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4 VV A, HARP publisher. E. VOlTMH V. T H K. !R3 EXAMINER polished every Friday, CONYERS GEORGIA, ho per Annum in Advance. OB PRINTING, Description, Promptly and Every Reasonable Rates l gxocutcd, at , | Laments FS 10 U advertising will be insertedfor ONE f p,r FIFTY square, CENTS for the per first square mser- for L month, less Uinuance, for one or r“ nger period, a liberal discount will J le. inch in length, or less, consti 0no rXoticefTin j Cents the local line, column each will inser- be E a t, Ten per and deaths will be published 0 f news, but obituaries will be )lS advertising rates, ed for at «ALL AT THE ILRQAD RESTAURANT. ’ Under the Car Shed,) ATLANTA, GA. iere all the delicacies of the season L furnisqod in the best of stylo and Loss any establishment allhours In the of city the rMcals furnished at IS.YLLARD & DURAND. unej.20 , islonal Wailings Over Funerals. he wilds of Kerry Patch, upon the ,y door of a little cabin, is marked gend; / i Oorps wusli i 11 done here. if' Town Talker does not often get fen Hie metes am! bounds of the |>b»» of Kerry, but of late his busi lus taken him through the settle tt, (ach as a short cut, very frequently, time lie has read and pondered ■announcement. Was it true that (“wasliin’ lease, ” was done there; and, in Ving did the friends of the depart the "corps” around to this I, and wore these peculiar facilities the prosecution of the business? that, parties Or jnga the statement mean “corps” could here find a pro live valet do chambre for the dead ? [c was in the somethingso affair that delightfully day 1 tapped lugu tas one *p Imred door, old and entered. who I told was met that by crone, me Was “Missus” MeDougal, and in ld what she could do for me. |m txdd that you attend to the wash p the dead.” ■es,” Irk'd said she, “and I do it cheap.” is your charge?" Inc dollar, and I furnish all me own ■Ml, Lsponges / and the like.” don't happen to have any lin.s just, now,” said I, “but it’s ys well to be looking around. IIow Jsinoss with you?” It’s very poor, sir. Times was when pril make $10 a week as aisy as ■c settin’ in that chair; now, if I lies $•! a week ’I'm well satisfied. Iknow I'm a keener, and kcenors is l I generally make $1 a week now lin’” ^ hat is ‘keenin'?” 'Keenin' why, cryin’ for the dead, r now .’ * here’s some of us as was | r' (!|s s arou| 1,1 ri the <>uld country, and we peon, corpse and starts anu then the others they jine l-* the keen any different from |r cry?’’ any Different! I should sav it was, sir. .thekeen g 0es right to the heart. . Li'? )’ing keen,” and she bent began Mva her body from side b a most dolorous and de ’3; ,X ,!v lu ' vi er ’ ham v ' hieh ls she i accentuated which I ’ an( can V si,.r;\ 'kumetimos n ' o * a W .'M , an( it t dropped grief-strick j,,< len ros « and until to a j , rose it ),- 0s , a shriek. It was the life ’ V ' 1,18t t l .' n K * ever heard in ! m an jJ 3 0 3 , Cl; l' arts 11 it turns of and the lZPTV ran up a* k ouW]o - Keal, y’ ainiy art p * t a *‘t—savage art—but ild4 ‘ l, upon the stage, it ■ “w! doe r* ® that 8 ^ P ccialt the house.” V I ever she L ..,„ H ° Ut at «rTor mliv 1 g ?„ a P°»" graveyard, d of'tea and tedmiL’r , and tU IW0 ’ if [ S etit _in this ; here , s no good keen il’P EiiUy South tin," n i ,'- rc v , al : ^> '’i- specially The best are Vtehfe an in the To hear U right you Y’Oij it ' ° /en £ oin ’ at once 1 com * sopconU ° Ut ^ rand then. But k U11 < an t *' but thev't ff0ocl cetl —they try M keenin’ u° Hen th > hear ! he Y can’t tell *K certainlv t ’ ,y From vp ry tii-si ‘ 0 P ° ? ^'oy «,’?hi the old lady on "ins d()n S iat 1 wished any ' there <<.•’<, p 1 M "hdrew, convinced p 'deration e v ento,K ^ d ,n,s Egyptians which in we the could Q Louis art • Spectator. [ ' - nil tiling "! 0, ; ° r ’JienLr 11 is savs that that r *' a , necessary P 1 •> v',,. ,ai : !;" understanding that ’ U :, vs proportionately - 1 ?l ‘ r ain i; lan snm ii crops; that i!! *> on i,n !s a P v cn amount of lli ^ °wn more cheaply on tn n l ° When s 'Armi- nin.C 1- this fact f >0 run ’ Vla, cd the popular craze ""Ifiifn ,‘, wi 1 be abated, and . ’’place n ’ever acres win take 1 ! *u over ° P rosont system of half | ar action lanc «eo School Boa d is ^tvve . l0tl er , .? r rei hPdving the dis iije U and ,k 1e Primary teacher's sal fa cher. i t - Spinning to the gnmima: !7e< i to be re og f* x P*rieaee am* r natural ° a ability high degree we'I o' Squired fr re* Se fr it teacher who gives ^Mtoward I D tllafc frying vl|$ said of fh tbe u ^est ^enever he 7 he expwtej to tip Up HUT'?** $SS£#f&-'.*. &£(&<& 3 igSgT # -,.. .-v ■ * mmmmmm The Conyers jg® 11 ?35 . 