Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

WHAT TELEGRAPH POLES ARE MEANT TOR. In the island of Sumatra, at the bottom of the map. Where Asia bolds such giant lands in h<-r ca pacious lap. The elephants rise fiercely, in th mst kind of mob. When the telegraph employes have finished upa job. And joined by wires electric places verv fat away. For the purpose of conversing—ls they've any tb'.Ugto say; These, animals uproarious will throw upon the ground The telegraphic poles and wires wherever they are found. While wires and insulators are carried off to hide In the deep, gloomy jungles Whore the angry l>easts abide. AU the labor goo* *or nothing when the p .li are set again. For the elephants arc watching these persc vorlng mon, Who stick {Kill's where they don't Want them, across their " right of wily." And they tear down In the night-time what the men have done by day. With the monkeys and baboons it is quite another thing. For the telegraphic wires make the nicest kind of swing; And just the firmest tight rope for any sort of antic. While rumbling on from "polo to polo" sounds really quite romantic. It’s a very cute arrangement, far better than the trees, Which do for common pnrpos •», bitt tint for such a* those. •‘And those hivelv Colored glasses!" says d<- Ape. This reUly looks like living in some dee-'nt hurt of shape; The cocoa-nut shells hold water, which Is all that on<' can Say, But these glasses for the fUtiifi shall covet my buffet. So the monkeys haatb to gather all th ■ priz« < they can reach. And twist off every Insulator with a trlum phant screech While they chatter and they gibber, und they da neo and they tdny On the telegraphic wires all the night and nil the day. Wo rend in "Mother Goose” of quiet little Miss klutSet, Who was eatlu» curds und whi y. find -liting on a tuffet When, tn the midst of happiness, there eiiWie aloug a spider, And, without waiting to T>© asked, sat down justliesldc her. Now the spiders In Japan treat the telegraphic wires (Not daunted in tho least by their being sin h high-flyers) As this spider did Miss Muffet, and coolly t ake a seat On the polo, perhaps, tioalde the wires so high above tho street; For they tiring their spinning with them, so dainty and so fine, And they drop, to begin with, tin experimental line. With such n handy frame-work as tli<-<> tele graphic wires Mrs. Spider soon cun weave a web that meets ail her deslro-. With draperies for the parlor that's to catch the silly Uy, And It (s the prattiMt parlor that ever you did spy. On the bare Western plains there's a dr ndful lack of trees. And nothing for the buffaloes to scratch them selves at euse; Hon telegraphic pole proves n blessing in dis guise. That brings the tears of gratitude to many hair-roofed eyes. Though first with some suspicion: “What over 4s this thing?" Exclaims, in great perplexity, tho dauntless prairie king; Thon makes a sudden onslaught, as is his mighty way, To find a |M>le for scratching', and not n so • nt bay. “How jolly!" says King Buffalo—" how very kind of imin To got up this conveuieuoo on such an easy plan! Oneg'im.l go«al scratin. and thou I'm off " mji so th ■ pole is, t,,0, Off from its equilibrium—a sorry sight to view. ThatstMlden rush of matter lays It Hat upon the plain. Until the telegraphic- men have sot It up lignin; And when they seek with roughest mills to bristle it all o'er, The buffalo pronounces them even k niter than before; For what are mills for but to scrateh? and as scratching is his plan, He feels under obligations to the thought fill ness of man. Ro he seiatehes nil the poles down, rejoicing on his way, While the men'who set them up again have something else to say: That something is not Mattering to friend bnf ftllo at all. Hut he Is off beyond the sound of voice or musket-ball. —Kta Rodman Chuivh, in Harner's I'mmy Peo- The Clilngpos. In our journey from Sayang in Yun nan to Bhnino in Bitrmah, we been mo acquainted wit It a race of mountaineers who are called Kacheon by tho Bur mese, but who call themselvesChingpos. They are a small, delicate people, whose brightly-beaming eyes contrast, strongly with their reserved behavior. The faeesof the men as well as of the women can not be called unhandsome. Tho head is oval and well-shaped, the eyes are hori zontal, the nose is strong and straight, the ruddy lips are finely cut, and the teeth are blackened with botul-jniee. AH the hard work among the Kaelieon is done by the women