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NEWS GLEANINGS.
|j§ An Atlanta fish-dealer claims to eel
four tons of fish per week.
The sumac business m Virginia hat
rism frem 100 tons in J8CG, to 10,000 in
1881.
I There has been a strike in Durhnm,
N C.. on the part of bag-makers. They
want more wages. The women are now
ing pai 1 $8 jer month.
Atlanta Constitution: The slave
Bproperty 0 / Georgia amounted to $34
mrre than the fggregate value
ol all her present tsxab’e property.
Ore fi'm in Vicksburg has sil l near¬
ly' 8,000 gallons of gnat oil tinea the
flood went down and left tkfe country
swarming with these pesto.
I Hartwell (Ga.) Sun : C. L Bowen,
of Hartwell, has a rooster that was twen¬
ty-one years old last ApriL He brougl -
it with him from South Carolina.
'/One thousand teveti hundred and
(ip lity-nir.o casks of spirits of turpen¬
tine and 8 982 barrels of rosin have beer
‘hipped .rcm Live Oak, FIs., Bince las’
ugusf.
Mr. Oiceio Chandler, of Athene,
drives a horee that was in Dahlgren'i
ra : d to Richmond, and the animal hai
been shot three times. The h:>r*e doet
good service now.
W. R. Anro of Or'srclo, FIs , nr
p'oyed a negro boy to eat L000 orange?
and save the reed. The hoy eat ninety
three oranges the first day and then
gave the job up in disguit.
Dr. L. M. Moore, of Orange countj
FIf., recently extricled one of his own
lee h, filled the cavify and had it re-B
n bis jaw, and the tooth is now doing
capita! duty on Florida bee'.
In the orchatd of Mr. George Hugu
ey. West Point, G t., is a tree thalt b< ars
from two to tb.ee peaches fiom a single
>ud. By maturity the peeches have
g own into each other.
Ger. Sanford has growing on his p’see
i* Orange county, Fla., the camphor
and cinnamon tree, bergamot oranges
»nd lemon?, India crab grass, the Aus.
t alian dive wood, golden apples and
the Brazilian palm.
Hartwell (Ga.) Sun: A woman in
tliis c< rnty had named her baby Char’cs.
and called him Charlie until Guiteau
killed the President, when she changed
1 is name just because the assassin ie~
joiced in that cognomen.
A deposit of $250 was male in one of
the -avirgs barks of Mobile nearly t wen
l>-two years ago, and has hem drawing
interest and compounding interest at
five per cent, for all that time. The
deposit, which had amounted to $578
was withdrawn a few days since.
At the residence of Mr. Jess® McCol
I um, two miles from Cantor, Ga., there
■ I since s glowing the a rose-bush in that was planted
e inches war. a flourishing condition,
even and a half iu circumfer-
1 ence, measured six inches above the
ground.
An Atlanta jeweler tells a reporter cl
the Constitution that he has had more
broken mainsprings in watches to repair
during the last three months than in
thiee years previously, because competi¬
tion has reduced the price, and conse
quentiy the quality of the material
used in their manufacture.
The committee appointed in Nashville
by ibe ccunty court in 1879 to investi¬
gate official stealage in tho county has
filed a report in which they say
that a sum exceeding $100,000 was lost
the county during the administration of
W. A- Knight, Trustee, and urge vigo¬
rous prosecution ol the (Jelinouent
parties,
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
New gold discoveries have been made
tn Montana.
Beecher denies the report that he is
loon to retire from the pulpit.
Dr. D. AY. Bliss is to go to Europe for
1 rest. The rest will be general.
The “boy preacher” Harrison baa
nade 1,300 converts in Cincinnati.
Judge Blatchfokd is perhaps the
wealthiest man who ever sat upon the
Supremo Bench.
There are 285 persons or firms in
Washington prosecuting claims before
the Pension Bureau.
Because of the veto of the Chinese
bill, they burn President Arthur in
effigy in San Francisco.
The French Government will have
tight expeditions taking observations of
the transit of Yenus, December 6.
An attempt to pass a bill in the Ohio
General Assembly to prohibit the sale of
fire arms to minors was defeated.
