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THE MERCURY.
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PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY.
VOL. III.
C. C. BROWN,
Attorney at Law,
Sandenville, Or.
Will praotice in the State and United Stain,
tourte. Oflioo in Oourt-houso. '
H. N. HOLLIFIELD,
Physician and Surgeon,
Sandorerille, Go,
Office noit door to Mrs. Bayne’s miDinom
.tore on Harris Stroot. y
SANDERSVILLE, GA., MAY 9, 1882.
Not to bo doing, but to be I
G. W. H. WHITAKER,
DENTIST,
8ANDEBSV X LLE, GA.
Terms Cash.
Office at bis Rosidonoo, on Harr hi iltreoi
April 8, 1880.
B. D. EVANS,
Attorney at Law,
SANDEH8VILLE, OA
April 8, 1880.
E. A. SULLIVAN, ™
NOTARY PUBLBC
SANDERSVILLE, GA *
J»P£ ial “‘ l0nt,0n glTCU *° th « collection a
Oflioo in tho Coart-housA
Watches, docks
AND JEWELRY
Through every fiber of my brain,
l ‘ r ° U « h °; 6r y no ™. through every vein
I feel the oloetrio thrill, the touch ’
Ofhfe, that sooms almost too muoh.
I hear the wind among the trees
Playing celestial symphonies;
I boo the branchos downward bont,
Like keys of some great instrument.
And over mo unrolls on high
• Tim splendid scenery of the sky,
^ a 8apphir * in th0 W*
Hails like a golden galleon.
Toward yonder oloudland in tho West
T -r.f nd0r . l8lan<Is ° f Blest,
Vhose stoop sierra far uplifts
Its craggy summit wllitQ wUh arifUi
Thes'imwfllV W( \T F ‘ thro,, * h theroems
The snowflakes of tho cherry blooms I
1 tr‘ n , d , BUndbendwi,hln “y reach
i ho fiery blossoms of tho peooh I
an<1 T f ve 1 Oh, happy throng
Of thoughts, whoso only speech 1
Oh, heart of man ! eanst thou^he" 8 '
Blitho as tho air is, and ns freo?
—Longfellow,
A Story of Dijon Roses.
" Dijon roses I Oh, how lovely, you
dear, good Pierro!” *
JESNIGAN
BUY YOUR
Spectacles, Spectacles
FROM
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This was (ho exclamation of a girl
about nineteen, arrayed in n ball
dresB of white, as she took a bouquet
or these gorgeous, fragrant flowers
the hands of the old gardener,
Who had gathered them for his favorite,
the only daughter of his master.
'‘Yes, miss, from your own bush, all
of them,” said the old man; -and I
guess no one at the grand ball will have
Auer flowers. I would not give any
one else even one, Mias Amy.”
Tho girl bent lovingly over tho fra-
grant blossoms, and a thoughtful look
passed over her speaking face.
"I fancy oftentimes these roses are
rny flowers my guardian angels. The
German fable is so pretly-that flower
angels keep us from all harm
wrong. Yon shall be
NO. 6.
Other V-* 8he WftS “"“Wing of
other lands in a strange language.
Just then a visitor entered-a girl
bont tho age of the one who lay dying;
faee ^ n°^ different -the earneft
then S 1° °! llfe and happiness, even
ine R ns 8 !? WUh By “P* th y ^ or suffer-
B, as the new-oomoi bent over the
worn invalid who just then opened her
Her eyes were full of tears as she
looked up in her friend’s face.
" ^ have set one of the sisters to find
out some of poor Reine’s history, and
her namo if possible; then I will write
to the Marie and send news to her
mother if we can prove the relation
ship.”
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WEM-KVO H.V niRA SES.
TOPICS OP THE DA1%
A Frenob physician has made the dis-
[ oovery that many ohildren, apparently
notor
ie paused a moment, then went on
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and
„ , “J guardians,
anyway," she playfully added, as she
put them for a moment to her lips,
i It was this sunny-haired girl’s first
ball, and as she stood in the light of the
chandelier her face showed all the love
of enjoyment so natural to youth,
though it was not so easy to divine the
intentness of purpose and noble long
ings after good in her still untried soul.
The future lay yet before her— a bright,
unwritten page; yet she had tasted
enough of.sorrow in the early loss of a
mother to know that life has troubles as
well as joys.
