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The date of Home,
Oh gravo, how still thou art !
No sigh is heard iu thee;
No groan. No hclploBB heart
Achos there with misery.
Tears fall not all the night,
Oh grave, in thoo.
Oh grave, how safo thou art I
By this low, poaceful shore,
Whose music soothes the hoart
Liko mother-hymns of yore.
Foars, troubles, sleep in thoo,
Oh grave, no more.
Oh gravo, strotch forth thino arms;
Open thy faithful broast,
And gatbor tondcrly
Tito deeolato to rest.
Hope to sloop in thee,
Oh gravo, wove rest.
Oh grave, thou art tho gate,
Tho flower-wreathed gato of Homo;
By thoo tho faithful wait,
Until thoir ehoson come.
Shut mo no longer out,
Oil gravo, from home.
—A urjuxla Moore, in Scribner,
A DINNER OF PEAS.
" As many as we have a mind to pick,"
Jetty Westart said, impressively; “just
think of that.”
“I never really had as many green
peas ns I wanted in my wholo life,"
added her sister Kate.
“We never had enough of anything e n tly“gr e w’bePonrhi87aokeV sleeves
“ That’s so," assented Jaok, emphati
cally, as he dexterously dropped a pea
down Glare’s back.
“Oh, you horrid boy,” Clare cried.
“Jetty, I do wish you'd make Jack be
have; I can’t shell if he keeps shooting
peas down my neck."
"Jack,” the head of tho family said,
with great dignity, “if you don’t be-
havo you shall not have a single pea for
dinner, and as we shan’t have anything
else you’ll be likely to go hungry.”
“ Pooh I who could stop mo?” he re
torted, contemptuously, but ceasing his
trioka.
It happened to be Jetty’s holiday, and
the whole forenoon was devoted to pre
paration for the wonderful dinner of
peas. Bread and butter and pens were
to be tbe bill of fare; nothing elso.
The tablo was 'spread with tho best
damask and ohina, relics of better days,
and at last came tho important moment,
when Jetty, having gone through as
tumultuous uncertainties as did Mrs,
Bob Oratchit over her Christmas pud
ding, was ready to take to tho table tho
big bowl of steaming peas, buttered
and seasoned to a turn, and sending
forth an odor delioions enough to take
the king of Bybaris.
"Oh, golly I" ejaculated Jack, flour
ishing his long arms, whioh so persist-
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to eat,” growled Jack, shying his cap at
the cot. " Or of anything elso for that
matter.”
" Wo hove plenty of yon, at any rate, ’
retorted Glare, the third sister, rnshing
to the rescue of puss.
“We’ll all go over after supper,"
Jetty continued, too absorbed in think
ing of the peas to notice the threatened
squabble betweon Jock and Clare, " and
pick them. Mr. Gardner said to tako
just as many as we could eat, for the
family will bo gone a week and the peas
will only spoil on the vines."
“ I could cat a bushel, I know,” re
marked Jack.
“You won’t pick half a pint,” put in
Clare, who felt the snubbing of Jack to
be her especial duty; “ though there’s
no doubt you'll cat plenty when we got
them.”
“There, children,” interposed Jetty,
with the motherly sir which she
assumed as tho head of the family,
don't bo always sparring. Jack, go
and got me a pail of water, and yon,
Clare, set the tablo. Jim,, you toast tho
bread.”
It was one of lhe peculiarities of the
family tlint the two older girls called
oach other "Jim."
When Mrs. Wostart, the pale, high
bred littlo widow, who had kept poverty
from tho door by dint of killing herself
with toil at her pon, at last succumbed
nnd left her four children alone in the
world, tho neighbors immediately fell
speculating whetlior their Unole
John, who had cast off his sister when
sho dared to marry against his wishes,
would oome to their aid, or whether tho
poor things would bo forced to go to the
poorhouse. Neither of these thiDgs
happened. When Farmer Gardner,
with kindliest intent, offerod Jack a
place in his family to grow up as his
own son, he was, perhaps, as much sur
prised as he was disappointed when
Jetty answered him. very simply, but in
way that left no doubt that her deci
sion was final:
‘Of course we thank you, Mr. Gard
ner, and I know how good an offer it
is for Jack ; but I promised mamma I’d
keep the family together, and of course
wo couldn’t lot him go.”
