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F 0 ITRT.
A GENTLEMAN.
The .void is much, and it implies
A true and earnest man ;
A being with some near approach
To God’s creative plan ;
Endowed with brains, and heart an d soul,
Not man in part, but man in whole.
Beauty is not a needful thing,
But numbness must be
Written all over hi art and face,
In letters plain to see ;
And manly acts and deads will tell,
A gen.leman is there as well.
A gentleman may be as poor
As Poverty’s lone self,
jp ( . may have a ponderous stock
Of worldly goods and pelf ;
Be man and gentleman the name,
In word and deed, as well as name.
a heavy prnse and lily hands,
A form in richness dressed,
Makes neither man nor gentleman
Of him who lacks the rest;
It does not give him heart and soul,
Ami lacking these, he lacks the whole.
A ball room—The nursery.
A ladies club—The broomstick.
A prickly pear—A couple of needles.
1 he oldest inhabitant—A circus joke
Hum that does not intoxicate—Quo
ram
Alary had a little lamb—but it was
very 1 1 1 tie—n. her boarding house hash.
Out in the Black Hills the jack-rabits
are called narrow gague mules.—Chica¬
go Journal.
Now small boys fall from cherry limb s
and thereby join the tsherry-bjius.—
Sweet Singer.
Frantic remark by a Buffalo paper ;
‘■\\ est ward the curse of empire takes its
way.’
Is the khan of Tartary a milk khan ?
—curtaining, as it were, the cream of
tartar, eh ?—Rockland Courier.
Ilerkermer county r. juices in u
eyed pig. l’igs in these parts have
0110 i
“Augustus,’ said Amelia, *how do oys¬
ters get'any air breathe when their shells
are closed tight V “Bi-valves,’ inunuui'
ed Gus.
The youngster wlio was sent away
from the (able just as the pas*cry came
on went sadly up stairs singing ‘*Good
b\ t>, sweet tart, gc»od bye.’
‘A\ hat shall we do for the boys?’ anx
iously asks the Christian Advocate.
I Now then, chorus, boys ; all together !J
“Set em up acain !'—Havvkeye.
A liny bumblp be will move a man
quicker and further and more mum mous
ly than the biggest dose of castor oil ev¬
er prescribed.—St. Louis Journal.
AUer a man gets to be 38 years old he
kant form any new habits much. T )*■
best he kau do is to steer biz ohl ones.—
Josh Hidings.
“ What is faith ?’ asked a Sunday
school teacher of a hoy sell jlar. He be~
longed to a base ball nine, and replied,
“Betting on a left 'haded pitcher.’
A friend of ours in Worcester county
is 60 years of ago, and has just cut p new
set of teeth, lie is a comb maker.—Low¬
ell Courier.
“Is ihat cloak fawst ?’ is the way cul -
(ivated Englishmen say is that clock fast?
It is time that Englishmen learn English
—Courier Journal.
The following maybe s^en on a tomb<*
stone in a town near Doublin.
“Here lies the body of John Mound,
Lost at sea and never found.’
The just published report of an Irish
cine and medical attendance, a very few
deaths cccured during the year.
‘ See here, wife, you indulge that boy
too much. JIo is a perfect mule.’ ‘Oh,
husband, please don’t accuse our boy of
having an ass for a father.’ The old man
was siieut.
* Sal Ary is tho young lady that every
body wishes to secure—Whitehall Times
Anu Unity* is also much admired.—Bos
ton Post. But the worst-bread girl is
that brazen huzzy, Sal-zEralus.
Four men were fishing at Birnegat on
Sunday, when lightning struck in their
midst and killed a yellow dog.
dogs should Sot accompany fishermen
ou Sunday.
“Did you ever dabble in stocks V
asked a lawyer of a witness who was
known to have fled from his native laud
to lhis as ^ lum of the tree * “ Wel, -» y Q °>
I got my foot in ’em once iu de old couo 1
try,’ was the reply-
SATURDAY, .JULY -27. 1878.
A DWARF*b WEDDING.
