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ATLANTA, GA.
Ifliero all the delicacies of the season
i be furniaqed in the best of style and
[rheap byMcals as any furnished establishment at allhours jn the of city the
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hills’ (lot iing.
phe lb’ (fuaint, and picturesque styles for
fircsses .seen during the summer
l 1 prevail throughout the demi-season.
I, uimpo dresses of cotton satine, of
Irkcyred general calico and and Scotch tho ginghams of white
U use, e
|iii', jr nainsook, colored made surah sufficiently and lace
Irmfor nicer wear, are
the autumn months by the
lition of the long cloth pelisses of
p color or rifle green so much in use
f largo girls and misses, and the bright
I, grei-n or electric blue cloth sacques
[favor iil lr for very used .small he ch ldren. advances Colors
more as 1 season
p tiny have been for years. White
feS'OS W iil hot be abandoned, but they
II be covered with a dark coat, and
i luff will match the coat in color. All
iidus of light brown, such as almond,
knit, tan and drab, will be used for
of cloth that will be braided in
jte<|ues ami wheel p diems with sou
t'hu of a darker shad* The French
pild- ior these coats lap on the clie.sfc,
j! tall open below the waist; some of
pm haw cross scams at the waist line,
l) nil I a vo phots in Die back of tho
|i". 'Vh ■ largo collar, coil's and hip
fckete iwe covered with braid. Rii.e
■wn and garnet cloth garments are
■mhirlv ma la Cloth will also be used
P' thr oihl little jackets that are worn
P • 'k .Idren one rent' old and upward,
Ml the caprice is to have this of the
F-' 1 r rei/ (• otli now called Arabi red,
oil ivliieJi is precisely the same shade
r 1 die lucre familiarly known Turkey
r 1 ’ * * 1 ' s si rnig’lit s:u:que reaches near
I to the e Igi- of the dress skirt, is
n.ffc breasted, with the broad French
irk that lias but one seam; the nar
r j' 01,11 ^ I:i t makes it tit to the figure
r* n 8 s front rather than the
r ° : !|! ‘ ii biffs directly under the
f l,ls '. ill(1 are stitched, and
Here is 11 NiTlil b turned-over collar;
. [lima, ,
pi'cids sire on the sides. It is
I, F'>|»:<'dous ".“''I ,!<m ’ u dm front closelv, is and its
ornament three loops
7r u ‘ b' n h with a plaque at each
„ math- , ot hi aid of a contrasting eol
... I' | biiice,
01 l * ls tho red cloth sample
1 1
ho ‘ “'A h ''iVul loops and plaques, while
11 l, ' l 'Jf or blue cloth have red
£ i
amy for bright red will
hra-ik,. ,' :UTitul uut ' n the cashmere
"nw*L ■ n (ffvs.ses. in doth for plaited
t i° aK in Mother Hubbard
. t • ; <i, .1 h said, . m gay velvet suits
,]„ r 7? a nd Mils. The red fez,
' 1 1 iirl.au , of red aslimere,
i ' i and
y llu 0 blunder cap of thick
Vo , '-ne also j great favor,
n and
n ho M. Of Orient hat of felt with
upward all around is
111 mis vivid red shade.— Bar
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Torn Smut.
S "’! 1 ‘ will be hand
n soon on
u ! “uuk of a few small matters
U is the prevalent opinion
that ‘ ' LOu l t , armers and veterinarians
, t C f
I ni smut "hen eaten bv
eattin b injur and
• thv2!n ous, is the cause
Lul v; " es of death. Hence
b'utl. l, when harvesting be taken v„ care of,
\ be the corn,
b i nil . ' ' " mn 'N hung into at the side, o. 1 be
on < which all of the
iff ‘ i lH tiitown by the buskers, and
1 V n oan be burned, it is evi
q,. | amount of this smut
corn
eve '7 year, and it can be
lr> ” ,' ;v in :I!UUI 'by burning it. Science
I t - 11 mv thoo ies. It is claimed
r ')gato(l unit or dark dust is the con
s '!'tos seeds of plant
till’ ,, lls or a or
i 1 , i:U 'bese spores live through
U, til.,,, | 111 l * u ' succeeding year attach
Wh 'heir congenial element.
di iio. ie trreen corn. How this is
d, l:ot pretende to explain,
of jhiugs plants about how the
Qa not grow, that we
niic ' ‘‘ml to know. But as the wise
ff’ows contend that no plant or
41il except from its own seed,
. c °n iu de that corn fungushas
, eeds.
