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:AiLR0A3 RESTAURANT.
'Under Hie Car Shed,)
ATLANTA, GA.
>re all tho delicacies of the season
1 furnis'jeil in tho best of style and
p.l • IS iX ay establishment in the city
tlfeals furnished at allbours of the
’ DURAND. unej.20
HALYARD &
The Pen Weevil.
10 pt A weevil is so destructive in
v part of the United States, except,
(ns, Las from Central Wisconsin
11 to have most seriously inter
with the cultivation of the pea as
til nr food crop. Hence the most of
Led and food peas are raised in
adit, and corresponding short latitudes
re the season is too or too
for the insect, tho ravages of which
ir more freely as wo approach the
|j ( .
ih insect is one of the snout bcelles,
do i ly allied to the curculio,and no
ih have yet been found to stay its
The cegs are laid on the pods
r young pea, to which they arefas
id by a viscid fluid. The insects work
i A and on dark, cloudy days, and
I eggs hutching, the pod minute worm
b in way through the and into
; peas, upon which it feeds, avoid
i however, the germ, so that a pea
! be nearly eaton out, as to its meat,
I yet still re' ain the power of germi
bn, although weak..
| Ished, the peas, and ns dried soon at as temperature gathered, are of
a
id'Vives, the young insects are said
hi killed, but the eed will not gerini
jr immersion, of the dry peas in
■mg water for 100 seconds is said
■> If the pupa without injury to the
-in immersion of about three
jTm" totally Late-sown do- troys germination of
H.'t. peas usually escape
In tacks of the insect, but the crop
P°" Fable to mildew in the West,
p I far, it must be confessed, no eer
practical means have been found to
pue the insect, and it is now feared
rilied weevil (Bruchus Fabx) which
less the bean, will create great loss
Ins crop. In fact tho weevil family
ynhoiud'K), or snout beetles, one of
largest families in the order of bee-
1 and comprising over 10,000 distinct
ue-mbed species, and preying upon
train, most dilheult legumes, fruits, and nuts, are
to check of any of the
.ructive insects.
Mo efrietive moans for killing all
• Y l : U Y’ J"tasting we Five seeds, lately the weevil tribe
I . |1 ><Y °J carbon seen tho
u, \ deadly,and recom 1 nended. It
L' l l ' a small quantity
•'ri m the bottom of a grain bin
. K?®?. h mn! 1 ® ulcl tho is whole 8aid t0be mass. Half
KS}* ti *v, sufficient
01 ^ *»•*»
r’ r advises Placing penetrating. the chemical The
hioct 2\ t ,l in
. W1 10 ff vain in order to
I Ull du *y in tho , bottom of . the bin,
as
’ako wilfdowelT iC ° n Cy,inder
—a gas
rod and llt iut° it a wood¬
' ,, | 1a ^ 1'ttle
s' the ir )c a longer
l ! ,0> end of the rod
do th., forooVf* V i s >ar an ? ff’ ' v novv th tho place shar the rod
rtl ‘ P end
U m >C)l 1 to the bottom of
m'iri!i,!n " I' i n a , havi
n V ^ withdrawn the
ioh, >'■ , . 'hi he ” 'ill'll through the insect' tubo,
e, of ,,,,Ued out. The
gr 'in (, ls (dt at tbe bottom of
r*?i.«ite h>n int i ; insect | mass vetyvoiatiie and converts ' soon
‘in c e mete ry .—Prairie
b noieu uanmiery.
. Y 'riri'rian makes known on the
1 v> T’ 00 dlorou '* i l,d £ es that a woolen
tblo I'lrera t?k renewal alto^eS
•' '"'ami are
tho , ■ sets of wo. don machinery
\n-iaV"' > oar U * ! is . nber estimated ‘ w, >rn out at
, bed
■ ami fifty ?c ts. This in
‘ Y u 11 bumlred vvith or more cards
1 ' ten to fifteen
h'mirSUund'nSy according the W
:.r , er ( . c's, to
-w ' do re placo the
‘ 1 f;Ctio&‘^an expended. U a“4 The
•ui ut ity of the machinery of
t 'ventv years. The dura
f diffft, ™ P «df uid m
A c carrfuUy
a<t half of ” a The cloth-
, ' kuy be renewed every five
”' im are long lived. They
nt iniu> in use fifty years, but gen
y tw( lUv years’ service is about as
yU( ’h as ther
lVer «ge time >' (, an render. The mules’
A ef durability is fifteen
; set to cards comprises geuer
•tree t »our separate carding ma
lri manufacturing different
1 Y, 1 ^'Jens there are thirty-five
. 1,11
> i V 1 i-nt processes, and nearly
7YTYP--“7 Y... ;‘Y' r lft eir • emi- n
are
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NEWS GLEANINGS.
