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. 1 -U. A; Ifj ’ l) VOL. 6. EDISON’S FIENDISH CLOCK. Winrd'n UlUwt In*«*ott«>n b DlaKbl lr»l |u It* .Powlbltitl**. Thomas Edison, the phenomenal in 4t*ntor, ha* reached a critical stage in hie career, and it would be a strange sarcasm of fate if his latest invention should ruake him positively abhorrent ,to the growing generation. Over in hie laboratory at Llewellyn park js this in mention It lias been tried and found perfect, and't is a phonographic clock which, instead of chiming the hours, calls them out at every quarter in a voice full of clearness. It may be tilted with any set to suit the purposes tor which it may be intended. To a re porter it was exhibited yesterday. Tlte inventor waaoheery and playful as he always is. "The clock," said he, "is An improvement, and if ft were only in Abe market now it might.save you report ers a great deal of worriment. For in stance, say you are at a political moet tny with a dozen speakers carded. They Art' each to have a half hour. You know what a fiction that is. But now, if you had a clock like this, see how it would A-ork," and here Mr. Edison placed a set Within it. He pointed the hand to the quarter of an hour and a voice came ring ing nut: "This speaker is half through." At the half hour the clock blurted out “The audience will please not encore. The gentleman now gives way to an other." "The only fear I have." continued Mr. £- iison. "is that the young unmarried folks may not relish it. T?ou are married? No? Well. I don't give this out as a britio, but when you get entangled in the. pre liminaries coma to me and I will give you one that you may present to the family into which you inspire to he ad mitted. It will be a libber. I'm a little in doubt about the popularity of the |>arlor dock with the younger people." Mr. Edison has good reason to fear. A Inure tantalizing ornament to a pair of Ardent lovers than a matrimonial parlor phonographic clock cannot be imagined. Fancy, for instance, a Sunday evening in A cozy parlor with two hearts beating as one startled by the voice from the man tel: “Good night, a fond good night. In Another hour it will he midnight.” Then dolefully at a quarter past ami each suc ceeding quarter comes out its hoarse Cloakings, u i.il 11:53. when itblurtsout: "In five minutes more it will be to morrow," and every ten minutes subse quently the air is filled with its mauidins. jruch as: "Ah! how stili the hour." "Ma bel, lam watching tln-e. ha. ha!" "Me thinks i hear die spirit of thy mamma Upon the stairs." "Please don t heed me; tt is m v misfortune that I must warn you that the hour is half-past 12." "Did I hear you ask me to get that hat?" “Will you kindly remember me in your pray ers?" "Look out aIT*, ha!' I was ouly fooling thee!" "I'llsoon have to nail father to go to his office." And so the clock jabbers on most cx- Aaperatingly. Of course the words are feet to suit the circumstances. If the Wooer be a favored person of course the language will be much different, the tone of the clock will be sweet and simpering, and the words coy and cuptivating.— New York Press. A Historic Murk. An order has been passed by the trus tees of this city which, if carried into ef fect, as we believe it will bo. will work the demolition of all that remains of the buildings that once stood within the pali sades of Sutter s fort. The order directs that the streets be opened through the property. Not only will the lust remain ing relic of the historic spot be thus oblit erated, since a street line cuts through it, but the plat will be divided into small parcels and its identity lost to history and to human interest. The owner of the property is a non-resident of the city: he derives no rental from it, unless a meager pasturage pays him a small sum, and he -will not sell to those who wish to restore the fort and convert the plat into a park. If all appeals to the owner fail, if he re mains deaf to the hundreds of requests that have been made, and still refuses po name his price, we propose when the streets are cut through, thai at the inter section of the highways there shall be planted a simple enduring stone to mark the s|*ot where John A. Sutter raised the American flag and gave shelter to the .early pioneers of California. And that ,on the stone there be inscribed the fact that a certain citizen of Chicago—naming him—stubbornly refused to sell the his toric spot to the people for a rest rve at any price.