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UMinsuilfe Juj mice.
A WEKKIY PAPER,
Published Tuesday,
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JOTTINGS AND CLIPPINGS.
„sr'sWSaf ered m and killed with carbonic oxide.
Marriage is often said to be the end
ft nian s troubles; yes, but which
If you have a lot of money and are
afraid of being robbedj go and pay your
outlawed debts with it.
The French make cognac for export
from pototoes, and much eau de cologne
from the '
comes same source.
Glam juice, extracted by 'acceptable stewing the
clams, is nourishing and to
weak stomachs and good for sick folk
A.v Illinois man found his runaway
wife working, in male attire, in a Peorte
tailor shop, where her sex was unsus
pected
In the Cornell University library of
forty single thousand volumes there is not a
work of fiction—except the his¬
tories.
A physician residing in Yokohama,
leprosy Japan, writes that the Japanese limit
there by avoiding marriage where
is any trace of the fatal disease.
The duty on paper—To pay your sub¬
scriptions promptly and under the con¬
sciousness that you get more for the
money than can be had in any otliei
way.
An oyster is able to take food within
t wenty-four hours of its coming into life.
It is able to reproduce its kind when oil”
year iltree old, and is marketable at the age ol
years.
A Denver man whose horse was stolen
offered the following discriminating re¬
wards: “ Fifty dollars for the thief, #100
for the horse and thief, and #200 for the
dead body of the thief. ”
A portrait of Que,en Victoria, worked
in silk upon velvet by a young French
■woman, Mile. Julie Giraud, is on exhibi¬
tion in Paris, and will be presented to
the Queen as a mark of that artist’s
admiration.
The natives of the South Pacific Is¬
lands are Very fond of a small sea-worm
about the size of vermicelli, which they
can obtain only at certain seasons. Even
European residents are said to consider
the “pabola” a rare relish.
A girl at Wellesley College said to a
Harvard graduate whom she was taking
through the building, and who said that
President Eliot of Harvard does not think
much of ladies as professors: “ Well,
President Eliot has got a parcel of old
women lot of as professors and Wellesley has
a young women as professors. ”
The other day one hundred and fifty
complaints of nuisances were filed at the
office of the Board of Health. People
outside might think Milwaukee was a
particularly should unclean place, but they
understand that our people are
very the least paticular and get on their ear about
complaints thing. We presume half the
were caused by strangers in
the city throwing chews of tobacco on the
sidewalk.— Feck’s Fun.
Two young men passed before a house.
At the fifth story at an open window, a
woman with a child m her arms bent
Dangerously and recklessly forward to
look at the gentleman who was calmly
smoking a pipe and leaning from his
window, two stones below. The young
^ ‘What ® aw mad insanity of the nurse.
them between imprudence, his ’ said one of
teeth. “Yes,” replied
the other, ‘ ‘to run the risk of dropping
upon the pavement, and crushing to
atoms, such a lovely pipe as that?”
A report from Hungary told of a
criminal hung and subsequently restored
to life by the application of an electro
galvanic current in a special way; death
occurring the a second time from congestion
of brain next morning. A similar
experiment was made unon the body of a
respiration man hung at Bridgeport, Conn. The
was restored but the heart s
action could not be. Such experiments
may yet lead to the raising of a legal
question, as to whether a man hung and
restored to life must be hung again till
dead entirely. In that case the poor
victim would have the full sympathy of
the public.
“I have endeavored to state the higher
and more abstract arguments by wind,
the study of physical science may be
shown to be indispensible to the com
plete training of tlie human mind, but
I. do not wish it to be supposed that, be
cause I may he devoted to more or less
abstract and unpractical pursuits, I am
insensible to tho weight which ought to
he attached to that wliich has been said
to be the English conception of Paradise
—namely, knowledge ‘getting on.’ Now, science the value
of a of physical as a
means of getting on is indubitable
There are hardly any of our trades ex
cept the merely huckstering ones in
which some knowledge of science may
not be directly profitable to the pursuer
of that occupation. An industry attains
higher stages of its development as its
processes become more complicated and
refined, and the sciences are dragged in,
fray. one ”— by one, to take their share in the
Huxley.
No Baby. 3 ‘
Ir There ,, lives . the country, not .. far from .
m
hacramento, and much a worthy couple, w-eU known
esteemed, happiness whose only alloy to
n.FF'd 1 resides in the fact
that thus far they have not, after some
years of wedded life, been blessed by
o{ matr ’ mon 7- a
iwTrn TV heD 1 F , h T ll “, ^en
ZTot tn , vrulowe(1 motlier of
iho thfwequai . y a source
voider- d r H “ ot Fsitate to
ft i .’'SSrt““..Tl%rS Lil thp flie other
w 0
plied household the elderly of the lady, visitors. “NdL“ on^and—” £?
ple£e “not
“Now. mother enoJtgh,” don't. interpol^X I’m sure
there's time
other. “ Oh, I know what you'll say_”
“But, mother—” “Don’t but me! 1
know I’ve got no grandchild, and 1
guess I aint have likely myself.” to have one either
unless I it That dosed
the argument for that day.