,t ” s and that it is important
f ( 1( mld possible
aninq i, as tar as be
doubt l * es troyed. There is but little
p ( orn smut is injurious to ani
iiial, . n
=■ l «nt. U . £ ns a poison and as an
“ advise farmers to prepare a
itch wagon in the corn-field
a ‘ Mnu b Frequently part of the
1 °’ n °n it. and as the smut does
i° ^' e disagreeable to the
v u 1 'ill,.- they
cat both together.
1 wujister.
l0JJ * said a lady patient, “I
1 F 1 ' 0 at deal with eyes.” The
, ad j usted my liis'spectacles,
ai'd Dat’q,,,,, 1 1 .^° ti “Ido
/ lIS cra c air, replied,
ought uut / my ; but t ¥ 11 y° u
‘Q'eatdAo 0 you would Suffer a
deal more without them.”
The Conyers H xammer.
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NEWS GLEANINGS.
A colored lawyer has been admitted
to the bar at Macon, Ga.
Mount Vernon, Alabama, is to be made
a permanent military post.
The Ben Hill monument fund ba
reached a total of $3,142.25.
Savannah, Ga., has sent $1,813.25 to
the Pensacola fever sufferers.
The South sends $8,000,000 worth of
cotton-seed oil to Great Britain an
nually,
Mr. Bearden, aged 104 years, has just
tbeen married to Mrs. Lee, aged forty
years, at Bibb, Ala.
lohn^York, for the [murder of his
step son, in Whitfield county, Ga., goes
to the penitentiary for life.
A Blackshear, Georgia, farmer still
uses a wagon made fifty years ago, and
which has never teen repaired,
1 earce county, Ga., is seeking legisla¬
tion that will increase the cost of license
to sell liquor in that county to $10,000
per annum.
The mace and sword of State, used
in South Carolina in colonial times,
are still preserved. They were brought
to. this country in 1729.
I lie cotton crop of Texas is so large
and pickers so scarce and hard to get
that a great deal of the staple will re¬
main ungathered, thereby entailing
heavy loss,
A company organized at Atlanta will
mport and slaughter cattle, run stock
yards and make oleomargarine and but
terine. The company has a cash cap
ital of $500,000.
Macon, Ga., bees have religious in
clinations. The steeples of the Presby
ierian and Wesleyan churches were each
invaded by a swarm on the same day,
which remain and are at work.
A curious bird, bronze colored, with
a long, keen beak, long slender legs and
and talons and similar in many respects
to the English bittern, has been cap
tured near Nashville. It is a stranger
to this country.
Newspapers are pubiished in seventy
three of the ninety four counties in
Tennessee at eigUty-seven amerent
towns and cities, of which number
sixty-nine are county seats.f^There are
180 papers in the state.
Pickens county, Alabama, is so over
whelmingly in debt that property has
decreased in value until it is now
almost impossible to give it away. A few
days ago 365 acres of fine timber land
and a mill in good condition brought
hut $210, the effects of the condition of
affairs in the county.
Elizabeth Malley, convicted of illegal¬
ly living with S O Prentiss, ex-city
editor of the Nashville World, and
sentenced to a term of two years in the
penitentiary, has been granted a new
trial; the motion for a new trial in the
case of Prentiss has not yet been acted
upon.
The Nashville and Chattanooga rail¬
road will build a belt railroad around
Cumberland mountain. The Chatta¬
nooga Times says the result of the
grand plan cannot be estimated. The new
road will pierce the heart of the finest
coal country in the state, and will aid
more in theindustrial development of
our states, than anything done in years.
Mobile Register: The McAllister
gun, invented and patended ov Dr.
A. H. McAllister, of Union oouuty,
Miss., has twenty-four rifle barrels, and
discharges 500 cartridges a minute,
greatly exceeding the Gatling gun in
execution and reliability, The entire
work of construction was done at the
blacksmith shop on his plantation by
Dr. McAllister and a machinist of his
own neighborhood,
Chattanooga Times : One would think
that in the Tennessee penitentiary would
be found hoary-headed old men, who had
been there for thirty or forty years; yet,
strange to say, though the penitentiary
was erected fifty-four years ago, never
during all that time, has a prisoner sur
vived over seventeen years, though
have been sent there under life sentence.
