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<E SELECTING -YOUR- ESENTS CALL AT THE- ty Shoe Store. [e ofiler a full line of [Ladies’ and Gents’ LET SUPPERS ! Plush, Alligator and Ouze. A full line of good and re liable ics, Shoes, Sloes; PUSSY WANTS A CORNER. PHOTOGRAPHING ASTEROIDS. ror This life Is like a monstrous plank Out in mldurenn (tailing. All crowded full of living men. And ne'er a fool of railing. Thcro all are struggling for the best. Anti each one to his notion: In this great struggle often some Are pushed off In the ocean. And some will llnd the lucky plum. Like little Jackey Horner: Sotno always struggle for a place, “For pussy wants a corner!** Borne have the claws to hold on tight. However rough the sailing, And hold the plank through all the fight. With ne'er a foot of railing. 8omo things are very light to bear. As light us ocean bubbles: To bear with greatest fortitude, *Tis other people's troublo*. Borne get a very liberal streak. Though you may deem It funny; *Tls very easy to be free With other people's money. We often got the lucky plum Through some poor brother's sorrow. The failure he endures today Brings you success tomorrow. *Tis such a complicated world. Where you uuri I are staying, We t:cl inclined to think a bit: Now, brethren, let’s Ihj praying. Oh, you, who'vo found the lucky plum. Like little .lackey Horner. Make room for some |N»or starving one- "Poor pussy wants a corner!" -M. A. Butfln In New York Huu. the Ladies, Gents, ses and Children. All sBcted specially for the oc- casion. . full line of Leather Bags, Jinks, Umbrellas, etc., etc., adpopular prices. iM’sCitfSk Stirs. >IGN GOLD BOOT. •>r L L. WIGHT & CO. FI INSURANCE ACTS, Washington Street, Albany, 6a. AS. LET’S TAKE A IE! A Story of Gcirral Grunt. I once heard, with reverence and with misty eyes, tlio story of ( Jenoral Grant’s return from the last brief Journey he ever took from tile cottage on Mount Maegregor. The general had a favorite walking stick, without which lie never went ubroud, even 'on ids drives, and hir walking stick laid its own place in tli. corner of his room; no band bnt his own ever put it there or took it theuce. Day after day the journey from his chair to that corner before lie set forth, from the corner to his chair after his retnrn and the replacement of the stick in its place grew more difficult to the general's nerveless and weary feet. And there came thut day at last when, on coming in, he glanced toward the corner, stood for a moment silently, waveringly, a little quiver oil the brave and steadfast lips; and then, with a ges ture which was a wordless renunciation of life and all its dear associations, he opened his tremulous hand and let the old stick drop from it to the floor at his feet. It was bnt a few days later that he entered with a soldier’B courage the shadowy valley of the journey through which David said, ‘‘Thy rod. thy stuff they comfort me.”—Dorothy Lundt in Boston Commonwealth. Blu.t Have Their Sea Leg. On. “1 tell you it requires a good deni of practice to he uble to stund in the cab of a rapid running passenger train and fire the coal into the firebox," said a West Penn employee, in speaking of the risks run by trainmen. “The engine rocks, sways and fairly jumps at times under hiR feot. and if the fireman doesn't mind his p's and q's he is liable to lose his bal ance and be flnng from the rapid gaited train. This is more especially the case in rounding a curve, where, if the bal ance is lost, the firemuu may be hurled from the train. 1 remember a case in point which happened it comparatively short time ago on the Port Wayne. A fireman was flung from his engine one dark night us the train was rnshing along. Of course ho was soon missed and a search made. He was found, and, wonderful to euy. was not seriously injured.”