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f'ALL AT THE
RAILROAD RESTAURANT.
'Under the Car Shod.)
ATLANTA, Oh.
=5 delicacies of the season
— i)^ lumio^v,* in the best of stylo and
IsL ,-VH'ip as any establishment in the oily
| jp,« BALLARD NUnls furnished A DURAND. at allhours of the
lay. unej .20
M U-FIUETING IN EL PASO.
IA T*m N«kk***U Tlmt a C»W
"Would Offer Hotter Sport.
(l.Bitvpnworth Times.]
After long waiting a bugle is sounded,
the doors are thrown open, and five
horsemen enter the ring, one oonveyiug
a stout pole, with n prod in the end of
I it. Next come four bull-fighters on foot,
■ with a stick about four feet long and a
■ dirty red cloth about the size of a small
■ I ul de-cloth, and they scatter themselves
■ around behind the several blinds. Now
■ the incitement is at fever heat; Guada
■ loupe smiles, the bugle sounds, the
■ doors are thrown open, and 111 comes a
I little, stump-tailed bull or stag, with liis
I horns sawed off. Tho horsemen ride
■ mil , and all in turn get tho animal to
I < huso them around, and tho footmen
1 venture out from their respective places
I of safety in like manner, and this per
lovmauco is kept up until the speed and
motion ol the animal is reduced to a
certainty. The
footmen now became quite bold.
■front ■They string their cloth on the stick in
of tho bull, ami he rushes for it
puith holding nil the the speed he has left. The
man doth springs aside, the
■ bull passes to the next man, and so on.
I Next comes sticking the little spears in
■ tho animal’s neck. These are little
I flharp-pointed rods, with wooden
I handles, ornamented with tissue paper,
bn rings, etc. You will remember
buvt it is the cloth the bull is fighting
“ bie time. One man attracting
10 1 ttention of the animal, and another
■ approaching him from the rear at full
■ "peed the animal turning his head to
I 00k out for the new danger, the man
I p un gP8 the spear in his neck and passes
I I ""i nod the ,, e fighters 7 uow will know the exact speed,
in turn allow the
I n!,‘ lnml (, h»»o them around the ring.
■ thri.uii Cpt Up accordin 8 to the nerve of
' 'U and last comes the killing with
" •'Word. The fighter has the clotli in
I j 111 m ' appears winch plunges the bleeding and the exhausted
I , away. at cloth,
I and !' lie lighter prods him in the neck,
perchance kills him; yet I saw them
" 1 lvo > au d none were killed. They do,
I nal horribly manage to mangle the poor
■ about the neck. This is
UH018 ln a bull-fight, and the whole
• , t was explained bv Texas
a cattle
" 10 sat next me and remarked
\ Why don't the :
---cowards turn a
, ?” Ahull,
in m' r ^ ier when mnk
j ... 'Hack, , always shuts
“ liis and
°l vu them until eyes,
„ sv . the object he
* ceases to be a resistance, while
oow Bever does, and follows
.
'mil i U ' 'i P L ^ euce > fighting 8 a mad
much Uke fighting a blind ani
V u u I ,on the whole, a gigantic
, rtn ,
"^^wu‘is™ nationality that sanctions
t o,dumb brutes
t
A Horrible Custom.
hi-itui?^ ii'HlU'nlf f* 10 , barbarous not ‘* customs that
VS J c suppressed ir
° ru t * lu ^i is . that of Samedh,
or biirvi, R
the TiJ Kr F‘°l )le alive. It appears thal
oflU'r t a oertli i n 8tate sent an
certain in' L a VOnne8 Vl *8® ^ Uppi to colled
th. ^nnsiVo s ’ an Tv heu h© arrived
t fu8edtopa ttbe y- As tho offi ‘
"'em U ‘ 7 must 150 ol
Gtoi n, ° ra i 7. to iutiinidafce him, col
w ore door and threatened
commit tc
Stl select^ 'l heTu . 6 ou ^> * ie an failod d thereupon to give way. they
t . 0 °* number for the
sacrifice^ womatT a man d seventy-five and
a ft 8 e
I owned in. 8 i x ty-five—and on land
aiive r iu ^hakoor buried them both
prevent ft' rta , ! n villagers tried tc
lulled f.ir 6 ^ ee d, but were soundly pun
m i. 0 ' r tr °uble. Since
occum. to'; l the event
km. ™; ent 611 - v into - seveu tody, of the and Siddhi nine
teen hav.n /• sentenced CU8
terms 01 n to various
, taffirisonment. .
