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ATLANTA, GA.
L L re a ]i the delicacies of the season
Lap furnished in the best of style and
as any establishment in the city
rMeals furnished at allbours of the
[ raLLARD & DURAND. unej.21
■USEFUL AM) SUGGESTIVE.
pinch of common table salt dis
fc'd in waterwill relieve a bee sting.
■Machine grease may be removed
I wash goods by dipping the fabric
lid rain water and soda.
|Bu> kwheat straw should never be
IIS bedding for pigs, as it causes
■rilabor) of their skill. It never af-
1 other animals, however, and is a
I absorbent.-'W. Y. Herald.
|A persevering investigator has
lil that rags saturated with kerosene
I fcsh not scare squash bugs away from
vines. He says tiiat the fra¬
il ce of kerosene is “ever so much
pi ls anterthan the smell of bugs,” and
t 1 at they know it, too, and like it.
[d'olonel fcilent plan F. 1). to Curtis plow the thinks vegetable it an
I'en in the fall, and replow it in the
png; L and if it can be plowed earlv
it in the fall to allow the weed
|is ■ better, in the ground they will to start, be out so of much
as
I fc. the coming season. It is well,
fcdib.- to plow in manure in the fall, if
A. ). Examiner.
^M acaUeutioTi should be pa'd to the
■pu.'hon R all kinds of the late varieties of fruit,
R> of garden vegetables,
t'fore all the pains have been taken
Rmdijce F jsas something “uimSiuha that is rem rk
P'W, but persons who carry on farm3
■ gardens with a view of making
■hh' will take an interest in late
Bettes .—Prairie Farmer.
I- An excellent suggestion is that ol
rr Iu ’ (| ot three sashes of glass in the
p vw to secure early plants and veg
lsmu( * de arer in this
pbntly y male here ought be.
L* ''.'i' to
t‘iue when our gardens will
I,! I", iV 1( 1 l, ‘ of oc I hes, hand-lights and sasb,
t 1 |se lunate rant especially e and Belgium. demands O.ir
L Iribune. its
I IV to your beast, but do not
Imr'x'h'hu'L”?? ,
t0 ® xtrera es. Have
r? u{ ! ‘ liU the animals are in
inn I*' stabl never a
1 ' ° is a sufficiently
t'sos on. ivii ; s "!i:r eS8 r to blanket
III" eoiil tejulr , ve;l ,i, or l.r whl!!-e’a Sto
heroic 'll ’Ll" h ° Utablauket » P erS P ira -
Y. Herald.
1 Personal Appearance of Robert
Burns.
Jg™*. as we can form any correct
Bums was one of the noblest
thcl n : en fiV li8a8e - Walt<? f Scott,
follov;a He*de
as •• “ His body was
rol , ’ ust and his
r„ s r , lst; , , 1 . appearance
?r - ttotohnlail? His* counL His man-
1Ve t countenance was
aits H- mn a PPears in his por
say lit, vUj ,Vt 8ere l ar 8 e and glowed
:ui y subj). 8 |j'^' cl ^D vllen fie he spoke spoke
st >t or deep in
r. I neve such
other r 8aw another eye in
1 '!! 11 ou £fi I fiave the
ost disfi ’ , seen
' Tho ^ cllaract ers of the
ml nuner 1 *- Lt oc emTed at a so
I K S . ° 0tt Avas merel
’tutor y a
» j; !lle room could answer, and his
fdfrotJV ...
bmile and an approving
Wl* 0 *- How little did the
fiat a distinction—still less
r 'iVti r° U ^ d^ide the liighest
Th-R, rature Hieir native
‘^(except author
H cause ig n the Irving), not be
i, l, llt f j lie admiration touc fi ‘d of Scot
f the heart
!™!'aW isorjV^ v l,U “H'S„n H whiA U 'hTiriU
statue 8 re tain. Hence the
f?P IVk r "priatr. baM.L^ 1? 1 nefactl 1 le mo8 t welcome and
ous the Centra!
^ r a £ en j°yed .—New York
- tester
Democrat.
very Ueor Hay Powell makes the
ttCfi good o - t s fi°’b ^ ^
ms or at s P rou n 8
" r b‘l with U ! m foresfc may be
uo ‘S
the
.Hnuig to look after the
Ms >L) ■ * ~ r08t babies,” would
lop r 'fiion to take an interest
H I? $ 1 t it m t r.
- 1 3 w.
£ an
NEWS GLEANINGS.
