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RAILROAD RESTAURANT.
HJiul r the Gar Shod,)
ATLANTA, b'A.
Where 'll tha <1* licacics of the season
,\\ fuvuv-qeil in the best of style and
Cl 1 , 1 , ,uiy c. tablishment in the city
furnished at allbours of the
1 V BALLARD A DURAND. unej.20
The Suez (’anal.
1 When Napoleon sent his engineers to
hlic tin' levels across the Isthmus of
[uez in order to determine canal the through practica¬ the
lity of digging a
jiiiJ for commercial purposes, of they
node out that the surface the Gulf of
iitez was thirty feet higher than the
ilediteiTane.nl, and so the project was
or the. time given up. The blunder in
}lie, survey was not discovered until
|S|n, when new schemes began to be
l it nt ( 1 lor cutting a ship channel from Europe that
mild shorten the voyage
in India and he East b\ almost the tin
A’ did an* n around tho continent of
sf)l M. de 1 sep formed a canal
oini ;un an I obluii ed a grant from tho
ii 1 ■ ; , (u | ,i-vjii ioj' ■ i net V“tiitie years.
I ■ dieaie was looked upon with si is
G um by Hv.tbh en lieee.rs an 1 British
ta pita lists, and Ihc inception and prose
hiti"H 01 the enterprise were largely
|j"' 'j* the French. In 18V) the work
a- ■ and ten years later the
ed Sea a TT the Mediterranean met in
I r Hit tor ;es. rile total length of
!e canal no! far from DO ‘miles,
ml mt eiity-liva miles of the course
111 Li>r;:,e./l>yoxeavatieii and twenty-’
1 11 ’ dm 0i/i. G'limus, through the shallow
I which, in many
required deepening. Tim ordi
tin width of the canal is did feet at the
it 1 riace an I: evaaty-lwo li> -t at the bot
"iii, I lie depth of 1 he water being
wouty si\ feet. 1 hero are no locks
hronghouL its course, and ils termini
ire Suez, at. the entrance to (he Gulf of
MU' on the south, from which point,
Die re ,IV railroads to Cairo and Alex
unlm and a “fresh-water canal” to
% j 1 * orl ‘'kid al the margin of
f ,,'j , 1 *]!•" "'H 'terranran 0l j 111 iii'tilieial on the harbor north. Tho
t ,,' "jOi at each
n j" | the <l necessary proloc
akin- tlinn ilM'Vy 1 ,iml ”r
l:' r "»> l ' Ill!!l l
1
!; tl- lh Of ^^! ln S 01 : en r l0li 1 Ih'd :| ,C
’ " was pnldidy
••-••Mtaeoiisliehl announced
1 had purchased from
" " "A 10 had become viceroy
y ‘ "'-'J '’ 'h title of Khedive,
' 1 ' 1
| ,u 1,1 * 00,000 shares of £20
,, "j lu '' s, !"i paid iM.
in() : was 080,000,
I to the Rothschilds
-"("unfi'il,o'-'V'Vr lu> .,,’ 1 0 , Mlu ' —ore. H’ansaetion 1 >y
terms ot p ‘the Government
’j j till -jiterost the at U 18:M, vo percent, on the
year after which it
‘■•■’•three me miters !,f'j lie" Bo'mi of'"rib
,V P'"-eniing the interest of the
Kritis fts'idei,('.e '. 0n 1111 n b of Whom
l t . one i ■s a
hithorte reiiHiW •! rt' | 01 ' !l 1111>avis ’ orfcct * where accord he has
’ i • p with
| I'Uf 'n -Alortt v in . the directory.
K’(*w "•Vic York'it' 11 ^ '■ in s ^°’ ^°.' va compiled the by the
thnt 1. enormous
ad j 1 ' through the canal
mid 1 Mis t ' smee it,
iv was opened:
V Ton I rirccii i's.
Kl 48 > 1557,911 Sil ,0151,80 >
7C> 701,407 I, 798,7 to
-Mb'o.ors II, 281,518
2 .12:5.i;7» L.)7!t,ltU
2,940,7)8 55,1)71,877
15,073,107 5,777,'W0
Ks 55.418,019 5,995,000
1*59 :»,29i.5r> «,'5Hl,8:>9
55,200,912 (5,219,01«
5 >*j-j
5,794,0(19 4,5541,5 1 9
In 1870 filial 10,251,005)
a ml furnished 61 per
tho ton uage which sought
.
