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Plano Playing Regnlated by Law.
The London Globe says: The author¬
ities of Weirner are evidently a consider¬
ate body. They have recently decreed
that no person shall in any house within
their jurisdiction play a piano while win¬
dows in the house are open under a pen¬
alty of two shillings. This is an appro
priate regulation for the headquarters have of
German literature. We Professor
Teufelsdrokh’s deep-thinking—set authority for saying that
Germany high tell is the world what up i in
to o’clock it is.
Doubtless a groat deal of this deep think¬
ing is done in the streets, as tlie late
President Lincoln’s was; and where the
streets were mostly narrow, as they are
in Wiemer, serious cogitation is apt to be
much interfered with by the sound of the
banging house, of pianos at every third or fourth
who knows what magnificent
ideas, Goethe’s -conjured up by tho regulation of
spoiled genius, birth’ may not have been
almost at and so lost to tho
world, by the thoughtless tramming of
some dows? pianist in a house with open win¬
For the great author of “Wil¬
helm Meister” once lived iu Wiemer; so
did Schiller. So did Job aim von Herder,
tlie friend of Goethe, and one of tho first
of German tinkers. But in their days
pianos were not, as they are now, to be
found in every house; and if the spinet oi -
harpsichord was much in use, it made
very little noise, as everybody who has
heard one knows. Otherwise even those
great world men might not have given to tho
quite such great works as they
produced. So the new law in Wiemer is
a useful one. In London we do not suf¬
fer much, generally speaking, from the
playing piano-playing of pianos indoors. It is the
out of doors that troubles
us, and troubles us a great deal, too.
Everybody of Italian complexion, is acquainted with the fiend,
whose persistent
produces grinding at a gigantic box on wheels
a diabolical thrumping amongst
Beales which make thinking impossible,
and life temporarily a misery. And
everybody have wished must, at some time or other,
that an effective law could
be appealed to against the fiend and his
like. Hitherto we have been powerless
in dealing with him, he has prevailed.
But it ought to be possible tqdo some
thing fested in itself the in spirit the which quaint has German just mani¬
towards abolishing of the discomforts city
one
of the world’s metropolis.
Lost His Shawl.
A gentleman returning from Europe
bought a very handsome and expensive
shawl for his wife. It cost between
$2,000 and $3,000, and he was naturally
desirous of avoiding tlie disagreeable
necessity of paying several hundred dol¬
lars more in tho shape of customs duty
On board tlie vessel was an exceedingly
attractive in sight lady, land, to whom, he when they di¬
were of confided his
lemma.
that “ Why, is my dilemma dear sir,” she said naively,
“ no at all. I will wear
the shawl ashore, and then no questions
will be asked. ”
The gentleman paid a glowing tribute
to the wonderful fertility of the feminine
mind and accepted the offer. The shawl
graced certainly the lady’s shoulders, and was
examined very becoming. The trunks
were and passed with that mys¬
terious chalk mark, without which no
baggage Uncle can receive the benediction of
Sam, aud then the gentleman sa¬
luted the lady, spoke of the pleasiu-e he
had enjoyed in her company, hoped they
would have the pleasure of crossing the
ocean the shawl. together again, and then asked for
“ I beg your pardon,” she said, “but
what shawl do you refer to ?”
He naturally answered:
“Why, ” the one you have on, to be
sure.
“And why should I give you my
shawl ?” she inquired.
In a word the dialogue waxed so warm
that she threatened to call a policeman
unless he desisted, and, since he could
not victing legally himself claim of the shawl without con¬
a deliberate attempt
to swindle the Government, he was com¬
pelled to leave with the fair stranger the
present which he had intended for his
wife.
Fixing Shoes to Horses’ Hoofs.
A new idea for accomplishing this
without the use of nails is carried out as
follows : The inventor takes a shoe of
ordinary construction, having, say, four
boles therein, and through these he
passes bands or wires of metal, two ex¬
tending from or near the hinder extrem¬
ities of the shoe, and the other two at
short distances from either side of the
toe, the position being varied with the
number of hinder bands wires employed. bands To fix the
shoe the or are first
drawn tightly round the front hoof, and the upper
part or corona of the ends
passing through a buckle or ring, or
they may be twisted together. Tlie
ends of the other wires are also passed
through the ring or under the first
bands, and, being drawn tightly down¬
ward, thq hinder wires or bands, owing
to the conformation of the hoof, are, as
it were, wedged tightly, thus fixing the
shoe firmly to the hoof. This invention
only London receives provisional protection.—
lAve-Stock Journal.
Drawing-Boom Drinking.
It has been whispered for some time
past that there was an alarming increase
in the use of strong drinks among the
educated women of Great Britain. People
disbelieved these reports, - but facts have
proven them to be correct. Labouchere
came out the other day with a long ar¬
which ticle on he “Drawing-Room describes garden Drinking,”' in
a party, where
tlie lady of the house was, il not helj>
lessly, at all events, in a Girofle-Giroflii
condition. The use of chloral leads to
much intemperance among the ladies of
our own land.
