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VOL. I V.-NO. 51.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Canada ia anxious to send a regiment
io Egypt
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The Germans are mixing somewhat in
the Egyptian troubles.
There are only nine members of the
Vanderbilt family at Saratoga.
Railway mail employes are to be
classed as postal clerks hereafter.
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Archbishop Patrick A. Feehan, of
Chicago, is to be made a Cardinal.
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A number of fatal sunstrokes have
been reported from New York City.
New wheat is being shipped from
Texas directly to Italy and Liverpool.
Hog cholera is creating alarm among
the fanners of McLean County, Illinois.
The Sultan of Turkey finally con
cluded to regard Arabi Bey as a traitor.
Jefferson Davis is spending his time
attending camp-meetings in Mississippi.
The farmers of Southern lowa will
try the experiment of raising cotton
next season.
Harvest is now in progress in Central
Dakota, and the crops are reported to be
above the average.
Ex-Public Printer Defrees, who
was for a long time ill, is now in a fair
way toward recovery.
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Mr. Gladstone is very closely guarded
now-a-days. Even at church he has
two police attendants.
The Mormon missionaries in the
South claim that agitation is helping
them to obtain proselytes.
The weather in Ireland is reported as
having improved, and there are now fail
prospects for a good potato crop,
Lawless Turtle Mountain Indians
have crossed the border from Canada
into Dakota, evidently to amuse the set
tlers.
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Emigration for America thus far this
year is less than last year. Still, about
as many paupers are arriving as can
well be cared for.
Franklin Simmons, the sculptor, js at
work in his studio in Rome, Italy, on a
colossal statue of the late Oliver P.
Morton, of Indiana.
The Detroit Free Frees says that
babies are so small in the little State of
Rhode Island that they spank them
with a tack-hammer.
Ihe President has approved the act
appropriating $50,000 for Mrs. Lucretia
Garfield, less any amount paid President
Garfield on account of salary.
Cincinnati announces that she drank
110,000,000 glasses of beer last year,
s.ijong nothing of the chaps who sent
quait pitchers to the nearest saloon.
The appointment of M. L. Joslyn, of
Illinois, 1< irst Assistant Secretary of the
Interior, it seems, has not exactly satis
fied the people of Northern Illinois.
. \ PABTY of Chippewa Indians are
*ti Washington endeavoring to conclude
negotiations for the transfer of 3,200,000
acres of the reservation, near Red Lake,
-i liunesota, to the Government.
Out of twenty New York doctors who
Were asked to give an opinion of ice
water, seventeen declared it all right as
a beverage. The other three have all
the practice they can take care of.
A Miss Fox, in New Orleans, has
Sil( <1 Mr. Low for breach of promise,
p acing her damages at one dollar. That
13 satire sure enough. Low must feel
Vt the low value placed upon
him.
Boston has passed a law prohibiting
the sale of the toy pistol. Baltimore,
where there were so many cases of lock
jaw from the explosion of these weapons
one year ago, passed such a law, and
this year they bad no lockjaw to report.
The American Israelite does not ap
prove of the scheme of the return of the
Jews to Palestine. It says : “We
rather believe it is God’s will that the
habitable world shall become one Holy
Land, and the human race one holy peo
ple.”
organization in New Mexico
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ladies—if there are any such—to go it
done.
The President has referred a supple
mental petition bearing 49,000 signa
tures, from the Garfield Club of New
York City, asking the pardon of Ser
geant Mason, to the Secretary of Wai,
together with several other and similar
petitions.
Mrs. Henry LaboucherE, wife of the
editor of London Truth, who instructed
Vlrs. Langtry for her debut, will accom
pany her pupil and protege on her tour
in the United States. Mrs. Labouchere
is a charming person, known formerly on
the stage as Miss Henrietta Hodson, an
actress of great talent and vivacity.
