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{fir: farme: THE GEOR %.. VOL. 8. WE onen unusual the sel-ict Fall and stock Winter of Fine Season Stylish of 1891-92 and Perfect with Fit- an tiny CJJfflMGJAISJJD[FURNISHINGS F or Me n , Boys and Chi l dren f and iurlte enr friends throughout thig section to send In their order, and have t&, m Hlletl In a manner that will prove mutually satisfactory. MINISTERS are Goods reminded hare been that selected our CLERICAL with the o^eaterin? fu ly to their wants and we can furnish Hint* ^ iultP in rarion$ appropriate materials, perfect fitting, and Fi. bottom prices—can furnish any and all sizes. Also Suits adapted to every station in life; in fact onr facilities for Supply* lng Every Required Style of garment, and lots of them, are not equalled by any other house in the State. C. O. D. feet. Onr system We allow of full shipping . examination C» O. D., is before per* paying, and ako send rules for self mersnrement, free on re* qncst. COUNTRY MERCHANTS Can obtain *rora ns SMALL LOTS of Fine Clothing, such as no Exclusively Wholes,tie Dealers can supply at close figures. Drop ns a line. 161 Congress St., SAVANNAH, GA. B. H. LEVY & BRO. SAVANNAH FURNITURE CO., DEALERS IN Furniture, Carpets, Matting, Clocks, Baby Carriages and Window Shades. Special attention paid to our country friends. 13V Congress Street, SA'VA.'JSriTA.S. a- a., m. 6. BURKS, Manager. Mexican Mustang Liniment. A Cure for rhe Ailments of Man and Beast. A long tested pain reliever. Its use is almost universal by the Housewife, the Farmer, the S'ock Raiser, and by every or.e requiring an eii'ective liniment. No other applicition compares with it in efficacy. This well-known remedy has stood the test of years, almost generations. No medicine chest is complete without a bottle of Mustang Liniment. Occasions arise for its use almost every day. All druggists and dealers have it -SZEtHflD ITS TTOTTK. ADVERTISEMENTS! Our Columns will Prove a First class Medium for making your wonts known. It will surely pay you to patronize us. STATESBORO, GA., THU I I Y, FEBRUARY 18, 189«. THE FARMER. SUBSCRIPTION RATES' ; One year, in adv.-nce... $1.00 i S!x month 1 , in advance .60 A(1v. rtising rates made known on ap piieaton. O Hilary notices 6 cents per line. ° pini °“ Entered at the Statesboro, Ga., post <>ffic * HS s ' co,ld - cl « ss m*’ 1 THE FARMER. Is published at Statesboro, Bullock county, Georgia, on every Thursday, at one dollar a year. Statesboro is the couuty site, and situated in a fine farm > n g section. Bullock has a population of about 10.000, three-fourths of whom are white people. It is admitted that it is the best farming county in Southeas Georgia. It is solidly Democratic, being known as the “Banner County.” The fa ™ cr » ind “ us aad enterprising and each year adds to the wealth and population of the county. Statesboro is connected by railroad with the C. R. R. at Dover, and a per¬ manent boom has struck our town, and a new era dawns upon our people. The Farmer is the official organ of the county, and has a large and increas¬ ing circulation. Its aim is to aid all things that tend to the advancement of the people and the upbuilding of the county. As an advertising medium The Farmer cannot be excelled. The merchants of Savannah, Augusta and elsewhere, get trade from the county and the city merchants, as well as the county merchants, will find it to their advantage to advertise their businesa in the columns of The Farmer. We keep on hand, for sale at low prices. Justice Court Summons, Execu¬ tions, Blank Deeds, Mortgages, Ac. Job woik of all kinds neatly, beauti¬ fully and promptly done, at prices that will compare with city prices, such as Letter Head“ Bill Heads. Ac. BULLOCH COURT DIRECTORY Judge Superior Court — R. L. Gam¬ ble, Jr. Solicitor General— B. D. Evans, Jr. Clerk —J. E. C. Tillman. Sheriff—S. J. Williams. Court convenes the fourth Mondays is April and October. Ordinary—A. R. Lanier. Court first Monday in each rnoDth. Tax Collector— Francis Akiss. Tax Receiver—W. B. Akins. Treasurer —George R. Beasley. Coboner —D. C. Proctor. County Surveyor —R. H. Cone. JUSTICE COURTS. Forty-fourth (Sink Hole—John Rush¬ ing, J. P., Green P. O. Court, first Sat¬ urdays. Forty-fifth (Club House) —Goo. Trap roll. J. P., Mett-r P. O.; Joshua Everett, N. P., Excelsior P. O. Court, second Saturdays. Forty-sixth (Lockhart)—R. F. String¬ er, J. P., Rocky Ford P. O.; H. M La nii-r, Saturdays. N. P., Endicott^P. O. Court, firs Forty-seventh (Briar Patch)—U. M Davis, J. P., Ivanhoc P. O.; C. A. 8<>r riei, N. P., Areola P. O. Court, fourth Saturdays. Forty-e ghth (Hagins)—J. G. Chitty, J. P., Milt Ray P. ().; W. H. McLe-n, N. P., Mill Ray P. O. Court, second Saturdays. Twelve hundred and ninth (Bute*boro) —W. R. Akins, J. P., Statesboro P. O.; J. B. Lee, N. P., Statesboro P. O. Court, Mondays. Thirteen hundred and twentieth (Las ton)—Madison Lanier, J. P., Blits P. O.; E. W. Cowart, N. P., l.ocky Ford P. O. Court first Fridays. Thirteen hundred and fortieth (Bay)— John Donaldson, J. P.. Harvill* P. O.; Samuel Harville, N. P. Enal, Ga,, P.O. Court, third Saturdays. Women Make Poor Smugglers. Mrs. Weltman, aCustoins Inspectress, says than women they smugglers few are less numerous It now were u years ago. is rather moro difficult for them to cheat the Government tliun most pe-oplo think, and if uny contraband are brought into this country without toils being paid upon then they are of very little vuluo. We can toll iu a minute whether a woman passenger has any valuables concealed about her person, because women are nervous and give themselves away. I cun easily pick out a women who his some taxable property concealed i.bo it her. No matter how experienced site may bo, she becomes flustered if a pene¬ trating look is aimed at her dress. She colors up and acts as if she were ill at ease. “It is a funny thing, but true, that a female smuggler can bo detected by gluucing at her feet and then looking suddenly up into her face, if she has diamonds, laces or any sm ggled articles coneealed about her she will turn all the colors of the rainbow. If not she sim ply looks ot you inquiringly and then at her feef. The story printed the other day about a woman smuggling $30,000 worth of diamonds in the beak of a pelican is ah rot. The very fuct that a woman had such a pet and cared for it, as she naturally would in view of its value, would excite suspicion, and then a thorough investigation would follow."— (St. Louis Globe-Deinocrat. THROUdfl DIXIE. NEWS OF THE SOUTH BRIEFLY PARAGRAPHED Forming an Epitome of Daily Happenings Here and There. -r A. II. Leonard Monday formally accepted the Louisiaia. republican nomination fot governor of Fifty-three horst# ijxlngton, at W oedward and Shanklies’s sale in Ky, Mon¬ day, brought $158,186, an average ol $2,057. The Mississippi Hftuse of representa¬ tives, on Tu sdny, passed a bid appro printing $64 200 a year for pensions for di atilt ti confederati-iv idiers. The world’s fat* commissioners fot d Norih ed McPhteters, Carolina huvcyj'poiritea olFta eigh, as Miss the Mtt- rep¬ resentative of that s3ate at the inaugura¬ tion of the world’s fair. The meeting of the committee having charge of the reorganizcg of tho 8- uth Carolina railway was held in Now York Monday. New secoe 1 mortgage 6 per cent, twenty-yeara-gold bonds will be issued. A dispatch from Coai Creek says the miners attacked t\;e garrison Sunday Diaht, and fighting at long range follow¬ ed for twenty miuutes, with no casual¬ ties on part of the garrison. All quiet at the latest reports. A business block in Memphis. Teuu., bounded by Main, Union. Second and Monroe streets, in the heart of the dry goods district of the city, was destroyed by fire Monday. The loss will reach $1,000,090. No lives were lost. A Chattanooga dispatch of road Saturday deals, says: In tho recent Belt Charley J. James managed to scoop in $100,000 for his share of the spot's. He managed to get out yf the company, and many peop !e are curious to know what he made in th e game. A Knoxville dispatch says: The new union trust company h -Ids a