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A Woman’s Dress.
Bob Burdette, in the course of an
article in the Burlington Hawkeye on
the rights and wrongs of women, says:
Our wife wants a dress. After two or
three or half a dozen stores have been
ransacked for goods, the dressmaker is
sought out. The matter of measure¬
ment is tedious, and then the matter of
fitting is one of numerous and repeated
trials. Finally the dress is finished and
sent home. Then it is sent back to be
taken in here and let out there, and at
last, after the customer has been fitted
more times for that one dress than her
husband has been measured for three or
four years, the dress comes home for the
last time and is pronounced by the
wearer, her friends, and the dressmaker
as a beautiful and perfect fit, and is fin¬
ished.
Beautiful it certainly is, far more beau¬
tiful than anything her husband ever
wears. Colors and material, style, blend¬
ing shades and contrasting bits of color,
are all iu the perfection of good taste.
No man can improve upon that. But it
isn't finished. When it is completed as
far as the skill of the dressmaker can fin¬
ish it, and it is put on, it has to be
pinned. Somewhere; sometimes in two
It or three, often in half a dozen places.
always and requires a pin. Leave out the
pin the dress is all awry somewhere.
On all this broad continent there is not
one American woman who can dress so
as to make any kind of an appearance in
good Now, society without pins.
suppose our tailor should send
our suit, home, and when we had put on
the coat we had to pin it at the back 1
Or suppose there was no suspender but¬
tons aft, and we had to use pins there ?
Suppose have he made our shirts so we would
to pin on the collar,—how long
would such a shirt or such a suit of
clothes stay in the house ? Who would
be responsible for the language used by
the man who had to pin his coat ? No
tailor would dare to so tempt the wrath
of an independent man. But woman—
alas, she patiently pins on the dress that
she paid some one $30 or $40 to make,
and doesn’t think anything about it. We
will not pursue this painful subject.
Let the women of America take it up,
and think about it, and learn, in the
noble independence of womanhood, to
make their clothes before they put
them on.
The Feet of Chinese Women.
An American missionary, Miss Nor¬
wood, of Swatow, has lately described
how the size of the foot is reduced in
Chinese women. The binding of the
feet is not begun till the child has learned
to walk and do various things. The
bandages are specially manufactured,
and are about two inches wide and two
yards long long for the first year, The five
yards end of for subsequent years. inside
the strip is laid on the of
the foot at the instep, then carried over
the toes, under the foot and round the
heel, the toes being thus drawn toward
and over the sole, while fi bulge is pro¬
duced on the instep and a deep indenta¬
tion in the sole. The indentation, it is
considered, should measure about an
inch aud a half from the part of the foot
that rests on the ground up to the instep.
Successive layers of bandages are used
till the strip is all used, and the end is
then sewn tightly down. The foot is so
squeezed upward that, in walking, only
the ball of the great toe touches the
ground. Large quantities of powdered
alum are used to prevent ulceration and
lessen the offensive odor. After a month
the foot is put in hot water to soak some
time; then the bandage is carefully un¬
wound, much dead cutiole coming off
with it. Ulcers and other sores are often
found on the foot; frequently, too, a
large piece of flesh sloughs off the sole,
and one or two toes may even drop off,
iu which case the woman feels afterward
repaid by having smaller and more deli¬
cate feet. Each time the bandage is
taken off the foot is kneaded, to make
the joints more flexible, and is then
bound up again as quickly as possible
with a fresh bandage, which is drawn
pain more is tightly. intense During the first year the
so that the sufferer can do
nothing, and for about two years the foot
aches continually, and is the seat of a
pain which is like the pricking of sharp
needles. With continued rigorous bind¬
ing the foot in two years becomes dead
-and ceases to ache, and tho whole leg,
from the knee downward, becomes
shrunk, so as to be little more than skin
and bone. When once formed, the
“golden delicate lily,” little as the Chinese lady calls
her foot, can never recover
'ts orginial shape .—London Times.
Indians Shopping
In her book on Manitoba, Miss Fitz
gibbon says: “ I watched some Indians
shopping, and was astonished to see how
invariably they waived aside inferior
goods and chose such materials os yard. mer¬
inos at $1.50 to $2 (17s 6d to 10s) a
One of the merchants told me it was
useless to offer them anything but the
best. English An Indian, who could not speak
or French, and wanted five
things, his divided his money according little to
idea of their relative cost in
piles on the counter, and, going through
a pantomime descriptive of his wants,
was handed fust some silk handker¬
chiefs. Taking one up he felt it, held
it np to the light, and, throwing it aside,
shook his head vigorously, uttering an
better “ Ugh !” of disgust. When shown a
one, he was doubtful; but, upon
a much superior article being produced,
he took it, and willingly handed over
much, one pile for it. This, however, was too
and when given the chang e he
pnt it on one of the other piles, and pro¬
ceeded in the same way to make the
rest of his purchases. ‘ How easily they
could be cheated,’ I said to the clerk,
after the Indian had left ‘ No,’ he re¬
plied, ‘ not so easily as would appear. ’
They generally come in from their
camps in great numliers once a year, to
sell furs and make purchases. They go
to different shops, and on their return
compare notes as to the cost and quality
of their goods. another, Then, if one has paid
more than or has been cheated
in quality, he will never enter the shop
again ; and the firm that gives the great¬
est bargains is most patronized ou their
return. ’
Later Tmt in early the day bird the catches leisurely tho worm.
gather* iu tbe bud. sportsman
The Watkinsville Advance.
