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EDITORIAL notes.
rbs-aTOB Ingalbs will soou introduce
providing that any person who in
W acreage of public lands to which
an liable to fine of
has no title shall be a
Co a uav for the time such inclosure who ob- is
xnui interned, and any person
"gfV*,. of another over or
domain shall, for
^ ofien^e, pay the aggrieved person
$500.
jaB Mormon church now embraces a
resident, twelve apostles, fifty-eight
"triarohs, 3,885 choirs, sentinels, 1,500 bishops, 3,153 high and
priests 11,000 there is
4 400 deacons. In A rizona a
1 ember-hip of 2,262; in Idaho twice as
maav, and missionaries are at work all
Europe and the United States. The
orer be coming when the
tune appears to
gentiles will have to hide their women
folk if they expect to keep up their pre
se 2 t dom estic style. ^__
The manufacture of paper pulp into a
substitute for wood is attracting favorable
(flection. It is 1 ec * ^at it will
prove much c eaper ran woo , e qua j
- „rt. ts tobl" Hf. .'-a paper M board r “ 8“? will tat. «“ «“ the
poli.h, .. -ell » tat shade
Heeler, turn} einae wa erproo,
ml rn M marbletad »d grmed. b
to ot budding, u, roofiug
aotenal, m making bndal e.tskete or for
furniture purposes it is believed that pa¬
per lumber will, ere long, come into gen¬
eral use.
One of the largest sheep ranches in
America is on Santa Rosa Island, Cali
fornia. On ibis island of 74,000 acres
fully 89,000 sheep are kept. La3t June
WO o! clip from these sheep was
415,740 pounds, which sold for 27 cents
apound, bringing the owner $212,349.80,
a clear profit of over $80,000. Even this
was a low yield. Pour men keep the
ranch in order during the year, but in
shearin; time an additional force is, of
coutss, necessary', A shearer is paid five
cents a clip, and $4 50 a day is frequently
by a good hand. The Santa Rosa
sheep v .■quire, nq herding, but two.hun
drr ’ t: ined goats run with them, answer¬
ing; lithe purposes of shepherd dogs.
lamp, the famous manufacturer of
• ordnance, claims that he has sent
more than 20,000 of his terrible
of war. His pre-emin rnceis due
the fact that he first substituted steel
iron in the manufacture of heavy
LUS. He was also one of the first to per
sive that breach loading cannon would
inj/bicly Like the p ace of muzzle
laers. lu-upp’s , guns , have , been sold ,, , to
pry country except England and the
States. At present Italy and
lina are his best customers. His largest
in ia over fifty-five feet in length,
id it is said that not a single part of it
raid be made in America, as we have
j means of hammering or working such
ormous masses of metal.
i’uom all accounts the synchronous
ltiple telegraph system is destined to
a marvelous revolution in
It is claimed that a syn
toniuni has been obtained between
tan t rotating systems so absolute as to
■mo their rotation for weeks at a time
thout a variation between the two of
100 of a second. The application of
63 principle will divide an ordinary tele
laph wire into a number of electric cir
tta, each of which is entirely indepen
■at of the others. The inventor of this
■tern is Patrick H. Delaney, a New
Irker, I-fed of Irish descent. The principle
out in his system is capable of in
i k possibilities. It renders certain the
KUiicaSuity of telegraphing by sound,
b it •; possible that the transfer of ob-
1 :3 photographically by telegraph may
E realized.
[The hammeriess gun is one of the
jest fashions in fire-arms, and some
herns are quite expensive. A hand
pe twelve gauge, seven-and-a-half
pud gun. can be had for $100. The
pel is of the finest Damascus steel, aid
i artist who engraves the loek-pl ites
rives a salary of $3,500 a, year. The
pmer stare inclosed within the lock
lies, and are brought into cocking
pi don by the dropping of the barrels
pr-Yiig' the gun, an automatic device
same time locking the triggers so
f gun cannot be discharged by pulling
p Ivard until the little slide is pushed
These guns are considered
te safe, and it is predicted that they
L'oome into general use. Another
fige in gun fashions is the growing
ti (Uiamytoi smaller gauge and lighter
»s. The American cheap guns ar
poring and sell readily over imported
p of the same grade.
