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J. w. VBM2n.Mllwa Fwbitsteer. A. ■ HIVIS*. Fieasisssr. VOLUME I »«ka*k ron mat- The want phrase, "Chalk your hat,” which is still current m many parte of "Admiral" Beetade wjs Ml gwu*< of nnou stags potatoes h ths days bedjpsw y railroad* -At spent makth sfrhta Mm* in Wi.<;MagUn>, whare, indeed, bo lived fat'SSma: years. At the frninxl sd «he would pass and Senate all th<> promi era—over any He would » Omeinhatt or roe through by Juxli" Wteto*' taeVtor bsk" tic chalk mark on it Tf&piwnKtn so cofwi-’ terfeit, and return it wjthlbe-xemiq*. “ That will serve your'tarh; my agents yr jil recognize that anywhere, and won’t receive a oßnt from the men whose hat , is sojnataed.” Iteesido was,right, All ' i ‘ • hCtagtate kta*4to sign at once. Die lhutatooam**h*WWw that some fel ‘ ’ lodHtneh to tteftato' ft," but they were invariably detected and compelled to leave the stage or pay their fare. In the South and West "Ohalk yonr hat" still stands for what the East styles dead t'. heading.— New York paper. A. ' - asroTHrnaoon'ro r. A Detroit grocer waa hungrily waiting for his clerk to return from dinner and •. f ♦ give him a chance at bis swn noonday mfatf, when a tot came tiffb his store 'with.a basket in his hand and said: " I grab up this ’ere basket f frtun th.‘ AtimhffDi’ mn, and I run after. ( a.idmt&hhu givoiiup.’’ -*nre .Jew are an honest to’ " , "Andybu look like a good hoy.” “lee, sir.” “And good boys should always be en couraged. In a box in the baek room there are eight dozen eggs. You may • take them home to your mother, and keep the basket.*’ " , The gryotr tigd, i>te® saving those eggs for days and weeks to reward some one. In rewarding a good boy he also got eight down bad eggs carried out of the neightorhood free of cost, and he ehuokhd a h'tU chuck He he walked homeward. The afternoon want'd, night came and ■went, and once more the grocer went to his dinner. When he returned he was picking his teeth and wearing a compla cent am de. His eye caught a basket of eight doeen eggs as he entered the store, and he queried : " Been buying some eggs ?” " Yes ; got hold of those from a farm er’s boy," replied the clerk. “A lame boy with a blue cap on?" “ Yea.” " Two front teeth out ?” ••Yea.” The grocer sat down and examined the eggs. The shells had been washed clean, but they were the same eggs that good * boy jafi lugged tome the day before.— Free Freim. ... , AJtCTIC WINTBKH. In a paper read before the National Acadeasy of torwes. Lieut Scluwatka treated of " the duration of tin- Arctic winter.” He said that st latitude 83 deg., 20 min., 26 arc. (the highest point ever reached by man, which was attained by Commander Markham, of Oapt. Nares’ expedition), there are four hours and forty-two minutes of twilight on Doc. 22, the shortest day in the year in the northern hemisphere. In latitude 82 deg. 27 min., the highest point where white men have wintered (the crew of the Albert, of Oapt Narea’ expeibtion), there are six hours and two minute* in the shortrttt day. In latitude 84 deg. 82 min. (seventy-two geographical miles nearer the pole than Markham reached, and 328 miles from that point), the trne plutonic tone can be entered by man The pole itself is only shrouded in per fect blackness from Nov. 13 till Jan. 27. The pole has stout 188 days of continu ous daylight, 100 of varying twilight, and seventy-seven of utter darkness. ” A ggusuiNo club is something new , under the sun. An English publican applied to a Manchester magistrate for an extension of hours for a rapper in connwtMß with,* “Hweanng €Mub, Ths magistrate 4 Usk ad what that was. The applicant explained that fine* were imposed tor sWteanng on /Bundays, and out of these fines the sppper Waa paid for. The magistrate expressed sur prise that the fines should be ap large as to be sufficient to defray the cost of the repast The applicant said there waa something short, and they made that up. The application was refused. ■*“ 11 1 wasM, n— . / WlmbiiQ gj|r erfis ct. KITTCB'S JgXNDYNV. n uyiua v. uurwsx. Dtapon BtMiley was >y no means A pMiurioae atefla- He was only, as hsi said, an “ecooflMfeally savin’" maal He was tn good church standing, dovonC and smoare. He had a good wife dutiful daughter to make him a pleaaanf home; waa oonaidared "well-to-do,*! thfibgh a farsMsr, ami the comforts oJ thehouse were not forgotten in thia de> aufe Ao IjAkwunomioai. Nevertheleaa thm one “aWF” bump ostiaed Mrs. Stanley and Kittie a great deal of trou ble. He woaii psnist ia wearing his Kothen mrtil they were so fetch.