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HAM.EM. GEORGIA
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Ballard «♦> Atliln«on.
P*OI kHCTuKA
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It to • familiar and yet it always
•trike* one a* a marveloua fact that
worlda may have been for year* in <■*•
I*o •nee, the light of which ha* not yet
%ad time to reach our earth, aud that we
may atill continue to aee the light of
atari that have been for a long time «-x
--tlnct.
The "nreaehri l» the Inteat windling
dodge being worked in lowa, lie call*
on hi* way distributing Bible*, and often
prewnta the family with a handsomi
book. Hi then aaka for dinner or other
meal, and take* a receipt for twenty-five
cent! paid for the meal. A few month*
later the neighboring bunk call* for th<
payment of a note for a large amount.
The United State* hydrographic office
to continuing it- intereating and very
useful inveotiyiition* into the practical
effect of “pouring oil on the troubled
water*." The fa« ta the office to collect
ing *how com luaively that the UM- of a
▼cry email quantity of oil will break the
force of the most terrific storm*. Several
iMtancea are given where ship* have re
cently liern kept from foundering »imply
by thia mean*.
An astonishing “fish story" come*
tr im the tropica; to wit, that n ship
Which hml a hole knocked in her side
wii« saved from sinking by n large fiah
that came alongside and wn« sucked into
the aperture bv the rush of water and
•tuck there. C ommenting on thia tre
mendous yarn, the New York Commercial
say* “How unlucky then- were not a
few whale* off Sandy Hook when the
Oregon waa struck I After this every
well equipped ship ought to have a whale
or two in tow, ready to plug up holes.”
People do not generally realize how
many Washingtons there an- in the
United State*. The “Official Postal
duide” shows one each in Arizona, Arkan
•as, California, Connecticut, Georgia,
Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Kansas, Ken
tucky, Louisiana, Maine. Massachusetts,
Michigan, M n w-sotn, Mississippi, Mi»-
ao-tri. New Hampshire, New Jersey, New
York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsyl
vania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas,
Utah, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia
twenty-eight out of the thirty eight
•tales and two territories, mid thia is ex
clusive of the Washington Bars, Wash,
ingtoii Centres, Washington Harbors,
and *>> on, sprinkled around equally
promiscuously.
Everybody must notice liow large n pro
portion of men die now-a-day* from
kidney troubles. It ha* been said that
nearly half of all the diseases of civiliza
tion come directly or indirectly from such
cause. And yet it was not even suspec
ted, physician* any, that the kidney*
were ever affected until Dr. Richard
Bright, himself a sufferer (he died in 1858
in hit flOth years. published hi* “Origi
nal Researches into the Pathology of
Disease* of the Kidney* " He was the first
to de-eribe the affection of the kidneys
•ince associated with hi* name. The issue
of hl* important work wrought a great
change iu medical treatment. It ex
plained many inconsistencies and myster
ies to profi -xional tnind, previously as
cribed to dropsy and heart disease,
which really procre led directly from the
kidney*. For centuries mankind has
been atllii ted with various affection* of
the kidney*, although until forty or fifty
years ago the most skilful and learned
doctor* had no conception of the fact.
The year 1885 witnessed a considerable
falling off iu the number ami value of
sheep in the United States. In the first
respect, sheep furnish an exception to
C’hcr live stock, which have increased in
some instances twenty-five per cent. In
the second respect, there has been a
great depreciation, the greatest being
that in swine, and the next in sheep.
In the latter the decline has lu-en eleven
percent, or from an average of $2. 14 p, r
head to one of ft.Pl per head. The
aggregate value of live *t.s k is reckoned
for last January nt $2,855,151,862, being
a decrease of the figures of the previous
year of $91,266, 121. In this aggregate
the value of sheep is placed nt $92,443,-
867, or less than four per cent, the lowest
in the scale of valuations. Os the wool
growing States, Texas suffered more than
any of the others in loss of numbers,
it bring at least ten |ier cent as compared
with the year previous. The States be
tween tin Mississippi and the Ohio lost
considerably, Illinois being the greatest
sufferer. Ohio and Michigan fell only
three to four ]>cr cent under last year.