The first ball, however, soon drives
other thoughts away, and Amy, placing
somo of tho roses in her hair and in
her bosom, and wrapping her oloak care
fully round her, went forth with her
father to the anticipated pleasure.
Rooms fragrant with exotics and filled
her face ^ R “ Z ° d “ lm ° St fearfnlly int <> “°ra quickly.
Suddenly the dvinw n ., " f, h “7 e t0 g0 abroad “J 8 ® 1 * in 0 fe *
hands, and said beseeching * ^ ^ f“ mth< *° . 8Gttl ® Som ® busines8 « d see
“ Give them ’ b n , g y ‘ to Pome 8cientiflo lectures in Paris, and
bln •V" p1 '™ W “• pwha '”’ rt, “ «■» '«'» to".,
olnster nf th , “ 8 8h ® pointed to a Amy”—as she bent her head down-
■'nZ"JT." '“of- bud. •• til JO. So with me, d...r
Dijon loses I’Sho murmured; "they A
came from my home-did you gather L°,“ 0e more tho Di > on r °ses bloom in
them from tho garden ? Does Francois tb ° llWle garden ot the cottage. The
till water them for me ? Oh, let me ® Un is 8ink “g behind the hills, and
have thorn—do I” Nanon is busy with the flowers, while
• for R was she, put the flowers b £ r “ othcr 8lts knitting on tho door-
mto tho sufferer’s hand; tremblinow 8t ®P\ j
she carried them to her lins « n,vi f “ d ^ a “ d gontleman stop at tho
Francois send them to me-to Rein * ? “u* th ° ° hiId recognizet » in the
,,on8
all the good abbe taught ? Bnry these who h i ^ d °° t0r *“ d hi “ Wlfe ’ Am J*
flowers with mo; tliey ere from the dear « h hl f, °° m9 ° n P nr P° 8e to bring to
home.” “ 6 de r tbo “other news of her lost child.
She lifted her face with a smile and th^5° . Womat \ oam ? forw « d a " d invited
all was over, and the ineffable L... ,, m , 1 . n ’ and| w *tb kindly welcome,
that death brings to the weary passed r ° UBh * SW , eot mllk ' brown bread and
into tho dead girl’s face A™ Ju d grapeS for hor vi8itor8 ’
tho flower-angel hod brought» message the^d 8 f iffl ° nlt J° flnd an °P en ing for
from home to tho sinner 8 the sad story, so Amy whispered to hor
One of the sisters drew n sheet J h .. nd ’. and Pramised to come tho
How til. Following nrn Said lo Have Orlgi.
noted.
" bo, re, me, fa, sol, la.”—Guido, an . , _ rr „ v „, lif
Italian of the eleventh century, has born dead, can be brought to life if
been oalled the father of modern music. the y are immediately immersed in a hot
It was he who invented, or for the first batb
time systematically used, the lines of ,
the staff and the intervals or spaces, 11 is 8a,d tbnt war between CJtina and I tbe room where Robert Ford wm, Ji
and thus fixed the principles of mod- Ja P a »isnot unlikely, but that the lat- 8#id: " lt,s an awfully hot day.” He
ern notation and introduced the names | ter P°wor has not yet begun to | P" lled off his coat and vest and
I
Mou> Jr tie Jntnet TFna KUlmA.
The following are the partionlate
the shooting of Jesse James, the
ions ontlaw, at St. Joseph, Mo: After
having eaten breakfast Jeasa Jamas
and Charles Ford went to the stable to
curry the horses, and on returning to
of tho first six notes of the scale, do, preparations. Snoh a war would be very them on tbe bed - Th en he said: •«
re, me, fa, sol, la. Gnido was a monk interesting here, in view of the asser- gue8S t°ke off my pistole for fear
somebody will see thorn if I walk in the
en-1 r a,d ” Ho unbuckled the belt in whieh
^andM^^^tfS^r^^r 80m0 ,a °° the ~», UB 00 “P e titors for a seat^^parHa-1 si H n ttl© d in LEtectrici*hi beeT^
tearful eyes shesaw her fHenJ of tht * “ • hey 1<5,t lh ° * ioT * "ntold | “out. P | oeivod with great satisfaction. Accord
ballroom, Doctor Roslin, who had been
till then,
in tiie monastery of Pamposa, and, I tion that China has become such
while ohanting with the choir a hymn, formidable war power sinco her w
was strnok with the regularly counters with Western nations that if I he oar riod two forty-ilve-oaliber reyol"
ascending tones of the opening sylla- 8bo 80 willed it, she oould make it ex- ver8 -one » Smith & Wesson’*, and the
bles, which lead to his invention of an oeedingly uncomfortable td the United otber R P olt ~»nd laid them on the bed
educational method by which, acoord- ® tate8, with his coat and vest. He then picked np
ing to his own statement, a pupil might a bating brush, with the intention of
learn within five months yhat formorly . Tbo ozar of R»«si» seems to be hav- dns W»8 some pictures which hung on
it would have taken him ten years to “ g a P art i<“l*rly unpleasant time of it. I tbe Wa *b lu order to do this he got on
acquire. He has to keep as muoh in tho dark as a ofa . air » h,B baok being now turned tothe
"The king is dead! Long live the i£ be wer ° an impeounious creditor brotbers > who silently stepped between
king I”—The death of Louis XIV. was keeping out of tho way of tho bailiff. JeB »eand his revolvers, and at amotion
announced by the oaptaiu of tho body Inetcad °* being an impeoun ous ored- ,rom G ha *ley both drew their gnu.
