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THE LTNCOLNTON NEWS.
J. D. COLLEY & CO.,
VOL. I.
WtSHMSTON ADVERTISEMENTS.
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WASHINGTON, GA.,
CROCER
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PEARLS OE THOUGHT.
The next dreadful thing to a battle
lost is a battle won.
Memory is strengthened by exercise
and life by remembrances.
The history of the world is nothing
but a procession of clothed ideas.
Every one has his faults, but we do
not see the wallet on our own backs.
Though authority he a stubborn
hear, yet he is oft led by the nose with
gold.
Love is never lost. If not recipro¬
cated it will flow back and soften and
purify the heart.
A lie is like a brush-heap on fire ; it
is easier to let it burn out than to try
to extinguish it.
The grand essentials of happiness
are
and something to hope for. '
THE AUGUSTA, ELBEBTON AM> CHICAGO RAILROAD.
If TTe Mad Rut a Day.
We should fill the hour with sweetest things,
If we had but a day;
We should drink alone at the purest springs
In our upward way ;
We should love with a lifetime’s lovo in an
hour
K the hours were few;
We should rest, not for dreams, bat for
fresher power
To be and to do.
We should guide our wayward or weary wills
By the clearest light;
We should keep our eyes on the heavenly
hills,
As they lay in sight;
We should trample the pride and the dis¬
content
Beneath our feet;
We should take whatever a good God sent,
With a trust complete.
W. should waste 00 moments in weak re¬
gret,
If the days were but one—
If what we remembered and what we regret
Went out with the sun ;
We should be from our clamorous solves sot
free,
To work or to pray,
And be what our Father would have us to be,
If we had but a day.
SO GOES THE WOULD.
“Netta!” sang a shrill voice after
me, as ]*ran down the lane.
I am Antoinette—Antoinette Lang¬
ley—and they call me Tina, Toinette,
Ante, anything containing any of the
syllables, in order to abbreviate the
tiresome appellation. Indeed, I con¬
sidered myself called too often. On
the present occasion I knew I should
be called back if I did not run. I ran,
and was recalled notwithstanding; I
returned to the house more deliberate¬
than I had left it.
“ The most essential thing I have
forgotten,” said Aunt Tilda—the thing
forgotten was always most essential
with her. “ It does not matter how
many offers you get on the way, you
are not to ride. You will spill the
custard and your dress will be spoiled.”
“I promise,” I returned, gravely,
holding the pail almost at arm’s-length,
“ I will not ride unless Tom Armstrong
or Susy Winters’ beau overtakes me. I
could not refuse Tom, you know,
aunty, because 1 like him; nor the
very sage Air. Everard, because I do
not like Susy. Besides, I have met
him on occasions, and he—well, he in¬
terests me.” '
“As for Air. Everard, he would
never think of asking you. Susy is
much handsomer—”
“Than anything you please, Aunt
Tilda, if you except your lovely
niece.”
“ Ride with Tom Armstrong, if you
think best, Toinette Langley,” said
my aunt, suddenly leaving Susy; and
she continued, her hand directed to¬
ward me in the form of an index: “He
had better not bring his pink-and-white
face around here any more, or I’ll send
you into the kitchen and receive his
simpers myself! Pah ! I can’t abide a
pretty man.”
“ When I return I will tell you
which of the two I honored,” I said,
turning from her with a low how.
Tom, whom my aunt calls a good
for-naught, is the squire’s son, and has
always been my preux-chevalier. I
have buttered him and sugared him,
as the mood seized me, and snubbed
him unmercifully at times—he was so
tiresome mesumc.
But Aunt Tilda had fallen into the
way of fretting about him. For this
reason and because he often assured
me that Susy Winters’ beauty could
bear no comparison to mine, I had
favored him of late.
Air. Everard is a new arrival. lie
has just built a cottage—an artistic,
unpretentious structure—hired a 1 o i -c
keeper, and settled down among us.
His house just fits into the little nook
where it was built, and seems to be a
part of nature. The birds think it be¬
longs to them, too, and hover around
it in ecstasy.
Aunt Tilda it was who told me this,
and she added that she did not at all
wonder, for the other houses in Walton
were an offense to architecture and
the birds knew it.
But I do not see but there are
feathered songsters enough in our
elms, and I doubt if Aunt Tilda would
exchange her gambrel-roofed home¬
stead, that has served the Langleys for
four generations, for the “new-fangled
concern,” as Deacon Seward calls it,
that* Mr. Everard inhabits.
