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Stanley’s Latest Work.
Hr. Stanley arrived in Paris muoh
i :,: roved in health after his journey of
nearly forty days from 8 t. Paul do Loan
I ilu, and iie leaves this afternoon for
Jiim-<ds, hi* where he will make a report
on mission and his labors in Afidca
<1 Piig Secretary-General the last three years of the and Inlerna- a half
H> the
ij.mr.l African Colonization Association.
This body was formed at the instance of
tlxi ontiy enlerprlsing after the King close of of the the Paris Belgians, Exhi
'> ition in 1878; and tho first act of the
Font; ajter assuming send the Presidency of
tlv ( -ooioty was to ask for the young
' vplr.ier and to him if he would put
u/ experience and energy into the labor
oi establishing “Dark stations along where the tracts
00 the Continent” settle
monts were most available and likely to
toing forth good fruit for civilization.
AT due reflection Stanley concluded
t- accept the kind offer, which was em
-.'u-ntly (Uttering in its character; and
understood from the first, as every
‘>u;‘ hie connected wi h the association
ooderstood, that the object of the work
not so much immediate commercial
gun as the civilizing and education of
Ur savage or semi-savage populations.
The company did not raise the flag of
jonnwolh particular nation, but adopted a
own, under which all Mr.
01 •, ,'ey - marches have been made, and
his efforts have been undertaken In
1 •'Junction with the central and parent
'u at Brussels, it was arranged that
u • i'll,a. committees should do much
as
' " and saw fit, and contributions in %
M ' <v equipment were made to the
yMn expedition by various geographical
l' 1 ,'! societies. Mr. Stanley had
11,1(1 th(! association that the Congo Riv
H 10 main avenue of entrance to
'bl.ic 1 ‘’ “ Africa, and that, so soon as the
"ties of getting around the great
l i'iV- V' ! at surmounted th8 Upper and steamers
iv ^ frtr '! both on civilization Congo, the
would he and com
colossal.
* he young explorer therefore left for
,o-i ca ’ f, ' r bie third time, in January,
< and smee that time has been
h' b T, ! ?‘ )ie rl in building roads
1 110 hr . organizing stations,
dwoHi^V^bb sWi!!f °V vhich rough is but solidly comfortable fortified,
tisvv, ami kept stocked with pro
i a,1(i ?l othOT b-om Europe. Guns
aml ’, uiu l:il!,0n ( lo not form
' any con
siikr »r kof the
•wniley’s boast for Mr.
'’here is that one can go any
tied m th 0 * vfitVnTr t 1,0 has ot
;: *
mi l,.,,/ up armed U l '’Hli nothing more for
labk* than , a cane. The natives look
! ;r n ua ki,ul of demigod; for they
h uv ; * 'diz >*jkm,
"'hioh c v 8 to
gtynig getting It easier more ^ood^to 1 eit’^nd
than in the old times.
pietureT-Mo''If, S; 11 '!- c TP lore f g ft ve me a
h
;, s an ‘ l twenty-eight whites directly
on bfierested in the 0 iloniza
■ h'
1 '!' iv es bad never
•v-en Mu w feto miim^'to
h;td purposely
X': 7'V Gargantuan spread which
their lives ^hole.^vasT^wooden J/ Mnemoor to the tubs^fBUid end of
W ' batter
rone* ;-t and cheese from Eu
keji- Vorn cows, which are
The men were amazed,
Hits ’L ittl the order to begin eating
li US with th eir fingers on their
^ hen rl ia n:ui 4 dazed, lllc rapturous mood.
'».%> r signal to “fall to,”
Lie precious food plunged
in' t ; b'A speedily found the men
theit- > rank crawling between
' or imping over their backs,
had on" 1 no quarreling; every ono
A rp'.’Gh; ' m ased and impressions all went away with
' in favor of
eha ve done wonders since I last
you, • ’ sa 'd Mr. Stanley; “and our
ui ( i J., 5 accon °* iplishment is the building
■tt’rano’> 1 a ^ on p* handsome, well
storvT 7 t T°*> tor y house. The second
aslonipo^ P>rml.>o 10lV ?^ ttl upon by the primitive
m ° neighboring villages
Un o mysterious and magical—
be,>n ]j, b a Proof of divinity. I have
»i<j k„ m a tent for about two years,
ah\ e , e foun d it usually very coin fort*
.
put he 1 u p ‘\ ra Z* P'd!y as t0 £ possible. et soli ^ bu' Well,” 11410 ^
a<i, a s Wlt b sigh, road is built,
...„( a “She
in snob I nearl nevv y perfect as such The a thing
dons are eountr\ r can be. sta
them is i established, and no one of
assailed n ! h e lightest danger of being
best * u Il aye done part to the
f.f r ability, and my conscience is
clean ■ 0 1 now * my
don an A t,urn to the associa
aext?’ ’’ 5 10 ‘What will you do
—Paris Cor. Boston Journal.