Longfellow once gave this sensible
advice to a student who desired a rule to
guide him in writing: “Be yourself;
work out your own individuality.”
It is a consolation to know that the
Chinese have discovered that there is
mch a country as British Columbia.
They are going there by ship loads.
Henry M. Stanley writes from “far
up the Congo River” that his expedition
is prospering and will probably be
brought to a successful close this year.
Mr. W. K. Vanderbilt, of New York,
has given a house and grounds complete
on the south shore of Long Island to be
used ns a place of summer resort for the
poor children of that city.
The Memphis Avalanche says that the
only thing Congress can do to improve
the Mississippi River will be to build a
mountain range on either side of it to
keep it within its boundaries.
The Star Route swindlers who at first
wanted a speedy trial, and then after¬
ward didn’t seem to be in a hurry about
it, are to be tried speedily whether their
anxiety tends that way or not.
Should Mr. Scoville commit suicide
no surprise need be felt. Only twenty
persons turned out to hear him lecture
the other night. A school boy could
have drawn a larger audience.
The report has begun to circulate
again through the newspapers that Mr.
Tilden is in feeble health. This report
will reappear with increased frequency
as the summer of 1884 draws nearer.
The fight in Ohio, as it is being drawn,
seems to be between the churches and
the saloons, and “other people, ” of which
there are doubtless many, do not ap¬
pear to have much to say in the matter.
David Swing, of Iowa, aged eighty
three years, had to pay $3,000 damages
for kissing his hired girl. Strange one
of his age and experience could not do
so slight a turn without damaging the
girl.
There is only one sad fact connected
with the death of the murderer, Jesse
James. Sentimentalists did not get a
chance to present him with a bouquet
in liis last moments, although he had
killed fifty men in his time.
Well, well ! And so dishonesty has
crept into the Ohio Legislature, and
that, too, in tlie shape of bribery! The
very last place on earth one would
have looked for it. It is no wonder
honest men refuse to run for office.
Sarah Bernhardt was married the
other day, and now a cablegram says
she is attending bull lights at Madrid.
Spitting blood—married—attending bull
fights ! Well, well! If that isn’t going
it by strides then we don’t know what is.
A correspondent describes the wife
of Sergeant Mason as being twenty-seven
years old, tall and spare built, with un¬
graceful figure. But she has fine, light
brown hair, pleasant eyes, an aquiline
nose, rosy lips, oval chin and a slender
neck.
Mr. Scovillf.’s application to Congress
for pay for services rendered in the de¬
fense of the President’s murderer was
not exactly unexpected. It requires no
more nerve than was required of Dr.
Bliss when he set his figures for services
at $50,000.
Historian Bancroft, who professes
to be a judge, says be “ never ate finer
dinners in any European court than
President Arthur provides for his
friends,” which leads us to remark that
Arthur has wonderful craving for
good things.
Marshal Henry says Mrs. Garfield is
in wretched health, the recent attacks
upon her husband almost crushing ^ lier.
A fortnight ago she wrote him that her
troubles were more than she could bear,
and that if it were not for her children
she would be glad to die.
JwMJir* the teiSnSSy it does
ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHILE TRUTH IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT."
CONYERS, GA., FRIDAY APRIL 28, 1882.
not seem that lobbyists hesitate to offer
money to members of the Ohio Legisla¬
ture for their votes. What the country
needs is a law that will look upon the
lobbyist as a common criminal and hold
his vocation to be on a par with that of
vagrancy.
Barnes, the Kentucky evangelist, ac¬
cepted a purse of $800 for his highly
successful revival work in the village of
Paris. This fact is being used against
him, on the ground that he possesses ut¬
ter disinterestedness. He replies that
the money will be devoted to the educa¬
tion of his daughter.
A price is set upon the heads of wild
norses m three of the Australian colonies.
They hang upon the outskirts of civiliza¬
tion, and are a ceaseless cause of annoy¬
ance and loss to outlying squatters*
They are vicious, physically weak, and
worthless as work horses. Stalking
them with the rifle, or running them
down, is a favorite sport.
