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Ihe Mathinsrillc ^dcaiue. A WEEKLY PIPER, Published Wednesday, Watkinsville, Oconee Co. Gecgia. w. G. SriLLIVAN, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR One TERMS: year, in »dranee ..SI 00 Six months. 60 WAIFS AND WHIMS. A good side-show—a pretty cheek. An old wiseacre—a decayed wisdom tooth’. If it is true that the proportions six the of the human figure are times length of the feet, what giantesses the Chicago girls must be! A Bos ion theatrical company recently played a scene laid in a church so natur¬ ally that to mauv of the audience it seemed so real that they went to sleep. An erring citizen of F.rt Wayne, while fishing on Sunday last, had a fit, fell into the water and drowned. Moral: Never have a fit while fiahiBg .—Albany Argus. Dr. Hall says that every blade of grass contains a sermon. We can un¬ derstand now why some people shave their lawns down so close. They want the sermons cut short. Never be afraid of the man who challenges feel all you to fight a duel. He will that you can feel, and more too. The man who rushes at you with a spade is the chap to look out for. After a sharp flash of lightning, the other day, a little five-year old Essex bov, looked up to his mother and said: “Mamma, I guess God scratched a pretty big match that time, don’t you? “ Soli d again,” as the cobbler said when he finished tapping a pair of shoes. —Rome Sentinel. “ Got the tin,” as the dog remark* d, when he flew down the street with a kettle attacked to his tail. “ What is beyond this life?” asks the Chicago like soda Times. Well, old boy, if you water, you’d better r< egon on getting all you’ll ever drink on this side of the mystic line.— Detroit Free Press. . When spelling is “reformed” she’ll write: “ I'm sailing on tlie oshunj The se is In, no sale in site, It Six me with emoshun.” But one “spell” will not ehange its name, For she’ll he se sik just the saim' When a father fears that his daughter is going to miss a-good catch, he just notifies the young man to keep away from her, and in less than no time, the youth the is girl. moving heaven and earth to get A San Fkanci.-co firm advertises as follows: “Having taken the proper steps to protect our goods from betog imitated, we hereby caution all parties otherwise from purchasing suit will or selling the same, as be entered against them.” The Detroit Free'Press talks about “ a hen which will loaf around on tc p of a nest full of eggs for the best part of a month.” If the Free Press man thinks it’s merely fun to sit on a dozen of eggs, let him try it once. Behold that man with lordly gait: Why does he hold his head so straight? ’Tis not for pride of wealth or fame, nor glory of ancestral name, nor yet that gems his garments deck. He’s got a boil upon his neck. That child out West blown three miles through the air and lodged twen¬ ty-four hours in a tree top, may in the old age have occasion to say, “But the winds are nothing now to what they were when I wa3 young. A Cleveland clergyman was deposed because he made such a racket in preach¬ ing that the congregation couldn’t sleeji. The Boston Post says when people sit up six nights in a week to play keno they want a chance to sleep Sunday. Only a woman's hair, Only Binding single the now to the past, a thread Toolraifln last. Only Threading a woman’s hair a tear and a sigh, Only Found a woman’s hair to-day in the pie. Chicago has a policeman who can speak the English, German, French, Polish, and Welsh languages. He can club a man in five different languages in less time than it tafies an ordinary policeman Latin. to make a common arrest in hog The Marathon Independent says “ the difference between a railroad ticket and an egg is that the ticket is good until used.” And so is an egg if you live in a district infested with book agents, and know how to properly apply them.— Oil City Derrick. The latest from the logic class. Pro¬ fessor—“ Miss C., give an example of a true conclusion drawn from two false premises.” study; that’s Miss C— “ Logic is an easy false; I don’t like easy studies; that’s false. I don’t like logic. That’s true.” Class is dismissed.— Vas ear Miscellany. A small boy, whose deportment at school had always ranked 100 per centum, came home one night with his standing been reduced to 98. “ What have you mother. “Been doing, doing,” my son ?’’ asked the hopeful; “ been doing just replied young as I have all along, only the teacher caught me this time.” A Sapphire that Weighs a Pound. The London Ttlepraph says that Ber¬ lin has just learned, to its astonishment and gratification, from a report of the Polytechnic Society's latest meeting, that within its walls reposes a treasure of almest fabulous value, the very ex¬ istence of which had been hitherto un¬ suspected. A member of the above named society is the enviable owner of the largest sapphire in the world—a stone Pure sapphires weighing nearly fifteen ounces. of good color hold so high a rank in the gem market that, were this gigantic jewel of the first water, it would be worth no less a sum *.3,200,000. It is, however, not absoiutely which free from impurities, a fault but materially diminishes its value, different enormous bids for it, made at times by German Princes and wealthy mineralogists, have been in¬ variably rejected by its A°®. proprietor who fidedTt fided it, 'inT' in deposit, 1 h “ n he and con Mate Judina! to the custody sapphire of the weighing nearly authorities. A t nk a pound may fairlv world, '7“ .t would «>nong he interesting the wonders of the hows-) extraordinary to learn a gem rjune into the jiosacsslou of fhe Prussian savaut who exhibited it to the wonder-stricken gaze of bis fellow I'olytechnicians the other evening. Windsor, Conn., claim* to be >Mraold, aud she can prove it bv ot her Sunday plug bat* The Watkinsville Advance. VOLUME I. Another Use for Electricity. 'IVok’s 8u«. | It beats all the uses to wmch electri¬ city can be put, to advantage. We can gend messages, talk to friends miles away, light public buildings and cure lame backs with it, and still new dis¬ coveries are being made. The last use to which electricity is put is to make it a bill (ollector. It seems almost impos¬ sible, but since we have examined Edi¬ son’s new “ snatcbaphone,” by which a customer is compelled to pay or suffer tortures, we are convinced that the world moves. The new phone is hard to de¬ scribe, but it contains a battery and a receptacle for placing a number of bills against different parties. The bills are kept in the receptacle for two hours, when the paper and ink are charged de¬ with electricity so that when the linquent and touches he the bill a shock goes tick up his arm, at once becomes to his stomach. He remains in that con¬ dition, unable to keep any food on his stomach until he pays the bill. As s on as he pays the money, or buys a postoflice order and remits it to the and man his he owes, the pain leaves him, stomach regains its normal condition. We had no confidence in it at all, until we tried it last week, when making out our monthly bills. We have six almighty news¬ dealers in the State who are bills slow, and last week we caused the to be treated with electricity before sending them, and by Monday’s mail He the money came from all but one. is sick, we are informed by a gentleman who was in here from that place, on Wednesday, and Uon't know what ails him. He goes around with a pale face, looking homesick, gees something hankers he thinks he can eat and relish, and after it, but when he has eaten it, he is sicker than ever. His wife sits by his b dside and bathes by telling his temples and has beeu tries to cheer him him she that way often, but he tells her she never knew what it was to suffer that way, and he prays to die. He will get over it when he sends us that money. This electric experiment has worked to our entire satisfaction and we shall UBe it constantly. However, it has entirely have failed on gome old customers who owed us fur six months or a year. We tyied it on a bill we sent to a boy at Beaver Dam, but he went to Chicago the next day, and has not been heard cf There is one man we thought we had a dead thing on. He lives in Waupum, dollars. and owes us a little over two The bill sent to him was double charged with the electric fluid, but it diln’t work. We complained to the inventor, and be investigated and found that the fellow is not, married. Mr. Edison says he can’t warrant it on a single man, as them they have not got much electricity in to respond to the battery. Well, maybe the cuss will get married some time, and we will send him a bill perfumed married, with electricity the day before he is aad be will send the money rather than be around a wedding with an empty stomach wrong side up. Of course we shall only u-e this electric battery on those who are too slow for any kind of a use in a business way. (Jold and Coal in the Southwest. IFt. Louis Republican.] Prof. Benjamin Silliman, of New Ha ven. who has been on an exploring trip to New Mexico, was met at the Lindell by a Republican reporter. The future of the Western country—those arid plains recently overrun by the wild In¬ dians, railroads—is and now theme being penetrated by a that excites aston¬ ishment. Prof. Silliman alluded to the changes that have transpired since the “ Great Plains ” figured on the maps as unknown regions, and he looked for¬ ward to the time when that region would be transformed into productive farms. The rain-fall increased with the cultivation, and means of irrigation would be discovered that would change the face of the country. He adverted to his recent trip. The Professor says he is now able, for the