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lAl.L AT THE
RAILROAD restaurant.
I -tinder the Car Shed,)
ATLANTA, GA.
I tThere all the delicacies of the season
be furnished in the best of style and
furnished at allhours of the
BALLARD & DURAND. tmep*
State D tuners.
. of State dinners the
Be customs at
House arc somewhat changed uu
President Arthur. Formerly the
iw(East Room was not much used on
W 0 -casions, the guests being re¬
ared by the President in the Blue
some time there before go
thu State Dining-Room, promen
s ' ow b' down the broad hall as
s from the reception-room to
tables.
details of these State events are
j^BftwDining-Koom in’eresting. The table in tlm
in tho White House
Th's, by close then, crowding, the thirty-six
is limit of the
invited, nud usually there are
ta’fcss thaiy is thirty on these occasions,
were it convenient to do so, ns
Itniiv lu-'ii. ladies as gentlemen arc iu
Ikough all at the diplomatic dinners, ners,
kero foreign Min
lisp ,9 here are to be present.
i is found impossible to seat as many at
He (able as t his plan would require so
ttat the rule is not always followed.
ornamented The table is usually th flowers, very handsomely huge floral
w a
lie sign of some sort appearing as a cen¬
to-piece. and smaller ones near the
lends. Two large golden candelabra, or
baps tending candlesticks, holding per
a dozen candles apiece, occupy
places lie on the table, one at either end of
floral center-piece. These contain
(lie finest of wax caudles, which arc
lighted the just ends before of the the table dinner smaller l ogins.
tar are
with perhaps a half-dozen
apiece, each having a little
link-lined shade at the top supported
by a silver rod, which clasps the canctlo
tear the bottom.
The plates are place 1 “right side up
V'tii tare” about thirty inches apart
fa •found laid, the tab'e. On each plate t 1 e nap
is and on the napkin the bouquet
— or the ladies a flat corsagu bouquet of
rosebuds, falley; and somekmes lilies of the
for the gentlemen usually a sln
P c half opened rose-bud. Beside
Msc is laid a card, one on each plate,
me of the person who is
head of the table on these 00 -
'•toms is not at the end, but in Uie
riiddle. Tlie seat occupied by tlie Pres ¬
ent is half way up the side of the
table, at the side next the door at which
'be guests enter. The lady whom he
escorts to dinner sits at his right, and
tlie honored guest on the occasion sits
My directly opposite the President, with his
on his right. Those who arrango
•he table, and the order in which the
gue.-ts sit, of course, arrange so that
?willeruB,n and wife do not sit side by
side under any cir umstances.
hen the arrangement for seating is
completed, “signed and each person has prepared been
fa to liis place, a card is
each gentleman and placed 111 an
envelope oi bearing his name. tlie On tab'e, one
this card is a plan of
lf itk each seat numbered. On the other
s de is the name of the lady whom he is
<o escort to the table, and the numbers
°f the seats they are to occupy. These
envelopes they are handed to the gentlemen gentle¬
“ enter, and as soon as the
man has “shed” his outer garments he
examines his card, curses or blesses tho
fates which have consigned him to
uncongenial or a congenial partner for
the evening, and hies him to the East
Room, where, a f ter paying his respects
fa the President, he hunts up his lady,
and prepares for the evening. Mean
fane, the famous Marine Band has taken
tfa place in the vestibule.
After a half-hour spent in conversa
. President
in the Ea-t Room, tlie
g'ves the signal to an attendant, who
passes it on to the band, which strikes
np some appropriate seiection, and the
Resident, a teV whom giv.ng he is his to escort- right arm to dinner, to the
!e ; ads the dining-room. The
rihers way to the
fas follow, each gentleman by giving _ his
'fad. arm The to President the lady usually designated takes to the
fable the wife of the Secretary of State.
t he promenade down the long hail
to the dining-room is very slow, and 18
a striking and beautiful spectacle, lhe
Jfahes, fame—the of course, handsomest are in evening that money cos
Md ingenuity can provide—and the
gentlemen fanliant, in dress suits; the lights
the hall lined with flowers
faopical plants, and the music entranc
Arriving at the table the guests dm
>te seated in their order, and the
tor. which is usually in twelve or four
teen courses, with a half-dozen differ
wines, occupies idled, fully three hours.
?•»<«. it Cor. may be Journ is tal. good. — Wash
Chicago
The Conyers Exa
TtlE SAD FATE OF ANNABEL LEK.
:s^||::r Wen ion bridal,-abroad kde.
onr
That was so di»astro« s f 0 me.
^ M 1 itb ^ 5 the , th ? taffy very she oar roof to run*
«?ave me.
^^ 6 n^-sr r o o'f fo a ‘ noon
ESSajfV® * roni her ivory feet as to a hungry her cardinal bear,
Was my beautiful Annabel Lee, hafr,
Ana she went into business then and tiioro,
My unfortunate Annabel I^o!
