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'* UMMhpMWmaWMrt*.n>y wn>So» ta Mr,
Ox! my tearm aur terotetei SQI.
.rm &
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•criptian of thmr is:
"As soon sJWyeifij WtaGlh Hr grows.’
/ and bMaert theyleft fomr a'tnwrr-
Bim all
gon*,
jy of
' part
r sev
reerv
t the
as to
diffl
ipeak
round
imba,
rhioh
i, and
ning.
i eaii-
Msing
isure,
white from- twenty feel apwami to the
**p es Mutes i* th i »■■ ii taronghtes tease
presented*jrtfoetuM tumult Os ernwd
ing mMitnitesof pigfoiM,
their wings roaring like thunder, mingled
with the crash of falling trees.” It is
nttertv ttnpoarfbte to estimate rhe num
bers that congregate together. Ou some
trees more than 300 neats were found,
and ths branches were continually fall
ing, owing to the weight of the old
bimtou tfhe autount consumed by a
flock of ffihroe brois to wonderful Wil
son calculates that, taking the breadth
of a column of pigeons he saw to be only
one mile, its length to be 240 miles, and
to contain only three pigeons in each
square yard (taking no account of the
several strata of birds one above the
other), and that each bird consumes
half a pint of food daily, all of which
•Mumptions are below the actual amount,
tha quantity of food consumed in a day
would be 17,000,000 bushels Suppos
ing thia column to be one mile in
breadth, and flying at tha rata of one
"■'l»’«ninuje for lour hours, andsop
;-*W fliat Asch aquai-c yMfl umbui
three pigeons, the square yards in the
whole apace, multiplied by three, would
give 2,230,272,000 b intel In the Ken
tucky country, Where they are mowtlv
found, they appear suddenly, darkening
the ajj work and
bbot Kuhren, mp uniflUhey hero passed
Tha air is literally filled with pigeons, and
in some places mortars are used to taring |
down hundreds at one discharge, Their
rapidity of flight is wonderful
'LKta —■—
*M*to*r*w xwswrvarror.
Many an illneaa is caused simply by
imagination, and those of us who gc
»>->ai*ur repah with osimnees and con
fidence ate much more likely to escape
diaeaae than others who are filled with
should infection come
within 100 miles of them. In onnnec
tion with thia the Arabs tell tha follow
ing story •
One day • traveler mat the plague go
ing into Cairo, and accosted it thus :
" For what purpose are you entering
Cairo T*
•'To kill 8,000 people r rejoined tha
Plegue
Some time after the same traveler met
the plague on its return and said ;
“ But you killedKUKnr _£. z
*‘Nam"pDawered teopietroe, "I kilted
bat d,WO; tbs Vest died at fright, *
A TMVWigno Jbttt'-n. who had gone
tht whole rwmad al the OonUnacit, wai
returning nOuna, astsaiad with having
" seen nothjjp/' when, ip a field by the
road, he sawrjjSgtit/lto tt'lMli me
uniats, hgjMjp the same ofWton,
UxA taamde, wttheaaOteft-rencefothe
question at issue, dMtoad Ms dee
anufote and groped
bash tn tags ■rrit*l, rani sere reg. “ By
Jawgl the fiaat hte at pleasure I
have had mnoe I have been from
•> talk ,•> J* MF '"**
BuhiiidHi MdctcfetL
yt7*c.
a •
v • ‘ ** v
There ire feu i# UMft t 4
in the UeihJ Mates, a *
cal i ties of Ai.a toartafi
nowhere moggstsrr. V* *.
ip their eeledfi <>r- 4
Southern and .*h
furnish manWUte'’ 1 jWAuj
surd mental fl
following nadtes, lua w, - 4
Kfittaa Qfliou IW 5 ‘ ’ r ,
I-
, In Alabsm. • uch-
snort, Gi, <
ffnnc, Rawb <tari-
". sons, Bumbi Pi""*?
and Tom bet* t J.gh
Hnbßnata- („ .to,
Ibyfse, Xlac , utd
iZem Ze®. -Or. ,j».
horn,"©. 3.,« jtw.
