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War Scenes on the VV. & A. Krom The Southern Industrial Record. After Joseph M. Brown had devel oped such adaptability as general freight agent of the Western and At lantic railroad, increasing business al ready obtained, and creating business not before thought of, no one was sur prised at his great success in the added duties of general passenger agent. Mr. Brown is not content to go along in the old ruts of railroading, but cuts out new roads and avenues for business, that bring passengers and freight, and put money in the treasury. His latest effort is a 50-page bro chure, entitled r l he Mountain Campaigns . in Georgia —War Scenes on the W. J - J It is magnificently illustrated, and el egantly printed on the finest book pa- | per, by those peerless engravers and printers, Matthews, Northrup & Co., of Buffalo, N. Y. The letter-press of this beautiful book has not one word of advertise ment of the W. &A. road, but is a concise and most entertaining narra tive of the campaigns and numerous battles fought between Chattanooga and Atlanta. The illustrations are original, and were drawn with scrupu lous regard to historical accuracy as well as artistic skill. They are battle scenes, mapsand portraits, including a very fine steel engraving of Senator Joseph E. Brown, who is president of the W. & A., and was governor of Georgia during the war. Brown’s Mountain Cainpaigns in Geor gia -will be preserved for historical ref erence} as well as a delight to the eye and understanding. In the hands of Jos. M. Brown and his accomplished assistant, Alton Angier, the passenger department of the W. & A. will hold its own against all com petitors. Mr. Mercer Slaughter has accepted the position of commissioner of the Southern Passenger Committee, with headquarters at Atlanta, Ga. At the first meeting of the committee, held on December 2, Mr. Slaughter re ceived the well-deserved compliment of a unanimous election to the impor tant office above mentioned. Mr. Slaughter has been a warm and able advocate of the principle involved in the formation of an association of this character, and his acceptance of the commissionership is both an evidence of his faith in its value and a guaran ty of its success. Sometimes a man throws his morn ing paper down on the seat and leaves the car. Each man that has no pa per wants it, and each man would grab it if alone and unobserved. The man who appears to be looking out of a window in the opposite direction is the man who sees that paper more dis tinctly than any one else. And he, being the man who seems least inter ested in it, is really the man who wants it most. As soon as that paper is thrown down it becomes an object of interest. The man who never buys and reads a paper wants it and wants it badly. THE GREAT KENNESAW ROUTE GAZETTE. Antiquities. HE SWEARS OFF. I’ll drink no more, for it is clear He is no man who guzzles rum .' I swear, besides, T will this year Spend the evenings with my wife at home. This I can do with dearest Rose And call her my turtle dove ; Nor shall she sniff her pretty nose Because of my breath of clove. SHF. SWEARS OFF. I’ll flirt no more, for it’s clear She is no model wife who flirts ! 1 swear, besides, I’ll sew next year The buttons on my husband’s shirts. I’ll be his loving helpmate, too — And one more vow I’ll make and keep, His pockets I’ll no morego through For change at night when he’s asleep. i Mum is not the word in the asylum for the dumb. Mush and milk suppers are quite fashionable. They are doubtless very popular with milk-sops. A man’s bad hand-writing is never criticised when it is seen on the face of a check. The grandest lie of the new year is the statement that a woman has been discovered in Philadelphia with two tongues. When some one steals the office towel of a Georgia newspaper, the editor writes an article which consigns all mankind to the infernal regions. A yreat many Atlanta society young men are wearing collars so tall that the wearer looks as if he had a fence built around his neck. In Europe when a man renders X valuable service to his country, they give him a decoration. In America they present him with a postoftice The scientist who says a man can not live over five days without water is crazy. We know several Atlanta men who have been going without water for many years. The old citizens of Atlanta are now stalking the streets and lying about how cold it was forty years ago, and saying that the late cold snap is not worth a mention. A Chicago reporter, in writing a description of a criminal, describes him as possessing a heavy black mus tache and breath. What is a black breath ? Don’t all answer at once. Hear, O ye fat men, and consider. The latest cure for obesity demands a sparing consumption of meat, absti nence from alcoholic beverages, and the liberal drinking of tea. It is urged against the prohibition question that a man residing in the State where such a law is enforced, is likely to lose his life should he be bit ten by a snake, whereas a man who keeps himself full of “ local option” is not affected by the bite. The Atlanta dog catcher says that hydrophobia is a disease of fright. It may be a disease of fright, but it is one which if a 250-pound man sees coming down the street on four legs, he will climb a telegraph pole or a high fence with a hop, skip and o . j ura P- _ Every man is fond of striking the nail on the head; but when it happens to be his finger-n ail, his enthusiasm becomes wild and incoherent. “ People who came South for the winter” this year found it. A new novel just issued is said to have been written between the hours of 2 and 6 o’clock in the morning. The evils of late hoursseem to be accumulat ing. Some one said to a man of the world, “So and so has been speaking I ill of you.” “lam surprised at that,” replied the latter, “for I never did him any service.” A