—Sacramento Record-Union. Th« Erratic St. Lawrence. “The St. Lawrence river," said a Clay ion member of the Cogbum club last evening, “is a most erratic as well as beautiful body of water. You have prob ably noticed several items in the news papers of vessels sailing on it running aground because of low water. Just {think of it—low water with the almost continuous rains we have had the past spring, summer and fall! But such is {the fact. And in some .other generally dry seasons the St. Lawrence has been unusually high. It is said .that the grand old river has one of those low spells— sinking fits, so to speak—every seven years, but I can't vouch for the truth of that. The fact remains, however, that it is unlike any other body of water I know of, and when other streams and ncighiioring lakes are high the St. Law rence is apt to makeacontrary showing.’’ —Utica Observer. Qcrnliin Sui«a TVcntcl. The managers of the Berlin cafes con certs have offered a prize of 800 marks to whoever shall find purely German names for the following commonly used foreign words: “Specialitaet. programm. phantasie. equilibrist, akrobat, gyrunaa tiker. eccentrics, knock abouts, trick. Jongleur, rgostiaak eccentric," Bx jehange. . . Hi* Ar| of Spending. Apropos of the sale of jewelry fn Paris during the exhibition season, a French contemporary enters into what, it calls “the physiology of the buyer." with spe cial reference to national idiosyncrasies. It seems that purchases of jewelry have, this year doubled the average amount of former years: and that this happy com pensation for political dullness is due al most entirely to the invasion of the bar barians. And among the invaders the American stands pre-eminently first in favor. Eie has three first rate qualities —he goes straight to what lie wants, lie pays cash down, and he never bargains. One day a leading jeweler bad the pleasure of selling a necklace to an American for 60.900 francs for money down on the counter, without being asked for tbe smallest discount or reduc tion—how much he would have given hail he lieen asked, the Parisian trades man does not say. Next to the American, "le roi des acheteurs,*' comes the Russian, who makes very large purchases, but not quite in so reckless a manner; then the Spaniard and then the Englishman,who, we should have thought, would have lieen placed third. The rest of the nations seem to come nowhere in comparison—the German, no doubt has not much cash left after a aeries of military budgets; the Dutch man is too frugal, and the Italian is too much accustomed to bargain, regarding h discount of 50 per cent, as in the nat ural course of things at home. But even the italiun is welcome in comparison with the Frenchman from the country. The detestable provincial,, even w hen rolling in money, will avoid the great establishments and seek the small ones, which cannot afford to send a customer away. He will drive out rageoudv hard bargains, and will go away and return day after day until tlie tradesman will let him have what he wants at almost any price to get rid of him. The American without vanity, or the Englishman who dislikes trouble, would evidently do well to employ a Frenchman from the country, even at a heavy percentage, to do his bargaining. —London Globe. Rmc« In n Storm* A balloon race took place in Belgium recently over a course between Brussels and the town of Diest. Twenty balloons were entered for tbe race: thirteen start ed. The largest balloon, guided by M. Godard, had a capacity of 1,000 cubic meters. The other twelve balloons had capacities ranging la-tween 800 and 800 cubic meters each. The aeronaut* sailed away from Brussel* at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Shortly after all had disap peared from the view of the thousand* who had gathered to see the start, a tre tuk ndouj storm swept across their oourse. The greatest anxiety was felt for the safety of the aeronauts, and the women and children who had gone up with them, and telegram* of inquiry were sent out all over the country from Brus sels. Early In the exening, however, dispatches announced that all the aero nauts had landed their balloons with all their iiassengeis unhurt, although some of them had had a pretty hard tussle with the storm. Not a single balloon reached its destination in Diest. Capt. Portet won tho first prize! He arrived at Waenrode, near Diest, at 6 o'clock, in his balloon Pro Patria, which has a capac ity of 560 cubic meters. M. Godard, with his big balloon, took tho second prize. M. Vuaquin. with his balloon Tricolor, of 890 cubic meters capacity, received the third prize. Tho prizes were given by the city of Brussels.