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LUMPKIN &. JORDAN, Editors and Proprietary
VOLUME 11.
One hundred and eighty-one thousand
emigrants arrived in New York during
the year ending on the first of December,
as compared with one hundred and
twenty thousand last year.
Printing paper is sharing the fate of
other manufactured articles at the pres
ent time in experiencing a very decided
boom. A continuance of the rise in
price which has been going on for a few
months past will seriously contract the
profits of publishers, unless invention
shall come to their rescue in the mean
time with cheaper methods of produc
tion and new fields for capital.
It is to be regretted that A merican
wine-makers have already begun the
practice of doctoring their wines and
make no secret of doing so, saying that
purchasers prefer the doctored wines to
the pure. Spirits, sugar and water are
added largely. Last season 1,500,000
gallons of wine were made on the islands
at the western end of Lake Erie, and of
this only 1,000,000 were pure w T ine. On
these islands there are 4,000 acres planted
with v ines, the yield for the year being
1(5,000,000 pounds of grapes.
A state committee on railroad affairs
brought out the following facts: The
average price of box-cars is S4OO to SSOO.
In 1872 they were as high as $1,200.
A milk-car costs about SIOO more than
an ordinary box-car. A baggage-car
truck or a passenger-car varies from $2,-
000 to $2,500. Wagner’s drawing-room
cars cost from SB,OOO to $12,000 —this in
cludes all furnishing.- Mail-cars from
$2,500 to $3,000. New York elevated
cars cost from $2,500 to $3,000. The
last ordinary passenger-car on the Hud
son Iliver line cost $5,400, including a
heater and some extra fictures.
The F rst National bmk of New
York, did not negotiate such an enor
mous amount of Ihe new fours for noth
ing. Their profits for the last year ex
ceed anything ever know n in the history
of banking. The capital of the bank is
half a million and its stock is bell in
about SI,OOO a share and none offered for
sale. Last year they carried half a mil
lion to the surplus account, making it
three times as much as the capital and
paid out 120 per cent in dividends, besides
leaving $267,700 undivided. This shows
a profit during the year of over 250 per
cent, and much of the credit is due to
the manag ment of President Fahne
stock, who got his experience in funding
while a member of t v e firm of Jay
Cooke & Cos.
Two men of science, Signor Tommassi,
of Rome, and Prof. Kiel), of Prague, af
ter spending three weeks in that fever
stricken region, the Roman Campagna,
experimenting on the soil, its atmosphere
and its stagnant waters, “ have succeed
ed,” it is said, “in discovering a micro
scopic fungus, which, being placed under'
the skins of healthy dogs, caused dis
tinct and regular paroxysims of inter
mittent fever, and produced in the spleens
of these animals that peculiar condition
which is a recognized part of the pathol
ogy of this disease.” Similar results
were obtained by investigation by others,
among them by Prof. Salisbury, of
Cleveland, Ohio, and Dr. Clements, of
Louisville, who announced in 1878 the
results of the investigations and experi
ments.
During his journey to Mexico, Gen
eral Grant will have an opportunity to
visit the scenes of his first military ex
ploits. He will land at Yera Cruz, which
he helped capture in 1846, and go over
the ground between the place and the
city of Mexico, which he traversed with
the army of General Scott. Grant was
only 23 years old, when, as a stripling
officer, just out of West Point, he was
sent to Texas with his regiment. He
fought at Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palma
and Monterey, and then went to join
Scott before Yera Cruz. He missed the
battle of Buena Yista hv this transfer,
but with the exception of that engage
ment he took part in every battle of the
war. There were few officers who had
the luck to be where the fighting wa
the hardest from the beginning to th
end of that struggle. Molina del Ray
gave him his promotion to a first lieu
tenancy, and his behavior at Chepulta
pec earned him a brevet captaincy.
When a young man gets a cutaway
coat that button* from the watch chain
op to the ahirt collar, and can hold an
Inch stub of a cigar between his teeth
and look unconcerned, he’s entitled to
quotation, and it’s an ungrateful public
that fails to notice him. What incen
tive has a young man to effort in a
world that persistently refuse to rccog
ake merit?
fjnde bounty (finzette.
