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T. J, LUMPKIN, Editor and Proprietor. VOLUME 11. Another way to settle the Indian prob lem is so have all the white folks killed •ff. The winter garden which the King of the Belgians has had constructed in the park of Lacken is the largest structure of the kind in Europe. The immense cupola of iron and glass is 200 feet in di ameter and 100 feet in height in the cen ter. It is supported by 30 columns of white stone, each over three feet in diam eter. It is said that an investigation of the New York elevated railroads revealed that the stock has been “watered” to the extent of six or seven million dollars. During the investigation some interesting statistics were given. The fifteen miles of track now in operation cost twelve millions of dollars, and when the con struction is thoroughly completed it is thought that the expense will be fully a million dollars to each mile of track. A car costs $3,400 ; an engine over $5,000. M. Blanqui asserts that Jerome Napoleon is more to be feared as a pre tender than his late cousin. “This,” says London Truth, “tallies with the language of one of the principal Bona partist Generals to a friend of mine. ‘The Prince Imperial,’ lie said,’ was an untried youth, and the supposed Ultra montauism of his mother alienated the masses from him. Jerome is a shrewd, able man, whose ideas are more in unison with those of the majority of French men. He will play a Availing game, and if the republic makes mistakes he will know how to profit by them.” Artesian wcllsare becoming numerous throughout California, fresh ones being dug daily, as well for irrigating purposes in the farming lands, as for general water purposes in San Francisco and other cities. They cost $250 upward, and some furnish 250,000 gallons of the purest water daily. In the San Joaquin valley they are very numerous, eleven being in full flow within a tract of three miles by a mile and a half in extent, and yet their proximity to each other and the digging of new wells does not diminish their flow at all, a thing that is not the case everywhere. The novel experiment has been tried of form ing an artificial lake with this water and breeding fish in it, and it has been found that the fish thrive as well in water drawn from the subteranean sources as in any other. How a New Hampshire hoy became Russian admiral makes an interesting ro mance. The son of the Rev. Simon Fin ley Williams, a celebrated Massachusetts clergyman, called to Meredith in 1790- ran away from a Laconia employer be cause the latter whipped him for spend ing his evenings with the girls. He took also S3OO belonging to the chastiser, who pursued him to Portland, reaching there two days after the youngster had shipped on a Russian bark. The vessel was at attacked by pirates, but the boy of 17, with the assistance of two sailors, mount an old swivel, loaded it with old iron scraps and sank two boat loads of the buc caneers, thus saving his ship. For this the Czar trained young Williams up in the royal navy, of which he became, the head, his title being Count Zincliorsckoff He subsequently returned to this country ( and paid the Laconia man his S3OO and interest, all in gold, saying he should re turn to Russia an honest man. There is a cotton mill at Westminster, South Carolina, which takes the cotton from the seed, on the plantation where it is grown, and converts it by a simple and inexpensive process, into yarn. Af ter this transformation the cotton is in creased in value from three cents a pound to from sixteen to seventeen cents per pound. But this is not the only advan tage gained. The seed cotton, were it not made into yarn, must pay a tax for ginning, compreessing, bagging, tying, weighing, storage, wharfage, etc., and other preparations incident to shipping. Accordingly it is thought.that just such mills as this one, scattered through the cotton plantations, will do a great deal to advance the interest of the cotton growers, increase the work and earnings of laborers, and prepare the way for the establishment of the larger manufacto ries, which are now’ talked of as possible competitors with those of the great cor porations of New England. Alaska explorers report one of the largest rivers in the world, the Yukon, as navigable for steamers, and at 500 miles from its mouth it receives a very large navigable tributary. The basin formed by the confluence is twenty-four miles wide. The Yukon is nearly as large as our Mississippi. Indians are every where and War between tribes is a tixed institution. 