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Newspaper Page TextTHE MERCURY. , .a nfloond-clM* mutter at the Sen* pctoffloe, April 27, 1880. Sartewllle, TTrtlDgUn Craitr, rOlUIBID BT JERNIGAN & SCARBOROUGH. gB taerip»ion. ■•1.60 per Tear. THE ME RI I RI A. J. JERNIGAN, Proprietor DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. 91.50 PER ANNUAL VOL. I. SANBERSVILLE, GA., NOVEMBER 16, 1880. NO, 33. THE MERCURY. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY. NOTICE. All ooaunhnioaUon. Intended for tkfc paper molt be aoeompanied with the hill nam. ol the writer, not me wearily lor publi cation, but a* a guarantee of good faith. We are in no way responsible tor the view, •r opinion, of eorrwpondente. G W . H. WHITAKER. dentist, Sandemille, Ga. Terms Cast?. onioc At t'ifi reAidenoe on Harri. Street. April 3, 1830. B. D. EVANS, Attorney at Law, Sanderarille, Ga. April 3, 1830. DR. WM. RAWLINGS, Physician & Surgeon, Sander.riDe, Ga. s ty Office At S&ndorrvlUe Hotel. I'^pril 10, 1880. E. A. SULLIVAN, NOTARY PUBLIC. Sandorsville, Ga. 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BUY YOUR Spectacles, Spectacles, FROM JERNIGAN. @**Nona genuine without onr Trade Mark. On band and for sale. Music, QO TO Music. JERNIGAN FOB NOUNS, ACC0RDE0NS, BOWS, STRINGS, J*°SIN BOXES, ETC. Mach Around the Year. Love oume lo in ihe spring-time, With the soli, swent April showers- Her breath whs the breulh ol the woodland, And her lnp was fflle l wiih flowers. Ilor step whs n song In ihe s.l noe-, Its melody l oan and lull As shu darned ihrongh the Iragmnt twilight To tho bower wo know so well. And tho Spring glidod on to tho summer With the llamo ol Us lervont darts, And tho noon ol tho Hooting senson Was tho noon ol our benting hearts. Hitt tho autumn enme with its shadows, And noon was no longer hot; And tho Irost crept Into our pulsos, ‘And summer and spring wore not, And lovo was allvo with tho winter, Hut her beauty and graoo had fled; ’Mi l tho snows of March I lelt her, With a cypress wreath at hor head. —Hari Lyman, in Harper't Magazine. BOWKER’S TRIUMPH, THE nLIHSFUL MND OF A OOLLTHlt’s COUltT- HIIIP. William ilcscondod to the pump in the hack yard, and had a wash in tho half-light of four o’clock, and Selina got out of hod and took sly poops at him through hor tours. William, his ablu tions over, wont out for a dreary stroll, past tho Hilly pioce, and ovor Htovon- son s hills, and down Jacob's ladder, and Dead Matt’s lano, and on to tho brook- sido again. There, on Juno bridge, he stood and watched tho oddios circlo around tho great stones, and found that nogativo and bowildorod comfort which trouble always finds in running water. Moanwhile Solinahad gonobaek to bod, and had there renewed hor team, and was finding somo comfort in running water also. And, at tho momont when William stood upon Juno bridge, Abra ham Gough, in a suit of flannols, was making Iris way to tho day shift in tho Strip-anil-at-it. Lost you should find yoursolf too much disturbod by tho phrase, let mo explain that tho Strip-and- at-it was a coalmine, so named by its in mates from tho cant phrase of somo " doggy ” or ganger: “ Now, lads, strip and at it." Poor William regrottod his holiday, and longod for tho hour whon work should begin again. Ho boguilod tho hoavy hours of tho day by tho composi tion of woo-begono versos, whereof for tune has prosorvod a fragment, which I horo ombulm : " Tho .tin tl at shines so blight above, K:mws imnght atmiit my wronglu) love; Tho tiirds U al ting in Wigm- rn lane 11 ing m.t .ing lo my heart but pain. It is a very dismal thing That in my enrs l ho birds do sing, While iny Selina lm> gono off To walk w'th Mr. Abialmm Clough." William’s muso was in tho right. It is a very dismal tiling to tho wounded heart, grown egotistic through its pain, that nature should seorn out of sympathy with it—that tho sun should shine and the birds should sing just as brightly and as merrily as though Solina was still true and gontlo. William took his hnmblo meal at a little public-house in tho aforesaid lano, and thou strolled homo again, still very misorable, but a trillo soothed by the verso-making process. Ho was duo at the mine at six o’clock, and nil hour bc- foro that timo ho was upstairs exchang ing his Sunday costume for tho work day coalv flannols, whon ho became con scions of a bustle in tho street. Look ing through tho window, ho behold men running listless and coatleHs, and un bonneted, unshawled women hurrying along as fast as their foot could take thorn. Everybody ran in ono direction, and