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LUMPKIN & JORDAN, Editors and Proprietors.
VOLUME 11.
It has been ascertained that people
who eat a great deal of baker’s bread are
of quarrelsome disposition. Don’t hit a
man when he calls you a liar until you
find out what sort of bread he eats.
Parnell, the home ruler, the most
popular man in Ireland, is only 2!) years
of age. His income is about $7,500 a
year, but he has cut his rents down
twenty per cent., so that it must nowl>e
less.
M iners must be rather a fearless set
of men. Pennsylvania presents the extra
ordinary case of ten acres of coal burning
fiercely underground, and beneath this
mass of fire the miners are calmly hack
ing away at a vein of unburning coal,
while the drops of water that ooze
through the eeiling above them are scald
ing hot.
In view of the rumored danger of out
break between Germany and Russia, it is
curious to read of the German cast steel
works abandoning all other business and
turning out cannon for the Russian gov
ernment. It reminds one that American
Indians are supplied with Winchester
rifles and the Zulus with British fire-arms.
General Lorino (Pacha) says that
the ex-khedive was very much surprised
when England paid the Alabama claims;
it persuaded him that no country in the
world so fearlessly held England respon
sible for her acts as the United States.
Thereupon he imagined that American
friendship might avail him something,
and he made us a present of the obelisk,
which Pacha Loring calls the true Cleo
patra Needle.
An Englishman writes from India
that affairs there are by no means happy.
Idle taxes wrung from people whose in
come is only six cents a day, to adjust
“a scientific frontier,” the immense sala
ries of high officials—sso,ooo to the
Bishop of Calcutta, for example—and a
semi-military police,most intensely hated,
are preparing trouble for England. The
“wild Hindoo” is no longer what he was.
He has been educated without the con
trolling influence of religion, and is like
a railway engine without a brake.
The iron trade is booming. In order
to help the boom a firm in Pittsburg are
finishing a sixteen-ton steel hammer,
which will delicately pat on the head an
anvil weighing one hundred and fifty
tons. The hammer and anvil will be
cast in Pittsburg and special furnaces
will have to be erected for their construc
tion. The anvil will be one of the larg
est in the world. The largest hammer
now in America weighs ten tons, and is
in Nashua, New Hampshire. The cost
of these works will In? $70,000.
The Philadelphia “permanent” exhibi
tion is doomed. The main building will
shortly be torn down and sold. St. Pe
tersburg has ordered the framework for
its exhibition in 1881. The framework
will weigh only 100,000 pounds. The
western fair, recently held in London,
Ont., was a great financial success. Cin
cinnati is already preparing for its spring
exhibition, which it is thought will Ik;
even more prosperous than the one just
closed. London, England, has estab
lished a permanent international exhibi
tion.
The Government has narrowly escaped
being involved in a war with the Chey
enne Indians this summer. The appro
priation made by Congress for their sub
sistence, authorized the expenditure of
four cents per diem apiece for food, and
two cents for clothing. The Indians were
in a state of starvation, and they in
formed the agent that unless fed they
would leave the reservation. The Indian
bureau thereupon ordered that they be
given full rations. A deficiency in the
appropriations for their suport will tlius
be caused.
The loss of life and property from the
floodsn Spain amounts to a national,cal
amity. Making allowances for exagger
ation, it would appear that at least 1,200
people have been drowned and six
million dollars’ worth of property des
troyed. It is greater than the destruc
tion from all except the greatest fires;
while a pestilence so fatal would be re
markable. The mountain sides of Spain
have been stripped of their forests, and
these sudden floods overwhelm with
out warning whole towns and villages,
like the bursting of a milldam.
The English board of trade returns
give evidence of a revival of commercial
prosperity. The returns for the month
of are the most satisfactory
that have been received for many months.
The total exports for the month amount
ed to £17,402,242, increase of £840,000,
or about five per cent., over exports of
September last year, and 1J per cent
jO.if/r omitn (§Hzettc.
