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■■ aocond- class mattor at the Sandors-
vUlo I’oatoQlco, April 27, 1880.
gandersvllle, Washington County, Ga.
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May!, 1880.
C. C. BROWN,
Attorney at Law,
Sandorsvlllo, Ga.
Will practice in tho State and United States
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H. N. H0LLIFIELD,
Physician and Surgeon,
Sandorsvlllo, Qa.
Office next door to Mrs. Bayno’s millinery
store on Harris Stroot,
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SANDERSVILLE, GA.
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April 8, 1880.
SANDERSVILLE, GA.
April 3, 1880.
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DICTIONARY.^!
Edition of WEBSTER, Las
/fo’POO "v/cvcln, 3000 Engravings,
4000 NEW WORDS and Meanings,
■“Jographical Dictionary
oi over 9700 Names.
-JWlshcdbyG.a C. MERRIAM, Springfield, Mass,
_ MILLIONS OF
PLANTS!
Liibbnire $2.00 nnd
Celery $2.50 per 1000
by express. Larger
quantities at still low-
er rates. Send for free
in miliars. Address,
TuJi* Tlllinirlinst
Ij»Tiume,L^Q.go.F^
Work.
Sweet wind, fair wind, whero have you boon ?
“1’vo boon swooping tho cobwebs out of tho
I sky j
I’vo boon grinding a grist in a mill hard by;
I’vo boon laughing at work white othors Bigli;
Let those laugh who win 1 ”
Sweet rain, soft rain, wliat aro yon doing?
“ I’m urging tho corn to fill out its colls;
I’m liiolping tho lily to fashion its bolls;
I’m dwelling tho torrent and brimming tho
wells;
Is that worth pursuing ? ”
Redbreast, redbreast, wliat havo you dono ?
“ Vvo boon watching tho nest whoro my flodgo-
lingc. lio;
I’vo Bung thorn to sloop with a lullaby;
By-atiul-byo I shall toach them to fly,
. Up and away, ovory ono 1”
Honoy-hoo, honoy-boo, whoro aro you going?
“ To fill my lmskot with procious polf;
To toil for rny neighbor as well as myself;
To fluid out tho swootost flowor that grows,
Bo it a thistlo or bo it a roso—
A sccrot worth tho knowing I ”
Each! content with tho work to ho dono,
Ever tho snmo Irom sun to sun;
Shall you nnd 1 ho taught to work
By tho boo nud tho bird that Boom to shirk ?
Wind and rain fulfilling his word 1
Toll lino, was over a legend hoard
Whoro tho wind, coramandod to blow, doforrod;
Or tho rain, that was biddon to fall, demurred ?
—Mary N. Prencott.
SENT BY EXPRESS.
the
- Frank Evans had been turning away,
but something in the piteons tones of
her voice appealed to every manly in
stinct within him.
1 Shall I send to any other of your
friends ?”
“ I have no friends.”
"Perhaps I can have your things sent
to some quiet family hotel ?”
Minnie opened her little leather purse
and showed him two ten-eent pieces,
with a smile that was almost a tear.
" This is all the money I have in the
world, sir."
" But what are yen going to do ?”
“I don’t know, sir. Isn’t there a
workhouse, or some snch place I conld
go to, nntil I conld find something to
do?”
Frank Evans conld scarcely help
smiling at poor Minnie’s simplicity.
" They are putting out the lights and
preparing to closo the office,” said Min
nie, starting nervously to her feet. " I
must go somewhere.”
“Miss Harlan," said Frank, "my
homo is a very poor ono—1 am
only a five-hundred dollar clerk
but I am sure my mother will receive
you under her roof for a day or two, i
you can trust me."
"Trust you?” Minnie looked at him
through violet eyes obsoured in tears
" Oh, sir, I shall he so thankful.”
dentist,
B. D. EVANS,
Attorney at Law,
Minnie Harlan was alone
world, her mother just buried.
She was a beautiful, brown-haired
girlj with soft, shy eyes of violet gray,
and rosy lips compressed to a firmness
far beyond her years. For after all she
was scarcely seventeen, nnd so Denoon
Gray was tolling her ns ho sat by tho
tiro spreading his hugo hands over tho
blaze, and asked abruptly: M
" But what aro you going to do to
earn your broad an' butter, my child ?”
