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T. J, LUMPKIN. Editor and Proprietor VOLUME l. Mexico has a mining excitenun j which rivals the L?adville, Colorado, craze. '1 he bonanza is at Parras, 720 ! miles west of Matamoras, and so c’cse to [ the boundary line between Durango. Coahuila and Chihuahus, that all those states are contending for the priz?. The general government has taken possession of it until it can be decided by actual i survey in which state it is. The mines are called Mojado, and yield both gold and silver in such profusion that labor ers are dost rting the crops to dig for them, and the fever hat extended as far as Matamoras Enteuppise is sure to reap its reward sooner or later. The r is Swi z rland for example It is the smallest country in Europe, and yet it has the biggest mountains. While other countries were equahbMng about increased territory, F Switzerland stuck to real estate, which it rightly considered the highest in the market. This eurnn er over 1,400,000 strangers vieited the Alps, and a hand some sum was taken in by the little country in consequence. This visitation exceeds that of any other year, and it is to be hoped that the increased patronage will induce the Swiss to fix up the Alps with all modern improvements and see that no expense is spared to merit a con tinuance, etc. When the preteut Pope was a Cardinal he conceived tLe idea of pub'Lhing a Catholic journal that should be an organ In his church, and that could be read by all the people of Europe and America in their mother 'anguage. Sines bis ; elevation to the Pontificate, he has ex ‘ erted himself to start this newspaper, and now announces that its first number will be issued next month. It will be printed ia sev u different languages; it will dmutsthe political and economics questions of the dsy, and (iiiciaily rep resent the i-piniens of the Holy See. Tee compositors are to be the deaf and dumb pupils in the asylums of Home. Alimonde will be the general superin tendent, and the Pope is anxious that a Cardin*.’ should be at the head of the I editorial department The novel paper will start with 42,0C0 sulscribers. Very I hv o! this number are Italians. A young Italian, who had been de j ceived and rebbtd by an elder brother \ recent y committed suicide in Rome ; This brother was a mar ied man and i had a boy. Now, the young brother, I from the moment that his elder brother | deceived and robbed him, knew nopesce I of mind for an intense temptation to kill I his b:other's child. To escape this I temptation he determined to kill him- I self. And kill h mself he did. wen | to bed one night with a bottle of ether : and a wine glats by his bed side. He i began by taking one wine glass of the t ether, end then wiote his impressions [ He thought that perhaps he would ri pent ot his wish to kill his brother’s I child. But, on the contrary, in propor- I tion as he doubled bis doses the wish I increased, and at the end of each phrase Ihe repeated : “I have still a greater 1 wish to kill my brother’s child.” This Bpontinued till the twelfth glass, when he Bwrote : ‘M ty this be the last. I can ■write no more.” He died. The privation in Gasgow, Scotland ■this winter prom'ses to be something ■ terrible. The Glasgow papers are lull of ■ devices for rui'igatirg the hardship that ■ already exists there. Herein the plan which the Glasgow News presents for the I help ol the families of the 30 000 work | men who have nothing to do and no pros I pect of having work .or months so come. | The News says. "Open shops, some for | receipt and others for the sale of articles ■ for the benefit of the unemployed. At each center let it be advertised that goods I can ti eie be deposited—coals, food, I clothes, in fact, aught usable accepted with t auks. Shops are too easily got as so many are, unhappily, without oc . cupanta. These would bo centeis of If industry and compassion, preventers of euicide and starvation. In add tion to centra! depots for th more rough, ready and needfui ar icles, let there be a special department at which ladies’ work is received and sold. Paint ever the shops, ‘Depot for Unemployed,’ or This ‘Unemployed Saieshop.’ would not injure ordinary salesshops to purchase materials to be made up for ours Such action would guarantee a four months’ ihumanity bazar.” I Early next year Baltimore will ■celebrate the completion of ils water ■eupply tunnel. The tunnel ia seven ■miles in length ami about twelve feet in ■diameter. Upon the day of inspection Bthe water will be turned on gradually t the upper end of the tunnel and flow Odde (jaunty §azetfe. RISING FAWN, DADE COUNTY. