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t'Al.L AT THE
iailroad restaurant.
•Under the Car Shed,)
ATLANTA, GA.
■here all the delicacies of the season
■ he furnisqed in the best of style and
w as any establishment in the city
Meals furnished at allhours of the
dn». BALLARD & DURAND. uuej.20
■ Difficulties of Census Taking.
' cn the,,-on.--us was taken at Cherry
ilici'o was a arid great is fluttering related that among
it all
til undent unmarried ladies, with the
exception of one, went to see their
mills. The one that stuck it out ap
to think that as she had known
tl|re the census enumerator for flight. from boyhood,
was ii" reason
the great day the census taker
rcirel up in a scow and arranged his
vifiiii-aioug the bank. Everything went
«|!:I off .‘tecorOing to the act of Congress,
the maiden lady was reached, then
I trouble began to accrue.
‘What i- your name?” asked the
T|‘ jmeratov. Oh,you needn't
try to fool me, r J>m
■ Jpdier! the kindling 1 knew you wood when you failed
■'idled business, and
niv father out of ten dollars!”
Jr ie|A Your ed the lady.
name is Susan Pratt, isn’t it?”
'h° discomfited enumerator.
then wlmt did you ask me for?”
^■tamarried, the\iu\y.
Miss Pratt P”
i rejected you four times, Tim
'• her, which shows that 1 could have
vied if I'd wanted to!”
r be -2 his fore
j
p lj ie same age that you was when
Dodd’s sister refused to elope with
Y ;, k T k°' V °^ d Y ou were then,
p n
tamilv asked the enumerator,
; l sardonic effort to get even.
‘ L' s . .1 have, Tim Fletcher. I have
1 boy by your first wife, who I took
ot tin poor-house when you started
b>gct. a Government position! Any
re questions, Tim?”
ini finished his report of her from
"‘"it, and pulled sadly down the
IT. And now Miss Pratt watches the
z h'tbune to sec that she is cor
■<iv represented when the returns are
J*,.' If Wished ' in lull.
1 * :uu "ot.” she remarks to the
Pf; i as she takes her paper out,
W n, ° *° Hie Government and let it
0 \V Y lim Fletcher used the
to cut
' a n ' c T es °6 Us wife’s dresses
, 1,11 , so
k r ° out while !”—/JrooZlyn he was gali
! If around, drat him
Reining a Horse.
L t' 0 d>c must senseless, and yet a
Ft La j <ulna 18 ! on l\ R l?it of of the American
P Knnshi mflict driving them horses
(if dcr upon a great
atuS it n'"’ 1m the mistaken idea
ie 8 V| h ° St jHsh a PP earance of
a ' ” u>n P eo ple see a horse’s
> 11,1 1 r'? Up l) the bearing
h , u ‘’ t 'Tinng . J short rein, and
koW ( and champing
Rrr*’ bis bead ft ud rattling the
1 tli,' A i ley i^ 8 Ume tba t be is acting
1 i° - elrength
[ ' 118 and fullness
iff.L,, snivi * "‘Ufeas the animal is
LT ’ 1U f aiu ftud really
' S ° P is tr yiug
»Rain 1080 movements » momentary
ii'lc • f 0 our view, horse bet
a looks
Orsuin it v"° a Sutural, uunv be leisurely, i°els better, swinging when
ait 1
■
Bciliftt, IW aecessary for his head to
is Lviv ,wv Sp<niS0 to ibe motions of
ke 18 for ft man’s hands to do
I'tuUiV onoon'S U • f‘ °, A . horse and allowed bust longer his
ban U u K • 'h asier check
Blin.u ‘ a is used,
>' a 8n °iber popular absurdity
•,S; the ik f '«»• They
collect dust,
iai«Ai] **T eand ar e in every way a
NriiiLi* C .•°, rse ibat cannot be driven
lH mih ."Hbout them should be sold
f r Aeu ♦ I, ^ rader * No oolt should be
k Lincoln {Neb) Jour-
kxt Medical a- , Curiosity.
fTnris Comte,. 0l * t has . been . brought . ... to
U iaut «cL ^* , X>ordmg 1 curiosity t0 from medical the
e ‘>ntributo a
r tn u uh?ete^ a CO m a° r Sj
a^ed n teok R
in g that hf> U ? b ^ ’ and found one morn *
h W V™*
^ ^ ek '.nd ^cethe n li*! K ^ an «s^i 8 tered him
on the P nn“«ly
W-h'" £h k Sns '' llk five krtgrow before five
,he inches more
j ?Hr ris inches^ ?- 882 : rt se :„ e :
seven feet ven All this
theWt ace 9 m P a, »ied by great pains in
b th «t since haveV-L l^? 7 b ® St ^°? lt 1 ?. s hl8 considerably; le ^ onl y
at i J
** y ^“VicTur k C “* al
^ Toq ~The eTtro« a - ary vitalit of Uncle
>’s Cabin”-m y “
lilat & single ty,LV’| Ustrated b y the fact
* r, OArutian Union, '
NEWS GLEANINGS.
