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IHOS. J. WaiSOn, Editor
VOLUME IV.
Hailroads,
Chickasaw Route,
MEMPHIS Si CHARLESTON R R.
TVVO PASSENGER trains daily
TO
MEM HA IS, TENN.
PASS.
Sj J Chattanooga 830 am 810 p m
w°" 10 00 am 9 45pm
- 10 35 a m 10 22 p m
1205 pm 1155 pm
„ £, e n oatar 125 pm 100 am
r 12 00 n’n 210 am
“rr i h i 631 P tD 5 21a 111
Arr u!„ ; ,Unchoa ' -727 p m 725 a m
Arr Memphis 930 pm 945 ani
p e 010 connection is made at Memphis
with tLe Memphis & Little Rock
Railroad for all points in
ARKANSAS AND TEXAS.
The lime by this line from Ciiattanoo
ca to Memphis, Little Rock, and pointf
beyond, is five hours quicker than by anv
other line.
Throuirli Passenger Coaches ami Baggage
Cars from
CHATTANOOGA to LITTLE ROCK
Without Change.
No Other Line Offers these
Advantages.
TICKETS NOW SELLING AT
THE LOWEST RATES.
For further information call on or
write to J. M. SUTTON,
Passenger Agt., Chickasaw Route,
P. O. Box 224, Chattonooea, Tenn.
Alehasia Great Soittei R’f
Time Card,
Taking effect January 15th, 1882.
SOUTH BOUND.
No. 1. Mail.
Arrive. Depart.
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•Vau/iatshieA B'4o .do *■’*• 841
. 9 11) do 917
Rising Pawn 937 do 938
Attalla 12 20 do 12 35
HirinlnghaiM 251 do 301
Tuscaloosa 523 dif 525
Meridian A. 10 00 do
r Charles I?. Wallace, If. Coia.rran,
Superintendent. Gen’l Pass. Act.
NashTiHir. ChattaiiTflia’S St, Louis H’f.
AHJSA [> OF ALL C(^! PKTITOKS.
BUSINESS MKN, ToußHV.nr MiTM DZT D
JCMIGUANTJ, FA Ml LI MS, H 5?I t. IY! Ut H
Xbe [{onto to LonisvilH, Cincinnati, Indi
anapolis, Chicago,.aud tlte North, is * ia Nli
vine. •
Tte i*e*t Roi.tr to S. Lou sand the West is
rla llclif n/ir.
The lira! R, rn (l tf> \Vf6t Tennessee and Kerr
tiickv !Mi H t spipi, Arkansas and Ten s points i>.
.via Melf enste.
DON’T FOUGRT IT.
—By this Line you Fecure the—
MAXIMUM 0 " cS,&
MINIMUM er i:*|*oi..o, Anxiety.
S'! J R | nfl U I*l ISotlier, Fatigue.
Be sure to buy your tickets over tne
N. C. & St. L. B’y.
THE INEXPERIENCED TRAV
ELER need not, go amiss; tew changes
are necessary, and such as are unavoida
ble are made in Union Depots.
Through Sleepers
BETWEEN —
Atlanta and Nashville, Atlanta and Lou
isville,, Nashville and St. Louis, via Cc
lumbus, Nashville and Louisville, Nash
ville and Memphis, Martin and St. Louis,
Union City and Si. Louis, McKenzie ana
Little Rick, where connection is made
with Through Sleepers to all Texas pionts.
Call on or address
A. B. Wrenn, Atlauta, Ga.
J. B. Peebles, T. A. Chattanooga, Tenu.
W. T. Kouebs, P. A. Chatanooga, Tenu.
W. L. Danley, G. P. aud T. A.,
Nashville, iem-.
Rising Fawn Lodge, No. £9l], meets
first and third Saturday nights (deac i
month. .1. W. Ritssey, W. M.
S. H. I huSHAN, S c’ly.
Trenton Lodge, No. 179, meets once a
a month on Friday , night on or before
the full moon.
W. U. Jacoway W. M.
g G. M. Cra pee, Sec\y.
Trenton Chapter No. t R, A. *M.,
meets on the third Wed esDy mgct of
each month,
M. A. B. Tatum, H. P.
W. U. Jacoway, Sec’ty.
Court of Ordinary first Mon
day of etch month.
G. M. Crabtree Ordinary.
S. H. Thurman, Circuit Court Clerk
B. P- Majors, Sheriff,
Joseph Coleman, Tax Receiver,
D. E. Tatum, Tax Collector,
Joseph K: er, Coroner,
Wm. Moni-on Surveyor.
