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VOL. IV.-NO. 48.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The brain of the assassin was found to
be in a healthy condition.
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Gviteau’s skeleton will adorn the
Army Medical Museum at Washington.
The Pope is of opinion that the po
sition of the church in Italy is worse
than ever.
Governor Blackburn, of Kentucky,
has become a member of Christ’s Church,
Louisville.
There are now 46,000 postoffices in
the United States, an increase of 1,700
during the past year.
There having been a good deal of dis
pute as to the boundary line between
Montana and Wyoming, it is to be re
surveyed this fall.
Six weeks ago the town of Garfield
sprung into existence in the oil regions
of Pennsylvania. To-day it has a popu
lation of 3,000 people.
Con. Chas. 11. Crane has been nom
inated to be Surgeon General of the
Army, _ in place of Surgeon General
Barnes, retired on account f age.
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PotiTiCAii platforms are constructed
similarly to a gallows. The candidates
are placed upon ii and a number of tin
pianks drawn from beneath tlieir feet.
A fine of SIOO,OOO on railroad com
panies for every death due to preventible
accidents is a New York suggestion
which meets with general and public
approval.
Chicago has just opened an institu
tion for the reformation of inebriate and.
opium eating women, called the Martha
Washington Department of the Wash
ingtonian Home.
If we are to go to war to assert the
rights of Irishmen to resist English Jaw,
would it not be cheaper to buy Ireland of
the British Government and deciare its
independence?
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As to “ what is rarer than a day in
June?” the Boston Advertiser replies,
“tailing their number into considera
tion, a day in February.” And so it is
in other respects, for some of them are
positively raw.
In 1878 one man to every seventy-two
engaged in trade failed. Thus far in
1882 only one man to every one hundred
and twenty-eight has failed ; this, in the
face of the drouth of last year, and the
hard times now complained of.
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It is found that the mind of Under
Se< r tnry Burke’s sister, who lived with
him, hi s given way. She has not shed
a. tear, and sits at the window, exclaim
ing at every footfall, “He is coming.”
It is impossible to divert her thoughts
from him.
Says the Toronto Globe: “The
Northwest is strongly opposed to mo
nopGies. The practical experience that
the people of Manitoba have already had
of the workings of the Pacific Syndicate
monopoly lias converted Tories to op- |
yo.ients of the Government by the!
tiioii.saud.” " ?
* > wing humiliated her elf by twining I
Is r arms around her husband’s neck,
Mia. should have held on
until the old g nitleman surrendered un
‘ onditional.y. It ii hard to understand
now the old fellow could resist the ap
peal of so beautiful a woman under such
divine ” pressure.
A Kentuckian was sentenced in the
com t at I rankfort to one year in the
pmntentiary for stealing eighteen head
1 ’ Ihen a negro, who had stolen
v ' U ’ lT lof Co PPer, received a three
8 » ente »ce, and he told the Judge
sorr?? no , tJlin B to sa y except he was
. m laun’t stole a drove of oxen.
tem^ CEXI oriniinai trials prompt a co
i. » great
that .Up." ° lr itiriannid tuoa
era serious charge is made, ana
P ri >na jacie case at least established in
m b ra nd jury room, the indictment
. on 1 >e so drawn as not to cover the
ac s and the prisoner has to be ac
quitted.
c ’ ear i n ß of the forest lands has
forr/V Bome tLing to do with the late
th« a< aU( I it is just possible that
stri i wires and long parallel
r , V s , ° sfce el and iron rails on the rail
.l.lra< <8 ma,y avo Bome hand in in
hjL.. 1C storms, which
BL* wi iout doubt, electrical in their
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®he fildton 71 vgim.
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Just now, when everything else is so
high and the complaining so general, it
is a consolation to know that there will
be no lack of fruit, which has so much
to recommend it on its own account.
More use of it and less use of meat at
this season has always been urged by
medical authority, and compliance with
the advice seems now likely to bo invol
untary.