—New York Press. The Angelos and the Chestnut Bell. “One of the most peculiar things about the Barye exhibition," writes a friend from New York, “is to hear the comments of the sight seers on the An gelus. To judge front the comments on the size of the painting, one might im agine that the visitors expected to see a panorama of Bunker Hill or the Battle of Gettysburg. The huge canvases of Verestchagin, which were exhibited last spring, and the size of Munkacsy's cele brated work, had prepared many of the visitors to Mud a 10x7 or some canvas of nearly these proportions. ‘What! That little thing!’ is sometimes the remark with which the wonderful creation is greeted by disappointed sight seers. j There is another class who are more rep-: rehensible because they have come with i a determination to admire the picture at! all events, little or big, good or bad. They will stand as near as they can get to the crimson ropes which keep the crowd away from the painting, and in a voice which is meant to be soulful and j impressive they say, very audibly, ‘Why. you can almost bear the bells ring!’ Whoever started this fad has much to answer for. There are on an average ; 767 ecstatic maidens every day who ‘can ilmost the hells ring.’ simply be cause it is the proper thing to do.”— Boston Advertiser. Tbe r" niey T1«1«T «f Fruit Tres*. Two Chickasaw plum trees, growing so closely together that their branches intertwine as if they were one tree, the two covering a space of aboutsoo square feet, frequently pay $lO iu a season, which would be at the rate of over SBOO per acre. A pear tree near by yields ten bushels in a good season, and $1 per bushel is not an unusual price. Three early apple trees this season gave over fifty bushels, which 6old at from eighty cents to $1.20 per bushel. —American Agriculturist. Better Unite Dp, If such a monarchy as that of Dom Pedro can be quietly overthrown and ii republic proclaimed, the crowned heads of Europe had better wake up and bolt the back door and ring for the patrol wagon. It's the handwriting on the wall.—Detroit Free Press. TRENTON, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 14,1889. NATURAL GAS DIMINISHI.4Q. *IU« of th» Interesting Peculiarities of the Invi/tiM* Fuel. What is known as rock pressure is the crying power of the gas. It must cut- from the wells under a pressure rent enough to propel it through a long •me of pipe. The principal supply for 1 'itt.sburg comes from a distance of from thirty, to forty miles, some of it as much •is sixty miles aw ay. It might be supposed that a simple algebraic problem would give the amount of flow through a given sized pipe under a known inimal pressure and fora known distance. It would be easy enough to de termine the quantity of water delivered under hucli circumstances, but it is not at all possible to determine the amount of gas. iu the first place, there is an astonish ing difference in volume in gas under differing pressures and different temper atures. A change of 45 degs. in temjier ature of the gas will increase or decrease the volume of natural gas 30 jx-r cent. A difference in pressure of 200 pounds will make a difference of at least one sixth in volume. Remarkable as it may seem, no formulas have lieen made to show the resistance of flow, so that it is only possible to guess at it by isolated cases. Wliat is known as the Acme natural gas pipe line, ten inches in diameter, which was one of the tightest and best ones ever I.mi. started w ith gas at 500 pounds pressure from the wells and brought it to the low* pressure lines at the city limits at sixiy-ttve pounds press un—an enormous waste. A sixteen inch tine from Murraysville. reasonably tight. I ft the well at 200 pounds press ure. and thirty miles distant gave only fifteen iiounds pressure. Such figures as these simply prove nothing. It is known that the carrying capacity of a pipe ten iiu lies in di-uneter is much more than twice that of a pipe only five inches in diameter, when it is water that is car ried—and liie resistance is known under certain pressures at the initial point with the pipe* discharging freely at the end hut water is not subject to the great changes in volume that gas is. These unknown quantities have not been made a subject of so much study by the natural ga-s companies as they would have been had there been more time to study them. The whole business is done with a rush. It is a singular fact, but nevortlnless a fact, that no reliable test has ever been made of the tempera tuijp of gas ns it comes from the sand rocks, an J then wliat it is w hen it enters the pqie. Several German scientists who were over here recently seemed etqiocial ly anxious to get such tests. It was impoHsHib* to gratify- tlicni -lim ply for the reason that all the wells art drilled by contract, and no contractor would allow- the six hours' loss of time which would result by the stoppage of work each time such u test was made, in order to allow the sand to regain