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WHEN THE FBOST IS ON THE
PUNKIN.
When the fros! is on the punkin and the fod
der's in the shock.
And you hoar tho kyouck and gobble of the
struttin' turkey-cock,
Aud the clackin’ of the guineys, and the
cluckin' ol the hens.
And the loser's hallylooyer as he tiptoes <>»
the fence;
O it's then the time a feller is a feelin’ at hit
best.
With the risin’ sun to greet him from a night
of gracious rest.
As he h aves the house bart-headod and goes
out to fet'd th ■ stock.
When the frost is on tin punkin and the fod
der’s in the shock.
Thoy’s soinopln kind o' hoarty-liko about tho
atmosphere.
When the heat of Summer's over aud tho
coolin' Fall is h re
Os course wc miss the Howers, and the blos
soms on the t ees.
An 1 the mumble of the buinmin'-bird< and
buzzin of tho bees;
But the air's so apprizin'; and the landscape
through the haze
Os a crisp and sunny morning of tho early au
tumn days
Is a picture that no painter has the colorin' to
mock—
When the frost is on the punkin and tho fod
der's in the shock.
The husky, rusty rustle of the tossels of tho
corn,
And the raspin' of tho tangled loaves, as
golden as the morn;
Thcatubble in th- furrics—kind o'lonesome
like, but st 11
A-preachin'sermons to us of the barn-' they
growed to till;
Th * sirawstack in the medder, and the reaper
in the shed;
Tho bosses in their stalls belcw—tho clover
overhead !
O it sets my heart a-clickin’ like the tickin’ of
a clock.
When the frost is on the punkin and the so 1-
der’s in tho shock !
—l'. John»i»n, in lirli<ing)x>lt» Journal.
Obliging a Preacher.
Just back of Missionary Ridge, Chat
tanooga, while following the highway to
reach Tunnell Hill, I came across a lit
tle church half hidden in the woods.
The building was primitive, and the old
darkey who sat on a log by the floor was
BVJire so. After I had made inquiries
about the route aud was ready to go on
he said:
“ Better git down, boss, an’ come in
to meetin'.”
“Do you hold services this after
noon?”
“ Yes, sah. We am gwine to open ;
in 'bout live minits, an’ I’spectS de ser
mon will be a powerful one.”
It didn’t seem just right to be riding
around the country on Sunday, and so 1
got down and took a seat beside the old
man. After a few minutes spent in
general talk, he said it was time to go
in. 1 followed after him, and found
myself the sole audience. I next found
that ho was tjie preacher who was to
deliver tho powerful sermon. He
opened services in regular form and
with all due solemnity, and then an
nounced his text and began preaching.
I stood it for fifty-five minutes, and
then, as he had only reached “second
ly,” 1 waited until he closed his eyes
and then made a slide for the door. It
was no go. 1 hadn’t gone six feet be
fore he stopped his sermon and asked:
“ Stranger, must you be gwine?”
“Yes, I feel that 1 must.”
“ An’ you can’t hcah the rest?”
“ No.”
“ Den I’ll ehop off right whar’ I is.”
“Oh, don’t do that. You can go on
with your sermon just the same.”
“ But you see dar’ mus’ be a colleck
shun tooken up arter de sermon,” ho
protested, in anxious tones. “If you'll
obleege me by takiu’ a seat I’ll sing a
hymn an' pass de hat.”
I sat down, and when ho had read
and sang a hymn, he passed tho hat,
transferred tho quarter to his vest pock
et and observed, as we went out:
“ I didn’t git down to de moas’ pow
erful part of de sermon, but if you hap
pen 'long dis way nex’ Sunday I’ll giv’
you de odder half. Dat quarter comes
jist in time to encourage mo Io keep de
good work bilin’.” Detroit Free Press,
How to Get Rid of a Non-Paying
Boarder.