The county jail at Atlanta contains
216 prisoners.
Tennessee is extensively shipping cat¬
tle and hogs to Florida.
James B. Pace is announced as the
wealthiest man in Virginia.
The United States jail at Ft. Smith,
Ark., contains iCO prisoners.’
The late Gen. Holt, of Macon, Ga.,
left an estate valued at $500,OuO.
Montgomery, Ala., expects lo handle
140,000 bales of cotton this season,
Maryville, Tenn., has a factory where
buttons are made of muscle shells.
A carload of German carp have ar>
rive at Nashville for distribution.
The New Orleans police are making an
»ffo rt to break up the opium oens o
that city.
Most of the levee work on the Missis*
sippi river below Natchez, Miss., is un
der headway.
Fulton county, Ga., is taking care of
216 prisoners who are aweiting trial on
different criminal charges,
A law m Florida requires that the
tickets of candidates for county officers
be printed on colored paper.
Nineteen Indian boys have been tak¬
en to Trinity College, North Carolina,
where they will be educated.
The New Orleans papers complain be¬
cause the Charity Hospital at that place
is overrun by patients from other States.
Nashville has no water for fire pur¬
poses, and the underwriters are discuss¬
ing the advisability of advancing their
rates.
Several more Mormon elders have ar¬
rived at Chattanooga and joined the
band of Mormon missionaries now work
ing up converts iu the South.
Lord Houghton, of England, has pur
chased 60,000 acres of laud iu South
ern Florida, and intends going exten
sively into sugar culture, investing at
least $1,000,000.
The British steamer Castelio left Sa
vannah, Ga., Monday, with the most
valuable cargos ever cleared from the
port. The cargo was i,100 bales , of , up
land cotton, valued at $406,037 32.
p,]]] p 0 p,e introduced at the present
sess i on 0 f the Georgia Legislature will
provide ... for a registration .. . , law, which , - ,
will debar any person from voting who
has not paid his taxes in full. It is
th ° u f ht tw » wu wi " be easi,y p a8 * ed -
A Mr. Johnston, of Atlanta, a cousin
of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, is the fa
ther of twenty-two children, the young¬
est of them being au infant. Mr. John
ston has been mairieJ but once, and his
wife is now living and in excellent health.
Qje of the four silver half dollars
ConMemte States gov
eminent is in the possession of a gen
tleman living in Cartersville, Ga. He
has been offered on several occasions the
comfortable sum of $500 by numismatic
collectors fer the coin.
Work on the Mobile harbor progresses
satisfactorily. The present dimensions
ihe cbanne11 seventeen ar deep ; ’ e 7 from nty :® the Te mouth ***
of the liver to deep water down the bay,
together wither with an additonal short
cot of forty feet "ide near the menth
° f thC riVer -
There are now 979 patients in the
Georgia Insane Asylum, 257 of whom
were received during the present year.
Chatham evunty furnishes the* largest
mimber sixt y four S Fulton follows
’
with forty eight, and Richmond with
forty-six. The patients range from fif
^ The Picayune ^ is informed °/ ^ that a dan- ,
gerous $10 conterfeit Treasury note ie
I in circulation in New Orleans. The
note uu *' is of the ' same manufacture which
appeared in Chicago in , 1880, the printer
0 f them being arrested with with *25,000 *25,000 of of
I 1 the monev in in his v,ia possession. nosapssion. Thev They have have
since appeared in many of the larger
I cities.
By a recent decision of the Supreme
Court of South Carolina, charactered
by the Charleston News and Courier as
‘the most important judicial deliver
had since the ado,.
tion of the new constitution, no felon
in future has the right to vote. This
aw is being generally ’adopted in the
st r
Suit has been brought h ht against •, the „
Tennessee Brokerage Association, at
Nashville, by Calvin Morgan, who seeks
•» mg the month of foTbeT October. t?' The dl com ”"
plainant alleges that the transactions in
which the money was lost were not bona
fide ’ “ ”° real deliTery WM 00 " trac *« d
' tor.
Charleston News and Courier: The
skeleton of a full grown mastodon has
been found in the Cowee tunnel, on the
Ducktown branch of the Western North
Carolina railroad. When the monster
was discovered the convicts fled in ter
ror, and it was by hard work that they
coald U iDduced *° retuxD 10 their
picks, It was found six feet below the
gur f a ce of the earth. It was in a j>er
ect state of preservation, and crumbled
to dust as soon as exposed to the air.
ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHILE TRUTH IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT.”
