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VOL. V.-NO. 8.
{JEWS GLEANINGS.
Jacksonville, Fla., has six papers.
Texas has 137,000 square miles desti
tute of inhabitants.
The richest county in North Carolina
in gold is Montgomery.
The largest single brick-yard in the
United. States is at Atlanta.
Tennessee, North Carolina and Vir
ginia will all make good peanut crops.
Corn is offered in Jackson county,
Ala., at twenty cents per bushel, deliv
ered.
Pratt s coal mines at Birmingham,
Ala., are the most extensive in the
South.
Experiments have proven that the
Japanese seedless persimmon will grow
prolifically in Florida.
It is estimated that over 1,000,000 oi
ange trees will come into bearing in
Orange county, Fla., this year.
It is said that the first orange tree
ever known to have been injured by
lightning was struck at St. Augustine,
Fla., recently.
Of’the immigrants arriving at Castle
Garden during the last six months,
Texas got 2,089 more than any other
Southern State.
Twenty more marriage and natal
guilds filed articles of incorporation at
Nashville Monday. The grand shaking
up of dry bones will be a thing of the
near future.
The Concho floods caused the death
nf 149 persons and 15,000 sheep. In the
past month, floods in Texas have de
stroyed 200 lives and $5,000,000 worth
of property.
The High Shoals factory recently sold
to an Atlanta broker, for $650, Confed
erate bonds to the amount of SIOO,OOO.
which had been lying i n the factory
safe for seventeen years.
Griffin, Ga., has the largest peach or
c ard in the South, containing 50,000
fees and covering most of 600 acres.
“ same farm are,4,000 grafted an
P e trees and 5,000 pear trees.
Numerous petitions are being circu
lated m Alabama asking the Legislature
to prohibit the manufacture and sale ol
intoxicating liquors in the State. The
petitions are being numerously signed.
Gold has been discovered in the Organ
Mountains, sixty miles north of~El
1 aso Tex. A piece of ore brought in,
weighing two pounds, was covered with
pure gold and contained $l5O worth of
rue metal.
Fha Glc h ar d of Perry Howard, at
nezer, Miss., there is an apple tree
'7 “A th. ripe frult I B j‘.t „ 0 „.
appearing. A second crop is upon
‘he tree about half gr3Wn , and is still
blooming for a third crop.
P inT n - iamß ? Urg ’ the 01dest cit y Vir
cuietp 1 ! T t 0 one of t,ie Quaintest,
great nt ' OB th ® S ° Uth ’ and 01
tian i LFeSt because of its many an
building,. ItwM
Ce the capital of the State.
th^Past W fif ) f rleaQß Washerwoma n has in
fit) i teen years raised a family of
a *’«■ Ihem an Xod
day ’“ ,d «’»? tor a rainy
namJ” 01 '”” TO “'“ 7 ' G “-> l »'> men,
Cm r ? i ’ eot ' v "r Hill and O „ M ’
oyer three I “ n,in “ed tor
draw Tim h ° Ur8 ’ and resulted in a
atll M CC “““Otwell,
ciose of the novel duel.
I ™"l',y b a re ‘ h ! J ” U T‘ in the
living
hrether and , ister ‘ cl >'Mren arc
thirteen and te„ re 'P“tOelj
mMt of their own work have done
In Geneva countv ai
Wwn down by a storm m’’ a miH Wa »
woman and her child 1 “ CS . day ’. and a
ruins. The next juried in the
’■s cleared ,„ ay tho d «l>Ha
".aaeraahed by «L'' 1 1 1 " . the ”»«■-
li «'“hild J,*;;:*’’ the
” d ' h “"’»ther,^ pin
Dixie Wagoner, a smart n .
nymph du pave, has made * Art ”
associations sweat. Aft ne ma "iage
large number of noli •' * takin 8 °«t a
h« “triend,” drew al! X," 1 '
then went to Illi no i s » n<l nione y and
v orce. The nair tu . procure <I a di
and are now b •** ° v ’ded the swag
diß eomfitei at the duped and
F
Rome (Ga.) Bulletin: D. W. Ford,
of Cave Spring, brought into olir office
yesterday a perfect natural pitcher,
which he had found in Texas a few
months ago growing as an excrescence on
a red elm tree. Its proportions are ac
curate, and it is about twelve inches
high and six inches in diameter, is hoi
low, and has a perfect handle and spout.
