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8 -rrY.p-WV v-f'r '■ ‘ . A THE WEEKL? - CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA. GA- TUESDAY DECEMBER 2F1881 TWELVE PAGES, II PIQUANT PARAGRAPHS INTERESTING ITEMS ON CURRENT TOPICS OF THE DAY. A Qmalnt Old Town audit* HI#tory-Wlns Produc. Uo&tn 4m«no4-Jtff«r*oa DavU and Oaneral Bfcetman-Kor bam Tourist# S#e Boms Queer Thluc»—Othtr Notes. A wbitsb takes the position In ft recent scienti fic article that the primordial germs of life orlgi- Dated at the south pole. He argues that the be ginnings of Ills would depend upon chemical con ditions, and would appear wherever on the face o! the earth tho first suitable temperature would' found. These beginnings would be at the poles rather than at the equator, or the tropica for the reason that there tbs heat , molten or fluid world would be least replenished by tho heat of the inn, and the south pole would be the first area that would becool enough to admit of organized life. The opinion 1* advanced that though explorations in the vicinity of the sonth pole may result in the discovery of traces of the bcglnnlnp of life. There may be something In this, but thero great danger of our aefentfsts losing their common sense. There are thousands of objects around us that need attention before the poles. Since the republican slanderers in this section have discovered that they are In danger of getting doubled up by colored men, they are singing rather small. We call Editor Ualstead'a attention to this outrageous condition of affairs. Ths death of Fanny Ellaler, the other day, at a good old age, recalls the events of generations ago. The people of our day know nothing of Fanny His* ler, but our grandparents regarded heras the most winsome fairy that ever danced and capered be fore the footlights. One of the most sensational incidents in the Ufa of the gifted and beautlfu Fanny washer capture of Napoleon the second, ths unfortunate son of the First Napoleon. As ths story goes, Fanny was paid by tho Austrian relaUvea of the joung man to cntanglo bis affec tions in order to distract hla attention from poli tics. In the disguise of apeasantglrlshemetand fascinated the melancholy recluse. She won his heart, and for a time the poor fellow lived In a ■ fool's pared Iso. By accident discovered that bla charmer was a professional dancer, a heartless flirt who was snsrely playing a part from mercenary motives. The shook killed him. The great dancer Is dead, and there is no one to mourn her loss. She may have amused the world In her days, but she did not make It any better. Ht range that a life ao frivolous should have been so prolonged. | JRrrum.!CAKS at ths south will dlsoovor after awhllo that they can do something bettor than •end Ilea to their northern acquatutauocs. two Inatancc* that we know of tho writers of such letters have been wade very uncomfortable. One of them, Indeed, baa been thrashed by a negro. Why cannot republicans at the south write the truth to thslr friends? The anonymous letters recently published In several northern papers slandering our people are bearing good fruit. The New York Times and severe) otbtr enterprising Journals at once put their most trustworthy correspondents In tho field with orders to hunt down the alleged southern outrages, and wrlto up the situation in its tms aspect. These special com missioners proceeded to Virginia, the Carollulas, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, mid tho result of thslr labors Is now appearing In tho northern press. The correspondents foind about tho »smo state of afiklre everywhere. They found that no rebel flaga had been displayed, uo negroes maltreated, no republicans abusod. From ths Potomac to the IUo Grande unbro ken peace and loyalty prevail. The only flag to be aeon Is the stare and stripes, and whites and blacks, democrats and republicans, seem to feel a deeper Interest in business and in- II i.’fi.i! i.H't'.is tl.MH III | -• *! 11 i i —. TJ.<- iti'innr: #i t lc Jubilees have been intensely enloyod by everybody, without referenoo to party, race, color or previous condition of servitude. Just st present the people ore thinking a good deal more about Christmas than about tho fourth of March. It Is well that thla peaceful pic ture of the solid south haa been brought promi nently to tho from; and It la pleasant to think that the truth haa Indirectly been brought to light through the slanders which have recoiled upon the secret fore of a brave, honorable and loyal peo ple, _ Ths fatal epidemic uow raging In Virginia In the counties of wire, Jxc, Dickinson and Buch anan, and In Kentucky in the counties of Perry, Leslie and Bell, Is a remarkable disease and dis creet Investigation a* well aa the most active cura tive and preventive measure*. The disease begins With griping pains In tho stomach, followed by dobUUaUng diarrhea and swelling o( the throat. It generally proves fatal In threo or four days. It Is supposed that tho mala dy la ths result of theusoo! Impure water, about tho only kind of water that Is to be had In that region lu consequence of the recent protracted drouth. The settlement* a filleted are ehlofly in remote and mountainous regions, away from the lines of railway, and reached with difficulty, grill take daj* , to organise a move ment to supply theao afflicted people With physicians, medicines and nurses, and the delay will probably cause tho death pf