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BY ROBERT F. DOTY.
fin a reverie I thought that I was rich. The vision
cf wealth seemed a great castle by the Fra, adorned
with the most beautiful drapery, model tho choicest FtJltU
nificent ary, landscape paintings, that beautiful architecture, u mag¬
library and ail was and grsmV
I built me a cast e
By the duep-beaviijg pea.
And the foam of its waters
Was thrown over me ’
Ob Were ! Fairyland Bummers
While bright in : a dream,
I slept in my caatie—
The cab tie marine.
in
Ob l capL’e marine,
Thy beauties I see
Of tapestried halls,
All open to me J
Oh! Bcu'pture and art;
Oh I painting so rare,
Was ever such seen
In deiicato care ?
m.
Tho castle marine
In a dream came to me,
On a great golden coast
Of a beautiful sea,
Where my ship came in,
All laden with gold—
The wealth of the Indies,
And the world all untold!
Mt castle was built
fey a loud-sounding sea
Where the foan\ of its wafers
Was thrown over me I
Ah! J played with its Bp ray a
Ab they fell through the door
Of my castle marine
That stood on the shore.
▼«
Of dream-plays I tire,
And I sleep on and a ream
Of the wealth of my castle,
The castle marine.
There were crowns in its chamber*
Of great jasper walls,
With their white marble floors
And their great golden balls,
VI
WMch hong In euNpenston
From great Ivory books
No heathenish Mo b,
But idols my books
Were there in profusion.
And lavishly bound,
With pictures of rarity—
More rare than in found
vu.
And this Is my castle,
The cattle for me.
With its gi\ at opdh doors
Where Looking out on rideth the sea;
Like my ship on
a bird in the air,
Over cuttle and ooral
And anemone fair I
VIII,
Many Not would that it were
a faBtrfleetiBff dream.
But a u Bight-seen ” oastle-
But Jtot here a oaetie un&een; beauty,
is tho
For a dream of «weet hope
In fostered in reason’s
Beneficent sdope!
is.
Let ub build npoastJoa—
Bright thon^ite In our brain,
That will lure ue etlll on
Let Through the heartaches and pain*.
mermaideu ring
Of her home in the aea,
■While -There’s each person caetle fdr can Btjy
a me!
POUR OLD MAIDS.
I (ove an old maid—T do not speak oi
an individual, but of the species—I use
the singularity singular in number, humanity. as speaking of a
An old maid
is not. merely an merely antiquary, she is an
antiquity; the not a record of the
past, bnt very past itself ; she. h;is
escaped a in great ordinary change, and sympa¬
thizes not the mutations of
mortaliW; She inhabits a little eternity
of ... her#vn.y the She w Hiiss from the be¬
ginning of chapter to the end. I do
not like to hear her called mistress,
as is sometimes the practice, for that
looks and shuhds lfke the resignation of
despair, 7 do a know voluntary whether extinction marriages of hope.
not are
mode in heaven ; some people say they
are. but I am almost sure that old maids
are. that There is something earth about them
is not of the earthy. They
are spectators of the world, not advent¬
urers, not ramblers; perhaps guardians;
we say nothing of tattlers-. They are,
- vidently, predestiiifed to be what they
are. They owe not the singularity of
their condition to any lack of beauty,
wisdom’, wit or good temper; there is no
accounting for it but on the principle of
fatality. 1 have known many old maids,
and of them all not one that has not
possessed as many gobd and amiable
qualities, as ninety and nine out of 100
of my married acquaintance. Why,
then, are they single ? It is their fate!
On the left hand of the road between
London and Liverpool there is a village
which; for particular reasons, I shall
call curiosity Littleton, and will not so far gratify
the of idle inquirers as to say
whether it is nearer to London or to
Liverpool; and let but the it reader is a very pretty vil¬
lage, for it the time keep jhe a sharp
lookout next travels
that road. It is situated in a valley,
through which runs a tiny rivulet as
bright as silver, but hardly wide enough
for a trout to turn round in. Over the
little stream there is a bridge, which
seems to have been built merely out of
compliment to the liquid thread, to save
it the mortification of being hopped in over the
by every urchin and clod] covered Kile with
parish. The church is
ivy, even halfway up the steeple, but the
sexton has removed the green intrusion
from its the face of the clock, which, with
white surface and black figures,
looks at a distance like an owl in an ivv
bush. A little to the left of the church
is the parsonage house, almost smoth¬
ered with honeysuckles ; in front of the
house is a grass plot, and up to the door
there is what is called a carriage drive ;
bnt I never saw a carriage drive up
there, for it is so steep that it wolud re¬
quire six horses to pull the carriage up,
and there is not room enough for more
than one. Somewhat farther up the
hill, wliich bounds the little valley
where the village stands, there is a cot¬
tage; the inhabitants of Littleton call it
the white cottage. It is merely a small,
whitewashed house, but as it is occu¬
pied by afford a genteeJisb large sort house, of people, it who
cannot a is gener¬
ally called a cottage.