man out in Leadville tied his wife to the bedpost and whipped her i nearly to death, and yet he lived. A neighbor of his who stole a mule left a j widow and two small children. I e . An authority says that staying out ; late at night is sure to make a man lose his hair. We have always heard that the men who stay out late at night have difficulty in finding the lock. “Is land high in Vermont?” asked a speculator of an old Green Mountain farmer. “You just bet it is,” was the reply; “if the trees wasn’t so stunted the clouds could not get by at all.” Two travelers being robbed in a woods and tied to trees, one of them, in despair, exclaimed, “Oh, I am undone!” “Are you?” said the other, joyfully; “then I wish you’d come and undo me.” An old farmer was wondering “why in these days it seems impossible to have an honest horse race,” when a neighbor interrupted him with the remark that “it’s because we haven’t an honest human race.” Young husband —“I believe I would like a nice turtle steak for dinner.” Young wife (of a thrifty disposition) — “I am afraid turtle steaks are rather expensive, dear. Wouldn’t you be I satisfied with a mock turtle steak?” A boy on High street, placed a big apple on the front steps, and walked across the street to see who would take it. A gentleman who had observed the action said: You shouldn’t do that, my son. Some poor boy may be tempted to steal it.” “That’s what i I’m fishing for sir. I’ve hollowed out ' the inside, and filled it with mustard.” j I An Atlanta boy was recently taken to the opera house by his uncle. A i few evenings subsequently there was company at his house, and the uncle and aunt were among the number, i The lad was relating what he saw; among other things said: “I was a lit tle bit afraid, cos every time the cur tain rolled down uncle went out to see ' j a man, and left me alone.” At Gilmore, ten miles west of Oma ha, a company have started a cattle “fattery.” They have expended $75,- 000 in the erection of big stables. There are 3,750 stalls, and by winter they will have 5,200 stalls. In each , stall they will place a “critter,” and they will be fed with food placed be fore them through a system of pipes, and cooked in enormous steam vats, having a capacity of 1,000 barrels of . feed an hour. They will ship in cat tle from the western Nebrasba ranches and fatten them in these stalls. ■ The first iron furnace built in , America was at Falling Creek, a few miles below Richmond, Virginia, on ; the James’ river. It was built in 1619 . and destroyed in 1622 in an Indian , massacre. The next furnace was built by Governor Spottswood near the present site of Fredericsburg, Virginia, in 1726. The bulk of the ore used at < , this furnace came from the plantation >| of Augustine Washington, the father i of George Washington, of hatchet 1 fame. A Little Nonsense. THE CRUSHER CRUSHED. He entered the ear with an off-hand grace, An easy smile, and, a sample case: Two seats in one did he lightly whir', Across from a not ill-looking girl, With a novelette and a cart-wheel hat; “Alone, by Jove.' I will have a chat Ere we have gone ten miles,” he said, As he fitted the sKull-cap on his head. “The girls who travel in Georgia are Soft snaps as a rule - too fresh by far; Just lend them a book —lift the window sash— No trouble at all to make a mash.” He did not know that the maiden small Had been on the road two years last fall; A female drummer, with grip immense, And a lot of good, shrewd common sense. x? >;» *’?• ’4> >£■ *»? x* This is the time and proper caper: “Miss, will you look at the morning paper?” And thereon the margin the maiden read: “To do you a favor I’d give my head, That I might reap, in turn perchance, One gentle word —one kindly glance. ” The engine whistled, the train slowed in At station known as the town of Gwynn. The maiden rose with her sweetest smile To the festive masher across the aisle, And said, as she straightened her frills and lace: “You may help me off with my sample case.” A day off’ —to-morrow. No man can carry a feather bed and look graceful. Foot notes —the patter of the mule’s hind legs on the nigger’s ribs. Speech is certainly silver at the telegraph office. Ten words for a quarter. Bronze is a very fashionable hue nowadays, but brass has not entirely gone out. A Texas paper advertises that it will swap puffs for cocktails every day in the year. When a woman wants to make a complete change of front she leaves off he r bangs. “What is laughter?” asks a a philo sopher. It is the sound you hear when your hat blows off. The man who went to the country for “restand change” says the waiters got most of his change and the land lord the rest. Whittling is said to be exclusively : a Yankee pastime. Yet the cashiers who cut their sticks for Canada are not all New Englanders. One striking difference between an old toper and an old cow is that two horns last the old cow a lifetime. This is. indeed, a world of change. I If you don’t believe it, count the num ber of dresses the women wear in one , short day at the seaside. A well-known writer says, “mar riages are caused by propiniquity.” Well, perhaps they are; but propini quity seems a new name for it. Shakespeare thinks “the good men j do is buried with them,” yet it is safe to say that but few men are crowded for room in their graves. The Admiral of Castile declared that when a man marries and when he goes to war he ought to be prepared for anything that may happen. A man who is as true as steel, pos sessing an iron will, some gold, and a fair portion of brass, should be able to endure the hardware of this world. The English language contains over 38,000 words, and yet when a man wishes to stop a street car he cannot think of anything better to say than “Hi.” The farmer is the most independent man in the world. Anybody who doubts thisshould just watch him trying to get rid of a load of rotten potatoes. 5