mortgage on the Knoxville electric railway for some $350,000. On Saturday the trust com¬ pany filed a bill in the fed-Tal court ask¬ ing a receiver, declaring that the com¬ pany is insolvent, as it had defaulted its interest on the bonds. A dispatch from Dallas, Tex., says: On Saturday the commissioners’ court of Dal¬ las county filed suit against Harry Broth¬ ers, hardware dealers, in the sum ol $100,000, damages sustained in the burn¬ ing of the Dallas county courthouse in January, 1890, caused by a defective heating apparatus put in the building by the defendants. Wednesday A Chattanooga, About Tenn., thirty dispatch the ol says: of creditors of the Etna Coal and to the __ T53^*tiine _ in grant company which to pay its debts, it be'ng shown that the company could ultimately pay all of its indebtedness. The company will pay the interest on its debt at once. A Memphis, Tenn., dispatch of Tues¬ day says; The total loss by Monday night’s fire, as far as known at pre-ent, is at least nine hundred and tweoty thous¬ and dollars, and the number of smaller losses yet to be reported will make the loss reach $1,000,000. Of the insurance on the in buildings totally and destroyed, $748, 000 is foreign, $95,000 in local companies. A Dallas, Texas, dispatch says: About two hundred and fifty subtreasury Far¬ mers’ Alliance democrats from all over tho state met in the city hall Wed¬ nesday. The purpose of the assembly was to take steps towards the organiza¬ tion of what this branch of the demo¬ cratic party in Texas pronounces “J. ffer son an democracy,” or a government of the people, by the people and for the people. A Dallas, Texas, dispatch fays: A case of very gn at importance to the commercial world was decided in tho district court of Dallas county Monday. It has been held by the supreme court at one time, tha the effects of a non resi¬ lient in the hands of a custodian were not subject to garnishment. In th’s case the plaintiff and defendant were both non-residents, but the jury found a ver¬ dict for the plaintiff and gave him the effects of 'h-- defendant which were held by the custodian under garnishment. This definitely settles hat question. SENSATIONAL STATEMENTS Which Places Some Leading Alliance* men in a Compromising Position. WYdmsflay The Chicago Inter Ocean published a two-column expose of what that paper {claims as a scheme whereby the NitioBal cordage trust, through connivance with a num¬ ber tempting of leading Alliance officials, is at¬ to get control not oflly of a'l the present alliance stores in the country, but 4,000 edditional ones the trust proposes starting. Smtements are made by D. M. Fullwiler, business agent for the alliance in Illinois; E. E. Whipple, of the Whipple harrow. St. J.-hns, Michigan, and William Deering and Sons, of C.iicago, that place certain prom ineut alliance leaders in a compromising position. It is claimed that the National Union Company Louis is preparing to capture the St. conference on the 22d arid get an endorsement. This will be strong¬ ly opposed of the by many alliancemen and some strongest papers in the organization could whom i the National Union people from not control. A special re¬ port Dun’s egency is published showing that on October 28, 1891, the company had not made a satisfactory showing. II. H. Baich, the president, is charged with being a former lobbyist f r the Nntional (fordage Company at Washington. DOUBLE DEFINED. Tommy—What lls a “running ao count?” Pa says | it’s an account mer¬ chants have to ke ip of their customers that are in the ha it of running away from paying their dlls. Uncle—That’s o e definition of it. Tommy—Is Uncle—Yes. thei§ another? A running aocount is, iu some instances, an accouut that gets tired out running a ’ter a while, and then it becomes a stand lg obligation.