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Newspaper Page Textthe mercuby. Sandersvlllo, Washington County, 6*. F0BUSUID BT J. JERNICANi PnopninroB and Pchlisheb. gabsoription- .11.50 per Tmt. THE MERCURY. A. J. JERNIGAN, Pbofbietor. DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. 81.50 PER ANNUM. VOL. II. SANDERSVILLE, GA., JULY 19, 1881. NO. 16. THE MERCURY. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY. NOTICE. jgpAll communication* intended for thie pa* per must be accompanied with the full name 0} the writer, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee oi good faith. We are in no way responsible for the viewa 0* indolons of correspondents. Watches, Clocks ANT) JEWELRY bepawed by JERNIG AN POSTOFFICE nouns. 7:00 to 11:30 A. m. 1:30 to 6:00 r. M. E. A. Sulmyan, P. M. Subscribe for the MERCURY Only $1.50 por annum. PUBLISHED by JERNIGAN & SCARBOROUGH BUY YOUR - Spectacles, Spectacles, FROM JERNIGAN. Nono gonuino without jur Trndo Mark. On baud and for salo, SDEctaclcs, Nose Glasses, Etc Music! Music —GO TO— JERNIGAN -Fon- nut minus BOWS, STRINGS, ROSITV BOXES,&c Machine Needles Oil and Shuttles foil ALL KINDS OF MAOHINE.8, for sain 1 will also oriler parte of Machines that got broken, for which now piocos aro wanted. A. .T. JEBN1GA1N G. W. H. WHITAKER, DENTIST, 8ANDEH8VILLE, GA Trims Cash. Office at his Residence, on Harris Stroet. April 3, 1830. B. D. EVANS, Attorney at Law, SANDERSVILLE, GA April 3, 1880. Waiting. ■Will the slow weeks never go ? Hark 1 the curfew ringoth low j Into twilight Boft and gray Melts at last tho weary day; Onoo again tho night is hero, Are you thinking of mo, Dear ? All day long my heart lias heard Just ono softly whispered word; All day long your namo has come To mo through tho busy hum ; Everywhere in hall and stroet You have tarriod with mo, Sweet. In tho facos of tho crowd, In the crios that echo loud, All throughout tho hurrying throngs, All amid the strife of tongues, Nothing have I hoard or seen Savo your voice, your face, my Quoon. Other women come and go, Other voices whisper low, Other oyos grow dim or bright, Shed or voil their changeful light; But I stand apart, alone, Waiting still for you, my own. Ah I that waiting. Do you feol, Dai ling, aB tho slow days steal Silont, ono by ono, away, How my heart must yoaru and prayj For the touch of lips and hand ? Darling, do you understand ? In tho daily strifo and strosH, Do you see tho foes that press Close and hard within, without 1 All tho droad and all tho doubt, All the foars that clasp and cling, All the bitter questioning ? Fast, though with no clash of swords, Gather all those phantom hordes ; And my soul, as falls the night, Booms to lose her won tod might, Shrinks bofore thnt dusky crow, Prays and longs and yearns for you. Must I always watch and wait, Exiled, famished, at your gato ? Will you not bo bravo and como Ero the pleading lips ho dumb ? Ero within tho weary oyos Hope’s last glimmer fades and dies 'I All I dear heart, ho strong, be true I Soe, a kingdom waits for you I High above all stain or scatho Floats Lovo’s banner, shines Love’s faith. Enter on your rolgn screno I Como I my own I my lovo 1 my quoen I —Barton Grey. CHARLES MARSHALL. DK. WM. RAWLINGS, hysician & Surgeon, SANDERSVILLE, QA Office at Sandersvlllo Hotel. April 10, 1880. E. A. SULLIVAN, NOTARY PUBLIC, SANDERSVILLE, GA Special attention givon to tho collection ol tlalms. Oflico in tho Court-house. 0. H. ROGERS, Attorney at Law, Sandersvlllo, Ga. I rarapt attention givon to all business. Office in northwest wing of Court-house. May 4, 1880. b C. C. BROWN, Attorney at Law, Samlorsville, Ga. V'iU practice in tho State and United Statoa ,_1 a - OlKce in Court-house. H. N. H0LL1FIELD, Physician and Surgeon Oflici Saudersville, Ga. Ml8 ' Dayn °’ 8 miUin0ry DR. J. B. ROBERTS, Physician and Surgeon Handorsvillo, Ga. Stivi? consulted at his ofTico on Haynes > in l, 110 JIa sonic Lodge building, from 9 ,tbc-r P' and from 3 to 5 p. m.; during 'lien uni rs "1 lln rOB idonce on Church Stroet, Api-r^isso 89 ° nally ° nsaeed ’ Pollened Steel 1)11 ILL POINTS. !"