^ flakes His Own Legs.
laden to Hartwa? Uot with * ce a man w h° wagon comes
wifki •’ a one-ox
fifing to selD g fS? P° tatoes other
wooden i V tnd you ever notice his
He P lows that ox and
went S 00 * . on poor land. He
to &T Loy and did his
duty faithLu a f Ie P°° r
i Uhe ^ election County
. Rood 0 and made
Rptitk.mo, rius is a quiet, modest
don’t Brown \ rom ma tlie n i° is oks called °* his “ Rough leg he ”
care . ** for bis h
a Ppearauce ^X^h"“an! rou S
&’•»*>>« i u wither ,—Hartwell
Sun.
NEWS GLEANINGS.
A museum of Confederate relics is to
be established in Raleigh, N. C.
Rome, Georgia., is shipping immense
quantities of tan bark to Cincinnati.
One acre of ground in Harris county,
Gr., produced 135 bushels of oats this
year.
Savannah, Ga., shipped $75,000 worth
o f turpentine to foreign ports last Sat¬
urday;
Key West, Fla., receives about 100
immigrants each month from the West
Indies.
Key West, Fla., has sixty vessels and
over 700 men engaged in the sponge
business.
A factory at Augusta,.Ga has just
,
shipped an order of 2,000 bales of goods
to Africa.
A large cotten seed oil mill is to be
erected at Bailey’s Mill, Jefferson coun
ty, Florida.
Eastern capitalists are buying up all
the gold mines in the vicinity of Cl iar
lotto, N. C.
The cotton factory at Selma, Ala,,
lias declared a semi-annual dividend of
eight per cent.
New Orleans, thinks of establishing a
Castle Garden for the accommodation
of immigrants.
A mammoth iron furnace is to be
erected near Covington, Va., by Euro¬
pean capitalists.
A company lias been formed to oper
ate a silver mine recently discovered
near Gaylesville, Ga.
’The beautiful Confederate monument
at Columbia, S. C., was totally wrecked
by lightning a few days ago.
A little boy at Charlotte, N. C,, swal¬
lowed a quart and a half of cherries,
seeds and all, and died in great agony.
The first appearance of cotton as an
article of commerce was a shipment of
seven bales from Charleston, S. C., in
1757.
In North Carolina during the past
year sixty three new post-offices have
been established and seventeen discon¬
tinued.
East Tennessee lias a county in which
four of the precincts are named Upper
Hog-thief, Lower Hog-tliief, Fair Prom¬
ise, and Never Pay.
Richard Paulk, white, of Union coun¬
ty, S. C , has been sentenced to one year
in the penitentiary or to pay a fine of
$500 for marrying a negro woman.
John Turner, of Savannah, Ga., after
serving out eight, years of a life-service
for murder in the penitentiary, lias
proven his innocence and been released.
At Goldsboro, N. C , a man built a
fence, using live cypress for posts. The
posts took root and are growing rapidly,
bearing the fence slowly but surely sky¬
ward.
Jackson county, Ga., is the only place
in the South where clay fit for jug mak¬
ing is found. Two factories are run in
the county, and the jugs are all made
by hand;
The grapes grown by the stockholdeis
of the Georgia Wine Company, located
in Cuthbert, will this year make 20,109
gallons of wine, which is the present
capacity of the company.
It is estimated that the South lias
this season paid to the North $55,000,
000 for wheat, $50,000,000 for corn, $72,
000,000 for meats, and about $25,000,
000 for hav, butter, cheese, oats, apples,
potatoes, etc.
The people of Tavans, Fla , eat alliga¬
tor steaks and tenderloins in preference
to the tough beef obtainable there. The
meat when par boiled and fried presents
the fair appearance of the breast of a
fowl, and possesses a flavor almost as
delicate and appetizing.
Tke new cotton compress to be erect¬
ed in Vicksburg, Miss., soon is to be one
of the finest and most costly in the
United States, or the world for that
matter. There is only one like it in ex¬
istence, and that ii now being placed in
position at New Orleans.
Vicksburg is still agitated over her
harbor. The receding of the Mississippi
river leaving only a lake of still water
in front of the city where the river once
flowed, has a threatening aspect to the
prosperity of Vicksburg, and her citi¬
zens are anxiously inquiring what is to
be done to preserve the harbor.