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RISING PAWN. DADE COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY,OCTOBER 5, 188*2.
SEWS GLEANINGS,"
Jacksonville, Fla., has six papers.
Texas has 137,000 square miles desti
tute of inhabitants.
The richest county in North Carolina
in gold is Montgomery,
The largest single brick-yard in the
United States is at Atlanta.
Tennessee, North Carolina and Vir
ginia will all make good peanut crops. .
Corn is offered in Jackson county,
Ala., at twenty cents per bushel, deliv
ered.
Pratt’ B coal mines at Birmingham,
Ala., are the most extensive in the
South.
Experiments have proven tlmt the
Japanese seedless persimmon wilNprrow
prolifically in Florida.
It is estimated that over 1,000,000 or
ange trees will come into bearing in
Orange county, Fla., this year.
It is said that the first orange tree
ever known to have been injured by
lightning was struck at St. Augustine,
.Fla., recently.
Of’the immigrants arriving at Castle
Garden during the last six months,
Texas got 2,089 more than any other
Southern State.
Twenty more marriage and natal
guilds filed articles of incorporation at
Nashville Monday. The grand shaking
up of dry bones will be a tiling of tlie
near future.
The Concho floods caused the death
of 149 persons and 15,000 sheep. In the
past month, floods in Texas have de
stroyed 200 lives and $5,000,000 worth
of property.
The High Shoals factory recently sold
to an Atlanta broker, for SOSO, Confed
erate bonds to the amount of SIOO,OOO,
which had been lying in the factory
safe for seventeen years.
Griffin, Ga., has the largest peach or
ctTwiff t n tire A-lou-tU. ooatiiiiin u .-oiI,LOO
trees and covering most of 600 acres.
the same farm are’4, ooo grafted ap
ple trees and 5,000 pear trees.
Numerous petitions are being circu
lated in Alabama asking the Legislature
to prohibit the manufacture and sale of
intoxicating liquors in the State. The
petitions are being numerously signed.
Gold has been discovered in the Organ
Mountains, sixty miles north of El
Paso, Tex. A piece of ore brought in,
weighing two pounds, was covered with
pure gold and contained $159 worth of
the metal.
In the orchard of Perry Howard, at
Ebenezer, Miss., there is an apple tree
from which the ripe fruit is just now
disappearing. A second crop is upon
the tree about half grown, and is still
blooming for a third crop.
Williamsburg, the oldest city in Vir
ginia, is said to be one of the quaintest,
quietest towns in the South, and of
great interest because of its many an
tique and odd looking buildings. It was
once the capital of the State.
A New Orleans washerwoman lias in
the past fifteen years raised a family of
fatherless children, given them all good
educations, purchased a handsome house
and has SIO,OOO laid away for a rainy
day. Her entire possessions were earned
at the wash-tub.
In Jackson county, Ga., two men,
named respectively Hill and Goss,
fought a duel with buggy whips to set
tle a dispute. The fight contin'ued for
over three hours, and resulted in a
draw. The men were one mass of welts
at the close of the novel duel.
Probably the youngest farmers in the
country are two children living near
Shreveport, La., who have eight acres
in cotton and ten acies in corn, and will
make good crops. ’ The children arc
brother and sister, aged respectively
thirteen and ten years, and have done
most of their own work.
In Geneva county, Ala., a mill was
blown down by a storm Tuesday, and a
woman and her child buried in the
ruins. The next morning the debris
was cleared away, and, jvhile the moth
er was crushed by a ly?awy timber, the
little child was uninjured and found he*
side her mother, sleeping quietly.
Dixie Wagoner, a >mart Helen, Ark.,
nvmph du pave, has made the marriage
associations sweat. After taking out a
large number of policies she married
her “friend,” drew all her money and
then went to Illinois and procured a di
vorce. The pair then divided the swag
and are now laughing at the duped and
discomfitel “guilds."
“ Faithful to the Right, Fearless Against Wrung."
Rome (Ga.) Bulletin : D. W. Ford,
of Cave Spring, brought into our office
yesterday a perfect natural pitcher,
which he had found in Texas a few
months ago growing as an excrescence on
a red elm tree. Its proportions are ac
curate. and it is about twelve inches
high and six inches in diameter, is hob
low, and has a perfect handle and spout.
