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(The Wlatltiiifirille Adraiue.
A WEEKLY PAPER,
Published Tuesday,
— AT—
Watkinsville, Oconee Co. Geo p gia.
AV. Gr. SULLIVAN,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
TERMS:
One year, in tdrance .91 0Q
Six months. .......... 60
JOTTINGS AND CLIPPINGS.
Says the Chicago Tribune undoubtedly to “ Young
Mother:” “It would be
proper for you to name the child Vivian
Mabel Genevieve, and it would also be
proper to jump into the lake after you
had done it.”
We don’t wish to alarm the American
people, and commercial we don’t want circles, to create a
panic would like in profound hut we
to say, from a con¬
viction of eternal truths and imperative
necessity, clubs. that “now is the time to make
up ”
The baby stare is considered pretty
for a young girl now in England. It is
done by opening the eyes as wide as
possible without raising the brows, and
slightly turning the corners of the mouth
upward. Saying “mouse” five or six
times gives the right position to the lips.
There are two reasons why many
parents know so little about what their
children are learning at school. They
are not as well educated as their chil¬
dren .are suppoged| to be, and do not
wish to show their ignorance, or they
send them to school in order to get them
out of the way.
A tramp consented to do a small job at
digging though post holes at Carson, Nevada,
labor was contrary to his custom.
He returned to his employer’s house in
an hour, threw down his spade, and said
he had changed his mind. He had found
$430 worth of gold bars which some
miner had buried.
A married man committed suicide in
his room at a popular summer resort a
few days ago. The provocation is not
known, but it is supposed that it was be¬
cause liis wife was unexpectedly sum
hind togdfcd to pack home her and trunk. left her. There husband be¬
are some
things a msih can do hs well as a woman,
but packing a woman's trunk is not one
of them.
Fannie Boos, a pretty but thievish
young tody woman, was discharged from cus¬
at Paducah, Ky. Within a block
of the jail she met John Mathias, a re¬
spectable farmer, who was visiting the
city. Their acquaintance began on the
ried. spot, and before night they were mar¬
In addition to the usual ceremony
the bride took a solemn oatirof reforma¬
tion.
Sophie Sparkle, quoting from some¬
body Boston,-Womannever oyei^|CiA'tt at a believis hotel, says well that of a
until she finds that you
out you are really
possessed of merit, aud treats you ac¬
aud cordingly, with (superiority. her grand air of pride
cobsciqiig A New York
woman, on 'the contrary, accepts you as
being worthy of respect until she finds
out that you are not, and will extend,
confid£Bfi£ even to a stranger, a spirit of civility J/fj and
tr y | i j»*f- rv
The pastor of t he Methodist Oliurch at
North Adams. Mass., explaining to his
Sunday sin,” said school the meaning of “original
that Adam’s fall did not moral¬
ly affect anybody now. . The superinten¬
dent assured the children that the.pastor
was by mistaken, and The endeavored to prove
it argument. discussion lasted
two hours, and finally became superintendent heated,
the pastor accusing the
of being “neither a gentleman nor a
Christian.” The children did not get
any very dear idea of that day’s lesson.
A certain manufacturer of Bradford
who made a composition with his cred¬
itors, was under cross-examination at the
Leeds Assize?. “New, sir,” cried Mr.
Bagwig ferociously, “attend to me.
Were you not in difficulties a few months
ago?” “Noa.” “What! air? Attend
to my question. I ask you again—'and
pray be careful in answering, for you are
on your oath, I need hardly remind you
—were you not in difficulties some
months ago?” “Noa, not as I knows
of.” “Sir, do you pretend to tell this
court that you did not make a composi¬
tion with your creditors a few months
ago?” “Oh! ah!”—a bright smile of
intelligence spreading over the ingenuous
face of the witness—'“that’s what you
mean, is it? But, you see, it were my
creditors as were i’ the difficulties then,
an’ not me.”
The honey ant makes its store vessels
from the bodies cf the workers. First,
it bites the end of the abdomen, thereby
setting up an inflammation, which closes
the apertures of the body. Then it feeds
the maimed creature with honey, pour¬
ing it into the mouth of the living honey
pot, just as the bee pours honey into its
crop. This process is continually re¬
peated, distended until the body astonishing of the store size ant is
to an with
honey, the skin being stretched to such
an extent that it is sufficiently transpar¬
ent to show the honey within. It can
not escape, for the body is so heavy it, that
the limbs are insufficient to carry and
it so remains in the nest until the honey
is wanted. In Mexico these ants are so
plentiful that they form regular articles
of commerce, being sold by measure in
the markets, and used for the purpose of
making mead SpeeHBieaa may be seen
in the British Museum.
The Dark Side of Things,
Some people will persist in taking a
gloomy view of everything. Thera is a
man of that kind living in Galveston. A
neighbor happened in to sCe him, and
• found everybody lively except the head
of the family. •
“How are you all doming’®?”
“Wei are sfll toiSrqffi<r except Bob. He
is laughing and joking because he is
going a fishing^ I just know he is going
: Well, the rest seem to be cheerful.”