The heirs of Mica jab Martin, de¬
ceased, living iu Troup county, Ga., will
bring suit against the city of Atlanta to
to recover 202 V acres of land in the very
heart of the city. The. Kimball House
stands on part of the property. Martin
bought the land when it was covered
with brushwood, and never sold or deed¬
ed it to anyone. The deeds are now in
possession of the heirs.
In Smith county. Virginia, a well dig¬
ger dug 360 feet in to the earth before
striking water, and . then went through ,
with a plunge into a subterranean lake.
Being hauled to terra fiima again, he
hi. W down a Email boa,
\ and, as the distance between the top of
ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHILE TRUTH IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT."
CONYERS, GA., FRIDAY JULY 14, 1882.
the water and the earth was several
feet rode over five miles before finding
an outlet, of the lake, a spring in the
side of a hill. The lake is a great ■won
der.
There is a weed in the South known
as the wild coffee plant, which has caused
the planter a good deal of trouble and
annoyance, and has consequently been
greatly despised. It has recently been
discovered that the plant has its use, as
rope can be made from it eq ual to the
best hemp, and stronger and finer than
jute. The discovery was made by a ne¬
gro who needed a piece of rope, but
could find none, On looking around
his attention was attracted toThis plant,
and he cut the stalks and treated them
in the same manner he had been accus
tomed to see hemp treated in Kentucky,
and the result was a fibre of good length
and of surprising strength, which the
old man soon converted into rope.
MAN AND HIS BUTTONS.
III* Method of .Sowing: Them on, and ih<
Difficulties F.n countered.
(New York Graphic.]
Did you ever see a man in the solitude
and privacy of his study attempt to sew
on details, a button by himself ? It is, in all its
one oi the most interesting per¬
formances in the world. First he hunts
for a button. Generally, to secure it, he
robs Peter to pay Paul, and cuts from
another garment This button may be
much larger or much smaller than the
size he is wearing. Next be hunts a
needle. Probably lie goes out and buys
a paper of needles. He always chooses
the largestneedles, having an impression
that large needles will sew stronger than
small needles. As to thread, he gets the
coarsest he can find, and this he doubles.
He would thread his needle. He takes
his big needle in one band and his coarse
black thread in the other. He bites off
the thread to a desired length. Then he
tries to twist it to a fine point. Gener¬
ally in this he succeeds in making two,
and sometimes three, fine points out of
one end. Of course he can’t get all
these fine points through the needle’s
eye at once. He tries hard to make that
needle and thread get on friendly terms
with each other, but they won’t. They
don’t want to get acquainted. They do
not wish to have anything to do with
each other. Sometimes it is the needle
that kicks; sometimes the thread. Some¬
times lie imagines he has really threaded
his needle. It is an ocular delusion.
The thread has missed the needle’s eye
by half an inch. It is harder work than
sawing wood. At last the needle is
threaded. Now he tries to sew the but¬
ton on without taking bis trousers off.
This proves a failure. He twists him¬
self into an uncomfortable position, and
so would sew. But he can’t sew so.
He runs the needle into himself, and the
contrary thread always insisting in foul¬
ing or in doubling around the next but¬
ton. Then one part of the doubled
thread won’t work harmoniously with the
other part. One part draws through the
button’s eye first and leaves the other
part behind. Then it gets bitched up,
and the embassador swears. Or the
needle breaks. And then he swears.
He may not swear audibly. But the re¬
cording angel knows what is going on
inside of him, and debits him with every
item. He sews hard. He has forgotten
all about the necessity for a thimble.
He jams bis thumb down on the needle’s
head and it punctures his thumb or runs
under the nail. By and by he sews the
button’s eye full of thread. His big
needle won’t pass through any more.
He must stop. He ends by winding the
thread as many times as it w ill go under
the button. And perhaps he leaves off
with two or three inches of thread stick¬
ing outside. A woman can, through
many outward indications, tell when a
man has been trying to sew on a but¬
ton. He doesn’t know the shibboleth of
needle and thread, and it catches some¬
where every time. At last the button
is sewed on and he is proud of his work.