RISING FAWN, DADE COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1879.
over the same month in 1577. The im
ports exhibited an increase of £500,000,
but this is not so satisfactory a feature on
the returns, inasmuch as the increase is
greatly due to the enormous importation
of wheat from America.
Senator Booth’s dinner to General
Grant at Sacramento had a merry sur
prise in the midst of it. Forty-five gen
tlemen sat down to a tabic, and dinner
was nearly finished when suddenly the
folding doors at one end of the room,
which the table nearly touched, were
thrown open, and behold! there was
another room of the same size as the first,
and down its length extended a table at
which were seated forty-five ladies with
Mrs. Grant, all of whom had been dining
comfortably the while. The gentlemen
arose, applauded, and waved handker
chiefs; the ladies returned cordial greet
ings, and the evening most pleasantly
proceeded.
The Turkish government is undergo
ing the periodical bulldozing from Eng
land, in which Austria now joins, to keep
Russia from getting the upper hand at
Constantinople. The British government,
during the last two years in which Bea
consficld’s Anglo-Turkish treaty has been
in existence, has been utterly indifferent
to the neglect by the Porte of its solemn
pledges of reform, on which British pro
tections of Asiatic Turkey was condi
tioned. Since it became apparent that
Russian influence over the Turkish cabi
net was increasing, the British embassa
dor, Austin Lavard, has been making
extraordinary efforts to get Turkey to
carry out her pledges, and the British
Mediterranean squadron has again been
placed at the foot of the Dardanelles,
within easy reach of Constantinople,
and Austria, recently strengthened by
Germany’s strong backing, is nagging
the Sultan in a very persistent manner.
Under the circumstances, we may expect
to see the Porte make some feeble efforts
at reform, and anew cabinet will proba
bly shortly appear upon the scene.
England, Austria and Germany are now
unitedly engaged obstructing Russian
plans, but Germany is at the same time
using Austria to weaken the hold Eng
land and Franee now have on Egypt, the
recent refusal of Austria to engage in a
concert of action with those powers with
reference to the manipulation of the
Egyptian finances having been prompted
by Bismarck. The German chancellor is
also reputed to have warned Russia to
remove her troops from the eastern
frontier of the German empire, which
the Czar is said to be menacing with 20,-
000 troops. The Czar is also said to be
preparing about 400,000 more men in
Western Russia for a possible collision
with German bayonets; but this is a
newspaper correspondent’s story, as are
nearly all the “strained relations” be
tween the Emperor William and his
nephew the Czar.
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.
The Swiss colony at Mount Airy, fra.,
is flourishing. More Swiss are coining.
The new owners of the Selma and
Gulf road have made great reductions
in freight tariffs.
Litt e Rock Gazette: There are now
594 convicts in the penitentiiry, a gain
of 100 this year.
The Governor of Texas has just par
doned a batch of sixteen boys out of the
state penitentiary.
Six hundred negroes of San Augustine
and Shelby counties, Texas, are to start
for Kansas this month.
The Synod of North Carolina, at its
recent session, made an earnest appeal to
Presbyteries to raise $500,000 to endow
Davidson College, N. C. an old and use
ful institution.
Trenton ( Tenn.) Herald : West Ten
nessee has this year produced the largest
crop of cotton since the war. The
yield is remarkably fine, equal to that
of the Arkansas and Mississippi bottoms.
Dallas (Texas) Herald : Farmers say
they receive on an average $lO more per
bale for their cotton this year than they
did last, and that the cost of transporta
tion has been no greater.
Little Rock Gazette: The Little Rock
and Fort Smith Railroad did the largest
business yesterday known to its history.
One hundred and thirty-six car-loads of
cotton came down, amounting probably
to 6,000 bales.
The Humboldt (Tenn.) Argus advises
Southern land owners to divide thek
property into forty-acre and sixty-aerc
tracts, and sell them to small farmers on
ten years’ credit at six or seven per vent,
interest. If this is done, the Argus
thinks, the South would be independent
of hard times.