In the y f>ar 1~10, Peter the Great,
Emperor of Russia, celebrated a marriage
ol dwarfs at Petersburg, which whs at¬
tended with great parade. On a certain
day, winch he had ordered to be pro
claimed several months before, he iinfied
the whole body of his courtiers and all
the foi< ign embassadors to be present at
the ruaniage ot a pigmy man and
wo
man . The preparations for this wedding
were not only very grand, but executed
iu style of barbarous and painful ridicule.
Peter ordered that a’l the dwarf men
and women within two hundred miles
should repair to the capital, and insisted
also that they should bo present at the
ceiemony. I 1 or this purpose he supplied
them with proper vehicles, but so con
trived that one horse was seen carrying
a t ozen of them into the c.ty at once,
w me the mob followed, shouting and
aughing, behind. Some of them were
at fust unwillingTo obey an ordei which
they knew was calculated to turcThera
into ridicule, and did not come: but he
soon obliged them to obey, and, as a
punishment, enjoined that they should
wait on the rest at dinner. The whole
company of dwarfs amounted to about
seventy, besides the bride aud bridegroom
who were richly adorned in the extrem
ity of fashion. For this little company
in miniature everything suitable was pro
vi'led; a low table, small plates, little
glasses, and, in short, everything was so
fitted as if all things had been dwindled
to their own standard It was the emu
peror’s pleasure to see thyir gravity and
pride—the contention of the women for
places, and the men for superiority.—
This point he attempted to adjust by or¬
dering that the most diminutive sfiouid
take the lead ; but this bred disputes, for
none would then consent to sit foremost.
All this, however, being at last adjusted,
dancing followed the dhmer, and the
hull was opraed with a minuet by /
bridegroom, '
« hose height «a» p llv
three leet two inshea. Iu the end, mat
t. rs were bo contrived that this ittle
company, who met together in gloomy
disgust, and with an umvil ingness to be
pleased, being at last familiarized to the
laughter, entered into the diversion, and
became extremely sprightly and enter
tanirig.
It is estimated ihat 37,000 young w t o
men liave been gratuated from female
colleges and senffnavies this season. Just
think of it ! 37,000 young women with
l-heir-young minds full of Fiench acn
versations, rnental philosophy, white pe
kays and deferential calcu'us, and not
one of them that can make a green apple
pie or map out a constitutional amend¬
ment for the surbnrbs of a pair pants.
The burliugtou liawkeye says that if
all the peanuts that are crunched and
munched at American theatres and ooll
certs during the affecting scenes aud the
softest passages, were placed in a heap,
the pile would measure 1,592 miles in
circumference at the base, and the apex
ot tiie pyramid would go through the sun
and stick up a mile and a half ou the
other side.
The Meridian [Miss J. Mercury says
that about a year ago a young man named
James Ivuox began to be affected with
symptoms as if of freezing, and though
the physicians tried every way to warm
him they were unable to do so. The
sensation of extreme cold which he ex¬
perienced grew worse and worse, until,
even m the hottest weather ot summer,
he would wrap himself iu heavy blank
els and sit before blazing fires in a vain
effort to keep himself warm. The other
day, while returning home from a doc¬
tor’s office, he complained of being cold¬
er than ever, lay down in the bottom of
the wagon and died before he reached
his house, apparently freezing to dea h,
though the thermometer indicated nine¬
ty degrees in the shade.
A poor son of the Emerald Isle applied
for employment to an avaricious hunk,
who told him he employed no Irishman :
“For the last one died on my hands, and
I was forced to bury him at my own
charge.’ “Ah, your honor,’ said Pat,
brightning up, '‘and is that, all ? Then
you’ll give me the place, lor sure I can
get a certiffija'e that I never died in the
emyloy ot any master I iver served.’
An Iowan has mvented a balloon tur.
bin fire escape, to be placed on the head
and fastened firmly beneath the chin.
When a fire breaks out the wearer ad
justs it firmly on his head jumps out of
the window ; the air fills the balloon and
expands it, and the wearer floats to.the
ground as lightly and gently as a thistle
down. By way of additional precaution
padded shoes, with springs in the sole,
arc provided.
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A LADTS PET LIONS.