Baby Mine anil
UkMh. Ftor’t;.. lAilJxik,
.Scrub and 1,.*;; jurgi* has in
her borders, c Jtap J" 1 ’ «,
Crackling, .as- T _jr,
Dirt Town. 1 »
Pereimmon . Ty
Ty. Wino « a Hook,
Half Day, school asd
Zif Indian net with Bean
Blossom, B >f skin, Dice, Hogn,
Polk Pate «r Brush 7* .lover
and Zulu. , Cheer,
Yankee an Kansas
furnishes .sard, Og,
Raltlesnak Ken
tucky pro ’ 4 ht, Seventy
sir. *" • -w Deviiahsad,
He. übosea, No
bolt 'town. Slick
awA_, uouiaiana contributes
Happy Jpek and Jump. Pattagnmpus
is in Maine. T. B. and Gunpowder in
Maryland. In Teiwainye A. B. C.,
Dabbs. Forty eight, V B*, Zed. Bern,
flknll Bone and Calf-killer. In Texas,
Blowout, Gunsight, J. Bob, Jsboy, Jim-
Town, rw BxnvMerai, twi ■luxw Bun vtyx
Populi. Pennsylvania donates Nine
Points, Seven Points, Six Points, Sev
enty-six, Sabbath Rest, Scalp Level and
Shickshinny. Nine Times and Ninety
au are in South Carolina; Seventy-six
in Missouri; and Fourteen is in West
Virginia. Dubbs, Bara Avis and 0. K.
are in Mississippi; and Dakota and
Michigan each have a Stump. Wash
ington Territory prides herself on Muek,
Kumptaw and Skookemchuck ; Virginia
on Chuckatuek, Non Intervention, Pen
Hook, Skinquarter, Tan Yard and Wolf
Trap. Antiquity is in Ohio ; Shoo Fly is
in lowa, also in North Carolina; Sleepy
Eye is in Minnesota, and Wide Awaks
in Kentucky. None Such is in Michi
gan, Nix in Alabama. Last in North
Carolina, and Last Chance in lowa
Tennessee bluahingty produces Sweet
.Lipa to be promptly sainted by a Bum
from Manitou county, Mich. Fillmore
county, Minn., lioasts of its Clear Grit,-
while Bay county, Mich., shows a White
Feather. Btae Bye, Clapper, Grease,’
Protem, Tribulation and Zig are in Mis
souri. Fair Chance is in Pennsylvania
Fair DsnUag ISM Keatufiky, but she
finally pleads guilty to a Trickum, and
so does Georgia. New York and Indi
ana each have a Big Indian, while Ne
vada has nothing better than a Sheep
head. North Carolma has a Dey Book,
i Banging Dog, a
Ired, Bandy, Mush, Shoe Heel, Short
MOBTA.LITT raoK colrauitmof.
The reported deaths from all causes in
tiua esty emce IB|d aumbex ),<Mp,BO4,
and of three 197,718, or over IBJ per
cent, were from consumption. This
disease is vary deeteuotive elsewhere, as
•hewn by |ha last Ugfied States census,
and especially in the Eastern States. Is
Maine it wee the oause of ever one-quar
ter at the mortality. The exact per
centage gives is 26.77. In New Hamp
shire the percentage on the total mor
tality was a littis over 22 ; in the Dis
trict of Columbia it was nearly 22 ; in
▼snont * was over M; an Rhode Isl
and it was a fraction lees ; in Maeeachti
tafite it Wes ■early 20 ; in Oregon it was
18, and in Conaeoticut it was nearly 18.
The perron deaths from conrasip
bon on the sa*a« mortality was lowest
in Araoaa, psg cent; in Nevada rt
WsaAAB, aa* te Georgia &<B. New
Tort standsXootteeota so the bat tn re
gnal i» MiafciMßtji of Itos diSMsm— Asm
ForAAnn .
“Yan,”Mtd the school-girl, who had
naan from the lowest to the highest po
sition in her elam; “ T shnß hM a
horsseboe tor my symbol, m it Aaaotae
Uanag nomn from tha foot I"
Devoted the Intereels of Columbia County and the State of Georgia.
HARLEM, GEORGIA TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1881.
7. -7
Washington tMqsitoi,
Questtoas of etiquette are notnetimM
very tenahlsmmu in Washington, and all
the more beeease very many of nmdani
>mm of that city, who nnssi from (torts nt
uei rural homes, know and cam nothing
■about ettouetta. How little the honor
able geatteman from Bymaam’ Hute
snspecta, m tee to sntaed to take Mrs.