M ith the exception of lowa, Missouri,
Oregon, Colorado and Texas, all the
Mates and Territories west of the Mi*s
>K*ipyi add to their number of sheep
<mc —Nebraska to the extent of twenty
per cent. The present number of sheep
in the United State* is reckoned at 48.-
322.831, by the Department cf Agri
culture, with an ave:age value off 1.91
jper head.
I The will of th< little dwarf, known nil
over Euroj/- a- Madame la Marquise,con
tons a novel featun She *uy<: “My
dre-ses. and linen, mid everything that I
wore, must be far f->> small for the lit
th -t child but in order that sonic poor
girl iniiv he happy, 1 <lc*ire that the sum
of ton |HHin<l* "terling may be applied to
tin- purrhn* 'of twenty dolls of my size,
whir h shall ail be dressed from my ward
robe and given to orphan*."
A gentleman who sat engaged for
▼ear* in ■. arching < '.linesc steamer*
state* tbs- he often «w u Chinutnan
land at tie- dock, in San Fr.-m< i*co, with
nothing in the world in the shape of
< apilat, ex- pl a iidiiug net. In about
a month the on- Chinaman would ap
pear r.s i dripper of from three to ten
tons f lidi. lb- had associated himself
with four or five others; they had secund
a ond hand boat and gone to work.
In n f< e,- month* he was not only a ship
per, but an importer, receiving large lot*
of ri<e, sugar, dried fowls, and other
nrticlcsof < hinc*c food, a* well as cloth
ing, _____________
The far t that the King of Burtnah pos-
M‘-*< d valuable mine* of precious stones
was generally known in the East, where
their value was popularly supposed to lie
enormous. It ha* been the custom of the
Burmese sovereigns to jealously guard
these mine* from the intrusion of for
eigner*, onlv three European traveler*
having bc< :i permitted to visit them with
in tin- pri-sentt n-nturv. It i* hardly won
derful, therefore, if extravagant notions
should prevail in many quarter* as to the
value of the mines, and to the wealth
which they may be capable of yielding
to llu ii new ma»t r*. According toJir.
Oldham, the ruby mines of Burundi, which
lie about seventy mil- northeast of Man
daisy, have for tin- last generation, prob
ably produced a revenue of not more than
1 from 150,000 to $75,90$ n year. The
rubies an- generally small, but occasion
ally line sapphire* are found. The topaz,
is still more rarely met with. The mine*
have always belonged to the sovereign of
tin- country, ami their produce was *up
l«>scd to b ■ invariably sent to the royal
treasury. There has, however, been con
stant smuggling going on by the work
men engag'd, and t'iiiuese and Tartar
traveling merchants arc always to be
found in the neighborhood of the min *,
renily to buy up tin- rough stones without
asking any questions.
The Gold Itollnr* of the Sky.
Mr. ami Mrs. Graves, of Echo. Tenn.,
were sitting chatting pleasantly in the
sitting-room one evening, when their lit
tle four-year old daughter came in mid
exclaimed. “M inunii, m inima, come and
we." Mrs. Grave* got up and went with
her little daughter out in flu- yard.
“What is it, my daughter?" “Mamma,
what to that up yonder so bright;" she
naked. “Where, nay child?" "Up yon
der in the sky. Are they little gold dol
lars, ntuiumn?" risked little Fannie,
“Yes, my darling,” said the good
woman, laughingly, and went in the
house, leaving her to watch the little
gold dollars. Little Fannie climbed up
on the fence and tried to get one, and
her father seeing her, went to her.
“What ure you doing up there, little
pct ?" he said, ns he took herdown. “1
am trying to get me some little gold dol
lar* to make me some earrings."
“Couldn’t you get them, baby?" “No,
pnpa," •he said, sweetly; “phase get
them for me." Little Fannie was taken
into the house and put to bed, but she
will never forget the little gold dollars."