—Pittsburg Post Uoiv Photography line Come to the Aid or the thithu.lu.tle Astronomer.' The Boston Scientific society has held a meeting oi unnsuul interest, at which 8. C. Chandler, the eminent astronomer, gave the first public presentation of the remarkable work now being done by Mux Wolf at Heidelberg. Hu said: "The position of asteroids in astronomical science is a peculiar, und 1 might say practically a useless one, so far as tangible results from their dis covery are concerned. The discovery of a new comet is a matter of great iiniior- taiiee, and tile increase in their number contributes much to the knowledge of tlie science, but witli asteroids, they must be found in large numbers before they become of especial significance, and in tlim event it lias always been a debuted question whether the Immense amount of labor required in keeping track of them and performing the neces sary-computation is really worth the while when the uctuul results obtained aro so small. “There are known to exist by the thou sands and tens of thousands down to the size of an ordinary rock, and to col late mid preserve the knowledge ob tained of them us fast as discovered has been a difficulty well nigh insurmounta ble. “But the development of photography in connection with telescopy has seemed to open np an opportunity for accom plishing something in this line. If cer tain whole strips of the heavens could be tracked and a record kept of the ob servations. a long step would be taken in solving this problem. Apropos of this matter, young Max Wolf, of Heidel berg, lias been making some very unique discoveries. “He uses a small telescope of C-inch aperture, and 1ms devised a piece of mechanism by which lie cun not only follow the heavens fur a numlier of hours together, but can put uwuy the plate, take it the next night and con tiuue the record consecutively from the [mint whore lie left off. This continual exiusuru of the sumo glass night after night has hitherto beeti regarded us im possible, uud Wolf was scoffed at when lie attempted it, bnt he has succeeded nevertheless. By this process lie lias been enabled to discover asteroids by observing their motions. “Moreover, he does not nse clockwork. His plutes are exposed, and he keeps his instrument fixed for honrs together on a given point by means of a subsidiary telescope, in this wuy ho lias discov ered seven new asteroids und fonnd be tween thirty and forty old ones, and thinks also that he has discovered a new comet, though that has not been fully demonstrated as yet. “He Iihs also- discovered the tracks of meteors und lias fonnd a succession of variations of their light by means of duplicate impressions with different tel escopes, recording five or six distinct oscillations in brightness. His duplicate impressions agree perfectly. Wolf is now trying to find the companion of Al gol.”—Boston Advertiser. Schools ooil the French Array. The total expenditure for normal schools .in France was, in 1873, near $11,000,000: at present it is npward of $2,1,000,000. or an increase of 137 per cent. The French repnblio has spent and is still spending untold millions npon the army and navy. Bnt on ac count of that it does not forget the school. And without a doubt the re publican school will outlive the repub lican army and be a blessing to all gen erations to come, for knowledge makes us free.—Chicago Herald. llomlray's Water Works. Tlio Tansa water works for the supply of Bombay were only completed after very great physical difficulties had been overcome. The work involved the con struction of » masonry dam two miles long to form a lake of nearly six sqnare miles |u area. There are fifty-two miles of ducts, twenty-seven miles of iron mains, four miles of tunnel and nearly a rnileof iron girder bridges.—Now York Times. Hows and Arrows In a Motion, Hattie. Many readers will be as tnnch sur prised us 1 was iu learning that at the buttlo of Leiiisic the Russians brought into the field numbers of Bnskir Tartars who were armed only with bows nnd ar rows. So we rood in General Marbot's ••Memoirs." written by himself. The gpneval was himself wounded by an ar- "i tlie battle.—Notes and Queries. EASIER THAN WORKING. A Good Ylensnn. Little Boy—Can yonr sister play? Little Girl—No; she makes awful noises w’eu she tries. Little Boy—Then wot did yonr papa get her a piano for? Little Girl—1 dunno. 