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I the delicacies of the season
m the Lest. ®f style and
any establishment In the city
d* furnished at allhours of the
Ll.ARD A DURAND. unej.20
.lute.
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■Kdriiordinary SHh consumption conceded o?
G^Bhtini jute, and its now
a permanent place among calls
jyS rtofl|E] KlufT” for carpet mills,
attention to the future of this
Bielylri'i “has il. juto “But to what,” do with it carpets?” may be
H, ol, anil with carpets others nearly great an deal much as
a more,
i ms# rage, fourteen ounces of jute
U-rs Vito tho back of each yard of
rndard tapestry carpet, while each
rd flffffr tnorican floor-oilcloth is but a
1 i M'orated jute. The bright and
i mp carpets, so-called, are in
lot lu mp but made of jute,
so, from those fabrics, which
Ho of their juto per contnge,
carpets which claim it as tlieir
b ccStituent. Tho liber being capa
fi of a soft and singularly smooth
l pile,'*[luid invaded tho goods which for some
Wi*av«' the market under
ot “Juto Velvet,” Brussels
— their very thread
wD of East India jute—are as
late P.v like the wood-faced article,
rinndo into elegant curtains,
r colored silks, and other fine
brics, Juto bales our American
rop, nud sacks our grain crop,
aid il ly entering nearly every
vented for the comfort of man
P" d flfk .v .years ago ns a fibrous
linii’ortam future, juto has sinoo
quotation in every civilized
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M"st . save cotton
now to run the sheop
L one doeR 80 wuch, so well,
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CTr 1 G Louisiana m R011 ’ ftnd nud Carolina yams
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The brain of the assassin was found to
be in a healthy condition. .
Guitrau’s skeleton will adorn the
Army Medical Museum at Washington.
The Pope is of opinion that the po¬
sition of the church in Italy is worse
than ever.
Governor Blackburn, ol Kentucky,
lias become** member of Christ’s Church,
Louisville,
There are now 46,000 postoffices in
the United States, an increase of 1,700
duriug the past year.
There having been a good deal of dis¬
pute as to the boundary line between
Montana and AVyoinittg, it is to bo re¬
surveyed this fall
Six weeks ago the tofvn of Garfield
spruug into existence in the oil regions
of Pennsylvania. To-day it has a popu¬
lation of 3,000 people.
Con. Cijas. II. Crane has been nom¬
inated to be Burgeon General of the
Army, in place of Surgeon General
Barnes, retired on account of age.
PonmoAn platforms are constructed
similarly to a gallows. The candidates
are placed upon it and a number of the
pianks drawn from beneath their feet.
A fine of $100,000 on railroad com¬
panies for every death due to preventible
accidents is a Hew York suggestion
which meets with general and public
approval.
Chicago has just opened an institu¬
tion for the reformation of inebriate and
opium eating women, called the Martha
Washington Department of the Wash¬
ingtonian Home.
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If we are to go to War fo assert the
rights of Irishmen to resist English law,
would it not be cheaper to buy Ireland of
the British Government and declare its
independence?
As To “ what is rarer than a day in
June?” the Boston Advertiser replies,
“taking their number into considera¬
tion, a day in February.” And so it is
in other respects, for some of them are
positively raw.
In 1878 one man to every sCVehly-two
sngaged in trade failed, Thus far in
1882 only ohe man to every one hundred
and twenty-eight has failed ; this, in the
face of the drouth of last year, and the
hard times now complained of.
It is found that the mind of Undei
Secretary Burke’s sister, who lived with
him, has given w ay. She has not. shed
a tear, and sits at the window, exclaim¬
ing at every footfall, “He is eomiug.”
It is impossible to divert her thoughts
from him.
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Says the Toronto Globe: “The
Northwest is strongly opposed to mo¬
nopolies. The practical experience that
the people of Manitoba have already had
of the w'orkings of the Pacific Syndicate
monopoly has converted Tories to op
ponents of the Government by the
thousand.”
Having humiliated herself by twining
her arms around her husband’s neck,
Mrs. Christiancy should have held on
until the old gentleman surrendered Ull
conditionally. It is hard to understand
how the old fellow could resist the ap¬
peal of so beautiful a woman under such
‘ divine ” pressure.