Uhions in jewelry are now fnateriaiis
Must than decorative. 7 he desi-wu s
U’5’
P’~g pots and shades. \\ hole scenes
reduced in gold and precious stones,
a golden roof two -swallows in dia
HS are shown building their nest;
liiesd of a terrier in brilliant emerges
pugh the crevice of a golden board in
pit of a silver rat; a couple of kittens
pmonds and emeralds playing with
r hi wr~ 1 m 8 A LY.
■n
JL to _-_L to J r J
VOLUME V.
a big pearl, make a brooch; diamond
horses galloping through a horse shoe,
and poodles leaping through hoops are
also in high favor for buckles and
brooches. A new idea in jewelry is
simply a thin spot of gold set irregularly
with precious stones, as if a hit of motten
gold had been dropped on the table and
then strewn over with emeralds and
rubies and diamonds. Black silver jew¬
elry is also new.
Every new publication of statistics re¬
to our foreign commerce shows
ant our JLg tad, i. sowly (
^ ^ poinl Mr
ltot
,| lo |,‘i. ca en/ermg ]y ( . iLC tounageef
A ve.se!, * ear pert,
^ [es> ^ ^ 134 000 fhm ^
vearbefore The Chamber of Commerce
report shows that of our total foreign
commerce only about one-sixth is carried
on by American vessels, while fully five
sixths gives employment to the vessels of
other countries. Since 1856, the propor
tion of tonnage of American vessels
trading with American pons has dwindled
from 714 per cent, to about 20 per cent,
while that of foreign vessels has increased
to nearly 80 per cent Of course the de
cay of ship-building has kept pace with
the decline in the use of American ships,
Last year we built only about forty thou
sand tons of iron ships, largely for the
protected coast trade, while in Great
Britain more than six hundred and fifty
toousand tons were built,
The first attempt to cultivate cranber¬
ries in this country was made in 1812 by
Captain Henry Hall, of Barnstable, Mass.
Their cultivation has a-sumed vast pro¬
portions ; not less than 50,000 barrels
being annually produced on Cape Cod,
and a still larger amount in New Jersey.
The same industry increase yearly in
Maine,- Michigan and Wisconsin. The
est places for cultivating these berries
i?opQftt hogs, which are near deposits of
. lean sand. It is a trailing, evergreen,
s „ mi . m tie plant which derives its
substenance almost entirely from air and
water. 11 requires no fertilizer and needs
no Cultivation after a few years. T he
vines once in bearing will, by judicious
management, produce a good crop yearly
during a generation if not for a century.
A yield of four hundred bushels to the
acre is not infrequent, though half that
amount is regarded as an average crop in
Jfew Jersey. I he price is rarely less
than | 10 a barrel, and during February,
1869( they so ld in Philadelphia for $32 a
barrel. The cultivation consists in keep
; r) g other vegetation down till the vines
cover the ground. The demand for these
delicious berries constantly increases.
The new comet can nowbe seen by the
naked eye after sunset iu the northwest,
near the star Vega, the only star of the
first magnitude in that vicinity. Through
- L be telescope it ooks half the size of the
moon, with just the suggestion of a tail.
j>y the la, ter part of January it will drop
(P^-n to within 70,000,000 miles of the
s1ul) and it will be much brighter than
w hen it made its starring tour in 1812.