"I don’t know—I havo thought
mamma had an uncle living in New
York, who—"
" Yes, yes—I’vo hoerd toll about him
- lip was mad ’caifso your mothor didn’t
marry just exactly to suit him, wasn’t
ho?”
Mfinnio was silent. Deacon Gray
waited a few minutes, hoping sho would
admit him to her secret meditations;
but sho did not, nnd the deacon wont
away home, to tell his wife " that Har
lan gal was the very <iucorest creotur ho
h vdl over come across."
lilt tho meantime Minnie was busy
packing her scanty tilings into her car
pet bag, by tho weird, flickering light
of tho dying wood lire.
" I will go to Now York,” she said to
herbolf, sotting her pearly teeth to
gether.
"My mother's uncle shall hoar my
cause pleaded through my own lips.
Oh, I wish my heart would not throb so
wildly I I am an orphan all alone in
tho world, who mnst tight life’s battles
with her own single hands.”
Lower Broadway at 7 o'olock in the
evebing. What a babel of crashing
wheels, hurrying humanity and con
glomerate noises it was. Minnie Har
lan sat in tho coruor of an oxpross office
ttncjier tho flare of gaslight, surrounded
by boxes, and wondered whether peoplo
over went crazy in tbis porpetual din
and tumult. Her dress was very plain
—gray poplin, with a shabby, old-fash
ioned little straw bonnet tiod with black
ribbons, and a blue veil, while her only
article of baggage, the carpet-bag, lay
in her lap. She had sat there two
hours, and was very tired.
"Poor little thing!” thought the
dark-haired young clerk nearest her,
who inhabited a sort of a wire cage
under a oirolet of gas lights, and then
took up his pen and plunged into a per
fect Atlantic ocean of accounts.
«VMr. Evans.”
"Sir.”
The dark-haiied clerk emerged from
bib cage with his pen behind his ear, in
obedience to the beckoning finger of his
.
superior.
ia j have noticed that young woman
sitting hero for some time—how came
shtohere?”
"Expressed on from Millington
IoW. Arrived tbis afternoon.”
As though poor Minnie were a box or
a paper parcel.
“Who for?”
"Consigned to Walter Harrington,
"Yes, sir—I remember her.”
A toll, silver-haired gentleman here
interposed with eager quickness:
"Whero is she? I am her uncle,
Walter Harrington. 1 have just re
turned from Paris, where the news of
her arrival reaohed me. I want her,
she is the only living relative left me.’
"Ah! but sir,” said Frank, "yon
can’t have her.”
" Can’t havo her ? What do you m ean
Has anything happened?”
" Yos, sir, something has happened;
Miss Minnie was married to me this
morning.”
Walter Harrington stared.
" Take me to her,” he said, hoarsely;
" I can’t be parted from my only living
relative for a more whim.’’
" I wonder if ho calls the marriago
service a mere whim," thought honest
Frank; but he obeyed in silenoe.
Frank Evans is an express clerk no
onger, and pretty Minnie moves in vel
vet and diamonds; but they aro quite
as happy as they wore in the old days,
and that is saying enough. Uncle Wal
ter Harrington grows older and feebler
AltAlT million in HO HSUS.
Tho Fashion Hunt Farm. Whero UoliUmlt
■Multi Is Queen.
The Fashion Stud farm, situated
about a mile and a half east of this oity,
on the State Btreet road and opposite
the coaling station of the Pennsylvania
railroad, it is believed has not an equal
in this country. It was purchased about
ton years ago by the well-known horse
men, Budd Doble and Charles H. Ker-
for H. N. Smith, the prominent
New York bankor, and was not visited
by the latter till nearly a year after it
became his property. Since that time
contiguous lauds have been purchased
by Mr. Smith, nntil his farm now con
tains something over 365 acres, nearly
all of which is under the highest con
dition of cultivation, and through which
runs a nover-failing stream of water.