There is no one there now who was
n 1870.
The ColumbuB, Georgia, Enquirer
says the worth of cotton seed is not, as
yet, appreciated by the planters of the
South. The linters taken from the seed
sell at from five to six cents per pound
after the oil is extracted the meal is a
remarkable fertilizer and stock feed ; the
hulls make good fuel, and the ashes are
rich in potash. Besides this, a beautiful
rich dye, an analine purple, can be pro¬
duced from the seed,
Atlanta Constitution: The commits
tee in charge of the fund raised for the
erection of a memorial to the late Sen¬
ator Hill, find that the cost of the stat¬
ue will be very much less than was at
first expected. By correspondence they
find that a.bronzo statue, seven or
feet in height, a perfect portrait and
model of Mr, Hill, and done by an
tist of world wide fame, can be had
a sum varying from $8,000 to
ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHILE TRUTH IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT.”
CONYERS. GA., FRIDAY NOVEMBER in, 1882.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Connecticut now has but one active
gin distillery.
Mr. Labouchere says that France is
now one gigantic gambling establisli
ment.
There are nearly 300,000 tons of last
season’s ice in the houses on the Kenne¬
bec Biver.
An English financial critic says signif¬
icantly that England never hawks her
wares abroad.
The Boston Herald estimates that
there are not more than 6,300 German
voters in Massachusetts, and 47,000 Irish
voters.
The Baroness Burdett-Coutts-Barfclett
owns the smallest pony in the world. It
stands thirteen inches high, and is five
years of age.
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Both branches of the Legislature of
Oregon have ratified the proposed wo¬
man’s suffrage constitutional amend¬
ment. It now goes to the people.
A certain drawing-room on Fifth
avenue, New York, has a ceiling of ca¬
thedral glass, said to have cost $5,000.
It is one of the oddest ideas of a very
odd year.
Walter Nevegold, a lad fifteen
years of age, living in Bristol, Pennsyl¬
vania, has patented important improve¬
ments in rolling mill machinery. He is
said to be the younge st inventor on the
records at Washington.
A merchant in Tallahassee, Florida,
lately received an order for one hundred
pounds of dried fig leaves of a bright
color. As the order came from a large
tobacco manufactory, the use to which
the leaves will be put is easily surmised.
Mr. Barry Sullivan, the actor, is to
run for an Irish constituency as a Home
Ruler. He is yet a young man of fifty
eight, though he has been upon the
stage for more than forty years, and
starred it in America before the civil
war.
Mrs. Mallonee, of New York, who
was killed at the recent railroad accident
at Syracuse, was a contributor to tho
OonUi* a< ’Afnnnyime and rvno r\f 1 a f Ast,
poems was entitled “The Whistles.” The
last sound she heard before her terrible
death was the warning whistle of the lo¬
comotive.
A young man started for a drive of
twenty miles with his sweetheart through
an uninhabited tract in Minnesota. At
a point about midway of the lonely
route the pair had a bitter quarrel. Tha
fellow unhitched the horse, mounted it,
and rode away, leaving the girl alone in
the wagon, where she remained all night,
and next day walked home.
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Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes has
resigned the Park man Professorship of
Anatomy in the Medical School of Har¬
vard University at Boston. The retire¬
ment of Dr. Holmes from an office he
has held for thirty-five years is induced
by a desire to give attention hereafter
more particularly to literary pursuits.
Ex-Governor Abner Coburn is the
richest man in Maine. He is worth al¬
most $7 ,000,000. He lives near Skowlie
gan, and he drives about the village in a
two-seated phaeton showing evident
marks of usage. The horses are strong
and clean-limbed, but their trappings and
grooming evince a disregard of appear¬
ances. There are no heirs to Mr.
Coburn’s property but two nieces.
Simon B. Paige, of Oskosh, Wis., of¬
fered $5,000 for the rescue of his wife,
dead or alive, from a burning hotel.
The body was saved by C. Beif, but
Paige refused to pay him, and was sued.
The County Court decided in favor of
Paige, on the ground that the rescuer
was a fireman and in duty bound to save
anybody without reward. The Supreme
Court has now reversed this decision.
Mr. Herbert Spencer says tfiat lie
has been a good deal annoyed by state¬
ments which have been made in the
newspapers concerning him, and de¬
clares that he never expressed any opin¬
ion whatever concerning Oscar Wilde.
