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(Pi, |r . all th* delicacies of the season
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Young I’lg Feeding.
persona really know how to feed
pigs aright. They them generally
matter and give too
Jpcli fit the a time. feed left They in muss the trough, and wal- so
lit in hun
it is unfit for them, and when
gft- forces them to eat it, it makes them
IK The owner, seeing feed in the
either adds more to it, or waits
til it is eaten. In either ease he time does
ong. Before feeding the second
trough should always be washed or
1 1 out clean. Pigs should never be
to eat food in which they have
with their dirty feet. This
lliils to the remark that t heir feet should
lie dirty. Tho pen should be so
tlmgh should that the leading place—the elevated
be sufficiently
J§ Sastv [that tho up” juices this in the and pen there will should not
bed odditig enough part,
in tho pen to enable
pigs to keep their feet and their en
bodies clean, when this is done the
will not be so dirty and the pigs
do better. We have often cautioned
raid, giving it. injurious young pigs too hearty
as is to them; so is
•fi food. Tho former produces de
of the stomach and bowels,
to diarrhea, and if continued to
tBIhiinmation of the bowels, and the lat
,0 nausea, loss of appetite and per
I||'S pigs tho do same results. thrive. In either case
not Another mis
which must be guarded against is
8W U1 or milk too sour.
■IVlien wheat or rye brail is mixed
the swill, fermentation is very
swill especially will m hot weather, and
reach a condition unfit
T toed before the owner is aware of it,
he mixes only a sufficient quanti
■ at a time for one or two feedings
1 fermentation in a swill barrel
icre sour milk is mixed with the oon
f f 18 ,n wtiv ontation e'y going changes on the all character the time,
j ''I'd, the larraer often feeds his
‘
Ul *g pip just exactly that which is
iiibt it n 0 t absolutely poisonous,
lull' he is supposing all of the time he
ping them the most healthful and
fitntioua kinds of food. For instance,
r puts skim milk into his swill ban-el,
1 ot it that it is not fed out as
pimply llns there sour until and lopperd, it undergoes and it re
her iorms of -v the
™ es eit her fermentation, and be
finer acetous or putrefactive,
od. condition rendering it unfit for
A *' vl11 barrel, to put it in plain
........„ l,,:.;?® so sour fi'at its
'Tf 4 contents are
1 • ’^action :U ' or akohol* or so stinking
i r is evident, is not the
edl f0r beulthy The
p C . bad food may
>> emoted somewhat by feeding
,
:nmvinrr w hieh pigs, with a
n-etHlilv , “ 8t ; iu i t4 always devour
ale of ‘•n ^ Rttle and often," is the
K J ' nS •aecewful ,1USt w hat pig tho raisers; will 44 a lit
ithont »r viu / the pig eat
I tiri hem and when it
it'aMir! i -' n the sow, it could be
1 m a P'ff cup; it older
Uij i ar the as grows
; ration should grow with
“«H*r hansivc n e ,r‘ u ' d I 11 “ " p p us etiu young, -- , ' not ott, ' less n ”
p-s tho,, j a ‘lay and when older not
"rr "1'"“■iMtcim* »n 1 l? 11 '’ unt d the growing begins, age is
uun fV^u season
hthe To&i 1 eat 'hree times in a day
,tCR ndi ^ st
-
he a ‘ "pht hould u tlie milk skimmed in
to., q, s all be fed by night
' Vtoilt ho 1 a - v ' that is, skimmed or
tours shiJI r ; W he fed within twelve
n : i,' a , so ^tog, he and bran mixed
tours , ‘ fed within twelve
I'v letter l0 i. "eather six hours would
fprojHYiv 'h’ls, ih : re i0 8 h°uld nian age this swill business
ujjj be two bar
E eup bp no * f V Ures a the other made accordingly, emptied.—
p (■ t,s ' is
' 1,1 Rural New Yorker.
ei! P of CUna ht-cako is made of one
cupof swqY’ milk Ur ° cups fonr of sugar, three half a
cf flour. ’ eggs, cups
fullv u", u i a P ^ 0lln( l ot currant* care
•iftfioor a ter they have drained,
half ■Phis a „f / ra er . in< nutmeg ^ through them; flavoring, use
is , lor
gem-pane ° i n small tins or in
*.*■ Ch '<*9Q Journal.
V J*°nhern "~~A. Ranninrv~v Z~— oftbe .
