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The Sylvania Telephone. C. H. MEDLOCK, Editor and Pom.isher. YOU. II. A Holiday Wish. Where green leaves let gold sunlight through, Where winds grow tender as they sigh, Where fleece ol white on strand ol bluo Is all ol cloud and all ot sky, Where bright things flit oa brighter wing, Where yonng birds pause to rest and sing, And glad and sweet is everything, You dream tho hours away. It I might hover like the gleam Ot that bright slantiog ray, whose gold Falls sott through shadow-light to beam O’er brow and cheek and snowy (old; If I might kiss youi dusky hair From covert shade and hidden lair, And leel your beauty everywhere The livelong summer day— I should not envy bird or flower, I should not know this aching pa'n That lasts tho length ol every hour, And tells mo love is all in vain, That in your life I have no part, That lor my heart I gain no heart, Though lips may sigh, though tears may start, Though in despair I pray. III might be the silent page That feels the love-light of your eyes, The record ol some happier age Tnat fills your thoughts or wins your sighs— If so I might engross your mind, And in your soft contentment find One thought, one hope, one glance as kind— Oh, sweet, what should I say ? Oh, tender winds, that kiss her hair; Oh, birds, that sing you- love-songs sweet; Oil, page, of subtler power tan mine, That may her deep eyes hold and meet — II you and I were more akin, Which would her wayward lancy win, II you might end and I begin To woo her love to-day ? — Harper’s Bazar. LOTTA’S BURGLAR It, was unprecedented at Erlsham for the students to break out so late in the term. Still more unprecedented was it for a potent, grave and reverend senior to have an? share in the mischief. Yet, only three nights before commencement the students “mide things howl,” and Tom Anst: u her was head and front of anoVay stations,” stbien fronvthe rail road. They serenaded obnoxious mem bers of the faculty in terms anything but fiattering. They built a.huge bon fire cn the campus and indulged in a promiscuous song and dance perform ance around it. In the midst of the uproar there was the cry of “Faculty! faculty!” followed by au instant hu3h. The students scat tered in all directions, Anstruther as fast as any—faster, indeed, when he found himself closely followed. His particular pursuer appeared to be one of the younger and more active of the pro fessors, who quite caught the spirit of the chase. Tom found it impossible to shake him off. Was the valedictorian of the graduating clas3 to be caught thus ignominously ? An open basement window gave him an inspiration. lie sped past it; then, doubling cleverly on bis foe, sprang through it and laughed to bear his foot steps grow fainter in hot pursuit up the street. Upstairs Lotta Desmond wa3 brush ing out her pretty brown hair prepara tory to retiring. On her daintily-frilled toilet-table, looking oddly out of place, lay Cousin Jim’s revolver. There had been a great many jokes about that re volver. Her uncle and cousin had sol emnly installed Lotta as man of the house during their absence. Jim had reminded her of the exploits of brave Mrs. Brown and plucky Mrs. Peters, as recorded by the Dai'y Ch’onicle. The first of these ladies had, alone nnd un armed, held a burglar captive until help came. The second, under like circum stances, had completely routed two des perate villains. And Lotta bad demanded Jim’s pistol and declared that she only longed fora chance to emulate their heroism. And Jim had promised to watch the papers for a similar mention of daring Miss Desmond. So Lotta smiled when her eyes fell on the pistol, for as yet no opportunity for glory had come to her, and Jim would be home to-morrow. Just then her aunt came into the room, fancying, as she had fancied every night since her husband’s departure, that she “heard a noise, and would dear Lotta, who was so fearless, mind going down stairs to investigate?” So Lotta thrust her little bare feet into slippers, threw on a wrapper and sallied forth, pistol in hand. Aunt Lucy detained her with a last word -in case it should be any one, to let her know immediately; but other wise not to disturb her, as she was ex tremely fatigued. With a dim recollection that the dining room window had not been closed, the young girl made her noiseless way thither at once. The gas had been put out and a miserable candle left burn ing. What Lotta saw by its dim light was a tall young man, rather roughly clad. Alas! Tom, usually something of a SYLVANIA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1880. dandy, had that night donned his poor est array, his hair disordered, his clothes grimed with dust and soot, from which not even his lace had escaped, coolly examining her uncle’s silver. Spirit of Mrs. Brown and Mrs.