At Wilmington, N. C., a, party of
gentleinep discovered a large white crane
-on the edge of a small pond evidently
trying to fly, but could not. They went
•to investigate the matter and ascertained
that one of the bird’s feet was held by
a large snapping terrapin. The crane
was lifted out of the water, but the ter
rapin kept his hold. Both were cap
tured alive.
Henry Todd, who lives in Darien, is
the wealthiest colored man in Georgia.
When a youth his master died and left
him his freedom. "When the Confed
orcy fell he lost twenty slaves and some
Confederate bonds. After the war he
continued farming operations and en
gaged in the lumber business. He is
now sixty-five years old, and is worth
SIOO,OOO in good investments.
The New Orleans Times-Democrat, in
an article on “Cotton Mills, North and
South,” says the Southern mills now
boast 1,237,409 spindles, aud that the
consuption of cotton this year will reach
400,000 bales, or one quarter of the
amount used North. This fact is the
more natable because two years ago the
amount of cotton manufactured in the
South was scarce worthy of mention.
The largest individual sheep owner in
Texas is a woman, well known all over
the State as the “Widow Callahan.”
Her sheep, more than 50,000 in number,
wander over the ranges of Uvalde and
Bandera counties, in the southwestern
part of the State. Their grade is a cross
between the hardy Mexican sheep and
the Vermont merino. They are divided
into flocks of 2,000 head each, with a
“bosjsero” and two “pastoras” in charge
of each flock.
A North Carolina correspondent of
the Atlanta Constitution writes: “I
suppose Morehead City is the only city
in the world without a wheel in it, I
do not think that there is a wagon or a
buggy horse in town and very few in
the country. Everything is done in
boats. There is not a house in the
county that a boat cannot get within a
mile of. Not a doctor or a lawyer in
the county owns a horse ; they practice
in boats. The people go to funerals in
boats, and when they arrest a man they
carry him to jail in a boat.
A Prussian View of the English Army.
The correspondent of the Cologne
Oa:i i'tc at Ramleh expresses surprise at
the coolness of the British troops.
“They show,” he says, “none of the
excitement and eagerness which dis
tinguish the Continental nations w hen
they fight for existence, or at least for
a national idea. This Egyptian war,
like most wars in which England is en
gaged, is treated entirely as a matter of
business; if the object of the under
taking had been to make a railway or a
canal it could hardly have been entered
upon more quietly. * * * Deeds of
extraordinary energy and courage, as is
to be expected iu wars carried on in
this way, are much more rare than in
the national wars of Continental Eu
rope. It is true that the feeling of
national solidarity is as strong as, if
not stronger, among the English, than
among other nations, and there is no
lack of manliness in a race of such
consummate physical development; but
the cause for which they tight does not
elicit the enthusiasm which prompts
men to do more than their duty. More
over, the English, however practical,
are deficient in foresight. It will
scarcely be believed in Germany that
there are not more than two or three
trustworthy maps of Lower Egypt in ;
the whole of the English camp. Even j
most of the stall officers have to use j
maps which are not much better >' an !
those in Baedeker’s Guide Book. And
yet there would have been plen’y of
time to get a few hundreds of copies of
the Arabian man of Mahmud Bey, with
the names of the places printed in
Roman characters. At the sanu time,
it is not to be denied that the English
army, notwithstanding its singular and
antiquated organization according to
Continental notions, is well adapted for
a war of this kind. The admirable
physique of the men, the wise and busi
ness-like way in which they are led,
and the strongly developed love of
sport, whether military or otherwise,
which is the national characteristic, are
immense advantages in a struggle with
a half-civilized adversary. The dis
cipline of the army, too. seems very
strict: for I have not seen any drunken
soldiers since 1 arrived ”
—An Indiana writer advocates th • ab
olition of the telephone on the e.r- 11 •:■ i
that it encourages laziness. TT<- m,. ■
objection applies to easy chairs I
nearly all the comforts of modern life.
Chicago T< itnine.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Oregon Is now called the Webfoot
State. •
Evangelist Moody is trying to stir up
t religious feeliug in Paris.
Primps BisMarck the Prits
dan Mint' try twenty years.
The cckv acherago is greater this year
than ever,before owing to the tooth-pick
;oed boom.
A tunnul is projected under the Elbe,
oetween Hamburg and Steiuwarder
fsland, to cost $5,000,000.
-t— ♦
Tr will ot st over SIOO,OOO to replace
the bridges swept away by the recent
floods at Elizabeth, New Jersey.