One of the most successful cotton
growers in Alabama is a negro.
Texas will have over 200 new distil
leries by the close of tb e pnesetat year.
The colored Baptists in Tennessee
number 60,000 and have 150 churches.
Work on'the jetties in harbor at
Charleston, South Carolina, has been
resumed,
In spite of the overflow, probably in
consequence of it, the Louisiana sugar
crop is the best since the wa>\
Jack Butlerj who burned his little
child io death at Florance, Ala., has
been sent to the penitentiary for life.
The Nickle church, to be built at Fal
estine, Tex., is te be paid for by not less
than 200,000 persons contributing a
nickle a piece.
Para grass grows to an enormous
length in Florida. Near Orange City
some is growing that is eighteen feet
and a half long,
A terrapin farm has its existence at
Waveland, Miss., and last week 900 lit¬
tle turtles were hatched. They will be
tul1 - .
rown m
In Heard county, Georgia, resides a
family of eight persons, named Ray, al
of whom are deaf mutes. Nevertheless,
they are all industrious and happy.
The average corn crop in Tennessee is
60,000,000 buehels, hut it will reach
100 , 000,000 bushels this year. The
wheat crop will reach nearly 12 000 000
, , .
The Farmer’s Co-operative Union, of
I lorida, are said to have secured a sim¬
ple hut effectual plan for preparing or*
rnges for market in such a manner that
they will keep for months.
The monument to he erected at Vicks¬
burg, Miss., to the memory of Gari¬
baldi, will he surmounted by a life sized
statue of that personage, and will be one
of the e finest nnest m in the tne United United «fot btates. M
A large shot-tower is to he erected in
New Orleans by a local company ,4 ^ who
have .b— means and p
penence. The tower will be the eleventh
in the United States when completed.
The nrotfress of milmnd Bnildino- nrd
was unprecedented. About 1,500 miles
ot road were put in operation, and the
gross earnirgs amounted to $63,000,000
Roberts & Salter, ^of Bullock county,
Ala., had twenty-six acres of heavy
timbered bottom land which they want
ed cleared. In ten hours 106 axmen
with 200 log rollers and brush pilers
completed the job.
The Hot Springs creek on the Gov
rrment reservation at Hot Springs,
Ark., is to he strengthened and protect*
ed from sewage water and refuse, and
generally to have $127,000 worth of im
provements put on it.
The Times-Democrat, in an article on
the health of New Orleans, claims that
there are no less than 11,900 people in
that city over sixty years of age or one
eighteenth of the population, while 195
have passed ninety.
Dallas, Tex., is said to be built over a
grave yard of mastodons, and for five or
six years past excavations for buildingo
have seldom failed to bring up their
bones. A large number of these masto¬
don remains were unearthed a few days
ago, and some of the bones were of enor
mous size.
The officers of the Pawnee, Stonewall
Jackson, ^Esthetic and Chief Marriage
Associations of Little Rock, Ark., have
been fined $25 each for violating a city
ordinance which prohibits “gift” enter¬
prises being conducted in that city. The
State Gazette amis them, “Wildcat
schemes to fleece the innocent.”
A colored man, J. R. Ballard, was re-1
f fitly ordained in St. John’s church,
caeksonville, Fla., which is called the I
most artistic church in the State, by
Bishop v Young, in ... the presence of a dis
tinguislied audience. It was the first
ase in the State that a colored man has
Wti Leen otrtsined ‘ ie in * a white te church cauren.