At Wilmington, N. C.» a party of
gentlemen discovered'a large white crane
on the edge of a small pond evidently
trying to fly, but could not. They went
to investigate the matter and ascertained
that one of the bird’s feet was held by
a large snapping terrapin. The crane
was lifted out of the water, but the ter
rapin kept his hold. Both were cap
tured alive.
Henry Todd, who lives in Darien, is
the wealthiest colored man in Georgia.
When a youth his master died and left
him his freedom. When the Confed
ercy fell he lost twenty slaves and some
Confederate bonds. After the war he
continued farming operations and en
gaged in the lumber business. He is
now sixty-five years old, and is worth
$100,003 in good investments.
The New Orleans Times-Democrat, in
an article on “Cotton Mills, North and
South,” says the Southern mills now
boast 1,237,409 spindles, and that the
consuption of cotton this year will reach
100,000 bales, or one quarter of the
amount used North. This fact is the
more natable because two years ago the
amount of cotton manufactured in the
South was scarce worthy of mention.
The largest individual sheep owner in
Texas is a woman, well known all over
the State as the “Widow Callahan.”
Her sheep, more than 50,000 in number,
wander over the ranges of Uvalde and
Bandera counties, in the southwestern
part of the State. Their grade is a cross
between the hardy Mexican sheep and
the Vermont merino. They are divided
into flocks of 2,000 head each, with a
“bossero” and two “pastoras” in charge
of each flock.
A North Carolina correspondent of
the Atlanta Constitution writes: “1
suppose Morehead City is the only city
in the world without a wheel in it, • I
do not think that there is a wagon or a
buggy horse in town and very few in
the country. Everything is done in
boats. . There is not a house in the
county that a boat cannot get within a
mile of. Not a doctor or a lawyer in
the county owns a horse ; they practice
in boats. The people go to funerals in
boats, and when they arrest a man they
cirry him to jail in a boat.
A Prussian View of the English Army.
The correspondent of the Cologne
Gazette at Ramleh expresses surprise at
the coolness of The British troops.
“They show,” he says, “none of the
excitement and eagerness which dis
tinguish the Continental nations when
they light for existence, or at least for
a national idea. This Egyptian war,
like most wars in which England is en
gaged, is treated entirely as a matter of
business; if the object of the under
taking had been to make a railway or a
canal it could hardly have been entered
upon more quietly. * * * Deeds of
extraordinary energy 7 and courage, as is
to be expected in wars carried on in
this way, are much more rare than in
the national wars of Continental Eu
rope. It is true that the feeling of
national solidarity is as strong as, if
not stronger, among the English, than
among other nations, and there is no
lack of manliness in a race of such
consummate physical development; but
the cause for which they tight does not
elicit the enthusiasm which prompts
men to do more than their duty. More
over, the English, however practical,
are deficient in foresight. It will
scarcely be believed in Germany that
there are not more than two or three
trustworthy maps of Lower »Egypt in
the whole of the English camp. Even
most of the staff officers have to use
maps which arc not much better an
those in Baedeker’s Guide Book. And
yet there woidd have been plen.y of
time to get a few hundreds of copies of
the Arabian map of Mahmud Bey, with
the names of the places printed in
Roman characters. At the same time,
it is not to be denied that the English
army, notwithstanding its singular and
antiquated organization according to
Continental notions, is well adapted tor
a war of this kind. The admirable
physique of the men. the wise and busi
ness-like way in which they are led,
and the strongly developed love of
sport, whether military or otherwise,
which is the national characteristic, are
immense advantages in a struggle with
a half-civilized adversary. The dis
cipline of the army, toe. seems very
strict; for 1 have not seen any drunken
soldiers since 1 arrived ”
—An Indiana writer advocates the al
olition of the telephone on the proiw
that it encourages laziness. Th ■ huh
objection applies to easy chairs . n
nearly all the comforts of modern l.f
Chicago Tribune.
DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1882.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Oregon is now called the Webfoot
Mate.
Evangelist Moody is trying to stir up
i religious feeling in Pdrisi
Prince Bismarck has beenjin the Prus
sian Ministry twenty years.
The corn acherage is greater this year
chan ever before owing to the tooth-pick
coed boots.
A tunnel is projected under the Elbe,
oetween Hamburg and Steinwarder
Island, to cost
It will cost over §IOO,OOO to replace
the bridges swept away by the recent
Hoods at Elizabeth, New Jersey,
—* ♦ *
Seven citizens of Delaware were pub
licly whipped a few days ago, and three
more stood an hour in the pillory.