CONYERS. GA., FRIDAY NOVEMBER 24 , 1882 .
Tories 0 1 the iut.
BeNtinels still guard President Gar¬
field’s tomb,
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A business man in Rochester is seven
feet two inches m height,
Australia Mrs. liAR&fRY, it is said, will go to
and Now Zealand after hei
American tour,
The wife of President Gonzales, oi
Mexico, is studying medicine and fcur
gery in Chicago.
Mrs. Langtry is said to have received
$6,000 from Sarony for the privilege of
photographing her.
A bar of gold -was recently Cast in
Nevada City, Cal., which weighed 45u
pounds, and is said to be the largest ever
cast in this country.
Arnold’s “Light of Asia” has reached
its tenth edition in London. More than
100,000 copies of the poem are said to
have been disposed of in America.
A rose bush bearing 1,000 buds is the
pride of a gardener in Charlestown,
Mass. It is thirty-five years old and
covers over 100 square feet of ground.
Beecher has looked over several
Sunday school libraries, and it is his
candid opinion that eighteen books out
of every twenty are too boshy for any
intelligent child to read.
At a recent test of plain boiler flues
in England against corrugated flues the
former collapsed at 225 pounds pei
square inch, while the latter withstood
1,020 pounds per square inch.
The oldest printer actively engaged in
his profession is Grandpa Prescott, in
Iowa, who, at the ago of ninety years,
sets type every working day in the eom
posing room of the Corning Gazette.
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The wife of the Chinese Minister at
Washington is seventeen years of age.
She dees not receive visitors, of course,
but with an attendant she drives out.
She is studying the English language.
Mr. Edwin Booth will spend the
Christmas holidays in Rome, and scon
after go to Germany, where engage
men ts have been made for him at Ber¬
lin, Hamburg, Leipsic, and several other
large cities.
Mr. Edward Atkinson has written a
letter to the managers of the proposed
Cotton Exchange in Louisville, Ken¬
tucky, warmly approving of tho project,
and making some valuable suggestions
as to the construction of the building.
The immense cost of living in Egypt
is a very serious matter for the British
troops who will have to remain tiiere. The
prices for everything are enormous, and
the whole day’s pay of a subaltern will
purchase him but one meal at a hotel.
‘‘PiiUNGER” Walton lost $7,500 on
his first horse race wager duiing his
present visit to England, according to a
correspondent of the Boston Hen Id, aud
for several days his luck was generally
bad, but by winning $40,000 on a single
horse he came out $15,000 ahead on the
whole week.
A bill is before the Vermont Legisla¬
ture prohibiting a divorced person from
marrying within a year, and a person
from whom a divorce is obtained from
marrying within five years op ever, if
the ground of complaint is a crime, in
which case criminal prosecution must
follow the divorce proceedings.
Baby insurance companies are becom¬
ing quite popular in New England. The
lives of children from one to twelve
years of age are insured to amounts not
exceeding $250, the charges being a few
cents weekly. It is expected that the
business will become a profitable accom¬
paniment of the baby farming industry.
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It is stated that a pastry cook at
Bologna has produced a very novel sub¬
stitute for a newspaper. It is composed
of very delicate leaves of pastry, on
which witty articles are printed, not with
ink, but with chocolate liquor. Thus,
after its literary contents are devoured,
the reader may devour the production
itself.
The latest c phase ^ of the Egyptian
question .. is . the complicity r .. of . the ,, Sultan
m Arabi Bey s revolutionary movement.
This has been often affirmed, though as
often denied, aud it is now maintained
by Arabi’s counsel that direct encour
ngement was given him from the Sultan
as veil as from the Egyptian people and
clergy.
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A few miles away from Philadelphia
are living a family of triplets, two men
and a woman WODaan ’ who are are sixty Slxt y years of age « ;
They n, are the children of an ola Lutheran
clergyman named Rollers, and are all
hale and hearty. These triplets have
id way 8 lived together. The brothers are
married, but the sister has remained a
. ,
apmster.
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* . l*i *• r, t „t;n davs'
ol at Austin, •, fpw J flo-o o » drew
-
a crowd of 10,000 persons. Ten cowboys
contested for a silver trimmed saddle
woTth $300, to be given to him who
roped, threw and tied down a steer in
therflortest space of time. The .inner
accomplished the feat in one minute and
forty-five seconds.