, f ' '■>, Mi in 1812, 70;
, and in 1875, 71; in
■’ 1878, 79; in
‘•on, ' ‘ a ’ u i last year 82
urn , -tit. Gian four-fifths of the
seen that although
tho not () wn a controlling in
; ' /oration, she is
thi never
ish ‘ommeree. o°"^ Rati When wl° k ?!' the p
k: j v:u ' broke out in IN77
hu't, "'t Russia, taking ad
DM that the canal was
i S( j^‘ / ;; or " ! a hloekado Turkish it, dependeu- but En
.w t !lu t ne declaring
<h ,m m that the
-a't I th' n Utra1 n(l in
r\ 1 , 1 n ! g unobstructed ’ ^ Panting navi
ii,.,.. SSt •ntial
to every State in
is*. .....iitah^tf^flexists, 11 b us the power that and
,
soil i bave *he highway to
n : ho burden
!, , , 151 , r ^ of re
gp W I xto Jv„. a the au( t hal1 his army to
*‘ e;t cr >’ ^ not have
♦At,, ” rfe « re with the canal
, l> i _
. “"An in. fitt .
s ;' e of the l-.lr s loe WAS The primary
' kt' hlood-poiaoning, oi
*• * 4 ®** 1 ‘4 Wpptii«ld, N, X*
TOPICS OF THE DAI.
Canada is anxious to send a regiment
to Egypt.
The Germans are mixing somewhat in
the Egyptian troubles.
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Tiiere are only nine members of the
Vanderbilt family at Saratoga.
Raid-way mail employes are to be
classed as postal clerks hereafter.
Archbishop Patrick A. Feehan, of
Chicago, is to be made a Cardinal.
A number of fatal sunstrokes have
been reported from New York City.
New wheat is being shipped from
Texas directly to Italy and Liverpool.
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Hog cholera is creating alarm among
the farmers of McLean County, Illinois.
The Sultan of Turkey finally con
c ^ U(1 * ed to regard Arabi Bey as a traitor.
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Jefferson Davis is spending his time
attending camp-meetings in Mississippi.
The farmers of Southern Iowa will
try tho experiment of raising cotton
next season.
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Harvest is now in progress in Central
Dakuta, and the crops are reported 10 Le
above the average.
Ex-Publio Printer Defrees, who
was for a long time ill, is now in a fair
way toward recovery.
Mr. Gladstone is very closely guarded
uow-a-days. Even at church he has
two police attendants.
The Mormon missionaries in the
South claim that agitation is Helping
them to obtain proselytes.
The weather in J reland is reported as
having improved, and there are now fair
prospects for a good potato crop.
Lawless Turtle Mountain Indians
have crossed the border from Canada
into Dakota, evidently to amuse the set¬
tlors.
Emigration for America thus far this
. less than last Kstill, about
is year.
as many paupers are arriving as can
well be cared for.
——
Franklh tho sculptor, is at
work in iiis Rome, Italy, on a
eolosaal statue of e late Oliver P.
Mv*rton, of Indiana.
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The Detroit Free Press says that
babies are so small in the little Htate of
Rhode Island that they spank them
with a tack-hammer,
The President has approved the act
appropriating $50,000 for Mrs. Luoretia
Garfield, less any amount paid President
Garfield on account of salary.
n Cincinnati announces that ,, . she , drank , .
140,000,000 glasses of beer last year,
saying nothing of the chaps who sent
quart pitchers fco the nearest saloon.
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The appointment of M. ,L. Joslyn, of
Illinois, First Assistant Secretary of tlie
Interior, it seems, has not exactly satis
fed tho people of Northern Illinois.
A PARTY of Chippewa Indians are
ia Washington endeavoring to conclude
lie g oti ations for the transfer of 3,200,000
acres of the reservation, near Red Lake,
Minnesota, to the Government.
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Boston has passed a law prohibiting
the sale of the toy pistol. Baltimore,
where there were so many cases of look
jaw from the explosion of these weapons
0110 ymr ogo > P as8ed •, 8Uch , a , law > ,
**Hs year they had no lockjaw to report.
Our of twenty New York doctors who
wer e asked to give an opinion of ice
water, seventeen declared it all right as
a beverage. The other three have all
the practice they can take care of.
A Miss Fox, in New Orleans, has
sued Mr. Low for breach of promise,
placing her damages at one dollar. That
is satire sure enough. Low must feel
very low at the low value placed upon
him.
TnF. London Queen has decided that
it is unpardonable for young women,
married or single, to walk out, alone.
This is a hint to young men. We pre¬
sume it is perfectly proper for older
ladies—if there are any such—to go it
alone.
The President bearing has referred 49,000 a supple
mental petition signa
tures, from the Garfield Club of New
York City, asking the pardon of Ser
geant Mason, to the Secretary of Wai,
^ ogethor witll several other and similar
....