first time, to bring made to light New a Mexico, discov¬ ery which he has in which is of national importance. His exploration extended to the headwaters of the Bio Grande in New Mexico, from Santa Fe to Colorado. The existence of very auriferous gravels has been known for forty years south of Santa Fe, in the old Placer Mountains. But the existence of similar auriferous deposits on a far grander scale, and covering an area of not less than four hundred square miles, is a fact new to science, to commerce, and the miners. These auriferous gravels were found by him to have a depth of not less than six hundred feet. It is the spoils, the debris, caused by the breaking up of the auriferous mountains of the Sange del Christ* or Blood of Chrigt Mountains. They are commanded by the Fe waters of the Bio Grande, from Santa as far as Utah Peak. There is found in this region tertiary an formation, enormous development of tne being the abundant. perhaps the The pliocene Profes¬ most sor also remarked that one of the most interesting facts was the occurrence upon the Galisteo River, an affluent of the Bio Grande, ot extensive beds con¬ taining coal, both of the bituminous and anthracite varieties. The anthra cite r be said, was of an excellent qual¬ ity. It oweH its origin evidently plutonic to the upheaval of enormous masses of rocks, such as porphyry, syenite, etc., Los constituting what is now called the Cerilios Mountains, about twenty-five line miles southwest of Santa Fe, on the of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. The presence of these coal fields offer unsurpassed facilities tor the smelting and reduction of ores. Use drawback to the recently dis covered audiphone has been its large cost but M. Colladon, of Geneva, has, after considerable experimenting, so simplified and cbeapeneed ihe instru ment, that a serviceable audiphone can now be purchased for 50 centimes, in stead of 50 francs, the former price. He substitutes a variety of thin pasteboard for ,h, h.,d.»d _ _ Yawcob Btrachs savs a fare is a plane board. And he some i times adz a stake or saw’s edge, by way j of variety. WATKINSVILLE, GEORGIA, JUNE 16, 1880. mih; sun i.diidoi>. Der chiltren dhey vas poot in pea, All tucket I oop for dcr nighdt: I dakes my pipe der maniel off, Uml py tier fireside plight I dinks about vhen I vas young— Off moder, who vas tead, Undbow at nighdt-like I do Hans— She tucked me oup in ped. I mindl me off mine fader tob, Und how he yoost to say, “ Poor poy, you h»( a hardt old row To hoe, und leedle May!” find meoudt dot id vas dh Tat mine oldt fader said, Vhile smooding down mine flaxen hair Und tucking me in ped. Der oldt folks. Id vas like a dhream To spheak off deui like dot. Uretehen und I vas “oldt folks” now, Und has two chiltren got. Ye lofts dhem more as never vas, Each leedle curly head, Und efr.y nighdt ve dakes dhem oup Und tucks dheiu in dheir pcd. Budt dhon. somaKliines, vhen I feels plue, ’ Undt all dings lonesome seem, I vish I vas dot poy again, Und dis vas all a dhream. I vant to kiss mine moder vonce, Und ven mine braver vas said, To haf mine fader take me oup Und tuck me in mine ped. —Harper's Magazine. T1IK DEATH Of THE DAISY. All through the garden the iale was told That little Daisy was dead, All down the hunters the flowers mourned, The beauty aud fragrance tied. The dainty Lily murmured low “ Mow I loved her no one knew!” The Violet wailed, “A sweeter thing Than the Daisy never grew!” Poor Johnny-jump-up burst boyish grief, sobbed outright In a at The Sensitive plant sighed “ oh!” and “ah!” Aud shivered in every leaf. And pretty Pink was ever so sad, Her cousin Sweet illiam too, They had not thought that she must die So fresh, and tender, and true. Gooff nurse. Poppy, she was so stunned • She didn’t know what to say, So, in her night-cap went to bed To sleep her sorrow away. And my Itose, when she went to walk In the eool ot the morning hours, Seeing the Da’sy dead, sat down And cried with the rest of the flowers. —-Kokomo lYibnne. A VAfll KKO'S LOVE KOXG. Last spring the you blue-eyed owned that flax you loved me, When was in flower; Now th3 flax fields lie bare and you scorn me; Can love, then, Pancha, grtiw cold in an hour, Panehita? Ah, no, chlquifa , Love lives, though the flowers lie dead. I sai g at your lattice last summer, When the stars shone less bright than your eyes, And you thiew me red roses and kisses: Now you give me not a glance for my sighs. Pancha, Panchita, Must I lose lore Ah, and my chiquita in , breath? you a Ah, no! turn cheek your starry eyes toward me, And your where the red rose blooms sweet. One kiss-—you and are I mine lie again, feet! darling; Once more at your Pancha, Pancldta, Love lives, though Ah, ves, chiquila, lie dead. the roses —The Californian. JU8T IN TIME. Golden beams of sunlight were pour¬ ing through the large