and girls, who arc up in the morning at their house hold duties while the men are still in bed. The woman does not venture to raise her eyes when she speaks w ith her hus band or her employer. She has no con cern about the business or euturpristis that ho is engaged in, but consider- eve rything good and unquestionable that he orders; and the subjection of tho women goes to the extent tha: the death of one is lamented as a pecuniary loss, because the laboring force is diminished by it; and a family that has several daughters is for that reason considered rich The women are all the time at work, cutting down tree-, splitting wood and bringing it to the house, cut ting roads through the thickets, driving the cattle to pasture, cleaning the house, getting the meals, and weaving cloth. The raen perform no manual labor, or, at most, will once in a while go out in'o the field and show the women it a rough way how the tillage ought to bo done. Their principal business is to visit their neighbors, to drink sk*ru (a sweet drink made from rice), and smoke opium. Only in ease of piecing peed will they take their mules and their women and go to Bhamo and get loads of goods to take to China. Marriages among the lower classes are mere busi ness affairs, in which the dowry and physical strength of the bride arc the first considerations. Among the higher classes weddings are regarded as im portant events, and are distinguished by particular usages and ceremonies.— Lieut. G. Kreitler, in Popular Science Monthly —A San Francisco street-car conduc tor,arrested for “knocking down’’fares, was found to have in his pocket a har monica with a small bell or gong at tachment, such as is exposed in toy ba zaars The tone of the gong corre sponds to that of the bell-punch, and is , to have been rung from the j vuneh e h- S £ eevo . While he Pretended to Punch hu fare I'tmes. | Orange Insects. When a dish of oranges i« seen oh the table for deSsert. the fact is hardly re alized that in all probability their sur face is the habitat of an insect of the Coccus family. This tiny creature is found on the orange skin in evefy stage of transformation, from the egg to the perfect ihsedt. during the winter months, instead bf remaining dormant In the cold weather, as is the case with most of thy insect trilie. It would hard ly Im* possible to find a St. Michael's or Tangerine orange that had pot Jjtin tlredsof these little creatures in various stages of development on its surface. Lemons, too, are frequently covered. Upon inspection, the skin of an orange Will be found to be dotted over with brownish scarlet spots of various sizes. These specks can be easily removed by a needle, and when placed under a mi croscope, an interesting scene is pre sented. consisting of a large number of eggs, which are oval white bodies, standing on end. like little bags of limit, Rome of the inhabitants of which may very probably be seen In process of emerging from the i>p«6'o<! end of the •■gg. The female insect upon leaving the egg has six legs, two long hair-like appendages, and no wings; it thrusts a sucker into the orange in order to ob tain nourishment, and never moves again, passing through thy various Stages Ot deveiopiileiit tinlil it lays its Oggs and diet. In the case of the male insect, the chrysalis after a short period opens ami the insect flies ofl. The male is supplied with wings twice the length of its body, and each of the legs has a hook-like projection. If has four eyesand two antenna*, and is so tiny tliat it cannot be seen when Hying. From some parts of Spain oranges come to us having their rind covered with a coccus of quite a different type. ’1 he surface of oranges, Indeed, affords the pos-essor of a microscope ah infinite amount of interest and amusement.— Chambers' Journal. Shadows (if Mairimonft Ling John Ihrni, a young Chinaman of Boston, made love acceptably to Kata Englehardt, while visiting Philadelphia, ami they were married. Although she was ii young and pretty girl of good character, the Mongol failed to appre ciate liis prize, and whipped her brutally befor« a week hud elapsed, besides spite fully cutting up her clothes. They were separated. A thrifty young farmer living near Crittenden, Ky., is now thirty years old, and was first married August 28, 1872. •Since that time he has buried two wives and is now living with the third, having been a widower twenty-one months. He is now the father of eleven children—* eight