Y irgima has the larges mast crop
known for years.
The YGrginia penitentiary now con
tains 682 convics.
About three-fourths of the fruit crop
of Georgia has been dried.
At Gainesville, Ga., 'Mrs. Chamber
died at the age of 100 years.
The South will make 7,000,000 gal¬
lons of cotton seed oil this year.
Bee-keeping is becoming a large and
profitable industry in Mississippi.
The trade in cotton in Montgomery,
Ala , last year footed up $6,000,000.
Florida has shipped, during the sea¬
_
son just closed, 25,000 head of cattle to
Cuba.
Tn some portions of North Alabama
corn is offered at twenty-five cents a
bushel.
Clay county, N. C., polls but twenty
negro votes, while YVake beads the list
with 5,128.
The colored military companies in the
South will hold an encampment in At¬
lanta this fall
The Selma, Ala., cotton mills have
jnst shiyped five car lbads of cotton
goods to China.
Hsle county, Ala., is looking out for
her moss industry and is gathering
thousands of tons.
Macon, Ga., has a bonded debt of but
$700,000, and taxable property amount¬
ing to $10,000,000.
Memphis has one-seventh of the
whole number of cotton-seed oil mills
in the whole country.
The first and only ftown clock in the
State of Florida surmounts the new
court house at Tampa.
Large and very rich deposits of iron
ore have recently been discovered in
Marshall county, Ala.
A grove of eighty bananna trees,
eighteen months old, is bearing good
fruit at YVaynesboro, Ga.
An effort is being made to found a
college at Greenville, Miss., for the ed¬
ucation of colored youths.
Over 400 mines, including silver, cop¬
per and other minerals, are being work¬
ed in North Carolina.
Florida will soon be a perfect net¬
work of railways, and the rapid devel¬
opment of the State will of course fol
low. Her resources are wonderful, and
a few years will place her among the
liveliest of the Southern States.
North Caroolina’s rice crop is good,
and this year will reach 65,000 bushels
of tide-water and 200,000 bushels of up¬
land.
A stalk of gea Island cotton nine feet
in height and having forty-two branches
and 250 bolls, is r on exhibition at Bron¬
son, Fla.
The Georgia Lmnatic Asylum is full
to overfloAving, and cannot accommo
date a large number of insane persons
waiting treatment.
It is estimated that over one-lialf of
the new manufactories started in the
South during the last two years belong
to Northern capitalists.
Little Ro?k, Ark., Amted on the
“license” question at the recent election
and decided hv an overwhelming ma¬
jority to continue to “sip of the flowing
bowl.”
The New Orleans Times-Demoerat say
it is quite probable that the amount
paid by the South to the West for food¬
stuffs this year will he $105,000,003
less than paid in 1881.
The Atlanta Constitution publishes a
table showing the taxable property of
Georgia to be worth, as returned from
taxation, $290,000,000, an increase oAmr
ast year’s returns of $16,000,000.
There are now twenty-two iron fur
naces in Alabama. Tbe Birminsrliam
Age says that within a radius of fifty
miles of Birmingham there is enough
iron to supply a thousand furnaces for
a thousand years.
Two more of the old guard haA'e pass
e d over the dark river. Michael Hol
bert, , aged , 101 , A , years, died j-jix last week in
Marion county. West Y r a., and James
Stalwart, aged 111 years, has just died
in Accomac county, Va.
The Americus (Ga.) Recorder says
that during the present cyclone the
'' cUsi “ ,,le «* te “P» rt of ,he ci, y
"’ ere ote'''' 11 « r y- These wells, up to
the time of the gale, were unfailing.
The explanation of this remarkable
occurrence ia the existence of snbterra
nean passages and the violent agitation
on the surface opened channels of es
cape for the water to these.
. . looking ,
curi °us specimen of the
bovine race was exhibited on the streets
of Greensboro, N. O., recentlv. The
ammal is a Devonshire bull calf, \ three
~
months . Oia, , , witn . , a tail and , hide similar _
to those of an elephant. The calf is
about the usual size, and apparent^
wen and hearty. Ita hide is entire,,
destitute of hair, lies in heavy folds
]ike an cj, elephant’s, and is of about the
-e The tai- ir
piked.
ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHILE TRUTH IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT.”
CONYERS, GA., FRIDAY OCTOBER 6, 1882.
A suit which will prove of great in¬
terest to theatre-goers and managers of
amusement halls has been brought at
Richmond, Va. A gentleman was ar
rested in the opera house of that city
for occupying a seat for which he had
no coupon, although he had a ticket of
admission. The seat was the only va¬
cant one in the house. Now he will
ask the courts to decide whether or not
the theatre is compelled to furnish seats
win n a ticket is sold for it and the
money paid.
ljive Jewelry.
“Here is something new in the way
of ornamentation,” a salesman in a large
up-town jewelry store said, opening a
box. Out walked a monster beetle,
body fully four inches in length. About its
was a solid gold band, locked by a
tiny padlock, to which was attached a
costly length, gold chain, about two inches in
fastened to a pin. The beetle.s
back glistened in light, having been
treated to a dress of gold, and as it
lumbered along its long legs worked to¬
gether in a curious fashion. “It’s a
shawl pin. You see the pin is used to
fasten the face of a shawl, or perhaps worn
on the bonnet, the insect crawling
around the length of the chain. They
are they perfectly live harmless and not expensive,
as on air—that is, they havo
never been seen to eat. This one was
brought here to mount, which is a very
fine operation, as the legs and antennae
are all so delicate. After all, there is
nothing objectionable about them, ex¬
cept the idea of having them crawl over
you. and They all come from South Ameri¬
ca, taken the only lot in the city is to be
to introduce France, where the owner will
try to the fashion of wearing
them. They cost from $10 to $50, depend¬
ing There entirely is nothing on the amount of the ring.
cruel about it, as they
are bound loosely, and the gold has no
effect upon their hard sides.
In Brazil the fashion of wearing beetles
is carried to a great extent. A well
known resident has a beetle with a col¬
lar of gold which meets at the top, and
is there ornamented with a diamond of
great value. The insect has a cage sur¬
rounded by the plants among which it
lives in its native state, and nothing is
neglected to make it as comfortable as
possible. ... „ But ... the most . popular . insect .
used for an ornament in Brazil is a small
phosphorescent beetle. These are often
worn fastened in the hair, and as the two
phosphorescent or light-giving spots are
on the sides of the head, the black in¬
sect is,of course, invisible, especially
when in the raven locks of the fair Bra¬
zilians. will Twenty or thirty of these bee¬
tles throw out a light sufficient to
read by, and when arranged around the
head in a circle, or grouped over the
forehead and held in place, the effect is
beautiful.— New York Bun.
Putting Away Tools.
The wearing out of farm implements
is, as a rule, due more to neglect than
to use. If tools can be well taken care
of, it will pay to buy those made of the
best steel, and finished in the best man
ner; but in common hands, and with
common care, such are of little, advant
age, Iron and steel parts should be
cleaned with dry sand and a cob, or
scraped with a piece of soft ire u, washed
and oiled if necessary, and in a day or
two cleaned off with the corn-cob, and
dry sand. Finally paint the iron part
with rosin and beeswax, in the propor
tion of four of rosin, to one of wax,
melted together and applied hot. This
is good for the iron or steel parts of
every soi-t of tool. \\ ood work should
be painted with good, boiled, linseed
oil, white lead and turpentine, colored
of any desired tint; red is probably the
best color. Keep the cattle away until
the paint is dry and tord. or they will
lick, with death as the result. If it is
not desired to use paint on hand tools,
the boiled oil with turpentine and
“liquid drier,” does the just as AA r ell.
Many prefer to saturate Avood-work
of farm implements with crude petro
leum. This can not be used with color,
but is applied by itselt, so long as any is
absorbed by the pores of the wood
Aariculturist. "
IIoav to Kill a Rattlesnake.
A working party on a railroad here is
made up of mountaineers and Georgians.
One of the hitter performed a foolhardy
feat the other day that made the blood cold.
of the unaccustomed spectators run
They were at work clearing away the
thick underbrush, in advance of the en¬
gineer, when some one shouted: “’Ware
of rattlesnakes! ” He saw one ot these
reptiles about four feet long and five or
six inches in diameter lying just ahead.