'The Bar holdi statue is made of copper
strengthened by an inner skeleton of
iron. For each piece a center or mold
was made of wood, on which the copper
could be worked and fitted. The sheet
copper epidermis of the figure is made of
300 pieces, and weighs 178,000 pounds,
while the iron frame weighs 261,000
poun s. When finally erected, the
molded sheets of copper will he riveted
together by copper holts, and the iron
skeleton will be secured to the mrsoury
by twelve great foundation bolts. The
variations due to temperature are pro
vided for by elasticity in every part, and
corroding will be checked by painting
with red lead wherever iron and copper
are in contact. It is reckoned that the
pressure of wind upon the statue, which
will be 150 feet high, may go as high as
190,000 pounds,
James A. Gary, proprietor of the Al
berton Mills, on the Patapsco, who is
largely interested in the Laurel Mills,
said : The South for the past five or ten
years has had a mania for putting up
cotton mills. Then the imDrovements in
machinery are such that each spindle
m^produc^ttoee tames as ^ 18117 ^ 00 ^
a,.™ hom
wag^-s tiane «uo 1 ' -
and the hours ot .
cent lower tnan we pay,
labor are longer. Their operate es iv
cheaply and know n thing of the domes
tic comforts which ours have. Ibe
Southern mills ... are among ___: the best m n
point of construction. The Southern
railroads make tariffs by which the mill
CONYERS, GrA., DECEMBER 21,1883.
products are carried'North as sixth-class
goods, while they charge the same goods
made North and sent South first-class.
Cotton goods from the mills at Augusta
and Columbus, Georgia, are carried
North for forty-eight cents a hundred
pounds, but the same goofs sent from
the North must pay $1.25. This is pro¬
tection of the South against Northern
competition. The railroads claim that
they make low rates ou North-bound
freight rather than send cars back from
the South empty. In the thirty-five
years of my business experience I think
the outlook at present is the least satis¬
factory I have known. The warehouses
are full of goods, for which there is no
market except at prices that either would
show a loss or no profit. Maryland cot¬
ton manufacturers have lost more by the
competition of Southern mi Is tliau those
of any other State. We make the coarse
goods which the South is making, and
feel the over-production most. There
are too many spindles, and the spindles
increase more rapidly than the popula¬
tion which is to consume the manufac¬
tured products.
GENERAL NEWS
Oyster canning is a growing industry
in •< palachicola, Fla.
Texas has organized sixty-eight new
counties within the last year.
Engineers are at work laying off the
new' city of Sheffield, Alabama.
Union county, Georgia, has a prac¬
ticing physician who is ninety years old.
The money-order business of Atlanta
amounts to a quarter of a million per
month.
The large falling off of the yield ’or
rice in South Carolina is attributed to
ineffiei eut 1 abor.
Eastern capitalists are purchasing a
good deal of land in Chilton county, Ala.,
with a view to getting out mineral.
For the year 1883, 270 trotters have
trotted in 2:30 or better. Twenty-six of
these have trotted in 2:20 or better.
The outlay for new buildings and re¬
pairs of stores and dwellings iu New Or¬
leans this year will exceed $3,000,1)00.
General Sheridan, commander of tiro
army, will visit Lake de Funiak, Fla, to
select a site for the Military Gulf Sani¬
tarium.
Memphis is building a flour mill with
a capacity of 150 ban-els a day and a grain
elevator with a storage capacity of 55,000
bushels.
Taxes to the amount of $814,751 duo
tbe defunct corporation of Memphis still
remain uncollected, the interest on which
now- exceeds $300,000.
The manufacture of articles from soap¬
stone is a profitable industry iu Alexan¬
dria, Virginia, the quarries near that
place furnishing an abundance of very
fine stone.
A census of Southern editors shows
two captains, seventeen majors, seven
generals and 1,S26 colonels. There are
no privates and no officers below the
rank of captain.
Two cypress trees have recently been
cut in Sumter county, Florida. From
one 33,000 shingles Were made, and from
the other 37,000 shingles, and 6,100 clap¬
boards were made.
The cost of tho Brooklyn bridge will
excee(1 §18,000,000, including interest to
c i a i 0j interest on which at 6 per cent
j B §1,080,000 per year, of which New
y ork p ays one-third, leaving for Brook
a da Jy charge of $1,972.85.
The city of Atlanta was first called
Marthas flnSn ville 4o after donld the daughter of Mr
^ five acres ot
ground at that point, and so decided the
terminus of the Atlantic and Western
railroad. The name was afterwards
changed by the Legislature.