A. Cheap Cologne Water.
The only perfume which never seems
to offend any and which leaves no un¬
pleasant tang behind it is that of cologne
water, which stimulates while it soothes
the senses, and suggests a pleasant whole¬
someness, instead of any sickish sweet¬
ness, as the best of extracts and essences
and bouquets are apt to do. We do not
mean, of course, the cheap and common
cologne water of the druggists, which is
usually very much worse than none at all;
and wont to leave, after dying, the smell
of burned sugar where it has been used
often, as it is made of the poorest spirit,
and necessarily without subsequent dis¬
tillation; without regard to the fact that
it requires the strongest proof or rectified
spirit to dissolve the combined oils
properly where the process of distillation
is not used. Indeed, with no trouble at
all, any one can make in her own store
room a better article of cologne than that
which is usually bought, by thoroughly
dissolving a fluid dram of the oil of ber¬
gamot, orange and rosemary each, with
half a dram of neroli and a pint of rec¬
tified spirit. As good as can be made
out of cologne itself, however, is also
quite as comfortably prepared at home
as at the chemist’s—at so much less than
the chemist’s prices that one feels war
ranted in using it freely—simply by mix
Cl ckamflCh oi th? oComC
gamont and lemon, one of the oils of
orange and half as much of that of rose
dram ofneroU and four drops each ol
the essences of ambergris and musk. If
us is subsequently distil ed i ma es
tol d bC.Cs t“ bCg
kept tightly; stoppered for two or three
months to ripen and mellow before use.
-Harper, Bazaar.
W hen rain is coming ravens caw,
swallows chatter, cats “wash their
faces,” small birds prune themselves and
more than usual. The reason is because
these creatures love wet weather and *e
jojee ai its apprqash, - ' -
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
There are 10,700 men on the police
force of London.
In five months eight persons have
been killed by the cable cars in Chicago.
The Sultan is to grant Jewish refu¬
gees from Russia tracts of land in Syria
and Mesopotamia.
At Mobile, Alabama, female violators
of the law are required to work out their
fines in the chain gang.
A facetious contemporary suggests
that Congress investigate the Western
cyclones while they are at it.
Akabi Bey is applying the Monroe
doctrine in Egypt by planting dynamite
torpedoes along the Suez Canal.
The person who lias attracted consid¬
erable attention the past year, may now
be spoken of as the late Mr. Guiteau.
Statistics of immigration show that
very few of the foreigners who come to
this country go to the Southern States.
In the State of Mississippi there are
30,000,000 acres of land, of which less
than 5,000,000 acres are under cultiva¬
tion.
London publishers bribe school teach¬
ers with theater tickets and champagne
suppers to buy and recommend the buy¬
ing of their books.
James Russell Lowell and Dr.
Leonard Woolsey Bacon, according to
the Washington Post, think of running
for Congress next fall.
Mbs. Langtry lias begun to under¬
stand something of American advertis¬
ing. She took a special train from Ed¬
inburg to London, at a cost of .$500.
The famous Dalrymple farm of
Dakota is to be divided, Mr. George
Howe, an oil prince of Pennsylvania,
having bought 30,000 acres of it for $80,'
000 .
The Belgium Government is soon to
adopt pulverized meat for an army
ration. One pound of the aiticle is said
to be as nutritious as six pounds of
fresh beef.
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Gambetta, it is said, sufferers con¬
stant. fear of assassination, and his friend
M. Camescasse, Perfect of Police, lias
given him a bodyguard to watch his
house night and day.
Col. Ingersoll, two years ago, was
credited with having made $200,000 out
of a silver mine, but if present reports
are correct, he to-day counts himself out
$50,000 on said silver mine.
Chinese immigrants are arriving into
British Columbia in large numbers, and
the Chinese merchants of Sun Francisco
predict the arrival of 40,000 of tlieir
countrymen before next October.
Sixteen smallpox patients in San
Francisco, while being conveyed in a
boat recently, were all nps«t and
drenched with cold salt \vat r r. In spite
of their exposure they all immediately
recovered.
The Jews in Russia and Roumania are
emigrating toPalestine in large numbers,
and large sums are being subscried to
aid them in this movement. It is said
that the majority are eager to engage in
agriculture.
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Ioe frozen by machinery is now being
used largely in Southern cities, as it is
cheaper than that from the North, ex
cept at seaboard places, The reti.i
price has fallen from $3 per hundred be¬
fore the war to $1.50.