Cour er. Journal.
A Rhetorician.
Professor (to his wife)- "My dear, I
wish you would speak more carefully.
You say that Henry Jones came to this
town from St. Louis.
Wife "Yes.”
Prof. “Well, now, wouldn't it In*
la-tter to say that he came from St. Louis
to this town t"
Wife - “1 don't see any difference in
the two expressions."
Prof. “But there is n difference, a
rhetorical difference. You don’t hear
me m ike such awkward expressions. By
the way. I have a letter from your father
in my pocket.
Wife—“ But my father to not in your
|H»cket. You mean that you have, in
your pm'ket, a letter from my father."
Prof.- “Then'y ugo with your little
quibbles. s'ou taken delight in harrassing
me You are always catching up a thread
and r«’pre*enting it a* a rope."
Wife “Representing it to be a rope,
you mean."
Prof. "For goodness sake, hush.
Never saw such a quarrelsome woman in
my life."— Arkai.iaw TrartUcr.
Approaching It.
“What i' that kerfiutuidoodle that you
have on your hat, Mary Ann!" said a
father to hia would-be fashionable
daughter.
“Oh, that i* an imitation of a straw
berry, father."
"The deuce take the styles," said the
old man, "you'll be wearing imitation
cabbages yet."
“We have nearly arrived at the cab
bage point already," replied the young
miss.
• And how near have you got!"
“We wear a little turn-up on the side,
now."— Sational M'wliy.
MAKING SOAP.
Haw a Very Useful Household
Article is Maufactured.
The Various Operation* by Which a Bar
of Soap is Produced.
Soap making i* essentially a chemical
O|K-ration. Soft *<»a|>* arc those which
have for their base potash, while hard
■oaps haw for their* m*|u, aud are made
by open pan boiling, in which the glyce
rine i • eliminated. This class probably
includes 90 |wr cent, of tin- total soap
made in English speaking countries, and
is divided into three different kinds,viz.:
f'urd, inottlcd and yellow. Whatever
kind of hard soap to made the first stage*
of the process arc the same for all.
To commence a boiling of hard soap,
melted fat and caustic soda ley* are sim
ultaneously run into the copper, the
steam is turned on ami the contents boil
ed until a small sample cooled between
the fingers lias a to crably firm consisten
cy, and when applied to the tongue has
*0 caustic taste or only a very faint one.
The operator is obliged to be very expe
rienced to jnilge of the completion of
this first operation, called by some past
ing and by others killing the goods or
raw material. In this condition the soap
contains about nine-tenths of the total
soda necessary for complete saponifica
tion, with a huge excess of water, which
is separated from it by the next ojieration.
To effect tin- separation a quantity of
comman salt issprinkh-d into the copper
while still boiling, or the strongest brine
is run in; this addition is made cautious
ly and gradually (care being taken to al
low solution of the salt), and continued
until a small sample removed upon a
spatula or trowel allows a clear liquor to
run from it. During this operation of
graining, the contents of the copper are
liable to boil over with great violence.
When this point is reached the whole
process is stop|>e<l ami the steam turned
off; the copper is allowed to stand from
two to three hours. Its contents then
divide themselves into two portions, the
upper consisting of soap paste, holding
about 40 per cent, of water, ami the
lower of asolution known as spent leys,
containing common salt, carbonate ami
other soda salts present in the original
leys as impurities, and nearly all the gly
cerine of the fat employed. At this
stage rosin is added for the yellow soap,
being broken into lumpsand shoveled in,
unless it is combined with soda in a sepa
rate copper and mixed with the fat soap
in the next operation, which is termed
dear boiling. All the goods having been
killed and the spent leys removed, a
small charge of leys is then run in and
the copper boiled for two or three hours.
At the end of this time the soap hiss a
faint but decided caustic taste, and a
small sample on a spatula allows clear
leys to run off it.
This operation communicates addition
al soda to the soap, and washes out as it
were some of the salt entangled in it.