■r„ <•». i. «„ »i, .,,. r
and Victoria, the only «owiwd wuiow
among * u ^
fonso aid Chns ine £ ipefai, are the
voungest jeiUcfl couple; NVtUiam and
Augusta, of Germany, the oldest,
The Watkinsville Advance.
VOLUME I.
Honor in the Printing Office.
of OOIlti(lential r.he's/.u’p’S public documents, books
printed thorship for secret societies, and the au
of articles or pamphlets, as al
honorably rea<ly referred to, which has been most
maintained. When treaties
the are prematurely is published in n^ .vspapers
copy obtained from some leaky or
printers venal official, who and not from any of the
set up or work off the orig
mal. A case of this kind occurred a year
or two a S°. wherein a convention be
tween thls country and another power
was revealed to one of the evening news
Q®"- lathe Foreign Office, at White
¥>• “Jways the at ™ work, 18 l and if ® these taff of liked
men
they might let kind, out secrets of the most
momentous any one of which
wo istic uld, perhaps, in these days of journal¬
pounds. competition, be worth a few hun¬
dred But such a dereliction of
clerk, duty has and never yet occurred; it was a
trayed his not a compositor, who be¬
trust.
Most honorable to the profession is
the story of Harding, the printer, who
bravely reveal bore imprisonment rather than
the authorship of the celebrated
“Drapier” letters. The printer satin
his cell calmly refusing the entreaties of
his friends to divulge the name of the
writer, Dean Swift, a church magnate,
and a great wit, who dressed himself in
the disguise of a low Irish peasant, and
sat the by, tender listening importunities, to the noble only refusal and
anxious
that no word or glance from the unfort¬
unate printer should reveal the secret.
Swift was bent solely upon securing his
own cowered safely at the expense of the printer;
he before the legal danger which
Harding boldly confronted. The world
has unequally allotted the meed of fame
to the two combatants. The wit and the
printer both fought the battle for the
liberty of the press, until the sense of
an outraged community released the
typographer countered. from the peril so nobly en¬
There is also the allegiance which
printers pay to their chief, in not di¬
vulging important intelligence. In some
trusted cases a compositor is necessarily in¬
with an item of news which
would be negotiable immediately, and
worth pounds to him. Seldom or ever
is there a betrayal of trust in this way.
The examination papers, printed so ex¬
tensively in London, are of the most
tremendous importance to certain
classes, who would pay almost any sum
to obtain the roughest proof the night
before. An instance of this kind oc¬
curred quite recently. A printer was
“ got at,” and promised a considerable
amount of money for a rough proof.
What was his course of action? He
simply informed the authorities, and the
tempter was punished. It was another
and a creditable example of how well
and the printing honorably kept are the secrets of
office.
Population and Production.
It is the general belief that the new
census will show a total population of
not less than 49,000,000, and probably
50,000,000. In round numbers, the pop
ulation of all the States and Territories
in 1870 was 38,500,000. If we have
50,000,000 now, tlie increase in ten years
was 11,500,000, or very nearly 30 per
cent. (29.87). Let us call it 30 per cent,
It is an enormous increase upon so vast
a capital as 38,500,000, and if it can be
population kept up during the next ten years the
of the United States will, in
1890, have reached 65,000,000, which is
as muc b os the population of France and
Italy wealth combined. and But is our increase in
1870 had production miles far greater. of railroad In
we 52,900
against 86,900 in 1880, in an 1870 increase amounted of 40
P er oeil t- Our exports
to #529,000,000, against $730,000,000 in
1879—an increase of 38 per cent. The
increase in coal production from 1869 to
1878 was over 60 per cent. Onr agri
cultural exports in 1868 amounted to
$320,000,000; in 1873 to $592,000,000
increase, 85 per cent. The cereal pro
ducts of tlie country in 1808 aggregated
M 50 ’789,,000 bushels including Indian
In 1878 the tote' was 2,368 00<L
.
mcret T
18 ® we P, roduoed ** l 48 ,500 000
^ishels v ** on ? , { of , wheat. cereal In waB 1879 theproduc- t 40 000 000
hmheh , ' ’
', mcrea8a m
was nearl V £ 00 P e 5
-
P? >’ Ield r J ear rose ’ f I™? rom48 3,000,000 ‘0 L\ to 5,216,000
an “T* 8 ® 70 P er «»*• “ el 8 ht U' ar8 -
or rate of 9 F 1 oent a
^ . of American
Pf foctllr ® has ex kept P an81,jn pace with increase manu- m
Fttsburg, pTeultund and , production. LoweU Philadelphia, rank
now among
the greatest manufacturing mtiea in the
worif p
SnperstitioiH Customs.