guard from the window of tho state de- ito1 bo ls rulor ot a11 tbe Russias, and Rob ® r ‘ was the quicker of the two. In
partment. Raising his trunoheon above bas “ ore mone y than he knows what to ono “ otlon bo had the long weapon on
his head, he broke it in the center, and do wltb ’ Ee is in constant dread of a Ievo * with his eye, with the rnnule
throwing the pieoes among the orowd, bis and with tbe fate or his father not “ ore than four feet from the Vcb
exclaimed in a loud voice: " Le roi eat be,oro bim, it is easy to understand ot the outlaw’s head. Even in that
mort I” Then taking another staff, he wbat a 8tato ol “ental nnsettlement ho “°tfon, quick as thonght, there was
flourished it in the air, as he shouted: mnst bo In ’ something which did not escape the
" Vive lo roi I” »cuto ears of the hnnted man. He
What shadows wo aro and what -Pboro can be little donbt that prema- “ ade a motion as if to tnm hia
Bhadows we pursno.”—This quotation is tnr ° bnrial oooa8 fo nall J takes place in bead to a8 oortain the oanse of that ana-
often supposed to have been derived ^ rnno ° and Algeria, also in Germany, P* c * ons s ound, bnt too late. A nervous
from tho Bible. It is from an elec- 00nse . quen00 °* th e laws ordoining pre8auro on the trigger, a quick flash, a
tionoering speech of Edmund Burko pro “P t lutement. It is no wonder, I sllttr P report, snd the well-directed ball
in 1780, referring to the death of ono of t b er °l° , ' e ’ th*t^the following discovery (2?^^ through the outlaw’s skull.
*-* uu I Hifrnai«,i r. ^ 1 There was no ontoiy—just a swaying of
the body, and it fell heavily baok upon
Agnostio.—A word ot late eoinane to tbls i°«raal it has been asoer-1 the ® ar P eted floor, the ball having on-
. i . _ I tftinAfl fliaf fit a m ... . I tfiffin tlin Ktoa nf n h»n j •
an nnsuspeoted witness of tho ' I Tll0n ’ teuderl J and gently, Amy told Ifc is composed of two Greek words, sicr- J ainod tbat tbo application of an elec- tered tbo ba8 ° ot the skull, and made
e. I tho poor woman of the girl in the hos- nifying "I don’t know," or "I hnvn tr 0 ourront to tho body isaoertain test !f 8 wny out through the forehead over
wt.Anl ««.l At - I * 1AUVU I ell. I Cl— 1 , . I tnA lofl Atfil TA L. J t. i« • .