its normal temperature after the heat made by the friction of the drill had subsided. No known method has been devised for driving natural gas. It must carry itself or it does not go at ail. Taking the two instances named out of many that might be given, it follows that with small pipes there must be a high rock l pressure from the wells, or tbe gas can not be piped for a distance of thirty or forty miles. Another question equally important in determining the problem of stability is the character of the sand in which the gas is found: whether it generates gas or is simply a storage house which may, in time, become exhausted. Gas is never found in solid granite; it invariably comes from a loose, porous rock. Sometimes this sand is actually pebbly, as is found in some sections of the Mur ravsville field. In other cases it may have the appearance of greater density; but, nevertheless, it will be found to be porous. No gas sand that will produce a paying well is of greater density than will admit of one-sixth of its volume in gas. The gas is contained in the interstices of the stone, possibly in a liquid form, because of tho high pressure. It certainly is greatly condensed at any rate. The bor ing cf the hole allows it to escape; but it em-apes from a store house, and when it is all out there is and can be no imme diate or early process of regeneration or restoration; it is gone. “Always taking out of the meal tub and always putting in will soon exhaust the supply" is an old saw which is ax iomatic. As there is do replacing of the gas, as it cannot now be replaced, hav ing been generated and stored countless years ago, it follows that there must be exhaustion of fields in time. How long? Well, we shall all come very close to knowing, later on. The dependence, then, for future sup plies must be on new territory. As the cost of pipeage is now ;i« SSO to every $1 invested in drilling a well (which in it self reaches as high, in cases, as $5,000), the opening of new territory must neces sarily become more and more expensive. —G. T. Dawson in Pittsburg Dispatch. Venomous Blue Gum-nrd Negroe*. The bite of a blue gummed negro is said to be poisonous, and the following fact would seem to confirm somewhat the truth of the belief: About six weeks »go, in a difficulty near Gosport, Ca?sar Hill was bitten on the finger by Harry Davis, colored, of the blue gum variety. Inflammation set in, and in a short time amputation of the finger was deemed necessary to save the arm. But the poison was not arrested, and the hand and arin eoon showed a fearful progress of the disease. The arm has been cut off. and yet it is thought very uncertain whether the disease wifi stop before tak ing the life. <>f it*’, suffering victim.— Clarke County Democrat. I Dining t inier I‘eculiar Circunuu'iiCM. An amusing story reaches us from Metz of an adventure wbicli has just befallen a French family living in the neighbor hood of the frontier. These jieople have some relatives residing in German Lor raine. vho invited theqi to luncheon a •lay o.i two ago. Noon was the hour fixed, hut the hosts, alter waiting fry some time in vain, betook themselves to the frontier to meet their French kins tolk. They found the family in u car riage on the French side of the boundary line trying to persuade tin* guard to let them pass: but as i.u-y had v, ,ie unpro vided with passport* the official barred tite way obstinately The br.-m-h people, whose appetites had li.vn slvii’iiefied by a long drive, were in no humor to return home with their l.imgvt umippi-tised. so they suggested to their G anuu relatives :hnt they should hurry lutrk and fetch tin- vjin i* which they hud provided for them. 7 h«?ir [s-rplexed hosts eagerly caught .t the idea, and soon renp|ieared with a goodiy stock of dishes and bottles, the onlenta of which they proceeded lo dis ass in company. The French sal dow ii in their side of the boundary and the • ermaiis on theirs, and mirth and jollity /•owned the al fresco repast. Mean tale the official, completely check -■ ted, flitted about in anything but an - iahie frame of mind, lie could not ~ ><iu to any law or regulation to put a •;> to this outdoor meal, and, as the <'h and Germans were each "clu-z ne had no alternative but to keep ;> look*- it in tlie hope of catching ■ J dy flipping.. He was not, hnw .*4lowed any opportunity of finding ■ .d when tiie friends had finished • ' ust they separated. Ixitli parties ; to their respective homes ill 'h i of humors and highly delighted ' a i lg won a victory over the stern ' ry. —London Telegraph. TUe future I’rliirew of Moimrn, relative of t!ie lady in questionin gs yc.urcorrespondent that theDuch •ie Richelieu, who lias a host of in New Orleans, having visited • cxjiosition here, is about to be ■ Princess of Monaco. Although C itliolic. she will lie the first lady '■ in who has been married . . •. diristian prince. Murgue c. the hifure princess of i .wii'c c.i principality, is >i ic.lid Heine, cousin .'trk li Heine, the poet. The i. • Michel Heine was tlie • f hie c •Mbratcd Hamburg •'■•c i!' i ..