—the other lady—inspire her. “ Drop that or I fire!” Tom turned with a start. What he saw was a pretty girl in charming neg lige, whose voice and hand both shook a3 she uttered this doughty threat, and in whose face a certain timid determina tion, a iook of one frightened at her own daring, appealed to his sense of humor. But it would never do to laugh at her. Besides, that pistol in her uncertain, un familiar hand was no joke. So he said, with due humility: “I surrender. But for heaven’s sake put up that revolver! You are as likely to shoot yourself as me." “Not at all,” evidently nettled. “I am perfectly accustomed to using it.” Need it be said that this was a de liberate lie, uttered with intent of strik ing terror to the bosom of the robber? For the same purpose Lotta continued to level her pistol and eye him with outward severity and not a few inward tremors, thinking withal that your housebreaker is not the bold desperado lie is painted. Still keeping watch over one is weary work, heigh-ho! Tom rapidly determined to see the adventure through. Time enough to make his escape should she call for help orshould any fresh complication arise. He hoped she was not going to keep standing all night. Presently he ventures to suggest that she could mount guard over him quite as well seated. Lotta assented gladly. Her burglar was quite a model, she thought. And why should she incumber herself longer with that unnecessary pistol, of which, she acknowledged to herself, she was much more afraid than was her pris oner? Accordingly she laid it carefully down within reach. Then, with what seemed to Tom a most amazing underrating his strength, she announced her in tention of holding him until assistance should arrive. ; To him the situation was not without “ sitting next us and holding our hands— and that she was pretty, exceedingly pretty, Anstruther managed to satisfy himself in spite of the stingy light. Onceor twice he addressed a remark to his fair captor, but she discouraged all attempt at conversation. Ana so they sat in" silence, while the candle burned low and finally went out, and the cold gray light of dawn crept into the room. Even this did not cause Lotta to change her position. And, looking curiously at her, the young man discov ered that his stern guardian was asleep! How long and dark were the lashes resting on the fair cheek, he thought, gazing down at the sweet, peaceful face framed in its wealth of nut-brown hair. Surely none of the young lady’s ball dresses cculd set off her beauty as did that old blue wrapper. Tom was strongly tempted, in his character of robber, to steal a kiss, but there was a certain odd chivalry in his composition that kept him from taking any advantage of her unconsciousness. He withdrew his hand from hers with out awakening her—such cold, little,soft hands! And no wonder. The chill breath of early morning made him shiver, al though it was June. He might as well make her comfort able before he went. He groped his way into the hall. On the hat-stand lay a heavy shawl. In it he wrapped his unconscious captor as well as he could, then left through the still open window. If Miss Desmond was not the belle of the college ball it was because, strictly speaking, there are no longer belles at balls. But, in the language of the other young ladies, she “ received a great deal of attention.” And how she did enjoy herself! About the eleventh hour Cousin Jim begged to introduce his friend, Mr. Anstruther. Lotta’s large eyes grew larger with astonishment. Mr. Anstruther com posedly requested the pleasure of a dance, and before she could collect her self sufficiently to refuse, his arm en circled her and they were gliding over the polished floor in perfect time and measure. “You have my step exactly,” said Miss Desmond, when they stopped. “Have I? Then it must be by direct inspiration, for I never was known to keep time with any one before.” Now did ever a man waltz to perfec tion without knowing it? Lotta looked at him a little contemptuously. Her thought did hioi injustice. Tom was not affecting modesty, only making talk to keep off the question he expected. “May I take you into the library ? There is an anxious-looking youth I should like to avoid. I suspect that 1 have stolen his dance.” “ If you have you are only pursuing your profession as a robber,” laughed “ONWARD AND UPWARD.” Mias Desmond. “ What were you doing that night in uncle’s dining-room?" Then it all came out, and Tom ex plained and apologized, seated in an alcove of the great college library. “ And bow frightened you were when I and the pistol appeared on the scene!” said the young lady, maliciously. : I was not!”