: Yes, sorter. Jemimy is jumping and
stamping shout because she is going to a
candy-pulling, her. blit I know something
will ham ssl to I read 6f a girl in
Philadelphia home only last year who was
coming from a eainjy-xiuiling, when
» drunken man threw htyjw ife out of *
three-story wifld'vw and kilted her. ”
“ Kilted whom ? ’
“Jemimy.”
"5%' Wall, it Vl'XfLlTi’L. omu- "Urnshy, l if • # she ,
hail been <■» tte’^' fLL„Wtii cmen elm
Well, Tonar og ... < „ ..
"xes; I *-e ('‘liflg a -.1 Jfjt t*|f
who dropped # •*. * * H ’ * 6
week high spirits fr.ro an * - 1 s- 1 mfgf 1
tbcm s just my syrop om* " vMm
A r * M >
The Watkinsville Advance.
VOLUME I.
THE ARCHBISHOP AID Oil. BIAS.
BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
I don’t think I leol much older; I'm aware I’m
rather gray,
But so are many young folks; I meet ’em every
I confess day. particular
I’m more in what I eat and
But one’s drink,
taste improves with culture that is all it
means, I think.
Can you read as once you used to? Well, the print¬
No ing is so bad,
young folks’ eyes can read it like the books that
once we had, hearing?
Are you quite as quick of Please to sa,y
that once again,
Don’t I use plain words, your Reverence? Ye% I
often used a cane,
But it’s not because I need it—no, I always lkrtl a
stick.
And as on» might lean upon it, ’tis as well it should
be thick.
Ob, I’m smart, I I’m spry, I’m lively-lean wmik,
On the yes, days can,
I fee! like walking, just as well as you,
young man!
Don’t you get a little sleepy after dinner eTery
Well, day? I d>
ze a little sometimes, hut that always was
my way.
Don’t you cry a little easier than some twenty years
Well, my heart is Tory tender, but I think 'iwgts al¬
ways so.
Don’t you find it sometimes happens that y<*n can’t
recall a name?
Yes—I know lots of people—but my memory’s not
to lilame.
What! You think my memory’s failing! Why it’s
I remember just as bright grand-grandma and clear—
my 1 She’s bt|'U dead
these sixty year.
Is your voice a little trembly? Well, it may he,
now and then,
But I write as good as ever with a good old-fashioned
It’s the pen; Gillots the
make trouble—not at all my fin¬
ger ends—
That is why my hand looks shaky when I sign for
dividends.
Don’t von stoop a little walking? It’s a way I’ve
always had -
I have always been round shouldered, ewer since X
5 was a lad.
Don’t you hate to tie your shoestrings? Yes, I own
it—that is true.
Don’t yo a tell old stories over? I am net aware I
do.
Don’t you stay at home of evenings? Don’t you love
a cushioned seat
In a corner by the fireside, with your slippers on
your feet?
Don’t yon wear warm fleecy flannels? Don’t you
muffle up your throat?
Don’t you like to have one help you when you’re
putting on year cont?
pon’t can’t you remember like old hooks when? you’ve dogs-enred, you
Don't y cm? call it late at nine o’clock and go to bed at
How many cronies can you count of all you used to
know
That called you by yotu Christian name some fifty
years ago? r A,.
How look the prizes to you that used to fire your
brain?
You’ve reared you mound—how high is it above the
level fgainj?
You’ve dniiind’tlie brimming golden cup that made
your fancy the reel, giddy
You've slept potion off—now tell us how
you feel ?
You’ve watched llie harvest ripening till every stem
You've was cropped, of
seen the rose beauty fade till every petal
dropped, told
You’ve your thought, you’ve done your task,
you've tracked you dial round,
—I backing down! Thank heaven, not yet! I’m
hale and brisk and sound,
And good for many a tussle, as you shall live to
see;
My shoes are not quite ready yet—don't think
you’re rid of me!
0!d Parr was in bis lusty prime when he was older
far,
And where will you be if I live to heat old Thomas
Parr!
Ah well—I know—at every age life has a certain
charm
You’re going? Come, permit me, please, I beg yoa’II
take my arm.
I take your arm! Why take your arm? I’d thank
ole! on to be told
I’m enough to walk alone, but not so very old!
HOW DAN PLAYED THE FOOL
Gne of the most singular men I ever
met with was a private soldier in the
Twelfth New York Infantry, which regi¬
ment Third was Michigan brigaded with the Second and
and Second Massachu¬
setts during the first year or so of the
war. Seen at. one time you would say
that Dan Harrison had blue eyes. Five
minutes after you would make oath
that they were black, as indeed they
were.
Dan also had wonderful control over
his voice. He could mimic the voice of
any man in the brigade. He could bark
like bird, a dog, bray like a mule, whistle like
a and was the wonder of the camp.
On one occasion our Wagonmaster was
asleep in his! wagon, with his six mutes
roped near by. Dan crept behind a bate
of hay aud brayed loud aud long. The
Wagonmaster awoke and jumped down
and pounded the nearest mule, growling
out as he re-entered the wagon:
humble “There, blast ye—I guess you’ll feel
for awhile!”