Tlie ear* ««™- -
T *K=££ffiaa. T 'V £ <> r fl'lfns of
ssss& m my queen queens,
Until 1 began to bo
.
neach, my *
To >et “P on the g-r-u-b I
And that Is the reason that years gone by
hrautifn 1 Annabel isie
For sh« was human* and her gastric
n o Tigh^go°(l, wasn’t that oC a thoroughbred
Or asteamo-n^-i-n-e.
AnU so U happened that on that pie
Ami oft in the ZT UP t0 t ” 0 9ky -
side, night tide I turn on my right
And curious dreams PBitie to me,
Of my darling, my tOve, in the real ms above,
SttU wrestling that tough p-i-c.
—Drake's Travelers' Magazine.
Important Agriculture Statistics.
A writer in the Ziilcmational Review.
who seems to have drawn his facts and
figures interesting from official sources, funiisl ics
some and important informa¬
tion in regard to the increase of Various
crops in this country, He says that in
the last fifteen years the production of
wheat and barley has trebled; corn, cot¬
ton and tobacco more than doubled; hay
increased more than one-third, And dais
almost 140,000,000 bushel". Here are
the statistics: III igfio the wheat crop
756,000; HS.StPi.OOO in bushels; 704,437,000 in 1879, 448.
els, corn, 1865, bush¬
and in 1879, 1,644,899,000; oats, in
1869, 233.352,000, and in 1879, 364,253,
000, ley, rye, 19,544,009—22,646,000; bar¬
11,391,000—40,184,000; potatoes,
101,632,000—181,369,000; tons—35,648,000; hay, 23,538,
000 pounds—to tobacco, 183,327,
000 384,059,000; cotton 2,-
229,000 bales—5,020,000. in
Tho writer attributes tho increase
cereals to the increased population and
development States. of the Western and Norfch
wester! .....n He says tjiat during the
present transferred generation the corn has been
from the South to the West,
and the wheat centre from the Middle
States to the far West. I 11 1842, 39 per
cent- and in 1859, 52 per cent, of our
Com was grown fa the Southern States.
In Ohio, 1877, Indiana, 850,1)00,000 Illinois, bushels camo from
Kansas and Nebraska. Iowa, Missouri,
The product of
all the rest of tho Union was only 491,-
558,000 bushels. The tobacco increase—
has 100,000,000 pounds from 1870 to 1878—
been, of course, mainly in the South.
In the same section and name period
cotton has increased from 3,042,009 to
5,216,009 being the bales, Arkansas and Texes
In the leading former, States lll,000,000poiinds in this ad¬
vance.
were raised in 1870, and 318,000,000 in
1878; in the latter, in 1870, 157,000,000
pounds, and in 1878, 500,000,000.
the Only national about grain 9 per cent., is exported, it is said, in¬ of
cluding crop of wheat, and
24.76 percent, the
6.49 of the corn. The total exports of
all grains were 39,000,000 bushels in
1868; in 1878 they had risen to 189,000,
000 . The exports are likely to increase
with the production, though in a far
smaller proportion; and the time is not
far distant when the United States will
be the dominant power in the grain mar¬
kets of the world.
The Perils of Pearl Diving.
The number of shells is not any guide the
to the number of pearls, and even
roughest average which the diver may
make of the value of the season's collec¬
tion is, therefore, liable to be utterly
wrong. The shells themselves are, how¬
ever, of great commercial value, and oft en „
yield a larger revenue than the season s
find of gems, so that the diver really
never goes down in vain. The diver has
always encouragement in perilous labor;
and to the last, even when lie takes his
fatal dive to the waiting shark, he has
still the fascination before him of a pos¬
sible prize that shall send him home to
live at ease for the rest of Ins life, bo
he calls out to the shark-charmer to
charm his best, and, with the delusive
spell ringing in his ears, pumges clown
to death. But the monster of the deep
that has been lying waiting for himAar
under the shadow of the boat, cares little
for exorcism or enchantment, and so toe
diver is never seen again. His comrades
in the boat feel the rope suddenly slack
en and as suddenly raised; the lessened
strain tells its grim story at once, and then
the empty bucket comes flo atl!1 f, U P 1°
the surface, a message that the diver is
dead. In the vast majority of cases
however, the divers grow old at thor
toil, neither meeting with sharks nor
King’s ransoms in their grorangs along
gbell-strewn banks, and the Lalirem
gpeak G f p as » monotonous and labor
A means 0 f livelihood, and one in
)Ug competence.
w j d(dl ^gy geldom earn a their work
» -pjje surroundings of are
ig Ua iid, almost revolting; for the shore
;A e ‘ „ p Ded w feh decaying perpetually masses blows of oys- the
^ a sea breeze encampment of
0 £ ^em across the
tiie fishers, which - be sweltering under
„ tem i,l e sun, and but poorly provided
ith eT( n tlie f ew things that go to make
.