—indignantly. z You turned very pale.” z Then we must have been a well matched pair for courage. The pistol shook so in your hand that I was afraid it would go off accidentally. That was the worst feature of the case, for I do not believe yet that you would have been bloodthirsty enough bo shoot me.” “ I am sure I would not. I was im mensely relieved to wake up and find my captive fled.” “ What did you do?” “Counted the spoons and went to bed.” “ The spoons were all right. There was but one thing stolen that night.” “Mercy! what was that?” “Only the burglar’s heart’’—senti mentally. Lotta looked at him and began to laugh. Then she said: “You might advertise for it as people do for stolen articles. And you might say, ‘Of no value to any one but the owner. 1 11 “ Thank you, but I am not sure that I want it returned,” said Anstruther, laughing, too, but letting his eye3 rest upon her fair face until the warm color surged up beneath his gaze. f( f Thou hast a thiel iu either eye Would steal it back again,’ ” he quoted, low. Lotta was a little glad as well as a good deal sorry that her ill-used partner at this moment appeared in the door way. “Before that fellow comes can’tgyou promise me one more dance ?” murmured Anstruther. “ I am engaged lor al! but the last. I can give you that one if you are going to stay till the end.” How Miss Desmond contrived to pacify the rightful claimant, and how partner succeeded partner till the end of theeveniug, need rot be told. It is dione with Tom. And then Tobi’s woisi, enemy could nod criticise his dancing. As he relinquished her to her cousin’s care, Anstruther heaved a sigh of exag gerated but very real regret. Then Lotta put out an impulsive little hand and said hastily: “Mr. Burglar, if you can conquer your fancy for entering people's win dows enough to call in a more orthodox way, I shall be pleased to see you.” “ Thank you,” murmured Anstruther, pressing the soft warm hand with quick unnecessary warmth. “ Happy the wooing that’s not long a-doing.” The acquaintance so oddly begun was prosecuted with ardor. Lotta’s burglar laid hot siege to her affections, and be tore long induced her to set up house keeping—I had almost written house breaking—with him. Burdette's Boy. Bob Burdette, the Burlington Hawkeye humorist, has a two-year-old son, and, ike his father, he is a very busy fellow. His fond parent thus describes one day’s The boy runs about 150 miles a day, wouldn’t quit then if it didn’t grow lie is very busy. He has all the care of me, and in addition to his regu lar routine duties, he manages a thou sand things no one else would think of. Yesterday morning, before ten o’clock, he picked and ate. regardless of maturity or color, a pint of wild strawberries; followed a wagon half a mile down the road, got lost in the ■woods, choked up the fountain with gravel, fell out of a hammock, stung himself with a bee, ate some strange-looking berries that his mother knows are deadly poison, played with a mad dog (his aunt says she knows it was mail), talked to a tramp who came to kidnap him (it was an honest farmer coming in to the circus, but the boy's aunt and mother united on the tramp and kidnaper theory), stepped on a red lizard, built a dam and fell into the brook. I helped him build the dam; in fact, I confess that I built the greati r part of it and enticed the prince to assist, but he fell into the brook himself, and all statements to the effect that I pushed him in and laughed at him and encour aged him to enjoy it are simply cam paign stories circulated for political ef fect. John Dickson, believed to be the last representative of the famous regiment of “Scots Greys” who charged so gal lantly at Waterloo, has just died in England. He was ninety-one years old, and to the last day ol his life took a keen and intelligent interest in public affairs. There is a pig at Jerseyville, Ill..with two distinct bodies, eight legs and only one head. A horse at Granville, Ky., and a eat at Rochester, N. Y., have two perfect tails apiece. A dog at Milwau kee has six legs and a calf at Omaha has no legs at all. CURRENT NOTES. The manufacture of paper bricks is said to be carried on extensively in the West, and especially in California, where the best fibrous materia) is pro vided. The quality of the bricks