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LUMPKIN A JORDAN, Editors in d Pr.priet.rs,
VOLUME 11.
The Dom Pedro 11. Railroad is the
largest and, with perhaps one exception,
the most important in Brazil. The total
length of the main line is 365 miles, and
extensions are made almost every year.
The road was commenced under the man
agement of an incorporated company
interest of 7 per cent, on the capital
stock being guaranteed by the govern
ment. But in building the first portion
of the road it was necessary to cross the
mountains near Rio, and by the time 100
miles were completed, the capital was
entirely exhausted. In 1865 the govern
ment bought the road of the stockhold
ers and it has since been built and run
as a branch of the imperial service. On
the invested capital of rather more than
$40,000,000 the government realizes an
average income of five and a half per
centum yearly.
Bismarck’s plan to increase the
strength of the German standing army
is aimed primarily at France. The west
ern frontier of Germany is to be greatly
strengthened in view of the steady in
crease of the French army during the
last 1 w years. France, out of a popu
lation of 37,000,000, has 704,000 men in
the active army, 510,000 in the reserve,
582,000 in the territorial army and 625,-
000 in the territorial reserve, in all about
2,400,000 men. The German Govern
ment has now 401,000 men in the active
army,soo,ooo in the reserve, 580,000 in
the landwehr and 1,030,000 in the land
sturm, or 2,511,000 in all who have mil
itary training, and there are 3,345,000
men who have received no military
training. France has 1,330,000 men who
have received no training. The Ger
mans excel in cavalry and the French
in artillery. Bismarck, in increasing the
active army of Germany, also, of course,
has his eye on Russia, whose old policy
of Russianizing the German population
of the Czar’s Baltic provinces, has been
revived. The repressive measures at
Revel, Riga and elsewhere, have revived
German national feeling, which may not
in vain appeal to Germany, where BLs
marcK is bent upon carrying out ms pan-
Germanic theories and coi solidating all
the Teutonic peoples of Europe.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
There is not a house for rent in Co
lumbus, Ga.
The Academy of Music, recently de
stroyed by fire at Greenville, S. C., is to
be rebuilt immediately.
There are twice as many visitors from
the North at Jacksonville, Fla., as there
were at this time last year.
Only three cities in South Carolina
have " daily newspapers —Columbia,
Charleston and Greenville.
In Augusta, Ga., the lamps on all the
•street corners are to be ornamented with
the names of the streets.
During the next thirty days thirteen
iron furnaces will be put in operation in
the vicinity of Rome, Ga.
Confederate SSO bills, smeared with
green ink, have been lately passed on
greenies in McLennan county, Texas.
The owners of the cotton factory at
Hawkinsville, Ga., will soon have four
Clement attachments in operation.
A firm at Sherman, Texas, shipped on
one day 13,000 fur peltries, the largest
shipment ever made from that State.
The Pearl-river oil mills at Jackson,
Miss., consume 200 sacks of cotton seed
daily and produce fifteen barrels in oil.
Thomas Fulton, of Green county, Ga.,
has a plantation of 1,300 acres, and has
only one hand on it, all the rest having
left since Christmas.
Atlanta has fewer policemen now than
she had ten years ago. Anew torce will
be elected in April, at which time there
will be 500 applicants for forty places.
The Air Line Railroad Company is
having a row of shade trees planted out
on either side of the track at the stations
along the line from Atlanta Ga., to
Charlotte, N. C.
One hundred and twenty-five ac es of
strawberries have been planted in Flor
ida this season for the Northern markets.
The yield ranges from 4,000 to 6,000
quarts per acre.
The fair at Macon, Ga., for the benefit
of the Macon Volunteers, was a decided
success, the net receipts being nearly
$3,000.
Little Rock Democrat: The cotton
brought to Little Rock this season, es
timated at 45,000 bales, and the average
price of $53 per bale, realized the snug
little sum of $23,850,000. How is that
for the new Chicago ?
Arkansas has-3,387 miles of navigable
water courses regularly traversed by
steamboats. She has eight railroads,
having eight hundred miles of road com
pleted and in operation.