Otters Oriental comfortable. In Ceylon
are but little better, as far as
^ (dvers ^ personally concerned, and
j “ Oliiua auzd Japan the industry is From one
attracts ‘ 1 only the lower orders.
^ feoet of the gems of our
are derived, but the pearl oys
{ Buch extensive distribution, all a
, ererv shore, that nearly general
°?^_ ^ ooDtribute pearls to the
Xondon Telegraph,
-
A woman compares who heiself has “’’/ be
ors ^se four seasons .-Kokomo inma
she has
Tribune. - - — - - - _ _
ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHILE TRUTH IS LEFT FREE TQ
COMBAT IT.”
CONYERS, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1883.
j Amertwuts 1 ft KUlope.
! A coiTospondenfc writes to the Spring
neld Republican* The majority of
Americana; «w fto first Wb»n fame, thttV Come to Europe
the are always amazed at
had expense always harbored of foreign the traVeling. iiiipresakffi They
the cost of eVefyUlhig that
AUauuc—railway on this side of the
etc., at least tickets, hotel hills,
they were in America; only blit, one-half what
were on the con
travel trarv^ the)' here find than it it costs does much at home. more to
the best In
American hotels the price of
three and four dollars a day seems ex
•
travagant, it but hi they cannot comprehend
is that a first-class foreign ho¬
tel, where the price of a room is only
jiSSSSfr^XtetE
a t the Hotel Chatham ih Paris, five
Jsrssss There ths room ™ and
£ ^ont was father and mother- a son
*0 and It. 14, Pi’om and two thou >%biefti conversation about I
learned it was their first trip to Europe,
that they had come directly to Paris
on fed landing at Liverpool) mb# since and bad Ho
Koine. a Alter they left
selves to what canvassing their amongtliem
nd demanded as tlie appetites craved
on bill of fare, the
tile
??*** «» ordei : Five plates
Dt f^ elou , which were then very ex¬
pensive, fee, five fried soles, five pots of cof¬
five ham and eggs, fried hominy,
five beefsteaks, hot rolls, five fried pota¬
toes, ordered butter, dishes radishes, etc, kind, tf they had
tiVo of a so goi ler
ous was tlie Stipply, it would have b een
tites hiore than they Bnotigh to satisfy their appe¬
; but were “Americans,” and
evidently ill thought the the teptitation of their
Country, in the eyes of other strangers
less dining-room, demanded nothing
than a full complement to each per¬
son. As near as I could figure up their
account, that breakfast cost in the neigh¬
borhood of f lii. The table d’hote din¬
ner at night Was at a fixed price, and, if
their lunch, at 1 o’clock, corresponded
With their breakfast, no iVonder surprise
is manifested at the High rates of living
ih foreign hotels.
The Courteous Lawyer.
once. Ton recognize He places the eoliiicons chair gracefully lawyer for at
a
his client, Whether the client is an ele¬
gantly diamonds attired lady in sealskins and
and liquor. or a clumpy bumpkin smiles sweetly in home
sptiti ins He at
deferentially opponent, and bows to the He jury m a
familiar way. pay s tlio
fees to the clerk before he has tlie
trouble to ask for them, And draws the
bills out of his pocket book slowly, one
by belle one, as her gently carriage as lie the would ball-room. lead a
His front to
bow to the court is almost profession an ayiology
for having come into the con¬
temporaneously with his Honor. Ue
handles a w-ituess as though ho was the
frail golden setting and his testimony the
gem he Was trying to remove. His tones
are Carefully modulated, and sensibilities he appeals
for a reply to the kindly of
the witness. “Be so good” is the cap¬
tivating exordium, and “ thank you ’’the
palliative peroration. If he wounds with
question, he binds up the sore the
xt moment with the liniment of polite¬
ness. To his opponent he overt!
with generous waivers and admissions,
and if by chance he though interpolates he a put¬ re¬
mark, he does it as adversary’s was butt
ting a boquet in liis m
hole. He thinks he understands tlie
court. He hopes he does not misappre¬
hend his learned friend. Ho trusts tlie
witness knows what lie means. In ad¬
dressing the jury, he unbosoms his ap¬
preciation of their intelligence and
ability. He lays his argu iments before
them with respect amount! nig almost to
reverence, as though they were whom pro¬ lie
pitiatory offerings to a deity tlie court his
wished to placate. To
whole demeanor is redolent of resp.net.
The court is most honorable; the judge
most- distinguished. He is, in short, so
filled .with human consideration for every¬
thing and everybody around him, that he
finds excuses for tlie jury that beats him
and for the court that nonsuits him. It
is true, he has been know to revil e an
adversary in private, to curse surrepti¬ in
tiously, and to sneer at the judiciary that he
the social circle. It- is also true
can wrench s f v. from a client in a ruth
moment and take a snap judgment little
when he thinks it safe. But these
trifles only show that he is human, and
lie knows that men are not apt to believe
that a head with such a halo pedestal of polite¬
ness around it can have for its a
cloven foot.