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30. 1879. through until about four feet deep at the lowe T end. Several lorg loafs will then be launched into the mouth of the tun nel at the Lake Montebello end, in which the party will make the trip through the i unnel or water. They will be prop lied by paddles i r shor ars. By the time the party has made half the distance the lower end of tl e tunnel will ha completely filled by the water, which will be slowly turned on at the upper end during the trip. Headlights will be placed on the boats and at the arches, which will have been erected where the fifteen shafts now are, brilliant lights will be displayed and large numbers will designate each shaft. Every a raneement will b? made to pre vent accidents, as the drowning of the party, which, of course, will include the city fathers, wouid be an inauspi cious i pening of the great water works. The trip up the subterranetn river will be the first one ol thekinri e\>t made. SOUTHERN NEWS. Texas talk’is to the effect that things thriving. Vicksburg is to have a cotton exchange and a board ot trade. Arkansas wants river improvement, and from the government. There is much complaint in the South bout irregularity of the mails. At a negro revival in Pensacola a woman lay on the floor for two days and nights, apparently insensible, from excite ment. Oranges, lemons, olives and almonds are to be cultivated in Florida soon by a large number of Italian colonists, on their way to that State. The Avalanche complains that the people of Tennessee have contributed to the people of Memphis during the epidemics of this and last year little else than advice. It has been stated that the stench aris ing from dead fish on Bayou Sale, La., is so offensive that the people living in that vicinity have been compelled to leave their homes. It is suggested that, if the supreme court of Tennessee must pay the five millions of past-due debt, the business men will pur chase Fort Pickering and move their business houses there. At Rancho Grande, Texas, two high waymen came into Brown’s store, bought cartridges for their Henry rifles, turnejJ the muzzle's in Brown’s direction and made him hand over SSOO. At LaGrange, Texas, a saloon-keeper evades a Sunday law by assembling drinkers in his saloon, when a chapter or two of the Bible is read and discussed between copious libations of beer. William Beavor, of Louise county, Virginia, on Friday last, tired of his wife, tliust her into a spring, causing death by drowning. The distressing feature of the murder is their children are the only wit nesses. Every one knows that Congress is to be asked to vote $5,000 to mark the grave of Daniel Morgan, the hero of theCowpens, but few know that the grave is in Mt. Hebron cemetery, at Winchester, Va., with the slab that once covered it now nearly carried off by relic hunters. - The Monroe (Tenn.,) Democrat says that at the recent fair premiums were awarded for a yield of 7,332 pounds of hay from one acre of greund. One acre of bottom land produced 199 bushels of corn and an acre of upland 172LJ bushels. A wild cat was killed a few days since near Thoraasville Ga., after a very exciting chase and a hard fight. It weighed twenty two pounds. Before its death it had eaten ten out of nineteen pigs belonging to Mr. Sanford. Two hundred pnotographs of the late Gen. Hood and wife and their surviving ten children have been presented to the New Orleans Hood Relief Committee by a photo grapher of that city. They were offered for sale at the Hood benefit entertainment last Friday night. The cotton crop of South Carolina is about half gathered. The average yield per acre is 400 pounds,twenty per cent, less than last year. The loss is equalized by an in creased acreage. The weather during Sep tember was favorable for the picking, but too dry for the maturing of ihe top cotton. New Orleans Democrat: The deaths in this city during the past four weeks were 323; for the previous four weeks they amount ed to 332. This is the lowest death-rate New Orleans has ever enjoyed, and the lowest summer mortality of any city in the Union, being at the rate of seventeen deaths per thousand a vear. Jolm Eckman, of Fort Bend county, Texas., has given much attention to the production of honey, and isbegining to find it remunerative, lie will have ten thousand pounds of strained honey this season. He has taken during the season 3 2 pounds from one swarm, and will get another