The disease resembling hydrophobia,
which has appeared among <m£m Texas cattle
h «. ta. ota .moo,
tboso near Houston. When rttaoked tie
animals bellow, foam at tho mouth and
roam over the prairie with head in the
air, destroying everything in sight.
Georgia is the only Southern state
that pensions maimed Confederate sol
thers. " Those who have lost a leg
t kaee rcceive $] 0Q . beiow tho -knee,
, 7 -. armabove the e l bow , $60; below
ta
In the negro cemetery in Americus,
^ * acedar troe wMch was piRQted
j a L ** puffier at the head of a negr >’a
* ^ J yean ag0 a . It burst the
bottom out of the pitcher \ and rooted in
he earth Tbe pitcher still en circe, he
bottom of the cedar, and is without a
crack. The tree fills the pitcher com¬
pletely. and is about eight or ten feet
high.
William and Mary College, of Vir¬
ginia, has closed its doors, having but one
student at the beginning of this school
year. Next to Harvard, this was the
oldest college in America, having been
founded in 1693, and was the only one
that received a royal charter. Among
the most eminent men educated iu its
halls were Washington, Marshall, Ran¬
dolph. Tyler, Breekenridge and Genera]
Scott.
Lynchburg Advance: From the report
of the Commissioner of Agriculture it
appears that during the season just closed
no less than 70,000 tons ot fertilizers
were sold in the Slate, thevalue of which
from analysis was $2,657,000. Forty
five thousand tons of ammoniated super¬
phosphates, 12,000 tons of^acid super¬
phosphate and 13,000 tons of bone, etc.,
were the representative divisions as to
the character of the matter sold.
The horse-car railroads of New York
City paid dividends as follows in the year
snded September 30th last: Twenty
bird street, 8 per cent.; Broadway and
Seventh avenue, 12 (and an extra divi¬
dend of G per. cent on real estate sold),
Dry Dock Eas; Broadway and Battery,
l ; Forty-second street and Grand street
Ferry, 13; Third avenue, 17; Harlem
Bridge, Morrisania and Fordham, ;
Second avenue, 10; Christopher and
Tenth street, 5; the Ninth avenue line
and the Houston, West street and
Pavouia Ferry paid expeua s hut no
dividends. The twelve roads carried in
the y ?ar 145,000,000 passengers or 396,
000 a day.
Hilly Fish’s Water Treatment.
It was one mile from London, Ohio,
in about the year 1853, when one
Christopher Slagle had been given up
consultations. to die by the physicians, He after several of nat¬
was a man
urally stron g constitution, but an in¬
veterate user of tobacco. Almost at
depth’s door, he muttered in a feeble
voice: “If the ‘doctors’ can do nothing
more for me, let Billy Fish try his
‘water’ treatment.” With no more
kfitvv Tdgo of what to do than could he
acquired from the reading of his jour¬
nal in a year, father undertook his task.
Mark, row, his manner of proceeding :
Placing two comforters upon the bed,
then two woolen blankets upon them,
he prepared his patient by removing all
his garments. Then taking a sheet
wrung from warm water, quickly spread
it and bodily the poor man there was himself. lifted
into it, too weak to get
Then placing his arms -alongside his
body, the wet sheet was wrapped tight¬
ly about every part of his body up to
and including the neck. Then the first
and second blankets were wrapped
tightly about him, and lastly the com¬
forter. (A loose w-rapping is apt to
chill for a w-liile.) Very cold spring
water was used in wetting a cloth for
liis forehead, and very warm applica¬
tions were put to his feet, a good
draught of cold spring water given to
drink, and the patient slept for one
hour. Having the heat of the room at
about 75 degrees, he was un
packed, given a tepid hath and thor¬
oughly rubbed. The rolls of refuse
that collected upon his skin and re¬
moved from his pores were perfectly as¬
tonishing. Had a miracle been per¬
formed it would not perhaps have been
more marked than the effects of that
“sheet- pack.” This was repeated twice
a day (in his case) for two days, then
reduced to once a day until the patient
got v. 11. Not one drop of drugs passed
into I s stomach after Billy Fish took
bold of tbe patient. So much of a con¬
vert to water treatment did this man
be.com e that he was discovered rolling
naked at one time in the snow.— L. 8.