RISING FAWN, DADE COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1880.
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.
There are 4,000 colored Masons in
North Carolina.
The Georgia State Lunatic Asylum is
full of patients.
The Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum
has 4000 inmates.
Macon, Ga., used $13,000 worth of
Christmas fire-works.
Senoia, Ga., is to have a Clement at
tachment cotton mill.
The salarv of the Mayor of Savannah,
Ga., ii $2,400 per year.
The Unive*sity of Alabama has a li
brary cf 7,000 volumes.
S x per cent, bonds of the City of
August i, Ga., are sold at par.
Of the 2,000 convicts in the Texas
penitentiary only five are women.
White shad are already being caught
in the Roanoke, in North Carolina.
Ninety-three arrests were made on the
streets of Macon, Ga., on Christmas.
Thousands of orange trees are dying
in Florida from some unknown blight.
Sherman, Texas,has appropriated $1;-
000 for the construction of an artesian
well.
Two hundred new buildings were erect
ed in Nashville during 1870 at a cost of
$900,000. ,
The guava in the near future, will be
one of the most prominent experts from
Florida.
Not a white man was seen drunk in
the streets of Baton Rouge, La., on
Christmas.
The tobacco stamp tax paid in Orange
county, N. C., during November, amount
ed to $1,092.76,
A woman named Sallie Patterson was
convicted in Memphis of carrying con
cealed weapons.
This fall the merchants of Abbeville
S. C., have had the best cash trade ever
known in the town.
It is reported that two extensive cigar
factories a e to be removed from Havana
to Key West, Fla.
The people of Perry, Ga., propose to
have one of the finest public libraries in
the United States.
Hon. John C. Nicholls is trying to get
a SIOO,OOO appropriation for the harbor
at Brunswick, Ga.
The Nashville American published a
list of colored ladies who were “at home”
on New Year’s day.
The negroes in southwestern Georgia
show a disposition to work exclusively
for wages next year.
The annexation of Edgefield will make
Nashville’s population 60,000 by the
next birthday of the city.
Nine hundred maimed ex-Confederate
soldiers have applied to the state of
Georgia for artificial limbs.
The Methodist Episcopal Church
South has five conferences in Texas, em
bracing 79,763 members.
They have a colored voting population
in Winston, N. C., of 359, only twenty
six of whom pay any poll-tax.
lii Walton county, Ga., a Mis3 Mcßhea
raised this year seventeen bales of cotton
and a good crop of corn and wheat.
Twenty-three SI,OOO of Madison
county, Ala., were sold to S. P. Reed, of
Memphis, at six per cent, premium.
A stalk of tobacco eight fact high, from
Granville county, N, C., is show n in the
agricultural museum of that State.
It is estimated that Arkansas will pro
duce this year6oo,ooo balescotton, which
aj a low figure, will yield $30,000,000.
Thos. S. Miller, a young man in Lan
caster county, N. C., drank a pint and
a half of rum and died in a few hours.
The Good Templars are flourishing in
Georgia. During the past month eight
new lodges have been organized in the
•State.
The Georgia Railroad presented eight
car loads of old ties to the Mayor pf
Augusta, for distribution among the
poor for fuel.
Visitors to the cotton factory at At
lanta have become so numerous that or
ders have beon issued prohibiting the
admission of any.
The buildings now in course of erection
in Chattanooga are most elegant in class
and style, and more costly than were
ever before erected in that city.
Hon. A. P. Butler of Aiken county,
has been elected State Commissioner of
Agriculture of South Carolina. He is a
practical agriculturist of large experience.
The fair grounds at Nashville have
been sold for $40,000 to a firm of Nor
thern capitalists, who propose erecting
thereon furnaces and a merchant iron
mill.
About twenty farms and twice as
many gardens in San Saba connty, Texas,
were irrigated last season. In most in
stances the water is obtained from
springs.