VOLUME I.
TIIE MINI CAL HOT.
BT JAKES T. i'lELDf
II is a ruthless, toothless wigtr.
Who dwells be*ide a wall,
And spends his time in singing songf
As loud as he can bawl,
And ousting stones at passengers
Who may neglect to call.
Tho knave deals out inflated com
And other fluffy things,
Gura-balia, And doughnuts and miscellaneous pie.
The shaped like rings;
pea-nut branch he also plies,
As all day long he singe.
O urchin rude, of manners crude,
Oi unangelic voice,
Pray tell me true, yourg ruffian, do,
If thus you live Irom choice.
Or if in your unhallowed way
You really don't rejoice.
Your wares are insalubrious,
Your carols are the same.
Your bold career is fraught with fear,
Your traffic oue oi sbami*—
A dark, mysterious, Jreidful trade,
A deed without a name.
Boy, And cease fling your harmful, dreary notes,
Go get to your New goods Zealand, away j
Some you or
core in Baffin's Bay;
E xpenses out (but no return)
Myself will gladly pay.
Ther ogue looks up with knowing leer,
An d bids me not repine,
Then alms a missile at my head,
with phrase that’s not divine,
Ail'l croaks a still more dismal song—
The words, alas! are mint!
PASSION IN TATTERS.
“She has got a face like one of her
own rosebuds,” said Mr. Fitzalan.
“I’ve heard of her more than once,”
returned a flower ------:-i girl,’ Frank i ii— the Calverly. people call 11 “ ‘The pretty
people — ’— her, don '—" t
they? Old Frixham she ham has 1 doubled his
custom since came there.”
“And the best of it all,” added Fitza¬
lan, with a laugh, “is that she is quite
unconscious of her own attractions—a
little country lassie, who thinks only of
her own business, and never dreams that
she herself is the sweetest flower of all
the assortment.”
“Let’s go in aud buy a Marechal Niel
bud and two or three sweet verbena
leaves,” said Calverly. “I should like
to see this modern Flora of yours.”
counter Dorothy of the Penfield florist’s stood store, sorting behind the
over
a pile of fragrant blossoms which lay on
a tray of damp, green moss. Trails of
smilax wove their green garlands up to
the ceiling; heaps of gold aud rose
petaled buds lay in the window; tufts of
purple white heliotrope lay perfumed the air, and
carnations like hillocks of snow
against the panes of the show-window,
while spikes of perfumed hyacinths and
cape-jessamine flung their subtle scents
upon the air.
dimpled And Dolly herself, with her round,
face, pink cheeks, aud soft,
brown eyes, exactly the shade of the
rippled back from hair, the which broad, was low brushed brow, simply
was a
fitting accessory to the scene.
She looked up as the two gentlemen
entered, and a soft, crimson shadow over¬
spread her face for a second.
“Have you got one of my favorite
button-hole bouquets made up, Miss
Penfield?” Fitzalan asked, with acareless
bow and smile.
“I know,” said Dolly, softly. “A
rosebud and a sprig of heath, and two or
three myrtle leaves; that is what you
like. No; I have none made up, just at
present; but I can tie one up in about
half a minute, Mr. Fitzalan.”
“One for me, too, if you please,” said
Calverly, touching same?” his hat.
“Just the
Dolly lifted her long eyelashes, which
were like fringes of brown silk, and gave
him a shy little glance. different, please. Consult
“A
your own taste. Miss Penfield.”
“I like the double blue violets,” said
Dolly, gently, “with geranium leaves.”
“ Then they shall be my gallantly. favorite flow¬
ers also,” said Calverly, hardly their
The gentlemen had taken
leave, when old Frixham, the florist,
Rustled in, with round, red face, shining
bald head, and an air of business all over
him.
“ Isn’t it time you had the theater bou¬
quets ready?” said he, looking critically
around, and moving a glass of freshly
cut callas out of the level sunset beams
which at that moment fell, like a sheen
of golden laces, athwart the deep bow
window.”
“I shall have them ready directly,”
said Dolly, starting from her reverie,
“ the flowers are all sorted out.”