“I am oln.i fo t ... o‘ ri ,n *ue nos- "X uon t know," or "I have V „ uujr aoeriain test .. , ' *ureueaa over
i» £* I a^jris*.*** *•» • I <• 1 IS.uifs. •
One author
doflnes such a person thus: " An ag-
nostio is a man who doesn't know
*»a «m t.ulfol “°”h lm° waa^not known*’ ' d “‘“ 7 ’ ■ °*“ h " ta " m ” a “ nlM - °*>
so peacefully. Tho mother fell on her knees In
A pretty room, •* * - - 1
fire burning in a grate, and a girl’s I ner 0tmd ’ 8 silver cross. But she soon
figure leaning on IS. .mm. I b^arn. m, t . .Lir.—T IZ".."."-
the | ow , bra ° 8 fonder, standing | words and sympathy. life or not; doesn’t believe that* Tnv pla ° eS ’ bnrn,ng n P of millions * h ® shot and d rapping her household
„ ‘ ltein 1 e was a ? tran « e K ir1 .’’ sho said, one else knows more about these mJ- "°, rth of P ro P ert J; " bliz- dnti f raa [ nto J‘ w troat r °om. She
She always said her roses were her tors thon he does ; and thinks it imnoV ° f ' Wind ’ 8D0W and 00,d iu tho *?" husba " dl J in g on his back, and
friends, and it is through them I havo “Mo and a waste of timo to trv to fln.l N i °^ tbw , e8t ’ Wlth their accompaniments b| 8 "layers each holding his revolver in
news of my lost ohild. It will go hard I out." ‘ . u | of death, disaster and delay; steamboats | hI «band, making for the fence in the
with poor Franooij. Ho always though
with a bright wood- “gony of grief as she reoognized this, whether there is a God or not; doesn’t
g ,a te, and a girl’s I her ohild s silver cross. But she soon I know whether he has a sonlornot;
An agnostic is a I ? t vo or si * hours after presumed death, Oolt ’* ‘'^" improved weapon, silver
tho non-eontraotion of tho mnsoles will “ onn ted and pearl handled, whioh
prove beyond a doubt IthatJ life is ox- had been P r8 «ented by the dead man to
tlnot. v 1 his slayer only a few days before.
Mrs. James was in the kitchen whentha
An unprecedented Mississippi flood, 1 8 hooting was done, separated from tbe
involving unparalleled loss of life and room in w bioh the bloody tragedy oe-
property and suffering; groat fires in | ® nrred by the dining-room. She heard
gazing mnsiugly a t tho burning logs.
Suddenly the door opened, and Amy
turned with a blush und a smilo to
welcome her friend, Dr. Roslin.
1 1 am so glad to see you,” she
said, “for I want to hoar what you
know about that poor girl who died in
the hospital last week,. I havo had a
bush of Dijon roses planted on hor
grave.”
Sitting together by the flro the
doctor told Amy a simple story of his
travels abroad, to which he little
thought at the time he should ever see
any denouement, he said :
Taking a walk ono summer evening
in tho outskirts of a small town in tho
„ x nn .. „ burned, sunk or injured and lives of pus- roar of tho bonse. Robert had reached
she would come back; bnt it is beUer I wore two ofthem“tfamons'—’ 80 ' '“ B ®™ saorifloed ;g reat "tormsof thun-| t h®, ino . 1 . 08 "ra a “l was in the act of
to know she has gone than to bo living I list of Oh JilZLT? I f m ° nS in th ® der ’ llghtn,I1 »* wind > bail and rain, in- 8Cn ! ing U * w benshe stepped to the door
as she niiahi n.i , Dg I Ilst of Charlemagne’s twelve poors, and volving death and destruction nL. - I and called to him:
as she might, for Reine was always a their exploits
good chilrl. U ... J oapiOHB
, - • —" i ■ — ■— o nuu umunoiion over a | — “ Robert, yon have
good ohild. God rest her soul I r“‘L? P , 10U8 re , ed 80 ridlo "- wido8 P a oe; shipwrecks near home and doDe thid; 00 “° back.” Robert ao-
Amy remained with the poor woman old rLnssTfi®* tra rag a nt by the abroad; men blown to pieces by powder, 8Werod: "I swear to God I did not.’
till Nanon returned, and her husband m!1 B • ’ th 4 fr ° m th ° nco aros ® 011,1 and boiler explosions-theso are They then »tnraed to where she stood
came to walk back with her to the L^bwiLi®” 8 * 4 . T. pIain and P att °* »ba extraordinary record of a
town. 8608 ble ance8to r fl . of giving one a most remarkable spring. Last year d« 8
They were to leave the next day;,, , ,0r bis Oliver," to signify calamitous beyond precedent; thisveor
but Amy left a small sum of money with tU6 “ at °b 1D K 0I “ incrediblo lie with thus far hue been far more so The
the good abbo of the neighboring 0n0 b ® , ' , “ no, " as scientists tell us'snn spots, comets and
church for Reino’s mother and littlo | "Where tho shoo pinches."—Plutarch j other celestial objeots are likely to havo
south of Franco, where I was spending I s ‘ ste ’'’ ,md premised to take care of hor lolfttes tb ® s,or y of a Roman being di- [ disturbing influence upon tho earth. Are
a week’s relaxation from hard worli, I gravo > and send Nanon a rose from tho I vorced from his wife. “ This person I these oeourronoes lo be traosd to such
with a countless variety of forms and came to a small cottage, surrounded by bush P lanted there as soon as they wore being highl y blamed by his friends sources?
