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THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY. APRIL 20, 1886.-TWELVE PAGES.
SOME SUNDAY SALAD.
GOSSIP ABOUTTHEMEN AND WOMEN
HERE AND THERE.
Tito Eccentricities, Follies, Foibles un<l Vnnl-
tleii of Prominent IVopIr, and Chat
About* the LIkIU Shallow**
of life — Etc., Etc.
The pretty Parisian conceit of printing an inscrip
tion on tho petals of natural ros< a lias been intro
duced by Home of the florist* with great hucccps-
No bouquet is considered perfect unless it contains
at least one flower which beam expression of regard,
or a message of love or sympathy suited to the oc
casion. The fancy is all the more beautiful when
the sentiment is in accordance with the lauguage of
flowers. The petals may wither, but tin, inscrip
tion still remains. A flower given between lovers
as a token of affection is often preserved fora life
time. How much greater the incentive to retain tho
treasured pledge when the tender sentiment must
ever keep tho remembrance fresh, however the blos
som may fade.
The well known Hungarian duelist, M. Ffennyl,
has Just celebrated at the town of Pesth his thirty-
fifth duel by a unique banquet, only those were
invited who could prove that they had fought in six
duels. The O’Gorman Mahon, who had fought
twenty-two duels, was the only qualified Hritlsher.
Easy heroes of note were present, some with faces
covered with scars, others miuus an ear, aud others
again without an eye or with two or three fingers
missing The least presentable of all tho guests
wan a French gentleman who had lost his nose in a
combat with M. Audraaay. The “six duels" quali
fication was strictly adhered to, except In one in
stance, that of a lady who had actually killed her
man—whether by the fire of her eyes or by her pis
tol waa not stated. This ornament of tho fair sex
was unanimously elected president of the banquet,
which the wits of Pesth termed “ie banquet tie*
nana peur et sans reproache.’*
behind bis back, but she wan as tranquil, sweet,
and grave as though her job wasn’t a hollow mock
ery. He was caugnt without further straggle, the
narrative of the exchango avers, and she was retired
fr< m office nervier,' to become \ week ago the half
millionaire's bride.
How many of uh in Macon, as elsewhere, will
recognize this picture from the Ht. Paul Globe:
The first smoke don’t last as long as a case of sea
sickness, but while it does last it is original and
unique. The new smoker is no judge of cigars.
He invariably takes a strong one. He goes a good
deal by the box in which be finds the cigars. If a
cigar has a fancy paper ring about It he will take it
at anv price. If he lives he will know better. Out
on the shady side of tbs barn he takes himself and
his cigar. Ho is afraid that Home one w ill. molest
him. Uc lights the cigar, and holding it in the
most awkward manuer between his fingers puds
aud expectorates. It secerns manly to smoke, aud
he pictureH biiuself narrating to Fiis chums how
well he handled himself aud bis first cigar The
sensation is not at all pleasant. He allows longer
time to elapse between his puffs, aud wishes that
the cigar would burn up more rapidly. The mouth
Iias a peculiar taste, wbi<h frequent ex
pectoration* will not remove. Tho old fa
miliar fence is turning green. He nees
everything circle around bitn. lie is better
after a while. Fiat on bis back on the green sward,
he looks up at the blue lu-aveus overhead and
watches the fleecy white clottfls float in many direc
tions. Dinner has uo attractions for him. Candy
would not tempt him to get up. He hears his name
called by au elder brother. It sounds way off, as if
in a dream. Nearer and nearer it comes, and final
ly the owner of tho voice comes arouud the corner
of the barn. He guesses the cause, for be sees the
half-smoked cigar. If lie is a real good boy with
a box full of Sunday school tickets he will tell his
mother, and the young smoker will be taken to the
bouse and lectured for the rest of his boyhood days.
If he is a real bad boy, one whose badness insures
his living to manhood's estate, he will get his rick
brother up on the bay in the old barn, aud will tell
a fib at thu table to excuse bis absence. Ills kind
ness will cost tho inexperienced smoker later on
many marbles, much candy, and the best o levery-
A RACE OF AGNOSTICS.
Kit Warren Moralizes while Relating: Some
Paradoxical History.
The race of man is a great disjunctive
mats of arrogance, presumption and conceit.
Uicb nation holds itself as the nation,
and each community as a chosen people,
and the great bulk and body of the yenns
homo claim to be homogeneous with celes
tials.
Herodotus lets us understand that Greece
comprises the universe and takes in most of
the outside patches; Guizot centralizes tin-
civilization of mankind in France, and
Macauley, with all the quickening touches
of his electric pen, makes England the
omnium gatherum of social aud political vir
tues and the paradise of genius and history.
And so it is the world oyer. 3/eum and tnum
have no unit of origin. They belong to dif
ferent races, see with different eyes and
hate each other like fire hates water. But
it is when man steps off of the conventional
egg and begins to cackle ronnd as cock of
the terrestrial walk- it is then that his con
ceit rises to its suhhmest altitude, for there
is then no one to rebuko it.
