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LUMPKIN &. JORDAN, Editors and Proprietors
VOLUME 11.
I apt. Edgell, of the Seventeenth
Lancer*, when shot at Ulundi, fell hack
into the arms of a comrade, a Dublin
man, exclaiming at his last words, “See
that the men sjiare the wounded. Spare
the wounded. ’ One of his soldiers rode
in the charge with a wooden pipe in his
mouth, and when shot down asked with
his latest breath, “Give the pipe to broth
er.”
Law, physics and divinity are well
supplied with feminine members in the
United States. The lady doctors num
ber 530, \ dentists 420, while sixty-eight
are preachers and twenty practice as
lawyers. Some ladies adopt two or
three callings at once. A lady living in
St. Louis notifies on her door-plate that
she is an “ elocutionist, poetess, washer
anifironer.”
The San Francisco Chronicle says tha
the Paris Baron Hirsh, who is worth
$20,000,000 and recently won SIOO,OOO
in a lottery ticket, is almost rich enough
to live in San Francisco. The existence of
rich men in that city has rendered neces
sary a course of scientific instruction for
burglars. A professor of the art, a recent
graduate of the State Prison, has begun
a series of lectures on the subject, for
which fifty cents a head is charged. The
first night the lesson consisted of a trea
tise, with a practical illustration, upon
the operation of breaking open a safe.
The outer door was opened in forty-five
minutes, and would have been accom
plished in even less time had not tbe pro
fessor boon so unlucky as to break off bis
drill. A goodly number of well-known,
thieves and burglars were present in the
public hall where the exhibition took
place, and for fifty cents obtained infor
mation which they could have got other
wise only by monthsor years of study. At
liie end of the lesson a detective appeared
and cleared the ball of the most notorious
of them.
The ruddy planet Mars, now nearly at
its brightest, is under close telescopic
scrutiny. The two moons which for so
many vewrs escaped telescopic detection
have to be newly timed and rated. The
astronomers at Washington hoped to re
discover these minute bodies about the
middle of October. But Mr. Common,
of London, caught sight of them as early
as September 21, when Mars was far from
being at its brightest. He used a tele
scope of tire reflecting sort, having a
mirror three feet in diameter, and re
garded by some (despite its inferiority to
the Ross telescope hi size) as the most
powerful telescope in existence. The in
ner satellite lias since been rediscovered.
Pliobos (for so the little moon is called)
was about three-quarters of an hour
ahead of its computed time, judged by
the rating of 1877. Of course, astrono
mers infer, as it is easier to suppose, that
that the Washington astronomers calcu
lated a period of revolution a few seconds
too long, not that the little moon has
really been accelerated in its motions.
The annual report of the Chief of
the Bureau of Statistics contains some
interesting matter. The value of the
•exports of domestic merchandise during
the last fiscal year was greater than du
ring any previous year in the history of
the country. From ]S<>:3 in 1873 the
I value of imports exceeded that of exports
in an average of about $100,000,000 per
annum. During the last four years, the
excess of the value of exports over im
ports has amounted to $753,000,000.
The exports of merchandise during the
last ten years have increased from $275-
000,000 in 1800 to $098,000,000 in 1879.
The value of the exports of bread and
breadstuffs during each of the last two
years lias exceeded the value of the ex
ports of any other commodity. During
all the proceeding years in the commer
cial history of the country since 1821
(except during the war between the
States), the value of the exports of raw
cotton exceeded that of any other com
modity. From 1821 to 1860, cotton fur
nished 50 per cent, of the total value of
exports of merchandise, but, during the
last two fiscal years, it has only amount
ed to about 25 per cent. It must be re
membered, however, that, while the for
eign demand for cotton is regular and
constant, a staple, in fact, like the crop
itself, the demand for breadstuffs and
provisions is exceedingly fluctuating and
irregular, de|>endent upon contingenees
upon which no man can safely build.
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A YOUNG man who had lost a bet of
the oysters with three of his friends, said
he wouldn’t pay it unless he was four
stew, lie has since made a bet with
nine of his friends, and says he in ten
stew this time, if he loses. Later: He
declares two of the bets off, and when he
comes to lose and pay, it will appear
that he eight ste'.y.