A gentle Man who has made recent
observations in Utah claims to have
discovered internal dissensions in the
Mormon Church which may work its
ruin.
Cincinnati is organizing a swell cav
alry company, to be known as the Cin
cinnati Horse Guards. It takes §3OO and
a “passable” moral character to become
a member,
The great Newburgh poker game has
at last been settled, by Hedges and
Scott refunding to their victim, Weed,
§20,000. This makes Weed’s loss, in
round figures, §70,000.
Each of Garibaldi’s children is to
get $2,000 a year for life from the Italian
Government. Yet their late father was
in 1834 (on lemned by grandfather of the
present King of Italy to be shot.
The Queen of Madagascar has ordered
that a prohibitory law shall be framed,
prohibiting the manufacture of brandy
or its importation into her territories.
The penalty is the forfeiture of ten oxen
and a fine of $lO.
The fruit crop in Scotland has been a
complete failure. It. is the worst season
for the last fifty years. At one well
known orchard in the Carse of Gowrie,
which is rented at £2OO, the crop consists
of one barrel of apples.
Rumor has it that the wedding of Mr.
Chester A. Arthur, jr., and Miss Crow
ley, has been appointed for the early
part of October. The bride and groom
elect are extremely young, their com
bined ages not exceeding thirty-six.
The London Truth says that a specu
lator in New York has resolved to tempt
Prof. Huxley to cross the Atlantic by
the offer of £IOO per lecture for a series
of 200 discourses on popular science, to
be delivered during 1883 and 1884.
Mr. Gladstone wears ready-made
clothing, and while crossing a street
always acts on the principle that the
hypothenuse of a triangle is less than the
two sides. In place of using the cross
walk, he cuts off the corners, or crosses
diagonally on the cobbles.
The Washington Critic says: ‘Star-
Route juryman John B. McCarthy, who
voted for conviction all the way through,
has been appointed to a position at the
Government Asylum for the Insane.
Mr. McCarthy was simply an honest
cobbler before he got on the jury.”
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Bacon that used to sell in the South for
from five to eight cents per pound is now
worth from fourteen to seventeen cents
per pound. Cotton has depreciated
largely, and it does not pay to raise cot
ton to buy pork with. The Southern
farmers are beginning to find this out.
Mr. J. G. Bigelow, the counsel for
Sergeant Mason, states that when he
visited the Albany Penitentiary a few
days ago, to obtain the execution of the
petition of a writ of habeas corpus, Mason
was looking bad and felt quite discour
aged. They have him engaged in mak
ing shoes.
The number of acres in rice in the
United States in 1880 was 114,113; num
ber of pounds produced, 110,131,373
clean rice; an average product of 632
pounds per acre. Number of acres un
der cultivation in 1881, nearly twenty
thousand less than in 1880, and product
in 1881, eleven million pounds greater
than that of the previous year.
The London Truth ridicules Gen.
Wolseley’s dispatches from Egypt as
“sentimental twaddle,” and attention is
called to his account of an engagement
i in which there was “heavy firing for
j several hours,” the troops “behaving
admirably under a hail of bullets,” and
the result was one man killed and twelve
wounded.
A wealthy bachelor of Oregon, whose
death lately occurred in the East, while
on a visit, has given the most valuable
farm in the cove to a school for young
ladies. The buildings for the school will
be erected soon. This farm contains
34,00(1 prune an plum trees, and the pro
ceeds from the sale of fruit are some
§IO,OOO a year.
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Prof. Boss, of the t)udley Observa
tory, at Albany, says the comet was 10,-
000,000 miles from the sun September
17, and 20,000,000 on the 21st. On the
former date it was 103,000.000 miles
from the earth, and on the latter 107,*
000,000. It is thus going away both
from the sun and the earth. It is plainly
visible in the early morning in the
Eastern sky, and is beautifully brilliant.
Tjiii woman suffragist movement
seems to be advancing in the East. Says
the Massachusetts’ Democratic platform:
Equal rights, equal powers, equal bur
dens, equtil privileges and equal protection
by law under the government fore Very cit
izen of the republic, without limitation
of race or sex, or property-qualification,
whether it be by a tax on property or a
poll taxon persons.