'Cadet Whittaker delivered his first
lecture on ‘ ‘ Color Line in the Nation’s
School,” in Baltimore, where he retold
the story of that ear slitting scrape. He
also told how frightfully he had been
misused throughout his entire term at
West Point, the white boys refusing to
eat or bunk with him and frequently call
ing him “that nigger.” He said also 1
that he was lecturing for money.
The Cincinnati Gazette tells this hor
rid tale if two good little Sunday-school
boys:
Two Denver boys, having read about kid
nappings stole a wealthy woman’s pet dog,
and wrote a letter demanding $25 for Its re
turn. If she did not leave the money in a
specified spot, they declared they Would
send her every day an inch of the precious
brute’s tail. Being easily caught, they
proved to be Sunday-school pupils of good
standing.
Egypt is pretty well supplied with al
leged newspapers. Alexandria has three
dailies in French, two in Arabia, two in
Italian, and one in Greek and English,
with circulations running up to 5,000.
besides six weeklies, two in Arabic, one
in Italian, and one in English. Cairo,
with its population of 350,000, has but
two dailies, both in French, and four
weeklies ; Egyptians Devcnts, a weekly
paper in Arabic, is the government or
gan, and has a circulation of 10,000.
Port Said has two French weeklies, and
Suez, Ismalia, and other places, have
what are called newspapers.
Certainly He Would.
The other evening, as a muscular citi
zen was passing a house on Montcalm
street, a lady who stood at the gate
called out to him:
“Sir! I appeal to you for protec-
I ‘What’s the trouble?’’ he asked, as
he stopped short.
“There’s a man in the house, and he
wouldn’t go outdoors when I ordered
him to!’’
“He wouldn’t, eh! We’ll see about
that!”
Thereupon the man gave the woman
his coat to hold and sailed into the
house spitting on his hands. He found
a man down at the supper-table, and he
took him by the neck and remarked:
“Nice style of a brute you are, eh!
Come out o’ this, or I’ll break every
bone in your body!”
The man fought back, and it was not
until a chair had been broken, and the
table upset that he was hauled outdoors
by the legs, and given a fling through
the gate. Then, as the muscular citi
zen placed his boot where it would do
the most hurt, he remarked: “Now,
then, you brass-faced old tramp, you
move on or I’ll finish you.”
“Tramp! tramp!” shouted the vic
tim, as he got up, “I’m no tramp! I
own this property and live in this
house!”
“You do?”
“Yes, and that’s my wife holding
your coat!”
“ Thunder!” whispered the victim, as
he gazed from one to the other, and
realized that the wife had got square
through him; and then he made a grab
for his coat and sailed into the dark
ness with his shirt bosom torn open, a
finger badly bitten, and two front teeth
ready to drop cut. — Detroit Free Press.
An Idea Worth Adopting.
The water supply abroad is so often
of a doubtful character that travelers
have resorted to the prudent expedient
of drinking only some well-known min
eral water. Thereupon a large trade
has been done in the purcha-e front rag
and bottle merchants of such mineral
water bottles as still bore the labels in a
fairly good condition. It was then easy
to fill them with ordinary and possibly
contaminated water, adding salt to gi'u
the taste and appearance of the desired
mineral spring. By this fraud the con
sumer was not merely robbed but made
to drink the very water he was doing
his best to avoid. We are theiefoie
pleased to note that in France at least
the Prefect of Police has adopted ener
getic measures to cheek this abuse.
Orders have been given to visit all de
pots of mineral waters, to seize hap
hazard a specimen and analyze it on the
spot. The tradesmen will also be cal led
upon to exhibit their invoices to prove
whence their stock is derived. N' t only
are the stores of wholesale agents oi
dealers to be thus inspected, but the re
tailers, the case, restaurant and public
house keepers will be subjected to an
equally vigorous supervision, and all
venders of such falsifications will be lia
ble to prosecution.- London Lancet.