Among the many strange customs of
savage nations, not the least curious are
the ceremonious observances offered to
wild beasts which they hunt and kill,
The boldest native hunters of British
India would shudder at the thought of
leaving the corpse of a tiger till they had
singed off its whiskers to the very roots
without which precaution they believe
tlie ghost of the dead beast will haunt
them into their graves. In many parts
o{ KuHsia th( . kmin g of a wolf‘is not
thought complete without cutting off the
head and right fore-paw. The Lapps
alld Finng whenever they kill a hear,
surrcmnd the body with loud lament*
One hunter then asks the dead
beaat “who killed thee?” and answers,
“A Russian, ” when all the rest exclaim
r l "T “A^elderf; .W^dyderfr
Northern Siberia never kill a polar ta-ar
.1 , extracting its two largest 1
^ conun 18 # ^ T- llfe /
^
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In some parts of Germany, instead of
smoking meat well-ventilated to preserve it, it is hung
up in a dry, room, and
ligneous painted over with wood vinegar (pyro¬
acid), ■£?Jus-tfiftra an add distilled over
free j£cce* of atmospheric air. The
ta'whng vinegar tht*<- or four times with thia
bg. stiswer* every purpose of smok
It protes ts the meat from insects,
fungi, and pulretacUon.
WATKINSVILLE, GEORGIA, AUGUST 10, 1880.
SABBATH READING.
pivL.
" I’ve learned,” he said, “ to be content
In xhatioever State!
To care not where my life is spent,
In cell oi temple gate.
If only I may bring the news
01 Christ to tho-e who need.
May prove to Gentiles ami to Jews
His love in word and deed.
“ This love it is constralnoth me
To mind not lire or sword,
To dare all danger eager y,
If 1 may preach the word;
To welcome shipwreck, hunger, cold,
Aud manacles and chains,
For they will turn the dross to gold,
And wash out all the stains.
" I am persuaded that my loss,
To Christ is evet gain;
And so 1 gladlv bear the cross,
Unmindful of t e pain;
For all who Christ Jesus live
Shall persecuted be;
And he will full deliverance give
And sweetest liberty.
“ So to the weak became I weak,
That I might bring them in ;
And to the strong who Jesus seek,
Became I strong to win
Persuading Let thus b >th bond and free,
I’ve fought any go astray,
Press forward the fight, and joyfully
on my way.”
O Taul! our prophet, teacher, friend I
Our martyr amt our saint!
What blessed comfort thou dost lend,
When flesh and spirit faint 1
Such ^ courage makes us strong to bear
Whatever may be sent;
/ nd whether well or ill we fare,
Paul bids us be ‘‘content.”
“Now I lo; me Down to Bleep.’’
By virtue of its age and value and pre¬
vious associations, this little prayer has
become a classic. It must be very an¬
cient, for who can tell when or by whom
it was written? Thousands, from tho
silver-haired pilgrim to the lisping in¬
fant, sink to nightly slumber murmuring
the simple repetition. It has trembled
on the bps of the dying. One instance
was that of an old saint of eighty-six
years, whose mind had so failed that ho
could not recognize his own daughter.
“Very touching [says the relator] was the
scene called his one night after retiring, as ho
mother, daughter as if she were his
here saying like a little child, ‘Mother,
come by my bed I and hear me say
my prayers before go to sleep.’ She
came near. He clasped his white, with¬
ered hands, Now and reverently said:
‘ I Jay me down to sleep,
I pray Thee, Lord, my soul to keep;
If 1 should (lie before I vake.
I pray Thee, Lord, my soul to take;’
heaven.” then quietly fell asleep and woke in
A died distinguished New judge, York who in many years old
ago in extreme
age, said that his mother had taught the
stanza to him in infancy, and that he
never omited it at night. John Quincy
Adams made similar assertion; and an old
sea-captain declared that, even before he
became a decided Christian, he never for¬
got it on turning in at night. An emi¬
nent school, bishop, said in addresing a Sunday
that every night since his
mother taught it to him when a babe at
her knee he was accustomed to repeat it
on retiring.
There is an addendum (by whom nn
giving known,) distinctly which brings in the Intercessor,
a Christian tone to the
lines:
“ Aud now I tey me down to pJeep,
I pray Thee. Lord, my soul to keep;
If 1 should die before I wnke,
I pray Thee, Lord, my soulto take,
And this I auk lor Jesus’ sake.”
From another unknown source is a com¬
panion welcome prayer for morning, which may
be to some of your readers:
“ Now I wake me out of sleep,
I pray Thee, Lord, my soul to keep;
If I should die before the eve,
I pray Thee, Lord, my soul recciive,
That I may with my Savior J *ve. Amen.”
— The Churchman .
Temper at Home.
I have peeped into quiet “parlors”
where the carpet is clean and not old,
and tlie furniture polished and bright;
into “rooms” where the chairs are deal
and the floor carpetless; into “kitchens”
where the family live, aud the meals are
cooked aud eaten, and tlie Iwys and
girls are as blithe as the sparrows in the
hatch overhead; and I see that it is not
so much wealth, nor learning, nor cloth¬
ing, nor servants, nor toil, nor station—
as tone and temper that make life joyous
or miserable, that render homes wretched.