Dki.P * Til? 0, M a hshal , , ,
5, ft Hjw ^ C§T
1 iiat he uev Sl encv took an oath
hair fyesiliojjt c „ t t Vr • ' would shave or have his
, great Kentuckian was
»'AV .iL 11 as kept his oath, and
u e sti-eots
i v r,n w ‘nMe looking just ftwakeiioU like
fium u u * 8 ^ sleep, . '
TOPICS OF THE Dll.
Arabi Bet and his adherents
been proclaimed rebels by the Sultan
Turkey.
It 'will be remembered that Yennor
said we would have “a year without a
summer, '
Texas will have 60,000,000 bushels of
corn to sell this year. Last year the
8tate had to import.
Potatoes are being offered in Illinois
ror twenty-five cents a bushel for faK
delivery, with no takers.
Mr. Gladstone looks upon De Lea
seps as a private individual, but De Les
seps doesn’t, not by any means.
The Detroit Free Press figures up that
there have been 167 deaths from tetanus
this year, caused by the toy pistol, and
suggests that next Fourth of July arse
nic be used as a less fatal substitute.
A concMPORABY thoughtfully observe#
that “each place thinks its own river
and harbor appropriation all right, but
that in other plaoes it is a steal.” So it
is in all matters where finances benefit
self.
Eleven schoolboys in Geneseo walked
to Niagara Falls, August 4, 1832, and
agreed to meet there again, if living, in
fifty years. Seven of them kept the
promise, coming with their wives and
children on the 4th just past.
T he Trustees of the Loveland Camp¬
meeting have decided to sell the Har¬
rison cottage in dispute and to give the
Rev. Harrison $200 of the proceeds. Of
course, this is in addition to the $100 a
week he received for his services.
The extensive war preparations in
Russia evidently has some significance.
If it detracts the attention of Nihilists
from the Czar, there will be a probabil¬
ity of the coronation taking place. The
Czar no doubt looks upon the project
with favor.
A Western paper, apologizing for
Mormon polygamy, thoughtfully re¬
marks that the system does not throw
the burden of supporting a husband
upon one woman. That is tho best ar¬
gument that has been advanced in favor
of polygamy.
Texas, which is said to have 500,000
acres of school land, rapidly appreciat¬
ing in value, and worth probably $100,
000,000, is expected to have in the not
distant future a school fund of $250,000,
000, a sum greater than the combined
Bchool fund of all the States.
The floral business is one of the best,
most prosperous and most rapidly in¬
creasing of any in the country. In New
York $10,000,000 is now expended for
flowers annually, and as much as $5
given for a single rosebud. The town
has gone flower mad, and no one can eat
or dance or marry or die without a
shower of flowers, and this craze
spreading.
A writer for the New York
was talking with a few fellow
the other day, and said: “Not long
Mr. Connery, our managing editor,
summoned as a witness in court. Mr.
Bennett called him and said: ‘You will
be asked what position you occupy here.
Say that you are a clerk, I am the edi
tor of the Herald, and the only editor.’ ”
The members of the Garibaldi family
have erected over the tomb of the Gen¬
eral a large granite monolith,
four tons. The tomb is watched
and night. The decision as to the
resting place is left to Parliament,
inclines to the Janiculum. During
first few days after the death of
baldi, 12,000 telegrams reached
family. ^
_
A failure to obey the scriptural in<
junction, 44 Obey your husbands,” had a
sad ending in Chicago. Paul Tollner
took his young wife to one side, in their
home, and calmly inquired : “Will you
obey me after this ?” The wife replied
evasively, whereupon he shot her dead,
and then stepping into an adjoining
room, shot himself through the heart.
They had been married two years and
had one child.
Advices from Sagua, Cuba, report
the destruction of the com crop, owing
to the extreme drouth. The President
of the Central Board of Agriculture of
the Republic of Columbia, writes the
Captain General, warning him to take
effective measures to prevent the larvae
and locusts devastating that Republic
from being introduced into Cuba by
vessels carrying cattle to the Island. It
is recommended that cattle on vessels be
fed with hay only. It is thought that
the locust# will soon invade the United
States after reaching Cuba.