In about two minutes Dan repeated
the words. The voice was so exactly
the same that a dozen of us, who were
hiding near by, thought it was the
Wagonmaster again. The latter indi¬
vidual stuck his head out, looked around
in surprise, and then said:
“ Well, it took that echo a long time
to get aroumMlus yflCCBJII
There wag yet other reasons why Dan
was considered greater than a menagerie,
He could drop one shonktor three inches
lower than the other. He could walk as
if one leg v. a* shorter than ■ the other,
He could work his ears like a liprse. He
omdd cramp bis hands until they seemed
to have been drawn all out of shape' by
rheumatism. He could make it appear
that he had a squint in either eye, and
he eouldramehis eye-brows clear up into
his hair. He wa* a farmer’s son, gen
ial, brave and good-hearted, and he >vas
never tired of. doing something to amuse
I’Wr. Boon Heintzteraan ma4e his
1 after re
! Harrison, and the result of the inter
, view was that Dan was engaged by the
government as a spv. His curious physi
cal structure and his natural eoplness
; : and bravery fitted him, for such danger
bus work, and I may say here that for
three years he was accounted the numt
noeoesefol and daring spy m service,
* Jetst one more cunbift trait 41 ain't him
ftn d then I will relate an adventure of
his which cost him a bad wound.
A dozen of us would sit in a circle
, him, wl# and somebody would a*k;
nij|n UtWrdW&r isf htJisi'ne of t he Colonel
Of
H*» would due* aid bis eyes for times perhaps
'll Jbre« toiiwould ieeonds, th-triton***- then, eight How out it
hiia h*$ 'roiild net explain; but
he seemed to divine things intuitively, I
wswl n» front ot Urn gnwrd
just bung dis mi ss a d , and all strange**
WATKINSVILLE, GEORGIA. AUGUST 31, 1880.
to him, and call out the first names of
four out of every five. At Fort Michi¬
gan, in the winter of 1862, he made a
wager of ten dollars that he could give
the Christian names of twenty out of
twenty-five men in the line before him.
A sergeant of my company went over
into another regiment and brought the
men, and a crowd of more than five hun¬
dred gathered to see the wager lost or
won. Dan won called it. Passing slowly
twenty-five along the line he by their twenty-two right of the
men names.
The three whom lie miss were named
Hezekiah, Philetus and Joshua, and
Dan’s excuse for missing them was that
he was not fully up oh scripture.
One lonely, rainy night in the begin
ningof 1862,' Dan Harrison set out to work
his way into the confederate intrench
ments around Centerville, charged to see
everything the that might be turned to value
to confederate cause. Dan had no
particular make up except the dress of a
Virginia farmer, and no story to til ex¬
cept that he was (when he got there(
within the confederate lines to secure
some sort of compensation for three
horses seized by a party of confederate
raiders. • Circumstances might alter his
plans aud his story, but if so, he would
have something else at his tongue’s end.
The spy left the federal outposts and
headed directly for Centerville, He met
with no adventure that night, Hty in the
woods all the next day, or advanced un¬
der cover of them, and at dark again took
the highway. He knew that danger
lurked in every fence corner for one who
skulked along, and ho therefore put a
.bold face on the matter and walked briskly
forward, passing quite a number of negroes
and several white men without being dis¬
turbed. Just then many slaves were try¬
ing to reach the federal lines, and this
fact got Dan into trouble.
About nine o’clock' as he stepped briskly
along, a patrol consisting of three nieii
sprang from the bushes and confronted
lnm, supposing him at first to be a negro,
when finding he was a white man, the
leader of the patrol began asking leading
questions and insisting upon prompt re¬
plies. For some reason Dan thought it
best to change his plans. Dropping his
left shoulder and humping up his back,
he replied to their questions in a whining
drawling voice, in imitation of a half-wit.
‘ ‘ Laid for a nigger aud captured afooll”
growled the leader, as Dan began to ask
Billy questions and danced around.
“ Whar’ do you live?” asked of the
one
others.
“ In—ze—moon,” drawled Dan, laugh¬
ing as loud as he could.
“ How do yon get down here?”
he “On—a—string—ha! jumped ha! ha!” And
around and chuckled as if he
had got off a good joke.
“Well, kick I suppose we’dbetter give him
leader. a and “He’s let him go,” remarked the
enough to be soldier, no nigger, don’t know
a and we’d better
hurry him along.”
“I don’t know about that!” remarked
the thud man, who had alone been silent.
‘ ‘ I don’t know of any fool in this neigh¬
borhood, and we shouldn’t let this chap
go until we have a closer look at him.
Here, you infernal idiot, do you know
any one around here ?”
“Missus Brown—Missus Brown!” re¬
plied Dan, using the first name that
came in his way.
said “Well, it’s only a step down thar,”
the man, “and if she knows him
it’s all right.
So there was a Mr. Brown close at
hand. No one could have been more sur¬
prised than the spy, and he feared he
had gotten himself into a bad scrape.
There was no chance for him but to go
for along, and go he did, amusing the men
a quarter of a mile with strange antics
and silly talk. Mrs. Brown was a widow,
living farm in a comfortable, though small
straight house, and Dan was marched
up to her door. She was a wo
man about motherly fifty years of age, with a kind
lace and ways.
