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the mercury M M5oond-cl*M matior_>t _thy San- A*nm Hogtoffloe, April *7,1880. gaatfam ui«, VMktaitoi Canty, «* JPNI8AN * SCARBOROUGH. .fl.Mpsr Tmt. 6. W. H. WHITAKER. dentist, Tnn Cask. OOm at hi* raaManse an Harris Hmt April I, IMP. B. D. EVANS, Attorney atLaw, ania DR. WM. RAWLINGS, Physician A Surgeon, Saaterarilte, Oa. OOm to laaitevTiUe Hotel. April M, I"*. E. A. SULLIVAN, notary public, ,0a. Spcoial dairn*. attmtoa gfosa to eaUaolion ol OHnIr ihrOotoHoM. 0. H. ROGERS, Attorney at Law, SandaReriUe, Ga. Prompt attention gtvra to ail hwhaa OfflM in aorthwaat room at Oovt-Hooaa. May *, 1880. ' C. C. BROWN, Attorney at Law, Send—*111*, Oa. Will pnotbe la tho State and United State* Court*. Otoaa In Court-Home. H. N. HOLLIFIELD, Physician & Surgeon, 8* ntem> Ola, Qa. Mm neat dooe to Mr*. Bagao’e milllaery ■ton on Hart la Street. DR. J. A ROBERTA Physician & Surgeon, May be eonealted at hie Oa. on Baynee meet, in the Masonic Lodge toUdiag, horn B Iron I to , i to 1 p m, and otter hows at Ms w wten not ^roteeaionallj engaged. m: during (Awn i street, Watches, Clocks AND JEWELRY JERNIGAN. POSTOFFICE HOUBS. 7:00 to 11:10 a. m. 1:10 to 1:00 p. n. X. ▲. Sulutah, P. M. Subscribe for the MERCURY, Oily £1.60 per ibbib. PUBLISHED BY JERNIGAN A SCARBOROUGH. BUY YOUR Spectacles, Spectacles, FROM • JERNIGAN. I^Nom Ren nine without our Trade Mask. On hand and for aala, Music, SO TO JERNIGAN Music. the mercery. A. J. JERNIGAN, Psofriwiob DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. fl.M PER ANNUV VOL. I. Rest. OIL am SHUTTLES My feet are wearied, my hands are tied— My eoul oppressed; And with desire I have.long desired Rest—only rest. 'ris hard to toil, when toil ie almost vain, In barren ways; Tis hard to sow,and never garner grain In harvest days. The burden ot my days i* hard to bear, Bat God knows best; And I have prayed-bnt vain hae been my prayer— For rest—sweet reel. Tis hard to plant in spring, and never reap The aatamn yield; Tie hard to till, and when ’tis tilled to weep O’er fruitiest field. And so I cry, a weak and haman ory, 80 heart oppressed; And so I sigh, a weak and human sigh, For rest, sweet rest. My way has wound aoroes the desert years, And cares inlest My path; and through tho flowing oi hot tears I pine torrest. l was always so; when still a child I laid On mother’s breast My wearied little head, e’en then I prayed As now, lor rest. And 1 am restloss still; ’t will soon bo o’er, For, down the west, Lite’s sun is setting, and I see the shore Where I shall reat. — Father Hyan. CARA'S MISTAKE. VIOLINS, ACCORDEONS, BOWS, STRINGS, - Rosin boxes, ktc. Machine Needles, ^ JJ2; w "^a of Machines, tor ml*. I will MW order parts ot Machines that get broke, and new pieoee are wanted. SA NDERSVILLE, GA., MARCH 1, 1881. NO, 48. J. JERNIGAN. ISytfWtaed Start i'HILIi POINTS. I the J u^S !?,!*’ COTet brautlfullj, and Instead of crowding; \ tho^UnuG uue i ne b row9 « 11 4, and & insj LL rtt^i * ‘i Bndin C apart, have non BOOM ^K 10 8 ™°L> dame more nourish msat from tha become more Tlgorgtu, produoa bettar davali average heads. Bend & Illuatratad Aai J.AJONES,WILMINQTOH, I !*Ul]r beliAXrn 0 t l . her To J?’> wheat, about a week ago, and I Wlth^our Point! rC 8 0n ® morn wlioaf n hors I*, via drilled W hen Mrs. Donald took her sister’s second daughter to bring up amidst tho luxuries of her wealthy home, she felt complacently sure that she was doing a very kind and charitable net. Mrs. Norris was a hard-working I armor's wife, with a house full of children, and with very scanty means to supply their wants. Her wealthy widowed sister had been on a short visit to her, and the night before she left said: “ I think, Mary, you better let me take Cara to educate. Graco is fourteen years old, and she can help you with the boys. Cara doesn’t s< em to be of much use anyway, for I notice she’s a terrible little shirk when there’s any liousewoik to bo dons. She’s very pretty, though, and she’ll be prettier when she’s grown, and, of course, 1 want tho prettiest. I’ll do as well by her while I live as though she was my own child, but I do not wish to promise to leave her anything when I die. My son will inherit all I have, you know. But I’ll eduoate her, and be a mother to her.” Poor overworked Mrs. Norris gasped for breath at the idea of parting with her pretty, useless Cara; but her con sent and that of her husband was soon gained. Mr. Norris, however, though a plain farmer and with little education, hadadcaiof hard practi al sense, and heat first demurred. “ I do not think it will do the gTrlnny good to bring her up above her own station in life, Mrs. Donald. She’ll