hundred from the same hive. The Picayune closes au encouraging review of business in New Orleans with the following remark: “Prospects were never more encouraging for an active winter, and at no time since the war has a season opened more promise of enlarg ed commercial relations, or more abundant assurance of quick sales and remunerative prices for our great staples.” Montgomery Advertiser: A shocking accident occurred at Sharpe’s mill about neon yesterday. A little negro boy by the name of Mason was carrying dinner to one of the hands working at the shops near the mill, when, in stepping across a shaft connecting the ginnery to the saw-mill, the shawl which the hoy had aiound him caught in the shaf ting, and in a moment the shawl and boy were twisted into a horrid mass. Death was almost instantaneous. Major Penn, a legal evangelist is meeting with unbouded success ia Texas, judging from the following from an exchange concerning a recent convert: When the dev il heard of Nat. Q.’s conversion he was might ily well pleased. First, because the necessi ty for his contemplated resignation in Nat. ti.’s favor was obviated; second, because he was relieved of the necessity, in any event, of “ Faithful to the Right,, Fearless Against the Wrong.” keeping “Nat. Q.” from tearing about over the world of Erebus; and, third, because the Devil was now assured of hope for his own slavatioii. Richmond, Va., letter: According to the books of the First Auditor at this time, the number of the white voters in the State assessed for capitation tax is 17,000. Of these 27,000 are delinquents. The number 45,000 have not qualified themselves to vote by paying the poll-tax. One hundred and forty-seven thousand white voters are eligible. Against this number we have 65,- 000 blacks who can vote. The total assessed vote of the State, both races, is 284,000. Of this number 72,000 have not made themselves eligible to vote. Dallas Herald: W. Hangbrook, a farmer of Clay county, accidently met his mother in Dallas last week, after eighteen years’ separation. At the outbreak of the war he left Macon, Ga., came to Texas, and subsequently entered the Confederate army. At the close of the war he went to Mexico with Shelby’s command, and returned to Georgia after the fall of Maximilian. During the war his mother remarried and moved to the Trans-Mississippi. All traces of his mother being lost, he came to Texas and settled in Red river valley, came to Dallas yesterday on business, ujpjcu .. t the hotel, and this morning at breakfast was recognized by big mother. There was a joyous scene. His mother, again widowed, is a lady of means. Hangbrook is well off. MISCELL iNEOUS. The capital dome at Hartford, just gilded, has an area of 4,100 square feet, re quiring 87,500 leaves of gold, 3 % inches squire. The gold was 23 carats and weighed 3 Yi pounds troy. The chief memorial of Charlotte Bronte is now being demonished. A solemn closing service was held in Haworth church a fortnight ago, and in a few months a brand new structure will rise upon its sight. The village was crowded and hundreds had to be . be turned away from the church doors. , Stephen A. Douglas, Jr.; of Illinois, and Robert M. Douglas, of North Carolina, the sons of Stephen A. Douglas, have recently came into possession of about $200,000 by the decision in their favor of a suit in the court of claims for ttie recovery' of the proceeds from a quantity of cotton belonging to their father and confiscated in Washington county, Miss., by the Federal troops during the war. Tlie Songs of Scotland. [Atlantic Monthly.] There is a very general impression, es gecially in England, that Burns created cottish song, and that all .that is valu able in it is his work. Instead of saying that Burns created Scottish song, it would be more trufi to say that Scottish song created Burns, and that in him it culminated. He was born at a happy hour for a national songster, with a great background of song, centuries old, behind him, and breathing from his childhood a very atmosphere of melody. From the earliest times, the Scotch have been a song-loving people, meaning by song both the tunes, or airs, and words. This is not the side which the Scotch man turns to the world, when he goes abroad into it to push his fortune. We all know the character that passes cur rent as that of the typical Scot, sandy haired, hard-featured, clannish to his countrymen, shrewd, cautious, self-seek ing, self reliant, preserving, unsympa thetic to strangers, difficult to drive a bargain with, impossible to