Keep the family together! The good
townspeople were shocked nnd sur
prised, and expressed their astonish
ment and disapproval frankly enough
to each other. To voice them to Miss
Jetty Westart was, however, a very
different thing, for tho pale little girl
woman had dignity enough to silence
tho most impudent of the gossips; and
however the talk buzzed behind her
back, it came seldom to her ears. She
taught the village sohool and kept the
family together, and it was not long be
fore public opinion came to take sides
with her to condemn rich John Frenant,
that he stood aloft, and continued the
unkindness, whioh had gone far to break
his sister’s heart, to her unoffending
children.
Life in the little Westart cottage, as
m ry be easily understood, was not vory
luxurious, and Jack’s statement, that
they never had enough of anything,
was not so inexact. On tho present
occasion when Mr. Gardner had offered
the spoil of his pea vines to Jetty, the
determination expressed by all tho
family, not even excepting the “little
mother " herself, as some of the neigh
bors called Jetty, was to have all the
peas they could possibly eat,
B uppor the whole family, even to tlio
cat who tagged along at the heels of
Clare, proceeded in a body to Mr. Gard
ner’s garden, and such a stripping as
they received that night tho vines cer
tainly never had before or afterward.
iiNow, Jim," Kate said the next
morning, as'they all sat shelling the
peas, “for once we’ll be exfcravagan ,
and put just ns much butter on these
as we want. If we don't have them
good, there’s no fun having them at
all.”
How good they smell 1"
“Don’t they?” said Kate; “Jim did
ou oversmoll anything thnt mado yon
so hungry ?”
Hungry," retortedOlaro. “Ishould
think anybody might be hungry; it is
an hour past dinner time.”
* “ My mouth fairly waters," went on
Jack. “ I wish, Jetty, you’d got along
little faster."
“I would, if you’d keep your long
arms—'
Alas 1 for the vanity of human hopes
and the emptiness of human expecta
tions ! Nobody ever knew exaotly how
it happened, but by the slipping of her
foot or the unsteadiness of her hand, or
by somo dreadful combination of both,
Jetty let the big china bowl fall, nnd
the dinner of peas was deposited, a
green heap, in the middle of the kitchen
floor, with dish turned upside down in
the middle of them.
" Oh, thunder 1"
“Oh, Jetty!"
" Oh, Jim 1”
Exclaimed in concert Jack, Clare
and Kate. Then there was an instant
of terrible silence, and then a low, pro
longed howl came from Dick. Clare
begnn to sob lustily and Kate to cry
softly, while Jetty sat staring at the
heap of peas in stony silence, as if
she were transformed into marble with
horror.
“Oh, Jetty," sobbed Clare. “How
could you ? Oh, it is too cruel I”
Jim," said Kate, trying to keop
back her tears, “don’t look that way.
It isn’t really any matter, of course.”
Really any matter!" cried Jack, in
a rage. “I’d like to know what you
call any matter I”
“ Oh, I'm starving to death,’ moaned
Clave. “ Oh, those beautiful, beautiful
peas I”
By this time the tears wore streaming
down Jetty’s face, and tho entire family
woro gathered around tho peas, seated
on tho floor and lamenting in company.
Ifcrhaps we could scoop up the
top,” suggested Kate, hopefully.
They’ll bo clean nnd nice.”
So spoons were brought and quite i
respectable portion of tho heap was
restored to tho dish, a state of things
which quieted Jack and Glare, and re
stored something like serenity to tho
entire party.
But fate never does a thing by halves,
and this time it was Kate who dropped
the dish she held while Jetty carefully
spooned into it such peas as she could
save from the general ruin.
“Oh, Jim!”
“Oh, Jim!"
“Oh, Kate!”