in tho crowd ho caught a moment’s glimpse of Selina and hor fathor. Tho girl’s faco was white with somo strong excitoment, and there was a look of the wildest imaginable fear in hor eyes Both liands wore pressed to hor heart as sho ran. A Black country collier’s in stinct in a case like this is pretty likely to bo true. William threw tho window open, and cried out to the hurrying crowd: “Whoevisit?” “ At the Strip-anil-at-it,” some famii iar voice called out as the straggling crowd swept by. ‘ ‘ What is it ?” ho cried again. “Shaft on tiro," cried another voice in answer; and in a second tho street was cloar. William Bowkor dashed downstairs and hurried himself along tho stroet. , . “Anybody down?” ho gasped, as ho turnod the comer and passed the hind most figure in a hurrying ninsB woman know him. “ For God’s sake, lend me thy hand Willy-yum,” she gasped in answer. ‘ ‘ My T °He caught the shriveled little figure in his groat arms as though the old woman had been a baby, and dashed on again. Aye, the tale was true! There belched and volleyed tho rolling smoke. Thero were hundreds upon hundreds people already crowded upon the pit mound and about tho shaft, and from every quarter men and women came streaming in, white-faced and breathless, William sot his withered burden down for, “ Bill—Joe—Abel—Darkey—come Wi’ me." Tho crowd divided, and tho five mode for the oftieos, and found there in a row a number of barrel-shaped machines of metal, each having a small hose and a pumping apparatus attached to it. Those were a now boon from the gonor- 0U8 hand of science—a French contri vance, as the name affixed to each set forth—“ L’Extinctour." Each of the mon seized ono of these, and boro it to tho odgo of tho shaft, tho crowd once more making way. A bucket, techni cally called “a bowk," somo two foot deep and eighteen inches wide, was affixed to the wiro rope which swung above tho burning shaft. Tho self-appointed leader asked for flannel clothing. A dozen garments wore flung to him at once. He wrapped himself up liko a muuimv, and bound a cotton handkerchief overliis face. Thon, with tho machine strapped securely across his shoulder, ho stopped ono foot in tho bucket and laid a hand upon tho rope. A man ran forward with a slender chain, which ho passed rapidlv round tho volunteer’s waist and fixed to the rone which supported tho bowk. An other thrust nn ond of rope into his hand, and stood by to reeve out the rest as he descended. Thon came tho word : ‘Short, steady.” Tho engine panted, tlio ropo tiglitoned, tho clumsy figure, with the machine bound about it, swung into tho smoko, nutl in a denth-liko still ness, with here and thoro a smothered gasp, tho man wont down. His comrade at tho edge dribbled tho rope through ine Needles, OIL and SHUTTLES *" or all kinds o( °iiler parts ot Machines that get woko, and Machines, lor ?alo. I will now pieces are wanted. J 1 ® •nade^esiH- \ aljor _tUn,t thought can hat labor can an< \ °, nl y by thought Cannot.,,, ..... impunity. . ^ Irtiie i s lii,,. * ra grant when I ,ri!C1 °us odors, most ni8 lied; for le y. aro incensed or c ° Ver vice bnt i 1,0nty doth best dis- Cover virt np ft(lvors % doth best dis- her lover stood side by side and watched the last skipful to the surface. “ That’s .the lot,” yelled ono ooal- smeared giant as tho skip swung up. Out broko tho cheers again, peal on peal. William stood silent, with tears in those brave eyes. Tho penitent stole a hand in Ida. “Oh, Bill," sho whispered, “you didn’t think 1 wanted him V” “ What else did yon think I fetohod him out for?" queried William, a smilo of comedy gleaming through the manly moisture of his eyos. Sho dropped her lioad upon his broast, and put both nrms around him, and neither sho nor ho thought of tho crowd in that blissful moment whon Mr. Bow- ker’s courtship ended, and soul was as sured of soul. and pushed through to the edge of the shaft. There was water in the up-cast, and tho engines were at work mu power. Up came tho enormous bucket and splashed its 200 oi’300 gallons down the burning shaft, and droppecllikea stone down tho up-cast, and after a long, long pause came trembling and laborng up again, and vomited its freig K and dropped liko a stono for more. «Yo’ might just as well stand in a ring an’ spit at it,” said Bowkcr, with his 8 faco all pale and his eyes on fi • “ Get the stinktors up and let a man o two go down.” Ttnwkor?” Will yo’ mak’ one, Bill Bowkoi. " Will YO iuun. uiJUj . . * an l '“J i said a brawny, coal-smeared man i - bo separated wPt^impunity! I ^“Yis, I will,” was tho