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VOLUME 11.
■ NEWS GLEANINGS.
■ ln Florida 3.000 pine “P? !e » ,; “ D 1 e
an a<w< grout
fl tb» seJlMi are employed h
Btfcinjn »■ rk- '<» Cherokee county, Ata.
B fheonly drawWck to oocoaniil ran-
B*| B Florida litiut it take- ten years
the tree* bear-
B Fifteen hundred execution- for fl.-In.
poll taxes have been issued in
county, 8. C.
B An old man on Caney Fork in Mid-
■ lie Tennessee, caught $6,000 worth of
H h < lop during the last rise.
M T rn ne*«ee has a State hOr which 1m
H preK a fine of SSOO for failure to report
■ b iL.u ca«e.’ to the State Board of
■ Health
H At Louisville, Mias., .John I). M.
■ ybnurbrr hai been sent to the jeniten
■ tun for life for the murder of W. 1'
I Triplett.
■ The Georgia Supreme court ha- de-
■ n.1e.1 that tlao cities of that State must
■ Sep their debts at 7 per cent of their
unble propertv.
tju hundred parti id gee in boxes,
ibipped from Danville, Va., arrived in
Wilmington, Del., last week for the
Mxnare Game Association, which is
trring to restock that State.
I Fifteen thousand dollars have been
upended on the North Georgia agri
calturel college at Dahlonega, It will
take, $5,006 to complete, it.
Col Be»j. 8. Ricks, of Yazpo county,
Mise,. the second largdld planter in the
South, employs 1,000 men, and made
1900 biles of cotton last year.
The acreage of wheat »<>wn over Rast
Tennessee is unusually large, and tli<
proswet for an excellent crop was nevei
more cner^iraging for the time of year.
Within the last three yeva over $2.-
000,000 have been in venter! in manufac
taring enterprises in Georgia, and nearly
110.000.000 have been invested and con
traded for in new railroads lif-our State.
Old Aunt Bonnie Holloway died in
Fauquier county, Va„ last week, in th<
one hundred and fifteenth year of her
«f, the oldest citizen probably in the
Old Dominion. When Lo[d Cornwallis
passed through Eastern Virginia in the
rammer of 1781 she said she “was a good
•mart gal, big cm ugh to gefmarned.”
The Nashville Banner, in some rae
recountings. say* : At another race over
the Clover Bottom track Gen. Jackson
entered his famous horse Truxton, and
backing him quite heavily. Gov
Cannon was on hand, but had no money,
an he bet a wagon load of.negroes with
the General. Truxton won tho race
and the Gene/gJ took in the uegroie.
Gold is being washed from alluvial
lands within the limits of Gainesville,
Ga., which pays 50 cents to the pan.
The city covers a deposit of gold-bear
ing material which should be utilized,
and no doubt will be as soon as the ca
nal Atlanta so much needs . passe
through that section. The bed of that
canal for a distance of forty miles will
he cut through veins and deposits of
gold bearing ere.
There are three great land companies
now interested in Florida. The Dinton
company holds 2,000,000 acres of the
4.000,000 acres it bought from the State.
A third company (headed by Disa'on
*l«o) proposes to drain thr Lake Okee
chobee region and reclaim the swamp
lands. The area of reclaimation is as
large as New Jersey, Connecticut, Deta-j
•are and Rhode Island, and the Disston
company will get halt of it, the State
retaining the balance of it. Two enor
mous dredging boats nre already at
•ork at this, and the work will be pushed
to completion.
Atlanta Constitution Florida Notes:
Eight years ago there was only $120,600
mvested in steamers on the Bt. Johns
Now there are twenty eight steamers
plying that. river,'one of which cost
$240,000, and to thia fleet there are con
stant additions. The Indian river and
South Florida lakes and inlet* are now
dotted with rail boats, carrying freight
to and fro. In a very short time these
•ill be supplemented bv steamers, and
then the quesaion will be settled, a new
region opened, the fertility, and beauty!
of which cannot lx put in words.