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RISING FAWN, DADE COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1879.
SOUTHERN NEB'S ITEMS.
There arc 160,000 Baptists in North
Carolina.
Marriage license costsbut fifty cents
in Memphis.
The street railroad of Vicksburg is
paying handsomely.
The Hood fund in Atlanta now
amounts to $2,652.02.
Tramps are flocking into Florida for
their winter quarters.
Texas would make thirty-five states
the size of Massachusetts.
Anew town in Lauderdale county,
Tenn., is named Pilljerk.
A South Carolina man cut 22,000 shi
ngles from one cypress tree.
The cause of education is booming in
many coudtics in Alabama.
Chestnuts sell at twenty-five cents per
bushel in southern Virginia.
The sewerage question is the leading
topic of interest in Memphis.
The third crop of figs for 1879 is nearly
ripe in Oglethorpe county, Ga.
There were 113 deaths in New Orleans
during the week ending Sunday.
The wool clip of Texas this year is
estimated at 22,000,000 pounds.
The colored . Baptists are erecting a
at Dallas, Texas.
There were sixty-one vessels in the
port of Savannah, Ga., Saturday.
Alex. H. Stephens is a consistent mem
ber of the Presbyterian church.
Arkansas has a state society for the
prevention of cruelty to animals.
Over fifty new firms have commenced
business in Atlanta, Ga., this year.
A Texas boy sixteen years old is being
searched for on the charge of rape.
The Alabama Great Southern railroad
will soon receive 100 new coal ears.
A cotton gin with 175 bales of cotton
burned near Dallas, Texas, Saturday.
A Memphis gun store was robbed of
SI,OOO worth of pistols Sunday night.
Panthers are said to abound j r et in tlie
mountains of western North Carolina.
Some of the Arkansas papers advocate
spelling the name of the State Arkan
saw.
The tendency of tlio j>cople of Georgia
to emigrate to Texas is not so great as it
was.
A penalty of four per cent, lias been
added to the delinquent tax list of Mem
phis.
The burden of the North Carolina
papers is of heavy crops and new rail
roads.
The people of San Antonio, Texas,
have subscribed $2,000 for an emigrants’
home.
The enrollment in tbe public schools
of Chattanooga, Tenn., last month, was
1,614.
Colonel Robert M. Nimin, well known
throughout Virginia, died at Newark
Friday.
A woolen-mill at New Braunfels,
Texas, yielded a net profit of SBI,OOO
last year.
The Collierville Tribune is the latest
addition to the democratic press of Ten
nessee.
The Grand Lodge of Tennessee, F. and
A. M., met in annual session in Nashville,
Monday.
The expenses of the city government
of Galveston, Tex., for October, amount
ed to $9,446.08.
There was an increase of forty in tlie
number of post offices in North Carolina
during October.
Taxes have been paid more promptly
this year in South Carolina than for
many years before.
V colored man in Tennessee goes to
the State penitentiary for three years for
stealing fifty cents.
John Arnold, of Mineral county, W.
Va., raised this year ten barrels of corn
from one ear’s planting.
The Council of Wheeling, W. Va., re
uses to encourage the introduction of
the telephone in that city.
The Groesbeck New Era says that one
fourth of the cotton gins in Texas arc 1
destroyed by fire every year.
A widow seventy years of age, residing
near Austin, Texas, takes care of a stock
ranclxe and 300 head of cattle.
Four calves were found near Talbot
ton, Ga., with their throats cut. It is
thought the deed was done by wildcats.
Texas papers arc complaining of an in
vasion of tramps from the north since
the beginning of cold weather up there.
During the first sevsn days of this
month, 32,801 letters and packages were
handled in the Columbus ( Ga.) postof
fice.
The registration of the voters of
Charleston, S. C., closed Tuesday, the
number being 10,777, against 9,586 in
1877.
The Robesonian says there is a well in
Robeson county. North Carolina, over
100 years old. which has never failed till
this fall.