*'• OOT * r b«*utifuHj, ami lmUad of crowdinf 'A rowi, icalter It 8W, 4, and 6 Ini. J ftTnni’ apart, have more ROOM ,OOL, derive more nourlihment from the pollj oui, produee bettor divel , , .. -cud tor Illuitrated Pamt-.. .., ^Testimonial.. U.J0NB8, WILMINGTON, DEI* tolievet£psI < V' hcr Tnn '' 9 wheat, about a week ago, and I 'hh y 0ur p 0 . ^ re 19 °nc third more wheat where It was drllUd 101,1 ,uo 1,0 measured some rows, and (, f, 0 of ll »e old j"., ,h « s »me length of row against fortv- (1 H. CLAYTON, *i.J 801 Qv e bu.hln h P l Middleton,Dtl.,and Farmer, Til 11 Point, h , J. 10 ucro more w ^eat, where I drilled ***» showing *nn 1118 old *tyle. I gave them a fair 7. vivi,J5° faror. * JOSHUA CI.iTTOK, J*„ lft. riMlWt. Drt- A 8TOHY WITH A MORAL. Young Charles Marshall was spending tho summer vacation with his college ehum, Fred Davenport. Tho Marshalls who lived in an adjoining State, were people in quite moderate circumstances and Charles had been brought up to practice pretty Btrict economy. Tho elogant living and lavish hospitality ho t'ound at tho fine Davenport residonce was a striking novelty to him. He enjoyed it all exceedingly, and was greatly flattered by the polite and considerate attention ho received, al though he did not approve of somo of tho ways of tho household, which were unfamiliar to him. Somotimes ho would indulge in satirical comments, which ho doubtless thought to bo very smart but which were, in reality, unbecoming aud rude. One damp, rainy day, Miss Margaret, his chum's sister, stood by tho open library tire outting into narrow strips letter she had that morning rooeived aud had just read. She then deftly twisted them into paper-lighters, placing them ono by ono as they were finished into a quaint old green porcelain jar that stood on the carved mantel. Young Marshall at tho time was lounging in an easy-chair near by, watching the fair girl with an amused look as she rapidly wound the dainty spirals. At length he spoko up in sarcastio tone of voice, “ What queer ideas of economy you people seem have. Now, when matches cost less than two cents a hundred, I am unable to appreciate the economy of saving them by devoting valuable time making paper-lighters.” I thought I had explained to you once,” and Margaret laughed, pleasantly, «• that we do not use paper-lighters as matter of economy at all, although the fact that they save matches is not to ’ ~ lost sight of. It is a matter of taste entirely. The smoke of a lucifer match of any kind, even parlor matches, disagreeable and is almost sure to set some of us off coughing or sneezing. "Well, it strikes me as a decidedly jbjectionablo way of treating the mis sives of one’s correspondence, went or the young cavalier, presently. ‘ Bather of an unfriendly 'cut' I should say. “I fancy I am the best judge of what disposal I make of my correspondence, replied Miss Margaret, with some spirit. “ All important letters I pre serve, of course, but mere chatty notes from my school friends accumulate so fast that I think it best to make way with them. Now, Ida Stanly, my chum at Vassar, who affects this pink stationery, does not object at all to my using her letter to brighten my ]ar of paper lighters. Just look. Is not the shade lovely ? It is just the color of the dear triiTs cheeks.” One morning two or three days later the young man handed Mils Margaret a roll of musio which he had volun teered to copy for Mr “I have ba no end of difficulty over it, said Le, ». he glanced impatiently out of the win dow. "I upset my inkstand in my writing desk, and so completely daubed over a letter I had just finished that I was obliged to copy it. And at length, in order to bo in season to tako a drive with your brother at the hour appointed, I was compelled to hurry this music. It presents a much less neat appearance than I wish it did.” The. span of horses wero now at the door, and the young mau left the room, drawing on his gloves as he departed. He had been gone a few moments when Miss Margaret proceeded to look over the manuscript music. Lying between the sheets in full view was one page of young Marshall’s blotted letter he had referred to. At tho first glanco she sow her namo, and before sho was really awaro that the blotted paper had evi dently been placed in tho roll by mis take, she had read: "This is a rare old placo to visit, I assuro you. The Davenports spend monoy as though it grew on bushes, and yet they uso ' paper-lighters’ to savo matches, and fancy themselves to bo very economical, as wo havo to bo at homo. By tho way, I suspect Miss Margaret is more than half in lovo with mo. She refused to pay a visit at tho homo of her very intimate friond, Ida Stanly, while I was here. How do know this to bo a fact, ask you, brother Tom? Why, thanks to thoso samo paper-lighters.’ This Ida Stanly’s letter had been out up into strips, rolled up and placed in the economical porce lain jar over the mantel in tho library, just abstracted them from their re coptacle, carofully unrolled them matched tho strips aud so possessed myself of a protty array of girlish socrots. Oh, this is a jolly place to visit, and one small economy is much better than all economy at home; so don’t know but I had better mako lovo to Margaret, although—■" Miss Margaret was very indignant ot course, but she quietly dropped the blotted sheet of paper into tho grato and mentioned the matter to no ono at tho time. Sho treated her brother college friend and chum with her ha bitual courtesy, until tho vacation was ended aud tho two young men had left tho Davenport residonce for college. It was a great puzzle to Gharles Mar shall why he was never again invited to visit tho Davenports, aud why Miss Mar garet answered a letter lie wrote her, soon after ho arrived at college, only by a brief and somewhat curt messago to him in a letter to her brother. About the samo timo ho wns astonished to find, as he entered his room ono evening, that his old friend, Fred Davenport, had taken his books, pictures, and his part of the furniture, to another room to share them with a new chum. Both the young men subsequently graduated, and for a long time Charles Marshall's path in life was unknown to the Daven ports. 1 H O O .V tjIGHTl Xii. ’ The other day on reading in tho morning newspaper that Charles Mar shall, a business man in S —, had be trayed an important trust, Miss Marga ret, now Mrs. Dr. Lawrence, said: “ 1 am not at all surprised. Any young man with so little sense of honor as to abuse the sacred rites of hospitality as he did at our home, could not be expected to prove true in any position,” and then for the first time sho told this story.— Intelligencer. Fortuguese Shepards. On tho hillside under the cork tree we see a child tending her flock an 1 spinning with distaff and spindle. Such a sight is very common; little girls have much to do with the domestic ani mals; they run fearlessly between the long horns of the great, tawny oxen, and guide them in the way they should go with a shower of blows on their long-suffering foreheads and muz zles. They milk the goats and herd the swine, and grow lithe and strong of limb and nut-brown of face in tho warm sun. The herdsmen and shoperdesses beguile their lonely watch with tho peculiar antiphonal songs of the coun try, which often display remarkable wit in repartee on tho part of tho improvis ators, as well as a ready talent for rhyming. These songs are composed as well in Spain as in Portugal. Ono shepherd challenges another to a tour nament in verse, and begins by singing a stanza which is to servo as a key-note for the whole production, as well in the kind of measure to bemused as in tune. In ono of these lyrical ballads, which, so far as I know, has never crept into print, a man begins a song half in ban’ ter half in earnest: It ,s better to love a dog than to lovo man, , , For for a piece of gold a woman will leave you to grief, But tho affection of a dog is ondless.” A woman, who perhaps has had some experience of the improvidence as well as of the voracity of mankind, replies, in ready caricature of the other: “ It is better to feed a dog than to feed a man, For with a pieco of moat a dog will leave you in peace, But tho hunger of a man will last forever.” And the keen, sharp-shooting is kept up through a long range of topics, the ball tossed back and forward from one skillful compioser to another, and when improvisation fails traditional badinage is remembered and sung with equal gusto.—Harper's Magazine, mi One of tho FecnHnr Industrie* of the Penn* ■vlvnnln Oil Hestons. " Moonlighting” is a peculiar indus try that owes its existence to the patent laws. The late Colonel E. A. Roberts introduced the use of nitro-glycerine torpedoes in increasing tho yield of oil wells. When tho great flowing wells of Oil Crook, after draining the petroleum pools of the lower field for three years, h°d exhausted tho supply, as was sup posed, Colonel Roberts experimented on an abandoned well with a quantity of nitro glycerine, confined in a tin shell and exploded by concussion. The explosion was followed by a flow of oil, and tho old well yielded thirty bar rels a day for sovoral years aftorward. The nitro-glycerine had shattered the oil-bearing rook and openod the paraf fine-clogged veins. While Borving in the army Colonel Roborts noticed that a bombshell exploding boneaih water invariably spent its force on the bottom of the stream, throwing up mud and stones in great quantities. This was duo, he supposed, to tho solid fluid tamping abovo tho explosive. It was this idea that lod