The revenue of the United States from
its mails is now greater than that of
Great Eiitain, and is almost equal to the
British receipts from mail and telegraph
combined. The Administration is to be
congratulated upon its great achieve
ment of keeping expenditures within its
revenue, and yet succeeding, in giving
the people better mail facilities than
they every had before.
A reporter on the New York HbrW
interviewed several of the one thousand
Mormon emigrants who recently arrived
in that city from Europe, en route to
Utah. One of them gave the following
reason why he took the Mormon view of
the lawfulness of polygamy:
The Scriptures is in favor of this thing
of havin' more wives as one. Revelations
tells of how in the last days seven women
shall take hold of one man. Abraham had
a lot of wives and so did David. Now
David might a’ went wrong, but the Scrip
tures say as how as a man’s faults is for
give. That’s the reason we think we have
got the law of God on our side.
'’’ till Bey has stirred up the fanati
cism of his co-religionists in Egypt to
such a degree that if he were to yield
in the present crisis he would have as
much to fear from their resentment as
he now has from the Western powers.
His followers arc earnestly awaiting the
manifestation of El Mehdi, the Messiah,
on the 12th of November, and the Sultan
doubtless has an understanding with
Germany. The widespread preparations
in England are sufficient to prove that
the opening of hostilities is not regarded
as any child's play or more demonstra
tion against an offensive Egyptian
Cabinet.
Ex-Senator Christianos' had a lu
dicrous interview with Mrs. Christian
cy the other day. Passing her house,
he heard a tap on the window, and
looking, saw the author of his domestic
troubles waving a letter at him. He
concluded to get the letter, and with
that purpose in view, started for the
door; lint the door opened before he
reached it, and before he was able to en
ter, a pair of white arms was clasped
around his neck. What did he do ?
Well, he was stern—loosened her hold
and pushed her aside, and in r< to
her “Please take me back,” he told her
“No; not to-day, nor at any other time,”
and withdrew.
Alexandria, the port of Egypt now
threatened with bombardment by the
English and French fleets, is a. city of
250,000 inhabitants. It lies flat, is well
built in the European quarter, while
the Turkish section is squalid and dirty.
Its at: dent walls are broken, but it lias
two strong forties tea. It lias two ports,
an caster a and western, the latter some
| times ca l d the Old Port, being the
I larger and better of the two. It is about
• a mile and a half wide, and has three
entrances. The foreign war vessels in
I the neighborhood numbered thirty-two
a .week or two ago, and their aggregate
haSgincreased. The period is a critical
one. England has determined on ac
tion, and Franco seems to have thrown
off her fears of Bismarck, aid will join
in. the bombardment of the plac *, unless
Arabi Bey backs down, of which there
is no probability.
A Considerate Husband.
Not long since one of the Schaumburg
girls married a man who was celebrated ,
for h's poverty and other bad habits.
Yesterday, Gilhooly met Mose Schaum
burg on’ Austin avenue, and asked
h'm how his married daughter was com
ing on.
■ She vash doing fine. Her husnand
*5.-11 so kind. lie sehoosts piiys her
every dings she vants. He vash so goot
mit 'her. He shoosts puys her ebery
tings.”
‘•1 am glad that ho is so consid
erate.” •
“Yell, I vasn’t glad dot he vash so
kind mit my darter.”
•■Vt hy not?”
“Because all de pills vash sent to
me to be, paid. I vi-h he vould po ,
a lit lc more rough mit her. He vash |
too kind mit ray money.”— Texas
Si'ti ■ -s.
An old lady who was in the habit of
b c'arilig, after tbo occurrence of any
event that she predicted it, was one day
■ dev. rlv “sold” by her worthy spouse.
,iho like many others we wot of, had
’tired of hearing her eternal “>
ml Ivon so.” Rushing into the house
>r ..•bless with excitement, he dropped i
i;.!.. i chair, elevated his hands and ex- |
I i cd: “Oh, my dear, what do you I
I hiiik ? The old cow has gone and eaten
j grindstone ! ” The old lady was
.', >, and hardly waiting to hear the
’ i rd. rhe sen timed out at the top
',i tMu s : “It'Ll you so! Yon
i ■>. . ncidd M it stand out of
' auors I ”
DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1882.