The London papers abound in curious
information about New York. We
learn from the /)ru7y .V ics that "Miss
W anda Brown, res iling at a fa-hion
able boarding-house in Thirty-ninth
street. New \ork ( itv. recently gave
her landlady, Mrs. Beeble. in charge for
a sault aud battery. Being requested
by the sitting magistrate to state the
particulars of the assault, she deposed
that upon three several occasions Nirs.
Beeble had put a huge bullfrog in her
bed. 'ls that so?' inquired his Honor
ol the prisoner. ’ W ell, Judge, 1 ad
mit the frogs,' replied Mrs. Beeble;
‘but what is one who is poor, though
honest, to do with a boarder who will
ne they pav nor quit? This is how it
was: 1h: ( ] lost . nough money by her.
and wasn t going to w. ste any more on
gelt ng her out oi my house by the
str< tig arm oi tie 1 law. But my. hus
band supplied cold blooded animals to
the medical students for their experi
ments, and so it struck me one day,
lo i.g over his stock, that a likely way
to persuade Miss Brown to ; ay up, or,
better still, to get rid of her, would be
to mini nister a frog or two in her bed.’
* Did your expedient succeed?’ asked
the magistrate, with a smile. * You
bet,’ answered Mrs. Beeble. • Did she
pay u;i, then?’ Not much, Judge; but
alter the third frog she vamosed the
ranch®.’ ‘That was a good notion of
vours, Mrs. Beeble,' observed his Hon
?>r, vainly striving to keep b s coimto
name, 'but duty compels me to lino
you three dollars.’ ’’
—ln the rivers, rolling to sea, says the
American Contract Journal, are ma; ons
of horse-power daily running to w: ste.
W’e do not appreciate the brook and
river, 1 ecause they are so near and have
been there so long. Had they com
menced flowing but to-day we would
have hastened to harness them.
—Three Jersey infants, aged eleven,
ten, and seven years, have been arrested
for breaking into a saloon and making
off with all the liquor and segars they
could carry, and whatever change they
could get hold of. A seven-year-old
burglar is a sad and humiliating com
ment on the education and care of young
children in America.—CAris/mn I’nioit.
—Recent geological investigations are
thought to establish the fact that the
eastern part of Kansas a part of Ne
br-ka. Southern lowa and Northern
Mi- onri were once covered bv a fresh
water lake which received numerous
rivers and smaller streams from the out
lying regions. the turbid waters of which
deposited a -ediment van ing from one
hundred and titty to a lew feet in depth
—A'. T. Sun.
The Evolution ot the Postal System.
The first recorded riding-post for any
but governmental correspondence was
established in Persia by Cyrus, 599
years before the Christian era. He di
vided his kingdom up into postal dis
tricts and appointed' innumerable mes
sengers. These postal messengers of
Cyrus went continually, night and day,
with great speed. The superintendent
of the posts was an important officer.
Before he became the last Persian King,
Darius held it.
The first public riding-post in Rome
came in under Augustus, nearly six
centuries later. But the Chinese, who
are credited with lots of good in those
days, however bad they may be now,
had a postal system away back in the
first chapter of their million-volume
history. A queer point in Chinese
postal history is that they had laws pro
viding punishment for writers of decoy
letters and robbers of the mails. Chi
i nese posts were called jambs. They
were located twenty-five miles apart,
and Marco Polo swears they numbered
10,000 and employed 2<X>,ooo horses in
his day. These Chinese post houses
were also inns, at which sumptuous
entertainment was provided, if the Ve
netian traveler is to be believed. The
Peruvians and Aztecs had a regular
system ot postal communication, evi
dently the outgrowth of ages of experi
ence, when the Spaniards dissipated
their felicitous barbarism. Many speci
mens of their hieroglyphical correspond
ence exist in the museum now.
Apart from the riding post, pigeons
were extensively employed in tho Orient
for the conveyance of correspondence.