The Georgian end, cut a short stick with a
forked and creeping up to the
snake he deftly pinned it to the earth by
pushing the forked end on either side of
his neck. Then, seizing the tail in his
right hand, he ran his left down the
snake’s body, and grasping it firmly just
at the varmint’s mouth.” It was any¬
thing the'spectators but a pleasant sight, and most of
Avere horrified. After
holding it a few minutes for general in
spection, he suddenly swung the snake
over his head with his right hand, let
ting go the hold of the left, and dashed
it with great force against a rock, kill
ing it instantly. It was a cool and look- dex
terous feat, but very trying to the
evs-on, who censured the man for his
“folly,” at which he seemed to -A” be
mightily amused.
_ Tbe Mexrcan women are wonder.
fully graceful. This is partly due to
their manner of carrying baskets and
bundles, begun in early childhood. I
watched a Mexican girl carry an im
mense basket of clothes home to be
laundried. First she selected from the
basket a towel, and twisting until it tightly, the cir
" uund if rouud aad round
cumierence was the size of her head, on
which she placed it; then, helped basket, by a
companion, slxe lifted the
weighing at least thiity pounds, on top
SJTSSi
men the other. After she had gone a
short distance she folded her hands in
TOPICS OF THE DAY*
-
About three-fourths of the Georgia
fruit crop has been dried.
Ben. Butler has been retained by
the Dorseys in the Star Route trials.
The last of the Irish suspects liave
been released from Kilmainham jaal,
A farmer at Yaldosta, Georgia, has
made two crops of corn on one piece of
land.
The proposed introduction of Chinese
labor into England is meeting with op¬
position.
Hereafter no breechloading riJIes
are to be included in stores for uncivil zed
Indians.
A fatal case of blood poisoning from
the bite of a mosquito is reported from
Louisville, Ky.
Sir Garnet Wolbelev is * one-eyed
man, and was left for dead in the
trenches at Sabastopol.
Oliver Amles, Republican nominee
for Lieutenant-Governor of Massachu¬
setts. is a son of Oakes Ames.
“One country, one starry baamer, and
one wife, ” is the platform of an editor
whose field adjoins Mormondom,
According to the Minneapolis Tribune
there is not enough low grade wheat in.
Minnesota this year to feed the chicken £.
Lieutenant Danenhower will en ter
the lecture field in a few days,having for
his subject “Arctic” and Siberian ex¬
periences.
The United Presbyterians have
agreed to raise a fund of $50O,00C» in
honor of the twenty-fifth year of their
organization.
It is the thing now for young man of
society who havo nothing to do, to claim
they “write for the papers.” It makes
them seem to have brains> .
Ten thousand acres of oysters have
been discovered in the North Sea. The
attention of managers of church festivals
should be called to this item.
Half a ton of the silver three cent
pieces which originated under Buchan.
an _ , 8 a . mims ... G'ation was shipped fow
“ a
days ago from Boston to the Philadel¬
phia mint.
A recent decision of the Supreme
ertv^lfobfo^to^to ^ xa on ant * prop- adds
’
. So, 000,000 the
a ” ou ‘ ; to taxable property
the State,
* # *
The Egyptian war helped the sale of
English journals wonderfully. The Lon
don Standard, on the day succeeding the
bombardment of Alexandria, * sold over
800,000 copies.
It is stated that a block of creosoted
. in in the
P ine , use street pavement in
Galveston for seven years, was recently
examined and found to have lost but an
eighth of an inch,
Special inducements to plant trees
are offered in Dakota, where for every
five acres of trees forty acres of land
witU $1,000 in improvements are ex
empted . from 0 taxation. * .
Moses Williams, who died in Boston
a few days ago, leaving a fortune of
$6,000,000, began life peddling milk in "
tbe streete o£ that cil Tba nidi ... s wnat wh
"
mes sedm S milk where water is so
abundant. ,
A Boston banker went to the Oceanic
Flouse at the Ide of Shoals^ for recre
a lo n, taking fii?ie rooms for himself and
family. When he went away, September
1, he paid his three months’ bill of S8 -
000 and said it cheap ’
was enough *
_ , m
Herbert Spenuer is in this country.
and , ke , is • sick, yet , withal ... , , he is able ,, to ,
use this forcible language in speaking ol
Oscar Wilde: “He is that outlandish
person who attempted to reconcile
Miocy ... with ... art . and . namby . pambyisra . .
with sentiment.”
The Louisville Courier-Journal ex¬
presses the- opinion that if Alfred
Tennyson were to go through a news
paper waste basket, and attach his
name to all the original poetry he
should find to it, he would still be read,
admired, and paid.