-6 you ixmki h|pßy tell the patch 'fro m the or igliuu Mrs. Stanfi'v had hand xlaU.ti lie mcndfng ovet*to Kittie an her work, Mid Kittit- did ao hate mending ; Mid,- with her pride and her her father would persist in wearing such clothes, her troubles were great. “ Why, he wean meaner Mothes than any poor on the town,” ahe exaggerates!, “ and t£ was jhsi cheating >iba rag picker.’’mid he only Mrs. Stanley, too, was a tyifie ashamed that her good husband should so persist in making patch-work of his garments, but the kind soul hud given tip the argn tnentPlong ago. The chnrbh parson bar! been talked to about the deacon'a pecul iarity, but, as tho deacon was a Christian in every other respect, gave to the church and her missions, helped the poor and did not neglect his family, this one sin—if sin it could be called— waa considered but a minor one, and so tho deacon escaped a censure. He often h(«lril tinmgh, I Kith be hind bis back lue to which ho witild respond laughingly, turning Um remarks into jokes, and none of them aver made the slightest ripple of auger upon his ocean of good nature. The parsonage of L was being re- paired, and the yonng minister waa lioarding at tho Stanleys' during thia prooeu, and prejiariug fiw the convention which waa io be held in their aoeietythe next week. tiuddealyrhe tool, a great interest in the family sitting-rtiom, and ftmnd it pleasanter, I am aslianuxl to any, read ing and talking toKittio and her mother afternoons than writing sermons for the ptxiplo of L to sleep nnder, or even seeking out tho unruly sheep of the flock, who had leaped the sectarian fence. And Kittie—well, perhaps she, too, took more interest in tho afternoon talk than tho tiunduy sermon. Mrs. Stanley, from her placid face, one might read that she was well satisfied with both. 0 One afternoon, Mr. Stanley came in for some clover-seed, which Mrs. 8., in her careful way, had put in a dry place, ami she directed him up to the garret. After a few moments' wiarah be xle scended with the clovor-eeed, and left it in tlie kitchen, while he procce<led into the sitting-room with, hanging over his arm, three pairs of old dilapidated pants he had accidentally stumbled upon where Kittie had iiidden them ; one one pair of striped, one of checked and another plain. “ Kittle," he said, laying the cobwebs ano garments tenderly down u|s>u tlie stuffed chairs, " now, this ’ere is some of your work, putting them away and not half worn out Yon never will lie the economical wife your mother is, my chiltl. These could l>o mended into one pair, and, as I may want them to wear, you had better set about fixing ’em up as soon as mother can sjiare you.” And out no stalked as innocent of any im propriety as tlie meekest lamb. Kittie's eyes flashed and dropped as ahe saw her father ajipear with the hated garments, and a suspicions trem ble gathered at the Comers of her mouth and blnalies lea|Mxl to her cheeks, but as he dejiarkKl out of hearing she glanced at her mother and mirthfulness predom inated over anger, and sha burst into a hearty laugh, which was joined in by Mrs. Stanley and the minister, who was fully acquainted with the deacon’s fail ing. That afternoon Kittie wore a serious, oeooccupiod air, which had change.) the next morning to aughter at most unac epunfebie times and aocre.t Uttewa which quits astatoshed +*sr wsofrwr, «*1 as at the first leisure moment Kittie waa die apjieanng with the offending garmenta, Mrs. Stanley aaked : •• How are you going to fix them, Kit tie?" And Kittie answerer', giving them a spiteful shake : J* 111 fix ’em, never mind. ” And the minister, finding Kittle not pt*’ • tht ittereMsHff Oonntyinftttydate of Georgia. HARLEM. GEORGLA, TUESDAY. MARCH 1. 