Senator Bed Velvet to dinner that the
chair m which be shall sit, sod the lady
whom tee shall hand out have been
•nhjsete of long and Burnous delibera
tion, It ia easy to call on Wormley, or
Weicker, or Pinard, or some other cAr/,
and order a dinner fur twenty. But who
who »d AIKMM.
whom r—(nene are the queetlons wMMi
cause vexation and anguish. A distin
guished official gentleman in Waahmg
toi. gave a noble repast in honor of a
ted gwet H «m onfrwvi of the
I'rapm jMtevoywr. **¥<■(/ paid the
host, when he had bade no expense be
spared, “ I din t know anything about
tn« busmens of seating people eorrwiUy.
You must attend to that, too.” The
purveyor went straight to another dis
tolgtiiijird man, who had not MM in
vited* to the dinner beanuse it Wonid not
be agreeable to some other dlst'.nguuibed
man who was invited, and distiuguialied
man number one was iwmauael v unused
that bo was called upon to seat the
guiwta st a dinner to which he was not
nimaelf invited.
official persona who are really IntoßfroOt
to etiquette, and who greet it with a
hearty democratin laugh, yet liecatus
of its official population there baa lieen
from the first eepeotal attention paid by
exj>erts to the subject. Washington
took grave counsel Upon it, and Hamil
ton gave him some canons of behavior
in writing, and there is alleged to be a
move rigid system of socml etiquette
among official persons ia Washington
than ia tn ba found in any circle eisa
wh<-re in the country. There ere
asserted to lie due rules for ths "first
calling" of Benatom’ wiv«l aad the
wives of the membsre of the.<MMnei
and of Justices of theßuprsme Court
I’riwedenoe •< table ra also a knotty
point involving great trouble of soul.
Home peers ago a Senator gave a dinner
to which the Secretary of mate was in
vited. When dinner was annonnoed,
the host turned to the eenior Senator,
the dean at tha Benatarial Chamber,
and asked him to take ths lady of ths
tecuse to th« table. The eenior Senator
hesitated, saving •> hl* colleague that
the HecretaTy of State was in the room,
" Pshaw ! we Henaton make Becretantw
ot State." was to« answer ; and the host
insisted that in Ida house nobody should
precede ths dean ot his own body.
—Marpsr a
x-rorwaa ova xcsriD.’
Three years ago Detroit, ears ths AYm
Prru, had about fifty amateur weeklies
in full blast. One by one they have
succumbed to the chieken-pox, meealea,
whooping-cough and hard times, and
the number yet alive oan now be count
ed on the fingers of the left hand. The
latest failure occurred yesterday just
after the bells had struck 13 o'clock.
An ambitious, persevering boy of 12 had
established the Twilight in a little sec
ond-floor back room beyond the perks
mi avenue. Lu fei« wue of
t*ree »>*iea ia tbs *Benoon oo-
M tie loMig t *
. i. A Beagled
WChusn ft ThiS W-lte her
' Qfiklern witH the siOve hamlel. LEt
her beWairorWe 81U11 pußlisH Her
The editor ofithe Twilight was seated
in his sanctum at the hour named, when
a female entered. She hadn't come to
subscribe, Rtes wasn't there to have a
funeral notice published. Bhe didn't
took bhe the President of a iemala sew- ‘
tng society. . No one could read her
rrraad until she had locked the door
Then she kicked the prvos over, upset
the Standing galley, . knock*! the legs
from under the editorial table, and laid
hands on the editor. Being taken by
surprise, he did not realise what wsa
grtlfif ou until he had been shaken out
of hie boots sad jammed into the wond
ixm hroifitot, and ere he hail regained
his editorial wnmposure the aaaailant
had fied. Bain aad deeolation brooded
there. Hsune ami dimeter Muled around
the room. The red-headed woman who
licks her children with the stove-handla
bed played smash sad left nothing to
begin anew on. No insumnee and nr
mere TwiligAA
4 atAiwa UAKB.tromT.
In a oertata town in Maine, some
farmers weal out haying and earned
with thorn a jug of eider, which they
put in the shade at a tree. While they
were at work a snake sweliowed • toad,
which swelled him greatly He tliea
i-rawied asm to the jug, which was
tipped over oa the ground, and espied
••rrtbas Sand ea toe sibsr •*• fteeing
the qaickeet way, the saala stuck his
head through the handle of the jug and
qumtiy ewaD«wod toe poor toa* Now,
to the snake's amaaMMnt, he conlda t
move either wny, as ho had swallowed .