It was not at first Mr. Smith's purpose
to establish an extensive stock farm,
but, owning tbo celebrated Goldsmith
Maid and other fine-blooded horses, he
bought tho farm on whioh to keep and
breed them. Beooming more and more
year olds, thirteen three-year-olds and
thirty-five brood mares, altogether
with a number of boarders, making 160
head of blooled stock. Tbe most
noted animal on the Fashion Stud Farm
is Goldsmith Maid who was foaled in
1857, and has a reoord of 2:14.—7Vcn-
ton State Gazette.
LADIES• DEPARTMENT.
infatuated with stock-raising and breed-
every day, and his two children aro tho j Mr> Smitll ba8 increased his stables
sunshine of his declining life. | aml i mpr0V ed the establishment until
they now represent a moneyed value of
CLIPPINGS TOR THE CVRIOVS. \ about $500,000, bis horses alone being
valued at $300,000. With the Ringle ox-
ES "'And why hasn’t she' been called
lOT,”
«i S ent up to Mr. Harrington’s ad
dress to notify him some time ago, and
am expecting an answer every moment.
.< Very odd,” said the gray-haired
gentleman, again taking up his nows-
P [Some three-quarters of an hour after
ward Frank Evans camo to the pale
girl’s side, with indescribable pity in
hlis hazel eyes.
("Miss Harlan, we have sent to Mr.
-j
niton her cheek, and her hand clasped
tightly on tho handle of the faded car
Pe »And we regret to inform you that he
sailed for Europe at 12 o’clock this
^"a"sudden blur came over Minnie’s
' e0 _phe trembled like a leaf.
" How late you are, Frank 1 Here—
give me Your overcoat—it is all pow
dered with snow, and—"
But Frank interrupted his bustling,
oherry-clieeked little mother, as she
stood on tip-toe to take off his outer
wrappings.
"Hush, mothor, there is a young lady
down-stairs."
" A young lady, Frank ?”
"Yes, mother; expressed on from
Iowa to old Harrington, tho rich mer
chant. He sailed for Europe this morn
ing, and sho is left entirely alono.
Mother, ske looks like poor Blanche,
and I know you wouldn’t refuse her a
corner until she conld find something
to do.”
Mrs. Evans wont to the door and
called choorfully out:
Come up stairs, my dear, you’re as
welcome os tho flowers in May I Frank,
you did quito right; you always do so.-”
The days and weeks passed on, and
still Minnio Harlnu remained aninmnte
of Mrs. Evans’ humble dwelling.
It seems jnst as though sho had
taken our dead Blanche’s plaoe,” said
tho cozy littlo widow; "nnd she is so
useful about tho house. I don’t know
how I ever managed without her. Now,
Minnio, you are not in earnest about
leaving us to-morrow ? ’
" I must, dear Mrs. Evans. Only think
I havo been hero most two months
to-morrow, and the situation r f govor-
ness is advantageous."
Very well. I shall tell Frank how
obstinate you aro.”
Dearest Mrs. Evans, please don’t.
Please keep my secret.”
What secret is it that is to be so re
ligiously kept ?” asked Mr. Frank Ev
ans, coolly walking into tho midst of
tho discussion, with his dork hair tossed
about by tbo wind, and his hazel brown
eyes sparkled archly.
Seoret 1” repeated Mrs. Evans, ener
getically wiping her dim spectacle glass.
Wh^, Minnie is determined to leave
us to-morrow.”
‘ I must, Frank. I have no right to
further trespass on your kindness.”
No right, eb, Minnie; do you know
that tbis old bouse has been a different
house since you came into it ? Do you
suppose we want to loose our little sun
beam?” . ... . .
Minnie smiled, sadly, but her hand
felt very cold and passive in Frank’s
warm grasp.
"You’ll stay, Minnie?”
"No.”
She shook her head determinedly.
“Then yon mnst be made to stay,”
said Frank. "I’ve missed something
of great value lately, and I hereby ar
rest you on suspioion of being the
thief.”
“Missed something ?”
Minnie rose, turning red and white,
"Oh, Frank, you can never suspect
me."
« But I do suspect you. In fact,
am quite sure the artiole is in your pos
session.”