P°
t ^ _
Mrs. Hesbt Labofchere, * wife of the
'"T° °f Lorn.on Tru h. who instructed . , . ,
f r
-'Jr®* Langtry for her debut, will accom
P au y her pupil and protege on her tour
in the United States. Mrs. Labouchere
is a charming person, known formerly on
the stage as Miss Henrietta Hodsoii, an
actress of great talent and vivacitv.
_ - m _.
Cadet Whittaker delivered his first
lecture on “Color Line in the Nation’s
School, _ , , „ m . Baltimore, ^ ... where , , he retold , ,,
the story of that ear slitting scrape. He
also told how frightfully he had been
misused throughout his entire term at
, -r, • l ______ r .f no ; n „
iug him “that nigger. He sara also
ttxat he was lecturing for money,
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Twi QinoippAti Qa&tU UUc ttli» hop
ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHILE TRUTH IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT."
CONYERS, GA„ FRIDAY AUGUST 11, 1882.
rid tale if two good little Sunday-school
Two Denver boys, having read about kid
napping, stole a wealthy woman’s pet dog,
?urn" IpreifM * Tfshe°did'noYwl ?fey°‘ ' SSS&S 25 f ° r re ‘
send her every day an inch of the precious
brute’s tail. Being easily caught, they
proved to be Sunday-school pupils of good
standing, '
E r T “ vrGtty we ':« w;th -•
,, k ged newspapers. Alexandria has three
dailies in French, two in Arabic, two in
Italian, and one in Greek and English,
with circulations running up to 5 00(1
.
besides six weeklies, two in Arabic, one
in Italian, and one in English. Cairo,
with its population of 350,000, has but
two dailies, both in French, and four
weeklies; Egyptians I)events, a weekly
paper in Arabic, is the government or
gan and l.as a circulation of 10 000
, .
mt ban! lias two French -weeklies, and
Suez, IsmaJia, and other places, have
what are called newspapers.
Port Said.
Port Said- where the European
Povvers will probably land their troops
if they resolve to protect the Suez Canal
against bellious posible Egyptian destruction by the re
merely army, twenty-three
years J. whidl ago was had been a selected narrow strip of
ean( as. the
the staivnig po.ntoithe great canal bcv%*-on
Mediterranean and the Rod 3 cCj. M.
De Lesseps then predicted that some
day it would rival Alexandria. .His
prediction, it would seem, will be re
aiized within a short time. The city
has grown and is growing with mar
velous swiftness. It has still the neat
and prim Swiss look imparted to it a*
its birth by MM. Dussaud. It is p ’”,
according dolls houses, to one chronicler, “art
with a church -Jd a
mosque and en a. el-look mg boons an
caies t mt might have issued from a
Nuremberg toy-box. 1 Saul But hero There the m
nominee ot ort stops. is
nothing prim about it save its arch 1 tec
uic, icing a hot-bod ot vice and crime
unstemmed and uncontrolled by the
highway Egyplmi Zaptieh—-a sort of Ra tel ill
without the lliames 1 olice
Goui., where a day or night rarely
p as mis without some mariner 01 other,
b ack or white, bem^ openly kmfed in
the Grande Rue. 1 orfc ,_aid never
sleeps. Attached to that uncomfortable,
I expensive hostelry, the Hotel des Pays
as, are theorchestra a gam fling-hell which and a conceit
ioom, of is furnished
by German young ladies imported
10 m nes m 1 he an n al of an Indian
‘trooper a‘P. and O ora Messageries’
from Saigon and Galle is the signal for
a tuning up of fiddles and violmcellos.
But the fun waxes taster and more
funous when an Australian drops her
anchor m the basin I hen the young
comers with a sprightly waltz at what¬
ever hour of the night or morning it
may be, utterly regardless of the peace
of mind or body of the unlucky wight
the who hard may be beets courting of the sleep on one of
Hotel des Pays
Bas .”—London Warld.
Certainly He Would.
The other evening, as a muscular citi
r.en was passing a house on Montcalm
street, a lady who stood at the gate
oalled out to him :
“Sir! I appeal to you for protec¬
tion!”
“What’s the trouble?” he asked, as
he stopped short.
“There’s a man in the house, and he
wouldn’t go outdoors when I ordered
him to!”
“lie wouldn’t, eh! We’ll see about
that!”
Thereupon the man gave the woman
his coat to hold and sailed into the
house spitting on his hands. He found
a man down at the supper-table, and he
took him by the neck and remarked:
“Nice stylo of a brute you are, eh I
Come out o’ this, or I’ll break every
bone in your body! ”
The man fought back, and it was not
until a chair had been broken, and the
table upset that he was hauled outdoors
by the legs, and given a fling through
the gate. Then, as the muscular citi¬
zen placed his boot where it would do
the most hurt, he remarked: “Now,
then, you brass-faced old tramp, you
move on or I’ll finish you.”
