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Kuwara uud Nur.’, th* two young
Japanese cadet* who arc accompanying
Count Saigo. the inikaJo’a minister of
marine in In* tour of Inspectiou of I lie
nnvy y.inl» of thi* country, will enter
the naval academy at Annapoiia thia
fall. There la a provision in the law
governing admission* to the academy
which provides for six cadets from
Japan, who shall be under no expense to
the government.
There is agrowing disposition among
scientific men to diacciM the “sca- cr
pent” as a cre dure whoso existence i*
not at al) improbable. The discovery
within recent years of the giant squids
of the Atlantic -some of which may at
tain a length of fl.'ty feet is cited ns a
dcinorirtrafion that large marine animals
may have escaped the attention of science
avail to the pr' sentdny. Only an ignorant
ora thqughtlraa individual, indeed, will
dare st ert that there may not l»e some
descendant of the monster , of cut m- 11*
day* even now lurking in tiro oc m
depths.
Copt. Joseph Whitridge, who recently
died near Springfield, Ohio, nt ti e ago
of 83, Lad made thorough preparation for
death up to a certain po nt. Thirty
yean ago he put away a heavy plank of
burr oak, and, after letting it ■ on for
twenty year*, hail hi* coffin made of it.
Ho bought a winding sheet and placed it
in the coffin, which wa* stored away in
a dark room. Twelve year-- ago ho dug
a vault in a field near Lis house, walled
It up, covered it with snndstoi e slabs,
•nd placed a bowlder weighing sc ven
• ton* for the headstone. He was Lurie cl
F in this coffin and grave.
A Rt. Loui* correspondent writes that
no city in the country is growing more
rapidly, and predict! that in 50 ye.in it
will hnva 1,000,00) of inhabitants at
least. Its manufacturing interest* arc
develop), g very fast, and the architec
ture of the town shows a marked ad
vance within a few year*. It i* the
leading hone and mule market in the
World and one of the largi-.-t beer, tile,
furniture, white lead, pig iron and
barbed wire producing points in Ameri
ca. In drugs, dry good* and hardware
it doc* an immense budne**. It now has
• population of about 500,000, which
1* Steudßy increasing, and the citizen*
expc- tto ouistr.p Chicago yet, although
that city ha* at least 125.000 more p o
pie than it and hn* sourc s of increase
and re venue that it does not posses*.
In Oregon the catching and canning
of aa'mon employ 2,000 white men in
various capacities. It employ* 2,500
Oliinese. Il employ* 15 tugs an 1 steam
boats, and make* business for half a
doz-u more employed regularly in the
traffic of the river. It employs betides
hundred* of boaimaker.*, sailmnkers and
net-weaver*. Il is the basis of the pros
perity of the city of A’toria, an 1 ultra, t*
much of our foreign commerce. Indi
rectly, its benefit* reach every bu ties*
and nearly every person in the- state of
Oregon. Tho decrease in this sea-ou’s
run of salmon lends the Orrycnma to
sound this note of warning: “The nec
essity of taking steps to keep up the
salmon supply is now more than ever
apparent. It is a ncccs-dy that cries
aloud. W e cannot go on much lon ;<-r
reaping where we do not row. In as. w
more yearn, if nothing is done, the annu
al salmon run< will rente and an industry
which bring* into tho s'.ite each year
•early fd,OOO,DOO of for* i ,11 money will
die out "
The system of fe -ing w.i.t r» is b-coirt
ingas general and, wo may say perni
cious, in this country as it is in Eu
rope. One of the proprietor* of the
Huffman House in N w York, talking
•pon this subj -t the other day, said:
’"The young man that can't average $7
or a day in tijus is not cousiderv I
good. Mind you. we are opposed to
tips he re, but it i* impossible to stop
it. It is a foolish hah t. 1 have fine,
looking young men every day who offer
to w rk tr nothing, an i many off r
to pay for the pr.vi ego. T e other
night a party from T. xa* -at here for
several hour*. At the next ta do sat a
well-known llicatr cal manager who is
noted for hi* liberality. Every time he
ordered a drink he gave th- water a
quarter. The Texan* n< t:eed this : nd.