Shakspeare and the Bible.
There is away that seemeth right to
man, but the end thereof are the ways
of death.— Prov. xvi., 25.
There ie no vice so simple but assumes
Some mask of virtue in its outer parts.
—Merchant of I'enioe, Hi., 2,
How can ye, being evil, speak good
things. (Seeming virtues proceeding
from an evil source are not genuine).—
Mat.xii., 81.
Where an unclean mind carries virtu
ous qualities, their commendations go
with pity—they are virtues and traitors,
too.— All's Well That Ends Well, i., 1.
Another law in my members warring
against the law of my mind.— Horn,
vii., 23.
The fiend is at mine elbow and tempts
me, saying: “Use your legs; take the
start; run away.” My conscience says :
“♦No; do not run; scorn running with
thy heels." “Budge,” says the fiend.
“ Budge not,” says my conscience.—
Merchant of Venice, ii. , 2.
He that increaseth knowledge, in
creaseth sorrow.— Ecclesiastes i., 18.
I hail rather have a fool to make me
merry, than experience to make me sad.
—Ms You Like It, iv., 1.
I, yet not I. — Gal. ii., 22.
I have a kind of self resides with you,
But an unkind self, that itself wLU leave
To be another's fool.
—Trail, and Crene., HL, 2.
But whosoever shall keep the whole
law and yet offend in one point, he is
guilty of all.— James ii., 10.
That these mon
Carrying the stamp, I say, of one defect,
Shall, in the general censure, take corruption
From that particular fault. The dram of iil
Doth all the noble substance often doubt.
- Haw let i., 4.
Whosoever hateth his brother is a
murderer.— John Hi., 5.
Hates any man the tiling lie would not
kill ?- — Merchant of Venice, iv.
India Proofs.
There are various ways in which de
ceptions are practised. For instance,
“unlettered India proof,” as it is
technically called, is, from being taken
off the engraving at an earlier stage,
very much superior to what is called a
“lettered India print,” which is obtained
after many impressions have been taken
off tlie engraving, and when the plate
has, consequently, become worn, and
tlie picture lost its clearness and sharp
ness of line. To turn an “India print,”
therefore, into an “India proof,” the
India print is cut down all round close
to the engraving. A clean sheet of
India paper, of the same tone as the
India print, but of a larger size, so as to
show a clean, blank margin, is then
mounted on a piece of still larger plain
paper, and the cut down India print in
turn is mounted in such a position as to
show the usual margin all round. Before
drying, the manipulated print is sub
jected to immense pressure, which so
forces the mounted print into the India
paper as to entirely hide the difference
in the thickness of tlie material. A true
impression taken off a plate leaves tlie
mark of the plate all round the picture;
and to add this to the ‘ ‘ doctored ” India
proof, a plain steel or copper plate of
the proper size is laid on the face of the
print, which is again subjected to pres
sure, and the deception is then so com
plete as almost to baffle detection. A
volume belonging to a collector was sup
posed to contain India paper impressions
of engravings to the value of £3OO, but
on examination they were found to be
“doctored” plates, not worth £3O in
all.— Chambers' Journal.
Chinese as Printers.
A Chinaman offers his services to the
publisher of a monthly paper in this
city, to set up all the forms o|' bis paper,
send him proofs of each article, and
make the corrections marked in the
proofs when returned, and convey the
forms to and from tlie press-room for
seventy-five cents a column. There are
forty-eight columns in the paper, eacli
column twenty and one-half inches long
by two and one-quarter inches wide.
The offer was declined, whereupon the
Chinaman said ho was doing the same
work for two other periodical in the city.
They learned the business in Hong Kong
and Canton, where papers are published
in the English tongue, and where China
men are drilled into the work on account
of th# scarcity of white labor.— San
Francisco bulletin.
Pearl Fishing on an American Coast.