Tot jury who acquitted the Malley
bovB and Blanche Donglu. of the mnr
aer der u* of uouu Jennie Cramer, » held a grand re
the other day, visiting ■ . o, Savin •
union
Rock, where the girl s dead body was
found, and other scenes. The re-union
marked with hilarity and storytell
ton Meantime, Blanche Douglass is
enjoying herself wifh faehion.ble people
at watering plaoee. where she wm seen
u y 3^ of the jurors, who related to his
?#u J 1 Iiror8 the attention she was at
” hannv she
WWting, #nd . . how w sup cr ,„ r «m«lv y PP£
wemed to be, flaw people we
peouiiw,
^
ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHILE TRUTH IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT.” y
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CONYERS, GA„ FRIDAY AUGUST 25, 1882.
A glance at the naval register shows
that with a total force of 12,000 meD,
including marines, we have twelve Bear
Admirals, twenty-two Commodores,
sixty Captains, 110 Commanders, 315
Lieutenants, 180 Masters, 400 Ensigns,
while the Naval Academy is prepared
to add from year to year largely to the
number of the latter. This is certainly
a large enough staff of officers to com
mand as great a navy as we shall pos
sibly ever need, and it is quite natural
that a movement, such as that recently
inaugurated by Senator Miller, of Cali¬
fornia, should be made to reduce
the number of officers to make it in
some measure proportionate to the
number of seamen and marines.
Op all the English correspondents at
Alexandria, it is to be said that they
have shared the perils they have de¬
scribed. Afloat they have shown them¬
selves ready to face shot and shell, and
ashore the knives of Arabi’s assassins,
not to speak of mobs and explosions.
They have done their work under a cli¬
mate of great heat, and have done a
great deal of it. Altogether, they have
been a credit to their profession, and
the profession seems in no particular
hurry to take credit to itself or award
due measure to the brave and brilliant
men who lift journalism a step higher by
klieir devotion and capacity and courage.
The public looks on in wonder at the
quantity of readable matter turned out
each morning for its eager perusal.
Farmers and Farm Help.
As there are “books and books" —
meaning good and and bad ones—so there
are “men men." Some farmers
never have any trouble with their help
and the farm work moves as steadily
and with as little friction as clock-work;
others are incessantly in trouble and
quainted eve rything witn goes wrong. who We are ac
men are laborers by
the month or year on the farm, and who
make their employers’ interest their
own. boss" They work as well when the
“ is away as when he is near,
and, in everything they do, they consid¬
er how they would act if in their employ¬
er s position. There are others, also,
who labor simply for the money they re¬
ceive; they have no interest in the work,
but listen with a keen ear for the dinner
horn and watch with eager eye for the
setting of the sun. To do" the work
somehow—not necessarily well—is the
principle which governs them.
Tk. vrno is particular as lu
whom understood, he employs; who nas the bargain
well who pays well, pays
willingly and pays promptly; who ap¬
preciates his good the service and fairly need fulfills have
part or being agreement, help.
little fear of troubled by his
For such employers there is always some
one to offer “hired service; such employers are
sought by men," and in nine
cases out of ten, satisfaction is mutual.
But, unfortunately, not all employers
are thus careful as to whom they hire
or how they treat their help. They se¬
lect from the “rough scuff" class, from
tramps and those who never have had a
steady situation, simply because they
can hire them for twenty-five cents less
per day though, in day reality, they receive
a half dollar per less in return for
services. The usual result is that the
farmer has to oversee all his work per¬
sonally, look after the implements when
not in use, go here and go there to give
instructions, and thus lose largely his
own dustrious time help, which, could with elsewhere intelligent, in¬
be more
profitably employed. the In fact, each is
intent on getting most possible from
the other, neither having the welfare of
the cither at heart. Such a condition of
things is neither agreeable nor profita¬
ble.
We are aware that the same differ¬
ences are liable to arise between em¬
ployers and the employed in other occupa¬
tions, but effects are more striking
and more noticeable on the farm than in
the work-shop duty or store where marked the rou¬ and
tine of is more easily
the labor is more mechanical in its na¬
ture. Farm work can never be reduced
to such exactness in detail that the
workman can perform it satisfactorily
unless and he hearty is thoroughly interested in it,
in sympathy with his em¬
ployer. So much for the hired hand,
and on the other hand, to keep this in¬
terest alive, there must be on the
of the employer the approval and
ciation of work done.
But there is something more in this
than the bare facts of work well done
and well remunerated. There is a gen¬
uine satisfaction on the part of both em¬
ployer and employe, and the resultant
themselves happiness and which accrues to the men
to their respective fami¬
lies is a thing to be sought for and prized.