Rarely does one hear of a lady’s at"*
(aching herselt to such pets as the writer
saw at Mrs. Lincoln’s, 54 Howard street,
recently. Living in tbe family are a
couple of lions, twenty-one months o!d,
brought up by the hands of ^is. Linco’n.
They are African lions, a species not
easily reared in this country, but Mrs.
Lincoln has succeeded by the exercise
of great care, in rearing them to their
present age and size. The male weighs
about 1:50 pounds, and the female pe r -
haps fifty pounds less. They have been
at the house on Howard street since last
September, and until a short time ago
had the run of the place, going about
the rooms with considerable freedom.—
Asa measure of cautiou the police thinks
the creatures should be restrained, and
their quarters a<e now more limited than
formerly, although they have safe out
doorrunandarooiuadjoiningthekiich*
in, with only a strong wire doorsepa
rating the apartments, Mrs. Lincoln is
as iree with her pets as ladies are with
thtir poodles. She ulays with them, feeds
them from her hand, and has taught,
them various tricks. They will kiss her
at her bidding, jump through a hoop, Am.
Before the pol ce restrictions were placed
upon them, the aniuia’s were accustomed
to walk into the kitchen or parlor among
guests, and go back to their quarter with
out offering to harm anyone. A year
ago, the lioness used to occupy the same
couch with the lady at night, but now
she has grown lull large to be taken up¬
on a common bedstead. The animals
are quite a curiosity, aud, in their gentle
ness, show plainly how potent is the law
ot kindness, even with the brute creation,
—[Boston Herald,
One was a B *ptist and the other was a
Congregaiionalist. The waiter asked
th. j in what they would order. “A little
^,<1 Ihe Baptist, ‘-You may
K've me loas, also enul ,he Co„gr.. g ati„n.
*? “/t ,UI v!« f™!' with U » ' lv ,. l t.t« i , “ b,, b tt.tor. ‘ d ““‘ di P U “
The weed known as commoti beggars 1
lice is said to be a wonderful product,
and is being cultivated successfully in
parts of Florida and Southwest Georgia.
Pool lands are m.ulv rich and deserted
lands improved by its cu'ture thereou.
It lakes the place of clover, is a fine pro¬
ducer of milk, stock fattens rapidly on it,
it is palitable and nutri’ious, makes s
fine forage, aud can be cut as many as
three times per season. Many other
tilings are sa ; d about it that recommend
it highly, aud it is declared to be exactly
adapted to the climate of Middle Geor„
gta.
If you have not got a wife of your own
to keep you posted in the private affairs
of your ueghbors, why get several tele¬
phones. As a rule, one good wife who
t: kes a pride in her mission is equal to
six high presuro telephones.
A young man united Smith, a student
of Madison University, being anxious to
secure employment during the summer
vacation, took up a subscription to pay
him for sprinkling The streets in the bus¬
iness part of Hamilton, New York, for
twelve weeks from July 4, auJ succeed¬
ed so well that he has undertaken the job.
A new explosive called eolten pow¬
der has just been invented by a Liverpool
inhabitant. It will neither explode by
concussion nor simple ignition, but only
by employing for the purpose of detona¬
ting fuses. Its force is said to be equal
to that of dynamite—three, ounces being
equivolent to one pound of tho best blas¬
ting powder.
A Maine schooner while fishing off’ tfie
banks of Newfoundland, with some two
hundred fathoms of cable out and sails
clewed, was suddenly found to be under
headway. It was soon discovered that a
huge whale of finback species had got
his tail entangled in the cable and was
hauling tha craft at the rate of fifteen
k oo*s an honr, aud growing more and
mol . y exciLed was keeping his coljrse t0
lW sca> Tho xvhale final | y tore away
by bteakillg the cab | e .
The New York Sun is informed that,
“A. II, Stephens lias been driving about
Georgia s nee his return from Washing¬
ton, in a cbanol drawn by four milk*»
white horses,’’ VYo presume the chari¬
ot is labelled—“Stephens, Speer and Fel¬
ton’s Great Independent l-ircus and Me¬
nagerie—admission free to all Holding
ballots against regular Democratic Can
didaies—Doors open first Wednesday in
Novernbef— Como one. Come all?’—
Banbriclge Argus.