" The article 1”
“My heart, Miss Minnio. I know that
I am very young and very poor, hut I
love you, Minnie Harlan, and I will be
a good husband to you. Stay and be
my little wife 1”
So Minnie Harlan, instead of going
out as a governess, according to the
programme, married the young dark
haired clerk in Ellison’s express office,
New York.
They were very quietly married early
in the morning, and Frank took Min
nie home to his mother, and then went
calmly about his business in the wire
cage under the circlet of the gaslights.
"Evans 1”
" Yes, sir.”
Frank, with his pen behind his ear,
at of yore, quietly obeyed the behest
c> the gray-haired official.
“Do you remember the young woman
who was expressed on front Millington,
Iowa, twp months since?’’
Fumigation of brimstone is of Roman ception of Robert Bonner, Mr. Smith
origin. baa probably spent more monoy for
A locomotive drinks forty-five gal- horses than any man in the United
Ions of water every mile it travels. States.
Bracelets wero given ns a reward of With a view of laying boforo our
bravery to soldiers in tho Middle Ages, readers a description of this interesting
The Gauls love to decorate their stock-farm, a reporter of the State Ga-
helmets, swords and buckles with coral ze,le recently made a visit thereto. Tho
first thing to whioh tho reporter’s atten-
The Perfumer a Trade.
Some kinds of perfumery are worth
their weight in gold. Tho export of
fine perfumery is principally from
Grasse, Nice, Cannes and Bremen. Tho
business is divided into two parts. The
manufacturer extracts from the flowers
their essential oils. The perfumer
buys these oils, pomades and extracts
and compounds them in several wnys.
Only about a dozen of all tbe fragrant
flowers in the world are used in tho
manufacture of porfumory, viz., the
violet, rose, orange flowor, jasmine,
tnberose, oassio, lavender, thymo, rose
mary, geraniums, jouquil and fennol.
Tho rose and the orange are the most
valuable. Of tho numerous varieties of
the rose only one is used, tho Province
rose, single, pale pink, the moBt swee
smelling of roses; not hardy.
Picking for perfnmory oocurs in al
most every month of the year. It is a
paradoxical faot in the business that tho
bitter orange yields tho best blossoms
for porfumery. Ono ton of blossoms
yields two pounds eight ounces of oil
noroli. The fruit of the hitter orange
yields a very fino essential oil, bigarade.
It iH used in many scents. The oraugo
tree, cultivated for its oil, lasts with
oare over two hundred years.
One ton of the distilled lcavos of tho
A orown of red-hot iron was an
ancient punishment for rebels and regi
cides.
Tho Emperor Augustus in his letter
writing dated oven the divisions of tho
hours.
scouted verbena geranium yields from
tion was direoted was tho speeding of I twenty-four to thirty onnoos of tho es-
Ebony, a handsome Knox oolt, and | SO ntial oil. Tho flowers of tho jasmine
Dutch Girl, on tho milo track. Then
(ho largo square building used for
offices, harness and carriago-rooms, oto.,
adjoining the grand stand, was visited _ _
Coleridge and Goldsmith wroto " Tho Qn tbo grcran a booVi facing tho traok, is s0 volatile tl
onso that Jack Built" and "Goody- j 8 t bo reception-room, whose fineness of b y distillation,
finish almost beggars description
Honso
two-shoes.”
are pioked just aftor sunset in Jnly, and
in the morning, as soon as tho dew is
off, in August. Tho jasmine is a pecu
liarly dolioate flower. Its essential oil
that it cannot be extracted
by distillation, tho heated water decom
posing it is so that only a faint tinge of
occurs in tho ninth century. Horses
woro then only shod in time of frost or
for especial occasions.
Ocats of arms and heraldry were in
troducod into England in 1100. Tho
arms of England and France were first
quartered by Edward III. in 1358.