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NEWS GLEANINGS.
Alexandria, V a ., gets oysters at
' ty five cents a bushel.
Twenty thousand Le Conte pear trees
are being set out in Leon county, Fla,
Cedar Key, Fla., bears the distinction
of being a town in which not single
is a
cow owned or kept.
Alabama is in such a prosperous con¬
dition that the Governor recommends
a reduction of taxation.
A gold mine has been discovered in
Warren county, Ga., which promises to
be one of the richest in the State.
In Georgia this year 140,515 white
voters paid their poll taxes, and 93,153
colored voters did the same thing.
A hill has been introduced in the Ala¬
bama Legislature to prevent persons
playing “crac-a-loo” in public places.
The iron bridge across Yazoo river,
twelve miles above Vicksburg, Miss., is
to cost $250,000. It is now under way.
The actual capital now ."invested in
Southern cotton mills is placed at $50,
000 , 000 , giving employment to 40,000
hands.
A bill has been introduced in the
Georgia Legislature to require railroad
companies to fence in their roads and
erect cattle guards.
Georgia farmers, elated and encour
aared by the immense oat crop harvested
this year, are putting in a larger crop
than ever this fall.
The New Orleans Times-Democrat
and Charleston News and Courier are
agitating the project of organizing a
Southern Associated Press.
The Commercial says Vickburgjs on
a regular business boom, forging ahead
at a lively rate, but the condition of
the city finances is deplorable.
The award of $100 for a design for
the Confederate monument to be erected
at Nashville has been ordered paid to
Henry O. Avery, of New York.
Waverly, Tenn., takes pride in point¬
ing out to visitors the site on which
stood the log school-house in which Col
Robt/G. Ingersoll taught school twenty
five years ago.
_Virginia ranks seventeenth in the
list of fish-producing’ 'States, the oyster,
menhaden and shad fisheries being the
three branches in which her citizens are
most extensively interested,
A Mississippi man has discovered that
an excellent quality of sugar can he
made from sweet potatoes. If this
proves true, a new usef has been found
for one of the best and m ost prolific o
American products.
The News says Galveston may as well
give up the hope of being a )great cotton
market, in consequence of direct expor¬
tation of the cotton of Northern Texas to
Liverpool and Bremen by spinner’s
agents throughout the State.
A bill providing for the-erection of a
new Capitol has been introduced in the
Georgia Legislature. The hill provides
that it be built of Georgia granite and
marble, decorated with Georgia pine
and walnut, and cost $ 1 , 000 , 000 .
On the farm of Wm. J. Watkins, in
Buckingham county, Va., is a mound
between twenty and thirty feet high,
which is filled with the hones of men
and women, together with pieces of In¬
dian pottery, arrow heads and other
elics.
The many hundred thousands of cane
fishing poles used in the North each
obtained t . . , near the head of Big
y ear are
Black river, in Mississippi. Four hun
dred thousand poles will he cut and
slai PP ed ^ is fall > besides 100,000 small
er canes for P*P e s * ems -
Louisiana’s crops of sugar, rice and
cotton *“ f normous -. Some of the s u
S ar plantations are yielding three hogs
heads of sugar and six barrels of molas
ses to the acre. This is remarkable. The
P lantera are in hi S h g Iee - Net incomes
from $50,000 to $500,000 are talked of.
Lynchburg(Va.) Advance: The an
nual re P ort of the Ham P ton Man
school shows thirty Indian girls and fif,
ty-four Indian boys in attendance. The
rtade " ta ” Bde f’ 000 ,f ” of *°** mi
seventy-five sets of harness, besides
many other articles, during the present
year.
A Charleston (S. C.) woman blondin
ed her hair with some vile concoction,
and then while braiding it,* held it in
her mouth. .The stuff poisoned her lips
and the poison soon found its way
throughout her entire system. After
weeks of doctering, she recovered, but
only by the merest chance.