circumvent. The last thing a stranger would credit him with would be the love of song. Yet when that hard, calculating trader has retired from the ’change or the mar ket-place to his own fireside, perhaps the things he loves best, almost as much as his dividends, will be those simple national melodies he has known from his childhood. Till a very recent time the whole air of Scotland, among the coun try people, was redolent of song. You hear the milkmaid singing some old chant, as she milked the cows in field or byre; the housewife went about her work or span at her wheel, with a lilt upon her lips. In the Highland glen you might hear some solitary reaper sing ing like her whom Wordsworth has im mortalized ; in the Low’land harvest field, now one, now another, of the reapers tak ing up an old-world melody, and then the whole band breaking out into some well-known chorus. The plow man, too, in winter, as he turned over the lea furrows, beguiled the time by humming or whistling a tune; even the weaver, as he clashed theshuttle between the threads, mellowed the harsh sound with a song. In former days song was the great amusement of the peasantry, as they of a winter night met for a ham let-gathering by each other’s firesides. This was the usage in Scotland for cen turies, and lam not sure that the radi cal newspaper which has superseded it is an improvement. One Eye That Was Allvays Drank. [Fittsburg Loader. J An Allegheny physician, who, in his way, is a great wag, tells a story of a North Side gentleman who for years has suffered from periodical attacks of what in medical parlance is known as superor bital neuralgia. Quinine proved of no effect, and the sufferer was almost crazed with pain. A kind-hearted old lady living in the neighborhood of the patient informed him that if he would cut the affected nerve with a pair of scissors or a knife it would give him no further trouble. It so happens that the super orlwtal nerve is the one which controls the action of the eyelid, and it further happens that when a man is in liquor this nerve becomes paralyzed, and it is this that gives a drunken person such a comical expression about the eyes. The neuralgia patient no sooner heard what lie supposed the welcome news from the old lady than he repaired to his closet and with a jack-knife parted in twain the offending nerve, and he now greets his friends with his right eye as sober as a Quaker in a quarterly meeting, and the left in a highly intoxicated condition. It now only costs half as much a' it formerly did to go on a bender. A Pathetic Scene’in a Court-Room. [New York Star.] In the Fourth District Court, Brook lyn, yesterday, Grace Winn accused her liusband, William Winn, of abandon ment. The case had a preliminary hear ing on Friday, when Mrs. Winn, who is only seventeen yearn of age, told a story of how she had been cruelly used by her husband, who is just nineteen, and who, she alleges, had threatened to kill her. She stated further that he had dragged her about the room by the hair and kicked her. The young wife was in court yesterday, with a child about three months old. Beside her sat a stout eld erly lady, who was seen to be gazing in tently at the child. Suddenly she arose, and, walking over to an officer, said to him: “See, look at that child!” The officer went over to where Mrs. Winn was sitting, looked at the child, laid hia hand upon its little arm and exclaimed: “ Why, the child’s dead!” This was said in a loud tone and was heard by mostly all of the persons in court. Excitement followed, many of the persons arising and crowding round where the mother sat with the poor little babe in her lap. For a moment the mother looked bewildered, and then burst into tears, wringing her hands and moaning. The husband rushed over to his wife’s side, lifted the babe gently, and alter gazing at it for a while, re turned it to the mother, while the tears streamed down his face. The child was taken to the Eastern District Hospital, where it was found that a spark of life still remained. The wife said that she had been unable to receive proper food, and in consequence lacked nourishment for the child. Judge Elliott adjourned the examination of the charge of abandon ment for one week. A Lone Centenarian. I New York iittra.J.] An aged woman with feeble step tot tered into the Gregory street police Station, in Jersey City. She was poorly clad, and in her hand she carried a few lead pencils. She said she was homeless and without friends, and asked that lodging be given her for the night. She gave her