A servant in a hotel waa directed to
carry a glass of medicine to a sick man
and * cocktail to a man tn the next
room. He put both glasses on one tray,
and, visiting the sick man first, the lab
ter somehow took the cocktail for his
medicine, and then the waiter took the
medicine, which tasted like th# « ( .ry
mischief, to the other man, wlm took a
big swallow of it, and then got up *nd
blasphemed frightfully and kicked the
waiter down (our flight* of stturs.
The Watkinsville Advance.
VOLUME I.
MUCK
w. farrand felch.
We recall days of innocent pleasure
Which linger in memory’s thrall;
But sorrow too soon fills the measure,
And covers the past with a pall.
For friendship is but transient gladnen,
And life is too short for its bliss,
8o soon is it broken by sadness
For happiest ties that we miss.
We only can watch through each season,
Forgetful of sorrows and tears,
Misgiving, Why not should knowing the reason
sorrow compass our years.
We bow iu our humble submission,
For solace look back through the year*
When wc waited for joyful fruition
Of hope* now more bitter than tears.
Wc forget that our life has its beauty,
Its pleasures as well as its pain;
Why Then should wo turn from our duty
To indulge in this bitter refrain?
Our hearts full of hopeful emotion—?
The riches of hopes »hat are dead—
By the magic *f memory’s potion
Shitli recall sweetest thoughts of the dead.
THIS FOOL STORY.
When I first knew- her she was fifteen
years old; I was twenty-four. She was a
schoolmaster’s daughter; I, a school¬
master’s son.
We first met one September evening.
Her father was a struggling pedagogue,
with a family of seven children to sup¬
port. and few pupils. his I had it in my
head to become partner, and had
gone down first to see how things were
looking.
Her name was Emily; to her friends
she was always Em.
She and I struck up a friendship. She
always did make friends with all male
creatures, whether five years old or fifty.
I was a scribbler, even then; and I fancy
the pride of authorship even in so small
a degree, had a certain charm for her,
which set me up in her eyes.
She wrote her name in my birthday
book, and beneath it I wrote, “My Little
Sweetheart.” It lies before me at the
present moment.
It was the hardest thing in the world
for her father and mother to make both
ends meet. Very little money was ever
hers. Her wardrobe was of the scantiest.
She knew nothing of pleasure as some
people understand it; she had never been
ten miles out of the town where she was
born.
Yet there must have been some fairy
present at her birth, for she was like a
summer's day, always bright.
Time sped. I had been her fathers’
partner, and had now known her more
than two years. I was going for a ram¬
bling expedition to foreign parts; and
though I knew I was a fool for my pains,
to me it was a bitter parting.
Aud so for a time, I think, it was to
her; for in some way links had been
joined between us without our ever know¬
ing they were being forged.
“Well,” said I to her, the day before I
went, li./W we being long alone together, “Blue
eyes, shall I be missed?”
The ociy answer was to throw herself
upon the hearth rug, place her hand up¬
on my knee, aud turn her eyes up toward
my face.
“Ah, Blue Eyes,” said I, trifling with
her sunny hail-, “you’ll have another
sweetheart in a week.”
“ In a week?” said she, in that curious*
ly clear voice of hers. ‘ ‘Do you think so?’
She looked up at me and watched me for
a moment. Then she turned and got
upon her knees, kneeling in front of me.
ing “Perhaps so,” she said. “But”—lean¬
forward, so her breath mingled with
mine—“ he’ll never bo a sweetheart like
you.” well! What could I do? I knew her so
I knew that this is just what she
would say to any one by way of comfort.
I knew that her words were as trifles
light as air.
“ Make no vows,” said I, “ only to bo
brokeD. You and I have had happy
times; why should I begrudge the same
to another?”
She was silent. She was now nearly
rightoon, but she was so small, that it
never occurred to me to think of her as
anything but a little girl. She put her
hands out and took mine, still in the
same quiet fashion. “Would you like
me to?” said she—“ would you like me
to—to take another?”
“Em,” said I, “what does it matter
what I like ? Before the sun has gono
down upon my going, another day will
have dawned for you.” I looked at her.
It came to me that this was very bitter,
and however great a fool I might be, I
could not entirely hide what was in my
heart. “Little Sweetheart,” said I, “of
one you.” thing be sure—I never shall forget
She came to me, and I kissed her. She
still kept her face near mine. “ Bertie,”
said she—it was the first time she had
ever called me Bertie: it had always been
plain Mister before, and the name rang in
my week.” ears—“ Bertie, I’ll not forget you in
a
I almost pushed her from me. I knew
this dalliance was worse than folly—I
knew her so well—and rose to my feet.