3 H xaminen N TOPICS OF THE DAY. LiEtrr. Dai B9 ban accepted « bout twenty C to doliver his Arctic lectors. The I/ird Chancellor of England re¬ ceives snlary 3 a equal to that of the President of the United States. The story that President Arthur’s son is engaged to the daughter of Congress¬ man Crowley is officially denied. The registration in New York City for the first, day this year exceeds that on first day last year, by about 20 , 000 . Miss La Forge, who was betrothed to Lieutenant Cliipp, of the Jeannette, has died insane with grief at his unhappy fate. Brazil has ratified a treaty with China permitting Chinese emigration. The Chinese are needed for coffee plan¬ tations. The Rev. Charles H. Spurgeon has of late been suffering severely from the gout. He is about to leave London for Mentone. Governor Crittenden, of Missouri, denies the story that he introduced Prank James to Mrs. Crittenden as liis “friend.” The Duke of Athole plants every year from 600,000 to 1,000,000 trees. He is said to be the most extensive tree-planter in the world. Senator Pendleton’s new house on •Sixteenth street, Washington, has mas rive gilded sunflowers at the top of the lightning-rods. Senator Hale, of Maine, is in such poor health that he will be unable to take any further active part in this fall’s political contests. Miss Mary Hill has been admitted to the Connecticut bar by the Supreme Court of tliat State, and is the first of her sex to gain that distinction. Hon. Alexander Mackenzie, ex Uremier of the Dominion, has been pre¬ sented with an address and a purse c attaining $5,500 by his old constituents of the County of Lambton. Ontario. A Mississippi gentleman has offered two prizes for the State Fair— a box of kid gloves for the handsomest unmar¬ ried lady and a gallon of whisky to the man who writes the best essay on tem¬ perance. It is related that when a young man, in General Robert Toombs’ presence, objected to Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” that it was obscure, Toombs said with pity; “Milton was blind; he couldn’t see to write for fools.” One of Arabi’s tents at Tel-el-Kebir was lined with crimson damask silk; the other was embroidered with forget me-nots, pomegranates and other fruits, in a manner which would put some tine art needlework associations to the blush. The colossal statue of Lord Beaeons field which is to be set up in Parliament Square, London, this winter, will repre¬ sent the deceased statesman at that period of his career when he returned triumphant from the Congress of Berlin. Mrs. Amanda Smith, who was once a slave in Delaware, and who is well known in many churches in this coun¬ try, has reached Monrovia, Liberia, af •er three years of successful evangelistic work in Great Britain and the East Indies. Milk is said to be growing in favor in England as a substitute for beer, and the Northwestern Railway Company has been buying a large herd of cows, 500 in one purchase, proposing henceforth to supply milk to thirsty travelers, who have no recourse except beer. The Rothschilds are virtual owners of one-fifth of the fertile lands in the Delta of the Nile. Their share in Egyptian bonds is popularly estimated at £ 12 , 000 , 000. An envious anti-Semite calculates ihat the income of Baron Wilhelm Rothschild is about £28 per hour, or aiue shillings per minute. An absurd story going the rounds of »ho continent is that Arabi surrendered because he was Buffering from pains in ;he stomach. He is said to have tele¬ graphed to Sir Garnet Wolseley: “As you have good doctors, will join you diortly. Prefer captivity with the Eug iish to cholera in Egypt.” Nearly nine years have elapsed since, in October 31, 1873, the Spragues, of Rhode Island, failed. They had assets rained at $ 20 000 000 , while their liabil , , ties were $ 6 000,000 less than th, , the (mount. The estate was pnt in hands of an assignee,* and it was hoped that in two or three years all claims vould be settled or greatly reduced, hut me legal complication after another has followed. The many suits which have been passed upon by the courts have, not been adjusted with much consistency, and to-day the property is in mot£ o f a ; tangle than ever. * An Erie, Pennsylvania, phy#oian nnd hemist, . Lovett, ■ credited with discovering a process of embaimmg embalming jrhioh oonsiats of placing m a opffin ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHILE TRUTH 15 LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT." CONYERS, GA., FRIDAY OCTOBER 27, 1882. • from which the air has been exhausted, several ingredient, that being dissolved bv electricity fill the vacuum with preservative a gas. The body of a young child in the first stages of decomposition has already been preserved nearly two months Without change, decay being ar rested and the Odor of decomposition destroyed. He also claims it as a pre- 1 servative __, of meat, _ . , his . experiments . . so far . having been successful. The gas is not injurious to food