Montgomery Advertiser; Among the
fruits ^kliibited at the fair during the
present week was a barrel af Alabama
oranges, raised by Mr. Tatum, Repre*
sentative in the Legislature from Baldi
win county. They attracted general
attention by their rich color and large
size, and compare very favorably with
the best Florida oranges.
Mellomaize is a South American ce¬
real, superior to both corn and wheat
for cakes and bread, which experiment¬
ing has proved will grow successful^ in
making *
the from fifty to one
hundreofiushels to the acre. In South
Carolina it has been grown for several
year* by Rev. H. H. Pratt, wh© intro¬
duced it to this country.
ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHILE TRUTH IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT.”
CONYERS, GA., FRIDAY DECEMBER^ 1882.
TOPICS OF THE DAT.
Malignant diphtheria prevail in and
iround Philadelphia, Pa.
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Florists are endeavoring to introduce
the English custom of using bright
Sowers at funerals in this country.
Emigrants to Texas are returning to
cheir old homes in great numbers. They
somplain of great sickness, and their
inability to become acclimated.
There is some style at Omaha. The
social season was opened by Mr. and
Mr 3 . Levi Carter at the Bax ton Hotel
by a party which cost $6,000. The hotel
nas just been finished.
At Chattanooga, Tenn., they are ex
peeling very high prices for beef. The
cause of the scarcity is that nearly all
the cattle from that vicinity is being
shipped to Cincinnati and the West.
The report is current in society circle*
that General George T. Beauregard, of
New Orleans, La., is soon to marry
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, of New
York, widow of the late Commodore
Vanderbilt.
Pastob Tucker, of the Methodisl
Church at Norwich, Connecticut, is 8
most strenuous opponent of the Revival¬
ist Barnes. He calls his doctrine*
“ damnable nonsense, and the fag ends
of Calvinism.”
Dr. Talmaoe says that when Governor
Waller is inaugurated in Connecticut all
the newsboys of America should have a
torchlight procession in honor of the
man who was once a newsboy in the city
of New York.
After two weeks’ observation, Willie
Winter, the admirable dramatic critic of
the New York Tribune, announces his
conviction that Mrs. Langtry’s attain¬
ments fully warrant her adoption of the
dramatic profession.
Ex-Gov. Leland Stanford, of Cali¬
fornia, it is reported, has leased William
H. Vanderbilt's old residence for the
winter, at $1,000 a month. Dr. Webb,
Mr. Vanderbilt’s son-in-law, has occu
pied the house until recently.
There are in the District comprising
the State of Florida, 120 cigar manufac¬
tories, 89 of which are at Key West, and
25 at Jacksonville. During the quarter
ending Ootober 1 , the number of oigara
made in the District was 10,571,825.
A gentleman who has been visiting
the far Northwest of British America,
with a Government surveying party, re¬
ports that the buffalo is fast becoming
scarce, but that antelope are numerous.
Badgers and gophers infest the whole
Western country, and seem to have
honey-combed the soil.
Engineer Melville i* reported to
feel very keenly the humiliation of pub¬
lic discussion of his private affairs. He
does not care to talk for publication.
But it seems to be understood that he
still believes hia wife insane, and that
while he will provide for her, he will
not live with her any more.
It is stated on good authority that the
public pays for twice the gas they would
need with good burners. The gas com¬
panies are pressing the subject now, as
they fear th® electric light, and wish to
make a good showing. As long as they
had only candles and lamps to contend
with they did not object to this waste.
When Mrs. MeElroy, th© President’s
sister, was asked why she did not be¬
come mistress of the White House, she
replied that she owed her time, fir*t of
all, to her husband and five children.
Her admirers in Washington say that if
she chose to “do the honors” she would
be popular for her gentle self-posseaslon
and her quiet elegance of manner.
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The Saltan evidently considers him¬
self blessed with loyal household retain¬
ers. At the recent imposing public feast oi
Kurban, he called to himself liig chief
eunuch, and, in the presence of the min*
isters and other offioers, thanked him
for his good services in the past, and
gave him a golden star, bearing in dia¬
monds the word “Faithful.” This is a
rare and highly-prized decoration, which
has only bean bestowed upon seven per¬
sons. To the other eunuchs of his harem
he gave rich gifts of olothing and money,
in token of their honesty and diligence.