But when the men are continually at
“loggerheads," their families feel the
reactive influence, and even society is,
in Whatever, a degree, affected adversely by it.
then, will bring about mutu¬
al contentment and good will among
farmers and their help should be fos¬
tered, and while “hired men" are falli¬
ble, the farmer should remember that it
is largely in his power to make their
mutual relations agreeable.— Rural New
Yorker.
Deadly Weapons,
A detective death frightened yesterday. a young The man
nearly to standing the young when
man was on corner
the detective tapped him on the shoul
derand said: “I shall have to arrest
3™ ^ carrying deadly weapons. Ill
young man turned pale, and his lips
q U i vere d, and he stammered outthat he
never carried a revolver or a knife in
his life. “Yes." said the detective,
“that may be all right, but look at
your shoes." The young man looked
« r“S
t bem. Then the detective told him the
shoes were so sharp at the toes that if
he should get mad and kick a man he
w detective <>uld split winked, him wide and open. said: “You Then the
may
tJme) but do n »tletitoocu^agaul. ,,
I Mtiwmk* Sun, -
MY LOVE.
My love's worth all the world to me;
Her walk to others’ dance is light.
When And she when comes she’s by, the ’tis sun rides high,
past, night.
Her gentle voice, that bids “good-day,”
Is music that my soul loves best;
Her deep-set eyes, lier low replies,
The dreams that haunt my rest.
Her presence, like fresh morning showers,
Gives to all things refreshing grace;
If she but stoop, sweet buds that droop
Gaze up into her face.
That May-day face—where nothing lives
That is not bright, for long together;
Thoughts The come golden and go, like winds that blow
clouds In weather.
Life's passing shades have scarcely chill’d
The gladness of her spirit’s light—
O when she’s by, the sun seems high,
And when she’s past, ’tis night!
—II. Aids.
Increasing the Corn Crop.
Till within the past few years little
anxiety has been felt in any part of the
country about the supply of corn. There
be was raised a general impression that it could
with considerable profit in
in nearly every State and territory. In
moat of the States enough was raised to
supply the local demand. In some
states it was a leading crop, and it was
that its profitable production could be
greatly extended in others, where the
attention of farmers was mainly devoted
to the growing of cotton, tobacco, and
the small grains. There was scarcely
any demand for it for exportation, and
its employment for making glucose and
starch was not known. It was used to
a considerable extent as food for human
ed beings, and was very generally employ¬
for fattening hogs in sections where
it was extensi vely grown. It was rarely
fed to other horses than those engaged
in work on the farm, and was still more
rarely fed to cows. There was »o fresh
beef or mutton sent abroad, and there
fattened was only a limited demand for highly
meat at home. As a conse¬
ally quence, fattened sheep and steers were gener¬
on grass, with the aid of a
few roots. In most of the Western States
corn was facilities a drug in the markets. With
poor for transportation, com¬
paratively little of it was sent to Eas¬
tern cities. Corn was often so cheap
and plenty that it was burned for fuel.
Farmers preferred to raise small grains
for the market, for the reasons that
their price was higher and they would
stand transportation better. In parts
of the country where corn was very pro¬
ductive it was generally thought that
the business of raising it. was greatly
overdone.
A short time has been sufficient to
produce great changes in relation to
corn. Its uses have multiplied and
increased, it is now employed to make
aiconoi* Considerable Hviii^Ky^n^nwiries^aiicf quantities of it v?negar?
are con¬
verted into malt. In all the great dairy
districts it is extensively employed for
feeding demand milch cows. There is bee? a g row
ing for fancy fattened and
mutton for export and home consump¬
tion. To fatten steers and sheep as the
market requires it is found necessary to
feed corn in large quantities. Vast
quantities of it are now sent to almost
every country in Europe this side of
Russia for the same purpose. American
corn is used to feed both beef and dairy
cattle in Denmark. It is also used to
feed the coach and dray horses in most
of the large cities in Great Britain and
France. Now, while the uses for corn
have remarkable increased and multiplied its cultivation in a most
manner, has
not extended in any considerable extent
into any new sections of the country,
and has not greatly increased in foreign
countries. The entire country from
Puget Sound to the Gulf of California is
opened up to settlement, but no corn is
raised except in a very few favored
localities. Dakota and Montana are
fast scarcely being peopled is with farmers, yet
any corn or can be produced
there. Few of what are called th e new
States and Territories produce much
corn. They are deficient in warmth or
moisture, or in both. Corn was never
a profitable crop to raise in the Southern
States, and as the soil becomes
exhausted of its fertility its production
becomes still more difficult. People
have finally become convinced that the
extent profitable of production country adapted to the
of corn is quite
limited. It is embraced in a strip of
country about two hundred miles wide,
and terminating about a hundred miles
west of the Missouri River.