hundred*. It was thought at first that the telographlc dis patches exaggerated the extent of the epidemic, but later accounts report a dreadful atate of af fair*. Tho plague stricken people have thesym- • pa thy of the entire country, and efforts are being made to relieve ibt m as speedily as possible. * It Is geo really believed that orators control re publics, but the men who have had the longest tenure of power in this country were not speakers ftt all. Washington, Jefferson. Jackson and Grant could scarcely make* decent epeceh of ten min- me*. On tho othsr hand some of our most bril liant orators have put forth almost superhuman effort* to obtain the presidency, and have been repeatedly hatted. Vndouhtodly great speakers wield a vast power In thi* country as party leaders, but men without the gift of oratory stem to stand the beet chance of securing eaecuth e office. Ik the Swiss republic the frightful increase of drunkenness has attracted tho attention of the govemmeat. and It ha* bven found that the evil U chiefly the result of tho extraordinary chfapurei of French brand!re and their native Imitation*. Brandy la to be had for a trifle, and even tho poorest peasant* drink it as a dally beverage. Naturally intemperance is the rule. Thousand* of once prosperous families hare been reduced to beggary, and gtneraf thrift- lesancti la spreading throughout the country. The remedy proposed la s tsx so enormously high as to amount to virtual prohibition, in future It will be Impossible- for at.y except the very rich to buy brandy. If people with plenty of money chome to ram themselves they will be permitted to doso. tut the poor, hardworking classes will be so hedged about by restrictive laws that 'hey will He compelled to confine themselves to txcr and light wlno. Thkxs will be a good deal of travel this winter. The usual number of northern and western tour ists will go to Florida. An Immense number of people from ell esettofu will visit New Orleans to are ths exposition. Tb# Inauguration of President Cleveland will draw a big crowd to Washington. It 1* expected that thousands of southerners will Visit the nai ions] capltol on that occasion, and the hotel* and boarding bouses In Washington, Baltin ore and Alexandria an al ready looking forward to their coming. Ills a difficult matter to overcrowd a city like Washing ton, hot lifts thought that 111 accommodations Will prove inadequate on the fourth of March. All this |addin* ebout, this Intermingling of the sections is a good thing. When the people get ac quainted with each other, sectional prejudice* dimppear or Wears greatly toned down. When we know each other better tkUwill W a solid tttmiry without any sections. Field Mlxxbll Hllsteld haa Issued a procla mation In which, after announcing that ths Com mercial Gazette 1* the most distinguished and In fluential Journal In thla broad land, bo declares that he propose* to establish tho republican “case." The truth la, the democrats have already prepared the republican case. It Is a burial case. JcdobTovxoeb soys he would rather go to per dition than to write another book in bod. There la no reason why the judge should wrlto another book In bed, and In fact he Is hot obliged to write one out of bed. He Is a dead Issue, It plcaacs and touches us when Editor Halstead allude* to us aa "floothrona," Editor Halstead Is, himself, a gallant and full breasted Northron. Wiikh you aee a veteran democratic editor fix ing op a cabinet for Cleveland, you may know he Is fishing to get his feelings hurt.| It must be a hard matter for a poor man to live in London. Laborers get about 13 a week, sales men, 88, bookkeepers, ¥>, skilled mechanics, 88; A seven-roomed bonss within three miles of the heart of the city cost* *200 a year. Beef and ufut- ton are 2f cents a pound. Clothing is not aa cheap as lu Philadelphia. Working people live on bread, chuese and beer, with meat once or twice a month. Even on there wretched salaries and with this miserable food they scorn to bo contented, attend church Sundays, and heartily thank God for the blessings they enjoy. In Amer ica it la poeslblo for any skilled workman or dork, Ly practicing economy, to save money enough to set him np in business at the ago of forty, but such a thing Is Impossible In England. Nothing but some extraordinary stroke ol good fortune ever takes an English workman out of the depths of poverty and makes him Independent and com fortable. The wonderful growth of our far western do main defies description. A few years ago Wash ington territory was almost an unknown waste. It bad no railroads before 1871. To-day it haa nearly GOO miles of railroads. Several prosperous cities havo been built, such aa Tacoma, Beattie, and Walla Walla. Commerce Is thriving, and the ox- port* of Puget'* sound amount to millions of dol lart every year. The wheat fields produced hut year 5,000,000 bushclf and tho cost fof production fa not over 25 cents a bushel. It costs about GO cents a bushel to transport It to Liverpool. The completion of the Columbia river lock* making It navigable to tho Pacific, and the completion of the Panama canal will cut down freight rates about one-half, and shorten the water route to England 10,000 miles. Tux New York Tribune inil the Cincinnati Com- tncidal Gazette are not true to their principles. Mrs. Oat field lia* appointed Randolph Tucker as tiuatce of her late husband's estate, and, though