answer, given Uk “ FU make 8 another," said the man. “An’ me,” “An’ me,” "An me, cried ft ^‘°Rig thebowk, somebody,” rfthe love-lorn verse-maker, tftking born and as by right the place he was born his coal-blaekenod fingers as dolicatoly as though it had been a silken thread. Then came a sudden tug nt it, nnd tho word was flashed to tho ongino-room, and tho croak of tho wheel ooased, and tho gliding wiro ropo was still. Then, fora space of nigh a minute, not a sound was heard, but every eye was on tho ropo, ond ovory ohook wns pallid with sus pense, and every heart was with tho horo in tho fiory dopths below. Thon come another warning tug at tho rope, and again the word flashed to the engine room. Tho wheel Rpun round, the rope glidod, quivered, stopped, tho figure swung up through tho smoke again, was soized, lowered, landed. Whon his comrades laid hands upon him, the flan nel garments fell from him in huge blackened flakes, so near to tho flames had ho been. Ho cost those garments from him, and they fell, half tinder, nt his feet. Then he drew off tho baud kerchief which bound his face, nnd, at tho god-like, horoic pallor of his counto nance, and the not lips and glonming eyes, women whispered, pantingly, “God bless him!" and tho breath of thoso bold fellows was drawn hard. Then he roeled, and a pair of arms liko a bear’s wore round liim in a second. In two minutes more he was outside the erowd, and a restorative which camo from no body knew whore, was at his lips os he lay upon tho ground, nnd two or throo women ran for wator. And while all this was doing, another man, as good as he, wns swinging down ward in the blinding smoko. So fierce a leap tho flames made at this hero, that they caught him fairly for a momont in their arms, nnd when he was brought to tlie surface, he hung limp and sonseloss, with groat patches of smoldering firo upon his gnrments, and his hands and fnco cracked and blackened. But the next man was ready, and when ho, turn, enme to the liglit, ho had said good bye to the light forovor in this world, ffot this, nor anything that fear could urge, could stay the rost. Thoro were fivo and thirty men and boys below, and they would have thorn up or die. With that god-like pallor on their lips nnd cheeks, with thoso wide eyeH that looked death in the face, nnd knew him, nnd defied him—down thov wont! I saw these things, who tell tho story. Man after man dofiod that fiery hell, and faced its lurid, smoky darkness, undismayed, un til at last, tlieir valor won the day. The lovo-lorn William had but little room in his heart for superfluous soldi mont as ho laid his hand upon the wire ropo, and set his foot in tho bowk again Yet just a hope was there—that Selina should not grieve too greatly if this second venture failed, and he should meet his death. Ho was not, as a rule, dovotionally inclined, but lie whispered inwardly, “God bo good to her.’ And there, at that second, he saw her face before him—so set amlflxod that in its agonv of fear and prayer it looked like marble. Tho rope grew taut, lie passed the handkerchief about his face again, and with tho memory of hor eyes upon him, dropped out of sight. The man at the side of the shaft paid out the slender line again, and old hands watched it closely. Yard after yard ran out. The great coil at his feet snaked itself, ring by ring, through his coaly fingers. Still no warning message came from below. Tho engine stopped at last, and they knew that the foot of tho shaft was reached. Had the explorer fainted by the way ? He might, for all they knew above, be roasting down below that minute. Even then his soul, newly re loasod, might be above them. Through the dead silence of the crowd the word flashed to the engine room. The wheel went round, and tho wire rope glidod and quivered up again ovor it. There was not a man or woman thero who did not augur the same thing from the teuser quiver of the rope, and when, at last, through the thinner coils of smoko about the top of the shaft the rescuer’s figure swung with the first of the rescued in his arms, there was heard one sound of infinite pathos—a sigh of relief from 20,000 breasts—and dead silence fell again. “ Alive ?" asked one, laying a nand on Bowker’s arm. Bill nodded and pushed him by, and made his way toward that marble face, nursing his burden still. “ Seliner,” ho said, quietly, “here’s our sweetheart.” ii j} 0) no, no, Bill, she answered, ii There's on’y one man i’ the world for m0 , Bill, if ever he forgives me an’ my wicked ways. Cheer and cheer of triumph rang in their oars. Tho women fought for Bill Bowkey, and kissed him and cried ovor him Men shook hands with him and with each other. Strangers mingled their tears. The steel rope was gliding up and down at a rare rate now, and the half .suffocated prisoners of the fire were being carried up in batches. Selina and A Hint lo Hoys. WAGNER AMI) THE BARKER. A philospher haR said that the truo education for boys is to teach them what they ought to know when thoy become men. What is it they ought to know ? 