If thebe is a summer hotel in this
country that doesn't mistake cockroaches
for raisins in preparing food for the
table, it should make it a point to adver¬
tise the fact. Hotels in which cock¬
roaches do not get mixed up in things
in which they have no business to med¬
dle, are getting to be about as scarce as
rich editors.
Manufacturers of oleomargarine are
in Washington resisting the proposition
to tax them. If a tax is to bo placed
on this vile stuff it should be heavy
enough to have the effect to increase its
market price to a figure by which the
innocent purchaser can distinguish it
from the genuine article of butter.
Frauds are altogether too numerous.
Barnum has landed an elephant in
this country lie calls Jumbo, and most
of the metropolitan dailies seem to have
taken a fit over the matter. Why this
particular elephant should excite so
much or more attention than some gi¬
gantic swindle or a presidential election
is hard to understand, unless it is because
he can be assailed without the danger of
a lible suit or a first-class fight.
Capt. Howgate, who owes the Gov¬
ernment something like $160,000, ac
companied by a bailiff, went to his resi¬
dence to see bis daughter, who had just
returned from Vassar College. It seems
that the Vassar girl turned the bailiff’s
head, for at a moment when his mind was
not centered on his charge, the bird took
flight and was gone. Really an attrac¬
tive girl is worth something in an
emergency.
The recent statement that the time
would arrive in a few days for the usual
announcement that the peach crop has
been killed, has finally reached us, but
the joke end has been cut off, leaving us
alone with the sad fact. And it is not
only true that the peach crop has been
all but completely killed, but with it go
all early apples, pears, cherries and
other fruit upon which we had relied for
an abundant yield. In Ohio, Indiana
and Kentucky, there will be little if any
early fruit.
The promenade over the East River
Bridge, New York, promises to be the
most attractive of any in the world.
The walk for foot passengers is in the
center of the bridge, and nine feet above
the roadway for carriages and railroad
cars, and the view, taking in the bay,
the river, a glimpse of the sound, and
the area of the two densely populated
cities, will be such as thousands will de¬
light to linger over. The distance be¬
tween the towers is 1,595 feet 5 inches,
and including the approaches, about a
mile.
A strange circumstance is connected
with the shooting of Sergeant Mason at
Guiteau. When the bullet struck the
wall of the murderer’s cell it flattened
itself out into a thin piece of lead in the
outer lines of which the superstitious see
a startlingly distinct profile of the mur¬
derer. It excited profound curiosity at
the time, and a shrewd dealer obtained
of Warden Crocker permission to make a
cast from the original piece of lead. By
a very little scraping here and there the
likeness of the self-appointed “agent of
the Diety” was made perfect, and since
then hundreds have been sold, accom¬
panied by the Warden’s printed certifi¬
cate of correctness as fac similes. The
uncanny souvenirs, which have found
their way into countless pockets, have
been bored with holes and hung upon
watch chains and ladies’ bracelets, show
the receding forehead, long lean nose
and sharp chin as perfectly as if the as¬
sassin had sat for the picture.
Absence of Mind.
A citizen who w r as flurried an I angry
entered a grocery store on Antoine street
and called out to the owner:
“ Why in the-do you keep a dog
around here to eat folks up?”
“Didt my dog eat you oop?” was the
innocent query in reply.
“Not quite, but he tore my coat half
off' my back, and you’ve got to pay for
it!”
“How much?”
“Well, it will cost as much as $2 to
get it repaired. dog You’ll either pay it or
I’ll have the shot.”
“ Oh, I’ll pay dot,” said the grocer,
and he did; but the man was hardly out
of sight before he jumped a foot high
and catted out:
“Dunder und blitzen, but I vhas der
greatest sells dot shackass in America! Why I
six weeks dog to Y—Detroit my fader-in-law more as
ago Fr$e Press,
Bill Arp is Mad Because the Old Sow
Opens Gates.