nor to water. Winter Dresses. There is to be a marked change in the yintei ike all styles changes, for skirts, will lie which, gradual. however, The principal die skirts variation to be consists draped. in The the way are most fashionable dressmakers’ establishments have already brought out some of the new skirts. They are draped in soft, wavy folds from the belt down, over every part, and are thus very easily made. The body of the skirt is cut in the usual way. The second skirt is twice und a half as wide as the under one, and very long. It is gathered or plaited lower to the belt, and fastened on the part, where there is a flounce or puffing of velvet or silk, in a color con¬ trasts ^ with the other part of the dress. The full, loose piece is then draped in lengthwise skirt plaits to the center of the and taken back on either side in graceful folds. All this fullness termi¬ nates arranged near in the horizontal hips, where plaits. the goods There is are many other ways of placing these plaits. Among others, one can have the front of the skirt from the waist down trimmed with flat plaits which start from either side to meet in the middle, and are fastened half way down the * n 1 • • • i.» » t 4 1 „ . up draped. to the hips, Batiste where It is opened and and cambric dresses have velvet trimmings. Pink batiste suits have the skirts bordered with deep garnet-colored these velvet flounces. One of has a skirt consisting of two loose colored puffings ribbon divided by a band of garnet velvet. On the border of the waist is a similar velvet, tied in the center of the point and fastened un¬ der an old silver or strass ornament. Over the shirred plastron in front of the waist are pieces of ribbon velvet placed on in Y shape. Black and white checked goods with these gathered flounces have on each of three rows of ribbon velvet about one inch and a half deep. Black and white checked goods is much used, both for full dress and morning wear. The checks are in all sizes. Handsome plaid taffetas are again the style. This fabric is more admirably adapted than any other to the present fashions, as it gives a certain roundness to the drap ings, pullings, and paniers with which toilets are now covered. A dress suita¬ ble for demi-saison wear is of flue checked grayish material. It has two scarfs, draped in a pointed apron, and trimmed with bands of cream-colored nainsooks, with English embroidery. The skirt is of Russian green taffetas, trimmed with three chicore plaitings. The waist is of gray goods, with a vest and ornaments of dark green. This same model may be made with a skirt of seal, garnet, or navy blue. Long “Dorsay” redingotes will serve for autumn wear. They have very long skirts, open down the front and back, and fitting tightly to the figure. The trimmings consist of brandebonrgs and passementeries of black silk. The same garment will also serve for winter use, in which case it will be of cloth, trim¬ med with deep bands of fur and a “Brummel” collar. For autumn wear the redingotes will also be of silk “mate lasse” goods in such colors as seal and iron gray. They have a stamp of genu¬ ine elegance, inasmuch and are particularly will de¬ sirable, as they never become common. A very careful ar¬ rangement of skirt and tournure is nec¬ essary under this garment. Tournures are rather wider than they have been, and o msequehtly larger. Petticoats have full trimmings of lace and flounces. Skirt tournui es are worn between the. petticoat and skirt, making the latter sit out, while the former falls over the feet. By making would any be otner bad. arrange¬ ment the effect very Bows are to be among the favorite winter trimmings. There are a great variety of rosettes now made. 'They are generally of woolen goods when t he dresses are of woolen and silken goods mixed. The rosettes may also be of silk to correspond with the bias bands and trimming on the suit. A number of costumes are of black-green and Rus¬ sian green India oachemire or veiling. Many of the velvet waists already al¬ luded to are now worn over light skirts. Cloth also serves for this purpose. A suitable style for an autumn suit con¬ sists of a “redingote Brummel” with a cacbemirc or silk skirt. On the lower part of the skirt is a rather deep and very full puffins’, which is placed over a double p aited balayeuse of the same goods. 1 he apron is of draped cache mire, arranged in four plaits, and taken to form between the ends of the red¬ ingote a double full puffing. The red¬ ingote is of fine cloth, with the long ends on either side bordered with soutache embroidery. The short basque is poiftt ? 