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.FANCIES FOB THE FAIR.
Undressed kid gloves must be in lighl
■hades.
Beads in profusion are the ornaments
most in vogue. 4 1| § ,
JsRSErs continue to be the most popu¬
lar London suits.
Parasols are cheaper in Europe than
on this side of the water.
ple There dresses is of a tendency former‘days. to revive the sim¬
He told her to set her day, and she
Saturday for her Weddin’s day.
Lisle thread gloves come in great va¬
riety; finer finished 3 and )J cheaper than last
year. m #*aii
Says a French critic: I like a girl be
Jore she gets womanish, and a woman be¬
fore she gets girlish.
An Arkansaswoman is now living with
her fourteenth husband, and has only
worked one county.
Freckles are not so bad. It is said
that one girl Joes not object to seeing
them on another girl’s face.
Bridal dresses are made of white
satin, with round dots, and trimmed with
tulle and orange blossoms.
Wb blame inconstancy in woman, but
charming only when we are the victim. We find it
if we are the object.
Women detest a jealous man whom
they do notlpye, but it augers them when
a man whom they do love is not jealous.
When you talk to women you mnsi
choose between lying and displeasing
them. There is no middle course unless
you say nothing. *
Heliotrope is the prominent color in
most noticeable elegant toilets, and shirring is the
diaphanous trimming of all light and semi
dresses.
Women who love are always afraid they
are not loved. Women who are nol
loved always flatter themselves that they
are loved. —Louis Desnoyers.
Mrs. Scott-Siddons says that an
American servant will tie on her veil in a
natty, ■duchess graceful Way that an English
knows nothing about.
With women marked irregular noset
signify mote than talent With men; and,
except in cases of a few, beauty mus'
always sacrifice something to genius.
It was a Chicago woman who first in¬
vented the idea of placing the canary
bird, stuffed with sawdust, in a place
a eat would have to work two hours to
getit.
A wife no more believes in business
xvMoh takes her husband away fromhei
than a manager believes in tb< e sickness
of an actor, or a publisher in that of a
■writer.
Lucy Hooper seems to take a great
•deal of comfort in saying that the Em¬
had press Eugenie has lost her beauty. She
some once, and that is more than—
everybody can say.
A New Jersey woman was helped out
of a lumber wagon at a funeral, and are
volver in her pocket exploded and shot a
man in the leg. She said she came pre
pared ,
to ineet tramps .
The young lady at the sea-side sait
she had been to see the rollers. Her
the mamma, thought she meant the waves;
the yoqng bowling lady and the fellow who kept
alley did not.
What gathering flowers in a wood is to
children, that shopping in large towns is
to women. To wander from shop to shop,
to compare, to choose, to appropriate—i*
is like gathering flowers.— Auerbach.
A Philadelphia servant girl who was
washing windows spattered some water
on smiled, a pedestrian. She apologized, he
and in four weeks they wete mar¬
ried. He turned out to be worth
$200,000.
This is the recherche affair up in
Maine, according to the Rockland C’our
icr: When a Lewistown young man asks
a girl if he may see her home, and she is
agreeable, the fair young creature shyly
responds: “You are right you may—tip
us your fluke.”
Jeanne’s mother attempts to dissuade
her from marrying a soldier of Die line
with wkom the girl is desperately in love.
“A war may come and a cannon-ball may
take off his head,” she tells her. “Ah,
well! a widow at sixteen)” exclaims the
daughter. ‘ ‘ What is more poetic?”
The latent rage among young ladies is
to possess an old-fashioned spinning
wheel for a parlor ornament. The desire
to possess an old-fashioned wash-beard
and tub as a kitchen ornament doesn’t
rage miich among young ladies. They
are about as handsome as the spinning
wheel, but they are not fashionable.
flow He Caught Him.
Dana Krum, one of the conductors on
the Erie Railroad, was approached before
train time by an unknown man who
spoke to him as if he had known him for
years. “I say, Dana,” said he, “Ihave
forgotten my pass, and I want to go to
Susquehanna; I am a fireman on the
road, you know?” But the conductor
him. told him he ought to have a pass with
It was the safest way. Pretty
soon Dana came along to collect tickets.
Seeing his man, he spoke when he
reached him, “ Say, my friend, have you
the time with you?”
watch, “Yes,” jaid he, aa he pulled out a
“it is twenty minutes past nine.”
“Oh, it is, is it? Now, if you don’t
show me your pass, or fare, I will Btop
the train. There is no railroad man that
I ever saw whe would say ‘twenty min¬
utes past nine.’ He would say, ‘nine
tweuly.’ ”
He settled.
A sure cure for corns has been dis¬
covered, which will be a boon to the suf¬
fering. It has lieen ascertained that the
worst ease of corns in the world can be
cured bv washing the feet in clean water
every night before going to lied for a
month or sa To many people this will
seem like one of those desperate emer
ffeucies where the remedy is worse than
the disease.
Yonia (rent—“Might I ask you, mi«
I’m engaged for the next three dances.”
