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SOUTHERN NEWS.
It rained 130 days in West rn Texas
last year.
Italian laborers for orange groves have
arrived at Jacksonville, Fla.
The colored Methodists of Waco, Tex.,
ate to erect a *7,000 college.
Judge A. J. Ross, ofSalado, has been
elected tfraud Master of the Texas State
Orange.
Philadelphia workmen are laying street
mains for the new water-works in Ma¬
tes, Ga.
Meridian has shipped more cotton for
this season than any other town in Mis¬
sissippi except Vicksburg.
Alabama has a provision in her con¬
stitution forbidding the consolidation of
competing lines of telegraph.
No smoking will hereafter he allowed
in any of the buildings of Vanderbilt
University. Nashville.
The young ladies of Gretna, La., have
organized “The Meddlers’ Social Club.”
Miss May Worley is President.
Maj. Gen. .J. M.. Schofield, the new
commander of the military division of
tlie South, has arrived in New Orleans.
New and extensive coal mines are to
ho opened this year on the line of the
South and North and the Alabama Great
Southern.
Between Irwinville and Hawkinsville,
Ga., seven or eight new settlements have
been made, fences put up, dwellings
erected, etc.
Mrs. Matilda Fields, of Gibson county,
Term., sixty years of age, is the daughter
of the celebrated Davy Crockett.
Atlanta, Ga., is a large horse and mule
market. The receipts since Si pte nber
have been 14,548 horses and mules, 5,550
cattle, and 25,390 hogs.
The Tampa (Fla.) Tribune mentions a
report tliat the people in the eastern end
of Hillslxiroiigh county and in Polk are
becoming discouraged about the orange
business because of the lack of transpor¬
tation.
Out of 172,005 voters registered in
Louisiana, 85,451 are white, and of those
10,913 make their marks instead of wri
ting their names. The colored registra
tration is 88,024, and of these 11,403
write their names.
Atlanta Constitution : Capital may
not be accumulated very rapidly in the
South, blit it will be rolled together
lully as fast as the Northern mill-owners
will care to have it. The North can and
will manufacture a vast variety of
things, but it cannot monopolize or long
control the manufacture, of the peat
staple of the South
In Tennessee there are about 1,250
convicts, about half of the number being
in the penitentiary and the remainder in
branch prisons. The branch prisons at
Battle Creek coal mines and at Seivauee
are wooden structures .inclosed by jvuod
en palisades, and it is said that they have
proved superior in comfort, security and
healthfidncsH to (he penitentiary itself
The size of the cotton factory at Pied¬
mont, S. C., has been more than doubled,
and it is now the largest factory in one
building in the South. A correspondent
of the Charleston News and Courier says
that five years ago there was no a single
house at that placci and now there are
117, besides the factory building, which
is to support l.oOO people and house 12,-
10J bales of cotton a year.
Atlanta Constitution: The discoverv
“l the l«,i portfolio '•ame"very near
wo rking a change in the list of States.
Ceorgia hoy lifts 1,542,071 people, and
Tennessee 1,•>42,4<W. If the enumerators
of Georgia had found 393 more people,
Georgia , would have outranked
Tennes
see, a ad retained h er plage as the twelfth
State. As the care statelY she is the
thirteenth State. D iliem. mit another
lost portfolio’!
The celebrated Dmnmitt irangegrove,
the oldest and largest grove in Ka.-t Flor¬
ida, situated between the Indian river
and the Atlantic, comprising 450 acres,
having 3,500 trees now in bearing, pro¬
ducing last year 4,000 boxes, has been
sold to the Duca Telia Castellucia, an
officer in the .Italian .military service.
1 ho Duke and Drehes- will make Jack¬
sonville (heir winter home. The Duke
proposes to have skilled lalwrers brought
from his gtoves in Hicily.
F. B rerguson writes from the United
liter- 1 i-h Cun mission to Gen. Chal¬
mers the ’ ”i Mississippi (hut the charges by
1 siats on the Mississippi are practi¬
cally a bar to the continuance of the dis¬
tribution b| ilfl algiets', ( 'tiMgi '*sg»iml
district. * lie sffv- awT'lr? §f| yffJfPr «ee
ttoils of the country railroads and boat*
make no charge for the cans of fish, but
"u the M WHl'ili fiver they not only
“hurt d *< iv bi-rii rates for the cum, but
in Rome ’ espee billy at Fort Ads
'ill irl.ige f.rf amf'reshippiug me
lomJin , the
was charged."
The Neiv GrV acs ( ‘hatnber of Com
— h,s tppiisti-d a cam mil tee n, fire
ite'twm \j eursrvtnr) ; or #.#»., W u ( r r t ** th .k *l tho
> -im.t-ier , -.'itcr.i! . the following
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U id ourisiratio**
The Watkinsville Advance.
VOLUME.I.