This Mr. Everard is an autlior-a
man who writes heavy articles on
social science, or some other incom
prehensible subject, for the Oceanic.
We hardly expected that lie would
associate with us common morta's,
he had twice attended our “societies,”
each time bringing Susy Winters,
whose father is his friend ; and Susy,
sinco this distinction, had assumed
high airs, thereby exciting our resent¬
ment.
I had not proceeded ten rods on my
way before John Seward, the deacon's
son, drove up and asked me to ride.
“ I should be so glad to, Air. Sew-
LINCOLOTON, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1882.
ard,” I said; “but Aunt Tilda just
called me back to say that on no ac¬
count was I to ride lest I spilled the
contents of this pail, which is to be
delivered intact to old Mrs. Turner.”
“ IVe might look out for that, Miss
Tina,” he said.
“ Oh, yes ! I am not at all afraid of
spilling it,” I replied. “I only fear it
might offend aunty, who is inclined to
think well of you now.”
The young man drove on and I was
exultant; for had not my t aunt for
once been caught in her own trap?
Of all the young men in Walton,
bating Air. Everard, John Seward was
the one she would have most approved
of my riding with, and I had not the
least objection to his escort on occa¬
sions, myself. I only felt that jealousy
of my liberty which young America
must have inherited from its Revolu¬
tionary ancestors, and I did not like
dictation in my choice.
Soon after John Seward disappeared
I heard another team behind me, sure
footed and striking in exact concert. I
knew before he slackened his pace to
pass me that it was Air. Everard.
I lifted my face shyly (it was shaded
by a pink sunbonnet) to make sure it
was he, when, touching his hat, lie
said:
“ But for your manner, Aliss Lang- j
ley, I should not have been able to j
make you out. I do not think you
could change that with your dress, j
Will you ride?”
“ I am going to Airs. Turner’s,” I
replied, “and aunty said I must walk
all of the way.”
“Well,” said he, smiling, “it is a
long walk, but I must not urge you.”
“ I don’t need urging,” holding up
my hand to be helped in. “I am too
wise to walk that distance when I can
ride as well.”
“ Why did she wish you to walk ?” he
inquired, when I was seated.
“ Ostensibly on account of the cus¬
tard,” I said, touching the covered pail
_«as though I would spill it— but
really lest I might ride with Tom Arm
strong. She dislikes him, and thinks
he is omnipresent when I am out.”
“Upon what is her aversion based?”
“His beauty. The same platform of
my regard.”
Air. Everard laughed, and leaned
forward to peer under my
I was quite serene.
“That is rather a shaky foundation.
is it not, Aliss Langley? It seems to
me a man should . ,,, have something ... , ,
ter to recommend him to a true
woman s regard.
“Oh, well,” I replied, “Air.
strong is clever. Not in the Englisii
sense of the term, perhaps; but I don t
tliink he would harm a fly. Aunt Til
da calls him innocent, because she
thinks he lacks energy.”
“Perhaps you are strong-minded,”
said Air. Everard, “ and that accounts
for your preference, as such people are
strongly attracted by their opposites, it
is said.”
lie was evidently making sport of
both Tom and me, so I only answered
with toss of head, for the time :
a my :
oblivious of my covered pail, and on
alighting soon after at Airs. Turner’s :
door, Air. Everard exclaimed: :
“ ^ hat a sight for god3 and men ;
The custard had spilled portion in j I :
* a
W d °wn 1«P; from and lus yellow side. streamiets 1 was ...... filled with
dismay; but he seemed master of the 1
position, and looked down with a quiet
laugh.
“ lYm are distressed,”-he said. “ Ah.
Miss Toinette, forgive me! I fearthat
I have not looked out as gallantly for
your custard as Tom Armstrong might
have done; and then ‘ Aunt Tilda’ might
take a dislike to me, and I had intended
to make her a propitiatory offering,
and try to induce her to let her niece
take a long ride with me. It would
give me pleasure to take you next week
1 to l' ie UaHs.”
“ To the Fall? !” I repeated, looking
ll P W1 *h slow delight,
■ I had not seen them since I was a
child. m They were but fifteen miles
away; but aunty would never let me
“flam off,” as she called it, that dis¬
tance, with “a parcel of giddy-heads;”
so I had never been included in the
distant excursions of the young folks.
“ Yes,” he replied, to my exclama¬
tion. “Will you go?”
“ 1 could not tldnk of refusing,” I
answered; “and for Aunt Tilda, he r
heart must be adamant to spoil such a
treat.”