After some hours' subsidence the half
•pent leys that sink to the bottom are
)>umpcd off, aud are used in another cop
]ht for killing more fresh goods; the
soap made from such leys however is of
inferior color. The copper is boiled
with open steam until the contents are
perfectly homogeneous and in a state re
sembling a stiff paste. A small stream
of leys is now allowed to trickle in, until
the paste again separates into cakes of
soap and clear leys; the soap now tastes
strongly of caustic soda and feels hard
when cold; this is technically called
“making" the soap. The mode of finish
ing ilepemls entirely upon the kind of
soap required.
The soap having been finished in the
copper the next stage is transferring it
into the cooling boxes, or frames, as they
are usually called. Curd soaps are al
ways carefully skimmed off the leys by
ladles, as they are too stiff to pump, and
most mottled soaps are iu this condition
also. In large factories yellow soaps arc I
invariably transferred to the frames by 1
suitable pumping machinery.
Curd and yellow soaps are cooled rap- j
idly in cast iron frames of any desired ,
shape or size. One frequently adopted i
is almost water tight, the superficial ■
measure being 45x15 inches and the
height oO to 60 inches. The four sides I
arc held together by bolts and nuts, and ■
when the soap is cold (after the lapse of ■
thn-e to seven days for this size) these
are unscrewed, the sides are removed and 1
a solid block of soap is left standing on j
the bottom of the frame. This is at once !
cut into sla’s and bars, or may be slid '
bodily to store. Occasionally, such
frames are mounted upon wheels for con
venience of transport a'xnit the factory.
When it is desired to cut the soap, the
sidt sos the block are marked with a
scribe the teeth of which an' set at the
thickness desired for the bar of soap. A
brass or steel wire is then taken by two
men and drawn through theblm k, which
is thus divided into slabs; these are re
moved to a machine which divides them
into bars. The cutter itself to worked
by a lever frame, which contains wires,
or for very hard soaps, thin steel knives;
the slab to placed longitudinally and
nearly upright on the base board, ami the
lever frame is then drawn through it.
The bars thus formed fall back u|x>u the
shelf behind, whence thev may be re
moved and set aside to get cold. The
bars whc.i removed from the machine
are placed across each other in open pile
in such away that air freely circulate*
among them. AVhcn thoroughly dry
they arentood away in close pile or pack
ed.
The bars of aoap when freshly cut and
still soft are usually imprcMcd with some
word* indicating the name or quality of
the soap, and the trade mark or name of
the manufacturer.— Brooklyn Eagle.
Men with Elastic Skin*.
The number of rubber-skinne I person*
has strangely multiplied. The first ot
th<-m in thi* country was Herr Haag, who
came over here several years ago, and
■was nt first worth #2OO a week as a curi
osity. Gradually public interest in him
has waned, until now he is quoted in the
freak market at $75 a week. lie has a
skin that can be pulled away from hi*
l>ody in any direction to a surprising ex
tent, like the skin on a healthy dog or an
otter. The skin of his throat can be
brought up to cover his face clear to the
eyebrows; the point of his nose can be I
pulled down to his chin; the skin on his
breast can be dragged out a foot, and
when released snaps back into its place
smoothly. All his skin possesses like ap
jiarent elasticity. But the fact is that
it does not really stretch any more than
any other person’s skin. The doctors
who made a very careful examination of
Herr Haag when he first came over here
said that his peculiar ability was caused
by absence of the tissue that in other
persons connects the inner and outer
skins, and so when the outer skin was
pulled it simply yielded from all direc
tions until the tension was relaxed.
Only one similar case was recorded in 1
the medical books. But now there are
in the United States scores of per
sons who get from sls to $25 each
week from the dime museums for exhib
iting themselves as possessors of elastic
skins. The fact is that they are what is ;
know in technical parlance as “fakes.” j
That to, they possess just a little ability '
to stretch their hides, and by tugging at
them constantly in certain exposed places,
eventually succeed in stretching them
further and further until they approxi
mate somewhat to Herr Haag's peculiar
superficial extensibility. But, at the
best, none of them can stretch more than
about one-third as much us their great
model.— New York Sun.