Pish. Cleveland.
B arking.-A chief cause of dogs "bay
ing the moon” and barking at nothing is
discomfort. Many unfortunate animals
are from pure carelessness consigned to
coM and comfortless kennels. It was
found on investigating the kennel of a
d which ha(1 nightly rendered life a
burden to a neighborhood that the ken
m l was so small that the poor creature
awa4 h? JoM and^SseL and'not ^
D9 tura]ly howled. Many do^s too
suffer in health by being tied up without
o If eise. „,1 lb™ „„ --ties.
pr'llSD ' c 'il ba .nl ioS'ljgivt J °
annovance
, lYouK September gas bill is $8, ” said
f1 , e ca q ec { or . “That’s the best joke
I’ve heard in a long time,” said the rate
payer. “Why?” “Weil, you see, in
August I had sickness in the family, and
we burned gas all night, and the bill
was only $4. In September, my family
was up in the country, the house was
closed up, and the bill is $8. Good joke, fit
isn’t it?” and the citizen bad a fresh
of laughter. “Yes,” said tho collector,
“it’s a good joke, but who’s it on?”
“Oh, I suppose it’s on me, but I don’t
mind $4 for the sake of a joke.”
Three ai-e only two beautiful things
in the world—women and roses; and
ou ly two sweet things— women cud mel
ons.
NUMBER 39,
WIT AND WISDOM.
God fishes souls with a line; the devil
vith a net.
To give birth to a desire, to nourish
it, to devolop it, to increase it, to imi¬
tate it, to satisfy it—this is a whole
poem.
Amenities of the tennis lawn: She
—“Yours or mine, Sir Charles?” He—
“Yours — aw’fly yours J” — London
Punch.
Ip there is any good in a man it is
bound to come out; but it should not
come out at once and leave the man
empty.
“Yes, my wife is a good poker-player,” then he
says a Long Island farmer; and
adds: “She is also just as handy with
the tongs.”
A woman is never displeased provided if we
please several other women,
she is preferred; it is many more tri¬
umphs for her.
Society Is composed of two appetite great
classes— those who have more
than dinner, and those who have more
dinner than appetite.
‘ ‘ A baby,” says the New York Journal,
“is the oasis of married ■ life.” This
does away with the popular notion that
an oasis is a quiet place.
The life of a woman can be divided
into three epochs; in the first she dreams
of love, in the second she experiences it,
in the third she regrets it.
“Dab is many a rale,” says Uncle
Sam, “wat won’t work bofe ways.
Whisky will produce a headache, but a
headache won’t produce whisky.”
The daughter of a Texan cattle king
has just returned from Paris, where she
says she walked through the Tooralooral
and visited a sliottoe where she saw the
Rtatnes of Physic and Catherino de
Medicine.
'No,” said Mr. Byrnesmonkey, “I
shall not vote. I’m bound to he on the
off side, and for the life of me I can’t
tell this year which side that is.”
It is only a coward who reproaches ns
a dishonor the love a woman has cher¬
ished for him, since she cannot retaliate
by making a dishonor of his love for her.
“Yes,” said Miss Penn, “I I couldn’t rejected
Mr. Hogg. Nice fellow, but
have the announcement of my marriage
appear in the papers under the headline
Hogg-Penn. ”
s cientist says that, properly speak¬
ing, color is not a property of matter,
but of lit. We remember when color
was a property of matter, and that was
about twenty years ago down south.—
Boston Courier.
“Do birds think?” asks a writer iu
opening a current article. If they do,
we would like to know what a canary
bird thinks of the fat woman who stands
up in a ebair and “talks baby” through
the brass wires of its cage.