Y. G.—“ It is not pardon, dancing—ah—it miss; is—
it’s—beg your hat” you are sit¬
ting on my
To marry when yon am sixty a beauti¬
silly ful girl creature# of twenty-five, who buy is books to imitate aimply those for
the" pleasure oi their frtenda. —Adolph
lioard.
The Watkinsville Advance.
VOLUME I.
Professional Shoplifters.
“Professional shoplifters," said a New
-York merchant, “very often wear great
cloaks. They can put away a good deal
under them. By missing their folded
arms under tlieir cloaks they coiiceal
toe-added size the articles give them.
They their have a pocket made in the front of
dresses big enough to hold a mini
ber of ' ackages. Why, when we
unloaded _
a woman here one day we took
oiit of that pocket all that a good-sized
boy could carry on his outstretched
arms. I remember how indignant that
woman was when accused.
“ I Was walking through the store one
day when a clerk told mo he thought a
woman he was serving had stolen some
Leghorn raised hats. I walked up to her and
one of her arms suddenly.
Twenty-two know hats fell to the floor. You
what Leghorn hats are ? They
aro made of a kind of grass anil fold
f close together. She had concealed $37
worth. She said she had picked them up
on the floor and was going to put them
where the rest of the hats were kept.
We arrested her.
“ The hands of an experienced shop¬
lifter work faster than the eyes of an
observer. A Central-office detective
standing in the store one day saw a
She’d woman hold putting away silk handkerchiefs.
one up as if to examine it,
and then she’d suddenly pass it into her
other hand, and then into a big front
pocket the detective with such lightning rapidity that
couldn’t tell what she was
doing, but he thought she was putting
them back on toe counter. He made a
study of the, subject and caught her.
baskets, Shoplifters often steal our valises and
and then go around the store
filling them up. We know a good many
of the profession. We sent a man to
the trial of Mr. and Mrs. Volkener, who
were accused lately of an attempt to
poison Mr. Blair, of Chatham, N. Y.
You remember it was said that Mrs.
Volkener and Mrs. Connelly, who lived
with her, were shoplifters; He came
back and said the face of the big woman
(Connelly) was a familiar one in our
store.
“The worst thing shoplifters do,” he
said, in conclusion, “ is to steal from
our customers. They are very fond of
taking pocketboqks and valises. We
would a great deal rather they would
steal from us, for their victims are sure
bad to give a store where they are robbed a
reputation. Not long ago a lady
who had $128 in a valise rested it on the
counter a moment anil it disappeared.
She found an old one in its place. We
believe that the thieves who took it knew
that she had the money, and had fol¬
lowed her for a long distance.”
Dock Mysteries.
It is not an agreeable sight, the bot¬
tom of a ship’s dock at low water, but a
thought of wliat is hidden in and under
the soft and bubbling mud must give
pause to many a mind. Divers and
dredgers only are familiar by personal
contact with toe probabilities of the hid¬
den depth, and their experiences are ex¬
ceedingly watch, varied. The find may bo a
fall a telescope, or whatever is liable
to over from the rail of a tied-up ves
-sel, or, horrible possibility, a human
;s body. toe point But the here. curiosities A large of steamship dredging
dock in East Boston is now being cleaned
out, for the first time in the twenty
years, and the many finds in toe oozy
substance, aftei it has been deposited by
the capacious maw of the jaw-like dip¬
per into the scow, are very suggestive.
Dishes of all kin Is, spoons, knives and
forks, are hooked out by the hundred,
whole and well preserved, to say nothing
of the myriad particles of broken crock¬
ery, scraps of iron and other debris ,
which serve only tr miphasize the ordi
naiy imprecatior of the dredgeman as
his “pull” proves disappointing. But
the strangest happening of all, and the
luckiest fish-out of the season, oecured
this week, one man recovering more than
four dozen pieces of tableware without a
crack or a nick to mar the beauty of their
surface --English crockery of tho heavi¬
est and most ornamental description in
iiBe on a first-class passenger steamship.
Those only who have traveled know tlie
care that is token on a trans-Atlantic line
in table furniture. Dishes and tureens,
with their covers fitting, and in one in¬
stance a half dozen match dinner plates,
with the company arms, were found.—
Boston Transcript.
Brain Pressure in Schools.
Tq do something schools, toward the remedying London
brain pressure in
Spectator says that it should be deter¬
mined beforehand what amount of time
may be fairly prepared expected to be home—Say required for
lessons to be at an
hour a day for those under thi , ana
an hour and a half or two hows fear those
above that age; and parents should be
asked to inform the teachers if the time
thus fixed is exceeded, in order that
the task, if needful, may be reduced in
amount. A still more important consid¬
eration is tbe character of the task pre¬
scribed. If it consist of new work, and
be preparatory to the lesson of the next
day, it may present problems which p 1 !/•
zle and distress a slow-tbonghted ch: ild;
especially help if he home. has access But to no intelli¬
gent at if, as a rule,
home exercises are supplementary to
those of the school hours, and have for
their main purpose to illustrate, deepen
and fix what has already been explained, objection.
they are not open to the same
Tbe main part of the intellectual diffi¬
culty should be solved at school with the
help the home of the student teacher; should the solitary consist work of tlie of
easier task of recapitulating and method¬
izing what is alrerdy understood.
