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A Sightless Tiger.
A gentleman from Lula tells ns that
a day or two ago a strange thing hap
pened right in tha heart of the town.
It is a well-known fact that tigers
roam around in some of the mountains
ot tbe Blao Ridge and every now and
then the news goes abroad that one of
these terriblo posts is found in the re
cesses of Bcme mountain cave, or lap
ping the water of a beautiful valley,
and ever and anon they are boarded in
their don, torn to pieces, hut come to
life and help place themselves upon
the vehicle of their captor, where they
are silently carried off like a lamb led
to the slaughter.
One day last week the people of Lu
la, who have been piling brush piles
in that place, came to the conclusion
that they were becoming a nuisance
and decided to burn them.
All at cnee the destroying torch was
applied. Then the people stood off to
watch the curling smoke go upward
and waste in the dim distance and lis
ten to tbe craokling limbs, while the
lorests were protected by the great
crowd of people from devastation by
the forked tongues of the flames. In
the canter was one pile three times as
large as any other, and to a casual ob
server at a distance, looked like a
young mountain. On this pile all eyes
were turned, becanso it was the larg
est. After awhile there appeared a
bluish light, which vied in beauty the
lightning’s flash. Higher and higher
it leaped, until it looked as if its every
lunge would press against tbe skies.
Fear at once took tbe place of admira
tion, and every one fl-it a hesitancy in
approaching the torrible spectacle, un
til finally ono braver than the rest
rushed in and began to tear down the
pile Which had been consumed; and,
to his utter amazement, found nine 1
gallon and one two-gallon jngs, which
had been placed under the structure.
Tbe jugs contained peach brandy.
The contents of the nine bad been con
sumed by tbe flames, but tbe other had
not been touched. The finder is try
ing his 1,-est to discover the owner, so
that be Can return it, but that person
age can not be found. That ‘-tiger”
is dead, but it may be that its off
sf gis teaming somewhere around,
[Lula Correspondence in Atlanta
C . tuition.
Brief and Breezy,
j in Chicago dead beat is said to be
so a handsome living now by ad
v i og for a wile and requiring that
a pplicante inclose a stamp for re
] y. His mail has to be sent up in a
w tieel-barrow.
. Probably in no country are exam
ple of lotgetivity so numerous and
striking as in Russia. The latest pa
triarch to come to notice is a woman
who celebrated her 140th birthday
seme weeks ago. She is still lively,
brisk and cheerful, can read without
specstaclos and lives exclusively on
potatoes and milk.
An English woman is responsible for
the suggestion ‘.hat along with other
improvements to theatre seats there
sLould be an arrangement by which
they can be sunk through a trap in the
floor into a saloon below so that men
can go out between the aots and see a
man without treading on the toes of
all the women seated near them.
There is a project on foot to change
the name of Elizabethtown, Ky., to
Widowvilie; sixty-one bereaved wid
ws live there, and only three hava
able to secure husbands in the
la w j "thirty five years. What makes
the situation mote alarum'g : s the fact
that there are only six widowers, and
they appaar contented in their lonli
nesa.
Samuel Kaufman fork of Wrights
viile, county, Pa., who is eighty-three
years old, has written the Lord’s Pray
er on a piece of cardboard, but a tjitle
larger than a gold dollar, under a
magnilyiDg glass every letter is as legi
bio as if it had been written a quarter
of an inch in size. The venerable
penman used an ordinary steal pen in
exeouting the work.
A gentleman and lady are now stop
ping at a Bar Harbor Hotel, who have
had a queer experience. They met on
the Atlantio ocean, he proposed in
Sweden, was accepted in Russia, ask
ed her father’s permission in England,
the marriage settlements were drawn
up in this country, they were married
in Algiers, and are now spending their
honeymoon in Bar Harbor.
Mr. Schofield, proprietor of the ho
tel at Talulab Falls, is dead.
Every morning daring the corn
planting season the farmers of Nebras
ka go Out into a corn field larger than
the whgle state of New Jersey. Every
noon during harvest they go into din
ner from a wheat field which contains
400,000 acres more than the whole
state of Delaware, and every night
Mary calls the cattle homo from a pas
tnra larger than the state of Penusyi
vania.
Forty one years ago a young man
of Rhode Island asked a young woman
of the same state to marry him; sho
said “no.” The young man went
about his business, but he kept his
eye on tbe woman and from time to
time renewed his suit, she refusing of
fer after offer. lie persevored, and his
constancy was rewarded a short time
ago, when she acceptod and fnarriod
him. na was then 72 yoars old and
she 61.