Wilmington (N. C.) Star: A prominent
colored man has been to the trouble of
ascertaining the sentiments of the colored
voters of this city as to their choice for
the Presidency. The list, so far as a
preference was expressed, stands as fol
lows: Maine, 723 ; Grant, 221; Sher
man, 11.
Little Rock Democrat: Cotton facto
ries are an immense success in Arkansas
RISING FAWN, DADE COUNTY, GEORG:, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1880.
The Quepaw Cotton Mill, of this city,
lias a contract for furnishing cotton
twine lc wholesale Chicago house of
A. T. Stewart & Cos. that cannot be com
pleted in less than two months. The mill
never shuts down until 10 o’clock at
night.
Montgomery Advertiser: The Alaba
ma Historical Society, at Tuscaloosa, de
sires to collect a complete cabinet of
Confederate money. Those who have
the difterent denominations of money,
and have no special use for it, would be
glad, no doubt, to send it to the Histori
cal Society, where it will be carefully
preserved.
Richmond Commonwealth : In many
counties of West Virginia steps are being
taken to organize wool-growers’ and
sheep-breeders’ associations, the object
being to encourage the raising of improv
ed breeds of sheep and to extend the
raising of wool and mutton,- and above
all to secure a better protection against
the ravages of dogs.
Nashville American: The amount of
money invested in steamboats running in
the Nashville trade, from 1818 to 1846
was over $2,000,000. Now the invest
ments in steamboats can be couned only
by the thousands, instead of by millions,
the railroads having to a very large ex
tent, absorbed the commercial business
of not only Nashville, but the entire
country.
The Splendor of the Mid-Winter Sky.
[New Tork Son.]
The winter evening sky is now a t
nearly its greatest brilliancy. Of the
fifteen first magnitude stars visible in
this lattitude twelve can be seen be
tween 7 and 10 o’clock p. m. The only
ones not visible within thoe hours are
Arcturus, Antares, and Spica. This
array of the chief leaders of the firma
ment furnishes a fine opportunity for a
study that receives little attention, and
which yet possesses peculiar interest for
those who delight in the picturesque as
pect of the starry heaven*. To learn to
recognize the leading stars’ individual
peculiarities by which they can be dis
tinguished from one another, very much
as one distinguishes faces in a crowd, is
perhaps, hardly a scientific pursuit, yet
it is oy no mean an idle intellectual
amusement. No better time than the
present could be chosen for this study 1
of what might be called the physio*-
nomy of the stars. Nobody, for in
stance, could mistake Vega, the bright
the sky. Its peculiar color and bril
liancy have been admired by astron
omers for ages. Over in the east, a
little later, Betelguese and Rigel, the
chief twink'ers in. Orion, may be seen,
with Aldebaran in the Bull shining
high above them. Rigel looks very
much like Vega, yet a careful eye de
tects a difference of color. Betelguese
and Aldebaran are at once classed to
gether as red stars, yet there is the most
beautiful contrast of hue between them.
Aldebaran is of a pale rosy color, and
Betelguese, which varies remarkably in
brightness, is of a reddish orange
Nearly overhead, at about 10 o’clock,
is Capella, which seems to vie in bright
ness with Rigel, yet the two can never
be confounded; for while Rigel blazes
and scintillates, like a diamond shaken
in the sunlight, Capella shines with a
steady, unchanging luster that makes it
one of the most beautiful of all the
stars. Sirius, which rises shortly after
Rigel, is distinguished by his superior
size, and by the ceaseless flashing of
prismatic colors, surrounding him with
a sort of halo well becoming the chief
of all the stars.
Whoever has once learned to know
these stars, as he knows the faces of his
friends, may wander to every corner of
the world without losing the feeling
chat he is vet at home.
The Future Center of Commerce and
Culture.
As Mr. Gladstone has thought that
the commercial center of the world may
shift from London to New York, so M.