1881. lljKxei»Wii** “*■ 'y* it his duty Us sswtraua has asraraa* in. . his oww roam. aiifi b> hfe ” •'■B* l 1 ■to '■ ■■ " ■ U - • to v* V. —aw OMOmsib * r 1 Tho convention waa here, and. the parishioners' houses were crowded with guealr. The deacon’s home contained for guests, with tlie minister, Prof. Primstook and wife, Mt- *»d Mrs. Mer ryday, Iler. Lycumgood, wife and sister, but extra help left the hostess and Kittie time to entertain them. In the after noon of the iecond day there was a sort of intArniiauion for the tired convention. Mr. Stanley came in from doing the '• choree" ha had finished ttthere<r!y,a»id proceeded to his room for the purpose of enrobing himself in his “ meeting clothes,” for tha deacon waa very care ful of these, and would have thought it a sacrilege to have worked In them. In an instant the door-bell rang, and two reverends and wives came in h>r a chat, whan, hearing his naufe ballfid, he hur ried into liia ooat and tlirough the din ing-room, whose Klttio *U-id aj- ertfea from friglit, and Stood ameng his Quests. Poor deacon ! He was not very tag, or Ris eyes were not as good aa* they once were, er the closet was dark. And, then, it bring h dnHing hobby or his to frown upon nifflek and ribbons, jerffn amt trinnnings, ho considered it a sai-rvd duty to give a lecture on the oily.<4 these vauitoes beforugiving uia I danghter the wherewithal for procuring ’ them. He was doomed to a great trial. Ho hadn't taken throe stejis into tho room before thirteen pairs of eyes were fixed upon him with all the horror and severity that twenty-six eyes were capa ble of expressing. Mrs. btanloy feebly ejaculated*. “Jamexf” Two of the divines forcibly remarketl, "Ahem! ahem I" and one of the reverend's wives added, in a stage whisper, "Meroy on us I" Then Mi. Stanley, following their eyes to his feet, stood spellbound. There he was, arrayed in a garmmt unrivaled ovcu by Josaph'a i coat oj nisHy ook rs, I verily believe, and ' bedecked in the most wonderful and fan- I lastii al maniKW ever perceived by mortal man pr woman. There were those three beloved garments he had tenderly yml ti ed to Kittie’s fashioning, and evidently nlout five tTmes as many more, made into one. There was a huge strijied patch, bound with yellow, on one knee, and a checked one, bound with green, on the other. A striji of blue gxtendisl up one leg, and a strip of white up tlie other. An attempt hail Ixveii marie to lengthen them, and around one ankle I was knife-pleating of block cashmere; around the other a ruflie of gray poplin, I Kith headed by u puff of gay calico. Little gay-ribbon bows and streamers were generously distributed over the garment, and a lovely little pocket of wme-oulortHl velvet, edged with white lace, stitched on one side, complcteil the " mending." Tlie deacon stared, and the mote he gazed the more his wonder grew, and, overcome by the sight, ho Jiilllod his I loin dans out, mopped his face, ex- I claimed, "Gracious me,” sank helplwwi ly down in tlie nearest chair, and fi 11 to gazing at himself again. It was quite evident he hail made a mistake in the garments, but where those came from was entirely beyrcid hu conception. I don't know but they would have sat staring at tho deacon until this time if the minister hadn’t laughed. Laughter < is wonderfully contagious, especially I among divines, even if people do think i otherwise, and a few seconds of that healthy exercise brought l>ack the dea- J con’s scattered ideas, and his first ejacu lation waa, " Where is that Kittle?" But Kittte wasn't to be found, and somehow the minister explained to them all that it was a joke of Kittie’s, and the deacon bad just got into the wrong garments, ami they all knowing k tho ieaoon's peculiarity aooepted in wonderful g<«"i nature. As Kittie did not return, Mrs. Stanley aaiit the nun»ter over to Busis Ley's, | wh<w» Kitttowas most likely to be, with ■ the message that ahe was forgiven, ami I to come home. Poor Kittle waa mortified enough, but I when aha arrived home, and the guests i made mure a heroine of her than dr- I cumstam-e deserved, and ahe found the ' deacon dnln't look a bit angry, and her mother never said one reproving word, 1 and caught the muuster’s eye full U I Isughfvw tod W semetiamg sias Kittie omddaT frnderwtatoC W .tontitoatiou took wing, » aa« 4«w 1 ' And iksA evening walking kosse from Be usfri tt i nunialcx B aha ever ttriTajfcr . wars not (F'Wfe 'bile altar, g»v th«x his bless k aedMSS and mirth "Rtte 'oßtt into isa a fwwd wife, pai son, but will never be as economical