“ Darn i,fc I Thunder ! Ouss it
Blast it! Thorol” shouted Jack, de
iiantly.
Tho awful profanity of this speech
startled and shocked the girls beyond
measure.
“ John Frenant Westart 1” Jelty said,
rising to her feet with a white face, and
speaking in » voice that carried terror
to the heart of the culprit. "What
would mother say if she could hear you
swear? Go upstairs this minute, and
don’t show your face again until von
can talk like a gontleman."
Without a word, Jack left the room,
secretly frightened and shocked ut his
behavior, but holding his head high
and inflexible.
ii For my part,” said a cool, deep
voice. “ I don’t blamo tho boy very
much.”
The three girls turned liko a flash,
and there, leaning over the low window
sill and looking in at them was thoir
uncle, John Frenant, of whom they
were one and all thoroughly afraid.
“What in tli9 world is all this fuss
about?” pursued Mr. Frenant, scowl
ing his thick eyebrows, but not without
a gloam of amusement in his eyes.
“Kate,” said Jetty, with her most
dignified air, “will phase clear up
these peas. If you will go round to
tho door, sir”—turning toward tho wiu-
dow again—" I will let you in.”
“Thank you," the intruder said,
coolly stepping over the window ledge
into the room. " You are your mother
over again. I’d like to talk with yon a
little on business.”
Jetty’s heart quailed a littlo at that
awful word, yet she didn’t show a
quiver, but led the way to the parlor
with as regal an air as though sho had
been a queen granting an interview ex
traordinary, or whatover it would be
called, to an ambassador equally extra
ordinary. It is not neoeBsary to relate
all that was said betweon those two, or
how ut last Jetty broke down and cried
on her unolo’s shoulder, while he di
vided his attention between oomforting
her and clearing the mist from his own
eyes. It scorns thnt in his he^Lof
hearts John Frenant had long had iPao-
sire to be reconciled with his sister’s
family, and only the night before had
been looking over some souvenirs of
childhood, whioh opened tho long-
scaled fountains of his love. It was
from this oause, I suppose, it came
about that he went out of his usual way
homo to walk by the Westart cottage;
and tho sound of weoping and wailing
had brought him to the window.
I cannot pretend that their unole
proved always the pleasantest and most
flexible of men to got on with, bnt at
least there was no more worry about
poverty in the little cottage, and when
matters betwoen Jack and his uncle got
tumultuous, as they occasionally did,
Jetty always contrived somehow to
bring things out smooth again.
So that, altogether, a worse misfor
tune might have overtaken tho four
orphans than even the loss of their so
much-anticipated dinnor of peas.
NEWSPA PEBS.
Where a Burglar Kept Ilia Tools
Mike Govern, a burglar to whom has
boen given the nickname of “Limp
Log,” on account of his having
wooden log, was arrested a short time
ago ia Leadville, Col., charged with
burglary. There was little ovidence
before the grand dry, says a local
paper, and upon tho warrant was
marked “not n true bill.” Tho doors
wero opened to “ Limp Leg,” and tho
jailor, Reese Tucker, told him that he
might go. At this juncture Sam Tate
stopped forward and whispored so§>e
thing into the ear of Jailor Tucker.
The jailor indulged in a bland smile,
and turning to tho fellow, who had
lingered a moment, said:
Limpy,’ let’s see your tool-chest
before ytu go, will you.”
" What do you mean ?’’ replied '' Limp
Leg," feigning the most profound ignor
anee of what tho jailor referred to.
Oh, you needn’t be afraid, tho grand
jury has said that yon could go, and
we want to seo where you carry your
burglars’ tools!”
Burglars’ tools 1” exclaimed “Limp
Log," as a shadoof color passed across
his features.
' Yes, the set that you carry iu your
wooden log," continued tho jailer,
while the burglar began to retreat to
ward the door, seeing that • his racket
had been given away. By this time the
other prisoners wero convulsed with
laughter, and Sam Tate was bubbling
over with merriment.