Two physicians whose name* became
familiar to the public during th© illness
of President Garfield, are seriously and
fatally ill Surgeon General Barnes has
been very low, and his life was despaired
of from day to day a month ago. He
has rallied since, but his friends are not
runob , epo ouraged , by , ,. hw oondit on Hia
trouble to pronouMd Bright 8 disease ol
th© kidneys. Another of Garfield s
physioians, Dr. Woodward, is rapidly
failing of softening of the brain. He
has returned from Italy where he spent
the ,, past , ... Vithout .., , . of . •
summer, signs m
provement; but, on the contrary has
grown worse, and little hope is enter
tained that he may recuperate, and it is
feared th© worst may be l~*ed for at
any time.
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A Fswmonths dtocoTMj bj
Koch that tubercles were caused by a
IMng parasite called a bacillus was con
naently announced. Now comes the
Chicago Medical Journal with the an
nouncement that it will soon publish an
organized body, but a fat crystal. Dr.
oohmidt declares that he can produce
artificially every form of Koch’s bacillus.
He reached his conclusions by employ¬
ing soaking the so-called Baumgarien process of
sections of tuberoulous lung in
a 30 per cent, solution of caustic potash.
This produced minute deposit* of red in
tissue and sputa, thus facilitating the
work of observation. His conclusions,
if true, axe of great importance, for they
render nugatory what has been deemed
an important advance in science.
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The Solicitor of the Treasury ha*
recommended the acceptance of an offer
of $ 1,000 as a compromise in the case of
the United States against the bondsmen
of a former Receiver of Public Moneys
in Louisiana during the war of the re¬
bellion, whose accounts were found to be
some $ 8,000 short, when a settlement
was finally made. This suit has been
pending for many years, and was about
to come to trial when the offer was made.
The defense of the Receiver was that he
was compelled to turn this amount of
money over to the Confederate authori¬
ties under duress. The Solicitor’s
opinion states that under a decision of
the Supreme Court claims against of¬
ficials for deficits during war times are
void, if it can be shown that there was
either moral or physical force nsed to
compel a surrender of the moneys in
their possession. This was not only
proved in this case, but indisputable ev¬
idence was also given to show that the
Receiver was a loyal man to the Union
at that time.
The translation or Arabl Paaha’i let¬
ters, captured after his surrender, haa
bees completed, and they are held by
the counsel for the defense to prove
three points: “Firstly, that he received
direct encouragement from the Sultan,
who, expressing entire disregard for the
Khedive appeals directly to Arabi tc
defend the interests of Egypt and the
rights of the Khalif against foreign ag¬
gression. Secondly, that Arabi had the
unanimous support of the Egyptian peo¬
ple, as is proved by numerous petitions,
bearing the signatures of twenty-five
thousand of the most influential repre¬
sentatives of every olass and section of
the population—officials, military offi¬
cers, civilians, merchants, land owners
and Bedouin chiefs. Thirdly, that he
had the sanction of the representatives
of the religion of the country, as shown
by the Fetwa, signed by the heads oi
all the four Mahometan rites, pronounc¬
ing the deposition of the Khedive, and
enjoining the oontinuanee of war.” The
evidence taken in the trial so far haa
been chiefly to show that Alexandria
was fired by Arabi’s orders, and other
outrages committed at his command
which make him criminally liable, since
they exceeded the, laws and usages of
wav, If guilt is fastened upon him it
will hardly be necessary to consider the
above three poin ts.
Sir Gurnet WoLeloy’s Coolae-s on the
Battlefield.
All accounts are agreed as to Sir
Garnet’s demeanor both before and after
the fight. Ilis coolness and sed -reliance
before were extraordinary. On the morning
the battle, when ho took all the
Generals and their respective staffs to
recon milter the enemy's lines he dis¬
mounted within a couple miles <sf Tol-el
Kebir, and gathering the others around
him, explained exactly what he meant
to do. With a short stick he pointed to
the intrenchuKids as he might to a
blackboard in a lecture-room, and qui¬
etly indicated in turns the position of
each part of the attacking force. He
had the whole thing off by heart, knew
and explained ia e act detail what every
regiment had to do. While they were
thus occupied protected only by a small
cavalry escort, the ecemy sent out a
party to observe them, but made no
further demonstration, Woleelev’s
“ lecture” finished, Hey all remounted
and rode back ~
to camp.