From the CoUBtitut'.on.J
The more a man does the more he can
do, especially if there is a gentle pres¬
sure behind him which says, don’t stop,
keep moving, here is another little job
for you to do. A farming man may
map out his work for to-morrow ever
so carefully, but it is mighty hard to
work up to it, for the first thing he
knows the plow points in are too dull or a
single-tree breaks the new ground, or
a nabors hogs, that have got no pasture
but the the big road, have broke through
water gap, and it takes an hour to
run ’em out again, hole for a hog wont go
out at the same he came in. These
hogs that mile pester me so day come three quar
ters of a every to peruse my
premises, and they have lived on me
all winter, and I’ve dog’d ’em pretty
bad, but they come hack again next day
and lie round a-watching, and water-1
gaps and gates are no protection, for
they are educated hogs. Cobe told me
to catch one and mash his tail on a rock,
but it did old no good. lean fix agate
that that sow can’t root open, but
I’m not going to do it, for she has no
right to put her nose under it and shake
it and rock it and lift it until she gets
it open; and I’m not going to stake down
my water-gap on the lower s ; de either,
for the creek rises rapidly, and some
times in the night, and brings the rif
raf down, and the gate must be free to
rise with it. The fact is, nobody has
any right to keep such hogs unless they
with
,t until patience is exhausted and I’ll
have to stand by my arms. Why, last
Sunday we all shut up the house and
went up to spend the day with our mar
ried offspring, shank of and the when afternoon we come back
in the the old
sow and all her shoate were under the
house and bad broke up two hen s nests,
and when I made war on her in my
wrath she actually showed fight and
kumblumoxed at me like the premises
were her’s.
THE FENCE LAW AND THE HOGS.
The fence law as it is gives these hogs
a pasture in a lane nearly a mile long
an d open at both ends, and they have
got be to forage on fall. somebody or meat will
scarce next There is a power
of work to do now and it looks like my
share of it is bigger than usual for one
of the boys has gone to railroading and
another is puny. Well he is not down
in bed sick hut he is not able-bodied
enough to do hard work and keep at it,
but just feeble enough to go a-fishing
and set on the bank and get the biggest
bites and catch the smallest fish in the
creek. Mrs. Arp is mighty particular
about her children when their eyes look
hollow and they complain of pains and
she is a mighty good doctor, but she
knows I have no time to get sick, and
so it’s William this and W illiam that,
and the other day she called me a quar¬
ter of a mile off, and when I came a
curtain puffin’ and had blowin’ fell dewn she said the winder
and wanted me
to fix it. Some more new dirt was
wanted for the flower pots and boxes,
and I had to bring her samples from
seven fence corners before I got the
right that kind, and the big old fish gerani
urns don’t smell good nor look pret¬
ty had to he divided and set out in the
ground, and the scuppendine vine had
to have an arbor built and two more
coops for the little chickens that were
hatching out had to be fixed up, and
the new-born ducks had to have their
tails cut off and the peas were to stick
and the little chaps are always saying
papa tbis and papa that, and yesterday
I bad to take a basket and a digging-hoe
and go way down in the meadow, and on
the creek, and dig up lillies, and violets,
and all sorts of wild flowers for them to
plant in their little flower gaiden, and.
they had blowed to have hen’s eggs, and pigeon
eggs fix Easter, out to paint and dye and
up for and I had to make
’em a draft board, and saw spools in two
for draft men, and dye half of ’em with
ink, and it’s some new thing every day
to do, and it is a good thing for a family
to have a wiliing horse to work in any
sort of harness, and though I say it my¬
self I’m that sort of a horse, and I think
it suits me, for it is a varygated labor
and less monotony in it than all-day
work muscles at and one thing,’ and it changes- the
lets one set rest while an¬
other set is at work, and so a man don’t
get tired at all unless he wants to. I
thought I was going to dodge the pota¬
to slip it, business and this year, but T had to
go at I feel to-night like J was a'
hundred years old in the back ; hut Airs.
knew Arp got I’d me up a good supper, for she
I brought come her a grumbling, and besides
some sweetshrubs and
white honeysuckles from the woods, and
these were her favorites in the days of
auld lang syne, and yesterday I cleaned
out the old rubbish in the flower-pot for
her, for she said she knew there was a
snake in there somewhere and I didn’t
and the snake but found two eggs in a
nest and she wasn’t right sure they
wasn’t snake eggs until the old hen come
cackling out of there this morning.
MRS. ARP’S WORK.