Dallas (Texas) Herald: Fifty or sixty
exodusting nigs passed up on the north
bound passenger train last night on the
Central. They bail from Hearne, and
are ticketed for Parsons, Kansas. One
Johnson has been working them up at
one dollar a head.
“ Faithful to the Might, Fearless Against the Wrong.’’
Jackson (Miss.) Clarion : A monument
to the memory of Gen. John A. Quit
man lias just been completed, and will
be erected over his grave at Natchez —a
tribute to the memory of a great and
good man that should have long ago
been paid.
New Orleans Times: A drove of
about 5,000 wild horses and mares are
ranging on the prairies in the neighbor
hood of Cow’s Island, down in Cameron
parish. The Meridianal says there is
absolutely no sale for these animals.
Any of them can be bought for $5
apiece, and the owner will be glad to sell
them at that.
Augusta ( Ga.) Chronicle: Miss Helen
Morris Lewis, the accomplished Charles
ton lady who charmed our people last
spring by her admirable readings and
recitations, has, we hear, gone to Balti
more, wherejshe will accept an engage
mentunder Manager John T. Ford, and
will soon appear at the Fifth avenue
Theatre, New York.
Giddings (Texas) Lone Star: The
Hood bale of cotton recently sent to
Waco from Houston, sold three times at
$130,5130 and $55, bringing a total of
$315. By this and other means on the
24th inst., at Waco, $582 was raised for
the Hood orphans. The bale was sent
to Austin on Saturday last.
Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser: There
is a man in North Carolina who, some
years ago, married the widow of his own
son, and she w r asalso his own niece. Not
long ago, when one of the daughters was
married, the happy bridegroom demand
ed a tabulated pedigree of the young
lady.
Dallas Herald : A special sheep-ship
ping car passed south yesterday evening
filled w r ith thoroughbred merino bucks
and ewes from the famous sheep region
of Ohio. Some of the bucks were pur
chased at $250, and some of the ewes at
$l5O. They were being taken to Keer
county for breeders.
The reporter of the Birmingham (Ala.)
Iron Age saw at the depot in that city,
a few days since, a car load of well-made
iron-bound barrels from Cullman, for the
Meridian oil works. Cullman seems to
be prospering finely with its local fac
tories, and is building up a trade with
the surrounding country which will
prove profitable and beneficial to all.
Jackson (Tenn.) Tribune-Sun: Mr.
James Knowles of Henderson county,
exhibited a lot of corn, this year’s growth;
the ears are eighteen inches long, fine
and well developed. We will here note
that the longest ear of Colorado corn ex
hibited at the* Chicago Exposition
measured only sixteen inches. This puts
West Tennessee ahead as a corn growing
country.
Jackson (Miss.) Clarion: The State
Library has been recently adorned with
a large portrait, in crayon, of Hon. Jef
ferson Davis, the gift to the State of the
late Mrs. Sarah Dorsey. The portrait
was executed by Mrs. M. Ellis, of New
Orleans, and competent judges say that
as a likeness and work of art they have
seldom seen its equal.
Mrs. Spears has confessed to complic
ity in the assassination of her husband in
Medina county, Texas. She acknowl
edges conspiring with two of his ene
mies. She rode with her husband in a
wagon, and got him to go back in the
road after something she pretended to
have dropped. To men then sprang up
on and murdered him. Mrs. Spears is in
jail.
Americus (Ga.) Republican: On
Wednesday night as the accommodation
train was coming into Americus, in pass
ing through Capt. A. C. Bell’s field it
ran into a drove of cattle that had
camped on the railroad to get a dry
footing and killed and maimed eighteen
beeves; five belonging to Dr. G. B. Hare
and three belonging to Capt. A. C. Bell.
There was no damage done to the train.
Little Rock Democrat: At the prices
paid for cotton last year nine planters
out of ten lost money. This year the
expenses of raising and gathering the
crop are not greater than last year, while
the price is on an average nearly fifty
per cent, higher. It is safe to say that
the great majority of planters w T ho were
out of debt at the beginning of the crop
season have this year realized some
profits.