Littre, the famous French lexicog
rapher, thinks that the center cf cul
ture will move from the Seine to the
banks of the Hudson. This gentleman
is of opinion that the ruling language of
the future will be Anglo-Saxon, and its
chief seat of learning will be in the
United States. As regards population,
that race comes first; its numbers in a
generation or two will probably reach
400,000,000 of the human race. After
then comes the Chinese, equal in num
ber, but, as a static people, unworthy to
rank with Western races as a factor in
the world’s development. After the
Anglo-Saxon, as governing races, M.
Littre puts the Russian, and then the
Spanish, to whom he concedes in the fu
ture the greatest part of the South
American continent. The capacity for
expansion of ths United States and
Russia may possibly menace the inde
pendence of old European states; but,
in this respect, M. Littre argues that
the security of human life individually
which has followed in the wake of civil
ization, will also be accorded to the
States, and that Russia and America,
unlike the ancient Babylon and Egypt,
will develop without injury to the na
tions upon whose frontiers they may
touch.
The teacher of a class in natural his
tory gave out this question: “Which
is the meekest of all domestic animals?”
A young miss, who had passed the
previous summer at Long Branch,
promptly answered: “The meekestdomes
tic animal is the mosquito, because if
you hit it on one cheek and don’t kill
it, it comes back again and gives you a
chance to bit it cn the other.”
“ Faithful to the Bight, Fear Agginst the Wrong.”
BURIAL OF PERSONS AH YE.
The Difficulty or Telling the Difference
Between Death and a State Trance.
[Chicago Intor-Ocoao.]
‘Ah, merciful God!” piously exclaims
Camillo, “how many living men and wo
men are annually taken to their graves 1”
Were it possible'to get at the truth the
victims in this country alone might be
numbered by many scores—possibly by
hundreds. Mr. G. Eric Mackay, in the
current number of Belgravia, gives a
very interesting article on the subject of
“ Premature Burials,” in which he points
out how difficult it is to discern the dif
ference between death and a case of
trance —indeed, he goes so far as to
claim that the difference has never been
quite clearly understood by the general
ity of mankind. The article calls atten
tion to several instances of premature
burials on the Continent of Europe; in
stances which involve stories of trance,
the semblance of death holding its sway
over the human body for hours and days
and net merely for minutes, as in the
case of ordinary fainting fits. In his
opening remarks the writer says:
“In days when land is dear, and bur
ial rights less sacred than the rights of
builders and contractors, coffins have
beep opened with the pickaxe, in the
act of converting cemeteries into streets
and gardens. Here a grave has been
discovered whose inmate has turned in
its shroud ; here a corpse clutching its
hair in a strained and unnatural condi
tion; dead men and dead women lyine
in their graves as the dead never lie in
a Christan land at the moment of bur
ial.”
Mr. Mackay gives an account of a
young and beautiful women who, it is
supposed, died of over excitement at
the prospect of being married. When
the first shovelful of dirt was thrown on
the coffin a strange noise was heard on
the inside. The coffin was unscrewed,
bt too late. The girl was found in an at
titude of horror and pain impossible to
describe—her eyes wide open, her teeth
clenched, her hands clutching her hair,
but life was extinct. An instance show
ing the utter depravity of the Italian
undertakers and grave-diggers is given
in which they actually tried to snatch
the body of a lady from her friends, one
of whom thought she was not dead. As
they were about to drag it from the bed
the “ dead body” moaned, and soon af
terward was thoroughly revived by a
medical practitioner of the neighbor
hood, and lived to tell the story of her
King, an3 on'being' rebuked, fell 1o ‘ rife
ground, to all appearances, dead. It was
decided that the unfortunate Cardinal
should be embalmed, but when the sur
geons began their operations the patient
awoke, but too late, for the wounds were
mortal.
A case is given in which a young lady
arose out of her coffin and appeared be
fore the family at supper, “pale and
frightened, but fair to see as before
death.” The doctor, the priest, and the
undertaker saw the error of their way,
but the priest alone made amends by
officiating at the young lady’s wedding a
year after he had preached her funeral
sermon. Petrarch, when a middle aged
man, lay twenty hours in a trance, and
narrowly escaped being buried alive.