Seven Citizens of Delaware were pub
licly whipped a few days ago, aud three
more stood an hour in the pillory.
A gentleman who has made recent
observations in Utah claims to have
discovered internal dissensions in the
Mormo*Church which may work its
luiu.
Cincinnati is organizing a swell cav
alry company, to he kuown as the Cin
cinnati Horse Guards. It takes S3OO and
a “pasflible” moral character to become
a member.
The great Newburgh poker game has
at last been settled, by Hedges and
Scott refunding to their victim, Weed,
$20,000. This makes Weed’s loss, iu
round figures, $70,000.
Each of Garibaldi’s children is to
get $2,000 a year for life from the Italiau
Government. Yet their late father was
in 1834 < on lemned by grandfather of the
present King of Italy to he shot.
The Queen of Madagascar has ordered
that a prohibitory law shall be framed,
prohibiting the manufacture of bsandy
or its importation into her territories.
The penalty is the forfeiture of ten oxen
anck a fine of $lO.
The fruit crop in Scotland has been a
fad.uce. It is the worst season
for \tbe last' fifty years. At one well
known orchard in the Carse of Gowrie,
which is rented at £2OO, the emp
of one barrel of apples.
Rttmor has it that the wedding of Mr.
Chester A. Arthur, jr., and Miss Crow
ley, has been appointed for the early
part of October. The bride aud groom
elect are extremely young, their com
bined ages not exceeding thirty-six.
The London Trv%, says that a specu
lator iu New York has resolved to tempt
Prof. Huxley to cross the Atlantic by
the offer of £ I 'jy per lecture for a series
of 200 discourses on popular science, to
he delivered during 1883 aud 1884.
Mu. Gladstone wears rcadv-mado
clothing, and while crossing a street
always acts on the principle that the
hypothenuse of a triangle is less than the
two sides. In place of using the cross
walk, he cuts off the corners, or crosses
diagonally 011 the cobbles.
Tiie Washington Critic says: ‘Star-
Route juryman John B. McCarthy, who
voted for conviction all the way through,
has been appointed to a position at the
Government Asylum for the Insane.
Mr. McCarthy was simply an honest
cobbler before he got on the jury.”
Bacon that used to sell in the South for
from five to eight cents per pound is now
worth from fourteen to seventeen cents
per pound. Cotton has depreciated
largely, and it does not pay to raise cot
ton to buysgork with. The Southern
farmers are beginning to find this out.
Mit. J. G. BrGELow, the counsel for
Mason, states that when he
visited the Albany Penitentiary a few
days ago, to obtain the execution of the
petition of a writ of habeas corpus, Mason
was looking bad and felt quite discour
aged. They have him engaged in mak
ing shoes.
Thf. number of acres in rice in the
United States in 1880 was 114,113; num
ber of pounds produced, 110,131,373
clean rice; an average product of 632
pounds per acre. Number of acres un
der cultivation in 1881, nearly twenty
thousand less than in 1880, and product
in 1881, eleven million pounds greater
than that of the previous year.
The London Truth ridicules Gen.
Wblaeley’s dispatches from Egypt as
“sentimental twaddle,” and attention is
1 called to his account of an engagement
in which there was “heavy firing for
i several hours,” the troops “behaving
admirably under a hail of bullets,” and
1 the result was one man killed and twelve
wounded.
A wealthy bachelor of Oregon, whose
TERMS—SI.O<) pr Annum strictly In Advance.
death lately occurred in the East, while
on a visit, lias given the most valuable
farm in the cove to a school for young
ladies. The buildings for the school will
be erected soon. This farm contains
34,000 prune an plum trees, and the pro
ceeds from the sale of fruit are somo
SIO,BOO a year.
Prof. Boss, of the Dudley Observa
tory, at Albany, says the comet was 16,-
000,000 miles from the sun September
17, and 20,000,000 on the 21st. On the
former date it was 103,000.000 miles
from the earth, and on the latter 107,-
000.000. It is thus going away both
from the sun and the earth. It is plainly
visible in the early morning in the
Eastern sky, and is beautifully brilliant.
The woman suffragist movement
seems to he advancing in the East. Says
the Massachusetts’ Democratic platform:
Equal rights, equal powers, equal bur
dens, equal privilegesnd equal protection
by law under, the government for every cit
izen of the republic, without limitation
of race or sex, or property-qualification,
whether it be by a tax on property or a
poll tax on persons.