A Sunday-school scholar who, being
told how God punished the Egyptians by
causing tbe first-born of each household
to be killed, rejoined with, ‘What would
God have done if there tad beea twins V
TWO DOLLAPSPer Anrmm
Curious Will Case.—A curious will
case has been decided by Judge Warren
in Dublin, Ireland. The testator was
lying ill with typhus fever. He s:nt for
two persons whom he intended to name
as his executors. Thev, however, ob¬
jected to go into the infected house, A
table and chairs were placed outside the
window of the sick mail’s room, in such
a position that he was enabled to see t he
persons sitting at the table. As a means
of communication between those outside
and the fever-stricken man, a boy who
had already gone through the typhus or
deal and is now considered fever-proof,
wps selected to act as a sort of aid-de
camp, carrying instructions to the will
maker. The testator executed the will
by making his mark, but this was done
in sight ot the witnesses, who in their
turn attested the execution in sight of
the testator. This done, he was removed
to the hospital and died. The will was
impeached on the grounds, among oth¬
ers, that it was not duly executed. Jud re
V> T arren, however, for
saw no reason ex
editors exposing their lives to needless
risk, and gave iudgnient for the validity
of the will.
The ex-Confederate General Marcus J.
Wright, of Tennessee, now in the em¬
ploy of the Secretary of War, lias begun
an extensive correspondence with ex
Confeder&te officers all through the South
requesting them to collect Confederate
documents, or information that will l ad
to the procurement of records and docu
menls held by private individuals. The
object is to preserve the records of the
vvar in a complete form for the benefit of
history, lu the Federal army all reports
of battles, orders issued, plans, etc. were
suit to headquarters aud forwarded to
the War Department; but on the Oon
federate side, where the communication
with headquarters and the A’ar Depart
ment was often cut off, and where armies
and commands were separated, many re
ports, orders and records were retained
by the militaiy officers.
The object of the government is to ob
tain copies of these and other Coufeder
ate documents of historical interest._
Persons having such documents in their
possession and who do not desire to part
with the originals, are requested to for¬
ward them to Gen. Wright, at the War
Department in Washington, when they
will be.carefully copied and promptly res
turned to tLm owners.—[Savannah News
1 he Halifax (bn-j.) Guardian gives
the following account of an interesting
experiment with the microphone: A
rniciophone rvas placed in a pulpit of a
chapel in this town on a recent Sunday,
and connected by private telegraph line
with the residence of a gentleman over a
mile distant. Every part of the services
was distinctly heard at the gentleman’s
house, with the exception of a few words
rendered indistinct by the preacher’s be¬
coming a little excited and shaking the
microphone. So faithful did the instru¬
ment do its work, that the chapel-keeper
was heard to close the doors after ssrvice,
walk up the aisle, and up the pulpit steps
in conversation with some one else. The
idea is about to be put to practical use,
the gentleman already referred to having
given instructions that his house should
be connected with another in the neigh¬
borhood, in order that an invalid may
hear the services from one of the churchs
es in the town.
A mean act of an ungrateful son
brought disgrace upon his own head at
Syracuse, N. Y., and put a check upon
the festivities of a wedding recently.—
Frank L. Curtis, professor in the musical
college of the university there and son of
the editor of the Utica Republican, was
married on Tuesday evening to the
daughter of the financial agent of the
university. Ashamed to have his parents
present, because they were not wealthy,
Curtis purposely failed to send a hack for
them as he said he would. Th& eon-in
law with whom they were slopping sus
peeling the trick, and confronting the
ingrate before the bride aod wedding
guests, disclosed his meanness in an ex
oiiiug scene, and recited other instances
of his ungrateful conduct toward the
father and mother who had denied them
selves to educate him.
A gentleman at Scarborough, after
waving his handkerchief tor half an hour
or more at an unknown lady who he dis-*
covered at a distant point on the shore,
was encouraged by a warm response lo
bis signal 10 approach his charmer. Im
agine his feelings when, on dia wing near
er, he saw that it was his own dear wife,
whom be had left at the hotel a short
time before. “Why, how remarkable
fci.at we should have recognised each oth
er at such a distance !’ exclaimed both iu
tbe same breath : and then thev chang
ed the subject. “
NO. 30.