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Eight children named Fogarty, the
; *
eldest eighteen years and the youngest
oidy ten months arrived at New York
recently trotn ire and, having been com
pe.Jed to make the voyage alone by the
father being arrested, ©barged with
abducting a young girl whom he had
hired to nurse thS infahfc. The fattier
has since arrived to take charms of
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The Ting Yueug. the formidable iron¬
clad that Las just been built in Germany
for the Chinese Government, is to be
lighted by 240 Edison electric lamps.
This inysterions method of illumination
will probably be as satisfactory evidence
to the magnates of the Flowery King¬
dom that; there is something in West°rn
civilization as any that could be fur¬
nished,
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S. H. Butcher, of Oxford University,
<f of less than thirty-five,
a young man has
been elected to the Greek Professorship
at Edinburgh University, a place, says
the London Spectator, worth £2,000 a
year. “With Mr. Butcher at Edn
burgh, Jebb at Glasgow. Gcddes at Ab¬
erdeen, and Lewis Campbell at St. An¬
drew’s, the new generation in Scotland
should know Greek.”
O Triches are worth $1,400 each, and
there is a duty of 20 per cent, on their
leathers. A man from Buenos } ires has
just brought twenty-two of the birds to
this country, aud will establish a farm
in the South. If his experiment suc
ceeds, it will find many imitators. It is
cheaper aud pleasanter to run an ostrich
farm than to shoot down the wild birds
on the plains of Africa.
The Russian Royal Commission to
abate drunkenness recommends : 1.
Liberty to committees to close all drink¬
ing shops. 2. Permission to commuhi
ties to establish communal monopolies
for the sale of drink. 3. No public
The Postoffice authorities will urge
the Senate to pass, at as early a day as
possible, at the coming session, the bill
that passed the House for the modifica¬
tion of the money order system. Dr.
McDonald, the Chief of the Money Or¬
der Division, is of the opinion that if'
that bill shall become a law the rates
will so largely increase the business of
the department as to be a large source
of revenue to the Government, An ei
house to be established above 25 pei
cent, in excess of one per 1,000 of the
population. 4. Tea and food to be sold
wherever drink is consumed on the
premises. 5. Rigorous supervision of
public houses.
fort is also to be made to pass the postal
currency bill at an early day. There is
a very urgent demand for this bill from
many quarters.
Six years ago au eccentric Spaniard
was in Keokuk, Iowa. He died in Spain
last August. He had an only child, a
girl, twelve years old. It seems he
wanted her raised a Protestant, and in
his eccentricity named George Bland, a
colored blacksmith of Keokuk, as her
guaidian. He made a contract with a
priest in Spain for carrying out his will.
The will provides that the priest is to re¬
ceive - $68,000 in case the conditions of
the will are fulfilled, otherwise nothing.
George Bland, the colored man is to
have the same amount and the guardian
eliip of the child, who gets $360,000 and
a large amount of diamonds and jewelry.
— 1 1 ■■
A Turkish Fart.
Before closing this chapter of Turkish
gossip, 1 can not refrain from giving a
young Moslem official’s account of his
infraction of the great said fast. “I “The day
was very sultry,” he. had been
work and was dying with thirst. I
resolved to myself that I would slip
out and sneak into some watershop in
somo out-of-the-way corner and get a
glass of water, fast or no fast. The
water was there in crystal and ice; my
tongue was bursting. I was just going
into the shop when a man crossed the
street and stood in front of me. 1 knew
he was a detective, and so I went away,
I hunted up another watershop in an
out-of-the-wav place, and lo, another
detective appeared. I hurried past and
a third time found a watershop, arid
again it was watched by a spy. Then I
said to myself: ‘Here we have a gov
ernment that takes revenue from grog
ihops and gambling-houses. And this
government sets itself up to enforce
pious observances. It puts its spies by
the watershop lest some poor wretch
mav drink in fast-time. A fig for such
piety. J I was going to have five paras’
wQr h of gin 1{ thig ig w hat piety
meaas I will go to Pera this minute and
nr Qt a hundred paras’ worth of sin in the
shape of ice-cream.’ I went. I satin
the darkest corner of a great hall and
had my ice-cream. I had iust finished
about balf o{ ifc when I saw peering in at
phe window a man with kis rosary in hi3
hand, and I recognized people Him as who one of
those meddling pious religious fluty find go
about as a wort of to
erring Moslems and warn them of the
consequences crammed of breaking the fast. 1
the other half of the ice-cream
mouth ftt Qnce and bolted out o{
a g j de d oor. If you have never had
your mouth stuffed with ice-cream so
stiff that you can’t open your jaw3,
you can have no conception of what I
suffered. But I had my revenge on this
government for making guards money out of
vice and then putting over the
water-jugs. 1 broke my fast in spite of
them, and nobody found it out .”—Coiv
stantinople Letter.