1. To bo truo; to be genuine. No education will be worth anything that does not include this. A man had hot ter not know how to read—ho hod hot ter never learned a letter in tho alpha bet, and bo truo nnd gonuino in inten tion and action, rattier, than, being lonnied in all science nnd in nil lan guages, bo at tho samo timo false nt leart and nlso counterfeit in lifo. Abovo all things, tench the boys that truth is moro than riches, moro than culturo, moro than earthly power or po sition. 2. To be true in thought, language and lifo—pure in mind nnd body. An impute man, vouiig or old, poisoning society whore he moves with his smutty stories nnd impure example, is a moral ulcer, a plague spot, a leper, who ought to bo treated like tho lepers of old, who woro banished from society and com pelled to cry " Uneloan," ns a warning to save others from tho pestilence. 8. To be unselfish. To tako care for the feolings and comforts of others. To bo polite. To bo just in all dealings with others. To bo ^onerous, noble nnd manly. This will include a gonuiuo roveroneo for tho aged and tilings sa cred. 4. To bo self-reliant anil solf-holpful oven from earliost childhood. To bo industrious always, and self-supporting nt the earliest nge. Teach them thnt all honest work is honorable, nnd thnt an idle, useless lifo of dependence on others is disgraceful. When n boy lias learned these things, when he has made thoso ideas a part of his being, howover young ho may be, however poor or however rich, he has learned some of tho important things he ought to know when he becomes a man. With thoso properly mastered, it will bo easy to find nil tho rost.—[Methodist Recorder. Chestnut Cnltnre. In somo localities in Italy and Spain and in Eastern Europe and Western Asia tho chestnut crop is equal in importance ' - -- - to the wheat crop in Ohio. Chestnut bread constitutes tho principal food of more than 100,000,000 of people tho healthiest, handsomest and most sinewy poople in tho world. It is estimated that tho valuo of tho cliostnut crop of Ohio is sixty thousand dollars. It ought to bo twenty million dollars, and an bo brought up to that figuro within twenty years. The natural home of tho chestnut is a barren soil—wasto land- though it will grow and flourish on any soil in Ohio. Chestnut troos 100 feet in height and from throo to sovon feet in diameter can yet bo found on the bill tops of Southern Ohio, growing in soil which cannot be made to produce fivo bushels of com to tho acre, and whore oak, hickory and other trees aro mere dwarfs. Tho chestnut is a valuable tim ber tree, and is of vory rapid growth. Under favorable circumstances a bear ing chestnut tree twenty-five feet in height can bo grown from tho seed in fivo years. Tho proper way is to plant the chestnut whore it is desired that the tree shall grow. Like tho hickory, the chestnut does not tako kindly to trails planting. Fanners in Central and West em Ohio havo tried tho experiomeut of importing chestnuts in vain, and have arrived at the conclusion that there is something in the soil which militates against the growth of the chestnut That is a mistake. Any farmer who de sires it can have a cliostnut grove, or as many cliostnut trees as ho desires, by planting chestnuts. They should be planted before they become dry and shriveled—within a week or two uftor gathering, the sooner the better. The chestnut should be about half buried in the ground, and then covered with leaves or litter—barely covered, not buried or smothered. Twenty chest nuts should bo planted for overy tree desired; for although every healthy chestnut will germinate, and is liable to produce a tree, provision should bo made against moles, mice, chipmunks and other vermin. Of course, hogs should lie excluded from tho ground where chestnuts are planted. The Indian Boys at Hamptou, School. When they first began to make beds, the sheets wore either tuckod up under tho pillows or laid on the outside. One boy was found to- havo seven sheets, who did not know the proper use of two. Tho janitor helped me carry a bedstead into the sitting-room. The