1 in down. front and the has sides embroidery small all pock¬ th 6 way On are ets. The back forms four lluted plaits, itiing up. as it were, against the puff¬ ings of the skirt. The sleeves are very right-.it,ting. A toilet “imperial* for a young lady may consist of an polonaise and of l uii-ine in fine checks of navy Oriental blue and gold. The Louis polonaise XVI. opens over a large navy blue r^st. The skirt has five lengthwise pi aits divided by flat bands of navy blue velvet. A deep flounce borders the skirt, alternating in plaiting and velvet bands, the velvet sleeves have checked “mous juetaire” cuffs. This toilet may also Ito of black and white or 2 rav woolen voods, with the sleeves, vest, and bands of wooleu material .—Chcigo Tidies. —A» “Constant Reader” asks the meaning of the word “Jehad,” which frequently dispatches. appears That in the Egyptian war should be abroad in so the much land is ignorance deplora ^le. A Jehad signifies a—that is, it means— Well, a Jehad is what we have declared against l,bat newspaper bores. Now know it means.-Norris fi&tmkk, OUR FIRESIDE EVE NINO HYMN. Hither, bright angels, gentle wing your flight, And stay your presence here; Watch round, and ehlela us through the night, That every shade may disappear. rfoWeWeefi when Nature claims roposej to welcdi^l^at dayh^ht'^clos?' gh ’ Those radiant troops that gem the skjd To feel that unseen hands we claisp, While feet unheard are gathering round— To know that we in faith may grasp Celestial guards from Heavenly ground! Oh, ever thus, with silent prayer For those we love, may night begin— Reposing safe, released from care, Till moAning leads the sunlight in. —James T. Field*, in Boston Transcript. POPULAR WEATHER SAYINGS. Upon What the Weatlierwise of New Hampshire Base Their “Probabilities." The Chief Signal Officer at Washing¬ ton is seeking material for a collection of “popular weather sayings, proverbs, and prognostics used throughout the country, and by all classes and races, eigners.” including Indians, The readers negroes, the and Journal all for¬ of may be interested to see a collection made in New Hampshire for his use The writer does not vouch for the cor¬ rectness of the prognostics. He gives them as they were given to him, and the reader may judge for himself as to Chief their value. Signal The divisions made three by the Officer are twenty in number. 1. The sun. A halo around the sun indicates that there will be rain or snow soon. If the sun rises clear and soon goes into a cloud it will rain before night. it will rain If the sun shines day. while it dog, rains, the next A sun or mock sun, indicates that there will be stormy weather very soon. 2 . The moon. “One Saturday change is enough for seven years,” as there is always a severe storm after it. The nearer the time of the moon’s change to midnight during the the fairer will days fol the weather be seven • .owing. phases of The nearer to mid-day the the moon happen the more during foul or wet weather may be expected the next seven days. The space for these calculations is two hours be¬ fore and two hours after midnight and noon. A halo around the moon indi¬ cates a coming storm. The number of stars seen within the circle shows the number of days before it will occur. If the new moon stands upright, so that the crescent will not hold water, there must be rain, as the water must all de¬ scend. If the new moou is horizontal, so that the crescent will hold water, there will be no rain. Grain should al¬ ways be sown in the new of the moon, that it may grow with the increase of the moon. The same rule should be ob¬ served bushes in they planting should flower be slips. To full kill cut after the of the August moon, when the sign is in the heart. Pigs and hogs should always be killed the during pork the will diminish increase of bulk the moon, or in while cooking. 3. Stars and meteors. The aurora borealis always indicates a change of weather; a,nd if it is very red the weath¬ er will be very cold. If there are no falling stars to be seen on a bright sum¬ mer evening, you may look for fine weather; if there be many falling stars on a line summer eve, you may expect thunder and heavy rain. 4. Rainbows. “If you go to the foot of the rainbow, where it touches the earth, yon will find a pot of gold.” When there is a rainbow in the morning, there will be rain soon; when there is a rainbow at night, it will not raiq the next day. A rainbow in “ the morning Is the sailor’s warning; A rainbow at night Is the sailor’s delight.” 