“ No,” said I, with bitter mirth; “ not in
a week, She but in eight days.” but still knelt
made no answer, at
my feet. And so we parted; for the fare¬
well on tho morrow was but a formal one.
_ Two year passed by. Occasionallyl T
sent her little notes, pictures of noted
places, foolish curiosities. But I novel
gave her my address.
At last I returned, and found she was
living out mother as a told governess. her situation
Her me was
in the neighborhood of Byde. Happen
ing to have friends in that town, I made
them an excuse for a visit there.
Yet, on my arrival, ami 1 was in no hum
to find them out; taking prepared up my have quar
ters in a quiet inn, I to a
day or two alone. lovely
weather: It wa* and a Saturday 1 afternoon, for walk wel
set out a
known in years gone by, through the
Lovers’Lane, nestling by the waterside,
I sat down and fell into a reverie.
Something woke me from it— a sound,
1 became aware that I was listening to
prattle; little voice* were borne ujkih the
tha weeze,children's rinpliiitf laughtermingiingwith
liutTrery waves.
now and then there wm »n
other voice, not a child’s, yet child-like .Tr
it... It was familiar re to m. my ears, and a* I li*. ii.
(^fwinltUn U rnuaio <J ^*Before manv re*
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WATKINSVILLE, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 14, 18S0.
I rose upon my elbow quietly, so as to
make no noise, and looked over the top
of a summer house near by on to the
garden below. And thero I saw her.
She was on a seat under the trees.
About her were four children, two boys
and two girls. They stood at her knees,
close together, watching her make a
chain of daisy flowers.
She had grown, but not much; she was
still a little maiden, and it was plain she
never would rank among big women.
She was dressed in blue—a little blue
cloth head, cap still perched poised daintily like upon her dain¬
ty a queen’s upon
her shoulders, and a blue serge dress,
which fitted better, I noticed, than her
dresses used to do. Even from where I
was I could see her blue eyes flashing,
and that wonderful smile upon her face.
She was certainly prettier than of old,
and she still looked like a maiden step¬
ped down from fairydom.
softly, Wondering hardly what above the whisper, answer might be,
a I gently
called “Em!”
But she, engaged with the daisy-chain
and her little ones, did not hear, and
paid no heed. So, smiling, I called a
little louder—“Em!”
But still she did not hear. The daisy
chain and little ones seemed to eucross
all her thoughts, and my voice blew past
her with the wind.
How would it do, I thought, since she
was so obstinately deaf, to rouse her by
confronting she should her ? If she would not hear
see, and her eyes, if not her
ears, be opened.
With some such fancy, I'was just
about to rise and intrude myself upon
her presence, when I noticed the figure
of a man coming down the path.
I had no objection to children witness¬
ing our meeting, though I could have
spared even them; but a third party, and
he a stranger, I did not want. So I
waited until lie should be gone.
He was a young man, a gentleman
beyond doubt, and good-looking. His
was a fair young face. He had a promis¬
ing mustache, which he tended with one
hand; and he was smoking a mighty
meerchaum.
Instead of passing, as I expected, he
stopped, leaning with one hand upon the
moss-green wall. There was she with
knees. heir daisy-chain, and children at her
Just as I thought ho wouldj'surely the be
moving on, he vaulted lightly over
wall, and while I watched with angry
eyes, ran to her from behind, drew her
back to him and kissed her twice
or thrice upon the lips.
The blood boiled within my veins. I
did not doubt that this was a dastardly
outrage, and my darling needed a de¬
fender. In a minute, vengeanee would
have been done, and ho or I would have
lain low.
But her answer showed I was mistaken.
“Charley,” she cried, with that sweet
smile I know so well, “how can you kiss
me before the children?”
“Why not?” said he. "Don’t I kiss
them before you?”
And to prove his words, he snatched
up a little girl and kissed her again and
again, she laughing at the fun. Then he
sat down by her side, and putting his
arms about her, drew her to him. The
daisy looked chain dropped to her lap, and she
at him as though he were all the
world to her.
loud “Darling!” said he, not loudly, but
enough for mo to hear, “I have
spoken to my mother about you and mo
to-day; but since and she thinks T. am very foolish;
I always have been, and always
will be so, she thinks I may as well take
you to be my little wife—though you will
be very foolish for letting me.”
Her answer was to lay her head upon
his shoulder, and flash her blue eyes with
a still softer blue upon his face. “Char¬
lie,” said she, “are you quite sure you
love me?”
“Love you?” he returned, and he
meant it—“my darling, more than I can
tell!”
“ And are you sure,” she continued,
“ your mother will not be angry? I could
not bear to anger her.”
with “Angry?”' said he, closing her lips
kisses. “ Who in all the world
could be angry with My Little Sweet¬
heart?”
And so on. The children looking on
at what was a new experience to them.