Dress in Persia, .
jj ow Ladies
wore a bright red satin skirt,
richly em broidered with gold lace; it was
/ fu)] aud s b 0 rt, barely reaching to
he “ knees . a i oose jacket of blue velvet,
sq much trimmed—this time with sfl
^ j ace . th e s i ee ves were made of cash
merg g ^ aw j buttoned by several about twenty neek
gmall but tons. She wore stud
} mogt of them very massive, head
de( j tine turquoises. On her
g}l e wore a white shawl, with a band of
elg round jjer forehead, and at one
' ide large pearl star. She had on both
a bracelets—some
annR at least a dozen
handsoine ODe s, some only bands of col
ored „ las3 Her feet were covered with
. shoes
white socks; her green
. (W with soar i e t heels. Some of the
^ wore bright red trousers, reaching
an b] e; but this was quite"'the reaching ex
don They wear a long veil,
fr( f m bead to foot, generally made of some
® ‘ ^ . t of mus ii n . I ought small to leather men
er ] ;u ]y wore containing a
f ie r neck, from some the
Mecca and verses and
Koran xj ie faces of my hostess
. ^ were much decorated, tlie eye
m , W8 broadened and carried quite across
,, Some had small designs tat
toQed (m tlie 0 j, ee ks. The hair is very
d thick, generally died red; tiusted it is
plaited P in mar,v thin tails, wel
J ld thread. The hands are
hap b nt nails and palms are stained
dSk’red.— Tinsley'* Magazine.
Why,” asked a governess of her lit
t i 9 ® charge, “ do we pray God to give us
r ^ r „ ad ? W),v don’t we ask for
tom da'v- or five .lays, or a w.-ek tlio ?”
“ Because^*we - ^ want it fresh,” replied
_
Catastrophe**
fits ydar has Opened with a series of
terrible Warnings of the fragmentariness
with eager haste its one that may bodes
t-ned to stand out in human memory
foreseen calamities and economic dis
as ers may be avo'ded. Eighteen huit
di ed and eiritl V-tllreii, hod-eur, Inis
dalVned With JOjlaBh flkihs flticl pOFteiitA
of evil. it) ifance the greatest Repub
Lean has bcdti Slr cl.cn down, and li's
Heath ha-bocH followed by many sigtis
hi pol:t cili ilicSpdcitv, SdiSal ifgltfttiofl
and national de-pondehcy. On the
t’nnl.nbnt iho 11, Oils have bomb devas
tatioti ait 1 nffsfir.? ih I iihir p.ain. Front
evory quarter there afo tidings fit did
asier. The hotel fire ih Milivaiikeo, the
eircus catastrophe jn Russia, the railway
ac< 'idhnt near Tetiiclilpa pass, the loss
of two staunch ocean steamships, and
numerous other disasters on sea and
land, are not only appalling horrors, but
binenS of ^bprtisyittn riiid -doom. Men
are will ftlreiUiy be disagreeable saving ifi tlioir liditrtA: “ It
a year, if nothing
' v ” 3 ® ’
Be ore the ngeiig.es . of s earn, elec
iioity arid tHd phblui press iieie ffluili*
pLeil, the effect of sudden catastrophes
was confined to the localises in which
t hey occurred. \S hen the tower in
Slionm fell, there Was ho lack Of talk in
the neighboring villages, and the rumor
hi Uie disaster was earned beyond Jeru
knietft world outside ihto tiu) did hili-eOiintry, whftt but had thd
not know
Chimneys happened. The collapse Bradford of the weeks great
ack ill a.Ww
bgo ends Was the telegraphed earth, that instantly known to thd
oi bo it was
simultaneously m Calcutta, the Eu
ropean capitals San I ranmsco and New
tlreh York that siKtv tnefi, iVoraefi And Onu*
Workaday had smhldnly wdrld. But ceased outside to exist Bradford ill thd
there was si arcelv a single point of l,u
ttsrts e “™:a 4ss
canvassers may have obtained a new
[hd b rl whfch r 7nl’d '
hunmh sulfering been
banded left no impression distance! upon the
hiindsof readers at a Three
hundred people are trampled under
foot or burned to death in a circus in
l’oland; but the fact excites no more
emotion in Iho heart of an American
reader than the footings of a table of
mortality statistics. Four hundred
SivallolVed emigrants and sailors are There suddenly
up by respecting the sou. is a
short Cohti 0 ivSrsy - compart¬
hients in a ship ’s hull and a momentary n
curiosity to learn vvliat excuse the com¬
mander of the other steamship can oiler tho
for not attempting a rescue; but
agony Blantj which was caused in a single and in
when hundreds of these quiet
simplo peasants and working people
were brought face to faco with their
doom, is only a vague generalization. by the general
In a week jt is forgotten
public. exceptional that
It : s only in instances
these tragic occurrences leave any per¬
manent impression upon the public
mind outside the immediate localities
where they occur. The facts are known,
but suffering and is not sympathies. brought close A to day the
emotions
pas es, and men and pleasanter. are thinking of month some¬
thing newer A
goes by, and 1883 is not considered
especially unlucky, but only an average
year, with startling occurrences now
and then, but with the i.sual outcome
of peace, prosperity and Fccurity. A
year of disappointment rolls by, and there and is depression a vague feeling and
an eager hope that another year will bo
cheerier and speedy brighter. reaction from There the is dis¬ in¬
variably a and of insecurity
couragement ray sense
can d by the vicissitudes of human
destiny.