Gadsden, Ala., this season will’buy
12,000 bales of cotton, sell $1,000,000 of
goods, manufacture 20,000,000 feet of
lumber and thousands of dollars of fuß
niture.
The Confederate monument in Wilcox
county, Ala., will be begun at once, and
the contractor promises to have it ready
for the dedication services by the 26th
of April.
Owing to the reduced appropriations
for the city government of New Orleans
for the ensuing year, a wholesale reduc
tion will lie made in the number of the
city employes.
An association for the manufacture of
wine, with a capital of SIO,OOO, lias been
organized in Randolpli county, Ga.
Grape culture has been carried to great
perfection in that county.
“ Faithful to the Fight, Fearless Against the Wrong.”
UKLFTIKOf
BY JI.-IWIK JOKY*. •
Drifting on life'* pleasant wiUrs,
You and I, •
Watching all tho prouder Teasels
Sailing by.
There are ships with tJeasure laden
Down the bay;
See their white sails proudly filling
Far away.
'they aro bearing hopes and promise
From afar;
Some will anchor in the harbor, some ground
. On the bar.
Pirate vessels, cruising ever
In disguise.
With their wiles will capture many
A rich prize.
Wrecks of many a noble vessel
Strew the les,
Bearing only freight of love;
Naught fear we.
Storms are on the ocean wrecking
Man 3* a bark;
Many a gallant ship goes down
In the dark.
When the storm-tossed ocean billows
Madly roar,
Then onr bark so lightly laden
Keeps near shore.
Drifting on when skies are brighter,
You and I;
We’ll not envy prouder vessels
Sailing by.
Cnrlons Facts About Memory.
A French scientist has been studying
the faculty of memory as exhibited by
different races, and its relation to tlie
Other mental faculties as shown in indi
viduals of the same race. His state
ments are interesting:
The inferior races of mankind, such
as negroes, the Chinese, etc., have more
memory than those of a higher type of
civilzations.
Primitive races which were unac
quainted with the art of writing had a
wonderful memory, and wore for ages in
the habit of handing down, from one
generation to another, hymns as volumin
ous as the Bible.
Prompters and professors of declama
tion know that women have more mem
ory than men. French women will learn
a foreign language quicker than their
husbands.
Youths have more memory than
adults. It is well developed in children,
attains its maximum about the four
teenth or fifteenth year, and then de
creases.
Feeble individual of a lymphatic tem
perament have more memory than the
strong. Students who obtain the prize
for memory and recitation chiefly belong
to the former class.
Perisian students have also less mem
ory than those who come from the prov
inces. At the Ebole Normale and
other schools the pupils who have the
best memory are not tne mosi inielii
gent.
The memory is more developed among
the peasantry than among citizens; ana
among the clergy than among the laity.
From a physiological point of view,
memory is diminished by over-feeding,
by physical exercise, and by education,
in this sense, that the illiterate have po
tentially more memory than those who
know how to read and write.
We remember, moreover, better in the
morning than in the evening, in the sum
mer than in the winter, and better in
warm than in cold climates.
Stanley, tlie Explorer.
Stanley, the explorer has been heard
from. In a letter dated at the mouth of
the Congo, September 13, he says that
he has clone much work, and proposes
to do much more, for establishing trade
and civilization in Africa. After equip
ping one expedition on the East Coast,
reconstructing another, exploring sev
eral districts, he has come via the Medi
terranean, to the West Coast, intrusted
with an important mission by the Inter
national Society, of which the King of
the Belgians is the head. He adds:
“I am charged to open—and keep
open, if possible—all such districts and
countries as I may explore for the com
mercial world. The mission is supported
by a philanthropic society which num
bers noble minded men of several na
tions. It is not a religious society, but
my instructions are entirely of that
spirit. No violence must be used, and
wherever rejected the mission must
withdraw to seek another field. We
have abundant means, and, therefore,
we are to purchase the very atmosphere,
if any demands be made upon us, rather
than violently oppose them. A year’s
trial will demonstrate whether progress
can be made and tolerance be granted
under this new system. In some regions
experience tells me the plan may work
wonders. God grant it success every
where! I have fifteen Europeans and
about two hundred natives with me. It
is too early yet to say much of them;
but most of the natives seem not worth
their rations. However, patience! We
shall see what time will make of us all,
and how it will mold us all anew for the
good work.”