And I see, too, that in town or conntry,
good sense and God’s grace make life of
what no teachers, or accomplishments, or
means ing stave or society, can make it, the open¬
of an everlasting psalm, the
fair beginning of an endless existence,
the goodly, modest, well-proportioned
vestibule to a temple of God’s building,
that shall never decay, wax old, or vanish
away .—John Hall\ J). D.
ffllenl Influrnff,
“I have no influence,” said Elsie Lee
to her friend, Miss Tomasin. “Why, I
am so timid when in company with
others that I hardly dare raise my eyes,
or “That open my lips.”
“ and may be,” replied the older lady,
fluence yet wherever you are always exerting in¬
help you go. You cannot
little yourself. bunch An hour ago I bought a
of violets from a German
shelf, flower-girl, beside and I set them on yonder
my dear mother’s picture.
It is a very tiny bunch, and a p eruon en¬
tering them, the room would very likely not
tention. see But for they do not challenge at¬
every nook and comer of
the apartment, feels their presence, for
their fragrance is pervading the atmos¬
phere. Bo it is with you my dear. You
him. love your You Savior, and you try to serve
think you cannot speak for
him, but if you live for him, and with
him, in gentleness, patience, and self
denial, that is better than talking. It
does more good. The other evening
giddy, Jerry Halcomb, who is thoughtless and
iu made a jest of a verse of Scrip¬
protest ture your hearing. You wished to
against his act, and tried to do
so, but the words would not come. Yet
your pained look, your quick blush, your
instinctive indignant gesture, spoke for
you, and the young man turned and said,
“I b eg yotir pardon. Miss Elsie." Was
not this proof that he saw and felt your
condemnation?"
Silent influence is stronger titan we
sometimes think for good and for evil.
Let us not underestimate it ,—Christian
at Work,
_
A ItuwgBrwrn lady is reported to
have scolded her little boy for taking a
drink of wate r at a bote;]. “ For,” said
she, “wejiay a dollar hr our dinner,
and water is filling.”
Morocco.;
This country, shut in by the Mediter¬
mid ranean, the Algeria, crossed the Desert by the of Sahara, chain
of the ocean; Atlas; bathed by wide preat rivers, j j
opening into immense plains; with every
variety of climate; endowed with inesti- I
nmblo riches in all the three kingdoms
of nature; destined by its position to bo
the great, commercial highroad between j
Europe and Central Asia—is now' occu-I !
pied by about 8,000,000 of inhabitants I
-Berbers, and Europeans—sprinkled Moors, A mbs, Jews, Negroes, j
over a more
vast extent of of countrv who than that of
France. The Berbers, form the ba
sis of the indigenous population—a sav*
age, live in turbulent, inaccessible and indomitable race—
the mountains of the
Atlas in almost complete independence
of the imperial authority. The Arabs,
the conquering race, occupy the plains
—a nomadic and pastoral people not en
tirely degenerated from their ancient
haughty character. The Moors, cor
rupted and crossed by Arab blood, are in
great part descended from the Moors of
Spain, and inhabiting the cities, hold in
their hands the wealth, trade, and com
T r0 ?rn,ww! C ( '.° Unt !7’, Th “ blafk8 >
about 500,000, originally from the Sou
dan, are generally servants, laborers
and soldiers The Jews, almost equal
in the number to the blacks, who descend, for
most part, from those wero ex
lied from Europe in the Middle Ages,
and are oppressed, hated, tlikn degraded, and
persecuted here more in any other
country in the world. They exercise
various arts and trades, and hi a thou
sand ways display the ingenuity, plia
bility, and tenacity of their race, finding
ni the possession of money torn from their
oppressors a recompense for all their
woes. The Europeans, whom Mussul
man intolerance has, little by little, driven
from the interior of the Empire toward
the coast, number less than 2,000 in all
Tangiers, Morocco, the greater part inhabiting
and living under the protec
tion of tho Consular flags.— Morocco, Its
People , De Amias.
Garrick.
Garrick’s character was fry no means
perfect. Many faults were luid to his
charge; and amoug others was his whom fond¬
ness Garrick of flattery. Murphy, to loan
had given loan upon of
money, accuses him of meanness. This
charge, however, has ungrateful. boen proved On to be
as unjust Murphy as it was asked his opinion one
occasion was
of Garrick. He replied: “Off the stage,
sir, ho was a mean, snealring fellow; but
on tho stage”—throwing up liis hands
and eves—“Impossible to descrilie!”
Mi’s. Clive was one night standing at the
wing; alternately weeping turning and scolding
at Garrick’s she acting; exclaimed: and “I believe away he in
anger, splen¬
could did dinner-party act a gridiron!” Lord Once, ’s at they a sud¬
at
denly missed Garrick, and could not im¬
agine what had become of him, until
they convulsive were drawn shrieks to of laughter the window of by the
rolling the a ground young
negro in boy, who of was delight on Garrick
mimicking an ecstacy turkey-cock to in see the
a court¬
yard, with his coat-tail stuck out behind,
and in a seeming flutter of feathered
rage and pride. In “Lear” Garrick’s
very stick acted. The scene with Corde¬
lia arid tlie physician, as Garrick played
it, was ineffably pathetic. The anathema
in this play exceeded all imagination; it
electrified the audience with horror.