aa her mother, as I said once before." Mrs. Stanley ever blessed Kit Lio's joke, for afterward tho deacon was never fend of many patches. non- ihi.ih PKASAtfTs Lirt. The dens, misnamed cots, in |rhich the jxiaaantry of Galway artd Mayo counties live are merely stone shelters ; owing to the intense ignorance M tlie p'ople they are not provided with any fscilirioa for draihtaw, sad are often in oonqiorably filthy. The floors art of hard mud ; it is rare to find morq than one room in a hat, and only one Story. Boils and bedding are luxuries which the poorer tenants do not possess; old heajm of hay and straw are tbs couches on which tho lovely, l«rown-ayed, !arg>‘- browed maidens of Connaught rsjxw. Tlie smoke from a j>eat fire in a common peasant'h eaMn spreads tlirough the rixim, and you narrowly escape strangu lation cm your first r-stf. • rl have hail this and cou soqnuotly minded'the smoke but little. How family decency is maintained in these dens is a mystery, and how the people manage to keep elean—tar they look clean—is a puzzle. Tho pigs run m and out of therdoors—and such wretehed pigs I A Nlfrth Carolina wild hog would bo an aristocrat lireide them ! In dozens of these cabins sick piuplo are to ba found—sick people dejienitont either on the chanty of their neigiiboru or on friends 61 America who send them small sums. A gentleman in Galwiiy told me that the ugeute of landlords treated tho poorer tenantry as if they were animals. He instanced the case of one agent who, on rent day, when any tenant was abort a half crown in hi* pay ment, would knock tho money off tho table on to the floor, so as to hiinjilfete Jjie tenant before lm< fellows. Up to a recent tote oven tho better class of ten ants would not havo dared to reeent such behavior; they were ready to fawn be fore tho man who insulted them. Now the tables are turned and tho agent sneaks in anil out among the ]>«ople, taking 2A per cent. Ices than the usual rental, if indeed he gets anything st all, and is glad to get away again ont of the farming district with his head still on his shoulders.— Ftlward Kiny‘t letter from Galway. a ji hhhkst or kor.wKoft. In some ancient monkish' manuscripts in Franco occurs the following interest ing story, which has no {dace in tho Bablc itself, thongh it is in the original prefixed to the Proverbs of Solomon. It appears to have Ikkui a great favorite in the middle ages; and was often re lated from the pnlpit. A King, in aome domestic difference with Iris wife, had Ixs-n told by her that one only of her three sons was a true offspring, but which of them was so she refused to dis cover. Thia gave him much uneasiness; and, his death soon afterward approach mg, he calli-d hw children together; and declared, in tiro presence of witne-soa, that he left a ring, which had very an gular properties, to him th it should lie found to Is- his lawful son, and that i<i> him, too, should Ix-long hi* kingdom. On his death a dispute arose about the ring between the youths—and it was at li ngth agreed to refer its decision to tlie King of Jerusalem. Hu immediately ordered that the dead Ixxiy of his father should l>e taken up and tied to a tree ; that each of the sousahtmld shoot an ar row at it, and that he who penetrated the div |>eat should have the ring. The eldest shot first, and tlie allow went far into Hie Ixaly ; tho second shot, also, and deeper than the other. The youngest son stood at a distance and wept bitter ly ; but tlie King said to him : “ Young man, take your arrow and shoot aa your brothers have done." He answered : " Par ly it from me to commit so great a enme. I would not for the wh<4e world disfigure the body. ol my own father.'