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e ^dvertilc; - Jweal, Pennies to bo Plentiful. The Railroad Commission, at its meeting at Atlanta Wednesday, is sued a circular which will hav„e the effect of bringing the penny into gen eral circulation throughout the State, for after May 1 all railroads will col lect exact mileage for passenger fares, thus creating a demand for the pen ny. This will be brought about by the action of the commission in amend ing rule 4 of the “Rules governing the transportation of passengers,” which rule reads: When the passenger fare does not end in 5 or 0, the nearest sum so end ing shall be the fare. For example For 27c., collect 25e.; for 28c,, col lect 30c. This rnlc is amended by author izing railroad companies to collect the exact mileage for passenger fares if ti.ey shall make the necessary chnnge to enable them to do so, but if not, no more than the next lowest amount ending in 5 or 0 is allowed to be charged. Thus it will he seen that . the ac tion of the commissioners make it to the advantage of the railroads to gjvc the penny in.chnnge, for if they do not they must bear the loss of the difference between the exact chnnge in cents, and the next nearest frac tional pari of the dollar with 5c. as the division. Thus it will bo seen the new rule works equally fair with the railroads and the public, for, while under the old rule the railroads and the passen gers shared equally the loss or gain on the value of a ticket, the new sys tem will regulate the charge *to the exact value, thus allowing neither loss nor gain, in any ticket sold.-Ex. Ho May Recover. A San Frnncisco young man con eluded he would play a neat practi cal joko the other evening. Learning that two of his young* lacly friends were at homo alone, lie rigged him self out as a ghost and went to their house, where lie began to make mys tenons noises. The young ladies thought they had received a visit from a burglar, and one of them climbed the fence and notified a neighbor, who came over with an iron poker in his hand, attacked the ghost and broke his skull. Three physicians are now engaged in try ing to keep the young man from be coming a genuine) ghost. . State Convention. The Democratic State executive committee will meet in Atlanta on the 21st inst., for the purpose of fix ing upon a date and issuing a call for a State convention to select del egates to the National Democratic Convention, which meets at St. Loo- is on June 5th. It is* probable thaj, a call will also be issued for another State Convention to meet at a later date for the nomination of State off cers. . Charles O’Brien, the absconding Cashier of the First National Bank of Auburn, N. Y., is very devoted to his family. When he started to Can ada he could not bid them good-by. lie soon became homesick, and de termined to take the risk of capture in returning to see them. Arriving at an obscure town in New York be hired a man to drive him across the country to Auburn. He spent one day at home, and drove back to the station at night. The next mornin; he was again in Canada. If he at tempts many such trips the chances are ho will remain on this side of the border.. Not a Hit Stuck Up. Mrs. Cleveland's friend, Miss Wil lard, is now engaged in teaching school in Washington, and Mrs. Cleveland is said to visit the school frequently, and to enjoy herself very much among the pupils, who say she is “not a bit stuck up, if she is a President’s wife.” A Wise Move. An ordinance lias been adopted by the Atlanta city council appropria ting 25 per cent, or so much ns may fee necessary above the $30,000 oth erwise appropriated, received from the licenses of bar rooms to go to tile purchase of school books for the chil dren attending the public grammar school. This is a new departure, and goes into effect when the school re opens this fall. After the money is expended iu school books and other necessaries tiie balance of the fund will go to maintaining, repairing and building n now school. The ordi nance was adopted by almost a unan imotis vote. A Rival to Sum Jones. A little town in Tennessee has a preacher by the name of Munday who is spoken of as a rival of Sam Jones. It is said that he uses even plainer language than Mr. Jones. It is to be hoped that this statement is in correct. The Georgia Midland road has reduced the passenger rate from Col umbtis to Atlanta to $2.90. This is the first cut made by this road, and will likely result in a war of rates with the Atlanta and West Point, which is the only competing line from Columbus to Atlanta. General Conference. The General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church will convene in the .Metropolitan Opera House, New York, May 1, and will continue in session one month. It promises to be one of the most inter esting conferences of the kind ever held. A new fad lias taken possession of the Brooklyn, New York girls. They wear a single rose bud or other fldfcsr- cr between their lips, the color of the flower contrasting with the complex ion of the wearer. The fashion lias one great advantage at least. It keeps over talkative girls from open ing their mouths so often. Mrs. Pol'y Bryan, who was recent ly expelled from the Salvation Army because she persisted iu wearing a bustle, lias decided to open opposi tion meetings at Little Fall, N. Y. and advertises that she