The circuit court of Rockbridge coun
ty, Virginia, granted a decree last week
for the sale of the Rockbridge alum
springs.
A lot of NO Short-horn cattle, averag
ing 1,570 pounds, were shipped for Eu
roj)c last week by Francis Bell, of Au
gusta county, Ya.
Two men engaged in digging a well
near Sherman, Texas, two or three days
since, were overcome hv damp and died
I from the effects.
A contract has ltocii completed for the
: erection of water works at Knoxville.
“ Faithful to the Might, Fearless Agaist the Wrong.”
Tenn., and the Dispatch thinks that gas
works will follow.
The Board of Health of Augusta, Ga.,
has advised tbe City Council to abandon
pumps and Wells in the city as nuisances
and injurious to health.
The jailor of Yancey county, N. C., has
been arrested for complicity in the recent
escape of the two murderers, the Boones,
from the Burnsville jail.
The Rome (Ga.) Tribune says that it
is impossible to get cars enough to liaul
iron from Georgia and Alabama to till
northern and eastern orders.
Knoxville (Tenn.) Dispatch: There is
hardly an idle mechanic in the city, or
an idle laborer of any sort. All seem to
be employed and at fair wages.
The Observer says that every railroad
running from Charlotte, N. C., has done
a larger business this season than at any
other time within their history.
It will cost at least $150,000 to furnish
the maimed Confederate soldiers of Geor
gia with artificial limbs, as contemplated
by an act of the last legislature.
Last Friday the Eagle and Phoenix
cotton mills at Columbus Ga., sold $45,-
000 worth of their products—Rescue
plaids and ball sewing thread.
James Rice, confined in jail at Ash
land, Ala., for giving his step-daughter
medicine to produce abortion, hung him
self in his cell Friday morning.
Orangefield, (S. C.) Democrat: A larger
number of trains are employed now on
the South Carolina railroad than at any
previous time to move the freight.
The Cincinnati Times says that dur
ing the past six months five colonies
have gone from Cincinnati to settle on
lands in Tennessee and Alabama.
Rev. W. G. Veal, of tbe Methodist
Episcopal Church South, ot Texas, lias
been deposed from the ministry on ac
count of charges of gross immorality.
The Lancaster, (S. C.,) Ledger says
that a number of persons who emigrated
to Texas last year are coming back to
their old homes in Lancaster county.
Texas exports $50,000,000 worth of
exports annually, and the Groesbcek
New Era says that if it were not for the
imports the state would soon wax rich.
Upon the resignation, last week, of A.
Shaw, superintendent of the Richmond
and Petersburg railroad, he was presented
by the employes with an elegant gold
watt h.
A fire started in a cotton gin in Wins
boro, S. C., tlie other day. and ’..ielore.it
could be CheuWl cottage ftnd a
colored Methodist church was de
stroyed.
Thursday afternoon a negro woman
and her child were burned together in a
house in Union county, S. C. The fire
was caused from a wood chimney catch
ing fire.
A colored woman, about fifty years old
and in feeble health, while alone in her
residence in Richmond, Ya., last Satur
day evening, caught fire and was burned
to death.
A meeting of farmers will be held at
Hendersonville, N. C., this week to con
sider the advisability of planting a large
crop of tobacco in Henderson county
next year.
Carrollton, Ga., charges a license of
$2,500 for the privilege of selling liquor
in that town by the quart or less, and
$2,000 for selling it in amounts more
than a quart.
The Gulf City Steamship company,
of Mobile, Ala., lias advices from Glas
gow, Scotland, that the fast steamship
built for the company has just been
launched and will soon reach Mobile.
There are 754 patients in the Georgia
State Lunatic Asylum. The current
expenses of the institution amounted
to $89,629,19, an average of expense per
capita per diem of 32 9-10 cents.
In Washington county, Mississippi, a
colored man was elected circuit clerk
over two white competitors. He was
voted for by a good many white people
on the score of superior fitness and relia
bility.
A. J. Killian, a quiet and highly-re
spected citizen of Ellijay. Ga.. commit
ted suicide the other day. He tied a
rope around his neck, fixed it to the limb
of a tree and then shot himself through
the brain.