Admiration. .....
admires Every man of sense and refinement
a woman as a woman; but when
she steps out of this character, a thou
sand things that in their appropriate
sphere would be admired become dis
gusting and offensive. The appropriate
character of a woman demands the deli
«cy of awiearance and manners, refine
ment of aentunent, gentleness of speech,
modesty avlrllTto’Tthat m feeling and i^irL^l action a shrink
nuh’
tends to indelicacy and impurity, either
m principle or ^ setmn These are the
in a woman.
WATKINSVILLE, GEORGIA, JULY 21, 1SS0.
IN A TI.TIH OF TROftRliB.
Ai An oAglfc from the height,
On Looking down upon the
foresta black as night,
Fair fields and desert sands.
Sees the traveler below
Losing heart, as, league on leanest
Long No wildernesses show
end to his fatigue,
Bo faith, amid her stars,
The Beholding far beneath
In bright or gloomy bars
the web of life aud death,
Been weary hearts that deem
The dark breadth in the whol*,
Beea happy hearts that dream
Thi bright rays all their goal.
Ah! let this faith bo ours—
That even ’mid the pain,
Above the present towers,
And sees the nearing gain;
While, breadth by breadth, appears,
As from tho weaver’s baud,
The pattern of the years
Which God Himself has planned.
DR. DEDLING’S MISTAKE.
“Of course,” said young Dr. Ded¬
ling, “a man has his own fortune to look
to.
“Of course,” said Judith; and,
she spoke the words, a cold chill seemed
to creep, like slowly-congealing ice,
aroun d her whole heart.
“ If you had consulted me as to your
affair,” went on the young man, “in¬
stead of taking this extraordinary step,
entirely Yes, without advice or council—”
“ I know,” hurriedly interposed
Judith ; “but it’s over and past now, so
perhaps The we had better not talk about it. ”
red winter sunset was blazing
noth sullen fire above the cedar copse in
tlie_ their west; black the leafless in woods of held up
arms, a sort wrestling
agony toward the skv, as the bleak winds
tossed them to and fro, anil a solitary
raven uttered his ominous croak in the
woods at the back of the house.
Dr. Dedling shuddered as he looked
around him, and glanced out towifrd the
dreary swamp that extended toward the
east.
“Such a place,” he said, “for a lady
to select to live in 1”
“It isn’t very cheerful,” said Judith,
“but I liave lived here all my life, you
know.”
“The nioro reason for wanting to get
out of it now,” said the doctor, impa¬
tiently.
Judith was silont. She looked at the
blazing logs in the old-fashioned hearth,
and tried to keep baok the fast-rising
tears.
Dr. Dedling arose and took up his hat.
“ Then I am to consider that our en¬
gagement iB quite at an end?" said the
doctor.
“ “Good-by Yes,” said Judith, in a very low tono.
!” said Dr. Dedliftg.
The “Good-by!” responded Judith.
next moment she was alone with
the tlie logs, hearth, and toe crickets chirping on
and the strange, weird shad¬
ows that came and went on the wainscot
ted walls.
"It was just a month to-night since they
had Little buried Judith, old who Miles had Grey out herself of sight.
worn out
in taking care of him, tad dropped a
few tears on tM chekp boffin that in¬
cased his remains, but no one else hod
semed particularly to grieve.
Mrs. Pytchley, her eldest sister, who
was married to a New York grocer, had
ooldly declared that it was high time the
old man took himself off the stage of
this world, and hail made no secret of
her disappointment when it was dis¬
covered that $1,000 in gold pieces repre¬
sented all his hoarded wealth, with the
exception whose of the cranberry swamp, upon
this dreary dreary verge stood the house; and
will, property, be divided by between the terms of the
was to his two
nieces, Judith Gray and Martha Pytch¬
ley, as they themselves might agree.
“I’ll take the ready money, ” said Mrs.
with Pytchley, three hastily, “What miles of could cranberry I do
or 101 our
swamp ?”
“ Or, what could Judith do with it,
either ?” said Hobart Pytchley, who sat
whittling a pine stick beside the fire.
“I dare say she could manage very
nicely,” said Martha. I’ve heard Uncle
MileB say that he sold $00 wortn of cran¬
berries one year out of the swamp.”
“ “And Humph I” grunted Mr, Pytchly.
that’s legal interest on $1,000,
you know,” added Ms wife. “What do
yon say, Judith?”
“It makes no difference to me,” said
Judith, quietly.
“It does to me, then !” said Mrs.
Pytchley; “because, as you know very
well, Hobart’s business is in the city,
and we could do nothing at all with a
lot of swamp land down here in toe back
woods.”