Near-Sightedness.
Near-sightedness to increasing in out
country to an alarming extent. It was
comparatively rare a century ago, but
now it afflicts a large proportion of the
children in our public schools. It is one
of the evils created by civilization, and to
almost unknown in savage life. An of- !
ficial inquiry iu Germany indicates that !
thi* evil is more common there than iu
the United States, and that it is the
direct result of bad habits of study.
The physicaiis, who made the examina
tion report to the Government that in
children of five years old the vision is
generally perfect. During the school
age the defect increases steadily. In the
lower schools from fifteen to twenty per
cent, of the scholars are affected; in the
higher schools the proportion reaches
forty to fifty per cent.
It to far worse in the professional ;
schools; reaching fully seventy per cent,
of theological students, and over ninety
per cent, of medical students.
The physicans ascribe the trouble to
the poor print of the text-books, and to
the general habit of holding bocks toe
near the eyes. It might be wed to make
a similar examination in our own
country, in order that public attention
be aroused to provide, if pos- '
siblc, a cure for this growing evil. It
is a grave misfortune if public education
creates a near-sightc I nation.—FbutA's
Companion.
The Grizzly Bear.
In some of the western papers I have
noticed recently that there has been a
discussion in progress regarding the ex
treme weight of grizzly bears. Very few
fine grizzly skins find their way to this
market, as the hair is generally rubbed
off the haunches of the animals. The
home of the grizzly is supposed to be ex
clusively west of the Rocky Mountains.
East of that range we find the cinnamon,
silver tip and black bear. In weight
there to about the same relative differ
ence between the grizzly and cinnamon
as between the silver tip and black bear.
The la<t two avoid the presence of man,
while the former will ferociously attack a
man. The grizzly in weight is only
equaled by the white polar bear. Thom
as Smith of Rock Island, 111., states that
he killed many grizzlies in California in
1850, the largest one being in the Luisin
Valley and weighing 1,220 pounds.—
Hatter ami Furrier.
The Hog of Honduras.
While it would grieve me to offend thf
modest vanity of the swine-breeders of
the states, truth compels me to say that
xvith all their efforts, and perfect as they
fancy their Poland-Chinas and Berk
shire*, those gentlemen have not succeed
ed in producing anything resembling the
hog of Honduras. But when by some
unaccustomed circumstances the hog ol
Central America has had food enough tc
put a little flesh on his ample stock of
bones, that flesh is incomparably snperioi
in flavor to the oily gross product of the
north. Chicago Time*.
Northern and Sant hern N’Ainjs of Bat
tles.
From General D. IL Hili * paper tn
the Century. “The Batt! of South
Mountain, or Boonsboro’,” we quote a*
follow*; “The conflict of the 1-lth of
September, 1862, is called the battle of
South Mountain r.t the Noith and the
battle of Boonoboro' at the South. So
many battle field* of the civil war bear
double names that we cannot believe the
duplication has been accidental. It ls
the unusual which impresses. The troops
of the North came mainly from cities,
towns and villages, and were, therefore,
impressed by some natural object n< ir
the wene of the conflict and named I. '
battle from it. The soldiers from tao
South were chiefly from the country, and
were therefore impressed by some artifi
cial object near the field of action. In
one section the naming has been after the
handiwork of God; in the other section
it has been after the handiwork of man.