It may bo that the world as it grows
older is becoming more and more ac¬
customed to the conditions of its being.
Certainly the impressions catastrophe of like helples- those
ness caused by 3
which have been recent!; recon led are
only vague and transitory. The thrill
of horror excited by such recitals is felt
only momentarily; of the sense of insecur¬
ity and the feeling unrest soon p a is
away. Men learn to expect catastro¬
phes and to make allowance for them
in the i’rovidcntial scheme of the uni¬
verse. Yet they can not explain them.
That seventy weary travelers and hotel
servants should suddenly bo death, exposed that lo
the honors hundred of an agonizing and chil¬
three men, women
dren should he wrenched out of life
with tortures unspeakable Poland, w hile that en four toy¬
ing a town show in or
hundred emigrants seeking their fort¬
unes in a new land should be drowned
before they have fairly inexplicable lost sight to-day of tho
old country, is as as
the death of the thirty victims of the
'Tower of Siloain was to the Jews of
Did. The question is no longer asked,
as it was then: “Have these men sinned
or their fathers, that they should perish
bo miserably ?” But it is no easier now
than it was then to reconcile the vieis
si udes and mysteries of human fate
with an orderly scheme of government
for the universe.— N. Y. irit/auc.
—The colored population excited of the Tapps- dis
hannoek, Va., are over
ci line 1 recently employed in the case of
a colored female scholar byC. A. Yancv.
Principal of the colored graded school,
The girl pleaded a headache for tardi
ness, and the teacher adopted the fol
Idwingbovel remedy to cure both: A
boy was sent to the druggist the teacher for castor- then
oil, ami on his return
and there attempted to make her swal
low it After a long struggle he sue
cce dedin 1 tying the t hands of the girl,
and adminis'.ere d tho oil -—Chicago
Times.
New Carrots with Cream. —Trim a
quantity of the smallest new carrots that
can be obtained, and boil them in salted
add per, to salt, it gr, a desertespoo^ut yf’ ,J of^ flour, pep
dered sugaff, ......tn,. b,.F „f
c ream. I i ' ^erre ^
glld
Joking On lligh Oljmpnfc
' * bright itfternotni, and, the 1m
mortals were fatting on high Olympus,
Varied: tt'srtswsr.as
“Maw.
] pocket. the class is Go
tihead,With “ Speak, Minerva, the lip.
oral.”
j tory “When retoi-t, they put a ifian into they the fall crema- it,
or Or whatever
Whatfigure of expression docs it remind
you of?” Cioionoi
The don’t scratched Ills grieved shin
(now Ask will us tell what it it Was grieved grieved
aliout, or we you was
I about to the knee, for we are no liu
iho# ftrf nonsense), «nd present he said
he wasn't mltcho! a noholar on vgram
tnar, but he believed it was kind of
erysipelas, “something left out, you
kiioW 11
.
“Weil,” out?” said the goddess, “but wliaf
i 8 ] e ft
Tlie Colonel hesitated a moment, and
said he hadn’t considered in regards of
that, and Herines remarked that it was
probably an interpolation, because tho
tottn Viiican, put i n .
who liajipened along with a
new hinge for the front gate, flsktxl if it
wasn't hotology.
Juno didnTthink it could be tautology,
betJfalM it Wasn’t always the ” same man ;
intlee indeed, d. it it never „ c ver Was was the th same man.
“It's the some mail this time, isn’t
it?” asked her husband, cautiously
^' throwing ^ tip his elbow to the level with
he
tljou Ganymede, jif t ^ tho hyperbola barkeeper, said ho
it a because it
was Washington awfully extravagant; Crematory $35 per man tho at
the f (Pa ' J. ) wi«
r , av c])a **.£:„»*** fo r barbecue,
A, e Up this string afternoon,
., , . ., ith a of fish,
»™t .,, )ie V, thought it was synedoche, hut on
tfA-Aw t edoehe was, frank
didn't know, and
*“*«. Vfii,,.;,s becaU8e tho man P nt trochaic lu hls
I* Lok the Immortals a long time to
“ tc > ®“ d * hen J u P lterr «
markedtiiat they weren t rummig . a col
lege N<) Infirmary said up amiable there, married
; MS sister,
„ 1 no, pharmacy What do s sake think don ttiilk it doctor- Miner
b ‘°)P- you is,
va ■
Tlie blue-eyed goddess turned down
her place in Emerson, with adjusted precision; her eye¬
glasses Why, and the said, scorches. great Does
“ retort not
it strike you that way?”