Says the Republican platform of the
same State:
We invite intelligent and candid consid
eration of all propositions in aid of tem
perance and good order, for equal rights of
suffrage irrespective of sex, and for the en
couragement of industry, frugality, con
tentment and prosperity among all the
people of our honored State.
Some one has found in one of Ecker
marni’s books a record of a conversation
he had in 1825 with Goethe on the sub
ject of ship canals. Goethe, he says,
showed a special interest in Humboldt’s
idea of piercing the Isthmus of Panama,
ayd further said : “Itis a necessity for
the United States that American mer
chantmen and men of yar should he
able to set sail straight into the Pacific
from the Bay of Mexico, 2nd feel sure
that they will accomplish it. 1 should
wish to live to see it; but that will not
happen. Secondly, I should like navi
gation from the Danube into the Rhine
to be rendered feasible. And thirdly, I
should like to see the English in posses
sion of a canal across the Isthmus of
Suez, To live -enough iu order to
witness three such great events it would
be really worth while to put up with
existence for some fifty years more.”
Goethe’s fifty years, it will he observed,
were completed in 1876.
Causes of Xiphoid Fever.
A severe outbreak of typhoid fever
which occurred last year at Nahant, a
rocky peninsula near Boston, inhabited
during the summer by a small number
of very Vich cottage owners, was fol
lowed by an investigation, of which the
results are made public in an article by
Mr. E. W. Bowditcli, in the Boston
Medical and Surgical Journal. In such
cases contamination of drinking-water
is usually the principal cause of the
spread of the disease, and the wells and
cisterns which supply the houses were
first examined. Water was taken from
one hundred and ninety of these and
analyzed. Eight of the samples were
pronounced “excellent,” and seventy
one others “permissible,” or “good.”
One hundred and eleven were classed as
“suspicious,“very suspicious,” or
“bad.” About eighty cases of fever
occurred, nearly all of which could be
accounted for by the actual condition of
the drinking-water used in the houses
inhabited by the patients. In a few
others the filthy surroundings furnished
a probable source of infection, although
the water appeared pure, as, in one in
stance, where analysis to detect
any serious pollution in \ihter taken
from a well situated within ten feet of
one leaching cesspool and fifteen ieet of
another, both overflowing, and of
course ready to furnish an occasional
supply to the well during dry seasons
or under other circumstances. One or
two more \vre probably explained by
the fact that the Nee used in the house
hold was bi’ought from a foul pond in
the vicinity; and only one seemed quite
inexplicable, unless perhaps the infec
tion might have been brought by milk
contained in cans which had been rinsed
in foul water. Mr. Bow ditch’s suspi
cion, that the infection was
cated in certain cases by contaminated
ice, is strengthened by the fact that a
very severe and fatal epidemic of ty
phoid fever was unquestionably caused
in this way not long ago at a seashore
hotel in New England; and it is worth
asking whether the public authority
might not be employed with advantage
in exer' ising some sort of surveillance
over the collection and sale of an article
which may become, and perhaps already
is, far more dangerous than the triohi
nous pork or immature veal against
which so many precautions are taken. In
one place that we know of, says the Amer
ican Architect , thousands of tons of ice
are annually gathered at the very edge
of an extensive and well-filled cemetery,
which slopes somewhat rapidly toward
the water; and we have seen the winter
product of a little pool formed by the
overflow of what was practically the
drain of a of squalid houses
regularly sold to customers. — Scientific
American.
—A granite memorial to Elihu Burritt,
the “learned blacksmith,” bearing the
simple inscription, “Friend of Peace
| and Philanthropist,” has been set up in
New Britain Cemetery, Connecticut.
NUMBER. 43.
PITH AND POINT.
I
-—lf you can’t trust a man entirely, let
feim skip; this trying to get an average
on honesty has always been a failure.—
Josh Billing
—lt is said a cornet player in Berlin
burst a blood-vessel trying to sound a
Wagnerian double note. It is comfort
ing to know that Wagner’s is to be the
music of the future. —■Lowell Citizen.
—Professor Huxley estimates the take
of herring in the North Sea at 3,000,-
000,000. Before relying on Huxley’s es
timate we would like to know whether
he saw the fish or took the statement of
the fishermen. —Boston Post.
—Douglass Autz, of Norwich, fell un
der a moving train he was trying to
board. When tho train passed Douglass
arose, uninjured, with his cigar in his
mouth. And yet there are people who
claim smoking to be injurious.—Dan
bury News.