“ What’s your name ?” asked one little
f
the
They << you are as inquisitive as grown peoples,
always askses my names, where i
got my new boots, and ail such tings,
until I’m almost as’amed of ’em,”
A Singular fonfessitii*
p rof> S( , hmre ^ written a confession
of the burning of the pavilion at Ter
race Springs,°Napa. Ihe building After obtain saying the in- he
sfet fire to td
surance, $750, he says:
‘‘Now; who could do such a deed—
such a Wl’difg deed? one who has at
ready reached the evening 01 lift*? proba
bly not distant far from the very hour
when night completely and fo ever
shrouds the earthly form—one who thus
during almost three score years has
tiever been sensed of any act offensive
to the law? How conic! do sifeh a d<-ed
one who from the early days of student
life steadily walked in the paths of sci
ebre, literature and even art, the litera
tuie of all nations, ancient arid modern,
the vernacular of ^ftich he practically
knows and speaks? How could do such
a deed one with such attainments, such
culture—one wSo ever since he in the
tog of battle had torn from him a limb,
returnable to mother earth, when be
longing to a medical staff some twenty
six years ago; who ever since, I say,
became an able lecturer, a most able in
structor, and as such active and success
ful, more than twenty years in the pri
vate high schools of this State, (now such as
the old College of California, the
Department of Letters in the State Uni
versity,) the defunct Female College of
the Pacific, the Mills Seminary, etc.,
and during? his residence in this town,
iu the Collegiate Institute, the Ladies’
Seminary, and Oak Mound Academy.
(Alas! that instead of myself another
were to state all this as has in the past
been done, when, indeed, not needed;
mv seemingly, and Under all other cir
admitting cumstances truly other immodest f'pology self-landing,
of no but my
being confined behind prison bars, lone
and severed from friends and the world,
no one having as vet b°en able to raise
voice in mv behalf.) How then, in fine,
could do that wrongful deed one who
was always known—latest in this very
town—to be a man exemplary in his
habit, religious even, in harmony, how¬
ever, with the advanced and enlightened
convictions of the times; an ever faithful
hu-band, a good and solicitous fa 1 her,
who alone; purest happiness his found at home
d one punctual in professional
uies, ever industrious and persevering,
affable and honest in all his dealings.
How then? How in the name of all
that’s good and true? How cou’d such
a one do such a deed? A deed mo4
wrong and most co^demnable! What
could make it possible, not excusable?
Despair! Despair! Despair unuttera¬
ble! Despair unknown! Despair not
fully understood even by his own fam¬
ily! ! * * * I recoiled, wrongfully
recoiled, and as wrongfully conceived
that by a rich insurance company the
loss of a few hundred dollars would not
be felt. I can. The condemnable deed
was done. Yot when the flames sur¬
rounded the massive structure, although
unoccupied and uninhabited, when the
flames chased darkness, illumining sky
and distant horizon all around, pangs
of conscience almost overpowered me.
I hastened from the scene. On the fol¬
lowing dilate, day I had to, and did, publicly
not with my usual enthusiasm in¬
deed, on “Beauties of Modern Litera¬
ture,” English, German, French, Span¬
ish and Italian, comparatively with these
in the language of the ancients. To¬
day, in the solitude of my barred cell, I
inwardly dilate on the prospective hor¬
ror and privations of a state prison,
with sufferings hffigKened by the cease¬
less pangs of bitterest remor-e. Sic
semper justitial Yet might not, with
general weighty condemnation,one wee,
light grain of pity mingle ?”—San Fran¬
cisco Gall.
Extraordinary Tidal Waves,
The reported damage done by tida.
waves on the Panama Isthmus during
the tropical cyclone and earthquake oi
the 7th ult. is suggestive not only o the
connection between these phenomena,
hut also of the possibility of predict ng
the destructive o. ean waves which orig
inate under combined tidal an l cydou
ic influences. The tidal waves reported
from Fanamamav have been partly due
to the earthquake, but if as violent as
they intensified are represented they must have
been by the great fluctua
t ons of air pressure going on at the
time over the Caribbean Sea and its vi
cinity. 'The highest spring tides of the
year occur in March, shortly before the
vernal equinox, and in September,
shortly alter the equinox. But. as has
been recently pointed out by Rev.