him to try tho experi ment of nitto-glycorino at tho bottom of oil wells, beneath hundreds of foot of fluid tamping—oil and water collected in tho well. Ho obtained patents on his device. Tho validity of tho patents was questioned, and nitro-glycerine torpedoes wero used by othors without paying royalty to Roberts. Ho brought nearly 5,000 suits to protect his rights. Ono of thoso, as a tost, was carried through all tho State courts and to tho United States supreme court. Roberts won in every court, and nearly a mil lion dollars in royalties was recovered The monopoly in nitro-glycerine tor pedoos led to the illicit ubo of them in wells. Men without fear of death or regard for law went into the business of “shooting” wells for producers who did not care to pay tributo to Roborts. Any ono lias a right to manufacture nitro glycerine and to place torpedoes in wells. In the exploding of them lies the liability to prosecution and penalty. Tho moonlighter is always ready to con tract for tho shooting of a well. lie carries Iris nitro-glyceriue in wagons made especially for tho purposo. They are buckboards, with cushioned apart ments under the seat, into which tho cans aro placed. Tho roads of tho oil regions would scarcely bo called road3 elsewhere. When not hub deep with mud, they aro stretolioB of deep ruts and gullcys and projecting rocks. Drawn by powerful horses, thoso wagons, loaded with sixty or a hundred quarts of ono of tho most destructive explo sives known, and which a sudden jar is at any moment likely to explode, aro driven by their reckless owners over these roads in the darkest nights at tho top of their horses’ speed. Tho men work at night always. They aro called moolightcrs, but tho absence of the moon does not prevent them from un dertaking a job. Tho Roberts company has a wonderful dotectivo system, which is constantly employed in ferreting out tho trespassers in tho torpedo patont. It frequently happens that a moonlighter is spotted as ho starts out on ono of his nocturnal missions. Tho moonlighter rarely fails to be aware ai the fact when he is followed by one of Roberts’ men Then it is a race between the two. If tho moonshiner cannot evade the detce tivo and finish his job, be manages to secrete his nitro-glycerine in the bushes, old buildings, barns, or other outbuild ings of farms, or in any place where lie is most likely to recover it for use on a moro auspicious occasion Thus it hap pons that these dangerous storehouses are liable to bo come upon at any time by people passing through the woods or along the streams, or by the farmers whoso premises havo been utilized. The cost of torpedoing a well under tho Roberts patent averages 8250, The moonlighter will shoot it for less than half of that. Thus the saving effected if the work is not discovered is a great temptation to a certain class of producers. If detected, however, tho penalty is heavy. The Roberts prico for torpedoing must be paid, and what ever damages may be oosessed. If the well is an old ono and has been shot to increase its yield tho value of the in creased yield up to the time the dam ages are assessed is added to the cost of detected illicit torpedoing. When Colonel Roberts died recently his income was about 81,000 a day, Ho had been separated from his wife and family for several years. Mrs Roberts had begun proceedings against him and they were pending at the time of his death. A nephew of the deceased man, a resident of Bradford, Pa., was made his heir. The nephew volun tarily transferred a third of the wealth he inherited to each of the two children of the dead inventor, keeping the other third himself. Appraisers of the estate of Colonel Roberts have been seven weeks engaged in fixing its value, Their duties are accompanied with risk that tho appraisers of no dead man’s property ever ran before. They are obliged to visit all the nitro-gly cerine safes in the oil region, examine and place a value on their contents There are thirty of these magazines connected with the estate in the Brad ford field alono. Those magazines each contain from 1,000 to 10,000 pounds of tho explosive. While the appraisers wore cautiously creeping about in one of them which contained 2,000 pounds driver of a Roberts nitro-glycerine wagon camo tearing up to the safe with his team at tho usual break-neck rate. He had been out torpedoing wells. He had seven twenty-ponnd eons left. These ho brought into tho magazine carrying two under each arm, one in each hand and rolling the other along on tho floor of tho safe with his foot. Tho six