boys and three girls. He has twd pair of twin boys. The marriage of Timothy Haley, aged seventy-five, to a girl of seventeen was not expected by the people of Brook ville, Ky., to prove a happy one; yet they are surprised by tho separation that has taken place, ns it was brought about by the old man instead of the bride. He is convinced, he says, that she married him solely for liis money; and she gives color to his charge by suing him for one third of his $1(1,000. Miss Bourne eloped with her lover nt Whitehtdl, N. Y.. but on tho condition that, immediately after the marriage ceremony, she should be allowed to go back home, and tell her mother. Her idea was that the maternal objection to the young man could bo overcome hy argument ns soon ns she was his wife. But the plan miscarried. The mother had so much the best of the discussion that the bride was convinced, instead of convincing, and when the bridegroom camo Tor her next day, she informed him that she desired never to get eyes on him again. She even put on boys’ clothes, and escaped, while he was watching the house, so thorough was her change of purpose. How Indians Fann. A gentleman just up from Stand ing Kock Agency, in answer to an inquiry as to how the reds were pro grossing in tho peaceful ways of grangeriug, smiled and said their" man ner was odd. Every year they seem to know less about how to farm. This is attributed to the fact that they are learn ing tho ways of tho whites too rapidly. They begin to understand that as soon as they can grow crops their rations will be cut off, and henoe their growing igno rance of agriculture. If they are given a bushel of beans to plant, they will ent nine-tenths of the amount and plant one tenth, and the one-tenth will bo dumped in three or four holes in tho ground. Last spring they were given five bushels of onion seeds. They couldn’t eat them, and consequently planted the entire five bushels on a piece of ground fifty by one hundred feet. They were too lazy to prenaro a larger patch ; besides it woiild have been contrary to their policy of maintaining the ration system. When the onions came up it was a curious sight to soo tho young stinkers crowd each other. The whole dry, naked sur face of the ground wiuj raised up on top of the sprouting plants. It is our in formant’s opinion that the present gen eration of Injuns will not make success, ful granjers. —Eisinarek Tribune Honest, But not Reliable. Not long since a lady called on Mose Schaumburg, to find out if a colored woman, who hud formerly been a servant at his house, was honest, she having given him as a reference. “She vas honest, too honest to suit me, put she vas not reliable.” “ How in the’world can that be?” “A ell, vou day I leaves a five tollar pill on de floor, and I dells Matildy to sweep dot room out. I shoost vant to see if she keep dot pill,” “ Well, did she keep the bill?” “ No, she brings me dot pill pack.” “ That looks very much as if she was reliable." “No she vas not reliable, for dot pill vast oouuterfeit. I vas in hope she dakes dot pill, and den I would never have paid her dot twenty dollars I owed her; put she s fooled me py bringing me dot pad pill pack, so I cannot say she vas reliable, but maybe she vas honest.” —Tin illing Hands”gave a straw lo ry leuival in the vestry of the church in Medlord, Mass., a few evenings ago. I Im »ill nj m mths were on hand early. —Burlington Hawkeye. Science and Cigarettes. It has b< "u known tor years to thW average schoolboy that the alkali metals,T caesium, rubidium, potassium, sodium and lithium, have so powerful an affinity for oxygen that they will decompose Witter oil Contact —combining with the oxygen and liberating the hydrogen. In the case Os all but, the last metal named the reaction is so violent that heat enough is evolved toiil’c ths hydro gen, which burns with a flame coloi'ed by volatilized portions of the metal, as follows: Caesium, sky blue; rubidium, tubt; potassjum, violet: and sodium, yellow. Lithium Will Inflame only on contact with strong nitric ficin, when it gives off an intensely white light. A Broadway fakir has turned this curious fact to advantage, and has abandoned ihe Ch*ap, soft, gum-drop, the marvelous tooth-paste, the lightning strop, and the dozen-for-a-penny tin co - lar-buttons to intr< duce small strips of sodium to the public under the name of “Edison’s Miraculous Helee’ro-1 fynamic Pipe and Cigar-Lighter. ’Ere, gentle men! ii’ ’undered lights fer