James is 1 earson, only wht>n an English combination astronomer,
“it a of
astronomical and atmospheric circurn
stances lavors their development that
the r effects become rem irkable.’ Ob
servations at Brest have shown that
with a depression tide of one inch in the ba
rometer the rises si ,teen inches
above high water mark, and similar
though Liverpool less and differences other are noticed at
ports. Low ba
rometer causes h : gh tides, and, vice
the abnormal rise of the baroru-
eter, as was New strikingly illustrated last
January in York Bay. gives rise
to unusually recorded low which t des. Instances also
are in high winds have
obliterated the tides, as during the Brit
ish hurricane of January 8, 18)9, when
there was no tide at all 011 a part of the
river West Indm I rent cyclones During along the passage Atlantic of
our
sea )0ard we P la y have at any time ex
traordinary tidal fluctuations, as have
o ten under su h circumstances oc
curreu, with disastrous e lects. As the
tides periods when the highest and alone lowest
due to ast ronomic causes are
^own it would m easy to make tore
casts of the development of very extra
ordinary tidal rang s due to the con
cunvnoe of astronomical and weather
&g ncies, winch would occasionally
eal u r rem eports. a-ta— : V : 'nlm/f \ H If a ■ ^
.
Critic —l^r. P. Popoff has an article in the
showing that American literature
is read in Russia. Longfellow heads the
list. Cooper’s Indian tales are better
Eii ed than any other foreign novels ; and
there are few educated Russians who
have not read Mrs. Stowe’s “Uncle
Tom.” Bret Harte and Mark Twain also
are popular among the subjects of the
Giar; b*t we doubt if even they can
make Y\? Imperial Majesty laugh very
much, ^ watching to hear where the
nixt WAiSr NikiTsit bomb will explode ^ ,—JJcr
A Plea For Sleep,
The triuli h that the very rapidity of
our 1 fe, the wa mfulne'ss and was e ul
ness of our times, the stra n and drive
of all pursuits, make longer periods of
sleep necessary iot us th n people liv
mg in more quiet countries and at a
s.ower rate. '.V e get tvedenough if we
are well, and if we don t get tired
Juoogh to .sleep all over and clear
through, Sleeping is 11 ia something a sign of nervous iiiovs than disorder. luT
a
ury ior Americans, though the very op
poaite would be inferred from our
habits. 1 here is no way by which the
wfear and tear, the drain and strain of
American bte can be neutralized but by
la r_e teas; s o? sice > every how and then,
an 1 a generous a.lowauce every twenty-*
lour hours. Foirhoirs work of a mail
who is thoroughly of awake and vitalized,
at the to j bis la ult as, are worth
more for all practical business or liter
ftr .V or social purposes than fourteen
hours d weary muscles and aided nerves
arR I [ accid impulsed The man at his
best is worth 100 per cent, more than
Hie same man fati ued, depressed and
demoralized. If he has no vital elec¬
tricity play ng through him, he is a
weariness to others an 1 a burden to his
own soul, if he is cons *ious of haying
°h fi - And to keep at this top condition
sleeper fiber and and faculty, he must When be a good
sleep well. Mr.
Eeecher was asked how he managed to
keep his congregation so wide-awake at
a second service, he replied: “By tak
ing H a big sleeping dose of sleep that in the afternoon,
i s m •' keeps my congre
gat on awake.” The time given to
sleep is not so much loss of life, but so
much gained, and at a doubly enhanced
valuation,
if ,*? i :; a '- , „„„ ,,„i sleep mnea i and 1
T„ ?", ““ y "I 1
Em? sleep th“ get 1? Ttm-b "d and
unrestlul. How to sleep is a question
which, in some instances, taxes the skill
of physicians ilicted to the utmost lo answer,
Persons a with insomnia are
often great su erers, and their lives are
shortened with the di ease There are
persons who re uire m eh less sleep
than others, and it is useless for them
to woo sold slumbers to their pillow,
for they will not come. A peculiarity
of constitution is not disease and should
not be doctored. W th the d sorder
known as insomnia we shall not ven
ture to deal. But with the majority of
people sleep is regulated by habit, con
venience, whim. They make it yield to
eve y consideration. People who would
not omit a meal on any account will
throw away half their allowance of sleep
forthe me est tritie. They do not feel
the importance of giving the system its
fill of unconscious refreshing, and hire
entertainers to clip off two or three
hours lrorn the needed restorative in
the evening, and set an alarm clock to
CUC away an Inrur or moro at day-break.