But my work won t compare with
her s by no means, for there s an ever
lastin sight of sewing and patching and
darning going on all the time and she
never gets done and every week’s wash
ing is to look over and sort out and the
missing close buttons to sew on and the rents
to up and the churning is to do,
and sometimes the dasher goes flippity
flop for two hours before the butter will
come, and now she is teaching the little
chaps to write little letters, and when
they get into mischief and have to come
to Highest headquarters, they come a little the
of getting a whippin of °j any
a d °nly , they don g t
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quite get ... it, and , I haven’ kept
any i
not tTVl less than 1, / 00 whippms °^ nK f have 18 been * at ,
promiied ’em, and are now due and
unpaid. I overheard a voice say the
other davff'now, Carl,I will whip vou for
lhat,” and I echoed in gentle accents I
“about what time,” but Uarl S got it on a
credit as usual 1
Nabor Dobbins had had eleven sheep
killed last Sundav by the everv^nieht dogs I b^ng but
mine up to the fold aUtLtime 1
stiRl’m on the expectation
and still I wonder if there h no remedy
and never will be for these sort of dis¬
asters—these little troubles that exas¬
perate a man and make him grow old
before his time. Life is full of ’em and
I reckon they are sent upon us to make
us get tired of life and the better to fit
and prepare us for heaven. I hope so.
Bill Arp.
Eating Before Sleeping,
Man is the only animal that can be
taught to sleep quietly on an empty
stomach. The brute creation resent all
efforts to coax them to such a violation
of the laws of nature. The lion roars
in the forest, until he has found his prey,
811 d when he has devoured it he sleeps
over until he needs another meal. The
horse will paw all night in the stable
an< l the pig will squeal in the pen,
refusing ^ d. all rest or sleep until they are
e The animals which chew the cud
have their own provisions for a late meal
U lfJ t before dropping off to their nightly
slumbers,
Man can train himself to the habit of
sle e Pmg without a preceding meal, but
on , after long years of practice. Ashe
v
comes into the world nature is too strong
-L m ’ an d he must be fed before he
w s , * ee P* A child’s stomach is small,
^ Ild , when perfectly filled, if no sickness
disturbs it, sleep follows naturally and
mevitably. As digestion goes on, the
? °?f acl 1 1,e gi ns t° ///• A single fold
. , make the little sleeper restless;
. Y..
e P 0S J ? the 1 8ll ? rt aild
5^ J «^ V « sIum ’, ? er
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°f h f ua £ cot ! c c j os ®
SSeTftiU’tog sl mat Whow healthy fS it *2
Not no angel who learned maybe, thi
even an ^ art
o{ minstrelsy a celestial choir can
eing a babe to sleep upon an empty r J
gtomacli ;
We u e the 0 ft-quoted illustration,
« sleeping as sweetly as an infant,” be
cause tbis 8blmber G f a child follovvs inl¬
] mediately after its stomach is food/The comnlete
y l mied with wholesome
s ee p which comes to adults long hours
after partaking is of food, and when the
stomach nearly or quite empty, is not
after the type of infantile repose. There
is all the difference in the worldbetween
the sleep of refreshment and the sleep
of exhaustion.
To sleep well blood that swells the
veins in the head during our busy hours
must flow back, leaving a greatly dimin¬
ished volume behind the brow that late¬
ly throbbed with such vehemence. To
digest well, this blood is needed at the
Btomach, and nearer the fountains of
life. It is a fact established beyond the
possibility of contradition that sleep
aids this digestion, and that the process
of digestion is conducive to refreshing
vince sleep. It needs no argument to con¬
us of this mutual relation. The
drowsiness which always follows the
well-ordered meal is itself a testimony
of nature to this inter-dependence.—
New York Journal of Commerce.
Almost Incredible Distance of the
Stars.
It would take a ray of light traveling
at the rat® of 186,000 miles per second
three years and eight months to go to
the nearest fixed star. In order that
the mind may be less confused in the
midst of these thousands of sparkling
points it has been agreed from according the high¬
est antiquity to class the brightness. stars The
to their apparent
brightest stars have been called stars of
the first order or magnitude, although
this term does not imply anything rela¬
tive to the actual size or brightness of
the stars; those which follow, still in
the order of their apparent brightness,
have been called stars of the second
magnitude; then comes those of the
third, fourth, and fifth magnitude, ac¬
cording sixth as they appear smaller; stars of
the magnitude are the last stars
visible to the naked eye.