After the battle was practically won,
Sir Garnet came t the bridge across the
canal conmninicai’n;;- tan right with the
left attack, and getting off his horse,
quietly began to write his telegram an¬
nouncing handed the victory him on a scrap of pa¬
Here, per to by one of his staff.
too, he received th reports from
the various staff officers of divisions and
brigades, casualties. asking more particularly as to
“Are you quite sure?” he
always said. “Don’t give mo wrong
figures. Don’t mention any officer’s
name unless you are quite positive he is
hit.” All this tim • h ■ was giving or¬
ders right and left, now to one staff offi¬
cer, now to another, and through it all,
confusing might and embarrassing as the situ¬
ation well have been, was per¬
fectly World. quiet and uucorc rr>ed.~-London
__j ames Collins, of South Lawrence,
Mass., is in his 1!Oth year. Born in
Ireland, he was lei't ;-n orphan at the
a £C e °* x months, and buried the last
11 » ? v e others over sixty years ago.
After 1 living . ninety-: ff ve years on a farm
„ h;s Eri concluded to seek
hs [ortlme itl tll „ land ol the , ree>
making He the voyage with little diseom
ort. buried i.-i - wife forty years
a_o, and is cared >r by five of his ch.il
'‘ r “ n hying in Lawrence. He talks.
hears and sees web, never took medi
; , n , waJ sick . saws , vood
a „d walks or exeivnse, aad has still on
his head locks of his own hair, of
which the genuine Irish auburn has
“ever bee n .siiverod by lime
—It is possible that the world owes
dlj
—~Y. Y. Herald.
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The Fate oi Exp i or ers.
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From Singapore we learn that Mr.
Witti (formerly an officer in the Austrian
native attendants. Mr. Witti had, it
seems, been making his way to the head
of the Sibuco River. This region beyond may
be considered at present quire British
the active administration of the
Borneo Company. The Governor was
not aware that Mr. Witti intended to
make so long and hazardous a journey.
At the same time, Mr. Witti being an
experienced traveler, a brave man, and
on good term 3 with the natives genet
ally, there was no reason to fear that he
might not go through the very heart of
the country without molestation. Lie
had made, it seems, an important trrp,
and was, it is believed, on his way to
Kimanis. Near the head of the Sibuco
River he would be on the frontier of
Dutch Borneo, and in a region where
Mr. Carl Bock found the natives un
uually savage and unfriendly. He Witti divided had
them/ a party of seventeen men.
Some nine or tea were told off
to attend to the boats. Witti They had were navi
gating a river, and bought
boats from the natives. The other men
remained to push on ahead in company
with the explorer.
The natives had shown no disposition
to hostility. The local chiefs (the tribes
are, no doubt, the Muruts, though Tandjoeing one
account says they are
Dvaks) had hospitably entertained Witti,
which ship. is While generally his little a guarantee of friend
forward, party Witti were down pre
paring make to move in diary. sat Slid
to some notes his
denly,from hundred an ambush in the river,some
three natives, armed with
poisoned arrows and spears, rushed in
upon Witti and his men. Three of the
latter fell almost immediately. Witti
defended himself with his revolver and
killed two of his assailants. The rest
crowded upon him,however,and the* speared
him to death. The others of party
had already run away, one of them, who
was carrying Witti’s Winchester Siding- rifle,
taking place it off in his flight. of From a
they saw one the attacking
party decapitate Witti, while others cut
off the lower limbs of his dead attend
head, ants, fling them, with the explorer’s
into a boat, and make off with
their They bleeding carried trophies down stream,
also off Witti’s papers and
dispatch-box.
The event has created a sensation at
Singapore and at Labaun. A police
party, of the Borneo Company, has
been, or is about to be, dispatched to
the scene of the massacre, with a view
to and a complete investigation of the affair
head the punishment of the Muruts. The
of the Sibuco River is cn the con
fines of the British North Borneo Com
pany’s entirely territory, -different occupied character by tribes to those of
an
among whom Mr. Frank Hath n an
other scientific explorer, is at work in.
the northern regions around about Kini
Bolu. He and his party, including an
Australian engineer, have been well re
ceived. They found the company’s flag
flying points, at several somewhat remote
and, so far as the real work of
the company goes, it is moving on sat
isfactonly.
Mr. Witti must have had the dangers
oi his expedition in his mind at the out
set. It is quite likely, from what is
known of hh adventurous spirit, that he
had resolved to accomplish a great
achievement even at the risk of his life,
for, prior to setting out, he made his
will and left behind him full instructions
as to the distribution of his property.