Mt proposing to be outdone, give- their
boy fifty cents and sl. He must have
made during the night at hast fill) or
•40- It'* got now, I am sorry to mv,
*u that no one thinks of s.ttm ; down
to take a drink without giving the buy
tea Cents. Th-i arc- fifteen l»oy« h re,
and in the boy M i-<>n you cn imagine
what these ti]» amount to. Why. t..nt
are no young mt n in the tewn, save the
son* of rich parx-Jt*. whs drew I etur o
live hitg' er than our* do. Oae of them,
who is marr ed, ive< in a Act that les
certainly par SIBOO ’ y «r for."
K ZSSSZSSwkocTi n—«w —w*a—*aS
A mfal «c> :• u i «» ; ■ to a
little girl a* to a wo«iau
- Mr. It. A. Torrence of Chester, Penn.,
claims to have made the first feather du*-
U-r use lln the ( uited State*. This is
hi* story: “When I was thirteen year*
old I was working with my step-brother,
<;. orge Steele, on Pearl street, N- w York
and one day 1 fastened some o«tri<-l«
fc-uthcr* on a -.lick and used the appli
ance for dusting. George watched the
op- ration and an idea struc k him. He
at once got to work and soon had a pat
tern nmde for a feather du-ter. lb-had
it patented curl then entered into the
tn.cnufa ture and •*■»!»• of tl »■ n- w ware*."
A < ■ uplo recently married felt the
financial t rcseure of n wedding tour,
s.,y- tl.* //c-i -e.f, of Springfield, Massa-
chusetts, but conceived a scheme by
which to thwart the process of custom
and save- the item of expense-. They
went to the -t ition, accompanied by a
; arty of friends, nnd boarded a train,
with 'go -el-byc* -eeid all around, the
frie nd* extending the regulation wi-li' c
for a nfe nnd L ippy tour. Oh, not
They walked through th- ear and out
■it the end opposite, sped down
Water street around to their home,
where they remained in seclusion a week
while friend* thought them away en
joying the hone ymoon.
Thee -till ke- p up nnc ent tiaditions In
the untramm-I • 1 West. At Murray, Id-c
--li->, on the op ining of the term ofthedis
tr c:t c ourt, theea-eofMi - Pec k,charged
with attempting to br.be- a jury, was
called, .hidgo Buck, nddre-sing the
, father of tho defendant, spike a* fol
i lows; “It ha* come to my car* th it you
have come into the court room armed
U> clay. Have you any arms with you?"
The gc ntieinan denied that he was armed.
Tin: court, however, took the precaution
to declare a recc e, of five minute* and
! disarm such ns were supplied with gu-i*.
The following day, while Colonel S.nglc
' ton was testifying in be same cast:, Jack
McAnuley called "him a liar. Colonel
Singleton sprang to hi* feet and drawing
a revolver cov. red .M- Aauley with the
weapon. The sheriff arrested both men
and disarmed them. Judge Buck, ad
dna-dng the prisoners, said: “The court
fine* you SSOO, McAuley, nnd you will
be confined until the fine is paid." Colo
nel Singleton was also fined A-00 for
corning into court armed, and Mr*. Peck
for attempted bribery.
Bust Stcirm-c.
A recent number of the
tu'rvloyiral c ontains an article on
the notorious du»t storms of Pekin.
These occur in tho dry season, especially
in winter and early spring. They come
on at irregular intervals, perhaps six or
eight time* in the season, nnd last about
three days. The wind is westerly, most
i often northwest, and blows fresh or
high. Tho condition of the streets of
Pekin, evil as that is, would not account
for the heavy clouds of du.-t that come
down with the storm. The mouth and
eyes have to be protected from the fine
dust, which p netrntes the closest room,
and makes food to taste gritty. This
abundant dust is spread over a largo
urea. It extends eastward from Pekin
to the son, nnd sou tli east ward it regular
ly descend* as far south as the Yellow
river, mid sometimes Shanghai, ten de
grees of latitude away. The writer of
the paper say* this vast quantity of
dust mii't come from the great des
erts of’ Mongolia. A series of
observations during one of these
storms showed a fall in the baromet r.