New Orleans with the cities of St. Louis,
Milwaukee, Chicago, Cincinnati, Louis
ville, Richmond, Baltimore, Washing¬
ton. Philadelphia and New York, to cen
*ider the expediency of placing on their
joint account a semi-monthly line of ocean
steamers connecting the port of Aspin
wall, Central America, with the port of
New Orleans, receiving as a contribution
by the United States, the sea postage to
accrue upon such route, with suck other
appropriations as Congress may he in
duced to make for that purpose.
Something About Babies.
born According to a Yorkshire notion, a now
infant should be laid first in the
arms of a maiden before any one touches
it; and in some places the infant’s right
hand is left unwashed in order that he
may gather riches. It is, too, considered
very should important in by many that an infant
go up tlie world before it goes
down. Thus, in Cleveland, says Mr.
Henderson, if a child should be born in
the top story of a house, for want of a
flight of stairs one of the gossips will
take it in her arms and mount a table,
chair, or. chest of drawers before she
carries it down-stairs.
In the north of England, when an in¬
fant for the first time goes out of the
house, it is presented with an egg, some
salt and a little loaf of bread, and occa¬
sionally a small piece of money—these
gifts being supposed to insure that the
child shall never stand in need of the
common necessaries of life. In the
East added Riding of Yorkshire a few matches
are to light the child to heaven.
It was, too, in former times, customary,
and the practice is not yet obsolete, to
provide a large cheese anil cake, and cut
them at the birth of the child. These
were called “the groaning cake and
cheese,” and were distributed among all
the neighbors.
In Yorkshire this cake is termed the
“pepper cake,” and in some localities
the “sickening cake.” It is the source
into of a species small pieces of divination, by for being ent
the medical man, it
is divided among the unmarried of the
female sex, under the name of “dream¬
ing bread.” Each one takes a piece,
places and it in the foot of the left stocking,
throws if over the left shoulder.
This being done, they must retire to bed
backward, without tittering a word, and
those who are lucky enough to fall
asleep before midnight are favored with
a sight of their future husband in their
dreams.
Inventions of Women.
The list of woman's inventions of recent
date is by no means blank. One of the
best machines now in use for the manu¬
facture of paper bags is the invention of
The Diary E. Knight, of Springfield, Mass.
cintlie accomplished holds patent wife for of Father improved Hya
a an
corset. The Empress Eugenie invented
the many flounced bustle—the precursor
of the extinct crinoline. Mrs. Walton
has devised a way of deadening the noise
on the elevated railroads, and a spark ar¬
rester for locomotives. Women obtain
from the Government an average of about
sixty patents yearly. During the year
ending July, 188(1, w omen received gome
seventy which patents, » list of the subjects,
is appended, as a useful showing
of the tendency of the inventive faculties
of the sex. As might be expected, the
plurality ing of women’s of articles work. relate to the them lighten¬
jar-lifter, bag-polder, Among pillow-sham are
a a a
holder, a dress protector, two dust-pans,
a chart, washing machine, a fluting iron, a dress
lap a fish-boner, a sleeve-adjuster, a
table, a seaming-machine treadle, a
wash basin, an iron heater, sad-irons, a
garment stiffener, a foldingchair, award
robe bed, a window-cleaner, a napkin, a
clothespin, invalid’s a weather-strip, a churn, an
bed, a strainer, a milk-cooler,
a sofa-bed, a dipper, a paper dish, and a
plaiting device. In the line of purely
mechanical contrivances appear a car
step, a baggage attachment for vehicles,
sleeping a shoe-channeling machine, a guard for
berths, a loom fer tubular fab¬
rics, a window frame, an oil burner, a
life-raft, a window-fastener, a locomo¬
tive’s chimney, ji buckle, paper bag ma
chines, dumping-wagon and a ball e-tie.
Besides these are braces, corsets, a hat
cover, a collar, a doll supporter, a shawl
strap, cornet-clasps, undergarments, a
gams, a shoe and a hair-wash.
—
St. Louis vs. Detroit.
One would not think that there was
such a difference between the people of
Sti the Louis aiid of %e committing -people 4 ' of suicide. Detroit In in
matter
Ht. Louis when a young woman has
made up her mind that life is a burden
too heavy to be longer borne she sits down
and writes a dying lament to three differ
ent daily papers. Then she writes a let
ter to the Coroner and tells him to buy a
$200 lot to bur v her body in, erect a $500
stone in her memory, and to select a jury
of poets aud clergymen to view her re
mains. Then she dresses in her best
and starts for the river. It k always a
wild night. She always reached a wharf
treat without being seen. Her wild,
despairing cry as she leaps into the
murky river always floats to heaven on
the shrieking gale, and when the body is
found a smile of angelic sweetness is
playing around her month.
How different are
troit! The young women writ# no
poetry, and have no thought of the Cor
oner." They care not for a burial lot
centrally situated uor a monument with
a cherub to crown it, Tttv never go out
to omjtalit' suicide cm a wild night, as it
might sjioil their clothes. Some one the
always sees them as thev go down to
river “Oh!” They never they say anything There but
when jump. are
always a dozen men on hand to pull them
out. wring them drv, furnish ami them w ith
ads** of cheap lager, send them
I home with the warning:
“Now, ga!, dnnkmg if you eome fooling around
with your water say more we’ll
hsve you «.n« up for .« montha!”