will lie as sisted by her husband and will wear her bustle. The Macon Telegraph says tile people of Georgia are beginning to realize that the State is not doing the square tiling by her volunteer sol diers. They have never clamored for assistance and have always stood ready to serve the State at their on a expense. Georgia is too great a State to accept service on such terms. Advertise Our Section. Speaking-of the granting of cheap rates by the railroads to Southern travels the Manufacturers’ Record pertinently says: “If the railroads and the business men of-the South will now unite in widely advertising these special rates, and thus work up a great interest throughout the North and West, the rush of people South will lie some thing wonderful. It will not do to depend simply upon the general an nouncement of low rates as made through the daily press. There must be earnest, vigorous work to make these special efforts effective. The whole North and West ought to be Hooded with special adverlismcnts, until people everywhere become in terested. Some will go for pleasure, some for curiosity, some on business, and some to make careful investiga tions, thut they may leurn for them selves of the resources and advan tages of the South. The first and most important matter is to induce them to. This can easily be accom plished by judicious and liberal ad vertising, and this ought to bc'donc at oucc.” Cheaper Kales. The Georgia Railroad Commission has issued an order for a meeting on March 13, to take into consideration the propriety of readjusting and equalizing passenger fares. This or der has created a good deal of dis cussion among railroad officials, and • A FACE. Ilopehas a tender daybreak In her eyes, __ That casta a happy morning on her way. Her face—It is an image of the day. As pure and sunay as tlie summer skies; And when she smiles a halo round her lies, Whose light seems born of heaven's most holy ray- ' . , „ Her Ups ore sweet as dainty flowers in May, Yet wear a thoughtfulness that makes them wise. Ob, shining fdee! Ocfd bless thaeverywherei - A little sun by day, by uight a star, To bring bright cheer where pain and sorrow are. . • God keep thy gentle forehead free from care. Thine eyes keep ever from the mist of tears. To smile a lasting sunshine on thy years. -Ernest W. Shurtlcff in Boston Transcript. Highway Postal Locomotives. In tlie south of France the government postal service is supplemented by the “wagon post” of private contractors, who employ mayiy hundred horses in conveying small parcels from town to town, even along the railway lines. This business lias beconte so extensive tbat several road locomotives have been or dered for it, and are proving very satis factory. Two of i'liose machines aro running between towns seventy miles apart, each making the trip ono way nightly at a speed of eight miles atvliour. Part of the road is very hilly, with long gradients up to as much as one in eleven The locomotive, with coal and water, weighs fifteen toii3, and the loaded wagon from seven to ten tons, making the average weight of 'the tiain twenty- three tons. At 175 pounds pressure tlio engines give about twelve horse power, and with fair roads uso about half a ton. of fuel for tlio round trip of 110 miles. These engines have been running over six months without interruption.—Ar- kansaw Traveler. Durability of Roman llulldlngs. A proof of thu remarkable durability of Roman buildings was found in tlio re sistance offered by the foundations of tlio pillars on which the bridge rested which led from the Roman settlement of Ma- guntia (modern Mainz) ever to the river to the right or eastern bank of tlio Rhine. e.tiSBum among rai road officials; a ..I • Thero fourteen stum ,, s of j.nium is taken to mean that rates will he ’under the water, resting upon piles stir red need from 3c. to 2Jc. per mile. j rounded by beds of stone to prevent un- Not a Messing. There is one New Orleans firm that doesn’t think the Louisiana lottery an entire blessing. One of its trust ed clerks lias just disappeared aitcr robbing them of $23,000, which he squandered on lottery tickets. dermining by tlio currant. The wood- The authorities of the S. F. & W. j work hud been destroyed to a deptli of (Jy.. broke “round at Johnson Sta-i nioro than an inch, or an incli and a ■ . . half, and having been taken out and tmn for the erection of a brick ware-; dried it was found unusually hard and well adapted to fine furniture. The ex pense of removing theso pillars was $15,- 000, or nearly $1,100 each, on account of tlio great amount of time and labor that had to bo spent on them.—New Or leans Times-Democrat. house last Saturday. It will be re- \ membered that the warehouse was destroyed by fire some weeks ago. We ! arc glad to uotostliat the old build ing is to be replaced by a siilistan- tial brick structure. Johnson is an Teak VVooil Recoining Fashionable, important shipping" point for manv The teak wood is much admired and , ,, . . ,, ., fast becoming fashionable, but it cannot pjaces in the interior, as well as the. be mado comm0 n, ns it is both expensive « edij^! l^cillity.—Hinesville Ga j and difficult to obtain. It comes from : Indio, or- rather goes from India _lo .