“Tramp! tramp!” shouted the vio
tim, as he got up, “I’m no tramp! I
own this property and live in this
house!”
“You do?”
“Yes, and that’s my wife holding
your coat!”
“Thunder!” whispered the victim, as
he gazed from one to the other, and
realized tl ?vt the wife had got square
through his him; and then he made a grab
for coat and sailed into the dark¬
ness with his shirt bosom torn open, a
finger ready badly bitten, and two front teeth
to drop cut .—Detroit Free Press.
An Idea Worth Adopting.
xhe water . b d . f ,
of a doubtful character that travelers
have resorted to the prudent expedient
of drinking only some well-known min
eral water. Thereupon a large trade
has been done in the purchase from rag
and bottle merchants of such mineral
water bottles as still bore the labels in a
to grlv fill Koo.! them condition with ordinary It was and then possiblv easy
contaminated water, adding salt to give
the taste and appearance of the desired
mineral spring. By this fraud the cou
sumer was not merely robbed but made
to drink the very water he was doing
his best to avoid. We are therefore
pieased to note that in France at least
the Prefect ot Police has adopted ener
£. etic measures to check this abuse.
6r ? e ” hav ® be f u given to visit all de
pots of mineral waters, to seize hap
hazard a specimen and analyze it on the
spot The tradesmen will also be called
upon to exhibit their invoices to prove
whence their stock is derived. Not only
are the stores of wholesale agents or
jj OUse keeqvers will be subjected to an
vigorous supervision, and all
venders of such falsificatioos will be lia
hie to prosecution. —London lancet.
Agricultore and National Prosperity*
Never before perhaps in the history
of the country has greater interest been
taken ia the £ rowin g crops than at the
XT* ‘ ^ T 1f ?' ^
conn try is small, meat ot all kinds is
scarce and high, and almost for the first
bime has there been a necessity for im
porting «;>“• potatoes, roots, and garden
roi h i„ c r^ sw;
cribs, warehouses, elevators, and cellars,
It has been remarked that the world is
ordinarily within less than a year of
starvation, and that hunger can not wait,
We are nearer the realization of this
startling statement than we have been
for ^ many years. yca We have more people
to feed than we ever had before, and
the number is constantly increasing,
Ordinarily some articles of food are
P lea ¥ ul atl( J cheap, but at present ey
^rk.pftatocT^_______- —— — Even corn meal, salt
pork, potatoes, and cured fish ..... are -..... high.
Persons can not live cheaply if they de
sire to. Every article that will help
support life in man or the inferior ani¬
mals commands a good price. At pres¬
ent every one takes an interest in the
reports of condition of crops and is de
sirous of obtaining the latest informa
tion respecting them. There is anxiety
on every hand in respect to the weather
and the extent of the damage by storms
and by the attacks of insects. Dealers
in other articles than grain and provi
sions are deeply interested in the pro
duction of these articles. They are
careful to gain the fullest information
possible about the prospect for crops in
every section of the country before they
value sell iarge bills of day goods on credit. The
of every of sunshine is care
fully estimated in a thousand inflicted counting
rooms. The damage by a severe
in and the long protracted storm is calculated
same way. The worth of sun and
heat is fully appreciated,
A larger proportion of the inhabitants
0 f this country are directly engaged in
agriculture than can. be found in almost
an y country in the world. In the
g rea t markets where the commerce of
all nations center we exchange grain,
meat, cotton, and tobacco for manufac
tured articles. If we do not produce
them in abundance we have nothing with
which we can carry on foreign trade.
Our tariff laws, designed to build up do
mes tie manufacturers to supply local
consumption, have an injurious effect
0 n the manufacture of articles for ex¬
Manufactures 0rt . Tho prosperity of nearly all our
depends on the produc
tion 6 f raw materials that can be work
ed We make cotton c i oth from lint
produced from our own fields. Our ci
ears are manufactured from home-grown
tobaceo . The whisky, / ’ alcohol, ’^ glucose,
and starch we ma e for ho e con
sumption \ and exp0 rt are prodaced from
in A the shortage dec] f in the corn crop £ re
TOlt8 ne ()f tho amount f ar _
m produced from it. We never im
port com, and it is difficult to find a
substitute for it in the articles we are
in the habit of manufacturing from it.
The prosperitv of our manufacturers
depends indireotly, as welt as directly,
on the prosperity of our agriculture. A
large proportion of our people depend
on the crops they raise for the means to
purchase manufactured goods of every
kind. They must restrict their con¬
sumption to their ability to buy
and make payment with the
product of their fields. If crops
are small, only manufactured
articles of necessity can be purchased
by people living in the country. If
they ticles are large, they can indulge in ar¬
that conduce to comfort or minis¬
ter to luxury. People in the country
adapt themselves to their incomes bet¬
ter than people who live in cities. They
are more secluded, and on that account
can get along better with poor furniture
and articles of clothing.