At Griffin, Ga., a very curious spider
has been captured. It has on its back a
hard, ’ thick formation, very much resem
blinga soft j.,,,,,..,, shell crab or a turtle, about
a quarter of an inch across. This shell
has eight horns, from all of which the
spider spins a web at the same time. He
is an active> and , as Artemus Ward
wmild *oum say, s»v an on “omnnsiii’ amoosin linlo nuie cuss. »
Charlotte, (N. C.) Observer: It has
onlv Veen a few 7 months since Prof. W
E - Hidden, an eleckieian. employe of Edison, the
distinguished in search of
platinum, discovered in Alexander Co.,
and brought to the attention of the
wor id the now far-famed hiddenite stone'only He
has now discocered another
a little less valuable, if anv, than the
^ — h.
*t to be a new mineral, unknown to sci
entitle geologists, perfectly transparent,
resembling the diamond, but belonging
to a different geologicalf amily. It is one
^ ^ 7 ; of h * h “ •»;
cal1 ’. lt Edlsomte .. T 1S . ... uncl in the .
neighborhood of ‘ the place 7 in Alexander
r nty wherc v ,u,coTe,rf ,b * hadea -
He.
ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHILE TRUTH IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT.”
CONYERS, GA., FRIDAY OCTOBER 20, 1882
TOPICS Or THE I)Ati
A young Boston widow this season
wore a bathing suit of full mourning.
Senator Pendleton^ new home in
Washington has large gilded sunflowers
at the top of the lightning rods;
A French artist has represented Time
as a woman instead of a man. He ar
gues that women have more of it than
anybody else.
The centennary of Bolivar is to be cel¬
ebrated on July 24, 1883, at Caraccas,
Venezuela, by the dedication of a statue
of Washington.
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The Flathead Indians have agreed to
allow a railroad to be built across their
reservation iu Montana, upon the pay
ment of $23,000. The price asked was
$1,000,000.
The $1,000,000 bequeathed by Mr.
Lewis, of New Jersey, to the govern¬
ment, to be applied towards extinguish¬
ing the national debt, will make its ap¬
pearance in the next monthly statement.
Robert T, Lincoln has shipped from
Springfield, Illinois, to Washing! "his
sixty-two trunks belonging to
mother, which were filled with dress
goods and trinkets purchased in Europe.
Mr. Btjrnham, a scientic Connecti¬
cut farmer, recently sold one of his young
cows for $4,800. This animal, in 372
days, has given in milk ten times her
own weight— 10,000 pounds—and 1,000
pounds of butter.
, .
A Californian has invented a sheep
counting machine. It counts up to
10 . 000 , registers the number, then gives
a snap, jumps back, and begins count
ing again. It never misses a sheen, old
or young, fat or lean.
Hox - Blaine has sent his
check f ” ? 50 toward the monument
proposed to be erected to the memory of
the late Senator R ■’ H '. H-n ni ^ ta
r *
.. T) £ ^^ermg mpohhcs, Messrs
^ ^ ^
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F ifty young ladies from six counties
of North Carolina, took part in breaking
They plied their shovels with great
vigor, and were applauded by 5,000
spectators.
Mrs. Langtry, according to the latest
rumor, will be accompanied to this
country by a band of male admirers,
something after the style of the lovesick
maidenB in “Patience. An English
nobleman, it is said, will be the leader
of the party.
President Barrios, of Guatemala, re
ceives a salary of ^ 1 000 a month , He
iias b * een i n office twelve and is
years,
worth $ 8 , 000 , 000 . The debt of his
country is $9,000,000 and growing,
which would seem to indicate that lie
does ncdl allow any one else to take
much.
Acting on the suggestion that letter
postage be reduced to two cents a half
ounce, a Post office Department official
has figured out that on that basis the
deficit of last year, one of the most pros¬
perous in the history of the service,
would be $ 10 , 000 , 000 , instead of a sur¬
plus of $1,500,000.
Kings and Princes are getting down
nowadays to the same prosaic, business
like ways of thinking and doing as other
mortals. Oscar II., sovereign of Swe
den and Korway, being about to under
a journey to the latter country, has
had his life insured in favor of his fam
iiy for the sum of 6,000 crowns.
A training school for servants lias
just been established at St. Louis under
the management of leading ladies cf
that city. Practical housekeeping in all
its departments will comprise the course
of training, and a nursery for poor chi! j ]
flren, where they shall also be taught to j
‘sew and , and , . „ . to , , be at- , ,
sweep spin, is
<ached. 1
_ * * V
T j.t is proposed , to perform an operation +• ;
on the eyes of Thurlow Weed, who has ;
been blind for live years, with the hope
of restoring his sight. It is intended to
cut away the double cataract over his
eyes and fit a doub.e convexlens , oi , glass ,
Accurately in front of the eye, so focussed |
18 to properly cast on image upon the I
{l ’ the retina has not lost its
sensitiveness, it is thought that he will j
oe able to see.