Tlie clouds, which the day before had
been unbroken, rapidly cleared away,
’ the sun was so obscured that it could be
inspected by the naked eye, and it was
i «l*o set in a ring. The wind showed di
i urnal variations, tho air was dry and
| one had a fcelit'g of malaise and ner
l vousness. After the wind went down,
barometer remained high for a day or
I two, andit* desceut there was another,
but much less marked, dust storm. T e
r orm thus appears to have been a gale
' ii.-cc mpmiying an urea of high pressure,
I which c ame from the desert of Gobi and
travelled eastward. The dryness of tho
wiud unci its abundant dust were in
I art due to this desert, which lies w< st
and northwest of Peki , and is uot far
away, hi hi* great work on China Rieh
tho en d scussc* tho geological effects of
these stonn-c, which are observed through-
! out till- * uth and west of the Desert of
Gobi, and further west lire much won-o
than at Pekiu. -A'.itun*.
Whnt the Emperor Wnn'ed.
A v -nor who has lately been staying
nt Bid Ems tells a characteristic story of
th German Emperor. A great packet of
journals arrive* every day for the Em
perm's r iding. In order to make tho
! reading i.s little burdensome as possible,
a high court - flic al is charged with the
duty of lookin. through the entire
heap of newspaper* and marking with
rod ink the pa-wag-* which tire Kaiser’s
. pr.vale secretary is to read aioud to l.i*
au u«t master. The Emperor one day
lock up one of the journals, and asked
the meaning of the red line* with
which it ft was pr -fuscly scored. Upon
t -e retary expi -:ag th sgn fieation
of these rod strokes the venerable
r. o->-.r h said with a heavy laugh:
“The:-, my d ir Mow, let me beg
you f r otic.- in a w y. to read m:
e'« y mt :u this jour a d w .ica h.i-
' co a red ibis uus.cxueath it.’’— 2\ili
li
Bcaplnv.
Along the ec**t strange: glories burn.
And kindling light* sap high nnd higher,
A* morning from Um- axurs urn
Pours forth her golden tire.
b iorn rush and reed, from l>u*h and brake.
Float countie s jaweb-d g’SMamcr*
That glance an 1 dazzle as they shake
In every breeze that stirs.
A Irird, upspringing from tho grain,
Plutei loud and clear hi* raptured nr
fhattmingles with as blithe a strain
As e'er thrilled human throat.
Amid the ta-eellcrl rank* of corn
She >tauda breast high; b r arms are bare;
And run.ll her warm, brovn n-ck the morn
Gleam* on her luutrous tiair.
he sickle ffcrsbe* in her lian’l;
The dew lave* both her naked feet;
Slie r>iap< and *.ng*, nnd through the lnn<l
Hho send.* her carols sweet.
Tho wind breulhca softly on her brow;
To touch h -rtlip* fall blo-eoms seek;
An-1 as th ■ Mr cken columns bow,
Ti i y kiss her glowing c eek.
i) happy nmiden! in her breast
flui' hath no place; her virgin sleep
Vam though s in’er tr u de; she is bleat;
Kho hath no tears to weep.
She know* nor long* for prouder things;
Her simple ’cviksare all her care;
She livi-s and loves, and reaps and * ng.*,
An-1 make* the world more fa.r
—Jamet /. JCenyon.
THE TURNING POINT-
A thick carpet hud lately been put
down in the dining room at the squire’s
residence, which w s found to prevent
tin door from opening and shutting
easily, so Wed.o-, tiie villag-i carp liter,
was icnt for to m*e it.
At six o'clock, while he was at work,
carriage wheels were distinctively heard,
nnd tho squire’* lady, with her children
came down into the hull ready to wel
come home Mr. Cury, who had been that
day to town.
Wedge, who was working inside the
dining room, listened with astonishment
a-i he heard the shout th : children gave
when their father stepped out of the
carriage. He saw also, through the door
crack, that tho two eldest had caught
hold of hi* hands, while the young ones
were clinging like little barnacles to his
coat tails; all dragging him along as if,
once having go> him into their net, they
meant, spider-like,to bind him hand and
foot and devour him, as that interesting
insect would a great blue-bottle, at
their leisur.-.