boys were called in and seated in a semi circle, and I began the process of bed making, the boys grunting and laugh ing ns it proceeded. When tho clothes were neatly tuckod in and the pillows shaken and put into place, I said: “Now, boys, I will show you how to get into bed,” which I did. Then, r through the interpreter, I asked who was willing to try it. He had hardly put the question when a boy who had objected to having his hair cut, whon he first came, stepped forward. He bo- gan where I did and followed every movement, so closely had ho observed No sooner did he finish than there was a stunning applause. He was then asked to show us how to go to bed; and when his head touched the pillow and he drew the clothing up round him, up went another shout.—[Southern Work man. Him* the ••rent •lennau Ci,ni|>o»r Had III* Hair Mtliikled—1 he Toitenrlal Avtlet’a Dilemma. Wagner, tho composer of tho music of the future, writes a correspondent, is sojourning in his “ own hired house " nt Naples, whore he is preparing a now work, and being lionized to an extent that must fill his soul, so fond of adula tion, with sweet content. Tho maestro is shaved by a certain Neapolitan knight of tho brush by the name of Gonnaro, and a good story is told in this commo tion. Tho harbor thought ho bod “ a soft thing of it,” and bargained in ad vance with certain worshipers of tho composer to sell them locks of the hair which ho should cut from the maestro’s head, and tho shaver had inconsequence a nice little sum in anticipation. Ho went gaily to tho Wagner villa. The composer was waiting. Don Gen- naro tied tho towel around his nock and began operations. “ Not too short,” said Wagner. “It’s dreadful hot, maestro; you will feel a hundred timos hotter after tho operation,” said Don Gonnaro, slipping nis scissors into tho salt-and-pepper curls. Hardly had the barber said thoso words whon he turned white as a shoot. The scissors noarly fell from his hands, together with tho first lock of tlio precious hair. What had happened? If I were a novel writer anil not a correspondent, I might take a barbarous satisfaction, at this point, in writing “ continued in our next," which would keep your nerves twitching for twenty-four hours. But I refrain. What had happened? Had Don Gon- nnro, from ovor-oxcitomont,.. cut tho skin as well as the hair of tlio illustri ous hood he held in his liands? Was it rumorso for having sold the spoils which made him tremble? Neithor tho ono nor the other. Mmo. Wagner, with luensiu'cd steps like ono who fulfills a saorod mission, lind come to his sido with nn open ebony casket, and the in stant that each lock fell she caught it on tho wing niul laid it reverently on the blue satin lining of the box Imagine tho disappointment, tho or gasm of Don Gonnaro! How ho man aged to finish the job I don’t know, but do know that be came homo thor oughly desperate; in fact, completely wilted Donna Teresa, his wife, thought something dreadful had liapponed What shall I do,” cried lie, after re counting his terrible story, “ what shall I do with all thoso Germans? Alas! I must refund tho money,beeauso thoyipaid half in advance. Who could imagine this?" “ Don Gonnaro," said his wife, severely, ‘ ‘ whon I married you I thought you had moro brains in your bead. Will you drown yourself in a glass of water? Tlio maestro is a great composer, no doubt; but his hair is salt and popper like our neighbor, tho butcher’s." A word to tho wise. At tho present writ ing thoro aro fifteen or twenty houses in Germany whore, in tho place of honor in tho parlor thore is a small lock of salt and pepper hair in a frame, and bo. low it in gold lottors in German: " Lock of hair of Richard Wagnor, cut in Naples, March 23, 1880.” Don Antonio the butcher, has never been nblo to make out why Don Gonnaro, the bar ber, insisted on cutting liis hair, as it wore by force, on the morning of tho twenty-fourth of March, 1880, tlio fol lowing Sunday being his day instead. Jap|tnen« Hones Did Carriages. The carriages most generally used by tho ladies i in Japan are low phaetons, often with a small seat bohintl for the bottoo, who, whon this seat is not pro- vidod, has to run alongsido of tho car riage iand keop pace with tho horse. The niien, particularly tho bachelors, appear to prefer the dog cart, which is not only ijnore showy, but more com fortable’and convenient in case of a trip along |thoj Tokaido to some country placo. Tho horses, or rather ponies, generally ridden and driven in Japan are the native animals, and though sometimes they are handsome