windows of Colonel Orne’s sitting-room, reflecting bright tracing shadows fantastical on the opposite wall, and figures on the carpet; sweet odors, softly wafted, stole gently through the only half open door; but Bessie Orne, the child, nestled in an easy chair, gazing out into the lovely garden below with a look of anxiety on her pretty face, and a delicate flush on her lovely had cheek, charm could only sigh. Nature no for her tnis beautiful summer afternoon. Life was beginning and to appear in altogether could a new light; picture—dark, yet no artist desire a lovelier wavy tresses, atuid which the sunshine loved to linger, shaded a brow of dazzling whiteness, dark eyes that sparkled with animation, and wreathed coral in lips smiles. that were constantly A hall quick caused and the rapid blushes step sounding in the on her cheek to deepen ; the door softly opened, and a rich, musical voice whispered: “ Bessie!” She started, with a cry of joy and recognition, exclaiming: “Gilford!” Seating himself I’ve by her side, farewell.” he said : “ Bessie, come to say He only paused, glanced as if waiting with an answer. She up, a look of startled apprehension, but remained silent; and he continued: “Before I go, dear Bessie, promise that you will be faithful; that you will remain true until my return. Perhaps I am doing wrong in asking this; but, oh, Bessie! on you 1 have lavished ali m „ i ove .” Still no words came from her trembl ing lips. Promise,” “ he murmured, tenderly, “ I will be faithful even unto death,” she replied, tremulously. hand, He caught her fair and pressed it rapturously this to his lips. “with sweet assurance, I’ve nothing to fear. One year will speed away, and then I shall return to begin a new life.” As and he spoke, withal he rose; and Bessie, tear ful, good-by and yet God-speed. smiling, Silently bade him he pressed a kiss on her blushing cheek, murmured a blessing on her young head, and was gone. Theirs was a strange betrothal, Gilford Grey Bhe had known since childhood. Their the plighted misty stillness vows were of first autumnal spoken in an evening, and the stars, looking calmly down, seemed to rejoice. Three months later they parted—he going to Jamaica to transact some im portant business, and she waited hope fully. Giifsrd Grey's • parents were very wealthy. Of a large family of children, onlv two survived—Arthur and Gilford. Arthur wa- a stern, haughty man of the world, with an reoellant austere look tace, upon whbh a cold and always lingered Gilford a dignified mien, and stately and air. was gay, joyous, from generous winning respect beloved by every all. one, and universally found them the This was the way we at ^ t*aoh to take up the burden of life more cheerfully; each looking forward t* the end. Colonel , n Orne , I Arthur Grey’s visits to He received s became more frequent. waa kindly. The colonel believed him to be a very superior man, and Bessie was of the same opinion Although not liking him, yet she esteemed him for the sake of Gilford. Arthur Grey, passionate and merciless as he was, hated Gilford—hated him with all the hatred that an unrestrained passion can hate, when they see a loved object, almost within their grasp , plucked by a more daring hand than th eirs. Arthur secretly loved Bessie, if the cold, mercenary feelings which he felt might be called such. He had never breathed them—never by the slightest look, or words, intimated that they were more than the homage paid by men to all beautiful women; but when Gilford set for Jamaica they found outlet, and a wild hope shot through bis soul. It found definite shape in the following thoughts: “ I will win this girl’s love. Bhe can¬ not be indifferent. No, no—I’ll not de¬ spair; and when she becomes mv wife, we shall be quits, Mr. Gilford Grey.” He never thought once of the possi¬ bility of a failure, although her cold and distant manner towaro him would have convinced any man less sanguine than he, of the probability of such an undertaking. He never th ought of re¬ ceiving No, he a haughty and indignant this. refusal. never thought * *, * One year passed away, swiftly borne on the wings of time, and another was ushered into existence. Gilford Grey came not; but, instead, news came ot a dreadful of shipwreck—of happy many lives lost, many hom<s made desolate, and then ali was shrouded in the deepest mys‘ery. learned. No Nothing further could be news of the absent one could be gleaned from the many highly exaggerated accounts given of the disaster by the newspapers. Oh, how uncertaiu is life! Arthur Grey, at the seaside, listened with almost suspended breath to the many surmises respecting his brother’s fate. He accepted the verdict of death, given by public opinion, with compos¬ ure, with cheerfulness, and why not? His brother’s wealth fell into his D03 session, and now he must win the lo ve