A e<><rraxronAßT asks “ How shall
women carry their purses to frustrate tho
Uuevea *" Why, carry them empty.
Nothing frustrate* a thief more than to I
•natch a woman's purer, after folios mg
her half a mile, ami then find that it con
tains nothing but a recipe for spik'd
|*eacbea and a faded photograph of her
grandmotbex,
Coltmte Bfcerfiser. ‘
TOPICS OF THE DAT.
CntarxNATt reports 188 cases of small
pox under treatment.
Dewbb will hold a National Mining
Exjiositioii in August.
Thih is the season of the year to make
predictions about spring.
The persecution of Jews in Russia is
exciting general attention.
The New York bar will give Judge
Porter a complimentary dinner.
A woman in Graves County, Kentucky,
ui undergoing a forty days' fust.
Vanderbilt pays over two hundred
thousand dollars annually in taxes.
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Strawberries from Florida are selling
in New York at $1 and 85 jx-r quart.
This is the year that the Mohammedans
expect the coming of their Messiah.
w ■—.,
Or the 601 convicts in the Arkansas
State Prison more than 100 are murderers.
Canada is considering the feasibility
of abolishing the duties on tea ami
coffee..
De Long has been traced to a definite
locality. The next thing now will lie to
find him.
A St. Lovis man has started a fund
for the Guitcnu jury by contributing 81
towards it.
We find that the more the editors sny
against the Gainsborough hats the higher
they loom up.
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Cincinnati will probably try tho ex
periment of propelling street can by the
chTtlc system.
The Cleveland fund for the Garfield
monument is not quite 8100,000 and
there it sticks.
Rin ’•"■iv is und»r »Jie impression ho
can fri ' •’» Iv so that it won’t
stink. It mny lie that he can.
.
Fkbrvary 27 is the day upon which
Mr. Blaine will deliver his eulogy_ on
President Garfield in Congress.
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The r< |H>rtvr» of Chicago have Hill'd
women out of their press club. Men
want to get to themselves occasionally.
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liIHBE is one thing Gtiiteau may rest
assured ot : He will be nut up, or froze
np -exhibited in the flesh or as a ski 1 ■■
ton
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Female teachers in Boston who have
been in service ton years want 81,000 a
year. If they can t get married they
ought to have it.
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The Hpanish pilgrims to Romo are
Carlist soldiers or well known friends of
Don Carlos, who urges tho movement in
letters to his partisans.
The Russian Government claims that
tho persecution of the Jews in that
country was iriginated and is kept np by
revolutionary agents.
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The work of tunneling the St Law
ence River is to be completed m four
years at a cost of $3,<500,000. Mon
treal has tho contract
Wilde's face is so long .hat it is said
to have the appearance of lieing reflected
from a convex mirror. Grief over he
fading lily produced it.
Under the law District Attorney Cork
hill will get 820 for prosecuting the
assassin. Dr. Bliss might give Corkhill
a pointer on making out lulls.
Ow ar Wilde think* Walt Whitman
is rbe greatest of living poets—not even
excepting Ixrngfel.ow Mr. Whitman
will now please tickle Mr. Wilde some.
The Grant phalanx, known as the
Throe-Hundred-arid Hix. are to be pro
seated with bronze meiials as mementos
for their unswerving fidelity in the hour
of sore tnal.
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If BaRSVM could secure the Ixsiy of
Guitoau, and then engage Oscar Wilde
a.s lecturer, ho might double his fortune
of 83,(M)0,000. The scheme is worth
looking into. _
We reckon Oscar Wilde don't like
America excessively. Hhafta of sarcasm
are hurleil at him from every conceiva
ble quarter. IL' must think we Amen
cans arc awful reettoss
Tobacco is a foul wis'd, but it seems to
yield an enormous revenue wherever if
is raised. The toliaoco monopoly of
France last year yielded a net profit to
the State of about s»s<l,
Hini-e Liszt went to Rome his health
na« greatly improved. But he still <le
vot« hours to the faUgnmg work of
composition, and forgets sleep, food and
Devoi d the Interests of Columbia County and the State of Georgia.