brutes, rule aro too woody (leggy), and have too large beads for beauty. It is seldom onef con buy a pony under eight years qld, as they aro not brought down from tho country until they havo been used for some years as pack homes by tho natives, and, indeed, mon often buy ponies, whoso points thoy have noticed nnd likod while riding in tho country, from directly undor the pack. They are merger, * half-foil looking animals when flyst put up for sale, but improvo onderfully undor good fodder and not too hard work. Sovonty-flvo you (sixty dollars) would buy a vory good hack; but for a flnor animal for racing pur poses aft high an 300 yen lias boon paid. A strange tiling, and ono worthy of men tion, isjthal) only horses all of which aro entire are brought to Yokohama, tho mnroA being kept in tho moro northern districts, presumably for breeding pur poses, though thoy, also, are used on pack horses. Tho Japanese pony in the stablo is exceedingly vicious and treach- orous, and, will put back his ears and kick and bi te at the moro sight of a per son entering tho stable. The bottoos, oven whon tho ponies know them, are obliged 1 to tjiso tho groatest precautions nnd be extremely careful when they go into their stalls. Whon once, however, tho ponies nire bridled tlieir ovil tonipor irs to | leave them ontirely. The stalls in which tho ponies aro kept aro, almost invariably, box stalls, and the bettoes, 1 knowing tho ponios’ tricks, do not generally go in aftor thorn to put. on the bridllo, put throw tho end of a ropo over tlieir nocks, and it is a curious fact that as noon as the ponios feel the ropo upon them! thoy quiet down imme diately. Whether this is owing to their training or pot, I do not know. Four teen and a pnlf liands high is tho aver age height of a Japanese pony, but thoy aro very slightly built, and though tlieir usual load under the pack is throo piculs (ii picul is 138J pounds), or 400 pounds, they aro not good weight car riers for rising purposes, and in that respect | do | not approach tho Chinese pony, which], though as a mlo a hand smaller than the Japanese pony, is much more hleavijy built and a great deal moro powerful. Chinoso ponios aro also used for rising and driving in Japan, bqt aro originally imported for racing, anil when they turn out failures anil prove without sufficient speed for that object, as in frequently the case, they Indian Pigmies. A report of the operations iperations of tho Great Trigonometrical Survey of India contains an account of -an interview which Mr. Bond, ono of tho staff, hail with a couiile of the wild folks who In in tho hill jungles of tlio Western Ghats, to the southwest of the Pahurio hills. A strango dwarfish people had often been heard of as frequenting the jungles near, tho station of Pumalia, in tho northwest corner of tho Tinnovelly district, but until Mr. Bond caught those two specimens no trace of them had boen seen by tho members of the survey. These two poople, a man and woman, beliovcil thomselvos to ho one hundred years old, but Mr. Bond sup poses tho man to bo about twenty-fivi and the women eighteen years of age, “The man," Mr. Bond says, “is four feet six anil one-fifth inches in lioight, twenty-six nnd one-half inches round the chest, anil eighteen and one-half inches horizontally round tho head over the eyebrows. He has a round head coarse, block, woolv hair, and a diuk brown skin. Tho forehead is low and slightly retreating, the lower port of the face projects like the muzzle of a monkey and the mouth, which is small anil ovul with thick lips, protrudes about an inc beyond bis nose; lio has short bandy legs, a comparatively long body, anil arms thnt oxtond almost to his knees the back is concave. Tlio hands and fingers are dumpy nnd always contracted so that they cannot be made to stretch out quite straight and fiat; the palm and fingers are covered with skin (more particularly so the tips of the fingers) and the neckis small and imperfect; tho feet aro broad nnd thick-skinned all ovor; the hairs of his mustache are of grayish white, sennty, and coarso like bristles, anil lie has no board. Tho woman is four feet six and a half inches in height, twenty-seven inches round the chest, and ten and'one-fifth inches hori zontally round the head above the eyi brows; the color of the skin is sallow, or of a nearly yellow tint; the hair is black long and straight, anil the features well formed. Thore is no difference between her appearance and that of the common women of that part of the country. She is pleasant to look at, well developed and moilost. Their only dross is a loose cloth, and they eat flesh, but feed chiefly on' roots anil honey. They have no fixed dwelling places, but sleep on any con venient spot, generally between two rocks or in caves near which they hap pen to bo benighted. They make a fire and cook what they have collected dur ing the day, and keep the fire burning all night for warmth, and to keep away wild animals. They worship certain local divinities of the forest—Bakas or Rakari, and Pe (after whom the hill is named Pemalia). The woman cooks for and waits on the man, eating only after ho is satisfied.”