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'TOO TOO" RURAL, AND TRULI
RURAL.
Oh! isn't the country just lovely?
iSo peaceful and quiet and all that;
It seems like n dream or an opera.
Or course, dear, your new Watteau hat,
ho one that you wore as Maud Muller,
« hen to Caiubrinl, the art.et, you sat.
es, we'll stroll for awhile amid Nature,
And visit each wild woodland nook;
Cull daisies and other sweet flowerets,
O* l the banks of some clear, purling brook.
A pink sash? No; blue is more rural.
No gloves! Why how odd you will look.
No doubt, dear, we’ll meet with a shepherd,
« Ith curls, nnd a crook, and a lute
That he'll play like a very Apollo,
And be dressed in a green velvet suit.
His eyes will be big, sad and tender—
t>h! bother! Please button this boot.
think of the brave, handsome mowers,
" ho merrily warble their lay,
At tlve o’clock in the morning,
To milkmaids, whoso work Is but play.
1 ve seen them so often In “ Martha”
That—No, I won't writ? that letter to-day.
And when, coming home through the gloanr
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•\o niect with the soft-lowing kine,
We'll deck them with ribbons and gnrlands,
With flowers their meek brows we’ll entwine.
1 know, for I've read, how they do it
When coming from pastures Alpine.
Fo these simple city maidens.
Who knew country ways so well.
Having learned from b< oks and opera
More than ever rustics tell.
Ftrollod abroad through field nnd meadow.
Met with snakes in woodland nooks.
Gathered daisies, with them brambles,
Got their foet wet in the brooks.
Found a flock of sheep, and with them
Saw a shepherd, it Is true;
Hut an opera shepherd he was
No more like than I or you.
He was ragged and barefooted.
Ti n years old. and brown with tan;
Instead of toning lutes, ho shouted:
•'That ram II butt ver, of he can."
They heard no brave nnd gallant mowers,
Warbling Inys to milkmaids coy;
But saw a monster drawn by horses,
Driven by a freckled lx>y,
Laying low the tender grasses,
With a horrid crash and din,
And found the boy had other fancies
Than a milkmaid's smile to win.
Going homeward through the gloaming
Is the saddest to recall;
For they met the lowing cattle—
Merely met, and that was all.
Now, when asked about the country,
They reply, with smile so sage,
That you know they've learned the dis 'renca
'Twixt reality nnd the stage.
—Kirk Munroe, in N. Y. Independent,
Improvement in Corn.
In wheat mechanical means have to
he used to produce a cross, but in corn
mechanical means have to be used to
prevent crossing. There is no limit tty
the changes that, can be made upon
corn. Mr. Blount, of Colorado, in his
paper on the improvement of cereals,
read before the convention of agricul
turists, furnished valuable information
on the subject of improvement of corn,
which is here given in brief :
By selection, as in wheat, corn-stalks
can be made shorter or taller and more
uniform, the blade more symmetrical
and regular, the shanks less objectiona
ble, the husk wider and longer, the cob
smaller and stiffer, the grain more regu
lar and uniform and the habits of the
corn much better in adapting itself to
soils and localities.
By crossing one upon another kind,
the color, texture, form, quality and the
whole individual can be changed by the
experimenter. For instance, should a
mongrel be wanted, four kernels of dif
ferent varieties can be planted near to
gether, one kernel white dent, one yel
low dent, one kernel pop-corn and one
sugar. Should all these four kinds tas
sel and silk at the same time,each would
be fertilized by the pollen of its three
neighbors, but not by its own, making
thereby the offspring a mixture in pro
portion to the amount and strength of
pollen received from the other three.
On neither kind would there bo found
a single kernel exactly like either of the
four planted, from the fad that corn
does not generally fertilize itself. No
one variety can be made to suit all lo
calities, on account of its habits. The
further north corn is raised the shorter
the stalk and the more flinty the grain,
while the further south the taller the
corn and the softer the grain. Should
these two extremes be united the means
would include Now York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
Missouri, lowa and so on to the east
line of the Great American Desert. This
belt constitutes the section in which corn
can be raised to the best advantage,
at the least cost and at the greatest
profit. Corn can be improved in many
ways. First, by making use of seed
properly selected.
