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Psalm 84. To the Chief Musician upon Gittith. A Psalm for the sons of Korah. 1. How amiable are Thy taber nacles, O Lord of hosts. 2. My soul longeth, yea, even faint eth for the courts of the Lord ; my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. 3. Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for her self, where she may lay her young, •even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God. 4. Blessed are they that dwell in Thy house; they will still be praising Thee. —Selah. 5. Blessed is the man whose strength is in Thee ; in whose heart are the ways of them, 6. Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools. 7. They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. 8. O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, O God of Jacob. — Selah. 9. Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of Thine anointed. 10. For a day in Thy courts is bet ter than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wicked ness. 11. For the Lord God is a sun and shield ; the Lord will give grace and glory ; no good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly. 12. O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in Thee. Answers to Correspondents. A. C. H.—The best place for you to purchase tickets is from the regu larly authorized railroad ticket agent in your city. He can quote you rates and give you reliable information about summer resorts, and particularly those of the line of the Western A Atlantic Railroad. If he has not got the ticket you desire, get him to order it for you. M. D. L. —Yes, sir, White Path Mineral Springs are open for business this summer. You can reach them via Marietta. See an article in this issue about them. R. P. IL —You are evidently re ferring to Cherokee Springs, near the Western & Atlantic Railroad, in Ca toosa county, Ga. This is in the beau tiful Chickamauga Valley, and is a charming summer resort. Write to R. W. Doak, Ringgold, Ga. W. O. G. —No, sir, the date for prohibition to go into effect in Atlanta was July Ist, but we have no doubt, but that there will nevertheless be be fore the Recorder’s Court, more than an occasional case of “ W here did he get it?” He’ll Never Get Left. When the parson, done preaching to sinners Os torment or murder and theft, Is invited to sumptuous dinners, He’ll never, no never, get left. The tireless and keen politician, At meetings to aid the bereft, Finds always an unselfish mission— You may bet that he’ll hardly get left. The protean and nimble reporter Will squeeze in the narrowest cleft, When intent upon taking a note or An item—He’ll never get left. And even our President, Grover, Though a man of considerable heft, When resolved upon doing the lover— You may smile, but he didn’t get left. And here’s the Great Kennesaw Route, Which never by faction is rest, With tickets via W. & A., he’ll shout: “ Bet your life I’ll never get left.” THE GREAT KENNESAW ROUTE GAZETTE. The Amenities of Railroading*. The above was the title of an article in the Atlanta Constitution, of Jan. 17, during the period that the East Ten nessee, Virginia A Georgia Railroad’s tunnel under Missionary Ridge, near Chattanooga, had caved in and the Western A Atlantic Railroad Co. gen erously helped its rival out by trans porting its freight and passengers over its line between Chattanooga and Dal ton. It reads as follows : THE AMENITIES OF RAILROADING. The Arrangement by Which the East Ten nessee Gets Around a Broken Tunnel. A railroad man yesterday said to a Constitution reporter that while the public in general were sympathizing with the East Tennesse, Virginia and Georgia Railroad in their misfortune, suffered by the caving in of their tun nel under Missionary Ridge, near Chat tanooga, the conduct of the manage ment of the Western A Atlantic Rail road was one which commended itself highly to not only the approbation of the public, but also to railroad men in particular, as showing a sense of official courtesy and feeling which it is proper at all times to have. “It is rather remarkable,” said he, “that the accident should have occurr ed at the only point on the E. T., V. A G. R. R. which puts it practically at the mercy of the Western A Atlan tic Railroad temporarily ; ami it is a little singular that it should have been put, so far as its western business is concerned, at the mercy of the very rival with which it has just had the fiercest railroad war which the South has almost ever witnessed. “Under these circumstances it was supposed by some that the Western A Atlantic Railroad would not have gone out of its way, to put it mildly, to hive granted any special courtesies to the East Tennessee, Virginia A* Georgia. To their credit, however, they not on ly have relieved them of their freight pressure on very liberal terms, but they are also hauling between Chattanooga and Dalton the through sleeping cars of the East Tennessee railroad, which run in competition with the Western A Atlantic lines between Cincinnati and Jacksonville. The Western A At lantic is transporting for the East Ten nessee business passing from the Mem phis and Charleston road to Knoxville and points east, taking it from Chat tanooga down to Dalton and delivering back to the East Tennessee Railroad, and they are also taking their eastern business and delivering at Chattanooga in the same manner. “It is a hopeful sign when such lib erality as this is shown, and no doubt the East Tennessee’s misfortune may be the indirect means of bringing about a better state of feeling between the two roads than has existed in many months.” Inasmuch as the repairs to the tun nel in January were only of a tempo rary character, it is a well known fact that the East Tennessee, Virginia & Railroad Co. made a contract with the Western A Atlantic Railroad Co. dur ing the month of April, in which it was agreed by the Western & Atlantic to allow the East Tennessee, Virginia A Georgia Railroad, which runs very near the Western A Atlantic for eight miles south of Chattanooga, to join rails with the Western & Atlantic and to use