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W. £• 4 w A. HARP Publisher. VOLUME V. THE lOtfYERS EXAMINER pulished every Friday, CONYERS, GEORGIA, It $(5° P er Annum in Advance. JOB PRINTING, Of Ever? Description, Promptly and [g t jy Executed, at Reasonable Rates. , 4 TES FOR ADVERTISING Vlrertisements will be inBertedfor ONE y)LLAR-P er square, for the first inser j on #n ,i FIFTY CENTS per square for ach continuance, for one month, or less, 'or a laager period, a liberal discount will jJ'One inch in length, or less, consti atesa square. in the local column will he {^•Notices Ten Cents per line, each inser r oerted at 1012 . and deaths will be published Marriages but obituaries will be w items of news, •barged for at advertising rates, < AI.L AT THE RAILROAD RESTAURANT. 'Under the Car Shed,) ATLANTA, GA. Where all the delicacies of the season «jll hefurnisqed in the best of style and III 1 ! cheap as any establishment in the city Meals furnished at allbours of the ,l*y. BALLARD & DURAND. unej.20 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. n — he I S3 a .V I 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. _ ________ ma 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. -— < ». * - 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. __ 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. -* 6 > 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. < The Fate oi Exp i or ers. __ 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.