If the amount of corn in # i country
is to be largely increased it must be done
by improved methods of cultivation in
the places where it succeeds best. Much
of the land in the Western States that is
capable of producing the largest crops
of corn is in no condition to do so dur
ing It seasons as wet as the present one.
is covered with water in the early
spring, and can not be plowed till it is
too dan^%r late to plant without incurring the
of an early frost in the fall. By
draining produce it with tales than it can be made to
more corn any land in the
country. It is naturally rich in mineral
and organic matter, and its only defect
is its inability to part during with the moisture
that accumulates the winter and
early spring. The drains will not only
carry off tMs water, but will extend the
growing season several weeks. Experi¬
ments made in the counties of this State
show that the average yield of corn is
increased one-fourtn by putting down
grain-tile. also rendered The cultivation of the crop
is more easy sod the or¬
dinary risks Improved are avoided in a great
measure. methods of pre¬
paring the soil, of putting in the seed,
and of cultivating the growing crop
will do much toward
production. Generally the farmers of
Pennsylvania, and others of the Eastern
States produce more corn to the acre
than the farmers do in the most fertile
of the Western States. They have a
much poorer soil, but they prepare it
better, pay more attention to manuring,
and employ the hand-hoe in connection
with fields. the horse-cultivator only possible in working but the
It is not eighty prac¬
tical to produce bushels of corn
to the acre on much of the land in the
West where only f*rty is ordinarily har¬
vested .—Chicaao Times.
Mra Fw* F. Ewing, an authority
on culinary science, says that bad of°dys, pook,
ha# made America a nation
and criminal*, 1 '
twtm. iMbrietes
From Death to Life*
A reporter for the Mail and Express
was walking in the vicinity of the Fulton
Ferry a few days ago, in the company
of one of the officers attached to the life¬
saving service. There was a rush ot
people to the Fulton Market slip, and
the officer and the reporter joined the
crowd to see the excitement. “It was
nothing," one of the spectators said,
turning to go away; “only a boy
drowned!" The life-saving officer, how¬
ever, seemed to take a different view oi
the drowning of a boy, and he hurriedly
elbowed his way through the crowd till
he was at the water’s edge, with the re¬
porter at his elbow. Three of the fish¬
ing schooners were tied up at this part
of the pier side by side, and on the deck
of the third lay a naked boy apparently and
dead. Half a dozen market men
fishermen stood by, saying that the boy
was dead and that that was all there was
of it. The life-saving officer sprang
aboard the nearest schooner, and was
immediately stopped by a policeman had
who was on guard—for the boy
been out of the water for some time.
“ Stand back," said the life-saver, “I
am a physician," and, followed by the
reporter, he was soon on the deck on
which the drowned boy lay. boy’s
The officer-physician felt the
skin, felt for his pulse, drew up one of
his eyelids and looked at the pupil, and
asked the bystanders how long the boy
had been out of the water.
“ You can’t get no job here unless you
are an undertaker," said one of the
men. “He was stuck in the mud most
ten minutes, and he’s been layin’ he^e
ten minutes more; so, if you fetches
him to life, it’ll be a little rusurrection,
and don’t you forget it."
The officer paid no attention to the
man’s opinions, but devoted his whole
time to the boy in a way that seemed to
indicate some hope of saving the life
that was apparently gone. The boy
could not have been colder or more ap¬
parently week. lifeless if he had been dead for
a
The officer opened the boy’s mouth,
an operation that required some force,
and found it full of mud. Fulling the
lower jaw down as far as possible, ne in¬
troduced one of his fingers and care¬
fully but quickly cleaned it out. There
was enough he mud in the mouth to choke
the boy if had not been in the water
at all. The officer whisked off his
coat, rolled it up into a pillow, and laid
it on the deck. With the assistance of
two or three bystanders, he turned the
boy over the on his face and laid him so
that coat-pillow was directly under
his stomach. Taking the boy’s two
ankles in one of his hands and giving
higher than his head, the officer pressed
carefully but his firmly in and the region of the
small of back, immediately a
stream mouth. of It water gushed out of the boy’s
had been all this time in the
lungs, waiting help only for proper treat¬
ment to it out. The boy was then,
after a minute or two of this exercise,
turned over on his back again, and the
officer knelt over him. Putting one
hand on the his boy’s right side and the
other on left, just over what are
known as “the short ribs," the officer
gave them a powerful compression, and
then suddenly his let go. The instant he
took off hands the ribs sprang back
to their natural position, and a draught
of air rushed into the lungs. This was
repeated a dozen times or more, but
still the boy was, to all appearance, a
corpse.