I owed a man onct an’ when I spofte
ter him about it he said: “Don’t think
ob dat, fur it’s all right,” but I noticed
dat airter I quit thinkin’ about it, he
tuck it up an’ thought about it till it
worried me powerful .—Arkansaw Trav¬
eler.
A man ately committed suicide in a
Parisian restaurant after making a hearty
luncheon. On a slip of paper found on
the table before him' he had written in
pencil: “Ovsters are excellent for the
stomach, and old wine promotes longev- with
ity; but politics disgust a man
life ’ and that is the reason why I am
nh about t to Kin ki ]i myseu. mvfio if »
Four pounds of gold are worth $9,000.
Now, then, we have a little scheme to
propose. If some man will just come
in with one pound of gold, jar and we let can
slip it into the butter and our
grocer sell it to us for a pound of butter,
we will ba v o $2,250 to divide up. See?
Who’ll i u the pound of gold ‘i-Bur
lington Hawkeye.
The story is told in Paris of an Ameri¬
can lady who at an inn in Normandy
v. < 1 S deputed, as being the best French
scholar in her party, to make the arange
ments for their accommodation. She
did her best—which was a long way
short of perfection-but meaning, and the his clerk did
not catch her remarks
were jargon to her. slowly, Finally, with in desper
ation, she said and awful
distinctness: ‘‘Wall, “Do-you-speai-Eng
Me?” neow, you’re jest
talkm , shouted the clerk. Guess Id
orter speak English I was raised ten
miles from Ban-gor.”
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A . ,, IMh ers Lo inplamt. ...
«. A tonchiEg ]etter ,» tli gays the London
to Berlin Uni
vers ^J authorities by an unfortunate
| dho w lose on v son ‘was m < ( in a
oommolto «i,d tall ,1 m hoped,
to a radical reform of the easy, not to
and fought out in Germany.
The unhappy father complains that the
American, who had no rigid to be in
scribed as a German student, was al
lowed brutally to assault Jus son and
challenge him to a mortal combat with
pistols, in the us@ of winen the German
was utteny unskilled. After having
killed his Switzerland,.and adversary, the_ American his ex,radi- es.
called to
tion could not lie olnained, owing to the
want of proper provision in the re. pec
tive laws.
Sampson, the strong party, was th
fir.-.t mail to advert He took two
solid columns to demonstrate his
'—narth and several thousand persons
. .V. ’ to his scheme. And he
brought down the house.
a barrel of beer.
IIOW THEY TAPPED IT ON A MAN.
OF. WAR.
>Iany Guests Arrive in Anticipation of n
Grand Treat — Their Astonishment at
What was Left.
An officer of the navy tells a war in¬
cident as follows : From St. Louis I
had brought with me (for domestic use)
a barrel of beer. Now the advent of a
barrel of beer in the squadron was It a
matter of profound public interest
had hardly been rolled upon the Rover’s
deck before our friends (and we then
had many) had somehow instinctively
smelt out its joyful presence. The sub¬
ject of beer was sympathetically dis¬
cussed on board the flagship, and onr
friends suggested that as they were go¬
ing where it was uncertain whether they
might ever taste beer again, they would
presently pull over to the Rover in their
gigs and partake with us of a sort of
“stirrup cup.” Wells I
Accordingly, Captain and
hastened back home to prepare for this
pleasant reception. The barrel was
hoisted up to his cabin and laid upon a
couple of chairs capsized for its sup¬
port. Then we proceeded to tap. read¬ As
there may be possibly two or three
ers who are unfamiliar with this opera¬
tion, I will state for their benefit that a
beer barrel is plugged from within.
When the spigot is to be inserted all that
is requisite is to place this upon the end
of the plug and drive it in with a few
smart strokes of a hammer, careful,
however, that the final and critical blow
shall be emphatic enough to fasten the
spigot in the bunghole; if not, you may
have trouble. This is what we set
set about to do—and whnt we had.