A lion never made a more forcible remark
than which is recorded by Esop when he,
the lion, not Esop, inspected tho picture of
a fellow creature powerless and perishing
under the inilictions of a man.
Our presumption gains importance iu ex
act proportion to the absence of denial.
With slight impediments its motion is a
little retarded, with no counteracting force
it moves on as regularly as John Browns
many marine*, iuucu rauuy. ana uie oem o Jevery- , at nlnneta
thing. He will threaten to inform their parents H0 !L* *** . 0 P 1,lQets -
many times of the first smoke; and will searo the Take for example the discovery of Atner-
Momlay, add made an application to Judge Smith
for permission to obtain a charter for what is
termed the Society of bachelors. The object of the
organization ih to promote marriage, but not to
wholly discourage those who never intend to marry,
and, not to deter them from entering the associa-
tion, they are also provided for. A fund is raised
by provisions of the charter by assessments upon
the members, and from this each member in to be
paid $WK> upon hi* marriage. After a certain uuui -
her of years tho old bachelors will receive $1,000.
Judge Smith, of course, gave bis consent, and arti
cles of incorporation will bo filed noon at the
Clerk's office in Oswego and with the Secretary of
Htate. The headquarters of the Society of bache
lors will be at Speucor, aud branches will be formed
wherever desired. There are enough bachelors, if
they all put their shoulders to the wheel, to give
the new organization a boom; but then there are
eome bachelors wbo always stand iu their own light."
'’Autographs," said Mr. benjamin, to the Phila
delphia Press, “are a very safe Investment, for the
numlier of collectors Increases every year, while
death bos long ago put an end to the supply of the
most valuable manuscripts. 1 have made five or
six collections my*eir, aud have seen prices steadily
advancing." Mr. benjamin laughed when 1 njoke
of the collection of Mr. F. J. Dreer of Philadelphia,
as being probably one of tho best In the country.
•’Why," said he, “it 1* only a baby compared with
that of C. F. Gunther, the baker, of Chicago. Of
coarse. Dreer has been at it for a long tlmo and has
a great many very fine specimens, but as prices
have advanced be is out of the competition with
such a collector as Gunther. Ho has not only the
finest collection iu America, but I do not hesitate
to say the finest in the world, and bo has only b
ten or twelve years making it. He lissom
tJbarlotte Cordav which Dreer has been for years
trying to get, and there to be had are not probably
more than two or three iu the world. Ho spends
from $li),ooo to $1J.000 a year on It, and is known to
dealers all over the world, so that he is at oucu ap
prised of sny new treasures they may find. I have
bought a good many myself through him sending
•tillers to me with things which he did not want.
Hany of bis specimens are unique; one of the most
valuable is the original manuscript of ‘Home.
Sweet Home.’ I presume that his collection would
fcrlug to-day If put up by auction $100.o»X), and, of
conns, It iocrewio* lu value every year."
Here Is how a wife makee ■•'Oltllng pay. The
Lewiston. Me., Journal says:
There is a iutlo family U* Kfcnnebee county in the
inner circle of which k ve<y curious custom nro-
'*■11*, and it must be admitted that tho custom is
cma that might tend tq bTtsak up tbo Ptooe of a less
liberal households The family consists simply of
a husband wife, and they live happily enough
and there Would not be a cloud on their horizon but
AVI 0BU thing—the husband's temper. In most re-
' wptoU be la an exemplary’ aud kind young mau, and
aa far sa auyone can sea ha la very fond of hla wife,
but when thlnge go wrong during the day or when
be la not feeling well It takes but lit’le to make him
axtromely Irritable. On such occasions he Is wont
to Indulge in many expletives not found in the dic
tionary, and has beeu known to call bis wife almost
•venrtning but an angel. Finally bis wife became
tired of this sort of thing, and even the extreme
penitence of her husband when his irritation
over failed to suffice. Therefore, taking him in
of bis penitent moods she made him agree to the
following price of epithets:
Lear old thing, price o.v.
Shiftless huzzy, price........... 10c.
Old fool, price JAc.
Croea patch, price 10c.
Driveling idiot, price lftc.
Old waggle tongue, price ‘luc.
Ugly old hen, price ftoc.
Miscellaneous 10c.
Having once gotton him to agree to these terms,
she procured a pasteboard box, and, having glued
the oover on. she cut a silt in the top large enough
to admit of the passage of all coins, and then wait
ed. It waa long before something went wrong, and
as usual the husband launched out at thu poor wife.