1 here is show for *i\ months. RISING FAWN, DADE COUNTY, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 13, 1879. and without roads dog sledges find good traveling. Game abounds, and Indians have an easy life. From seven to nine dogs make a team, the odd one being the leader. The driver has to watch thisdog. If it gets on the scent of game it is off" whole team is demoralized. Ofi they scamper, through the woods and thickets, upsetting the load, smashing the sled, tearing the harness, and giving the boss days of hunting to restore the status quo. So vast a country, traversed by navigable waters, will soon tempt restless and speculative adventurers to explore it. MKTUERA MJVS HEWS. McComb City, Miss., is to have a cot ton factory. Drummers are relieved of taxation in Montgomery, Ala. Last week the tobacco manufacturers of Durham, N. bought internal revenue stamps to the amount of .117,410 (jo, One hundred and fifty tons of railroad iron for the Florida Central railroad arrived in Jacksonville Saturday, on the schooner Andrew Newbinger, from Philadelphia. The net earnings of the Houston and Texas Central Railroad Company for Sep tember *212,878 78, an increase of about eight per’ cent, over the same month last year. The bale of cotton donated for lie benefit of the orphans of General Hoo as sold and resold seven times at Houston, realizing SI,OOO. Then it was shipped to Waco. Memphis Ledger: The Legislature of Mississippi, Arkansas and Kentucky should at once be called to meet in special season to enact laws whereby Holly Springs, Forrest City, Hopefield and Hickman maybe sewered before next Summer. Augusta Chronicle: We are pleased to know that our ho.norcd and distinguished Representative, Hon. Alex. H. Stephens, is in fair health, He is now enjoying the quiet and rest of Liberty Hall. He has travelved extensively North and AVest since the ad journment of congress. Hickory (N. C.) Press: The Catawba Manufacturing Company, near Catawba Sta tion, is now putting up fifty-eight new looms in the factory. These, in addition to the other machinery, will make a fine display. This company is now making some very fine plaid goods. Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser: The planters of our state are pursuing a very wise course since the dark days which followed the close <>f the war. A large number of them are buying good blooded cattle, uJ will he present on the 10th of next mouth at the State fair with the money in hand ready to make further purchases of this kind. Little Rock Gazette : Day before yes terday, a mad dog bit seven persons on the Perkins place, about fifteen miles from this city. The following named persons were bitten, and came into town yesterday and applied to Dr. AY’iggs’ drug store for treat ment: Mr. Reynolds, trading-boat merchant, a little girl, Sandy AVallers, Sim Serdis and his wife and a colored man and woman, names unknown. Jackson (Tenn.) Tribune-Sun: Mr. Robert Reaves shot and killed on yesterday, near McClanahan’s levee, a veri .‘able “stormy patrel,” that had evidently been wafted on the wings of some storm current from the ocean to these inhospitable shores. It meas ured four feet from tip to tip, its wings being exceedingly long and beautiful. Its color was bright gray, and the down on its neck and breast as soft as a swan’s. Monroe (Tenn.) Democrat: Large quantities of soap-stone, brought here by wagon from Murphy, N. C., is being shipped to Cincinnati. Two car-loads have been shipped in the last two weeks. This stone is found in great abundance in the mountains, six miles above Murphy. It is worth about S4O a ton, delivered on the car at this place, and it costs about S3O to put it in the car. The stone is said to be of extra quality. Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times: The pop ulation of Chattanooga has increased in two years from 11, 88 to 12,879, a gain of 1,391. Considering all the drawbacks, th s is doing well. It would double us in ten years. The increase of whites has been 319, of blacks 1;073. The preponderance of increase of the latter is of itself an industrial straw of value. For, while we have added ail these strong hands to the workers, we have less idlers than ever before. Columbia (S. C.) Register: A practi cal test was made yesterday of the utility of the Georgia brown coal by Dr. Jackson. He took three or four of the lumps which Prof. Bibikov had sent him, broke them up and made a fire out of them in his stove. They were easily kindled with a little wood, when first ignited burned with a flame, but after ward settled down to a nice bed