Mr. Tucker Is an ex-coo federate and a bourbon democrat, neither of those high-toned exponents of Blalnclsm have uttered a protest. Tnx question of national prohibition may come up for solution at a very early day. It to stated tbat one of the first bills on tho senate calendar to be taken up next week Is tho bill of Senator Blair, of New Hampshire, proposing an amendment to the federal constitution, prohibiting the raauu failure or sale of intoxicating liquors, ex cept for scientific, manufacturing and medicinal purposes. Senator Blair is a pro hibitionist of tho moat determined stripe, and will urac hla measure to a speedy hearing. It Is not probable that tho bill will pass tboacnate, but If It should, It would certainly bo defeated lu the house. The discussion of the matter, howovsr, -will bring prohibition to tho front In national politics as an Issue of uncertain power, Moderate tcmpcranco people will find encour^ sgcmsnt In tho fact that oura promises to becomo the greatest wine-producing country In tho world. Ten years from now our annual wluo product will probably amount to 100,000,000 gallons. Even thon ths Industry will bo only In Its Infancy. Califor nia is a great wlno state, but aa yet she. has culti vated very little of her graps area. Thfroare three great wine (-enters in thla country. Tho first la the I’aclflo slope; the second la tho Piedmont region, or table lands between tho Alleghanlos and tho Blue Bldgo, Including Virginia, the Csrollnas | Georgia aud parts of Kentucky and Tennessee, Indian Territory with large parts of New M cxloo, Arizona, Arkansas,Kansas,Toxat, Missouri, Ohio and New York. Wo have 100 acres adspted to grapes for every 1 acre that Franoe can show. Since I860 our wlno production haa In creased from nothing to 80,000,000 gallons annual- while the quantity of Imported wine remains stationary. It Is the belie! ol many thoughtlul people tbat when we get to be a wlue-produclng and wine-drinking nation, Intemperance will al most entirely disappear. In wlno drinking coun- tries drunkenness Is a rare vice. Whllo on this subject ‘ It may bo of Interest to quote whst Mr. r. M. Wlbon, a well known actontlst, says of our Piedmont region, or the south Atlantic states, lie says this section Is the Bordeaux dis trict of America. It possesses svery advantage that could be desired for grape culture. The lar gest vineyard this side of the Pacific slopo Is In North Carolina, and the* wlno made there and In Georgia has received tho unstinted praise of Eu ropean experts. Im memo possibilities for the south are a rapped up In this great Industry, and profit able developments may bo looked for in the near future. Xnrroa Laroi ciierk. of tho London Truth, re cently raised quite a breezo in tho houso ol com mons by offering a resolution for the abrogation of the lords* It wax all a Joke, of course, but the resolution received a respectable number of votes. The English people are beginning to ask whether thscommous has the right to abolUh tho lords. The upper home Is older than tho commons, and la the highest Judicial court of tho land. So long •a royalty exists It would seem that tho lords uiut remain. Before Cromwellian commonwealth was organized tho eomraotisabolbhtd the lords and caused Charles to be beheaded. When the monarchy was restored the public bangmsu burned the act* of the old commonwealth, Including, among others, "th act for the sbelhMng of the houso of lords.' Lator life Mirages were commuted tkat is, perron* were made pqpra without the right to transmit the dignity to their ■uccertor*. l'ml»ubtedly the people again*! the pctr.s They naturally regard w ith jealousy a body which may at any time be reinforced by the creation of now peers with a view to ovenldlny the popular will as expressed in the art* o! the common'. But tho lord* cannot very well U« trade to go without changing the government into a republic. The march of event* Is In that direction. Etc auk Hon. JcfUiwn Davit and General Shcr man haw «x« hanged certain rough words, the rortbun republican paper* pretend to believe tbit there 1* Imminent danger of a duel. Gen* « is) SLcrman insert* that be haa »rca proof golug to tbcwr that Mr. DavU wa\ a conspirator. Mr. Da- vl>, In reply, tells General shermau to produce his p«cof or bear the brand of a "base slanderer." General fherman there-upou Informs hit friends that it la "a matter between two gentlemen," aud w ill tc atuudvd to at the proper lime. It must be admitted that all this tends to make the situa tion lively, but wc do net believe that the two old gentlemen haw the slightest idea of fight- log a duel. Each Is desire of vindicating himself, of establishing bb point. Clearly this cannot be done by shoot ing ore or the other, or both. The esse to one that calls for paper* Instead of pistols. General Sherman doubtless meant to produce such docu mentary evidence a* bethinks will aubsuntiate bb charge. It 1* not at all likely that his evidence will convince those who hold Mr. Dsvb'a views as to the sovereign righto of stair*, but U may con vince persons who hold the opposite UUef. la the meantime the old gentlemen no doubt regard each other with mutual distrust. One regards the other as a "conspirator" and to la 'turn looked upon as a "base algndarer." But Brrm to the laekieet of all the defeated candidate*. A one hundred aud sixty pound pumpkin of hto own raising haa taken the pttoi at a county fair. “The