If the expression of the press gener¬
ally may be accepted as an indication,
Anthony Comstock is getting himself in
bad repute by ugly, spiteful work. He
suppresses or tolerates the Gansmissien
of a publication as the fancy strikes
him.
jjaneniiower s plan tor removing to
the United States the remains of Lieu¬
tenant De Long and Comrades involves
an expenditure of $25,000, aud is not
considered feasible by the Congressional
Committee, to whom the matter was re¬
ferred.
IS at calls , halt ...... tlio . ,t
ure a in work oi ua
derground telegraphy. It announces
that the underground wires in Germany
are turning out badly, aud that the
credit of several millions of francs re
cei ,t,v voted ter eluding tbo system iu
France will p robably not b e used ,
“ There is not in literature,” says the
i New York Times, “ a nobler or more La¬
thetic story ” than the diary of Lienten
an t DeLong. Still, it was a plain and
Ter ^ brief narrative ol tacts. It is tl.e
reader's appreciation of the surround
ings that makes the rto. y pathetic.
These are thirty-three “raiiroa 1
schools” in Russia for the instruction of
j employes, established because not very
long ago it was impossible to get Bus
j sians with education enough to be en
. trusted with the higher places, and c.en
> at this day one-half of all the loeemo
tive engineers in Russia are Germans.
—
Griffin, Georgia, _
A fruit grower at
j has 60,000 peach trees in bearing condi
: *%, sr^hl ■tr
j fnnt trees, lire peaches aie nm n 0
j faster than they can be sent to market,
i U.though 300 pickers and packers art
employed, and hundreds of bushels are
cast aside as too ripe for shipment.
The San Francisco Chronicle relates
that while hunting for deserters from a
ship at Guay mas, a few days ago, the
searchers discovered a man covered from
head to foot with long, shaggy hair, of a
reddish color, Or. their approaching
him be commenced to run, and they
chased him, following him for a distance
of a mile or more to the beach, where be
jumped from rock to rock with the agil¬
ity of a chamois and was soon lost to
sight behind a jutting point. They af¬
terward discovered the cave which be
inhabits, the floor being covered with
skins, and the indications were that lie
subsisted entirely on raw fish. Organ¬
ized efforts will be made to capture him.
Some of the Iowa and other papers
are arguing that the cyclones in the
West are increasing in number and
fierceness every year. In a certain
sense this is probably true. That is,
there are years and seasons when they
are more severe and frequent than at
others. Between 1860 and 1873 these
tornadoes were very rare, and between
1873 and 1S80 there were only one 03
tvvo of a formidable ch*racttr. Du,
during the last three years they have
been intense and numerous. Doubtless
a long interval of quiet will soon succeed
these tempestuous years. But in an¬
other sense they will always increase in
destructiveness. As the State becomes
populous, they will seem to be more fre¬
quent, and will actually be more calam¬
itous.
TVe AO Grounds G on us for lor Dn01xe. Divorce
A woman who seemed to be lull of
confidence in ker cause halted a pedes
tnan with whom she bad a slight ae
quamtance and asked him if he knew
anything about the law of divorce, and
added that lier husband had threatened
to file a bill to procure one from her.
"Are you mild-tempered ?” asked the
Mild as grass, she replied. ,
Have you ever clubbed him-thrown
tea-pots — waved the butcher-knife —
lugged the ax around or made threats ?”
;;Never.” 5 ou cold feet ?
‘‘No.’ ,.
Do you drink or swear ?
“ Neither one.”
‘‘Doyoa try to m>* B Lome lrnoov?”
“ Do you seek to boss him ?”
“ Not at all.”
“Are you choice of vour company and
economical with his money ?”
“Iam.”
“ Did you ever maliciously annoy
him?”
“I never did.”
* ‘ Did you ever talk against him to the
neighbors ?”
“ Never.”
“ Well, while I am not a lawyer, and,
therefore, not posted, I don't see how
lie is to secure a divorce from you. ” I
do “ io! That’s He just scold what I and say threaten ! He can’t and j
what he’s may
tell going to do, but lie can’t
do nothing! I’m glad I met you, for
you’ve lifted a great load off my mind,
and if William comes storming around
again to-night as lie did last night, I’ll
give him another choking ! If 1 hadn’t
been able to handle him he’d have made
my life miserable for a whole ten years
pastl”
Remniseences of Garibaldi.
Mr. Morosini, Treasurer of the Ameri¬
can Cable Company at New York, is an
old friend and shipmate of Garibaldi,
who, in addition to being a candle
maker, and a liberator, was also a sea
His old friend says the libera¬
tor looked more like an Englishman
than an Italian ; was “one of Plutarch’s
men, a Roman of Rome’s best days.”