He does not believe in “interviewing,”
and regards the American appetite for
personalities as the blamable cause of
hnsty and incorrect statements regard¬
ing individuals.
Paul H. Hayne, the Southern poet, is
a man of medium size—perhaps five and
a half feet tall—with a well-proportioned
figure, olive complexion, dark, pene¬
trating brown eyes, and a full, massive
forehead. He has highly polished man¬
ners, cordial address, and so much natural
eloquence in conversation as to remind
everyone of the fact that he is a nephew
of Robert Hayne, Daniel Webster’s
famous opponent.
The library of Cornell University re¬
ceived, not long ago, by the will of a
friend, an estate which, at the tame, was
believed to be only of moderate value.
It was found, however, to be chiefly in¬
vested in Wisconsin pine lands, and
turns out, at the present price erf such
property, to be worth something over
*•2.000,0001* barf money. Tide ie in
addition to the $5,000,000 that Cornell
1 has derived, wiil derive, from the sale
or
of her scrip pine lands in the same
State.
A correspondent writing from Egypt
of the battle of Tel-el-Kebir, says :
“ Arabi had, it dubbed the Scotch
seems,
solders Old women, ’ to the surprise of
his men who, later on, were more in¬
clined to call them demons, Two ill
omens occurred to chill the ardor of the
Egyptians before the battle. Firstly,
in the fight previous, one man was shot
through the breast by a bullet which
pierced the Koran he carried and took
part of it into his body. Secondly, the
young crescent of the moon encircling a
star, sank below the horizon before the
fight, and being emblamatic of their
crescent and star, conveyed to them a
bad impression.”
Secretary Lincoln evidently does
not share the views which prevail among
a few military officers in regard to what
is necessary to constitute an offense
under the article of war relating to ‘con¬
duct unbecoming an officer and a gentle¬
man.” He has raised the question
whether an officer who persistently re¬
fuses or neglects to pay his debts does
not render himself amenable to trial
under this article. In this position he
is quite at variance with the General ol
the Army, who, not long since, main¬
tained that an officer might even make a
blackguard of himself without' being
subject to trial for “conduct unbecom¬
ing an officer and a gentleman,” provid¬
ing the act was not done while the offi¬
cer was in the discharge of a military
duty.
Eminent Shoemakers.
Perhaps it was Coleridge who first re¬
marked upon the great number of shoe¬
makers that have become eminent in
various walks of life ; and certain it is
that magazines and newspapers have
found in men who sprang from this em
ployment to higher things many sub¬
jects for and interesting special articles, sketches, obituary
notices
There was a man some years ago in
Portland—probably a shoemaker, but,
at all events, -too modes-:fc to give liis
name—who published a book which lie
called “Eminent Shoemakers,” and the
recent news that John Mackintosh, a
shoemaker of Aberdeen, has written
two .volumes in of a “History of Civiliza¬
tion Scotland” will give iukiv.-t lo
some of the celebrated names which the
Portland shoemaker succeeded in bring¬
ing together.
long wuiiom the editor, Gifford, hie the trondon V“ Quart ~ and rly
Review , and than whom probably no
shoemaker ever had “ one sutor ” thrown
at him more often or with better effect,
toiled, we are informed, he six long years
at the trade which said himself he
“hated with a perfect hatred.”
George Fox, has whom, Celebrated by the way,
Carlyle noblest as one
of the men in England, “mak¬
ing himself a suit of leather,” divided
his time between making shoes and
caring for sheep until he began to preach
those sermons of his, and to do that
Christian work which finally gave unto
the world the first organization of the
Society of Quakers. Robert Bloomfield,
the poet, made shoes, and of him it was
once said that he was “the most spirit¬
ual shoemaker that ever handled an
awl. ” Hans Sachs, the friend of Luther,
who wrote five folio volumes in verse
that are printed, and five others that arc
not, was a most diligent maker of shoes
in quaint old Nuremberg, and, for all ho
wrote, never made a shoe the less, ho
said, and virtually reared a large family
by the labor of his hands, independent
of Lis poetry.
Among others, this author mentions
no less a name than Noah Worcester.
Roger Sherman, too, is on his list, and
Thomas Holcroft. Others might be—
Henry Wilson one of them. Indeed, it
should not be forgotten that the father
of John Adams, our second President
and the father of our sixth, made many
a shoe in his day during the leisure which
his farm life gave him .—New York
Tribune.