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A Kentuckian was sentenced in the
court at Frankfort to one year in the
penitentiary for stealing eighteen head
of cattle. Then a negro, who had stolen
$20 worth of copper, received a three
years’ sentence, and he told the Judge
he had nothing to say except he was
sorry he hadn’t stole a drove of oxen.
Recent criminal trials prompt a co
temporary to remark: “It is a great
let-down in our criminal i arisurudence
ttiat after a serious charge is made, ano
a prima facie case at least established in
the grand jury room, the indictment
should be so drawn as not to cover the
facts, and the prisoner has to be ac¬
quitted. ”
The clearing of the forest lands has
probably something to do with the late
tornadoes, and it is just possible that
the telegraph wires and long parallel
strips of steel and iron rails on the rail¬
road tracks may have some hand in in¬
tensifying the fury of the storms, which
are, without doubt, electrical in their
every feature.
Mb. W. W. Shat, of Rome, Georgia,
has been experimenting in extracting
sugar from watermelons. He has ascer¬
tained that they contain seven per cent,
of saccharine matter, or pure sugar, and
that an acre of good land would produce
34,500 pounds of melons, from which
2,415 pounds of sugar could be extracted,
worth, at ten cents, S‘241.50.
Just now, when everything else is so
high and the complaining so general, it
is a consolation to know that there will
be no lack of fruit, which has so much
to recommend it on its own account.
More use of it and less use of meat at
this season has always been urged by
medical authority, and compliance with
the advice seems now likely to be invol¬
untary.
The revenue of the United States from
its mails is now greater then that of
Groat Britain, and is almost equal to the
British receipts from mail and telegraph
combined. The Adm nistra'ion is to be
Congratulated upon its great ftchic ve
ment of keeping expenditure? within its
revenue, and yet succeeding in giving
the people better mail facilities than
they every had before.
A Reporter on the New York World
interviewed several of the one thousand
Mormon emigrants who recently arrived
in that city from Europe, en route to
Utah. One of tie mi gave the following
reason why he took the Mormon view of
the lawfulness of polygamy:
The Scriptures is in favor of this tiling
of havin’inore'wives as one. .Revelations
tells of how in the last days seven women
shall take hold of one man, Abraham had
a lot ot wives and r>> did David.. Now
David might a' went wrong, but the.Scrip¬
tures say as how as a man’s faults is for-'
tfvfe 1 hat ; S the reason we think wo have
got the law of God on our side.
Arabi Bey lias stirred up the fanati¬
cism of his co-religionists in Egypt to
such a degree that if he were to yield
in the present, crisis he would have as
much to fear from their resentment as
he now has from the Western powers.
His followers are eaVm-sUy awaiting the
manifestatteii of M Melnh, the Messiah,
on the 1.2th of November, and the Sultan
doubtless has an understanding with
Germany. The widespread preparations
in England are sufficient to prove that
the opening of hostilities is not regarded
a8 an Y child’s play or mere demonstra¬
tion against an offensive Egyptian
Cabinet.
Ex-SeNator Christiancy had a lu¬
dicrous interview with Mrs. Christian¬
cy thfe other day. Passing her house,
he heard a tap) on the window, and
looking, saw the author of his domestic
troubles waving a letter at him. He
concluded th got the letter, and with
that purpose in view, started for the
door; but the door opened before he
reached it, ;ffel before he was able to en¬
ter, a pair of white arms was clasped
around his neck. What did he do ?
Well, he was stern—loosened her hold
and pushed her aside, and in reply to
her “Please take me back,” he told her
“No ; not to-day, nor at any other time,”
and withdrew.
Alexandria, the port of Egypt now
threatened with bombardment by the
English and French fleets, is a city of
250,000 inhabitants. If lies flat, is well
built in the European quarter, while
the Turkish section is squalid and Girtv.
Its ancient walls are broken, but it has
two strong fortres-e-. It nas two ports
an eastern and western, the latter some
times called the Old Port, being the
larger and better of the two It is about
a mile and a half wide, and has three
entrances, I he foreign war vessels' in
the neighborhood numbered thirf v-tw<
a week or two ago, and their aggregate
hasjucreased. Tho period is a critics,
one. England has determined on ac
i m, and France sterns to have thrown
off her fears of Bismarck, and will j. in
in the bombardment of the placi, unless
Arabi Bey backs down, of which there
is no probability.