of coals. The ashes produced was white. The stove was one made for the purpose of burning anthracite coal. The burning produced something of a smell, but this could no doubt be remedied by iiaving stoves properly con structed, with view to prevent the gas coining into the room. The quantity of brown coal used was just enough to fill the fire basket of the stove, and this quantity continued to burn from 8 o’clock a. m. till after 12 m. New Orleans Democrat: Some years ago the expert of cedar from Louisiana was a large and popular trade. The war and its consequences diverted the attention of the people from that branch of industry, and our cedar trees were left to grow in all their natural luxuriance. AYe arc glad to note that the old trade in that article is about to be reopened. The United States Consul at Hamburg, in his dispatch to the Department of Stale, dated September 24, 1879, reports the arrival of a vessel laden with cedar wood, shipped from New Orleans, and out on the banks of the Mississippi. This is believed lo be the first venture of the kind. The Consul sees no reason why the cedar of America may not be in great demand in Europe, like the mahogany of Brazil. , Louisville Medical News: There is only one place where the colored man and the brother has his particular medical school, and that happens where of all places it was most likely to happen, at Nashville, home of the Meuical University, birthplace of journals thereto. The school is intended for the education of colored physicians; and if there is any faith to be put in circulars, it is in tended for their very good education. The standard named is quite up to that of most of the colleges iti [the country. Three years’ study is required, and the course is graded. Recitations and monthly written examina tions form prominent features. Examination for the degree i id o in writing. “ Faithful to the Right, Fearless Against the Wrong.” Columbus (Ala.) Times: California and other Pacific States have so long kept the eyes of the gold-hunting world in that direction, that the rich veins of the precious metal, which run in broad and inexhaustible lines through Alabama, have almost been lost sight of. We have often been told by old Californians that, with the same machinery and effort, more gold could he taken from some of the Tallapoosa mines than taken from many of the most popular on the Pacific coast. Informer years we knew something of the gold veins of old Tallapoosa, especially of those about the once famous Log Pit mine, and can say that they, unskillfully worked, yielded many thousand dollars’ worth of gold. Helena (Ark.) World: Trains are running now upon three railroads out of Helena, the Arkansas Midland, Mobile and Northwestern, and the Iron Moun tain and Helena, which place us, in point of railroad enterprise, in advance of every place in the State but Little Rock, and we should be on a par with the State capital if these roads had out side connection* which we trust is not in the distant future. A Baltimore company lias found a copper bonanza in the mines at Ore Knob, Aslie county, North Carolina, where 700 men are employed, and about $300,000 are annually disbursed to the inhabitants for fuel, etc. A correspon dent of the Baltimore American says six additional furnaces are to be erected, and a railroad lieing built to connect the mines with Greensboro. The month ly product of pure copper is 150,000 pounds. Helena (Ark.) World: As the chan nel of the Mississippi runs very near the sand-bar immediately in front of the city, and as it is becoming more ap parent daily that our cotton shipping facilities from below are getting worse and worse on account of the rapid change in the river there, it is proposed by those of our shipping people who have a great amount of cotton to haul to build a tramway across the bar to the water’s edge, and have the steamers receive from there. Charlotte (N. C.) Observer: The cot ton compress has done a big business since the opening of the cotton season. Up to date it has compressed 10,000 bales, which is more than it did throughout the whole of last season. It is still running con stantly, and is paying the owners hand somely. When the cotton is compressed fifty-five bales can be put into a car, against twenty-five, the limit when the bales have not been compressed. Richmond _ (Va.) Dispatch Man chester news:" Saturday morning a party of fox-hunters from Richmond, includ ing several young ladies, passed through this city to Chesterfield, where they intend to have a grand fox hunt. They attracted much attention, and were elegantly attired for the sport which they had in view. It is a novel thing to see ladies indulging in this sport in Chesterfield, but in the upper counties it is a frequent occurrence. Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle : The numer ous friends and admirers of Dr, Deems will bo glad to learn that lie is soon to enjoy the pleasure of an extensive tour in Europe and the east. After his long and arduous labors, both as minister and editor, this mental rest and refreshment will no doubt he peculiarly grateful to him. He is at present in this city on a visit to his daughter, Mrs. Verdery, where lie will remain for a few days be fore returning to New York to prepare for his journey. San Antonio Herald: A farmer named Thomas, who came into Terrel yesterday to see the Great London show paid rather dear for his sight-seeing. He brought in two bales of cotton, and hitching his team, started for the show, perfectly carried away with the appearance of things and in he went. While he was enjoying the sights a reckless sort of an individual took charge of his cotton, drove down on the square and sold it for sls, which he pocketed and skipped out with it. Memphis Avalanche: Gov. Marks will probably call an extra session of the Legislature when the citizens of Memphis decide precisely the legislation thafis re quired. If it is a one per. cent, or a four cent, tax, let that be settled. Or, if the Legislature is to bo asked to donate the state taxes levied in Memphis for the next five years for the sanitary improve ment of the city, the citizens can so say. The plan once agreed upon, the Gover nor can not refuse so reasonable a request as to assemble the Legislature for the salvation of the chief city of the state. Macon (Ga.) Telegraph: During last week, at the First Baptist colored church, an institute was held for the training of colored misisters. They were lieing in structed by Rev. Dr. S. W. Marston, the agent of the American Baptist Home Mission Society (North), and by Rev. Dr. W. H. Robert, formerly a resident of this city, now under commisioit of the Southern Baptists to aid Dr. Marston in this work of holding intitutes. It is an auspicious omen to see these two minis ters working harmoniously together, from different sections of the land. The Elbcrton (Ga.) Gazette tells “how to double the price of our cotton crops” pis follows: Supposing our crops to reach 8,000 bales, at ten cents, it would bring toour county $320,000. If this crop was used up by factories in the county it would bring,instead of $320,000,a return of near lys7oo,ooo.This being the case it behooves every fanner in the county to use his exertions for the establishment of cotton factories right here at home. AYith their crops yielding such handsome amounts, those who are behind-hand—slaves to their factors—would soon he able to throw off the sbaeklies of debt and serfdom. New Orleans Democrat : The owners of real estate in New Orleans, who have for many years been eonijMrtled to (tear a heavy burden of taxation on assess ments based on ideas of valuation which obtained during prosperous years, will no doubt be pleased to observe that the present Board of Assessors have re duced the city valuation on property to $01,000,000. or alxiut $20,000,000, below the previous assessment. This, it will be generally conceded, is a very fair val uation when the extremely depressed condition of all kinds of business for the past ten years is takenjnto consideration. Columbia IS. C.) Register: The bus iness of making baskets from osier wil low twigs is one which seems to be spec ially adapted to the south, and we under stand that it is now lieing carried on in this state on a small scale. We have al so heard of a movement looking to the extension of this industry. At present the twigs or rods used for basket making here are brought from abroad, some of them from Europe, but the willow tree grows ; here very readily, some varieties growing wild without any cultivation. If the matter were properly taken hold of a large and paying industry might he built up in*|basket making from native twigs. Galveston News: The increase in custom receipts at the port of Galveston, from July 1 to October 1, 1879, com pared with the same period of time in *B7B, is something remarkable. For the fiscal quarter ending September 30, 1878, the duties on imported merthandice col lected at this port were only $5,078,97. J’or the quarter commencing July l nd ending September 30, 1879, the du ties collected on imports at Galveston amount to $42,228 —an increase of $37,- 