But, paper and (enril in hand, she Jolted down the
epithets, and made I’j.fio that attack. When calmed
down he cheerfully paid the bill, and the wife
thinks aha will have at least 9 l«u saved up at the
and of the year unless he gets to laughing at seeing
bar make the pencil fly and forgets to be mad alto-
smoker into many scrapes and much trouble
Here is a bright bit clipped from a Paris letter to
London Truth. It is a blonde Cuban's tea party:
was la«t week at au afternoon tea at thi bouse of
blonde Cuban, wbo expects to bo Included in tho
household of tho Princess Antonia de Montpensicr,
she becomes Queen of Hpa'n." All her
goes in adorning her own fair person and
the Mirim* ronfixerated to it. As she is capricious
aud of great wealth she can often apply new ideas
ami foiiow u»-r whims. The drawing room in which
tho afternoon tea I speak of w- s given had some
peculiar features. For Instance. U was lighted with
a pale, bright light, which, fallin* through deli
cately tinted lamp glasses, gave a tinge to every*
thing, which I can best describe as pearly. The
furniture gave the impression of a successful strug
gle agniilet wintry coldness. Chairs and sofas were
muffled np lu kuitted covers of white wool, so soft
and curly in its effects aa to imitate the ffetu-e c
young lamb. Home of them were fastened
w ith knots of ribbons of delicate piuk cr Hue
shades. You have no idea what an air of snug
ness these woolen “bousses" gave. They looked
really elegant, aud had tho pure aspect of freshlv
fallen snow. Home very tine vases of peach-blot m
Japanese porcelain rose from a mantel-piece ar
ranged to imitate a gilt rush basket, aud were filled
with white heather bordered with pink heather.
Crocuses peeped up from among the snowy flowers
like spring smiling sunshine playing upon tho
whiteuess that winter often leaves on the ground iu
February. At oach end of the mantel-banket
bow of ribbon—very large and of eccentric form.
There were similar baskets ou the corner of a largo
tea table, hut they hod tall bandies, also beribbonsd
aud bebowed. The tea service was also peach
bloom, anil the st/taraing urn was a fantasia in old
Japanese bronze. Fantasias in decorative art
not sufficiently sought after. Frivolity, to my
thinking, should often, to Please, be fantastic. The
figures on the urn seemed to be making gMUti of the
tea drinkers. Along the middle of the table, and
placed lengthwise, was a broad band of point de
finches**, edged with broader lace of the same ap
plied flat. The pattern was accentuated by a lining
of blue satin. This was laid on over blue satin, and
terminated at each end iu broad tassels of white
pink aud blue chenille, which descended to the
ground. The filling part of tho table cloth was
masked with a chenille drapery of «inlc, with pale
blue fringe, looped up with natural flower*.
BURROWED-MATTER.
TWO NEUATIVE*.
Her beauteous eyes; yet something Still
Haile me stay ou—perhaps the slight,
Hoft pressure of her baud, which might
Have been her heart’s own sweet “1 W ill.”
Hut ah! how hope died iu the chill
Of that hard word! It dimmed the light
Of moon aud stars, as trembling, white.
She answered, ••No.”
Then, loath to leave ray love until
Essayed was all my lover’s skill.
Her lily waist encircling quite,
1 whispered. “Did I hear Bright!"
icn. Columbus discovered it. Of course
be did. When Columbus got over here the
whole land was covered with human bciugs;
he couldn’t throw a rock without hitting one;
and yet Columbus discovered America. The
Indians didn't discover it; they didn't
know it was here. No, no; America
just lying about loose—out of pocket, so to
speak; and while the red men were hunt
ing something else, Christopher slipped up,
on the blind side ot the Atlantic ocean, and
rummaged around till he found a continent.
Now, suppose a supposemenb Suppose a
number <?f Mowhuwks had fixed up a few
dissultory ships, in the year 1492, and
sailed over to Europe. Aud suppose they had
decided that the people there were heath
enish and effeminate—speaking an unin
telligible gibberish, and preserving ex
istence only by boxing themselves up iu
houses. Aud suppose they had been able
to whip out and had whipped out Europe,
Asia and Africa, aud established the religion
of Tareyn and named the continent after
some dusky adventurer who did not find
it. And suppose they had done all the
things there that were done by Cancas-
s*ans here, would they have been the dis
coverers, proprietors and emminent do
main of tho eastern world? Would they
have been the first to find tho pyramids of
Egypt, the poems of Homer and tho Acts
of the Apostles? Yet such is the dis
covery ot America reversed; such is the
picture had a lion used the brush.
History is almost suffocated with illustra
tions in point. Germans are Credited with
the art of printing, and yet printing was in
vogue among the innocent and unassuming
Japanese for twenty centuries before the
ancestry of the Teutons, tho Ileruli and
Gepidso had dropped tho habits of the
nomad, and while yet the spoor of the wild
beast was tbe only lump by which their feet
were guided.
The stormy and aggressive Luther is her
alded by historj ns the pioneer of tin
Reformation, while, in fact, tho modest,
unpretentious Christians of Yaudois main
tained the doctrines of the Reformation,
through peril and disaster, for many gemm
ations before Luther came upon the stage.