What sort of doctors have they to
New Jersey? A Jersey paragraph says:
“The health authorities of Paterson
q ave declared the office and residence
of Dr. Daeumer untenantable from
filth, and the inmates are to be removed
and the premises cleaned and fumi¬
gated.”
; A number of immigrants of various
nationalities passed up Broadway, New
York, the other morning, rrv ine no T* Italian a i; Q „
men earned deep carpet sacks, and the
jjgmenu left to ^in thejrear* or^Sd
pins ana green costumes, carried or iea
half-grown children. The Scotch women
and men were about equally laden. The
Englishmen carried nothing at all, while
.he _ endeavoring to keep np with
them, were burdened with a heavy port
manteau in each hand.
The African expedition under Stanley,
sent out by the King of Belgium, ia
said to have established the first four of
a line of various stations which, starting
from the Congo, will for commercial
purposes tap the most populous districts
of Central Africa. These four stations
Are described as cities in embryo. They
possess houses and gardens; they are
connected by well constructed roads, and
at each a European acts as Chief of the
community, having another European
as srub-chief.
Mrs D. W. Lincoln, of Portland.
Maine, lately fell heir to $175,000, the
estate of her consin, Erven W. S.
Noughton, cf California, formerly of
Maine, deceased. There is a romantic
history connected with the bequest.
Mr. Noughten and Miss Lincoln, in their
younger days, were intimate friends, and
would probably have been married had
it not been for oppositiop of relatives.
Mr. Noughton started for the West, de¬
claring he would never come back. He
kept his word. Business prospered
with him and he became wealthy.
Speaking of the Princess Louise, as
she appeared in that city, the Omaha
(Neb.) Bee says ; “ The Princess made
her appearance on the rear 'platform of
her car to watch the antics of her little
terrier, in charge of the porter. She
was accompanied by one of her ladies,
and only remained a moment, and few
of the crowd suspected who she was.
She was attired in the most modest man¬
ner imaginable. Her dress was of dark
lawn, and a spray of violets on her bo¬
som, a plain bracelet, and a couple oi
plain gold rings werr the only ornaments
she wore. She is a well-formed, hale
looking woman of thirty-five, or there¬
about, and is said to have the features
of her mother, and, like her husband, e
vpodest yet frank demeanor. Her face
is bright and intelligent, and lights up
very pleasantly when she smiles.”
The Tiger.
and Speaking Boston, of King Faro in New York
the Boston Globe says:
1 he mere mechanism of a game which
can bv observation scarcely be learned otherwise than
and practice is not easy
oi be description How can the mysteries
conveyed to those who know not of
4 coppering,” “singleout,” “break
evens “odds” and “evens,” of the
refined article (k switching and the
unavailing merely of the “whipsaw?” Let it
be said tnat a full pack of cards
is inserted face3 upward in a metal box,
open cards at one side; that the alternate
from the top one win, and the
alternate cards from the second one
lose. This is the order of rotation from
the top; the first card, of course, being
considered dead, the third,fifth,seventh,
ninth and so on will win, and the sec
ond, fourth, sixth, eighth and so on will
lose. Cards may be backed to win or
lose. All bets are even, save when only
one turn, i. e., four cards remain in the
box. Of these four cards two are con¬
sidered dead, the top one as belonging
to the previous turn and the one at the
bottom as being the last in the pack,
and dds for of four bets m ■o © on the other "two,
O to o a © are offered against
first 3 aming them in their order. This, at
but sight, seems a liberal proposition;
ferent a slight reckoning That of the many dif
combinations may be made
with the cards will show how great an
advantage the banker basin this case
the better. The latter character
isticis, indeed, general with faro, as
with most other banking games. The
only ostensible advantage of the coming bank
at faro is in the splits, or the
together of two stogie cards, in which
case one,-half of the bets fall to the
banker instead ol being considered
—U he . recoraed . . . small ,, .
game is on a in
strument called a case or cue keeper,
lesemblino; the framed wire3 strung with
wooden balls used for counting at
sc ool. Ine proportion in favor of the
ank is estimated at fifteen percent,
agamst any individual player, but, of
course, the collective advantage is far
greater The success of the game,
backed by sufficient capital to resist a
low lucky bets, is a mathematical cer
tainty, li^e roulette and other games, to
which dupes and spendthrifts have been
coat Fhe / fiuittog devices for centuries.
for cheating at faro are
numerous, and even in an honestly con
ducted house a player constantly back
tog certain cards or pursuing a system
would be liable to lose, for the dealer
who shuffles and cuts for himself is gen
erally deal practiced enough to arrange
the or at least some part of
it much to his own wish. The dealers
of faro acquire their calling only by
long and careful practice. They are
generally sharp, keen and impassive
men. An expert dealer can always
command a fair salary, generally from
$25 to $100 per week, and even larger
pnees dered are paid when the services ren
justify it.