Capacity for Bleep.
Public men, subjected to severe men¬
tal strain by exhausting duties, learn to
sleep anywhere and at auy time. Napo
lean once slept for an hour in the middle
of a battle, with the roar of artillery
about him. Brougham slept for twenty
four hours at the clorje of au exciting
week in the court-room.
A story told of William Pitt, when
Prime Minister of England, exhibits this
facility: had broken ship
A mutiny out on a of
war, and the mutineers had imprisoned
Admiral Colpoice, their and threatened him
with death unless grievances were
redressed. It was feared that the exam¬
ple would become contagious, and the
mutiny become general.
Several members of the Cabinet, led
by Lord Windham, went in dismay to
Pitt’s house for counsel. He was asleep,
but they forced their way to his chamber
and roused him.
The great statesman sat up in bed,
heard their exciting story, and wrote
calmly: Colpoice is not given
“ If Admiral up.
fire upon the ship from the batteries un¬
til she is destroyed.” 'down his pillow, and
He then lay on
was snoring before his surprised col¬
leagues had left the room. They could
not understand how sleep was possible in
such an emergency.
—One of the best modes by which to
pro ect tree-from cattle is to soil the
cattle. The idea of pasturing an or¬
chard and then of putting a guard of
stakes about eaeh tree and barbed wire
about the stakes, is a poor commentary
on i lie enterprise of the farmer who
prac ices it SL Louis Globe.
t
— 1 be committee appointed to eon
. ®ftiqii substituting
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tavor of nickel, whiels has already
%een adopted. ^Germany «nd Belgians
Effects of Drought.
It v/as once believed by manv think
evs and observers, that one of the good
Buch movements of the moisture con
tamed m the soil may, to some extent,
a,d the growth of crops in years subse
quent to those of excessive drought. If
soluble substances are carried down
with moisture when ,t settles through
the soil, it would seem reasonable to
expect them to be brought up when the
moisture again works upward. Recent
experiments have, however, shown that
in our climate feSiS? there is ‘carted not a &wn o-reat
amount *
plants through during the soil out of reach of growing
the growing .season.
The examination of water that has
passed aown through two or three feet
of soil in our cultivated fields, seldom
shows any traces of fertilizing elements
that have been drawn from the soil dur¬
ing its descent. If water carries little
bring ®r nothing but little down, it can of course,
back.
It would seem that in a season like
the present, when the soil is excessively
dry, and vegetation actually stops
the growing, land that the fertilizers applied to
must to a considerable extent
remain in the soil ready to be applied
to the growth of the next crop, so that
the loss from small crops this year will
not be all loss. Where land has been
well manured this year, but prevented
by the extreme drought from producing
a full crop, we shall expect to see next
year, provided the season is favorable,
an extra luxuriant growth. This will
be the case especially on clayey land,
vvhich does not readily part with its
plant food “
soil, underlaid by leaching. A thin, sandy
lose its by coarse gravel, must
influence fertility more readily under the
of winter rains, but this is not
the general character of the majority
Of farm lands in New England. We
shall look for bountiful crops of spring
gram next where the ”
season, corn was
well manured, but dried up this year,
and without the application of very
On mowing lands that have suffered
the Severely from long continued droughts
past two or three months, the case
may be different, Where the soil is
thin and naturally dry, and the roots
have been getting old and feeble, and
the fertility exhausted, there will be
little reason to expect much grass or
hay large next year. The pity is, that a verv
England proportion of the land of New
farms is in exactly this condi¬
tion a great deal of the tittle—old mow¬
ing fields that tteed ploughing up and
what we have hacf the past 1 c si?mlifer
woi*ks very disastrously against the
farmer who owns such lands. Could we
get in the way of working our land
often,er, even though perhaps we re¬
duced the size of our farms, we should
certainly feel the loss less from such a
season as we have had this year.
In short, however unfavorable the
weather may seem to be, it is almost in¬
farmer variably than more favorable to the good
to him who cultivates
poorly and manures light. The culti¬
vator of the soil should endeavor to
learn how to secure a crop, whatever
the weather Way be. '1 he best farmers
and gardeners do this to a considerable
extent and so find less cause to com
pla'n than those who depend almost
wholly upon good Weather to help them
along ;.—New Enuland Farmer.