“We have too many carnations on
hand,” said the florist bells fretfully; much “and dead
those gaudy cape from aro the so greenhouses
oes. Let the man
know, please, there’s a demand for half
open rosebuds and forced lilies-of-thi
valley.” “Yes,” wil
said Dolly, dreamily, “I
tell him—when he comes.”
The closed country wagon with it.
freight scented of fragrant leaves and deliciously
flowers, came early in the morn¬
ing, bed, long before the fat florist was out of
and while the silence almost of an
enchanted land lay upon Upper Broad
way. But
ing Dolly stock Penfield of the was day there before freshen¬ with
up the
wet moss and cool water, and clipping
the stems of the rosebuds.
“ No more carnations, John,” she said
briskly, “ nor amaryllis flowers, and we
want plenty of camellias and geraniums,
and those bright flowers. ”
“I thought, perhaps,” said honest
John Deadwood, who measured six feet
in his stockings, and bad the face of an
amiable giant, 11 you might want to go
hack with me to-day, Dolly. Your aunt
has come on from Kansas, and there is
going to be a dance out in the old bam,
with plenty of candles and evergreen
boughs. Aid mother said she would be
proud I to welcome you to the old farm
0086 Dolly. Your oleander tree is
kept carefully at the south window,
* i a-”
“Dear me!” carelessly they intemipted in the
Dolly; “why don't put it
greenhouse?"
“Because, Dolly,” said the young
man, reddening, “ it remind* ua of you.
And the meadow-lurk in the cogo sings
beautifully; and old red brindle ha* a
spotted calf.”
“ Has she?" queetioned dolly indiffer
• n John ^.T Deadwood ........ looked hard at her.
about " Dolly,” the old said home he. longer! “you don’t care
any
WATKINSVILLE, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 30,18S0.
“Yes, I do,” said Dolly, rousing
self, “hut-”
She paused suddenly, the rosy
rushed in a carmine tide to her cheek,
involuntary smile dimpling the
of her fresh lips as she glanced
the smilax trails in the window.
John Ileadwood, following in the
rection of her eyes, glanced, too,
in time to see a tall gentlemau lift
hat and bow as he went jauntily past.
“Is that it,” said John, bitterly.
‘ ‘Is what?” petulantly retorted Dolly.
“I’m sure I don’t know why we
standing here waiting for anil I with
twenty-eight o’clock. bouquets to make up by
2 That’s nil, John, I think.
Don’t forget the lilies of the valley."
“But you haven’t answered mo, Dol
iy.” “Answered what?”
you dance
“About tho in the old bom, and
coming back with mo when the wagon
returns at 5 o'clock.”
“It is quite out of the question,” said
Dolly, listlessly.
“Dolly!” “Well.”
“You promised me years ago—”
“Nonsense,” said Dolly, flinging the
azaleas and pinks around in fragrant
confusion. “I was only a child
“But you’ve no right to go back on
your word, Dolly, child or no child."
“I never promised, believe John.” that
“But you let me one
you would be my wife. And I’ve lived
on the thought of it, Dolly, ever since.
And if this city situation of yours
break up my life’s hope—” about
“Don’t hope anything interrupted
John!” brusquely Please, the John, girl.
“Here comes a customer.
don’t stand there any longer looking
a ghost!” heart-brokon John
And honest, turned
and went with heavy heart out to where
the wagon stood, and old Roan was wait¬
ing with down-drooping head and half
closed eyes.
“Ji does seem to me,” ho muttered be¬
tween his teeth, “that there is nothing
left to live for any longer.” remorsefully
Dolly looked half nitei
him.
“I’ve almost a mind to call him back,"
said she to herself as she picked out n
bunch of white violets for the newcomer.
I do like John Deadwood; hut I think he
has no business to consider himself en¬
gaged to me, just because ideas of that change boy
and-girl nonsense. One’s
as one gets on in life.”
tion And Dolly’s pink cheek azaleas was like thought the reflec¬ of
of the as she
Mr. Fitzalan and the turquoise ring that
ho had given her as a troth- plight.
And Mr. Frixham came Sedgewicks, in presently.
“I’ve a note from tho on
Fifth avenue,” said he hurriedly. They
always order their flowers trom them. Servoss,
but Servoss has disappointed They
want the house decorated for a party to¬
night—there’s not a minute to lose. I’ve
telegraphed yards to Bolton’s for one hundred
of smilax and running fern and
one hundred poinsettas; and I think we
can manage the rest ourselves. You had
better go at once, Miss Penfield, and
plan the decorations—you’ve a pretty
taste of your own—and I’ll send up the
flowers with Hodges to help you.”
And Dolly went, her mind still on the
turquoise gold ring, with a band of virgin
and its radiant blue stone.
The Sedgewick mansion was a brown
stone palace,^with plate glass casements,
and a vestibule paved with black and
orange marble.
Mrs. Sedgewick, a stately lady, in a
Watteau wrapper and blonde cop, re¬
ceived Dolly in the great drawing room.