800 or 1879. It is pleasant to learn, also, that costly and varied cargoes are nowin transit to Galveston from foreign lands, on which duties amounting to $70,000 will be collectable. Mr. Fendel Horn writes to Dr. Mer cior, of New Orleans, who introduced the seed of Egytian cotton: “I have been handed a sample of the Egyptian cotton raised on the plantation of Col. Claiborne—Dunbarton plantation—near Natchez, Miss. He and Gen. Stephen D. Lee, another experienced planter living near Columbus, Miss., planted the original seed last year, and both report the plant grew very tall, rank and with but few bolls. This year they have planted about one acre each with seed taken from the last year’s plant and both report that it lias improved very much. Th’ plant is not so large, fruits well, i mAi they nay from the one acre one-half ■m cotton and a much better quality is obtained.” _ Sherman ( Texas ) Coxier verita ble cloud of negroes, aiylKes, shapes and shades of color, passerffh rough Denison Friday, enronte for Kansas, where the people live in mud houses and live on grasshopper soup. They came from Grimes eiwuty, in this state, and were filled with exultation over the glittering future spread out before them. They got as far as tAe Nation, but the weather wasn’t “ enough. There was too much frost ml the air. Visions of icebergs, snow three feet deep and no wood in began to loom up be fore them, Ad they switched off, turned around hack. They went through on their homeward journey yes terday morning, and propose to stay in the sunny south as long as they have a grip on life. Charlotte (N.C. ) Observer: Capt. Jas. O. Moore, chief engineer of the Win ston and Salem and Mooresville railroad, went up the Richmond and Danville railroad yesterday morning to meet Mr. Garrett of the Baltimore and Ohio rail road company, and receiver Barbour, of the Virginia Midland, for the purpose of conferring with them with a view to in ducing them to utilize the road lied of his road, as much thereof as is completed, in their proposed extension of the Vir ginia Midland from Danville through parts of this state. About twenty-two miles of the Winston and Salem and Mooresville railroad are already graded, and Capt. Moore reports having on hand and attainable a sufficient amount to grade the road to a point between Moores ville and Winston—fifty-five miles in all. MISCELLINEOUS Ashland farm, Henry Clay’s old hum •>, is to rent. A\ T e shall soon begin sending wine to Fiance. The wine product of California alone this season is estimated at 10,000,000 gallons. France should put that fact in her glass and drink it.J In the two years preceding the panic of 1873 the price of middling upland cotton in Liverpool ranged between 9d and lid, with a million bales more cotton in sight than there are at present. The entrails of sheep' are now used in California for machine belting, in jdace of hemp, whicli is said to be much less durable. A three-fourth-inch rope made from it will bear a strain of seven tons. Goldsmith Maid was on the go, in the cars, for thirteen years, from one end of the country to the other, traveling over one hun dred thousand miles,always taking her regular rest on the ears as if in her box stall. She netted to her owner over $75,000, after paying all her expenses and giving Budd Dobfe one half. Of the total of 8,431 sets of woolen machinery in the United States, 1,418 are in Massachusetts; 331 in Maine, 505 in New Hampshire, 175 in Vermont, 469 in Rhode Island, and 669 in Connecticut—a total for the New England states of more than 43 per cent of the woolen machinery in the entire country. One gas company supplies all Paris at a rate of about $1.62 per 1,000 feet. The lastyearlv dividend was equal to 31J per centum on the original price of the shares. Dr. R. V. Pierce went to Buffalo in 1866 penniless. In 1872 he spent $150,- 000 in advertising, and now he is worth a million and i- ,i member of < ’outness Moral. A little girl who was sent out to look for eggs came hack unsuccessful, and complained that “there were lots of hens standing around doing nothing. Daily bulletins of current events, with lists of books pertinent to the subjects, arc hung up in the Hartford public li brary. Tliis is done to encourage the reading of instructive matter. Mr. D. P. Morgan, the banker, has sold to Mr. D. O. Mills, the California millionaire, his mansion on Fifth avenue, opposite the cathedral, New York, fully furnished, for $375,000. Last* year there were 17,000 cases of yellow fever and 5,106 deaths in Mem phis. This year the number of cases was 