aces, and dolicious musio. swelling in a garden filled with the most beautiful inbloom ' wl ?° demanded : Was she not chaste? , - r ... "
flowers. • | Thoughtfully in tho dying twilight wasshenot f ftir7 —holding out his shoe,
" While I lingered, looking over the Doctor Roslin and hia young wifo I “ sketl tbem whether it wag not new and
slight fence, a young man in a blorae
ulowly entered the gate and began to
j work among the flowers, and watered
them from a little spring at the baok nf
tho house. Presently a dark-eyed
| child camo down the path and stood
beside tho youth.
the perfumed air. “ beautiful
The white-robed, graceful form of
Amy, as loaning on hor father’s arm she
walked slowly through the throng,
elioited many a remark and passing
glance of admiration.
One gentleman standing in a retired
corner looked curiously after her and
started forward, but fell back into a
careless posture, and watched Amy in
tently.
Ho was not apparently an habitne of
the ballroom, bnt the “guinea stamp”
was there “for a’that,” as the Sootob
poet observes,
After a time the hostess came up to i ,, .w „ „ i ,.
him and said: “Do, Doctor Roslin • Well > ttle one > > you will; I u>7 vaults. The young and invariably
let me give you an introduction to mv ™ “ 3 to lefc them droo P and lnterostin « cou P lc want to closely in
dear little friend, Amy Dormer ” and W1 ?f r ’ 1 su PP ose ’’ “P 601 Unole Sa “’ 8 plentiful shekels,
the smiling lady, attired in brocaded I • ■ - car °worn-looking wotaan soon | When they enter tho vault the man in
walked hack to the town. I wo ^ mado, Yot, added ho, none of
Suddenly Amy looked up into his face P 0U can tel1 whore it pinches me.”
and said: “ Am I not a man and a brother?”—
"Do you not believo in flower-angels Fr0m a “«dallion by Wedgwood (1768),
now, dear?” representing a negro in chains, with
Bending down and kissing her sweot On0 kn e®on the ground, and both hands
lips, ho said: lifted up to heaven. This was adopted
hit. -ti ., , . 08 > and in my own guardian as a characteristic soal bv thn
Francois, she said, ‘I must go (o g( ™. foe, which is yourself, sweet Slavery society of London 7 *
tho market to-morrow and carry some wife.” I J omonaon.
of tho roses; the littlo mother needs I *7ie IU Utnl Package of Greenback*
money for the rent.’ Nearly every bridal couple that come’s
" A shade passed over the man’s fao i to Y/ashington—and Washington is the
as he answered: I national bridal Meooa-visits the treas
on
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DISEASES.
elt f V 10 Rome wf th « h ® pri ?: Clpal drn 8 8
J , an .'J antidote’wl th th orchnarv ' 1na “
St »5 ravi «? Of
etch.
on a poison. A Tablo
; 0 , w .„, *“ e . Horse’s Teeth at
"““10 co|l,v.|:..,y u t l H f° r toiling tho age.
Hi.lilo iororn.»yoi 1 BeoeiI>ts ftutl Much
•s^sssstafsrasjiS'B
satin, with lace and jewels, presented ^ two ' and I strolled on; but charge of it, after a few preliminary
the grave-looking man to Amv who ® omi , ng back > and still seeing the child, words of explanation, hands down a
'I asked her for a rose and a drink of package of notes from a shelf and tells
at her ease, and very much enjoying I ^ ? ring ' When sbo jje bride to take it in her bands. He
ml \.n tho I brougbfc *bem I told hor to bring me a then explains that this package contains
bouquet to tho market the next day, 820,000,000 in United States treasury
which she promised to do, saying: notes. The young lady is delighted to
“ ‘ They are Reine’s roses. Hhe has be able to go away and say that she has
gone away, and littlo mother and Fran- bold so much money in her own hands,
cois won’t let mo talk of Roine. She in She is just too utterly pleased. The
my sister, and I wish she would come gr °o“ also wants to handle the paok-
back, it is so dull without hoi. age ’ ^bey are further told that the
“ Next morning I failed not to seek no * ;e8 are aR °* the denomination of
the little flower-merchant, and found They constitute what is known
her sitting quietly among n orowd of a . 8 tb ® “ brida l package.” Young mar-
noisy venders. As soon as she saw me, I r,ed tonrists, having heard of this pack-
she exclaimed:
Here, monsienr! Lojv arc your
roses I Some gentlemen wiutcd them,
bnt I kept them for you. I have sold
many bouquets 1’
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hia'quiet originality as compared to tho
usual rapid ballroom conversation.