1 gness it was 'cause lie wanted zee box for a coal bin. —Good News. A man named Clemtner, residing in or near Reading. Pa., line made over 800 clay idols, which he keeps in and about his house. At set times he worships these gods of his own manufacture with idolatrous devotion. ' ft The Barnes Sale and Livery Stables, fm. Godwin & Son. PROPRIETORS. H is new buggies and the best ot ho; ses, and will furnish you a tum- •ouc at very reasonable prices. Ac commodations for drovers unex- I celled. These stables are close to Hotel Mayo, on Pine street, being centrally located, and the best place in town to put up your team. Call on us for your Sunday turn- louts. i VM. GODWIN & SON. limns Jnlluenco Felt In School. If the home do its work well, tlie task of the teacher and tlio school is compara tively easy: bnt there aro too many American families, as every teacher knows, where thie work line not been done, and where, consequently, tnnch effort has to be spent in supplementing the lack of skill or the foolish indul gence of tlie mother. When n little six- year-old girl on her first day at school tries to strike tier teacher over tlie head witli her heavy slate because she is told to do some little thing, wo may not un reasonably assume that that home lias failed of its purpose, it indeed it ever had any.—Anna C. Brackett in Har per's. Naval Tactics. Admiral Sir F.dmund Frenmntlo re lates a story of a Yankee who wus giv ing his experience of wlmt had hap pened in tlie American civil war. He had been in comraund of a turret ship. A lady said to him, “Oh, no doubt, yon always were inside the turret." “No. ma'am,” he replied, “1 was not inside the turret.” “Oh, really," she said, “then where did yon get to?" “Well," was the reply, “we were generally at tacking forts, and 1 got on tlie lee side of the turret so as to have two thick nesses of armor to protect me instead of one.” Whet Became of the Money. Eugene Field’s wife is the financial manager of the family, for the poet is as prodigal in his expenditures and as extravagant in his charities ojs a man can well be. Not long ago Mrs. Field intrusted him with a stun of money to make a payment on his life insurance policy, and in on hour after he left the house he returned followed by a man bearing eight large pasteboard boxes. These con tained a magnificent collection of butterflies—800 specimens—and had taken every cent of the insurance money. But Mrs. Field's only com plaint was, “Dear me, Gene, where on earth can we pnt all those things?" The house is a veritable museum of animals and inanimate curiosities, from rare books to canaries. —San Francisco Argonaut Mourning Color*. Ecclesiastical colors include all the primary colors and black and white, which are used at various church offices. Tlie curdinals of tlie Roman church have adopted scarlet as their color, which was originally red. In ancient Romo the occupation und runic of many people were made known by the colors of the garments which tiny wore. Black is in common use among us for mourning, bnt tlio Chiuese Wear white, the Tnrks wear violet, nnd hi Ethiopia brown is the proper hue. White was originally the mourning color in some European countries, bnt black is generally accepted now. Dif ferent colors Uuv<5 frequently been adopted by opposing parties, and the colors of various nations are incorporated in their flags, for instance the “red, white and bine” of tlio United States.— Harper’s Young People. “C’uleb Cushing would go into the street und ask information of the shab biest negro, if in that way lie could learn what ho wished to know,” said one who was associated with Mm in Washington. A man never realizes how much wait ing can be done in an hour until he waits ontside for somebody who has stepped into s house “just for a min ute.” Slender rings with open heart shaped forms in small stones and diamondknota are new designs in ring*. A Hear.Clliiitilnic a Tree, Even professional taxidermists some times make blunders in their work. A funny instance of lack of thought by an animal stuffer is to be seen in a show window of n Broadway cloakmaker, where there is a dead polar bear in the not of climbing a tree. Thousands of persons pass that bear every duy, and it is safe to say that not one ill a million ever sees how untrne to nature it is for a polar hear to climb a tree. There aren't any trees in the polar re gions where tlie white bear comes from. Perhaps the bears would learn to climb them if there were.