of Bessie Orne. He had accomplished his mission, and he turned his steps homeward. The next day he called at Colonel Orne’s, and stood in the presence of Bessie. “ Bessie, I’ve got something to tell you. Can you guess its import?” he asked, in as sorrowful a tone as he could assume. She had read it on his face. “ Gilford is dead? ” she cried, in a cold, strange voice. “Tell me—oh, tell me if it be true! ” Arthur, “ Alas, I fear it is too true! ” returned mournfully. “ Dear Bessie,” he continued, taking her cold and icy hand in his, “I extend to you my sincerest and most heartfelt sympathies for thi.s sad bereavement which has fallen upon you. Although I almost idolized my poor brother, yet I also feel very sensi¬ bly for you.” She did not fai.it, as Arthur had an¬ ticipated. Many another one, under such trying circumstances, would have done so. Neither did she scream nor weep—the shock was too great, poo child 1 She sank into a sent, her cheeks blanched, the gleamed color slowly left her face, her eyes with an unnatural sparkle, and yet she shed no tears. She did not seem to realize the full .extent of her loss. Her every faculty appeared as though paralyzed. Arthur stood gazing upon her in amazement. He had expected a scene, but was disappointed—agreeablv nothing so. “ She cares for him,” he thought. But “Her mistaken. actions express that.” he was A thousand thoughts were revolving The through consolation her soul of striving speaking—of for utterance. Arthur how miserable she in telling realty, was was denied her at that moment. 0nc» in the solitude of her own room, with the door fast-locked, she sank upon the floor. And during the silent watches of the night but she never once slumbered nor slept, paced the narrow limits of her room with untiring feit until the break¬ and ing of gray dawn proclaimed morning a new day. * * „ Winter, T . with . its . drifting snows, had <»£«> and almost gone, Heasie Orne had not again entered so . et I bright and happy girl c ' y- mm a * became a melancholy and reserved woman. She had lost the usual buoy a^cy of youth, and the light of Colonel Orne’s home seemed suddenly stricken out forever. Arthur visited her daily, always , bringing some trifling gift, choice some f r,llte or flowers, and offering them in a well-chosen words or neatly-turned e^mpbincht that seldom failed to bring blushes to her cheek, She thought of these—thought them over and over in the silence of her chamber, and her former dislike van¬ isbed. She almost hated herself for not feeling more gratitude grateful, and for not show her in a more friendly manner. “ My child,” said the colonel to her one concerning day, “ Arthur you.” has been speaking to [ne “Of me?” returned Bessie, in sur prise “ I have thought,” continued the col onel, mildly, the “ of the possibility of my soon paying debt we all owe to Na ture. In that event I would like to leave some one to protect you. There is no one who would make you a better hus band than Arthur Grey.” friend “ Arthur me,” Grey replied can never Bessie, bs more than » 2 and to ask forget coldly; can you me to my early vows? another. My I hand shall betleve never be given to cannot my first love dead and Ihe colonel interrupted her with a haughty wave of the hand “ Mich a supposition is absurd in the extreme. Indulge your fancy in no “* k" “ But I must never forget," site answt-red 1 tearfully. ij* ... patiently. , Bessie, do act “J^nel, sensibly, ini these tears for another occasion." “ I shall never marry,” sobbed Bes¬ sie; “ no, never.” “ My child, ” said the colonel, aus¬ terely, “ we’ll have no more of this, if you please. I have waited until your grief had borne in with some measure subsided. I have you patiently, and I hope you’ll obey me by accepting Ar¬ thur Grey.” Bessie drew herself up proudly, and would have replied, but Colonel Orne would hear or no explanation; and, with a gesture of haughty disdain, strode from the room. Poor Bessie, the de¬ crees of destiny are irrevocable! But there came a perceptible change. The angel of death brooded, with shad¬ owy wings of darkness, over the house. Colonel Orne, in a silent and darkened chamber, lay sick unto death. Day and night, Bessie, administered at her post, by his bedside, lingered, his slumbers. to his wants, watching if 1 should lose him, “ What too?” herself, was the with question agonizing she continually dread: asked she and lifted her heart in prayer that the “ cup might pass from he father her lips.” called her One day r to his bedside. “ Bessie, I want you to marry Arthur Grey, and before 1 die. Will you?” he asked, bowed earnestly. head She her in anguish, and replied: “Oh, papa! it is cruel to force me to sacrifice myself; but for your sake. I’ll consent.” “ Bessie, it’s your own sake that I wish you to do this,” he said, shortly and with pain. “ There, pray do