We have often heard the story ol
the Consul’s wife, who was buried
alive and released from her pain
ful position by robbers, who broke open
the coffin to steal the lady’s jewelry.
Among the other stories of resuscitated
victims of apparent death, is one of an
old gentloman who was revived by one
of his skeptical friends putting a burn
ing taper to his nose. His life was saved
but the sad story of his escape from the
very jaws of death was ever afterward
told by the scarred and crimson beacon
on his face.
A number of stories are given ol
the revival of hospital patients after
they have been carried out to the dead
house. This seems a very common oc
currence in Europe. Tw t o of the most
terrible statements are of children being
born in the tomb, one of whom, accord
ing to Mr. Mackav, being discovered by
a lucky incident lived to be a man, and
occupied for several years the post of
Lieutenant-General on the frontiers of
Cherez.
Several instances are given of per.-ons
who have been cognizant of what was
going on around them, yet powerless to
stop their burial. On case is given of a
schoolmaster who, had it not been for
the arrival of a sister, would have been
buried alive. The passionate grief of
the sister caused the evelids of the de
ceased to quiver, and the truth was dis
covered.
It is impossible to prolong the list of
examples, but enough has been already
•aid to show the wickedness of hasty fu
neral*, and the necessity of establishing
a proper system ot tests. Does it ever
occur to the mind* of Americans that
funerals are often conducted very
quickly in this country, as well as
in Italy and the warm couiiir:c.“ Eu
rope ? It is doubtful if the bodies of the
t>oor people who live in the tenement
or nu If irtrp citlp* irp aynm'n**' l
# very closely be rote tney are interred; iv
is doubtfupif the greatest care is excer
cised in this matter in the rural districts,
where good physicians cannot be at the
death beds of sick persons, and where
rich and poor alike are often intrusted
to doctors who are neither famous for
learning or intuition. The writer in
Belgravia is inclined to think that one
of the needs of the world is a simple test
and not a complicated series of tests,
which would be out of ths reach of the
poor and beyond the power of inexperi
enced or badly-paid doctors. It will
be reassuring to have that test as soon
as possible.
Mr. Julius Jackass.
[London Telegraph.]
Aragraph which has recently ap
f>ea in the German official papers in
orjthe subjects of His Majesty, the
Kig>f Prussia, that the Royal Pro
ving Government at Dusseldorf has
graiisly authorized one Julius Jack-
in Lohdorf, District of
Soljen, as well as lrs wife and chil
dreto change the family name he has
hitto borne, into that of Courage.
Sues surname as Jackass can not but
be shronic affliction to the unfortu
natersons condemned by the accident
of th to answer to it, and Mr. C mr
age,-merly Jackass, may be congrat
ulat upon the result of his appeal to
the erciful consideration of the con
stittd authorities, who have relieved
himom all but intolerable patronymic.
In Omany, however, such an infliction
is legrievous to its victims than else-
whd because quaint names are so
abu ant in every class of society that
the dge of public apprehension is
blued as far as their comical or re-
Sronful significance is concerned.
oily smiles when introduced to Mr.
Bloeausage, Mrs. Grayhorsepenny, or
Masar Sugartart. Nobody is sorry for
the presentative of one of the oldest
nobf families in North Germany,
dooed by destiny to bear the omi
nouf nomenclature, “ Gatekeeper of
Hel’ When the betrothal of First
Lieienant Sourherring to Miss Two
yeaDld-wild-boar, was published some
time ago in the National Zeitung aud
othffleading Berlin journals, that ap
parently fantastic and patouymie an
nounement excited no popular wonder
meit t> speak of. Mr. Jackass, how
eve:, evidently found his “ front name”
to be more than he could bear with any
degree of comfort, or even resignation;
and t is creditable t& the good taste of
the rryil officials at Dusseldorf that they
should, as it were, have paid tribute to
the vigor of the resolve inspiring him
to rid himself forever of a patronymic
that renorelessly “ set him down as an
ass,” b/ bestowing upon him the highly
honorable and appropriate surname ol
C ourage.”