1,603 and there were 498 deaths. The official notice of the eud of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis comes four days earlier than the similar one of Oc tober 29, 1878. Locomotives arc used on canal tow paths of France. They are of light build, not weighingover four or five tons, and are easily managed by one man. Barges are thus drawn at a speed of two miles an hour, about twice the mean rate of a horse on the tow-path. Any empty vessel is drawn six miles an hour, but a greater speed would damage the banks of the canal. A father never thinks his ten-year-old son is stronger than a horse until lie em ploys him to turn the grindstone to sharpen an old axe that is about as sharp at one end as the other. The old man bears on until the lad’s eyes hang out and his trowsers’ buckle flies off, and just be fore he bursts a blood vessel his father encourages him with the remark, “Does —it—turn—hard?” Thousands of boys have run away from home and become pirates and greenbackers in order to es cape a second siege at the grindstone.— [Norristown Herald. . The Pronunciation of “U.” [Washington Star.] As the schools have just opened and as everybody reads your paper, if you will allow me the space, I wish to call the at tention of the teachers and pupils to a fault in English pronunciation exceeding common in the Norm, r.axply heard in the South or in England) but which seems to be spreading here. (We have faults enough in the South without Drafting some Northern ones upon them.) refer to the vulgarism—if I may so term it—of giving the long “u,” which is in so many of our common words, the sound of “ oo.” For instance, ninty-five out of every hundred Northerners will say instih ot, instead of institute, dooty instead of duty—a perfect rhyme to the word beauty. They will call new and news noo and noos—a perfect rhyme to pew and pews—and so on through the dozens and hundreds of the similar words. Not a dictionary in the English language authorizes this. In student and stupid the “u” has the same sound as in cupid, and they should not be pronounced stoodent and stoopid, as so many teachers are in the habit of sounding them. If it is a vulgarism to call a door a doah—as we all admit—isn’t it as much ol a vulgarism to call a newspaper a noospaper? One is Northern ana the other Southern—that’s the only differ ence. When the Ixmdon Punch wishes to burlesque the pronunciation of ser vants it makes them call the duke the dook, the tutor the tooter and a tube a toob. You never find the best Northern speakers, such as Wendell Phillips, Charles Sumner, George William Curtis, Emerson, Holmes and men of that class saying noo for new or Toosday for Tues day, avenoo for avenue or calling a dupe a doop. It is a fault that a Southerner also never falls into. He has slips enough of another kind, but he doesn’t slip on the long “u.” As many of our teachers have never had their attention called to this, I hope they will excuse this notice. A Chance for Work. Burdette, writing from Cmiada to the Burlington Hawkeye, morn ing I walked out by myselu All along the marsh road the farmers were busy in the meadows moving and turning their hay. A couple of regularly ordained tramps, idle and aimless as myself, and much better acquainted with the read, passed me, and 1 tagged along in their lounging wake. Presently the voice of a farmer came over the sweet-scented meadow: “ Hallo>” The tramps halted. “ Hallo yourself!” shouted one of them. “ Do you want to hire?” yelled the farmer. Judge of my astonishment when both tramps chorused back: “Yes!” Well, I thought, they aren’t American tramps, any how, or they wouldn’t dis grace the profession in this way. But I stood still to listen and watch, for it was an unusual sight—two tramps going to work. “Then come over here!” yelled tho farmer; and the two fellows sprang over the fence and trudged across the meadow with the brisk air of men who really wanted work and meant business. The farmer stood still, leaning on his pitch fork, gazing intently at my motionless figure. Presently his voice broke the once more: “ Don’t that other fellow want to hire, ft?” he yelled. The two tramps turned and glanced at at me for my reply. I shook my head sadly hut firrnfr, and moved on, without waiting to hWr the farmer’s muttered comments on my laziness. An American may die, but he never works. “ Will you ever be mine?” he asked her rapturously; and when she answered, “ There is one above knows all,” he thought camp-meeting had struck in and clinched; but she only referred to the old man, who was slumbering in