80 Mrs. Pytchley had taken the lion’s
share of the old man’s bequests and
gone back to her city home, over Ho¬
bart’s grocery ; and young Dr. Dedling,
who had confidently calculated on at
least $500, to buy surgical instruments
to fit up an office in the village adjoin
nig—$500 as the dowry of liis bride
elect—broke his engagement in a pique
that Judith should have so deliberately
flung her fortune away.
“A set of sharpers 1” cried he, with
disgust Judith,
coloring “Step, Dr. Dedling!” said
of up. “You forget that you are
speaking my sister and her husband.”
“But they had no business to impose
on you thus !” exclaimed tin doctor.
“ I agreed to “the plan without remon ■
Btrance "
Dr. Dedling shrugged hie shoulders,
“In that,” said he, sharply, “you
showed yonr lack of sense l If you had
have ta. good regard for yourself, you might
had some for me !” /
“ Was it for my monev you wanted
me?” demanded Judith, stung to the
quick. Dr.‘Dedling colored
and hesitated.
<( A man mu«t bike monetary matters
into consideration.” he said.
And so it came about that the engage
ment was canceled, and Judith Grey twiliulit was
sitting there alone in wintry he,vl
silently, with clasped hands and
dropped Doctor upon IWling her breast.
plodded home to the
village, and ss be passed the brilliant
windows of tlie tittle hostelry he paused,
remembering the bitteroold of the winter
'V h * trc * ty
T
Mine h!l met I urn with a cheery saiil air.
“ Walk in, doctor ; walk in!” he.
mechanic
ally laid Ins hand upon the door-knob of
the apartment be usually entered. “Tho
This Railway Committee is a sitting there.
way, if you please!”
“The Railway Committee 1” echoed
You Dedling. don’t “Wliat Rail wav Committee?
mean that they’re actually
taking railway any steps about toe old idea of 11
between here aud Glassville?”
“ Yes, I do,” said the landlord. “It’s
a committee of rich capitalists, as are
they building factories close to the Falls; and
mean to put up a row of tenement
houses ail along, aud would lay down a
line of rails ; aud don’t say I mentioned
it, doctor, because I only caught a snatch
here and there, when I was carrying in
the plates, and setting on the fruit, and
nuts, and wine—but it’s to go right
through old Miles Grey’s cranberry
swamp, the railway is! And the Chair¬
man is going to offer Miss Judith $5,000
in good, clean, hard money for her share
Doctor Dedling started!
“Five—thousand dollars 1” repeated
he, slowly. it
Could really be a fact? If so—and
there seemed little reason for doubting
it—what a fatal mistake he had made in
rejecting rich a bride who could bring the
portion of a “cranberry swamp” as
her wedding dower. If he had known
this half an hour—one little half-hour—
agol
‘‘Don’t fret about him, Judith, dear,
he isn’t worth it! ” urged honest Maraa
duke Redileld, who had stopped on his
way to the postoffice to bring a messago
from his mother. “He was always a
pretentious show, sort of fellow, all for outside
with a heart like a stone, and a
nature as shallow as Deacon Doler’s
brook.”
hearted, Judith hard-han looked u ded p at the farmer, clumsy, good
and won
lered that she had never before seon
what a true face, and what clear, frank
eyes he had.
field; “Forget him, Judith,” pleaded Red
and she began seriously to think
that she would at least make tlie trial.
“Come over to our house and stay with
mother. It’s too bleak and lonesome
for you here, for the present at least.
Spring will be time enough for you to
come back to tho cranberry ewamp. ”
Judith Grey looked around at the sol¬
itary room, and thought of Mrs. Red
field’s cozy kitchen, with its bright
colored rag carpet, its window lined
with blooming geraniums, anil its slirill
voiced canary bird hanging over the
work-table.
“Do you think,” she hesitated, “that
your mother would be willing to be
troubled with such a guest as I ?”
Duke Redfisfd’s face grew radiant.
Judith, “Only you’d try her,” welcome he said; “dear
be as as the flow¬
ers in May.”
And the next day Mrs. Reilfield came
over in the old farm carryall to claim
her guest, and the swamp house was left
to its ow-n drearv desolation and the
driving Scarcely snows three of January. had elapsed
weeks
when young Dr. Dedling oamo to Iied
field farm in his new gig, with the old
roan good horse, that really made quite a
appearance when you did not
hurry tion hun, and he was free from a visita¬
commonly known as the “ heaves. ”
“ There ain’t nobody sick here,” said
Julius, the hired man, wiio was splitting
wood at the side of the house, as he eyed
tho doctor rather suspiciously.
“but “No, I know it,” said Dr. DoiRbig ;
I have called to see Miss Grey.”
“Miss Grey ain’t noways ailin’as 1
know of,” persisted Julius, feeling the
edge of his ax, and staring hard at tho
medical representative of Glassville.
“ I have called,” said Dr. Dedling,
with dignity, “ as a friend.”
“Oh,” said Julius.