All these beautiful and picturesque
objects, and a great many more which
I have not described, have lost with me
their interest. It would make me meJ
ancholv to go into that church. The in
terest Louse which transferred I had in pie the parsouage white
was to cot
tags and the intereet which I had in
the white cottage ># now rsSto*«d to
the church-yard, w* interest is to
I'ftu grave*' that to* parallel to a*rh
The Watkinsville Advance.
VOLUME 1.
other, date. with headstones of nearly one
In these four proves lie the re¬
mains of four old maids. Poor things!
their remains ! Alack, alack, there was
not much that remained of them!
There was but little left of them to
bury. The bearers had bat little work.
I wondered why they should have four
separate graves, and four distinot tomb¬
stones. The sexton told me that it
was their particular desire, in order to
make the church-yard look respecta¬
ble; and they left behind them just
sufficient money to pay the under¬
taker’s bills and to erect four grave¬
stones I saw these ladies twice, and
that at an interval of thirty years. I
made one more attempt to see them,
and I was more grieved than I could
have anticipated when the neighbors
showed me their newly-dosed graves.
But no one long pities the dead,
and I was, after a while, glad
that they had not been long separated.
I saw these ladies twice, I said; and the
first time that I saw them the only
doubt was which of the four would be
first married. I should have fallen in
love with one of them myself—I do not
know which—but I understood that
they were all four more or lass engaged.
They were all pretty, they were all sensi¬
ble, they they knew were the world, all good-humored, for and
they had all
read Bollin’s “Ancient History.” They
uot only had admirers, bnt two of them
even then had serious suitors. The
whole village of Littleton and manv
villages in the neighborhood rang vatu
the praise of the accomplished and
agreeable daughters of the rector ; nor
were the young ladies dependent for
their hopes of husbands merely on then
good qualities ; they had the reputation
of wealth, which reputation, 1 am con¬
strained to say. was rather a 1 nibble.
The rectory of Littleton was said to be
worth £1,000 a year—but it never pro¬
duced more than £600. And the worthy
rector was said to be worth £10,000 or
£12.000. Bless him ! he ought to be
worth that and a great deal moiA; but
lid never possessed so much ; the utmost
of his private fortune was £1,600 in the
3 per cents.
It is enough to designate the ladies
by their Christian names. Their good
father used to boast that his daughters
had really Christian names. The eldest
was Mary, the second Maytlia, the third
Anna and the youngest Elizabeth. The
eldest was. when I first knew them,
actually who had engaged just to a young gentleman
at Cambridge, taken and had a wrangler’s degree prize
Greek gained a
for a epigram. Such an effort of
genius Littleton, seemed next to miraculous at
for the people of the village
never The gain prizes for Greek epigrams.
farmers who had heard of his suc¬
cess used tb stare at him for a prodigy,
and almost wondered that should
walk on two legs, and eat nn m, and
say “How do you do?” like tlie rest
of the world. And everybody aaid
he was such a nice man. He' never
skipped irreverently over the river, ns
some young men of his age would do,
but always went over the bridge. It
was handed edifyiug to see how gracefully he
the young ladies over the said
she bridge, Mary eldest. always the lost, though
was the The young Bqnue
of the the parish suitor was generally considered
as of the second. The
third had many admirers; she
was what is called a showy young
in woman, her style. htiring, a little of the theatrical
She was eloquent, lively
and attitudinizing. She had a most
beautiful voice, and her good papa used
to say: voice “My dear Anna, delightful, the sound and of it
your is very
doe.s me good to hear you sing to your
own hear harpsichord, sing church.” hat I wish I could
you at
Poor man ; he did not consider that
there was no possibility of hearing any
other voice while that of the pansn rich
clerk was dinging in his ears, Eliza
beth, the youngest, was decidedly Ahe
prettiest of the four; sentimentality W'as
her forte, or, more properly speaking,
her foible. She signed much herself,
and was the cause of sighing to others.
I little thought when I first saw them
that I beheld a nest of predestined old
maids ; but it was so. and the next time
that I saw them tnev were all living
together, spinsters. How I was occu¬
pied tedious the next relate, thirty years would tie
to therefore I pass over
that period and oome again to Littleton.
Time is like a mischievous urchin that
plays sad tricks things in our absenoe, and so
disarranges and persons, too, that
when we come back again we hardly
know where to find them. When I made
my second visit to Littleton, the good
old rector had been several y*»ars in his
grave; and, when I asked after his
daughters, I was told that they were
living, ana the were together, and that they
occupied white hear cottage. I was single, rath¬
er though pleased I to surprised that they the were informa¬
was at
tion. I knew that I should be well re¬
ceived ; that I should not find all their
old affections alienated by new ties. I
knew that I should not have to encounter
the haughty that and should interrogatory eyes of
husbands ; I not be under
the necessity of accommodating I had, indeed, myself
to new manners. some
difficulty in making myself distinguishing known, and
still more difficulty in the
ladies, the one from the other, and con¬
necting their present with their past ap¬
pearance ; for Anna's attitudinizing days
were over, and Elizabeth had ceased to
sigh. But, when the exceedingly recognition had
taken place, we were glad
to see each other, and we all talked to¬
gether about everylmdy and everything
at once.