The Raleigh (N. C.) Observer is of
the opinion that the reports of the As
sessors for the present year will show an
increase of the valuation of property in
that state over last year’s figures of sl,-
000.000.
The city of Richmond, Ya., is asked
to contribute $750,000 for a railroad up
the James river, such road to be con
structed under the auspices of the James
River and Kanawha Canal Company.
Nashville American: Lightning en
tered the capitol Monday via the tele
phone wires, and produced loud reports
in the rotunda, in the comptroller’s of
fice and in that of the clerk of the su
preme court.
The owners of established factories in
Georgia complain of the legislative ex
emption of new factories from taxation
for ten years, and it is said that the valid
ity <4 the exemption is to be tested in
the courts.
Lynchburg Virginian: One of the
most remarkable results of the late elec
tion in Virginia was that in which an old
politician who had lieen frequently
elected to the legislature, wa- defeated
by his former slave.
Charleston (S. C.) News: In the past
three days three large steamships have
passed out from this port for European
port- with about 12.900 bales of cotton,
and on a submersion of sixteen and a
half to over eighteen feet.
The law passed at the la-t session of
I the Alabama legislature, prohibiting the
buying of com in seed, has been deci
ded uncoustitional by tlie circuit court
in Lowndes uutv. Au appeal will lie
taken to the preme court.
The Journ savs immense beds of salt
have been fold in the Elm fork of the
Big 'Wichit tieventv-five miles west of
Henrietta, Teas, 'two wagons loaded
with 5,000 mnds of the salt sold in
Henrietta 1 week at one and a half
cents a pour.
The Geoiii Legislature, at its last ses
sion, enacteea law prohibiting the sale
of immoral r obscene literature, and
now it is rowed that the next grand
jury will imfet all vendors of Police Ga
zettes and oter similar illustrated papers
under the la;
Washingta (Ga.) Gazette : We were
shown a S2O old piece a few days ago
that was mae from Lincoln county gold.
Some partiesinterested in the Sale mine
sent some g<d on to the Philadelphia
mint and rt uested that it lie made into
money and ait back.
Austin (Tk.) Review : The next Leg
islature wil l probably supplement our
penal code on a provision making it a
misdemeanor it least, if not a felony, for
a railway conoany to give, or for any
one not a pid?mploye of a railroad, or
a pauper, th acept, a free pass.
Captain Crok, of Calhoun, Alabama,
has imported sine premium Jersey cat
tle from Euglsnd for his farm. His ex
ample in this .latter has aroused a great
desire on the iart of farmers to introduce
blooded sto altogether to take the
places of the onimon kind now raised, i
During the recent session of Pasquo
tank court, ii South Carolina, a negro
swore a lie a 12 m. The Tarboro South
erner says tie solicitor was instructed to
draw a bill hr perjury ; the grand jury
found it trio; trial and conviction at once
ensued, am by 5 v. M. the perjurer
was sentenced to the penitentiary for five
years.
Dublin (Ora.) Gazette : We learn that
there is not a sufficient quantity of labor
in the eounjy to house the cotton crop of
the present year, and, furthermore, that
some farmers in various parts of the
county base resorted to very unfair
means, and are actually going to the
fields and hiring the laborers from their
employers.
Educational progress is apparent in
many counties in South Carolina. In
Fairfield county many districts have peti
tioned the right of local taxation, and
‘A .onion that in** Pe
titions wiK be a -cveral graded
schools have already been cstablis’/l. ,H
State and county courts iixyiclosed
in Sau Antonio, Texas, lastweflr, in hon
or of the circus. Families came from a
distance and camped near the city for
three days before the “big show,” and,
when it came, theFe had to be three ex
hibitions in one day to satisfy the anx
ious sight-seers.
The Mississippi Valfcv Cotton Plant
ers’ Association hold meeting
at Vicksburg this week. he president,
in his opening address, said that if the
planters of the sofcth would only raise
the feed consumed by their teams, it
would add to every year
$32,000,000, which they now expend for
this item.