—[London Medical Record. aro put iip for sale at auction and bought for use an jhacks. The half-breed—a cross between Arab and Japanese horses —is nn Experiment tried by tho Japanese within tho pjast few yoars, and has thus far resulted, satisfactorily, but thoso ronios aro difficult (fo got, and aro only DOnght at high prices for racing. For a Japanese pony to gallop a mile in 2:30 would bo good time, 2:10 boing tho best record mado on tlio Yokohama courso by a Chinoso pony, which ani main aro faster than the Japanese. HUMOROUS. Animated saltcellars—Grocers. A joiner’s bench—The hymenial altar During autumn winds the book of nature is full of fly leaves. A Texas dog was bom without a tail, and he will sit down right beside an old kettle. The ono-eent postal card will never quite tako tho place of tlio soented note-paper. Thought at a church fair—-Faint pocketbook never captivated fair lady. [Yonkers Statesman. r Do wo eat too much," asked the '.‘De troit Free Press,” and out of five dozen boarding-liouRO keepers sixty^n- sworoil in tho affirmative. . Why is a vain young lady like a con firmed drunkard? Because neither of thorn is satisfied with a moderate use of tho glass.—[Owogo Blaclo. When Svdnev Smith was out of health his doctor advised him to take a walk an empty stomach. Tho witty patient asked, “ W’liose?” Butter in now adulterated with soap stone to inako it weigh heavy. With tho usual liair, this ought to make good mortar.—[Syracuse Sunday Times. Canadian hemlock forests are being rapidly destroyed for their bark." Why not destroy a few dogs? Thero is as muon bark in a Spitz as thero is in a forest. Camping out in a canvas tent during one’s vacation is liko kissing ft pretty girl ot a candy scrape—you have a good time, but you como out of it rather the worse for wear.—[Boston Globe. A good many of the new stars and comets wo road about in tho newspapers aro discovered by men who come home late and meet tho olotlieslino across the bridge of their w nose.—[Middletown Transcript. This is getting to bo a. well-padded world. Thoro are horse-pads, foot-pads, hip-pads, liver-pads, back-pads, kidney- pails, and stomach-nails, and soon it is expected that somebody will got up a - pad for bald heads. Small women generally havo tho largest hearts." Hope that’s so; wo own a small woman—no, a small woman owns us--but wo liavon’t scon hor heart yet to see what sizo it is. We’ve hoard it oak, though. It’s a good speaker.— entucky Stato Journal. A Minnesota . exchange says that Peter Butler, of Cannon Falls, aged eighty years, Bhockod cloven acres of grain ono day last week.” Somo of thoso old farmers use protty hard lan- i piage when they once got stafted.— ^Peck’s Sun; She yawned and told liim she wished ho was a fire. Ho wonted to know why, anil sho said: “ Oh, fires go out late m tho night." Thon ho lookoil at her, anil she lookod at him, ond ho said he hail to be at the store early to-morrow, and guessed lie would go. Dear eoul I nhe looked at mo nekanco, Her eye* titled lull ol lour*;— While I, content to take my ohnnoe— Ktoeed her, nnd quelled her lours. And what hor tears wero, who oun say? Perhapa at them you’d laugh-— For near hor stood, blooking the away, A tiny week-old call f —Meriden Recorder. The Order or Cleavers. Rov. Thooiloro L. Cuyler, D. D., wan in attendance at the Presbyterian coun cil. One day in tho wook tho butchers had a festival of some kind, and wero to havo a grand parade. That morning Dr. Cuyler visited n barber shop to got shaved. Wtyon tho knight of tho razor had stretched his customer's nock and pushed his hoail as far back as possible, and filled bis eyos, nose and mouth with lathor, ho said to him interrogatively, anil speaking nn a friend: “ Well, you’re going to turn out to day?” “ Eh?” naiil the doctor. “I say ymu’ro going to havo a big display.’ 