He was known to the Geographical So¬
Transactions” ciety of London, whose “Journal of
contains several of his
contributions to the geographical his¬
tory of Borneo. * The commercial civili¬
zation of North Borneo is of great ira
portanceto tradinginterests in the eastern
seas, and it will be necessary in the in¬
terests of Borneo and adjacent islands to
make an example of the murderers—
London Telegraph.
Catfish Catching Ducks.
Recently the Bee mentioned the fact
tnat a wild duck had hatched a brood of
seven street, ducklings and could in be the slough near D
morning with colony, seen the early in the
the rest of the
time hiding in the willow jungles.
They became about half-grown, but
within the past twelve days have met
with a singular death from an unex¬
pected source. A gentleman who be¬
came accustomed to seeing and looking
for them as he went to his work was
one them morning suddenly surprised sink to see one of
in an awkward
manner and not appear again, but con¬
cluded that it had hidden in the brush.
r I he next morning therg only six
were
of the young ones seen near the same
spot. der with Suddenly one of fluttering these went un¬
fiedged wings, 3. struggle, a oi half
and a quacking. What
was the force was a mystery, though
the other birds fled in affright. The
pealed, next two the mornings number being tLa same was re¬
reduced one
each time.
The fifth day the ducks seemed to be
very brush. cautious, The avoiding day deep water and
next the observer, who
had become very much interested, spent
half an hour watching the mother and
her three * remaining darlings. At
length they floated alongside the foot¬
bridge they where he was standing. When
neared a post in the water, up
from behind it darted a large catfish
that was in waiting for the feathered
victim. One was seized by the body,
and the jaws of the rapacious fish hid
the prisoner from view as the captor
deliberately the brush." The swam away to its den in
another next day the distance, witnes*.
saw conquest from a
but could not see the fish. Since then
h% has watched four mornings, but has
not seen the mother and the other young
one. It is a matter of doubt whethe?
they were captured tlie or took warning parts’un¬ by
the fate of sbe and left for
known ,—Sacramento Bee.
—An editor wrote a headline, “A
Horrible Blunder,” to go over a rail¬
road accident; but though It was the
pri liter's fault that it got .over an ac¬
count of a wedding, the editor was the
man thrashed all the same.
THE &A MO THICK.
How St le ©oae-Hot a Woadorftal
ftnuutte.
With IHwper’a W>* 41 y,J
certain Indian juggler* the
feai “mango” triok is their most effective
A mango seed is produced, and a
flower pot filled with mold, and after *
lot of ceremony (in plain English fuss),
the seed is put under the mold and sev¬
eral coverings of baskets and cloths are
placed over the pot. Then there is more
ceremony and fingering about the cov
ered basket, and the pot is shown with
the mango leaves just sprouting up.
Then it is covered over again and more
hocassing goes on, and the cover is
lifted up again and the plant is seen to
have grown. The covering, hocussing,
f?° 0u > the plant meanwhile having
further grown and become strong enough
to bear mpt, the blossom to appear, the
fruit to ripen, which is then plucked off
ancl given to be eaten.
Now, we, for our part, can not undcr
stand how any one can see through the
fellow performance. spectator, Nay, who even viewed when to this a
once
performance, we explained the details of
the trick after it was over, he would not
believe, but reckoned the affair wonder
bil, and even partaking of the super
natural. We can only attribute it to his
having been so mystified as to have been
of actually mesmerised, though partaking
conscience. The real truth about this
- ea -l was that the green and ripe fruits,
and every branch and shoot that was
exhibited, were actually there, just as
much as the seed and the flower pot—
all in rale wraps and folds and baskets
which formed the covering. We were
carefully watching the man’s proeeed
bigs, and at that time had acquired some
knowledge of juggling tricks. As we
were not allowed to touch the in
struments of the exhibition after the par
tieular performance began, the baskets,
wraps, etc., could not be disturbed; but
with our own eyes we saw the performer
draw out the branches, etc., from the
folds of the cloth, and noticed him stick
h ; g them into .the pot beneath the cover
big, working thought, away with his hands, and
as The w e question very clumsily,
may be asked by a
doubter of our account of the process,
how about a green and a ripe fruit,, as
well as blossoms, being produced sim
ultaneously, say at a period when there
were no such things; that is, when they
are out of season? This, indeed, has
been brought forward as a complete
jugglers. answer by To those who this believe in these
answer is not so dif
ficult, however, as it appears. India is a
vast continent, and from its southern
most limit on the Indian Ocean, where
there is little difference between summer
and winter, to its northern boundary on
the snowy Himalayas, there in existing
every variety of climate at any given
time of the year. The mango flourishes
Himalayan countries. We have our
serves m passing through the plains
mto the upper Himalayas, m the course
of successive weens seen the mango
season just over on the plains; just in a little
higher up mangoes forming were still; season; the
the fruits higher up
blossoms m full flush a couple of
thousand feet higher; while higher still
the blossoms had not yet made an ap
pearance. Wnh this fact are to be taken
two otnera, tne first, taat Indian Jug
glcr's all belong to one Masonic brother
hood, and are in intimate commumca
tion with one another, all ever on the
move; and the second, that even, they
will decline at times to perform this par
tieular tieular feat; feat; that that is, is, when when they they are are not not
provided with the blossoms, green and
ripe fruits. The seeds, shoots, etc., are
always everywhere procurable.