The Roman soldiers carried, in their
and harness-room, finished in oiled pine
and handsomely furnished. In the rear
of this room is tho large carriage repos
itory, also finished in oiled pine. Tho
second story contains a largo hall, which
will bo. fitted up for a billiard-room,
and ten bedrooms elegantly lurnisbed
for the accommodation of invited
guests. On this floor is also tbo room
By the Saxon laws twelve years of I Its ceiling is very high, and tbo | tbe per f nme x a ] e ft in the water that
ago was fixed as the earliest possible de- whole is finished in oak. The walls are passes through the refrigerant
velopment of tho legul understanding, covered with heavy English leather pa- Like the jasmine, tho oil of tho tube-
The smallest ongino in tho world has per- The elaborate mantel is of oak, rose can not be extracted by dibtillation
been fluished in Baltimoro. It can bo with unique tiling, and tho furniture is The porfnmo of the cassio is much used
covered by a thimble. Three drops of ricll » llonv y and anti< l ue > and u P on tllG in compounds. The process of manu-
water fill tho boilor. door * 8 a 8 or B eoUB Wilton carpet. Jnst fa 0 turing perfumes is in itself very in-
The Greek word for horse-shoe first | l)ac , k , ofUlG reception-room is ^office | terosting, especially to the ladies.
A ton of roses yields only two ounces
of the attar. If kept at a Temperature
below sixty degrees, attar crystallizes;
if kopt open to the air and light, it is
easily volatalized. Perfumed oils aro
made by putting fresh quantities of
flowers into the finest of virgin olive oil
from twenty to thirty different times
The essential oil of flowers has a strong
military baggage, chains for prisoners I Q f the veterinary surgeon. In the cupo-1 a flinity to lard or grease. Tho lattor,
of war—iron for common, and of gold j a 0 f this building is a tank, made oi rendered as white as snow, is perfectly
and silver for rich prisoners and princes bo iler iron, with a capacity of 3,500 gal- Ha tnrated with tho flowers. The process
The first silver money ooined in Rome Ions, which is kept filled by a stoam h 8 repeated many times. In this way
was A. U. 0. 484. The mint was in tho pump in tho basement, whioh has a we ba ve pomade of rose, orange, cassie
toruple of Juno Moneta, which circum- capacity of 150 gallons per minute, r an j yj 0 let, The affinity of tho perfume
stance occasioned the origin of onr word The water is obtained from a well 0 f fl 0W ers for alcohol is, however,
money. twenty-one feet deep and nine feet in 8 t r ongor than for grease. Pomades,
A circulating library in tho Middle diameter, and holding 5,000 gallons. i mme rsod in alcohol, are rendered into
Ages may seem surprising. In 1342 a To further guard against fire, fivo A rc -1 extracts, the greaso leaving tho porfumo
law was framed in Paris compelling all plug® aro contiguous to tho stables and j g Ba f 0 Btt y that, among the numer
publio booksellers to keep books to lend tvro supplied with 400 feet of hose. In ons ar tioles of toilo'c, tho manufacture of
out on hire. addition to this the Trenton fire depart- per f umo d pomades, perfumed oils and
On tho Patent Roll of Henry IV. is a ment could bo ®™oned by telephone
record whioh allows Matthew Flint, In the cellar of the carriage-house,
toothe drawer of London, sixpence a day hosides tho force pump, is a stoam en-
for life upon condition of his drawing gino and boiler, which heats the bnild-
the teeth of the poor gratuitously. ing and cooks the food for the horses.
Professor Huxley declares the supply Besides this structure there are the fol-
of herring in the sea to be practically lowing: Main bam, with twenty box and
inexhaustible, and that nothing whioh torty single stalls; the colt barn, with
man can do in tho ordinary way of de- twenty-four box stalls, capable of hold-
struction will ever appreciably diminish tag torty-dght colts; the training sta-
the stock. . ble, with fifty box stalls; tho grand
stand barn, with seventeen box stalls,
Water in Dry Placet!. \ f or Jbrood mares and colts; the stal-
A Crssr lor Diamond*.
“ Are there more diamonds worn now
than ever before in this country,” a Now
York reporter asked a jeweler.