This rule obtains in all the arts and
sciences, in every branch of investigation
and development, in all that has evoked the
all that is to be communicated to the
writer of future times, aud how he is to
bring order out of so much confusion, so
much chaos, “without form and void,” and
on which “darkness rests” and deepens
while it rests as the years go by; how he is
then to see the truth “through a glass
darkly" when it is now invisible in tho un
clouded sunlight, is a question that is an
swered by the asking.
Induced by these and similar reflections,
I would like—should it be the fate of my
present production to go thundering down
the ages—I would like to enclose and seal up
and send in the same envelope this mes
sage to Posterity :
Pos: If along about the fifty thousandth
Anno Domini you read that on the fourth
day of July, 1770, the great English com
mander, Robinson Crusoe, stormed the ram
parts of Plymouth Rock, routed the com
bined armies of 8ini ad, Johr. Buuyan,
Charles Chatterbox and Baron Munchausen
and reduced the American colonies to meek
ness and submission; that the war of
1812 was opened by a battle in which
Vallandingliam flogged Stonewall Johnson;
that afterwards the enemy invaded the
country and burned Washington Irving, and
wer9 only checked when they encountered
the Roman legions commanded by General
Dred Scott on the hanks of tho Amazon
river; thatThomas Jeffeison was the author
of “Cornin' Thro’ the Rye;” that Andrew
Johnston wrote Rabelais aud the Dukesbury
Tales, and commanded at first Manassas.
If you read these things, and things like
these, I charge you, oh, Posterity, believe
them not.
Macon, April 11th.
SPRING MILLINERY.*
Jet ItoiinetH Rk<l Ornaments— Crepes anil
Ribbons—Feathers and Flowers—Etc.
Philadelphia Times.
In creating pleasant surprises Wana
maker certainly excels, and each o, ening
day at this wonderful emporium develops
improvements in the various sections, ns
the exhibit of yesterday and to-day shows
the devoting of extra front space to the un
trimmed millinery goods.
In this new room are tho novelties in jet
bonnets. The light frames are covered
with black net, embroidered with large and
small jet beads, illustrating novel ideas in
decorative designs. A number of the bon
nets were sold early yesterday morning.
One was a little gem - a jet network in dia
monds, with pendants formed of strung
small jets and flat Rquare jets, showing the
polished upper and tho dull under portion
of the flat jet. The front is finished with
shirring of red crepe and the bonnet is
trimmed in the back with velvet and in
front with wings and aigrette of jet. There
o dozens of hnndsome ornaments in jet.
Coronets are formed of medallions aud a
network of jet, and there are parasols of
gold and jet intermixed.
Among other novelties are soft bonnets
formed of fibre strung with beads of straw.
These are in black aud iu straw color and
are shown near to the new ornaments of
bamboo, in pins and buckles, tipped with
gold, and shaped as the bamboo has grown;
hence the forms are ingrown or naturul ami
aro more valued for their peculiarities.
A great many curiosities in bonnet pins
aro to be seen, and these may be also worn
* Society life in Washington is not so full of rose#
as one would naturally suppose. Iien-Perley Poore,
in a recent letter to the Albany, New York, Journal,
thus tells of sum* petty nagging at Mrs. Secretary
Whitney’*: The Jealous dowagers who became en
raged. after comparing the uullwlted amount of
champagne generously poured out at Mr*. Whit
ney’s parties with the little bowl of California claret
pun-h at their owu entertainment*, took a feminine
revenge by uncharitably denouncing Mrs. Putter's
recitation of “’Ostler Joe.” Hut they did not stop
here. When Mrs. Whitney kindly offered her hou*e,
with music, floral decorations and a supper fit for
• prince, for a charitable ball at $5 a ticket, the
entire receipts to go iuto the treasury of the
Newsboy's Home, then the Jealous dowagers bad
another chance. Five dollars a ticket would have
taken $20 or t'JJ from several family nurses, to
say nothing of the addlUonal exjiense for powder
ing hair, gloves aud carriages. The word wa*
passed around, and it was determined in secret
conclave that the party should be a failure and
he known as “Mrs. Whitney’s April fool.’’ Fortu
nately Mrs. Nathan Perry, Mrs. Whitney’s grand
mother, crossed the dark river, and she accom
panied her father, Henatnr Payne, to Cleveland on
Monday night to attend the funeral. Hefore going
ahe generously offered the committee the u»e of
her house iu her absence, or. If a hall were hired,
to famish tbe refreshments; but out of respect
for her the offer was declined with thauka. The
dowagers will not have an opp irtunity of exult
ing over the small attendance “at Mrs. Wbituey'«
April fool,” and it is to be hoped that they will
osase their ill-natured remarks, evidently prompted
by jealousy.
Hhe answered,- “No.”
In New York fewer removals are looked for this
spring, as landlord* are more easy and accommo
dating. Flat* are not likely to iucrea«e iu favor
with householders, because of the difficulty In get
ting good and reliable servants to live lu them. T,'
consequence la that small bouses are being put up
rapidly.