If tilery be still auy other doubter, let
us only add that after the performance
detailed above we took the man aside
(unwilling naturally to expose the man,
and destroy the credit by means of
which he made his living) and asked him
if it was not true that the branches and
fruits were all there in the wraps. The
glance of our eye told him that we knew
everything that he did, and so he con¬
fessed that what we said was the truth,
and apologized by saying that he must
make a living.
Economy is Wealth.
A father, accompanied by his little
son, called at asked a drug-store cheap on one of the
avenues and lor a sponge.
He was one of our rich citizens, and as
he spoke he fumbled with his massive
gold watch-chain, and looked worth a
million.
The druggist put a lot of sponges be¬
fore him, and ne much glanced they through the
lot and asked how were.
“All the way from drug fifty cents to one
dollar,” said the man.
“Oh, but I want it for the boy’s
slate,” said the citizen; “it is hardly
worth while to pay so much.”
“ Well, then, these are what you
need,” said the druggist, as he put out
a collection of small, hard sponges.
“These are five cents each.”
The wealthy examined citizen fingered them
over, and them one by one,
and still did not seem satisfied.
“Here are some atone cent each,”
said the druggist, who began to know
his man, “you might find something
among these,”
The citizen examined each one and
still hesitated. At last he selected a
small dark fragment, and holding it up,
said:
“ This one seems to b© imperfect.
Bow much jyill it be? 1 ’
“Nothing,” answered the druggist,
shortly, a 3 he re-arranged his stock of
■pongee. “Have it done up ?”
“No,” said the citizen, handing it to
the boy and following him out, when
the youngster was heard to ask:
tiie “ Say, pa, ain’t yon going to give me
cent?”
And the mournful answer floated back
to the druggist:
My son, do you think I am made of
money ?”—Detroit Fret Press.
—Out in Texas a benevolent baron is
breeding a race of striped and spotted
ponies little to please the children. He sells
the creatures all over the world,
and is unable to keep pace with the de¬
mand. They roam over hia enclosures,
which *|pasure 8 some 8,000 acres, but
are very gentle, and can be caught any¬
where on the ranges
$'.50 PER ANNUM IN
NUMBER 47 .
WIT AND WISDOM.
—Keep trouble at arm’s length. Nev¬
er turn it has a blessing dark side around to see wheth¬
er a to it.
—Mistress—“What a time you’re
been about that egg, Mary.” Mary—
“Yes, ma’am; but the new kitchen
clock has such large minutes!”— Punch.
—An Iowa farmer bet a new hat that
he could cross the railroad traok with
his team before the train camo up He
lost by ten feet The distance was
measured by his heirs .—Chicago Herald.
the —Young kitchen lady writing a love letter for
maid—“That’s about
enough now, isn’t it?” Kitchen maid
— “One thing more. Miss; just say
please excuse bad spellin’ and writin’.”
— “can’t “Ratty taste,” said the butch¬
er, understand it. Those sau
sages were not made of rats, sir. and
you know it. May be the cats had
caught and eaten a few though.”—
Boston Post.
■ —“Women govern us,” said Sheri¬
dan; “let us try to render them more
perfect. ened, The more they are enlight¬
so much the more we shall be.
On the cultivation of the minds of wom¬
en depends the wisdom of man.”
—Orpheus drew rocks by the all-com¬
pelling of the harmless, power of his music. The music
necessary cat is still
more potent. It not only draws rocks,
but pokers, boot-jacks and all sorts of
movable furniture.— Boston Transcript.
—It does torment a railroad restaur¬
ant ask: keeper “How frightfully to have a custom¬
er much will you charge mo
a thousand for such sandwiches as these?