name as Catherine Gorman, a native of Ireland, and said that she was in her 100th year, her centennial natal day being in November. She came to this country seventy years ago in com pany with her husband and two young sons. When her husband died, he left her in comfortable circumstances, but her boys were addicted to drink, and ab sorbed her little property in satisfying their appetites for liquor. Both were long since dead, and she was the world’s charity. Too to beg or enter a charitable uaßtatkm, she eked out a miserable liviiqf by wan dering from place to place selling lead Eencils. Yesterday she had ill luck, and ad not made sufficient to pay for lodg ing. She was assgned to the softest bed in the station. She thanked the Ser geant who wason duty fervently,and re tired to her room, for several min utes could be heard prayers. Sensible Doctrine. Itisnotacorrecmloctrine to teach hu man beings that ira their duty to live or.aslittle as possime; it would be bettei to earn enough to live comfortably. What is the use of creeping through life feebly merely to save funeral expenses? Let us claim a full and vigorous vitality, when to breathe and live is a pleasure. Either one is worth his keeping in this world or he is not; if worth it, seize it with a strong hand. “ You ought to live on bread and water, if your husband is not able to give you any more,” said a maiden aunt to a young girl in the presence of the man she was about to marry. “ I am worth my board and clothes to anybody,” replied the girl; “ and if Joe thinks he can’t afford them of good quality, I know plenty who can.” Joe thought he could, and kept up to the record through life. A Hardened Parent. Charles P. Smith, of New Windsor, Md., forged a note, fled from home, and became a reckless wanderer. At length he resolved to reform, and clandestinely visited his old home; but his father or dered him away, and declared a wish to see no mo-'f of his body until the life was out of it. Charles was lately stricken down by consumption, at Tunli kannock, I’a., and Rev. George T. Keller to whom he told his story, sent the news to his father, who declined to go and see him. The clergyman tele graphed: “In God’s name relent, and take pity on the poor, dying hov. See Luke xv., 11-32,” which p’-wsage tells the parable of the Prodigal Son;'but there was no answer, except the request to for ward the remains when Charles vas dead. London’s Expenses. The principal officers of the corpora tion of London are paid as follows: The Recorder {as Judge at Centra! Criminal Court and at Lord Mayor's Court) $15,000 Registrar of Mayor’s Court, who is also As sistant Judge 13,175 Tho Common Sergeant 12,750 Judge of the City of London Court, who is also Commissioner 12 525 Comptroller and Frothonotary 10,500 City Solicitor 10,000 Chief Commissioner of l’oliue !),000 Remembrancer 7,500 Architect and Surreyor 7,500 Town Clerk 7,500 Head Master of City of London School 7,500 Registrar of Coal Duties and Inspector of Fruit Metage 5,000 Solicitor to Commissioners of Sewers 5,000 The Lord Mayor is voted an annual sum of 150,000, free of income tax, to maintain his position; and in addition to this he has his robes voted to him, and has the Mansion House, tree of rent, to live in. “There is no place like Chicago,” says a Chicago paper. That’s so, and a lucky thing it is, too. Texan Society. Mr.'Frank A. Taylor, in Harper s Maga zine, writes as follows: A journey of several weeks’ duration in the Lone Star state revealed the fact that in the eyes of every true Texan the particular location where he has taken root is the focal attraction, the garden centre of the earth, while the next town is the antipodes of all that is good, great, and prosperous. The native, ana the man who came down in ’4G as a soldier, remaining in the state through its short lived era as a republic, and ever since, hold themselves as a sacred aristocracy, and however kindly their sentiments to ward later occupants of the soil, they cannot refrain from frequent allusion to the peculiarly constructed laws, such as the Homestead Act, which makes Texas a desirable refuge for those who cannot afford to live in a state where creditors can squeeze hapless debtors between the jaws of the legal vice. It is true that on account of such laws the modem popu lation contains a large percentage of men who have tasted the bitterness of debt, of seizure and distraint, and not liking the flavor, have sought the friendly shadow of Texan statutes and builded anew. The significant initials “G. T. T.” (Gone