Dallas (Tex.) Herald: Two or three
years ago an enterprising lightning-rod
man, with prophecy in his soul and faith
iu his heart, visited the Valley View
neighborhood, in Cook, county, and red
ded every house at good figures, taking
notes therefor, payable when the railroad
reached Gainsviile. It has reached
Gainsville, and that agent wants his
money.
Little Rock (Ark.) Gazette: A com
pany composed of ex-Senators Dorsey
and McDonald and others have recently
purchased silver mines in Colorado for
the sum of $750,000, and the purchase
money paid in cash. It is reported that
both of our ex-senators have recently
made enormous sums by lucky invest
ments in mining stocks.
Murfreesboro (Tenn.) Free Press : Mr.
J. M. Yearwood showed us on ’Tuesday
a red careless weed which grew on his
farm in this county, it being twelve feet
high, ten and three-quarter inches around
at the ground end, and had limbs upon
it that measured* seven feet in length.
Mr. Yearwood stated that it had seed
enough upon it to sow a ten-acre field.
Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times: A farm
er of McMinn county "’as arrested Sat
urday by a F T . S. revenue officer for sell
ing seventy-five cents worth of tobacco
of liisown production. He was found
guilty and thrown into prison, where he
must remain until the Federal court con
venes in Knoxville about a year hence.
He " ill then be fined perhaps SIOO.
Considerable interest is being mani
fested in the South in regard to the man
ufacture of sugar from the sorghum
plant, which, with the new varieties of
plants, promise to lie both practicable
and profitable. The interest has attained
such proportions as to warrant the or
ganization of the Mississippi Valley
Cane Growers association, which will
hold its first annual meeting at .St. Louis,
Mo., commencing on the 3d of Decem
ber and continuing several days.
Shelby (N. C.) Aurora: The first
case of corporal punishment in this
state since 1866 occurred in this place
last Saturday. When General Holland,
a boy, was convicted of an assault up
on tho person of Julia MeSwain, .ludge
Buxton informed his father that lie
would not pronounce sentence if lie
would thrash the boy in the presence of
the .Sheriff. The boy’s father took him
into the Sheriff’s office and executed the
, sentence of the court.
Clarksville (Tenn.) Tobacco I-eaf: For
some time there has been doubt as to
whether the < >wen-l>oi'o and Nashville
railroad would run by way of Spring-
field, Tenn., that place not being in the
air-line by several miles, but the ques
tion has now lieen settled on very favor
ably terms to Springfield. The demand
made upon that place for the diversion
was $25,000. The committee appointed
to raise the sum failed, and tendered the
company as a bonus four acres of ground
and a fine brick depot building, which
Colonel Cole accepted, and now the
Springfield people can rejoice.
Richmond (Va.) State: It is sad to
think that the burning of the Academic
hall at Hampton was the work of an in
cendiary black man. This institution is
supported by the government, the State
and the people for the especial benefit of
that race, and it was a matricidal hand
that applied the torch. An appeal has
been made to the country for money to
rebuild the hall and cover the loss, by
Gen. Armstrong, and we hope it will not
be in vain. This is among our most use
ful institutions, and in the sueceas of its
various experiments in race culture and
discipline all have a deep interest.
Charleston (S. C.) News: Tlie follow
ing is about the present condition of the
crop in this State : Weather for picking
in October and November very favorable;
some damage from the drouth, which
lessened the ‘abundance 0 f the fruit;
amount picked in the upper section of
the State, seventyfive per cent., and in
the lower and middle sect ons eighty to
ninety per cent.; injury from rust, lim
ited; tlie total out-turn for the State,
while showing some irregularity, is ex
peetd to about equal last year’s growth.
Dallas (Tex.) Herald: Dallas has in
deed a cosmopolitan population. The
patient on the first bed as you enter the
city hospital is a negfo, the next a Swedej.
the third bed is occupied by an English
man, followed by one in which a son of
the Emerald Isles swears away the hours
as he discusses what he claims is the ty
rannical rule of the English government.