-.who left £1,200. • i .2.. ‘i ich'cl Heine and A in out ci..a.-.;* d large for ... ~;.i '•' U’'!i a•••■•:, wlv nee they re l m are now • : ••'. ■ tee-i Urge amount '• • pi c'-' ty 1.1 this city, from • ••■■' • a. Handsome dividend <•».’* On < ••i.d street they own. , «d.. r .-.cod paying prop • t o building. AH s >•• liie Heine family hav^be • r Catholics or Protoswits • • exception of Mine. Furtado . J the sister r; the poet, who .• : five i.i Hamburg —Now OrleansTel ,ram to Si. Louis Post-Dispatch. An Old Indian Workshop, The geological survey, through Profes sor W. H. Holmes, has recently made some most important discoveries of ln •11so relics just west of Washington, on what is known as Pinev Branch lull. The dud appears to be the remains of an Indian workshop for the manufacture of implements, wea'ions, etc. The spot has i**en excavated and implements have been found clear to the bed rock. The discovery is considi red to be of tho great est importance by archaeologists. It car ries our knowledge of the ancient inhab itants of this locality much further back than any previous discoveries. These chipped stone implements found, it is s;.id, go back to the paleolithic age ana show the country to have been in habited at a much earlier period than has been generally supposed. Imple ments of this class have never before been found except upon the surface, and it has always been a question among scientists as to what they referred. These instruments discovered by the survey bear a marked resemblance to instru ments found in France, which have been referred to the same ancient period of the world’s existence. Mr. Holmes will | announce and discuss his discovery in a I paper to bo read before the Antliropolog- j ical society.—Washington Star • Liberty Statue I'njuntly Maligned. At the recent congress of the Ameri can Ornithologists’ union, Jonathan Dwight, Jr., did a public service in reading a paper on “Birds That Have Struck the Statue of Ijiierty, New York Harbor.” Considerable uneasiness has been felt for some time on the subject of the sacrifice of migratory birds to the luring brilliancy of the Liberty and other lights, and many exaggerated statements have oeen made in the papers. All alarm, however, is now dis sipated by the fact, which Mr. Dwight places on record, that the whole number of birds kiiied this year at the statue of Liberty is 690, which is considerably less than last year. Of the dead birds picked up this year 60 per cent, belonged to one species, the Maryland yellow throats.—New York Commercial Ad vertiser. Afraid of DarkneM. A millionaire, who has just died at Vienna, had such an antipathy to dark ness that lie has actually left instructions in his will for the illumination of his last resting place An electric light is to be kept burning in the vault during a whole year, and even the interior of the coffin is to be electrically lighted. The ex penses are to be defrayed by a special beouost of 20,000 mark?. —Sau Francisoo PHONOGRAPH. 1 ? FOR PObTOFfICL3 ~r Mskmijm to Hr S-ut In Itrilrn for About Twice the Co* of >-*stst;r. Lawyer Edwin M. Fox returned ojj Friday from Mexico, whither he went ia he interest of Thomas Edison to arrange « he legal features of a contract with the government for the genera! introduction of the phonograph in the postoffices of that country. He gave yesterday some details of his mission, which, as already announced, was successful, and of the enterprise of which It wasa preliminary. i'lie contract was obtained for a com pany which John M. Cebullos, of •'fall street, ia now forming. U gives 'be proposed company the exclusive right for fifteen years to place phono raphs in the postoftices of the republic for the use of people who cannot read or write. The charge for a single phono graphic message has not yet-been fixed: it may he hut a medio, or six and a half cents, and it may be a real, or thirteen cents. To this charge must be added one of ten cents for postage, which is tiie rate at which letters are carried from one part of Mexico to another, al though a letter may be sent from Mexico to this country for only five cents. Tlie higher charge seems moderate when it is known that tlie sender of a message will bo entitled to talk a thousand words into the phonograph. When he h is said his say, the cylinder containing his message will