campaign liar," cay* the 8t. Louis Globe- Democrat, "to still on deck." Moreover, he to now, as be always haa been, a professional republican. Ax effort to being made to establish Chinese col onies In Mexico. The success of thla project will menace the labor aystem of the United States. It the swarming millions of China obtain a foothold on this continent they will spread and complicate our race troubles. The Mexicans will make a big blunder when they open the doors to the "hea then Chinese." Georgk Alpxed Townsend says tbat there never was a street railroad in Washington until the re publicans came into power. This it a tremen dous argument in favor ol Brother Blaine, bat, | Wf spend as much in feeding, clothing and sup- really, wo don't suppose that Cleveland has aoy I porting 55,000,000 Americans as it would take to intention of tearing up the valuable republican I gupport 100,000,000 people of any other country. We Edito* Dana says the Sun elected Cleveland by ! advising democratic workingmen to vote for But ler, The Son also printed the republican electoral ticket and advised workingmen to "cut it out and I vote It." Editor Dana to a genuine American fra- I xnortot. _ The prohibitionist hare good caose to be proud ol the little town ol Newington, N. H. The town haa no liquor saloon, notody In the poor house, nodebt.no lawyer and no doctor. It li son# church, and the inhabitants spend their time In thinking and talking about the last job of white washing done in the village. Newington was fix- Isbed aud fenced In fifty years ago. street railroads of the capital. Wit eh John Hancock was governor of Massachu setts a girl named Rachel Wall was hanged in Bos ton for stealing a seventy-five cent bonnet. It Is not likely that such barbarity wonld be indorsed by public sentiment In any of the New England •tates to-day. Tux Philadelphia Press predicted that Mr. Ran dall's speech would "raise the hair off tho heads of the Georglsns." Not exactly, but the cheers of Georgians did actually^Ut the hair ol the Penn sylvania statesman, lx New York city during the put twelve months there were 74,147 arrests, but of this number 22,790 prisoners were discharged. The arrests were aa follows: Drunkenness, 20,415; vagrancy, G,275; disorderly conduct, 28,690; felonious assault and battery, 716; burglary, 791; forgery, 51; homicide, robbery, Sic. Ol those arrested more than a third were natives, lem than a fifth were Irish, and about a fourteenth were Germans. About twice u many men aa women were arrested. Georoe Hermann, of Middleboro, Mass., claims that he has perfected a perpetual motion machine* Tho machine hu no cogs or gears. The motion Is said to be perpetual, but there la no power with it. The Inventor to now experimenting to obtain power. Ip there to any truth In statistics the rich arc not growing richer, and the poor arc not growing poorer in this country. The reduction In Interest and the depreciation of stocks and bonds hu caused • great shrinkage In the Incomes of the rich within tho past thirty years, but that shriukago hu not been felt by the wage-workers. In 1830 tho average wages of a cotton mill operative were f 161 In gold. To-day such an operative gets 9290 In gold. Skill ful fcmalo weavers now earn more than male overseers and second hands were paid in 1830. Not only are wages higher than fifty years ago, but the purchasing power of a dollar Is greater. Buppoio we go as far back u 1817. that time In Now York the pricoof afinodrencoat was 810. Mechanics received 19 a week aud paid 81.62 of It for board. Before 18C0 our farmers lived in bouses without paint, aud their floors were unesrpeted. Their food was ol. tho coarsest, served in the most common of dishes. The faro provided for students In a college would now create a riot In a poor- house. Tho women In those days did the hardest hind of work ahd no time to play with poodle dogs. A lea! from tho diary of the mother o( Wil liam Cullen Bryant reads os follows: "Made Aus tin a coat," "Spun four skeins of tow," "flpun thirty kuots of linen," "Taught Cullen his let- tore," "Made a pair of breeches," "Wovo four yards aud went a-qulltlng," "Made a dress for the boy," "kewed on a shirt," "Wove four yards, and visited Mrs.—," "Washed and ironed.' thousand improvements and inventions not able peoplo to do more work with greater case than in old times, and tho wage-workers are laying up money. If they aro not making monoy how havo they managed to support themselves, and make such a vast incrcuo In tho number of farms, houses, etc., besides putting in the banks over 81,000,000,000 to lend to tho rich? The working peoplo of this country aro gottlng more In the shape of money, real estate, furniture, clothing, education and tho luxuries of life than any other people under the sun can boast of, and their condition has steadily Improved all tho time. The man who tells a different tale Is either djspcptlc or a demagogue. Sama srah trees und bushes have almost disap peared from New England. About twenty yoars ago tho demand for sassafras tea among the lowor daises In England caused a lively oxportatlou of saaaafra* roots from James river, but tho jealousy of the East India company checked tho new trado could reduce our annual expenditure for clothing $10),000,000, and still have enough. Oar waste in extravagant food and bad cookery amount! to 9400,000,000 a year. We throw away too much money* A