A No*lr Girl.- -A traveler going
East from Detroit, relates the following
incident;
On reaching the depot at suspension
bi idge the conductor told a young man
—whose health was very feeble, and who
was on his way to Springfield, Massa¬
chusetts, where he had friends—he must
leave the cars, as he had no money with
which to pay his fare. Notwitstanding
the debilitated appearance of the young
man, he was suffered to.be led out of tbe
car without any movement being made
for his relief. As the young inan was
about stepping off the platform, a )oung
lady lose in the car apd asked th e con
doctor how much the young man’s fare
would be to Albany, He replied eight
dollars. She immediately stepped to the
door, and told the invalid to resume his
seat. He did so, and then son* of tho
male passengers began to exhibit a little
riiarity, offering to pay a portion of the
fare. The young lady declined their
proffered aid, saying she preferred pay-„
the amouiit herself She did so, and be
sides giving him a sum to keep him iu
Albany over Sunday, uromising to see
him forwarded to. his friends on Mon¬
day.
ihat girl will make a good wifo'for
some man.
Let "You it Children-Sleep Enough.—
As sleep is the period of replenishing iho
system, for restoring the cells wasted by
the nervous activity of the day—the pe*
riod when the processes of digestion
reach their final result, by identifying
tfie new nutriment with the system in
the place of the waste of the tissues— it
follows that children need more sleep
than grown persons. Many who might
be plump, active and happy, if given sleep
sufficient, are fi tecid and sallow, weary
and fretful, because they do not sleep
enough to allow the demand ot the ay s -
tern for nutrition to be supplied. Chil
dren of ten feel if very hard tha* thev are
sent to bed early, while the grown peo*
pie sit up aud enjoy themselves long af—
ter they are to bed. If any children
chance to read this paragraph, to them
we would say : “ You need more sleep
'han your parents, because you have to
grow and they do not. You need to use
a good deal of the food you eat in grow¬
ing larger and stronger ; if you consume
it all in activity, you will not have
enough to grow with. Therefore you
ought to sleep a great dea ? , and let the
body rest from exercise, if you would
grow strong and healthy.’
Tjie First Step.—T here is no step so
long as the firs tone in any direction, es¬
pecially a wrong oue. Having taken it,
you are very likely to go farther. One
who steals a penny will remember it
when he thinks of stealing a sovereign.
If he steals the sovereign first, when he
is tempted by thousands he will reroem
her he is already a thief. A perfectly
innocent person dreads the soil of any
sin on h : s soul, bat after the slightest
smirch he cannot say, ‘1 am clean.’ The
vulgar proverb, ‘One might as well be
hung fora/heep as alamb,’ irua-.s a great
deal. Often the lamb was stolen years
before, aud now why not lake the sheep?
An idle word, half oath, half exclamation
leads the boy to swearing. Ouee having
sworn he will swear again. The first
step may not, be much in itself, but in its
relation to our lives is a giant’s stride.—
it is well to remember it.
Intemperance as said to* be the great
curse of Texas, while excessive use of
tobacco is another offensive feature of
life there. Snuff dipping is universal
among women in many localities, and
even the children are addicted to ibo
disgusting and degrading habit. In the
country, women can be seen indulging
the practice at church.
Candidates vor Cadets mi*. —We call
attention of tV young men of the Sixth
District to the appointment announced
by Hon. J. II. Blount, in this paper, for
a competitive examination for cadetship
[ia the West Paint Military Academy, to
ibe held in Macon, on the 13th of August
next. Now, young gentlemen, brush up,
mentally and physically, and do your
best .—Macon Telegraph.
A parrot created some excitement in a
baggage car on tbe Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy Railroad the other day. The
cage enclosed iu a paper was put on a
coffin and was soon forgotten. As tho
conductor and other trainmen were pass¬
ing through the ear they beard a sepul¬
chral voice issuing from the coffin, cry*
ing, “Lemme out!’ They thought a
dead man had come to life until The bird
was discovered.
The first hours of slumber are tho
sweetest. If ever a man sleeps the sleep
of of the the just, just, it it is is whe-a when he’s he’s just just asleep. asleep.