They seem to th<nk that they can steal
from sleep with impunity, when it is
pretty much the only th ug that pun¬
ishes ever/ pilferer of it as lie goes
along. Others destroy the possibility all their
of sleep : ng well by carrying and
ca- es and troubles and grie s am
bi. ions to bed with them, and one might
well seek rest on a rack as with such
bed ellov/s. The ability-to lay otl cares
and perplexities, like one s clothes, and
dismiss everything that can exe'te the
brain or disturb the emotions, may be
gained by continuous eiibrfc even when
it is tost.--Tic ! J enp. r W-iekly.
Overfed Pigs.
Wh&» young pigs are sick it may be
preity certainly understood that they
have been overfed. The general treat
ment of pigs seems to be based upop the
idea that they are naturally greedy this habit and
gluttonous animals, and that
should be encouraged as much as pos
sibie. Hence all the disease? which so
frequently affect pigs. When young a
pig is a tender animal, with a stomach
not much larger than that of a human
infant about as old, and yet people will
cram the little creature with sour slop,
grease, milk, and corn meal until it can
swallow no more. And when the pig is
sick one wonders what is the matter.
We do not feed lambs or calves, or
colts, in that fashion, hence these are
rarelv diseased. Cough and indigestion, difficulty
of breathing is caused by
and the common disease of which par
tial paralysis of the hind parts is the
ehief sympton, and which is cerebre
spinal meningitis, is caused by indices
tion and malnutrition, which cause dis
turbance of the circulation and conges
tion of the b ain and spinal marrow,
with loss of nervous power. The treat
ment i? to give a dose of salts and one
scruple of saltpeter dailv afterward, and
feed very sparingly .—Dublin Farmer's
Gazette.
Moths.
The word moth was derived from two
Gothic words meaning to gnaw and to
eat. It was formally applied to moth
worms only, but is now also applied to
millers or “night butterflies.” When
we say moths we srenerallv mean the
little'wormlike caterpillars that eat
woolen goods. In Mayor June the
cloths moth miller ( brown-color, Tineaflavifrontella) with
j g of a light buff, a
s? |ky luster and a long narrow body. It
f. ie s around at night,and if possible. every one When seen it
should be killed
re-ts it does not fold its wings _ out
straight, but rather rolls them around
the body. The miller searches for a
good place where plenty of wool is
found and after depositing the eggs it
dies. The eggs hatch in about fifteen
days . The larvre begins to gnaw little
burrows through the substance in which
they are, covering themselves with its
small particles. In the fall they cease
eating, make a sort of little cocoon out
of their { -° 0< \; remain dormant all win
ter, and , in the following spring change good
into pupae before emerging. The
old plan of house-cleaning in early June,
sunning and beating ail wool articles,
and the use of tobacco, camphor and
carbolic acid, are^ well-known to ail
good housekeepers. Furs may he kept
from destruction by placing camphor in
the box and sealing them up by pasting
paper over the crack between the
cover and the box. Dealers pack furs
in common tar roofing paper. One>
man recommends petroleum paper for
the same purpose .—Alice B. Walton, in
Joaa BmUtaiftar.
$' 50 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE
NUMBER 45 .
HUMOROUS.
—A young lady savs that males ar#
of no account from the time the ladies
Mop kissing them as infants till they J
commence kissing them as lovers.
—A facetious boy asked one of hl«
playmates fered how a hardware dealer latter' dlf
from a boot-maker. The
somewhat puzzled, gave it up. “Why ? *
said the other, “be au<e the one sold
the nails, and the other nailed the
soles.”
—“Does your sister Anme ever sav
anything lover about me, sissy?” asked an
anxious of a little girl. “Yes”
was the reply. “She said if you had
rockers on your shoes they’d make such
a nice cradle for mv doll.”_w v
Ledger.
gaged —An in intelligent youth, recentlv made en¬
a commercial office, out
flour. a s ihipping His bill for “fourty” barrels of
employer called his attention
to an error in the spelling of forty.
“Sure enough,” replied the promising,
clerk, “I left out the gh."
—Nearly $9,500,000 is invested in the
printing the yearly and publishing product trade in Boston,
and is valued at $5,-
467.000. This does not include the
amount paid to writers who furnish the
matter for printing and publishing, and
which, if all added together, aggregates
several hundred dollars more.— Phila¬
delphia News.