“Look,” she said, after a pause, “at
my rosos. They are my guardian angels
—Dijon roses, you know; when we have
a flower guardian he keeps ns from
harm—is it not a pretty thonght ?”
“So these are Dijon roses? I thought
knew them,” he answered. “ I have
a little story connected with them,
whioh I will telljyou somo time, if you
would like to hear it, though it is but
an unfinished ono.” Then bending
down and speaking low as Amy’s father
camo to take her away, he said, “ Thank
you, Miss Dormer, for a pleasant even
ing. After all, a ball is not half so bad
os .1 expected.”
“I think they are"delightful. Here
are one of my roses for you,” said Amy;
and so they parted.
A waid in a hospital, with its rows of
small white beds, and the silent figures
of the sisters going to and fro on their
missions of mercy.
“ No. 24 is dying,” was whispered by
one of tho nurses, o,nd two of them
came to the bedside.
No. 24 was young, soarcely past her
girlhood; her brown hair fell in heavy
braids on the pillow, but the weariness
of life and the stamp of early care and
privations had marked her face, lovely
age, often ask to handle it just ns soon
I as they enter the,vaults. This is all
very pretty. But it is a fraud on the
young people. The treasury here doen
not hold that amount of money. The
I paid the little one so liberally bu ^k of the money is in the sub-treasury
that she bent and kissed my hand, say- York. That “ bridal package”
in.8: I is a guy deoeiver. It does contain, how-
‘It is too much, monsieur. I will ev ® r > notes of the denomination of $10 -
give yon flowers every day. This will 000, which would, in the aggregate,
bo enough to pay cross Monsieur represent $20,000,000 if they were only
Jacques, and the little mother will be | signed. But they are minus the neces-
at ease.’
“ Here is the end of my romance,
Miss Amy, for I was called away next
day by a telegram, and I cannot help
thinking the girl who died is tho lost
Reine.”
“ What strange things are^happening
every dajl” said Amy. “How lives
meet and touch, and we seldom know
for what reason till years have flown.
sary signatures.
Wanted Him to Travel.
An Austin young man was seen own
ing hurridly out of a bus ness house,
which he had entered to solicit employ
ment as a salesman.
“(Did tho boss engage you as a sales
man?”
“No; he wanted me to travel,” was
the ambiguous reply,—Texas Siftings.
“ Bravest of tho brave.’’—A title cou
ferred upon tho celebrated Marshal
Ney (1769, 1815) by the French troops
at Friodland (1807) on aeoonnt of his
fearless bravery. Ho was in command
of the right wing, whioh bore the brnnt
of the battle and stormod the town
Napoleon, as ho watched him passing
unterrifled through a shower of balls,
exclaimed, “ That man is a lion ;” and
henoeforth the army styled him “le
brave des braves.”
“ Catching a Tartar.’’—Signifying the
encountering of an opponent of un
expected strength. The story of the
origin of the expression is as follows :
“ In a battle an Irishman oalled out to
his offioer, ‘Ihave oaught a Tartar.-
‘Bring him here, then,’ was the reply,
‘ He won’t let me,’ rejoined Pat. And as
the Turk carried off his captor the say
ing passed into a proverb.
“ Before you can say Jaok Robinson.”
—This current phrase is derived from a
humorous song by Hudson, a tobacco
nist, in Shoe lane, London. Ho was
a professional song writer and vocalist,
who used to bo engaged to sing at sup
per rooms and theatrical houses.— St.
Louis Oiobe-Democrat.
German measurements give the fol
lowing as among the greatest daily
quantities of rainfall reoorded in Eu
rope : At Oolberg, September 7, 1880,
four inches of rain fell in seven hours.