he inclosed in a paper box, addressed by a postofflee clerk to its destination, and, after oeiug stamped, will he mailed like an ordinary letter. The recipient of the cylinder can either have the message sjioken out to him by the phonograph in the nearest postoffice, or lie can have it transcribed on paper for future reference. If every patron of the phonograph sends thousand word messages and every recipient in sists on having them transcribed, tlie Edison Phonograph company of Mexico will lose money, but it is calculated that the messages will average certainly not anything like the tenth and perhaps not even the twentieth part of the limit. The P‘-i%ons who are expected to use the Miograplis now employ scriveners to /•;te their letters for them. The scriv - ts will probably have to do something when the phonographs are set up. the terms of the contract the com * is to take care of the machines s-.iid -q) them in order. This will not in - ve its having an agent at each post office at wl inh there is a phonograph, or it is bound to instruct one of the • • .sine clerks in tlie use of the um- i •me, and the time consumed in this j \y and in sending and receiving .mes | a,ges ia to Ik* allowed for. The company ! to g;-l a rental for the use of the ma .ioes, and what remains of the proceeds - r deducting as mail percentage for ■ the government. Asjiiready iutiniKted, all exjienses are to be borne by the coul peny. so that whatever the government gets will lie cleaiygaiir.' Only the large postQUices will at first, boepfovided with phonographs, but it i* aXpecled tnat in the course of time the use of the instru ments will become quite general. The machines are to be made at Mr. Edison’s factory in Orange and sent to Mexico as wanted, but there will also have to be a local establishment in the city of Mexico where repairs will be made and business connected with the enterprise transacted. As the company expects to sell many of the machines to the general public, a salesroom will be part of this establishment. Mr. Fox took three phonographs to Mexico with him, one ns a present for President Diaz, which poured out the in strumental and other music which Mr. Edison had poured into it at the labora tory in Orange, where concerts are still given, with phonographs for auditors, several times a week. President Diaz was quick to learn how to use the ma chine, and he sent back by Mr. Fox a cylinder containing a message in Spanish congratulating Mr. EMison on his great invention and himself that Mexico was to get the benefit of it. —New York Sun. What Is a Valuable Invention. The patentee of a machine by which tin horses raced one another around a ring recently sought to enjoin an in fringement of the patent. It appeared that the only use to which the machines had been applied was to place them in saloons, bar rooms and other drinking places, where frequenters of such places make wagers as to which of the toy horses would stop first. Judge Blodgett, of the circuit court, has decided in this case (National Automatic Device com pany against Lloyd) that the laws of the United States only authorize the use of a patent for a new and useful invention; that a useful invention is one that may be applied to some beneficial use in society, in contradistinction to an inven tion which is injurious to the morals, health and good order of society: that the patent is not a useful device In that meaning of the word, its use so far hav ing been pernicious and hurtful; and so the injunction was denied.—New York Telegram. MfßH'.ii ii»e Wave*. St. Stephen's Review says an interest ing fact has just been accomplished by Hon. Ralph Abercroinby, who has suc ceeded in measuring the height of ocean waves by floating a sensitive aneroid barometer on the surface, and in gaug ing their width and velocity by timing their passage with a chronograph. As a result of tliese experiments ho supports Admiral Fitzroy in the conclusion that waves occasionally reach an altitude of sixty feet. The highest wave measured by Mr. Abercroinby was forty-six feet high. 765 feet from crest to crest and had a velocity of forty-seven miles per hour Montezuma, Ga., hat 00 clergy pa*. •XTHEN3 OF TO-QAY. It* Court and King—The Royal Palare to 2 Uurdfiw —Hallway* Id lh« C’Uuwta Uud. It is a well known fact In Athens that King George has outlived his popularity, and all classes hail with expectancy the approaching marriage of the duke of Sparta, for it is an open secret tlmt tie will shortly succeed to the throne The duke ts a great favorite with the Athe nians, and a most enthusiastic welcome awaits his German bride. Tlie resilience of tbe future bride and bridegroom will, so far a» Athens is concerned, be