render them well adapted for building pur poses. The Chinese make the soles of their shoes of paper similarly prepared. A curious fish, known as the Chras modms Niger, ha3 been received at the Smithsonian institute, Washington. Its prominent peculiarity is its ability to swallow fish of twice its size and four times its own weight. It has a very largemouth, and Its stomach is of course wonderfully elastic. When digestion begins and gases are formed its stomach becomes so distended that the other or gans are temporarily paralyzed, and thus the creature can easily be caught This specimen is ten inches long, and has in its stomach a codfish eighteen inches long, but of course doubled up. A girl astonished an audience in a London theater two years ago by jump ing from a high bridge at the back of the stage, landing gracefully on the floor, and then executing a dance, which was varied by leaps of twenty feet in the air. The performance of Ariel, as she was called, were for a wnile the theatrical wonder of the town. They weie done by means of a jumping ap paratus, invented by her husband, Walter Dando. He subsequently ap plied the machinery to other dancers in London and Baris, and several dupli cates of Ariel will soon be seen in America. The small boy has a good friend in the supreme court of Kansas. A rail road company was sued for injuries re ceived by a boy while playing upon a turn-table, and the court held that, as everybody knows that by nature and in stinct boys love to ride, and will cling to the rear of wagons, ride upon swings and swinging gates, ride upon cellar doors and steel rails, and even pay to ride ur >n imitation horses, they should actrdingly. No person .lias a right ^ ^ danggrgus m|rhjeer'PCgJ<'fiJaLcd. ^ ogainstal^icger,and the person foiling to do so is guilty of negligence. The boy was awarded damages. The length of the Egyptian obelisk which has come to stay in New York is sixty-nine feet six inches; it is seven feet eight inches square at the base, and five feet five and three-quarter inches at the top. The foundation is seventeen feet six inches square. The lower step is twenty and three-quarter inches high, nineteen and three-quarter inches wide. The second step is nineteen inches high, thirteen and a quarter inches wide. The third step is seventeen inches high, sev enteen and three-quarter inches wide. Upon this foundation the pedestal upon which the needle rests is placed. This pedestal is six feet ten inches high, nine feet four inches square at the base, and nine feet and three-quartfrs of an inch square at the top. John H. Burke, of San Francisco, has complained to the board of equalization that the 3ix Chinese companies are not properly assessed. He claims that all, or nearly all, of the Chinese in the United States, British Columbia and the Sand wich islands are contracted for as slaves or serfs; and furthermore, that the Chinese coming to this country become indebted to one or the other of said com panies and their bodies are held respon sible for payment; that the said com panies hold absolute control over the lives and liberties ol the Chinese, and execute the decrees of their own private courts to the exclusion of the constituted authorities; that they have hereby built up and maintained an independent government, and are at war with the in terests and laws of the people of Cali fornia. He states that in 1878 the six companies controlled 149,600 Chinese, and at present control 223,000, and that the obligations of these Chinese are in the nature of solvent credits held by the six companies, and sliculd be so as sessed under the law. The complainant then asks that the personal assessment roll of the six companies be raised to $22,300,000. lie assesses each company in the following amounts; Sam Yup, $1,515,000; Yung Wo, $1,530,000; Rung Chow, $2,250,000; NingYumr, $11,250, 000; Yan Wo, $615,000; Hop Wo, $5,110,000; total, $22,300,0JO. The New York Tomb3 has never had but one gallows builder, who began forty years ago, when a young carpenter, and is now rather an old man. lie de manded as an important feature in the arrangement that his name should be kept secret, and in this point he has been successful. He now has an assist ant !o do the work, which he personally superintends. If all men were perfect, what a mon otonous world this would be, to be sure! The few of us that are perfect now would have nobody to find fault with or laugh at .