—[Bos¬ ton Courier. TRADE NOTES. Status of Business for Past Week as Reported by Dun & Co. Business failures occurring through¬ out the country during the week ended February 5, as reported to It. G. Dun & Co., number for the United Stit s 273, Canada 46, total 819; against 297 the wei k previous. In spite of much dullness nnd com¬ plaint in some important brunches, trade is gradually enlarging. The east do-s not show the full benefit, because the western business is largely me' by west e n increasing distributing centers, and that a>one is heavily, while the southern irade, which is more largely met by dis tribution from the east, is unusually dull. But the west la steadily increa ing or¬ ders for manufactured products, nnd is okely to buy more largely in the matt five months thau ever before. The east¬ ern consumption is also fairly up to the maximum, as labor is well employed. OVERPRODUCTION AND SPECULATION. The stringency at the south owmg to the ov rproductiou of cotton and huriful speculation in the past is at present the. •nly force retarding the gener.il improve¬ ment. In tiuuncia! and speculative cir cies, nevertheless, some apprehension appears because of the advance in foieign exchange from 486 to 487, in spite of enormous merchandise balances in favor f this couniry. It is argued that this shows a very heavy withdrawal of foreign capital from the country, because silver legist tion is feared, or for some other reason, and that in effect Europe will pay for hreadstuils and cotton needed by sur¬ rendering If titles to American property. so, this country can fairly well afford to own Itself. There is considerable evi¬ dence that large b ocks of Americnn securities are being sold at New York by foreigners, them but the nr-rket lias taken without serious disturbance. THE TRADES IN THE STAPLES. At Philadelphia mote orders are seen business for manufactured in dry goods, iron, especially and increased dress goods being sold in advance, staples, far while wool is quiet with a fair volume of sales. Ci’ar manufacturers are busy and trade in groceries and chemicals un¬ changed. Speculation in products has been more nctive, but in spite of the abundance of money the tendency of prices is lower. Wheat fell to 99f cents but recovered over a cent, and after sabs of 33,000,000 bushels, is 1 cent lower than a week ago. Western re¬ ceipts diminish, but exports diminish still more. Corn closed only an eighth higher and oats three-eights higher, but pork Is products are a shade lower. Cotton a sixteenth lower for spot and Febru¬ ary has sold below 7 cents, receipts con¬ tinuing enormous. Coffee is a fraction stronger. , Silver has alscf fallen to about the low¬ est price ever^iiotcd, 41.56 pence per ounce, r *-tflreat industries make progress in spite of low prices and production, which seem to threaten a reaction. Philadelphia, Pig iron shows little concession at and some shading at New York by southern concerns, and bar is as dull os ever, at a liuht demand for plates. Structural iron is unsettled by a collapse of the steel beam combination, and the price has fall' n to 2i cents. The boot and shoe busin< ss is getting better, with more orders, but in some cases tivity prices are shaded a little; more ac¬ is seen in dry goods and a large number of western buyers arc doing a fair business. Demand for spring goods is dark. giowing, but Clothiers are still in the Cottons are effected by poor southern Irade, but prices of s -me priuts and sheetings have been advanced, and orders for knit goods are fully as large as v year ago. COTTON LOSSES BY FIRE. An Interesting Letter to the New Orleans Cotton Exchange. President Walter C. Fioner, of the New Orleans cotton exchange, has ad¬ dressed a letter which has been published, to the collector of the port of New Or¬ leans, in answer to a circular letter of ihe treasury department seut to all cotton ports, calling attention to the impropriety of baled cotton, and the losse by cotton fires, and directing that the reports be m :dc for prosecutions <>f all violations of the law. President Flower, in a long array of statistics, shows that out oi 20,000,000 bales of cotton received at New Orleans in the last ten years, only 35,000 bales wero fire partly losses damaged. He says cotton from nil causes since 1882 were only $509,000 