—A promising youth of five summers,
being asked about by to his retire for the evening,
was mother to kneel by
her side and repeat the Lord’s prayer.
The little chap, whose m nd was evi¬
dently intent on the beauties of the na¬
tional game, having reached the middle
of the prayer, uaused, looked into his
mother’s face and exclaimed: “Billy
B] ceeded . wn with i9 his boss devotions short-stop,” and pro
as if nothing ^
—> had
A little five-year-old fuend who was
alwa\ s allowed to choose the prettiest
kitten tor his pet and playmate before
the other nurslings were drowned wag
1a ^ en to blS iei 8 r ° ora other
. to the two . tiny twin
morning babe8 see looked ectively new
’ e le. fiom one
to the other for a minute or two. then
Pf^ng , his chubby huger into the cheek
f* 1 the plumpest ha iy he said, decided
** k ' av e this one. —-Chicago Tribune.
U. M., . Seima, Ala.: “Ho,w can 1
permanently remove an indelible grease
i3 P°t from a broadcloth coat. The
on ly way to permanently remove an m
Aelible grease spot from a coat is to saw
jt °ut of the coat, but that would possi
bly injure the coat. Ontheothei hand,
M you would saw the coat irons the
grease spot but really we feel inade
quate to the task of furnishing the right
b f an <: {l dvice m this case, lexas
oijLings. .
West India Superstitions.
Tt is very unlucky to tell the name of
a boat before it is launched. I recol¬
lect once when a worthy old creole, a
connection of the French savant Ge®f
froi St. Hilaire, and who, as I hope, still
owns a small island in the Grenadines,
was about to launch a sloop, I asked
what name he proposed to give it. He
led me to where I could see a strip of
canvass covering the stern, and tola me
it was not good to tell the name before
the vessel was afloat. A oalabash
turned upside down in a boat is a sure
forerunner of ill-luck, either in weather
or fishing. The oil obtained from a
shark’s liver rubbed over the kin is a
protection again t the atta k of a shark.
Fi h brought into a place where arrow
root or other starch is separation being prepared tha
prevents a proper of
starch sediment from the impuritie* To
su-pended in the water used. turn
your boots upside down brings loss of
money, and to open an umbrella in the
boti-e prevents your ever marrying,
Never wa h your hands in water which
another person has u ed unless you first
make the sign of the cross oyer it. When
a glass craeks suddenly inahou e it
foretells a death and a horse stopping
before a house and neighing is also a
sign of death. If a cook crows in a
house a stranger may be expected. In
the South American colonies no good
Catholic cuts a banana a toss, ihe
fruit when so cut shows a mark winch
is thought to re enable a crucifix, ine
number of years it will take betore a
pine plant bears fruit depends _ .
on the number of “chops giv
en the with plant the in hoe the before ^ roun ; 1 placing 1
’
people, aq a rule, before dnnking pour a
small quantity of the hqmd on tne
ground. “ \\ hen hen drink she b
&*ad to» God and say: lank you^ when ^
.vian drink he dunk and say nuffin.
Notes and Queries.
What is Cruelty to a Cat?
The trial of Hugh Devlin fer cruelty
to a eat called forth interesting medical
test>mon} r at Providence recently. Dev¬
lin had confessed that, having been an¬
noyed by a huge tom-cat, he had
ohucktd it alive under the ground, thought not it
wantonly, but because he
was the surest and most merciful way
to take the animal’s nme lives. Jhe
agent of the Humane Society contended
that Devlin had done a cruel, wanton
deed, but physicians testified for the under De¬
fense that death by suffocation
ground was for any animal as easy and
painless as death by drowning, t he
popu’ar horror of being buried alive
hacl its origin, not in experience, but
in the imagination, which pictured Devlin such
a tate as terrible. Whatever s
intent, he had caused the cat no more
death agony than if he had fo lowed the
orthodox method and drowned it Pos
siblv, said one physician, the cat lived
longer by three respirations than it
would have done under water. Devlin
was found not guilty of cruelty to a ca
— Spriru/rield (Mass.) Republican.
-A haughty gentleman walking m
Baltimore kicked a parcel from the side¬
walk into the gutter A small boy
picked it up and earned R to his
who found that it contained $40,000
worth of bonds. An advertisement re¬
vealed the owner, who received hie
bonds and gave the boy $100.
7— tar nib thorou thoro^ ^hiv with
“To remove *aah P
clean lard, and then1
and qarm water, lms naa} pp
to either the bands ot clothu*.