the My latter call end at the white cottage was at
of August. The weather
was fine, but there had recently been
much rain, and there were some very
heavy clouds, and some little growling
of the wind, like the astiect aud tone of an
angry schoolmaster, sound thrashing, who bad lust given
a he Boy a half inclined and give look* him a* if
were to soim
more. The cottage was very small, vi.ry
iieat, very light. There was one parlor,
and that was a very pretty one. A small
carpet covered the middle of tho room;
a worked fire tcrecti stood in one cor
iter ; a piece ol needlework, represent
iug Abraham going to sacrifice I*aw,
hung «0>I opposite old china tig s «to»sl door; aiieila, file sea
wm4 on man
o-A mlap ; an old harja mhord inahkuk
j j mahogany am stretched its leviathan
length along one aid* of the loout, six
WATKINSVILLE, GEORGIA, AUGUST 17, 1880.
exceedingly mahogany choirs, heavy and clumsily-carved
with high backs, short
logs and which broad, might square, flat scats, any
one of have uceommodatea
:J1 four sisters at- once, according to
their mode of sitting, stood around tli *!
room; these chairs I recollect, had
been m the dining-room at the rectory,
l.mt then there was a great lubberly oub
of a footman to lug them about. The
fire-place old brass was particularly fender, neat. lished It had
;ui po up to
tho semblance of gold, delineating
in its pattern divers birds and
beasts, the like of wliich never entered
Noah's ark, but they hail a right to go
in by sevens, for they were ns clean ns
a penny. The jioker looked like a
toothpick, the shovel like, an old-fash¬
ioned salt spoon, and the tongH like a
pail' of tweezers. The little black
stove shone with an icy coldness, ns if
the maid had l>een scrubbing it all the
morning to keep herself warm; and the
cut pgper was arranged over the vacant
bars with a cruel exactitude that gave
no hopes of fire. The ladies themselves
looked as old as the fire-place; and I
could hardly help thinking that a stove
without a fire, at the cold end of August,
The looked ladies, something like an old maid.
all however, were very eliatty;
they spoke together—or nearly so ;
for when one togan the others went on,
one after another, in tho way and after
the maimer of a catch, or, more accu¬
rately speaking, perhaps somewhat in
the similitude of a fugue. They talked
very loud and sat very upright, which
last eireumstanoe I should have thought
very conducive to health, but they were
not healthy; the fact is, they lived too
sparingly, for their father had left much
lesB than had been expected, and they
were they obliged visited to keep the up appearances, the as
still first families in
neighborhood. By living together they
bad very much assimilated in manners ;
they all had tho same sharp, shrill
voice, and the same short, snappy, not
snappish, When manner of speaking.
1 called on them I had not
dined, bnt I to supposed they had, for they
asked me stay and drink tea with
them; though I should have preferred
dinner to tea, yet for tho sake of such
old acquaintance I Was content to let
that pass. They pressed me very much
to take a glass of wine, and I yielded—
but afterward repented it, Bfnglo el¬
derly ladies are very much im_ on in
the article of -wine ; ill-luck to those who
cheat, them ! Then we had tea. I knew
the old clips and saucers again, and tho
little silver cream-jug, and the sugar
tongs, made like a pair of scissors ; I was
glad to see the tea-urn, for it helped to
warm the room. The tea made us
quite communicative; not that it was
strong enongh it to intoxicate; rather weak. quite the I
should contrary, also have was glad
been of some
more bread and butter, but they handed
me the last piece, and I could not think
of taking it, so it went into the kitchen
for the maid, and I did not grudge it
her, for she seemed, by the way, to be
not much better fed than her mistresses.
She was a neat, respectable young
woman.
After tea we talked again about old
times, and I gave several broad hints
and intimations that I should like to
hear their respective histories ; in other
words, 1 wished to know hqw it was
that they had all remained single; for
tive the history her of an old maid is the narra¬
of escapes from matrimony.
My intimation was well received, and
my Mary, implied request was complied with.
as the eldest, commenced:
“ I believeryou remember my friend,
Mr. Mi ? ”
“ I do so, and Is he living? ”
I "He smiled is, and and still single.” “Indeed!”
lady said, The
smiled not
“Yes,” continued the narrator, “be
is still living and still single. I have
occasionally seen him, but very seldom
of late years. You remember, I dare
say, what a cheerful companion he was,
and how very polite. He was quite of
tho old school, but that was only as re¬
garded his external manners. In his
opinion he partook too much of the new
school. He was one of the Libera!
party generally at Cambridge: and, though he
was a Tery serious and good
man, he perplexed liis head with some
strange notions, should and, when the time
came that he take orders, he de¬
clined doing so, on account of some de¬
jections he had to some of the Thirty -
nine Articles. Some people have gono
so far as to say that he was * no better
than a Socinian, though I do not be¬
lieve he was ever so bad as that Btill,
however, it would never do for tho
daughter of a clergyman concerning" t*> marry a man
who had any doubt any of
the Thirty-mne Articles. ’ We did all in
our power to convince him that he was
woug, and he did all in his power to
convince us that he was right; but jt
was all to no purpose. Indeed, he
seemed to consider himself a kind of
martyr, o”ly because we talked to him.