At a large party given In Boston by a couple who
bail recently received a large legacy, a lady said to
the hostess: “I do not *e* your husband’s brother
here." “No." said the hostess ingenuously, “you
,ow we must draw thu line somewhere.’'
A Gloivestkh man has obtained letters patent on
a armor for war vessels and forts. A shot will not
penetrate a yielding obstruction as readily aa it will
a rigid on*, and so be would insert springs between
tho plate* aud hull of a vessel or the walls of a fort.
The directors of the Lick observatory have
eluded to purchase a duplicate 3ff-Inch crown Ut*k
aa a third lens for a photographic combination. An
euormoua field of research in physical astronomy
will thus be opened np.
Tur. trout season in Massachusetts opened legally
Thursday last. Many of the streams are still closed
with ice, and in the northern and western portious
of the Htate the bauks are covered in winter's man
Ue of show,
The New York Mall says: “No gun* made in this
country call for any coLsideration as weapons to be
used agaiust armored shins of the first class. They
are scarcely more than bean shooters for such
purpose.”
An association is being organized in Tuceon, Ari
zona, under the title of “Knights Who Don't La
bor.” The Han Francisco Alta says “they are a bal
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baking powdeR
MOST PERFECT MADE
The United States Government
Places Dr. Price’s at tho head of the entire list.
(See National Board or Health Bulletin—Supplement No. 6, page33, Washington r. r l
The Canadian Government
Places Dr. Price’s at the head of the entire list.
iSeo report to the Couui£sioxEit of Inland Revenue Department,Ottawa(ieatof g0V( .
meat), Canada, April 3rd, 1883.)
It is the purest and strongest. Free from Ammonia!
free from Lime, free from Alum, and is recommended {J
general family use by the Heads of the Great UniveiJ
ties and Public Food Analysts.
Persons doubting the truthfulness of tills can write any of the Chemists named'
Prof. R. OGDEN DOREMUS, SI. D., L. L. D., Bellevue Medical College,
Prof. H. C. WHITE, State Chemist, University Georgia, Athens, Ga.
Prof. It. C. KKDZIK, Late President State Board of Health, Lansing, Ml
Prof. H. M. SCHEFFER, Analytical Chemist, St. Louis, Mo.
Plot. CHARLES E. DWIGHT, Analytical Chemist, Wheeling, W. Va.
Prof. JAMES F. BABCOCK, State Assayer, Boston, Mass.
Dr. ELIAS H. BARTLEY, 15. S., Chemist to the Dep’tof Health, Brooklyn N t
Prof. CURTIS 0. HOWARD, M. Sc., Starling Medical College, Columbus, Oilk
Prof. M. DELFONTA1XE, Analytical Chen- 5 “Chicago, 111.
Prof. it. S. G. PATON, Lato Chemist health 'ime.or- — l 's:ago, Ft.
Prof. JOHN M. ORDWAY, Mass. Institute oi . *Jno!t~ , vfcs.
Prof. R. A. WITTILYUS, A. M., M. I).. University of ISufta,,,, N. i.
Prof. A. II. SABIN, State Chemist, Burlington, Vt.
Prof. JOHN BOHLANDER, Jr., A. M„ M. D.. Prof. Chemistry and Toxic*
• College Medicine and Surgery, Cincinnati, O.
Profe. AUSTEN & WILBER, Profs.Cliemistry,Rutgers College, New Brunswick,;;.'
Prof. GEORGE E. BARKER, Prof. Chemistry University of Pennsylvania, ITj
delphiu, Pa.
Prof. PETER COLLIER, Chief Chemist for the United States Department of Ar
culture, Washington, 1). C.
Profs. KEYS & RICE, Profs. Chemistry, Ontario School Pharmacy, Toronto,CantiJ
Dr. JAMES ALBRECHT, Chemist at the United States Mint, New Orleans, La. I
Prof. EDGAR EVERHART, Prof. Chemistry, University of Texas, Austin, Ttxiii
Prof. E. W. 1I1LGAKD, Prof. Chemistry, University California, Berkeley, OaL
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In the children*! hats a large variety can
bo seen. Some are of Katin braid edged
t with colors. They have flat, low crown,
powers of intellect or advanced tho interests I wide brim. Hats of Milan braid in all
of mankind—everything but poetry. The I colors are nitnplr trimmed with band and
whole world unites in conceding to Homer 1 ends ot ribbon velvet. Tam O’Shanter hats
BIG HI
HAS BEEN MADE BY
J. W. RICE & OO.
This season, owing to the fact that their stock surpasse? ati
ever brought to .Macon. Novelties are being constantly addel
and tbe staple department is kept fully up to tho requirl
with ,0 SoB'a hold 1 in'centro 1“monts of the trade at all times. We have just received]
rider. Another shows a hurdle race, the bOflUtlful llIlQ of
third a clown and his educated dogs, aud
real pretty is a gold crescent., with a cat
rolling a pearl in its boat-shaped centre.