At Breslau August 6, 1858, four and a
half inohes fell. At Klausthal, in the
Hartz, the daily maximum observed is
four and a half inohes; and at Hochen-
schwand, in the Blaok Forest, it is five
oinhes.
CLIPPINtjS POE THE CURIOUS.
When the bees are young honey re
mains longer white, and is known as
virgin honey.
The loss of a hand was one of the
penal mutilations enacted by William
tho Conqueror.
Hangings for rooms, called arras, were
first made in Arras, France, in the four
teenth centnry.
The yearly consumption of quinine
in the United States is oompnted at
800.000 onnees.
Tho dahlia is a native of Mexico, and
was brought to England by Dahl, a
Swede, in 1804.
The discovery of the luminosity of
plants has been attributed to the daugh
ter of Linmeus.
Under tho microscope the brilliant
feathers of a humming-bird’s breast
show only dark brown.
During the reign of Trojan 6,000
poor children were supported by tho
government in Rome alone.
The medicinal leech is found only in
Central Europe, Asia Minor and part
of the northern coast of Africa.
It is within the last two centuries
that the first attempt was made in
Europe to establish quarantines.
Among the Tahitians and New
Zealanders the women wear their hair
short and the men wear theirs long,
The ancient custom of sending a
present of fine cloth to certain high
officers of state and gentlemen of
Queen Victoria’s household has lately
been observed by a committee of the
court of aldermen of ‘London. The
custom seems to have originated in a
desire to encourage competition in the
manufacture of fine goods.
The ancient Huns seem to have been
the ugliest of all the ugliest races of
Central Asia, and the homeliest individ
ual was probablvthe “ veiled prophet of
Bokhara,” the repulsiveness of whoBe
features was so overpowering that ho
did not venture to appear without a
mask, for whioh he afterward substi
tuted a golden veil, and was conse
quently known as “ the veiled one.”
Mrs. James ran to the side of her hus
band and lifted up his head. T.n ft wu
not yot extinot, and when she »«fced
him if he wero hurt, it seemed to her
that ho wonted to say something but
oould not. She tried to wash away the
blood that was coursing over his face
from tho hole in his forehead, bnt it
seemed to her that the blood como faster
than sho oould wash it away, and in her
arms Jesso James died.
An Ancient lUearf.
A correspondent of the Louisville
Courier-Journal, writing from Monterey,
Ky., says : I opened an Indian mound
near here some timo ago. It was about
four feet high, and contained a great
many large stones. Apparently they
had been oarried way np a hill. At the
bottom I found the remains of a strange
being, just four feet high. His bones
were very sound; his forehead was not
on inch high, but wag very broad. He
was pnt away very carefully between
flat rocks and covered with charcoal.
On the mound there was a very large
rotten stump, which looks as
if it might havo been a white
oak three and a half feet in
diameter. In the grave I found a spear
seven inohes long, of red flint; also very
curious flints of smaller size, and at his
feet a singular speckled flint with a fine
edge to it. The bones are not red like
an Indian’s, bat of a dark, ashy color.
The teeth ore perfect, and seem to have
been used a long time, whioh proves
that he was old, although only four feet
high. There are other mounds similar
to this one here, and very different from
the oommon Indian grave, whioh are
fell of bones of different oolor, being
red, and all thrown in carelessly.
The aconitine with whioh Dr. T.^rp
son, the American, murdered his young
brother-in-law, Percy Malcolm John, in
England, is a most astrooiously virulent
poison. The one-hundredth part of a
grain of it nearly killed a two-year-old
oolt,and a two-hundredth part of a grain
killed a sheep dog, whioh weighed 211
pounds, in thirty-three minutes.
A good test for indigo is snlphurio
acid mixed with its own weight of wa*
ter. Steep a dyed specimen of doth
in the mixtnre for five minntes; wash
well, and dry in the open air. If
nothing but indigo has been used the
color wil not change.
It is calculated that in London _
ohild is bom every five minutes. —Ex
change. A ohild that is born every five
minutes must be a world of trouble
and expense to its parents.
“ I am perfectly fried,” said a yonng
lady at a ball A half-elderly maiden
near the wall whispered: “I didn’t
know she was fried, but she’s ready for
it; she seems to be rolled in flour.”
Belgium has sixty daily papers, o
whieh fifty-two are printed in Frenob
and eight in Flemish. The number of
the weekly journals is 308, of whioh
237 are in the French and 161 iu the
Flemish language,