In fact the practice continues thereto
this day. In Syria, Arabia, and Egypt
every bashaw generally has a basketful
of them with him on his travels from
the grand seraglio, where they are bred,
and ii'-es them in cases of emergency
to communicate with his friends. There
are records of dogs having been used
for longdistance correspondence by
the raceiof Nn t hern Europe.
in those davs letters were generally
in the f irm of rolls, round a stick, or,
I if a long letter, round two sticks, be
-1 ginning at each e id and rolling them
: until they met in the middle. Books of
I every size were c lo l rolls, Our word
volume means ju t tho same thing in its
original signification. The roil, book,
or letter was commonly wri’ten on one
side. Letters then, as is the custom
in the east at present, wore sent in most
cases without being sealed ; while those
addressed to persons of listinction were
i placed in a valuable purse, or bag,
which was tied, closed u it h clay or wax,
and so stamped with the writer’s sig
net. The Roman scrinium, or bookcase,
a very costly cabinet, shows how these
I rolls were preserved They were put
I in lengthwise and labeled on the top.
I Charlemagne established a post on
the Persian plan in his empire In 807.
I But the first actual letter-post Bystem
extending beyond tho mere conveyance
of letters between different parts of one
country, and branching out into for
eign lands, was originated by the Hanse
towns, about. 1109. The Hanseatic
league, established in north Germany,
consisted chiefly of merchants in the
chief ports of Germany, Eranee, Spain,
Portugal, Italy, Russia, Norway, and
! England; correspondence between them
! was a business necessity, and this ne
cessity led to the formation of a postal
union, so to speak. The Hanse posts
carried private correspondence, too, but.
at such rates that it cost more to post
j love-letters than it does to tell your girl
j how you adore her through the personal
! columns of a modern daily at $1 a line.
As long as tho 11 inse towns stuck to
business and letter-carrying they were
; all right. But they became belligerent,
and started in to light other confedera
tions and powers, and about the middle
of the fifteenth century their power be
gan to decline. In 1805 all that was
left of what had been the most powerful
commercial league and automatic con
federation in Europe were the towns of
. Hamburg, Lubock and Bremen. But
t four centuries before that their postal
i system had faded from monopolistic
| powers. The Emperor Maximilian had
established a post between Austria aud
Normandy. About the same time Louis
XI. set up the first regular post-houses
in France since the decline of those es
tablished by Charlemagne. Post-horses
and stages came in use in Franco in
11 83.
Ihe mounted posts in France were
stationed at distances of four miles
apart, and were required to be ready
day and night to carry government mes
sages as rapidly as possible. Private
correspondence, however, was earned
on very differently. The students of a
university in Paris established a postal
institution in the eleventh century. A
number of pedestrian messengers' were
employed, who boro letters from its
thousands of students to the various
countries of Europe from which they
came, and brought to them the money
, they needed for the prosecution of their
; studies.
1 England and America, however, were
the nations which actually developed
tne postal system to its present magnifi
cent proportions. The first post-houses
in England were established in 1483.
The regular riding-post system owes its
origin to Edward IV. But as far back
as Edward 11. private letters were sent
by regular post, as the inscription on
the envelopes, “Haste, post, haste!”
’ shows.
I Little or no improvement was made in
England in the postal system until
Queen Bess’ reign; £5,000 "a year was
all the post cost then, even in its ad
vanced condition. In 1858, disputes
among the foreign merchants resident
in Ixmdon, in regard to the foreign post
i which up to now they had been permit
ted to manage among themselves, which
they had done with a jealous eve to their
, own interests, of course, led to the ap
pointment of a “master of posts.” The
first chief postmaster of the world cre
ated thus was Thomas Randolph. Ho
went to work vigorously, and in his time
did away with most of the abuses which
grew out of the old mixed-np system of
posts.— Cincinnati Enquirer.
—We ought always to look at life
cheerfully. When an old man crawled
ashore after having fallen into the river
from a log he simply remarked that he
could have crossed on that log easily
enough, but that he didn’t want to.— N.
Y. lieraid.
Mohammed's Success.