“Oh, give us a rest on that," said
another of the men. “The boy’s dead,
and that settles it. Can’t you let a
drowned boy alone! ’’
The assertion that the boy was dead
seemed to be only too true. He looked
like a piece of marble; and the reporter
suggested that it was not worth while to
make any further efforts.
begun “Why," said the officer, “I haven’t
yet. The boy may live and he
may not. But he’s going to have a fair
chance for his life, anyhow. Stand back
a little, all of you, and give him a little
more air.”
ficial Discontinuing breathing for a moment the arti¬
process, the officer took
one of the boy’s hands between his own
and began to slap it vigorously, at the
same time setting three of the bystand¬
ers at work on the other hand and two
feet. The reporter relieved the officer
at the slapping business, and the latter
resumed the rib-squeezing process, com¬
pressing the boy’s frame till he must
have cried for mercy if he had been
conscious. With four men slapping his
hands and feet, and an expert trying to
start his breathing, the boy must have
been unreasonable, indeed, had he been
dissatisfied. But he still lay as dead as
a stick, and, happily unconscious.
After about five minutes of this treat¬
ment, very much to the surprise of the
market men and the reporter, and
greatly to the delight of the life-saving
officer, the boy gave a slight gasp for
breath.
Just at this moment of triumph the
policeman on guard called across the
decks: “Say, you’d better let that boy
alone. He’s dead enough."
“ Never mind what they have to say,
they don’t know what they’re talking
about," said the officer, “Get me a
glass of brandy."
He redoubled his artificial
treatment, and one of the fishing sailors
went down into the cabin and soon re¬
turned with a tumbler brandy. nearly full of boy not
very inviting-looking The
meanwhile gasped again; had twitched
a little in the legs; had rolled his head
to one side, and at length had drawn a
good-sized breath, The minute he
breathed the officer picked up the glass
of brandy and poured the liquid down
the boy’s throat.
“Now, get me two or three blankets,
tinued to show more signs of life. He
soon drew short but regular breaths,and
raised one hand to his head. Under
the influence of the warm brandy in
his stomach and the fresh air in his
lungs, he opened one of his eyes. officer,
“He i3 all right now," said the
getting up with difficulty aad straight*
ening tile "Rinks'" out of his back.
‘‘Wrap him up well in these blankets
and put him in a berth. Be sure you
make his hands and feet warm. If you
have a couple of empty bottles till them
with warm water, cork them up well,
and put them against his feet. In ten
or fifteen minutes give him another glass
cf brandy. He will be able to talk to
vou inside of an hour and tell you where
he lives. But he will probably be too
weak to walk home; some of you will
have to carry him. Come, old fellow
(to the reporter), let us go. There is
nothing more for us to do."— N. Y.
Mail and Express.
A Curious Snuff-Box.
S tr ortly after the breaking out of the
Fre a ch Revolution, its advocates de¬
nounced our Premier as “an enemy to
the human race;" that matt, “so easy
to live with," who sang the song about
himself, called “Billy Pitt, the Tory."
His Secretary one day told him that a
foreigner, had who spoke English tolerably
well, twice or thrice asked to see
him; but, not looking like a proper ap¬
plicant, had been sent away, the great
man’s time being too precious for him
to admit every stranger who, on frivo¬
lous pretexts, might seek to gratify an
Idle curiosity. This person, however,
had said he should return in an hour;
the Secretary, therefore, thought it his
duty to inform Mr. Pitt of such inten¬
tion, and ask his further orders in the
affair.
“Have the goodness," said the Min¬
ister, “to open the top left-hand drawer
in that cabinet, and bring me its con
tents."
These were a pair of pistols, and a
duced morocco snuff-box, case; opening in the latter lie pro¬
a which was set a
portrait.
“Is that like our visitor?" asked
Pitt.
“ It is the man, sir," answered the
Secretary. “Ha,
I have expected him for some
days! He is sent over to assassinate
me; so, when he calls again, let him be
shown up."
“Sir!" exclaimed the attached re¬
tainer, 4 4 will you expose to danger your
life on which so much depends?"