A Lively Subject.
There used to be a story current of a
perplexing incident in the life of John
Hunter, the celebrated surgeon, which
has a certain grim drollery about it.
One night, on receiving from Jack Ketch
a “subject” who had been hanged that
morning subjects at Newgate—such hangings
and such were very common in
those days—he vital perceived somehow or
other the spark was not quite ex
tinct. His professional zeal was in¬
stantly aroused ; lie applied all his skill
to the task, and, in short, succeeded, to
his scientific satisfaction, 'in restoring
the law’s victim to his entire faculties
again. But his satisfaction was some¬
what short-lived, for tlxe resuscitated
felon insisted upon looking to his bene¬
factor for liis future subsistence. He
argued that, as he had striven to bring
him, as it were, a second time into the
world, he must be regarded in toco
parentis. Hunter, always a nervous
man, and by no means convinced that
he had not offended grievously against
the laws in his little experiment, had no
alternative but to comply to the demands
of lbs ungrateful patient, who was by
no means modest in his visits. After a
time, however, they ceased; but even
that brought no comfort to poor Hun¬
ter, who lived in perpetual terror of his
tormentor unexpectedly popping upon
him. At last he reappeared before him
again. One fine evening another New¬
gate importation was brought to the
private door of the dissecting-room, and,
to his intense satisfaction, he once more
recognized the well-remembered feat¬
ures. Hunter used to say, with a grim
smile, that he took chanced speedy care mot to
give him a second
Marti. Hrtt. In a Gold Mine.
Dr. Cary Cox has a gold mine in Cher
okee County. The other day the hands
were sinking a shaft, and when six feet
below they came upon two pieces of mar
ble hewn into the shape and size of the
human head. The work had evidently
been done with good showed tools and, white not
entirely finished, that it was a
skilled artist who handled the chisel.
The heads were found under six feet of
clay, which, fo all appearances, had
never been disturbed and lay directly
upon a bed of slate. Near the mine is a
bed of marble, such as the heads aie
hewn from. The question is, who made
the heads and how did they get under
six feet of clay ?—Atlanta Constitution.
“How did jot, like my discourse
Sunday? aoked the parson. “To J ol
you the truth, replied Fogg, “J w« t
hm but I T , 2f was et ^ dehgfited e r P !,t a ^ d u beyond WiClly i >urpreCQi8es measure
conclusion.” a
your The parson woyh
give meant something to know just what Fogg
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error ceases to be dangerous while truth IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT ITT’
CONYERS, GA„ FRIDAY JULY 1882.
Shakspeart and the Bible.
There is a way that seemeth right to
man, but the end thereof are the ways
of death. Prov. xvi., 25.
Lm r . e i\RD°SteoS“"Sr
—Merchant of Venice s «<., %
How can ye, being evil, speak good
things. (Seeming virtues proceeding
from an evil source are not genuine).—
Mat. xii. 34.
Where an unclean mind carries virtu
ous qualities, their commendations go
with pity—they are virtues and traitors,
too.— All's Well That Ends Well, i., 1.
Another law in my members warring
against the law of my mind.— Rom.
oq
The fiend is at mine elbow and tempts
me, saying: “Use your legs; take the
start; “Ho; run away.” My conscience says :
do not run; scoin running with
tliy heels.” “Budge,” says the fiend.
“Budge not,” says my conscience.—
* Merchant of Venice ii * ’knowledge, 2
He that uicreasetk in
creaseth sorrow —Eccleaiastei i., 18.
J. had rather have a fool to make me
merry. than experience to make me sad.
—As You Like It, iv., 1.
I, yet not I.— Gal. ii ., 22.
I have a kind of nelf resides with yott,
But an unkind self j that itself will leu -A
To be Another’s foot.
—Troil. atid Cress., in., 2 :
But whosoever shall keep the Whole
law' and yet offend in due point, he is
guilty of all. —James ii., 10.
That these men
Carrying *iic stump, 1 say; of one defect,
From Shall, that in the general censure-, tafcb corruption
particular noble substance fault. The drain of ill
Doth all the often doubt.