Pearl Fishing on the coast of Lower
California is an important industry, no
lens than 1,000 divers being employed in
bringing up the costly black pearl, which
is found in a great state of perfection in
the deep waters of Paz. The pearl
ureters are found from one to six miles
off shore in water from one to twenty
one fathoms deep. Merchants provide
hats, diving appartus, etc., for the pros
ecution of the business, on condition
that they can purchase all the pearls
found, at prices to be agreed upon, i
These boats, which are usually of about
five tons burden, sail up and down the I :
coast from May to November searching ]
■ for treasures. The product of a year’s ]
i work is about $500,000, estimating the ; 1
pearls at their first value.— Alta Cali- \ '
(oinian.
Spiders as Big »s Birds.
A short distance from Buena Vista,
Cal., is a cave inhabited by spiders of ! (
enormous size. Tlie cave was discovered <
in December by a party of sight-seekers, j
The spiders are about the size of small : i
birds, and make a strange sound while <
' weaving their web. The webs are so i
j tough and the fibers so large that it is ■,
almost impossible to break them.— i
Woodland Mail.
“A fellow must sow his wild oats,
you know,” exclaimed the old adolescent 1
John. “ Yes,” replied Annie, “but one I '
shouldn’t begin sowing so soon after j
cradling. ”
Andersonville as It Is.
A correspondent of the Buffalo Courier
describing the present condition of the
Andersonville prison pen, says : Passing
along the memorable causeway, on either
side of which the scrub oaks grow thick
ly, I soon come upon the red banks of
the old earthworks that guarded the
main entrance, and to the line of de
cayed and fallen timbers of the outer
stockade. Inside of this, and to the
right, are the ruins of the old bakery,
now simply a mound of earth and broken
brick from its chimney. Climbing the
rail fence that occupies the place of the
former inner line of stockade, resting
upon its piles of fallen decayed timbers,
I cross the “dead line” and stand within
the space where eighteen years ago,
more than 20,000 miserable, ragged,
diseased and starved human beings were
huddled, burrowing in the ground, lying
under tents of ragged blankets, striving
to shelter themselves from the fierce
rays of the sun.
The timbers have in great part rotted
off next the ground and fallen, lying
like two great windrows, marking the
confines of the ground. But wherever
there was a timber of heart pine it is
still standing, its pitchy fibres as sound
as ever ; and there are enough of these
to enable one to readily trace the course
of the stockade nearly around the entire
place. The traces of the old, sad days
are distinctly visible on every hand. The
mounds and cavities of tlie thousand
dens and burrows are everywhere. It
would be exceedingly perilous to attempt
to cross this space in the night ; and
one must have bis eyes open in the day
time, as he is constantly coming upon
the yawning mouths of the old wells and
entrances of tunnels from fifteen to
thirty feet deep.
The wells toward the northern part of
the ground are the deepest, several of
them being thirty feet deep, the stiff red*
clay precluding any danger of their
caving in ; and in fact now, after the
lapse of years, there are but few of them
that are not as perfect and their walls
as hard and smooth as the- day when
they were completed. The very niches
that were made in the walls to ascend
and descend the walls by are still plainly
visible. Some of them are partially
filled with brush and sticks that have
been thrown into them, but most of
them are entirely empty anil open. The
stream which runs in at the west side
and out at the east had, at the time of
my visit, a flow of fifty gallons per
minute. It does not have a rapid cur
rent, but it is so broad that I could not
iumv across it. and is about a foot deep.
Bees, Mice, Cals, and Flowers.