“Oh!” said she, lifting her eye-glasses,
“you’ro from the florist’s, are you!
Well, I know nothing about these thing!
—I only want the rooms to look elegant.
Tell your husband to spare no expense.’’
“Sir. Frixham is not my husband,”
said Dolly.
“Yourfather, then.”
“But he isn’t my father,” insisted
Dolly, half laughing. He’s no relation
at all. I will tell him, however.”
particularly “Exactly,” said Mrs. Sedgewick. “I
desire plenty of white roses,
as I am told they are customary at this
sort of affair. It’s an engagement party. ”
“Indeed!” said Dolly, trying to look
interested.
“Between my daughter Clara and Mr.
Alfred Fitzalan,” said Mrs. Sedgewick,
with conscious complacency.
its Dolly fluted said nothing, but the room, with
cornices and lofty ceilings,
seemed to swim around her like the
waves of the sea. And as she went out,
with Mrs. Sedgewick still chatting about
white rose-buds and begonia-leaves, she
passed the half open door of a room, all
hung with blue velvet, where a yellow
tressed beauty sat smiling on a low
divan, with Fitzalan bending tenderly
above her.
“He has only been amusing himsell
with me,” said Dolly to herseff.
There was a sharp ache at her heart:
but after all, it was only the sting of
wounded pride. Thank heaven—oh,
thank heaven, it was nothing worse than
that!
Honest John Deadwood was driving
old Roan steadily and solemnly along
past the patch of woods, where the vel¬
vet-mossed bowlders lay like dormant
beasts of prey in the spring twilight
when a gray shadow glided out of the
other shadows, and stood at his side.
“John!” she whispered.
‘ * Dolly! Yes, John,” it’s never you ?”
“ said the girl, gently but
steadily. you.” “I’m going bock home with
“God bless you, Dolly,” said the young
man, fervently.
“For good and all, John, if you’ll take
me,” said Dolly, slowly. “I’ve had
quite enough of city life; and I’ll help
you with the green houses, and 111 try
and Vie a good little housekeeper at home.
Bhall I, John?”
John put hisarm around her and hug
ged her up to hi* side,
"Darling!” said he, huskily, "it’s
moat word too good worth news anything, to be true; but, shall if
my u you
never regret your decision of this day."
of Bo the the pretty flower smilax girl and vanished rwsebuda. out
bower of
The Bedgewiek mansion wasn’t decorated
at all, and Mr. Frixham had lost his new
customer. And the turquoise ring came
las-k to Mr, Fritzslan in a blank eu
velope.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Four counties in Georgia, two of which
are in Alex. H. Stephen’s district, did
not ...... cast a vote . for t G ai field.
The assessed value of taxablo property
in Georgia ______ has increased $14,000,000 . „aa aaa
during - the past year.
Weavcr carried Walker county, Texas,
by a majority of sixteen over Hancock
and Garfield combined.
The cupola of the court-house
Glarksville, „ Twin., is . surmounted , i , by a
brazen eagle measuring twelve feet from
tip to tip.
A building erected at Lexington, Ga.,
for a dancing hall when that town was
in the zenith of its glory is now used as
a stable.
1 h ? Appeal says that the all night
, houses, where i men can , be around, t drink . • ,
and quarrel, are the cause of nearly all
the rows that occur in Memphis.
The City Council of Fort Smith, Ark.
has nas passed passed an an ordinance orainance nrohibitinc promt) ting the tue
carrying of pistols in the city limits in
nay other way except in the hand.
The city board of health of Vicksburg
lias petitioned tho National Board of
Health to have a sanitary survey made
of the city and its surroundings.
, Nearly T , hundred i j i •
one more marnag
licenses have been issued to colored cou
pies in Mecklenburg county, N. 0.„ this
year than to whites.
The new Mississippi code fixes the
fee of a Coroner for holding an inquest
at $5 instead of $10, the former figure,
and same of tho Coroners are resigning
in consequence.
A proposition is about to he submitted
to the Little Bock City Council for the
construction of new water-works. A
number of prominent citizens have a
new organization in contemplation.
Cotton seed was first planted in the
United States, in 1621 in Virginia as an
experiment. It was first planted in
Georgia and the Carolinas in 1778-’74,
in Louisiana in 1742.
A water-wheel put up for a flouring
mill at Augusta, Ga., weighs 6,000
pounds and is to furnish 135-horse
power. It was minufactured in Chat-
At a fashionable masquerade party at
Vicksburg, two ladies who attracted
much attention and admiration during
the evening were found to he young men
when the unmasking took place.
The finest dress ever seen in Atlanta
was worn at the inaugural ball by Miss
Lelia Austell, of that city. It cost
$2,000, and was trimmed with lace pur¬
chased by her in Paris, at $200 per yard.