cans he tumbled on tho floor as if tlioy wero sticks of wood. The op praiBors lost no time in getting out of hat magazine. When a nitro-glycerine wagon is met on the road every other vohiclo givos it all tho way its driver soes fit to ask The carrying of this explosivo in 'any but tho wagons arranged for its Irons portation is forbidden by law, but it is not an uncommon thing to sco somo dare-devil driver jolting over the rough roads with cans of it knocking abont in the bottom of an ordinary wagon. Car rying nitro-glycerine throngh towns 1b punishablo by heavy fines; but as it re quires a rather bold ofllcor to ohaso a man who is carrying with him matorial that may explode at any moment, it is not an exceedingly raro sight to sco drivers on their way to wells taking a short and easier cut through towns and villages with their Btockof nitro-glycer ine. A driver was somo timo ago dis covered passing through ono of tho Bradford suburbs with a load of nitro glyoerine. The residents protested, and an officer halted tho man to arrest him The drivor took ono of his cans, raised it above his head, and informed tho crowd that if any one attempted to m terfero with him he would throw tho cau against a rock by tho roadsido not three feet away. The man was a moon lighter, und from his reputation tho crowd believed that he would like noth ing hotter than blowing up the town nnd its inhabitants, oven if ho disap peared in pieces at tho samo timo; so they allowod him to pass on.—AW crRiots FA CIS. Among the Gauls cutting off the hail was inflicted as a punishment. Cambric was originally manufactured in Cambrey—lienco its namo. Aconite is said to bo named from Acono, a placo in tho Crimen, famous for its poisonous herbs. A magnificent oak stands on tho farm of Major McDowell, near Frankfort, Ky, It is nearly 120 feet in height, and seven men, touching their fingers tip to tip, could just encircle it at the height of their shoulders. In a recent sun disturbance a protubor aneo wns thrown up from tho surface which was 235,000 miles long, but in a few hours it subsided to only 18,000 miles. For a healthy adult man the average qunntity of food required during twenty four hours is sixteon onnccsofbroad, throe nnd n half ounces of buttor, nml fifty two fluid ounces of water. The Romans attached groat signifl canoe to tho color of the hair. Auburn or light linir was considered most de sirable, and long boforo tho timo of Judas rod hair was regarded with great disfavor. Tho Glasgow News gives an account of a very queer funeral at Sheffield, Eng land. Tho person interrod was a deaf rnuto, nnd tho twclvo mournors wero also deaf and dumb. Tho funeral cere mony was conduoted entirely by signs. Tho largest pasture iu tho world is on tho border botween New Moxico and Texas. Tho Indian Territory hounds it on ono side nnd Colorado on tho othor. On ono side there are forty miles of perpendicular rock fence, and yet it will require 200 miles of Joncing to inclose it. Tho ownor, Taylor Maudlin, lias sown 1,000 tons of onts. Ho will feed on it 100,000 head of cattle. rOB TUB FAIR KMX. A Very Pretty Her** Hr*. One of the prettiest scrap-bags tor sitting-room or bedroom is made in a simple manner by taking a good-ii«ed Japanese parasol, or small umbrella take a piece of fine wire and make in a ring, catch it to the partly-opened par asol with thread, tie a bright ribbon to the handle. Of course this is service able only for bits of paper and light scraps. * tirk Sun. Medicinal Qualities of Buttermilk. For a summer boverago thoro can be nothing moro healthy and strengthen ing than buttormilk. It is excellent for weak or delicate stomachs, and fur bettor as a dinner drink than coffee, tea or water, and, uuliko thorn, does not retard, but rather aids digestion. A celobratod physician once said that every ono know tho value of buttormilk as a drink, it would bo moro freely par taken of by persons who drink so ex cessively of other beverages; nnd further compared its effects upon tho system to the cleaning out of a cook stove that has been clogged up with ashes that have sifted through, filling up every crevice and crack, saying that tho human system is like tho stove, and collects and gathers refuso mattor that can in no way be exterminated from the sys tem so effectually as by drinking but tormilk. It is also a speciflo remedy for indigestion, soothes and quiets tho nerves, nnd is very somnolout to those who are troubled with sleeplessness. Thero is something strange in tho fact that persons who are fond of but termilk never tire of