It is generally thought that the
brightest are the nearest, though this is
not always so. There are said to be be¬
tween 5,000 and 6,000 stars visible to the
naked eye. But when our feeble sight
gives way, the telescope, that giant eye
which increases, from century to century,
piercing the depths ©f the heavens, con¬
stantly discovers new stars. After revealed the
sixth magnitude the first glasses
the seventh. They then reached the
eighth, the ninth. It is thus that thousands, thous¬
ands have increased to tens of
and , that „ . tens , of , thousands „ , have , become , |
hundreds of thousands. More perfect
instruments have cleared those distances,
and have found stars of the tenth and
eleventh magnitudes. From this period 1
they began to count by millions. magni¬ The
number of the stars of the twelfth
tude is 9,556,000 ; added to the eleven
preceding magnitudes, the total exceeds
fourteen millions. By the aid of still
greater magnifying power these limits
are again surpassed. the number
At the present time total
of stars, from tne first to the tliir
teenth magnitude, inclusive, is calcu- j
lated at 43,000,000. The sky is truly
transformed. In the field of the tele- ;
scope neither constellations nor divisions
are distinguished; but a fine dust shines
in the place where the eye, left to its :
own power, only sees darkness, on which
stand out two or three stars. In pro
portion as the wonderful discoveries in
optics will increase the visual power, all
regions of the sk wiU be COV ered with
this fine golden sand. •
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,«__ , mllk „ may , be worse than ,,
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7 nUn Z*™ °/ 3 cow *™
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/, / n 1 '/ /f ia J er nse i
tv 3 . ] f C ° W
5 d ° Zen m ° “ tbers ed ™ the th cbl obta w / “® lld d not f / have m a
™ ceiye i ,> sucb Iar fr d oses ° f tbo
diseased milk, and might have . lived.
Probably / condensed milk is as safe a food
as can used wh en there is any doubt
as to the quality niiv of the ordinary milk
’ a f ftT
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V/ . ADA country has become than the more United emphatically .
^ a db States,
a P 0 ?^ 10 ^ of 5 ’^ 0 / 00 thc /
manufacture f annually60,000,000pounds , n ’
SLu/ mvwv/®’ 6 ®’ ® Y qu lth / 1°/? 5d 000 P ounds 000 mak P er e capita, 300,
j* 00 00 ^’ 6 ’ > >
population ’ / P°™ds per capita. With
s not exceeding one-tenth of
Sj^S SStt ours.^* ^
Morning Work.
Sir Walter Scott used to do a good
day s work before his guests were up.
Daniel Webster also worked in the
morning, and both seemed at leisure,
though it was not known how it was
secured. A good story is told of Turner
which shows his appreciation of the i
morning hours:
Lord Egremont once invited Turner to
stay a week at Petworth and paint two
pictures for him of some favorite bits of
scenery on the estate. On the first
morning of his visit Lord Egremont
asked Turner what he should like to do,
and the great painter replied he w r ould
go fishing.
The next morning at breakfast Lord
Egremont inquired again what it would
please Mr. Turner to do; and he re¬
plied that, having enjoyed himself so
much yesterday, he would go fishine
again.
On the third morning Lord Egremont
thought he would wait for Turner to
nounce his own plans, and was greatly
amused when he quietly said he was
again going a fishing.
On the fourth morning, Lord Egre¬
mont, unable to conceal liis anxiety ’
said : '
“ Well, Mr. Turner, I am only too
glad for you to enjoy yourself, but you
are and talking I felt of going away to-morrow,
anxious about the pictures.”
Turner, “Come up stairs to my room,” said)
“and set your mind at rest.”
Nothing could exceed the surprise and
delight of Lord Egremont when Turner
introduced him to two exquisite pictures
painted as he had desired.
The great man had risen each morning
with the sun, and before breakfast hacq
by a good day’s work, earned his pleas¬
ure in fishing. —Manchester Times.
Social Pests.