Tlier# i*c I <uay romince here hi De*
treit Everything is a eold. and .tern reali
i t v, and our greatoat their personal poet* senttmeut
"hat* attention to
cabbages,—JJrdrod
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WATKINSVILLE, (iEORGIA, FEBRUARY 15, 1881.
STHBB MOW.
There', nothing more thou cauat command.
The With »aat has gone beyond thy hand,
many a broken tow,
The coming moment la not thine; line,
1/lfe stands between, a narrow
Slfflte while the Iron’s hot—strike now.
Now lathe time to do thrdeed,
Now the time to uproot the weed,
Each Act-, nor pause toeak chills the how;
Good passing forging moment the glow,
twins the thought amt Mow,
Strike whit© the Iron's hot—strike now.
flan as wo will, atrike ss we'may,
All To power, the crushing, hope, growth trom how’. day to day,
now must
Results of reason, teelhig, tact,
A it are surmise, the now but fact.
Strike while the iron’s hot-strike now.
Greatness the novr has alwavo won,
Welt sowed, that this Is all tho sum
Of life, who tan dlsnrow ?
Work in the now from furl to last,
TisalwnTS with you, uerer [last.
Strike while the iron's hot—-strike now.
WHISKY BOB’S CLAIM.
tired, IV.'iisky Bob was dead broke, very
and wanted to sit down and study
his situation and what was best to be
done.
“Here I be again, the same dented
fool as ever, ruined by whisky after tank¬
in' piles of money; I just deserve it.
Wfiat a doggoned jackass a human can
make his self with whisky.”
Taking the up his pack, Bob toiled slowly
up he ridge under the trees until
came to the top, where it flattened
out in the level places and slight depres¬
sions, Birds were singing and flowers
down blooming around him; and, as he sat
to rest, he heard, to his astonish¬
ment, not very far off, the clear sweet
voioe of a female, singing.
pine Peeping there, cautiously in little under the young
ting tree, rock, a open fiat, sil¬
on a was the singer. It was a
pleasant picture to look at for a lonely
man—a with tail, golden shapely, buxom young girl,
regular, light, hair, blue eyes, and
very dressed in short pretty calico features. dress, with She was
a moc¬
assins on her feet, and a sun-bonnet
thrown back on her head. Her hand
rested ou a long Kentucky rifle. She
of was Western a representative of the better class
in those earlier girls, who days were continually
mountains pf California arriving from tlie in tho
trip overland, emigrating in families long
hem Kentucky and other States.
delight, Whisky and Bob listened to the song with
gazed at the singer in ad¬
miration; ids shoulder, and then, with his pack on
and, coolly puttiug walked his out into her
presence, pack down
not far from her, sat down himself. Then
she spoke to him;
that “Well, Mister, who might you be,
walks into a young lady 's drawing¬
room without knocking, even on the
bark of a tree?”
“Please, Miss, I’m called Whisky Bob
—out prospecting. ”
“No ‘miss’ about it, Mr. Bobb, please.
friends, My name, and for short, others- is -well, Nell Green to all
to I've a shoot¬
ing-iron,” said of the girl, and continued;
“Your name Whisky is a had one,
young being man, and I reckon shows you are
ruined by corn juice. Ts that so?”
“Well, Nell, that’s a fact—but rather
rough,” half smile said Bob, her who face. saw the girl had
a on
“Now, Mr. Bob—without the Whisky
—it seems to me,” said Nell, “ye’re
throwing verself away, ami there might
be something looked better for yer, if ye’d seek
it,” and she at him with an ex¬
pression of some interest.
“I know it, Nell, if I conld only do
it.
“Got no folks, no family, to keer for
yon?” said Nell.
I “Narry myself one, repliedBob; “neverhad.
toted and pack up this ridge lo
jest seek my luck once more, and quit
th« corn jmee and reform. I said to my
sell, ’Bob, it’ye could only meet a wo
man stake anywhere claim in these digging, and
out a where she stood, it
would bring ye fresh hick and ye might
turn over a new leaf, and be somebody
once more.’ And here, sure enough, I’ve
neljou.’’. Ye mean right, 1 m sure, ’ raid Nell, „ ,
softly. “But down the trail away yonder
1 see my folks are coming along, with
their fixings ami plunder, pan, man and
the rest ov'em. I must put out, stranger,
but Mr. Bob, let me say a kind .word to
ye on parting from a short acquaintance,
You say a woman brings ye lack every
time. Now I just hope I’ll bring good
fortune to yer, and yon may take your
pile out of this ’ere spot, though I.can’t
see where it is. Mr. Bob.” said the girl,
hesitating, good “ef VC do not find it, and act
up to yer intentions about the com
juice—well, then, Mr. Bob, my folks are
raising tile log houses at and .shed of fixings the creek, down
on Opening tbeMot break in the
away there you can see a
treeUfc^ "Vfo mean to TocSte.” And walk
lag thoukle^’^'and^fc. up to Bob, the puther hand on his
lwinjpiest Bob, if ye rake yer
pile yer can a little piece of
cold down for Neff'-to rcmemlier she
brought He a better life tw-ye.” in
took his rocker and put, it run
ning order down the ridge by a little
pool of water, fed by a small stream,
where he eould bring his dirt aad wash
out for half an hour, and then pack down
more, while the pool was filling with
water again.