After Garibaldi and himself had made
candles on Staten Island for a year, in
1850, Garibaldi was appointed Captain
of a Peruvian ship and took Morosini
with him on his visit to China and South
America. He was very kind to all his
crew, in fact to everybody, but showed
it in his looks and acts,for be was little of
a talker. His face looked like a lion’s
face, especially when angry ; there was
no indenture of bis nose where, as in
most persona, it joins the forehead. The
only time that he ever knew Garibaldi
to be afraid was at Newcastle-on-tbe
Tyne, where bis ship was loading with
coal, and where, being barefoot he was
afraid the coal carriers, with their heayy
hob nail shoes, would step on his toes.
"When at Callao two Frenchmen over¬
heard him telling how he helped defend
Rome against the invasion of the French
army. One of them accused him of
lying. Next morning Garibaldi went to
his shop and challenged him to a fair
fight; the two partners drawed their
-weapons, but on Garibaldi’s pretending
to draw a revolver, they fled. The bun
dreds of Italians in port, hearing that
Garibaldi had been threatened tore the
^
have been found.
Poland Becoming Germanized.
Journals of Prussian Poland lament
the rapidity with which the countrv is
becoming Germanized. Language, prop
fT ^ y J j ™ immigrating""' * , mto
Polisl j B
^P^tomCZm^s‘and handh
cra ftsmen are being sent to take their
place. This, together with the fact that
^ ^'l"- °^ th f udS
As e a
estate3 of the o)d p oljsh noWm 7 QobJ, th
ar0 fe>t bf ^ g boug)it
capitalists. During 1881 nearly seventy
five thousand acres of land were sold by
p 0 h s h owners to German purchasers,
i n the past four vears nearly one bun
s
vain to gtem fhe ^ Thg dream of a
restorat i on of tlie Q ia nation is fast
fading.
that little coat.
BT MRS. J. v. H. KOONS.
Ul Lived ere Y 8 in ® a man, ’tis sad to toll,
our famous city,
" p°ne that ever knew him well
Could either love or pity.
He was no bigger than a mouse—
I go not stretch the story ]
He had a tiny, old-time house,
Illumined with his glory.
H# had a coat, this little man,
He fit exootly in it,
No longer than a half a span,
Nor wider than a minute ;
Thread-bare and old and dirty blue,
\et all wlic veLitured near him
Herd squeeze into that coat—'tis true—
Till folks were taught to fear him.
It was the coat his father wore,
A.nd Yea, yet father’s father's father ;
he’d worry, tease and bore,
All Annoy, that vex and bother
he met about that coat
And its eternal fitness
For ^ V\ high and low of every note
ho could its virtue witness.
Now don’t you wish he could have seen
The folly of this passion,
And let his neighbors choose between
His and some other fashion ?
Curious Scene.
A most respectable jury—every one of
them a £50 freeholder—was impaneled
at Clonmel, Ireland, to try a most im
portant question. During the course of
the trial the learned Judge had to retire
tor half an hour, promising to he back
on the expiration of that time. The
Judge then retired, and so did the jurors.
In some time after, one of the jurors re
turned, and stated in open court, to an
astonished audience, that lie had been
to a christening, drank the child’s health,
her a speedy uprise to its mother, and that
son might be a much better man
than its papa. This caused so much
surprise that those who heard it re
mained silent. He asked a learned coun
sel to give him the song called “ The
Low-backed Car.” At this request the
learned gentleman shook his head. The
juror then said, “You won’t, won’t you?
Then I’ll do it myself; ” and so he did,
e xceben i ; s tyl e > and concluded amid
the bravos . of a crowded court. He then
made a speech on the duties of a pater
nal Government, and acquitted lximself
with equal credit, and was vociferouslv
applauded. He then demanded that the
Judge should be sent for ; and this de
maud not being acceded to by the crier
lie stood up and called the learned Judge
to come into court, on a fine of £50
This the he did three different times, and iii
usual way. He then declared that
as the Judge did not come he wouldn’t
wait—he should go back to the cliristen
ing; box, and he accordingly left the jury
and finally the court. In about
half an hour he returned, and, not see
ing the Judge on the bench, he com
menced singing “Rory O’More ” after
which he stepped into the jury-box re
tics; but he, seeming not to mind the wry
faces of his brethren, began to hum a song.