He argued most ingeniously that exact
conformity of opinion was not essential
to happiness. But I could not think it
correct to marry a man who had any
doubts concerning the articles ; lor, it’s
my father very justly observed, when a
man once begins to doubt it is imi>os:.i
!.)<• to say where jt will end. And so
the matter went on from year to year,
and so it remains still, and so it is likely
to ilit! end of the chapter. I will never
■ivi up the Thirty-nine Articles.”
All .,, the , sisters . said that she was' per
fectly right; and then Martha told her
story, saying : “It was just about, the
time that you were visiting Littleton
that Mr. B---, who had lung paid me
very particular B--was attention, inode me an
offer. Mr. not a man of
first-rate talents, though he did not
want for aiidcratamdiiiR ; he was also
tolerably .umaliy subject good-bnmow-d, vioienee. though oeca- His
to fits of
father, jeete-4 however, tie match, most and strenuously from 1 icing ob
to on
friendly terms with us he suddenly
drojqierl otir aequaintanw, and almost
|*<r*oenfc*l tw. Sly father was a man of
high evirii, and could not jmittmllf
bror<k the insult lie received, that th'Teby anil 1 have liis
every reason to twlicve
days were abortenwl. In projsrrttoti,
however, tt^m, a* the eider Mr, If — sppotwl
our the affection of the younger
so*mad to iticrc***, and h< atssilutnlv
pitt|««Mid w marriage to Hoot land, but nn
father would never allow a daughter of
his to be married otherwise than bv the
rites of the Church of England. At
length old Mr. B-died, and then it
was but thought it that we should be married ;
was necessary to wait n decent
time after the old gentleman’s death, in
which interval the young Squire, whoso
attentions had diminished of late, went
to London, where he married a widow
with a fortune. They aro now living
separately.” “You faithful first
were to your
loves.” I observed.
“But I,” said Anna, “have a differ¬
ent story to tell, I had four offers be¬
fore I was 19 years of age; and I
judgment thought that I was exercising great
and discrimination in en¬
deavoring worthy to decide which was most
of my choice; so I walked and
talked and sang and played and criticised
with all in their turn; and, before I
could make up my mind which to choose,
I lost them all, and gained tho charac¬
ter of a flirt. Tt seems very unfortunate
that we are placed under the necessity
of making that decision which must
influence our whole destiny for life at
that very period when we least know
what life is. ”
“It is expedient,” said I, “to enter¬
tain several lovers at once.'”
“I found it expedient,” said Eliza¬
beth, “to entertain several lovers in
succession. My first lover won my
heart by flute-playing. He was a Lieu¬
tenant in the navy, visiting in tho
neighborlMxxl. My lather disapproved
the connection, bnt I said that I
would not livo without him, and so
a consent was extorted ; but, alas !
my to the flute-player’s West Indies, ship and I was heard ordered of him
no eeeded more. tho My next lover, who KUO
to first ruthor too soon in the
opinion of some people, was a inelieal
man, and tor a marriage with him a
reluctant consent was obtained from my
father: but before matters could be ar¬
ranged it was found that his business
did not answer, aud he departed An¬
other succeeded to the business, and also
to my affections, and a third reluctant
consent was extorted, but, when the
young gentleman found that the report
of my father’s wealth had been much
exaggerated, timo he departed also; and in
I grew accustomed to these disap¬
pointments, and bore. them better than
1 expected husband, 1 might, perhaps, have had
a it I could lutvo lived without
a lover.”
So ended their sad stories ; mid after
tea we walked into garden. It was a
small garden, with four sides and a cir¬
cular center, so small that, as we walked
round we were like the names in a
round-robin, it was difficult to say which
*va« first. I shook hands with them at
aurting gently, for fear of hurting them,
for their fingers were long, cold and
fleahless. The next timo 1 traveled that
way not much they colder were all than hi when their graves, 1 them anil
saw
at the cottage.
American Slang.
There perhaps is nothing marking the
gives English rise spoken in this country which
to so much conoom as the as¬
serted prevalence of slang; certainly
there is nothing more common than the
depreciation of its use. It is often
spoken of us the chief danger which
threatens the English tongue, at feast
as probably employed heard by us. Most of ns have
or read assertions to that
effect; many of us have possibly made
such assertions ourselves ; yet no evi¬
dence has ever been brought forward to
show that more slang is produced or
used in this country than in England.
That what is produced here is far more
racy, varied and vigorous is plain enough
from the appreciation it meets there.