be taught extravagant habits, and I’d like to know what good such habits will do her when she is left without means to gratify them. Youcannotleavehor any property, you say, and you don’t look overly strong yourself, ma’am. Any day she may come back upon us with her head full of flighty notions, and perhaps rcorniu’ the homo-folks and home ways. No, ma’am; I thank you, lor your Kind offer, but I’d rather keep my daughter at home.” The lady thought to herself, “ he’s a rude boor,” but she had a point to gain, so she smiled sweetly a9 she said: You’re certainly a strange man, Mr Norris. Don’t you believe in education, and wouldn’t you be pleased to have your daughter so .well taught and so highly accomplished that she could make a good living if anything happens to me ? Don’t calculate upon my speedy death, either, for I’m not in ill health if I do look delicate. Do take the matter into favorable consideration.” "I don’t need any consideration,” wss his blunt answer, “ to see what’s best for the child, and for all of us.” “Well, then, put it in this way: Do you think you are justified in refusing this offer, which would make Cara, if she studies, independent of you, or of any one? If every person thought as you do, there would be no progress in the world.” But Mr. NorriB was not convinced. “Cara hates her books,” he Baid. “If Grace didn’t help her, and push her along, she’d wear the dunce-cap all the time at school. I don’t think she’ll do anything to help the progress of the world, Mrs. Donald.” But with his wife eager for the plan and Cara coaxing and cryinu, like the willful child she was, Mr. Norris was at last conquered. So Cara was transplanted to the fairy- ,and of a wealthy home, and at Goodale farm life went on in the old way. Not exactly in the old way, either, for though there was always hard work for the young people there, yet as Mr. Norris means increasec’ they had more time for study, and the three boys and Grace were intelligent, and with their ordin ary school advantages acquired a thirst for knowledge. Six years passed. Upon one pretext or other, Cara did not return home even .. The distance was too great lira Ola".'"£* '"'te of row u.in.l/ortr H. CLiVTOS, I»l flv.bn.hiu’V’ °/■ViddUian,n,l,ar.dFnrm*." El 11 Point. 10 fte rnoro whwt, -h.re I AilIU* ■teww vo ’ ““ »*th tho old »t,lo. I go,, thorn * Mr -laS ;Ui CihVTOS. J*., Mt. Plomm, JM. on a visit. The distance for the busy farmer or his wife to take [toe for a trip to the cityi So they con tented themselves wilb Clara s monthly letters, by whioh they knew she was well and happy. She seemed, however, to take no In terest in home matters. Her letters weie brief; merely duty letters, very con strained and artifiqial. But when she was eighteen, and had left school, her father insisted that she should visit her home. It was a visit that gave no pleasure to any one. Tho father looked with con sternation at his affected, fine-lady daughter. 8he turned with disgust from the homely ways of her family. Mrs. Donald, who was with her, afraid of some outburst, hurried their depart ure. “Thank heaven, that task is over!” said this injudicious woman, with a sigh of relief, as her carriage rolled from the door of tho farmhouse. “How coarse and vulgar your father’s manners are, Cara! I think they’ve grown worse with time. You ought to be everlast ingly grateful, now that you can under stand all I’ve rescued you from.” “Ofcourse I am, auntie,” Cara lan guidly assented. “I’ve been shocked and disgusted more than I can tell, by all I saw and heard at the farm. I do hope I’ll never have to go back there.” “What do you think your father asked me t ” Mrs. Donald said after a pause. “ He wanted to know if your education had prepared you to make your own living.” Cara colored angrily. She did not like study, and hei progress at sohool bad beon very Blow. Even her accom plishments were superficial, and she was thorough in nothing but the art of adorning hor pretty person. “What did you tell him, auntieP” she asked. “I didn’t know what to say, for you’ve done nothing in the way of study, you know. He would have blamed me for that, although you know that is not my fault, and would have declared that he knew you would no make progress in schooling. I merely told him to wait patiently and we would find that you would make a support.” Cara laughed significantly “Oh, of course, you know what I mean. With your pretty faeo and nice society manners, you .ought to marry well and soon. It’s all nonsense not to talk over these matters plainly. It’s your only chance, Cara; but when you’ve landed your fish, you’d better not take bim to Goodale farm,” and Mrs. Donald laughed