ii-i-i cents’ ’ Having drawn a crowd, he illustrates: “Jus’ clip hors ha bit ihe size hos ha pin’s ’ead, put hit hin the tobackcr— this way, gentlemen then spit lion it, ,sof —’n’ere yer sec hit BUSI’S hinto flame, ’n yer ’as yer light, rainer shine.” This delightful chemical surprise of course sue eeds in obstructing the street near Trinity Church almost as well as does the United ‘ lutes Steam-Hi tiling Company. Ihe curious spectators gate and then pass in their nickels and re ceive small bottles covere I with paper, in each of which tire three fragments of sodium the size of a pin worth at wholesale rates about one-tenth of a mill. As sodium oxydizes very rapidly when exposed to the air, find is pre served only by being submerged in naphtha, the purchasers soon find then' Edison lighters worthless, for the fakir only puts about a drop of naphtha in each bottle. Yesterday a smart man witfi a waxed mustache and brown mats under liis ears thought it would be very funny to Inly one Os the Edison lighters, shove it into a cigarette, and then win ten dollars from a friend by betting him he could light the thing by dipping it into water. The preliminaries were skillfully and easily made, and the loaded cigaiette was carefully marked and deposited in the case with others. The man who was to lose ten dollars was found picking his teeth in front of Delmonico's, having just had a free lunch in Nassau street. “ How do, Jim?” said the smart man, sauntering up. “Haver cigarette?” careless like. “Don’t caret do,” observed the man who was to lose. “(Jotter light?” “No, butler guess there’s water in side,” insinuated the man who was to win. “Water! Wha’ for?” asked the man who was to lose, astonished. “To light e.garette, of course,” re sponded the man who was to win, art fully. A few questions and answers then flashed back and forth, until the man who was to win said: “Belcher ten dollars!” “Done,” said the man who was to lose. The money was produced, a pass ing mutual friend was hailed and ap pointed stakeholder, and the three en tered a neighboring saloon to get the water with which to light or not to light —the man who was to win calm and smiling, the man who was to lose calm er ami sniggering, and the stakeholder lobster-eyed, thinking he had fallen in with a pair of lunatics. The water was produced, a crowd gathered, the cigarette was dipped. It did not light. The crowd smiled. The man who was to lose laughed. The stakeholder started to pass over the money. The man who was to win cheeked him, said it was all right, stuck the cigarette in his mouth and gave it a vigorous draw. . . . I'he crowd never knew what made him throw a back Somerset, claw at the air. choke, gag. whistle, cough, spit and swear like a South Sea Islander who had inadvertently taken a drink of lava or Hoboken whisky. The barkeeper was so surprised that he set ’em up for the crowd. Ihe stakeholder passed over the money and said he had never before witnessed such gymnastics. The man who was to lose but didn't was divided between anxiety to make another bet and fear that his friend s reason was permanently gone. Nobody knew the secret of the mystery but the 7’imesman and the man who waste win but didn’t. They knew that the wrong end of the prepared cigarette had gone into the w ater. And didn’t light. Ihe right end had gone into tho mouth. And did.— N. T. Tinies. i Apostrophe to an Indian .Maiden. I'hou still and senseless gob of I bronzed and dazzling worth, w*e hail thee at a comfortable distance and trill ’ to thee our little song. \\ ho taught thee such untutored grace of limb, such cross-eyed footsteps and * Euoh simple trust? Whe taught thee thus to overtake the angle-worm and nail the locust lit his rapid flight ? Who skilled thee in the chase and showed the how to weave the gaudy bead upon the yellow mocca sin in wild, fantastic figures of rude, impossible things? Idly thou leanest ’gainst the cotton wood, scratching thy back feminst its rough yet kindly trunk, while in thy dark, mysterious eye there lurks a hidden joy, a joy jterehanee hke his who, yielding to the buckwheat cake’s seduc tive power, hath found the hat-rack in the hall and u orked it on his shoulder blade. Fair Alfarita! child of the dusky r.ight, we greet thee ’cross the purple hills like other poets who have written of thy grace. Thy childlike face hath won the poet to thy side and (in his mind) he tunes his lyre to thee. Some day the warrior of the mountain clime will come and woo thee in the guttural, melancholy style thy people love, and in the twilight’s glow, when nature and the bullfrog sink to rest, with coy reluctance, like tbe man who meets his mother-in-law, thou, Alfarita, daughter of malarious night, wilt yield thy future to the knock-kneed brave BUI Nye, desWS * ' Usy '. £ ‘ W if ., .