All seed corn should be selected in the
field, because there and there only is it
possible to obtain the seed true to name,
and possessed of the desired character
istics. Only in the field can perfected
ears and perfected stalks be found
together. Seed corn should be taken
from different parts of the field, to make
the relation as remote as possible. Seed
corn should be picked from the stalks
that bear the greatest number of ears,
to make it more prolific.
Seed corn should be selected from the
top ear of those stalks that bear the
largest number, because on the top ear
is always found the genuine typical
grain, tne other ears below not having
developed sufficiently to produce good
seed on account of insufficiency of pollen.
Seed corn should always be saved from
those stalks that ripen earliest, to make
the season of its maturity as short as
possible.
Seed corn should be taken from well
formed ears, tapering uniformly, with
straight rows, because these are more
easily and better protected by the husk.
In breeding corn in and in every ear
designed for the propagation of the
species intact should be protected by a
covering of thin muslin before the silk
appears to keep insects and the pollen
of foreign and barren stalks away. A
hundred per cent, in favor of selected
seed has been reported in hundreds of
cases.
In every corn field is found an enemy
too little noticed by farmers. It comes
in the shape of corn itself and is ruinous
in the extreme. This enemy is seen in
all parts of the crop, in the shape of
thrifty stalks without ears— barren stalks
they are called. The pollen, which is
very abundant, degrades every ear it
fertilizes. Being so abundant it is dis
tributed far and wide, and its deterio
rating effects are plainly seen year after
year more and more. The careful and
vigilant husbandman is aw’arc <f the
deleterious effects of these intruders and
at an early stage cuts them a vav. .V
r. World. 3
Hats Off.
A grandee of Spain is privileged to
wear his hat in his sovereign’s presence
for a certain time, carefully graduated
according to his rank. John de Courcy,
the conqueror of Ulster, won the same
boon from King John by frightening
the knights sent by Philip of !■ rance to
call John to account for the murder of
Arthur, out of the field, and then giving
a taste of his quality by placing his
helmet on a post and cleaving it
through with his sword, the weapon
defying anyone but its owner to draw it ’
out of the post again. This stalwart
champion’s descendants were wont to
assert their privilege by keeping their
heads covered for a moment or so in
the royal presence; but at one of
George the Third’s drawing-rooms, the
then Lord of Kinsale chose to wear his
head-gear so long that the old King’s
attention was drawn to his unmannerly
bravado. “The gentleman,” said he,
“has a right to be covered before me,
but even King John could give him no
right to be covered before ladies.”
At the trial of Mrs. Turner as an ac
cessory to the murder of Sir Thomas
Over bury, Sir Edward Coke ordered the
prisoner to remove her hat, saying: “A
woman may be covered in church, but
not when arraigned in a court of jus
tice.” The accused tartly commenting
on the singularity that she might wear
her hat in the presence of God, but not
in the presence of man, Coke replied:
“For the reason that men, with weak
intellects, can not discover the secrets
which are known to God; and, there
fore, in investigating truth, where hu
man life is in peril, and one is charged
with taking life from another, the Court
should see all obstacles removed. Be
sides, the countenance is often an index
to the mind, and accordingly it is fitting
that the hat should be removed, and
therewith the shadow which is cast upon
your face." Mrs. Turner’s hat was
taken off, but she was allowed for
modesty’s sake to cover her hair with a
kerchief.
Chief Justice Glynn did not find the
Quakers so amenable to the order of the
court, when at- Launceston Assizes, in
1666, they made their first public pro
test against uncovering the head. Upon
Fox and his companions in misfortune
being brought into court, the judge hade
them put off their hats. Instead of obey
ing, Fox asked for a scriptural instance
of a magistrate commanding prisoners
to put off their hats. The Chief Justice
inquired in return if hats were men
tioned at all in the Bible? “Yes," an
swered Fox, “in the third of Daniel,
where thou mayest read that the three
children were east into the fiery furnace
by Nebuchadnezzar’s command, with
their coats, their hose, and their hats on.