But alter a moment of silence the Col¬
onel said lie wasn’t up to this new
fangled pronunciation very well, and tho
immortal Jove called to Ganymede to
bring him a “light one,” at tho sumo
time holding his up all the fingers on one
hand behind wife’s head,
Laughed nil tho gods; tho heavens vrilh inughier
And wloe broke, Minerva thou ght Mwas »t her joke.
—Murington Uuwktye,
Mammoth Trees in California.
A correspondent who has been visiting
the grove of big trees in Oalaverns
County, Gal., writes as follows :
It has always lioen so difficult for me
to form any conception of tho size of the,
mammoth trees from given figures, them but
when I went into the grove and saw
standing, and climbed twenty-six side of steep
steps to reach the upper a fallen
sequoya and became dizzy on looking
down to tho ground I realized their im¬
mense proportions ; one of the gentle¬
men of the party reached his arms at
full length and it took eight measures to
pan one of the smaller trees.
Visitors have the privilege placing of naming
any of the big trees, and a mar¬
ble slab with the inscription called thereon.
One noble great tree was tho
“ Mother," another the “ Father,” tlio
“Three Graces,” “Henry Ward
Beecher,” “General Grant,” etc., etc.
In this grove there are ninety-nine
trees within eighty acres. Wo took
horses and rode six miles to the “Sou ”
where wo saw the largest tree in tho
world, “Old Goliah.” In this grove
there are thirteen hundred and eighty
trees, none measuring less than six feet
in diameter.
We rode our eight horses into tlie side
of one tree t hat had been burned out;
tho guide said there was room for ten
more, and we could well believe it, for
we did not take up one-third of the
room; and yet the fire had not affected
the life of tlie tree ; there unconcerned. was enough In
vitality to grow of on tho big trees
this grove many were
named for States, which seemed more
appropriate.
Change* in Jerusalem.
A wonderful change has taken place in
Jerusalem of late years, and it is proba¬
bly now a more comfortable re mice
than ever before in its history. Mr.
Schick, who holds the appointment of
Surveyor of Buildings in the Holy City,
lias lately issued a very instructive re¬
port. He tells us that ruined houses
have been restored or rebuilt by indi¬
viduals or companies, and buildings on
the Peabody plan have been erected i’.y
associations. The streets are now
lighted, kept, for an Eastern city, most
exceptionally clean, and tlie aqueduct
from the pools of Solomon has been re
stored, and water brought thence to the
city. Tanneries and slaughter-houses
have been removed outside the. town,
The sanitary department is under the
control of a German physician. Betide
hem and Nazareth are eagerly emulating
the progress of the capital. in the
latter place windows are becoming quite
frequent. It ut asserted that there la a
fixed resolution on the. part of thouamls
in Prussia to make that country as hot as
possible for Jews, and it is not unlikely
that this may in a measure increase the
i already considerable number now return
j ing to German Palestine, Jews more already especially a power as the
1 tue are
j j„ Jerusalem. The improvements are,
„ B the wood won’t burn. I’ll
„ little of yerself, me darlint,” You as
Urklget said to the kerosene. “ be
blowed 1” as the kerosene said to Bridget,
Ylgihvioe Necessary In Budding,
^ diiv 1|1<y 0 f ovigeir a house built
js ;|i„,.ratod in
struetiobs, stni btit he sooSfnfiud that hard
f (y iitty niivfhto* f! Was being done ,xs he had
d. building **** rected. seemed **?* to intmlfr-the *««*" 1 sligli out test the
intoresi ih bis work, and bricks and
boards were put together with tlie ut¬
most disregard of 1 I 10 tltnoas of things.
Lumber fr .is ivasied had as though hand¬ it
Wore to be for the
ling. lim 'Hu' gentleman 1 aiilC to tlie 0011 -
e. u^icrfl ih at it would be advisable to
stay about tin! premises, anil he till so
most of the time, watching a*, many of
the Wove men t s s as as he couhl. The result
Was that, each liny y usually ope nod with
tearing down or pulling mill fir apart apart the work
or' the day previous. F I or OMirn iple , ho
thought he saW something wrong in if. tho
laying He o* the reported main drain the architect, lor the sowor- who
age. to
Was to bo hold reSponsi-iio for defects.
The wov. nn-ii Insisted Ilia’ everything
had been done e just u. exactly as it should
have been, The dra'ns Were dug up.
fieverl heles s, ai And if was found 1 Urn I no
connection had been made With tho
street sower at nil. The last section of
pipe hail been too short b, several
inches, and to the crafty drain layer,
who was interested in saving time and
material, it was not considered necessary
'o lengthen i . The fresh air duct lead¬
ing to the furnace had been ordered
built of unu-mal eapa it# for the reason
that the owner warned none' of the
common difficulty about getting suf¬
ficient air to ventilate »< well ns warm
his house. He watched the work on Ibis
ah - duct very closely and was well congratu¬
lating himself that it was made,
but, at last, discovered that iho work¬
man narrowed the inlet by bricks drawing bo in
each neared succeeding course When of remonstrated as
ilio top.
with, ho said ho thought ilie I 10 was uidu't doing
the proper thing, as duet w
lot in so much eold nir if smaller. Bo
in everything done about tlie house—
the workmen had 110 more conception
Of I lie purpose which a healthy, com¬
fortable, and convenient house was to
serve than the to Is which they used.