He then tried what he could do at the
Kent bugle, and succeeded to admira
tion ; but, just as he had concluded a
splendid solo, the learned Judge made
his appearance at the corner of the
bench, where he stood listening, in mute
astonishment, to the music of the
special juror, who was equally astound
ed when he heard the cry of “ Hats off!
Be pleased to keep silence!” In the
meantime something was said to the
Judge, who good-naturedly adjourned
the court for the further hearing of the
case until the following morning,
Good Manners.
Perhaps good manners are not good
morals, though the time was when the
words morals and manners amounted lo
pretty much the same thing,
When the New Testament was trans
lated into English, in 1611, it taught its
readers, and still teaches us, that “evil
communications corrupt good manners.”
And the revisers of 1880 have left the
good manners to stand, changing only
communications into company. So I
have very high authority for saying that
what I am driving at in this letter has
something to do with the basis of char
acter. A bad man may have the hand
somest manners, the manners of a gen
tleman, and thereby ail the more thoroughly
fitted to work manner pf. mischief
with greediness. He is a hypocrite in
the world, as one who merely pretends
to be a saint is a hypocrite in the
*
cliurch.
But the beginning, middle, and end of
good manners may be condensed into the
divinely given principle of preferring
others "to ourselves; denying self for
the happiness of another ; rendering to
everyone liis due, as superior, inferior,
or equal. form the of the
If mothers manners
children, they should feel the burden of
responsibility. They may permit the
inborn waywardness of the child to go
unchecked, while he grows to be a pert,
boy,"a sauev, forward, disagreeable, dreadful
terror to the neighborhood, and a
nuisance to everybody but stick liis doting
mamma. She gives him a of candy
when a stick of something not so sweet
would do Lira more good. She coddles
h im into a curse that by and by will
come upon her own bead. Just as the
twio- etc. Blood is great, and blessed
are°they who are wellborn. than pedigree, But is more cul
than blood, better
ture.
Train up a child in the way he should
go. He will go in it then. Teach him
to respect those who are older than him
, self; to rise up before the aged. jEneas
was pious, because he honored his
father. It is a long way toward godli¬
ness to obey one’s parents. And happy
is the parent and happy*the child when
love is returned with love._
Tlie Good Dish Hnmans Make.
The cannibals have long since decided
that in the delicacy of both flavor and
texture, “ long pig ” is far superior to
“short pig,” aud when asked how he
liked children Charles Lamb said he
liked them “boiled.” It is well known
that tigers and lions prefer human flesh
to all other, and will leave off eating cat¬
tle and sheep to pull down a man. A
curious confirmation of this is the pref
erence whieli tigers show to monkeys,
which, according to Darwin, are but a
stage below the human race. Tigers
and leopards are very fond of them,
and for the sake of the delicacy, will lie
long hours under the trees waiting for
them to come down. The monkeys will
shake the branches and throw sticks
down at them until by worrying and
pestering them they succeed in driving
the epicures away.
$1.50 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE
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HUMORS OF THE DAT.
w" Mrs. Jenkinson. t v' V6 got ‘‘ a I’ve horrid dosed cold,” said
and I dont get and dosed
one bit better Ton
my word I believe I’ve taken no less
thirty mine articles, and begin to
feel like an Episcopalian.’’
They vere discussing religious ques¬
tions. Said Brown, “I tell you tliat if
the other animals do not exist after
death, neither does man. There is no
dillerence between , man and beast.” “If
anybody could convince me of that it
would be van, Brown,” replied Deacon
Jones, demurely.
“She’s a dear, good girl,” said a St.
Louis young man iu reference to a
Chicago fair one; “I assure you
father, she is all soul.” “y es ” replied
his stern parent, the old prejuduce
against the Garden City embittering
Ins words ; “I saw her footprints in
the sand by the lakeside. You are right*
slie is all sole.” '
^ bibulous parson was introduced to
a lady who had been represented to him
as fluite a talented artist. He greeted
lier b J saying : “I understand madam,
^kat you paint?” She started, blushed
few deeply, and, recovering herself after a
seconds, said, with as much acidity
t° ne and style as she could command :
“ Well, if I do paint, I don’t make any
mistake and put it on my nose, ,,
A good old lady, speaking in prayer
meeting and giving expression to the joy
and confidence she felt, said : “ I foel as
if I was ready, this minute, to fall into
the arms of Beelzebub.” “Abraham!