Brjdcetort, Connecticut man has Invented a poisonous air bomb. With one of these bombs, the Inventor killed twcuty rats in an incloeure tho other day. It to claimed that the gas In the bomb to so powerful that it will kill every living thing wltbiu a radios of one hundred yards. Au effort will be made to introduce the new weapon In the military service of the Uuited States and Great Britain. The correspondent of a northern republican paper to traveling through Louisiana endeavoring to write up southern outrages. He complains tbat he hu a pretty tfiard Ume. He finds peace and plenty everywhere, but no outrages. A sbort.time •go he heard of a dcmocratl<£racetlng In a country town and attended It with two pistols buckled •round his body and one in each boot leg. He had a suspicion that he was about to witness some kn-klux devilment. To his unutterable surprise the meeting was composed black as well as white democrats, and everything was lovely. The correspondent kept his eyes and care open aud wrote to bis paper that ho had never lu bis life beard such moderate speeches, earnest, honest and Instructive as he heard that night. He had never before scon at a political meeting such well-lxhaved lot of whites and blacks. He wound up by stating that he had four pistols lor sale. That correspondent to not worth sccut in the outrage business. Ho will be rccallecd and ordered to write his southern letters In the back office. The southern people can well afford to forgive Blaine's Augusta speech. It would be strange in deed if a man can’t b« allowed a little latitude of expression in preaching hto own funeral oration. This Is an lnstanco where tho south can echo tho refrain of the plantation song: "Good-night, Mr. Kildcc! I wish you mighty well!" When the roses bloom again, no doubt tho or- gr-ns will leel better. Meanwhile the south ha* wrapped herself In tho old democratic flag of the union and gone into winter quartors. A clever contemporary has been so well pleated with "An Appeal to Cicsar" that It makes "an ap peal to Osar's Wife" concerning a matter of vitat importance. Boiled down and expressod In a few plain words, our contemporary's appeal amounts simply to the statement .that Osar's wife to a groat extent responsible for financial crashes, business depressions, and occasional experiences of "hard times." No doubt Mrs. Osar, or tho average American wife, will shake her head and protest that she is not to blame for tho blunders and bad luck of her stupid husband. But tho brutal newspaper la not alto- tether wrong. For the increasing extravagance classes of society wo men arc certainly more responsible thnu men. Even rich men do not personally care for much luxury and display. It to for their wives that they spend millions in palaces, equipages, diamonds and Tarlatan costumes. The daalre to dazzle and glitter to fed by example. It spreads from one palaco to another, to the mansion, cottage and the log cabin. In tho vain strugglo to keep up a display fortunes are lost, credit becomes shaky, business to thrown out of Joint, and tho result to hard times. If Otar’s wlfo would cultlvato simple tastes and practlco economy, she wonld be Imitated by her neigh bors, and much tbat la evil would be averted. But It to a waste of words to talk about It. up for reform and honest government. Mr. Ba con, a Congregatlonaltot minister in Netruaven, is abased and persecuted until he is compelled to resign, simply because he was anti-Blaine. la every republican community a disposition Is manifested to -ostracise and °PPW" democrats, Independents and projuol- ticnisto, . and It would take very little to provoke open lawlessness and violence. In the midst of all this bitter conflict of opinions the solid south alone looms up as the land of law and order, orthodoxy In religion and conservative in politics. The south is the land of tolerance, free speech and equality before the law. The con trast between the *ectlon* 1* strongly marked, and in future the true status of affairs will be well un derstood In spite of misrepresentstiou, falsehood and abuse on the part of our foes. The reason tbat the New York World to such a success to because its editor, Joseph Pulitzer, knows the value of good men. Ho made the . Louis Post-Dispatch with John A. CockenU, and he has made the World with the same man. Col onel Cockerill to not only one of the most pungent writers of the day, but be possesses the executive ability which to so indispensable to a man la his position. ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENTS. W. B. 8., Harmony Grove. Ga.: Please state the price of round trip tickets to.the New Orleans ex position from Atlanta. Just 914.75. J.T.R., Jonesboro, Ga: How can ants be kept out of closets? Bprlnkle cayenne pepper freely In the closets. Header, Atlanta, Ga: What will be the height of the Washington monument? It will be 555 feet. Reader, Anniston, Ala: Please give the origin _f the party names, tory, whig, know-nothing, Locofoco democrat, democrat and republican? The word "whig" ha* several derivations. All agree that it has a Scotch origin. Tho best au thorities derive It from "whlggamore," a term by which certain Scotch freebooters and vagabonds were known. Disraeli, however, derives it irom whigg," the name of a Scotch beverage of sour milk, and so, he says, expressive of the disposition of the whlgs. The name "tory" is of Irtoh origin and was the name by which certain