“Will you he kind enough to let mo
in ?” persisted the doctor.
il » Tain’t no use,” said Julius, rolling
a
prodigious pine knot down from the pile,
and preparing himself for a stupendous
effort; “ there ain’t nobody to home.”
tor. “ Nobody at home?” echoed tlie doc¬
plained “ They’ve Julius. all gone to church,” ex
“ To church, man ? Why, it’s Tues¬
day.
‘ ‘ Who said it wasn’t ?” retorted Julius.
“ They ain’t gone to hear service—they is
gone to be married !”
“ Who ?” demanded the doctor.
“Our Marmaduke and Miss Judith 1”
And down came the ax upon the end
of the pine knot with a crash that mode
the man of medicine start back.
The new railroad was duly construct¬
ed directly across the depth of old Miles
Grey’s placed cranberry Marmaduke swamp, and $5,000 was
to Mrs. Rodfield’s
account in the nearest national bank;
and Mrs. Pytchley thinks she made a
mistake in taking tne gold eagles instead
of the cranberry swamp; but young Dr.
Dedling thinks his mistake was greater
•till.
Band-Showers In China,
Every _ witnesses1
.year curious sand-
8 ow erR ^ China when there is neither
cloud , . nor fog m the sky, but tbe sun is
scarcely wh visible, looking h very much as
® ^ D thr ?“*
filled . with a fine dust, entering
air is
e Dri. nostrils and mouth, and often
serious diseases of toe eye.
-Thu* dust, or Band, as the people call it,
Pe™tnUm houses, reaching even apart
ments which seem Securely closed. It
w If 11 ???*?- *° < t? nw m great des
ert of Gobi, aa the Band , of the Hahara is
^ken up bv whirlwinds and carried hun
d reds of nules away. The Chinese, while
* enslt,v « u> the P eMC ®al discomfort aris¬
them fr °m from these showers, are resigned to
a conviction that they are a
K that T, ‘a.t help of to agriculture. sand-showers They say
a year numerous is
sand always probably a year imparts of largo fertility. The
momenta the soil, arid some jt also enriching Uu/ds
to to
loosen the compact alluviaJ mattar of
the Chipese showers vflUeys. be It is possible 3 of that
may eompose mi
woseopic w,1 *ch have insects, like similar showers
been noticed in tlu> Atlantic
ocean.
said “On, rather yen. dubio.wly, ycs>^the while old Lama gentleman
was
telling him about Ton’s ability and pros
,**.(*, } ‘- 0 }„ yes; good enough prospects, There
re-Mon. but he lacks energy.
started." But aim .ily “liter,” murmured tha!
it .bowed he was a with great
staymg qualUte*. anil thci the commit.
tee roe*, -ttarlinylun Hawkeys.
The Pedigree of the Dog.
While considering the problem of the
origin tho of the dog, in a recent lecture at
Huxley Royal Institute, iu opinion London. Prof.
solution expressed the if beginning that its
was easy a was
made upon a solid basis of fact. Sucli a
basis known of fact was supplied dogs by wliat in was
of the origin of North
America. The Indians of the northwest¬
ern parts of America were all in posses¬
sion of half-tame cur-like (togs, living in
tlie same way as the dogs in Egypt—in
a semi-independent condition. wild In tho
same country there exists a animal
—tho Cams'latrans, or prairie wolf. It
was somewhat difficult to understand how
those wild and fierce animals could be
tamed; and yet, when one knew tlieir
habits it was easy enough. The smaller
wolves florae, and jackals, endowed although with prodaoiouB singular
anil were
curiosity; that curiosity directed them
toward man and his doings. There was
not one of those animals which, if oaught
young—whotlier jackal or small wolf—
could not be tamed and made as attached
and It devoted difficult to man as understand, any ordinary there¬ dog.
was not to
fore,how these animals became acquainted
with man, how they became trained, and
how from them sprang a race of domestic
animals which, curiously enough, wore
far more attached to tlieir masters and
tho animals with which they were brought
up than to members of their own family.
If they could depend upon tho fact that
this ono domestic dog originated in too
taming then of an iudigenious wild animal,
tlie general problem of the origin
of domostio dogs would tako this form—
could tlioy find in all parts of the world
in which domestio dogs were known wild
stock so similar to the existing rime of
dogs that there was nothing unnatural in
supposing that they had the might mo origin
as the Indian dogs ? They traco
dog-liko animals further and further west,
until, in Northern Africa, they had a
whole series of kinds of dog-liko animals,
usually these known as jackals. He believed
that wild stocks wore the source
from which, in oach case tho savages who
originally their began This to tame dogs had derived
stock. view was confirmed by
arcliRtological served them, researches. tho They mountains hail pre¬
to on of
ancient E gypt, a great variety of forms
of ilogs, and it i was sufficient that tho
further back they wont the fewer wore
the variatioB, until, at the time of the
third Slid fourth dynasties—that is about
6,000 years ago—there were only two
well marked forms of dogs. One of thorn
was similar a comparatively that which small our-liko dog,
to was to be seen in
tho streets of Cairo at the present day,
and the other was like a greyhound. The
cur wild was, jackal, no which doubt, a tame species of tho
was still to be found
in the same country; and with respect to
the greyhound, there was in Abyssinia a
much very long-headed of form dog which tho was very
the same as greyhound,
and which, it could hardly be doubted,
was tho source from which it sprang.,
Assuming that there was no doubt that
tho origin of dogs could lie traced to
these sources, the more modified forms of
the domestic animal wore simply the
result of the selected breeding, which
had given rise to tho same modification
in dogs as it had done in the case of
pigeons .—Scientific American.