—A new nurse maid had been engaged
for the family of John Leech. On her
appearing in the nursery she was thus
addressed by Master Leech: “Nurse,
papa says I am one of those children
that can be managed by kindness, and
I’ll trouble you to fetch some sponge
cakes and oranges at once.”— Chicago
Tribune.
—A salt mine has just been discovered
in Australia which is believed to be
more than two thousand years old. It’s
a good thing it was a salt mine, or it
wonld’nt have kept half so long. Now,
there are some silver mines in America,
for instance, that haven’t lasted more
than three months after the assessments
gave out. —Burlington Uawkeyc.
—Some men have tact. Said the
bridegroom who didn’t wish either
to offend his bride or die of internal
disturbance: “My dear, this bread looks
delicious; but it is the first you have
ever made. I can not think of eating
it, but will preserve it to show to our
children in after years as a sample of
their mother’s skill and deftness.”—Bos
ton Post.
—Plantation philosophy—Remember,
young man, dat de best frien’ yer’s got
on dis earth is a better frien’ ter himself
den he is ter you. Pay no attention ter
a man by de boasts what he makes.
Thunder doan all de time tell ob a corn
in’ rain. . . Doan turn a man outen
de ranks of spectability case he’s a cow
ard. A hound dog ain’t much on de
fight, but he’s a mighty useful animal.
. . . While Nature was a foolin’away
her time paintin’ different colors an’
stripes on and. horns ob de Jack mappers
an’ odder buss, 1 doaa.see why she
didn’t contrive some easier .•
chile to cut teetE. —Jrkdjiscus ‘iYabjfer?
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Hogs. # * *. • \ |
• # • • '
If you have hogs miming inlyiur pas
ture-, now is the time,'whim thu .grass
is low and the heat opjtypsSivei £edd
generously, once or llfrifioj a. day with
corn, wheat and oats scre’eMiilgs; with,
bran, shorts, rotten or fal 1 p *a nd
other fruits, jointly or separately made--
by boiling into a mush, or <w.ei(
It costs something and it oaiisri'S some
labor and trouble, bnt all will
repaid in the quantity that befitfe Cljrwt- ’
mas will go into the lard tubs and
barrels. It is perfect nonsense tf raisd*
pork on the old plan if you wish toraUe
it for less than twelve or fifteen cents a*
pound. If you follow the old plan,
which was turning out shoats at “ kill
ing time,” and starving them all win
ter until clover comes, and then sav,’
“root hog or die,” until with dogs and
negroes you hunt them down and place
them in a pen for fattening, after they
have worried you all the year as out
laws, breaking in the fields of corn or
other grain at night, and next day run
almost to death and torn by dogs, until
they escape through their holes in the
fence, and a man or more has lost a
half a day to drive them out and stop
the hole, for the same thing to be re
peated the next day- you will have pork
at a cost far beyond what you can buy
it for in the market. But if you can get
a good breed, keep the hogs dry and
warm in winter, give a good pasture in
summer, plenty of water and food the
year round, with rotten wood, ashes,
salt and sulphur, you can raise pork
costing not half what you should receive
for it should you choose to sell. Tho
hog is naturally lazy, and if well sup
plied with food he will not wander far
from the swill-tub or food-trough. Like
the poor, lazy drunkard he will stick to
the tavern that gives him his food and
drink in the largest quantity for the
least exertion on his part. But stop his
meat and drink, and no idle vagabond
or ruined roue will turn marauding
rover, or sneak-thief, bold highwayman
or chicken-stealer as will the hog,
whether he be high-bred or common
stock. —Maryland Farmer.
Fascinated by .in Alligator.
I was at the Zoo yesterday and saw
something which is worthy of being
mentioned. One of the gulls entered
the pond where the alligator was lazily
propelling himself about and proceeded
t i enjoy itself in its native elements.
But the eye of the scaly monster was
upon it and the mesmeric influence of
its glance was soon felt. It was im
possible for the gull to resist the baleful
glare of the saurian; inch by inch it
was attracted to the alligator, powerless
to resist the fascination, until it came
close enough for the reptile to open its
mammoth jaws and gulp down the
luckless bird. After having devoured
\ its prey*the alligator sank to the bottom
to digest its meal. Toronto Mail.
A thirteen-year-old girl, living near
Houma, La., has a light-brown beard
two inches long.— N. 0. Picayune.