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UMinsuilfe Juj mice. A WEKKIY PAPER, Published Tuesday, — AT— Watkinsville, Oconee Co. Georgia. AV. O. SULLIVAN-, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR One TKRMS: year, in advance ,|l 0C Bt* months........ 60 ... 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 / ^ -.....-....... 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. wr 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. 1 ATES OF ADVERTISING: On stjuhi i first insertioo 11 00 hat h Mih equent ... On insertion ftO One • square, one mo tb. .. 2 &a Out* pcjnnre, ti roe months 8 10 square, six months.................... .... 7 00 Ouetqua One-fourth e one ycur........................ .... 10 00 O.it-.ot h column, tollman, ore month........... .... 5 00 r three months... ......... 0 00 O i« - urth co-uiun, six months...... 10 00 OiK-'uitrth citfumn, ........ Half onu year.......... ........ 20 00 !fs t column, one three month............... ........ 8 00 co urn ti, mouths............ ......... J2 00 Half cil urn ti, six mouths................. 20 00 I la f column, ......... one year................... -------- 85 00 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.