By hiring an architect to watch them,
and then watching tho architect; himself,
he succeeded at. length in getting pride; a
house in which ho lakes some
but it was at tho expense of extra funds,
much valuable time and patient waiting.
Preparing the (iroimifor a I,awn.
Tlie success of a lawn depends upc 111 a
vast deal of work that is quite out
of sight. We expect more of
the soil devoted to the lawn
than wo do of any other part
of the grounds, for we arc i outmually
cropping it, and it can only give a con¬
stant .succession of g,a*x when the roots
have a deep soil anil sufficient nourish¬
ment. As it is desirable lo have tho
grass well established bo oro hot
weather comes, the seed must b -
sown early, and to’this end the soil
must be prepared allow. Only as early small as the
season will areas,
such as grounds, fruit yards, should croquet perfect- and
tennis bo
iy lovul. A pleasing slightly the undulating than
surface is more to eye
a dead level, ami it may be made togive
tho impression of a greater extent if the
surface is laid out in gentle, swells, and
will give a betleroU'oct if slightly higher
as it approaches tho house. Of course
there must be nothing like abrupt hills
and hollows, and if: any 8 U 0 I 1 occur where
the lawn is. lo be. the sr m;:st be either
cut down or tilled If the lawn is
such that it garden would require draining it will
to lit It for crops, then
need draining for a lawn. Indeed, all
I ul v cry light draining sandy with soils tiles. will lie Tho im¬
proved depth and by distance the drains
apart found o in
should bo such as are West tlio
fields of tlie vicinity. The next ro
quis to is a deeply worked soil. In En¬
gland the soil is thoroughly trenched
two spades d op, but wo can hard! , ex¬
pect our pooplu, who avoid ill's use of
the spado where or possible, to tren-’h
the ground for a lawn. Tlfe most we
cai 1 hope fo • is the deep st pr.-t -ticablo
p ow'ng, with the use of the subsoil plow.
If tho soil is | o >r, a generoiH coating of
manur! sho ild he turned under, but
if in fair < qnd tion, toji dr ssiu s may
bo depended upon for fertilizing. After
this preiioimary ground
should remain as long as p. ibio be
fore sowing, in order that itn proper
iy settle. If in any plate ground
settles unevenly, needed, then 1 re.-li bring soil must the low bo
a Ijled, where the lo level. Whether
spots 8|)C iij) to proper with
the - lav n is to ! e laid down seed, or
as is sometimes pro erable, 1 if tho area
is small, with turf, pially the prel thorough, nimary
preparation must be 0
if a fine and permanen t turf is desired.
Aariculturist.
Elopement Fashions.
Tho fashions for girls who elope just
now are very plain. Some white drapery,
a convenient window, minister a long ladder, a
dark night, a coach, a and tlio
house of a friend, and the elopement is
over. If the irate father, armed with a
double-barreled coal shovel and a town
constable, does not pursue, the affair is,
although picturesque, not exactly a suc¬
cessful elopement. If tlio father .if tho
bride relents within two days the foolish
couple are not happy. If it leaks out
that tlio mother of tho bride is in tlie
secret, much of the pleasure of the trip
is spoiled. If both tlie father and mother
of the bride are in the secret of her going
» ■, and havo actually left the ladder
tho window, and that fact is found
tlie elopement is a failure. In the
time t1je ( . !opil) g pa eked all
lM>r portable * goods ou herself a nd went
j )eftvj!v ladtll- Now, as she is
abm , t to retiur. in a day or two in her
j , Hen , rg dres8) s l 10 goeg away quite
-
-
-
—A young girl who has tried it says
the story that kissing wou) 1 cure freck
les lacks the important element of truth;
but there is one tiling, she aim its,
greatly in favor of the remedy- it snot
cause fifteen or sixteen hundred applj.
cations failed to effect a cans It won’t
cost much to give the medicine a con
pfe ofyear’s trial— : JJurlingtonMawkeijc.
$ 1.50 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE
NUMBER 4.
% WAIFS AND WHIMS.
A Wfuro with business men—settle.
Ikon affected by fog is mist rusted.
A mule is tamo enough in front, but
awfully wild behind.
A rrrn.u rider now and then is re¬
lished by the best of men.
Tnu man who can’t remember that ho
was ever a boy is entirely rijio for the
harvest.
Starch is said to bo explosive. It
causes explosion in tho family when the
old man finds it has been loft out of his
collars.
A Bo.vroN paper says tlio conductor of
a street-car m that city t<x>k 900 fares
last how Sunday, but is entirely silent as to
111: tny the company got.