What mattered? They would have to
learn themselves some day, though they
were listen beginning it all. early. Arid I—I had to
to
I have not seen her since. For some
cause her happiness stuck in my throat,
and I left Ryde that evening. I may
never see her again. Ere this, doubtless,
she is another’s wife. But when I think
of her, even to this hour, it is as My Lit¬
tle Sweetheart.
Queen Victoria’s Reign.
fcnVtetoiS. Very remarkable changes have taken
6 1 Hl^hM SiJPby
several years every Bishop and every
Judge whom she found seated on those
benches in England, has Scotland, and Ire
land She witnessed the funeral of
evcry Premif;r who has served under
her except Lord Beaconsfield and Mr
Gladstone. Not a single Cabinet Mire
igter of her uncle and predecessor’s days
now survives; and of those who held in
ferior offices under her first and favorite
Premier, Lord Melbourne, there can be
found among the living only Lord Hali
fax (then Mr. Charles Wood) and Lord
Howick (now Lord Grey). Of the mem
here of the Privy Council who sat in
June 1837, to administer toher the oaths,
only four of survive. four Archbishops She has reoeived the
homage four Archbishops of York, Canter
bury, of five of Bishops of Chichester, ef Lichfield, and
and Durham successively. She has filled
„ a ,. h of the three Chief Justiceships
twice at least; she has received the ad
dresses of four successive Hiieakers of tho
House of Commons; the she has entrusted
the Great Seal of Kingdom to no
fewer than nine different Urd Chan
c<41ort; imd has oonmiiftionea *
successive Premiers to form no fewer
than thirteen different admmistrattens.
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SOUTHERN NEWS.
There are 650 students at Vanderbilt
University.
A glass manufactory is to be started
soon in Little Bock.
The Libby prison, in Richmond, Va.,
has been sold for $5,000, and will be used
as a tobacco factory.
The survey of the Savannah river has
been completed, and the estimated cost
of improvement is .$81,000.
A farmer in Pickens county, Ala., has
made 174 gallons b of molasses from less
than ,. , half of .
an aero sugar cane.
Gov. Wiltz, of Louisiana, has ordered
the planters 1 to take care of their own
, levees, as the State . is . una ., ole . to make , the
necessary repairs.
Mrs JUrs. Catherine G.ithenue Covenev Coveney, of ol New New Or Oi
leans, was bitten by a black setter dog m
August and she died Tuesday of hydro
phobia. She was seventy-two years J old.
. A. Peyton, of
C. a negro Memphis,
was sentenced to one year’s imprison
mentin the penitentiary Wednesday for
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woman.
Mrs. Chapin, of Charleston, 8. C., [ire
sented a petition to the City Council of
Charleston against liquor licenses. It was
signed by 5,000 persons.
Gen. . , Sherman, who . is . at San Antonio, .
has decided that military bands can play
for private concerts as they are not cm
ployed nloved -is as musicians musicians bv by the tlie goveinment. cmvommenf
Col. Glenn, who has run a level along
the Colorado river, says that there is am
fan f r .„. ........
creek and Austin to make practicable a
canal for driving machinerv.
A f«, tlie ii.etructii.n «( jouth,
in musical education is to bo established
in New Orleans, in order to take advan
taze of the act of Congress placing a
training Slip at thedUtpoxi.I (if Umteity.
Oranges, the Sanford* Fla., Journal
says, are not cracking and bursting ” on
the ,, trees , as they did last year. Some,
however, that were damn ed by thorns
during the gale of August, are dropping,
hut vow y few
Miss Mildred Lee, daughter of Gen.
Robert F J ' ilain ’ Stsimtnn Vn ti,n
guest ot . Mrs. John , , T) B. Baldwin. Miss
Lee has traveled nearly all over the
world, Li.„ and never heard ............." the “Pinafore”
„«*;i until she u„ heard n .,i n it in ,Staunton tho other „
nl S“t.
_
In the ease of William Williams, col
ored ’ for killing " the Rev : Mr Scott col
ored, of Austin, Texas, because of ]eal
ousy, the verdict was to send him to the
penitentiary for life. It evidently
pleased pieaseai the defendant “ a > for ’ feeling g his
throat, he smiled. ,
On ,, ... Tuesday , a letter , was returned from
the Dead-letter office to the postmaster
of New Orleans which had gone to En
gland via New York, returned to Ameri
ca via Boston, forwarded from thereto
........ . .....«.......................
New Orleans, with nearly $70,000 of
drafts in it.
There are at present in Key West,
Fla., a male and female manatee, or sea
cow, the finest specimens ever captured.
they were taken by means of huge nets
constructed specially for the purpose,
which were spread in one of the small
rivers emptying 1 1 b into the gulf b upon 1 the
.,
l lorma coaai.