“ Well, we will go, then, and it will
; make me almost as glad as it will you,
f pr H is long since 1 have seen a frank
■ k 'ok of pleasure like that which beams
1 from your face.”
Upon entering the house I deposited
my pail in Airs. Turner’s pantry, find¬
ing that there had not so very much of
the custard escaped. And with the
anticipated pleasure promised me I felt
less like a martyr than usual in trying
to make myself useful to the old lady,
who was not of a very genial nature,
but disposed to be fault-finding ’
even
with those who were trying to benefit
her.
I walked home, and on entering ex
claimed that I was nearly exhausted.
“Then you should have ridden with
John Seward,” remarked my consistent
aunt.
" Why, aunty, you know you forbade
riding.”
j “And you know, Miss Antoinette,
that 1 would have been perfectly
willing to have you ride with John.”
“But there was the custard, Aunt
Tilda, and beside I wanted to keep my
word ;”
“ ^ ou rode Wlth Tom >” said
aunt, looking a little wrathful.
“ I rode with Air. Everard,” I con¬
fessed, and she made no comment.
A few days after this I sat in the
door picking over currants, when Air.
Everard made his appearance. He was
j armed with a bouquet and a basket of
luscious-looking strawberries. The
j former was f° r me, the latter for
Aunt Tilda.
She was pleased. And when an
emotion of pleasure moves her she is
just lovely and nothing else.
1 was half in fear that Air. Everard
would forget to invite me to the prom
ised ride and engage my aunt instead,
But no, lie asked for the pleasure of
taking us both. Mr. Winters’ family
was to be of our party, he said. Aunty
graciously consented.
Well, we had our ride, which was
delightful; and during the season
there were a series of societies, as
usual, and a picnic or so—the enly
means of dissipation presented to the
rural mind in a community eminently
staid and church-going.
Occasionally I went with Tom,
sometimes with Air. Everard—Susy
Winters coming in, likewise, for her
share of attention from the latter gen
tleman.
At last, in its season came a grand
nutting party. * Tom was my attend
ant. I had used a little manuvering
—strategy I dignified it—to receive
' His invitation in good time that I
so
| ! might say I was engaged when Air.
Everard came later with a request
| (which I thought he would), as a just
| punishment, you see, for his having
taken Susy to the last society when I
considered it my turn to receive that
attention.
It was October at the last. The
trees were half aflame, and the hectic
leaves , , had . whirled ...... into variegated . . ,
heaps that served us for seats when
" e g re " weary.
Mr. Everard took Susy and was
more attentive to her than circum
stances l ailed for I thought, and I got
dreadfully bored with Tom’s inter
minable nonsense, and slipped away
into the woods. I rather enjoyed, in
prospective, Tom’s bewilderment when
he discovered my absence,
I wandered down to a little stream
and along its border until I reached a
sliglit bluff crowned with late flowers.
They were really beyond my reach, I
thought; but the unattainable lured
me and I determined to attain.
So I commenced climbing, and had
almost reached the summit of my do
sires, when I slipped, and caught by
bushes, and struggled, until I arrived
ingloriously at the base.
Alv , r hair , . disheveled—it , , , ..
was was mv
ownl _ my ^ t anns blee i
n
I sat with tears in ray eyes, in con¬
fusion and distress, my sleeves pushed
back, inspecting bruises, when who
should appear on the scene but the
formidable Mr. Everard!
“ Tina Langley, by all that is love
ly ! he exclaimed; and his next move
ment v as to kneel at my feet, like an
old-time knight. “ Now have I my
bird of the wilderness at an advantage
Torn and bleeding, her plumes ruffled,
her spurs lost; no Aunt Tilda in the
way and no Tom Armstrong.”
And then for the next half-hour
that author of social science improved
the time, saying the most foolish
things . in . „ the most , unscientilic . . way
..? ,
until m Tom ,, blundered , , along. -
He was not too obtuse to compre¬
hend the situation, and on our way
liome lie declared that I had ruined
his prospects and he should die of a
broken heart.
1 kindly promised to use my
ence with Mr, Everard to have a suit
aWe itaph placed upon his tomb, and
hecalledmea heartless charmer, and
b> f t nl0 ab protesting that his
earthly career was well-nigh ended.
I did really feel uneasy respecting
him; but- when I had given to my
a correct account of the day’s doings
(and I observed that my disclosures
respecting Air. Everard afforded her
great satisfaction), she carried her
chin high in air, as I expressed my fears,
and said:
“ We will see what we shall see.”