Irish robbers were known. Both words, whig and tory, wero first used in England in a political sense about the year 16S0 A. D. The know-nothing party was a secret, oath-bound organization, and took itsnamo from the fact that its members, in answer to in quiries about the parly usually responded, "I know nothing." The phrase "ioeofoco democrat" was applied to extremists of the democratic party. At a meeting in Tammany ball,in 1831,dlsscnslons arose. To break up the meeting, one of tho quar reling factions put out the lights. The other fic tion lighted matches, and finally had the hall re lighted. Matches were then called locofocos. The word* "democratic" aqd "republican" aro both dignified and significant party names. Their meaning to too well known to require comment. It. A., BarnesvIUc, Ga.: Are Catholics allowed to hold office In New Hampshire? Yes. They were ineligible under the constitu tion of that state until a few years ago, when the provision disqualifying them was repealed* Reader, Dos Moines, Iowa: I send yon a copy of the Iowa fctato Register, containing a cut repre senting the rebel flag flying from tho Goorgla c-ip- Itol. Did such a thing occur, os alleged, on elec tion day? No; nor at any other time since the war. Tht lying telegram in the Iowa Register never had tho slightest foundation. Ir a public man In Washington to notjktlled by offlco seekers, ho cannot hope to escape death in by prohibitory duties. Sassafras tea Is a pleasant *b*po ol convivial dinners. The dietetic end wbolceomc boveruc. and tho nl.nt .hould | *»biU of our great men arc worth .todping Hun. and wholesome beverage, and tho plant should not be allowed to die out In this country. Georgetown, D. C., Is a quaint old town aud Its history Is of moro than ordinary interest. Perhaps the strangest Incident In Its annals wasthetorri- Uo acouTgeof black ants in 1839. ltls unknown where the ants came from, but It to suspected that they wero Imported from Arabia In a cargo of Mocha coffee. Tbo ants proved themselves a for midable enemy, laying waste every green thing In their progressive march. Everything that could be. thought tried to stop their destractivo ravages, but nothing succeeded. They camo in overwhelming numbers, constantly augmented by reinforcements. Business was brought to a stand still. Property was damaged to tho extent of thousands of dollars, lore every nook and cranny public and private buildings theao pests forced their way. Sugar barrels they stormed and literally wiped from tho face i earth. Th*o tank was compellod elote doors half the time, tho services of tae clerks being required the other half to fight the Invaders. Citizens gavo UP their houses and tho ants took possession In a solid black body. Noth ing was treated with respect. Even the American flag was chewed up and swallowed. The town council at last took tho matter lu hand and offered a reward of ouo dollar per pint for dead ants. Suddenly aud without warning the mysterious visitor* disappeared aud were never soen again. Northern tourists sec some queer things In the south. A Boston man exprcmci hto astonishment at finding the stores in North Carolina selling northern tpples when tho finest lu the country are to be had In Buucomlo county. Other things struck him as being equally singular. Baltimore cabbages and oleomargarine were selling In a sec tion amply capable of raising fta own cabbage* and producing good dairy butter, lu western North Carolina and in north Georgia the railroads run over beautiful marble beds, aud yet those states Import thetr tombstones from Vermont. At numerous southern stations walnut trees are awaiting transportation north btcauae the south to not prepared to manufacture them luto furniture. In the heart of the great timber sections ol the south homes are fitted with doors. Rash and blinds from Boston. Ibis wideawake traveler was also impressed with the want of banking facilities In southern towns, lie found money lenders and banks getting two percent a month on short time loans and twelve per cent a jesr on toag time payment*. When money can be had la New York at throe pec cent a year there to uo rvasou why it coaid not be obtained In the south for six. Hundreds of northern capitalist* having from 830,090 to a 8100,WO to Invest could turnover their mon ey to better advantage In the south than anywhere else on the globe. Most people hare too ranch seme to blow oat the gas. Built b a fact, that every year many deaths are reported not only Irom this habit, bat from sleeping In rooms where the ga« fixtures are defective. In every case, the victims die a terrible death. A parson is deprired of the powor of ac tion while still retaining perfect consciousness. Nos even an outcry is possible. Death approaches gradually, leaving ths brain free to picture the past and present In vivid colon flashing Ilka lightning over the memory. Until the very last heart beat the victim of asphyxia trom gas know* that death haa him in Its grip. The stage* are confusion of Ideas, delirium, mnscttlar spasms, convulsion*, paralysis unconscious and failure of tho lean's action. ry Clay ato largely, hto favorite food being broiled oyitcre.and baked pumpkins, with but tered watermelon for desert. Calhoun had a weakness for opossum and baked sweet potatoes, oven bread, chicken and ooflec. Benton alway took a large drink ol whisky before hto meals, and was very fond of fried ba con and