“Here, you’d bettor show us tho
trick, uow, or we’ll have you re-arrested.
If you do, we’ll give you jusf ono hour
to get out of town with your s‘ock of
tools.”
At this “Limp Leg” reseated him
self, and pulling up his pant’s log, he
exhibited the oorlc addition or extension.
“ If you think you can ^flnd anything
wrong with my leg, just look at it for
yourself," suid “Limp Leg," as he
thrust it out toward the jailer.
“Touch the spring 1” shouted a voice
from behind the bars.
“ Touch tho spring, Limpy," repeated
tho jailer to the fellow, who was now
wild with wrath.
Seeing that ho was cornered, Limpy
then reached down, and, throwing his
thumb nail on a needle that protruded
from the cork log, a small door flew
open in obedience to his tonoh A
small holo was revealed here, and, in
serting his fingers, “Limp Leg”
brought forth an assortment of articles
that are employed in getting into the
house of the man who has a back ac
count. There were skeleton keys, sev
cral pinches and three or four slender
files. This was indeed startling, and,
sticking to his word, the jailer told
“ Limp Leg ” to get up and git. The
door to his tool chest was locked, and
he went off, leaving his curse bobind
him.
The Oldest filing Tteins.
Probably the oldest twins in existence
in this country ure George and Edmund
Gravely, who in good health are still
living within five miles of each other
aud within threo miles of where they
were born at LeatherwoodpoBtoflice, in
Henry county, Va. They are ninety-
three years old. Their mother lived to
be over 100, and their father died at
the age of ninety.
Of the population of Ireluud 76.0
per cent, are Catholics.
Nome Fuels unit Fit ure* ConccriilngiTlirni
The expansion of newspaper and pe
riodical publications, says the St. Lonis
Qlobe-Democrat, has been one of the
marvels of the past century, and results
to-day in an element of sooiety whioh
no preceding century ever dreamed of,
and whoso influence nono can calculate.
The first paper ever published in Amer
ica was in 1690, in Boston, and it was
immediately suppressed, the hostility
for popular learning which tho middle
ages produoed not having yet died out.
The next one was started in the same
city in 1701, but its proprietor, a brother
of Benjamin Franklin, became involved
in an aorimonions controversy with Cot
ton Mather ooneerning inoculation, and
the Stato placed a censorship over it.
A new era opened for American thought
when the first daily paper was published
in Philadelphia in 1784. A century has
passed, and there are now published in
the Unitod States 848 dailies, 58 tri-
wooklies, 129 semi-weeklies, 7,690 week
lies, 48 bi-weeklies, 123 semi-monthlies,
868 monthlies, 14 bi-monthlies and 55
quarterlies, or a total of 9,723 publica
tions. Adding to tlieso tho number of
periodicals issued in tho Canadas, the
total is 10,287. Every year there fall
from the presses of daily papors in
America 1,051,200,000 copios, and from
tho preGBos of all classes nearly 2,000,-
000,000 copies. The Stoto of Now York
has 113 dailies, Pennsylvania, 87;
Illinois, 67; Ohio ami California, 48
each ; Indiana and Missouri, 86 each ;
Massachusetts, 30; and tho others
shade down to West Virginia, whioh
lms bnt two.
Compared with the old world, llienew
is not behind. New York city has 28
dailies, while London has but 17. Paris
leads tho world with 88. Philadelphia
has 22, Chicago 14, Cincinnati 11, Bos
ton and St. Louis 8 each. In weekly
papers tho proportion is about tho same.
But while London is behiudin the num
ber of its dailies, in circulation it passos
all other oities, its papers having an
issuo three times as great as those of
Paris, and twice as great as those of
New YoJk. Tho London Daily Tele
graph alone has a circulation of nearly
200,000 copies ; tho Standard coming
next with about 150,000 ; the Times,
although possossod of tho greatest rep
utation, has a circulation tho lowest of
all the first-class dailies.
The total number of periodicals pub
lished in the world at tho present time
approximates 25,000, of which 14,000
are in Europe, 10,000 in round numbers
in America, and the remaining 1,000 in
Asia, Australia nnd other countries.