HARLEM. GEORGIA. TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 14. ISS-2
everything else except the work before
him.
11 IK St. Petersburg polioe have iseaed
in ord r forbidding tho ap|x>arauoo of
any actors or dancers on the stage of the
tlieaters of the Capital whose dresses
have not lieen previously rendered in
combustible by means of chlorate of
lime. The same rule has l»eeu in force
in Berlin for five years.
An official report ou the condition of
tho eyes of school children in Philadel
phia savs : “ Hyi»ermctropio eyea are
more numerous than both myopic and
emmetropic ; that next to myopic astig
matism, distinct lesions are most preva
lent to the eyes with liy|x>rmetic aetig
mntixni " This will be startling news to
most people. •
In its contiuual use in-.the Gniteau
trial many }H*ople liave asked, what does
‘court in banc" meant ‘ Banc, * i
brought into legal language from the |
French, means •‘bench,” and comes to
ns from English law. “Banc Regis”
was the title of the King's Beaeh, which
was blkivl' all other courts, and ap|x*al
to which wiis final. The “Court m
banc” tficreforr means the Supremo
Court of tuv District in full liench.
Sixty Harvard students, wearing kneo
breechce and black silk stockings and
bearing lilies in theii hands, wont in a
body to one of Oicor Wilde’s lectures
in Boston. O«-ar, str.mge to any was
not pleased. To see himself ns others
see him so disconcerted him tlint ho
failed even to enjoy the rapturous ap
plause that ocqphionally greeted him
Perhaps this sort of monkey business if
pursued loug enough, will teach the dis
ciple of a'stlieticism a wholesome lepson.
Editor Ramsdell of ‘lie Washington
/{(•publican, recently offered 85 for the
liest written letter accepting an offer ot
marriage, and here is tho letter, by Ger- 1
trudo Nelson, which won the prize.:
“J/y bear Jl'niahl— Fresh with the
breath of the m> tiling cane your loving
missive. I have turned over cveiy leaf
of my heart during the day. and on each
page I find tho same written, namely, •
gratitude for tho love of a nobleman, hu
mility iu fin.ling myself its ol'iuot,-and
ambition to reuiftr myself nV'r.irv of that
I which you offer. 1 will try Yours
| henceforth.”
Georiie. Q. Cannon, one of the con
-1 ti-stoyt-. for the seat of Delegate in Con
i grew from Utah K speaking of the re
j pressive mensures rt*|Mietiug |K>lvgamy,
'hays: "Our people will be obliged to
| submit with tho spirit of martyrs, aa
they have heretofore submitted when
oppressive laws have been , enacted
against thorn, or when they have Ix'en
c\p< lied or mobbed from their various
homes, before polygamy liecame one of
their tenets. They actuaHy rejoice in
persecution, us it intensifies their ad- .
hesion to the doctrines of their church,
ami iNinllrms them in their ts-lief in its
divine origin.” a—
♦
A < otemi'OBAIIY tolls the following
story: A man name'll Haiseiis who
keeps a saloon ami a parrot in New-York
went out a few minute* tho other even
ing and on his return missed seven silver
watches he had there. A few nights
after William Cox. who was the only
jx'rson in the ra'oon during Hardens
absence, came in with some friends; and
while he was drinking at tho bar, the
parrot startled him by saving gravely,
"Billy Cox stole those watches.” He
hurried out to sue the owner of the par
rot for defaming his character, when he
was arrested for stealing another watch '
which was found in his jh>sm. ssion.
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Accordino to the New York Herald,
now engaged in examining the Clerk s ac
conn‘ of the disbursements of the House
of Represi'iitatives, tho most shameful
reck less nos-- pievaila in tho manner of '
spending the- public funds. Wc quote
from the list: “Two perfumery esses,
b ugbt for a member, s2<t. three fans j
bought for a member, $16.68; six tooth
picks, Ixuight for member, 828 17; two
fourteen carat charm magic pencils,
bought for a memlier. 83<> 60; "even ,
knives, bought for a member, 8109 67;
three card cases, bought for o niemlx r
810.35; one fine opera glass, Ixnight for
a meiulx r 840: one shaving case, Isrugbt
for a memlier, 813. These are
a few of the long list given. The
Herald, commenting, says: “Hun-ly Mr.