Well, we are to be married soon, Air.
Everard and I, and Tom Armstrong
has broken his heart, after the manner
of men, by engaging himself to Susy
who, three months ago,
Tina Langley must be greatly
need of an escort to go with that
Armstrong.”
“And so goes the world,” says my
Mr. Everard.
■ 11 —
A Police Court at Cairo, '
xhe prefect and his deputy were ar
rayed in black coats and trousers,
white waistcoats and patent boots.
But they sat, as their predecessors sat
a thousand years ago, cross-legged on
the divan. Litigants carne up with
ou t formality, kissed their knees or
their hands, according to rank or
favor, bent, with hands folded in their
sleeves, to declare the grievance
volubly, answered a brief, harsh ques¬
tion, and took the verdict helplessly.
Cases lasted on an average two min
U { es each, as near as I could time it.
And all the while men came and went
in the little room, talking mostly in
high quarrelsome tones. Coffee passed
about. If any one present was struck
with an observation he offered it cas
ually, and his worship listened. After
delivering judgment, always pre¬
ceded by a grunt of general dissatisfac
tion, he clapped his hands and a sol
dier rushed in at full gallop, holding
up his sword. Forthwith the parties
retired to discuss matters warmly out
side in full hearing of the court. A
matrimonial difficulty referred to the
authorities lasted but four minutes by
'watch. A thin peaking man
looked the husband, while the wife, so
far as one could judge by eyes and
nose > was very pretty. The gentleman
told his tale, the purport of which I
could not gather. The lady turned
red to the tip of her little nose and
her eyes flashed. She took up her
parable "vehemently and sternly the
prefect asked further explanations of
the husband, who turned very pale.
He found nothing effective to reply;
His worship pronounced in a single
phrase, the galloping soldier appeared
and off went the pair. I asked of an
official who spoke English if the man
was going to prison. “No," said he,
“he go home.” It must be admitted
j there is something to be urged for a
j system troubles which in this can superior deal with way.— domestic Lon
Standard.
A Raffled Ambition.
Peter Thullusson, a banker who
died in England over a hundred years
ago, was ambitious to found several
t families> or , failing in that) on9
prodigious family . Uis p ropert v
amounted to over six hundred thou
sand pounds> aad he directed that it
should he left to accumulate during a
period which was estimated would ex
tend to seventy-five years. Then it
was to divided amoim sons! the represent
atives of his three
Ad actuary calculated that the for
tune, at the end of that period, would
amount to at least one hundred and
tliirtv-six million dollars. If one dc
scendant only should take it, Iris yearly
income would he nine million dollars.
The banker's sons disputed the va¬
lidity of the will on the ground that
it was contrary to public policy to al¬
low such au accumulation of property.
The whole, they said, might fall to a
single individual, who thereby would
become too powerful for a subject and
too dangerous to public liberty.
But their apprehensions were al¬
layed by that effectual instrument foi
dissipating large fortunes, the court
of chancery. The law expenses eat up
almost the whole of the accumulations,
when> in 1859> the heir came into
possession of the property, it amounted
to little more than six hundred thou
sand pounds, the sum originally de¬
v ; sed by b ; s ecceil trie great grand
father,
His Last Lecture.
Captain Paul Boyton, in describing
his project of floating down tiie
Colorado river in his rubber suit,
talked so well that a reporter asked
' llm * le dld ncd en ^ er the lecture
field. “No, sir,” he answered, “ I’ve
had enough of that. My last experi¬
ence was at Helena, Arkansas. I was
forced by the people there on my voy
a K e down the Alississippi to stop over
for a lecture. I couldn’t speak in my
rubber suit. 1 hadn’t any baggage.
The mayor lent me his dresscoat and
a white handkerchief, which he tied
very artistically around my neck as a
cravat. The doctor promised me the
trousers. He was called off by a
patient and didn’t turn up. The stage
was a small one; the people werehowl
ing. The mayor fixed up a table
covered so with a red cloth that nothing
below my waist could be seen. I was
forced on. I got to talking and was
well received. When I came to tell
about my encounter with a shark I
became a little excited, forgot about
my costume, stepped to one side of the
table, and—well, when the audience
yelled with laughter I made a bee-line
for the green room, and haven’t lec
ttired sine? ”
MOMENTOUS MATTERS.