Jeweled keys and swords and other gem-
encrusted shapes are seen near Egyptian
heads, and pretty flowers in silver and in
gold, and beads are in all shapes, sizes and
colors,
In tbs way of maturely ba!<l heads lufing turned
by the ichewlng tioddlv* of Kiris, writ*** a Naw
York correspondent of the Albany Argus, they are
telling in produce exchange circle* of a fair youuK
amanuensis who captured a rich husband by trkk
and device. He was a widower, hard seasoned by a
quarter of a century of woman hating. Ue hired a
oomely girl to work a type-writer in his office. For
a year he thought nothing of her beyond her em
ployment in a purely buaiues* way. Last summer’*
heat made him sleepy on idle afternoon*, and he
got into a habit of taking a nap on hU sofa. The
demure, irreproachable girt had ere thl*. it would
eeem. determined to become bis wife, lie was rich,
she was good, and the enterprise was altogether
commendable; but a big barrier was
hie dislike of her aex, and be bad never evinced the
slightest sentimental interest ln her. bhe might
have been a pimply faced boy with chapped hand*
for all that he observed of her girlish
otkarm is her person. Hhe looked him
carefully over and then decided that
his extreme baldness of bead was hU weakest point
fur attack. One day, when he arose from hla nap.
she calmly aaid: "Mr. . your hair U mu»s*-d.
Will you let me fix U?” He glanced quickly at her.
but ahe was as placid as a heifer with it* fee iu
creek, and he could discern no more obliquity <
purpose than if she had proposed to jigger off a
commercial letter at bis dictation on the type writer.
No he grunted an assent, and ahe came up behind
Mm with comb and brush. Then ahe made the
■troke for fortune. If U had been so much am a
touch of her soft hand* to hi* bore pate, or the sna-
caatkm of a care** to hi* shoulder, be would have
known that ahe waa up to some wile of faarinat on,
end her venture would tier*after have been hope-
But she knew what she waa altont. He felt
of power in local election*. 1
It is aaid in the anthracite coal-fields of Fennayl
vauia betweeu Hhawokln and Scrauton there arc
about two thousand persons who are members of
the Greek church.
Hunox county. Mich., has a natural curiosity ln
the person of a woman who haa beeu married forty-
five years aud has had only three new bonnets ln
that time.
James Dennis, «o years old. an inmate of the
altuehouM- at Heading. Fa., banged himself because
he wa* ordered to move from the old hospital to
the new.
Tux Bouton Traveler says a fashionable woman
on Uie street nowadays without a huge bunch ot
flower* at her breast Is the “very couapicuous ex
ception."
A Chinese student in the junior class at Yale has
secured the right hy «ehoU*tlc merit to I** one of
the eight speakers selected for the exhlbltieu next
month.
aays the New York Mail, that she apparently makes
it a polut never to bo seen in public with her hus
band.
An old bouse in California which bail been aban
doned to several swarms of bees, yielded nine hun
dred pounds of honey of excellent quality.
The town of Montrose, Neb., boasts three news
papers. two variety shows, twenty saloons, two
hotel*, one jail and plana for a church.
An enormous fruit crop is expected in California
this season. The outlook for a heavy j ield of wheat
aud barley 1* also most encouraging-
A common advertisement in English newspapers
: “Wanted, by a lady of good connection, the
management of a first class bar."
A roaTt'NE-TSlxxa at SL Louis ha* been sued for
failing to show a woman her d eceased hutband
after taking $1,«<*> for the Job.
aoEoN seven feet long and weighing 250
pounds wa* caught by a small boy at Tacoma, Wash
tngton territory, recently.
A shoot of a French pmue tree, which shows a
growth of twelve feet in a single season, is on exhi-
biu
•ilicn at Kent* Ho*a.
The Concord School of Philosophy, which meets
ou th>- lith of July next, will devote Its attention to
Dante and Plato.
In January, ii*85. his big scholars gave a Kansas
school teacher a ducking. He has just received
$J,UBU damages.
A HOKncrLTVKUT of Sonoma county. California,
ha* rot-pberrie* which bear every month in the year
except January.
The export* of wine and brandy from California
last year were gallons, double that of the
year previous.
the origin and the palm of poetry. Rut my
position is not altogether negatived even in
this instance; for seven cities claim his
birth and Sparta professes to havo tuned his
immortal hnrp.
Men are not only blinded to tho demerits
and infatuated with the virtues of their
own country, but, in portraying its great
events, its illustrious characters, its pro-
greKK in the researches of science and tho
achievements ot *rt, they never fail to
blend with the colors of truth the pigment
of the writer’! brain.
On the other sulo of the Atlantic we hear
that America owes her freedom to the
clemency of the Rritish; and on this side it
is credited to the valor and patriotism of a
sturdy, hardv, fire-proof soldiery, who liod
been cradled in the wilderness and rocked
to sleep by the storm. From this it would
appear that truth is somewhat geogrupliical.