Here was a proof that evena heathen
King allowed men to wear hats in his
presence." Not condescending to argue
the matter further, Glynn cried, “Take
them away, jailer,"and they were taken
away, and thrust among thieves “a
great while.” When Penn and other
Quakers appeared at the Old Bailqy to
answer their delinquencies, they en
tered the court covered, somebody re
moving their hats for them. Upon fairly
getting inside, the court directed them
to puttheir hats on, and no sooner had
they done so than the Recorder demand
ed if they did not know they were in a
King’s court? Penn replied that he knew
it was a court, and supposed it to be
the King’s, but he did not think putting
off a hat showed any respect; where
upon he was fined forty marks, and re
marked that he and his friends had come
into court uncovered, and in putting on
their hats again they had only obeyed
orders, therefore if any one was to be
fined, it ought to be the Bench.— All the
Year Round.
Making Adobes.
Monday morning we drove down to
see them making adobes. They make
an “acequai" by drawing the water
through a ditch from the creek to where
the adobes are to be made. This water,
clay and chopped hay form the adobe
material. The workers presented a pict
uresque appearance, the rod handker
chiefs bound about their foreheads con
trasting with their bronzed skins, glit
tering eyes and dark hair. They wore
gray-colored shirts and pants that might
have been white at the embarkation of
Noah’s ark. They were rolled high
above the knees. Twoof the men stood
knee-deep in the mud. with which they
loaded an oblong litter, trotting with it
to a m.in on the hill above, who molded
the bricks. He had a hollow rectangu
lar frame, three inches in depth and di
vided in the center. Placing this on the
ground he tilled it with mud from the
litter, smoothed the mud even at the
top, and raising the litter left two bricks
on the ground, while thetwo mentrotte I
back and again loaded the litter. After
these adobes dry on the top they are
turned sideways to harden in the sun.
At night they are carefully covered with
tarpaulin, in case of rain, which destroy s
them if it falls before they are hardened.
I he Mexicans, in building their houses,
hollow out a place in front of the build
ing. where the ’’acequai” is formed to
make the adobe, and when the house
is finished use this hollow for debris.—
PhVadelplua Tinies.
How (an You Tell a Good Cigar I
They used to say that a good cigar
could be known by the light brown
sjiecks on it. These were made by
worms, the story was, and the worm’s
•-.ere epicures in tobacco and would
touch only the best. But the chemists
soon found away of simulating these
worm specks. So' that spoiled the test.
Then there was no other guide but the
ashes. If these burned white the cigar
was good; if not. bad. But the enter
prising tobacconists soon found away to
make the vilest cabbagenia burn as spot
lessly white as the best Havana. An
other test gone. Finally the makers of
choice cigars put a little red label around
each. This was thought to be something
which would always be a sure guide.
And so it would be, but unfortunately
some of the manufacturers have, by a
strange mistake, put the labels on the
cabbagenias as well as the Havanas.
Boston Transcript.
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—Please give me some ice-keam, 1
mamma,” said a • lift'e girl, not Hire*
years old. *AVh' do von wan ii.'i'iin I
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tu:>„ue Bel nappy, i. am uu. . |
The Texas Centipede.
This interesting insect is not so much
celebrated for its amiability of disposi
tion as for its good looks, but, at the
same time, we cannot recommend it
either as a parlor ornament or as a toy
for a child to play with, unless it is a
second-hand child that nobody has any
particular use for. Centipedes are of
different sizes, but they are all made
pretty much after the same pattern.
They are made up of about one-third
sting, one-third bite, and one-third gen
eral cussedness. They are Casemated
with a shell that is as hard as the bark
of a boarding house cranberry pie. The
length of the centipede varies very
much, but if a centipede wants to get a
mention in the local paper he has to
stretch himself out to about nine inches
in length. We have never read of otic
that measured less. His body, which is
ti Succession of fiat joints, is not much
broader than an Ordinary man’s linger.
The centipede is built on the iron-clad
system, although it does not make quite
ns much noise as the English fleet bom
barding Alexandria. In fact, the centi
pede is not musical at al), but if it hap
pens to crawl over a man it will make
him very musical immediately.
Its head or bow, comparing ft to an
iron-clad, is arnied with a pair of pin
cers, which, besides being as venomous
as the editor of a party organ, can bite
the end off an iron sa'e. Each side is
armed with about forty short legs, and
each leg is armed with a sting like that
of a wasp. The centipede terminates
in a pair of hooks, which, like its pin
cers, are red hot, so we have been told
by an innocent young man who under
took to pick it up by its stem. When a
centipede anchors his head in the fleshy
anatomy of a human being, throws out
his two grappling irons from his rear,
and then draws its eight yodd. very odd.
claws together, it will bring tears to
the heart of an Irish landlord to see how
the little pet holds.