Many of our orchidaceous plants abso
lutely require the visits of moths to
remove their pollen-masses and thus to
fertilize them. I have also reason to
believe that humble-bees are indispensa
ble to the fertilization of heartsease,
(Viola tri-color), for other bees do not
visit this flower. From experiments
which I have lately tried, I have found
that the visits of bees are necessary for
the fertilization of some kinds of clover;
but humble-bees alone visit the red
clover, (Trifolium prateuse), as other
bees cannot reach the uectar. Hence I
have very little doubt that if the whole
genus of humble-bees became extinct or
very rare in England the heartsease and
the red clover would become very rare,
or wholly disappear. The number of
humble-bees in any district depends in
a great degree on the number of field
mice, which destroy their combs and
nests; and Mr. H. Newman, who has
long attended to the habits of humble
bees, believes that more than two-thirds
of them are thus destroyed all over
England. Now the number of mice is
largely dependent, as every one knows,
op the number of cats, and Mr. New
man says : “Near villages and small
towns I have found the nests of humble
bees more numerous than elsewhere,
which I attribute to the number of cats
that destroy the mice.” Hence it is
quite credible that the presence of a
feline animal in large numbers in a dis
trict might determine, through the in
tervention first of mice and then of bees,
the frequency of certain flowers in that
district. — Darw in.
Appearances of Arsenic Eaters.
“Whenever you clap your eyes on a
woman as plump as a partridge, with a
milky whiteness of complexion, puffy
eyelids and swollen skin, you’ve found a
victim of the habit,” said a physician to
a reporter, in alluding to the growing
use of arsenic among ladies. “If there
is a delicate tinge of red on the cheeks,
don’t be deceived. Paint, not Nature, is
responsible for tlie bloom, made hideous
and ghastly by contrast with the corpsey
whiteness of the rest of the face. Tlie
arsenic eater is seldom downcast or de
spondent, come what may, for the drug
not only affects the skin, but produces
mental exhilaration. Tlie plumpness
produced by arsenic is not na ural
plumpness, but rather a dropsical condi
tion of the skin. Cessation of the habit
causes this water-distended skin to col
lapse, and wrinkles and sallowness are
the inevitable results. Os course, no
woman is willing to submit to this ordeal
when it may be prevented, at the mere
sacrifice of health and intellect, by a
continuation of the use of the drug. The
inevitable results of the arsenic habit
are hideous and incurable cutaneous
eruptions, loathsome diseases of the
scalp, falling out of the hair, dropsy,
and oftentimes insanity. But what care
the footlight favorites or the society
belle for those trifling after-inconven
iences so long as they can borrow i.lu- !
sive charms and fictitious beauty by the I
use of the deadly drug?
—Pride that dines on vanity ..ups ;
Ountenipt.
Mid-Day Revelations of the New Comet. |
The observations made on Wells’
; comet at the Dudley Observatory during
; its meridian passage are exceedingly
valuable. The character of the nucleus
of great comets has long been a matter
1 of controversy. Last summer Prof.
Draper concluded, from observations on
' the great comet of 1881, that the nucleus
was either a solid or a liquid. Long ago
Prof. Pierce, of Harvard, concluded
from his observations that the nucleus
of a comet is a solid body of metallic
density. The observations made at Al
■ bany tend to support the theory of Prof.
Pierce.
Wells’ comet at noonday on the 11th
showed a well-defined disc like a planet
or asteroid. The best theory of the con
stitution of the tails of comets is that
they are of elective origin, being the re
sults of excitation as the nucleus ap
proaches the sun. The nucleus is un
doubtedly opaque, being in reality an
unfortunate world compelled by an ac
cident of birth to wander in the celes
tial spaces in a manner that forbids the
development of animal life on its sur
face. The near approach of many com-
• ets, among them Wells’, to the sun,
undoubtedly causes rapid disintegra
tion. One has been known to split in
pieces. Prof. Stone, of Cincinnati,
1 thought he saw the nucleus of the great
comet of last sumfner divide, and then
come together again.
Prof. Boss finds from his mid-day ob
; servations with the transit instrument
that the orbit is very nearly a parabola,
and there is little prospect that the com
et will ever return to the sun. A dis
patch to Prof. Boss from Lord Craw
ford, at DunEcht, Scotland, helps some
’ what to explain the failure of the comet
to fulfill expectations as to brightness.
Spectroscopic examinations by Dr.