The words “Kill—kill—kill” echoed the
revenge and impotent rage of a frantic
Tinjr.— Chamber's Journal.
“8a>e the Man With the Red Hair!”
It requires great coolness and exper¬
ience to steer a course down the rapids
of the Sault Ste. Marie, says a Canadian
paper; and a short time before our arri¬
val two Americans hail ventured to de¬
scend them without boatmen, and were
consequently upset. As the story was
salvation reported to us, one of them owed his
to a singular coincidence. As
the posite accident the town, took place of immediately tho inhabitants op¬
many
were attracted to the bank of the river to
watch the struggles of the unfortunate
men, thinking hopeless. any attempt at a rescue
would be Suddenly, however,
a person frantic appeared with rushing excitement. toward “Save the
group, the
man with the red hair!” he vehe¬
mently shouted; and the exertions which
were made in consequence of his earnest
appeals haired individual, were successful, in exhausted and the red
an con¬
dition, was safely landed. “He owes
me $18," said his rescuer, drawing a long
breath and looking approvingly on his
assistants. The red-haired man’s friend
had not a creditor at the Bault, and, in
default of a competing claim, was allowed
to pay his debt of nature. “And III tell
you what it is, stranger,” said the narra¬
tor of the foregoing incident, complac¬
man’ll ently drawing know a how moral therefrom, “a
never necessary he is to
society, if he don’t make liis life valuable
to liis friends as well as to himself.”
Salutary Effect of Lightning.
The Bangor Commercial says : a
gentleman this vicinity who visited last Sunday one of the returned ponds
m
during the thunderstorm. He relates
his experience as follows: “Before I j
got home I made up my mind that I
should put on immortality, for, walls lie!ween j
a horse that took to stone every
time it thundered and lightning which j
seemed to strike all around me, I
thought this world. there Consequently was little left I left for me in
off all
my bad habits, including rum and he
bacco, but have taken up part I chew of them |
since, though I don’t think quite
as much as I did.” j
— !
The eggs when discharged from the !
oyster visible are irregular well trained shaped objects, The shell only
to a eye.
but is first gradually formed expands in the and shape of length a ridge, \ |
at en
vclopes the oyster. It now has a few
hairs with which it swims close to
the surface of the water for a few hours, !
until its digestive organs fully develop,
when it seeks a hard substance, attaches
itseJf to it and remains sedentary for the
rest of its life. Tlie food of the oyster
consisU of microscopic animal and vege
table matter. The sea water contains
much of tliis awl in drawn in the gills of
the oyster by suction. Tlie month always
remains open,
FARM NOTES.
Prof. H. R. Palmer has recently re
oeived the degree of Doctor of Music
from the University of Chicago,
The London Agricultural Gazette
says that Canadian'butter is the worst
,,],** of butter that is brought to the
English market,
For every thousand inhabitants this
country . contains . . ,, 2,024 , cattle, ... sheep . and ,
8wm . e ' oul European countries the avor-
18 - v 1 - 166 -
A foreign grower of lilies attributes
1,18 success, in part, to the use of deep
P° te > ^ 08 f eight inches apart being fully
fifteen Inches deep,
An old dairyman recommends having
a faucet in the bottom off the of the cream portion, jar,
so as to draw watery
which beoomes bitter, and imparts a bit
ter teste to the butter,
It is in farming as in every other kind
of business. No man can make it profit
able unless he looks carefully after the
details. There are hundreds of ways in
which waste must be prevented in order
to socure success
Tub Pall Mail Gazette says “that
w hile prejudices the upper classes may not conquer
tUeir against foreign ° bacon, ’
the native dealerg do uot hcKit to to b
tlie American meat at low prices, and re
tail it at a high ° price.” *
* kkksfonijent _ of , the ,, Rural „ . Mee~ w
W P llcatlH haK “ of ^ K 0(xl wo<x rcsulta \ asl from f B the ap- old
»on put around the roots of ; fruit trees
tllc ^were not healthy doing well, condition thus restoring
tr<M ' 8to a and mi¬
P r ' mi) 8 *ho quality of the fruit,
A oobrehpondent of the Rural New
Yorker stops a cow or steer from jumping
over fences by nailing a horse-shoe on
om forward foot. This prevents the
ho ° 4 from spreading, and consequently
renders the animal unable to spring.
This is calculated to be very effectual,
The London Farmer, of recent date
says: “We are threatened at all points
with American competition. It is men¬
tioned that eggs imported from Chicago
have been eaten at Dublin breakfast
tobies since the month began, and good
American butter at 8d. per pound is on
sale on the Dublin quays.