“Sensibility would be a good portress
TTshe had but. one hand ; with her rigid
she opens the door to pleasure, but with
her left to pain.
DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1882.
Agriculture anil National Prosperity
Never before perhaps In the history
of the country has greater interest been
taken in the growing crops than at the
present time. The supply of cereals in
the country is small, meat of all kinds 18
scarce and high, And Almost for the first
time has there been a necessity for im
porting potatoes, roots, and garderi
vegetables-. The »oming harvest will
find Aiiiple room in the now empty bins,
cribs, warehouses, elevators, and cellars.
It has been remarked that the world is
ordinarily within less than a year of
starvation, and that hunger Dari not wait.
Wo aid nearer the realization of this
startling statement than we have been
for many years. We have more people
to feed than we ever had before, and
the number is constantly increasing.
Ordinarily some articles of food are
plentiful and cheap, but at prese’d ev
erything is dear. Even corn meal, alt
pork, potatoes, and cured fish are high.
Persons can not live cheaply if they de
sire to. Every article that will help
support life in man fit the inferior ani
mals Commands a good price. At pres
ent every one takes an interest in the
reports of condition of crops and is de
sirous of obtaining the latest informa
tion respecting them. There is Anxiety
on every hand hl respect to the weather
and the extent of the damage by storms
and by the attacks of insects. Dealers
ip other articles than grain and provi
sions are deeply interested in the pro*
duction of these articles. They arc
careful to gain the fullest information
possible about the prospect for crops in
every section of the country before they
sell large bills of goods on "credit. The
Value of every day of sunshine is care
fully estimated in a thousand counting
rooms. The damage inflicted by a severe
and long protracted storm is calculated
in the same way. The worth of sun and
heat is fully appreciated.
A larger proportion of the inhabitants
of this country are directly engaged in
agriculture than can be found in almost
any country in the world. In the
great markets where the commerce of
all nations center we exchange grain,
meat, cotton, and tobacco for manufac
tured articles. If we do not produce
them in abundance we have nothing with
which we can carry on foreign trade.
Our tariff laws, designed to build up do
mestic manufacturers to supply local
consumption, have an injurious effect
on the manufacture of articles for ex
port. The prosperity of nearly all our
manufactures depends on the produc
tion of raw materials that can be work
ed up. We make cotton cloth from lint
produced from our own fields. Our ci
cars arc manufactured from home-grown
tobacco. The whisky, alcohol, glucose,
and starch we make for home con
sumption and export are produced from
corn. A shortage in the corn crop re
sults in the decline of the amount of ar
ticles produced from it. We never im
port corn, and it is difficult to find a
substitute for it in the articles we are
in the habit of manufacturing from it.
The prosperity of our manufacturers
depends indirectly, as well as directly,
on the prosperity of our agriculture. A
large proportion of our people depend
on the crops they raise for the means to
purchase manufactured goods of every
kind. They must restrict their con
sumption to their ability to buy
and make payment with the
product of their fields. If crops
are small, only manufactured
articles of necessity can be purchased
by people living in the country. If
they are large, they can indulge in ar
ticles that conduce to comfort or minis
ter to luxury. People in the country
adapt themselves to their incomes bet
ter than people who live in cities. They
are more secluded, and on that account
can get along better with poor furniture
and articles of clothing.
The prosperity of all our great trans
portation companies depends on our ag
ricultural prosperity. The largest pro
portion of our freight cars are built for
carrying grain, live stock, and dairy
products. Many of our leading railroads*
were constructed for the transportation
of farm products. Several of them
could not pay the ordinary running
expenses if they relied on passenger
traffic and the carrying of manufactured
goods for support. When crops are
good the trains run on them are many
and long. When crops are poor the
reverse in both particulars is true.