—Hamlet i., 4.
Whosoever hateth his brother is a
murderer.— John Hi. -, 5.
Hates any man the thing he would not
kill ?— Merchant o/ Venice, iv.
India Proofs.
There are various ways in which de¬
ceptions “unlettbi’ed ate practised! Fut instance,
technically called, India proofas it taken is
is, from being
off the engraving at an earlier stage,
very much superioi: tp what i$ called a
“lettered India print,” which is dbtwined
after many impressions have been taken
off the engraving, and when the plate
has, consequently, become worn, and
the picture lost its clearness and sharp¬
ness of line. To turn an “India print,”
therefore, into an “India proof.” the
India print ia cut down A all round close
to the engraving. clean sheet of
Indii paper, of the same tone as the
India print, but Of A large! size, So as to
show it clean, blank margin, is then
mounted on a piece of still larger plain
paper, and the cut down India print in
turn is mounted in such a position as to
show the usual margin all round. Before
drying, the manipulated print which is sub¬
jected to imfiiefise pressure, SO
forces the mounted print into the India
paper as to entirely hide the difference
in the thickness of the material. A true
impression taken off a plate leaves the
mark of the plate all round the picture;
and to add this to the “doctored” India
proof, a plain steel or Copper plate of
the proper size is laid oil the face of the
print, which is again stibjedted to pres¬
sure, and the deception is then so com¬
plete as almost to baffle detection. A
volume belonging to a collector was sup¬
posed to contain India paper impressions
of engravings to the value of £300, but
ou examination they were found to be
“doctoTed” plates, not worth £30 in
all .—Chamber s' Journal.
To Sleep, Fat Onions.
I venture to suggest a new but simple
remedy for want of sleep, says a man
ivho has had experience. Opiates, in
any form, even the liquor opii sedat and
chloroform, will leave traces of their in¬
fluence next morning. I, therefore,
prescribe for myself — and have fre¬
simply quently done so for others—onions ;
ish common onions, raw, but Span¬
onions stewed will do. All know the
taste of onions ; this is due to a peculiar
essential oil contained in this most valu¬
able and healthy root. The oil has, I
am sure, highly soporific powers. In
much my own case they never fail. If I am
pressed with work and feel that I
shall not sleep, I eat two or three small
onions, and the effect is magical. Onions
are also excellent things to eat when
much exposed to intense cold. Finally,
if a person can not steep, it is because
the blood is in the brain, and not in the
stomach. The remedy, therefore, is ob¬
vious. Call the blood down from the
brain to the stomach. This is to be
done by eating a biscuit, a hard-boiled
egg, a bit of bread and cheese, or some¬
thing. Follow this up with a glass of
milk, or even water, and you will fall
asleep, and will, 1 trust, bless the name
of the writer.— Exchant/e. 1
Chinese as Printers.
A Chinaman offers his services to the
publisher of a monthly paper in this
city, to set up all the forms of his paper,
send him proofs of each article, and
make the corrections marked in the
proofs when returned, and convey the
forms to and from the press-room for
seventy-five cents a column. There are
forty-eight columns in the paper, each
column twenty and one-half inches long
by two and one-quarter inches wide,
The offer was declined, whereupon the
Chinaman said he was doing the same
Sy {Srn'S S,Stne°ss fnH^g Kolg
and Canton, where papers are published
i n the English tongue, aud where China
men are drilled into the work on account
0 f the scarcity of white labor.—Nan
Francisco Bulletin.
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A Mild Roy iu Texas. "
r - LJ Good wntes that he . found s
., bo Y i£ist Y" eeb at tne &, Hphu,
S P r ™&’ TeI - about fourteen mde*
uortli ot "anper T He describes him a*
appearing from ms size to be about teD
or twelve years old, hair rather a lighl
col ° r ai { d hanging below his nude shoulders,
and his , body m a perfectly state
^ a parade of clothing of any kind
b.Ses „h e „ Sen* MrGoSfappro'acbec
within a few rod. of him, by moving
stealthily, before the boy perceived him.
The iatter fled precipitately. Ed be
lieves it to be a veritable “wild boy.”