Thus the first passage of arms is called
the battle of Bull Run. at the North,
—the name of a little stream. At the
South it takes the name of Manassas,
from a railroad station. The second bat
tle on the same ground is called the Sec
ond Bull Run by the North, and the Sec
ond Manassas by the South. Stone's de
feat is the battle of Ball’s Bluff with the
Federals. and the battle of Leesburg
with the Confederates. The battle called
by General Grant Pittsburg Landing, a
natural object, was named Shiloh, after a
church, by his antagonist. Rosecrans
called his first great fight with Bragg the
battle of Stone River, while Bragg nam
ed it after Murfreesboro’, a village. So
McClellan's battle of the Chickahominy,
a little river, was with Lee the battle of
Cold Harbor, a tavern. The Federals
speak of the battle of Pea Ridge, of the
Ozark range of Mountains, and the Con
federates call it after Elk Horn, a coun
try inn. The Union soldiMTs called the
bloody battle three days after South
Mountain from the little stream, Antie
tam, and the Southern troops named it
after the village of Sharpsburg. Many
instances might be given of this double
naming by the opposing forces. Accord
ing to the same i. ". of ‘th unusual, the
war songs of a y I ' always been
written by nor The bards
who follov rd the feudal
lords, sang if t: i. e.. ioits, and stimu
lated them and their retainers to deeds
of high emprise, wore no armor and car
ried no swords. So, too, the impassion
ed orators who roused our ancestors in
1776, with the thrilling cry, ‘Liberty or
Death,’ never once put themselves in the
way of a death by lead or steel, by mus
ket ball or bayonet stab. The noisy
speakers of 1861, who fired the Northern ■
heart and who fired the Southern
heart, never did any other kind of firing.
One of the most prominent of them
frankly admitted that he preferred a hor
izontal to a vertical death.”
How He Found a Mine.
Some of the best mines known have
been discovered, as before remarked,
merely by accident, while others again
the result of years of toil and labor.
Then others again have been run across
when the lucky in iividual whom fortune
favored was thinking of anything but
falling into a gold mine. John Quincy
Adams, a namesake of the great John Q.,
struck a rich mine somewhere down in
New-Mexico in this way:
While prospecting he found his haver
sack on fire, his prospector’s glass having
focused the sun’s rays upon it. As the
haversack contained about a dozen
pounds of powder he dropped it and got
out of the way in a hurry. It fell into a
crevice and a large mass of rock xva s
thrown up. Adams returned mournfully
to gather up what might be left of his
effects, and an exceedingly rich vein of
ore which the explosion had exposed
to view. He sold a third-interest iu his
find for $16,000, and very consistently
named the mine “The Nick of time.”—
Globe- De mocrat.
Blackboard Exposition.
When the Rev. S. L. B. Chase was a
pastor in Rockland he one day essayed to
treat the Sunday school to a blackboard
exposition of the lesson. So, for a start
er, and in the way of graphically illumi
nating his remarks, he took a bit of
chalk, and slowly and somewhat painful
ly sketched on the blackboard a represen
tation of two human hearts joined to
gether. “Now, then,” he said, turning
to the school, “who will tell me what I
have drawn?” “I know!” called a very
little boy on the front scat. “Well ”
the pastor kindly said, “what is it?”
And the very little boy on the front seat
shrieked out, “A termarter!”— Rocklaiuk
(Ale.) Courier.
How a Big Fish was Canghi.
Bill Lcnore, while fishing in the Sacra
mento river, says the San Francisco
Chronicle, tied the end of his line around
his foot, dropped the hook into the water
and began to read a book. Presently he
felt a nibble, but being interested in his
book he paid no attention. A moment
later a strong pull landed him on his back
in the river.
As the cord was beyond his reach, he
was powerless to aid himself and would
have been drowned hail not a companion
come to his assistance.
The line was cut and the end of it
twisted around a snag. By the aid of a
boat an eight-foot sturgeon was landed
NEW SOUTH WALES.
The Place Where Everything
is Turned Topsy-Turvy.
The Longest Day Chmea in Decs- «r
and the Sun Moves North.
After a month's residence in beautiful
Sydney the probabilities of waking up
are still shadowy and the illusion of
dreamland not yet dispelled, writes a.
correspondent of the Philadelphia ]‘r, v
from New South Wale*. While the nov
el situation is pleasant all will be w. q
but the dream may turn to a nightni ire
eventually because of the topsy-turvy
upside-down ways of people and tiling
at the antipodes.