Next he went and rolled away the
rock where Nell had Ireen sitting and
singing by the his dry pebblesof the rivulet,
and, taking pick, began digging out
a ditch in the grafts; about two feet deep
and two feet wide, his down stream, and
took the dirt to rocker. He worked
until sunset, only finding aliout six bits
of roars# washed gold, but he in his last bucket,
when out, found a good solid
piece of gold weighing three ounce*.
In the morning he arose by daylight,
and after his breakfast of fried pork and
coffee, ending with the usual smoke of
his pipe, be went to work again,
mined to work (lid the gold out fortune, for Nell's
sake, ib- if he not make a
j worked hard and steady through
the daw only stopping at norm lor Home
ruff*... ard a smoke beneath the pine tree
, Mm did,! p The sun was verv hot, but he
, t mind it. At night, when he washed
; out tho result ot tho dav’s hard toil, he
only had a dollar, worth of #**# blue gold,
. hut he found a Uttl* piece of ribbon
I y„l| ht fi lost from her hair. This con
nole.l him amply. »» he ki*»ed it .and aaid
| p, row." himaelf, Ht* claim "Boh, was better what lack miners to mor- call
■
* hit tppited.'* for the gold w»* *c»t
tered in spots here and there. The next
day and the next, his labors brought liini
the same result—about enough to pay
expenses, or as the miners call it, “grub
money.” ”fe"
The fourth day, just before he washed
out, in bis last rocker of dirt, at sunset,
he found two pieces of gold, one worth
#150, the other' full !|200. Bob was
happy that night, t*nd tied the blue rib¬
bon that with a leather stringFound his neck,
so it could rest on his heart. The
next seventh two dayR he brought took no big piece, but
the pieces of gold from
the clfty-like it cement weighing about
*700. was dark colored gold, pretty
solid, and twisted into strange shape*,
with holes in it, but not appearing much
worn, or, in mining parlance, “washed.”
When the miners passed him daily on
their way to the divide, they stopped to
ask what bis luck was, and when thev
saw a very little coarse gold in his pan,
they laughed gold at him. But Bob ke.pt his
lumps them beside of the in rock his pocket, his or buried In
in camp.
this way he worked ou, taking sometimes
large Nell’s pieces little fist, of gold out, half as davs large as
and then for very
little.
He now examined and weighed his
gold, and found that he had about *8,000,
good mostly in heavy pieces. This wnsa pretty
fortune for seven weeks’ digging,
and Boh felt an unconquerable longing to
go and tell Nell all about it. The next
morning by his daylight he cleared up,
packed tip things and started down
the,ridge to the nearest trading tents.
But in his blankets, carefully strapped
out of sight, was a heavy bag of gold iu
place of a whisky bottle.'
It was early find iu the the ranch day yet, Nelly’s and Bob
set out to of peo¬
ple, leaving his pack, except the blanket
containing the gold, which was slung
over his slionlders on liis pick handle.
In a little over a mile’s walking he
found a pretty valley at the mouth of
the creek, where some new log houses,
fences and clearings indicated Nell’s
home.
In aback room, with her white, strong,
beautiful arms Imre to the shoulder,
stood pretty Nell at the washtub, very
busy tucky iu a stream of soapsuds and Ken¬
jeans, singing free as a bird.
Bob put down hi* pack and walked in,
but N; ml’s quick enr heard, and she
turned and saw him, and her cheeliB
flushed and her eyos sparkled.
“What! Bob, is that you coma at
last? in. store clothes, too?” said slio,‘
glancing and with with poorly bright disguised eyes at the young
man, “Certain, pleasure.
eom«.” sure, Nell; you said I might
“Yes, Bob! but how about the
whisky?” “Nell, I haven’t
touched a drop si’ ec
you saw me; if I hare they may shoot
me. And what’s more, I don’t mean to
—if you say so,” replied he.
“An’ Bob, did X bring luck to yer?
Was there gold lip Ihar?”
“Nell, that ’s six thousand dollars and
move, rolled iu them blankets tliar, I
owe to your pretty self, or I’m a uigger.
And, Nell, just look here,” and Bob took
from the breast of his shirt a package
carefully rested the wrapped iu paper, blue which ribbon had
on bow of Nell’s
lie had found, and which she plainly
saw. of gold, Unwrapping the shape it, there spread was a piece
in of a eagle,
almost exact in every part, weighing
over six ounces.