Again, the courtly Milford makes an
aristocratic .Eschine the first orator of
Athens, while such republicans os Gillies
and Abbott assign that distinction to the
great democrat who thundered against
the encroachments of Phillip. Prom this it
would appear that truth ih somewhat po
litical.
Thus we might go on giving to truth lati
tude and longitude, aud metres, and bounds,
and restrictions, and limitations, and hori
zontals and perpendiculars, woild without
end, and every change of attitude, ami like
wise a great many absences of attitude, and
all be sunctioued’by undeniable proof.
Fox thought Pitt was a rascal and a dem-
gogue, and Pitt thought Fox was a rascal
and a demagogue, and when history says, a
hundred years afterwards, that they were
both men of unblemished purity and exalt
ed patriotism, how can I form au opinion?
Who am I to believe and what am I to think?
There’s a fib ont. Fox told it on Pitt, or
Pitt told it on Fox, or the historian told it
on one or both of them.
And this cuttle-fish inkiness is spawned
and spun into all we read and hear of the
past, the present and the future.
It fills the differing records of tbe past,
gives uncertainty to the conflicting testi
mony of witnesses to-day. And leave us be
nighted and at sea with reference to
views—theories which are but conjectures
dogmas which are no more than specula*
lions—advanced by such us Swedenborg
and Wesley with reference to the great
Beyond.
Our race is a race of agnostics, knowing
nothing but that we are ignorant; certain
of nothing but uncertainty.
History's “Impartial ahitraincnt" is
miserable delusion. The idea that time is
a crucible in which historic truth is elemi-
nateil and refined is one of the greatest of
all popular delusions. Let us look at one
single case in point. Since the battle of
Gettysburg widely different statements have
been made with reference to the conduct
of certain Confederate officers on tliut
interesting and eventful occasion. Men of
sincerity and patriotism, and who were on
the field in every hour of that bloody and
disastrous engagement, make assertions
with regard to its management as earnest,
aa sincere and as conflicting as the stern
armies who were marsnalUd there.
These m< n have access to every
official report that will be handed
to the historian, and they know wluit the
historian c?» no* er know: they know the
animus of each subaltern officer whose nar
rative of tbe battle poors its tributary of
incidents into tbe volume of bi»tory; they
are for small boys, while girls are to wear
the pronounced, shaped bats, with pointed
crown, wide brim, rolled up at the side.
Ladies’ hats are generally larger, with
very high crown and brims in all manner of
shapes and cut sections. The Grecian
turban is a most convenient hat. Crepes
were never so beautiful as they are now.
French crepo is used, but the novelty is a
crinkle crepe, in alternating stripes, or a
stripe of plain and a stripe of the crinkle,
and still newer is tbut with a stripe of plain
crepo and a full satin stripe. These crepes
are to be combined with velvet or loops of
ribbon and any approved ornaments.
Nearly all tbe shades and colors are repro
duced in these delicate tissues, ami al
though frail looking they are wonderfully
enduring.
The now ribbons have fancy edge, the
picot edge being the most popular. Hashes
are going to be extensively worn, aud the
new sash ribbons are very wide, as in the
satin bordered surah, which is over a half
a yard wide. Then there are moire ribbons
for sashes iu all colors, while more delicate
sashes are of plain, floriated and embroid
ered China crepe and have fringed ends.
A new ribbon has fancy lace edge. One
of gauze has Turcoman border. Another
with satin centre has gauze edge, while the
fourth shows stripes of gros grain by the
side of figured grenadine stripe,
both edged with crochet design. An odd
ribbon with busket centre has gros grain
edge aud a straw ribbon for trimming suade
hats has a narrow gros grain border with
loop-edge.
Ostrich feathers and aigrettes are worn,
but the fancy this season is for dowers, and
Wanamaker has specimens of almost every
flower grown in Europe and America in its
natural size and color, true to nature and
Inst as beautiful, only needing perfume.
The fancy for fruit os trimmings is illus
trated in bunches of luscious apricots,
plums, cherries and other small fruit,
BATISTES Ac CRAZY CLOTlH
which ore just the things for spring and summer wear,
also have an elegant lino of French and America!
Satteens from 15c per yard up.
WHITE GOODS ! LACES J EMBROIDERIES!
Unusual pain9 have been taken with this stock the pre
season and we feel free to say that no handsomer, che
or better assortment can be found in tho city. As the sei
for them is at hand we would inform the public that we optj
an elegant lino of PARASOLS every day.
j. YV. RICE & CO.
GROCERIES!
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The undersigned have opened a largo and complete Htock of Groeries at 124
Street, and respectfully invite all in need of Supplies, to call on tutm before parch
elsewhere. The stock includes all the staples used by farmers, and has been ntii
with special reference to their wants, it has been marked at
PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES,
unit planter* will find it to their interest to consult them.
WRIGHT & HILII
124 Third Street.
janl7dlt.twCni
Low Prices Will Rule!