* The King said "Without doubt you are hia son, ami the others are rlaiDgrlingw ; to you, therefore, I ad judge the ring." A voeau amateur inquires if Ito votor eon be raised with tenig leven lesson* Pigs and ateplumta are the latest do suite in men's scarf tAn*. vssr ro jur mat Tt nam or. Oae of tbs plainest rates for tataag food is that which inaista that we must find in oar nourishment the substances of which tho itaulf ia composed. If we think of it, such a rate is tn strict conformity with the dictates of common sense. We are bound to obtain frosa our food the matter the body lacks ; and any hxxf, Tiowcver pleaaant io ilio pal ate, butwhioh dock not contain elcpienta nafcually- found ro tlie frame, may to nuheaftatiugly rejected ’ from tlie lists Os our diutarina. It taUotte, therefor*, tliat tn know wliaf taods jam. required (or suatenanoe we muri/ investigate tho ghemioal compoaitiou of ntir frama. In Im* way we luatanco, tliat we are largely composdtbof water. Two thirds of h kuinaa Ixxly by weight are ooapoMxl of water. A body weighing 165 jsiuuda will iffslihte in ita l«loug ings IJO jriruld* of water. Water fur ther pcimeatos or enter* Mito the cotn - posititm of evary tissue; heuoe, tlie roa 'tou why thirst is so taach more ttoaful than hunger is that, while the hitter ia a oomjtootively local cCmditiou, tlie former affects the entire frame. And we also soc the importance of water ns an article of diet—a phase in which we are not usually uootutomed to regard it. If we take even the most cursory survey of our bodily composition, w* find tliat our chemical structure taos the most motley anfl varied description. Thus wu shall tiud a large selection of minerals in our ttomo*; linn, magneata, etc., in our bones ; common salt in our stomach and elsewhere ; iron m our blood ; and pbo*- plioru* in brain end nerve. Then, com ing to onr soft Jiarts, we find that these may be dividod into what physiologist* call th* nitrogenous and non-nitrogun oua oomjxiumls. Os these, the former contain the element nitrogen iu addition to other elumcnta, while the latter want this element. Thus the "albuminous'' or whlte-of-egg-like substance* existing in our frames contain nitrogen ; while the fata of the Ixxly and th* sugars ami starchue do not. To those latter may add water ami minerals, ax also non nitrogenous in their nature. When wo eat a piece of beef, »« are receiving " nitrogenous" fixxl iu its juice and in its filler*; sad wu ap< also obtaining the other variety of foods from it* water, its fats, and its mineral matter* which arc not nitrogenous m tlietr 'comjxaitiou. [f wo cat an egg, wii'are pieseuted with u more perfect comjxiund and uniou of the two classes of foods ; for in on egg water, fats, and-minerals are pre-ent, in addition to the white and other porta which consist largely of albumen or iritwigenona matter. It is perfectly etear, therefore, that for health wu r*- quiretaxntxturtfof the two kinds of foods just mentioned. A HALKT IIOKHK. A Camilla paper gives room to the fol lowing curious mode of dealing with a balky horse : I would prepare myself with a good strap—l want no whip; perhaps he ha* got a good taste of tliat already, arid still to is master. But some day, when I was at peace with my self and *ll around, I would hitch hirn Ui the Imggy, turning hi* head te the village. He goes half the way very well in doe-1; then h« liegina to think ho has gone far enough in that direction, and stops. I ate) > down ; he expect* mo to use tho whip; he is mistaken. A* a criminal, I treat him on tlie alient sys tem. I pnah him l>ack a littte out of the way. I show him the strap, patting it up to his nose. Igo to the off side sad testate life his loss Igg, ctese up to Ms breast, tlMWing th* over his ahvijfler; I then raise tustioar foot and fix tt with the hoof tlmost rom-hing tb« holly. Thia dene, Isay,’! Now, old chap, you just stand Ihara." I don’t amok*, so I take a paper from my pocket, and finding a place wHcre I con ■it down, and h« sec me, I liegui to read. Tfn* is something he did mH bargain for, and the novelty of standing on throe legs somewhat diverts hia mind from the cauae that stopped him. I think that is the chief point gained, and the most humane. When the strap is taken off I ■how it to him, cares* him a little, and we move on without irritation. The strap will now become a part of tlie har nsa* for a month or two, till at last tb* sight of it will act aa a talisman. (hxvs Ixkixm has a friend who lived in Cuba, who used to observe some grand ladies dnvmg out every afternoon with flrrwers in their hair, diamonds on their necks, anil the volant* fnil of the flounces 'of their profusely-trimmed silks. One day tho vehicle ujmet ami spilled th" great ladies, when it waa discovered that they had on neither an>x?» nor stock ing*. i < (TIIS»tl»«»r >■ savaacic NUxMBEK 11. xu»jr*a a»d mermarr. A