Anderson (S. C. ) In'elligencer:
Among the attractions at the fair, and
especially to the survivors of McGo
wan’s brigade, may be mentioned Col.
Brown’s march tackey, which was in all
the campaigns of the “ Army of North
ern Virginia ” from the battle of Gaines’
Mill to the surrender of Appomattox,
and whose history is closely connected
with “Bob,” her rider, who is also a sur
vivor. Though not so handsome as 'Jjio
other horses, she has a more eventful
history.
Lynchburg ( Va.) Nevs ; The seventh
annual meeting of Vnc Grand Division
Colored toms of temperance of Virginia
has been m session in this city. Repre
sentativss were present from all parts of
the state. The reports of the grand of
hceis show the order to be in a flourish
ing condition, both financially and in
membership. Yesterday there was a
grand parade. Fifteen new divisions
have been organized the past year. The
order numbers now nearly 3,000 mem
l>ers in the state, with sixty subordinate
lodges.
Little Rock Gazette: Dr. Dibrell, as
sisted by Drs. Jennings and Beulling,
has just performed a very reinarLahlf
surgical operation. Chester Garraud, a
colored man, was probably one of the
most complete victims to unnatural
flesh-wens known to the medical history
of this city. They were under his right
arm and covered his entire right side, all
under the 'kin. The operation was a,
most skillful one, and wens varying in
size from a buckshot to a hen’s egg were
taken out. The man is doing well, and
will, it is tlio xght, recover.
The New Orleans Times thinks that
New Orleans will henceforth look to Al
abama for coal. It says: “The coal is
at present usually transported on flat
cars; but as the trade develops regular
cars will doubtless be provided. As re
gards the amount of coal to be had in
Alabama it may be stated that high au
thority place the area of the coal fields at
5,000 square miles, containing 52,250,000,-
000 tons. It will thus be seen that a sup
ply of Alabama coal is a question of rail
way facilities and cheap freights.
New Orleans Democrat: The Louisi
ana Western railroad, in the neighbor
hood of the Sabine bridge, is progress
ing satisfactorily. The track-laying on
the piling has been finished, the string
ers are now being put up and more iron
is daily expected by steamer. The
Pearl Rivers, which was detained for
some time by quarantine at Sabine Pass,
brought up 125 tons of steel rails, and
the entire line is progressing as fast as
1,000 men can push it. There are over
400 convicts employed on the work.
“ Carrollton (Miss.) Conservative: The
Kansas fever is still progressing in our
midst. Three wagons loaded with big
negroes, little negroes, male negroes and
female negroes, black and tan colored,
pa.ssed through our town on last Tuesday
on their way to Winona to take the train
for Kansas—the land of milk and honey.
They caine from the plantation of Mr.
John McLemore, Jr., at the edge of the
valley. Instead of throwing stumbling
blocks in their way to prevent their going
Mr. McLemore took his wagons and
-teams and hauled them free of charge to
the railroad.
"Charleston News: Messrs. Buist &
Buist and Major Wm. H. Brawley, at
torneys for Daniel, Hand, Bradley, Mar
tin, and other holders of the six per cent,
bonds and coupons of the Charleston
and Savannah Railroad Company, is
sued under the act of 1856, have given
notice to the attorneys for the road that
on the 10th of November they will move
before Judge Aldrich, in the Court of
Common Pleas, for an order of sale of the
Savannah and Charleston railroad, its
property and franchises, as described and
set forth in the liens and mortgages and
pleadings in the above stated cases.
Charleston News and Courier: A
samplejof cotton, the original of which
is said to have been of Chinese growth,
".as on exhibition yesterday at the
{charleston Exchange. It was generally
muffed for ito superior preparation,
good color and excellent It was
sent by Mr. Ellioson S. Upitt, of Glymp
ville, Newberry, S. C.jfnho says it was
imported since the war, and has been
cultivated by him with care for four
years. The crop this year will be about
700 pountk of lint per acre on eight
acres. It was represented as being not
only the most prolific, but the finest and
largest of all Ahe short staple growths.