out of $1,000,000,000 of total value, equal to $1 in $2,000. AN OPINION ON BEER. A Montana Judge Holds that it is Not a Spirituous Liquor. Helena, According to a decision rendered at Mont., Saturday, by Judge Knowles, United States district judge, beer original is not a ruling spirituous by federal liquor. This is an a court on this subject. Of the state courts that have passed upon the question, those of New llamshire, West Virginia and Ten¬ nessee have agreed with the judge’s ruling, while the court of North Carolina and one in New York have held to the con trary. The case on trial w>s that of a man who sold a bottle of beer to on In¬ dian on the Crow r. gervalion. He was discharged. The federal statute provide a penalty for selling ephituous liquor or wine to Indians on the re«crvnttn i GARZA STILL ON DECK And Giving Trouble on Both Sides the Rio Grande. A Washington telegram of Saturday says: The Garza movement along the Mexican border is giving the officials the war department considerable trouble just at present. No secret is made their disappointment in tho American that territory, Garzi is and nt large confined that his operations cannot be exclusively to Mexican territory. Garza and his followers uto knowu to have re¬ ceive 1 aid and sympathy from the Mexi¬ can residents in the vicinity of Grande, and the fact that the Uniter States troops are unable to capture tht revolutionists is, in a 1 irge measure, at tributed to the deception practiced upon them by these people. COTTON FIGURES. The Government's February Crop Re¬ port. The February cotton report of the sta¬ tistician of llie department of agricul ture the quality, relates to the the yield proportion of lint, marketed, the close of the picking season, the losses by insect", and the price of s<ed. Tho proportion sent from the p’ant.-i ti: ns, as estimated by the reporters and accurately consolidated, is as follows: V rgioia, 80; North Carolina, 82; South Carolina, 90;- Georgia, 92; FI- rida, 92; Alabama, 9i; Mississippi, 88; Tmuc-’sce, Louisiana, 87; Texas, 85; Arkansas, 88; 89; Missouri, 88. G neral average, 88.3 per cent. COMPARED WITH LAST YEAU’S. The returns of coinpati-ons w-th the ci op of last year arc: Virginia 78; North Carolina, 79; South Carolina, 82; G or gta, 85; Florida, 84', Alabama, 92; M ; s sia ip;d, 90; Lowi-nina, 99; Texa-, Dt7; Aaraausas, 81; Temu-sie-, 91; Missouri, tic., 90; general average, 94 3 per cent. The returns are rein rkably consistent, HS their indicated results vary by less than one per c>n\, mdica : n« a.c-op oi abour half a mil-ion bales short of that -1 1890. The October reports of the two > ears make an almost identieal dif trrence. Hose reports are submitted without e minent. THE CLOSE OF rtCKINO. The estimate of the average time of the c’ose of picking is, by states: Yirg nia, December 11; North Carolina, Deci tu¬ ber 10; South Carolina, December 8; Geo-g a, December 4; Fmridn, Novem hi r 20; Alabama, December 2; Missis¬ sippi, December 10; Louisiana, Decem¬ ber 12; Texas, December 4; Arkansas, December 12; Tennessee, December 12; Missouri, December 18. THE QUALITY GOOD. for The quality is the highest many years; the staple is medium and some¬ what short; the class excellent, and uni¬ versally fne from trash. THE FRICE OF SEED. The low price of cotton, and tho dis¬ appointment in money returns, have led to ix large sale of seed to the oil mills at prices somewhat reduced, as follows: Virginia, 14 cents per bushel; North Carolina, 14; South Carolina, 14.5; Georgia, 14.5; Florida, 14; alabttma, 13; Mississippi, 12; Louisiana, 11; Texas, 11; Arkansas, 11; Tennessee, 18; Mis¬ souri, etc., 11. Ou the Atlantic coast the larger use of seed for fertilization makes a relatively high price. The iocses from insects were > ot very terh-uS, nud were mainly con¬ fined to the gulf coast states. The boll worms were nearly ns destructive as the catt miliars. BLAINE NOT IN IT. It- Wri t identlal Nomination. A Washington dispatch of Sunday says: Blaine is out of it, and will not be a can¬ didate nomination. for the He republican written presidential letter to has a Chairman C’arkson, of tho republican national committee, staling that his name would not be presented to the conven tion. THE LETTER IN FULL. Washington, February 6.