molasses. Harriaon^llkod cabbage,pickled pork, roost pork, peas, ;cucumbcre, sweet potatoes and corn meal fritters. Over eating killed him, Jefferson Davto, whllo living in Washington, ato vciy little. Half a cup of tea and a slice of tout for breakfast, ft little aoup .and a tew mouthfuls ol moat and a g:a*« of fiwlne at dinner, havo bccu hla averago for nearly fifty years. Andrew Johnson had a fine ‘appetite, And drank a great deal of wator and milk. Ho did not drink as much liquor aa to generally sup' posed. General Grant likes a fine dinner and does full justice to it. Whllo president he drank no liquor except brandy. Ho flow abstains from strong drink entirely. Conkling's great- weakness to soft boiled eggs. Congressman Bclford, of Colorado, wm the most enoimous cater In tho lost home. He ate four regular meals and three luncheons a day, and was always hnngry. . The educated girl to a familiar figure lu modern society, but it cannot be denied that the young man of tho period fights rather shy of her. It to slated that out of the 596 graduates of Yarear col lege only 188 havo married. Most of them grad uated yean ago and some of them are now old maids of the most pronounced type. Does Intel lectual training mako girls fastidious, finical, difficult to please? This to a serious question. matter standi at present the majority of our>xluc*ted people are women. The girls hate « better chance than the hoys to study, and wives have a better chance than their husbands. Th* educated girl must not be too par ticular. Bbc will find that many a man will make ft good husband and succeed in the world without much culture. A man may know uo langtiago extept hto own, aud may mako occasional mtotakes In grammar aud spelling, aud yet be may be big hearted, big brained, and hto energy may be such aa to win the greatest prizes ol life. On tho other band, it to well to remember that men of literary talent seldom make good husbands. Hhakipeare lived at the theater and tho club, and when he died left bto wlte ouly his second best bedstead. Milton, Byron, Dickens Bulworaud Carlyle led their wire* a dog's life. The educated girl, when she chooses a life partner, should select a man and not an encyclopedia. Once it was a common thing' for the northern press to complain of the Intolerance of the south ern people. Because w e objected to the lawless teachings of certain carpet-baggers and mischief- makers, It was charged tbat we were opposed to free thought, tree speech and a tree press. Times change and meu change with them. If Intoler ance ever existed in thb south It has entirely dis appeared. For nearly a score of yean the insolent and corrupt minions of the republican party have swaggered through the length and breadth of the land, and ihetr f nAklng associates hare lied about ns to their bran's content without being molested, punished or checked. So mueh for southern tolerance. Hew to !t In the north? mere reference to the recent events wlU tell the story. Because Su John bad the courage of hto convictions, * be to homed in cffgy. threatened with lynching and denounced la tho vilest language. Mr. Beecher to boycotted on .hto lectftrfng toon btosnse he stood dead? He to a negro and one of tho liveliest living members olhlf race. 8. B.. Anniston, Alabama; Please give mo a low facts about manufactured and farm product!, and the number ot persons engaged in manufactures and agriculture. Tho census of 1880 gives tho value of manufac tured products In tho United 8tates for tho pre vious year at 85,pG9,r>79,19l, in which wore employ ed 2,019,035 k mcn, 631.G39 women, and 181,921 chil dren. The value of farm products to given at82,- 218,402,564. Tho number of persons In tho United Btatcs engaged In agriculture la given at 7.670,49a, of which 7,075,983, were males, and 591,510 were females. Wo wish to call attention onco more to the fact tbat the comma has been widely distribu ted through tho conntry aud can bo had by every man who has the least Interest in its statements, and hereafter we must respectfully decline to hunt np and copy a portion of the returns overy time some reader has occasion to refer to them. Subscriber, Griffin, Ga: What was the origin of the phrase "as high as Gildcroy’a kite?" GUdcroy was a native or the highlands of Perth, and was* noted highwayman. Ills real name was Macgrcgor, and tho quotation to from a song concerning him very popular in the tiino of Charles II. Many of his reported exploits sound In this day very much like a myth. In tho second volume of Captain Alexander Smith's "Lives of Highwaymen," and also In 8. Crowder’s "illitory and Lives," Ac., to this account: Three of Glide- roy’acomj«n!ons wero hting In chains In Glasgow. The Judgo who tiled them was accused of gross partiality to Insure their conviction. GUdcroy met him in a coach with two footmen on the road to Aberdeen and single-handed stopped the coach, tied the coachman and footman together and threw them Into an adjacent pond, killed tho four horses, and then robbed the judgo and hang him to the turnstile. We should call this a very "big)" proceeding, but exactly how high hto kite was taken wo are not Informed. "Rum, Bomanism and Rebellion" speech merely a campaign trick? Burtbard was a devoted and enthusiastic sup porter of Blaine's. The simple old fellow to no more responsible for the harm he did than was Mrs. O'Leary’s cow for the burning of Chicago when she accidentally