the eight miles at the north western end of the Western & Atlantic Railroad in common with that compa ny’s own trains. The arrangement, of course, was that the East Tennessee, Virginia A Geor gia trains when on this portion of the Western A Atlantic track should be absolutely under the control of the train dispatcher of the Western A At lantic Railroad, and that in the event of the East Tennessee, Virginia A Georgia trains were behind time they should wait on the Western A Atlantic trains. This arrangement, however, doesnot allow the E. T., V. A G. R. R. trains to stop at Boyce and make interchange of sleeping cars with the Cincinnati Southern Railway Co. at that point. The Western A Atlantic Railroad re served this advantage f>r its own line. It is very pleasant, however, to no tice the. clever feeling which exists be tween the general officers of the West ern A Atlantic and East Tennessee, Virginia A Georgia Railroad Compa nies, and this feeling has, no doubt, been brought about by the magnani mous conduct of the Western A At lantic Railroad Co., on occasions when it practically had the East Tennessee, Virginia A Georgia Railroad Compa ny at its mercy, by reason, first, of the cave-in of the latter’s tunnel under Missionary Ridge, and, secondly, by the threatened repetition of this same calamity. It is considered, however, that the East Tennessee, Virginia A Georgia Railroad tunnel, under Missionary Ridge, will be repaired within a few months so that it will be safe for their trains to run through it again. The Fly Fisherman. And now the Atlanta fisherman His tackle getteth out, And goeth up to distant Maine To woo the fickle trout. lie hircth him a stalwart guide, His camping kit to lug. And takes a heap of grub along, With something in a jug. Within the light birch-bark canoe The guide doth take him out, His fly he casteth skillfully. And soon you hear him shout. “By jinks, old man, how’ll this trout do To send home to the club?” The guide responded with a sigh: “You’ve got a two-pound chub.” But soon the speckled beauties rise, And he has lots of sport, And goes back home bewailing that The two weeks were so short. And since in camp on balsam boughs He lies and sleeps his fill, Is it not strange when he comes home lie keeps on lying still? The Kennesaw Route’s city ticket office is the old, reliable No. 4, Kim ball House. In this office you can be accommodated with tickets to any point —to the East, West or North. Write R. D. Mann A Co., who are the agents; or M. C. Sharp, assistant, for any information about tickets, sleeping car accommodations, schedules and con nections with other lines, and you wil receive prompt reply. We are indebted to the Enterprise, of Clyde, Ohio, for the handsome en graving of Gen McPherson’s monu ment, which appears in this paper. Items of Interest A human life is lost for every 50,000 tons of coal mined in the anthracite regions. Not a single case of hydrophobia has occurred in Berlin for three years. Every dog in that city, however, is muzzled. In the Treasury at Washington is a rat catcher, a colored man, who has a record of GOO rats killed with his bare hands. He has the knack of grabbing the animal by the skin between the ear and jaw, and by a sudden twist breaking its neck. The Buddhist hell, or jigoku, is a novel conception. A picture of the location shows a varied assortment of devils, one of whom stands at the gate weighing new arrivals in a balance and directs them to the right or left —to heaven or hell—according as they tip the scale or are found wanting. A very interesting discovery is said to have been made by the experts wh > are now examining the collection of papvri consisting of many thousand rolls which were found at El Fayoum in Eeypt, and were acquired by the Arch duke Rainer. The experts declare that among the rolls are several autograph letters of the prophet Mahomet. The skull resists the ravages of time better than any other bone, and the reason for it is a question which puzzles naturalists. The fact, has been noted on opening the graves of mouu Ibuild ers, while the skulls of buffalo, elk and other animals on the Western plains are in a fair state of preservation long after the other bones have entirely decayed. Daniel Webster once wrote, after continued provocation, to the editor of a newspaper which referred to his pri vate affairs, and especially to his not pay ing his debts. He said substantially: “It is true that I have not always paid my debts punctually, and that I owe money. One cause of this is that I have not pressed those who owe me. As an instance of this, I inclose your father’s note made to me thirty years ago, for money loaned him to educate his boys." Why should an ice house burn ? Ice, surely, is not inflammable; the houses are usually built in some retired locality, and save when near a railroad track, their surroundings are not dangerous. Yet ice houses, and particularly those in New England and on the Hudson river, are reckoned among the special hazards. Many insurance companies will have nothing to do with them, and the number of companies who thus pass ice houses by on the other side is yearly increasing. There is, perhaps, no city on the con tinent where divorces are of such easy procurement as San Francisco. The courts, as a very natural result, are liberally besieged with applicants. The traditional story of the woman who desired to procure a separation because her husband was afflicted with cold feet found a parallel the other day, in the eagerness with which it was urged as a ground for divorce that the husband dyed his hair with offensive and bad colored compounds. One of the curiosities of the New Orleans Exposition was an air-flower rora the city of Mexico, ft was two inches long, and resembled a beetle with wings and horns. The wings were of light sea-green color, dotted with • peeks. The horns were snow white, snd at the paints were very short. The body of the flower was pnfle yellow and deep orange, and gave a slight hyacinth perfume. .Including the broad banana shaped leaves, the entire plant looked as though moulded in wax. 9