—New York Herald.' Sulmnn Going tlie Way of tho Buffalo. It looks as though the salmon fish eries of tho Columbia river, which have added enormously to the weal tli of the northwest, would in tlie course of a few years become exhausted. The fate of the Columbia will prob ably be that of the Sacramento river, from which stream the salmon liuve almost entirely disappeared. Fish laws may be passed and an attempt may be made to enforce them, but it is not thought that anything that can be done in this way would suf fice to save the fisheries. It seems that the salmon will not remain in rivers the waters of which are frequently disturbed by steam boats and that flow through thickly inhabited countries. The salmon fishing of the not very distant future will likely be almost entirely con fined to British Columbia and Alaska. —Denver Republican. In size the son equals 1,800,000 earths, bnt owing to its smaller density its Weight equals only 800,000 earths. ' Taking Fkvtograplis by Balloon* It is proposed that balloon photogra phy should be need in sieges by the be- liegpra. One plan is to start a small balloon, loaded with a camera, to wind ward of the fortress, the plates being exposed by tncanB of clockwork arrange ment or slow match. These, of course, are adjusted to the time which wonld slapse before the ballooii will reach the point or points where the exposures are to be made. The gas escapes, and the balloon descends on the farther side of the fortress, within the besiegers’ lines. —New York Telegram. Mrs# Browning** Sonnet*. The sonnets from the Portuguese were written by Elizabeth Barrett to Mr. Browning before her marriage, although she never even showed them to him till some years after they were man and wife. They were sonnetB such as no Portuguese ever wrote before or ever will write again. There is a qnality in them which is beyond words, that echo which belongs to the highest human ex pression of feeling. But Buch a love to such a woman comes with its own testa ment.—Annie Thackeray Ritchie in Harper's. Funnyman** Misadventure. Funnyman (finishing his story)—Ha, ha, lull Amusing, isn't it? Well, good- by, they suy it's wise to leave at once after you’ve said a good thing, you know. Amiable Hostess—Oh, you are not go ing yet, are you, Mr. Funnyman?—Kate Field’s Washington. Sliver In Soot. In an Irish lead mine, whenever the periodical cleaning of the tall chimney and the underground tunnel communi cating with it takes place, hundreds of pounds' worth of silver particles are dis covered in the soot.—London Tit-Bits. A Clever Sr amp In College liaise* Money In nii Ingenious Wuy. Let me tell you n very strange true story. Three years ago a yonng man in the middle of his sophomore year found himself in debt to his landlady, to his tailor, to tlio cuilogo und in fact to overy one of whom lie con Id Ixirrow or buy. He had no parents on whom he could call, and his future wasn’t very roseate, to Bay tlie least, Bnt he was a genius. He hod come to college to graduate and didn’t intend to drop out just because he lacked money. There was plenty of nnemployed capital in the country, ho wna sure, nnd he was equally sure lie could get hold of Borne of it, so this is what he did: In some way lie- learned the names ot ten women in one of the small western towns nnd wrote them the following letter: Mr Dbas Mas, 1 sm s stud.nt In colleire and am absolutely without a cut. Unless 1 receive aid I shall be compelled to abandon tho ambition of my lire—to enter the Christian ministry. I am an orphan and am aolely dependent on myself. Will you kindly send mo ton eents and mall a copy of this letter to ten friends, numbering each copy 3? Please request tbstn to do the tame, numbering their ooplee 8, and so on. atopplng at nut-Ber la Ten ccnta Is very little, but ten dimes makea dollar, and a hundred dollara would be truly a godsend to mo. Very truly yonre, Guo nog W. Mabtih. He figured that about three or fonr in tho first ten wonld respond, and that the same ratio would be kept up. So: wonld be Ignored, some would miscarry and in some cases several copies wottld be sent to the same person. It is easy to count that if every letter and copy brought in ton eents he wonld receive millions. If fonr in the first ten re sponded he wonld still be a millionaire. Tlie plot succeeded. He didn't re ceive a million of course, bnt he did get a very (urge sum of money. Not one porson in n hundred wonld stop and fig ure np tlie actual amount whieh tlie thing would bring to the letter writer. In some cssos ministers rend the letter In the pulpit and recommended the scheme to their congregation. The let ters which he received were studies. Borne contained stamps, some dimes wrapped in paper, some motherly old bouIb wrote long letters with volumes of good advice, und some more philan thropic people sent fifty cents, a dollar, and u few oven five.