The bite of the centipede rarely
causes death, but it makes the bitten
party wish he were dead, for a short
time, at least, and leaves an ugly sore.
The statement that the bite of the centi
pede does not cause death is liable to
correction. The centipede Is very ait
to become a ‘‘remains" after it bites a
person, as there is quile a prejudice
against it. For this reason it, is very
much secluded in its habits, living in
retirement among the rocks of old
buildings. Its diet is bclicvt dto be in
sects that are not as heavily arnied and
iron-clad. Why the centipede was
created in the first place, and what
good purpose it serves, are profound
mysteries to the ordinary intellect.
One evening, about dusk, a Texas
gentleman, of a scientific turn of mind,
was sitting on his front gallery, when
his attention was called to ati extraor
dinary meteorological concatenation, as
circus men say. A peculiar shaped cloud
seemed to reach down from theuky, and
then draw itself up again, very much
after the mannerot those cyclonic clouds
in lowa. The gentleman was very much
interested in this meteorological per
turbation, which ho attributed at first to
atmospheric influences, when itoccurred
to him that the peculiar cloud or water
spout might bo nearer than the distant
horizon. He took off his hat, and found
that his surmise was correct. Fastened
to the rim of the hat by its hind claws
was a beautiful centipede about, nine
inches long. The peculiar meteorolog
ical phenomena were produced by the
insect drawing itself up and letting it
self down in its efforts to find a nose or
some other feature to hang on to in or
der to facilitate its descent. As the
gentleman had a comparatively short
nose the insect was foiled. It died
shortly afterward by the gentleman
accidentally stepping on it about a dozen
consecutive times with the heel of his
boot.
As we have already stated, centipedes
are comparatively rare in the well fet
tled portion of Texas, be ng usually
found in a bottle of alcohol on the show
case of some druggist, who has a taste
for the beautiful. In this particular,
centipedes diller from some men. They
are much more peaceful and harmless
when in liquor than otherwise. With
centipedes as with Indians, the only
good ones are those that are dead.—
Te..ras Sif'tiiH/s.
A Device that Held Good.
Over opposite the village of Ellijay,
Ga., is a rich piece of ground known till
over Georgia as "the forked field,” be
cause of the following incident: Manv
years ago it was part of the estate of a
wealthy citizen, who, when well on in
years, was stricken with disease which a
council of physicians pronounced incur
able. As he lay at death’s door, a law
yer vias anminonwl to draw up his will.
His numerous sons and daughters
formed a sorrowful group around his
l>ed. The lawyer wrote down his be
quests—this farm to John, that to
Susan, the other to Peter, and soon
until he had provided for all his children.
Then his watch and other personal ef
fects were disposed of, the voice of the
dying man becoming weaker and less
audible every moment “You have for
gotten one tiling, Mr. Alexander,” said
the attorney in appropriately solemn
and sympathetic tones. “What is it?”
slowly whispered the old man. “You
l ave not said what you wish done with
the forked field,” said the attorney. A
light gleamed in the dying man’s eyes.
"Oh! yes,” said he slowly; and then with
tn w h rength in his voice, exclaimed,
‘‘ That I’ll keep for myself," after which
he turned over on his side and sank into
a refreshing sleep. In a few weeks he
Mas a well man. and for years thereafter
the forked field was cultivated under his
supervision.— Springfield (Mass) Re
publican.
y —The sins of "Chinatown," San
Francisc >, are summed up in one
mouth's record of arrests, to wit: Visi
tors to tan games, 85; keeping lottery
agencies, 14; visitors to lottery places
17: having lottery tickets in possession,
18; keeping opium places, 3; visitors to
opium places, 26; battery. 2; obstruct
ing sidewalk. 1; total. 161. Os these,
41 were sent to the County Jail and 2
to the House of Correetion Cash re
ceived from tines, $2,279.
—The Prairie Farmer, published at
( hicago, has changed its form to sixteen
pages, each page ten by fifteen inches,
and printed on a better quality of paper,
ami is illuminated by several intcrestm r
pictures. ' ”
The Suuimt i of 1882.