contemptuously. “He'd be ‘disillusioned’ with a vengeance, when he sees papa and the cubs at din ner, and Grace’s red aims shining through soap-suds. But she is hand some enough, I must say, though she's so abrupt; and she’s bright, too.” , If any one had told Mrs. Donald that she was coarser in mind and in speech, and in all that makes the true woman than the people of Goodale farm, she would have called him mad. A few months after this conversa tion Mrs. Donald was taken seriously ill. From the first there was no hopo oi her recovery, and fn a state of semi- consciousness she drifted into a world for which she bad made no preparation. Her son, a worldly and avaricious man, who had never approved of his mother’s whim oi adopting Cara, and did not like tho girl,sent her home as soon as possible after the funeral ceremonv. “ I’ve written for your father to come for you, Cara,” he said, within a week after the funeral. “ My wife will move h'-’ro, and your room will be needed. Of course, you can take the clothing my mother gave you, though I’m afraid yonr silks will be hardly suitable for farm-work. If I were you, I’d dispose of them.” He left me room, leaving me girl con vulscd with grief, less for the dead aunt than for the luxurious home from which she was thus summarily expelled. She would have humbled herself, and borne anything to be allowed to remain where she was. When her father came for her, she had exhausted her tears, and bad fallen into a state of sullen despair. “Seems tome you’re more sulky than sorry, Cara," her father said, as they jogged on in the spring-wagon, a mode of conveyance which had brought blush of shame to the girl’s cheeks as she was lifted into it. “I reckon you hate tho thought of liv ing at home with your own people, after the fine folks you’ve been used to. I’m afraid it will be like the peaeook I brought among my ehiekens last year, that swelled and strutted and spread its tail in the sun, till the fowls seemed to band against it, and pioked and fought it into good behavior.” “ If everybody’s going to hate me, and treat me badly,”—and Cara burst into tears at the comparison. “ Hush, child!” her father said,sooth ingly. “ I didn’t mean that. Only you’ll have to get used to our ways, and at first it will be hard. I dare say in time you’ll be just like one of us, and we’ll all forget you ever went away.” This was worse and worse. Would she ever sink so low as to like or tolerate the mode of life which lay before herP No; sue had been too well taught for that. Heavier and heavier grew her heart until they arrived at Goodale farm. “Here, old woman!” cried Mr. Norris, with a loud laugh, to bis wife, who had run out to welcome her daughter. “Here’s your doll come back again to us. We shall have to get off the city husk before we can see if she’s got anything in her, but I’m glad she’s back at her own home. Here, take her in, and give us some supper!” The mothor kissed her daughter, but seemed hali-afraid to intrude a more affectionate greeting upon the fine lady, te Mi who met her languidly, and looked around with ill-disguised scorn upon the homely sitting-room. Grace, clear-eyed and sensible, carried her off to the room they were share to gether, for the saw her mother was hurt at Cara’s cold and almost insolent manner. It was a very plain room, but fairly shining with neatness. Cara glanoed at the bare floor, the white cotton "tirtaing at the windows, the home-woven bed spread, and the oherry bureau, with its small mirror, and throwing herself into a chair, burst into a passion of tears. “I wish I was dead! I wish I was dead!” she sobbed. "I never can be happy again, never! never t ” Grace understood her very well, but sensibly chose to misunderstand. “Of course you’ll miss your aunt terribly at first, Cara,”she said; “but then, after ail, you’ve come home to our own mother. I oan’t fancy a child of mother’s missing any ono long when we have her. You see you hnrdly know her yet.” But Cara wept on, and Grace, stand ing at the window, waited patiently and silently until she had exhausted herself. “ What do you readhere P" she oried, as her eyes, roving about, fell on several shelves of books. Grace laughed merrily. “ Wait until the winter evenings, and then see for yourself. We take it by turns to read aloud, and you can't imagine the num ber of books we get through with in that way. We are regular book cor morants, and every oent the boys and I get we spend on hooks.” I think I’d have got better furni ture,” Cara said, glanoing contemptu ously around. Well, tastes differ,” Grace an swered, good-humoredly. “Furnituro could never give us the pleasure that books do. We have access too. to