The people have not yet heard of th*
early bird and the unfortunate xvmm.
They arc fond of taking things easy iu
the morning, neither shopkeeper, market
man, housekeeper, nor servant likin« to
be disturbed too early, and so commence
their daily routine when Philadelphians
would have already accomplished a good
ly portion.
When we go shopping the drapers re
receive us politely, hand us a chair and
give one an impression that he has come
to spend the day. AVhen we go driv
ing we must reinember that the left is
the right of xvay or suffer for it. When
we go by train or railway we must on no
account neglect to buy our ticket before
entering the train, else we will have to
pay a heavy' fine or go to jail. Then the
; sun, moon and stars combine to help
along this sub-contrary relation of things
for the 22d of December is the longest
day.
The sun moves north instead of south,
making it necessary for us to give our
selves a turn about sometimes before we
can make clear the points of the compass,
and even the man in the moon, instead
of keeping his face upright, lies down
on his back, thus bringing his profile on
a horizontal line. But the strangest of
all strange things is the midsummer
J Christmas. Think of a Christmas with
the thermometer at 95 in the shade, all
green things growing, xvith the flowers
in abundance! How can it be Christmas
without snow, ice, nipping cold and rud
dy fires? Never mind, xve shall have a
wintry Fourth of July, so then you can
| think of us with envy.
Sidney is a very picturesque, wide
spreading city, built on many hills and
has one of the finest harbors in the world.
To enter it for the first time is like going
unexpectedly into some enchanted scene
of fairyland. It is shut in from the se*
by two immense headlands, the north
jnic[ soujji Jhenjls ; between which is a
wide passage. "
In and out of this open gateway to the
high seas ships are constantly plying to
and from the principal ports of the world.
Outside the mighty ocean swells in heavy
undulations, till the towering waves dash
to pieces on these stony’ barriors. Inside
all is peaceful serenity, a haven on whose
rippling bosom nestle alike large and
small craft, mammoth dark ocean steam
ers, little white-winged yachts and
many pea-green-colored boats which give
a lively look to the sunny bay.
Close to the water’s edge and rising
amphi-theatre-like around are elegant
residences, showing wealth aud prosjxri
ty, with hundreds less pretentious, but
all of tasteful architectural design and all
speaking comfort and refinement
The streets of Sydney are very irregu
lar, except iu some business localities,
the different odd happening nooks and
neighborhoods seeming all to have come
by chance, and at every turn one to sur
prised by some new fine view of hand
some terrace, well-kept villa, distant ris
ing ground or indenting cove. From
balconies which abound everywhere one
looks down upon well-paved streets that
are never defaced or obstructed by refuse
receptacles or ash-carts, and but few
market-wagons or venders of any kind,
there being back ways for all such.
Only in the morning will one see or
hear the only intruder, the fishmonger,
with his basket of fish and peculiar cry
of “Sho! sho!” which was originally
“Fish, ho.” Otherwise the streets arc
given up to, busses, lively cabs and men
and boys of various pursuits on horse
back. The horses have plenty of go in
them, if the people have not, fortbey
gallop about at a break-neck pace after
the fashion of John Gilpin’s mare, while
men, women and children have to stand
by. If one to not in the way it is jolly to
see them go.
Wants a Quiet Life.
Col. Cowles, a North Carolina con
gressman, who served under General
Hampton during the late unpleasant"
has a bald head, revealing a singulat
wound. It is a long seam, as if ripped
up by a pointed weapon, but was really
inflicted by a musket ball which plough
ed the cranium. The colonel’s brain wat
partially exposed at first, but the boat
thinly healed over it. lam told that th
least unusual excitement would be ap
to kill him, and it is one of the galler
jokes that he came to Congress to avoi<
any dangerous commotion. — Avr'‘ l, >
Ga., Chronicle.
The debt of Mexico is so large th*
but few people know how large it
The estimates range from $144,0'X-.
000 to $395,000,000,000.