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The sealskin clothes worn by Engi
ncer Melville during his terrible expen
^'^es in the Arctic regions are objects of
^ asllir interest 1 ^g ton at Among the Navy the Department^ reins 1 - a
-
bnlhantly colored foxskm cap belonging
10 Hieut- Beny, which was presented t°
bim hy “Esquimaux damsel. She con
n " c ; ttea us ° :c cap ,?cause 1
^ him oae ehe had made
',
A new use has been discovered for
potatoes. They can be converted into a
substance resembling celluloid by peel
S
Lheets uric acid, drying and pressing between
of blotting paper. Ia France,
j pes ^ ma de of this substance scarce
(subjecting *
the maw to great pressure
billiard balls can be made of it rivaling
ivory in hardness.
A new style of car is about to be in¬
troduced on the Sofitlterii Pacific Rail¬
road, destined to be run from California
?o the gulf as wheat cars, and on their
return as emigrant cars. The interior
will be like other freight cars. Along
tbe sides will be sleeping bunks, lowered
and suspended by an iron rod and hinge,
but capable of being closed up flush
when freight is carried. There are win¬
dows, of course, and it is Baid the cars
vvill he as comfortable and warm as the
most luxurious Pullman sleeping car.
At the marriage of Mr. and Mrs.
Gfeorge Harris, at Mount Meridian. Vir
giuia, the bride , refused . , to say “Yes” to
the question whether she would obey
her husband. She said that she saw no
reason in such a promise, and he con
cluded that no harm would be done bv
“ to
nei m nd anyhow. Two years elapsed,
and a few days ago the unsettled ques
tion arose again, George ordered his
wife to fry a chicken for dinnei- and she
insisted on roasting it. He brought in a
“ d ** ™ Id
n.ig hei until she obeyed. She shot and
killed him.
^ hts
A French savant ealfodln the aid
Tiorwin, ' 1 ^ ev °l i u tion . to ex
plain . . the graceful gait of the Parisian
ladies. According to his reasoning the
streets of Paris were for a long time af
ter the foundation of the city in a very
r; T am °°'r
“ ” ^ 1 mme Butetia, or the
° f Mua '” r Tbe Parisiau ladies in
” ,
oraer , not to soil their shoes,
were forced
*° ”! k * due time re
h «!»>.“ nd J™ 1 J l “ tbat
‘ f 1 18 ^ be admiration
and env y ot ad Hie women of the civil
ized world,
The Probable Wheat Yield.
TIie onI N statistics which . have yet
. been . for the yield
given per acre of the
present crop are those of Illinois, where
the official report places the yield at 18.}
yield SJTe
per acre in Illinois is to be ac
cepted States. as the average for the United
But there are some reasons
to accepting the yield of almost any
other one State as such an index: First
—Illinois is the largest wheat-raising
State in the Union, and in the three
years from 1879 to 1881 inclusive pro¬
dueed about twelve per cent, of all the
wheat raised in the United States.
Second—Illinois lies nearly in the center
of the group of ten States comprising
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wis
cousin, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska,
Kansas and Missouri, which produced
in 1880 about three-fourths of the wheat
crop of the United States. Illinois may
therefore be presumed to represent the
average of the meteorological experience
and crop conditions of this group of
Slates. In 1880 the average yield per
acre in Illinois was 16-7 bushels, while
that of the United States was 13-1
bushels per acre. Illinois was therefore
22 per cent, above the general average.
It is an established fact that the average
yield of wheat per acre in different sec¬
tions of the United States con¬
tinues at about the same rela¬
tive difference, as, for instance,
the averago in the Southern States is
always in tho only about half as much per acre
as group of States above men¬
tioned while in the far Northwest the
yield is always greater per acre than in
the ten States mentioned. There seems
no objection, therefore, to assuming that
certain States are always above andoth
ers always United below the general average of
tbe States. Now, if we may as
f un j e tbat V 10 P rcsent yield of 18i
, Tn .
cenL above the av - erao fjnited - e , it would make
the average for the States say
14 43-100 bushels per acre, or just about
10 per cent, over 1880, which, upon an
area of 37,000,000 acres, would be 533
910,000 bushels, a result which differs
less than the half of one per cent, from
our previous estimate, which was made
without any such calculation as produces
the present figures.