Acting secretary of the navy, Com
modore Harmony, is convinced that
this country could take care of bereelt
in a war with England or any other
country, uesays, “Oor guns are as
good as any in the world From what
1 can learn England h is had muoh dif
ticulty with her guns We have been
on tbe alert, and where the Europeans
made mistakes in their manufac
tnre of great guns, we have profited by
their experience and avoided these mis
takes.”
At the campmeeting in Pcuglass
Massachusetts, the other day, a man
arose and said that he was a recently
escaped convict from the Ilhode Island
state prison, that he had determined to
lead a better life, and that as a begin
ning he should go back to the prison
and serve the remainder of his term.
The prison chaplain was present and
heard him, and knowing something of
human nature, helped the convict in
his ood resolutions by telegraphing
for officers and oaptnring him before
he weakened.
According to a recent writer, what
Napoleon Bonaparte did with the enor
rnous fortune he left somewhere when
sent to st. Helena, has since remained
a mystery. In 1812 he told Marshall
Berthier, and also Bourrienne, his pri
vate secretary, that he had nearly
100,000,000 francs, or $20,000,000 in
our money, to his personal fortune.
That he did not expend it is certain,
for there was no occasion to do so.
Then, as emperor, the national exche
que received and honored his drafts.
In ISOS, Napoleon, after having enrich
ed all his family, had $15,000,000 of
his ora. The money received from
the united States for the Louisiana
purchase he used in re equipping that
grand army that fought and won at
Austerlitz and Wagram. At least
five million of that money was never
accounted for by the emperor. Where
<!id ha hide this enormous sum? He
was by far the richest man in Europe
in 1814, and not a trace of the money
was left behind him. The French
government thinks it has a clew. The
result will bo watched for with the
greatest interest. This fortune is made
the basis of a fascinating and ingen
ious romance recently issued under the
title of “Napoleon Smith.’'
The Arizona Weekly Kickor has
this ooietv note. “Mayor Jim
Gibbons and wife of Jerusalem Hill,
are vacating in the mountains. These
are the only two inhabitants who are
able to take an outing this summer,
and they couldn’t have gone if they
hadn’t dodged a dozen creditors and
borrowed $7 of us. We’ll bet four to
one they beat their board bill when
they get leady to return.’’
A Successful Farmer.
Hogansville, Ga., Sept. I.—Once
before I hare given to the public in
yonr columns the success of Mr. Wm.
x. Sims of this neighborhood, as a far
mer. Since which time his advance
ment was of so UDprecented a nature
that I feci it my duty as a stimulant to
onr farmers, and in jnsiice to Mr.
Sims, to again give somk account of
his successful management a!' his farm
ing. On tbe 20th of this, month ho
began to deliver cotton, and up to the
20th had put on the raijroad depot
eight bales from a two torso fan*
From a careful examinstio riduA
over crop and by niindPl -dtTctmr
lation, I put hiß yield this season at
not less than eighty bales with two
plows.
Soch farming in old Georgia seems,
no doubt, incredjble, bnt within a
pleasant ritlo of three miles from Ho
gansville can*be seen this farm, and I
date say that there is not a practical
fatmer to be *’onnc! who, after seeing
the crop, worn ! estimate the probable
yield at less. By Mr. Sim’s persever
ance and good judgment he bas so
managed his soils, improved his seed
and mode of cultivation that he has
reached certainly the maximum. \nd
while this gradual but continual im
provement has been going on, it has
been done without the aid of money to
lavishly invest in commercial manures;
it has all been done by a scientific
plan of management, rotating and Boil
ing, assisted only except in a very
limited way by commercial fertilizers.
Mr. Sims was married at the age of
twenty-one, fifteen years ego, with not
over five hundred dollars of assets all
told that he commenced to opperate
with. To-day he has four farms, each
as reasonably succeeefnl as his idividu
al two-horse farm that we have estimat
ed the yield, neceesary stock, and all
else to operate them, and his property
estimated and assessed at twenty-firs
thousand dollars in the short space of
fifteen years. Mr. Sims is not alone
in successfnl operations as a farmer
among hi 6 neighbors, but mast be ac
knowledged the leader.
The groat secret of such success lies
in the fact that like any other busi
ness tho closest attention is neceesary
to attain to soch results. No matter
when you go to the premises of Mr.
Sims yon will invaiiably find him
personally attending his affairs—it ab
sent at all, he is gone to market with
some kind of produce to sell.
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