The Crown Prince of Germany gets
more pulling over giving a $3 fiddle h i) 11
blind boy than an American does over
leaving $ 10,000 to ail orphan asylum.
There is a fortune in store for tho mil¬
liner who shall devise a bonnet that can
bo worn in any part of a church and al¬
ways present its trimmed side to tho con¬
gregation.
A poultry Authority says that “chick¬
ens should have an ample range.” It
depends upon the number of chickens.
A little chicken will broil pretty well
over a very small stove.
Many persona who rako through an¬
other’s character with a fine-tooth comb,
to discover a fault, could find one with
less trouble by going over their own
character with 1 a horse-rake.
It costs more than a hundred millions
of dollars annually to keep tlio fences of
this country in repair. Now, gentlemen,
got off tho fence and stay off till after
election, ami save your country a few
millions of this outlay.
Grown-up sister—“Oh, Charley, if
you must go away can’t you introduce
mo to one of your school-fellows, to look
after me till you come back?” Charley— would
“Oh, no, it wouldn’t do! It be
too rough on a fellow to fag him out like
that.”— Punch.
Somebody who appears to know how
fashionable schools are managed, says;
“To educate young ladies is to let them
know all about the ogles, onumie is, the
Hie as, the ties and the mistics; but 1 1 lotliing
about- tho iiigs, such as sowing, darning, ’*
washing, baking and making pudding.
“I sat, mister, this is a double, Heat,
and you can’t lay over it in that way,”
said a staml-up passenger iu a crowded
car to another passenger who was making
himself too much at homo. “Can’t lay
over tho soat?” echoed tho loafer. “Bet
your life 1 can. See here, I have a lay
over chock from tlio conductor, and it is
good. ”
A youno lady received the following
note, accompanied Dear-, 1 by send a bouquet bi tlie of
flowers: you
boy a bucket of flours. This is like my
love for n. Tlie into shade menus kepo
dark. The dog fenil menus I am your
slave. Rosis sjial red and fale.” posis pail, my love
for you never
The flowing reporter who wrote, with
reference to a well-known belle, “ that Her
dainty feet were encased in shoos
might, bo taken for fairy boots," tied his
wardrobe up in a handkerchief and left
for parts 111 lknown when it appeared tho
next morniii! g; “Her dirty might feet feet were
encased in s booB that bo taken for
ferryboats.” French
A Yqu.NO lady who is studying
lately wrote to her parents that she was
invited to a dejeuner tho, day before, and
was going to a fete champetre the next
day. The professor of the college from was the
surprised to receive a dispatch saying:
“old man” a day or two after
“If you don’t keep my daughter shows, away I
from those menageries and side
will come down and son what ails her.”
Tr is amusing to watch a slim man
weigh himself. Ho steps 011 to the plat¬
form as an e)< pliant stops upon a bridge,
with mi awful fear of breaking throe-hundred- tho thing
down, and then puts tho
pound weight on tho end of tlio beam.
Of course ho takes it off again, but I 10
does this unostentatiously. Having Having found i
that I10 weighs, sav, one hundred and
twenty, if you watch him carefully along you
will see him slide tho weight “By to
one hundred and seventy-five. Be veil ty-I! v
George!” m,t” lie Bo will - exclaim :laim aw as ho ho goes out,
“I’ve lost ton pounds since lost week.”
Ho doesn’t say liow much I 10 weighs is the
now; if you wish to know, there
scale. lie kn ows you will loo k.
In the Wrong Room.
Shortly after 12 o'clock a few nights
ago a PhilmViphia K'i(ist at one of the
large Atlantic City hotels was awakened
bv a nudge from the sharpest of Ins
Wife’s sharp knuckles. As he opened
his eyes ho saw by means of the ex¬
tremely faint light that penetrated from
the hail into the room tho figure of a
man, who stood silently by the bureau
his clutches. The wife clung “f to 1 her ?
husband’s arm and trembled so violently
that the latter feared lest t ie burglar
should hear and escape. Releasing his
the guest slipped noiselessly from
tho ’bed and holding his pillow bound as a
shield, he reached the burglar at a
In the midst of crushed chair and
broken bric-a-brac the robber went
down, with his assailant 011 top. ifie
SUSSf-s with the pillow on Ins head, iho .con¬
queror's wife struck a light as quickly
isissible and rang sharply for an at¬
as the. night clerk reached
tendant. When thrilling tableaux, the
the room ho saw a powerful
chief figure of which was a
Othello strangling a male Pesdoraona in
But the scene
above ssar-JiftSM'ir? r. preach. Ho simply had mis¬
taken tie wrong room for the nght fumbling one
ami wl “i knocked down was
aliout for a match .—.Philadelphia
Times.
1 was to be seen inside, wound up by lake say
ing: 11 ■‘■•“P in, gent emeu, step highly in.
my word for it, 3 011 will bo de
hghte-l when you get out.