—E. J. Barnes in New York Press. J • W. IVA LTKHS, ’ " ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. ITtlcticu In nil Hie Courts of tlie Albany Cir cuit, uml vlM.-uln.-ni by *|icclnl cunlroct. Otllee In Vuntulutt lllock, Wnslilngton eli-iet- A Cage of Red Bird*. A lady in Springfield has a large cage full of red birds. She owned at first one tame red bird, nnd one wild bird after another came visiting him till tho cage was occupied by the vol- nntary captives.—Kansas City Star. Get* Warmed Cheaply. A Havre jeweler, who has an alternat ing current transformer in the basement beneath his store, has placed an iron grating aver it. and in this way warms his pli.ee at llie electric company’s ex pense.—New York Journal. A Knowing Kite. First Boy—What does my kite dodge down to the ground that way for? Second Boy—Huh! Don’t you know? It’s tryin to get back to you so you’ll put on more tail—Good News, v Several attempts have been made from time to lime to develop balloon photog raphy, and special cameras have been devised lor the purpose. A favorite dish of the East Indians is an ant mash. The insects are caught in pits and mashed by handfuls like raisins. BfjagaBIlHBBii Lord Lytton’. Method of Speech. Lytton had u curious drawling man ner of speech, his words being inter- siiersed with frequent “erras" to help him out when he was waiting for the proper,word. Then, again, he would empjpuUe a sentence or a single word by loudly raising his voice, a peculiarity which gave his talk a certain dramatic character. 1 remember once, when 1 was dining with him en petit coinite, tbs conversation turned npon the uni venality of belief in a divine Creator, and even now I fancy I hear him say ing; “When—erra—I had the honor— erra—of becoming her majesty’s secre tary of state for the colonies, 1 made it my first business—erra—to instruct my agents all over the inhabitable globe— errs—to report to me if they knew of any nation, tribe or community—erra;” thus far he had spoken in a low, melo- dions voice, when suddenly he changed Ms register, shot out the following words as from a catapult, “who did not believe in God,” Be added that he had only found one savage community with such a want of belief.—Uornhill Maga zine. Why Ha Hurrlad. Out in Iowa some years ago a number of men were engaged in the harvest field. When a man is "Working for wages on a farm there is nothing more delightful to Mm than a little faU of rain, it gives him a chance to stop work and seek shelter. These harvest ers broke for the born. When the great body or them arrived there they fonnd thut one of their number bod got there alieud of them. He hud fallen prostrate upon the barn floor, entirely out of breath. The foreman asked blm why lie bad ran himself to death. "Good Lord," he replied, ”1 was afraid the rain wonld stop before 1 got in.”—Washington Letter. Th. Carlo.. Beaoar 8ton.. There is now no sale for bezoar stones. Tlie time was when this concretion was deemed very valuable, and many living men will remember having seen perfect ly formed specimens sell for five or ten dollars, to ho carried in the pocket as lucky stones. The bezoar stone is formed in the stomachs of cattle. It is cal careous and as hard as a bit of limestone, but the core is generally a mass of hair licked from the hide of the animal and carried into the stomach with the saliva. These concretions ore as plentiful now as they ever were.—St Louis Globe- Democrat Useless Expense. A prince received from the house steward his monthly statement of ac counts, in wMch occurred the item of 1.80 lire for the keep of a cat in the palace. The prince immediately wrote in the margin, “If there are no rata In the bouse, it is no good keeping a cat; if there are any rats, the charge for the keep of the cat is superfluous.” And he struck out the item.