A boy in San Antonio, Texas, while
standing in front of his father’s house
eating a peice of bread, was suddenly
attacked by an electric flame, which is
supposed t > have come from a lightning
rod near by and was badly burned.
Gen. Phinney, at the Georgia Mining
Company, has thoroughly tested the
Robertson process for reducing ores,
and the tests show a yield of $8 to $15
per ton from ore that yielded only $1.50
per ton. Works will soon be erected at
Gainesville.
The cotton crop of Texas was closed
by a killing frost. The total will amount
to 1,250,000 bales and $60,000,000. The
Chicago Texarkana Mexican Central
cotton factory, with a capital of $200,000,
was started here to-day. Forty thous¬
and dollars was subscribed in Dallas.
The new statutes of Mississippi pro¬
vide that incases where persons are doing
business as agents, or in their own
name, with the goods and capital of
other people, the principal’s name must
be conspicuously displayed at the place
of business, or the goods shall be liable
for the debts of the person conducting
the business.
During the last three years nearly
400 people from North Georgia have
been converted to Mormon irm, and emi¬
grated to Almaso, Col. The people of
the colony oppose polygamy and there
is only one polygamist among them.
The colony is still growing, a party of
fifty being ready at present to start from
Virginia to join it.
A man by the name of Albert Green,
while walking with a young lady on
Bunday, in Cleburne county, Texas,
was approached by Ellen Powell, whom
he had ruined. At night, Green and a
companion blacked themselves, forced
an entrance into the woman’s house and
stiuck her brutally, then dragged her
out of the house. Bhe held a pistol in
her hand that wouldn’t stand cocked and
shot him dead.
A cave in East Tennessee is two mile*
in length and has openings at both ends.
The owner of the ground around each
entrance charge for admission, and acted
as guide for visitors. Their rivalry led
to serious fights in the cave, for each
held the other to be a trespasser. Then
one of the contestants hit upon, a novel
and effective means of ruining the
other’s business. He sunk a shaft so ns to
admit* large stream into the cave about
the center, and aa there was as incline in
a favorable direction, the water pm red
out at the enemy’s portal, while his own
was unobstructed. The matter i* to be
m* lejthe subject of a lawsuit ^
Household Perils.
Under this head the Boston Journal of
Chemistry names several dangerous sub
stances which find their wuy into house
l! liquids old . 8 : usod Th f.° in a /° families two or whioh three nro volatile par
tionlarly P? ed dangerous, t]> and must be em
0 J ', R with special care. Ben
Kme > tliiTciaM etUe }' 1111,1 strong a^ts ammonia ^•ofirat- cousti
tute . of
Tim
named liquids . aro employed in olcaus-
8^ ove . s and other wearing apparel, and
iu removing oil stains from carpets, cur¬
tains, &o. Tho liquids are highly vola¬
tile, ^ and flnsh into vapor as soon as the
oor v ? a ^ cotl taming them is re
moved. I heir vapors { are very | oombust
ib i 0 alld wiU int Bme at lon distane(M ,
from ignited candles or gas flames, and
consequently they should never bo used
ExplMtonsTf I ‘ vcry'dmlgennmmitera
will occur if the vapor of theso liquids is
permitted siderable to escape into the room iu con
! 1 of quantity. handling these In view liquids of the great
iazar ' cautious
housekeepers { will not allow them to be
brcmght nto their dwellings, and this
course is commeitdablo. As regards am
monin, or water of ammonia, it is a very
agent, l,y dru especially Kgiat«- tho stronget
f An aocidonr
ln lta ug0 , lms receut y oomo uuder
our
notice in which a young lndylost her life
from taking a few drops through mis¬
take. Breathing tho gas under certain
circumstances causes serious harm to
tho lungs and membranes of the mouth
and nose. It is an agent, much used at
the present time for cleansing purposes,
anil it, is unobjectionable if proper . : ■
is used iu ita employment. The vials
holding it should be kept apart from
others containing medicines, &o., ami
rubber stoppers to the vials should ho
iised. Oxalic acid is considerably em¬
ployed in families for cleaning brass and
copper utensils. This substance is highly
poisonous, and must bo kept anil used
great caution. In crystalline struc¬
it closely resembles sulphate of
or Epsom salts, and, there¬
lost. frequent mistakes are made and
Every inexperienced agent which goes into
be among persons
kept in a safe place, labeled
and used with care.
Carolina’s Sweet Sixteen.
