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The Conyers Exa ner I [W. E 4 5 A. HARP Publisher. VOLUME V. T H E sffis Pulished every Friday, CONYERS, GEORGIA, $1 50 per Annum in Advance. JOB PRINTING, f Every Description, Promptly and >]y Executed, at Reasonable Rates, l T i;s FOR ADVIIKTISING Hrertisements will he insertedfor ONE [, I,AK per square, for the first inser f t 1 ‘ n( j FIFTY CENT’S per square for continuance, for one month, or less, a longer period, a liberal discount will bade. length, less, consti jteOne inch in or * a equare* in the local column will he ^’Notices each rted at Ten Cents per line, inser atriages P.nd deaths will he published cins of news, but obituaries will be tfed for at advertising rates, 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. —— -•»■■♦•♦- 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 ^ ^ ^ --------* 7 ^---- 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. ------^- _ | 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,