We have no toleration for whining and
we have no pity for whiners. They
among the most tormenting of social
pests. Affected sensibility is disgusting,
morbid sensibility is vexatious; but
worst of all is the drawling dolefulness
with which certain self-consecrated
martyrs patience persecute any acquaintance who
has and good nature enough to
listen to them. It is the hearer who is
truly the great sufferer. These talkative
afflicted ones have no mercy, no compas¬
sion; without consideration or remorse,
they continue to the extremity of endur
ance their slow, wasting torture, and
care sensible nothing for their victim’s pain; ar<
not to his mute anguish; give no
heed to his imploring looks, and no hear¬
ing to his stifled groans. We once
heard a clergyman preach upon the dntv
of people bearing each other’s burdens.
We told him after service that it would
be as well to preach another sermon on
tlib duty of people bearing their own
burdens.
In this matter of bearing burdens
their is seldom any reciprocity.. The
bearing is usually all on one side, and the
supply of burdens all on the other. One
person furnishes the load, and another
person lias to carry it. Such persons are
The entirely opposite in character and class.
martyr side or ethics, as the most
repugnant to instinct, is naturally the
side which moralists the most strenu¬
ously urge; the but needful in general as
this is, urgency may be excessive
and unreasonable. The constant exhor¬
tation is, “Care nothing for self; care
everything for others.” Think and work
for the comfort and happiness of your
brethren; but as to your own lot, be con¬
tent, even joyful, with suffering and sac¬
rifice .—Henry Giles.
A Tough Frenchman.
It seems almost impossible to believe
the accounts of the severe injuries from
which the brain sometimes recovers. An
instance is related in which a French¬
man drove a dagger through his skull
with a mallet, in an attempt to commit
suicide. He struck the dagger about a
dozen times. The weapon, which was
ten centimeters long and one wide, was
nearly embedded. In order to remove
tlie dagger, the patient was placed on
the ground, and while two strong men
held his shoulders, tlie dagger was forci¬
bly pulled with carpenters’ pincers, but
to no avail. Strange to say, these pro¬
ceedings did not cause assistants any pain, and al¬
though patient and were raised
°
movabI At last the raanj walking,
without much difficulty, was taken to a
coppersmith, and there the handle of
the dagger was fastened by strong pincers
to a chain, which was passed over a cyl¬
inder turned by steam power. The man
was then secured to rings fixed in the
^ ground and the cylinder set gently in
oti when, after the second turn, the
dagger | came out No pain had been
suff maneuvers', red by the patient during all these
and after he remaining in the
Hospital for ten days, returned to his
work and the wound gradually healed.—
The Hour.
America’s Future.
Of course some day the movement of
people , from „ the n Old V orld to the New
will cease ; the population of the two
hemispheres will become equalized, and
the disappearance of cheap lands will
™“»ove the incentive that now maintains
the movement. But when that day shall
come, it will see m the United States a
strange, conglomerate people, the like
of which was never seen before on tlie
earth—a people numbering language! 100,000,000,
made with up imperial of all and tribes,
the 'and Saxon element pre¬
dominating, capable of exerting a
force which has not been witnessed or
felt since the days of the Roman em¬
pire,— St. Louis Republican.
u Convalescent !”
* * country , physician 1 • - of . r limited .. ■, sense
-// vl WE& Cal d
to see Mr. R. s little boy, who was quite u
ill. He gave some medicine and left,
promising to call again on the following
morning. When he arrived Mr. R. met
him at the gate and informed him that
the child was convalescent,
“Convalescent?” said the doctor,
“convalescent? Then if he is that bad
off you’ll have to call in some other
physician ; I never treated a case of it in
my life!” And with that he mounted
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GEMS OF THOUGHT.
All romances end at marriage.
Wisdom lies in moderating mere im¬
pressions.
I ASSERT that curiosity is not the mo
nopoly of s ex.—-Joaquin Miller.
There is a loquacity which tells noth¬
ing, and there is a silence which tells
much.
IP the poor man cannot always get
meat, the rioh man cannot always di¬
gest it.
It seems that beauty is part of the
finished language by which goodness
speaks.
The creed of the true saint is to make
the best of life, and make the most of it.
— Chapin.
'Hale the pleasure of a feeling lies in
being able to express it on the spur ol
the moment.