5. Mist and fog. A sheet of fog along the river in the morning indicates that the day will be a hot one. When the fog settles on the mountain in the morn¬ ing, When it will certainly rain before night. “ the fog goes up the mountain, you down may the go hunting. When it comes mountain, you may go fish¬ ing.” In the former case there will be fine weather; in the latter, rain. 6 . When you feel the dew falling heavily it in the evening, you may be sure will be fair next day. When in the with morning webs, you see the ground covered covered with dew and no dew on the ground around, it is a sign of rain before night, for the spiders are putting xvo umbrellas. But others sav: “When the spiders put out their sun-shades, il will be a hot day.” 7. Clouds. If the sky is very red in the west in the evening, the weather will be fair next day. It it is red in the east in the morning, it is a sign of a storm. If in the evening it is deep red low down in the west and black above, it is a sign of wind. If very black a very the high indicates wind. . A mackerel sky in west rain. If there be a sheep sky, or white clouds driving to the northwest, it will be fine for some days. “ Great clouds like an old mare’s tail, Make great ships carry low sail.” 8 . Frost. White frost on three suc¬ cessive nights indicates a thaw. If the ice cracks much, you may expect the frost will continue. 9. Snow. When there are black clouds in the north, there will be snow. If on a fair day in winter a white bank ap¬ pears low in the south, it is a sure indi¬ cation of snow very soon. If snow fall in large flakes and they increase in size, there will be a thaw. 10. Rain. If rain commences before daylight o’clock it will hold up before eight a. m. If it begins about noon it will sontinue through the afternoon. If not till five o’clock p. m. it will rain through the night. If it com¬ mences after nine o’clock p. m. it will rain the next day. If it clears off in the a ght it will r un the next day. “11 4 , rains before seven It will stop before eleven.” If the wind is from the northwest or southeast the storm will be short; if from the northeast it will be a hard one; if from the northwest, a cold one; and from the southwest, a warm one. After it has been raining some time a blue m the southeast indicates that there wU1 be iair weather soon. After it has been raining some time “if you see enough blue in the west to make a | Dutchman a off.” pair of breeches,” it will §oon clear 11. Thunder and lightning. “If it thunder in the morning it will be fear¬ ful before night.” “Winter thunder is to old folks death and to young folks plunder.” It is said that persons in consumption have died during a thun* der-storm. 12. Winds. A south wind brings rains, a northeast wind a severe storm, ah l a northwest Wind lair Weather. If the wind veers round with the sun there will be fair weather. If the wind starts up while it is raining it will blow the rain clouds away and there will be fair weather. 13. Animals. The following are said to be signs of rain: If bats fly low and come into the house; if cattle lie down in the morning and chew the cud; if horses toss their heads, sniff, and are very uneasy; if rats and mice are rest¬ less and squeak; if swine are uneasy, grunt loudly and squeal; if cats and dogs eat grass, than usual. and sheep So also spring the about more proverbs: “When the ass begins to bray We surely shall have rain to-day.” And “When the donkey blows his horn, ’Tis time to house your hay and corn.” When in winter pigs rub against the side of their pen it is a sure sign of a thaw. 14. Birds. Before rain cuckoos sing, ducks and other fowl pick up and oil their feathers, guinea fowls are noisy, owls hoot, peacocks squall, quails whistle, crows caw, swallows fly low, and water-fowl scream and plunge into the water. If birds flock together in storm. September, If it is a sign of going a coming south crows are seen in the fall it is a sign of colder weather; but if they go north, wild there will be warmer weather. If geese come from the north early in the fall, it is the sign of an early winter; if they sign go north the early in the spring, it is a that winter is broken. The Phoebe oird, or pewee, sings before warm weather. 15. Fish. Fish bite best before rain. 16. Reptiles. Progs and tree toads peep before rain. If a leech be kept in a glass lies jar partly filled with water, while it curled up at the bottom of tfie jar, there will be fair weather, but, before rain, wind or snow, it will be agitated and will rise to the surface, and if it comes entirely out of the water, you may expect thunder. 