—Boston Transcript. The Dogfish. Everywhere there was the most exe crable character of the dogfish. His looks have nothing to say in his favor. This pest of the whole coast is, perhaps, two feet long, with a weight of three to five pounds, a rough, leathery skin, no scales, a long, pointed snout, and mouth underneath, like a shark’s, so that he turns upon his back to bite. It is not simply that he chases other species—for all the finny tribes have their annimosi ties and victims—but he is omnipresent; his skin excoriates the hands if it be touched; he finds means to drive deep in and draw blool with a cruel thorn, which is said to be poisonous, and he is good for nothing himself. Such, at least, i3 the contemporaneous estimate of his value; “but these eccentric an eestors of ours,” said Middleton, “must take it upon themselves to think other wise. It is not strange they should have differed from us in their ileas of relig ion, government and political economy when we find them having such unac countable stomachs as this;” and he quoted to incredulous ears around him an early voyager who set down in his journal that with sassafras he ha3 cured a surfeit of one of his men, which was brought on by “ eating the belli s of dogfish—a very delicious meat.” The clear bottom about the fish -house aud wharf, wherever he went, was paved with heads and small waste portions of the others, to be sluiced out by the tides; but the dogfish lay there at full length, with an ugly foiled desperado air in death; and he felt his foot, as it were, above an arrant bully and rascal, as he looked down and pronounce! a mental sic semper tyrannis over him. The water on these coasts wa3 excessively cold, so that it was rare that even the veteran fishermen could swim. One day, in a cruise in a specially chartered juger, well out to sea toward Mount Desert rock, though he knew the temperature of the water well, he would have jumped overboard lor the refreshment of a hasty dip in it, but he was deterred, not to much by the usual bu gbear of sharks as that of these same dogfish again. He was told a st^r.tring ep isode of tw o rasa, Matini'c* rock—a lite of Matin 'eus—ia the . autumn fortne popular diversion among the islanders of shooting wild fowl. Shortly after they had landed their dory went adrift and they saw it a short dis tance off. “Stop,” said one of them, throw ing down his gun; “I will swim out and bring it back.” He had gone but twenty feet from the shore when he was seen to struggle violently and throw up his hands with a wild, despairing cry: “ My God,” he said, “ the dogfish! Shoot me and don’t let me suffer.” But they devoured him piecemeal, as the story went, and his companion could only look on in helpless horror at his fate — W. H. Bishop, in Har par's Magazine. Where the Orphan Found a Home. A few days ago a boy about ten years of age, lame and sickly, who had been living with his mother in rooms in the city, found himself alone in the world. The lad wa3 too ill to ride in the one poor carriage which followed he body to the grave, yet no one thought his condition serious. After the funeral a number of persons gathered in the poverty-stricken room where he lay weeping to see what disposition could be made of him. “ If he wasn’t lame I’d take him into my family,” observed one of the men in a tone that seemed to show he blamed the boy for his misfortune. “ Well, it’s awful hard,” sighed one of the women, “ but I know he couldn’t get along with my children.” “ Nor with mine,” added a second. “If I should take him he’d run up a big doctor’s bill on me,” said a man as he filled his pipe. Each and every one had some excuse. The boy heard them all without a word, but with quivering chin and eyes full ol ears. Under one pretext aud another all slipped out and left him alone, prom ising to have another talk in the morn ing. Perhaps that night before they closed their eyes in sleep some of them thought of the poor lad lying in the dreary room alone and almost helpless, but if so, none of them went near him. Late in the morning a woman living on the same floor went in to see if he might not want a bite to eat, and the question of who should take care of him was settle.!. God had taken him. Hugged close to the wall, as if he feared the midnight shadows, and witli eye-lashes yet wet, he was dead and cold, no longer a burden to any one. The boy too lame to be taken care of on earth— too feeble to earn the crusts that some one would have given him—had a home better than the best. When they knew that he died alone, women bent over him and wept. When they lifted his wasted body from the bed, men’s cor - sciences smote them for their harsh words, but it was too late. He h i t gone from earth feeling that there v, as no mercy in the human heart.