American Farmers on the Amazons.
rriom Smith’s “Brazil width* Amazons. ”J
Down the Santarem street come four
brown horses, dragging an immense
American wagon; a tall, coatless indi
vidual sits "stride one of the leaders,
and guides the cavalcade with much
flourish and noise. He draws up in
ftiuigiK Sjt. Caetano’s store and salutes
who are you?” Of course, we ac
quainted at once, and Mr. Plates a man
worth knowing, too. He is /Je of some
fifty Americans who are established in
the forest near by. Platt is himself a
Tennesseean; the others are from Mis
sissippi, Alabama, and so on. Farmer
Platt oresses us to “ come out for a few
days,”' and we go. The wagon, he in
forms us, was sent from his oid home in
Tennessee, and, in s’ He of a law which
declares agricuturai . ts free of
duty, the duties amounted to as much as
the original cost. Presently we stop
with a jerk; the wheels is caught
in a big liiana. ifhe farmer's wife wel
comes us cordially, the children are shy,
for they do not often see strangers.
All the Americans are cultivating
sugarcane; the juice is distilled into
rum. which is sold at Santarem. Prob
ably coffee or cacao might pay better,
but our colonists came without money
and can not wait for slow-growing crops.
Platt saved a little money and bought
this ground of an Indian woman, and
had to carry provisions six miles on his
back. Platt had to grind his corn at a
wooden mill until he could get an iron
one, at double the original cost. And
so with ail tools and agricultural im
plements. “The children have no
schooling,” complains Mrs. Platt; “they
can’t even go to a Brazillian master, for
we are too far from town.” Sometimes
they visit with the other Americans,
but the plantations are far apart and
the roads are rough, and it is not often
they can make a holiday, unless it is
Sunday.
attempted Suicide of a Modern Juliet.
Bellefontaine, Ohio, some time since,
furnished a case of a genuine love-lorn
maiden—a school-girl of 15 years,
who fell desperately in love with a youth
of about the same age. They quarreled
over a matter, but did not fciss and
make up after the customary manner of
lovers. When they met the next morn
ing the boy declined to meet the friendly
advances of the young lady half-way,
but sullenly refused to speak to her at
ail. A short time after she wrote him
a note, saying that unless he forgave her
she would kill herself. The youth, it
appears, had retired from the Romeo
business entirely, and replied by simply
telling her to go on with her killing and
he would pay the funeral expenses,
whereupon she commenced by swallow
ing the contents of her ink bottle, which
made her very sick. She then tried
red ink with no better result. The next
move was to procure a rope and repair
to an outbuilding for the purpose or
hanging herself, but some schoolmates
discovered her and thwarted her de
signs. She then went home and tried to
cut her throat with a pocket-knife, and
actually succeeded in cutting quite a
gash.in her neck. The youth has not
relented. The names of both parties
are suppressed owing to their promi
lence.
No language can express the power
and beauty and heroism and majesty of
a mother’s love. It shrinks not where
men cower, and grows stronger where
man faints, and over the wastes of
wordlv fortune, sends the radiance of its
uenchless fidelity like a star in heaven.
FACTS AND FANCIES FOR THE FAIR
Trains are very plain this season.
There are three Japanese lady stu
dents at Vassar.
Two sizes of buttons are used for
most costumes.'
Bright tints take the lead in nearly
all of the mixed goods.
House polonaises are made quite
bouffant, and are really long basques.
Ladybugs of red enamel are the last
charming substitute for buttons.
Of fifty members elected on the Lon
don School Board, nine are women.
Neckties of a narrow band of fur
fastened with a bright satin bow are
pretty.
Young women should set good ex
amples, for the young men are always
following them.
There’s many a slip ’twixt the cup
and the lip, and not a few between the
first kiss and the ring.
A Philadelphia woman owns the
largest colored diamond ever brought to
America.
It was wittily said of a beautiful
French literary lady, that she had but
one fault—a husband.
If woman had the ballot what would
she do with it? It isn’t long enough for
a belt or big enough for a bustle.
Queen Victoria’s gift to Mrs. Nellie
Grant Sartoris was a miniature of her
royal self set in precious stones.