Atlanta The mili
tary bill a reorganization of
the State volunteer system. There are
to be no raiments, but all the companies
arc to lie rmed into battalions. The
Governor iAo enforce such organization.
The white and colored battalions arc to
be kept separated, and are to be organ
ized in different series, so that each se
ries will have its senior officers. A staff
flag is adopted for the first time. The
Governor remains the commander-in
chief of the army and navy of the State,
and the Superintendent of Public Build
ings, who is now Mr. John Baird, is made
Adjutant General of Georgia.
Corpus Christi (Tex.) Free Press: At
Houston the other day a negro boy was
before the recorder and fined $lO for
trying to steal a locomotive on the Texas
Western Narrow-guage road. A few days
ago he, with some other urchins manned
a locomotive which was left at the
depot under a full head of steam, and
pulling back the throttle-valve, started
down the track at full speed. Not know
ing how to stop the machine, which they
immediately deserted, it is probable that
the engine would have sustained very
serious injury had not an engineer suc
ceeded in getting aboard as it passed him
and bring it safely back.
Boston Herald Norfolk letter: Nor
folk did an export business last year of
$10,000,000, and has won for herself, and
away from New York and Baltimore, the
cotton trade of the South. She is now
the second cotton exporting port in the
United States, and is running a tilt with
New Orleans which makes the Creole
city puff to hold her own. Norfolk’s
magnificent harbor and water front giVfe
h'M- a chance to trade direct with Europe,
saving freight and other expenses to Bal
timore or New York. These two cities,
in a business point of view, are now thor
oughly northern. The old fellows who
wouldn’t have the cash basis any way
have retired out of sight.
Charlotte (N. C.) Observer: There is
a perfect jam of cotton at the platform.
Three train loads has just been delivered
to the Richmond and Danville from the
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta, and
the former road had yesterday nearly
200 car loads for shipment. It is being
sent off as rapidly as the cars can carry
it, and the compress is kept running at
full pressure day and night. The in
crease in the business of the Charlotte,
Columbia and Augusta Railroad over
last year in something altogether unpre
cedented. It is said that 4,000 bales
have been Rinded here by this road dur
ing the present week, which is about
three times as much came over the line
last season. _
Macon ( GaA Telegraph : Mobile, in a
few weeks, will make the exporimenWof
overcoming her Lneffieient shipping fa
cilities bv means o/ a steamship which
has been built with particular reference
to her shallow water. If this steamer
proves a success, of course others will
follow, and then the necessity of sending
all cotton for foreign ports by rail to
New Orleans will be obviated. Mobile
merchants are also exerting themselves
to get appropriations to deepen their har
bor, so that all their wharves may become
available for all sorts of shipping. The
rivalry between the two cities of New
Orleans and Mobile is likely to stimulate
both to a renewed and healthy activity.
Sunny South: Georgia bonds are
worth to-day equally as much as those
of the United states, and are as eagerly
sought for by capitalists. Whe has re
cently freadily disposed of $200,000 of
her four-per-cent, bonds at par. These
were issued to pay a similar amount of
eight-per-cent, bonds falling due. Eight
years ago her seven-per-cent, bonds were
selling at twenty-five cents below par.
These four-per-cent, bonds are of as low
denomination as five dollars, and they
circulate as money, thus supplementing
the national currency. This is a fine
stroke of financial policy, and doubtless
will be imitated by other Southern
States.
The Texas Immigration Commissioner,
who has just returned from England,
says: The general destruction of crops,
the depression of farming interests this
year throughout the United Kingdom,
will be additional stimulus to the over
taxed and despondent small farmers of
England to seek homes in our State. In
my opinion, were the fertile and abund
antly-watered districts of northern,
northwestern and eastern Texas properly
ventilated before the British public
through a general emigration agency,
established in London or Liverpool, a
half million of able-bodied and moneyed
agriculturists could be induced to take
up lands and settle here.
New Orleans has anew gas company,
which will manufacture “water gas.”