“ There will be no danger, I thank
you; but you may be within call, if you
please."
Accordingly ushered the Frenchman, on his
return, was into the room
where William Pitt sat alone—a loaded
pistol in one hand, the miniature in the
other.
“Monsieur Mehee de la Touche,”
6aid Pitt, calmly, “you see I am ir.
every way prepared for you, thanks to
an Attempt agent employed life, by this Government.
my and your own instant
have 'you secured: im&W&fWfc \fhaU
law.”
The intended assassin stood paralyzed
and dumb at this cool reception.
“But," continued Pitt, “there is an¬
other alternative—personal safety and Sell
high rewards are in your power.
your services to Great Britain; make
your market of whatever secret infor¬
mation you can procure, that may guard
us against the machinations of your
country; be, in fact, one of the necessa¬
ry evils which policy forces us to use in
desperate cases; do what no honorable
man could do to save yourself stained from
speedy death; your conscience is
by purposed murder. Comply, perforce,
with these conditions, and you shall bo
as liberally paid as you must, by all par¬
ties, be justly despised." his illus¬
The Secretary used to repeat
trious master’s words, which were, as
nearly as possible, to the foregoing ef¬
fect.
The clever miscreant joyfully accepted earned
these terms, and for many years
the bribes of a spy in our behalf.
No doubt a snuff-box was the safest,
medium for the warning portrait, as
fancy beads frequently adorned such a
thing; while, had the miniature been set
as a locket, whoever saw it must have
been sure that it depicted some real in¬
dividual .—London Society.
Rich Find In a Trunk.
A young fellow who was one of th#
“reserve” was ordered to Rouen last
year to serve the usual fourteen days. low.
He had no trunk. His funds were
He asked a maiden aunt to lend him a
trunk. She had nothing but an old
fashioned portmanteau, which was so
queer he refused to take it. He could,
however, find no other, and, ashamed as
he was to be seen in such company, there
was no help for it, shoulder it he was
obliged to do. Offered employment in
Rouen, he made it his home. The trunk
lay hidden and forgotton in a dark closet,
until one day while rummaging he came
upon it. He determined to send it back
to his aunt. As he emptied it he found
it had a double bottom ; he opened this
double bottom; he found in it $16,000.
fie carried them to the bank and found
the money good. He capered for joy, not
only with his legs but with his tongue ;
so news of the discovery reachc d
his aunt’s ears, and she said the money
belonged to her, and she found the junk
dealer who had sold her the trunk; ! •
willingly became her witness to this fact,
but added: “ Zat drunk ees my righds
and zat monish ees mine.’’ So they have
all gone to law.— Paris Correspondence
New Orleans Picayune.
—A curious freak of Alexander lightning Avery, occur¬
red at the house of
Centreville, Ala. None of the inmates
were killed, but the shoes of each were
destroyed. The stroke fell on Miss Josie
Avery’s neck, and passing down the
body thiew the shoe from the foot with
terrific force, a great distance. The
shoes on the feet of her mother were cut
to pieces, while Mr. Logan, a guest, had
his shoestrings torn completely out, the
sole of one shoe wrenched off, and a
hole torn in the other .—Chicago Trib¬
une.
° for stealing those
pants.” hope you “ re I Judge, de
was sorry, same
day 1 tuck dem ar pants. I was sorry at
not finding nuffin in the pockets ceptin’
I a kear ticket,” poverty-stricken The most singular
tiling about the pants
1 was that they did aot belong to a Tessi
| newspaper mam— Sl/tingi,
$1.50 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE
NUMBER 32,
BITS 0FJNF0RMATI0X,
The largest national cemetery is at
Lynchburg, Va.
The name of God in the Hindoos tan eo
language is Bain. In the Persian, Sire,
Gibtivjv? Segan to write his “ Decline
mC Fall of the Eoman Empire” in Lon¬
don in 1772.
In Moscow the plague introduced by
tho Turkish army carried off 20,000 vic¬
tims in a month.
During the fourteenth and fifteenth
centm'ies in Franco guilty animals suf¬
fered death on the gallows.
Peacocks were carefully reared in the
island of Samos, and sold at such high
prices^that Varo says they fetched yearly
The Franklin Arctic expedition sailed
from Greenhithe, England, May 24,
1845. The last heard from them" were
dispatches sent from the Whalefish
islands dated July 12, 1S45.
The English language has a greater
numbor of words than the French.
There are also in English a greater
number of ways to express thought#
than in French.