Engjand lias 101 dailies; Ireland, 18;
Scotland, 20; Wales, 8; Franco, 113;
Germany, 60; Italy, 28; Norway, 5;
Portugal, 5, and Russia and Finland
18. Iceland lias 1 bi-weokly and 2 tri
weeklies. Turkey lms 5 dailies, of
which 3 are in Constantinople. Afrioa
has no daily, but it possesses 16 week
lies. Athens retains her ancient repu
tation for literature and- supports 5
dailies. Hong Rong has 3, 1 native
and 2 English. Shanghai has tho same.
The island of Java has 7 dailies, tho
island of 8t. Helena 1 weekly, and last,
but not least, tho Fiji Islands liavo 1
weekly (the Fiji Argus) end 1 bi-wook-
(tho Fiji Times.)- Tho combined
circulation of tho daily papers of the
world is 20,000,000, or the stupendous
total of about 6,000,000,000 eve 17 year.
While Paris has 38 dailies, only one of
them contains much nows. They are
nearly all daily hand-bills, and possess
small circulations. The highest is50,000,
but of the entire 88 papers 35 of thorn
have circulations ranging only from
2,000 to 5,000 each. In Fraucd, as in
America, five-sixths of all the papers
are sold on the streets and cars by news
boys. In England it is just tho re
verse, not more than one-fourth being
sold by boys, and the Morning Advertise1
and tho Morning Post of London are
never offered on tho streets. If one
wishes them he must subscribe and
have them delivered. In other coun
tries, except Germany, it is seldom that
morning and an evening paper are
published by tho same company. In
Germauy it is very common, of tho
dailies in that country 23 of thorn beiDg
issued twice a day. All the daily pupers
in the Christian world, with ono excep
tion, pay at least somo respect to relig
ion—tho Ban Francisco Xnrs-Letter
alone is openly and avowedly anti
Christian.
The press seems to bo, without txag-
geration, the unifier of the race. It
makes possible simultaneous thought
throughout a vast nation. A man walk
ing in o-vory dark place and encounter
ing some entangling obstacle becomes
confused and even alarmed. Every
step he takes which brings him into
confliot with a new plmso of'his en
tanglement adds to hi6 excitement.
Let light be suddenly thrown in his
path, and ho immediately recovers his
self-possession, because he see 1 exactly
tho situation of affairs. Printing is
that light. The recent assassination
of President Garfield illustrates tho
idea well. In a large country without
newspapers such an event 100 or 200
vears ago Would have precipitated
civil war. Mon, suddenly deprived of
their reason by snob an exciting event
strike one another in a kind of blind
fury from an instinctive feeling of solf-
preservation, becauso, especially in dis
tant provinces, they could not tell
quiokly enough why the event oconrred.
Now, however, every person knows
within twenty-four hours why it is done,
who did it, what his motive was, his
character and all about him. The full-
noss of knowledge of the facts reas
sures the nation, and in tho coolness of
returning ronson it finds opportunity to
express its horror without violen 0
The printing press makes it possible to
spread before tbe entiro world the faots
in the case; it enables men to think in
the same channel at tho Bametfme and
in the snmo way. It is the system of
cords nnd weights ultimately to make
every brain n pnrt of ono great intel-
leotnal wholo.
TIE A Tf.i XTA EXPOSITION.
Alligators us Vets,
“I have some peculiar onstomers," the
koeper of a bird nnd pet-animal store in
Now York said. “ There are Homo ladies
that pnrohaso nothing but white rats.
I once asked ono what sho did with
them. Sho blushed a little and said
she let them sleep on her pillow with
her. Sho fondled them and taugh
them little tricks. I havo bud quite a
demand for young alligators recently.
Most of the purchasers, curiously
enough, are Indies. You wouldn't
think there was anything particularly
likeable in an alligator with n mouth
running nearly half tho length of his
body, but somo ladies think so. I have
soeu them throw bits of meat into an
aquarium containing a six-inoh alliga
tor, nnd as his mouth flapped opon and
closed on thodelioaoy hey would raise
their bonds and exclaim, 'How perfectly
lovely!’ Thoy use the alligators to
look at nnd feed.