Colonel Steam’s fine library, and if you care for reading, you’ll not be dull here.” But I don’t oare for reading,” Cara answered, sharply, “except novels. I hadn’t much time for them, either, with the visiting, and dressing, and parties., Ob, how will I ever be able to live here P” There was no answer to be made to this lamentation, so Graoe quickly walked out, and left her to her own thoughts. The next day, and the next, Cara lounged about the house, with a fretful, querulous look, which took all the beauty out of her face. Grace and the mother vainly strove to interest her in their occupations. She shrank lrom soiling her hands with housework. Sewing she knew nothing about, and did not wish to learn, and reading was a bore. She was one of those, irresponsible girls we meet with too often, whose ideas ol duty are to do only what is agreeable to themselves, and to shirk any act which conflicts with sel'-indulgence. Sho grumbled and sighed until poor Mrs. Norris' life became a burden, and Grace’s patience was sorely tested by the perpetual self lamentation. Mr. Norris did not notice this at first, but when he did, he came down sharply upon the delinquent. “ I won’t have that girl dawdling around here, Mary, and looking as if she’d turn sweet milk sour. Give her a task, it she’s too lazy to take one, and see that she does it. She’B sulked now tor a month, and it's time to stop it What on earth do you want, Cara." “1 want to get away from here!” she said, angrily. “I’m wretched, and I can’t stay here.” “ I s’pose that popinjay of a traveling clerk that came here last night has start ed you in a fresh place. I heard him going on about the theater and opera, and ladies’ bonnets and dresses. You look down upon us, but if my boys were not more intelligent than your city clerk, I’d be ashamed of them. Why, Grace knows ten times more than you, and she’s more polite, and has better manners.” “ Grace more polite than I am!” Cara exclaimed, in astonishment. “ Certainly she is. You were so rude to James Hillary last night tb at I was ashamed of you.” James Hillary 1” and Cora curled her lip. “A country boor! I don’t eare about such society, thank you, sir." “No, nor kind feeling, either, for you’d insult any one it you thought them ’ uot of your world,’ as you call it. I’d like to know what your world really is, child. It’s not sensible, judging lrom you and the clerk, for you are much alike. It’s not kindly, nor helpful, nor beautiful, either, io my taste; fer all your citified airs and graces will never make you as nice and pretty as Grace.” This was the crowning insult, and as hor father went out, banging the door behind him, for his temper was up, Cara turned a wrathful face to her mother, who had been an uneasy listener to this conversation. "Graoe superior to me!” she cried. “ I’d like to see her in fashionable so ciety, and that is my world, and I’m n^t going to be kept here. Mr. Noland has asked me to marry him, and because he lives in the city I’m going to do it. I used to see him at Max & Harvard’s, where he clerked, though he never dared speak to.me then; but just to get away from here, I’ll take him. He says he’s always liked me, and at least, I’ll be able to go to the theater, and not be buried alive here! “My dear child!” Mrs Norris was so much dismayed that she gasped for breath. “ Mr and ptobably not able to support you. You know nothing About his character or standing. Oh my dear, don't be foolish and rash 1 Try to accommodate yourself to our ways, and don’t throw away your future in that manner.” But the weak, obstinate girl would not listen to her. If she could only get back to the city, she thought in some way or other she would manage to make her way to the oharmed circle. She was too inoxperienced to under stand that without wealth or position this would be an impossible task. She was like a silly child, who only oared to escape from fancied bondage. Mr. Noland made his proposition in form to Mr Norris, and it was as for mally refused. But a few days after ward Cara le.fc her home, on the pre text of spending the day’witk a neigh bor, and never returned. A few lines to her mother told her that she had married Noland, and was perfectly sat isfied with the step she had taken. Whether the satisfaction continued ns the years passed by, the reader can judge. Her family did not cast her off, and they were often called upon to con tribute to her support, particularly Grace, who had married an intelligent and manly farmer, and who assisted her with no niggard hand. Had it not been for these despised relatives Cara and her children would have starved; and the last I heard of her she had sent her eldest daughter to her mother’s oare at the “ farm.” 1 Never let her leave it, mother,” she wrote. " Let her learn duty and work, and try and make her like Graoe. What a blind fool I was!” More than one thoughtful reader will say amen to that.