toad on either aids of the handle In
that peculiar pouMton be woo eaptarod
kylhotaraMO*
■ma roiawrs or nm n>»
The toilette of the fly ia so carefully at
tended to ao that of the moot trivotoos of
human inoeota. With a contempt for the
looking-glass ho brushes himaelf upend
wabbles his little round head, chuck full
of vanity, wherever he happens to be.
fiomettmm after a long day of dissipa
tion aad flirting, with his six small legs
and little round body all soiled with
simp and butter aad cream, he peases
out of the dining-room and wings his
way to thw clean, white cord along
thsfl^rjgiMg-jJcriodWimb, andm
this retired spot, heedless of the crafty
spider that ia practicing gymnastics a
few feet above him, he proceeds to puri
fy and ■*ootea himself for the refreah
talr repoea aad soft dreams at lbs balmy
summer night, so nenemery to one who
is expected to be early at breakfast It
is a wonderful toiloV Besting himseU
an his front and middle legs, ho throws
his hind legs rapidly over his body,'
Inndiug down his frail wings tor sa in
stant with the pressure, then raking
them over with a backward motion,
which he repeats until they are bright
and slaaa. Thau ha pushes the two
legs along under the wings, giving that
miser ktrtrtnr* a thorough ourrymg,
•very row aad then throwing tha logs
otit and rubbing them together to re
move what be has collected from hie
corporal surface. Next bo goes to work
upon bis van. Besting on his bind and
middle legs, he raises his two forelqgs
and begins a vigorous scraping of his
hesd and shoulden, urtag his proboscis
•very littl* while to push ths aooumuls
tion from his limbs. At times ho is so
energetic that it seems as if ha won
trying to pull his hesd off, but no fly
ever committed suicide. Home of hie
motions very much resemble those of
pussy at her toilet. It is plain, oven to
the naked eye, that he does his work
Jhoronghly, for when he is finished he
looks like a new fly, so etean aad Boat
las ho made himself within a few tain
■tee. The white cord ia defiled, but
“floppy te hltwseU again, wad he tads tha
jronung-gJartes a gpod Water.
won* og •» dat.
In the fall of 1790, Burns struck off at
ons ht*at ths matchless ** Tais of Tam
o' Bhanter.*' The poem was the work of
one day, of which Mrs. Burns retained
a vivid recollection. Her husband had
spent sioei of the dsy by the nvervidi ,
•nd in the afternoon she sought him
with her two children. Ho was busily
Kiigsgmt crooning to himself, and Mr»
Burns, perceiving that her presence wm
an interruption, loitaaed behind with
her little ones among the broom. Her
attention was presently attracted by the
strangs and wild gssUcu Ist ions of th*
bard, who was now even al earn* d»-
tMwa, agonized with an angovwrnablt
exone* of joy. H» was reciting very
loud, and with tears rolling down his
cheeks, thorn animated verioa which ha
had just conceived :
■Vow Tam; o Tub IkM t*M Mos *oo«*».
I' pinm* as* otroptt*' *> ***' Woo*
"I wish ye had aeen him,” said his
wife; "ho was in such ecstasy that th*
team were happing dooa hi* cheeks.'
The poet, having committed the versei
to writing, oame into the house, and
read them ia high triumph at the fire
side. Ho ever after regarded it as the
master pieoe of all his poams, and pos
ferity has Mt, I believe, reversed the
judgment. Afw* Letter
orrTtaa ot a lkoialatud.
The following humor on* aketob of th*
duties of s legislator pointe ont seven]
evils which would not axial if all legisla
tors were conscientious:
The Limekiln Club Committee oa Ju
dnuary, who had been sakad to iaveeti
gate and report on the query from To
ledo, " Whet is the duty of a ateasber of
the Stale Legialalure t" reported as fol
lows :
L Jo. take a free pass from ebery rail
roeddadaßtaU Dta Mm te apo
amhau to Vote s«in railroad nsemopohes
an’ eabaidtM.
& JMtoabaeat often a«' asmmstt as ho
Uh, to’ to dtow hte satary wttb ptompt
Mas aa' dispatch.
8 To posh frww bills tavortn dg inter
artaofhmasaHam fctemda.
A To aptn out fia aatoua* so long ••
pramibls m order to tosw to eteory
6. Te tot m oeeaohM peas tritoui
siekia’aspeoch, an'to hob oberr oMof
toss speeches printed SB ’ aato Mttno te
aa aanhue
The report was soeepted amfl filed
and Brother Gardner eowipMaasatod th*
Chairman ca Ms nasaoab and latalh
genes.—Dtorott JVm /Vsas
A emoTMBLMr who recently patented •
firs escape has died, aad a wtetead person
suggssta that ho assy have abundant op*
portuaity to tool hie iavetttioa.
a nmw terrar 4 nwroar.