The Law’s Uncertainty,
i 4 The law is a sort of hocus-pocus
science,” savs an old play, “and the
glorious uncertainty of it is of more use
to the professors than the justice of it.”
An incident in the olie al life of Lord
Chancellor Eldon illustrates the truth¬
fulness of the dramatist’s remark. He
once referred a certain case to three
courts below, in sueees-ion, to decide
what a particular document was. Not
one of them agreed legal with either of of the the
other tvyo as to the name
document. The lease Court of King’s the Bench Com
decided it was a in fey;
mon Pleas, that it was a lease in tail;
the Exchequer, that it was a lease or
years. When the document came > aek
to the Lord Chancellor, he decided that
it was no lease at all.
An anecdote, which an Irish Judge
used to tell with great glee, illustrates
the law’s uncertainty', when adminis
tered by attorneys, and its certa nty
when a plain man decides complained the ease on this its
merits. A suitor to
Judge that he was “ruinated,” and
could go no further with his ease.
“ Then you had better,” said lvs Hon
or, “leave the case to be decided by
reference.”
“To be sure I will,” answered the
man; “I’ve been now at law thirteen
years and can’t get on at all, at all. I’m
willing to leave the case to one honest
man , or to two attorneys, whichever
your lordship pleases.” for that.”
“ You had better toss up
said the Judge, laughing. appointed, lvw
Two attorneys were
ever, and in a year’s time they' reported
that they could not agree.
The matter was then left to an honest
farmer, and in a week the parties came
into court and said that the plain, un
professional referee had settled the < ase
to their satisfaction. — Youth's Comp a
ion.
—Mrs. VV. K. Vanderbilt, who was a
Miss Smith, and whose sister married a
brother of Lady Mandeville. g are an
“old-fashioned country dance” at her
summer-house on Long Island the other
night, at which Gotham’s moneyed aris¬
tocracy was strongly if not brilliantly
represented. expense” entertainment, It was a “regardless-o the -
and when
last carriage drove away with its weary
dancers the sun was peeping out and
the farmers were is driving nothing their cows to
pasture. There prettier linn
a modern pastoral scene. — N . Y. He. (.
ly — Somebody in New York is evident
col trying ed to introduce a new fashion. A
> man, clad in full evening dress,
day rode last about week in an delivering elegant wedding equipage invi- one
tations to the aristocratic residents of
Murray Hill.—Chicago Herald.
Kentucky Mules.
s ‘me days ago a caro-o of 400 Ken.
tucky mules was shipped from this nort
w m hare convince been any the one that this* could
not case. Sir Garnet ™g had
ailnounC not ed later his than intention of t nis Septem? thi
war the 15th of
ber a , ld as we a „ k h has hive kent
his word. Why, ’ then, should “iff. “ he j e
m .d PIW i nin ; pt , f ho = t * ^ dr ?7
( qthe r ’ fhat* artil
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Furthermore, „ the , British General is
he an intelligent would and well-read man, and
never dream of employing
Kentucky mules in connection with bat¬
teries. The experiment was tried dur¬
ing disastrous our civil war, and with the most
results. In the rare eases
where a battery drawn by mules lasted
long enough to reach a position assigned
to it on the battlefield it never proved
to be of any service. The mules, the
moment they were detached from the
guns, the entire invariably battery. began an assault upon
of the mules at Alexan¬
dria will unquestionably strike terror to
the Egyptians. The former animals
have brooded over the wrongs they have
endured during their confinement on
shipboard, and they will land in a more
than usually gloomy and vindictive
frame of mind. The Arab donkey boys
will crowd around them, regarding them
as a improve new style of donkey, and the mules
will the occasion. The 4,000
donkey boys will sail simultaneously
throucrh the air, and the mules, whose
appetite will merely have been whetted
by the trifling exercise of kicking ten
donkey ready boys each, will roam through the
city heel—whenever to take a hand—or rather a
ing Egyptian an opportunity of kick¬
an presents itself.
The 400 Kentucky mules, under the
dnvers, guidance of a dozen Kentucky mule
wiil constitute the force with
which Mr. Gladstone proposes to hold
Egypt place in subjection. Marching from
they will to place throughout the country,
reduce the Egyptians to a state
of abject terror. British troops or Brit¬
the ish gendarmes will not be needed, and
mules will suppress the Chamber of
Notables and check the spirit of nation¬
ality in the disbanded army with more
ease and certainty than could the entire
contingent of East Indian troops. It is
Gift, inlei’fist.. q t
fair chance at one of the pyramids.