to Texas), inscribed on the bolted boor of an involved merchant, are ac cepted as primafacie evidence that lie, too, has bolted. It must not be inferred from this that all who have located within the domain of the Lone Star are to he suspected of financial short-com ings. Through the northern and central portions of the state many well-to-do farmers and merchants are found who have migrated from the frost-lands of Minnesota and Wisconsin to a region which, at the worst, knows but a few days of cold and snow in the course of a twelvemonth. Such men have built up a condition of society of which they are justly proud, and jealous lest the sins of the frontier, which have too often made the name of Texas a synonym of lawless ness, be brought to their doors. Ir the cottage homes of such cities as Dallas, Austin, Houston, and the metropolis of the Western Gulf, Galvestonfthe chance guest will find scattered about, thft cur rent literature of the two worlds. Libraries will be found replete with the more erudite forms of publication, and the daughters of the family may treat a friend to selections from the newest operatic compositions of the season. In point of fashion, the costumes of the ladies conform quite as closely to the edicts of the modistes as do those of their metropolitan sisters. The richly stocked shelves of the merchants in wearing ap parel prove that the finest productions of the loom are in quite as active demand here us the East. Joaquin Miller Makes a Night of It in the Sierras. [Joaquin Miller in the Independent.] To me the grandest poem on earth is night in a deep, half tropical forest. There is nothing so mighty, so Miltonic as this, the myriad voices at night. When I was living in the Southern Sierras one of your greatest preachers came that way. I, by chance, got to talking to him of the voices and noises high up on the mountains. He was honestly amazed. He said he thought the world slept in the wilderness; hut he would find the world very much awake if he would spend a night high up from the habitationsof man. He was resolved to see. And so, with two blankets and two pistols, some bread and a bottle of provisions, we climbed up the steep, timbered mountain, a mile above any habitation. We spread our blankets under a mighty tree. We saw the day fade and die on the far snow peaks, and its ghost came down in darkness and covered us with its wings. The first thing we heard was a great, black bug that came buzzing along. It struck the tree and fell down on dAtor’s blanket. Nothing dangerous bug. The doctor was delighted. He caught it up; classified it with a Latin name big enough to kill it; put a pin through ifc and resolved to keep it as a specimen and a trophy of the night. Suddenly, far across on the other mountain side, there arose the howl of a hundred wolves; then a thousand wolves high upon the mountain-top made the woods tremble. The doctor was not a bit frightened. He only sat up a little bit closer to me and whispered gently that he thought it was going to rain. Then a broad-winged bird, a black owl, struck in the boughs above us, as if he meant to tear down the tree. “I am subject to rheumatism,” said the doctor, “ and I don’t want to get wet.” Then there came a crash! A great grizzly bear that evidently had business in somebody’s hog-nen, tore through the bush and woods on his way to the settlement, l’osssihly the doctor wanted the bear for a specimen also, for he sprang up, forgot his bug, and started for the nearest house. He should have waited to see the moon come wheeling up and out of the Sierras, white and vast as the snow peaks she laid her broad, bare shoulders to, the white clouds; to hear the far, faint call of the night-birds, the beasts —the thousand notes in the poetry and Bong of nature at night. An Angel, But Ugly. The other an old gentleman advanced the proposition that never in the course of his long life had he seen a woman that was not charming. “Oh, really, now,” said a lady whose nose was of the purest Ukraine breed, “don't you think I m ugly?’ 1 “Not at all madame,” replied the gal lant old gentleman. “You are an angel, fresh fall n from heaven, only you fell on your nose!” tyRMS i st.oo per Annum, in Advance. NUMBER 52. THE LOST HISS. We met, And yet E’en as we met The time had come for parting, The train That was to bear me off again Was starting. She grasped my hand and murmured low: “ Oh, how I’ve longed to see you, Joel” And, in a voice deep and profound, I said: “ Why don’t you jiass ’em round?” And then she rose Upon her toes. While l did fondly hover Upon the step above her. In vain; That train— II f may mention it again— Was starting; , Oh, why should fate so interpoM Itself between us and our bliss? Her kiss Lit on my nose. Such was our parting. —Boston Punch. FACTS AND FANCIES. Does a trilobitef The almitey cheese. Do sleeping cars snore? Y t ’ever hear glas-sware? Who ever saw bricks dust? What does tobacco smoke? At what does an oyster bay ? Parts unknown: On a bald head. Does a “ burning shame” make a big fire? Back yards : The trains of the ladies’ dresses. Many a disordered liver is covered by a nicely-ironed shirt. vF.v.lv.w./.yv.twtw m\”.e*\.