—Hon. J. S. Clarkson, chairman of the Republican national committee—Dear Sir: I am not a candidate for the presidency, and my name will not go before the Republican national convention for the nomination. L make this announcement in due season. To thosa who htve tendered me their support I owe sincere thanks, and am most grateful for their confidence. They will, I am sure, make earnest efforts in the approaching contest, which is ren¬ dered specially important by reason of the industrial and financial po-icies of the government being at stake. Tho popular decision of these issues is of great mo¬ ment and will be of far reaching conse¬ quence. Very sincerely yours, James G. Blaine. BLAINE DENIES The Report that He Will Go Out of the Cabinet. A dispatch that has been going the rounds would to the effect James G. Blaine soon cease to be secretary of state, and that bis announcing nt of withdrawal In m the presidents! this contest interesting was but the pn lude to and equally an nou' cement. A Washington telegram of Wednesday says: Secretary Blaine’s attention wus called to a story telegraphed from Wash¬ that ington nnd printed in some papers h>-will shortly retire from the cabinet. Mr. SZ ne promptly and emphatically said. z i he story is false. There is ah solutely no truth in it." Keep Warm. More of the philosophy of health in that trite proscription than most heroic people think. Some folks regard clothing. it as It would to I o without sufficient o a good deal more heroic wretch to provide who warm clothes for some poor hasn't unv to speak of But to return. No matter how little in tho way of wrap¬ pings we might have got along with ii wo had grown up iu Patagonia or Kamt clritka, tho fact is that wo require suf. ficient clothing to pre.vent discomfort. That which we call a ‘‘chill” is a shock, and must be an injury to tho health. The mysterious and multitudinous pro* cesses constantly working in the human system qro hampered ana interfered with by exposure to cold. The first and most important part of tho dress is the underwear. Backed up it must be, of course, with suitable and sufficient other layers of apparel, but the sensitive skin is most influenced by that which lies next to it. Upon underclothing, the quality and character of tho health and comfort very largely depend. It should bo soft, porous, elustic, not too tight, made of pure and clean material and clmrfged often enough to mako it a means of exit, by absorption und evapo¬ ration, of all tho exudations of the skin. It should he thick enough mode to proteol of life front cold according to the of the wearer and the de ■gree of exposure to which he is subjecte a, underwear some men than re¬ quiring much heavier others in the same climate.—[The Men’s Outfitter. * 38. SLUMBERING SONG, The mill goes toiling slowly around, With steady and solemn creak-, And ray little one hears in the kindly sound The voice of the old mill speak; While round and round those big white wing Grimly and ghostlike ereop, My little one hears that the oil mill sings, '•Sleep, little tulip, sleept” Tho sails are reefed and the nets are drawn. And, over his pot of b jer. The Asher, against tho morrow’s dawn, Lustily maketh cheer He mocks at the win Is that caper along • From the far-off clamorous deep, But we—we love their lullaby-song Of ■‘Sleep, little tulip, sleep f’ Shaggy old Frits, in slumber sound, Moans of the stony inert— To-morrow how proudly he’ll trot you around Hitched to onrnew milk cart! And you shall help me blanket the kind, And fold the gentle 3heep, And set toe herring a-soak in brine— But now, little tulip, sleep! A Dream-One comes to button the eyw That wearily droop and blink, While tue old mill Outfits the frowningsklo3 An l scolds at the star* 'hat win;; Over your face the misty win js Of thatoeautttut DreanrOua sweep. And, rocking your cradle, she softiy sings, “S.eep, little tulip, slee )!” —Eugene Field, in Chicago News. PITH AND POINT Musical conductors beat.their way through the world by scorer—Pittsburg Dispatch. The grocer who gives sixteen ounces to the pound is a model in his weight.