The spigot was all right, but there was
no hammer at hand, and we could not
brook the delay to send for one. Cap¬
tain Wells told me to hold the spigot in
position handle and broom he would held drive it with fashion, the
of a harpoon
an implement with which the captain
was familiar; that is, the harpoon. We
squatted in front of onr subject and I
adjusted the spigot; the but, rather dubious
of the accuracy of Captain’s aim at
so small an object, I held the spigot at
“long taw” between thumb and finger
somewhat gingerly. However, the Cap¬
tain struck centre every shot. At the
last blow in went the spigot, but it didn’t
stick, and out came the beer ! When I
regained breath and eyesight the tableau his
before me was picturesque. On
knees, gasping and coughing, hut with
the fixedness of an implacable with purpose thumb
in his eye, was the Captain,
rammed to the hilt in the bunghole,
while around it the fizzing fluid was es¬
caping in a beautiful radiated circle simi¬
lar Talk to the the corruscation “irrepressible of a pinwheel. conflict.”
of
That beer had the true instinct of lib¬
erty.
The quartermaster brought a hammer
and the next problem was to get the
captain’s thumb out of the bunghole and
get the spigot in. It was solved. A
final blinding burst of foaming jimbo, spatter
and we had our prisoner in or
thought we had. Then we had time to
survey the ruin we had wrought. Our
visit to the flagship was “official,” and
we had put on our best “biband tucker.”
In our haste to let loose the beer we had
neglected to divest ourselves of our
adornments and they were drenched.
Opposite point blank range of the barrel
was the captain’s bureau, in which he
garnered his good clothes—white vests,
clean shirts, etc. When the beer made
its debut the stream, after knocking us
down, made a clean spring across the
cabin and landed in those bureau draw¬
ers ! Then it sputtered about promiscu¬
ously as if bent upon a general treat.
The cabin floor was afloat with beer.
We summoned two or three sailors
with “equilgees” to “swab us up.”
See mg the luscious flood which inun
dated the carpet, the men delicately
they would like a suck at it.
' Ve told them tp go ahead and they
prostrated themselves at the shrine of a
brings down most of its
notaries. Rut they had to send for help,
There was wealth of beer. When their
horizontal refreshment was finished they
had “licked thirsty the platter clean.” and Mean¬
while our guests arrived were
aghast. It remained to he seen what
was left, and with a two-quart pitcher—
and a melancholy doubt—I turned the
spigot. Alas ! the glory of its mightiness
was gene! The contents seemed
ashamed to show themselves. We
tipped up the barrel and forth trickled
two miserable quarts of beer! We
“divided ourselves among it,” as the
German has it, and sadly drank to “a
safe passage by Vicksburg.”
Uncut Books and Magazines.
Tlie Publishers , ,. , , _ Weekly T ., . has
soma
sensible remarks on the desirable aban
donment of the old-fashioned practice,
so ill-adapted to the wants of readers,
of issuing the books and magazines of
the day uncut. I he Weekly concedes
that there may be a demand for uncut
copies ions on ofexceptionally-yaluableedi- the part of that minority of
book-buyers the bibliomaniacs, cun
osity-hunters and worslupers of demand margin
rather than matter, hut tins
Zhlrtf ^torTof Lot The^ority'^ThT
f or a wide circulation should consult
the wants of the ordinary reader who
immediate ^ The Weekly draws
use.
this p cture of every-day life among tliQ
readers of the magazines:
Who has not witnessed in the parlor,
or on the piazza, or on tlie with railroad car,
those painf il struggles uncut mag¬
azines, and those onslaughts with jack¬
kniv 's, raters, lead-pencils, scissors,
knitting-needles, hair-pins—and iu hands. want
of tools-—with lingers or whole
Yet this damage by massacre and mu¬
tilation is nothing compared with the
. ' nod reading. How many pages
t* lose;! fofever, simply because
lid not disclose them el res con
v< and at that right moment
will'll so rarely returns?
Neither the picture uor the conclusion
can be regarded as exaggerated.
Jcllv Ward Howe says : “ Poor p«o
pie cannot be kept out of good society.”
No, but they can be made mot c— a I Hilly
uncomfortable while they are i r