Some argument will of course be made
against yield assuming an increased average
per acre of ten per cent, over the
crop of 18S0. But it will be remember
e d that there has been no year before
this when the crops of spring wheat and
winter wheat were both good
possibly wheat throughout 1877, when the the United average crop of
States was
13 86-100 bushels per acre, or only about
* our pet cent, *ess than we have as
the present ^ ci op to produce an aggre
gate of 033 , 910 ,000 bushels on 37,000,
000 acres.— N. Y. Evening Post.
Beat Him>
-
Dan and Flasher were in the habit ol
trying their wits on eac other.
Once they were discusssmg the rela
tdveimerits of rifle vs. bow and arrow,
I can beat jou even at short range,
„ f sa?d “chafed Dan ^
a„ arrow
in pursuit of a hen that they saw in a
yard that they were passing, and missed
1 len.
yjljj , wi.h a she of hrs n»e, k< ,cd
“ There,” he exclaimed, “i told > ,f1 ^
**1™$**? u aAe r-r beat ye „. ( „ mh -‘
’
D
“ How can that be! You missed fbe
hen while I killed her.”
StlU I have beat ye, because yon
r“f F r c F »»
—--
—A Missouri tree has yielded 800
rmfis ' 300 fence-posts, ten cords of
wL-Co^JovnnL st- 9
Where the Ape is Honored.
The ancient Egyp tians did not repre¬
sent the ape as a caricature of man, but
idealized it and paid, it religions honors,
as they did to many other animals. A
eynoeephalus temple was Hermdpolis, kept and worshiped while
in the at a
cercopithecus was honored at Thebes;
Mummies of apes have been found in
both of theue cities. The ape also has
its place in the hieroglyphics as the rep¬
resentative of the sound “en,” and is
called ein in Coptic. The god Anubis,
who, at the judgment of the dead in
Amenti (or the land of death), put the
heart of the deceased in the balance of
justice in order to report the result to
Thoth, is figured with the head of A
eynoeephalus, Thoth dr dog-faced babooH.
himself generally appears asso
elated with the attribute ot the cyno
cephalus, the emblem of the dog-star,
The temple of Queen Hatasu, atDer-el
bahri, is adoi*ned with inscriptions re
lating balsam-bearing to a grand land expedition Punt, into the
of the Egvp
tianOphdr, in which the offerings sent
™
to the full with the wonderful products
of the land of Punt, and the various
heaps building-woods balsams of the godly land, with
of of incense, with green
m cense-trees, with ebony, with ivory,
“ otfilwoo £
with frankincense, holy balsams and
eye-paints, with cynoeephaluses and
baboo “ s and grey-hounds, and with
leopard-skins. 1 Never was the like
brought world to any King of Egypt since the
has stood.” According to
Brugsch, decks the the incense-ti;ees stood on the
of vessels, and the apes, let
loose ’ t? amboled in t[ ie Egging, to the
animals are praised as allies of llama,
a direction P cs are depicted in groups, under the
of a King who obeys the nods
mei or incam^t,lemon?hut asrerS
ble apes with all their less pleasant po¬
culiarities realistically portrayed. A
favorite figure of the poem is Hamiman,
the fool of the serious drama, around
whom a fabulous atmosphere lias al¬
ready gathered. In him may be recog¬
nized the Hulman of the Hindoos, the
Mandi of the Malabars, the sacred ape,
Semnopithecus entellns. He is an Atlas,
who bears mountains on his shoulders.
A child of the wind and the air, lie
affords the most agreeable symbolism
of the simian character. Like a rash
child, he tried to go up to the sun, and
still carries a remembrancer of his mis¬
hap in the deformity of his lower jaw,
With 1 ' til's 1 ?a<3Ylftn\bf, v ' VvWiV'TUV
cheered and comforted Rama’s beloved
wife Sita, and helped deliver her from
the terrible Lanka, the city of the De¬
mon-King Ravana. In gratitude embraced for
this, Rama crowned him and
him in the sight of both hosts, of men
and Science of gods.— Monthly. Dr. Placzek, in Popular
And Now Toronto Has a Sea-Serpent.