A cnrioUH 1)etition ws tll(lt addrpaBpd
in 1733 to the Governor of South Caro
linaliysixteenmaidensofCharleston.lt
rai ?,im. UB :
Lm“s . ,, me^de^rittell. 411
whose Where
as, we, tho lmmblo petitioners, are at
present in a very melancholy dispositi on
V* lors mind, blindly considering captivated how by all widows, the bache¬ and
are
our neglected; own youthful in charms of are this, thereby
request is that consequence Your our
the future order that Excellency widow will for
no presume
to many any young man till the maids
are them provided for; or else to pay each of
a fine for satisfaction lor invading
our liberties and likewise a tine to ho lev¬
ied on all such bachelors as shall be mar¬
ried to widows. The great disadvantage
it is to us maids is that the widows, by
their forward carriage, do snap up tho
young men, and have the vanity to think
their merit beyond ours, which is a great
imposition on us, who ought to have the
preference. This is humbly recom¬
mended to Your Excellency’s considera¬
tion, and hope you will permit no further
insults. And we poor maids in duty
bound will ever pray. ”
The forlorn sixteen would have very
much approved the edict of the Portu¬
guese King, which forbade widows more
than fifty years old from rewairying, r.n
tlio ground that experience taught that
widows of that age commonly wedded
young men of no property, who dissi¬
pated the fortunes such marriages
brought them, to the prejudice of chii
dren and other relatives.
Her First Watcli.
She comes to school a few minutes late.
81)0 walks up tho aisle, and lays her note
jf excuse upon the teacher’s desk.
There is a smile curling the corners of
her lips ; she subdues it resolutely. Her
ifio syes floor. sparkle ; she fixes their glance upon
Her hands have an unusual
tendency to She fumble about tbe region of
her belt. represses it sternly and
drops She them at her side.
passes back to her seat. Her car¬
riage, her gait, her every motion, aro
pervaded by such an evident desire to
appear glance unconscious, she that her schoolmates
up dress. as goes No, she by to has see if she lias
on a new not.
She takes her seat, and bends assid¬
uously over her task. Her scat-mate
turns and scrutinizes her keenly ; her
eves stop at tho belt; slio gives a start,
-laps her hands noiselessly behind her
desk, and looking at the teacher to see if
»he is observed, bends eagerly forward to
examine.
Tbe owner oi the mystery shakes her
head with affected nonchalance; but the
inquirer persists. At lust she succeeds,
aud it is produced. A gold watch 1 They
2pen it, shut it, examine the works,
compare it with the school-clock, ex¬
change explanations. pantomimic congratulations and
existence the FiualJy, they telegraph its
to neigliborwg girls by a
series of nods and winks, nuiutelligible
save to the initiated.
At recess, all cluster around to express
their admiration; the owner receives
their bursts of approval with proud hu¬
five mility. During class, she yawns every
if minutes, aud then draws it out to
»ee it is not time for dismissal.
On her way home, she compares it with
every church-dock she pusses. She
holds it up to her car to he sure it is go¬
there. ing ; she feels of her licit to lie sure it is
Bhe times her walk to school;
she times her tea; she times her studies ;
she times the making of her toilet. Who
receives with derisive incredulity any
suggestions that she may not take proper
care of it.
It lies beneath her pillow that night,
and the next morning, she forgets to
wind jk up. The day after, she drops it,
and it 1ms to be taken to the jeweler to
lie repaired. 15y next week, she has re¬
solved to wear it only on great occasions,
and when she goes out of town.
Tins Detroit Free. Press, which is
good Corkscrews authority on such things, says:
* oan now bs made and sold
tot a owut."
NUMBER 39.
A Good Horse.
" I can’t explain what a real good horse
is,” said one of the best natures! dealers
in the street. “ They arc as different as
men; in Inlying a horse you must look
first to his head and eyes for signs of
intelligence, Unless temper, courage, and hon¬
esty. a liorso lias brains you
can’t teach him anything any more than
you can teach a half-witted child. See
that tall bay there, a fine-looking animal,
■bout fifteen hands high. You can’t
teach that horse anything. Why ? Well,
I’ll show you a difference in heads, hut
have a core of his heels. Look at the
beast’s head—that rounding nose, that
tapering below forehead, that broad, full place
the eyes. You can’t trust him.
Kick? Well, I guess so! Put him in a
ten acre lot, where 1m lias plenty of wing,
and lm'll kick the horn off the moon."
The world's treatment of man and
beast 1ms the tendency to enlorgo and
intensify ate. This bad qualities, if they predomin¬
could refrain good-natured phrenologist
not from slapping in the
faeo tlio liorso whose character had been
so the cruelly gentlest delineated, while ho lmd but
treatn ent f >r a slick-1 imbed
sorrel that pricked her oars forward and
looked intelligent (nongh to understand
all that was being smd.
“That’s an awful good mare,” he
added. “ She's as true as the sun. You
can soe breadth and fullness between the
oars and eyes. You can’t biro that mare
to aot mean or hurt anybody. The eye
should bo full, and hazel is a good color.
1 like a small, thin ear, and want a horse
to throw his ears well forward. Look
out for the brute that wants to listen to
all the conversation going on behind
him. The liorso that turns back his cars
till they almost meot at tlio points, take
my word for it, is sure to do something
wrong. See that straight, elegant face.