“An alligator looks vd^cemioal when
about to swallow a fly. lie rushes at
it with opon jaws, and brings them so
violently together that tho waterspouts
out at each side of hiH mouth. Ho gets
himself in the most grotesquo attitudes,
and is always making unexpected moves.
A woman came hero from Hoboken re
cently, and bought a ten-in "'ll reptile.
Sho also bought two dollars’ worth ol
fishes. 8I10 went away apparently
pleased with her purchases. Hovoval
days afterward sho came ugain and said
that all her fishes had mysteriously dis
appeared tho night she took thorn
home, but that tho alligator still re
mained. Bhe suid she Rad put them
all together in an aquarium. Of course
I told her tlio alligator had swallowed
the fishes. She said, ‘Oh, my, tho
nasty thing!’ and vowed she would sell
it.
“An alligator over four inches long ia
daugorons in nil aquarium. Most of
those I sell nro from Florida. It takes
a long time—more than two years,
sometimes—for an aquarinm-bred alli
gator to grow two inches. If they were
loft to burrow in a muddy pond or a
swamp, they would grow nearly twice
thoir length in a yoar. Fresh water
seems to stunt them."
Cannibal Feasts In FIJI.
But prior to the great change in Fiji
caused by Christianity, a feast would
have been hold of small account which
was not graced by abundant human
flesh ; and if perchance there was no
war on hand to provide this delicacy,
thero was rarely much difficulty in find
ing victims; a defenseless troop of wo
men from somo neighboring village, a
oanoo driven ashore by stress of weather,
or, failing these, a few insignificant
serfs or wives who had lost favor with
their lords, supplied the place of home-
farm produce. Several peculiarities
were observed concerning the holcala,
or human flesh. It was considered in
digestible unloss enten with certain
herbs which wero purposely grown in
every village. Moreovor, it was the
only moat which was preferred rather
higb, and which must not be handled,
from a belief that it would produce'
skin disease. _ Therefore it was invari
ably oaton with a peculiar round wood
en fork with four long prongs. Some
of tho most noted cannibals, who gloried
in tlio multitude of men whom they had
eaten, actually kept a record of their
number by erecting linos of stones,
Ono of these registers numbers 872 1
and tlio Christian son of this ogro de
clares that his father ate them all him
self, allowing no ono to share with him.
Another member of the same family
had registered forty-eight, when his
becoming a Christian had put a stop to
the nmusemont, and compelled him to
bo satisfied with commonplace beef.
In fact, one of the excuses urged by
Thakombau for so long adhering to
oannibalism was that ho aud his people
had no other substitute for English
bullamacow. It is, however, twenty
years since he abjured the vile custom
and accepted Christianity; but many
of tho islanders kept it up till quite
recently.—Qood Words.
Curious Slthli Keen There—Cotton ut Tea
—A Unlqhe Exhibition.
“I would ride a thousand miles say
day,” said Colonel Ben Lockett, the greet
cotton plontor of Georgia, reflectively,
os he leaned over the plank fence at tho
exposition gronnds, "to see this little
field of cotton, and no cotton planter in
the South ought to fail to see it, as jt is
probably a sight that ho can never loflk
on.ngain and which has never been seen
in this country before.” The field is
really a marvel of agriculture. It is an
inoloBuro of a very few acres, where,
growing Bide by side oan be seen every
variety of ootton plant that can be grown
upon this earth. Thera is cotton from
India, from Hindoostan, from China,
from Japan, from Australia, the north
coast of Africa, Brazil, Chili and the
South Sea islands, the Cape of
Qood Hope, Mexico, Central America,
Bombay und every othor climate in
whioh tho ootton plant lias ever been
grown. Eaoh plant, preserves its char
acteristics admirably, and sido by side
may bo aeon cotton with the perfeotty
red flower growing ten feet high, sod
the stalks with perfootly blno flowers
growing less than two foot high, ithoro
is the queer Chiuoso cotton with ,a
piuchod, contracted look that marks
everything that comes from that coun
try; the Peruvian cotton with its flow
ers of indigo and its small bells; tlje
Indian ootton with its tropical appear
ance, but imperfect fruitage, and all of
them with their various marks crowned
by a few rows of our own, king of tkpm
all. Tho collection of seed for piis
field was a matter of great painstaking
and expense. Tho cable dispatchfes
necessary to reach merchants in some
of thu remote quarters of the earth cost
over $200 for tho simple transmitting of
applications for seed and the reply
.£ . JA-..1
thereto.