Says the Republican platform of the
same State:
We invite intelligent and candid consid
eration of all propositions in aid of tem
perance and good order, for equal rights of
suffrage irrespective of sex, and for the en
couragement of industry, frugality, con
tentmen and prosperity among "all the
people of our honored State.
Some one has found in one of Ecker
mann’s books a record of a conversation
he bad in 1825 with Goethe on the sub
ject of ship canals. Goethe, he says,
showed a special interest in Humboldt’s
idea of piercing the Isthmus of Panama,
and further said : “Itis a necessity for
the United States that American mer
chantmen and men of war should be
able io set sail straight into the Pacific
from the Bay of Mexico, and I feel sure
that they will accomplish it. I should
wish to live to see it; but that will not
happen. Secondly, I should like navi
gation from the Danube into the Rhine
to be rendered feasible. And thirdly, I
should like to see the English in posses
sion of a canal across the Isthmus of
Suez. To live long enough in order to
witness three such great events it would
be really worth while to put up with
existence for some fifty years more.”
Goethe’s fifty years, it will be observed,
were completed in 1876.
Causes of Typhoid Fever.
A severe outbreak of typhoid fever
which occurred last year at Nahant, a
rocky peninsula near Boston, inhabited
during the summer by a small number
of very rich cottage owners, was fol
lowed by an investigation, of which the
results are made public in an article by
Mr. E. W. Bowditch, in the Boston
Medical and Surgical Journal. In such
cases contamination of drinking-water
is usually the principal cause of the
spread of the disease, and the wells and
cisterns which supply the houses were
first examined. Water was taken from
one hundred and ninety of these and
analyzed. Eight of the samples were
pronounced “excellent,” and seventy
one others “permissible,” or “wood.”
One hundred and eleven were classed as
“suspicious,” “very suspicious,” or :
“bad.” About eighty cases of fever
occurred, nearly all of which could be
accounted for by the actual condition of
the drinking-water used in the houses
inhabited by the patients. In a few
others the filthy surroundings furnished
a probable source of infection, although
the water appeared pure, as, in one in
stance, where analysis failed to detect
any serious pollution in water taken
from a well situated within ten feet of
one leaching cesspool and fifteen feet of
another, both overflowing, and of
course ready to furnish an occasional
supply to the well during dry seasons
or under other circumstances. One or
two more were probably explained by
the fact that the ice used in the house
hold was brought from a foul pond in |
the vicinity; and only one seemed quite I
inexplicable, unless perhaps the infec- |
tion might have been brought by milk
contained in cans which had been rinsed
in foul water. Mr. Bow ditch’s suspi- ;
cion, that the infection was communi
cated in certain cases by contaminated
ice, is strengthened by the fact that a
very severe and fatal epidemic of ty- j
phoid fever was unquestionably caused
in this way not long ago at a seashore i
hotel in New England; and it is worth
asking whether the public authority ;
might not be employed with advantage
in exercising some sort of surveillance
over the collection and sale of an article j
which may become, and perhaps already
is, far more dangerous than the trichi- i
nous pork or immature veal against
which so many precautions are taken. In
one place that we know of, says the Amer
ican Architect, thousands of tons of ice
are annually gathered at the very edge
of an extensive and well-filled cemetery,
which slopes somewhat rapidly toward
the water; and we have seen the winter
product of a little pool formed by the
overflow of what was practically the
drain of a cluster of squalid houses
regularly sold to customers. — Scientific
American.
A granite memorial to Elihu Burritt,
the “learned blacksmith,” bearing the
simple inscription, “Friend <d ' race -
| »nd Philanthropist, has been k tup rn
I New Britain Cemetery. Connecticut.
A Parisian AftiM’s Revenge.
One of the most eminent painters of
Paris was lately commissioned to paint
the portrait of a lady who was some
years ago a famous beauty, but who is
how nearer her fiftieth than her fortieth
year. She wished the portrait to be ex
hibited in this year’s Salon, and gave
the artist endless trouble over its de
tails. When it was finished, however,
she was far from contented, and de
blared that the could not recognize her
own likeness in his conscientious piece
of work. 'The paintef «tdd that she
need not have the picture if she did not
think it to be a faithful one, and it re
mained in his atelier as his own unsold
property Meanwhile he was deter
mined to have hist revenge for the insult
done to his pride as an artist and the
loss to his pocket as one who lived by
his art. In order that the picture should
not remain a piece of dead capital, he
resolved to transform it from a portrait
into a subject. A few days before the
private exhibition the lady in question
was informed by a w ell-instructed friend
that the artist had introduced a number
of accessories into her portrait which
tvero likely to compromise her reputa
tion. She drove off in great haste to
the painter’s studio and asked to seethe
picture. The wish was promptly grati
fied. There she stood upon the canvas,
life-like and life-size; but the cruel artist
had thinned her hair to scmi-baldness,
and in one of her hands she held two
long tresses of false hair. Upon the
table at her side, which he had changed
into a toilet-table, were ranged a num
ber of bottles, labeled respectively with
the words: “Milk of Lilies,” “Beauty
Water,” “Elixir against Wrinkles,”
“Golden-hair Dye.” The lady cried
out that such treatment was infamous.