A FINE LOT TIMOTHY HAY «-i
FEED OATS
NEW ORLEANS SYRUP, per gallon
WATER GROUND MEAL, per hnahtl
14 POUNDS WHITE SUGAR
13 POUNDS GRANULATED bUGAR
HUDNUTS GRITS, per peck
25 BOXES MATCHES 25c, per gross
AU other goods in proportion. Call on
WARE & OLIVER,
fcb7«nn.VwCm t till Third Street, Macon.
which are to lie mingled in with laces and
loops ot velvet or ribbon.
In tbe room of trimmed bats aud bonnets
many very handsome novelties were Bhown.
One* a lovely bonnet of Valenciennes lace
inserting, with leghorn lines, has luce ruche
and yellow or leghorn rosea as face finish.
It is trimmed with loops of velvet buds and
leaves. A jet bonnet with horseshoe crown
is trimmed with orange velvet, a cluster of
snn dowers and odd drab blossoms.
Exceedingly pretty is a bonnet of silk-
embroidered point d'esprit loco, edged with
.pulling of gold-euibroulcred lace trimmed
with tlark-green velvet and bunch of white
ild flowers.
A curiosity in jet is shell shape, with full
trimmings of lace, roses and forget-me-nots.
In cardinal shirred crepe is a little bon
net with ties or cardinal French net, with
rows of black jet and block and red bow.
Most striking is a bat ot rough straw,
with brood brim, slashed, enrved anil
rolled at the brim on obe side, bnt wide and
drooping in front. It is trimmed with black
velvet ribbon and field daisies,
Another odd list in brown straw has
crown in diamond shape. It is trimmed
with stylish loops of ribbon and brown
velvet and flowers in odd wood shades.
tUR tut the tro.h u.0 cutnb. However. Uif-* j Bore., tV«n>. Salt Itheam. Over S-Tr*. Tetter.
■ ot bate dieeauiR were .teftlj put through the i e hai-eej IDn.K Chilblain., Cota, .nil .11 Skin ...
as of putiLK hair »b»re it engbt to hate Ouj.tu>o>. .0(1 cine. Ptlee. or no twv re ! . . ;„c J ’ *
i, vhtk in point of f.et th-rw nn. nothin* qnire*i. H is riumiUrd to .i.e perfect i*ti»f.cti-at j *now tun means of information, bis causes
•scent the tnereet furze. A mirror buns op* 1 nr money refanrfed. Price os cents per bos. For 1 fora correct or imperfect ascertainment of
k sad kw looked tats ttu catch her Wilfblng sal* by Lunar, ...
Konkin A Lunar.
1 facta. They know all, and much more than
ESTABLISHED 1857. ESTABLISHED
WINSHIP aV CALLAWAY.
LEADING CLOTHIERS AND HATTERS
126 Second Street, Macon, Ga.
Return thanks and otter to the public at lowest prices J
best grades of Clothing and Hats for men and boye.
goods and all clothing from previous seasons at very low 1
ures. Look at us before buying. Suits aud shirts mfil®
measure. ,01*2.1
Liquors, Cigars and Tobaccos]
Wholesale and Retail —Manufacturers’ and Digtillent' Agent.
DISTILLEItV, I TOIIACCO FACTOID
Sllrer Creek, Kjf, | Hirhutond,
Hols proprietor tbe ceUbreted breads of tobacco Kate Claxtcn and Railroad. Notice-^
brand- Lc'.i.# mine t xclnsivelj. none aienennino unleaa my caution Ul*el appears on same. .
Fir.* u.M tfononirabela Bye and IJouibon pbi*tie« a *i»c. l*lty. North Carolina Corn aa®
s -wit l! hk ..’v.-j, h hv.vt. U.>ic**s acouiplrtu line of tare old Imported Sherry. Madeira. 11
Khlne Wines, CLsreu, Gin*. Brandies, Uin»s*r, Haw* and Scotch Ales Porter, etc., ate.
The hsu**t stock of flue imported and •iooiretic Cigars in tue city, 10H by the box, ** WQ ** r a% %t
at lowest uianuf* turer*' prices. Call or send for sample* and examine my good* and prices
ing your purchasse. It will ba to your inttrest. Price iut and order book furnished upon
those who wish to order by the gallon. M
SAM ALTMAYEB.
aprir.Mih.twly ■ (Successor to Flatnu .V Co.) 85 Cherry street, I
Tvrcnty-XIiMt IV rsou* Drowoeil.
Weluxotov, New Zeilaxp, April li.—
The New Zealand coasting steamer Tairo*
has been wrecked l>etw«*cn Wellington and
Christ Church. A heavy gale prevailed at
the time and the sea wits Very high. Three
boats were launched but each was speedily
capsized. Twenty-nine persons were
drowned. Oolj two passengers were saved.
THREE
cYimpsw,
SICK HEADACHE,
|COSSTIPATIQM.
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