kicked over the lamp that set fire to the city. Uls "Rum, Romanism and Re bellion" alliteration has not even the merit of be ing crigtnaL He stole it from an article by Eugene Lawrence, published in Harper’s Weekly in 1873. A. H. 8., Schola. Ga.: Which to the most dan gerous, travel by liurd or sea? Of 1,000 people who travel by rail and 1.000 peo ple who travel by water, a larrer proportion of the former, twenty-three per cent, ace killed or la jured, than ol the latter. novel of tbat name. Did be have a son? Yes. She was beautiful but Illiterate, not being able to write her name. She married Thomas Quincy. He had a son named Hamnct, who was remarkable for nothing. W. B. P.. Atlanta, Ga.: Is our president-elect Standard silver dollars were quoted as worth 84 cents as bullion and trade dollars *s worth 85J£ cents as bullion. Thi bread now baked at Naplct is of pre cisely the same ahape aa the loaves found at Pom- pell that were put In the oven 2,000 years ago. The crematory to bo built on Mount Olivet- East New York, will bo ready in February, tad six bodies are already.under contract for Indnera- lon. About a million and ft half of house cats are annually slain In this country to meet the do- mands of the fur trade. Tho city of Boston fur nishes a very large quota. Still, Boston k8eps up well her reputation of being ft grut musical cen tre, and the warbling* oivher back yard fences ap parently lose none ol their charm. r Thebe can be little question that the; con tinued close covering of the head with hats and caps is one very constant cause ol boldness. Wom en seldom, lose their hair except.from-sudden causes, and amoug those nations where the head to habitually left bare, or but slightly covered Uldnm i, practlcalW unknown? tfho {££} which is of the same class of hair as that ol the scalp, does not fall with age. A reform la our style of bead gear to veiy desirable, but it to not at all likely to be accomplished. Dubixq tho 300 years between A.D. 14 and 818 the Roman empire had fifty-seven rulers. Of these twenty-three were assassinated, one was poisoned by his wife, three were klljed bytholr own soldiers, five killed themselves, one was strangled by bis mistress, one was captured by the enemy and flayed alive, several were allied lu bat tle, one was formally executed. Altogether the rulers of the empire would not have made a prom- toing field for the operation of a life lnsuranco company. Philadelphia divorce lawyers are having plenty of employment, and the marriogo n'otioe business of the newspapers to booming. A certain man goes about the streets, boasting of being the hero of seven divorces, and exhibits still a pretty good head of hair. ... j ; Milbebt trees threo and"four yean old will yield to the acre 50,COO pounds of leaves, enough to feed l.CCO.OOO silkworms. Each female produces an averago of 800 eggs. The lowest calculation one in ten. give* 100.000 females yielding 20.000.00 eggs, weighing 40,000 eggs to the ounce, 600ounces F+gs sell at liom 81.50 to 8*2 an ounce. The lowest possible yield of eygs per aero to between ftxw and 81,000. Ji, however, the cocooi s are reeled off, tao profits after deducting all accident* and expenses are safely calculated at 82.UX). These figures apply to Calllornla aud to tho southern states. The Philadelphia council has before it a measure to check the sale of pernicious literature The bill provide! that persons shall not sell the articles mentioned on any public street without a permit from the mayor. Tncy are forblddea to dtopofce of or exhibit auy obscene book, msgszlne report count* of criminal deeds, or pictures and sense* tional stories of deeds of bloodshed, lust or crime. The Hues ccllcc'cd are to go to tho society to pro tect children from cruelty. | One does not need to be old to remember the school atlas In which to the westward of the twenty-four states was mapped a big blank ex panse across which was printed the legand, "Groat American Ltrort—unexplored regions." The Uni- mds 1,800.010.000bitsheto, and to the largest ever known, tells ns tbat the best yields this yosr. as in were found In what nos been des^nated "the n. o. r.. Atiauw, us.; >• wur cat.f< d £ft tin Grover Cleveland, or simply Grover Cleveland? He wa* orlgnally named Stephen, but h&s never been called anything but Grover Cleveland, and that to generally recognized as hi* name. IN RtTURN FOR IHECOMPLIMENT. 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Ho fully realized tho >110*1100, and eontf mplstcd voluntarily going to the airlam for self .protection; but ho resolutely concluded to put the Instrument, a delicate kulto, with wnich he wa> to open tho femoral artery, lu full daily view, sod oy strength ot mental and Christian otec of character bo fought the enemy out outfits Inc until tlio glittering blade had rusted and he had conquered. With the exception of General Ilarrison, who was In offlco ouly a month, all our presidents havo bad blue eyes. Mr. William H. Vanderrilt duringthe last year haa spent over ten thousandJdoUgn relieving old 8tateb Island friends of bto whoso homes were about to be sold ou foreclosure of thc-Ir mortgages. "You sit down here," ssys Miis Kate Field to the good peoplo of the bay state, "and fancy tbat Boston to tho hub of the universe, and that the west can teach you nothing It has taught me more than half a dozen tripe to Europe." 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