The Open Sky.
It is a strange thing how little, in gen¬
eral, people know about tho sky. It is
the part of creation in which nature has
done more for the sake of pleasing man
—more for tho soul and evident purpose
of in talking other to him, of her and teaching anil hun, it is than just
any wdsUh;
the part in which wo lcust attend to her.
There are not many of her other works
in which some more material or essential
purpose than the mere pleasing of men is
not answered by every part of their or¬
ganization; but every essential purpose
of the sky might, so far as we know, bo
answered, if, once iu three ilays or there¬
abouts, a great ugly black rain aloud
were brought, up over the blue, and
everything well-watered, and so all left
blue again till next time, with perhaps a
fihn of morning and evening mist for dew.
And iusteod of this, there.is not a mo¬
ment of any day of our lives when nature
is not producing scene after scene, picture
ing after still picture, glory such after exquisite glory, and and work¬
principles upon con¬
stant of the most perfect
beauty, that it is quite certain that it is
all done for us, and intended for our per¬
petual placed, pleasure. however And every man, wher¬
ever far from other
sources of interest or of beauty, has this
doing for him constantly. Tho noblest
scenes of the earth can be seen and
known but by few; it is not intended that
man should live always in the midst of
them; he injures them by bis presence;
but the sky is for all; bright as it is, it,
is not “too bright food.” nor good for human
nature’s daily Sometimes gentle,
sometimes capricious, sometimes awful;
never the same for two moments to¬
gether; almost human in its passion—
spiritual in its tenderness—almost divine
in tal its in infinity, distinct its appeal to its what ministry is immor¬ of
us as as
chastisement or of blessing to what is es¬
sential. And yet we never attend to it,
but we never make it a subject animal of thought,
as it has to do with our sen¬
sations; we look upon all by which it
speaks to us more clearly than to brutes,
uj*on all which liears witness to intention
of the Bupreme, that we are to receive
more from the covering vault than the
light and the dew which we share with
the weed and the worm, and only as a suc¬
cession of meaningless monotonous
accidents, too common and too painful to
lie worth of a moment of watchful¬
ness, or a glance of admiration.— Hus
kin.
I burden . of getting
hkhe is a care in
riches—fear them, m keeping guilt them, abusing temptation them,
1,1 in
sorrow m losing them, and a burden of
im-ount at tast to lie given up ooncerriing
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NUMBER 20.
f urious Antipathies.
confined Being, through an nffliotiun, very much
being surrounded to my house, domestic I take delight in
have boon by pets, and
much amused by wliat I
thought the whims mid affections of
my acquaintances. Some start and are
ill at ease while niy mastiff (who is as
gentle as a lamb) lies under my table;
some tell me they bavo an aversion to
my parrot—its sometimes startling ap¬
ropos answers to words that curiously
fit in the conversation .terrify.- them,
and they think it “ uncanny;” "others—
and those are many—really cannot sit
in the room unless my cat (who is a
great pet) is removed. This all seemed
old so mysterious to mo that I searched an
work on tho “Affections and Im¬
aginations tion, anil of rewarded the Miuil” by for tho a follow¬ solu¬
was
ing extract, which I send, thinking it
may be interesting to your readers.
Mr. Chovrnux, a celebrated French
writer, observes : “ How exceeding
whimsical some antipathies appear 1
I have known people to faint on smell¬
ing the delicious fragrance of a rose,
and yet experience a pleasure in smell¬
ing tain a Governor jonquil or of a hyacinth. of A cer¬
ono the frontier
towns could not bear the sight of fish
spawn, and a liuly whom 1 know wont
into convulsions on seeing a crawfish.