The Picayune says: “It is claimed for
the new invention that it is more bril
liant than the coal gas by about fifty
per cent.; it is denser, and therefore
gives more heat, and for cooking it has
great heat without smoke. The cost of
manufacturimr it to be so low that
it costs far less than coM gas for il
luminating, and is cheaper than ordinary
fuel for cooking. The system has been
tried in other northern cities besides
New York, and preparations are being
made to introduce it in the west and
south. The stock of the New York com
pany is said to have remained above par
since it was first quoted. The company
which intends to locate in New Orleans
"Nflllbave capital of ewsovt $1,005,000.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The modes of autumn and winter in
New York may be called loud.
A course of architecture is part of the
instruction given at the Yale School of
Arts.
No man ever kept healthy in body
and mind with less than seven hours of
sleep.
Thirty-five hundred and twenty-three
emigrants arrived at Castle Garden last
week.
Girls are said to lie the most expert
telegraphers along the line of the Penn
sylvania railroad.
It is estimated that churches and
schools cost this nation one dollar for
each inhabitant, and the “rum traffic”
eighteen dollars
The two Misses Longfellow, a daugh
ter of Prof. Horsford, and a daughter of
Mr. Arthur Gilman arc among the lady
students at Harvard.
A Russian doctor, Malarivsky, pro
poses to print books in white ink on black
paper, as a prevention of short-sighted
ness among the people.
The house in which Milton was born
was burned in the great London fire of
1666, but its exact counterpart was built
on the site, and is occupied as a lace fac
tory. ,
The railroad from \Jfcles observa
tory to the foot of Vesuvius
will lie opened early next year. A steam
engine at the summit will draw the ears
up by a windlass.
John Bright presented a petition to
Parliament three-fourths of a mile long
from 10,000 Primitive Methodists in En
gland, asking for the closing of liquor
shops on Sunday.
'7 A Vienna dispatch says that snow fell
there thickly Friday to the depth of six
inches. At Gratz it was several feet
deep. Such weather is unprecedented at
this time of the year.
Four of the largest trades-unions in
Great Britain have, during a compara
tively brief term of existence, spent uj>
wards £260,000 ($1,500,000) in relieving
the wants of members on strikes.
Five men have been hanged at Cabu
for complicity in the massacre of the
English Embassy. They include Kot
wal of Cabul the head of the City Mul
lahs, and two generals, one of royal
blood.
The current estimate for the European
demand for American wheat for the
cereal year 1879-80 is 200,000,000 bushels,
which, it is generally believed, the late
bountiful harvest will be abundantly able
to supply.
New Haven manufacturers cannot get
hands enough to do their work. One
company was compelled to reject an or
der for 140 railway platform ears, to be
fitted with old tanks, for which SIO,OGo
was offered.
Therejxmof Bixth Auditor Ela shows
that the fees collected by foreigu
consuls during the year are $31,000 in
excess of those for the previous year.
Mr. Ela says this is an incident of the
growth of the foreign trade of the United
States. The fees collected are also shown
to be $131,376 in excess 0 f the entire
cost of the consular service.
TERMS si.oo pr Annum, ItvA<lvsc
NUMBER 3.
WAIFS ANI) WHIMS.
It is a wise schoolmaster who employs
cuffs to take the starch out of his
scholars.
“ I acknowledge the corn,” as the
man said when he pulled on a tight
boot.
“ We’ve moved into our own house
now,”said Spilkins, “and have quit the
pay-rent-al roof forever.”
If a man chews tobacco pedestrian, ho
must not expectorate as anything but a
speculator.— AT. Y. Mail.
The Chicago type of a girl has a non
pareil head on a brevier body and long
primer feet—typographically speaking.
If a woman wears court-plaster on
her face to beautify her, why not wear
an eight-ounce tack in her shoe for
comfort.
Byron once said of a lady whoso
tongue suggested perpetual motion to
every visitor, that she had been danger
ously ill, but was now dangerously well
again.
The Unitarian denomination has a
permanent committee of ladies at Boston
to examine all books intended for use in
the Sunday School libraries of that
church.