“Nell, you said T might bring yer a
specimen “Yes, Bob, from but my pile, and here ’tia.”
what gal’s bit of rib¬
bon is (hat yer so keerful about?” said
Nell, with a loving look, but turning her
face from him mischievously, and stirring
the soap-suds.
“That are,” replied he, “broke loose
from the liar of an angel that met me on
the mountain*, yonder, anti said some
kind words to a dead-broke man, that
gave him new life, and what's more,
brought good luck, the thing as a charm
to lighten his thoughts when ho felt
dowuheartened.”
talk “Yes, Bob,” said she, “but ain’t that
kind of airy? Angels don’t flit
round these diggins, as I ever heard ov.”
“Y e s, Nell, that’s so; but any woman’s
an who, angel to man that’s going wrong,
in the loving kindness of her heart,
encourages him to do right, and that's
what ye’ve done for me. That ere gold
came to me hv luck from you, and if ve’d
only take it with something else” —
‘‘With what. Bob?” but Nell still
kept edging her still face turned away, while he was
closer to her.
“Well, Nell, if I must make the riffle,
just take Bob with the dust and make
him a happy man for the rest of his life.
He loves yer, and would die for yer any
” ana Bob stole his arm around her
slender waist.
Nell at last turned her blushing face,
and looking roguishly at Rob, said:
“Don’t you think, Bob, it would be l>et
ter sense to sav yon’d live for Nell than
to die for her?”
Bob did not speak, blit drew Nell to
him, and kissed her. Nell, somehow had
her hands so entangled in the soapsuds
and clothes that she couldn't resist, but
she kks pouted tiac.V her lips, and Bob took his
from them
xhree years after Hie strove events
happened, in that same valley, was a
very pretty cottage, with a garden and
flowers around it, that indicated taste
a,K * refinement, and the whole clearing
had become extensive, with its buildings
and improvements. Here resided Mr.
Robert Htinton aud his happy wife, the
handsomest and happiest couple in the
northern counties.
Mr. Htinton w as a prosperous cat
tie dealer, well-to-do, and few remem
bered that there ever was snob a man as
Whisky Bob.
» *
Little six-year old was taking hi* first
^ftson in addition, and when the teacher
asked him; “If I were to give you two
eats, and another nice young lady gave
you two more, how many cats would you
, have He T wouldn’t quickly have replied: “Why,
, pretty soon any, for my
1 . mamma would break their heads with
the broom. Sba don’t like cats.”
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| made^rete A statisticu* oaicuU”mXl^ who claim* to hare (hat
j X, pine forest* of Michigan will th.^t he ex
ha in thirteen rears, and of
Wisconsin and Minnesota in thirty
f (yr »y years. Twenty been years ago
regiou had scarcely touched bj the
ta .
A Chinese Execution.
Tho criminal is conveyed to the exeou
bon ground in a basket dung on a lmm
boo between two coolies. Half stupe
(led by fear and rendered almost. inseuBi
I® ***** abo ' lt *0 he suffered from
the effects of samshoo, which is given to
the victim m abundance, the procession
wends its way between throngs of Coles
ri,e roftd 1S h» ed with sedan
c airs conveying the , officials, both htgh
and low, to witness the sight.
Upon arrival at the place of punish
ment, a crowd of chattering Chinese may
be eecn som# engaged smoking their
of pipes, others the discussing stall of their early bowl
congee at the jmrambulat
,>'5 truce V ^f ofauyfeel.ng K k"' S f °f edl of ' , ' aw es ’ e or ” ot compassion the le . sst
“S™ 4t “ ft Vv e tr T,U V ftbout to ’ e
enacted. A stolid i indifference marks
the countenance of the assemblage, and
it is only when the cortege files ink, po
sihon before the dtus, whereon tho
Viceroy taken their ,nd the provincial that Judge observable have
scats any
emotion animates the crowd The or,m
s.;»riK;,S“;r.r.'v£:
roy. Tins sets forth the crime and tho
«s1,dl\ I X an AU thexictim tl r Culpnt can do A to is -T to
rr Joorcy, of which quality there is
simiu-ft “ V a lack ;, A 11 Blven ,?‘ Knnl
f from n the f>, Judge T i the a two executioners
’ Invested re, tt 2\*y of e every unfortunate particle of
clothing , ■ he or she is bound hand and
of T'ti [ T™ wootl
iw
S' 01 *® blo,Hl y Work ’, pnts With a
fles'hv fleRhypart !>Z b 0 % ;f the h0 , legs ank,C8 and , o tluglm PW r rd, ngl.t t !‘?
tL 'i f ,U 6 Undor ° pm ' ah<m '
wH Tf° I ? b0dy - n<>W Tfl' 1 1V 7 1,,B
l f 8km L mHl fle8 ^’ £rc:u
i bl00d w P ; ,, If lng m H roa,UH
djung the ground , and the executioners' ’,
(dothcs avmdm 1 cotar. By this time
°5 th0 { f u 2 ot T
8 n' ft,ning fl‘ eU , h0ih f to « et ft
*f ,
After the shriek of pain which attends
nothing lips. hut low, agoui/aiig moans cs
capo the While this horrible scene
is the being beancurd enacted, and the candy peanut hucksters hawkers,
their trade, oblivious the fact that ply
of a
human being is Undergoing torture.