17. Insects. Before rain ants are bustling and active, and will carry their eggs from place to place: bees are busy, but do not go far from their hives; crickets sing and try to get into the house; flies are very annoying, and bite sharper than usual; and spiders spin gossamer webs in the air. If ants clear their holes and pile the dust high before eleven o’clock a. m., it will be fair the rest of the day. 18. Trees and plants. If the leaves of maples and other trees turn up so as to show their under side, it is a sign of rain. Dandelions, turnips and other flowers close up before rain. 19. Various objects. When smoke beats down from the chimney it is a sign of a storm. When it goes straight up it is an indication of fair weather. If bells, steam-whistles and other scu ids are heard mire d stinc iy tJ an usual, rain is near. Before rain, tables may be heard to crack, violin-strings will break, corns will be more trouble¬ some, rheumatic paius more intense, and the places where broken limbs have united will ache. 20. Days of the week. If the sun sets clear on Friday night,, it will rain before Monday the night. If the first Sunday in month be stormy, all the other Sun¬ days But in that month will be stormy also. others have it that two other Sun¬ days will be stormy. Important busi¬ ness or agricultural operations should never be commenced on Friday or Sat¬ urday. cold “When there are three days The expect three days colder.” first three days of the dog-days rule the other dog-days, that is, if they be rainy, the others will be, and if they be dry so will the others be. 21. The months. A thaw may always be expected in January. 22. The seasons. If the spring is wet and cold the autumn will be hot and dry. 23. Other sayings. “ All signs fail in a dry time.” — Cor. Boston Journal. A Banquet on Worms. Not only has the intellect of the worm been sadly unappreciated for centuries till Mr. Darwin rehabilitates that sagac¬ ious reptile, but it appears now that his value as a viand has also been grossly misunderstood and underrated. A group of Prench gourmets, whose object it is to do for the cookery of the future what Wagner is doing for its music, and happily following up the labors of Darwin in this direction, and hav¬ ing recently tried this tempting morsel, have communicated to a grateful public the result of their first researches. Fifty guests were present at the experiment. The worms, apparently lob-worms, were first put into vinegar, by which process they were made to disgorge the famous vegetable mould about which we have recently then heard so much. They were rolled in butter, and put into an oven, where they acquired a delightful golden tint, and we are assured, a first most appetizing plateful smell. After the the fifty guests rose like one man, and asked for more. Could anything be more con¬ vincing add, ? Those who love snails, they will abandon them forever in favor of worms. And yet M. Monselet, the great authority in Paris, has told us sadly that no advances have been made in the great art of cookery since Brillet Savarin, and that all enthusiasm on the subject died out with Vatel when he committed suicide because the fish had not arrived for the royal dinner !—PaU MaU Gazette. —Somebody advertised this morning for a man “to drive milk.” The adver¬ tiser must have meant to drive a well. But perhaps there is little difference.— Pittsburgh Telegraph. •—If a woman desires to become con¬ in spicuous the at dress the sea-side let her appear same twice. After this she will be well enough known to justify a ^ubdsher ^ bring n ig out her poems at The Money-Order System. The Superintendent of the Money Order Division of the Post-office Depart¬ ment hereafter, sent out when on Saturday an order that mained sixty days a money-order in has re¬ being demanded, a post-office with¬ out payment shall send, the post¬ master his address a private notice to the payee, if is known, inform¬ ing him of the fact and giving the name and address of the remitter. "The payee is requested corresponding bv the circular to present the order for payment, if it is in his possession; or, if it has not been received, to obtain it, if practica¬ ble, from the remitter, and, in the event of its loss in transit or otherwise, to sug¬ gest to the remitter that he make appli¬ cation for a duplicate. This circular is a new departure in the policy that of the Money-Order Divis'on. and is one ought to have been made years ago. Had it been adopted on the there would not now be in the Treasury to the credit of the money order system the great sum of over a million and a quarter of dollars, the ac¬ cretion of money-orders remaining un¬ paid. Not a dollar of this fund belongs to the Government. It belongs to peo¬ ple through who paid for orders, which, largely the defects of the postal sys¬ tem, did not reach, the persons to whom they that were sent. It may safely be said nine-tenths of. this sum could have been made to reach the payees, or could have been relurned to the remitters, had ed. not a Instead policy of concealment been adopt¬ of seeking earnestly either to pay the money to the payees or re¬ turn it to the remitters, a rule was penalty adopted forbidding dismissal, a postmaster, under of to furnish the very information now ordered to be given by the new circular. If the department is content with the present step, it will fail to do all that it should do to stop such a wrongful deten¬ tion of the people’s money. It is evi¬ dent that the payee of an unpaid order may be out of reach