Complete census returns of Alabama,
published published in ,n the the Montoomerv Montgomery Advertiser Advertiser
and Mail, give a total population for 1880
of 1,255,009, again«t 984,215 in 1870,
being an increase in ten years of 268,
m. m u,i,
the counties of Calhoun, Clay, ohelby
and 8t. Clair are not official.
Rev. Thus. Hlickney Haskell, who, up
and circus performer, preached Sunday at
t e Carondelet street Methodist Church
South, New Orleans. A large number
nf ladies andVentlempn ‘, V r.rmu.nt l re ’
listen to the eloquent words i of the l be
nevolent old gentleman.
The motion to quash the indictment
m . the case of Ate Rothschild, the mur
derer of Bessie Moore, at Marshall, Texas,
was sustained on Monday bv Judge
Booty. Jdv He has teen ordered 'into the
custody ,. 11( of ot tlie the sheriff s)ier n to to await await the tin action action
of the grand jury, but the decision of the
Judge is looked upon as virtually an ac'
ciuittal. ’
At the Baptist . convention at Camden, ,,
South Carolina, the report of the Sta
tistical Secretary, the liev. Luthur
broarldus, showe that tin re ............. arc now 616
baptist churches in the Suite, with a
membership of 64,433. Baptisms during
the ycar 4 227 . The net fttiu of the de
nomination . .. , has , been 3,14- I his report ,
refers only to the white baptists.
A1 ... * Bottetold . u , lhw , hiW . H * case was w . w call called ,, (1 at
Marshall, tf lexas, IV < 'Inesday, when it
was discoveredjthnt the indictment wan
^ZiHbc missing. This, of cour-e, continues the
indict.....at is found or a
ulistitute . ... 4 tiled . lor ,, the 4 , first .. , 4{ time in ,
twenty year* the entire criminal
except the | set r axis, , lisposed . , . , of , at
u "’ l”'' w ’ nt ’erm of ii,« Uhl riel Court in
a single day.
A A sample el ,,, Chinese tea , . ha, been . w
ceived by the Sumter Republican. It
was raised by Mr. S. P. Odom, of Dooly
county, Ga., from plants furnished by
the National Agricultural Department.
He says the plants are now three years
old, in a very healthy condition and
bearing profusely. Mr. Odom is satis¬
fied that tea raising could be made a
success in this country, and of great
profit, it the proper attention were given
it.
Statistics of Immigration.
. Up to 1820 no statistics of irnnam- offleudlv
S nto this couatiy were kept
but the numbers were trivial, only 8,88o
foreign that immigrants being reported for
year. Iu 1830 the number was 23,.
300,900; 1854, 427,800. ’uoo^’'ri° That 4 t G00: was tho
maximum number for nearly 20 years,
In 1855 and 1858, the number was but
about 200,000 each; it rose to 251,000 in
l8W; 168 ,mo in I860; in 1861 and 1862,
for (lie obvious reason that our war was
a d deterrent, fell to 91,000; tho labor
emand so far overcame this that the
number arose to 170,000 in 1863, 193,400
in 1864, and 249,OOOin 1865. From 1865
to 1873, during the term of post-war pa
l ,er prosperity, when labor wns.mi-
1873—459,800. It fell to sftsrs 313,000 in 1874,
^7,000 to’S^iid m 1875,170,000 was,’ ui l87fb 142,000
0 00 of course, veiw
Ireland much increased in 1880. standard) England send and
about one-third—152,000 (taking 1873 as a of 460,000.
out
n may surprise most readers, however,
to know that those two countries send
about al ‘ equal number, and that in 1872,
1875 > mul 187C ' 9 England sent more immi- than
Irplaml Tlms> f l>v 1K79 24,000
grants were of English nationality, and
20,000 were Irish. Scotland contributed
Lined—150,000 in 1873, against 152,000,
and 34,000 in 1879, against 44,000.
&S
Prance, Italy, and Austria. Not China
alone, but all Asia, overwhelm us with
such hordes as 20,000 in 1873 and 9,800
JZ R
whom not more than one-half have since
K onu back. It would be interesting if
the outward as well as the inward move
ment were recorded. In 1876, according
to British statistics, 54,554 persons went
from the United Kingdom to this coun
try, and 54,697 went thither from this
country; to Canada, 9,335, and 6,229
from Canada; to Australia, 32,196, and
2,579 from Australia; total emigration,
109,469, and 71,404 total immigration.
total movement of Irish from May,
1851, to the end of 2,415,000 1876, according leaving Jre- to
these reports, was
land direct, of whom nineteen-twentieths
came to this country; leaving 67 per cent, of tho
whole number the United King
dom from 1858 to 1876 also came here,
“ P crha P» “ hopeful symptom that
the human tide which will yet for many
years set to these western shores con
half-skilled tains a larger laborers, proportion and of smaller skilled or
a pro
Portion of the least desirable class that
used to he tho case.
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Provoking Typographical Blunders.