the “ front room second.” TERMS si,oo pur Annum, in Advnc. NUMBER 2. BETTER OR WORSE. It a man a bit the better For hit board of golden galnt, For his -cres and his palace, U bis heart be cold and callout— Is a man a bit the better? Is a man a bit the worse For a brow with marks of care, Though he claims no lordly rental, 11 his heart be kind and gentle— Is a man a bit the worse? WAIFS AND WHIMS. Eggs come in layers. A pair off— an eloping couple. It is spring that brings re-leaf to th tree. Which is the most ancient of trees? The elder. The Board of Education—a school master’s shingle. The flower of the family is generally found in a sacque. The man with no teeth is always looking for a soft thing. Thk new broom sweeps clean when it is properly handled. The trapeze performer is sometimes heels over head in business. A Columbus (Ohio) young lady wants to kiss Joe Jefferson. Let her, Rip. An undertaker at a wedding is the rite man in the wrong place. Why is a ship the politest thing in the world? Because she always advances with a bow. The time is coming when a buffalo robe will cover two hearts that beat as one. Nero, Pompey and Caesar are common names for dogs, but wouldn’t Agrippa be more appropriate. There are a great many people who will never go to heaven unless tney can go at excursion rates. A man’s faith is often shown by tho length of time for which he subscribes for his paper and pays for it in advance. Falling down stairs gives a fellow a wonderful insight into the starry king dom. A wicked Philadelphian wants to know if there are any fire-escapes in tho next world. “You don’t seem to like me when I mould,” the ink replied t<> the angry scribe. Love may be blind before marriage, but—ah, yes, we forgot—there is no love after marriage. “A fraud in silks,” is the startling headline in an exchange. Ah I Went back on you, did she ? A young man is apt to think the times are hard when he cannot get a soft place. iSince the decline in cotton one meets a great many well-developed girls on the street. “What’s more sacred than .matri mony?” asks an exchange. Divorces. Ask us one with a Gordian knot. The Whitehall Times has learned why Samson was so strong. He never took the trouble to bathe in the Jordan. A Bridgeport grave-yard is used for the pasturing of goats. Goats are very partial to man’s resting place.— Danbury News. General Schenck can brag of his skill at poker, but we know a man who has never been beaten a game. He never played. A book entitled “Letters from a Cat” is announced. It will probably give us the other side of the boot-jack and back yard question. It is stated that Robert Bonner is the happy possessor of over eighty horses, all of which have records. Who can boast of as many fast friends? The Hackensack Republican speaks of “a smile as long as a summer day.” That’s a very delicate way to refer to a cask of Jersey lightning. Man wants but little here below. True, and saleratus in the breakfast biscuit is no exception to the general rule. A wag who had lent a minister a horse that had run away and thrown the clergyman, claimed credit for spreading the gospel. The supreme moment of a loafer’s life is when a candidate asks for the use of his influence with the workingmen of his ward. A Wisconsin city, in order to avoid scandals in the girls’ schools has decided that the leading teachers shall be women. They want principals, not men. “ Can there be happiness where there is no love?” solemnly queries an author in a book on marriage. Not much hap piness, perhaps, but if the girl is awfully rich, there nan be lots of fun. The Buffalo Express is doing its best to organize an expedition to go in search of Mr. Dana. The editor of the Express appears to be a man who doesn’t know a good thing when he sees it. Why can’t he let well enough alone.— Atlanta Con stitution. Nowadays a man strolls down to the corner grocery in the evening, gets trusted for an yeast cake and samples every basket of peaches or pears in the store. Value of the yeast cake, two cents; samples, fifteen cents. And yet apocers accumulate fortunes It Is etiquette that makes a woman say, when at an evening review her pet corn is crushed by a young Lothario, and deadly pangs gallop all through her, “Oh, there’s no harm done I assure you; I shouldn’t have noticed it but for your apology.” But frankness generally gets the better of etiquette when she reaches the sacred precincts of home and her husband joggles the same foot and she exclaims, “ Ouch I you horrid brute! you’ll be the death of me yet; why don’t you look where you are going ”