1 "Going to—wliat? I didn’t'catch your remark?” " I say you butcliora are going to turn out. You’re a butcher, ain’t you?” “Well, not exactly. I oat a good deal of meat, but I can’t say that I kill much Still, I belong to an order closely con nected with butchers.” “You do. What’s that?” “ Tho Order of Cleavers." “ Oil! and what do you do?” * “ Wo cleave unto tho Lord.” The astonished barber had sufficient presence of mind to collect his fee from tho member of the Order of Cleavers. But Dr. Cuyler couldn’t help tolling the story.—[Now York Graphic. A Grave Twenty-one Centuries O! After twenty-one centuries the mains of the 300 young Thebans, form erly tho “ Sacred Battalion,” who fell at the terrible battle of. Cheronoa havi now been dug up. During the summer oxcavations have been made around the gigantic memorial lion which was placed in tho center of the field to commemo rate tho deeds of heroism of that dark day. A wall twenty-five yards in length and fifteen in breadth was first found beneath the soil. Within this inclosure at a depth of four yards lay tho bones of 185 Thebans, resting side by side, ranged in rows of forty, each in the at titude in which he had died. Seven such rows have been found. They aro so placed that the hoads of those of the second rank repose at tho foet of the first. All bear tho marks of the blows which caused itheir death. One of them has both thighs pierced by thrusts the spear; another has the jawbone broken and splintored; a third has the skull terribly hacked; a fourth, whose head is wonderfully well preserved, has the mouth still wide open, as if breathed. This last will be conveyed to the Museum cif Antiquities of Athens What is especially noticeable about' is that the jaws possess every tooth in perfeo|fc order. No weapons have been found. | npe [Ke A young man with an umbrella over took an unprotected lady acquaintance in a rain-storm, and, extending his um brella over hor, requested the pleasure of acting as hor rainbow. “ Oh," ex claimed the young lady, taking liis arm, you wish me to bo your rain-dear.” Two souls with but a single umbrella, two forms that stepped as one. Hlio was furious, and said to him: " I havo a notion to give you a piece of my mind!” “Don’t!" ho replied, mali ciously,as he edged out of the room;“you would havo such a torribly long search, that I might die of old age.” She got tho best of it, however, as ho had to pay $100 for a now looking-glass. He will be more mindful in the future.— [Philadelphia Item. all’s fair. 11 Da you attend the laiiT” she said, And toBsed her pretty little head. He rpake up, with a roguish glance, Yes. always, when I get a chance.’’ She blushed and said: “ Now, don't be green; You know quite well, sir, what 1 mean; There’s only one fair in the town." 8aid he: “ That's what I said to Browu.” Charles, I shall have to box your ears,” ’1 h- lovely eyes were lull ol tears. 1 You know what lair; will you take msT” “ For better or worse?” said Charles in glee. “ All’s lair in love or war,’’ aod they A 1 iniily ticket bought next day. Now Charles looks into hei sparkling eyes And swears he has carried oB the prize. —Rochciter Expreta Courage Rewarded. Some notable deeds of unselfish cour age wero rewarded yesterday with the silvor medals of that excellent institu tion, the Royal Humane Society. Honor is due, in the first place, to a lady, twice noble—by compassion and by birth—the Honorable Blanche Colville, who, at West Cowes, on August 24, hearing that a poor girl was drowning who had already twice sunk, plunged in the sea in her yachting dress as she stood, anil, notwithstanding the weight of her soaked gar ments, saved this oil hut lost lifo. Another brave breast decorated with the medal was that of Arthur Evans, a lail of fifteen, who, at Aberayan, in Cardiganshire, seeing a man carried be yond his depth and sinking, flung off’ his clothes, swam to the spot, dived thrice, and finally brought his prize up by the hair of his’ head, saving him, but so narrowly that the gallant boy fainted himself while still in the water. Wil liam Chambers was the third of the gen erous souls whose loving kindness honors human nature. He descended a well at Ashford wherein two men had already become asphixiated, and fasten ing a rope to one of the sufferers, brought him out alive, returning for the other, but only to obtain a dead body. We salute with deep respect the English lady gpfP they teach us the impressive. there are many things better than life nnil vIaovav 4-Vwtrt lnmrtli af vnavu ^111 _ and dearer than length of years.- don Telegraph. -[Lou- M

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Mercury. (Sandersville, Ga.) 1880-1???, November 16, 1880, Image 1