The fifth bed is occupied by an Ameri
can, who seconds the Irishman’s argu
ments, declaring that a republican form
of government is the best under the sun.
A Hebrew occupies the sixtlbed, and
listens .to the others quarrel. Nextis"a
Polander, and last a Russian. A few
days ago a Mexican was discharged from
this institution.
Punishing Violation of Marriage Vows.
The Indians are very severe in their
punishment of marital infidelity. Even
Territory, the Choctaws, Creeks, Chicka
saws, Cherokeesandtieiniu/iles, who have
flourishing churches and schools, adul
tery is a crime punishable according to
their ancient law's. A citizen of Ala
bama has just been circulating among
these tribes, and says:
The Creeks have no marital laws, but
the Baptist Association adopted a
memorial on the subject, urging the next
council to pass a proper marriage law.
Their custom allowed several wives, hut
the churches Have so altered public
opinion that it is rare to find a man with
two wives.
“ How do you punish a violation of
marriage vow?” I asked an Indian
law'yer.
“ You see that man there?”
“ Yes.”
“ Well, his wife was taken by another
man, and one night he went with some
other men, arrested the betrayer, beat
him senseless, and then cut his ear* ofl
with a dull knife.”
“ How did they treat the woman?”
“ The same way. Sometimes they let
her off easier than the man.”
“ What became of the man and wo
man?”
“ They are living together as man and
wife, and tlie injured husband got him
another wife.”
“ Was that your custom?”
“ Yes; the chief made that law, and
everybody followed it.”
Sometimes they cut the woman), mose
ofl by way of variety. **
If the criminal could hide out till after
“ Busk,” the annual festival, he went
free. Some of the tribes had cities of
refuge, like the Israelites.
The severity of the Indian custom of
punishment prevents many violations of
the marriage vows. The Creeks have
drafted a memorial to the Legislature for
the enactment of the Christian plan. If
this is done the Indian lawyers will be
§in to reap a rich harvest in the courts
aving jurisdiction of divorce.
Signs Attending Feigned Grief.
The expression of grief has recently
been a subject of investigation by an
Italian physiologist, M. l’anlo Mente
gazza, who has studied with great care
all the contractions which suffering pro
duces in the human face, and endeavored
to arrive at an exact distinction of the
Ehenomena of real from those of simu
ited sorrow. All the forms of dolorous
hypocrisy he exposes mercilessly. The
following, according to M. Mentegazza,
are signs of grief: 1. The expression is
nearly always exaggerated relatively to
the cause of the grief; 2. The visage is
not pale, and the muscular disturbance
is intermittent; 3. The skin has its nor
mal heat; 4. There is not harmony in
the mimicry of grief, and one sees cer
tain contractions, certain relaxations,
which are wholly wanting in real grief;
5. The pulse is frequent in consequence
of the exaggerated jniscular movement;
6. A surprise, or imv object which viv
idly attracts the attention, suffices to
make the tragic mask suddenly fall off;
7. Sometimes one succeeds in discover
ing among the tears, the sobs, and heart
rending lamentations, the presence of a
chuckle which expresses, perhaps, the
malignant pleasure of practising a de
ception; 8. The expression is eccentric,
or is wholly wanting in concentric
forms.
TERMS si.oo ptrAssum, in A4ve.
NUMBER 5.
WAIFS AND WHIMS.
Cashmere slippers are worn with fou
lard wrappers. 'lhey are trimmed with
large foulard bows.
Only those, according the Elmira Arl
vertiaer, with warts or blemishes on their
forehead, wear banged hair.
Golden-legged green beetles, that
look like painted cockroaches, are seen
on some of the new bonnet3.
Black surah petticoats, bordered
with kilt Waitings, are to be worn this
winter, it is said.
Very long and absolutely plain silk
waists of plain or brocade silk are made
for young ladies to wear in the evening.
A Davenport lady is about to sue for
a divorce on the ground that her hus
band “has no style about him.”
A member of a London ladies’ club
was requested to resign for kissiug her
brother iu the dining-room.
Hoops are coming into fashion again.
Hoops are things to put around women
to keep them from bursting with vanity.