The prosperity of all our great trans¬
portation companies depends on our ag¬
ricultural pi'osperity. The lai’gest pro¬
oarrying portion of our freight cars are built for
grain, Many live stook, and dairy
pro ducts. of our leading railroads
were constructed for the transportation
of farm products. Several of them
could not pay the ordinary running
expenses if they relied on passenger
traffic and the carrying of manufactured
goods good the for support. When crops are
trains run on them are many
and long. When crops are poor the
reverse in both particulars is true.
What is true of railroad transportation
is also true of steamboat and vessel
transportation. The latter, no less
than the former, were built for the most
part for carrying farm products and
farm older supplies. its As the country ‘more becomes
prosperity depends and
large more on portion agriculture. of people At one time a
our were en¬
gaged in the marketing the natural produc¬
tions of country. They killed wild
animals and. sent their skins to market.
They cut down forests that were not
planted by the hand of man. They
washed surface gold out of gulches, and
became rich chiefly through the opera¬
tions of nature. Many lived on the
product of the chase. They ate the flesh
of wild animals and birds, and sold the
skins of the former. In many parts of
the country civilized men produced the
articles they ate and wore in the same
way that savages did. The natural
products of the country supplied many
of the articles that in most parts of
the world are obtained only by continu¬
ous and persistent toil. On this account
many supported life by hunting and
fishing. At present it is necessary to
plant feed in order to reap, to breed and
cattle in order to have meat, to till
the ground in order to have crops.
Times are prosperous or the reverse
according to the production of cultivat¬
ed crops .—Chicago Times.
—A the bad Black neighborhood—-Translated Maria: Lawyer- “Do
from
you, \\ itness, know whether with their
mouths about their each the neighbors
much talking there do?'’ Witness—“I
to smile myself should be about to be.
If iu a that band-box such*too one aesthetic" tightly sealed friend¬ up
was , for
ship was the neighbors with heads free¬
ly wagging would over-the-line-fence
betwecn-iwo-back-yards er.” tell each oth¬
—Louispiil Courier*Journal
DRIFTING DOWN THFj STREAM.
The. sinking with sun, within the west,
Shone a parting with gleam; hoys,
An old boat, filled merry
Was drifting down a stream.
Their eyes were bright, their hearts were
earthly light; had they.
No care face brown,
While drifting down, with s
And laughter, loud and gay.
Beneath an overhanging shore, tree,
That grew upon the
An old man sat; a look of pain
His furrowed features wore.
“ Alas!” he sighed, "this life of ours
Is fleeting as a dream; all
How like these thoughtless boys we
Are drifting down the stream!
" My form is bent, my hair is gray,
My limbi are racked with pain,
My years have idly slipped away.
To come no more again.
" I might have been a worthy man;
Another in my place
Would have devised some useful plan
To benefit his race:
“ But I have let those chances pass
That make men good and great;
Old age comes creeping on, alas 1
Behold my low estate!
“ For lie who benefits his race,
Nor drags his comrades down,
Will hold in Heaven the highest place
And wear tho brightest crown !’*
—Eugene J. Hall, in Chicago Inter- Ocean .
Growing Uelery.
The seed-bed should be made very
fine, and well fertilized with the finest
of manure, and the rows marked oil
about ten inches apart. The seed should
be covered very shallow, and often pass¬
ing a garden-roller over the rows will
cause sufficient covering. When the
plants appear, they should be carefully
weeded out; and when they have reached
the height of nearly a foot, they should
be pruned down to a few inches, so that
a thick growth may be insured. It is
also claimed that the when transplanting thus shortened in¬
jures them far less
of their leaves.
The celery beds should next be thor¬
oughly stirred to a good depth, mixing
make the soil as thoroughly from lumps, as and possible give to
it free so
the roots the best chance to attain their
food. The plants, when set in the rows,
need not exceed eight inches apart, and
should have the earth firmed about
them, as anything which contributes
towards retaining moisture is a benefit
to the plants. Setting eight inches
apart, in rows three feet distant from
each other, gives not only ample room
for working, but allows all the space
necessary for their development and
final breaking up. After some weeks of
the fiat culture, a change will be neees
sary in order to blanch the stalks,
which is done by bringing the
soil up about them. The stalks are
closed together by the hand, and
the soil is again firmed about them, care
being taken to keep it around the plant,
but notallow it to get upon the “heart”
of the stalk, as this would defeat the ob¬
ject sought. As the soil is washed clown,
and is otherwise removed from about
the stalks, the process of banking up
will have to be repeated. The final
banking close up may be delayed until the
approach of winter, as the frosts
of the late fall seem to give the stalks
an With especial the crispness and tenderness.