With Stanley’s experience and tact,
and the large means at his disposal, there
is every reason to be hoped that civili
zation may soon penetrate some of the
most benighted region of the dark con
tinent.
As to Serpents Charming.
In imitation of the historical iconoclast
a scientific disillusionist, writing for the
Popular Science Monthly, sajs that the
belief in the power of a serpent to charm
small animals had its origin in super
stitious ignorance. The writer contends
that a snake has no such power and that
what appears to be. the result of a
“charm” is nothing more or less than the
last act of a well played tragedy. The
snake’s fangs being thin and retractile
he says no effort is made to retain the
prey after it is onced seized. Stealthily
the serpent creeps up to its victim and
inflicts the fatal wound. The sure work
ing of the virus, says the disillusionist,
constitutes the “charm.” Has the cre
dulity of the world been imposed on for
centuries, or lias the Popular Science
writer just begun to impose on the
world.
Wedding Cards and Stationery.
In wedding cards there is a fancy for
writing the invitation on one of the
three divisions of, a folding card and
placing the names of the bride and
groom on the other two. Wedding an
nouncements, in cases where there is r,o
public ceremony, are printed on two
cards, one very large, the other veiy
small. The first bears the name of the
married couple, the other that of the
bride. The smallest of neat plain script
is used in all these printed forms. In
stationery, a few novelties have ap
peared, and among them is the butter
cup paper, which is of a pale green, with
a buttercup stamped upon it in outline,
or stamped and painted on by hai;d.
Other styles of note paper have roses,
four-leaf clover, violets and lillies of the
valley embossed upon them, and pretty
little boxes containing four kinas are
made up for those who like vnrii ty.
The new Christmas cards represent pretty
little girls clad in Oriental fashion play
ing with gorgeous fans; plucking roses
in wallea gardens; coquetting with
bright-winged birds; and they are col
ored so brilliantly that all other cards
look plain beside them. Entirely differ
ent in spirit, but almost as attractive, is
a set of cards representing the rats ser
enading the cat and wooing her with
sweet sounds of the fiddle to come forth
and have her head chopped off by a bad lit
tle rat who pitifully lifts a tambourine
for alms and vengefully shakes a hatcliet
behind him. In the next picture the
cat is served up on the table, and in the
third even his bones have gone and the
rats are toasting his memory in old port.
The moon brings “compliments of the
season” in another series of cards, its
round, jolly face beaming out of gray
clouds and brigtening up the rooms into
which it shines. Aset which ought to
please everybody who has the rage for
pottery represents jars of deep green
and violet and of an iridescent glass
holding bouquets of flowers.
A Brother Marries His Sistei.
• A young and respectable looking
couple, brother and sister, named Frea
and Louisa Rauchmann, son and daugh
ter of a quiet, respectable farmer, resid
ing in Lone Grove township, about
twenty miles from Yandalia, Illinois,
boarded the train a short time ago, went
to St. Louis and were made husband and
wife. They remained in the city for a
day or two, then returned homeward,
"getting off the train at Browntown, a
station eight miles from and
for fear of being off
in the woods near remained
there till found aud arrested by con
stable Joseph Copeland.
The man is about twenty-one years of
age, and oL good appearance, and his
sister ninelren, and rather good-looking.
When asked why lie was induced to com
mit such an act he said: “My sistei
loved me so that we thought the
best thing we do would be to get
married.” He w!B further asked if he
did not know it was wrong and against
the law to c%so, and also why they hid
themselves ia the woods and kept away
from their ]™rents. This he answered
by saying: “We did not know it was
wrong, and only hid in the woods for
fear of being discovered by our folks, as
they were very much opposed to our
marrying,”
Their parents are very respectable
people and are sadly grieved over the
unparalleled act of their children. They
w'ere tried, found guilty and bound over,
the mah’s bond being fixed at SSOO, and
the woman’s at S3OO, in default of which
they were committed to the county jail.