:
The lumber business of Puget Sound,
W. T., is immense, and its distribu¬
tion is very wide. In one day, recent
Iv, vessels were seen loading for Bos
ton, San Francisco, Valparaiso, the
Sandwich Islands, Vallejo, Alexico,
Japan, China, France, England and
Australia. The export in 1881 was
about 175,000,000 feet, valued at
$1,700,000.
A quite novel theory about the ulti
mate fate of the devil has been pro
pounded by Dr. Hately WaddeU at
Glasgow. The reverend gentleman se
lected for his text the well known
verses in the twentieth chapter of
Revelation—“And I saw an
comedown from heaven, having the
key of the bottomless pit and a
chain in his hand. And he lay hold on
the dragon and bound him a thousand
years, and cast him into the bottomless
pit.” Dr. Waddell explained that the
terms dragon, devil, or Satan were but
figurative expressions for what Ls
caHed the principle of eviL If
an angel, he informed his audience,
came down from heaven to earth for a
work like this, it was the angel of elec
tric-al science. It came direct from
heaven. If such an angel brought a
chain in his hand, it was the telegraph
wire and the electric cable coiled up
and carried on his arm. If ever such
an angel had sujh a key as spoken of
in the text, it was the submarine tele
graph- Just in proportion as electricity
circled the earth, just in that same
portion would the devil he defeated.
The United States government owns
much valuable property in Washing
ton. From the figures of the official
assessment, it appears that the capitol
building is assessed at $15,699,556, and
the grounds at $7,90 1 ,595. The White
House at $734,599, and the executive
stables at $28,500. The treasury de¬
partment building and grounds are
assessed at $7,008,454 ; the state, war
and navy department buildings,
$6,211,161; the agricultural department
building, $331,825, and the grounds,
$689,086 ; the Smithsonian, $492,651,
and national museum, $250,000, and
the grounds, $2,553,378 ; the national
monument grounds, $1,815,781, and
the Washington monument, $300,000;
the national observatory grounds,
$125,861, and the building, $255,284 ;
the patent oflice building and grounds,
$3,754,S83; the arsenal buildings $233,-
324, and grounds, $1,221,607; the
marine barracks ground, $31,235, and
buildings, $329,637 ; the naval hospital,
$7,198,128; bureau of engraving and
printing grounds, $27,612, building,
$327,537; Winder’s building, used by
engineers’ bureau of the army, $214,-
367; United States medical museum,
$96,280; general postofflee grounds,
$312,495, building, $2,124,500; govern¬
ment printing oflice, $236,000; ju¬
diciary square and city hall, $1,399,-
713; United States jail, $525,550;
United States navy yard, ground,
$1,413,500, buildings and wharves*
$3,615,SOS; botanical garden, grounds,
$1,462,251, buildings, $556,676, hot¬
houses, $58,598. The aqueduct is
valued at $3,847,547, and water pipes
and plugs, $172,276. The intersections
of streets, circles and spaces are put
down at $4,682,942. The department
of justice, ground, $150,000, and build¬
ing. $150,000; the government insane
asylum, $1,349,775; the reform school,
$221,056; th.e soldiers’ home, grounds,
$333,947, buildings, $350,000; naval
magazine, $95,000; the Georgetown
postoffice and custom house, $63,767.
T-IC Milky Way.
IlershelFs labors showed the Alilkv
Way to be a great nebula containing
at least 50,tXH),000 of huge blazing
suns, with our sun and its attendant
planets near the center of the system
This nebula is distributed in two
nearly parallel layers having the form •
of a pair of millstones, being very
thin but extending laterally no' to distances
of which we can form conception.
While with an uninterrupted track a
lightning express train might pass |
around our world—which seems large
to us—in less than one short month, it i
could not at its highest speed aeeom -1
plish the distance to the sun in less |
than 200 years! But abeam of light
flashes across that space in eight min-1
ntes. And yet this beam of light,
wlricli vastly transcends in speed any
tlring we know, requires more than
three years to travel from the nearest
fixed star to the earth, and to cross the
extreme width of the Alilkv Way
%
self must occupy nearly 3,000 years ' |
Even this expresses no idea ot the
limits of the visible universe. Other
nebula than our own are visible in
space, and if as large as our own must
be so distant that the light cannot reach
0 ur system in 1 , 000,000 years,
Diamond is the smallest movable
type in the world. It often gets
under the finger-nails of compositors.
PUBLISHERS.
no. 9.
SUICIDE.
So m . Interesting Facts and Fignres Cob—
cerning Self-Murder.