A Wetzel country girl says one hug
is worth a dozen love letters. They can
not be introduced as evidence in a
breach of promise suit, either.
According to some of the English
fashion plates, we are threatened with a
revival ef the “ waterfall” style of ar
ranging the hair.
It is said that the fashion of turning
down one corner of a visiting card was
originated by Gen. Schenck in a fit of
absent-m in dedness.
Give a girl long eyelashes and small
hands and she wul put up with No. 6
feet and marry all around a curly-headed
girl wearing ones and a half 1 3
The daughters of General Sherman
refuse to dance “ the German.”—Float
ing Item. Are they equally conscientious
about walking Spanish ?
What did the young lady mean when
she said to her lover, “ You may be too
late for the train, but you can take a
bus?”
Before marriage a girl Dcqueimy
upon him as her “treasurer.”
You may meet with twenty men in
the day who stutter, but you never
heard of the woman who had an impedi
ment in her speech.
A poet out West, describing Heaven,
says—“ It’s a world of bliss fenced in
with girls.” Where is the man that
won’t repent now?
A conscience void of offence is an
inestimable blessing, because it gives
a pleasure which no rancoringof malice
can destroy; it is proof against malig
nity itself, and smiles upon its most san
guinary efforts.
.Prejudice as a Barrier.
Oleomargarine, to use a vulgar phrase,
sticks in a great many people’s" crops.
The popular notion of oleomargarine is
that the substance is necessarily com
pounded of dead horses and flavored
with carbolic acid. But then the pop
ular notion of any chemical discovery is
very apt to be itself a compound of
ignorance and stupidity. Oleomargarine
need not be one whit more unwholesome
or unpalatable than dairy-made butter.
The chemical elements are the same in
each case, and the only diflerence to the
eye of science is in the methods of prep
aration. But we need not remind the
intelligent reader how suspicious the
populace is of every improvement in the
preparation of food which involves
mystery. Some years ag>a ’®neficent
plan was put on foot to supply aerated
bread by the use of carbonic acid
generated from marble dust. The bread
thus made was purer, cleaner, and
altogether more wholesome than that
made in the ordinary way by the use of
yeast. But no amount of capital or
argument could overcome the popular
prejudice against it when it was known
that marble dust was used.
Dying Words.
[Virginia (Ker.j Enterprise.]
it is probably natural that at the last
the scenes which have made thestronest
impressions in life should be recalled by
memory. The old mountaineer, when
he comes to die. with his last whisper
says his snowshoes are lost; with the
stage driver he is “ on a down grade and
can not reach the brake,” the miner can
not get to the air pipe, the sailor says
“ eight bells have sounded,” and the
gambles plays his last trump. A little
girl died here a few years ago, and as
her mother held her wrist and noted the
fainting and flickering pulse a smile
came to the wan face and the child
whispered: “ There is no more desert
here, mamma, but all the world is full
of beautiful flowers.” A moment later
the smile became transfixed. In an
Eastern city, not long ago, a Sistar of
Charity was dying, and at from a
stupor she opened her eyes and said:
“ It is strange; every kind word that I
have spoken in life, every tear that I
have shed, has become a living flower
around me, ssd they bring to my senses
an incense ineffable.”
Emerson says a man ought to carry
a pencil and note down the thoughts of
the moment. Yes. and one short pencil,
devoted exclusively to that ues, would
last some men we know about two thou
sand years, and then have the originai
point on. — Burlington Havlcve,
TERMS : si.* per Annum, In Advance.
NUMBER 16.
EYERY-DAY SPICERIES.
The best thing out is a bad cigar.
Isn’t it?
Washington is a D. O. tful place.—
Exchange. That’s a Capital joke.
In the midst of life we are in daily
receipt of the Congressional Record.
A ten-cent ante is better than no ro
tation at all.
Leadville is called a young tows
because its inhabitants are mostly
miners.
Cleopatra’s Needle is the only
needle that people show a disposition
to sit down on.
It’s the same with men as with eggs '•
You can’t tell whether they are good or
bad ’till they’re broke.