That tin- squire’s return should cause
such delight was a puzzler for our worthy
friend; for had he not with his own eyes
S'-enthi* gentleman go off at half-past nine
in tho morning, no one could have per
suaded him otherwise than that he must
have been away a month, to put it at
the lowest figure.
He saw, moreover, that the squire was
holding tightly in his hand a little par
cel, which, shaking off the children by a
number of little dodges of wh ch loving
fathers only know’ the secret, he quickly !
untied, for all the world os if he were a
boy of five years old (and not a great
man of fourteen stono weight), who
could not wait a moment for anything.
In a shorter time than we take to I
writ - it he pulled out the contents and
gave them to his wife, with three distinct
k isses.
Wedge could swear there were three,
for he count 'd them, nnd wondered how
many more there were to com -.
This was evidently a veiy beautiful
present, for tho children a* well as Mr*.
Cary, expressed their admiration in the
liveliest manner, and all seem -1, if that
were possible, more pleased and happy ;
than before.
Soon the merry party went upstair*,
the echo of their voices died away, and '
Wedge was left to finish his work on the !
door, while his heart and conscience
began their work on him.
lie, too, had a home and wife and .
children; he, too, had been away all day;
but the thought struck him uncom
fortably that hi* welcome home, if in
deed he got one at till, would seem poor
and cold after that he had just wit
nessed.
This reflection was not so sweet as to
make his work go smoothly; his saw
seemed as blunt as a double-bladed six
penny knife, and the wood of the chair,
whose legs he was cutting down, as hard
as bog oak.
In fact he was feeling jealou* of the '
squire and discontented with his own '
wife and children. Why were they not I
eager to rush out and welcome him after
the fashion of the squire’s family? He
frewned as he thought how badly ho was
used, aud his saw grated away as though
very dull.
But conscience had a word to say to
him, and said it loud enough, too, for
him to hear, although he wa* making
noise enough to prevent any one from
trying to gain his attention.
It told him the fault was chiefly in
himself, for if his wife and children
were not like tho squire’s, neither was
his likeness to that worthy gentleman
particularly striking.
He couldn't blame his wife for not
making enough of his presents, for he
will knew ho never gave her any; nor
did he greet her with those kind words
which would not have failed to draw
the same from her.
Wedge was a good husband without
b. iag a kind one, sending his money
for the most part on hi* family in a hard,
businesslike kind of away, Lut showing
no offection toward hii children, who
consequently did not love him.
A* Wedge walk- d home, Li* tool* on
buck, he came aero** an old friend, car
rying carefully a dainty bunch of snow
drops in his big, rough hand.
“Here, Will,” he said, walking along
by the carpenter’s side, “I've just given
a tr flu for the-" flowers—pretty bits of
things, ain't they—for my wife makes so
much of any little present I take her
home, »hc never mind* what I bring her,
so long a* i give it hcr’myself, for to be
ure I always tack on n little something,
in the shape of a few kinds words,which
makes the thing scein valuable in her
rye*. I don’t know how I should get on
sometimes, if it wern’t for having flowers
pretty handy; you can get them for lit
tle or nothing at any time, and yet they
are more beautiful than anything wo can
m ike. Perhap* that is what Gid gave
flower* for—in part at least—that the
poor man have within hi* reach t) -m -un*
of showing kindness and giving presents,
which, w.t.iout them, ho might seldom
or never be able to give at all.”
Wedge's road now lay in a different
direction from hl* friends, so they
parted company, Joo Sparks putting a
couple of snow drop* into Will's hand,
supposing he would know well enough
what to do with them.
Wedge turned the snowdrops over in
hi* hand and looked after Joe, who had
nearly turned the corner; what could the
man mean by giving him the snowdrops
and never saying a word? He couldn’t
have known wl.at had just happened at
the h ill; yet it secm- d strange that he
shou'd come up and sqy all this about
presents just wheu Wedge was thinking
about that very spbject and enjoying
the excuse, too, “that ho couldn't afford
to buy hi* wife anything.” But now
having the snowdrops, and havingheard
so much about them, it seemed as if
nothing else will do but that he must
give them to his wife, and this proceed
ing would be such a new and extraordi
nary one that the very thought made him
feel sheepish.