The Royal Society of England has of¬
fered two prises of £25 and £10 each for
shall distinctly new the varieties of wheat which
combine largest yield of grain
and straw per acre with approved form
awl size, smooth and thin skin, full and
white kernel, and with high specific gravity
in the seed, and bright, firm and
stiff straw.
The necessity of good walks about the
house-yard to the bonis and during outhouses is
apparent to every one the fall,
winter, and early spring months. In the
vegetable culture gardens during the season of
and harvest, and in the flower
garden they should always be found
neatly fringed with grass, To make a
good walk dig out the earth a few inches
deep and fill in a layer of broken stones,
brick and the like, then a layer of fine
clinkers, and over this spread coal ashes
and roll down, if yon liovo a roller. If
not, make the surface as smooth and
compact as possible by other means, and
the weather will do the rest. These
walks are hard, clear, durable, and withal
cheap.
Ah a farm represents money, the
farmer who improves it improves his
financial condition. The more valuable
lie makes it the more his capital stock is
increased, and when the larger will larger be his returns,
he dies tho will be the
patrimony old he homo, leaves for his family. Fix
up the then. Clean out the
fence corners. Destroy the noxious
weeds. Grub out the hazel and sasso
fras. Burn out the stumps. Clean off
tho logs and stones. Make a paradise on
earth of your farm, for are you not to live
on it while you remain on earth, and will
not your graveyard? family live on it when you lie in
yonder Plant out good or¬
chards so that your family may enjoy
the good fruit that you had the foresight
and energy to provide for them. Leave a
good record behind you.
Radishes may be grown in a very few
days good by radish the following seed method: Let some
soak in water for
twenty-four hours, then put in a bag and
expose it to the snn. In tho course of
tho day germination will commence. The
seed must be sown in a well-manured
hot-lied, with and watered from time to time
lukewarm water. By this treat¬
ment the radishes will in a very short
time acquire a sufficient hulk and lx; good
to eat. If it be required to get good
radishes in winter during the severe cold,
an old cask should be sawed in two and
one-half of it filled with good earth. Ike
radish seed beginning to shoot as before
must be then sown in, the other half of
the l/arrel put on top of the full one, anil
the whole of tho apparatus carried down
into the cellar. For watering, lukewarm
water should lie used as before. In the
course of five or six days the radishes
will lie fit to eat.— New Fnglaiul
Farmer.
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Travel In the Winnipeg (loantry.
For winter travel dogs havo hitherto
been largely used, as with light loads
they are swifter than horses. To drive a
team of dogs it is said that one must bo
able to swear in Euglish, French, or
Cree, while to be a first rate dog-driver
requires a fluent command of profanity
in three languages. Some years ago a
well-known Winnipeg ecclesiastic was
making an extended winter trip; the little, dog,
though frequently wliipi>ed, made
progress, so the The bishop remonstrated
with the driver. functionary re
plied that he could them; not make them go
unless he swore at alisolution was
therefore given him for the trip, and the
dogs, heating the familiar expletives,
trotted along briskly. Dog-driving, how
ever, is passing out of use in the North
west, as it is becoming much more ex
pensive to keep dogs buffalo than it is to keep
horses. While were abundant
and every post and wigwam could have
unlimited |«-iumican it was easy for any
uuui to k“ep a kennel; but as the buffalo
are rapidly be disapiiearing, throughout and as the dogs
must led the whole year
while the horses can forage for them
selves at aJJ seasons, horses are lming
uw d almost entirely on the prairies, ex
refit in the more northern districts where
game and fish are very abundant.—
Good Words.
NUMBER ‘23.
Mosquitoes.
Among living creatures, can we find
one that so belies its appearance as tile
mosquito thing it looks ? What an innocent little
possible ! See—as like! it Bloodthirsty alights before ? Im
thistle-down is bulky compared with you,
a
it; the floating ghost "of the dandelion
is coarse beside the slender outlines of
tliis airy gossamer. None of the gauze
winged frolic in or the beetle-backed sunshine atomies less that
ble of inflicting pain. appear nimble capa¬
As the
mosquito head, sings he and innocent dances airily over
your to yonder black scorns spider. And compared
yet at
your scuttles slightest off, only movement anxious the spider
to get out of
the way, while the little singer, so
graceful in the circle airy higher curves only of its flight,
retreats a to renew
his attack at your first unguarded mo¬
ment. His movements are as light as if
earthly elements had formed none of his
component parte, or as if he might live
on mist or dew, or as if his ethereal
frame found its support in the moisture
inherent in the air !
What a mistake! There is nothing
intent more bloodthirsty, satisfying and more his persistently craving
upon for
blood, crite. than The this innocent-looking hypo¬
face and tickling house-fly, alighting with his on your six
you
rough, inflict spongy feet—had ho n like power
to be subject! pain, to what If the annoyance domestic would
you to ani¬
mals was given, in proportion to their
strength and size, the power and will of
the mosquito to inflict torment, w r hat
a world this would bo; the lion and
tiger would lie comparatively harmless.