“Widder Brown,’’ began the leader of
the party, as he put his hand on the
spy, “we captured this fool down the
road thar. He acts aqd talks like a tool,
but we want to be sure he isn’t tricking
us. He says he knows you. If you
know him, that’s all we want. ”
‘ ‘ Missus Brown know Tommy, ” chuck¬
led Dan, as he boldly entered the house
and sat down, and took the family cat on
his The lap.. widow’s fj| (J I
in the first place, vanity was that a bit flattered,
she had been
called rqion to identify a stranger, and in
the next place, she would lose prestige if
she failed to do so.
“Mebbe I know him—mebbe I do,”
she replied as she looked for her spec¬
tacles. “Bomehow or other I alius
know all the fools going, and most of ’em
come around for victuids. Now, then, f
will look at him ”
She put on her spectacles, took the
„i«*l caudle fo in her hand, and Dan was scruti
r a i ong minute. He looked tn,
into her face aud grinned aud chuckled.
though his heart was in his mouth
“She don’t know him, ” whispered one
of the men.
The widow overheard it and now she
wa8 on her mettle. Walking slowly
across the room to put down the candle
and her spectacles, slie turned and said
•• yes, He’s a fool, aud you are bigger
fools for stopping hun!”
“ en you , know , him . r i, naked , - the
1 , j
mv 1 *9/ St ,e T&* H imnwamMr- U JT'
l l ‘\ u 1 F"*** 0 matmnony, did he?”
.
oue o1 ttie meu -
“No!” she snapped, “but if he had
he’d have stood a better chance than
white men who hide in fence comers to
capture niggers!”
So saying she slammed the door on
them aud went away. She sat down by
the table and looked across at Dan, and
presently Ves, he's mused: stool, aud those
“ men hud
no business hauling him around, no mat
tor whether I knew him or not, I guess
he’s hungry and liml and I’ll jaw IaF) inm
something jilayndtiW to cuAimd fad" /end hi* perfect!?,i, ft
Dan “ to (
and when hu had eaten, the woman hud
a real motherly interest in him. She
guided him upstairs, showed him the
bed he wm U> occupy, and then went
down with the light, saying
" Fools can see in the .1ark as well as
by house daylight, ” and you might set the
on fire.
The spy was out of the scrape, in one
sense, and yet he was in trouble. He
wanted to reach aud pass the confederate
outposts before daybreak. If he remained
in the house he would encounter people
next identified. day who might want him more fully
But how was he to leave?
The chamber was a half-story affair,
all in one room, and a window at either
cud. One of those would let. the spy out.
He crept across the floor aud tried the
sash of one. It was old and shaky, and
yet he worked at it for a long ton min¬
utes, and gave up in despoil’. Tho
sashes were not nailed, but so warped
that to get them up, or down, or out.,
would make noise enough to arouse
everybody the other window about the could house. Tho raised, snsli but in
be
Dan’s finger’s had scarcely touched it
when two or three dogs, which seemed
to be kenneled directly below, com¬
menced a furious barking. Escape by
that way was cut off.
After a moment of thought, Dan de¬
cided to wait till the house grew quiet,
and then descend the stairs aud go out
by wait the front door. He might have to
for an hour or more, aud ho, there¬
fore, throw himself on the bed. He had
scarcely commotion got settled when he the hoard a
down stairs and heavy
tread of a man. Creeping out of bed,
and putting his ear to the floor, he soon
made out that the woman’s son had re¬
turned home after a considerable absence
within tho confederate lines.
Dan listened for a long time, catching
words enough to keep tho run of tho
conversation, and when he heard both
bed moving again. across the floor he slipped into
It was well he did so. The
stair door opened, a light appeared, and
as mother and son ascended, she said:
“Of cofirse lie’s a fool! Do you think
I’vo got so old that I can’t tell an idiot
when I see him ?”
“Well, these are suspicions times,”
muttered the son in reply, aud botli ad¬
vanced to the lied.
Dan seemed to bo fast asleep. One
hand all cramped up was on the quilt in
plain sight, and he laid his face screwed
up until the lonesome look ought to have
melted a heart of stone.
“There! don’t he look like a fool?”
whispered tlie mother.
“He may be one, hut it don't do any
hurt to let the patrol take him into our
outposts,” answered the son, and both
descended tho stairs.
I)an must get out of that. Not by way
of the window, but down stairs and out.
of the front door. Tho patr* j! could not
tie far off, and he had no time to spare.
Hastily resuming his garments, lie softly
descended the stairs. While waiting at
tlie door lie heard the son go out, and
after two or three minutes he softly opened
the door.
No one was in the room. Tiptoeing
across it, he opened tlie front door and
stepped with out, lint only to stand face to face
the son, ayouugmanof about twenty
five and of good muscular development.
Forj| what seemed a long minute they
looked into each other’s faces. The
confederate then said:
“ Throw up you hands, Mr. Yank—
the game is played!”
coolly “ I justeamem answered Dan, tobid and you good-night!” lio gathered
and made a rush.
The confederate didnotfollow, becanse
he realized that Dan was running directly
for the approaching patrol. Ho was under
full headway when he met them, or saw
that he was going to run into them, and
swerved aside.
“Shoot that Yankee—kill him! kill
him! ’ shouted the confederate at the
house, and the patrol opened fire in re¬
sponse.