Yesterday morning was cool, and
perhaps this was the reason why some
of the workmen engaged at the targets
on the Garrison ranges say the serpent
they saw was mat more than titty feet
long and the size of a man’s body. The
story, as told by one of them, is in sub¬
stance as follows: Between eight and
nine in position o’clock, while No. 1 placing boy the targets rushed
on range, a
up saying that there was a queer thing
floating near the shore. Some of the
men were and hasten curious enough down to leave their
work to the shore.
There, sure enough, was a large bluish
gray had mass floating lazily of near the shove.
It every appearance icing asleep,
as its body yielded to every ripple. Part
was submerged, but the upper portion
of the head floated just above the water.
That part which was visible was covered
with short, stiff bristles in front, which
increased in length toward the sides,
and extended for a distance of about
ten feet on each side. T ie back, or at
least that portion of it wh'ch appeared
above the water, was lighter colored
than the head. A good \ lew was had
of the monster for upward of three min¬
utes, when, suddenly raising its head
out of the water, it gave a swish with
its tail and started directly south, in
the direction of one of the steamers. Its
head, as it raised it above the water, was
very much like that of an cel, with I he
exception whiskers. of the long, trailing small, hair or
Its eyes were and as
it dashed off one of the men said he
thought bark. A he line heard of foam it give marked a short, its sharp
the about proo-
ress out into lake for hah a
mile, when, turning sharp around, it
dashed toward the Exhibition wharf,
and again out into the lake, where thev
soon lost sight of if. The men did not
appear at all anxious to speak of the
matter, as they feared their. Veracity
would be questioned. As it is. their
story purely is given word for what it is worth, but
the of three men who saw
it is worth that of thirty who did uot see
it .--Toronto Mail.
A * oMei>ia n on a ‘ Lark *
; incident in the reckless career of
th Marq „ ig of Hastings is related by a
traveler who chanced to be staving in
the chief hotel at Sheffield one evening
when he and a few companions resolved
G n what they termed a “lark.” The
fr ? lic took the turn of demolishing the
ever I saw a'macfman Marquis ” c avsthenarra
tor, ‘‘it was the that night, as,
with the butt end of a heavv riding
Mp> he> ,„ n ttcally out win.
/' 11 bookcares^ and* _
deface issass hK* „*1SsSi sideboards
demon. Then, when he had done, he
bank manager^topay d^aft* and "wTth an°oath ^S-dtred
the himself for thedam
age done, which, T have no doubt, the
KT did wiIhout omittiBg 4
—A. B. Chase, of StocKholm, St
Lawrence County, N. Y., was awakeued
early in the morning by the barking ot
j grown wolvea which were ouiide.
The Age of High Pressure.
It has become almost a truism to say
thal every age has its distinguishing fea,
turo, which gives to it an individuality
as unmistakable as that which different.
tiates the several members of the same
family; and it needs but little examina
turn to discover that the distinguishing
feature of the present age is M higb
pressure.” mankind the Physical science has taugnt
conversation and utilize
tion of the forces of nature, and recent
experiment has shown that “high pres
sure is the means by which the great
est amount of force may be extracted
from a ton of coals. Humanity is fond
of analogy, and 13 ever ready to trans
fer its reasoning from the physical to
to the psychic world.
Moreover, the advance A physical
cienee, and the application thereof to
the appliances of life, must in time ne
cessitate a corresponding movement in
the world of action. As the locomotive
or steam vessel increases in speed, so
must human beings move more rapidly
in thought and action. The humblest
servant upon a line of railway is affected
i. that^fni^^Th^lnwA'^' a J nS “ over “ eid,3 b y a | ns rannin md e S^ of in- er
L ine v, The lowest clerk , in an office
. affected materially by each
is increase of
postal deliveries, by every decrease in
the rates for telegrams bv every addi
viae?*^Itfis'quite’true that^we^do jm!... S not 4 ?!
a» zr Sorter ,0 g SfXtsdSmZ mav h.iilrH i , r.n. iTz Tud :
in the hour, than they intervkl, did,
we kuo* nothing of the of
quietude which they enjoyed duririg the
are exnausted, and he has scarcely eu*
ergy left to seek the means of recreation
which lie around him. Our business
and professional friends are constantly
urging as an excuse for failures in the
exercise of social virtues the plea that
they are too weary to undertake that
exercise save at widely sundered inter
vals, and the weary business man asks
for nothing when his day’s labors are
ended save “to be let alone.-” Such a
state ously of things can not fail to tell sen
upon the character and ° venius of
a people. Leisure
is a thing unknown to the
bulk of men, or is regarded as some far
distant haven which he scarcely hopes
to reach in future years. And to the
few fortunate ones who do reach it, it
for too its frequently comes when all capacity
enjoyment is gone, worn out bv
the weary struggles and stress of the
voyage. mercial houses The‘principals alrea/Jscix» of our com
are
see the result 01 a lack of
springiness or elasticity about them, and
their*
With and a a general growing spread average of intelligence, knowledge,
there is also an increasing lack of bust
ness “genius.” It is more than ever
easy to get a hundred men of ordinary
ability, and more difficult to get ona
man of originality and keen insight,
Men or more mechanical and less spon
taneous than they were. departments, Specialists
may be obtained for all
but men of “all round minds,” capable
of taking wide views,are few and tar be
tween .—London O/obe.