not talk any more. You only agitate yourself,” said Bessie, soothingly. He smiled approval. And she sat by his side until he sank into a deep sleep, and then she glided away. Getting her hat, she strolled out into the budding orchard to think—to reflect. Her mind was in a confused state. She seated herself. The wind fluttered down some dry leaves that had withstood the storms of winter, and yet lingered “An emblem in the lap of spring. of my future,” she thought, and sighid. And here Arthur Grey found her, and repeated the old, old story, so often told. She accepted him passively, only say¬ ing, “I can never love you. My heart was buried with my first love. My hand i give Arthur freely.” And Grey obtained his re¬ ward. They were to be married quietly in a few days, Arthur and Bessie. A few of Bessie’s most intimate friends were invited to witne:-s the ceremony, and assist Bessie in the Irving ordeal that would hold her forever’to a dreary life. The memorable morning dawned, bright in the bridal and beautiful. Bessie, arrayed drawipg-room, costume, wherea well-known repaired to the stood before her. Did her figure eyes deceive her? “Gracious heavens! Gilford, alive and well! ’ And, for the first time in her life, Bessie swooned away. Intense excitement reigned through¬ out the house. Bessie was now restored to consciousness; and then an angry scene followed between her and Arthur, which ended in him leaving the house. And then Gilford explained. Hickness of many months’ duration prevented him from sailing in the ill-fated steamer, and doubtless saved his life. Letters were sent and never reached their des tinat on. It was an oft-repeated story. Ami when he finished, Bessie threw her arms around his neck, exclaiming: “Dear Gilford, you came just in time. Another hour and you would have been too late!” And Gilford thought so, too. A Coinlng-OuLof-thc-Hunic-Holc-Yoii-Lo In Examination. | New York Oraphic.j C unsel—“Did you help to ‘fix' Whit¬ taker?” Cadet—“lam not afixist.” “Do you know anything of the out¬ rage.” “ Not that I know of.” “ Do you know anyone who does?” “ Does what?” “ Know of the outrage?” “ Whatoutrage?” “ Ttie outrage on Whittaker?” “ Which Whittaker?” “ “ Why, f your Whittaker.” Whittaker.” have no “Don’t you know Whittaker?” “ You mean Cadet Whittaker?” “ Yes.” “ I know of him.” “ Do you know who outraged him?” “ I don’t know that he :s outraged.” “ Why, he is.” “ Is he?” “ Yes.” “ How?” “Cutand slit.” “ Where ?” “ Ears and legs.” “ Who did it?” “ We don’t know.” “ You don’t say so?” “ Yes, we do.” “ Well, whit are you going to do about it!” “ Find out who did it.” “ Did what ?” “ The outrage.” “On Whittaker’" “ Yes ” “ Well, I do declare!” “ Then you d in’t know who did it?” “Did what!” “ The outrage.” “ What outrage?” “ The outrage on Whittaker.” “What Whitaker?’ “ Why, your Whittaker.” “ I have no Whittaker.” Mk HotUERN, we learn, has definitely decided uj>on remaining in this country next season. He will sjxoid the summer as the Duke of Beaufort’s guest in Canada and in yachting tours. “ HtLENfiE is golden.” Aunt—" Has any one been at these preserves?” (Dead Bileuce) “ Have you touched them, Jrmuiy ?*’ Jemmy—“Fa never ’lows me to talk at dinner.” IT is a great piece of lolly for a man to be alwavs ready to meet trouble half way. II he would put all the journey on trouble tie might never meet it at all. NUMBER 15. Says She Fought in the Wnr. [Philndelpliia Timpi-l Catharine Hill, acolored woman, who Rays she fought throe years on the Union side in the late war, under the name of Henry Williams, keeping her sex all ihe while a secret, applied the other day at the office of William B. Mann to procure his assistance "in gett ing her a pension. questioned Colonel Mann, not a little as¬ said tonished, her close 1 y. She she enlisted in Biltimore, in the Fifth Maryland Regiment, on the ffthof J une, in the year which she could not re¬ member, except that it was the break¬ only ing out of the war, and that she had not served three years in the ranks, but seven months in the hospital, hav¬ ing been wounded four times. It was while in the hospital that her sex was discovered bv the attending physician, who kept it a secret. Prior to entering the army she had passed a medical examination at the hands of Drs. Creek and Perry of Balti¬ more. her Captain while Woodville Colonel commanded company, Frish com msnded her regiment. She was mus¬ tered in at Camp Belger, remained there six weeks, when, with others, she was mustered out and sent to Fortress Mon¬ roe, where she stayed five months, and then was mustered out again and sent to Halifax, Va., and from there, after C. fighting Dr. Wood, a battle, went to Raleigh, N. of Twentieth and Wood streets, she says, has her discharge. She named many of her old comrades, among them and Reddy, Captain West, of Baker street, Clark, Johnson, Griffin