The affair has created great excitement
in Yandalia.
Turned the Tables on Him.
[lndianapolis News.]
James H. Rice, of the State at large,
has recently been in St. Louis. While
there he stepped into the postoffice to
buy five three-cent stamps, laying down
a half dollar therefor and licking the
stamps while waiting for his change. To
him the postoflice clerk said:
“ Can’t take that half-dollar; it’s got *
hole in it.”
“ All right,” said Rice, “ take it out of
this quarter.”
A oystander here asked the clerk why
he wouldn’t take the money with holes
in it. The clerk explained that in set
tling with the Government the silver
was weighed and the office would lose
money by short weight. Here he laid
down two nickels as change for Rice.
One of them had a hole in it. Rice
glared at him.
“ That nickel has a hole in it, sir, and
I shall thank you to give me another. I
lost over $600,000 last year by taking
mutilated nickels.”
“ Wh-wh-what’s your name?”
“ James H. Rice, purchasing agent of
the United States Government, post
office address, Mt. Vernon, Posey County
Indiana,” said “Jim,” pocketing the two
sound nickels and moving off with great
dignity.
A man whose countenance was homely
enough to scare a Quaker, was lounging
about a public house, when he was ob
served by a Yankee, who asksd him if
he had not met with an accident when
he was young. “ What do you mean,
you impertinent scoundrel?” “Why,
1 didn’t mean nothin’, only you’ve got
such and all-fired crooked mouth I
thought as how you might a’ fall’n in
the brook when you was a boy, and your
mother hung you up by the mouth to
dry.”
The Frankfort Kxpresn saya “it is
claimed that the lakes rise and fall regu
larly e >ery seven years, and that they
are now at their lowest stage,” being
eighteen or twenty inches lower than
usually. .
AMERICAN INGENUITY.
Chronological Account of Some Early In
editions and Enterprises.
[Manufacturer and Builder.]
1786 The first steam engine built,
after the Newcomen type, for the Schuy
ler copper mines.
1772—Another similar engine, made
for a factory in Philadelphia.
1785—Oliver Evans, of Philadelphia,
introduced steam power to drive a flour
mill and a brickyard.
1785—James Kumsey propelled a ves
sel on the Potomac River by the reaction
of the water.
1787 Perkins invented a nail cutting
machine which could make 200,000 nails
per day.
1788 — John Fitch navigated the Dela
ware River with the first steamboat.
1794—Whitney’s cotton gi# invented.
1796 Benjamin Thompson, otherwise
Count Rumford, discovered that there
is no such thing as u caloric fluid, but
that heat is a peculiar mode of motion
of the material particles of bodies, and
thus laid the foundation of the modern
theory of the conservation of forces.
1797 Benjamin Thompson invented a
brush-making machine.
1797 — Amos Whittemore introduced a
machine for making the cards used in
cotton and woolen manufacture.
1798 Robert McKean patented the
first steam saw-mill.
1799 Oliver Evans, of Philadelphia,
made the first high-pressure steam en
gine, and built a steam carriage, which,
however, w r as not a success.
1804 —Col. John Cox Stevens invented
the screw propeller, the model of which
is still at the Hoboken (N. J.) Institute
for Engineers.
1804—Oliver Evans built a paddle
wheel steamer, to ply on the Delawure
and Schuylkill rivers, driven by a
double-acting high-pressure engine; also
adapted for land conveyance.
1806— Thomas Blanchard, ol Massa
chusetts, invented a tack-making ma
chine, which made 150,000 tacks per
hour.
1807— Thomas Blanchard made an ap
paratus adapted for rifling g*m barrels.
1807 —Robert Fulton traveled with
his first steamboat from New York to
Albany.