With head drooping on the breast,
closed eyes, and tape 1 tearing an unut¬
terable look of puis and agony, tlie vic¬
tim now stands. The Judge, seemingly
tired at the disgusting sight, claps Ins
hands. Tlie chief executioner, at the
signal, plunges Ins knife ink, the breast,
and with one hand tears open the flesh,
while with tho other ho pulls the quiv¬
ering heart out by the roots, holds it up
k, view, and then dashes it to the
ground. Thus justice is vindicated.
Flitting Up Sardines.
Tho little town of Eantiiort, Die., situ¬
ated ns it, is at the most eastern extremi¬
ty called of the United Htate#, and frequently
the “jumping off place,” has,
within the last, few years, become tho
center of quite an industry—the putting
up of sardines. Extensive factories
have been built on most of tbe many
wlmrven out into Passamaquoddy bay,
and from small beginnings the putting
up of these little fish has attained largo
proportionB.
The fish used aro very small herrings,
which a few years ago were considered
almost worthless, being used only for
certain pomace. They are very abundant at
seasons of tho year, and are
caught the in large weirs, constructed for
neighboring purpose, along the shore of the
islands. Tlie weirs some¬
what resemble a rustic fence extending
out into tlie water. The fish swimming
in with the tide are left as the tide falls
Inflow the weir, and are taken by means
of dip-nets, by men who go into tho
weire in boats for that purpose. Home
time« a hundred hogsheads of fish aro
taken at one time.
Oa reaching the factory the fish go
through when partially a process fried of dryiiig, and then,
in olive oil, aro put
up in small tin boxes bearing a French
brand, and cannot be distinguished in
appearance from the imported article.
Thotisands of these boxes are put up in
a employed day, almost in tho a thousand business. persons Those Vicing fac¬
tories are controlled by New York firms.
There are, too, other ways of prepar¬
ing these fish. One varioty herring, resembling
very much the potted and pre¬
pared with mustard, are called marines,
and find a ready sale in tho Western
markets. During the winter great quan¬
tities of herring, which are too largo to
put up in this manner, are frozen, and
are country. shipped in barrels to all parts of the
Tlie Upper ami Lower Eyes,
“There are two pairs of eyes iu man,
and it is requisite should that be closed the pair when which the
are beneath
mir that are above them jierceive, and
t) ia t when the pair beneath above are opened.” closed,
those which are are
The lower eyes see only the surfaces and
effects, the upper eyes behold causes
and the connection of things. And when
we go alone or come into the house of
thought and worship, we come with pur
pose to be disabused of appearances, to
sec realities, the great lines of our den
tiny, to sec that life has no caprice or
fortune, is no immutable hopping squib, but a
growth after laws, immense. under
beneficent influences tho most
The church is open to great and small
in all nations, and how rare and lofty,
bow unattainable, arc flic aims it labors
to sot before men! \Ve come to educate,
come to isolate, to lie ulmlractioiiintH ;
in fine, to open tlie upper oyos to the
deep mystery of cause and effect, to
know that, though minister* of justice
and power fail, Justice and Tow« fail
uever - Tbe oj»4 surrct d th« vitrlil i«
iBapHationiifroin tho 'S' great au 1 f,re public
™ 4Mm 601,1 from whmh w * '~
Rm0tr * f)n ’ ------
T«*r talk alxvti* “a girl hon*a thief"
In Illinois. Tha thief finds that »tvl« of
hors* vsrr rare.
NUMBER 50.
Manners,
lain When, in general conversation, cer
nitrons opinions are pronounced or propo
advanced at variance with, or in
opposition to, your own ideas, do not
rush ink, „„ argument. A disputations
person is never a favorite. If you do not
agree with what is said, it is best to re¬
main Of course, opinion, if you are
asked for your own give it
clearly tliat and firmly, and yet in a manner
cannot be construed as oflensivo to
those holding different views ; and if the
matter is one with which yon aro only
partially tho fact or not at all acquainted, own
rather than slavishly follow
what another has said. No one can
know everything, and the candid expres
skm that you tiro not competent to
hi the case will cause your f opin- ^
iou on olher 1>oiuts to havo fll tho ore
weight
Brine people bristle with objections
like a porcupine with quills. No matter
what is mentioned or proposed, there
comes hal.it an objection in a moment. Buck
„ may ho almost unconsciously ac
siz'r"" 8 '" in '
Jf ft person appropriates to himself
i,,e b,, "> « eftt 111 tho worn, or stands with
h is back to the fire, or yawns while be is
spoken to, or, in fart, docs anything
w hioh shows selfishness, indifference, or
d.Hresjiee!, it, is needless to sav - he cro
a tea lvu unfavorable impression, and dis
plays want of proper well training,
If ift always to comply with and
defer to, the wishes of oth«* an tar as
through z 'l&tJd.C’r'USS door entering
sssr a mug or to do “* ** a carriage :
i ”
B ,^±iSrs‘ ’ oWi Thoton- r
the latl.y should go first.
trary is state,1 in some books n oH
quotte, th0 but this is not in accordance w ,
<‘ f the best srsiicty.