\. — Rochester Express. We can knock the spots out of the above: Fly t i m e.— Boston Journal of Commerce. “ Don’t you think,” said a husband in a mild form of rebuke to his wife, “that women are possessed by the devil?” “ Y'es,” was the quick reply, “as soon as .they are married.” A man who will coolly stand by and see a fellow being try to unlock a a lamp-post with his night-kev to the front door, was built on a false’ founda tion, and needs overhauling. They told the old man his girl was keeping a milliner store, and when he went home and told it, all the neighbors wondered what she kept a mill in her store for. “ Don’t be afraid to praise your ser vants when they deserve it,” remarks an exchange; but the minute the husband tries that on the hired girl she has to hunt for another situation. Lord Beaconsfield frequently starts in his sleep haunted by massacred officers and weeping widows, and shrieks out: “Hence! horrible shadow, unreal mock ery, hence!” but they don’t hence. “ Out on a fly”—as the affectionate husband said when his wife jumped out of the window. If your wife object to kissing you be cause you smoke, simply remark that you know some girl who will. That settles it. Tiie difference between a woman and an umbrella is, that there are times when one can shut up an umbrella. Singular, hut a married man in a street car can see the look of pretty anxiety come over a pretty girl’s face clear at the other end of the car the mo ment she begins to fumble foi her fare long before she is ready, but he can’t see his wife down on her knees crawling round in the straw feeling for the nickel she had dropped, until the driver wraps the lines about tlie brake and comes in to help her.— Haw key e. He asked her: “Going away?” “Yes; going to the sea baths.” “What! in such chilly weather as this? You will never go into the water?” “ Oh, yes I will; I’m all fixed up for that.” “Really?” “ Y’es; I’ve had all my bathing dresses trimmed with fur.” “ Boy, don’t you know any better than to he loitering around the. streets in this way on this beautiful Sabbath day?” said a Sunday-school teacher on his way to his Bible class. “ Oh, my eye, I guess I do, sir; I’m a goin’ fishin’ just as soon as the other fellows come along,” exclaimed the young hopeful. Ir doesn't do any good to swear, but f’ou can’t make a man believe it, when le gets up in the morning and finds his dog has chawed a hole in his boot. After man, came women, and after woman the and 1. That doesn’t sound very elegant, but then there ia lots of truth in it. “ Beauty and booty,” says a White hall young man, “is all right, except when the daughter’s beauty is accom panied by the old gentleman’s bootee.” Statistics prove that women’s teeth decay at an earlier age than men’s, which conclusively proves that spruce gum is more injurious than tobacco. Monograms in Japanese designs on note paper are very much used. An other design is a long bar in silver, gilt or bronze, from which are suspended the letters of the name in small medallions. Cards of invitations to parties where out-door sports are to be indulged in, Bhould bear a coat-of-arms formed of hows, arrows, target, croquet mallets, c irs and other implements of like de scription. For yachting parties, the in vitationa should bear the yacht flag and urivate signal crossed.— Andrews’ Bazar. There are many would-be aristocrat* who have little more claim to blue blood than the old Irishwoman, who, in bid ding her son good-bye on his leaving the parental roof, said: “ No, Jimmie, when you get yer slitand, an’ haz yer peanut* an’ yer apples shin’ like shtars in the hivins all ip a row side by side, an’ the giutlemens come along to buy, don’t for git who yez are. Hould your head high, for there’s great talk now about furrust families, an’ as yC? doin’ up the bundles tell thim yer grandfather was the furrust man who iver set foot or squatted upon the bogs beyont.’-