Shark vs. Swordfish.
Gen. Spinner, the hero who used to
sign the Treasury notes, sends the fol
lowince descriptive letter of a fight
among sea monsters on the ooast of
Florida, on South Beach, below May- I
port- “Early yesterday morning, as
went for my usual surf bath, accom
panied by my daughter, Mrs. Schu
macher, we witnessed what has proba
bly seldom been seen. The ocean was
unusually placid, but a strange commo
tion in the surf was noticed. On near
ing the shore it was seen that a fierce
battle was raging between two schools
of saw-fish! fishes, one of sharks and the other of
It was shaflow, high tide, and the
water was quite so that the
caudal and dorsal fins of both these
kinds of sea monsters were constantly
seen of eactj°of &
sr«,rSd^rVdSs,M;: wadedUnto kinr
“ was Stranded. I
and with the edge of a pece flo r
measured board gave nearly him\^ fifteen fMt and earned
“ a sword saw three and a half feet long,
with over fifty teeth on its outer margin.
It was found that one of the sharks had
bitten a piece out of his side equal to a
foot square, through which his bowels
protruded. looked if
“ At one time it as another
pair of the combatants would be strand
ed, for in their struggle touched they came bottom so
near the shore that they finally
all the time, hut they in deep managed
to join their companions all the water, belli*
and after fifteen minutes
erents disappeared, to the great relief of
those who cared more for sea bathing
than for seeing the terrific fights of sea
monsters. My daughter will carry the
saw of the captured fish to her home as
a memento and trophy of the great
conflict, and for an addition to her
cabinet of ocean curiosities .”—Florida
Dispatch.
—American art seems to have been
accorded a prominent place at the Paris
Salon this year, both by the critics and
the judges as well as by the public.
Eighty-six American Albert artists Wolff, were the repre- well
sented. Mr.
known critic of the Figaro , declared
that the Americans held a front place artistic in
the exhibition, and in French
circles the high character of the Ameri
can pictures has occasioned a good best deal
of comment. Several of the por
traits in the Salon were by American
artists .—Chicago Journal.
—A Philadelphia crank, who wears
an exceedingly' high hat, “ to prevent
the lightning from striking him,” places
upon the roof of his house every day a
laree girt quantity of fruit for an imaginary who
to eat.' A small boy, has
lea reed of the eccentric conduct of the
old gentleman, climbs to the roof daily
on a l ghtning rod and does much to
confirm the old man s belief in the
mythical female-—r Philadelphia Frets.
$'•50 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE
NUMBER 40 .
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
— Tbe colored people of Corsicana
Tex * ha ™ organized a company with
ca P ltai of $25,000 for a
ohasing and the landsf purpose of
P ur —Consul Stevens improving
writes from China
the chain pump, which was solll
largely has in this country not many years
ago, been in use in China for over
thousand years. Double-headed
tacks, too, have been used there for
many centuries.