1807—Oil cloth for floor carpeting first
made in Philadelphia.
1807—John Redford invented and
manufactured metal-bound boots and
shoes.
1811— John 11. Hall, of Massachusetts,
invented breech-loadiug muskets.
1812— George Shoemaker sold in Phil
adelphia several truck-loads of anthra
cite coal for fuel, and was imprisoned as
an imposter for selling stones for.coal.
1813 — Francis C. Lowell made impor
tant improvements in the power loom.
1817—George Clymer produced the
first American made printing press.
1818 —Jacob Perkins introduced steel
engravings as a substitute for copper.
1819— The Savannah made the first
passage across the Atlantic Ocean by
steam power driving paddlewheels.
1820 — Henry Burden, of Troy, N. Y.,
invented the cultivator.
1821—The same inventor improved
rolling mills.
I*B2l—Jordan L. Mott invented utili
zatio small coal for furnaces.
182*2—James McDonald, of New York,
invented machinery for cleaning fiax
and hemp.
1823 Jos. Saxon invented a wheel
cutting engine, producing epicycloidal
teeth.
1824 Ladoc Pratt established his cel
ebrated tanneries in the Catskills, New
York State.
1824—Completion of the Erie Canal,
connecting the large lakes with the Hud
son river.
1826 Harrison A. Dyer established
the first telegraph line on Long Island,
making signals with fractional elec
tricity.
1827 John Pennsyl
vania, invented the shaping
machine.
1828— First American patent for im
provements in locomotive? granted.
1828—First locomotive journey made
on the Honesdale and Caibondale rail
way, Pennsylvania.
1828— Hay and straw used for the first
time to make paper.
1828 - James Bogardus invented the
ring flyer for spinning cotton.
1829 The same invented mills with
cocentric grinding surfaces.
1832—James Bogardus invented a dry
gas meter.
1834—Henry Burden invented his nail
making machines.
1836—James Bogardus invented a
pantograph.
1840 —The same invented the molds to
press glass in while blowing.
1841 —The same made improvements
in drilling machinery.
Since the conventions and patents
have succeeded in another at a most
astonishing rate.
To Onr Old Grandfather.
A monument having been proposed
for our old friend Adam, the New Haven
Register suggests an epitaph:
Erected
to the
Memory of
ADAM,
The Grand Father
of
a The Human Race.
He roe* on C.™ tion’ morning and fell before Era
Go thou and ie likewise.
Anyone who thinks Japan is an il
literate country is sadly mistaken. Dur
ing last year 47,000,000 articles passed
through the Japanese post. Twenty-five
million letters were sent, 100,000,000
post cards and 9,500,000 newspapers. In
1870 there were no less than 1,000 post
offices in Japan; now there are over
6,000.
TERMS si.o* par Annum, in AJvanea,
NUMBER 11.
waifs and whims.
*— - : .
It take* a sober man to walk a tight
rope
We welcome cold weather with
warmth.
“ By my trough,” as the male pig said
to his sweetheart.
If time iB really money an v man ought
to be worth his wait in gold.
An American named Doyle built the
int paper mill in Japan in 1874.
In Milwaukee street cars everybody
talks; in Chicngo mum is the worn
The wool crop of Texas amounts to
over twenty-two million pounds a year
Acquirements are often mistaken fat
abilities. There is a difference in value
of silver and plated ware.
A glass bracelet, of elegant workman
ship, has been found eighty feet beneath
the surface of the ground, near Castro
ville, Texas.
Beautiful? Yes, but the blush will fada,
The light grow dim which the blue eves wear;
The gloss will vanish from curl and braid.
And the sunbeam die in the waving hair;
Turn from the mirror and strive to win
Treasures of loveliness still to last;
Gather earth’s glories and bloom within,
That th soul may be bright when youth la peat.
It is vulgar to tell a man he lies.
Just inform him in your sweetest man
ner that the prodigality of his assertion
is beyond belief. —Hackensack Repub
lican.