A horse with a dishing face is cowardly,
and Then a 1 cowardly like brute is always vicious,
nostrils to let a square plenty of muzzle, with largo
air to the lungs.
For the undersido of a head a good horse
should be well out under the jowl, with
jaw-bones broad and wide apart under
tbe throttle.
“So much for the head,” hej contin¬
ued. “ The next thing to consider is the
build of the animal. Never buy a long
logged short, stilty horse. Let him have a
straight back and a straight rump
and you’ve got a gentleman’s horse. The
withers should bo high and the shoul¬
ders well sot hack and broad, but don’t
get them too deep in tlio chest, The fore
legs should be short. Give mo a pretty,
straight down, liind-leg, with tlio hock low
short pastern joints, and a round
mulish foot. There are alt kinds of
horses, lmt the animal that 1ms these
points is almost sure to bo slightly grace¬
ful, good-natured and serviceable. As
to chesnuts color, tastes differ. Bays, browns and
aro tlio best. Beans are very
fashionable at present. A great many
grays and sorrels aro brought hero for
shipment to Mexico aud Cuba. They do
well in a hot climate, under a tropical
sun, for the sume reason that you find
in light-colored clothing most serviceable
summer. That circus liorso behind
you is what many people call a calico
horse; now, I call him a genuine piebald.
It’s a freak of naturo and may happen
anywhere. ’’—Scribner’s Monthly.
“ First Efforts,”
I long for somo patent method for con¬
who vincing every man, woman and child,
is poor, unhappy, or wants pin
money, pell-mell, that thoy cannot rush into litera¬
ture and make money at will.
Above all, I. should like a legal penalty
imposed upon every ono who sends a
“first effort" to me. It is an equal
“effort” and by no means my “first”
for mo to read their poetry, and for them
to write it. I am fast becoming a
misanthrope garnished from the amount of trash,
with neither sense, grammar,
rhyme, nor metre, that my fellow crea¬
tures perpetrate with a view of fame and
fortune. Will anyone ever convince this
crowd of imbeciles that to write even
information, decently demands previous cultivation,
ami common sense; or that
real genius is like cultivating any other diamond,
and needs careful and polish¬
ing? I suppose not !—Allantio Mayuzine.
Lion nml Dog.
Lions, when confined in cages, do not
object often to the presence of rats. These
arc seen gnawing tho bones oZ
which tho lions have dined. In illness
tho case is different, for tlio ungrateful
rats begin to nibble the tees of the lord
of tho forest before his death, and con¬
siderably to his discomfort. “To save
our lioness from this annoyance,” said u
London showman, “wo placed in her
cage a fine received little with rat tan-terrier, surly growl, who was but
at first a
when the first rat appeared and the lioness
saw tho little terrier toss him in the air,
catchinghim with professional lie skill down, across
the loins with a snap as came
she began to understand what tho terrior
was for; she coaxed him to her side,
folded lo r paw around him, and each
night the little terrier slept at the breast
of the lioness, enfolded by her paws,
and watching that liis natural enemies
did not disturb the natural rest of his
mistress. The rate had a bad time during
those six weeks.”
On Dangerous Ground.
but Miss Younglody owned to twenty-four,
not a year more. The city's celebra¬
tion last week awoke her to unwonted
enthusiasm as to tilings military. Bhe
naturally began to reminisce. Bhe spoke
of the Bunker Hill celebration in 1875;
spoke of the soldiers’ return from tho
war; she spoke of the scenes of military
grandeur the during tho great struggle; sho
sjioke Charleston of rush to arms when the gun
at awoke the nation to its
danger. Bho was going even back of
timt, when a gentleman remarked, “Let’s
see, it is nineteen years and over since
that gun was fired.” That was all ho
said, but it was sufficient. Bhe was
heard to gasp, “How time flies!” and
then she fainted dead away, Homo men
are so wautiug in politeness !—Poston
Transcript.
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overheard at Manhattan Beach between
two children who were (during in the
sand the girl: together. “Do The wish siusil to boy he said little to '
you my
wife?” The little small girl, after reflecting:
"Yes. " The boy “Then take
off my bw(i, '\—Ntw York Post,
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LIRKB IX TKit71 tt FOR MOBS SPACK
FACTS FOE TIIE CURIOUS.
It is reported that 320,000 holes were
bored in the execution of St. Gothard
tunnel, 980,000 pounds of dynamite con¬
sumed, and 1,650,000 drills worn out.
As Sir William Thomi-son has shown,
the sun, if it were oomposed of solid
coid and produced its light by combus¬
tion, would bum out in less than 6,000
years.
Tacks.—T wo hundred and ftftv differ¬
ent kinds of tacks are manufactured
from brans, copper, zinc, iron and steel.
The material from which tacks are made
is first required cut into length long strips as wide as
the of the tack. It is
then put into a machine which cuts it
into tacks or nails, as tko caso may he,
as quickly and as easily as a boy would
muuch a stick of oandy.