dwarf varieties, the lessened
labor of preparing them for blanching is
the best argument in their favor, as a
much less amount of eaith is required,
with consequent diminished work. As
winter approaches, the soil is loosened
up between the rows, and is then thrown
up quite to their tops; but if they are to
be secured so as to be accessible for win¬
ter markets,the trenching process of pres¬
ervation method, will most likely be the best
but for early use, the banking
up, and covering with a coating of straw,
will answer quite as well. In covering
in the trenches, the precaution of heat¬
ing must be avoided, which can be best
accomplished by gradual covering, in¬
creasing winter demands, the depth as the severity of
so that altogether a
foot or more of straw may be required.
— Cor. Country Gentleman.
How a Tiger Strikes Down Its Prey,
It is a disputed point how a tiger
strikes down its prey, and, although I
have lived in and roamed jungles for
the greater part of my life, and have
had two ponies killed, I never saw an
animal struck down, though I have
come upon the quivering carcass not
yet cold. Opinions differ. Williamson
says: “The tiger’s fore-paw i 3 the
invariable engine of destruction. Most
people prived of imagine its claws that if a tiger were de¬
and teeth he would
be rendered harmless, but this is a
great error. The weight of the limb is
the real cause of mischief, for the claws
The are rarely extended when a tiger seizes.
operation is similar to that of a
hammer; the tiger raises his paw, and
brings only it Gown with such force as not
to stf 11 a common-sized bullock or
a buffalo, i* it even crushing the bones
of the skull. I have seen many men
and deer that have been killed by tigers,
in most of which no mark of a claw
could be seen; and when scratches did
appear chance, they were obviously the effect of
from the claw sliding down¬
ward, and not from design.” Johnson
is of a contrary opinion, for he says .*
Cbittra “During a residence of nine years in
I have never seen a man or an
animal killed by a tiger that had not
the mark of claws, yet I admit that
the force with which a tiger generally
strikes is sufficient of itself, without the
aid of his claws, to kill men or large
animals, and I believe that it occasion¬
ally described, takes place in the manner I have
but never from its weight,
like the fall of a hammer.” Of my two
ponies, the first was seized in the stable
and by the throat and the windpipe severed,
I also saw a bullock thus treated at
Papicondah, on the Godavery. My
second pony was killed by a grip of the
upper part of the neck, by which the
jugular was severed, and though the
tiger was driven off, the pony bled to
death.— London Field.
TFork.
There is no remedy for trouble equal
to hard work—labor that will tire you,
physically, sleep. to such an extent that you
must Lf you have met with loss¬
es, you don’t want to lie awake and think
about them. You want sleep—calm,
sound sleep—and to eat your dinner
with an appetite. But yoq unless
work.
How to Walk.
It may seem at first ridiculous to pre¬
tend to teach grown people how to walk
infancy. as though But they had not learned this in
the assertion we that are willing to venture
not one person in
twenty knows how to walk \yeU. How
few people there are who do not feel
slightly walk embarrassed when obliged to
across a large room in which are
many persons seated so as to observe
'veil each movement! How many pub¬
lic speakers there are who appear well
upon the platform so long as they re¬
main standing still, or nearly so, but
who become almost ridiculous as soon
as walkers they attempt to walk about. Good
are scarce. As we step along
the street, we are often looking out for
good seldom. walkers, and we find them very
What is good walking? Wo
Nearly answer, all easy, the graceful, natural walking.
will be found good walkers there are
fashion insists among gentlemen, sineo
that she cannot on so walk trammeling well, a worn*
an can scarce¬
ly make a natural movement, in fact.
To walk naturally, requires the harmo¬
nious action of nearly every muscle in
the oody. A good walker walks all
over; not with a universal swing and
swagger, pendulum as though each bone was a.
with its own separate hang¬
muscles ing, but easy, gracefully. Not only tlnise the
of the lower limbs, but, of
the trunk, even of the neck, as well as
those of the arms, are all called into ac¬
tion as natural wa’king. A person who
keeps while his trunk and upper extremities
rigid walking, gives one the im¬
pression of an automaton with pedal
extremities set on hinges. Nothing
could ing, wriggling be more ungraceful gait than the minc¬
which the majority
of young ladies exhibit in their walk.
They are scarcely to be held responsi¬
ble, however, since fashion requires
thorn to dress themselves in such a way
as to make it impossible to walk other¬
wise than awkwardly and unnaturally.
We cannot attempt to describe the
numerous varieties of unnatural gaits,
and will lea ve the subject with a few
suggestions Hold the about head correct walking.
1 . erect, with the
shoulders drawn back and the chin
drawn disagreeable in. Nothing than looks more awkward
and a person walking
with the head thrown back and the nose
and chin elevated.