The summer which according to the
calendar has now closed has been marked
by some noteworthy meteorological
conditions, lhe month of June was
alarmingly cool over nearly all districts
Iving between the Atlantic coast and
the Rocky Mountains, with frosts in fif
teen of the States from the Ist to the
10th and excessive rainfalls in the great
grain growing sections, so that some in
dulged the prediction that this was to
be “a year without a summer." Al
though'the high temperatures of July
and August dispelled this fear it was
not so "unreasonable to those who re
member the abnormal seasons during
the period from 1811 to 1817, when oc
curred the most remarkable depressions
of summer temperatures known to a.l
history of thermometric measurements.
In iwlfi, according to several historians,
•‘there was frost in NeW England in
every month of this summer," atld also
as far south as Philadelphia in July, al
most destroying sonic crops, while in
England, as the Royal Society's records
show, the same summer was cold
enough to make 1810 “a famine year."
It is to be hoped that, as no Similarly
cold summer has since then been known
in any part of the United States, it will
never recur, but it may be rash to say it
is impossible. If we except New En
gland, where great aridity has prevailed
since June, the past summer has been
exceptionally free from protracted and
intense droughts, and in the interior of
the country, where severe summer
drought is the climatic rule, precipita
tion has been rather excessive than defi
cient.
One of the most noticeable character
istics of the season just ended is the
absence of the usual July and August
hurricanes in the West India seas, and
consequently there have been few dis
turbances on our Atlantic and Gulf
coasts. The passage of these storms
along our Eastern coasts no doubt great
ly modifies the atmospheric conditions
on the continent. Drawing toward
them the moisture of the air for hun
dreds of miles from their tracks, and
condensing it in immense quantities in
their central areas, they must leave the
middle latitudes considerably drained
of the watery vapor accumulated by the
sun's long continued evaporative force
on the warm ocean, 'l he absence of
these storms may in part account for
the recent redundant rainfall and hu
midity in the Gulf States and on the At
lantic seaboard, and it is probable if we
should shortly have a visit fiom a pow
erful tropic hurricane, which is very
probable, there would be an early and
sharp turn of the season. No Ameri
can summer can be complete without it;
but there need be no fear that it will
not come, and the longer it is delayed
the more certain will it be to assail our
Southern and Eastern coasts with unu
sual violence.
Viewing the past summer from the
agriculturist’s standpoint itMias been
exceptionally propitious. Its abnormal
feature has been an exceptionally large
rainfall, which, on the whole, consider
ing that the great defect of American
summer climate in the chief agricultural
districts is aridity, is a good fault.— N.
Y. Herald.
The .labiru of Senegal.
The Jardin des Plantes, at Paris, has
been enriched recently by the acquisi
tion of various animals. One of the
most interesting of these, without doubt,
is the jabiru of Senegal, which natural
ists, in their not very harmonious lan
guage, call the Mycteria sanegalensis.
This bird belongs to a genus allied to
the one containing the marabou, which
is so well known to those who frequent
zoological gardens and to the same
family as our storks. It is impossible
in examining it not to make the reflec
tion that animals possess a physiogno
my in keeping with their habits. The
marabou, a bird of revolting voracious
ness, which shares with the vulture the
duty of disposing of carcasses aid
various kinds of filth lying around, is
fully as repulsive in its aspect as the
jabiru is attractive. It is, in fact, be
cause the latter eats living prey and has
the bold and free step of the hunter.
Living in the vicinity of ponds and
rivers, it hunts and fishes by turns. It
often flies, which is something that the
marabou rarely does, as the latter is
kept on the ground by its duty as a
scavenger. The jabiru lives in pairs,
and the male and female of each couple
never leave one another. Its area of
distribution is quite an extended one.
From the banks of the White Nile, as
far as Senegal, having for northern
limit the fourteenth degree of latituede,
it lives in the whole center and south
west of Africa, although nowhere
abundant.
It is larger than our stork, and its
back, the upper part of its wings, its
head, neck, ami tail are of a brilliant
black, while the lower parts of its body
are of a beautiful white. Its red anil
black bill is provided with two pendent
wattles that have been likened to a sad
dle, and that have sometimes given the
bird the name of the saddled stork.
In captivity it is a pleasant companion.