— Youth's Compan ion. Chinese Porcelain. The New York Evangelist, of a recent date, contained an interesting article on Chinese porcelain. The writer says there is one admirable characteristic of the Chinese porcelain that is often over looked . As a race they arc an almost painfully practical people, and in art they do not make n thing for any ubo to whioh the purchaser may choose to put it, but that in form, size and design, it is for some specific purpose, and in every tespeot ^intended to meet, to the best advantage, the requirements of that end. ThuB, their teaoups are always of blue decoration, as they say that tiie green of the tea is richer and more pleasing when seen through that than any other color, and the designs are usually from the tea- fields, the storing-place or tho drinking- house. Only the highest grade of work is referred to, as at present, owing to tho great demand of the West, and especially in the seaport towns, there is an unlimited number of cheaper work men hired by the drove, and commis sioned to produce the largest possible number of artioles in the shortest possi ble time, simply for shipment to Europe and America. Alter the artiole has been prepared for tho fire, the rest ot the operation is the most simple imag inable. There Is a large furnace for that whioh needs baking but once, and a smaller one for that which must be twice baked. Common clay makes ttie base of the furnace, and two more expensive varieties, called lavtou and yortou, cover a space two Chinese fathoms in height and four in width, arohed at the top into a sort of funnel. Each pieco is put into a separ ate case on a little dry sand, and one case is made to fit upon another. Wher the furnace is burning it looks almost like a miniature brick kiln, but for the slant-eyed, long-haired and half naked tenders that move about like spirits in the dim light, continually thrusting lit tle blocks of wood through small holes in the front. The fire is kept up till the colors become lustrous. Then the fur nace is completely walled up and al lowed to cool, and the porcelain, good, bad and indifferent, is ready for the market. LADIES’ DEPARTMENT. SMtt Woman’s Month. Wide months have come into fashion fbr women. This is a change from the prevailing style of the past year or two The proper mouth of tire present season is worn in a constant but mild smile, the corners being drawn back horizon tally, with the lips left closed. The ex pression is one of amiable, quiet satis faction with all the world—as though the mind was free from sorrow and the feet from corns. Care should be taken not to broaden this into an active grin, except on mirthful occasions; nor should the lips be compressed. All should be in repose. The lips may be reddened, if the natural oolor be too light. A practice of painting the ex posed membrane of the upper lip broad and bright lust at the oonter has crept in, but it is bad, for it gives an artificial 1 .ok. The fashionable belle baa out the pucker-string of her mouth, and no longer murmurs, “prunes, prunes, prunes.” She can kiss two men simul taneously, and give good satisfaction, where before only one could find room at a time. The reader who supposes that the above is fanciful, and not plain, straight forward fashion news is very much mis taken. Women can change the style of their faces,if not at will, at least consid erably. The hair over the forehead can be arranged to produce any desired outline for the upper part of the face; the mouth oan be made to widely vary its expression; the eyes can be kept partly wide open or lrnguidly half- closed ; the cheeks can be rounded by using “plumpers;” the eyebrows oan be arohed or straightened; the oolor can be controlled to a high degree. Thus it is apparent that a woman oan, If clever, have to some extent the kind of face she wants. The nose 1b about the only intractable feature. It sticks right out in unalterable independonoe, defying all efforts to shorten or straighten it. Let me interpolate the fact that not one woman in ten ever laughs or smiles naturally. Knowing full well our de fects of teeth or expression we try to hide or reform them. I know a girl who will never go to tho minstrels or any other funny show, because she isn’t pretty when she laughs. If inadvert ently caught by something comic, she buries the laugh in a handkerchief; but whenever possible she does all her laughing internally. This wrenches her terribly, and sooner or later some of her vitals will get broken all to pieces; but she prefers death to a display of her scraggy teeth.