This Cunard line has lost two vessels
in life thirty-seven letter. years, The but 1ms never lost
of a their nor first a vessels, went Colombia, ashore one
be¬
tween Halifax and Boston. The passen¬
gers and cargo were landed in safety,
but the vessel could not bo got off. The
off Tripoli the coast went of Ireland, aslioro near Tusltar,
about six years
ago. The passengers and cargo worn
landed safely, but the vessel was broken
up.
“Thais catching," says the Hour,
“is the cause of more i'll health than
is their generally breakfasts, supposed. in order Those who ‘bolt’
to be in time
for the morning train, know that such a
course loads to dyspepsia with its at¬
tendant ills, and the violent exertion
which is mode by those who just ‘save
their distance’ produces an excitement
of the heart and blood vessels which, if
frequently repeated, is likely to end in
serious organic disease.”
ELBOTiucrrr is used in Paris to con¬
trol vicious horses. A conducting wire
runs of the from an oleotro-magnet through in the seat
wagon the reins to the
horso’s bits. By turning the crank of
the magnet a current of electricity is in¬
duced and sont to the animal’s mouth.
No violent shock is given to benumb or
greatly alarm the horse, but the slight
prickling sensation surprises peculiar to electrical
influence and subdues him.
An electric whip, to prevent rearing or
invention. turning suddenly, is another ingunious
From inquiries conducted by Prof.
Hermann Cohn, of Breslau, since 1865,
it appears that short-sightedness is rare¬
ly or never almost bom with those subject to
it, and is always the result of
strains sustained by the eye during study
in early youth. Myopia, as it is called,
is seldom found among pupils of village
schools, and its frequency increases in.
proportion the in higher to the schools demand made upon
eye and in colleges.
A hotter construction of school desks,
an improved sufficient typography of text-books,
and a lighting of class-rooms,
are the remedies proposed to abate this
malady.
Saturn’s Rings.
Wo had aview of Saturn a few cveninga
since through the fine telescope in Mr.
Seograve’s remembered private observatory, for its exceeding that will
long bo
beauty. Hie night definition is rarely favorable
for star-gazing, the The perfect picture and
the atmosphere surpassing serene. loveliness, the is
one of most
suburb telescopic scene in tlio heavens.
The orb is polos, resplendent pale yellow in coloring, elsewhere, bluish
at. the
crossed by two creamy central belts, and
flocked with spots that suggest light
scudding clouds. There is no appear¬
ance of a flattened disc, but the rounded
outlines of a sphere, seeming stand about the
sizo of the full moon, out in bold
relief against the azure blackness of the
sky. Around this softly glowing center
extend the wondrous rings, opening wide
their encircling protecting arms and embrace. cradling the
planet in their complex ring Every
detail of the system is
sharply defined and vividly The painted on
the celestial canvas. outer and the
inner rings, the dusky ring, the space
between the outer and inner rings and
even the division in the outer ring are
plainly visible, while six of the eight
moons dot the (lark sky with points of
golden glow. The six moons wo see—
one of them is larger than Mercury—
circle around their primary within an
extreme span of four million miles. The
beautiful rings lie within the path of the
nearest moon and span a space of about
one hundred and seventy-six thousand
miles. The narrow dark space between the
inner and outer rings, is seventeen third hun¬
dred miles broad, and the dusky or
ring extends nine thousand miles within
the inner or second ring .—Providence
Journal.
Ultimately.
A gentleman who has a bill against Gil
hooly has been bothering that distin¬
guished Galvestonian for weeks for a set¬
tlement. The other day lie called on him
and Baid: “Now, Sir. Gilliooly, I want
you to tell me whon you will pay that
bill.”
“Didn’t I tell you I was going to pay
it ultimately?” “Yes, but I want to set day,
calculations. you some ”
so I can make my
“I’ll pay it ultimately.”
“Can’t you be moro definite? When
will you pay it ultimately?”
“Well, I will pay it very ultimately.
Now, I hope you are satisfied. ”— Galves¬
ton News.
A singular phenomenon has been
commented on by the French scientific
papers. At Bonneville and other places
a slight shower of yellow rain fell. M.
do Candolle, to whom were handed sheets
of paper stained by the rain, has pro¬
nounced the coloring matter to be of an
organio nature, oonslstiug could of vegetable
debris, among w'hich be observed
the spores of cryptogams. Tim shower
seems to have taken place simultaneously
over a largo extent, tmt the composition
of the coloring matter was not every¬ Duiile
where the same—that collected at
being essentially of a mineral character.
A man who was running for office re¬
signed hurriedly whon he discovered bis
mother-in-law was making a scrap book
all the hard things the ommsition pa¬
pers Chronicle-Herald, were saying Qihiia.—iytiUtdtlpMa