—Before repainting a building apnlv
a coat of crude petroleum with a ilne
whitewash brush, let it dry two or three
weeks, then put on one ooat of paint A
second painting is rendered unnecessa
ry, and that much money is saved —
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
—A farmer near Liverpool, England
has invented which a self-acting prevents^hay ventilating
apparatus, or o-rain
put into stack quite wet from beino- in
jured farmer by comparatively heating, thus independent rendering” the
the of
weather in that moist climate,
—From data derived from the num
ber and capacity of locomotive shops in
thecountryandthenumbevofmenem- ployed
in each, five men can make a
locomotive in one year, complete from
end to end. This is with modern ma
chinerv, methods and faoilities.-De
troit Posl
—Is iron to go oulof fashion? A youns;
srzsrr “> an ^ Pittsburg proposes to raaku nails
neei n-r iKh bat ut
? S« k. t X* "°“ ^ t,c J e ’ an ‘! , J*
S? "T*. * °"f h . en0 "K l '. to
rJ^: o,d kind -
A , , b , ack , tlc d that found ,
ma S n ® f an is
• abundance , . California by
ln m is a new
pr, ’ ee f 8 u V. 17 ‘ fid ia taQ manufacture of
cast, " st ® el , direct from the sand. Eight
P ouads of sand yield live pounds of
stee " d be slag remaining is valuable
as ceiaerlt or hre-proof roofing, and the
lt lve nk018 oxpe ^ 3,1 ' Levolutiomze Ihe
‘l, . ee , ti:ubj , 0 V aclll, ‘ ooast .--San
^ > ann.-ico /Tf Chronicle.
—The successful employment of gas
as a fuel for iron manufacture will in
troduce a greater era than did the use
coa3 f° r a similar purpose. A fuel
and can be produced on the spot, as
when wanted, at less original cost
than any other known, and minus the
added inconveniences, delays and ex
P enses of freightage, whic!l possesses advan
ta £ es wiLk n0 other fuel caa
compete. The only donbt< as to whether
gas haye can be so produced at such low cost
been dissipated bv the successful
J? nts bave f amfe vvit, \ 1038
than the ori ^ mal elements , .-Iron.
"> » ........
A sad occurrence during rape week
last year was the death of an aged and
respected citizen, who had been ill¬
veigled Asylum into a den llis of death bunko men from on
street, was
heart-disease, due probably to the ex¬
citementandfrightwhenhefoundhim
self alone in a room with a party of
roughs and all strangers to him. The
police made diligent search for the ras
cals, and although two or three arrests
were made right parties were never ctis
covered. At least one of them was
here again last week, and, under the be¬
lief that the affair had blown over and
had been forgotten, revealed to one or
two persons tbe secret of the last mo
ments of the victim. Ho was induced
to enter the room by a man who pre
tended acquaintance with him. Then
the usual practices of bunko men in de¬
frauding their victims were attempted,
He became suspicious, and finally iright
ened. It was noticed that a strange
expression appeared upon lus features,
and a moment later he fell back in his
chair. All of the men, with the excep¬
tion of the one who tells the story, fled
the room at once. He regarded simple the
affair as nothing more than a
fainting fit, and used such means as he
was conversant with, to revive the old
& e ntle ^ aD - rbe -Y. Tnfl heSeath
Then h he slipped lus hand beneath tee the
***} and foand that tie beart had f a8ed
^ ^ no attempt t0 find his
companions, P but fled town on the first
™ 7 / , , street dep0 t.
Harbord , ( . y , _• (j ourun t -
_ _____
A B j that Held Good,
Over opposite the village of FJlijav,
Ga., is a rich piece of ground known all
over Georgia ae “the forked field,’ be
cause of the following moment mn
years ago it was part of the est. t
wealthy citizer who, when well 0 ^
years, was. stneken with due .^“
council of physicians pronoun^ ! r
yer able. ivas As summoned he lay at ^athsd^qamw to ^Law ^ ■
His numerous «n» and da^g
formedla bed. Ihe sorrowful law ie ^oup^axoim^ ^
quests—this farm * 0 d ^ that to
Busan the other to Pe an so on
mi til he hadprovided for all ^ hnicM^ ^
Then fects were Ins watch disposed am ot, ” the , ^oice voice of the wie
dying man becoming weaker an
jjp| e everv moment. “You have for
fta( Alexander, said
ff0 tten one thing Mr. appropriately solemn
f he atto rney in “What is it
and sympathetic tones.
--lowlv whispered the old man. xcu
have not said what you wish clone wibh
q field,” said tbe attorney. A
16 dying man’s eyes,
gleamed 111 the thenwith
..Qp; ves,” said he slowly; and
Qew a irength in his voice, exclaimed,
*‘Xliat I’ll keep for myself,” after which
t urned oyer on his side and sank into
refreshing sleep. In a few weeks be
a for thereafter
wag a W ell man. and cultivated years under his
tbe forked field was ( Mass )
supervision.— Springfield
publican. _____ calling the
—An Austin teacher was B °%
rolh Just as he called out
Smith,” Bob pushed J open the f , door, , or out
of breath, and answered, He ,
••Robert, nex n t 3 “ 0 „eroSere.”
ings,