hank of Virginia, the hank of Virginia, and tiie Farmer’s hank of Virginia, for the restora tion of $100,000 seized at Augusta, Georgia, in August, 18(55, by General Wild, and now held ns a special deposit in the United States Treas ury, which money was removed by tho hanks from Richmond on tho day preceding the day of the evacuation of that city by the con federate forces, and after having been transported to several places for security, hud been finally de posited in a hank in Augusta. It was seized by General Wild, in charge of the freedmen’s bureau, on the ground that, although it was originally the private property of hanks, it had become, through some contract or dealing with the Confederate States, the property of that Government, and having been abandoned on tho dissolution of said Government, was at the time of the seizure tho property of the United States. THo resolution provides for the consideration of the claim by tho Court of Claims. Subscriptions are positively cash HUMOROUS PARAGRAPHS. Wo stood In sunset's fitful glow, That made the hair nil golden. Of Mnry Ann, a maiden fair, (And also somewhat olden); Upon my shoulder sank her head; Her cheeks wore slightly rosy, Her eyes, of Heaven’s softest blue, llld ’neath tho lids so cosy. I glued my lips unto her own; Squo/,o till 1 feared I’d crack her, Hho murmured softly. “Gracious, Bill, Yer breath smells of torbaoker.” A cold spell—Z-e-ro. Indian affairs—wigwam. Bill-collecting is easier said than “dun.” “Lost—Two cows; one of them is a hull.” “I’m the greatest corn remover,” sings the crow. To call a little girl deer is making game of her. One thing in which two heads are better than one—a barrel. Novor hurry a hen in spring-time. She might lay a scrambled egg. It is not always the flower of the family that furnishes the bread. Yes, Albert, a barrel is made of many pieces. The only hole thing about it is the hung. Some young men are so improvi dent that they cannot keep any thing hut late hours. Has it ever occurred to baseball men that a milk pitcher is general ly a good fly catcher? A color of cloth for coats is called “sugar.” If the dudes adopt it they will he sugar-coated pills. “Are those pure canaries?” “Yes, sir,” said the dealer, “I raised them ’ere birds from canary seed.” A sociable man is one who, hav ing ten minutes to spare, goes and bothers somebody who hasn’t. Bhilosopliy is something that en ables a person to hear with resigna tion the misfortunes of others. Teacher—“What does the proverb say about those who live in glass houses?” “Bull down the blinds.” Tramps existed many, many years ago. One of Watt’s earliest hymns was, “Let dogs delight to hark and bite.” “Don’t you know it’s wicked to catch fish on the Sabbath?” Small boy (not having a bite all the morn ing)—“Who’s catching fish?” Rev. Mr. Shipp married four couples in fifteen minutes, which, calculates the Whitehall Times, is at the rate of sixteen knots per hour for that Shipp. “Sergeant, how many men have you now ? we’ll have to he moving soon.” Oh, I’vo got a host.” “A host—liow is that?” “Why, I’vo conscripted my landlord.” “Is it wrong to cheat a lawyer?” was recently very ably discussed by the members of a debating society. The conclusion arrived at was, it was not wrong, hut impossible. A sketch in a story paper is called “A Woman’s Smile.” It is evident ly founded on a glass of soda water. A man’s “smile” would make a stronger foundation for a story. “Yes,” said the man, “I’m glad my neighbor’s son has had the good luck to be appointed a cadet at West Point. I’d rather he’d have been sent to State prison for thirty years. But anything to get rid of him! I congratulate him—and my self.” A young man who laid been go ing with a Vermont girl for some time, and had made her several presents, asked her one day if site would accept a puppy. Ho was aw ful mad when Hhe repliod that her mother had told her, if he pro posed to her, to say no. An Englishman was onco boast ing to an American that they had tv hook in the British museum which was once owned by Cicero. “Oh, that’s nothin’,” retorted the Ameri can. “in Besting they’ve got tho loud pencil that Nouh used to cheek off the animals that went into tho ark.” Tho cheapest and best gymnasium in tiie world—one that will exercise every hone and muscle in the body —is a flat piece of steel, notched in one side, fitted tightly Into a wood en frame, and after being greased on both sides with a Imcon rind, rubbed into u stick of wood laid lengthwise on a sawbuck. Beecher says four-fifths of tho people in heaven will he women. “That is all riglit enough,” says Geo. Beck. “Nobody ought to kick at that. Four-fifths of tho women are better than the men, any-way, and they ought to go to heaven.— But according to that story, what tv stag party there is going to ho standing around the fire in the oth er place.”