Dan was not over thirty feet away, and
the gloom of thenight saved liimfroni be¬
left ing riddled. One bullet struck hint infhe
painful arm, just below the elliow, inflicting
and a. he wound,but distanced the others went wild
soon pursuit. Dan did
not get into Centerville that time, but
he was there a month later.
Language of tlie Mouth.
Rome wiseacre proposes to read wom¬
an’s charsgiter by her mouth. Hero are
the rales to he observed : If her mouth
is very small there, is -not much mind,
but overmuch shallow sentiment. If
she has a very large mouth slie will pos¬
sess a good brain, but the trouble is in
kissing it. Large mouths put a man to
an artistic test,; he wifi be driven to liis
wits’ end whether to begin at one corner
and conclude on the other, or to make a
heroic dash at tlie, middle and endeavor
to reach both corners. But if you are a
kissing artist it can lie covered nicely
enough. If your sweetheart has a
coarsely formed Month she will lie sens
nal angfullof strong, will nt$e coarse point* the of
din ranter, and she a row formed in
famil iy. If has a delicately
moo til, with rounded lips and of a vel¬
vety color, she will have much sensibil¬ will
ity and astonish perfection of olyracter, of but
not tion execution. by her It brilliancy is good concep¬ month
or n
because it is kissable and submissive.
Shun will blue-lipped or thin-lipped with women; litera¬
they bore, you to death
ture or woman’s rights, theorize while
you want your dinner, or apoil your tem¬
per by their red-hot scolding tongues.
n ,(T "
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The Bolondft , negroes m Africa lielieve ,
in . the supremacy of woman. It is with
them the law Unit women shall sit in tho
councils of the nation: that a young man
on entering the mafninoninI state shall
remove from Ins own v.lingo to t hat of
his wue, ami m forming tin . relation lie
shall bluff himself to provide hismotLer
with wood so long as she krmfl live,
H«re, too, the wife alone can divore,. the
husband, and the '-hihlren in tlmt event
lieeoine the piojsij-ty ol the motnef. l'be
men eimnot enter into the moM ordinary
'itqitrta't H l| tioin. _ih'-jfriip-< | o | i Of fho
»«*; <* if* | In
tin vRfy of C— >t:'f AmenflgTho
UMMlire thot mmywninpi (t* vainly
Stmlag for ill A *i«i i' to smi th” rights
she claim >rs for her- ue already granted
in, wliut tins we far-off cull nn country “ (itieiviii/i'd to women, people. pad by A
few delegates team Holonds might la- of
f;: i*«i m rvn o lo the cause, for they at
it i *r from < vp> rienee of what,
V> ua, are yet unit rod laws.
Nervous Depression.
The chief part of tho cure lies with
the patient. Change, exercise, fresh
air, diet, tonic—all those together will
not cure any one who gives up and gives
way. Tho aim of the patient must bo
to disregard and even defy his sensa¬
form tions, impressions, languor or whatever
his sufferings may take, and just
go on as usual, doing all he can to for¬
get self. Nervous people often rally
wonderfully sometimes under under pleasant excitement,
even sudden trial.
They tivity surprise their friends by their ac¬
and endurance, and accomplish
the otherwise impossible. Let ns illus¬
trate our meaning in one or two particu¬
lars. Suppose a patient so severely de¬
pressed that ho can lmrdly be persuaded
to move ; lie must begin—he must try.
No brooding over troubles and watch¬
ing for symptoms. aud Giving up is fatal;
resolution hope gain tlie victory,
with the help of Providence. And even
as the to fears, forebodings, and so forth,
same direction, in substance, will
apply. period A lady told the writer that, after
a of acute suffering from various
apprehensions, she one day said to her¬
self : “Now I have long been fearing
all sorts of tilings, and they do not
come: I have had all manner of distress,
and dreaded what has nover yet hap¬
pened. Nothing that I have been so
alarmed about lias really occurred. I
will allow these tormenting tears no
longer.” her And slio resolutely dismissed
apprehensions. She strove against,
and in time overcame, her gloomy and
groundless, to forebodings, others, to preach and now hope lives and
cheerfulness encourage
and trust.
Not a few of the habits of modern life
strain the nervous system considerably ;
hurry lent. and Taking excitement things ure coolly far too preva¬
“ ” should be
at least endeavored by those who may
have much in their work calculated to
stimulate tho mind or the feelings. Ex¬
cess of any kind is constantly tho parent
of citing norvous depression. So, too, are ex¬
amusements, such as gambling.
Too much novel-reading is au unsus¬
pected, but oiten Overwork, very powerful, contrib¬
uting cause. alas ! is one
which it is not so easy to remedy as to
denounce,
mtUB to saru, and ninny tn keen,
Often strains the nerves and brain too
heavily. derful A good hobby is often a won¬
relief to the overtaxed mind.
Too little exercise and too mnoh tea
ruin tlie nerves of many a womun. Men
often try theirs by indulging too freely
in the use of tobacco. Young men, anil
above all growing lads, arc very unwise
if elders they employ tobacco at but all. Their vigor
have more excuse; the
of will youth cannot require it, and certainly
cruelty not profit by it. The diabolical
of frightening young children is
almost certain to sow the seeds of ner¬
vous weakness ; so does harsh treatment
in later childhood. And over-driving
and harrassing young lads and girls,
whether at books or work, all tend in
the same direction. Competitive exam¬
inations have to answer for some cases
of enfeebled nerves.