Let our Indian policy be: “ Nothing
for Tribe Utes, but millions for de
fense.” — Whitehall 'Times
Next to a handkerchief, there is
nothing in the world that gets so many
blows as a street lamp.
A dollar is always in good quarters,
summer or winter, but hang the twenty
cent pieces.
A poet sings, “ The heart must beat
or die.” It is precisely the same Way
with a tramp, you have noticed.—Rock
land Courier
Poet —“ Do you want any of my
blank verse?” “ No, we don’t want any
of your verse,” says the editor.
Mr. Byron was once knocked up vt
an unconscionable hour in the morning
by a friend. “ Ah,” he said, “ a rose
two hours later would have been quite
as sweet 1”
Liberal Enough.— Rev. Stranger,
pointing to the Madison Avenue Garden
—“What church is that, my lad?”
Newsboy—“ Go-as-you-nlease church,
sir. Have a paper?”— Fuck.
Domestic economy in these days cc*
sists in growling about the price
flour at home, and because vour friend
won’t take “another one” while you are
down street.
A Maine editor was paralyzed while
sitting in church last Sunday, and an
esteemed contemporary thinks the
novelty of the situation was too much
for him.
Oranges sell on the streets of Lake
City, Florida, at from fifty cents to one
dollar per hundred. And alligators,
snakes and such fruit can be had foi
the asking.
The following conversation took place
If.-”” “What’s this!
question is—what is it. now i
Willum — “ Not quite so active as
you wus twenty years ago, Tummas.”
Tummas—“No, lhaint, Willum; I find
I carnt run a score lately, but if ony
body asks me to ’ave a drink, I jumps at
the hoffer.”— Fun.
Can you hold a pretty girl on your
lap and not kiss her? Then you are
something more than human. — Hartford
Sunday Journal. Send on your pretty
girls, if you want to behold super-human
efforts. — New York News.
John Morrissey’s widow sars she
taught him all he ever knew, and when
we remember how many tricks he had
with that ugly left hand, one can’t help
but admire the woman he left behind
him.— Detroit Free Press.
Wife (to her husband, who is eating
a juicy roast with great relish) —“For
Heaven’s sake, we have forgotten that
this is a fast day.” Husband (sulkily)
—“ You might have waited at least till
I was through.”
Elder sister (to little one who ap
pears to take great interest in Mr.
Skibbons)—“ Come, little pet, it is time
your eyes were shut in sleep.” Little
petr— “l think not. Mother told me
to keep my eyes open when you and
Mr. Skibbons were together.
When you see a young man m gor
geous apparel walking about the street
with his arms hanging in curves from
his body like the wings of an overheated
turkey on a summer’s day, it isn't be
cause he is in pain. It is because he
has been “abroad,” and that’s the only
thing he learned.
There is a closer connection between
good sense and good nature than is com
monly supposed.
Miss Jennie Burdick, the pretty
eighteen-year-old lass who several years
ago eloped with a Russian naval officer
from San Francisco is now wearing
widows’ weeds at St. Petersburg. Her
husband left the navy, and died at a
French port while in charge of a vessel
bound to the United States, where the
wife buried him and then returned to
the Russian capital.
How Young Gautier Wrote.
[Lit.r*ry World.]
In 1833 “Mademoiselle de Maupin”
was begun. It was written in his room
at his parents’ home, on the Place
Royale. This work, with all its fire,
wearied Gautier excessively. The poet,
then a lion, and a fashionable person
age, much preferred to rhyme gallant
sonnets to fair young damsels, and to
promenade the boulevards with his
transcendent waistcoats and marvelous
pantaloons, rather than shut himself up
before a lamp to blacken sheets of paper.
And, beside, being a thorough roman
ticist, he detested prose, and looked upon
it as the prime accomplishment of a
Philistine. So when he went into the
house, his father would lock him up in
his room and lay out his task.
“ You are not to come out,” he would
cry through the keyhole, “until yon
have finished ten pages of * Maupin!’ ”
Sometime Theophile was resigned;
often he crept out through the window.
At other times his mother, always fear
ful that her son would fatigue himself
with so much work, came to release him.