—- - ’ Japan and China, whero it is carved. John T. Graves, chairman of the The wood is light in color. but it is some- ... , , times stained or dyed, and it is this kind inter-slate committee ot cheap rates _ U)at we gent , rall} ? sco in this country . to tlie South, lias received a message j The open worked patterns are particu- from Commissioner Daniels, that the lall - v <diectivo ns doors and decorative ., ..... I mantels. Thero are only two direct im- ( entrnj 1 rallle Association ol China- (xjriers of it in New York, although it is go will rati I’v tlio rates established , to bo had at many fumituro dealers, who by the Southern railroads and 8t .| | j ^ive it through the French markets in / • j small quantities. It may bo interesting tickets South one fare round trip. J to know that a small pedestal costs $05 The committee will secure the same i a handsome carved chiffonier $1,000. ,, , .. New York Press “Every Day Talk.” concession t mm the Eastern railways • on tile I5'h, anil cheap rates will lie general North and West to South. March lias been ushered in in its mildest mood, which signifies that she will leave us in the fiercest fury ol wind and bluster. The only rea son " ivr welcome tlie old blower Now Work lor Young Women. Tlio very latest occupation for young women who have been delicately reared, hut who aro compelled hy changes in tho mill wheel of life to cam t livelihood, ij to clean bric-a-brac in the great mansions ! dens are I a an bnutd of Unending Summer Not Far Away—The Lazy Inhabitant!. Nassau is ore of the smallest of the Bahama islands, covering a length of twenty miles by an average of five miles in width. The city is built, facing the north, upon the slope of a ridge, running west to east, and nearly 100 feet at its highest. The soil is thin, the island con sisting of an old coral reef, elevated grad ually from the ocean, and during that period subjected to -ho action of the waves, leaving it honeycombed and pocketed. This rock is compact, of sand made from disintegrated corals, yellow ish creamy in color and soft in texture, so that R is quarried by sawing and chis eling, becoming considerably harder by exposure. The surface of the rock is covered with loose pieces, exceedingly irregular in form. Over this is a very little soil. Tho streets nro graded through this natural rock; with natural gutters and walks. The streets at right migles to tho water front cross the ridgo generally through deep cuts in the natural rock in order to lessen the grade. The dwellings ■of tho better sort are square or oblong square, seldom more than two stories high, with low ceilings and low pyra- midical roofs. These houses are always surrounded on at least two sides with broad verandas, closed in with slats to keep out the light. For this reason the houses appear larger than they aro. Dormer windows abound. The bouse colors are stone, light yellow, cream; the blinds are brown or green. High stone walls, with broken glass bottles cemented into the ridges, inclose tho houses and gardens: ornamented openwork gate ways alford a glimpse within. The cocoanut, tho royal the palmetto and tho silver leaf palms abound. The giant Cuba, or silk cotton tree, oleanders of large size, enormous amaryllids, with tho many species of the citrus family, hang up their yellow fruit against the sun. The russpt japodilla just coming into fullness adds a special charm to its back ground of dark green waxy leaves. The vegetation seems rather sub-tropical than thoroughly tropical. This results not from want of heat, may be, but need of soil. Tho city of Nassau is extremely pict uresque with tlie quaint narrow streets, white, deep gutters cut from living rock, large dwellings, with tlio lower or street story, for warehouse or shop, tho outside stairways and balconies? Every building has some special individuality about it which adds much to tho sum total of tho charm one finds in quietly roaming round the streets. « Hero it is literally always afternoon. No one works. Ask a question and it will bo answered the day after to-mor row. The few shops open about break fast time, and are then shut up during that meal, and breakfast time is not early. I went into a wholesale storo at noon time. - Tho ono clerk was fast asleep in Lis chair, and I left him undis turbed. Tho blacks, seemingly twenty to one of tlio whites, sit lounging, gab bling. dialling, talking loud and laugh ing. but I have not seen ono at work. The English majesty of law is thor oughly reflected here. Tho principal crimes—profanity, jawing and slander— are among the colored races, and they enjoy defending themselves, at law. i>ho[i3 clone nt 5 p. m. Saturday is a | half holiday and Sunday a Puritanical one. Hack of Nassau proper, over tho ridgo and down on to lower levels swarm tho colored people. Their small garden pieces arc walled in with tho loose pieces of coral rock. Their cabins aro small, with one or may Iw two rooms, of rock or coral, palmetto thatched. Tlio gar- ho::>- c 'bed coral rock, of New York. They are called bric-a- brac cleaners, and have Irusltes mado expressly for their duties! Not every . . young woman can become (expert nt tho is because it is necessary to endure j business. It requires a dqiicutu touch, her bel'uru ivc enn enjoy her sweet tho greatest care in handing the treas urer, radiant, blushing April, who i ure8 ’ aml 1,10 knowledge how tastefully = 1 ’ i to arrango tlio dainty uruninfcnl* m a way sweetens earth with ' ' ’ ' ' ... — she bedews with tli of her tearful blue flowers, which j that is most pleasing to tliefwners. Tho lie chrystal drops > "'ork is refined, and just such as a re- (fined young woman would like.