If the-Iv so he might be captured and
| the mvsterv JheS of his life unraveled,—
Detroit Press. -
Tales of Ye Olden Time In Washington
City,
jj e pi ease d to take seats gentlemen, I
J am going to tell some true stories.
promise not to bore you.
Lemonoski came to tins country many
j Y ears a p°>, aiK ^ succeeded in obtaining a
| clerkship in the I ostofhee Department,
Y According to Ins account of himself he
had been a soldier under tne great N a
poleon. Nothing pleased him better
than to meet with an opportunity ot re
citing his military exploits. It is liaidly
necessary to say that some of them were
marvelous and always excited, a smile ot
incredulity. At length a tellow-cferk
said to him:
“Lemonoski, I have often heard you
fight . over your old battles, now let me
EU ve J ou n?y sad mihtary experience. 1
was a soldier in the Black Hawk wai. In
Hid vel T first engagement 1 sttW three
stalwart Indians . full speed
coming m
after my scalp. I was armed with an
old-fashioned double-barreled shot-gun.
1 let Lel ' loose “ e tw0 ‘hat were m
^ le l ea< b aU( l Lillcd. them as dead as Jul-
3US Caesar. The third came rushing
upon me with rus bloody tomahawk
raised above his head, and what do you
suppose happened tlieu?”
“ You killed him, of course.”
‘‘Not exactly,” qtfietly replied hid/ the
Black Hawk warrior; “he killed 5
A roar of laughter was raised among
the bystanders and poor Lemonoski’s
yarns were knocked clear out of him.
Gen. Jackson, about the year 1832,
gave Jimmie Maher the appointment of
public gardener iu Washington. Salary
$1,-501) a year and trimmings. The trim¬
mings, perhaps, amounted to a much
lii larger sum. To keep the public duties grounds be
propei' order iVere tlio to
performed. Jimmie, when I made his
acquaintance, knew every body from
Henry Clay down to Ephraim Frost, the
colored hack-driver. He was a warm¬
hearted, liberal Irishman. He never
took a drink, save ivlien all be was bystanders thirsty,
and then he invited the'
to join bin! He prided himself on his
adherence to what he Called “dimocratie”
principles. Borne hungry Whigs in 1841
wanted his place, and Jimmie, for a
while, was very tineas/. One morning
lie met Gen.' Harrison in the public
grounds, and taking off bis hat, he thus
addressed him:
“ I presume thisWs Gineral Harrison,
Prizident of the United States.”
Receiving an affirmative answer, he
continued: gardner.” “My name is Maher. lam
pooblic Well, like the
“ Mr. Maher, I appear¬
ance of thdfee gf blinds; they look did in milch
better condition than they when I
was a Senator.”
“ Ocli, it3 me trade; was fetched Up to
it; but, may it plaze your Honor, it’s
rumored about here that I'm to be dis¬
missed.”
“ Dismissed for What?”
“ Because I was a friend to Mr. Yan
Buren.”
“No, Mr. Maher, nobody is author¬
ized to say that you will be dismissed on
that
“ A, thousand thanks to your Excel¬
lency. You seO 1 Was acquainted with
Air. like Tail Buren. He always treated me
a gentleman, after and I was for him; but
I have no doubt wS get & little bet¬
ter acquainted I shall be for you. ”
Harrison smiled, and assured him that,
he had no idea of turning him out.
Whereupon Jimmie broke hands down to the
place where he had some at work
and gave them a report of his interview.
He closed it with this grand exclamation:
“By Jove, boys, Prizident Harrison
is a rale Gineral Jackson of a fellow!”
About three weeks after the inaugura¬
tion of Gen. Harrison a well-dressed
young man of some thirty summers
walked into one of the hotels of this city
with a fiddle on his arm and said:
“Gentlemen (all eyes were at once
turned upon him). I have come here
like thousands of others to see wliat I
could see and get what I could get; but
I have been disappointed in eyerytliing.
I got no office, got out of ffioney, and
got many miles to retrace; I am too hon¬
est to steal, too pround to beg, and I
Concluded to come in here to-day and
make a little in an honest way. ”
Suiting the action to the word, lie be
gan to play the fiddle. This 'comical
scene afforded considerable amusement
io the persons there assembled. They
asked him how much money it would
take to carry him home. He said $40.