■ -nd : A./' U small boy: “Then null off —Krupp’s works were founded by his father in 1810. The present Krupp succeeded in 1848, when there were <4 work den against 10,000 to-day, ex clusive of workers in his mines; 2,680 tons of coal and coke are consumed daily. The iron comes from Germany and Northern ©pain. -The St.-r of th® Garter winchAho queen bellowed Upon tained 360 diamonds, w’hteh he ’ nt ®” to send along down as an heir-mom, but as he forgot to say so in his wul, «*- executors of his estate have bro Ken it up, and will peddle the diamonds out as they can find purchasers. —lt has been clearly established by the evidence presented at London polices courts that the. “penny dreadfuls,” or cheap novelettes, of which boy highway men are the heroes, have produced an abundant crop of young thieves, who have only imitated the adventures de scribed with devilish ingenuity by the romance writers. The Magyar population of Hungary, according to the latest census, is 6,165,- 088. This gives an increase in ten years of only 8,867. It includes, moreover, over half the 500,000 Jewish population of the country, which is well known to increase numerically with rapidity. Nor has the loss by emigration been as large proportionately as in Germany, which nevertheless shows a large increase in population. It is evident that the Mag yar race is losing ground. —At a recent meeting of the directors of a cable company operating in Chinese and Australasian waters there was ex hibited a section of cable damaged by the teredo. So destructive was this gutta perCha borer that the company had been put to an expense of §40,000 a year in taking up damaged cables; to save this outlay they are now putting down a rib boned cable at a cost o/ §300,000. A four years’ trial had demonstrated that by covering the cable wf-th a brass tape or ribbon 1 hese attacks could be success fully resisted. Twenty-four year’s ago Scotland’s richest commoner was Col. Gordon, of Cluny, worth from ten to fifteen million a , *llars. Os hfs lather's elder brother it W a 3 s, tid, “Every shilling he gets within his finger sticks to them.” This man’s great proper l ? passed to his brother Charles, who declined to move about because it . cost u mately refused to leav v n 118 ? that he could not afford k' HO ‘ . ° * Gordon only spent in one dl ?® cuon horses. But to avoid turnpikes e wo . 1 ? \ make a round of twenty to thirty i? 11 over miserable roads. He died at 8-*, unmarried, but leaving a natural son. Borax in California. Borax is now well known to occur in very many of the salt-springs in the Coast Mountains of California. But in only tw'o places has it been found in large quantities; there are Borax Lake and Hatchinhama (pronounced Hah chin-ha' ma), both being in the imme diate vicinity of Clear Lake, about eighty miles north San of Francisco. Borax Lake is a shallow pool intensely of alkaline water, without inlet or out let, and of course its extent depends on its reception of rain-water. After an exceptionally wet season it has a length of perhaps a mile and a half, with a depth of eight to ten feet; after an exceptionally dry season, on the contrary, it shows sometimes no water, the muddy botton being covered with saline incrustations. When it has a length of three-fourths of a.mile, with a depth of four feet, being perhaps its average condition, the water holds in solution 18.75 grains of solid matter to the ounce—-039 of its own weight. This consists of salts of soda, in the fol lowing proportions: Sodium carbon ate, -olS; sodium chloride, *204; sodium biborate, *l7B. But this alkaline water, exceedingly rich as it is in borax, constitutes only a trilling part of the commercial value of the lake. In fact, it has never been turned to account at all in the manufac ture of borax, though such use of it is entirely practicable, as the statements to be presently made in relation to Hachinhama will show. The muddy bottom of the lake was found, immedi ately on its discovery in 1856, to contain borax in crystals, in quantities most as tonishing. These crystals, being tested by vari ous workers in iron and steel, were pro nounced equal to. the very best of re lined borax. They are, in fact, pure biborate of soda, without any other im purities than the mud mechanically en tangled with them in their process of crystallization. They correspond to the native borax of other localities, desig nated as tincal, but yet are decidly dis i inct from it. In fact, no such crystals as i hose of Borax Lake have ever been found in any other locality, and there :.re. several points in connection with i heir modeol formation, and even their very existence, which are by no means easy of comprehension.