“John! John!” shouted the farmer’s
wife, “ the butter won’t come. Run,
quick, and get me another sack of
hair.”
It’s not at all surprising that Adam
fell. He had Eve constantly about him
talking about a nude dress, anu she had
oue every day.
In a discussion with a temperance
lecturer, a toper asked: If water rots
your boots, what effect must it have upon
tbe coat of your stomach?
“Yes, Mr. Barkeeper; I am not like
the rest who, when they owe you money,
never show themselves any more; I re
main faithful to you. Giv’s ’nothe:
bottle! ’
Professor— “ Now, I ask you, as a
practical miner, what spade do you think
is the very best?” Third-year man
(scornfully)—“Why, the ace, of course.
(Sensation.)
An exchange has an article on “ How
to run a newspaper.” This should he
read only by editors, as every other per
son in the world knows just how a news
paper ought to he run.
• Knowledge is the right bower, and
one of the showiest cards in the pack,
vet iu the game of life, cheek is the
iittle joker that is oftentimes the
winner.
“Money docs everything for a man,”
said one old gentleman, pompously.
“Yes,” replied the other one, “but
money won’t do as much for a man as
some men will do for money.”
Mb, Txiomas Giinka it, is one of the
most touching things in life to hear a
Western hog singing to its youngest,
“ There’s a litter in the mire, baby mine,
baby mine.”
That was an observing fellow, if he
was but six years old, who said, “Papa,
I wish you’d quarantine against Tom
Jones cornin’ here every night to see
Jennie. It’s got to be too epidemic.”
The Boston Pod has invented anew
gun for the use of the didn’t-kuow-it
was-loaded people. The Pod explains
that “it lets the charge out at the
breech.”
Russian ladies have just begun to
take part in boat races, in Sara toff the
first prize, a golden bracelet, and the sec
ond, a golden breastpin, were adjudged
to the two young ladies who handled the
rudder.
A Chinese maxim says: “We require
four things from woman—that virtue
dwells in her heart, that modesty plays
on her brow, that sweetness flows from
her lips, that industry occupies her
hand.”
The girls ought to be comparatively
happy. They are wearing boy’s hats,
boy's ties, boy’s cravats, and it is hinted
that they contemplate a raid upon an
other important part of the male’s ap
parel-according to Dr. Marv Walker.
A writer in the August Gentleman’s
Magazine says that it is true of nations
as of individuals that a sneer is almost
as unpleasant, to bear as a blow, and
that he is not sure that Dickens’ “Amer
ican Notes ” did not do more to estrange
for a time the two countries than the
Alabama difficulty.
At a social gathering in Ireland the
conversation turned, by some accident,
upon marriage. One of the girls, ad
dressing u handsome young man, quite
unconsciously, as she explained, said: “If
I were you and you were me I would
have married long ago.”
\ Yorkshire trainer recently re
vealed his method of meeting a conjugal
storm. His plan, lie said, was to keep
silence and nod his acquiescence to every
thing, no matter what was said by his
spouse. “Yes,” remarked one of Ins
friends, “but then she lias it all her own
way.” “Just so,” replied the Tyke,
with satisfaction; “and nothing annoys
her so much. There is nothing women
hate like a walk-over.”
The Postal Service In Europe.
On the 31st of December, 1877, there
were 58,546 post offices in Europe, with
223.517 persons employed, or one postal
establishment for every 6,134 inhabi
tants. These post offices are most
thickly planted in Switzerland, in Great
Britain and Ireland. A striking con
trast to these two countries is afforded
by Russia and Turkey; there being in
the former only one post office to every
5,768, #nd in the latter, one to every
1,105 square miles. Altogether, 5,682,-
000,000 letters, papers, etc., were sent
by post in Europe in 1877, 3,597,000,000
being letters or post-cards, 1,522,000,000
newspapers, and 563,000,000 patterns
and the like; and the greatest number
of letters, papers, etc., were sent, in Great
Britain and Ireland, the total number
dispatched being 1,483,075,000, or at the
rate of 34.7 letters and 9.4 newspapers
for every inhabitant.