In less than ten minutes that amount was
raised for him. Sitting down and count¬
ing over his money, lie found that they
had given him $43.
“By George!” said he, “here’s a sur
plus of $3. Come in, gentlemen, all oi
you, and take something to drink.”
I never saw nor heard of him after
ward. I have regretted that I did not
learn his name and keep the hang of him.
The chances are that he has since filled
some high political position.— Washing¬
ton Letter.
A Senator’s Experience.
One day in 1864 Senator Zach Chan
dlcr was a passenger on the train from
Owosso to Lansing and, strangely
enough, identity. no one in the car had any idea
ot ' his Two men had the seat
behind him, and from talking of war
they drifted to politics, and naturally
enough Chandler’s name became mixed
U P* Both men were red hot against
STml ST
doesn t shoot the old blood-letter ! ”
“ Oh ! lie’ll get his dose yet, and don’t
y° u forget it!” replied the other,
The Senator turned slowly around,
took good look “
a at both, and then
said;
“Gentlemen, please speak a little
lower—I am Senator Chandler mvself.”
He thought he had them frozen solid,
but lie was m istaken. He had scarcely
turned his head when one of them
[ eane( j f orwa rd and replied :
“That’s all right, pard, if vou can
} )ea t the conductor with it; but don’t
t ^ to stll ff us j met the old waiting chap
b k in Qwosso not an hour ago,
to go East, and it eost me 822 cash and
g^ NfI^ewTaeket a ^J ra « ket tot 43:01 lfc out ~we “ are y ° D not ’ T !
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Auways there is a black spot P ° in our
wt « the of . ourselves, ,
—Pride that dines on vanity sups on
eouterupt
Appearances of Arsenic Eaters.
“Whenever you clap partridge, vour eyes with on a
woman as plump as a complexion, puffy a
milky whiteness of you’ve found
eyelids and swollen skin, said phj'sician a
victim of the habit,” a to
a reporter, in alluding to the growing
? be 03 , arsenic . among ... ladies, “If there
L 8 a delicate tinge oi red on the cheeks,
don t be deceived. Paint, not Nature, is
responsible for the bloom, made hideous
and ghastly by contrast with the corpsej
whiteness of the rest of the face. The
arsenic eater is seldom downcast or de¬
spondent, come what may, for the drug
not only affects the skin, but produces
mental exhilaration. The plumpness
produced by arsenic is not natural
plumpness, but rather a dropsical condi¬ habit
tion of the skin. Cessation of the
causes this water-distended skin to col¬
lapse, and wrinkles and saliowness are
the inevitable results. Of course, no
woman is willing to submit to this ordeal
when it may be prevented, at the mere
sacrifice of health and intellect, by a
continuation of the use of the drug. The
inevitable results of the arsenic habit
are hideous and incurable cutaneous
eruptions, loathsome diseases of the
scalp, falling out of the hair, dropsy,
and oftentimes insanity. But what care
the footlight favorites or the society
belle for those trifling after-inconven¬
iences so long as they can borrow illu¬
sive charms and fictitious beauty by the
use of the deadly drug ?”
—A Tenant-House League has been
organized in New York. Its object is
to “abolish landlords.” We don't quite
understand its modus operandi,. so to
speak, landlord but three if, when four a tenant months’ owes back a
or
rent—say $100—this league can be
hired, for five or ten dollars, to abolish
the landlord, the organization must fill
a long-felt want. It should extend its
field “of operations, so as to include
tailors and shoemakers. There are
times would when a liold-your-head-high the he young could
man give all money
borrow to have a tailor abolished.— Nor
ristown Herald.
Andersonrille as It Is.
A correspondent of the Buffalo Courier
describing the present condition of the
Andersonville prison pen, savs : Passing
along the memorable causeway, on either
side of which the scrub oaks grow thick¬
ly, I soon come upon the red banks of
the old earthworks that guarded the
main entrance, and to the line of de¬
cayed and fallen timbers of the outer
stockade. Inside of this, and to the
right, are the ruins of the old bakery,
now' simply a mound of earth and broken
brick from its chimney. Climbing the
rail fence that occupies the place of the
former inner line of stockade, resting
upon its piles of fatten decayed timbers,
I cross the “dead line” and stand within
the space where eighteen years ago,
diseased more than and 20,000 starved miserable, human ragged]
huddled, burrowing in the beings were
under tents of ragged blankets, ground, lying
to shelter themselves from the striving
fierce
rays of the sun.