Ther() is better field for an amusing
article than the subject of typographical
errors. Not long since one of the edi
of thejtcrmblican wrote: “Second-
2S.ss.sutKWr«ic dispensableness of barrel the
a to meet
absolute necessity there was of carrying
Indiana,” and it came back to him in the
following^hapo: the later Southern “Secondly, elements, which to mollify could
blonMB St,t!d“hMl^%lK5ensa" of a/t0Wr the absolute
, p, me ct
necessity there was of coughing medi
eine.”
Keccntfy in an editorial article tho
words into “forlorn home.” hope were transformed
“fulsome This is almost as
ludicrous as “sympathizers of tho poo
Pie” appearing 7 in proof as “syrup-eaters
of t ho people, ’ and "subserving” being
not up as “scrab uerveloncy,” or “mat
him” in a church notice appearing oa
‘‘matinees.” In the advertisement of an
rected—read that the school
an “able corpse of instructors.” The
otb( ' r day. in chronicling a local event,
horse, aud taking with him the bridle,
threw it into a buggy,” and it appeared
print next morning that the thief took
ai)<1 threw it into a baggy.
We could go on and give a column of
equally but the aliove amusing and sufficient provoking errors,
are to demon
per writer is not always a happy one.’
Printing offices, however, are not the
only places where such blunders occur,
I* or instance, a telegram was received at
biwn on tlie Missouri Liver for
th<) cl, ’ rk a «^ainboat that was pass
„ I0r np stream. It was addressed to
“Gillespie, clerk,” and raid the inquired messenger for
down to the boat
‘Giles, pie clerk.’ —Omaha Jlepubli
cnn '
____
bright-eyed Arran a holiday tlie rabbi accosted a
with little “ daughter of Judah ”
in the inquiry: “ Wliy were you not
the synagogue * yesterday’” ^ After
twfati Jn h for momen ta
tlie end of a dubiously clean apology for
a pocket handkerchief Rebec “Becauie ca with
downcast look, replied: my
hat was not clean, sir.” “ Not clean’’’
the rabbi, somewhat sternly: “Don’t
vou know that God cares not for outward
appearances’ B^.pteitelr that He looks im^rUn^to.t to thatwhic
, more
w li is within?” "But” quickly in
terrupted the seven-yosr-ol.l matron,
as a perfect solution of the difficulty,
“ th ? Il " lr ' 8 d * rt Y ’ A '“‘ ,h *‘
- without
the controversy furthor
(uuum , !11 t -Hanmr'. Madaune.
N i srriisv msn out , ot . twenty ran can nnH pun
„ shotgun toward them by the uinssslo,
;i „d „„ their way in gowl health, but tiie
twentieth man always deplored happen* to bea
Citizen whose loss is by a whole
NUMBER 41.
Irish Criminal Statistics of a Tear.
Dr. W. Neilson Hancock’s bulky “Blue
Book," statistics giving the criminal and judicial
of Ireland for the year 1879 has
just, boen published. The indictable
Offenses not, determined summarily num¬
ber 8,089. being 1,1 HO more than in 1878,
while in the latter year the number was
831 in excess of the number in 1877.
The last year in which there was a simi¬
lar increase was 18(12. The increase of
1,120 was distributed over thirty-five
county aud town districts, tho most
marked increases being 228, in Dublin
City, 191 in 217 iirthe County County of Galway, and
tho of Mayo. On tho
other hand, Kildare showed a decrease
of 60, Cork East Biding 16, and Cavan
14. The number of offenses determined
summarily of 12,88'.), of was which 265,670, decrease being a decrease
in punishable 8,702 wus
drunkenness—a result
which Dr. Hancock attributes to the
Sunday lating Closing Act. Tho statement re¬
to tho Lauded Estates Court shows
that there was a fall in tho average price
realized from eighteen and nine-tenths
years’ purchase in 1878 to seventeen and
seven-tenths in 1879. The average of
the five years ended in 1876 was 19.4. Of
course, fewer sales were effected, and the
total amount of the purchase money was
only 000 £799,000, ns compared with £1,217,
i u 1878. There was 1,482 bills of
sale registered in 1870, as against 800 in
1878 and 444 in 1876. The p UOUUty *
Court ejectment suito increased from
5,912 in 1877 to 7,501 in 1878 and 9,611
in 1879. Tho execution of tho decrees
in those suite by tho Sheriff increased
from 1,995 in 1878 to2,676 iu 1879. Tho
inoroose of ejectment suits in tho High
Court of Justice was only 4 in Con
naught there and 20 in Ulster, while in Loin
star was an increase of 169, and in
Munster 141. As to other creditors, tho
amount recovered by ordinary civil pro
cesses increased from £109,900 to £480,-
87( '- The o{ L« x ?