But even if it lie conceded that our soil
is more favorable to its growth, that
need not tie looked upon as a great 0,0
and, lamity. indeed, Slang performs an part important in the
a necessary
development of speech. Expression
has, also, a tendency to become weak in
the literary language, just as, unfortu¬
nately, becoming the individual in the process of
civilized is too apt to gain
gentleness Less at the expense of vigor.
power is felt in some way to exist
in the words, and so close is the relation
between the thought and the garment
with which it in clothed that" the former
seems often to share in the flfansineis of
the latter. It is this gradual process of
weakening which slang comes in to
counteract. The word is new, bnt the
of thing is old. expressions Slang is the for great in its feeder
vigorous ; very
nature it is an effort to state more con¬
cisely tablished and speech more strongly what tho es¬
is felt to say too dif
fusibly unmixed and too feebly. benefit. Of Much eoursj, it is
not an of it is
silly is worthless; ; much of bnt it is vulgar; most countless of it
from the
words and phrases which spring up in
communities where men think and act
earnestly almost infallible the literary instinct, language, with
will gain some¬
thing gies to recruit its own exhausted ener¬
ditional arm fitness to impart and to its expression ad¬
force.
Bad to Isiave Off.
“ Do trees hrfxve, pa ?” asked n young
investigator, ae ho observed the thicken¬
ing foliage. son,” jiatromzingly.
“ Yes, my don’t anywhere.”
“ But they go
“ Ohj well. ITiey don’t leave, of
course.
,, I hey d bo . awful . , dry , sticks .. , if .... they
didn t leave, wouldn t they.
“ Young man, the I m engaged on you’ll a proto
tem. Go into house, or get
sprouted, leaves mind or permitted no leaves. 4 bus
young m to grow up
in ignorance and siqierstition .—New
J/avm Jlcgktor.
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We have often read of thumb-pots for
plants. An egg shell is a very inex
fa-nsive one, and answers it* purpose
well ; break one end a little larger than
you do the other, making earth, simply a If small
hole; wish then fill with and you
the height to put of plants the shell; in them, fill aet the in a ton
splendidly, sparww
with earth j the plants start
andean lie taken 1 sit iugl handled
easily, As the shell is much lighter
than pots, they ere more desirahh for
shipping; fill the space with ««■» or
any light sulwianer used for that pur
poso.
JOTTINGS AM) CLIPPINGS.
Brick tiles—hats worn by inebriated
young men.
"overhead Tub English lines.” call our elevated roads
belong Every dog has his day, but the nights
to the cats.
Tire frog is an emblem of hope; he is
eternally springing.
When you ask some single ladies how
old they are, their rage is manifest
“Constituency, the thou art a jewel,” re¬
marks candidate when he is returned
to office.
The baker’s business should ho profit¬
able.; a good part of his stock is rising
while lie sleeps.
The conductor who divided his collec¬
tions with the company claimed that it
was a fare arrangement'.
Josh Bujungs says: “Give the devil
his duo. reads well enough in a proverb;
but what will becoineof me if t his arrange¬
ment is curried out?”
A great many dramatic writers aro
coming out with plays these days—com¬
ing out of managers’ offices with the
plays under their onus.
Jane Ham, in a light with another
woman, 8. O., choked Eugenie her Bristow, at Darlington.
and threw her against
a table, smashing her skull and causing
instant death. It was about a man.
Oliver Wendell Holmes complains
that, ho cannot even say “good-morning”
to an acquaintance without having it
telegraphed nil over the country as
humor.
T. A. Brwiklejiark estimates that in
a single decade 600,000 jiersons engaged
in agricultural personal pursuits in Great Britain
sustain injury or are killed; in
mines, 800,000; in railroads, 70,000; and
in factories 180,000.
At a dinner given in Pont street, in
London, tho other day, the docoruti ons
of the table and dining-room consisted of
real fruit trees in full bearing—peaches,
nectarines aud cherries. The guests
could eat their dessert from the trees.
Snow is largely used for packing fresh
fish for transportation, instead of ice.
One dealer at Oarleton, N. B., had three
houses filled with snow, which was packed
hard, so that none of it has been lost
since warm weather came. The cost of
putting reduce?!, up fish by this means is greatly
while tho labor is less.
Means were found by the clericals at
Antwerp to elude tho bribery law at the
Inst election there. Wagers of from 800
francs to two francs were offered by
clerical electioneering agents to doubtful
electors on the success of the Liberals;
and tho election is said to have cost tho
clerical party more than 1,000 francs.
The Scientific A mcrlcan says that it
is a well-known fact that fish always re¬
turn to the same ground each year to
spawn, but that it lias recently been dis¬
covered that they ulwuys follow tho left
hand side of the river'on their trips to
the spawning grounds, and returning
take the right side of the river.
The rate of mortality in Liverpool toy
a reoent week was equal to 23.8 per 1,000
of the estimated population. There were,
altc wether; 244 of deaths, which represents
an increase 30 on the corrected aver¬
ages of the last 10 years, and of 11 on the
corresponding return for 1879. Zymotic
diseases occasioned 01 deaths and lung
complaints 63.