The pauses Which led to Mohammed’s
Success will be best understood by tak
ing a rapid glance at the condition ot
Arabia about the time of his birth. It
must be borne in mind that a vague be
lief in one God existed among the Arab
tribes long before that event. Nor must
it be forgotten that the Arabs and Jews
were kindred races, speaking kindred
languages, and having kindred customs,
practices and prejudices. Driven out of
their own land at successive epochs by
Assyrians, Greeks and Romans, many
Jewish tribes settled in Arabia; and
when the Roman Empire became Chris
tianized, colonies of Christians also
scattered everywhere, found their way
into the Arabian peninsula, causing
much mutual attrition and interchange
of thought between Jews, Christians
and Arabians. Occasionally Arab tribes
were thus converted to the faith of the
colonists. Unhappily both the Judaism
and Christianity imported in this way
into the country were of a debased
character. They were not very much
better than the forms of religion already
prevalent among the Arab tribes. Even
the doctrines of God’s unity had been
tampered with and corrupted. No creed
worthy of the name of religion existed
anywhere in Arabia. Tritheism, poly
theism, Sabaeism, adoration of the sun
and planets, idolatry, fetishism, animal
worship, plant-worship, stone-worship,
superstitions of the grossest kinds, were
rife in various ways among various
tribes. Nowhere, except in the hearts
of a few of the more intelligent and
thoughtful, were any true ideas of God
still cherished. It was under such cir
cumstances, and amid such surround
ings, that Mohammed, “the praised
one” (as his name signifies), was born
at Mecca about A. D. 570. His father,
Abdullah, died before his birth, and his
mother, Aiuinah, when he was six years
old.
Yet he enjoyed one great advantage,
notwithstanding his orphaned condi
tion. He had not to waste time and
energy in pushing his way upward from
obscurity. His grandfather, Abd-ul-
Muttalib, who adopted him, belonged to
the Arabian aristocracy. He was of the
noble family of Hashim, of the Kuresh
tribe, and was the appointed guardian
of the Ka’bah, or sacred temple atMec
cah, a small, tube-shaped stone building
which had existed as a sacred edifice for
many centuries previously. The guar
dianship of this temple was regarded as
the highest honor to which any family
could aspire, tho belief being that it was
originally erected by Abraham over tho
spot where he was about to sacrifice
Ishmael. On the death of the grand
father of Mohammed, while he was still
a boy, his uncle, Abu Talib, became
his guardian, and during all his difficul
ties never deserted him. His family
| though noble, was poor, and the boy
Mohammed was obliged to earn his
livelihood by tending sheep in the wil
derness, thus from his earliest years
resembling his great prototype, Moses,
who had to act as shepherd to his fath
er-in-law, Jethro. It was notuntil Mo
hammed was twenty-live years of ago
that he married his rich kinswoman
; Khadijah. She was a widow lady who
had acquired great wealth by trading
transactions, and was fifteen years his
senior. She had intrusted the manage
ment of her affairs to Mohammed, and,
having found him eminently trust wort hy,
gave proof of her gratitude by offering
him her hand. It is remarkable that he
! remained faithful to Khadijah until her
death, which did not occur until he was
! in his fifty-first year.— Nineteenth Cen
tura.
A Horror of Horrors.
A letter received in ('hieago yester
day brings the news of a most terrible
cident, in whi h the victim was Captain
•lames Anderson, a navigator well
i known in Chicago and at most every
port along the chain of lakes. The
8 hooner Benson, of which Captain
Anderson was commander, had gone to
Lake Superior for a cargo of timber, she
and two or three other craft being
I towed by the tug Metamora. The tow
■ arrived safely at the camp on Serpent
I River, rnd the work of loading com
menced. On the second day after ar
. rival, while timber was being put
aboard the Benson, the accident oc
curred, and the horrible death of Cap
j tain Anderson was the result. Great
j iron grips are used Io draw the huge,
heavy, slippery sticks of timber into
the vessel. In some wav these grips
I slipped when Captain Anderson was
i standing by, and. Hying up, caught the
Captain by the head and literalh tore
his head otT. The sight was a sieken
i ing and horrible one, and the accident
cast a gloom over the entire camp, and
especially over the crew of the Benson.