At clmrch tin, gentleman holds ouen
the door, and the lady pnstedes doT him un
, ht , gentleman fti «lc. stopping at tlie pew for
the to lmtopenLed^ it. Many kdics
however, themselves do not wait,
and enter at omm.
voTZ ™t ii! t™ u to (t ? fe ' Kl
mrn ! ” j * ' '■ ,uto 1 ■uoject th°r ana
“* 0 «han
Tho only occasions when tho order of
precedence is reversed are on entering . a
theater or concert-room, or walking
gentleman along any crowded thoroughfare. Tho
iu these casos goes first to
clear the way.
With regard to other cases of prece¬
dence, ho more solicitous about giving
others their position than about taking
your own. should
A lady not ho permitted to de¬
fray the cost of her entrance-foe to any
theater or exhibition, or to pay for rn
rofreshmonta, etc. If she insists upon
reimbursing comply the amount tho gentleman
must with her wishes.
Except in large households, where
servants are constantly in attendance in
the hall, it is customary, before allow¬
ing any one to leave the room ; to ring
for the sorvnnt to open tho door. Every
one is entitled to the civility, and its
omission may cause resentment. Ex¬
cept, of course, when you ooeompany
your visitor to the door yourself, as you
would do if you wished to show especial
such respect or regard, of intimacy or when you are on
terms with your visitor
that all formality is dispensed with.
When a lady is about to leave a room
the gentleman should always rise and
hold tho door open for her to nass out
Bookbinding.
The bookbinders’ craft was at its
zenith just before the invention of
nobody printing; would it has waned nowadays since, because
such prices care cheerfully to give
books in the as days were it paid for
when took twenty
five months of a patient scribe’s work to
produce one copy of the Bible. The
bindings of such costly books
works of art. Milan first, wo are told,
aequirod a reputation for its bindings of
Bpanisli leather, arabosqued and gilt,
which superseded the old-fashioned
bindings until close of wood, metal, fifteenth or ivory ; but
tho of tho century
tbe bindings of hooks presentation volumes
and of church used on the high
altars of cathedrals were mostly of solid
gold or silver. Bruges produced some
beautiful works of this description, gold like¬
wise bindings in cloth of
with silk of many colors. At Ypres, the
great cloth plain mart of bindings North Europe, of cloth, were
first made em¬
broidered more or less ; but these were
used only for small volumes of jests and
ballads, and cliildren for the horn noble books families out of
which the in
learned their letters. Venice had a
name for its bindings in ivory and words
from tbe East; Florence, like Ghent in
Flanders, abounded in brass artificers,
and produced each brazen the bindings gilt or
silvered, one work of a master
craftsman, for none ventured to make
book-covers who were not skilled with
their tools ; but the most gorgeous bind¬
ings of all that were made liefore the
invention Here guild of printing of come goldsmiths from Jtorno. had
the Italian
its chief hall; and there was always a
sure sale for rich bindings of wrought
gold, seeing that the Kings and
i attentates wh o came to visit the Papal
Bee invariably gave and received pres¬
ents ot splendid books.
« Stand 1
n Une cannot . lay out . ,, ms wore to . ad- ,
vantago wit lion t knowing precisely how
,' , ' s I, '. K ht* business,
i bo , beginning of tho year is the appro
.
pl “ urao Ior ascertaining »t. ll re¬
*l u eowy ani account of business M kept
“*f*«»thor two and then neg ected.
I ^ J " 1 ' 1 M hi
3ESVtSfc . .
momntuL. every dav Thin tends to betret
S[*«rowork* «d ianai? ayatam bueinm/affairs m every
that foresight and economy which aro
' everywhere the prime essentials to *uc<
.
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MflEBAb TEBMS FOB KOBE SPACE
USEFUL SUGGESTIONS.
Gkrase Spots on Paper.— Grease
applying spots may bo little removed from paper by
which a sheet powdered pipe then day, on
place a of paper, use a
hot Iron. Remove the adhering powder
with a piece of India-rubber.
Scobched Linen.—P eel and slice two
onions, extract the juice by pounding
and squeezing; cut up half an ounce of
fine white soap and add to tho juice ;
two ounces of fuller’s earth and a half
pint cool of vinegar ; boil all together ; when
spread over the scorohed linen and
Jet it dry on it; then wash and boil oat
the linen and the spots will disappear,
unless burned so badly as to break the
threads.