—Clara Belle's New York Letter. Anecdotes ol the Stage. John McCullough, the tragedian, hns been talking with a Cleveland Herald reporter about the stage and plays in general. He thinks “Virginius” a great play, ennobling anil elevating in its influence, but “ Othello" and “Kin b Lear” arc the grandest plays on the stage. “I don’t believe that in any languago in any country any author has ever written such plays as those, Mind you, they are a great deal harder to play than those of any other class. As they are godlike in their conceptions, the actor must be godlike to play them, and feel them and make them move—to feel and talk and ait them as Shakes peare has*given him an opportunity to do. Mr. McCullough told a pleas ant story of Forrest, which was as follows: Forrest was playing Rich ard, when Catesby came in to sum mon him. The actor was so struck with Forrest’s manner, look and tone, demanding, “ Who goes there P” that he could only stammer out, “ Tis I, my lord, the early village cock,” while the other words, ‘ * has thrice done salutation to the mom,” stuck in his throat. Forrest got the laugh of the audience on his side by responding* “ Then why the deuce don’t you crowf" THE MERCURY. PUBLISHED EVEHY TUESDAY. NOTIOE. |gj— AU nwniinirr* 1 — intended for tWs paper moat be eooompeniod with the foil ot the writer, not nsa warily for poMl- stolen, bnt ae e gnamntee of geod kith. We am in an way reeponaihle for the views a< t'Mhlon Sold. Cashmere drapes graoefully over skirts of white or colored satin. White or blaok jet bonnets are in tyle for day or evening wear. Large hats for some faces are more ressy and becoming than small ones. Short waists are coming in style again and will be worn with short skirts or trains. White dresses next season will be largely trimmed with imported machine embroideries. Long cloaks of black brocaded satin or velvet, concealing the wearer like a domino, grow in favor. Spring bonnets show a great deal of Tuscan braid work of deep yellow and much open lace straw. For evening and dinner dresses young girls wear robes of light-colored nuns’ veiling, or very light cashmere, trimmed with Surah or satin. Bands are made to fit the shoulders in the newest styles of chemises. They are not buttoned or drawn up by shirr strings in front, but are drawn over the head. Illusion is used in a peculiar way, not being puffed or allowed to float in clouds but laid in clusters of plaiting or in lengthwise folds set between panels of satin. Ball dresses of light materials, such as gauze, net and crape, may be either plain or elaborately embroidered and finished with long garlands or wreaths of va riously-colored flowers. Very fine woolen gloves resembling stockings or Jersey webbing are now imported, having long woven wristB which reach nearly half way to the elbow. These gloves have the appear ance of the undressed kid gloves. For cloth cloaks, says the Bazar, a most economical and comfortable wrap, easily made at home, is one of the circu lar shapes, either that with separate fronts that button the entire length or with a round circular that has short wide sleeves set in, or else merely the plain round circular, with a seam down tne middle oi the back. Some of the dress sleeves are cut to fit the arm so closely that they have to be buttoned or laced from the wrist to the elbow after the dress is put on. The long Suede Saxoj gloves are then in order. They are drawn over the dress sleeve for the promenade, and no cuff or frill of lace is visible. Over the gloves, however, are worn any number ot ban gles and gold bands, whioh are now de rigeuer upon all occasions. Toll and Lovi. Ye whose earnest aplrits long, With the ardors that endure, To be oounted ’mid the strong, To be numbered in tho pure. Pray to toil to born the hand With hi* deep and bitter brand, But yonr joyous hearts above ) Wear the shining marks of love. For tho tree ol Hie ia high, And its branches touoh the sky, But without the golden irnif Are yonr lips forever dry, And ye perish by the root. Only toil the prise may grasp, Though it wither in hie elasp, Love to reach ia Incomplete, But her touoh will make it sweet. —Katherine Lee Bet**. One ol the beet things A item us Ward ever got off waa a new sixty-dollar over coat.—New York News. They tell us matches are made in heaven, but somehow they never smell that way when you strike ’em.—LawzU Citizen. 'I’m going to come down on you hard,” as the rain said to the umbrella. “ I’m not to be shut up in that way,” was the reply.