singing its praises, while thoso who aro not fond of it never weary of wondering how some poople can drink it. So far as is possible, people should overcome their aversion to it, and learn to drink it for health’s sake. One gentleman of our acquaintance is so extremely fond of it that we knew him ono timo to drink about three glasses, then set his glass down with a thud, exclaiming earnestly, as he smacked his lips That’s food and raiment both.” While another buttormilk enthusiast made tho statement once that where the liver lias become lifeless from torpidity and inaction, and is too dead to perform its functions buttermilk will cause a now one to grow in. Whatever exaggerated state monts may have been made concern ing buttermilk, its medical properties cannot bo overrated, and it should bo more freely used by all who can get it. Every one who values good health should drink buttermilk every day in warm weather, and let tea, coffeo and water alono. For tho benefit of those who aro not already awaro of it, I may add, tha in tho churning the first process of di gestion is gone throngh, making one of tho easiest and quickest of all things to digest. It makes gastric juice and contains properties that readily assimilate with it, with little or no wear upon the di gestive organs. “Pray, Brother A., what isthereputa tion of Mr. B. in your parish ?” “Well sir, all I can say is, that such is the es timation of Mr. B. among us that when I read from the pulpit that passage in the psalms, * Mark the perfect mar. and behold the upright,’ the eyes of the whole congregation are not turned to the part of the jgaliory where Mr. sits.” Some of the Great Bridges. R rijort Stephenson, great engineer ns ho was, reported thnt suspension bridges would never do for steam. John A. Roebling answered with the Niagara suspension bridge, the cheapest Htruoture and ono of tho best ever built for such n necessity. Iu Menai strait, which divides an island from tho northwestern corner of Wales, tho tido risos to tho height of thirty foot somotimes, and genornlly twelve feet. Tho British government orectod a bridgo on tho great high road from England to Ireland over this strai in 1820. It is a suspension bridgo built by Tolford on chains, aud cost 8000,000 (gold) at that timo. It is 100 feet above water. Twenty yoars afterward Goo.ge Stephenson began to build tho tubular bridgo throe miles above, spanning the samo strait. It took five years, and trains crossed it in 1850. It lias four spans, tho two in tho middle being 400 feet wido each, and tho whole bridgo is about 1,840 feet long. It is 123 feot abovo high-water mark, and, cost 3,000,000. Tho Niugara suspension bridgo, built by Roebling iu 1852, cost only 8500,- 000, is 800 feet long, 230 feet above the river, and its towers are about eight,y- four foot high. Tho Niagara foot bridge, built in 1869, cost 8175,000, and was said to bo, wlion openod, the loDgest suspension bridgo in tho world, or 1,268 foet between towers. The Cincinnati suspension bridgo, by Roebling, stands next to tbo East river bridge, aud is 1,057 feet between tow ers and 2,252 botween tho ends; tho bride is 103 feet abovo low water, the towers aro 230 foet high, and each is taller and larger than the Bunkor Hill monument, and the structure cost 81,800,000; it was built by a company, and charges three cents toll por man This bridge has been in most useful operation since about 1867; it was eleven years botween its commence ment and opening. Roebling, tho projector of tho Brook lyn bridge, was the greatest bridge builder in the world. He started the making of wire cordage in America, and built suspension bridges to carry the acqueducts of canals across rivers, and engineered the Pennsylvania,, railroad across tho mountains. The Brooklyn bridge, between towers, is 1,595 leet long. Behind the towers thoro are 940 feet each side, back to the anchorages, Tho whole length of the bridge aud ap proaches is 6,000 feet. It is ono of the widest bridges in the world, oighty-live feot, with a promenade thirteen feet wide, two railroad tracks and four car riage and two horse-car racks. It is 135 feet in the center above the water. The rock on which the towers rest is about ninoty feet below the surface of the water on tho New York sido, and half that depth on the Brooklyn sido— the most stupendous thing about the structure. Eaoli tower is 134 feet long by fifty-six wide, and at the top these dimensions aro reduced to 120 feet by forty, or tho size of a very large house. Each tower is 268 feet abovo high water. It is 