The timbers have in great part rotted
off next the ground and fallen, lying
like tw r o great windrows, marking the
confines of the ground. But wherever
there was a timber of heart pine it is
still standing, its pitchy fibres as sound
as ever ; and there are enough of these
to enable one to readily trace the course
of the stockade nearly around the entire
place. The traces of the old, sad days
are distinctly visible on every hand. The
mounds and cavities of the thousand
dens and burrow's are everywhere. It
would be exceedingly perilous to attempt
to cross this space in the night ; and
one must have his eyes open in the day¬
time, as he is constantly coming upon
the yawning mouths of the old wells and
entrances of tunnels from fifteen to
thirty feet deep.
The wells toward the northern part of
the ground are the deepest, several of
them being thirty feet deep, the stiff red
clay precluding any danger of their
caving in ; and in fact now', after the
lapse of years, there are but few of them
that are not as perfect and their wails
as hard and smooth as the day when
they w'ere completed. The very niches
that were made in the wmlls to ascend
and descend the walls by are still plainly
visible. Some of them are partially
filled with brush and sticks that have
been thrown into them, but most of
them are entirely empty and open. The
stream which runs in at the west side
and out at the east had, at the time of
my visit, a flow of fifty gallons per
minute. It does not have a rapid cur¬
rent, but it is so broad that I could not
iurnu across it. and is about a foot deep.
BeeSj Mice* Cats, and Flowers.
Many of our orchidaceous plants abso¬
lutely require the visits of moths to
remove tlieir pollen-masses and thus to
fertilize them. I have also reason to
believe that humble-bfees are indispensa¬
ble io the fertilization of heartsease.
(Viola tricolor), for other bees do not
visit this flower. From I experiments have
which I have lately tried, found
that the visits of bees are necessary for
the fertilization of some kinds of clover;
but humble-bees alone visit the red
clover, (Trifoiiuni pfatense), as other
bees cannot reach the nectar. Hence I
have very little doubt that if the whole
genus of huffibte-bees became extinct or
very rare in England tile heartsease and
the red clover would become Very rare,
or wholly disappear. The number of
humble-bees ill any district depends in
a great degree on the number of field
mice, which destroy tlieir combs and
and Mr, H. Newman, who has
long attended to the habits of humble
bees, believes that more than two-tliirds
of them are thus destroyed all over
England. Now the number of mice is
largely dependent, as every one knows,
the number of cats, and Mr. New¬
man says : “ Near villages and small
I have found the nests of humble
more numerous than elsewhere,
I attribute to the number of cats
destroy the mice.” Hence it i3
credible that the presence of a
animal in large numbers in a dis¬
might determine, through the in¬
first of mice and then of bees,
frequency of certain flowers in that
— Darwin.
$’ 53 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE
NUMBER 28,
Exterminating Rats and Mice.
Mice and rats seem to increase very
rapidly . .. in . the haunts of civilization es¬
pecially in large cities. Seaports’ am
particularly Yorkers infested with them, as New
know’ but too well. These ver¬
min have grown to be a supreme nui¬
sance fairly there, notably in old houses, which
are appearing overrun. in They multiply every
year, numbers where a
short time ago they w’ere hardly seen
How' to get rid of mice and rats is a se¬
rious problem with householders, who
are often forced to move on their ac¬
count. Even an entirely-new house h
apt to be invaded after a few months,
and to be seriously hurt as a place of
residence by the ravages of the nox¬
ious animals. Traps, however ingen¬
ious of contrivance, do little or no
good after a brief while, as the cunning
creatures detect their purpose, and
either avoid them or secure the bait
without danger of captivity. Cats get
lazy. A good mouser will in a lew
months become indifferent to what has
been its favorite pursuit. And any or¬
dinary cat is afraid of rats, as well it
may be, and will seldom venture to at
tack them. Tliey are generally too
wary for a terrier, w’iiich, with all hri
vigilance and ferocity, is deceived by
them. It is thought that the introduc¬
tion of ferrets into houses would miti¬
gate the annoyance. They are often
employed in Europe to destroy such ver¬
min, and were so employed by the old
Romans. If kept from the cold they
though are readily taken care of, and, al¬
not docile or affectionate, they
are ranked as domestic animals. They
are natives of Africa, and dependent on
man, both here and in Europe, as with¬
out his aid they would perish. They will
soon rid a house, it is said, of mice and
rats, which have a natural dread of them,
and have been known to desert premises
that they occupy They are a terrible
unrelenting *
and foe. They are noo
turnal, sleeping nearly all day, and very
watchful at night, when the household
pests commit most of their depredations.