Lohse revealed a sharp bright line, co-
* incident with the sodium in the solar
spectrum, also strong indications of oth
er bright lines. This, with the actual
observation of a disc sixteen hours after
perihelion passage, when the vapors
were hot and transparent, indicates a
solid body. As soon as the comet be
gan to leave tlie sun the vapors began
to condense so the disc was not again
visible. Prof. Boss thinks ths presence
of sodium accounts for the failure to
throw off a tail of great length. Other
comets have shown the spectrum of
hydro-carbon, but this one is of a differ
ent composition.— Rochester (N. Y.)
Democrat.
Anecdotes of Shipwrecked Men.
Lord did not find the Gallipagos
islands so much to his mind as did an
Irishman, who let his ship depart with
out him, and set up his rest on one of
these volcanic islets, dwelling there for
seven years in a hovel of his own build
ing, living upon tortoises, seals and fish,
washed down with rum obtained from
ships in exchange for the potatoes and
pumpkins he busied himself in raising.
In 1818, an American sailor was taken
off a desolate rock in the South seas by
a boat’s crew belonging to H. M. S.
Queen Charlotte, whose attention had
been drawn to the spot by the smoke of
a seaweed lire. He had three years be
fore been left there with three com
panions, all of whom had quickly suc
cumbed, while he had lived on, sustain
ing life by feeding on the flesh of birds and
drinking their blood.
The find of the Queen Charlotte’s men
was not so surprising as that of the
Flemish seaman, Pickman, when, in
1816, his ship grounded near a small
island rock between Scotland and Ire
land. Some of his men, going in search
of eggs, came upon a black hairy creat
ure, who by signs entreated them to
come to close acquaintance, and, finding
the strange object to be really a man,
they took him on board with them to
tell the skipper his story. It was a
melancholy one. He and two others,
occupants of the passage boat between
England and Ireland, had been captured
and afterward cast off by a French pri
vateer. Having nothing eatable save a
little sugar with them, one of the three
soon died of starvation, the others lived
to be driven on the island, where they
built a hut out of what was left of the
boat, and for six weeks lived on sea
mews, sea-dogs, eggs, and water. Then
the partners in misfortune parted com
pany, one of them disappearing, leaving
his forlorn friend in utter ignorance of
his fate ; he could only surmise that he
had fallen into the sea while searching
for eggs. Months passed, and the poor
fellow lost all hope of deliverance. Win
ter came, and found him clwthesless.
Compelled to keep within the hut for
days together, he only kept starvation
at bay by catching sea-mews, as hungry
as himself, by baited sticks thrust
through the openings of the hovel’s
wiills. So he kept himself alive until
the accidental advent of the London
bound Flemish timber ship released him
from his dreary durance.— Chambers’
Journal.
Etiquette in Writing.
With regard to writing letters, none
but school girls cross and recross a sheet
of writing paper, two sheets of paper
are invariably used, if one sheet of pa
per will not contain all that is to be
said. If half the second sheet of paper
is left blank, it is not torn off, a whole
sheet being more convenient to hold and
to fold than is a half sheet of paper.
If a few last words are necessary to
complete a letter, they are written on
the margin, not on the writing across -
the face of the pages. In addressing
envelopes the address should be written
leßibly in the center of he envelope
I and not run off into a corner. * h ie
Journal i
TERMS: Si.(lo A YEAR.
Exterminating Bate ami Mire.
Mice and rats seem to increase very
rapidly in the haunts of civilization es
pecially in large cities. Seaports are
particularly infested with them, as New
Yorkers know but too well. These ver
min have grown to be a supreme nui
sance there, notably in old houses, which
are fairly overrun. They multiply every
year, appearing in numbers where a
short time ago they were hardly seen.