I’m going to build a house, and I think
they’d be Post. more durable than brick.”—
Boston
—A Michigan farmer paid $25 for a
divining rod and went poking about his
farm until the rod suddenly tipped.
Men were and engaged less to excavate at the
spot, in than half an hour they
had exhumed the bones of an old horse.
■—Detroit Post.
—A Boston editor bounced the cook,
cuffed two children, left his wife in
tears, and made a bee-line for the office,
and wrote: “If you want to make the
world kind brighter and loving and belter, those begin by be¬
ing to in the small
circle of your own family, and lromthat
as a center work out as 3-011 are permit¬
ted to go." —Detroit Free Press.
—“You needn’t put on no airs, you
yaller-face piece. We keeps a cow and
has got a pew in the Blue Light (Austin)
tabernacle besides,” wore the words of
Miss .Matildy Snowball, who is as black
as night, to a saddle-colored friend.
“I don’tkeeref we habn’t got no cow.
We keeps a goat, and my muckier is
gwine to hab a carbuncle on de back of
her neck.”-— Texas Siftings.
Two Smiths.
During “ Vanderbilt’s brief stay in De¬
troi(j tlie e happened ^ to be in the city,
and at the ga e hotel, an Ohio man who
SQ closely reS embled him that dozens of
p e 0 pj e could hardly tell which from
^hich. This was the case with the at
tendanty at the cloak-room. Having
helped the Buckeye to put on his duster
an( J _i ven half-a-dozen raps with
the broom> he stood back and waited,
<«Well.” queried the guest, “how much
j s extortion?” “De las’ time you
was heah, sah, you gin-—” “Never was
j 1Qre j n m y life.” “Ilain’t you
de Commodore?” “No, I’m the Colo
ne pn “Youhain’t WanderbiltP” “No,
p m g m hh.” “Well, dat circuiscribes
de cas0> an i p r0 ves dat one darky men.” shin’s
no sort o’ show agin two white
“How?” “Why, de oddergem’Ian, who
looks moas’ ’zactly like you, said his
name was Smith, too, and he got away
widout puttin’ his hand in his pocket!”
—Wall Street News.
A Good Town to Lire In.
The little town of Klingenberg-on- and
Mftin , in Bavaria, enjoys Deriving a unique large
singular prosperity. quarries that so it is
an income from its
able to dispense entirely with taxation,
the town presents each one of its free
burghers at each annual Christmas with
the equivalent of $ 20 , and this year it
celebrates the Sedan festival by distrib¬
uting money gifts to its householders
and. all school children, the former re¬
ceiving two marks each and the latter
twenty pfennigs. On the completion months of
a bridge across the Main a few
ago, the cost of which was $50,000, not a
farthing of which was contributed by
residents, a bonus of ten shilling was
handed each burgher, and all the school
children got sixpence each. The town
should be known as the taxpayers’ para¬
dise. __________
Population of the West.
At the beginning of the century the
population of the- great West, which is
now about 20 , 000 , 000 , was a little more
than 50,000. The following interesting
table shows the growth of that popular
tion: of
Per cent,
Tear Population. Increase.
1790 ... 51,006
1800 .. 293,109 475
1810 .. .. 858,957 193
1820 .. .. 1 610,473 87
1830 .. .. 3 , 581.542 120
1840.. .. 6 , 587,413 57
1850 .. .. 9 , 715,692 74
1860.. .. 13 , 971,821 43
1870 .. . . 19 , 131,810 37
2880 .. ,
That table is-a very interesting one.
It is one of the most remarkable fe3t
ores in this .remarkable age.
—Several months ago the ragpickeir
of St. Louis formed a,n association fer
tli6 purpose of mutual aid and protection
and to prove to the world that, in tb-ff?
own language, a ragpicker can be a gv
tleman. This union has flourished wr¬
ing the summer, and at a meeting a few
days aero they had the satisfaction of
hearing 5 what a good record their trade
is making. It seems to be the general
opinion in St. Louis that they are con¬
ducting their business in an enterpris¬
ing and upright manner, and winning
the respect to winch their own selt
respect entitles them .—Chicago Hemal.
_Coffee-grotiinJ.' make a highly They suc¬
cessful filling lor perfectly j* pin-cushion. before
must be dried using.
Put them in a Lag and hang beinnu the
kitchen stovo till yofl have enough that
are dry to fill the cushion. They do not
o-ather moisture and consequently do not
nist the needle. — N. Y. Post.