Erasmus, who was a native of Rotter¬
dam, had bo great an aversion to fish
that he could not oven smell it without
being in a fever. If wo may credit
Ambrose Pare, a man of some celeb¬
rity, table be says where be could never sit
at a eels wore served up
without drank fainting. Joseph Scaliger never
Julius milk, Carden could not bear eggs,
Oassar Scaliger had an antipathy
to cresses; Uladistos Jagolon, a Polish
King, hated apples ; ami when Du Ohes
ne, secretary to Francis I., smelt them,
ry they III. occasioned could not his remain nose in to blood. where Hen¬
a room
there was a cat; tho saino aversion was
observed in Marshal Hhomberg, Gov¬
ernor of Languedoc. The Emperor Fer¬
dinand introduced a gentleman • to the
Cardinal do Lorraine at Inspvnek, whose
fear of cats was so powerful that when
lie heard them mow at a distance blood
spurted from bis nose. M. do Laticre
says that he knew' u gentleman whose
fear of the hedgehog was excessive, and
who believed that that animal had act¬
ually been preying 011 liis entrails for
more than two years. He also, relates
another Story, equally singular, of a gen
leman whose bravery none disputed, but
who was so nervous when a mouse ap¬
peared that be could not take out his
sword to destroy it. Mr. Vaughneim,
tlie King’s he huntsman in Hanover, fainted
when saw a roasted pig. The philos¬
opher Ohrysippas lie hated bows so much
that when was saluted lie tell down.
There are persons who cannot tolerate
tho sight of spiders, and there are those
who cat them for amusement. A friend
of mine, a gentleman brave os the boat,
fainted when vaccinated a few months
ago. He could not account for it, ho
said, as of course there was no pain,
neither did lie feel any repugnance,”
A Wonderful Dinner.
A magnificent dinner was that which
was given on Feb. 16, 1476, in Naples,
tlie by Benedetto the (Salutati, of Florence, to
sons of Neapolitan King Fur
rene. As a preliminary course there
was little gilded cakes of pine kernels,
and small majolica bowls, with some
kind of a fancy preparation of milk.
Then gelatine came eight silver platters, with
of capon’s breast, ornamented
with heraldic devie.es, the dish for the
Calabria, most distinguished fountain guest, tho Duke of
dle showering having a in the mid¬
a spray of orange water.
The first part of the meal consisted of
twelve courses of meats, including veni¬
son, veal, ham, pheasants, partridges,
capons, chickens and blanc mange. At
the close a great silver dish was
placed tlie before tlie Duke, and when
cover was raised a flock of
birds flewup. On two enormous
platters stood two peacocks, spread; ap
jiurentlyaelive, theirbeaks they and with held tails burning
111 per
fumede ssenee, and on tlieir breasts
were ilken ribbons, with the Duke’s
arms. The second division consisted of
nine course,s of various sweet dishes,
tarts, marzipan and light, ornamental
cakes, wine. with There hippokros, fifteen a kind kinds of spiced
were of
wine, mostly native Italian and
Sicilian. At the close of the meal the
guests washed their bands in perfumed
water, and after the removal of tho cloth
a mound of green twigs with table, costly es¬
sences were placed on the tho During per
fume of which filled the room. and
and after tho meal there was music
a pantomime.. dessert After of an confectionery, hour’s pause
there was a
served in dishes of silver, with orna¬
mented covers of sugar and wax.
Seeing A Man Home.
I picked Simmons up pretty near
drunk, and took him home. When I got
to Ms house, as I thought, I shook him a
bit, and said, “Here you are.” “Right,”
said he, and Up gave a big bang to the
knocker. went a window.
"Who’s there?” screamed a woman.
“Iliave brought the old man home,”
Raid I.
“All right!” Bhe cried, and came to
the door.
Bhe immediately seized hold of Sim¬
mons, and gave him such a shaking thrt
his teeth seemed to rattle in his head.
“Who are you shaking of?” says he.
"Goodness gracious!” cried the u li¬
man, “that’s not my husband’s voice.” I
immediately found struck a match, and she
she hail been shaking the wrong
been man. setting “There,” said here, she, furiously, “I’ve
up expecting my hus¬
band borne drunk, and now I’ve been
wasting “Don’t my strength on a stianger."
he live here!” said I.
“No,” said the woman, "he don’t."
“Wliat made you knock?" asked Sim¬
mons.
“Knock,” said he, lived “you told mo to."
“1 thought you here,” said I.
“Glad 1 don’t," said lie,
I suppose he was thinking of the shsk
big he'd hail. At last I found where he
did live, and got him home. As soon as
ever she, we knocked, “you’re out she wretch came, ■Oh!”
aays tho as makes ami
my |>oor husband drunk, are you?"
•ho naught inn a slap across the (ace. I've
ever scon a drunken man home sIiuma
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STAGE AND ROSTRUM.
Lott a, the actress, is reported to be
the affianoedwife of Clarence Bainbridge,
an actor,
talk Ada Dyae star¬
ring next season m a new play by
Joaquin Miller.
Maggie Mitchell’s husband is willing
to spend all of his wife’s money. The
voice of the Cricket is sad.
Zazel, in the girl who is fired out of a
gun lianium’s circus, is now cabled
“ the loadstar ” of the arena.
Mbs. John Drew will travel next sea¬
son with Jefferson, playing “The Rivals,”
it is said, the.greater part of tlie time.
Miss Kate Field is making a tour
with her “Musical Mpnologuo,” under
the managetnent of Mr. H. J. Sargent,
and it is probable she will go as far as
San Francisco.