It respects its neighbors, but wishes to
be respected by them. Like the stork,
it has great regard for its dignity and
does not allow any one to injure it. Ac-
I cording to Bennett, who has madeobser
' yations on Australian jabirus in cap
tivity, the habits of which are much
like those of the Senegal bird, and ac
cording to Dr. Bodinus, who has had
several of the latter in his possession,
they are easy to rear and do not suffer
from changes in temperature. It would
perhaps be possible, then, to acclimate
them in our country, where they might,
while proving an ornament to our
marshes, render service by destroying
frogs, field mice, and other vermin?
They would swallow here and there a
few fish; but, since Europe will soon
witness the death of the last heron, it
would prove a certain compensation for
the friends of animals if they could re
place th it by a bird of more sociable
habits, and which by that very fact
would bo more effectually protected.
The new boarder at the Jardin des
Plantes, to judge from the Dale tints of
its plumage, is still a young bird. It
does not appear to us to enjoy very vig
orous health. We have seen it often,
and it was always seated and making a
plaintive clucking, and partially open
ing with a sickly air its long bill, whose
upper mandible had been mended with
ft piece of tin.— La Nature.
WM. A. MILLER, C ’ T ’ CAR GIU.
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1 liis firm also deals in Smoking and Chewing Tobacco, Fine Cigars and Snuff, and have the ex
elusive Drug trade in hue Wines, Whiskies and Brandies in Dalton.
C all and see them at the corner of King and Hamilton streets, Daltou, Ga. Prices guaranteed
compare with Atlanta. ’ jelS tfo
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The Ulster
The young men of this country, who
have been flouncing the edges of their
ulsters with the mud from their heels
will be pained to learn that it is not a
street or walking garment at all. En
f?hsh authority—which, in consideration
of the English origin of the ulster,
should be final—says that it is purely
and simply a traveling coat Its place
“is not the pavement, but outside the
coach or carriage, or inside the railway
carriage when the air is nipping.” The
mortification of the glided vouth of
America over this revelation'' will be
equal to that of the Emperor of Havti
when he first discovered that high silk
hats were intended to lie worn on the
head, and not, as ho first supposed to
break the violence of his fall, should’he
be so unfortunate, as he sometimes was
as to slip and sit down in the neighbor
hood of a broken molasses hogshead.
A cnr.noYMAN who enjoys the sub
stantial benefits of a tine farm was
slightly taken down by his Irish plow
man, who was sitting at his plow, in a
tobacco field, resting his horse. The
icseiend gentleman, being a great econ-
ninch seriousness :
I at rick, wouldn’t it be a good plan for
vou to have a stub-scythe here, and bo
hnbjnng a few bushes along the fence
while the horse is resting?” Pat, with
quite as serious a countenance as the
divine wore himself, replied: “Sir
wouldn’t it be well for you to have a tub
of potatoes in the pulpit, and when the
congregation are singing, to peel ’em
awhile to be ready for the pot?” The
reverend gentleman laughed heartily
and left. J
A New Statue of Washington.
The colossal bronze statue of Wash
ington, which is to lie placed in Fair
mount Park by the Society of Cincinnati
of Philadelphia, is to have a substruc
ture of granite with two great terraces.
The sides of the lower terrace are
to be covered with bronze relievos,
in which groups of animals and
human figures larger than life are
shown. The animals are to be typical
American beasts, and will be placed in
recumbent positions. In the midst of
the groups will be an Indian warrior and
squaw, a river god and a river goddess.
Ou the upper terrace the pedestal will
stand. The figures of the horse and
rider which it will support wiH be twice
the ordinary size. Washington will I* s
represented in uniform, with a military
cloak thrown over the shoulder.
Ihe right hand grasps a field
glass, while the left holds the bridle
rein. The shies of the bronze pedestal
will represent allegorical figures of the
troops departing for war, the return and
the blessings of peace. Professor Ru
dolph Siemering, the German sculptor,
to whom the contract for a statue was
awarded, has completed the miniature
model of the monument, and has begun
work in BerHn upon the full-sized figure,
from which the cast will be made. Ibe
cost when completed will be 5140,000
-—The Boston Journal of Chemistry
thinks glucose will be the sugar of the
future, ft can be made from coni and
potatoes in climates where sugar c ine
will not grow nor the sugar beet be cul
tivated with profit.