2. Step lightly and with elasticity—
not with a teetering gait—setting the
foot down squarely upon the walk and
raising it sufficiently high to clear the
walk in swinging it forward. A shuf¬
fling gait denotes a shiftless character.
But dc'not goto the other extreme,
stepping along like a horse with “string
halt. A person with a firm, light,
elastic gait, will walk much farther
without weariness than one who shuf¬
fles along A kind of measured tread
or rhythm in the walk also seems to add
to the power of endurance, although,
for persons who have long distances to
travel, an occasional change in the time
will be advantageous. walking, do keep
3. In not attempt to
any part of the body rigid, but leave all
free to adapt themselves to the varying
circumstances which a The constant change
of position occasions. arms natur¬
ally swing gently, but not violently.
The object of this is to maintain the
balance of the body, as also by the gen¬
tle swinging motion to aid in propell¬
ing 1 he body along.
Correct walking should be cultivated.
It ought to be taught along with arts
and sciences. In our military schools
it is taught; but these schools can be at
tended by but few. Invalids, especial¬
ly, should take great pains to learn to
walk well, as by so doing they will gain
more than double the amount of benefit
they will otherwise derive from the ex¬
ercise.— Home Hand-Book
An . Incident , .. , in . Chopm s Travels. .
On one occasion, when Chopin had
bee>' traveling several days in the slow
fashion of the German surprised diligences, stopping he
was delighted smaTl and on
at a post-house to discover a grand
piano-forte in one of the rooms, and still
more surprised to find it in tune—thanks
probablv to the musical taste of the post
master’s family. He sat down instantly
and beo-an 10 improvise in his peculiarly
happy manner. One by one the travel
ers were attracted by the unwonted
sweet sounds, one of them even his letting
his beloved pipe go out in ecstacy.
The postmaster, his wife and two daugh
ters joined the group of listeners. Un
mindful of his audience, of the journey,
the lapse of time, and continued everything play but
the music, Chopin listen in to
and his companions last to he paused rapt the at
tention. When at
servant appeared with wine; the host’s
daughter served the artist first, then the
travelers; then the postmaster proposed
a cheer for the musician, in which all
joined. The women in the with r gratitude
tilled the carriage-pockets the best
eatables and wine the house contained,
and when at last the artist rose to go
his gigantic host seized him in his arms
and bore hiratothe carriage.-” Life oj
('horno ”
—At the centennial celebration held
in Siam, in honor of the founder of the
present dynasty, King P’ra Bagnt Som
det P’i’a Puttha Yot Fa Chulakok, the
ceremonies Highness were Somdet inaugurated Cliowfa by liis
Royal Bhauu
rangsi Swangwongs Wordet Krom H'uang address 1 han
uphantawongs in an to
his Majesty King Somdet P’ra
mindr Mali a Chulalongkorn, who then
laid the corner-stone of a new memorial
temple, which he named Pratommabor
ommarachanusawavi. Other addresses
were made by Chow Phya Phanmvongs
Maha Wora Dhipati and Chow Thi Sam
lavvongs Kalanome. Wai The Wad ceremonies he, the Samuha took place P’ra
in the capital, Krung Tln-p Maha Nak
hon Amaratna Kosindr Mahindr Ayu
thava .—Boston Transcript.
—Salmon “planted” in Whit-Bear
Lake,a short dis ance from St. Pi ul four
years ago, are flourishing finely, and
are biting at the hooks of fishermen
verv liberally. upwards, They according weigh from the th ee
pounds to im
agination of the fisherman .—Si Louis
Globe.
—They are to have a new crematory
U Now York* with a capital of $60,000,
$•.50 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE
NUMBER 30,
WIT AND WISDOM.
—Shallow men believe in luck; strong
men believe in cause and effect.
—You can have what you like in this
world, if you will but like what you
have.
--Said a fond husband to his wife:
“Mv dear, I think I’ll buy you a little
dog.” not! I prefer “Oh, giving no!” she‘replied, “do
you all my affec¬
tions!”— Progress.
—Here lies a man whose earthly race is run*
Ho raised the hammer of fowling ’
a gun,
And blow into the muzzle hist because
He wished to know if it was loaded—and it
was.
—Somerville, Journal.
—Mr. Editor: Will you please answer
who was “David’s wife's mother?” and
you will greatly oblige a reader.—Liz¬
zie. Certainly, with pleasure. David’s
wife’s mother was David’s mother*iu
law .—Philadelphia News.
—An accordeon factory at Long Isl¬
and, N. Y., was police' destroyed by fire‘a few
days ago. The avo looking for
the incendiary. It is supposed the peo¬
ple want to present him with a valua¬
ble testimonial .—Norristown Herald.