—New, * °3' es - j York Sun. A redwood tree recently felled near Humboldt. Cal., measured l(i feet in diameter one way and 20 feet the the other at the stump. It was 200 feet long, and contained enough tim ber to construct a small village. They Want Karnuni. London is trying to get Showman Bnrnum to take his show there. Sev eral capitalist in that city have of fered to erect there a building for him. No Good. Madstoncs seem to have had their day. A physician writing the At lanta Constitution, says they have no efficacy, as is generally supposed. Another liig timber raft is being constructed in Nova Scotia. In this connection, it may be stated, that portions of the Leary raft occasion - ally come in contact with steamers. The other day the bark Bremen was injured in a collision with logs from that raft. ; It is stated, but not established, that the remains of Alexander the Great have been found in a tomb in Syria. Further developments will be awaited with interest- The first steamer to cross the At lantic made the trip in eighteen days. This year the Umbria made it in six days. Tampa's artesian well is 700 feet deep, and no water yet. It is thought that that they will have to go down 1,300 feet before they will reach the coveted treasure. The criminal record for the pres ent winter has been unusually black. You can seldom pick up a newspaper without seeing some fearful murder recorded. The premium list of the State Fair will be $3,000 larger thpn last year. The Northern States are again en- joying( r) a season of cold winds, ice and suoiv. Singular l’w of rhopgruphy. Kosmos announces a dngnlnr adapta tion of photography. It is well known that under tho microscope steel is found to bo an agglomeration of crystals, and that upon tlio difference in these crystals tlio quality of the steel :an bo more or less determined. M. Wedding, to mako the observation moro complete, heated steel to whiteness, and us the use of the microscope under such circumstances was impossible, ho photographed the metal and subjected the negative to m icroscopic exan i iuu tiou. —PI lolugrapliio News. Porai' i Trades Organization*. There uro r.o trades’ unions in Persia, but thero is something which suggests it in the partial system of guilds and ap prenticeships, although tin’s is by no means universal, lift distinctly organized and formulated. For example, the mer chants or large traders of Teheran rep resent a body that lias a head culled the Malsk-i-Tojah, a man of wealth and whom with a cn tiie banana, tho cocoanut or mat.. ■ is » hinted. They aro unkempt, unthrifty, dirty; but every where kind mother nature covers tho garden walls with lichens and tlio con volvulus. and the great lolled leaves of the bread fruit, tho alumna and tlio palms give to the eye an ever varying, an ever entirely satisfying picture. These cabins of the colored people (our inheritance from Spanish cruelty) liter ally swarm with children. Tho tra ditional stair of from five to twelve littlo pickaninnies is found in every cabin. “Ma.-sa, gib me copper for bread!” They arc inveterate beggara. They say they can't get work, or if they do get any but little is |iai(l—twenty-five to fifty cents a day. The truth is, thero is no desire, perhaps no incentive, to work, no ambi tion to satisfy. Hunger is easily satisfied hy fruit, sweet potato, yams and fish. But little fruit is exported, and that from tlie outlying islands, not from here. S(ionge fishing is tho one industry which hero is active. For tlie climate, I would judge wo had in tho United States no spot equal to this for unending summer. For people ad vanced in life who desire to avoid our winters, for tired brain workers, for cases of low vitality, for tho beginning of throat and lung troubles, I should say Nassau is tho place.—Fred Stearns in Detroii- Free Press. for u nunmer or years the deficiency .. , , . i in the production of mulberry silk has ability, who in cues of need represents drawn tho attention Q f sericulturists to Uieir cause before the sbah.-Detroit, the rearing of the wild silkworms of Tnbuno Lot.er, I India, China, Japan, America and other I parts, and a great many reports have A ” °«* Wife. I been published on these wild silkworms, Wife (whose husband, realizing tho some of which nre already bred in a need of exercise has liouglit a bicycle)— state of domesticity or semi-domesticity I shall bo so anxious, John, dear, until Many of these wild silkworms produce that Dr. Harter’s Iron'Tonic is cool- you Have learned to ride it well. silk of great strength and beauty, and Hifband fondly)—Don’t get nervous, could all be profitably utilized if bred in lands on a large scale. Speci- i anil carded and reeled silks headache, fainting spells, exhaustive Z^e Epoch. “ " J tecnTnt toX^SAcdhuatalton! spasmodic affections, and will give ——- , ! and they will bo exhibited in the Paris strength ami new life to the entire He whobuflos according to e very man a International exhibition of *1889, together ai’ainm advice will lire in a very crooked house. «-:n, »i,„ ‘‘ 7 IT IS A FACT, system. —Danish Proverb. house, t |, e specimens of tho moths and prepared larval of the various species.— Public Opinion.