" I shonld say bo, most deoidedly,”
was the reply, 11 1 have been in the
business over thirty years, and.I never
knew snob a rage for the stonoas exists
to-day. I attended a garden parly at
the Grand Union hotel at Saratoga, and
I saw bushels of them. This is the
only way to describe the number of val
uable diamonds worn thoro, and most of
them wero fine stones. Nearly every
woman thero had big solitaireB in rings
or earrings. Yon see the finest diamonds -
aro worn solitaire in studs, rings and
earrings, while for bracelets and hair
pins an inforior stone may be used, as
they ore not so conspicuous. I noticed * .
ouo thing, however, at tho Grand Union
—nino-tonths of the diamonds were not
clean. Dust settles on everything, and
it is astonishing how littlo oare a woman
will givo to her diamonds. They care
fully inspect their gloves and shoes bo
fore completing their toilets, but their
diamonds, often worth thousands of
dollars, receive no attention, beoome
dirty, and sometimos are lost.
" A lady customor of mine lost a very
valnablo diamond aftor possessing it
eight years. If sho had boen in the
habit of giving tho gem any attention,
she would have noticed that a sotting
of oighteen-carat gold will wear out in
time and lose its grip on tho stone.
The largo solitaire diamond is now pre
ferred to the cluster. Few diamonds
aro now worn by gentlemen, except in
tho caso of young mon anxious for dis
play. Horo and thero a gentleman
will wear solitaires on his shirt bosom,
bnt if he has good taste he will be care
ful that tlioy aro small or he may be -
takon for n gambler. It is astonishing
how nn:oh mouey is sometimes repre
sented in the diamonds worn by ladiei*
on a 'swell' occasion. It Is a common
thing in New York society to see $10,000
or $20,000 in diamonds on a lady's per
son. Mrs. John Jacob Astor has been
known to wear $50,000 worth of dia
monds at an evening reception, and I
should say that the diamonds worn by*
Mrs. W. H. Vanderbilt at the garden
party I spoke of wore worth fully that
amount of monoy. Mrs. Maokay, wife
of the ‘ Bonanza King,’ onoe offered to
buy tho faiuons 1 Regent’ diamond, the
most valnablo in tho world. It is valued
at a mere million, bnt the French gov
ernment wouldn’t sell it."
high-priced perfumery generally is as a
sealed book to many persons.
It is known that between the Rocky bon stable, with five box and six single
mountains and the Mississippi thero B t a lls; the grain barn, recently built by
are vast regions whioh are arid nnd un- Cubberly & Kafer, and probably the
profitable because of the absence of largest barn in this seotion; the cow
water. A stream or a well is all that is barn; a bam for the farm work-horses
necessary to make those sterile regions an( j mules; a barn for farming imple-
blossom as tho rose. It is known that ments; the blacksmith shop; grand
at some distance underground there is 8 t a nd with seating capacity of 2,000;
an abundance of water, whioh, if reached Mr. Smith’s residence near the race
and utilized, would make fruitful hun
dreds of millions of acres of land. The
government has selected Messrs. G. A.
White, of Greeley, Colorado, and Pro
fessor S. Anghey, of Nebraska, to act as
track, whioh he occupies about three
months each year; General Manager
Riddle’s residence near the entrance,
and four other residences for employes.
Inside of the large square formed by
a commission to select sites for sinking the stock bams are large and snbstan
experimental artesian wells in the arid tial paddocks in whioh to exercise tho
regions of the Rooky mountains. To horses in winter. Inside of the square
guide the commission, Professor Powell formed by the paddocks is a manure
has marked spots on the map for exam- pit six feet deep and 150 feet square, with
ination. Most of them aro between the a cement bottom. Into this pit all the
101st and 113th degrees of longitudo. manure is deposited daily.
The area to bo inspected ^includes one • The proprietor of this grand estab
third of the State of Texas, the eastern bailment, H. N. Smith, as we said be-
portions of Montana, Colorado and New fore, is a prominent New York banker,
Mexico, and the western portions of and except in the summer,. resides at
Nebraska, Dakota and Kansas. The Fifth avenue and Forty-fifth street, in
practical result from this inquiry must the city named. He is in the prime of
be of the utmost moment to the conn-1 life, and his wealth is estimated at over
A Shrewd Iteylu.
Sir Walter Scott says that tho alleged
origin of the invention of cards pro
duced one of the shrewdest replies ho
had ever heard given in evidence. It
was made by the late Dr. Gregory, at
Edinburgh, to a counsel at tho Scottish
bar. The doctor’s testimony went to
prove the insanity of the party whose
mental capacity was the point ut issuo.