An Englishman hired a vessel to visit
Tenedos. His pilot, an old Greek, re¬
marked with an air of satisfaction as thoy
sailed lay.” along: “It was there that our
fleet "What fleet?” asked the
Briton. "What fleet?” rejoined the
pilot Greek, in fleet, astonished of tones. "Why our
oourse, at the siege of
Troy.”
Fishermen engaged in the Greenland
fishery' say they never experienced any¬
thing like the terrific ice blockade which
now extends down to the 52d parallel of
latitude. The field ice lying to the east¬
ward tremity of Newfoundland, of which the southern ex¬
now bears 120 miles
distant from Kt. Johns, is of the heaviest
flow description. Thousands of icebergs
are to be seen.
Many persons are under the impres¬
sion that England stands at the head of
all the continental nations as regards the
number Such is of not ite the jieriodieal publications.
the list with 3,778; case. England Germany follows heads
2,609; with
and France oomes next with
2(000. There is then a great falling off.
America boosta 9,129, being more than
the three nations above named put to¬
gether.
Mr. Fambho, of Sandersville, Ky., hoe
a large rattlesnake, aliout five feet long,
which he captured on the 9th of last Oc¬
tober, and which he lias kept in a bob
with a wire-net front ever since Miattime.
Though he has had it nine months, the
snake has never eaten anything at all
since it was captured, ft, “lives on air,”
aud if it could bo converted into the
r/cnuH homo, retaining its natural habits,
it would make a splendid newspaper
man.
Trees and Health.
Everylxxly knows that trees toko the
carbonic acid thrown out in the brafche
of men and animals, separate it into its
component parts—carbon and oxygen—
give again, back and the work latter the to to former be used into wood over
up
and fruit.
It is also coming to doimportantaerviee !»• generally under
stood that forest trees
j fJ pj. ( ,mjrting rainfalls, and in helping
to retain the surface water for springs,
Mtr ,. aIla) g«, n <. r al nse.
]t is also known that certaiu s)iecies,
planted in malarial localities, help to
relK p, r {utter deadly healthy miasma. by somehow
)U dng up tho
It would now appear that tris* grow
jng near drains oarry off the sewerage
water.
A gentleman whose ceswrlroin was eon
strueted just kind like of his soil, neighVairs’, has found and it in
MIIDn un
necessary to clean it oat, while tb« ath
ers hiul examination to lie cleaned showed out frerpiendy, hat three
t
lirRf , vicinity whose of nsits bis had penetrated waste-,
j n p, aoenun, or
cem-pool, which were the dearly all the escaped. channels
through waste
Whether it- was changed exhaled into through plant
pas), the leaves, a* In likely, in either or wm l{ was diapoaed
ease
of with equal safety,
NUMBER 24.
flAbita of the Beaver.
I am well acquainted with the habits
of the Northern beaver. Several years
ago I 1 (ought up several hundred acres of
Superior, mining lands in near Ontonagon the south County, shore of Mich. Lake
crossed On Carp River, a small lands, stream that
a part of my the beavers
had built several dams, and fo rmedexten
sive ponds, in which they built then
houses, or lodges, as the' Indians call
them. These lodges are built in water
several feet in depth, and the entrance is
several feet under water, but the floor oi
the lodge is built at least two feet above
high watermark. The floor is built solid
from the bottom of the pond, except the
entrance.
ARhongh the beaver is warmly find
with long fine fur, ho is very sensitive to
the cold, and rarely, if ever, leaves the
pond or lodge during cold weather. He
lays mainly in consists his winter of the supply bark of food, which
of a species oi
poplar. He cuts down small trees and
cuts them into short pieces of one foot,
or a little over, in length, fastens and fakes them
into tlio pond, and one end of
these pieces securely in the mud at the
bottom of the {Kind. These pieces oi
wood are dragged is up into the lodge, as
often gnawed as off; food and after needed, being and denuded the hark
<4
the hark, useless, they are by no means thrown
away as but are taken under tin
ice, and carefully placed in the dam, to
strengthen it
They built one dam a little below the
foot of Oarp Lake, which raised the lake
thirty inches. mile The long lake is a small one —
about one and a fourth of a
mile wide. I measured tho stump of a
it maple measured tree that they hml cut down, and
fourteen inclis in diameter.
There were no less than eleven dams on
the stream, all in sight of our buildings,
where we were mining for copper.
The beaver posesses great engineering
skill, always building his dams in the form
of an arch, the crown of the arch being
invariably resist up stream, giving it strength
to the pressure of the water. The
Indians used to tell luo many singular
traits of character that this animal imsses
ses. mud, sticks They build and their darns and lodges oi
very strong. I stones, compactly albino b and
once saw on waver
skin. I thought, aud still think, that it
was tho purest white I ever saw,
Unr Ions Epitaphs.