What is true of railroad transportation
is also true of steamboat and vessel
transporta'ion. The latter, no less
than*ihe former, were built for the most
part for carrying farm products and
farm supplies. As the country becomes
older its prosperity depends more and
more on agriculture. At one time a
large portion of our people were en
gaged in marketing the natural produc
tions of the country. They killed wiliL
animals and sent their skins to markejv
They cut down forests that were up!
planted by the hand of man. 'ls®v
washed surface gold out of gulehesAjtnd
became rich chiefly through the Oper
ations of nature. Many livmUon the
product of the chase, lhey teethe flesh
of wild animals and birds, and sold the
skins of the former. In many parts of
the country civilized men produced the
articles they ate and wore in the same
way that savages did. The natural
products of the country supplied many
of the articles that in most parts oi
the world are obtained only by conti iu
ous and persistent toil. On this aoco trit
many supported life by hunting and
fishing. At present it is necessary to
( plant in order to reap,to breed and
! feed cattle in order to have moat, to till
the ground in order to have crops.
Timos are nrosperous or the reverse
according to the production of cultivat
ed crops.— Chicago Times.
The Glories of the Starlit Heavens.
If the eye oouid gain gradually in
light-gathering power, until it attained
something like the range of the great
gauging telescopes of the Herschels,
flow utterly would what wo seri now seem
lost in the inconceivable glories thus
gradually unfolded. Even the revela
tions of the telescope, save as they ap
peal to the mind’s eye, would tie as
nothing to the splendid scene revealed,
when within the spaces which now show
black between the familiar stars of our
:constellations) thousands of brilliant
(orbs would be revealed. The liillky
i luminosity of the Galaxy would be seen
■aglow with millions of suns, its richer
' portions blazing so resplendently that
| no eye could bear to gaze long upon the
1 wondrous display. But with’ every in*
I crease of power more and more niyi‘*
. iads of stars would break into view,
j until at last the scene would be unbear
able in its splendor. The eye would seek
for darkness aS for rest. The mind
Would ask for a scene less oppressive in
■ the magnificence of its inner meaning j
for even as seen, wonderful though the
display would be, the glorious scene
i would scarce express the millionth part
l of its real nature, as recognized by a
mind consciotts that each point of light
was a sun like ours, each sun the cen
ter of a scheme of worlds such as that
globe on which we “live and move and
have our being.”
Who shall pretend to picture a scene
so glorious? If the electric light could
be applied to illumine fifty million lamps
over the surface of a black domed vault,
and those lamps were here gathered in
rich clustering groups, there strewn
more sparsely, after the way in which
the stars are spread over the vault of
heaven, something like the grandeur of
the scene which we have imagined would
be realized—but no human hands could
! every produce such an exhibition of
celestial imagery. As for maps, it is
obviously impossible by any maps which
could be drawn, no matter what their
scale or plan, to present anything even
approaching to a correct picture of the
heavenly host. There is no way even
of showing their numerical wealth in a
single picture.
It is not till we have learned to look
on all that the telescope reveals as in its
turn nothing, compared with the real
universe, that we have rightly learned
the lessons which the heavens teach, so
far, at least, as it lies within our feeble
powers to study the awful teaching of
the stars. The range of the puny in
struments man can fashion Is Ho meas
ure, we may be well assured, of the uni
verse as it is. The domain of telescop
ically visible space, compared with which
the whole range of the visible universe
of stars seems but a point, can be in
turn but as a point compared with those
infinite realms of star-strewn space
which lie on every side of our universe,
beyond the range—millions of times
further than the extremest scope—of the
instruments by which man has extended
the powers of visions given to him by
the Almighty. The finite—for after all,
infinite though it seems to us, the region
of space through which we can extend
our survey Is but finite—can never bear
any proportion to the infinite save that
of infinite disproportion. All that we
can see is as nothing compared with that
which is; all we can know is as noth
ing; though our knowledge “grow from
more to more,” seemingly without limit.