1,336 feet from tho beginning of the causeway on Chatham street out to tho anchorage on the New York shore. The architect of the bridge received his death wound almost at its inception,— Baldwin's Monthly K«*wn nml Notei lor Women* Two girls at Waupaca, Or., tossed up for a lover, and the loser acted as bride- maid at tho wedding. A sentimental woman at Mayville, Canada, has put a strong iron fence around the troe whereon a sweetheart of youthful days once carved her name. A woman of fifty-seven is applying for her third divorce from a man of sixty- four, in Davenport, Iowa, Abe grounds being the same as in two previous oases cruel treatment. A man justifies his meanness toward his wife by assorting that he and she are ono, and, therefore, by refusing to fur nish her money ho practices the heroic virtue of self-denial. In Tdnis, as elsewhere in Africa, ex cessive stoutness is considered a mark of fcmalo beauty. Women are fed for this purposo liko cattle when training for an agricultural show. A sixteen-year-old daughter of Richard Misnor, of Griffin’s Corners, N. Y., weighs only thirty pounds. She is only three feot iu height, nnd speaks in snob a peculiar manner that few exoept her parents can understand her. A Washington girl has highly inter esting hair. Its color UBed to be a light blonde. Dr. D. W. Prentiss reports to the Smithsonian institution that he gave her jaborandi, a Brazilian plant, as a cure for blood poisoning. Her hair soon began to darken, nnd in four months was almost black. Kniliten Fancies. Blue and white mattings are liked for bedrooms by ladies who are tired qf- preen and white and red and whito.»i ohcckB. Evening dresses for young misses are mndo prinoesse stylo, laced up the back, and are worn high in the neck with a Stuart collar and short sleeves. The summer woolen stuffs with wide stripes bear a more painful resemblance to furniture covers than any material that has appeared for somo time. Ladies who possess the lace sacks of thread or lama, at present so completely out of stylo, aro making them over into tho protty Stuart collars, pointed fichus, und antique shoulder capos now in vogue. Muslin is made into soft puffs with shorrings in tho center for collarettes, which nro exceedingly becoming, and as they require no ironing, needing only to be washed aud to have a pencil passed through them in order to restore them to their pristine freshness, they are likely to be favorites with ladies who do not like to pay heavy loundry bills. A Story of a lost Bing. Wo often hear of the inefficiency of tho postofflee delivery, but here is a case in its favor, one where it has been instrumental in restoring an article of value to its rightful owner. It appears, as the story has been told, that eleven years a,jo a little girl living in Dor chester was presented, on her sixth birthday, by a favorite unole, with a very valuable garnet and pearl ring. The little miss wore it a few times. Extraordinary care was supposed to have been taken of it, but suddenly the ring was missing, and thorough search could not discover it. The other day the door-bell of tho house from which the ring was lost was rung, and by chance the former little girl that loBt it answered the bell, to find the postman of the district with a greasy envelope in his hand, addressed to her mother, “Mrs. H , Dorcaster,” the address scarcely legiblo and the envelope bear ing no stamp. It might easily have gone to the dead letter office, but the postman knew that, he had a lady living on his route by the name (as near as he could make it out) on the envelope, and thought ho would try if the letter belonged to her. When the young lady took the envelopo from the postman he stated the forgoing circumstances, and also enjoined that the seal must be broken in his presence, as there ap peared to be something beside writing inclosed. In complying with the re quirements, much to the astonishment of the postman the young lady suddenly ejaculated loud enough to ho heard in all parts of the houso : “ Oh, mamma here is my ring.” It proved to be so. Tho ring lost eleven years before had been returned in this way, and there was nothing to show where it had come from, and there are no grounds for any suspicion. Beyond a dirty piece of cotton batting there was nothing but the ring in the envelope. That was as fresh and bright as when lost. Somebody’ conscience is cleaver now, as the ring was probably stolen,—Boston Transcript.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Mercury. (Sandersville, Ga.) 1880-1???, July 19, 1881, Image 1