prominent Amenoaa *tata*ma*. •eya ths London Gtato, was satai to taka * pride in always knocking at toy doer within Which be had an engagemrat precisely with the first stroke of the cluck or with the very tick of hi* watoti. Perhaps if that wouilrvu* wiae state* mu bad taken th* trouble to "tot up" ■ll the odds and end* of time he moat have wasted iu •souring that pettifog ging precision he would have found that, whatever he might have done for other people's time, hshad reaUy beenaa waste ful of hia own as th* veriest sloven in this way may be supposed to be on the •homing of very exemplary people— as waataJhl, for inatanoe, a* Lonl Palmers ton. who was known to drop in to a pub lic dinner four hours after the apjxnnti-d finis. ’ . nr- , When Boeville gave hia fashionable dinner* in Welbeck street the guest* were always given to tmderstahd that time must to otovrvixl to thu minute, and that ff they were not there dinner must proceed without them. It was not often that folks caniu tate, ter most peo l*k> cun to punctual when they know it is expected of them. On one occasion, however, it happened to to the Astrono mer royal who oama in a half minute or so behind the appointed dinner hour, and found tlie guests coming down the staircase to the dining-room. " I trust, Mr. Friend," said the boat in greeting him, " tliat in future you will bear in nund we don’t reckon time here by the meridian of Greenwich but by the me ridian of Wollieck street.” Tliat sort of thing may all to very well when it is clearly underatoixl that, in auctioneers' phraseology, it u to to dinner time, " prompt," but it is not every host who can muster the hardihood for such rig idity, even though their guests may not to astronomers royal. Most people would agree with Dr. Johnson in his well-known dictum on the point " Ought six people to to kept waiting for one?” askod Boswell, who wis him -scU ishnsil to proceed without one lag gard. ”Why, y<M,"said Johnson, "if the one will suffer more by your sitting down than the six will by waiting.” Ok* cannot wonder if Rtuudan mag nate* nre afflicted with dynamite on the brain, Ixit it seem* odd that the craze ■hould spread so far a* to infect quiet Engbsli gentlemen who live at home in ease. Yet one of the nig-wig* of the ■emi-auburlian town of Croydon had a ■harp attack of the malady, oauaed by m> fee* an occurrence than the delivery at hi* door of a locked casli-tox. Neither he nor any of his family hail ordered •udi an articte, and he at once *u*pect ed a plot to destroy not only himself but lus belongings, so he conveyed tlie lx>x with unheard-of prerention* to the local polios station. Thomen in blue of course oonourreil in his view, and with equal cere took it to s neighlxiring iron monger, who strung it up on a scaffold polo and oj<ened it in some mysterionsly deliaate manner. The cash-box proved to to quite empty, and had merely been left by the übiquitous shop-boy at ths wrong house I ■JSIIM AMD AMAVnu. The idea that shaving is * duty is older than the invention of steel or even of bronae razors. Nothing is more re markable in savage life tlian the resolu tion cf tho braves, who ahavo with A ■toll or with a broken piece of glass left bv mariners. A warrior will throw him sulf ujxm tho ground, and, while one Inland bvjdx his arms and prevents him from riruggluig, another will scrape hi* chin with the shell, or with the broken tot tie, tiD,he rise* bleeding but toardle**. Mscauley must have shaved almost as badly witli the razor of modern life, and when he went to a liartor, and, after an •any shave, askbd what he owed, the fel low, afraid of charging too little, re plied : "Just what yon generally give the man that shaves you, kjr.” "I generally give him two cuta on each cheek." said the historian. _____ anvTK. \ A man who is tho husband of a very fseliKmablti and talkative wife wa* out walking with his little girl, when he met a friend who admired the child very muob. "It is a toantiful child," said the friaml, "and looks vary much like its mother, particularly about the mouth.” " Maybe so," responded ths husband fsther, " but I have nevef seen its mouth at rest long enough to tall what it looks like." Is it any wonder the Distinct Court docket is loaded down with divorce suit** —Gah reton Newt.