Cognate to this, and 4 partdt the'
Bamo exhibition, are baleH and bags and
pnokages of ootton in which eottett is
handled, packed or baled inthe.ipfto-
ner peculiar to each oonntry.
The rarest and most unique single ex
hibition made ot the exhibition grounds
is tho Ho-No tea hong, a Japanese
houso, dedicated to the dispensing dhd
advertising of puro tea. He-No tea
hong is the shop for pure teas, he-no
meaning pure. The he-no lea is simply
an absolutely puro tea that is imported
in its natural slate, aud that is sorvedHo
American toa-drinker3 with exaotly tho
same flavor and strong and 'delicious
quality in which it is drunk by the Chi
naman. The hong itself is an oxqiiis-
itely curious edifice; every inch Of it is
built of Japanese work. The roof, the
curtains, tho floor, tho sides, the belong
ings, tho chairs, the carpet, the counter,
the decorations, ovorything in it and
about it is in exact fao simile of thri Chi
nese shop of tho best class just as it
stands in tho streets of Hong Kong.
Tho appointments are of curious and
rare workmanship, and the visitor oan
sit in ono of the ouiious aud rare Japan
chairs that arc hospitably offered to all
comers and study the hong for an hour
and still find new beauties or curios
ities.
When others are suffering, drop a word of
kindness and sympathy. If they aro suffering
from a Cold give thorn Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup;
a few doses of this valuable remedy will afford
.nstant relief, and a twenty-five oent bottle will
cure the wont oough.
A ttomantie marriage.
A lady of my acquaintance, a sister-
in-law of Dr. Bliss, quite recently made,
or rather acknowledged, a romantic
marriage with a gentleman employed as
a sub-doorkeeper at the capitol, Who
had lost both feet in the Union army.
She was a stenographer in the patent
olfice, drawing a salary of $1,200 a year.
Bhe lived frugally, and held her place
for years, to all appearance growing
into the gentle, shadowy,self-respecting
spinsterhood that so many lady clerks
here prefer to a commonplace or ill-
assorted marriage. A few months since
the gentleman referred to fell ill, and,
to the surprise of her friends, she went
to his lodgings and took her plarie at
his bedsido as bis nurse, acknowledging
then that they had been married more
than a year, but that she had concealed
it rather than forfeit her government
position. Sho has boen gradually lay
ing money by to purchase the modest
semi-raral home ot her maternal grand
parents in East. Cleveland, which tho
remaining heirs had offered her on
terms within the scope of her ability to
comply with by rigid economy, arid the
denouement did not occur, fortunately,
till the placo was practically paid for 1
She then resigned her position, contin
ued her duties as nfivse, and then took
■ her matrimonial prize liQme to the lit
tle ancestral placo sho had secured,
and we learn that she ie very happy in
her retirement. Her husband walks
with a cane, a little slowly anfi .pain
fully, to be sure, but ip by no means a
wreck of a man.— Washington LeilSr.
1 M lux
A house was taken to pieced fqr re
moval, at Negaunee, Michi, oud qp the
following morning nearly every of it
was missing. A searoh among twenty-
seven families’ wood piles solved the
mystery, and twenty-soven Aries bf $10
racli were imposed. ‘» ,
Arohimedes invented a screw tor I
oilitating irrigation in Egypt, B.
,250.