Illimitable • 11- Gold. n 11
eier, Recently Captain Burton, the trav
gold reported that almost illimilabk
can be obtained on the Gold Coast,
Africa, a district which has been aurif
erously prolificTor centimes. He savs
t ie region is equau to halt a dozen L all
T In thlS J ] e “V s5U PP° rted b Y
English ru r- Commander Cameron who in
vestigated the Gold Coast in his com
a “ is found m the sea sand, ir
V , tbe T f ads f nd n ^ be nlu f
n e , ut A subject .- of , suci
8 1 | -
importance . has , of course been widely
discussed by experts in England, anc
by this time large numbers ot pros
pectors are doubtless verifying matter*
onthe spot- Notwithstanding all the
difficulties that would confront golc
Aimers in Africa—the insalubrious cli
a7, » ifF .r&“psr^e 6 2 £
h
tamed that a great gold deposit exist?
theie all these difficulties will be over
come, and that the white men and the
capital and energy* of civilization will flow
thither to confront \b««e (;i nature and
barbarism, -
DILIGENCE IN BUSINESS.
A Lay Sermon.
“ fieost thou a man diligent in his business?
He shall stand before Kings; he shall not
stand betore mean men.”—Proverbs x.viL 2 9
. .
Dearly beloved, you will not listen to
any Scripture in other pulpits this morn¬
ing that carries more truth to the square
inch than this. And the especial atten¬
tion of the young men in the congrega¬
tion is called to the text.
The reason why, or at least one reason
why, the Psalmist, after he had been
young, and was old, could not remem¬
ber ever to have seen the righteous for¬
saken or his seed begging bread, was
because Not a lazy man can t be very right¬
eous. him. The righteous enough to hurt
would spectacle of a lazy Christian
be as great a rarity as a fat skel¬
eton.
If your Bible teaches you anythin^ it
teaches this hive you for that drone. there is no'roonTin
a “The hand of tlm
sliafl diligent be shall under bear rule; but thesloth ul
tribute.” “The heXe wav
of the slothful man is as a of
thorns; but the way of the it righteous is
made plain.” “The desire the sfotto
ful killeth him,,for his hands refuse to
labor.” “ 1'he sluggard cold, will not plow
by reason of the therefore shall he
beg in harvest and have nothin^ ”
“The soul of the sluo-o-ard desheth ami
hath nothing; but the°soul of the diH
gent shall be made fat.” “Not slothful
in business; fervent in spirit serving the
Lord.” “An idle soul shall suiter him
ger. ” A lazy Christian, brethren would
find but cold comfort if he should exert
himself to read his Bible.
The diligent soul always possessed
the land. Not the man or woman who
steps into a dead man’s shoes and a fort¬
une, but the bo} r and girl who learn in
their teens what a dollar is worth,
and how to gam and use a power that
money the cannot world. buy, ere the people who
move of Gifford, the first edi¬
tor the Quarterly Review was only a
common sailor; Ben. Johnson was a
bricklayer; Hugh John Bunyan was a tinker;
Miller was a quarryman; Shakes¬
peare’s know how father to was spell so illiterate his son’s he didn’t
neither did his name;
son, and no more do
you, for that matter; De Foe, the au¬
thor of Robinson Crusoe, was almost
Ben! was
Franklin, the printer was the son of a
fallow chandler; Sir Richard Arkwright,
inventor of the cotton spinning ma
chine, was a barber; Tom Moore was
tha son of a grocer; Gerald Massey be
gan life as an errand boy; and Caxton,
who set up the first printing press in
John England, was a weaver’s apprentice;
Adams was the son of a farmer
President Lincoln was a farm hand and
flat boatman; Andrew Johnson was a
tailor; Grant was a tanner; Garfield
was a canal boy—none of these men
were renowned for their great wealth,
perhaps, business, but they were diligent in their
and they stood before Kings;
There a long, long ways before most Kin”s.’