Some errors you are allowed to cor
rect, but marriage, is a take “for better
or for worse,” and young man and young
woman, you ought to consider this be
fore you allow the orange blossom to
bloom.
A dentist in Bristol, Vt., recently
received by mail an order for a set of
teeth which readas follows: “ My mouth
is three inches across, five-eighth inches
through the jaw. Sum hummocky on
the edge. Shaped like a horse-shoe, toe
forrard. If you want to be more par
tiklar J shall have to come thar.”
“ Thb prudent man seeth the danger
afar off and hideth himself,” was me
text the village clergyman took before
descending the cellar stairs, after catch
ing a glimpse of a huge donation party
looming up in the distance.
A Jersey man was once thrown one
hundred and fifty feet by an express
train, when he picked himself up, looked
around for his hat and remarked; “Well,
if I don’t find that hat I’U make the
company pay for it.”
Softly the silvery moon ahone down
In the midnight cold and clear,
And the tones of a couple wooing
W ere home to the listening ear.
Like the whispered words of some dark plot
In the storiesito children told,
• Her voice floated upward through the air,
“ Oh, Charlie, but your nose is cold.”
—Steubenville Herald.
Young Seward placed a pistol at his
head, in the presence of the girl who
had rejected his suit, at Houston, Minn.,
and said he was going to commit suicide.
He counted, “ One, two—” and sha cov
ered her eyes with her hands. “ Look
at me,” he said. She obeyed—“ fhree!”
and into his brain went the fatal bullet.
A bottle of wine was dug out of ths
ruins of Pompeii the other day, which
had been buried eighteen hundred years.
It will be opened soon at a banquet, and
sampled. If age increases the flavor of
wine, as is claimed, that bottle will be
very aromatic, and those who drink
much of it will go home in a hack.—
Peclc’s Sun.
X has the best kind of a reputation as
an unrivaled liar. “be is so much at
home in lying,” said A, speaking of him,
“ that whenever by mistake he tells the
truth, he becomes confused and troub
led.’’ “ He’s so great a liar,” said an
other of X.’s friends, “ that you can’t
even believe the contrary of what he
tells you.”
“ That passage in your novel doesn’t
seem particularly new, you know.”
“ Well, maybe it isn’t, but then what
does Solomon say? Nothing new under
the sun, you know. Take up any book
you like, and I defy you to find in it a
single word, a single syllable, a single let
ter even, that hasn’t been used over and
over and over again.
A Deny eb girl, “just for fun,” en.
gaged herself to marry two men, but
appointed the same day, hour and place
for a secret wedding with each. The
suitors were somewhat disconcerted by
each others presence, as well as by the
girl’s absence, but they finally came to
an amicable understanding to despise
her.
A Gate Story.
[Burlington
“Serena, darling,” he murmafed; and
the old gate scarcely creaked as it swung
to and fro beneath her light weight, and
the silent stars looked down with ten
derer glances, and all South Hill seemed
to hold its breath to listen. “Serena,
sweet,” he said, and the radiant blushes
that kindled over the pearly brow and
cheeks, softened the silent lovelight in
her lustrous eyes. “Serena, my own, if
every glittering star that beams above,
if every passing breeze that stops to kiss
thy glowing cheeks, if every rustling
leaf that whispers to the night were liv
ing, burning, loving thoughts; if every
—Oh-h-ho-ho! Ow-w! Wow-ow 1 Aw-w
oh, oh, oh! Oh, jimmy peltl Oh. glory!
Oh, murder, murder, murder 1 Oh, dad
rang the swizzled old gate to the bow
wows!” And she said stiffly, that no
gentleman who could use such language
in the presence of a lady was an. ac-
Suaintanee of hers, and she went into
le house. And he pushed the gate
open and pulled his mangled thumb out
of the crack of it, and went down the
street sucking the injured member and
declaring that, however lightly 105
pounds of girl might sit upon the heart
! of a man, it was a little too much pres
sure when applied to an impromptu
thumbscrew. And the match is drawn,
and all side bets declared off.