—Gus l)e Smith called at a very fash¬
ionable house on Austin avenue a few
days ago and acted so queerly that
when that lady’s husband came home.
she said: “What is the matter with
young De Smith? He acted so strange¬
ly. 1 think there must be a screw
loose about him somewhere.” “Reek
011 not. I saw him this morning, and
he was tight ail over.”— Texas Siftings.
—A store up-town has a sign which
reads: “This is a tin-store.”' An old
inebriate staggered in recently, and aft¬
er a good deal of fumbling in his pock¬
et, put live cents on the counter. “What
do you want?” asked tho proprietor,
indignantly. “Wa-wa-wan.t a-a d-d-a
drink!” “This is not a liquor saloon!”
said the proprietor, with awful empha¬
sis. “Wha-wha-what!” said the drunk¬
en man, astonished. “Why, Jo-Jo
Jones said I could get a horn here!”—
N. F. Tribune.
love —A good her husband, adviser says: “ Next to the
of nothing so crowns
a woman’s life with honor as the devo¬
tion of a sou to her. We never knew a
boy to turn out badly who began by fall¬
ing in love with his mother. Any man
may fall in love with a fresh-faced girl,
and the man who is gallant to the girl
may cruelly neglect the poor and weary
wife in after years. But tho big boy
who is a lover of his mother at middle
age is a true knight, who will love his
wife in the sere-leaf autumn as he did
in the daisied spring. There is nothing
so big beautifully chivalrous as the love of a
this.”__ boy for his mother. Boys, think of
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injurious Insects.
There are few things more humiliat¬
ing to humanity than the sense of man’s
helplessness before very small insects.
Tigers enough, or wolves if we really can exterminate ourselvos
easily we and set weasels
to work at it; ,- ats, mice
we can keep down somehow. But be¬
fore the Colorado beetle or the seven¬
teen-year locust we are practically al¬
most resourceless. And before the
phylloxera or the hop-fly we can hardly
folded do more than look Yet on regretfully is consola¬ with
hands. it some
tion to reflect that what seems at first
sight a useless and purely ornamental
science can help us to some extent»in
dealing with these infinitesimal pests.
The only way to conquer them, if way
there be at all, is to learn their whole
life-history; to know them in the egg,
in the larva, in the pupa, in the full
fledged insect; to crush them in every
stage with whatever weapon the subtle¬
ties of chemistry or mere todonoth- ingenious
brute force can suggest; and
ing which can in any way give them 1
single extra chance of life. Nothing, in
fact, could better show the intimate in
teraction ami reaction of knowledge and
pvactice than this interesting stwfy. On
the one hand, no moans can be devised
for getting rid of injurious insects ex¬
cept by a thorough scientific acquaint
ance with their origin and metamor
pi loses; on the other hand, no such care
ful observations on particular undertaken, iite-his- prob
tones have ever been
ably, except with the stimulus ot some
practical advantage to mankina m view,
Thus science and agriculture both gain
by the conjunction Even buttertly
hunting has its special commercial to bo uses, the
when the butterfly turns out
parent of the gooseberry caterpillar, or
to lay the eggs from which a warm .>un
will hatch out the destructive cabbage
worm.
Many of these observations help to
bring out the minute interaction wnici
often obtains between dalerent pa*
of the organic balance; ao that it we
want to exterminate a particular by insect,
we must sometimes begin encouiag
ing or repressing some seemingly un
connected bird or plant. lor ex impie,
botanists have long known tiiat wee
seasons charlock, are and particularly that alter two ^ o, or iwcto three
such seasons the fields unless diJ.genu/
weeded, are yellow all over with its
bright blossom. But chariock w ap
parentlv the native food-plant spreads ot tur
nip fly, from which the insect
easily to the cultivated turnip—a close
ly allied artificial form; much as the
Colorado beetle, originally parasitic took on a
solanum in the Rocky food Mountains, of the
readily to the richer very
j similar no'a'o vines, as soon as extenu
! ed tillage began to approach its natural
■ habitat. careful ^__
It is only by such
with practical application outwit 01 insect
that we can hope to o
foes; for the more widely any particular
crop is grown, the more spread generally and can
Even its natural in England, enemies where hill and survive. dale,
copse and hedge break up the tilth, and
where small fields intermixed, of vai'qasstaples the insects are
habitually much
can easily migrate from patch to patch
of their special food plant: while in
America, where the same crop some
times covers hundreds of square miles
together on the uiilenced and unbroke
plum, locusts and army worms
march straight across coun y,_ 3
alter day, in regular batta 1 - *
dames' Ga ze tie. ____
An exchange says : “ Streams all over
the country are running dry.” Tins is a
canard. When a stream dry xt can {
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