—Philadelphia Bun, 1 1 presume you understand my busi ness,” said the census-taker to the aero- bat, “I merely wish to know your occu pation.” “ Ob, yes! I tumble,” replied the acrobat. They had women dootors in Egypt over 3,000 years ago. They used to bend over their patients, crooning; “Let me kiss him for hi* mummy."—Phila delphia Bulletin. Harvard student (who has just failed in a Chinese sentence, to prolestor)r- Thou tea-chest—” Professor (furi ously)—” What! you dare to—" Stu dent (calmly proceods)—" Thon teaohest a moet difficult language.” ▲ singular fact—A Galveston gentle man has observed that when he goes ont hunting, and has his gun with him, and wants to ride on the street-ear, be has never yet bad occasion to signal a street car driver twice.—Galveston News. A youngster, while warming hie hands at the fire, was remonstrated with by his father, who said: “ Go away from the fire—tho weather is not cold.” “I ain’t heating the weather; I’m warming my bands,” tho little fel low demurely replied. It was a bitter cold day wh6n the traveling combination which I have the honor to feed gathered its solitary valise and stepped ashore at Hartford, Conn. The Dutch found this beautiful oity here nearly 2&0 years ago, and the first thing they did was to establish Colt's armory and go into the insurance busi ness. You can get insured here in any way ibr any thing yon wish—mutual, endowment, tontine, accident, inten tional, nomadic, differential, proto plasmic, renaissance, gothic, byzantiue, greenback, composite, oorinthian, Suotoli, clievolt, gossamer, seamless, barbed wire, liver pad and hard finish- It is the central and distributing point for the entire insurance business of America. No insurance company is genuine unless “Hartford” is blown upon the bottle.—Burdette. A South End maiden asks: “ When a young man comes twice a week with a carriage and takes a young lady to the theater and a supper afterward, and makes her magnificent presents, what does it indicate?" It indicates, ma’am that he has got more money to fool Noland is a poor clerk, ( away than we have.—Boston Post. American Pearls. With the exception of about three thousand dollars’ worth of pearls, whioh come from fresh water mussels and are found all over the Union—principally in the Miami river, Ohio—American pearls come from the Gulf of California. They are as fine as any Oriental pearls, and are valued as highly. The fresh water pearls are almost all small, but brilliant and somewhat ro 3 y in tint. About half of the California pearls are black, and command a better prioe than the white pearls. Some years ago about eighty per centum of California pearls were black, the proportion having diminished rapidly during the last ten years. The biggest pearl ever found in this country was the celebrated one found about twenty years ago in a New Jersey pond, and sold to the then Em press Eugenie. Of late, :> any small and almost worth less pear a have been received from Texan farmers, who have an exaggerated notion of their value. They are pur chased more as a matter of encourage ment to the pearl hunters, than any thing else. Some day these hunters The Nordenskjoid, the largest torpedo boat in existence, was recently launched at Copenhagen. She measures 915 feet in length and forty-two feet in breadth. She can make fifteen miles an hour. Her steel armor is four inches thick, and she carries an unusually large breeoh-loading Krupp gun. may discover valuable gems and their : Yno custom may bo worth something. Those already found are small, pink, irre gular-shaped pearls, the majority of them not larger than a pin head. The larger they are, the more defective they are in shape and color. Some of the larger ones might be mistaken tot bits of bone polished up. The only use to whioh they eau be put Is for re placing lost pearls in old jewelry of no great value, which is sent for repair. Sometimes they can be cut into pieces, and a small piece of fair pearl can be obtained for enameling. The finest string of pearls ever brought to this country, is now in the possession of. Tiffany & Co., of New York city. It consists of sixty pearls, the largest being about the slie of A wren’s egg. Every pearl is r&ffcctly round and pure in color, and not dne is valued at less than (MO. The difference between real and imitation pearls can not be told until they are handled. The best experienced cannot tell a good imi tation pearl from the real without touching it. The weight is deficient in imitation pearls, and the surface is dif- ferent to an experienced hand. They can only be distinguished by touoh and weignt. Bat every pearl in a ballroom might be false without the best expert in the trade suspecting it.