In fine, we may say (as our gradually
widening vision shows us the nothing
hess of wbat we have seen, of what we
see, of what we can ever see), not, as
Laplace said: "The Known is Little,"
but “The Known is Nothing;” not
"The Unknown is Immense," but “The
Unknown is Infinite.”
Young Love’s Dream.
They are young married people and
have just gone to housekeeping, and the
neighbors who assemble at their front
!. windows to witness the harrowing sight
?of their parting for the day declare that
the following is a verbatim account of
their conversation:
’ “Good-bye, Charlie; now be careful
th'street cars don’t runoff the track
with you and kiss me, Charlie there
was something I wanted to tell you
let me see. Was it hair-pins? No, 1
got them w-h-a-t could it, have been?”
!• I’m due al the office, pet,” says
Charlie, bracing up and looking very
handsome and manly; “was it some
thing to eat?”
“ Whv, of course it was: there isn’t a
bit of mashed potato in the house, noi
a mouthful of bread and butler. We
want half a yard of beefsteak—see; and 1
have it cut bias so it will be tender—
/and a loaf of sweet-bread, Charlie, and ■
a st raw berry short-cake, dear, and - i
and anything else you think of, dear.” !
“But. my little wife,” says < harlie, j
looking very wise, “these things must
all be made before we can eat them.”
“ Must they? oh, dear, and I never i
learned to do fancy work! I never
crocheted a biscuit fit to eat, and I I
couldn’t paint a tomato to save my life. |
Oh, ( harlie, go to the ready-made stores, I
do. there’s a darling!”
He diil; and they had a picturesque
meal of lobster and strawberries with
Laker’s rusk and lemonade, but Charlie .
has written to his mother to oome at
once ami make them a long visit, they I
are so delightfully situated they can
I make it pleasant fbrher now, he says.-
1 Detroit Post and Tribune.
—A student of philosophy in Berlin
has been sentenced to three months
imprisonment for having stolen many
as twenty hats and overcoats f om v ar- /
ious restaurants and cales.
How to Walk.
It may seem at first ridiculous to pre
tend to teach grown people how to walk
as though they had not learned this in
infancy. But we are willing to venture
the assertion that not one person in
fwDnty knows how to walk well. How
few people there are who do not feel
slightly embarrassed when obliged to
walk across a large room in which are
malty persons seated sp as to observe
well each moveitient! How many pub
lic speakers there are wlio appear well
upon the platform so long as tlicfy re
main standing still, or nearly so, but
who bdcoiilC almost ridiculous as soon
as they attempt to walk about. Good
walkers are scarce. As we step along
the street, we are often looking out for
good walkers, and we find them very
seldom. What is good walking? We
answer, easy, graceful, natural walking.
Nearly all the good walkers there are
will be found among gentlemen, since
fashion insists on so trammeling a Wom
an that she cannot walk well, can scarce
ly make a natural movement, in fact.
To Walk naturally, requires the harmo
nious action of nearly every muscle in
the body. A good walker walks all
over; not with a universal swing and
swagger, as though each bone was a
pendulum with its own separate hang
ing, but easy, gracefully. Not only the
muscles of the lower limbs, but those of
the trunk, even of the neck, as well as
those of the arms, are all called into ac
tion as natural walking. A person who
keeps his trunk and upper extremities
rigid while walking, gives one the im
pression of an automaton with pedal
extremities set on hinges. Nothing
could be more ungraceful than the minc
ing, wriggling gait which the majority
of young ladies exhibit in their walk.
They are scarcely to be held responsi
ble, however, since fashion requires
them to dress themselves in such away
as to make it impossible to walk other
wise than awkwardly and unnaturally.
We cannot attempt to describe the
numerous varieties of unnatural gaits,
and will leave the subject with a few
suggestions about correct walking.
1. Hold the head erect, with the
shoulders drawn back and the chin
drawn in. Nothing looks more awkward
and disagreeable than a person walking
with the head th own back and the nose
and chin elevated.