, w ,p?’ 8,7 >021i its against 21,078 in
1878. I ho gross total of ejectment pro
coedings increased from 2,517 to 3 526.
Ofthis increase of 1,009, no less than
928 wero m ejectments for non-payment
non-payment of rent does not forfeit the
right to compensation, was £5,290, being
only £49 less than in 1878, while for irn
provementa there was am actual increase
of £289. In tho other three Province*,
notwithstanding her the increase in the uum
of ejectments from 1,776 to 2,428,
tho amount of compensation for im
provementa granted showed iv decrease of
£1,191, or 40 per cent., while under tho
head of compensation for disturbance
thero was a falling off of £2,568, or 45
gor cent .—London News.
American Incomes.
There is no table of tho average dura
tion of fortunes; but tlie statistics of
business failures in the country since
I860 show that the average yearly fail
ores ranged from 1 in 163 m the year
1871 to 1 in 75 in 1876. How many busi
ness men in a thousand fail, once or
more, during their business lifetime, I
cannot learn. The proportion used to
be estimated for New England at 97 per
cent. That is probably too high a tig
ure for the business of to-day, conduct
ed, as it is, upon much shorter credits
than formerly. But tlio proportion of
traders than 75 who fail is of probably the whole not number. lower |
per cent, |
Howmanv of our ?‘ neonle live LrT- unon
thete b,rested means in 1866
come-tax returns showed 771,000 in
comes of »500 per year and over, and
6 000,000 incomes of less than $500. But
u'” fr ° m Cft, '‘ tul ;
smaller of the incomes incomes, and not over represented 10 per cent,
the interest over $500, In
upon investments
France, ten years later, the census re
turned no less than 2,000,000 people,
teveS mcans^VwS^ gE%»5
people, one-fifth rentes-liolicrs of the population, were
enrolled as or savings
banks depositors ; but it must be added
that tho savings banks do not often fail
m France, fail and with that sooner or later they
deposits are apt to us. Most of these
are small ones. But no less
than 2,000,000 of tho French cun say
with l’etrarch, Parvated apla rnihi:
14 It i« little enough, hut it will do for
me.”
Thus, in spite of the resources of tho
tact that wo have a groat many rich
men at any given time, wo still do
not have a large class of permanently
have a permanent though small com
ptence. The rich American’s wealth
is extremely volatile; gold.” in nine cases out old
0 f ten it, is “fairy The
land-owners form tho chief exception
to fes, the rule; tho especially increase in of our values large cit- has
where
'"'Bufff‘‘our class of permanently
wealthy people is people. small, so also is our
class of destitute We are fortu
natc in liaving no such immense and
harmful inequality of fortunes as wo see
ltJ modem England. Our ill fortune is
this, that our class small, of moderate eompo
tences is also that so few of us,
i n spite of our opportunities and our la
bore, have seized the good of even a
small assured competence. Tlie land is
full of people who have not, on the other
hand, and assured who are not likely to have,
url '7 competence, however
moderate, but who have nothing to **■
but labor to tlie end. Tliis is, in
‘feed, the appointed human lot for tlio
majority in any community ; but need it
be, in a country the of resources like tliis
»<> nearly of avoid universal it lot? Might not
many moderate u» by a greater lessened care for
bitten a oompetoncc, a am
for fortunes?-?’. M. Coan, in
"arver'* Alauazine.
"I asbub*7tou, gentlemen,” ' ", said ,, the
opnvict upon sutering ths prison, the
P ,a<5# * Mv Mj own ^wn^sZllTlmmUn sniuni tmuy_acuiuua an
my time and attention, widl fill this may truly
that my selection to position
was an entire surprise. Hsd 1 consulted
mv f| own interest i should have J peremnt
or tlin^iisud* , Jw .) lnt .a » m e, but 1 ma in
£nrwbut of “ mv friends i see no other
udTjiM sulimit" And he submit
Trunsonpt,
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Watk'nsvilie, Oconee Co., Georgia.
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HUMORS OF THE DAT.
Bald heads never dye.
Usually the coarser a base voice is
the finer it is.
A popular paper is like a toper’s nose
—it will be read.
AVhhn your opponent calls you a liar
let. him have the floor.
That man that says that that that that
that man used was correct, tells a false¬
hood.
A great many men are cottage-built;
that is to say they have but one story.
And they are for ever telling it,
A poor dentist of Kokomo wears for¬
ceps to lcoep him wnrm. A pnir of draw¬
ers, you know .—Kokomo Tribune.
‘Rebecca: Yes; when a young lady
could • goes crazy" over dancing, we think she
mad. consistently bo called hopping
“People should always marry their
parties opposites,” Yes, one of tho marrying
ought to be a man and tho other
a woman.
When tho editor's wife gets a new
dross on the strength of a.dry goods ad¬
vertisement, ealled her might it not properly bo
ad-dress?
a lover's query.