Ihe hardy sailors, some of whom had
been through war ashore and a.loat,
said they never witnessed anything so
terrible before, and certainly hoped
they never would again. What made
it more terrible was that a second be
fore tho Captain was in robust health,
a whole-souled, large-hearted, good-na
tured friend, talking in his jocular way
with the men. \\ hen the latter heard
the grip slip, saw the body slung twenty
or thirty feet and the head remain in
strings in the fearful teeth of the horri
ble tool, it was more than they could
stand. 1 hey -huddered. sickened, ami
shed tears. No more work was done
on board the Benson that day. C’/u’ca
<7o Inter Ocean.
Gum Arabic.
The most familiar objects about us
are often least understood, and probably
few can pause to ask the question, what
is gum arabic, amt from whence it
comes? In Morocco, about the middle
of November (that is just after the rainy
season), a gummy juice exudes spon
taneously from the trunk and branches
of the acacia. It gradually thickens in
the furrow down which it runs, and as
sumes the form of oval and round drops,
about the size of a pigeon egg, of differ
ent colors, as it comes from the red or
white gum tree. About the middle of
December the Moors encamp on the
border of the forest, and the harvest
lasts a full month. The gum is packed
in large leather sacks and transported
on the backs of camels and bullocks to
seaports for shipment to different coun
tries. Ihe harvest occasion is made one
of great rejoicing, and the people, for
the time being, alm ist live on gum,
winch is nutritious and fattening. Such
is the commercial story of this simple
but useful article. " >
Sanborn’s Experiment in Feeding. ,
The published details of the ®M> er ’'
ments of J. W. Sanborn Superintendent
A tbd College Farm at Hanoxer,
contain Interesting results, Bome
which in condensed form are here given.
The experiments in feeding calves
present some facts which may
some value to meat raisers. Two calves
were taken, four and a half weeks ol ,
both together weighing 283 pounds, and
were fed 20 quarts Os skimmed milk
daily late in November. They gained
in 18 daxs 39 pounds. Over 8 quarts of
milk were required for 1 pound i
growth. For tn* next 14 daysta pound
of mixed meals was t o. J to f
and they gained 63 pounds, aw \
2.2 cents per portnd. For the nexv
days t,hey had 2 pounds of meal and 4
pounds of hay added to the milk each
day, and they gained 59 pounds, at a
cost of 3 cents a pound. 4or the next
14 days they had nearly the
and gained 71 pounds, at a cost of -■<
cents a pound. Duringthe next 14dax s
they gained 60 pounds on the same food,
with some addition of hay, at a cost of
3.5 < ents. Fourteen days later they had
gained 63 pounds, with added meal and
I hay. at a cost per pound of 3.9 cents.
The less n taught by these results was
that the older the meat, the more cost
ly; but through t' e whole, although in
winter, there was an actual profit,
rat ing the meal at 1.4 cents a pound,
the milk at 4 mills, and the hay at. $lO
per ton. This was a single limited ex
periment, but it shows the importance
to farmers of knowing at what age of
animals it is most prolitab’e to feed or
dispose of them. We observe in the de
i tails of the above experiment that there
was but a slight increase in the amount
of food given when the weight of the
animals bad largely increased.
Other experiments were made, with
those averaging 425 pounds each, to de
termine the probable amounts of lood
animals would consume. They were
found to require 3J per cent, of their
live weight daily in hay, the small
amount of grain being estimated in hay.
Ten pounds of hay were required for
one pound of growth. Additional trials
were made with two-year steers, weigh
ing iron) 1,000 to 1,100 pounds. An
average of eight experiments, extend
ing from 28 to 90 days, gave a con
sumption of 2.1(1 per cent, of their live
Weight daily, with an average gain of
[o.’&’Tof a pound. The important fact
was determined that the older
: larger the animal grows, the more food
i it requires to make a pound of growth.