When to Got Timbeb.—J uly and
August, are tho beat months for cutting
The timber, that it may be the most well-nigh durable.
growth and of the year is then lie
over, if the troos are allowed to
until the green foliage dries upon them,
the greater portion of wood, tho sap is tlie thereby
withdrawn from the and seas¬
oning is rapid and perfect. Cut in mid¬
summer, insects are much less liable to
attack the wood, which is an important
point with some kinds of timber, like
hickory.
Damc WaijJiS.— An exchange says ;
“ Moisture may bo kept from a brick
wall by dissolving three-quarters of a
pound boiling of mottled soap spreading in one the gallon hot ot
water and so¬
lution steiulily with a largo flat brush
over the surface of tho brick work, tak¬
ing care that it does not lather. This is
to be allowod to dry for twenty-four
hours, wlien a solution formed of a
quarter of a is mild of alum dissolved in
two gallons of water is to lie applied in
a similar manner over the coating of
soap. The soap and alum mutually de
eomjtoso each other and form an insolu¬
ble varnish which min is unable to pen¬
formed etrate. in Tho dry, operation settled weather.” should be per¬
Ukscoiuno Faded Flowebs. —The
majority of flowers begin to withor after
being kept in water be for twenty-four by
hours. A few may revived giving
them fresh water with a pinch of salt
pek* flowers in it; bo and restored even by quite placing withered them
can
in a cup of boiling water doep enough to
cover at least one-third pf the stems.
When the water has cooled tho flowers
should be bright and erect again. They
may now be inserted in fresh cold water,
after having inch. shortened Thinqiotalod, their stems by
about an white
and light-hued flowers, however, do not
revive so deep-lmed, completely thickqmtaled under this treat
mentas blos¬
soms.
Uninflammable Wood.— Frof. Ked
zie, of the Agricultural chemist, College of that Mich¬
igan, an expert says a
point oughly or skimmed, wash made and ot skim milk, thor¬
wood uninflammable, water brine, will
render and 1m
proved it by experiment. He says this
paiut or impervious whitewash to is durable, of very
cheap, it water, agree¬
able color, and, as will prevent wood
from taking fire, ho urges its use, par¬
ete. ticularly This on can roofs, easily out-buildings, be tried, and, lmrns, if
found ki answer, the knowledge will ho
very nsoful. There is many a building,
as well as woodon fixtures near boilers
and fire-places, where the mixtnre could
bo well applied.
_
The Glossy 811k Hat.
Civilized man considers his silk hat
tho highest form of bend-gear. It is tho
chosen article of Sunday wear. But
why? It is in the wav at church. How
many men have had their feelings di¬
vided between their worship and tho silk
bat under the seat, the world will never
know. Place it anywhere, it is in dan¬
ger. We have known men to carefully
put it in the aisle, only to lie caught up
by the train of a fashionable dress, and
thus dozens of hats liave been spoiled
beyond theirs iu the repair. furthermost Others have beyond placed
corner,
the reach of supported danger. Alas!
their expectations wore doomed to dis¬
appointment. favorite The under corner deposit, of a seat
is the most place of hut
so eager have men Imen to put it there
that the first hat, placed in that corner
has been crushed out of all recognizable
shape. folly, To put it it on a seat is even worse
because is sacrificed to the
crushing dignity of the first lady who
enters the pew. She has no regard for
cither the hat or its wearer. Some have
tried to bang it on a peg under the book
rests, and when thought has become at
true ted to the service of the hour, some
fair one, iu her careless haste to get her
hymn-hook, tumble hats. upsets the row ana down
the Each gentleman grabs
for for his his property property at at the the samo time, and
the the result result is is a a knockim knocking of heads, a seat
taring a of hats—and, we feat, a com¬
mingling who wish of maintain mild invective. worshipful For those
to a state
of mind, the soft felt hat, however un¬
dignified aristocratic in appearance, brother. is preferable to
its
Capacity for Sleep.
Publio men, subjected to severe men¬
tal strain by exhausting daties, learn to
sleep anywhere and at any time. Napo
lean once slept for an hour in the middle
of a battle, with the roar of artillery
about him. Brougham slept for tweutv
fouYhours at the close of an exciting
week in the court-room.
A story told of William Pitt, when
Prime Minister of England, exhibits this
facility: had broken out ship of
A mutiny had on imprisoned a
war, and the mutineers
Admiral Colpoioe, and threatened him
with death unless their grievances were
redresaed. It was feared that the exam¬
ple would become general. contagious, and the
mnttny Irecom# members of the Cabinet, led
Hevera!
by Lord Windham, counsel. went He in dismay to
Pitt’s house for was asleep,
but they forced theii way to hia chamber
and routed him.
Tbe great statesman sat up in bed,
heard their exciting story, and wrote
calmly;
fire " If Admiral the ship Colpoioe irom tho is not batten#* given up, un
til upon is destroyed,’*
Ho then lay down oa hi* «urprued pillow, aol- and
was snoring before hi*
lsagua* hod loft the room. They could
not understand hew sleep w»* possible iu
Well an emergMH'y.