and Joyce, all of Baltimore. She waa wounded three times—once in the face, once in the side anil once in the thigh. Mann Her age, she says, is 32. Colonel asked her to bring her discharge to him and the name of the men who decisive composed her mess before lie could take steps. This she promised to do and took her leave. Those who heard her story are strongly impressed as to its truthfulness. Brutal Hazing. [Pittsburg Telegraph.J At one of the collegoH in New York State, rendered a few years ago, a Freshman WHS ously injured, inseusible, and his heal th seri¬ by the efforts of several upper class men to “smoke him out,” a pnaze well understood by all college men. The Freshman had a strong stomach, and for a long time the tobacco smoke had no effect upon him. Finally, the upper class men bound him in a chair, with his body so bent over that, his lace was nearly between his knees. A large spittoon was placed between his feet, mi l into this was put a quantity of rank tobacco, some woellen rags (torn from the Freshman’s undershirt), and a litt'e oil. This compound was lighted, and then the victim was enveloped in a blanket reaching to the floor. Long glais tubes from the college laboratory were pushed under the blanket into the spittoon, and blowing through these caused a thick column of black and vile smoke to ascend directly into the Freshman’s face. To the surprise of his tormentors, even this device failed to effect its object, and when the blanket was found finally insensible. removed the Freshman was Alarm took the place of “innocent pleasure” in tie minds of the upper class men, and they worked as hard to restore iheir victim to consciousness as they had before to make him insensible. It was a long and time he before felt the the effects Freshman of his recovered! brutal treatment for months. The Collateral Business Explained. |L>< trolt Kr«*e I’kjhm. ) The other day one of the postoflice brigade of boot-blacks desired to raise a loan of eight cents, and after some look¬ ing around he found Little English, who was perfectly willing to advance the amount, providing lie was secured. The borrower had no collateral, and in this emergency the advice of Jack Hliej) ard was called for. ‘ Easiest thing in the world when you undeistand finance,” replied Jack. “You want to borrow eight cents? ’ “ Yes.” “ Well, you hand me over ten cents as security that you will pay me back.” The two sums changed hands, and the borrower scratched his head and slowly asked: “ How does this come? I haven’t got as much as I had before I borrowed any.” Then others the scratched their heads and looked puzzled, but Jack suddenly got the idea. “Its the collateral business that does it,” long he confidently and announced. “Its a word liable to shrinkage, and if you are only two cents short you’ve come out awful lucky. Last time I made a raise on collateral I lost fifteen cents off the dock and a six-shilling jack-knife went over: o Windsor on shrinkage 1” Are There Hurli I’eeple Everywhere. An old lady the other day standing in Union Square, New York, hailed a pass¬ ing omnibus, which pulled up at her call. “ Good-bye, then, my dear,” she said to a female friend who accompanied her. “ I’ll write and tell you how I got on directly I’ve got there. You’ve got my address, haven’t you? No! Why, 1 thought I gave to you. It’s in this bag, I suppose, under this pocket handkerchief, and my keys, and my package directly. of sandwiches. I’d Oh! I’ll come to it better give it now, else when I write I may forget to send it 1 hat’s not it, is it? No; that’s my prescription. And won’t There—there forget you are! you to write? If you see Mrs. Brown, you must re mem lx* r me kindly. And Hhe’s a sweet woman, tffarried isn’t she? to think she should he to such a brute! But that’s the way of the world, all over It’s just like my poor, dead sister Maria. Bhe was as meek as a lamb—never did a bad thing or said a bad word of anybody, that I ever heard of—Look at that ’busman’s impudence! If he hasn't driven on again 1 Now I shall have to wait for the next.” It seems that Bernhardt foresaw the drawal legal troubles consequent on her with- and from the Coinedie Frsncaise, the money it w< uld ecat her, aud was prepared to meet tfie emergency, Ihe IMinsvtlle gulratttt. i WEEKLY rAPER, PUBLISHED AT V/atk'nsviSfe, Oconee Co,, Georgia. r A TES OF ADVERTISING : Kwh h first irisen ion 55 8S&888S8SSSS23 Un tub.-equent insertion........ 