2. Step lightly and with elasticity—
not with a teetering gait—setting the
foot down squarely upon the walk and
raising it sufficiently high to clear the
walk in swinging it forward. A shuf
fling gait denotes a shiftless character.
But do not go to the other extreme,
stepping along like a horse with “string
halt.” A person with a firm, light,
elastic gait, will walk much farther
without weariness than one who shuf
fles along. A kind of measured tread
or rhythm in the walk also seems to add
to the power of endurance, although,
for persons who have long distances to
travel, an occasional change in the time
will be advantageous.
3. In walking, do not attempt to keep
any part of the body rigid, but leave all
free to adapt themselves to the varying
circumstances which a constant change
of position occasions. The arms natur
a'ly swing gently, but not violently.
The object of this is to maintain the
balance of the body, as also by the gen
tle swinging motion to aid in propell
ing the body along.
('orrect walking should be cultivated,
it ought to be taught along with arts
and sciences. In our military schools
it is taught; but these schools can be at
tended by but few. Invalids, especial
ly, should take great pains to learn to
walk well, as by so doing they will gain
more than double the amount of benefit
they will otherwise derive from the ex
ercise. — Hume Hand-Book.
A Texas ( lend Burst.
Some ten or twelve days since Cap
tain Merril’s corps of engineers and
assistants were camped in the valley of
Buck Creek, in Childers County. Their
tents were set one hundred feet from
the dry bed of the creek. This creek
was about twelve feet deep from the
level of the valley on either side of the
bank. The valley is nearly a mile wide,
but the high lands curved in close to
the place where the camp was pitched,
ami the valley widened on the opposite
bank. The night was clear, and no
cloud in the distance betokened a rain
fall. The boys staked their ponies near
by. turned their mules loose, and laid
them down to sleep in their tents.
About midnight one of the boys felt wa
ter at his feet. Springing up he saw
the water coining, and, yelling like a
savage giving his war whoop, roused
his companions. In less than a minute
they were standing in water up to their
waists. Knowing to which side of them
was the hill, they rushed wildly through
the water, and succeeded in gaining a
safe foot-hold. The water rushed by
them, covering the entire valley to a
dept of six feet and carrying away all
the tents and baggage. The pony was
saved by one o> the boys cutting the
stake-rope as he passed him, he fortu
nately having gone to bed with his pants
on. 'Most of the boys were in their
night clothes, and a solemn set they
were. When daylight came they fol
lowed down the stream to Red River,
and gathered up some of their clothes
and all Ihe valises but one. The missing
valise had *t>s in Greenbacks in it. Ine
sudden rise of water was mmmibted v
caused bv what is known as a cloud
burst” on the head
—Clan crematory
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TERMS: SI.OO A YEAR.
WIT AM) WISDOM.
—Shallow men believe in luck: strong
men believe in cause and effect
—You can have what you like in this
world, if you will but’ like what you
have.
—Said a fond husband to his wife:
“My dear, I think I’ll buy you a little
dog.” “Oh, no!’’ she replied, “do
not! I prefer giving you all my affeo
tions!”—Progress.
—Here lies n man whoso earthly race is run-
He raised the hammer of a fowling gun, ’
And blew into the muzzle just because
He wished to know if it was loaded—and it
was.
—Somcrvta.e Journal.
—Mr. Editor: Will you please answer
who was “David’S wife’s mother?” and
you will greatly oblige a reader.—Liz
zie. Certainly, with pleasure. David’s
wife’s mother was David’s mother-in
law. — Philadelphia News.
—An accordeon factory at Long Isl
and, N. Y., was destroyed by fire a few
days ago. The police are looking for
the incendiary. It is supposed the peo
ple want to present him with a valua
ble testimonial.— Norristown Herald.
—Gus De Smith called at a very fash
ionable house on Austin avenue a few
days ago and acted so queerly that
when that lady’s husband came home,
she said: “What is the matter with
young De Smith? He acted so strange
ly. 1 think there must be a screw
loose about him somewhere.” “Reck
on not. I saw him this morning, and
he was tight all over.” —Texas Sijtings.