— Chicago Times. Good looks go a long way, but finally the paint wears of and there you are.— Galveston News. Cabbie—“I understand that you lost the steamer for Europe.” Stone—“Fes. My wife had to go back for anothei hairpin.”—Cloak Review. When doctors disagree, they do not forget to charge for the time they spend in argument that precedes disagreement. —Kate Field’s Washington. A man is like a postage stamp. When ho is badly stuck on himself, as it were, he is not worth two cents for any practi¬ cal use —Chicago Tribune. It is difficult for the average man to heu said that man was made iu God’s own image without feeling that he is the man referred to.—Boston Transcript. She—“I wouldn’t marry tip. best man living.” He—“Then there is no hope for me. It was ,j| iuse I thought that * you wouia inai i you. New York Press. Butcher (to artist)—“I’m not quite satisfied with the portrait. The right side of tho chest should bulge some¬ what—that is where I keep my pocket book."—Fliegcnde Blaetter. “Why grim, weary ye me,” cried the housewife “With such a wild pack of lies?’ i “I do so bekaze,” said the mendicant slim, “Bekaze of alack of pies.” —Indianapolis Journal. Old Gentleman (stepping out on car platform as car stops at a way station, and sniffing the fresh air)—“Isn't this invigorating?” Brakeman (shifting his quid)— 1 No, Pcekskill?”—Drake's Mag¬ azine. Mr. N. Peck—“I think you would be ashamed to wear the hair of anottier wo¬ man ou your head." Mrs. N. Peck— “Shame yourself, for you wear the skin of another calf on your feet."—Brooklyn Eagle. “Are you pretty well acquainted with your mother tongue, my boy?’’ asked the school teacher of the new scholar. “Yes, sir,” answered the lad, timidly, “Majaws me a good deal, sir.”—Tha Comic, “I have heard,” said the Western schoolmistress, addressing her class at girls, “that some of you are in the habit of using slang. Is it so?' 1 Some blushed, some looked indignant, but none ventured to reply. “If any of you have acquired suca a habit,” pursued the schoolmistress, with a severe look, “all I’ve got to say is, you've got to shake it.”—New Y’ot Press, Spider Web Silk. There are a number of animal fibres other than that of tho silkworm winch have been tested at various times iu weaving. Practical attempts hare been made by different persons to weave the web of the spider, but tne spider's web is so much finer than the web of the silkworm that such efforts have attained no mercantile importance. The web of the spider bears tho same proportion to the web of the silkworm in strength that the latter does to a broomstick, explains the Cincinnati Commercial. The spidei makes thousands of sttands. In spite of ali the impediments in ti e way of weav¬ ing it, many yards of spiders’ silk have been woven, and an entire dress of this silk was presented to Queen Vlctor.a a number ot years ago, when experi¬ ments were conducted ou a somewhat extensive stole in weaving the web of one of the tropical spiders, which promise more thau do our ordinary spiders of the temperate zone. But tue experiment was finally abandoned. Another creature which has furnished exhibits of silk to curiosity hunters is “pinna,” that weird silk weaver of the ocean, which weaves a byssus of silken threads, by .w hich it attuches its shell to the rocks. Thfirts S huge mollu^); Krh is found in the Mediterranean. ' * af the pinna cannot became of practical importance, because of the difficulty ot promulgating the creature, or of obtain- . ing sufficient material from it. Another difficulty in the way of the practical us<s of this silk of the sea lies in colorin t it. Like most things of the ocean, it resists all efforts to dve it. One Sunday's census of church at¬ tendants in Liverpool, England, 500,000. gavo 63,090 out of a population of