—Don Chisciotte. A Dentist*. Way of Expressing It. A story is told about a popular dentist who was a farmer’s boy before be studied his profession and the metaphors ot the farm came glibly to bis lips. He had jnst opened an office and one of his first customers was a young lady, whose teeth he carefully examined and then remarked, “1 find, miss, that one of your hind teeth needs a little filling.”—Spring- field Homestead. PROFESSIONAL OARDS. LAWYERS. £ U. JONHS, LAWYER AND HEAL ESTATE BROKER. Ixwnl "Kenl Kquilalilu UulliUnx nml Losn As sociatin'', Albany, Ua. t-ll-lUw-ly. C. II. Wuoton. IV. E. Wooten, yjyOOTBN Jk tVOOTHN, City Att’y_ ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Oilleo I" Voiitulott’s Block, Wellington street- Albaiiy, Ua. z-u-d.w-ly. ytf T. JONHS, * ATTORNEY. AT-LAW. ■ ■ •>< All business promptly nml pur*i*tontly at tended to. Offlco in Willingham'* lllock, lirond street.. Telephone 48. DOCTORS. UIJO HO U IN* ON, PHYSICIAN AND 8UKGKON. Office over (illici t’* Drug Store, WnHhingfc' Htreet. Albany, Ua. ia-d*w-Iy. 12-daw- W. I*. DAVIS, rilYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Offlco over II. J. Lamar & Hon’* Drag Htoo. comer It mud and UewUlence Htreet*. Uetlden. corner Flint and Jefferson street*. BONDS FOR SALE. We offer for ante tho following bond* of the* city of Albany, Ua.: Bonds to be of the denomination of one thou*, and dollara each, and to boar lntero«t from the* day of their issuance at the rate of six per* centum per annum, IntercMt to be paid Manually.. Honda to bo fully paid off In twenty-fivo year* from January IS, 1884, and in tlio followlugr manner and amount*, to-wit: On jTnn’yJS, iwi^principal f4,000, Interest fOJjgi M TMigiicd.l 181W, 1887, 1808, i wm, 11KKJ, 1001. 1002. lUull, 1004, I0US, 1000, 1007, 1004, 1001), 1010, 1011, *ffik 1014, 1015, low, 1017, 1018, ifOOO, 4,000, 4.000, 4.000, 4,00U, 4.000, 4.000, «,00to, 4,000, 4.U0U. 4,000, 4,1*0, 4,000, 4,0*1, 4,000, m is m 4,000, «-• 44*00, - IS : Wm, Loukkttv Mokuih Wksi.uiky, Finance Committed. OFFICIAL STATEMENT. Purposo of Immuo: For Wnterweik* and! Sewerage. Total amount ot issue: One hundred tUous- sand dollar*. Maturity: Fonr thousand dollara annualls? for tweuty-llvo years, beginning Jan. 15, 1804.. Hate: Hlx per centum, payable annually. Principal uml Interest* where payable: Ab. the Mercantile National Hunk, New' V Issued Augusts City of Albauy, Vote: Kleetion held April 10th, 1801 Hour/ hundred nml. eighteen vote* cast for bonds, and: m ircantllo National Hunk, New York, id under what authority: Act approved! 128111,1880. bection Mi of Revised Code ot f Albany,(in., adopted MarchOth, 1881. - - r for taxation* lug relative in- &271,UM| 1801,, two vote* agaiurit bond*. Assessed valuation ot ...... for year* 1880, IMiO, 1801, slur ereuse: 1888, fljtfVJOH; 1880, I2JUM86. Kate of taxation: Soven-tcntliH of ono pen* cent. RESOURCES: From taxation f17,2001 From licenses 84100, Other sources 4,800* Total .I8O4WO* Estimated revenue to bo derived from waterworks I 84XMH Total Current expenses 120,000* .Surplus 4I84HK) Till* is the only bonded indebtedness of the? city. No flouting indebtedness. Population: Hctwccn 6fi0Q nnd Q/KKk I hereby certify that tho foregoing stutomenr is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief. [Signed.] W. If. GlLBVRT, Mayor. Attest: Y. C. Bust, Clerk. SEALED It IDS. Bids for the aforestated bonds will be 1 ccived up to June 1st, 1802, at 12 o*eloek noon, for the whole issue or auy part thereof. The City Council reserves the right to rejeoi any or all bids. Mayor and Council. Of City of Albany, Georgia.- CITY TAXES. Bigot flow Open for Retirs of Tun. Notice is hereby given that the City Tax- Digest is now open and that I am ready to re ceive city tax returns for the year 1802, at my ofllce in the Western Union Telegraph Com pany’s office on Broad street, aua-tf Y. C. RUST. City Clerk. Richard Hobbs. A. W. Tucker. Hobbs & Tucker. ALBANY, GEORGIA Buy and sell Exchange; give attention to Collections, and remit same on day of payment at i rates; receive deposits subject ti checks, and lend money on ap time papers. Correspondence soli ''JbEhI We represent a good ance Companii surance 01