TbII mo—tell mo Gertie, true,
Ho not—do not—do not He,
Can you—can you—can you—c*n you
Bovs, Make*—make*pumpkiu pie?
don’t be deceived. A girl who
will talk of the “limbs” of a table, will,
after marriage, chase you around a two
1 aero lot with a rolling pin aud a regu
lar keroseue conflagration in both eyes.
A Maine school-teacher captured
in thirty-three cuds of gum from her pupils
that one day, and it was a rainy day at
.—Detroit Free Press. Most any
sehool-teaohor can do that if she but
chews.
An exchange speaks of “a policeman
who shot a drunken man who tried to es
capo in the hind leg.” Tho policeman is
to be commended. When a drunken
man tries to escape in the hind leg ho do
serves to be shot
“i llt ^, burut coffce
^' 1, wT When a woman TT*
thinks re iy v re,i at coffee, aud she
An l T exchange , y ’ prints . t lengtlily , „, article ,
a
ou Science at Breakfast. Valuable
s P®f.° wasted. Science at breakfast is
away with four slices of ham and
a <loz ® u egg* while your vis-a-vis is
un ‘°m , , UJ g h 1 ® napkin,
A man in Iowa has been arrested for
guilty, assaulting his wife, and ho was found
only stuffed even though her it was shown that he
mouth full of putty
when he wanted to go to sleep. Do we
men have no rights at all?
"Take the elevator” is inscribed on
the fence of an Iowa meadow. A curious
traveler who climbed the fence discovered
in about ten seconds that the elevator ia
of a dark brindle color, with a curl in the
middle of his forehead.
“Tropiu.k has broken out in Cork.”
It is generally under the cork whore
trouble breaks ont._ Norristown Herald.
Many a sorrowing Home Ruler realizes
that fact when he hears the corkscrew in
the little small hours beyond the tw.dvo.
A Hakd Tl.tirew,^\r! Case _M,.; nr Dn ns.. J\r n_“Aw w"
ni v “JJ. 11 “own here, isnt it JiDbsM am? •
Miss Mar,a-“Do you think so? Why
don t you go, then! U“U a bachelor
Maj. You
2 £ Xt diflSt <>
a 'doosed difficult thimr thing
thatistodo”
her’eiu-l^t«. fs ^ ^ ^
.'""^“d Hban s attention H mi to the intellectual i
fl,/ L.,!* miadowy future that boy,
n ^ , month! ngjbTa
^. ith * ¥*
Bftndwl ? h » nA Cttn 7 “dver
tlfiements ,or 14 popular sour mashery.
Foot Muffs.
I am much pleased with a present just
received through the mail, says a corres¬
pondent—tlie work of younger sisters.
It is a pair of “ foot muff’s,” to bo worn
in bed on cold nights. They are a great
comfort to a person who has the care of
small children, und is liable to have to
step out of bed more or less during the
night. wooden They needles, are of elonded fashion. zephyr, Forty knit
on garter the knitting
stitches are set up, and pro¬
ceeds back and forth across the needles,
until the strip is about ton inches long.
Bind it off, aud double it together, and
make it into a bag, whole at the bottom,
and with a seam at each side. The
seams in my “muffs” are crocheted to¬
gether, with zephyr but they like might used be loosely knitting. sewed
that in
With a coarse crochet needle make loops
around the top of the bag, and join them
together by chain-stitch. These loops
are for a rubber tape about ten inches
long. Crochet scallops like. around Tliis the top, bag
as ornamental os yon
does not look much like boot, shoe, or
slipper, but put it on your foot and it
answers nicely for a foot warmer. A pair
of foot muffs would be a very suitable
Christmas preseat for any invalid.
The number of stitches required needles. would
depend upon the size of the
The knitting should be loose and elastic.
He Had 'Em Coming.
Here is one >ne of oi master Master Johnnie’s aounnw fables
in the San Francisco Francisco Araonaut: Argonaut:
“And now lie tell you a little story
wink wich Mister Mister Gipple Gipple tole tole me. Once there .,
was was a a revival revival of of lulgion lide in the town
ware Marter Uipplo kep a glas ware
every lijdTl boddy was a ^aotoVilTirith! gom wild wita good,
"°,‘ "Stiui uor * on * wann Huuuay, d ana “i kl, .iceun ‘nibn k7 w.ore! water
meluns. One day U.ere Gijrnlo, was a felyr
tendin store for Mister anda
mitey good woman she cum with a bible,
audjihe'•«'«'* ?■ ‘he
', , • ..onmiandn,
nmvrjmvuwma wd
Mm* ktmw 7**
spoke out do, red quick, the and said: i«*
amm, w* but boas was frvm to
get cm out of his way em^xiUs yisterdsy, hi sud
sidle ho wss Mttiu broke
every on* of em. But we hsv* got sum
better one. com in from Han IWireo
-you com* u» w«t week,