Wedge’s wife was a nice woman, but
family cares were weighing her down, so
that the light was fast dying out of her
eyes and the color fading from her
cheeks. She would not have minded
them half nor even quarter so much if,
when Wedge came home, she could have
told him all about them—for, ten to one,
he could have set things right. But he
had always pooh-poohed when she ven
tured to begin the subject, so that she
had left off looking for help where there
was none to be got. It seemed to Wedge
that if he had paid down hard cash for
clothing, feeding and schooling the fam
ily he had done his share towards their
bringing up. Such being the state of
thing-, you may well imagine how sur
prised was Mrs. Wedge when sho heard
a cheerful voice cry out:
“Where are you, Mary?”
But greater still was her astonishment
when, on going to the door, her husband
presented her with the snow-drops, de
claring as he put them in her hands, that
“beautiful as they were, ho thought the
rose-bud on her arm beat them out and
out.”
Wedge had done many a handy bit of
work ** ith those tools on his back, but
he did a neater job now with those snow
drops than ever he had done with all of
them put together, for he, so to speak,
sawed Mary’s heart right in two, and got
to the very inside, and planed down nc
end of knots and rough places, and
French polished her off as if she was
some choice piece of cabinet work to ba
sold for nobody knows what.
That day was the beginning of brighter
t ines; Mary’s heart having been, as we
before said, sawed right open, never
closed up again, by reason of her hus
band's continually putting in one little
thing and ano'.h -r on purpose to keep it
open; and warm streams of affection
came gushing out that nobody knew
were ever there at all, they were hidden
down so deep.
And a, to Wedge, he never knew be
fore how many pretty little speeches he
could make. Without any notice before,
hand whatever, they seemed to coms
from somewhere inside, all ready mi le,
packed an 1 directed, r.-ady to be de
livered “with care, this side up," to his
wife, while the contents of these said
parcels, or sentence l , generally brought
a smile on Mrs. Wedge’s face, and made
her as lively as a cricket for some time
to come.
And if this state of things brought
happier days to Mary, Will was no les*
benefited by them. Not only did his
wife return his love with interest, but it
promoted her to do many loving deeds,
the fruits of affection, which can make
the humblest home a little paradise.
Had Swallowed tho Buttons.
The following is related of an E ist
! Bridgeport man: Ho went home a few
nights ago, and, not fee.ing well, took
I what he supposed to be four pills and
then slept the sleep of tho jil't. M hen
his wife awoke in the morning she begat
a search for four shoe buttons which she
intended to sew on baby's shoes before
the little one awoke. She could not
■ find them, a*d the husban d joined in the
; search. Finally he remembered where
he had fvund the pills and said: “Good
heaven I I swallowed them buttons.
Brulgrpcrt Pml
CHINESEROYALTY.
How the Sons of the Emperor
Are Educated.
Admonishing the Imperial Pupil by Pol
ishing Eight Substitute*.
The Hong Kong (China) Pref says:
The son* of the MaucLu Emperors
(hwangt.sz) undergo from their tenderest
vou'.h a system of the strictest education.
It sing nt about 8 o’clock in the morning,
thi-v first take their lesson in Chinese
lit rnture, under the superintendence o f
the onlv tutor who has the title of shihfu,
or “master.” The tutor rises from his
chair as soon a* the imp -ri i! pupils ent-.-r,
and receives from the latter n courtesy
( a-chi’en), which is then returned in the
same form. The tutor tikes the scat of
honor, and when the lesson is learned the
pup: bring* up his book, deposits it be
fore his teacher, nnd retur n to hi* scat
to rep it the task by heart. If the lesson
i- :. t -urned the tutor requests a eunuch
in attendance t> bring the ferule,
(ch’ing pan) and makes a show
of alministcri ig correction. Bit each
imperial pupil is accompanied by eight
fellow-students (pwan-tub) known in the
Manchu language as ha ha-chu, who
study the same books a* their young
master. When it becomes necessary to
admonish tho latter more seriously, the
lia-ha-chu are beaten with the f rule vi
cariously; but when the imp rial pupil
acquit* himself well, they are, on the
other hand, commended or rewarded. A
recalcitrant and obstinate prince is, as
the last resort, actually himself flogged,
though probably only nominally, by the
teacher; or taken before the Emperor,
whodirccts a ftmuch to pinch his cheeks
(cisjh-pa-jon). The late Emperor, T’ung
chih, was frequently tweaked in this way
by order of the E npre.ssc*. The Chinese
lesson occupies two hours; after this
come the Manchu and Mongol lessons in
composition, given by the teachers who
enjoy tho less honorable title of sefu, and
who are obliged to meet their pupil at
the door and make the first obeisance.