Simple habits, moderation in all
things, cheerful amusements or pas¬
times, and reasonable care, will go far
to prevent nervousness. But when,
through itary ignorance, affliction, indiscretion, hered¬
developed, tendency, the sufferer or it lias been
will do well to
give all heed to the foregoing hints, and
take for his motto, “Hope on, hope
over.”
A Lion’s Skin for a Dollar.
An Arizona paper relates an exploit
by a Mexican, which, for downright
foolishness, puts to flight any of tho
daring performances of the heroes of
Beadle’s “yaller-baeks.” It appears
that the Mexican, accompanied by his
dog, was on liis way to Tempo to do
some trading, when the dog treed a
large California lion. The man was un¬
armed, save with a large butcher-knife,
hut nothing lie daunted, and knowing
where could sell the skin for a dol¬
lar, he whipped after out his knife aud started
up the tree this specimen of the
king of distance, beasts. he Slipping up within
reaching plunged the knife
into the animal just behind the shoulder,
which so startled him that lie leaped to
the by the ground dog, when and tlie was instantly hastened bounced
man from
the tree, sprang upon tin; beast, and
planted without a further liome-thrust damage through his heart,
to himself than
having his hat torn to pieces. The lion
measured about eight feet from the tip
of his nose to the tip of his tail, and had
he got one good blow at Ihe man lie
would have mash d him into a jelly.
Mr. Edwards informed us thot this same
Mexican killed one of tlievp beasts, about
three months ago, that measured'over
nine feet from tip to tip, using no other
weapon than a small pistol and a knife
awl that, he came near losing liis life in
tliut encounter. M r. Edwards p»y» hina
$1 each for tin: hides, and is tanning
them for bool leather.
The Man with a Glass Eye.
glass A one-eyed This man is the in St. Louis has a
eye. way he uses it.
Begays: to give “A man thrashing came into my office lit
once me a about a
tie difference we had in regard to the
settlement of a small estate, I listened
when to him I coolly and deliberately. about strike, Then,
saw he was to I
pulled out my eye diaposed-of and kid it on the
That table, as if it were down a stairs motion.
man went on the out
side of the building. Still he could have
got away with me if he had persisted. I
W((#) ott t the other day for a walk, when a
couple of ladies approached me, asking
for alms. As if to cogitate upon the aii
meats of the world, I took out my the knife
and unconsciously tillustrating). picked on glass
optic their baskets this way the ground, and, They though left
on
j offered to put up for their cause, noth
fog could need them off. But it is in
the street-car that I have the most fun.
Taking my 6-o'clook car at tins starting
jmiut, of course I secure a scat. Very
ms in the seats are crowded with moil
atid ladies conic ip. I shut my goodeye,
m (illustrating), arid love! tho dead raised eyo
i, n foe man I want to hsve hi
make room for the lady. In time it will
fomg a man to Ins feet. There's some
thing in the stare bkssl of a dead eye that will
make a mau's hkait was put on
I have cleaned u wlvU car out this
and had the tnsuiu of Uie iadtee
voted."
NUMBER 26.
A Remarkabe Dream.
The following appeared in Black
wood's Magazine in 1862: Being in
company the other day, when the con¬
versation turned upon dreams, I related
one, which as it happened to my own
father, I can answer for tlie perfect
truth of it.
“About the yeRr 1731, my father,
berland, Mr. D— of K—,'iu Edinburgh'to the County of attend Cum
came to
the classes, having tho advantage of an
uncle in the regiment then in the castle,
and remained under the protection of his
undo mid aunt, Major and Mrs. Grif
fiths, during the winter. When tho
spring arrived, Mr. 1). and three or four
young gentlemen from England (his in
timates) made parties to visit all the
neighboring Bosliu, Arthurs places about Edinburgh,
Seat, Craig Millar, some*of etc.
Coming home one evening from
those places, Mr. I), said:
“ We have made a party to go a-iishing
is te Iiieh-Keith flue, and to-morrow,' if the morning
have bespoke our boat; we
shall be off at six.” No objection being
Mrs. made, Griffiths they separated had for long the asleep, night,
not been
when she screamed out in u most violent
and agitated manner, “The boat is sink
ing, save, oh save them!” The Major
awoke about her, and said, “ Were you uucasy
the fishing party?” “ Oh, no,”
sho said, “I had not once thought of it.”
She then composed herself, and soon
fell asleep again; it. about another hour
she cried out in a dreadful fright, «I see
tho boat is goiug down.”
The major again awoke her, and she
said, “It has been owing to tho other
dream I had; lor I feel no uneasiness
about it.” After some conversation,
they both fell sound asleep, but no rest
could bo obtained for her in the most
extrome agony she again screamed,
When “They the are gone, the boat is sunk!”