Some valuable experiments were
; made with roots as food. For growing
cattle, carrots brought nothing, but they
proved very much better for milk and
butter than swedes or mangolds. The
Litter were found worse th in useless for
milch cows, as compared with other food,
While for growing animals they brought
one dollar and seventy-five cents a ton,
rating hay at ten dollars a ton. I’rof.
Sanborn alludes to the old analytical
methods of determining the value of
foods, and these applied to carrots
would show 1.35 of albuminoids. By
the present method it is cut down to
only 0.26. This fact bears rather hard
i on the infallibility of abstract scientific
’ teaching
The Pea Weevil.
The pea weevil is so destructive in
: every part of the United States, except,
: perhaps, from Central Wisconsin
north, as to have most seriously inter
fered with the cultivation of the pea as
a seed or food crop. Hence the most of
our seed and food peas are raised in
! Canada, and corresponding latitudes
I where the season is too short or too
cold for the insect, the ravages ot which
occur more freely as we approach the
■ tropics.
This insect is one of the snout beetles,
I and closely allied to the curculio,and no
i means have yet been found to stay its
ravages. The eggs are laid on the pods
; of the young pea, to which they are fas
tened by a viscid fluid. The insects work
at night and on dark, cloudy davs, and
i the eggs hatching, the minute worm
; finds its way through the pod and into
; the peas, upon which it feeds, avoid
i ing, however, the germ, so that a pea
' may be nearly eatpn out, as to its meat,
and yet still retain the power of germi
nation, although weak.
If the peas, as soon as gathered, are
threshed, and dried at a temperature of
i 140 degrees, the youngf insects are said
to be killed, but the seed will not germi
nate. Immersion of the dry peas in
scalding water for 100 seconds is said
to kill the pupa without injury to the
pea. An immersion of about three
minutes totally destroys germination of
the pea. Late-sown peas usually escape
the attacks of the insect, but the crop
is then liable to mildew in the West.
So far, it must be confessed, no cer
tain practical means have been found to
subdue-the insect, and it is now feared
the allied weevil (Bruchus Fabie) which
attacks the bean, will create great loss
in this crop. In fact the weevil family
(eurculioni(hr), or snout beetles, one of
the largest families in the order of bee
tles, and comprising over 10,000 distinct
and described species, and preying upon
all grain, legumes, fruits, and nuts, are
the most difficult to check of any of the
destructive insects.
As to effective means for killing all
insects infesting seeds, the weevil tribe
generally, we have lately seen the
bisulphide of carbon recommended. It
certainly is deadly,and a small quantity
poured in the bottom of a grain bin
would permeate the whole mass. Half
a pint of the liquid is said to be sufficient
for fifty to 100 bushels of grain, since it
is both volatile aud penetrating. The
Miller advises placing the chemical in
connection with the grain, in order to
get it duly in the bottom of the bin, as
follows:
Take a hollow iron cylinder—a gas
pipe will do well—and fit into it a wood
en rod, which shall be a little longer
than the iron tube. One end of the rod
uto be made sharp; now place the rod
inside t n- tube, and with the sharp end
down f. rce them both to the bottom of
the gram; then, having withdrawn the
rod. turn in the liquid through the tube,
which should be pulled out. The insect
icide, of course, is left at the bottom of
the grain, and being very volatile, soon
diffuses through the mass and converts
the bin into an insect cemetery Prairie
Farmer.
—ls young men get no good at church
they are at least kept from getting bad.
WM. A. MILLER, C - T . CARgijJ
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This flrm also deals in Smoking and Chewing Tobacco, Fine Cigars and Snuff, and have the ex
elusive Drug trade in fine Wines, XVhiskies and Brandies in Dalton.