is no particular merit in being a
King. born Any man who happens to "be
at the right time, into the right
all family, can’t help being a King. But
the kingcraft in the world couldn’t
make a De Foe. a Hugh Miller, a Burns,
or himself, a Bunyan, if the boy didn’t make
’ Dearly it may he that this
congregation is not made up exclusive
ty of future Presidents, and of people
xvIl <>se names shall be written the fore
“°, st ? f a11 their t | me - But ?ero is
llttle do ? bt that > . s , made up of
™ en and women who are not <F>mg all
* h ® world has a r M ht to ex P e( l t of the ?^
Ask Yourselves how many of you de¬
* e }' VQ to stand before Kings for your
Poss,]bly, my yonuig brotlier
may not wish to stand betore Kings.
), But e jT f he ' ve does, !’ the theie “ g onlp one wav f or .°‘.
1!m to g et he re ’ he mu st be d,ll P ei l t m
^mess, . whatever f his v , business is; con
stantly active; peisistent and devoted in
JJ £
must work harder in the morning of his
life, just when he wants to play, than
he will to the afternoon,
]t won’t be at all easy for you, dearly
beloved, to be “diligent in business.”
a man is often very busy who isn’t a
all diligent in business. The most act
j ve man I ever saw was a man who did
less than you would suppose ten men
could do He live d on the street. He
talked politics ten hours a day. He was
always going to run for some office, but
nobody ever nominated him. He would
dra<r you away from your desk or book,
to talk to you by the hour about some
thing you didn’t care a cent for; he
knew a little about every living man’s
bus ness save his own; he spent the
most of his time in caucus and the rest
of it in convention and procession, and
yet, when you went into that man’s
office, there was a great legend staring
at you from the money.” wall, right over his
desk—“Time is
Be diligent in your business, dearly
beloved, and you will have no time to
manage your neighbor’s affairs, and
this will keep you out of trouble and
mischief. And just as soon as your
neighbor finds that your time is too val
uable to be wasted upon him for noth
j n a, he will want it, and pay for it. Men
always want what is hard for them to
ge t. Be diligent, and your “thoughts
win tend to plenty.” Be diligent, and
« out of Asher your bread shall be fat.”
Ue d ii,v $ e nt, and “God shall give thee
-> f the ew of heave n, and the fatness
of thc ea rfh. and plenty of corn and
vvine,” and a whole chapter of amend
ments can’t keep it from you. Be dili
gcnt developed; , and your fullest manhood will be
the world will be glad that
you have lived in it, and society will
°fi ss you when you are called up higher.
Be diligent in Amur business, and the
thousand and one‘temptations that be-
8et the lazv man cannot be heard by
you i , absorbed in your own honest
ffairs labor; . Be this diligent" the and of “re God,” oice and to
yoU r comel/for is gift
th - it is ?d good and all labor that one he to taketh enjoy
e go o: his
fofttfehls^orSon.” “trfe 6 -d
r whetheAe of
sweet , eat little much.”
..-geest thou a man diligent to his busi
ness? He shall stand before Kings; he
s hall not stand before mean mep.’ Cut
that text out, my young desl^ brother, and 1
it OTer your Jt may save
sour sit u a tiaa .
$' 5=> PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE
NUMBER 38.
There will be no collection this morn
mg. If the sexton wants any money
from this congregation, he will be a lit¬
tle more diligent in his business and
dust the pews back under the gallerv,
same as the body pews down in front!
and sweep the carpets at least once a
month. — Buriinatcn Bawkeve.
Imaginary Birds.
The phoenix, as everybody knows,
gathers dry sticks to make its funereal
pyre, which it then contrives to set
alight, and is presently consumed in the
names. From its ashes a worm crawls
out and, being gradually covered with
feathers, takes the form of its parent
bird. The eagle, which fears nothing
else, dreads the approach of venomous
f. er P ent8 ‘ To a \ evt evil from its eaglets
p aces two agates m its nest. When
f be f gr ° WS t0 ° loilg xt breaks off the
^ « rfl u0 “ P lece against a rock. The
.