You mean Abraham I” hastily corrected
a brother sitting near. “Well, Abra
ham, then,” was the response ; “ it don’t
make any difference. They’re both good
men.”
“No, my daughter,”said a Now Haven
matron, 1 ‘ I cannot consent to your longer
keeping company with young Jaykiim.
He had the insurance to call mo a dow
ageress, right to my face, tho other
evening.” Why, ma, that isn’t anything
bad at all.” “It is lucky for tho
young man that it is not. Had
he assumed to insulate me I would have
pitched him over the baningsters.” “Oh,
dear, ma, I wish you wouldn’t mix met¬
aphors so,” and both women rushed for
the dictionary to substantiate their lan¬
guage.
“I’m shaving myself most of the
time now,” said the young man proudly,
as he adjusted his head to the back
of the chair. The barber gazed thought¬
fully at the gash in the left cheek, noted
the irregular Maltese cross in the chin,
observed the finely executed out-lino
map of the Hell Gate excavations on
ear that was IieTd^nf pScM'
plaster, and pityingly pimples scanned the prizo
collection of and blotches which
. ornamented the neck. “Yes, I notice
you are,” lie said musingly, as he softly
strapped liis razor.
On Monday of last week Fogg handed
a letter to the office boy, telling him to
drop it into the mail. This was early in
the morning. In passing the boy’s
desk in the afternoon Fogg saw the
letter. “ I say, Johnny,” said he, “any
time this week will do for that letter, you
know. ” Next day Fogg saw the lettm
still lying on the boy’s desk. Fierce lie
broke forth. He wanted to know wliat
in tlio substantive that adjective letter
was doing there. Why in the substan¬ didn’t
tive it hadn’t been mailed? “I
know you was in a hurry about it,” said
the boy, “you told me any time this
week would do. ”
Deaf and Dumb Barbers.
A man dressed in a thin summer
woolen suit and a dilapidated straw hat
entered our sanctum,
“Sir,” he said, “you see before you
a reminder of the summer’s sun, so to
speak. I am not from the tropics,
neither am I dressed for (enjoying all the
comforts of a trip in search of the North
pole. Excuse me, no North pole for
me,” and his teeth chattered, while a
quiver of icy chilliness seemed to run
across his whole frame,
“ Are you cold?” we asked. “If so,
walk by the stove and get warm. ”
up sir, no! the sportive
“No, swings warm his as juvenile
African who upon
the equatorial line. I am needy, busted,
broke, sir. You see before you a specu
lator whose cart is keeled over and
broken, with the horses on a run so far
ahead a greased streak of lightning can
not overtake ’em. Four months since I
started a barber shop. Now, thinks I,
I’ll strike a new beat. So I just goes
and hires four deaf and dumb tonsorial
artists and then put up notices that cus
tomers coming to my shop would have
a quiet shave by deaf and dumb barbers
and no questions asked. The thing took
on the start, but, when the confounded
barbers pulled their slates and began
writing out the usual questions, blow
me if I didn’t discover that I was a ru
ined man. Yes, sir, barbers is barbers ;
and, when I closed my shop,. busted up
and started on a tramp, I just says to
myself it’s no use. If dead men could
be learned to handle the razor over a
man’s face, the blamed things would
have spiritual mejiums asking their vic¬
tims the same old line of questions—-An, With this dime
thank yer, sir; ta-ta.
I’ll send a counter-irritant down my
throat that’ll knock the thinness out of
this summer suit and give my stomach so
than barber can -
cleaner shave any retired, the
And as the shattered vase the
perfume of the roses remained in
sanctum until an open window restored
the natural tone of the atmosphere.—
Whitehall Times.
It was a spring night. The fire had
gone out in the furnace, the thermometer
stood at 30° above zero and the lovers
were the sole occupants of the pallor. head
Presently her mother came to the
of the stairs and iu a voice like the
scream of a steam whistle cried :
“Amandy, come up into . . the sitting room
immejitly; I’m afraid you 11 catch your
death a cold down there.” But Amandy
answered in soft, lutoJike tones: “Don t
make a fool of yourself, ma. Charley a
keeping toast. ^
me as warm as
The jeweled garter craze ia growing. hope
-Boston Post. And we winch—Well, might
that the—the—the—place spindle shanks will
well, we hone that Register.
go out of style.— -AY^ Haven