In wandering through the various rest¬
ing claim: places Where of the dead the one might lniriod?” well ex¬
“ are sinners
Surely their groves are not here; the in¬
cate scriptions the resting on marble, places shaft of the or good slab alone. indi¬
But hi going hero and there through old
cemeteries, i'kjm'i dally in England, one
often unlike comes tlioso across of tho*pre»e«t inscriptions day. strangely Let
ns
pass by extraordinary. the ordinary ones The and read some of
of the two wives
Thomas Hex ton are buried in a church¬
yard near Newmarket. Upon the stone
over the grave of the first, one is the fol¬
lowing:
H«r» llu* th« Inxly ol Sarah 8extmv~
fthc wan a wife that/icvci vexed one*
I u&ttM My ho much fur the one at the next ntonu.
In the cemetery of the Old Grey Friars,
Edinburgh, we find:
Hein kikjk in (-lie grave ray wif« dotb ll«,
Now hhe Li at r««f, and no Bin I.
Here is another:
Jlftro lion my dear wife a aad slattern and nhraw,
J! I said I rfl*rctt/U her, l Hhonld lie, too
On a tom!>stone in Oyford;
Here, The old deep moldy in tho duet,
cruet
Ol Noll Batchelor l«t*dv khoven;
W bo who tricillod In the arta
Of {don, imddio^H and tai la
Aim! knew rvtrv nee of tho oven,
When hlio had lived long enough
She made her U«t putf—
A puff by her liuffbaml much pralftod—
Now here *ht: doth Mo
And milk* n a dirt pie
In hope that her crust may be raiaed.
But these are rather unjust toward the
fair sex. 1s t ns look tor sometliing more
truthful. We find it in Bt. Michael's
Churchyard, Coventry:
Kite wait--
But word h are wanting
To my wbttt
J/jok what u wife Hhould be,
And ahe wot that.
In memory of Katherine Gray, who
kept a pottery shop at Chester:
Ih-iKwth thiff vtrnic lien old Katherine liny,
Changed from a huff* Ufa to hfe!«wciay;
By But eirtb la and turned clay ihe earth got her herwlL pell.
now to
Ve weeping friendff ota mo advise, I
Abate y«Mir grief and flood dry your eyea,
For what a valla a of team? j
Who known but in a run ol veare, ‘
In mine tall pitcher or hr ad pan
8he in her ahop may be again?
A (Jueer Breed of Children.
“There are the most curious children in
that coach that 1 ever saw in my life,"
said a gentlemen standing on the Union
Pacific Dejiot platform to a Ito nnxirter.
“Just step in aud look at ’em, and if you
cilll tell me what they ol arc you can have
them ” With a view side-show accepting business the if offer the
and starting a
articles referred to proved representative to lie genuine
curiosities, the Hoc moon- j
ted the ate,is of the coach on a tour of
;
naman well dressed in his national cos
tome and besjdo holding him a full-blooded children her no
gro woman, two on
lap, while lour others, under the charge
of a Chinese servant, rolled and tumbled
over the seats and down the aisles of the
car. There was of nothing either so jieouliar in
the apiieorancc the man and
wife, for wo the reporter found them to lie,
but the six children, the oldest of whom
Was nine years of age, were the most
singular combination of negro and Chill
ese imaginable. Their hair was crisp and
curly; their skin very dark, but the
Hliiqs' of their faccund tin: almond-shaped
eyes tuictlv proclaimed their paternity jabbered too dis
for any mistake. They a
way with tlieir father ill his native tongue in
the most artless manner, while st thesann
time they kept the passengers in eouvul
si ons of heighten with contortions and
grimnoo* which would have done infinite
credit to the stag"' ol negro minstrelsy,
i'he reimrte r oeertniuixl that dm name ol
thoGhuimun was Hang lliuig, who, twelve While
years ugo, went It coolie to Cuba.
working in ftobe he lieeame enamored of
u negro slate, Ha saved enough to pur- In
chase h«r freedom and married her.
the course of a tew years he lieeame *
coolie contractor himself, aud is now
wealthy .—Omaha /?<*,
Motwtr, the historian. I«lt ar <,.i M ic
which hsr- iu*t toon appr»j«tai. • •ill. i»lly
at gl 36,919
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WAIFS AND WHIMS.
but A faint heart never wou a fair lady,
a faint whisperofteu catches her.
The Buffiilo fifunda;/ Time* has a de¬
partment of stolen paragraphs, which it
bends, “With your Coffee.” That set¬
tles it
Glass,” A town in Oregon is named “Looking goin>
and lots of women are
there. It’s a place they like fo set*
themselves in.
Drinking saloons are called eotlis
houses, and rather than deceive tlicir cus¬
tomers, hand, they always keep a sample of it
on ready roasted.
It is said that we spend more for to¬
bacco than for bread. This seems u
little hard to believe, when every one
appeal's former. to dejxmd on liis friends for the
The fact that nature only put one el¬
bow in a man’s arm is sufficient to indi¬
cate that she never intended him to fas¬
ten the collar button on the bock of his
shirt.