—A store up-town has a sign which
reads: “This is a tin-store.” An old
inebriate staggered in recently, and aft
er a good deal of fuinblingrin his pock
et, put five cents on the counter. “What
do you want?” asked the proprietor,
indignantly. “Wa-wa-want a-a d-d-d
--drink!” “This is not a liquor saloon!”
said the proprietor, with awful empha
sis. “Wha-wba-what!” said the drunk
en man, astonished. “Why, Jo-Jo-
Jones said I could get a horn here!”—
N. K Tribune.
—A good adviser says: “ Next to the
love of her husband, nothing so crowns
a woman’s life with honor as the devo
tion of a son to her. We never knew a
boy to turn out badly who began by fall
ing in love with his mother. Any man
may fall in love with a fresh-faced girl,
and the man who is gallant to the girl
may cruelly neglect the poor and weary
wife in after years. But the big boy
who is a lover of his mother at middle
age is a true knight, who will love his
wife in the sere-leaf autumn as he did
in the daisied spring. There is nothing
so beautifully chivalrous as the love of a
big boy for liis mother. Boys, think of
this.” _____
Port Said.
Port Said, where the European
Powers will probably land their troops
if they resolve to protect the Suez Canal
against posible destruction by the re
bellious Egyptian army, twenty-three
years ago was merely a narrow strip of
sand which had been selected as the
starting point of the great canal between
the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. M.
De Lesseps then predicted that s<>™
day it would rival Alexandria. His
prediction, it would seem, will be re
alized within a short time. The city
has grown and is growing with mar
velous swiftness. It has.still the neat
and prim Swiss look imparted to it at
its birth by MM. Dussaud. It is still,
according to one chronicler, “a city of
dolls’ houses, with a church and a
mosque and chalet-looking booths and
cases that might have issued from a
Nuremberg toy-boz But here the in
nocence of Port Said stops. 1
nothing prim about it save its > war failt to c
ture; being a hot-bed of vice
unstemmed and uncontrolled Pm* it
Egyptian Zaptich—a soit of £ , BtolIlw ;| 1 “
highway without the
Court, where a day or nipwA.M«chi2,i>
passes without some
black or white, being openlytow,,
the ‘Grande Rue.’ 1 ort ,*1 yo.fr pain kn
sleeps. Attached to that uncd^ o
expensive hostelry, the Hotel
Bas, are a gambling-hell and a Kii.t.Kuior»w
room, the orchestra of which is * 0
by German young ladies in, ftA NAii
from Trieste. The arrival ot an
•trooper' a «P. and 0.,’ ora ‘Messagenes
from Saigon and Gallo is the. signal for
a tuning up of tiddies and violincellos.
But the fun waxes faster and more
furious when an Australian drops her
anchor in the basin. Then the young
Trieste amazons rub their eyes and take
to their fiddlesticks and receive the new
comcrs with a sprightly waltz at what
ever hour of the night or morning it
may be, utterly regardless of the peace
of mind or body of the unlucky wight
who may be courting sleep on one of
the hard beds of the Hotel aes Pays
Bas. 1 ’ — London Warld.
--Dr Claxton, says the Philadelphia
Becord has found that rabbits soon die
from an injection of human saliva, and
that the saliva of some races, notably
of noo-roes and residents of the tropics,
exhibits an extreme degree of viru
lence, a virulence that bears relation to
the amount of tobacco used by the indi
vidual. _____
Latest advices are to the effect that
nothing has yet been hear( J
kitten which two bad boys of loront °
tied by the tail to the tail of a kite and
sent -tailing off into boundless space.
Kitty dropped off when the' J*® 1
reached an altitude
'The country can ts s on) e W f.ero
I A N exchange
When . - dr >
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