The expression “ commencement ex¬
ercises ” is applied to the concluding
exercises of a college term, from the
fact that they mark the “ commence¬
ment” of the graduate’s independent
life.
The invention of glass is commonly
attributed to the Phoenicians. Very an¬
cient discoveries of glass in Egypt have
somewhat shaken this attribution, and
it will remain uncertain until further
discoveries settle the question.
The phrase “ suited to a T ” is said to
be derived from the so-ealled T-square,
an instrument used by architects and
mechanical draughtsmen in drawing
plans. As the T-square is often used to
test the accuracy with which lines and
angles have been drawn, it is altogether
probable that the expression originated
in this fact.
The word “vendetta” (vengeance)
originated, it is said, in Corsica, where
the practice was formerly general, and
still prevails in remote parts of the
island. The custom, one writer re¬
marks grimly, flourishes among the
Bedouins. Traces of it are found some¬
times among the Montenegrins, Alban¬
ians, Druses and Circassians; and, in¬
deed, it may be said that the custom
prevailed at one time or another among
every tribe and nation. Whenever a
person was murdered, the practice
among those holding to this custom was
to avenge the death; and that duty was
imposed upon the son, brother or near¬
est kinsman, who forthwith who sought slied pri¬ the
vate vengeance upon him
blood of the relative. As the adminis
more settled social institution, the cus
tom disappeared, although Corsica still
clings to it in its most cruel form, and
on that island it plays a most important
part in a social life.
The Library at Abbotsford.
The library is the handsomest apart¬
ment at Abbotsford. It is fifty feet in
length by thirty in breadth, and has an
immense bay-window that affords a
charming glimpse of the Tweed. The
ceiling is carved after designs from Mel¬
rose Abbey. There are twenty thou¬
sand volumes here and in the study.
The book-eases were made under Sir
Walter’s direction, by his own work
men. Some of them contain rare and
curious old books and MSS. that are
carefully guarded under lock and key.
Here, on the wall, is the portrait of Sir
Walter’s eldest son, who was Colonel
of the Fifteenth Hussars. He went out
to Madras in 1839, and was a very pop¬
ular .and efficient officer; but he soon
fell a victim to the fatal climate of India
and died on the return voyage to En¬
gland, whither he had been ordered on
account of his health. Hero, too, is the
bust of Sir Walter at the age of forty
nine, by Chantrey. There are chairs
exquisitely wrought, from the Borgheso
Palace at Rome, the gift of the Pope; a
silver urn upon a stand of porphyry, cabi¬
from Lord Byron; and an ebony
net and set of chairs presented by King
George IV. In a glass case, shielded
from the touch of profane brooch fingers, of are his
the purse of Rob Roy; the
wife; a note-book in green and gold,
once the property of Napoleon I.; and
a gold snuff-box, also given friend by King
George IV. When this royal dine with was
Regent, he invited Scott to
him in London, addressing him famil¬
iarly as “Walter," and showering upon he
him evidences of his esteem; when
succeeded to the throne, one of the hist
acts of the kingly prerogative was to
create him a Baronet.— St. Nicholas.
Catching a Crab.
A San Francisco correspondent
writes: -C tell a story of would-be
M , who last season adopted
a most nenaish method of flirts getting who even are
with one of the chronic lively later
said to make the piazzas here
in the season. He obtained half a o/.en
energetic crabs from the fishing when eac ,
and, watching for an opportunity tank, except
no one was in a particular object of ven¬
the inconstant fair crustaceans
geance, he dropped in the
(wav up term for crab). T y &
lady continued her natatorial exercises minute#
longer, (jam up 1 when for paddling) she suddenly » few uttered ft
blood-curdling shriek, and wa# helped
up the pink ladder little with toe. a crab She |? hanging ad on
her epileptic ^ts while
consecutive being
rine corn doctor was glee of the broker, , "
The Mephistophelean him away, and for
however, gave trick he decided to bathe
of some counter thereafter. A few
early in the morning bath-house keeper
days after that the
was startled by some terrific yells, ana, he
hastily entering the tank house,
beheld the broker floundering out with
big, jagged-toothed spring rat-trap
clenched on his heel. horrible
“ Who the dickens put this
thing in the water?” roared thebroker. crab¬
“ I did, sir," sweetly replied the
bed young lady aforementioned, "If*? step
ping out of a bath-room. y
there to c&toh those bomd era •.
The broker weofc koow oa • PHW.