—Dr. IF. 0. Ai/res, in Popular Science Monthly. One of the m<>st terrible diseases wit! which the Italians are afflicted is pe) of the stomach and bowels, with terrible suffering and convulsions. It chiefly afflicts the poorer classes, who live mainly on Indian oom. After patient investigation, Dr. Lambroso haa dis covered that it is caused bv diseased corn which forms an alkaloid resembling strychnine. Arsenic counteracts the disease. He advises a careful and whole sale investigation into the species of corn so affected, and the methods of cul tivation. —Soap in a solution mixed with phe nic acitLwhen impregnated into timber, is an excellent preservative against rot usually resulting from moisture. • " s ,£ r I * * F Ma r k Refined Petroleum and Lubricating Oils. IP *"-' a3 ’ |sep3 6m| HERRON’S! Special AnnoJincePient for the Spring! We present to our patrons, and the public generally, this Season the most com plete assortment of Goods ever shown here. They were purchased for CASH, and wc now offer thetJ at INSIDE FIGURES. IWeiXs.® Wo t BUT SEE US AT ONCE, AS WE SELL AT BOTTOM PRICES FOR CASH. We know that money is scarce this year with you, but remember that Prices will be in Proportion to Your Purse and if we have the Goods you want, and you can spare the money, now is the* time for you to secure THE BEST OOODS for tlxe LEAST MONIA IXESEC.K.OIM' SON’S, FOUNTAIN HEAD FOR BARGAINS. THE "WHITE” SEWING MACHINE, The Ladies’ Favorite! BECAUSE ■ f l l IT IS THE LIGHTEST RUNNING ie inost quiet; makes the prettiest stitch; and has more conveniences than FnlS'l X P ' il - n y other Machine. TO R ”is warranted five years and is the r L . easiest to sell, and gives the best satis- faction of . an Y Machine on the market. ■ . M Intending pu. chasers are solicited to -A examine it before I. "yi'ig. Responsible dealers wanted in all unoccupied tci ritory. •T. T>. Ac T. I?. Wholesale and Retail Dealers, marll till janl 59 Broad Street, ATLANTA, GA. pr Use Lawrence & Martin’s I wS w w I |H ~ n||| mJ,,,, Min—| m, . __M 11 ■! l" For COUaiiS. COLDS SORE THROAT BRONCHITIS, ASTHMA, PNEU fIfIONIA CONSUMPTION, Diseases of THROAT, CHEST AND LUNCS- I 1 ! fi 3 S" T M S 3 llas always been one of the most important m AL &Am 0r 10LU O,C? """ VI S ULU BRONCHITIS, ASTHMA, SORE THROAT, i , '. 1 ‘ON in its incipient and advanced stages, and all diseases of the THROAT.CHEST mit it lias never been s v advantageously compounded as in the TOLU, ROCK and io r.. Its soothing Balsamic properties afford a diffusive stimulant and tonic to build up the system after tue eougli has been relieved. Quart size bottles, Price £I.OO. A 3ST* I RS V I )o n °t 6e deceived by dealers who trv to palm off Rock and Bye “?■ 1 of Ollr TOLU * K °VK AND rVe. which is the ONLY i . i iiii .A I l l> artiele—thegenmno.has a Private Die Proprietary Stamp on each bottle, wincli p( units it to be Sold by Grocers and Irealers Every where, WITHOUT SPECIAL TAX OR LICENSE. he s OLD, ROCK AND RYE CO., Proprietors, 41 River St, Chicago, IH- K. WRIGUTT, U holesale and Retail Druggist, Dealer in mZEUDIOIBTES, OHEMIOALS, Perfumery, Soaps, Hair Dves, and Toilet Articles generally; White Lean, .Mixed Paints, ready for use. Colors in oil: Dry, Linseed, Tanners’, Machine’ and Kerosene Oils; Varnishes I Utty. W indow Glass. Lamps and Lamp Fixtures; Surgical ApparfttUMHffCh ns vbdoininnl Supporters. Trusses. Lancets, Pocket Cases etc #*<■ I Ins tlrm also deals in Smoking and Chewing Tobacco, Fine Cigars and Snuff, anh have the ex elusive Drug trade in tine W ines. W hiskies and Brandies in Dalton. < all and see them at the corner of King and Hamilton streets, Dalton, Ga. Prices guaranteed to compare with Atlanta. ’ e jeis ts The lOa-ltonL Argu7 [CHANGRD FROM INDEPENEENT HEADLIGHT,] “' Brightest, Most Progressive,, J News Paper in NortM ' 1 " ' l: ' M'-'li'ini ' 41.W8l Mi i . l i;i nt~. Mill M ' *»>. JjWfi