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The earth of a graveyard in which there had been no interments for at least thirty Reicnardt. years has been examined by Dr. It gave off animal heat, not¬ mitted withstanding its long disuse when sub¬ to distillation. When delivering a lecture recentlv on the industrial applications of arti¬ ficial cold, M. R. Pictet startled his au¬ dience by one of his experiments, in which he coined a medallion in frozen quicksilver. Considerable advance has been made in our knowledge of solar physics by Henry Draper’s discovery,of oxygen in the sun by means of the ap. ctroscope, the substance manifesting itself by bright lines in the sun spectrum. Coal is nothing else than ferns, mosses the and sea weeds, petrified beneath surface of the water in the absence of air. There are no lest than 850 dif¬ ferent species of plants petrified into coal, of which 250 at least are gigantic ferns. It lias been shown at the Dudley Observatory that the whole amount little of ammonia in six feet fall of snow is over proving one-half that pound the beneficial to the ac*, thus effects of snow are not due to the ammonia, as su posed by some. The niircronbone has been success¬ fully employed by Professor Milne, of Tokio, Japan, to announce the premoni¬ tory signs of an earthquake. He places the instrument in pits remote from the roads, and he is careful, also, to exclude all insects, the movements of which would, of course, sffect the indications, and lead to also inferences. From an investlg ition instituted by the Ilev. J. r,. tension-Woods it ap¬ pears that the large trees of the forests of Tasmania are only half as old as they are adding popularly supposed to be. Im-leul only one ring of wood to tlirir that in a year, which they add two be so a tree seems to 100 years T. old Boeke, is in reality only High 50 years. I Hi. I ). of the School, says attending that notwithstanding the the sale of “ white ” In Holland, poisoning by that than is by no means rare. In not seven cases submitted to him analysis, white arsenic proved to be agent wriieh had prortuced death in and severe and painful illness in (he To clean smoke off marble, wet a piece of llannel in strong ammonia, and rub the marble quickly with it and then wash off with hot soap suds; or make a paste of chloride of lime and water, and brush over the whole surface that is smoky. Let it stand a minute, then wash with hot suds. A paste of crude potash and whiting marble brushed over a grease spot on will cleanse it perfectly. Lank Brofebsor E. Ray ester sug¬ gests grave doubts whether chlorophyll has the power to decompose carbonic a< id so as to fix the curb m and liberate a portion of tiie oxygen of that acid when in the presence of sunlight. In¬ stead of assigning it the hiahest rank of “ the hand wherewith the organic world lays hold of the carbon of the in¬ organic that the world,” he is inclined is little to believe than green pigment protoplasm. more a screen for by An Italy. Antarctic It intended expedition is the proposed vessel is that leave Genoa on the 1st of May next year, maun d with men selected from the royal navy and from Italian whal¬ ing-vessels. Montevideo, Terra When del on Fuego, the voyage Falkland out. Island and South Shetland Islands will be visited. Two winters will be spent In the Antarctic region, during which excursions will he made on the ice in order to gather as much information over as wide an area as possible. On the voyage home the ship will call at Hobart Town or Cape Town The cost the expiilition will not, it is thought, 600,000 lire. That Boy’s llair. A Michigan doctor has written a hook upon the human hair, in which he pre¬ these views: “ Hairs do not as a rule, penetrate anj^le. the scalp perpendicularly, angle of the but different at an When the hairs is the same, it is possible to give to it the easy sweeps and curves which we generally see it take, but if they are by some freak rebellious of nature frizzle misplaced, we have the ‘ tops’ that are not susceptible of the influence of the brush and comb. Many a poor mother has half worried her life out trying to train her Johnny’s rebellious locks to better ways, believing it was Johnny’s perverseness of manners that induced such dilapidated-looking head gear, when it was really Done of Jobn ny’s fault at all, but simply a freak of nature in misplacing the radiating neu¬ ters of his ‘ hirsute covering.' 8 ime times fowls fuller from a contrawbe placing of the feathers they run the wrong way. The author’s father had a hen whose leg-feathers ran up toward the body, and those on the body and neck toward the head. This gave her a perpe letual ‘ out of sorts’ look, aud she could never fly. The erection of the hair of animals during fright, anger, is caused or of human beings in by a chance in the skin and the angle at which the hair enters the head or body.” Miss Marie Van Zandt, whose suc¬ cess in “Mignon” in Paris is well known, received the following liuo note: “Dear little friend: Only a to toll you how much wo were all under the charm the other evening. You sang like a dear little augell With very best love, I remain your affectionate, Adelina Patti. ” Wendell Phillips Uout with a l*e ture on temperance.