Surely little these innumerable and ubiqui¬
tous pests were given to teach us
some lesson. We find their prototype
in the tormenting and harassing
nothings that worry onr every-day life ;
tho sharp sting given under cover of
apparently smooth words, the buzzing
of malicious tongues; the hints, tho
innuendos that scorn such trifles and
yet do so much to poison our happiness
—these are tho mosquitoes that sting
tho heart. You who find cause for
oomplaint such tormenting that God tilings should in tho give animal life to
world, is your conscience clear that you
have not acted the same part in a higher
sphere always ? Have full your love words and acts
been so of aud tender¬
ness that you have never willingly
inflicted pain upon those around you?
If you are careless of hurting the feel¬
ings voting of others, look at yonder inseot de¬
its ephemeral existence to its
own comfort at the expense of yours,
and say if you are not imitating tho
mosquito and carrying with the your greater powers,
annoyance of the
lower into the higher life .—Christian
Intelligencer.
Hlnipsonbnrg’s Connndrnm.
Simpsonburg is uot noted for his activ
Ity; quite tho contrary. At the club the
other evening he got up energy sufficient
to propound a oouundrutn. Baid he:
“Boys, why am I like a torpedo?” After
having recovered from tlie shock j>ro
duced by Bimpsonburg’s flowed unwonted in ac¬
tivity the Jones gnosses thought it quick because suc¬
cession. was a
torpedo is full of empty noise; lmt that
was not right, Htmpsonhurg said.
Neither was Robinson’s guess, that it
was because a torpedo doesn’t say any¬
thing when it speaks. Smith tried to
work out a pun on torpedo, torpid oh,
but failed miserably. Then Brown Everybody tried. began He
to look sick.
said it was because a torpedo was not
good for anything till its neck is twisted.
Bimpsonburg shook his head with some¬
thing like animation. One of the taiys
said it was because it was a relief when
either went off, and another ventured the
guess, in an undertone, that it was a
blasted had to divulge; nuisance. he couldn't Finally Himpsonb contain him¬ are
self huger. He said it was because he was
full of snap. Tlie boys yawned lan¬
guidly; every one of them acknowledged
to Bimpsonburg guessed which that pleased be should Bimpson- never
have it,
burg mightily.
Nervousness.
One form of nervousness leads a man
to suppose himself seriously ill, when,
in reality, he is only more nervous than
usual. He flies to a physician for relief,
and often ends by persuading himself
into a severe illness. 'The fact is, nerv
confident*, ous people waste a great deal their of money
and worry on nervous¬
ness. It is perhaps disagreeable to very
uncomely beautiful; adult people intelligent that they ;>eople are not of
defective education lament the disad¬
vantages of their youth ; persons who
desire to be religious, and yet are intel¬
lectually skeptical, are frequently made
miserable by the conviction that they
are incapable with Roman of acquiring piety. well lic- A
man a nose may as
wail into his incapacity outline to change for the organ
Grecian as nervous peo¬
ple to lament from that their they cannot physical discharge
nervousness organ¬
ization. It cannot lie expelled. It is
there to stay. But self-control and self
restraint will do much toward obviating
the evil, and are more efficacious than
the attendance of any physician.
Big Elms in New England.
In Deerfield, Mass., the Williams elm
measures in circumference at one foot
from the ground, 26 feet; at four feet,
19 feet: at seven feet, 20) feet.
Another elm measures, at the same
elevations, Another 27, 18) and 19 feet.
This last-named measures tree has 22), spread 15) and 13). 100
a of
feet. Tlie Williams elm measures in its
spread at least 150 feet.
At Weathersfteid, Ot., there is an elm
which measures, at three feet and three
inches from the ground, 21 feet 5 inch¬
es. Tlie girth of this tree where the
roots enter the ground is 55 feet 6 inch¬
es. Its main limbs are great trees in
themselves. Thus, the circumference of
the south branch is 16 feet 8 inches; of
the east branch, 11 feet 6 inches ; north¬
west, 10 feet 3 ; of the west, 8 feet 7.
From north to south the diameter of the
spread 152 is 150 feet; from east to west,
spread feet, is and tlie circumference of the
429 feet .—Hartford Times.
'Tim number of cattle killed jwr year
iu tlie United States is 11,825,000, the
meat from which amount to 4,088,300,1X10
pounds, and their total value when killed
tor torn is 1608,200,000.
& I Mtinsmlfr gulraiw.
A WERRLT PAPER, FOBLISHID ST
Watkinsville, Oconee Co., Georgia.
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IaI licit 11 , TKItff* FOR WORE SPACE
WAIFS AND WniMS.
The shades of night go about dewing
good.
Very few hens lay at the point of
death.
The baby is musical because he liaa
arrived at tho bandage.
They dress expensively who go to the
lawyer for their suits.
Sfarking across a garden fence ad¬
mits of a good deal being said on both
sides.
After all, it was a girl, deck”—it and not a boy
who "stood on the burning was
Cassie B. Anca.