“You have really no complaint,
madame,” said the artist. “Youhave
already declared that the picture is in
no sense a portrait of yourself. I accept
your opinion, and, as I cannot afford to
lose so much hard work, I have treated
it as a fantasie piece, and as such I shall
introduce it to the public. I mean to
call it “The Coquette of Fifty Years.’ ”
“What!” exclaimed she. “You mean
to exhibit it?” The lady immediately
begjed him to accept the stipulated
sum for the portrait and, after she had
seen the compromising accessories ob
literated in her presence, took out her
check-book and bought the picture on
the snot.— London Echo.
Western Stories Outdone.
Newspapers in the West and South
have of late enjoyed a monopoly of re
markable stories of snakes and other
desirable specimens of natural history 7 .
That the North may not be left behind
in this respect, let us consider the moral
teachings which are .presented by the
Summer Boarder and the Freshwater
Clam. Three years ago the boarder in
question, while straying along the bed
of a stream that had been left partially
bare by excessive drought, discovered,
lying upon the sand, a conehiferous,
bivalvular mollusk— vulg. clam—which
seemed to be in the last gasp from ex
haustion and thirst. The kind-hearted
stranger, pitying the sore strait of the
unhappy bivalve, at once took it up and
cast it into a deep part of the stream
and then went his way, speedily forget
ting the incident. A week ago, how
ever, as he was enjoying his vacation,
amt sitting near the spot where the
above described event took place, he
perceived a clam laboriously climbing
out of the water and dragging itself
over the sand. Arrived, with much ex
ertion, at the fc “ of the amazed ob
server, the clam ope.-M its shell and
disclosed a pearl as large as a hazel
nut, which the gentleman did not hesi
tate to appropriate. Thereupon the
clam, smiling clear way around to its
back hinge, returned to the water and
disappeared with a gurgle of satisfac
tion. This affecting incident, besides
showing that even the humblest works
of creation are capable of noble emo
tions, teaches us the fine moral that we
should always be kind to animals, in
which respect it is much to be pre
ferred to the Southern and Western
yarns referred to, which seem devised
simply to entertain the minds of the
frivolous, and convey no edifying lesson
at all.— Boston Journal.
Driven From a Valued Home.
A will made in a mail-house, of which
the testator has been an inmate during
the greater part of his life, is not a doc
ument very likely, one would say, to
pass muster in a court of law, but such
a paper has just been declared valid in
Dublin. The testator was a Frenchgen
tleman, who in his youth became insane
from excessive dissipation and was con
fined in an asylum for two years before
he recovered his mental health. Being
then at liberty to go, he refused to do
so, but having acquired a liking for the
place, he remained there until his death,
twenty-eight years later. Only once
did he go out into the world, and on
this occasion he returned to the asylum
so drunk that he declared be would nev
er run into temptation again, a resolu
tion to which he always thereafter ad
hered, until finally he was told he could
not remain any longer, whereupon he
went forth weeping and diedin eighteen
months from the day of his discharge.
■ —The Agricultural Colleges of the
: various States that have a farm attached
should begin a systematic and continu
ous effort to develop new and different
kinds of fruits, and by mterchanging
find out line's 0
tended field of ' of fruit,’especially
pay the expense a /,
million fold. —At. S'™”
TERMS: SI.OO A YEAR.
PITH AND POINT.
—ls you can’t trust a man entirely, let
him skip; this trying to get an average
on honesty has always been a failure?—
Josh Hillings.
—lt is said a cornet player in Berlin
burst a blood-vessel trying to sound a
Wagnerian double note. It is comfort
ing to know that Wagner’s is to be the
music of the future.— Lowell Citizen.