On a cross-interrogation he admitted
that the person in question played ad
mirably at whist. "And do yon seri
ously say, doctor,” said the learned
oounsel, “ that a person having a
superior capacity for a game so diffi
cult, and which requires in a pre
eminent degree memory, judgment and
combination, can be at the same time
deranged in his understanding?” "I
am no card player,” said the doctor,
with great address, "bnt I have read in
history that cards were invented for the
amusement of an insane king,” (Charles
VI. of France). The consequence of
this reply were deoisive.
Fashion Notes.
Ltco hats aro worn again.
Quantities of bangle bracelets ore
worn over mousquetaire gloves.
Large collars aro woru by children,
grown giri®, matrons and elderly
women.
Gapes of silk mull laid in surplice
folds about tho neok are bordered^with
full frills of lace.
Little owls in black metal, with dia
mond, ruby or emerald eyes, are
favorite ornaments.
Cream-colored cashmere is the fav
orite material for married women’s
piazza dresses at Saratoga.
The loose-wristed, buttonless Sarah
Bernhardt glove of yellow, undressed
k id, or of obamois leather, is jjn almost
try. Irrigated land is wonderfully
fruitful, and it is of the utmost im
portance that, as our population in
creases, new outlets should be found
for those who wish homes and farms of
their own. These now arid plains are
$1,000,000. He is a thorough lover of
horses, and while, he spends hundreds
of thousands of dollars in developing
superior stock, he is in no senso a gam-
A Town Council Sent to .Tail.
A remarkable case is reported from
the commune of Rocca Spinaretti, in
the province of Ohieti, Italy. The
whole town council of that place has
been brought before the assizes to
answer charges of fraud, malversation
and corruption, and has been found
guilty and condemned by the court of
Lanciano to various terms of imprison
rnent with hard labor—the syndic to
ten years’ house of correction. Only
two councillors were aoquitted, on the
ground of being illiterate. The chief
culprit has been the town clerk, who
acted promiscuously as secretary,
bier or jockey. Thus far his stables notary, appraiser, buyer and agent.
are believed not to have been self-sus-
near the richest mineral regions in the taining, bnt they are now rapidly be
United States. Conld they be made coming so. Among the horses, many
productive, the crop3 would find a of which have a world-wide reputation,
ready market among t]’P mining popu- are four service stallions, twenty-one
la tion, j yearling colts and Allies, sixteen two
whole forest belonging to the commune
had been appropriated by the ring and
the spoil divided. The jury were locked
up all night, and brought their verdict
at 5 in the morning, which gay§ uni
versal satisfaction.
universal favorite, worn with all sorts
of toilets.
The wide belts worn by young girls
are no longer fastened by bows, but
have one long end of ribbon allowed to
fall almost to the bottom of the skirt'
and caught in two or three loops.
Large buckles of Irish diamonds are
muoh used on white and tinted silk
evening dresses. They fasten the bows
of satin on the shoulders, .nnd hold the
scarf drapery in place on. the sides of
the dress.
*Plaited flounces are still in vogue—
gathered flounces will be worn in the
make-up of soft materials. Watered
silks and shaded moires ■ will figure
largely in the trimming line. Widel
girdles of moire are fashionable ; they,
are worn with both plant and plaited
basques. .
Trained.
In many Southern cities, boys and
girls walk the streets balanoing on their
heads heavily-laden buckets or baskets
or pans, containing polishing sand, or
fish, or fruit for sale. A little fellow of
seven years, whom yon would think fit
ted only for romping and play, will
walk along steadily, and yet with seem
ing ease and unconcern, bearing np
such a weight as that, when the least
oarelessness or inattention would tum
ble it to the ground'. While still a
mere child, ho has in hjs special work
the sense of responsibility and the
steadiness of a man. It jvas not natural'
for him to walk in this way; but he
quiokly acqnired’ the' needful power
through training, We ought to have a
oaro not to put too heavy a load on our
littte ones ; bnt we may; fail to realize
as we should their possibilities of t
ing. A great deal of their restlessness;
can bo early controlled' and directed,
not only without harm to them, but tQ
l heir positive advantage,
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