Air. Clark Bell recently read before *
the New York Medico-Legal Society a
paper entitled “ Legislation to Prevent
and Punish Suicide." lie began by
showing that while among many peo
pies and according to many philoso
phies self-killing lias been justified or
it is and has been
by our laws regarded as a crime. In
his review of the opinions of the an
cients and moderns he has shown that
by the canon law the suicide was re
garded as a criminal and forbidden the
prayers of the church, and other sc
vere penalties were imposed. Under
this law, prior to its abrogation in
1791 , frightful penalties were inflicted
on the bodies of the suicide and his
good 3 were confiscated. At present,
jj e assumes, suicide is regarded as a
crime in aH civilized countries,
Mr _ BeU says . There is fluently
m idemic of suieidein a district
notab ly the Egyptian epidemic caused
b y jjegesios’ orations, the Milesian,
the epidemic of Alanifried in 1679, of
Rouen in 1806, St. Piermont Jean in
1813 ot hers in Lyons and Ver
sailles. In the latter city in 1793 there
were some 1,300 victim It is well
known that wherever a suicide is corn
mitted by precipitation from a height,
it is frequently followed by several
others, as from Notre Dame or the
Colonne Vendome. In our country Ni
ag ara Falls is a parallel, though not
completely, as it is moredifficult of ac
cess from the gj. eat citiegi The pen.
sioner who hung himself on one of the
lanterns of the Hotel des Invalides
was followed b y twelve others within!
a y ew weeks, and the authorities only
st 0 p pe d them by removing the lan
tern _ i a Cuba at one time the ne,
g roes committed suicide in great nnm
bers under a religious delusion, be 1
lieving that they would be restored to
life in three days. It was only sup¬
pressed by the governor-general
dering the heads of the suicides to bo
exposed in public for one month, their
bodies burned and their ashes pub¬
licly scattered to the winds.
Tables contained in the paper show
that the largest number of suicides oe
cur between the ages of twenty-five
and fifty-five; that suicides inf tease
proportion until extreme oldLage; that
the increase is in direct rati(Vt 0 popu¬
lation until the. age of thirty, after
which it continues in inverse ratio to
population until the allotted time ot
'life, and tiiat the number of tpiaido -3
is very small both absolutely and rel¬
atively to the population previous to
the age of fifteen. Women commit,
suicide earlier in life; men later. The
proportion of the sexes is in general
three men to one woman, but in Eng¬
land and Wales it is two to one, and
in Denmark four to one. In large
cities the proportion is nearer equal.
In this connection the following table,
compiled by Dr. 0’Dca (from whom, as
from other authors, Mr. Bell quotes
freely) is of interest:
Causes ot Suicide. Meu. Women.
Grief caused by loss of parents, etc.. 813 193
Grief caused by ingratitude of child
ten 131 T4
Grief caused by departure of children. SO SO
Grief caused by separation of family. 31 16
Forbidden love....................... 93S 62T
Jealousy between married couples and
between lorers..................... S'29 US
Grief at quitting a master or a house. 53 24
Gambling_____ 1*7 X
Laziness...... to
Debauchery . 'A,669 233
Drunkenness .2,761 444
A number of tables as to nationali¬
ties and so on are then given, and the
remark is made that the proportion o
suicides in San Franciscoamlthecities
of Nevada is very largely in excess of
^ °rk, Philadelphia or Brooklyn,
^ 10111 another table it appears that
^°rtugal has the smallest ratio of sui
C1( ^ e alK * Denmark the largest of all
nations ' ^ Tortugal there are seven
to 190,000 population, and in Denmark
“® 8 . In Saxony there are 251, in
Switzerland 200, in 1 ranee 110 , in Ire
Iand onl >' 16 ’ in tlieUnited State s 40
and in England and AVales 68 .
JPiiHcfiintton,
Punctuation is an art, and one that
has been learned in comparatively
modern times. The Greeks did not
know the meaning of it, and left no
space between their words. The
Homans put up a kind of division with
old an - apparent method. Up to the
end ot the fifteenth century only the
colon and comma were introduced, and
the latter, at that time, only as a per
pendicular figure. We are indebted to
Aldus Alanutius, the eminent printer,
for the comma as we have it now; and
in 1490 he introduced the semi-colon
into printing, and published a set of
rules foj the guidance of writers. It
is not known by whom the notes of
interrogation and exclamation were
first used, but inverted commas (“)
Were brought into common use by a
French printer, to supersede the use of
italics, and the English adopted them'
to specify quotation,