I major awakened her, she said,
“Now, cam lot rest; Mr. D. must not
go, for I feel, should lie go, I should be
miserable till his return; the thoughts of
it would almost kill me.” She instantly
arose, threw on her gown, went to his
bedside, for his room was next their own,
aud with great difficulty she got his
promise I to remain at home. “ But what
am to say to my young friends whom
I was to meet at Leith at six o'clock?”
“ With groat truth you may say your
aunt is ill; for I am so at present. "Con¬
sider, you are an only son, under our
protection, aud should anything happen
to you, it. would be my death. ”
“ Mr. D. immediately wrote a uote to
his friends, saying lie was prevented
joining it Leith. them, aud Tho weather sent his servant with
to came in most
beautifully, aud continued so till three
o’clock, when a violent storm arose, aud
in au instant tho boat aud all that were
in it wont to tlie bottom, and were never
more heard of, nor was any part of it
ever soon. I ol'teu heard the story from
my made father, who ajways added: “It has
not gratitude, me superstitious, but with aw¬
ful I can never forget that
my life, by Providence, was saved by a
dr earn. ”
A Decayed Treasure.
Mr. J. It. Alexander, who lives about
five miles northeast of here, in Jackson
County, land, in breaking up a piece plowed of newly
cleared a few days since, up
a box twelve inches long and eight inehes
square. The The contents plow strikiug it, it far burst
open. had been so de¬
cayed that when the air struck them they
crumbled to dust. Enough to show that
they had been paper bills of the denom¬
ination of $100. In the lid of the box
were cut in rude letters: “August 23,
1864—$18,000.” The story in relation to
this is as follows, aud was given to us by
Mr. eral Alexander: Mr. Alexander was a fed¬
soldier, raid, and at the time of the Osceola. Law
rence was stationed at
These forces were ordered to Pleasant
Hill to intercept Quautrell. They met
him ou the west bank of Big Creek, ono
and a half miles from this town, and dis¬
persed him. (Quautrell ordered his men
mained to rally at at Pleasant Smliills. Hill, The and foilerals order¬ re¬
were
ed to break uprinto companies.
Mr. whose Alexandcr’soompany captured Gann five
men (who lives in names were George Bledsoe
aud Lisle (Mr. GreentownYolley), A. he Ihe
other says forgets eighteen
names), and also a boy
years old captured at the same time.
here The boy was court-martialed and death shot
next morning for burning to
some women and children at Lav awrence.
Lisle turned State’s evidenoc and inform¬
ed on the others. Gann, Bledsoe and
one other were taken to Clinton, court
martialed and shot. Lisle was taken to
Lexington and served in the same way. he
When Gann was taken out to be shot,
said he had buried $18,000, which he had
token from the Lawrence banks, on the
bank of a creek at tlie south edge of Jack
son Doyle County. that would He told Adjutant-General do him
it never (Gann)
anygcod, do him (Doyle) and he’d lie good. d—d Mr. if it Alexan¬ should
any when
der was present Gann was shot,
and heard the conversation, and *aw
Gann shot. He soys Gann died like a
brave kneel. man, refusing to be blindfolded or
to
Mr. Alexander tolls a straight story,
*»<! wf! have no right to doubt its correct
n<,SH - Many the who are now citizens here
remember shooting of the boy, and
know the place where he was buried.—
Bloasartt Mill (Mo.) Jieview.
~
Abundant , . . , „ Hair. .
Japanese hair, women black are very and luxuriant, proud of
their which is
They cultivate and arrange it with great
care by brushing their tresses book from
the forehead and gathering them ins
plaited topknot, covered with flower*,
spangles and hairpins of gold, silver and
tortoise-shell, llich and poor are alike
proud of their coiffure, and the knli
woman in rags devotes tiiesameatten
tiou to her hair us any great lady. To
preserve tlie elntK>ruto structure from be
mg distnrlmd, women during sleep There rest is
their necks on u podded fork.
no difference between single and married
women in wearing their hair, as in
China ; and their reiqrf'ctive social statu*
is indicated by Uie position of the bow
in which the waist scarf i* tied, girls
wearing it at the Ixtek, matrons in front,
The latter likewise shave their eye
brows, and dve their teeth black. Girls
use rouge freely, and sometimes gild
their lips. They are all fond of amok
ing, and wear their embroidered tobacco
pouches as Mt ornaments.
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LIBER AT, TEiniS FOR .WORE SPACE
FASTING.
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A «•»*■<’'*«**• « 'or fHe Hake of
[Kentucky State Journal.’
A member of tlie Scientific Associa¬
tion, Tanner, of Newport, writer, doubting in tho fast of
Dr. the order to prove
to him beyond a doubt tlmt a human
, . . , . health, could ,, exist air
'?. 1U ^’ 111 on
diluted with an occasional drop oi water
* ^. vei ( time, undeitook a strict fast,
!”'k’ mum K on morning the 11th
11
After cautioning the partner , of ... his
. bosom to feed the clue,Bins regularly,
immediately . I^hent began after breakfast. his great test The last fol
lowing is a trim record ot the endurance:
At 6:30 A. M.—-I jilso normal, though
ageuend cavity in the stomach is notiee
a
,... l A M.—^ulse not qmte so normal
V half an ’ hour previous, but still tolera¬
bly ' u ’ r “ a ^ cousidenng.