Then come lessons in various spoken
languages—Manchu, Mongol, T’angut
and in local Chinese dialects. After
these come courses of instruction
in foot and horse archery, (tna
pu-chicn); athletics, fencing, putting
the stone, etc., (kung-tau-shih) under
the guidance of a class of instructor*
called au-ta. The whole of the young
Princes’day is taken up with mental or
physical exercises, and they retire to rest
at a very early hour. At suitable inter
vals their meals are weighed out for
them, and on no account are they al
lowed to indulge in the pleasures of the
table. At the age of 15 they must
marry. Once a year—on New Year’s
Day—the Emperor and Empress preside
at a grand banquet, the Empress sitting
on the Emperor’s left hand. This is the
only- occasion during the year on which
the Emperor can see his wives together
and compare their respective merit*.
The Empress presents articles of food
(k’e-shih) to the eunuchs, who receive it
from her Majesty on their knees, and the
Emperor performs the same politeness to
the women.
New England Signs nnd Portents.
“Whenever my mother, a New Eng
land woman, dropped her dish cloth,”
said Phincas T. B.irnnm, “She always
knew she was going to have a visitor.
She knew it. There was no use trying to
dissuade her from that belief. She had
proven it time and again for many years
and she couldn’t be talked ont of it. If
she dropped a fork and tho tines stuck
in the floor there would also be a visitor,
b ithe was sure to be a gentleman. If
when he c ime, he stayed to dinner, and,
by accident, got two knives, two forks,
or two spoons at his plate, he would be
married within a year a«d there was no
help for it. If an unmarried female
stumbled up stairs sho would not be
married within a year, and all ths old
maid* were very cautious how they went
up stair*. Y’et my mother scouted the
idea of her b-ingsuperstitious and taught
me never to go under a ladder for fear
of bad luck. .
“Now, as for us,” said Mr. Barnum,
“I haven’t a grain of superstition in my
composition. I endeavor to commence
all my important undertakings on Fri
day to show my contempt of the super
stitions attached to that day, and I think
that for the next fifty year* at least no
man should be hanged on Friday."—Aea>
York Commercial:
A Joke.
The paragrapher teas ruminating in
his sanctum, w hen the iceman ent» red.
“Why is it that you are always mak
ing jokes about our business?" the ice
man asked.
“Oh! because it seems to be under
stood that you charge excessive prices,”
was the reply. “But,” added the para
grapher, “there is no malice iu what we
•ay.”
“I am aware of that,” said the ice
man, “and I'm sure I don’t mind it—in
fact, I’m rather fond of jokes, and, by
the way, I’ve got o good joke for you
to-day.”
“Indeed I” said the pa-» r.spl.c.-, with
much interest; “let us have it.”
“Here it is,” sail the iceman; “itls
the bill for you summer’s ice.”— Botton
Courier.
An A*l» Minor Cariosity.
The recent destraction of the beauti
ful white and pink terraces of Tara-xcru
New Zealand, has drawn from a travel
ler in Asia Minor an account of an
ancient white terrace xvhich he saw neat
the ruins of Hierapolis, in Asia Minor.