Their smallness and slenderness enable
them frequently to follow rata into holes
and kill them in a trice. ’ The general
belief that they destroy life by sucking
blood is erroneous, notwithstanding the
statements of naturalists, from Buffon
to Cuvier and Geoffrey St. Hilaire.
Aftei death they, like other members of
the weasel tribe, doubtless suck the
blood of tlieir victims, but they kill too
quickly for so slow a process, it has
been shown, by repeated experiments,
that they often inflict but a single
wound, which proves almost instantane¬
ously fatal. They then, as a rule, quit
then victim at once and kill another in
the same way. The simple wound is
under or behind the ear, and may or
may not pierce the largo blood-vessels.
The canines enter the spinal cord be¬
tween the skull and the first vertebra of
matadore the neck, destroying destroys the the victim bull. as the
pierce the medulla oblongata, They
the very
center of life, and immediately extin¬
guish motion, consciousness and sensa¬
tion. This is one of the many instances
in which the instinct of animals has an¬
ticipated the tardy deductions of sci¬
ence. The ferret is so masterly a rat
slayer that there seems to be every rea¬
son for introducing him into our domestic
economy, as he will accomplish wliat
trap, poison, cat and dogjiave not and
sannot.
How 1o Say If.
Say “ I would rather walk,” and not
“ J had rather walk.”
Say “I doubt not but I shall,” and not
“I don’t doubt but I shall.”
Say “for yon and me,” and not “for
you and I. ”
Say “whether I be present or not,”
and not “present or no.”
Say “ not that I know,” and not “ that
I know of. ”
Say “return it to me,” and not “re¬
turn it back to me.”
Say “I seldom see him,” and not
“ that I seldom or ever see him.”
Say “ fewer friends,” and not “less
friends.”
Say “if I mistake not,” and not “if
I am not mistaken. ”
Say * ‘ game is plentiful, ” and not
“ game is plenty. ”
Say “I am weak in comparison with
you,” and not “to you.” fast,” and not
Say “it rains very
“very hard.”
Say “in its primitive sense,” and not
“primary sense.” noted for his violence,”
Say “ lie was notorious
and not that “ he was a man
for violence. ”
Say “thus much is true,” and not
“this much is true.”
Say “ I lifted it,” and not “ I lifted it
up.” take
And last, but not least, say “I
and for it in advance. ”
my paper pay
Pearl Fishing on an American Coast.
Pearl Fishing on the coast of Lower
California la an important industry, no
less than 1,000 divers being employed in
bringing up the costly black pearl, which
is found in a great state of perfection in
the deep waters of Paz. The pearl
oysters are found from one to six miles
off shore in water from one to twenty
one fathoms deep. Merchants provide
hats, diving appartns, etc., for the pros¬
ecution of the business, on condition
that they can purchase all the pearls
These found, at prices to be agreed upon. about
boats, whieh are usually of
five tons burden, sail up and down the
coast from May " to November searching
for treasures. The product of a year's
work is about $500,000, estimating Cali tho
pearls at their first value .—Alta -
for nian.
Recognizing the Cook.
The papers are making a great ado
because Queen Victoria has the name of
the cook written beside every dish on
the bill-of-fare at her dinners, so she
knows who cooks every article on the
table, and can compliment or censure,
as she pleases. That is nothing. For
fifteen years we have adopted the same
plan, and when the liver comes underdone, on a
little burnt, or the codfish is
we know who to blame, and we know
that all we have got to do is to go and
pay the girl her back sal-Ary and it will
be all right. We don’t see that Queen
Victoria holds over us very much oq
style.— Peck's Run,