How to get rid of mice and rats is a se
rious problem with householders, who
are often forced to move on tlieir ac
count. Even an entirely-new house is
apt to be invaded after a few months,
and to be seriously hurt as a place of
residence by the ravages of the nox
ious animals. Traps, however ingen
ious of contrivance, do little or no
good after a brief while, as the cunning
creatures detect their purpose, and
either avoid them or secure the bait
without danger of captivity. Cats get
lazy. A good mouser will in a few
months become indifferent to what has
been its favorite pursuit. And any or
dinary cat is afraid of rats, as well it
may be, and will seldom venture to at
tack them. They tire generally too
wary for a terrier, which, with all hii
vigilance and ferocity, is deceived by
them. It is thought tliat the introduc
tion of ferrets into houses would miti
gate the annoyance. They are often
employed in Europe to destroy such ver
min, and were so employed by the old
Romans. If kept from the cold they
are readily taken care of, and, al
though not docile or afi’ectionate, they
are ranked as domestic animals. They
are natives of Africa, and dependent on
man, both here and in Europe, as with
out his aid they would perish. They will
soon rid a house, it is said, of mice and
rats, which have a natural dread of them,
and have been known to desert premises
that they occupy. They are a terrible
and unrelenting foe. They are noc
turnal, sleeping nearly all day, and very
watcliful at night, when the household
pests commit most of their depredations.
Their smallness and slenderness enable
them frequently to follow rats into holes
and kill them in a trice. The general
belief that they destroy life by sucking
blood is erroneous, notwithstanding the
statements of naturalists, from Buffon
to Cuvier and Geoffrey St. Hilaire.
After death they, like other members of
the weasel tribe, ■ doubtless suck the
blood of their victims, but they kill too
quickly for so slow a process. It has
been shown, by repeated experiments,
that they often inflict but a single
wound, whicli proves almost instantane
ously fatal. They then, as a rule, quit
their victim at once and kill another in
the same way. The simple wound is
trader or behind tlie ear, and may or
may not pierce the large blood-vessels.
The canines enter the spinal cord be
tween the skull and the first vertebra of
the neck, destroying the victim as the
matadore destroys tlie bull. They
pierce the medulla oblongata, the very
center of life, and immediately extin
guish motion, consciousness and sensa
tion. This is one of the maqy instances
in which the instinct of animals has an
ticipated the tardy deductions of sci
ence. Tlie ferret is so masterly a rat
slayer that there seems to be every rea
son for introducing him into our domestic
economy, as he will accomplish what ,
trap, poison, cat and dog have not and
cannot. _
Densify of Population.
New York is the most populous of the
States, containing about one-tenth of
the entire population of the Union, but
it has not the densest population. The
Census Bureau reports that the number
of square miles in the Republic, not in
cluding the Indian Territory and some
unorganized tracts, is 2,900,170. T*
population in 1880 was 50,155,773
17.29 per square mile But in R's
Island the population is 254.87*
square mile, in Massachusetts 221. o
New Jersey 171.73, in
128.52, and in New York 106.74.
State, therefore, ranks fifth in <’
of population, and there is an
tion of a future greatness of whA-Jf
few have probably thought in tl
that iuhas room for so many moi
habitants. The population of the
trict of Columbia is 52,960.40 per sq
mile.
Macaulay’s lugubrious prediction, t
when we have a population of 200 p
square mile our Government will go
pieces, is not generally regarded wit.
other interest than curiosity by Ameri-’• *
cans; but were it a demonstrable fact,
it would have no immediate terror for
this people. There were 90,019 immi
grants who arrived at Castle Garden last
mouth, but were the rate of immigra
tion to remain the same, it would re
quire more than 500 years to give the
country a population of 200 per square
mile. The population of Germany is
now 205 per square mile. It conveys a
vivid idea of the future magnitude of
this nation to say that when its density
of population is equal to that of Ger
many, the United States will have 594,-
531.850 inhabitants, not including the
Indian Territory and some tracts now
unoccupied.—As Y. Mail.
It Has Hungry.
A fair young mother, with a crying
babe in her arms, sat in a Western stage
-oach On the opposite seat was a prom
nent politieinn of engaging manners.
Bvand by he said: “ Lt<t ulfl
>aby. Perhaps 1 f
io- 1 am much . •■/;»*,
~/r me ann”
,i couhln t help
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