There are scientific persons in this coun¬
try who are ready to bet kick large odds that
a Kentucky mule can the largest
pyramid into ruins in less than twenty
four hours, and although the pyramids
ought not entirely to be wantonly destroyed, it
would be proper to devote one
of them to the purpose of settling the
question whether thei'e is anything on
earth that a Kentucky mule can not
overcome.
No fault can be found by Europe with
the proposed method of occupying
Egypt. Kentucky mules could are be not urged open
to the objections which
against an occupation by British troops,
a d even M. de Lc-seps, jealous as he is
of his international relations, will never
think of finding fault with the landing
of a few hundred alleged draught ani¬
mals. It is the genius of Mr. Gladstone
which has devised this brilliant solution
of the Egyptian problem, it and next to
his pacification of Ireland, will be his
grandest title to immortal fame.— N. Y.
Times.
Romance of a Violin.
The history . of . . and 1 .
musicians smgers
. often and dizzy ascent
is a romance a
from the depths of poverty to the heights
of wealth and luxury. One of these mu
sicians, already on the first rounds o
H' 3 golden ladder, is Theresa hia, a
young Italian girl, taxen bhe is the 13 years first old,
ar.d yet has already prize
for the violin at the Pans Conservatory,
She had twenty-four competitors from 16
to 25 years of age, but received the prize
by the unanimous consent of nine of the
nest masters in Paris. The success of
this musical prodigy is due chiefly to her
father, a bricklayer of Turin. He earned
50 cents a day, but out of this sum, by
laying aside 1 cent daily, saved $2 and
bought an old violin. Without in
struction, and with only his natural
love of music to guide him, he finally
succeeded in playing a number of tunes,
The long evenings after his daily toil
were passed thus in digging, as it were,
from the violin the melodies that he re¬
membered. At last, music mad, he
placed the violin and the bow in the
hands of his little daughter 6 years The
old. and said: “Do as I do.”
child obeyed, and was soon able to play
far better than her father. The inde
fatigable bricklayer then said to his
wife, “You must learn the guitar.”
“But I have no guitar, and I cannot
play.” These objections were useless,
and the mother, urged on by her inex¬
orable and music-loving husband, could
a t last the" play a discreet accompani
ment to violin of Theresa, The
three then went from city to city
playing in the cafes and hotels, and
the father saved money enough to take
them to Paris. A lady of Nice gave Di¬
him a letter to Monsieur Massart,
rector of the Conservatory, who immedi¬
ately perceived the astonishing talents
of the child. Here begins the romance
of the story, for the father had no more
money, and how was the little family for to
live during the four years Monsieur necessasy Mas¬
Theresa’s instruction?
sart, like Aladdin in the story, rubbed
his golden lamp, and ten obedient gen¬
tlemen responded by giving bim each
$6 monthly for his proteges. The re¬
sult of their liberality and of Monsieur
Massart’s instruction is that the ex
bricklayer Tua has been offered by an
enterprising American the expenses of
himself, Ins wife and the young violinist,
for a period of five years, and $40,000
beside. He, however, thinks it is not
enough, and hesitates to $ the
offer.—Letter from Rome.
$1.50 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE
NUMBER 43.
PITH AND POINT.
—A mite of oVof the^vffidow
Mass., while looking
of his home, saw a fan-tailed pigeon
alight in tront of the house, “Oh,
mother, come here,” he cried, ‘<and see
a best pigeon silk! with a trail on as long as y 0ur
'—Louisville Journal.
T 1 * is ver Y comforting to a man who
. just
13 recovering from a lingering ill
ness and has managed to crawl out to
the gate on a warm, sunshiny day to get
air, to have a neighbor come alone* and
shout cheerily: “Hello! Been away
haven’t you? Had a good time? You
are looking well.”
just —“Well,” remarked a youno- m p>
from coHege, “I suppose the next
thing will be to hunt a good location,
and then wait for something to do, like
‘Patience on a monument.’ ” “Yes,”
said a bystander; “and it won’t be lono
after you begin before the monuments
will be on the patients.”
—The N. Y. Graphic prints pictures
of “the great diamonds of the world.”
There are about thirty of these precious
s(one3, and the most surprising thing
about them is the fact that not a sin Me
one is_owned did by an editor. Newspaper
men never care much for jewelry
anyhow.— Norristown Herald.