after sixty da> s, and so may never receive his notice. In such a case, after the lapse of another thirty days, the remitter should be no¬ tified that the money he has deposited remans unpaid. As of course the payee has the first claim to payment, it would be necessary to provide that some ditional—should set time—perhaps six months ad¬ elapse before a repay¬ ment was made to the remitter. Nor should the effort to be honest stop here. Every means should be taken by publication of lists and otherwise failh lully to disburse the fund now on hand before passing a law to cover it into the Treasury. money-order In every other respect the system is a model of pre¬ cision and effect veness, and even in the matter of this lapsed order fund it is probably less at fault than any other sys¬ tem in the world, and the step it has now taken is one in advance of most other systems. But nothing can be said in favor of covering such a fund into the Treasury until" every means has been exhausted to find the real owners cf it. — Washington ’ Cor. N. T. Evening Post. ___ Can’t Make Him Hear. “ I doan’ know vhat I shall do mit dat telephone of mine,” observed a citi¬ zen as he entered the headquarters of the company yesterday and sat down in a discouraged order, way. is it?” “Out of “ Sometimes it vhas, und sometimes it vhas all right. If I go to Hall, speak mit der der coal man, or der City or butcher, it vhas all right, und I can hear evej y word. If somepody vhants shust to or¬ der my peer I get de name as plain as daylight.” does fail?” “And when it “ Vhell. shust like two hours ago.^ A saloon man he owes me $18, und I rings him oop and calls out: ‘Hello! hello! I likes dot monish to-day!’ und Den he he vhants to know who I am, says he can’t catch der name. I tell him oafer und oafer, und by an’ by he calls oudt dot he doan’ deal in watermelons, und dot he goes in to pave Gratiot street, und dot he is sorry he can’t sign mv betition to der Council. Den I haf to go all oafer again, und he tells me to stand back, und to come closer, und to speak louder, und at last he gits mad und tells me dot if I call him a dandy again he’ll proke my head. It’s no use—I can’t make one of my customers hear me. If sometings doan’ au my telephone it may be ash my voice is giv¬ ing out. I vhish you would examine me und see if I hail better let my son Shon do der talking vhile I keep der pooks .”—Detroit Free Press. A Growing Youth. A phenomenon is expected this week at the Hotel Dieu here. His name is Jean Coneroist, and he is the son of a farmer in the department of the Haute Saone. The poor young fellow took to growing last spring twelve month, and since has shot up so fast that he al¬ ready measures two meters, forty-one c ntimeters, that is to say he overtops the Chinese giant Cham, and he is but seventeen vears of age. Until May, 1*81, there was nothing very extraor¬ dinary in his height. lie ninety-six measured centi¬ at that time one meter, meters, but as he had apparently ceased gi-owing, and his health was good, about his parents were in no way uneasy him. Toward the end of May, however, he gained in a week three centimeters, then five, and so on, until he reached his present respectable number of inches. What is remarkable is, that within the last four months it is only his legs that have grown, his body remain¬ become ing stationary bad, his in legs size. His health weak and has are so thin that he can scarcely walk, he coughs like that incessantly, and his back is bent of an old man. He has al¬ ready been examined once by the doc¬ tors, whose opinion was that his life could not be prolonged more than a few months. He is to be brought here by his the parents medical to see what the mag nates ot him, and whether profession can a o for any means can be de¬ vised for checking the growth that may, be without killing any him figure by of inches speech, ,—Paris be said to Cor. Q’csnmh Herald Men fear death as children do to go into th® dark. L < $ 1.50 PER ANNUM IN ADV/NCE NUMBER 41. PITH AND POINT. — Ifc .™ rather a pretty idea when \ little girl, recovering from fever, said • ‘‘I was not sick enough to go to heaven this time.” —Tourists are sometimes suo-cestive ‘‘Why. a donkey couldn’t climb that hill, said one of them; and then he added, “and I’m not going to trv it.” —A Georgia editor tells us a story about a catfish twenty-three feet long which died from swallowing a calf, the horns proving indigestible. So does the ctory .—Lowell Citizen. —It is all very well to say that a man was on thinking hanged the on a matter legal technicality, but over we must confess that the rope really had some thing to do with it.— AT. Y. Herald. and —An loving elerly man in Boston is so polite that when he is dining with a young his bald lady head of his to heart he puts" syrup on attract the flies and prevent them from annoying her.