A New York Chinaman was asked his
age, for the census. He thought it was
the draft, and, wishing exemption, re¬
plied : “Ninety years oldee, alloc
timeo. ”
writer, “Sooner or later,” is found says out.” a French Just
A married “everything for instance, is
so. man, gen¬
erally later—-than found out later—aliout lie. three hours
he should
“I should liko to see somebody ab
(lucit me,” said Mrs. Smith at the break¬
fast table the other morning. “H'pi'
so should I, my dear; so should I,”
said Mr. Smith with exceeding earnest
ness.
Hfeaklvo of thunder turning fresh
milk., vicious Bliffirs says He it can’t hold a oandlc
to a cow. says he has a cow
that can turn a whole pailful of new milk
“(piicker’n thunder!”
An anxious fattier was nonsuiting one
of tho Wall street magnates as to wind
business he should put liis son to. “ My
boy, education sir,” and said is he, remarkably “fins had a first rate
truthful.''
If it be true, that as alleged, that there is
one church never had a mortgage on
it, why wasn't exhibited it brought to the Centen¬
nial and among the other won
derfiit curiosities ?—NorrMown Herald*
It is Well to have a keg of beer in the
house. When four robbers broke into o
house in Arkansas, rifle intending to murder
the inmates and the place, they
found a keg of beer, got drunk, and were
all arrested.
A mttlb girl, who had been very ob¬
servant of charity, her parents' being mode of exhibit¬
ing their asked what gen¬
erosity was, answered: “It’s giving to
tho poor all tho old stuff you don’t want
yourself. ”
“Where art thou now my beloved?”
is a very easy question to answer, Jane.
Your lieloved in urfibably tho hi some saloon
{flaying hi actively seven-; -d lor chinning beer, his or landlady else ho
in enga,, making satisfactory
tho hope ol some due.
arrangement as to liis board bill past
“I don’t see much good in that,” said
tho wall street man, jingling the double
eagles in his breeches jfoeket; “nono of
the successful business men I know are
truthful. Better make your boy an apoth¬
ecary; that’s deceit tho only business I the know long of
whore does not pay in
ran,”
A MOST faxtidlotn (Win won h«i
Hu’d W tj-m ver trftu ho gut thu light,
Then fly a down Ui the J< : | fight!
dlnw to
He’d ton ogalnirt h (niching pi* 1 .
And eke ugidnst a Ijm ,
And l*rk bin rnwe—ln fact, a most
Fagt-tliidy-iui man was be.
—fwl.
The poet has referred idlers to the ant
for a lesson on industry. The common
house fly, however, wears the belt for
jiersistent perseverance. One of these
creatures will go a thousand times to the
same spot on a man’s bald head, and yet
there is nothing to he gained by it in any
way.
An old Judge of the New York Su¬
preme Court meeting a friend in a neigb
imruig village, doing exclaimed: here?” “I “Why, at-work what
are you am
trying to make an you’ll honest succeed,” living,” was the
reply. “Then said
the Judge, “for you’ll have no eompeti
tiou.”
A vouno artist who how lives in a boarding- learn
house wants to know he can tc
play the violin without disturbing the
other boarders, Hoap yr.ur bow, bathe young
man, soap your bow and the
strings twice a day in sweet oil. Then
you itures, can sit up all will night mind and play over
and nobody it.
Professor of Greek, who is riding out
with his wife, notices that the horse is
thirsty aud drives into a stream by the
roadside. Professor remarks that there
is evidently some the weighty horse from obstruction getting
which prevents
his head down to drink, and says that he
wiU make observations with a view of
unbuckh^timcnipjier.___ j^Sra!”
to
Asking for Honey.
Few wives enjoy particularly asking their if hu
Iamb for money, with njg
gardliaesw is displayed. Intrusted
a regular income, her position is much
more independent and dignified. If sh;
has a genius for managing, she will take
pride and pleasure away—much in making 100 than oeute
go a great farther u
man could make 160 go. She will also
make calculations about the exper di
tures of the weekly sums; will such lav by and a
certain amount toward buying
such supjflies in quantities : will team
that there is no economy in buying soap
by the lmr, starch or sugar by the pound,
Hue will sy stemutize her affairs, keep her
texdts—a day-book well-kept .mil accounts a ledger—and with prill
exhibit her
and d* flight. I he very foci, that the e.\
petidituo' of the money belongs to her
will sweeten her life, give new zest t*>
her occupations ami make her a happy
and more-noiUcuted wife. This ques
*>«."> of domestic money supplies opens a
wide field (or thought for the average
husband,
Mistrehs “ Who were you talking
to, Jane?” Cook—“Only my cldes'
Vuyitbcr. mum- He’s—he*s in the per
U^. Mistress—" Indeed I What is
his name?” Cock-”John Smith,
mum." Mistre**—" But your nann- is
Hot Smith." Cook—•“No, mam • but
tuu see, heW he’s bin married