Brooklyn has a champion whistler
who wants to compete fora belt. Just
let him come whisJing around this office
once and he’ll get more belts than he
can get away with.
An Indiana lady writes: “ No true and
devoted husband will feel it degrading to
help his wife prepare a meal, rock a
baby or wipe the dishes, and also throw
in a few loving words of encouragement
between times.”
A BALD-HEADED professor, reproving
a youth for the exercise of his fists, said,
“We fight with our heads at this col
lege.” The young man reflected a mo
ment and then replied: “Ah, I see; and
you butted all your hair off'.”
A husband recently cured his wife of
divers ills by kissing the servant girl,
and allowing his wife to catch him at it.
lie said she was up in an instant, forget
ting her complaints, and has done with
out a servant ever since.
*•( 1 't.vhma, there goes the sky-buss!"
exclaimed a bright little girl the other
day, as she watched a passing hearse that
headed a funeral procession. “There goes
the ’bus that takes people to heaven.”—
Exchange.
A newly married lady was tolling
another how nicely her husband could
write. “Oh, you should just see some of
his love-letters!” “Yes, I know,” was
the frcezjpg/gply; “I’ve got a bushel of
’em in my trunk.”
Drains should be cut while the
ground is dry. If they have been
marked or laid out previously, the work
can be done now at half the cost of
doing it when the ground is full of water.
This season is better than any other for
reclaiming swamp meadows.
“Whatshall I leave her when I die?”
said an insipid fellow to a young lady
whose patien ■ he had exhausted.
“Nec in’t wait till you die,” said she;
“you can h ave something now, if you
will.” “What shall i leave?” he asked.
“ Leave yourself,” she replied. Ho left.
Some people who think that by
church memberships they are pre
empting homesteads in a land that is
fairer than this, will find that putting
blank envelopes in the contribution box
on Sunday will provide a seriouß draw
back to reading the titles clear.
A successful dairyman feeds his cows
night and morning the year round, and
in each feed puts a teaspoonful of salt.
He considers this method of salting cows
preferable to the usual one of giving ani
mals salt once or twice a week, and
thinks his method adds largely to the
amount of milk given.
An egg has been hatched in a man’s
pocket on the North Carolina coast. He
found a terrapin’s egg beneath a frag
ment of rock. Ho put it into his pocket
in order to show it to a friend, but for
got to take it out. He was startled in a
few days after to find a young terrapin
alive and kicking.
Capt. Stone planted a mahogany
seed at Moundsviile, W. Va., thirty-five
years ago, and remarked that he would
live until it grew into a tree big enough to
provide material for his coffin. Wind
blew tho tree down last spring, and the
Captain had a handsome coffin made of
it. He died a few days ago, and was
buried in the mahogany of his own
planting.
The St. Petersburg newspaper
Rooskaya Pravda gives the following
statistics respecting the emigration of
Russians and Poles to America from
the year 1820 till 1877: During the first
forty years of that period the total
number was 3,000; during the succeed
ing decade, 5,000; in 1871,1,800; in
1872, 1,500: in 1873, 1,000; in 1874,
700; in 1875, 30; in 1876, none; in
1877. 45.
Teacher —“ Now, boys, quadruped
and biped, you know, arc two kinds of
animals. Quadruped, animal with four
Ico’-, such as cow, elephant, horse., etc.
Biped, animal with two legs, such as—
well, ah —. Yes, there is a biped,
pointing to a picture of a goose on the
wall, “ and I am a biped, and you are all
bipes. Now what am iT’ Pause. One
of tho bipeds—“ A goose, sir.”
“ See!” said a reverend gentleman,
“ here is an illustration. At one time I
should have sworn awfully at this fly—
but, look now.” Raising his hand, ho
said, gently, “ Go away, fly go away.” But
tho fly only tickled his nose the mere.
The reverend gentleman, raising his hand
with some vehemence, made a grab at
the offender, and, being successful,
opened it to throw the insect from him,
wb< n, in extreme digust, he exclaimed:
I W ay, d—n it, it’ a wasp!”