— Bos¬ ton Herald. —The Pittsburg man who killed a $25 dog posed to recover a $10 bill which he sup¬ the animal ate, didn’t feel so very bad over it until he found the bill in his vest pocket. Then he went to pieces.— Detroit Free Press. —Over in New Jersey it is proposed to dispense with horses as motors for street cars. It is thought that a pair of well-trained mosquitoes with their wings clipped would do equally as well, and cost less to keep.—Philadelphia Chron¬ icle. —A fashion item says the belle of the little period now wears at her waist belt a music-box, faintly playing a single tune. The average American girl can put music-box on enough her airs waist without attaching a to .—Norristown Herald. —The toothpick boot is going out of fashion, ’tis said. But the broad, easy, swinging boot worn by vigorous men of about fifty, with marriageable fashion, daugh¬ ters, will never go out of young man, never. Keep out of its reach.— New Haven Register. —The oldest vessel afloat is a ship of three hundred tons called the True Love. She is over one hundred years old, and is a merchant ship in active duty, Her sailing under the English flag. course must have run tolerably smooth .—Lowell Courier. —Will the boy who knows of a place where we can go and catch fish please rise and answer the question. Every man that we have asked has told us “over there,” and we have been “over there” a great many times and haven’t caught anything yet. philosophy Subject for the Concord school of : The Non-Hereness of the There .—Lowell Citizen. —“An American,” says an exchange, “ may not be so elegant at a dinner party, but he will not ride a half day in a railway car without his speaking elbow, to the his fellow- passenger at as Englishman' ’fore George will.” he will No, indeed How he will of¬ not; not. ten, oh, how often, have we wished that he would. But he won’t. He will pounce upon a stranger whom he has never seen before in all his life and talk him deaf, dumb, and blind in fifty miles. Catch an American holding his month shut when he has a chance to talk to some man who doesn’t want to be talked to .—Burlington Hawkeye. ? U USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE. —A little powdered borax put in the water in which laces, muslins nnd lawns are washed will improve their appear¬ ance greatly; use just as little soap as you possibly can.— N. Y. Post. —Many people have an idea that rad¬ ishes are vegetables only suitable for the table in early spring, and they never sow them at times when they will be in good condition to eat other seasons of the year. The fact is, they are desira¬ ble during all the months of the year and should be sown every two weeks during the growing season .—Chicago Times. —To stop bleeding, if from a cavity in the jaw after a tooth has been ex¬ tracted, shape a cork into the proper form and size to cover the bleeding firmly cav¬ ity, and long enough to be closed. kept This, in place when the mouth is we believe, is our own invention, and we have never known it to fail. It has served us iu desperate cases .—Boston Transcript —The age of sheep up to four years old is readily ascertained from the mouth. They put up two large teeth in the center of the lower jaw, casting two sucking teeth at about twelve months old. They put up two more large teeth each of the next three years, making at four years old a full mouth of eight large teeth. These soon become gappy and worn, especially when sheep 're fed on Whole roots. -—Most of the preventable losses in farming come from attempting to do too much, or rather from working with insufficient capital. The rule that what¬ ever is worth doing at all is worth do¬ ing well is especially applicable _ to the operations Cf the farm. If the farmer lacks cash or labor sufficient to culti¬ vate 100 acres in the best manner, let him limit his operations to fifty, ana it that still refuses to yield a profit he can experiment with thirty, or even twen y aeres. —A merican Cultivator A Frightful Leap. The other night a passenger changing cars at Harper’s Ferry was leamng against train the railing along, on the and, llV ei fearin siHe^ when a came he sprang hglUG he might not be safe, mistaken the over the railing, having stated, for river, as he afterward meadow. His stunning described may be better imagined than when, after a fall of thirty or foit) 1 - , he sank in ten feet of muddy, wit running water. He, however, ha< sm - crient presence'of mind to keep hss head above water, and was carried dow n the bridge, where he drifted again^ ed pier, and, climbing to a ledge, cal for help. When he was rescued he ie fused to tell anything about lnmseih Fortunately,.the river '"tehigh, as gen¬ erally the spot where he fell * a ; ” * and had it been so then he woUid been killed.