At 7:30 A. M. The patient sleeping
? latter ouu,11 y mid caused snoring by loul.lly; but the
is not a_ loss of tissue
as tlmt th<! «“bject lay ou Ins
l(l( ',
A * ^, A- ,, „„ still asleep, ,
but . called . out “Zwm 1 Ho afterwards
explained that had it wasn t because ho was
hungry but dreamed he was in a
?. lWu with some friends
Hero several o the physicians cried out
1 7 ,iu,l! flM ' U ’* U0<1
m * Cfifld drmkmg denyo sustenance m . its mind from while eat
“‘“P* Dr. Jeancou argued that vt could
not ’
At 8:30 A. M.—Patient bright; eyes
same color as usual; stomach normal,
hut flatter; tongue moist. Nine physi
• . . . f,*,'" .
,nan9 ’ f° ve “i T,’
reporters, f and a dozed or so friends of the
^deceased m the room.
At 9 A. M.—Patient shows signs of
hunger, is of very the crabbed, and wants to
kick out room Dr. Duvis, who
stated that he believed the patient had
just eaten a fly tlmt had fallen into his
throat.
At 9:30 A. M.—Patient asleep again,
and snoring normally. Drs. Thornton,
Gunkel spbymograph aud Locke, determined to upply
the to ascertain the true
condition of tliq pulse; also, the.dyna
mometer to learn how his muscular
strength is, and likewise the ms
thesiometor (everybody knows what
that is) to learn of the -con
dition of liis sense of touch. Dr.
Jones objected to tlie uso of the last
named instrument, saying that the best
way of ascertaining the sense of touch
was to tickle the patient oil the end of
the nose with the ends of a few male
hairs. He was finally allowed to make
the spliygmograpli test, which proved and dynamometer an testliesiometer,
a com¬
bined, for the same instant it was ap¬
plied ble. the doctor lay had on the floor insensi¬
The patient touclied him with
the bunched end of his right arm.
At 10 A. M.—The patient experiences
a kind of goneness in the stomaqh. He
proiMises to walk out in the open air, but
Dr. Keener, being too keen for, him, ob¬
jected, ou the ground that a person fast¬
ing so long could receive nourishment
from the air; else how do tlie spirits live?
Patient didn’t talk.
At 10:30 A.M. —Here tlie fasting plan’s
wife made her appearance, and wanted
to know if they wouldn’t allow him just
a quart of beer only. She was refused;
whereat slie liecame greatly alarmed, and
said she know lie would die, and that sho
did not want a dead man for a husband.
At 11 A. M.—Tongue a little unnor¬
mal, presenting u spitting somewhat parched
surface, and patient cotton. A
few ounces of water wus suggested, but
the irate faster threatened to whip any
man who would offer him water—“never
drunk the stuff, and wouldn’t begin
now. ”
At 11:30 A. M.—Stomach filling up
with goneness, but its pulsations are tol¬
erably normal. The patient wants to
kick fasted out a since physician morning. who doubts that he
has
At 11:45 A. M.— Dr. Phythian pro¬
nounces the patient’s ease a most critical
one, but the latter exhibits great normal
nerve, aud says ho feels just 4s well as
ever, but a little thirsty, having been ac¬
customed to take lunch atlO o'clock. He
takes a long walk about the room.
P. 8.—A letter from George Francis
Train has just been received, telling the
patient for God's sake to cease not eating
my longer; that he has already gained a
victory; but the latter sends him word
back to go-.
At 12 M.—Time’s up. 'Patient still
alive, and expresses his belief that he
conld fast an hour longer if lie wasn’t so
hungry. The physicians astounded slink from the
room perfectly at human en¬
durance.
In One Lifetime.
Home old one has recently in written things : I am I
not an man ; yet material
have Been the creation of a new world.
I am contemporary with the railroad, the
telegraph, tlie tin- Hewing-mwhine, steamship, the the steam- photo¬
graph, the friction-match, gaslight, chlo¬
plow, nitro-glyoerine, the monitor,
roform, gold
the caloric engine, the California
discoveries, the oil-well discoveries,
pitta perchn, canned fruits, the electric
light, the telephone, etc. These are
some of the footprints of material prog¬
ress of tlie present generation. Do you
think the moral world will remain the
same as before? That society will re¬
main unaffected by these changes ? If
you do, let me call your Attention to __
the fact that the same generation has
seen the alxilitiou of slavery on a grand
scale, the opening of China and
Japan, the institution oi world’s fairs.
Give Baby a drink.— I have no doubt
that much fretfuluess iu little ones is
eausml bv their suffering from want of
fresh, cold water. Give n little at a
time, every hour or two, ( specially when
teetliing. eryiiig, M,v own bat*: often at night
awakes after an hour or so of
■1 have found that at such times ■■
a dnnk at water will do more to soothe
and quiet him than anything rise I
can do.
Lawrence* Ba« - *m-c Inis given up Ins
trip abroad with his huuil), . tliis summer
and has settled down nt liis cottage at
Gohaasot, to rest, read study and pre¬
pare for his tall ami whiter work. He
proposes (o bring out several new style, things aud
next season in rathei elutsuirte
to secure—-what he has lacked Mfl* “4
superior supporting company.