—First Russian Officer -“Do you
think the coronation will pass off peace¬
fully?” Second ditto—“Think? lam
sure it will. The Czar never was more
popular than he is at this moment.
Why, the people are ready to exalt him
to the skies.” First officer—“I know,
but they may do it with dynamite.”
hair —“Why, how odd you look with your
parted in the middle!” exclaimed
Mrs. Brown. “I used to part mine on
the side,” said Mrs. Jones. Then the
conversation became general. Each lady
had to tell how she parted her hair
all but Edith’s mother. She said noth¬
ing. Suddenly little Edith’s voice was
heard. “My mamma parts her hair in
her lap .”—Indianapolis Journal.
—A Parisian, having advertised for a
coachman, was called upon by a candi¬
date, who referred him to a celebrated
physieian for information in regard to
his qualities. The gentleman called on
the physician, who simply took his pen
and wrote on a piece of paper that his
former servant was a reliable, punctual,
and polite coachman. Taking the paper
in his hand and thanking the writer for
it, the man turned to leave; but the
physician called him back: “I beg
your pardon, sir, but my terms for a
consultation are forty francs .”—L eFig¬
aro.
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Snow Bound In Switzerland.
Owing to the weather (September
more melancholy condition tmm
been for many years. The whole of
Northern Italy is more or less under
water, the Simplon and that Splugen has fallen, are
blocked latter by the snow deep in all
and the lies a foot the
Swiss eantons, excepting only those
of Yaud and Geneva. Travelers intend¬
ing to go over the former pass from
Switzerland to Italy have, on that arriving there
at Visp and Brigue, been told
is no longer a ;y possibility of their
crossing it this year, and have been
forced to discharge their traveling- Culoz, car
riages, and take the railway to
and thence accomplish the journey bv
way of the Mount Cenis. One English
gentleman and his wile, who had in¬
tended crossing the Simplon last week,
were resolved to go over it if possible, in¬
and by means of a heavy payment the
duced their vetturino to attempt pas
sa: e from the Swiss side. They got as
far as the fourth “refuge,” impossible when proceed it was
found absolutely still to to
any further, or, what was worse,
return to the starting-point. In these
cii\ umstances they were forced tore
main in their carriage for three days,
and to subsist, on what food and wine
they had with them; and on the fourth
day, when at their last resource, to de¬
scend on foot, at considerable risk, to
Brigue. Meanwhile, the amount of misery and
loss that has been entailed by the month
of rain (and that the harvest month) dead is
incalculable. The cattle are immediately lying
on the hills, the wine crop
north and south of the Alps will have
no actual existence this year, and what
would have been the winter’s hay is in¬
jured beneath the snow. Wolves have
appeared on the outskirts of several
Swiss-towns, and bears (small and not
formidable! are reported in the Enga
dine. In the Tyrol things are as bad,
if not worse. At Innspruok and in < the
Pusterthal people who have been caught
there are prevented from entirely leaving. ceased
The trains have almost
to run, and several bridges have been
carried away by the floods. At Bru
neck even worse than this has occurred,
as houses have had their foundations
washed away, and the little town of
Trent is entirely under water. At th*
last moment came the joyful tidings
that the eighty' snow-bound and impris¬
oned visitors to Zermatt have seen a rift
of blue sky in the clouds above them,
and that, before long, they hope to be
able to struggle across the St. Nicholas
Pass to the Valais and freedom. — Lon~
don World.
_Xhe lar^e, unique and valuable
library left by the late George P. Mai ->h,
United States Minister to Italy, has been
sold by the executors of Mr. Marsn s
estate to Frederick Billings, who e resi¬
dence at Woodstock, Vt., is the place
where Mr. Marsh was born. It is said
to be the intention of the Mr. University Billings to of
present this library to
Vermont, at Burlington. Mr. Maim
was for some time one of its trustees.
Mr. Mar-h had at one time made a will
by which he left his library to the Uni¬
versity of Vermont, but later his cir¬
cumstances were so impaired by that what he
he spent in the public service his original in¬
was unable to ea*Ty out
tention.—N. Y. Herald.
_The committee appointed to con¬
sider the question of substituting a
nickel circulating coinage for France, the bronze has deemed coinage
now in
in favor of nickel, which Belgium.
been adopted in Germany and