• m 1S n- V( f7 powerful turd, and takes
§ i* » w foud of the com
f‘ my °* sbl v B s . lmt if a vessel happens to
be au dually swift sailer, it closes its
win 8 8 and smks to th ? bottom of the
e T ^ doV0, sentimental Should bird its mate is the chance female to
m e lfc n ever a £ am alights on a leafy
’
x Tt . r0markabl J lts chastity,
w' 18 f or
but 18 from meJody If it hears
6 ‘ u > ir ! g °* other birds it groans
p iS f, m y \ n ' viater lfc loses its
- ’
»' t" /“ti , 1CS ¥
kolfows’ ° a
okow3 ; bt 18 related chtH of the wood
e f> tiatd ...
clo3t any ou f/ ri ves 111 a P e £ to
l tbe entrance to , the l hole in the tree
m which its nest is built it flies off in
quest of a particular herb with which it
touches the peg, whereupon it falls out.
This, too, is curious. The hoopoe is uu
able to moult in a natural manner. Its
ones, feed"
ers, and cover and her till tney are
Ml grown. The stork’s young ones nrb
not bird less has filial. Bo long" as the parent
provided for her brood, so long
will her brood provide for her. On tho
other hand, the male crow is cruel
to its offspring, and pecks at and beats
them till their feathers are ns black as
his own. The vainest and silliest of all
birds is the peacock. When it looks
upon its brilliant plumage it is so de¬
lighted that it spreads out the glories of
its tail, but when it looks down upon its
feet it is so disgusted and so ashamed.of
itself that its tail droops to the ground.
It is said to have the voice of a fiend,
the head of a snake, and the gait of a
thief. The swan likes to be accompanied
by a harp, and is most melodious during
the last year of its life. It is also inter¬
esting to learn that the swallow is capa¬
ble of restoring sight to its “ca low
brood” when carried away into captivity
and blinded. Any one go wing where
snakes abound will do well to take with
him. some burned vulture’s feathers. The
heart of a vulture wrapped in the skin
of a lion or of a wolf frightens away
demons. It is quite untrue that vultures
were originally a race of men who were
cruel to the pygmies. But how is it that
medical men do not make greater use t>f
the caladrius ? If this beautiful, snow
white little bird, which is a native of
Jerusalem, be held in front of a man
whose death is certain, it averts its head,
and will in no wise look at him ; but, if
on the contrary, the sick man is destined
to live in spite of his physicians, the
caladrius turns to him, as John Trevisa
expresses it, “faunynge and playsvnge.’*
—All the Year Round.
Snakes as Tront Catchers.
Mr. George fishermen W. Morris, had of better Bridge
water, thinks go
into the snake-killing business along the
brooks if they wish to have any trout
fishing. The other day, Avhile he was
at work near a brook near the Bridge
water and Roxbury line, the cries of a
mart in the field close by attracted his
attention, and going to his help he found
a very large water snake, as saucy a9
you please, jumping at the man. The
snake was disposed of, and, noticing
that it had something inside of it, he
pressed upon the snake with his foot,
and a trout, which was about six inches
long, appeared in view. Altogether he
forced three good-sized trout from the
snake, the last one being pretty well
gone. At another time, as Mr. Morris
was passing along the bank of a brook,
he saw a large water snake glide from He
the roots of a tree into the water.
thought nothing of it at first, as he sup¬
posed the snake had disappeared be¬
cause of his approach, but soon there
was a commotion in the water, and
looking down into the had pool, gathered, where he a
number of suckers
saw that one of them had been caught
in the head by the snake and was whip¬
ping the water with its tail at a tre¬
mendous rate. The snake succeeded
in landing its prey, when it was killed,
and the sucker, which appeared to be
unharmed, was set free bv Mr. Morris.
No Nonsense About Her.
“ I tell you what it is,” said young
Spilkins, “that Podgers girl is just the
right kind of a girl. There’s no non¬
sense about her, you know, and she s so
observing, you know; sees everything
there is to be seen, and she s just as
economical and modest-1 ke as she can
be. I took her out to walk the other
evening, and she shav everything m the
shop Avindows. More than a dozen
times she said: ‘ Doe.to t that candy lo
nice?” And two or three tunes, as wo
Avere o-oino- by an open doog, siie sa u.
‘How lovely that smells! It smells
just like ice-cream, doesn t it. Bui,
la! notwithstanding she would like to
have had some, she never once a ke l
me to give her any. I toll y° u > boys,
you don’t often find a girl like that, so
thoughtful and economical, youkuou.
Spilkins savs if he ever ge s marriei ,
Miss Podgers snail be the happy woman, Miss
but Spilkins may be mistaken.
Podgers mav have a word to say. Do
trait Free Press
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f
that wife time when being she was twelve, sixteen but her^gc on iu
teentli birthday FieW commute
cide instead oi marry mg, tor g
refused to keep the agreem ^
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