a splen did new palace built for the purpose, and situated almost immediately in front of the royal palace, where the king is often in residence. The royal paiace is very simple and severely classic in treatment as to its ex terior, but several of the state apart ments in the interior are decorated wjth a richness and elegance which are very unique in effect, notably the splendid ballroom, with its massive pillars arid wealth of crystal chandeliers. From tlie up|»er front windows of the most cent*’.:! rooms access may lie had to a lialcwny which commands a most varied and en chanting panoramic view of the city, tlie most picturesque object in the same being that rocky citadel, the Acropolis, with its crown of ruined temples and sacred buildings, all glowing with color in the clear transparent atmosphere, which is the charm of this fabled coun try of delight. The royal gardens surrounding the palace are on certain conditions open to the public, but are not kept In the spick and-span order usual in such resorts. A pleasant feature ill their arrangement la the frequent introduction between the flower beds of small streams of running water, which, liesides serving the pur |»ose of irrigation, lend a refreshing cool ness to a sometimes too hot and dusty as[>ect. Athens is in the dry season subject to a perfect simoom of dust, to much so that many of the inhabitants betake themselves for that period to the neigh boring seaports of Piraeus and the sister town of classic antiquity. This dust m the one great drawback against a con tinued residence in so fair a city, and it ia said that some travelers coining in a particularly dry season were so smoth ered in thick clouds of heavy white dust that after performing the necessary ablu tions they fled the place with the utmost speed at command, leaving their short visit to remain a dusty and obscured memory in their minds. Railways are not at present largely de veloped in Greece* the most recent pro ject being a line to Larissa, though the main branch from Patras to AtWoe {* the chief iron road in the country. On this line the traveling --is none of the tdjfi/fest: and though, as may be seen on tne'fiiap, the distance is comparatively fefiort betwen the seaport town of Patras and the capital, yet one would hardly credit that it should be at such a miracu lous speed that if you start at 11 o’clock in the morning you arrive at Athens at 7 o’clock in the evening. But it may be that the mil way company desirea to af- ford the eager sightseer full opportunity for gloating over the ever changing beau ties of mountain, lake and aea scenery through which he slowly posses. The railway station at Athens is situ ated at a long distance from the city,. and the approach to (life latter is through a miserable and mean thoroughfare, from which one emerges with & glad surprise into a maze of broad streets lined with handsome buildings, all glowing in the stately glory of freshly hewn white mar ble, and filled with a gay and picturesque throng. One of the finest of the many splendid residences in modem AtAens is the mansion belonging to Dr. Schliemann, and as this, in common with the prevail ing fashion, is surmounted with elegant statues and otherwise enriched with moldings, carvings and other adorn ments, it seems a fitting home for so great a master of archaeological lore.— London Figaro. •vary -runny. Indent, Two very humorous boys are in jail at Burlington, la. They had a tame crane and a funny idea. The idea was to catch another smaller .boy and hold him while they made the crane peck at him. They did this, and the crane pecked out one of the small boy’s eyes. The judge sent the boys to jail for fifteen and thirty days. When they get out the victim of their humor ought to organize a posse and capture them and tie them up and have a little fun with the crane himself. This would appeal strongly to their moral natures.—Chicago MaiL All persona owing The Time* at the Morgaavill* pcsteffice are notifiued to paj R. L. Killian as the account! have boon sold to him. , By ordor of the fctate school eommisiionor there will bo hold at the court bouse in Trenton on Jan uary 2, 3 and 4 an examination of applicant! for teachers license for those who desire to teseh in Pade county daring the year 1890, Thia will be the only examina tion for this purpose. J. P. Jacowat, C. S. C. The world may be searched from pole to pole and no remedy found equal to B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm) for the cure of blood poison, It is a remedy founded on scienti fic medical knowledge, and its reputation as a curative establish ed by such true sad unsolicited testimony as are found in our columns from time to time. NO. 40.