Call and see them at the corner of King and Hamilton streets, Dalton, Ga. Prices guaranteed W
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The Dalton Argus,
[changed from independent headlight,]
Brightest, Most Progressive, Liberal and Popular
News Paper in Northwest G-eorgia.
ONLY ONE TDOL-LjJLIEL jL YEAR-
Advertisers can find no Better Medium through which to Meet the Farmers,
Mechanics, Merchants, Mil! Men and People of this section.
H. A. WRENCH, Publisher.
One of the Epochs.
Among the latest commissions issued
by Acting Post master-General Hatton,
says a recent Washington special, is
one to “Bill” Nye, lately appointed
postmaster at Laramie City, Wv. T.
Nye is the editor of the Daily tioome
rang. In accepting the nomination he
says:
Laramtb City, Wy. T.. Au.mst 19, JBH2.
Ml Dear General: 1 have received the
news by t legraph of my nomination and con
“emation as postma-t r at Laramie, and
wish to extend my thanks for the same I
have order -d an entirely new set of boxes and
peat-office outfit, ineiud ng new corrugated
cuspadores tor the use of cleflts. 1 look
upon the appointment nivself as a
triumph < f eternal truth over error and
wrong. It 's one of the epochs. as I mav
say. m the N’ati >n’s onward inarch toward
wh o 't'J. . punty and . P er, vet on. I don't know
wh< n I hat e noticed any stride in the affairs
wh . i,h 80 thoroughly impressed me
with its wisdom. Now tha we are coworkera
in the same department, I trust yon will not
Teel shy or backward in consulting meat anv
time relative to matters concerning Posl-Ot
tief* Department affairs. Be perfectly t runk
with me, and feel perfectly free just to bring
anj thing of t. at kind right to me. I do not
fee leluctant because I may appear at times
void and reserved Perhaps you think I do
not know the d tlerence between a post-office
window andla three-em quad, but that is a
mistake. My general information is far be
yond my years. With profoundest regards i
remain, smeeredy yours. Bill Nve.
—ltalian papers announce the dis
covery at Dorgali, in the island of Sar
dinia, of a great stalactite cave. Fifteen
galleries have been already traced. In
•me of them there is a row of pillars
like white marble, and the floor is
smooth, resembling the finest basalt.
When lit up with torches the combina
tions and varieties of coloring are won
derfully beautiful.
The Climate in Different Parts of ie
Union.
Figures gleaned from the observation
points of forty-nine States and Territo
ries show that the hottest places in the
Union are Florida, Louisiana and Ari
zona, the mean temperature of which i*
69. Texas ranks next at 67, Alabama ($.
Mississippi 64, Arkansas 63, South Caro
lina 62, Indian Territory 60, North Caro
lina 59. Georgia and Tennessee stand on a
par at 58, Virginia 57, Kentucky 56. The
mean temperature of 55 prevails in Cali
fornia, Missouri and the District of Co
lumbia ; 54 in Maryland and Pennsylva
nia, 53 in Delaware, Ohio and Oregon»
52 in Idaho, Utah and West Virginia, 51
in Indiana, Kansas, New Mexico and
Washington Territory, 50 in Connecti
cut, Illinois, Nevada and New Jersey,
49 in lowa and Nebraska; Massachu
setts ranks with Rhode Island, New
York and Colorado at 48; Michigan and
Dakota are equal at 47; Alaska is not
the coldest part of the Union, as is com
monly supposed, but stands with New
Hampshire at 46 ; colder than these are
Maine and Wisconsin at 45, Montan*
and Vermont at 43, Minnesota at 42. and
coldest of all, Wyoming at 41.
—Two or three year old cattle will
add one-third of a pound more per daV
to their weight upon prepared hay and
roots than upon the same materials un
prepared. Chicago Journal.
—A minister at Brompton Ont., has
been sued by a girl he kissed two years
ago; she waited for him to do it again
until her patience was clean gone. —( hi
caao Tinuu.