” I have seen eeasowhero a statement
that a cow wee eoM at auction in this
country, some yean ago, for HO,OOO. Is
this so; aad V aa, in what did her value
consist T Plesa* tel! a doubter *o*»ething
about it if you can."
Tbs statement is true. The oew wu
a famous ahort-hm owned by Samuel
Campbell, a wealthy otaek-broader and
manufacturer,reridmgatNww York Mills,
near Utica, N. T. About one hundred <
animals al this sal* brought over 8800,-
080. This particular cow was bld off by
th* ages t of a rich English man for breed
ing purposee. Alter Uuyuig bar the
mw owner came to the pondusion that
be had paid too dear dor tha whisUe, aad
instructed hie agent, instead es sanding
her to England, to *ell her ia this ooun
try al lbs best attautahls prim. AJtera
UUle the agent toumi a nutomm by
knocking off exsofly fllO.OOu. Th* new
owner—a gentleiuaa residing at Ford
ham, N. Y„ ws think—kept the oow un.
Id ah* dropped a cell, whereupon *h*
was taken aiek with milk tever, or some
thing like it, aad died. Her value oou
usted in her pedigree rather than in any
wonderful capacity so a milk producer or
butter arak*r, or, to put it ia mercantile
phrase, bar value eoMioted in what she
brought her wwmt— and to the last two
owner* that wasn't much, unl*e* in the
way of valuable expenaaoe. PAriadei
pAta Praaa._
Da. Hixnnrw ssyi; "The assertion
that American woman are feebler than
foreign women is known to bo salsa by
any who has smployed foreigner* as
domestics. The foreign 'help*' are
puffed up by watery vegetables and
coarse bread, aad look itrong ; but they
have headache*, hod teeth, *are eyes,
deateee* and weak digestion, and they
are tired out by little task* which their
mtelresae* oan do easily aad shMrfuliy. **
, » 'Hv » i
What is the'differonce between a fann
er and a bottle of whisky T One hue
bond* the oorn and the other oorna the
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NUMBER 21.
tertMUMrU.
A wall-paper uiouid never be ob
tnsdra. It to nrA intended for toeers
Uon, aa *o many would seem to think,
but for the 'background of doeoration .
the mirrors, pictures, brackets, rape—
these srs tha deeorniions ; and the wall
paper is ot finest sffeci whan of nosßect
at all, and th* objsota of plastic art
stand out from it in strong rnlisf, as
freaakbsir own oaava* Many people
• mobs tbtor wall-paper so rauahoprinci
pel rabjoot, make ii on abasrvabto With
its spots and figures and ooloan, that all
paintings and sonlptuna become morel v
sooondary, and thsir rooms took inpon
* groan*. That unios«unaia result will
•uiefy be avoided if the semo-flgurw!
paper, the uadUy-rmtoadoNd, the di-
I spared, with it* ByaanttM euggaatton*.
I <■ the smooth, ovon-ttatad, perisctly
ptata paper ba adopted.
Gilding, spam, in someth ieg .that
ehonld bo vary sparingly toad. The
<trawiag-room is usually the betted tor a
little of it carefully administered, and
no other room, except, perhqp*. the
duung-room. The family si|tiog-room
*s coxier and more barmoawus pjQiont
’ it» its glare ia utterly unfit for lapping
rooms. The sommon idea heitofthat
> when you have aecnrod a gilded ■paper
■ you own go no further ; but ii ia oefctoui
that a gilded paper is reuUy • ohoic «
om ; and it is mom hequaaHjr Weou»
in tocMm and effect; in one light oorne*
a blinding tonaio of guU, in another as
fork ablteuaif thewaoateMoasM>e*h*i.
the efltaot of tee roeen does not remain
the same for flee minutes tagethmr, snd
to novar foe same to Pwe dittweat par
eon*.—Harprr'r Ba*ar.
Wire, given io literature and the
drome, to harhaaband—"Georgy wh*i
lis th* mean;eg of the expression ‘Go
to,' you meet with co frequently in
Hhakopeare and the old dfomsettu »"
Husband <not a reading msn>—•• f Won't
know. Fm sure, my dear, unices- -w<-1i
i jwrhape he was gang to say—but
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