Hierapoli*,called by the Turks P.imbouk
Kalossi, or hot springs, is situated on a
low branch of the Misougis mountains
overlooking the Lycus Plain and t) ie
luinsof Laodiceia, immediately opposite
to Colos-ic, which was limit on tln-slo|ie
of the Khono* mountains, and to Deniz.li
(D ospolis) on Mount Cadmus. First
s:*-n from the opposite mountains, rome
20 miles off, it looked like a breastplate
of silver on a great mountain giant.
nearer investigation showed that it was
formed by hot springs of sulphur ami
lime, which descended from a great ele
vation in dazzling white cataract*, ami
formed in their passage downwaid bv
their pertifying power icelike
cliff* and seemingly frozi-n
waterfalls, running into natural basins of
beautiful and vnri 1 geometrical shapes
all stalactite covered p trifactions of fan
tistic forms. On the high plateau
whence the springs descend are the ruins
of a temple once appropriately dedicated
to Pluto. The holy hot bath which
stood in the temple court-yard, surround
ed by a colonnade, is still in fine preser
vation and beneath its deep, Clear blm
waters can still be seen many a fluted
column and finely carved cornice. Gas
is continually bubbling up from the bot
tom of the bath. The chief source of the
sulphur springs (the ancient plutonium)
is a cave from which a vapor issues fatal
to animal life. This was considered a
short cut to Piuto’s infernal realms. Not
far off is a ruined fountain and cistern
near to a cave of sweet water which sup
plied the whole town with that neces
sary of life. The writer adds, as inter
esting to the Christian archaeologist, that
on a ruined lintel near Pluto’s temple he
saw these words sculptured: “Js. C*.
nika—Jesus Christ Conquers.”— London
Telt graph.
He Rode on the Conductor.
One day I was on a train running to
ward Atlanta, when we stopped at a lit
tle station, where a great big chap got
on. He was apparently as strong as an
ox. Ho had been drinking, and had
two demijohns with him—if fact, that’s
about all he had with him. A* soon a*
be got fairly seated he announced that
he was going to Atlanta to have a time,
and wanted to get good ready. With
this he pulled up oae of his demijohns
and took a large and evidently enj jyable
swallow. He invited everybody in the
car, the passenger* happening to be all
men, and insisted that each one should
take “a swallow or two,” as he expressed
it, with him. I saw everybody else take
one so I followed suit.
Pretty soon the conductor came in.
He asked for a ticket, which the big
passenger claimed he did not have,
whereupon the conductor announced his
intention of stopping the train and, put
ting the non paying passenger off. Tho
big man told him to take a drink at his
expense and sit down an I talk it over.
The conductor,of course, re fused, where
upon the big man said that if tho con
ductor didn’t quit bothering hint he
would ride on the conductor to Atlanta.
More words followed, and the first thing
he knew the conductor was flat on the
floor of the car and the big man sitting
on him. The big fellow managed to get
one of the axes from the wrecking outfit
at the end of the car, and with this kept
the brakeman at bay as well as the other
passengers, and actually rode on the poor
conductor to Atlanta, some eighteen or
twenty miles.—St Zzrais Globe.
To Stop a Large Hole with Pally.
When you come across a hole while
doing an old job, and one which will not
pay you to spend the time of properly
replacing it with a new panel or piece,
we have often succeeded in effectually
hiding the defect by taking small tacks
and driving them into the hole in all
directions, the more crooks the better
for the purpose wanted, and then taking
putty, mixed soft and pliable, forcing
I the same thoroughly all through and
I among the tacks; then letting the first
i dose dry hard, after which we reputtied
until we copld level rt down even with
the panel surface.
After the putty is dry and sanded or
rubbed, if the other portion is in good
condition as regards varnish, before you
put the color on the putty, run a light
coat of varnish and japan over it. After
that dries, put your color on, and you
will find that there will be no sinking
down of the color or color and var
nish, into the putty, but it will stand
' out equally with the rest. Carriage
i Monthly.
Not a Partisan.
“Isn’t he beautiful?” said the wife of
the politician, as she dan lied her baby
i boy, who smiled and kicked every time
I she threw him up.
“He is.” answered the proud father as
he watched the play of the little feet,
“but I'm afaid he will never be a good
i party man.”
“Wiiy not?”
“Because he’.* a kicker."
It is these terrible things that cast a
gloom over the happiest families. — Bot
ton Courier.