—Professor Huxley estimates the take
of herring in the North Sea at 3,000 -
000,000. Before relying on Huxley’s es
timate we would like to know whether
i he saw the fish or took the statement of
the fishermen.— Boston Post.
—Douglass Autz, of Norwich, fell un
der a moving train he was trying to
board. When the train passed Dougiass
arose, uninjured, with his cigar in his
mouth. And yet there are people who
claim smoking to be injurious.—Ban
bury News.
—A new nurse-maid had been engaged
for the family of John Leech. On her
appearing in the nursery she was thus
addressed by Master Leech: “Nurse,
papa says I am one of those children
that can be managed by kindness, and
I’ll trouble you to fetch some sponge
cakes and oranges at once.”— Chicago
Tribune.
—A salt mine has just been discovered
in Australia which is believed to be
more than two thousand years old. It’s
a good thing it was a salt mine, or it
would’nt have kept half so long. Now,
there are some silver mines in America,
for instance, that haven’t lasted more
than three months after the assessments
gave out.— Burlington Hawkeye.
—Some men have tact. Said the
bridegroom who didn’t wish either
to offend his bride or die of internal
disturbance: “My dear, this bread looks
delicious; but it is the first you have
ever made. I can not think of eating
it, but will preserve it to show to our
children in after years as a sample of
their mother’s skill and deftness.”—Bos
ton Post.
—Plantation philosophy—Remember,
yonng man, dat de best frien’ yer’s got
on dis earth is a better frien’ ter himself
den he is ter you. Pay no attention ter
a man by de boasts what he makes.
Thunder doan all de time tell ob a corn
in’rain. . . Doan turn a man outen
de ranks of spectability case he’s a cow
ard. A hound dog ain’t much on de
fight, but he’s a mighty useful animal.
. . . While Nature was a foolin ’ away
her time paintin’ different colors an’
stripes on de hornsob de Jack snappers
an’ odder bugs, 1 doan see why she
didn’t contrive some easier way fur a
chile to cut teeth. — Arkansas traveler.
—— 1111 "11 J 1
Hogs.
If you have hogs running in your pas
tures now is the time, when the grass
is low and the heat oppiessive, to feed
generously, once or twice a day with
corn, wheat and oats screenings; with
bran, shorts, rotten or fallen apples, and
other fruits, jointly or separately made
by boiling into a mush, or even a swill.
It costs something and it causes some
labor and trouble, but all will be well
repaid in the quantity that before Christ
mas will go into the lard tubs and pork
barrels. It is perfect nonsense to raise
pork on the old plan if you wish to raise
it for less than twelve or fifteen cents a
pound. If you follow the old plan,
which was turning out shouts at “ kill
ing time,” and starving them all win
ter until clover comes, and then say,
“root hog or die,” until with dogs and
negroes you hunt them down and place
them in a pen for fattening, after thev
have worried you all the year as <
laws, breaking in the fields of COD
other grain at night, and next dayQ,
almost to death and torn by dogs, uni.
they escape through their holes m th<
fence, and a man or more hasgj-QjJ
half a day to drive them out
the hole, for the same thing
peated the next day--you will
at a cost far beyond what you
it for in the market. But if you can’ll
a good breed, keep the hogs dry iqj
warm in winter, give a good pasture in
summer, plenty of water and food the
year round, with rotten wood, ashes,
salt and sulphur, you can raise pork
costing not half what you should receive
for it should you choose to sell. The
hog is naturally lazy, and if well sup
plied with food he will not wander far
from the swill-tub or food-trough. Like
the poor, lazy drunkard he will stick to
the tavern that gives him his food and
drink in the largest quantity for the
least exertion on his part. But stop his
meat and drink, and no idle vagabond
or ruined roue will turn marauding
rover, or sneak-thief, bold highwayman
or chicken-stealer as will the hog,
whether he be high-bred or common
stock.— Maryland Farmer.
Fascinated by .in Alligator.
I was at the Zoo yesterday and saw
something which is worthy of being
mentioned. One of the gulls entered
the pond where the alligator was lazily
propelling himself about and proceeded
to enjoy itself in its native elements.
But the eye of the scaly monster was
upon it and the mesmeric influence of
its glance was soon felt. It was im
possible for the gull to resist the baleful
o-lare of the saurian; inch by inch it
was attracted to the alligator powerless
to resist the fascination, until it came
close enough for the
mammoth h £vin<' devoured
luckless bird Aftei huvW
its prey the
' to digest, Its 111. . ■ living
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