Don’t assume the attitude of saying
see how clever I am, and what fun
everybody else is!
They that can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety de¬
serves neither liberty nor safety.
Great ideas travel slowly, and for
a time noieslessly, as the gods whose
feet were shod with wool. — Garfield.
Love is master of all arts,
And puts Into human hearts
The strangest things to say a nd do.
-//. W. . Longfollow.
That indifference to fate which,
though it often makes a villain of a man,
is the basis of his sublimity when it
does not.
Reflect upon your present blessings—
of which every man lias many—not on
your past misfortunes of which all men
have some.
Every man’s work, pursued steadily,
tends to become an end in itself, and
goes to bridge over the loveless ch asms
of his life.
Look on this beautiful world and read the truth
Iu her fair page; see every season brings
New change to her of everlasting youth.
— IE C. Bryant.
That quick sensibility which is the
groundwork of all advances towards per¬
fection increases the pungency of pains
and vexations.
Vice may be defined to be a miscal¬
culation of chances, a mistake in esti¬
mating the value of pleasure and pains.
It is false arithmetic.
No one is accursed by fate,
No one so utterly desolate,
But some heart though unknown
Responds unto his own.
—H. IF. Longfellow.
We are members of one great body.
Nature has made us relatives when it
begat us from the same materials and
for the same destines.
Shakespeare sets liis readers’ souls on
fire with flashes of genius ; his commen¬
tators follow close behind with buckets
of water putting out the flames.
Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom,
death are the allurements that act on the
heart of man. Kindle the inner genial
life of him, you have a flame that burns
up all lower considerations.
I should as soon think of swimming
across Charles River when I wish to go
to Boston as of reading all my books in
originals when I have them rendered
for me in my mother tongue .—Enter -
son.
Men thin away into insignificance and
oblivion quite as often by not making
the most of good spirits when they have
them as by lacking good spirits when
they are indispensable.
Those who have the power of re¬
proaching in silence, may find it a means
more effective than words. There are
accents in the eye which are not on the
tongue, and more tales come from pale
lips than can enter an ear.
By cultivating an interest in a few
good books which contain the result of
the toil or the quintessence of the genius
of some of the most gifted thinkers marsh of
the world, we need not live on and the ridges
and in the mists. The slopes
invite ns.
Showers of Fishes in Rain.
During the rains of 1864 I was resid¬
ing at Arrah, in a large house with a flat
roof, and during a heavy shower the cry
was raised by my servants that fish were
falling from heaven. I rushed out and
found the compound (courtyard) to strewn three
with small dead fish, from two
inches in length: while from the roof
two or three bucketsful were procured.
Whence came the fish ? Undoubtedly
from the sky; bsf how they got there, I
not prepcs^ state, unless they
may have be©- /Wied into the air from
the native element by a waterspout.
Arrah is situated in the corner where the
Sone enters the Ganges, and is about
seven miles from either river—the only
possible sources of the fishes.
The second fall occurred four years
after, at Patna, which is about one to two
miles from tlie Ganges, and also during
the rains. On starting on my rounds
one morning, I drove over a bridge,
crossing a then dry watercourse. Dur¬
ing my absence a heavy rain fell, and on
my returning home I found the water¬
course full and a crowd of natives shov¬
eling out quantities of the same small
fish, all dead. fishes.
Another curious fact relating stationed to
On one occasion, while at
Arrah, I came across a specimen of the
climbing perch (Anabas scandens) strug¬
gling along the road at least half a mile
from the Sone, to which I had it trans¬
ferred, alive and vigorous. It may have
em barked on that strange journey to
spawn, leaving its eggs in a road side
difficulty _ . its
ditch; but then a arises in
being alone. — Chambers Journal.
Bid Not Understand Journalism.
L recollect sitting at table in London
beside the - editor of a leading journal. have
He said: “I am in distress^ I
lost one of my regular writers. ” I did
journalism at the tune, _
not know about will
sol remarked: “I suppose you
have to get another.” He replied: get
“Get another! I will have to
three, and I will be surprised if at the
end of a year one of these three writers
does as well as tho writer I have lost. —
Goldwin Smith.
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