— Detroit Free Press. TERMS— $1 50 per Year. NO. 6. Sunshine. An ol 1 barn-chamber heaped with new-mown hay, And swallows’ nests along the mossy eavos; The sleepy sunshine lies there all the day— Its gilds tho cobwebs' misty lace of gray And fliokers thro’ the faded clover loaves. Back in the corner shadows dark and tall Beckon to elm-boughs waving by the orchard wall. No sound but swallows flj ing to and fro, Or tinkle of a boil in pasture near. Solt shadows on tho hillside come and go. While over heights of blue sweep, still and slow, White wreaths of cloud that melt and dis appear . Under the hill a thin smoke rises, curled Like incense from the altar ot a peaceful world. —Mabel S Emery, in Good Company. MISCELLANEOUS. A good prophet—100 per cent. The Chinese plank—An ironing board. “ I am shocked,” as the cue gram re marked .—Marathon Independent. The Rome Sentinel thinks it is a great deal easier and much safer to take time by the forelock than to take a mule by the fetlock The main stairway in George Peabody Wetmore’s house at Newport cost $40, 000. The wood was imported, and is carved in the Florentine style. The average time consumed by sailing vessels in making the voyage from New York to San Francisco, via Cape Horn, is 125 days. Returning, the average time is 110 days. When a man wants to make his enemy unhappy, he poisons his enemy’s dog, but a woman chooses a very different way to make her enemy unhappy. She buys some new clothes that her enemy can't afford, and sits in front of her enemy at church.—Middletown Tran script. The crown of William Penn’s hat, which is to adorn his thirty-six foot statue surmounting the new Philadel phia public building, will be just 535 feet frorj^S-pWemSBk The highetU lowers which b°re yet ha are those of tne Coir* which have present Yieigu, _____ at a feet 11 inches. Blowinq up a Transport. The Panama St ir and Herald tells how one of the Chilian vessels lying before Callao was blown up by a tor pedo. The plan adopted by the Peru vians wa3 as follows: A Peruvian officer took an ordinary fruit boat, put a tor pedo in the bottom, resting on springs kept down by the weight of the cargo. He then loaded it with a very choice as sortment of camotes, yucas, chirimoyas, granadillas, fowls, turkeys, green vege tables, etc., and towing it out toward the blockading squadron before day light, set it adrift. All day long the launch floated about, but the Chilians could not see it, until about five o’clock in the evtning. Fearing it would fall into neutral hands, a boat was sent out to bring it back. The Loa was doing duty,and seeing the boat from shore mak ing toward the neutral vessels, caught sight of the launch and at once turned toward it. Seeing this the boat from shore beat a hasty retreat. The Loa owered two boat- to fetch in the prize, and it was brought alongside and the discharge at once began. As the weight in the launch was diminished the ma chinery in connection with the torpe does was set free, and in a moment three hundred pounds of dynamite were ex ploded, and the Loa was almost lifted out of the water. The effect, as de scribed by those who were watching the operation with breathless interest from the shore, was dreadful. Every house in Callao was shaken to its foundations, and every ship in the bay shivered as though a feat fill earthquake had spent its fury beneath them. The fated ship appeared as if enveloped in one mass of flame, which resolved itself into dense clouds of black smoke. When this cleared away, she seemed not to have suffered, but suddenly she was observed to sink at the stern, while her bows went high in the air, and the Loa disap peared forever. While all this was going on, the Blanco Encalada and the Iluasear were in their accustomed positions, some eight miles distant, too far off to render any assistance to their unhappy com rades, or such of them as were left struggling ia the water. The boats of the Thetis, Penguin, Ala ka, Deeres and Garibaldi were quickly lowered, and proceeded to the scene of the terrible event. The two first-named ships suc ceeded in picking up thirty, the Alaska one, the Deeres three or four, the Gari baldi six, making about forty in all. At leastone hundred and fifty men perished. The only officers saved are the second commander (wounded), the doctor and one engineer. The explosion occurred very close to the anchorage of the neutral squadron, and the disaster might very easily have happened to one of them. The boat re sembles tlie ordinary fruiters, which might accidentally have broken adrilt and got out to sea.