A mechanic wants to know if the com¬
pany for the making of artificial limbs is
ft joint stock one.
Tub Boston Transcript has discovered
that wo meet a great many warm friends
during the heated term.
One man was threatening to whip
another. “Well,” said tho other, “a
bull can whip a philosopher.”
An Illinois girl’s toast—“The young
men of America—Their arms our sup¬
port, onr arms their reward; fall in, men,
fall in.”
An elderly maiden lady, hearing it re¬ in
marked Hint matches are made
heaven, remarked that she didn’t care a
cent how soon she wont there.
“An experienced cutter” is advertised
for in the. New York bobtail World. paragraphs They
doubtless want him to
for their humorous column.
MoFlanneiiy heard a gentleman say
of another that he had a too benign
countenanoe, and remarked: “A 2 be 9
countenance! Phwat a face, to be
sure! ”
An old lady says she never could im¬
agine where all the Smiths came from
until she saw, in a New England town, a
largo sign, “Smith Manufacturing Com¬
pany. ”
A gentleman advertises that his por¬
trait (in oils) has been stolen. There is
nothing remarkable about this, though,
for every one is having his likeness taken
nowadays.
The word “dear” is one of the greatest
inventions in the English language.
Every married man can say “my dear
wife” and no one can tell just exactly
what ho means.
“In tho sentence, ‘John strikes Wil¬
liam,’ ” remarked a school teacher,
“what is tho object of strikes?” “Higher
wages and less work," promptly replied
tlie intelligent youth.
A Frenchman cannot pronounce
“ship." The word sonuds “sheep” in
liis mouth. Seeing au iron-clad, sheep?" ho ‘No,” said
to a hoy. “Is (lis a war ‘
answered the hoy, “it’s a ram.”
If you get in a passion, my dear
fri< ud, don’t fly around and swear, and
make all manner of foolish assertions.
Just steal away and lie down in the sun
a while. A soft tan, sir, turneth away
wrath.
A mother noticing her little daughter
wi| e her mouth with her dress sleeve,
asked her what her handkerchief was for.
Said tho little one: “ It is to shako at tlie
ladies in the street. That is what papa
does with liis.”
When a Missouri grocer got up in a
revival meeting and owned up that he
had sold dollar tea out of tho fifty-cent
chest for over ten years, the brethren were
eery backward about tolling liim that he
vould hope for forgiveness.
“Dashaway is a great reader, isn’t
he?” asked Jones, the unsophisticated.
“Never heard that he was. Why do
you ask?” the Smith replied. while “ the Why, at the
races, other day, rest of us
nothing were enjoying but tlie books. sport, ” ho Oh !” talked of
nis ‘‘
“Mamma,” said a little girl, “as peo¬
ple get old does their hair grow quarrel¬
some?" “Why no, my child! What
ever put such a notion iu your head?”
“I thought it must be so, ma, because I
heard that old people’s hair is constantly
falling out!”
The New York Times asks: “Can
women enjoy a heaven deprived of wed¬
dings?” That depends. their If new styles
bonnets make appearance every
^,ner week, women will manage to feel
JS »PP7 without, a marriage to their back.
—Norristown Herald.
Kbcfi*, the least cannon maker, in says he
never had the success Ida busi¬
ness until he began to drink beer and
smoke. —Detroit Free Press. Beer may
not hurt him, if he indulges moderately;
but wo should think that to drink smoke
would bo pretty harden the constitution.
A five-year-old sou of a family the
other day stood watching bis baby
brother, who was making a great noise
over having his face washed. The little
fellow at length lost liis patience, and
stamping liis tiny foot, said, “ You think
l on have lota of trouble, but you don’t
now anything about it. Wait till you’re
big enough to get a lickin' and then
you’ll see, won’t he, mamma?” store-boy
A furrier recently sent the
to the hack part of the establishment to
bring forward a certain fur cape. After
some time the youngster returned with
the article neatly folded up, and was
greeted with: “Well, you’ve got back long at
last, have you? You’ve been gone
enough to sail from South America.”
“Well, sir,” said the lad, as he mod¬
estly raised his parcel, “I did double the
cape.” _
The best soil for sweet potatoes is a
sandy loam. If sand largely predomi¬
nates they will flourish if well manured.
New ground or virgin soil is is especially
favorable for this crop. It the com¬
mon practice to sow buckwheat on new
land for the first crop and then to plant
sweet potatoes for the second, An
abundant crop is the general luxuriantly, result. Ia
a lu-avjaloam the vines grow
lmt the tuliei-s are quality. generally small, rooty
aud of inferior will not thrive. In clayey sou
sweet potatoes
This is an easy way of detecting the
purity wine: or Dip adulteration of a sample of
a small sponge into the wine
to tat tested. Place the sponge then ill
a saucer, tin* bottom ol which is covered
with a small quantity of water. If tlie
wine is pure, it will take from a quarter
to hull an hour before tlie water iu the
saucer Imeomes najored, but if the wine
ia not rmre, the coloring of tho water
takes place immediately.