Joe Emmett is at home in his now
tenor-drum specialty introduced in tiie
last act of “Fritz in Ireland.” He started
in the profession as tenor-drum player
with \V. W. Newcomb’s minstrels, and
’•UK>ivcd the munificent salary of $5 a
(reek for his services.
Pauline Luooa, according to a French
newspaper, “cares but little for money.
Lately her million an American impressario offered
ft of dollars to make a tour in
Australia Hut the diva refused, saying
that she had money enough to live on,
that she liked to sing for the love of art,
and that she had no need of Australian
gold.”
Henry Living, tho English actor, asks
$100,000 for fifty nights in this country;
but at present ’longshoremen in New
York are only getting $1.50 a day. This
country is not buying English, body and
boots, so Henry will probably remain at
home and help Sullivan complain of a
want of taste in the American people.—
Norristown Herald.
The now play, “Edgwood Folks,” will
require a cast of twelve people. Sol
Smith Russell, will, of conrso, be tho
leading feature. Among those already
engaged are Charles Rockwell, J. w.
Lanorgan, Walter Lennox, jr., Sol Smith,
B, T. Ringgold, William Warming ton,
Mrs. Sol Smith, Mattie Earl and Nellie
Taylor. They will open the season Au¬
gust 23, at Park Thcatae, New York.
F. 0. Buiinard: “To adopt the stage
as a of profession, means to practice the
art acting not merely as a pastime for
*t
m others, hut only fori cz
of tho "public, who pay tho actor for Ills
trouble, and so make «is employment in
their service furnish him with the means
of public living. to tho ‘Give me a song,’ I’ll says the
actor, ‘and give you
your supper.’ ”
Tub London Sunday Times says of
Sullivan's “Pirates of Penzance:’ "The
secret of tho entire work is that it was
written down to American taetes, that it
succeeded east in the ‘Pinafore.,’ and Not was iierforce
same mold.” complimen¬
tary, writer hut of true. Mr. It Gilbert also adds: is eccentric., “As a
seeming opera
to inhabit a kind of world whose
vanities are to ho looked at upside down.
Though this is admirable in its way, it
docs not bear frequent repetition. People
become tired of standing on tlieir heads,
so to speak, and want to regain their
legs; hut they will not be able to do so
over tho ‘I’irutos of Penzance.’”
Tm$ success Pauline Lucca has met
with in Berlin lias been almost suffocat¬
ing. On tho night of her farewell per
formanue, she in response to loud plaudits,
advanced before the curtain and ex¬
pressed broken her gratitude in a few sentences
tions. Panning by emotion and other considera¬
from his box to the
stage, the Emperor took the opportunity
of thanking singing Lucca for tho great pleasure
bet and acting had given him,
and Wibsequently she was presented, in
his name, with a beautiful and costly
bracelet., set with diamonds and other
precious stones.
OirAiiLEH Wemi has taken some extra¬
ordinary liberties with Shakespeare in
preparing Robson Twelfth Niyht for use by
seventeen and changes Crane, of tho comedians. The
five, but scone are reduced
to there is more than a mere
discarded, rearrangement. Much of the material is
and new language and inci¬
dents aro put in. The most daring of the
latter are the tossing of “ Mnisolio ” in a
blanket aud a duel between “Bir Toby ’’
and “Bebostian.” Mr. Webb is kind
enough, too, to unmistakably unite “Bir
oln, Toby” and to “Sebastian” “Maria,” the to “Duke" “Olivia,” to “Vi
and at the
of the play.
Josli Billings’ Philosophy,
Az a general things, thoze who deservo
good luk the least, pray the loudest for it.
Mi dear boy, selekt jure buzzum
friend with grate oausliun; once selekted,
endorse him with vure bottom dollar.
Beaus seldum fall in luv, but when they
do, they are spilte for enny regular bizz
ness.
Hards and whiskey reduce all men to . •
the same level, aud a very low level, at
that.
Good immitators are even more skarse
than originals are.
I think I had rather liv in a big citty,
and be unknown, than exist in a villige,
old iged to kno evry boddy, or besuspek
ted bi them.
I kan trace all ov mi bad Ink to bad
management, and I guess others kan, if
they An will immitashun he az honest az I am about it.
has it to least equal an original
Laming got to beat at 25 per cent.
iz eazy ennff to acquire, wis¬
dom cuius slo, but stieketh to the ribs.
If yer expekt to suckceed in this life
yur must make the world think that yer
are self. at work for Ahem, and not for yui-e
You may find very plain looking
coquets, but who ever saw a hansum
prude. Life ir. measured hi deeds,
not years,
mutiny a man haz lived to be ninety, and
left nothing behind him but an obituoro
notisa.
Men luv for the novelty ov the thing,
woman luvs bekauze she kant help it.
Thare iz this excuse for luxury, all
luxury* kost money, and sum one reaps
the The advantage. who
man kant luff u an animal,
and the one who won’t iz a devil.
A festive old man ia a burlesque on all
kinds of levity.
Fashion, like every tiling else, repeats
itself. Whet is new now, ha* been new
men n y tunes before, and will be again.