Adams, the late Clerk ot the Honse of:
Representatives, who furnished these
extraordinary articles to ‘a memlier' at
the public expense, on the pretense that
they were needful for the discharge of his
legislative duties, does gri-at injustice in
will.holding the ‘ member s' name from I
the curious taxjiayers. He must have
b < n engaged in very dirty work to need I
so much jierfumt-ry."
(hz old Irish <lsme askisl another,
toiicbing some person recently deceased,
the Ldlowing question : “ Eh. dear Judy
aiannah, iv what did lie die ? " “ Ayeh,
dear," replied Jody, “he died iv a
Tuesday, l'm tould. ' 1
Npoopondjke In the Rule of a Hports
man.
“Say, my <frar,” said Mr. Sixxqien
dyke, as he drew a gun from the case
and eyed it critically, “I want you to
wain- me up early in the morning. I’m I
going sbisMiug. ” ,
“isn't tliat too sweet!”
; Mrs. Spo’pendyke. “I'll wear my dress :
I and my Saratogn waves. Where do we
g,,? "
“ I'm going down to the island, and
you’ll go ns far os the front door," |
i grunted Mr. Spoopendyke. “Women
I don’t go slio itiug. It’s only All
1 Vou've >got to do is to wake me up au<! I
I h*t breakfast. When I come home we'll
i have-aoiuo birds.”
I- Won't that lie nice !" chimed Mrs
, Spoopemlyko. “Can von catch birds
! with tint thing?" ami Mrs, Njxx>peudyk<
I fluttered around the unproved breech
loading shoMgun, firmly impressed with
the i h-ii that it was some kind of a trap
“ I ca.i kill 'em with thia,” exclaimed
’’Mv S|s*>)H-ndykc. "This is a giai. biv
I dear ; it isn’t ii nest with thn'e spid-kh'd
I eggs in it, nor is it a barn wipntTiob' in
tho roof. YijM-Btjck tlie curtndge m hi-i.
and pull t(ns fiXt'-i im-<. j ami down
conies your bird vi< ry tun J'
“Isn't that th^greatest thing' 1 sup
poeeif yon <L>Xt».mt Miartridg*you
cun stick ii duel or ii turk/y m tliut i-mi.
too, or n fish okaJybsAer, and Lnng it
down just us quieic'
" Yes, or you can stick a house or a
cornfield, or a d<xl gssti'd female idiot
in there, too, if yon want to!” snorted
Mr„Sp.wqs'n.l vko. “ Who said anything
al>oiit u partridge ? >lt's a cartridge that
goes in there.”
i "Oh !" ejaculated Mrs. S|x»qHjndyko, ' 1
rather crestfallen. "IsoenOw . Where 1
, does tho bird go?”
“ It goes to night school, if he hasn't
got anv more senro than yon have,” !
snorted Mr. Hjioopoud.vke. "Look hero, (
now, and I'll show you how it works,” >
and Mr. Hpoopendykc, who*c ideas of n
gun were iibout as vague as those of his '
wife, inserted tho cartridge half way in
tho muzzle end, and cautiously cis'kid
the weMion.
"And when the bin! sws that he
comes and peeks it! Isn't that the fun- i
niest!” and Mrs. Hpoopciidvke chipix-d
her hoiuls in tho enjoyment of her dis
covery. “Thon you put out your hand
and catch him !”
“You've struck it!" howled Mr. |
Spoo|X'ndyke, who had the hammer on
the half cock and was vninly pulling nt
the trigger to.get it down. “ Uhat's tlu
ideal 'li a v<>u maid is four feathers mid '
a gns lull to lie u martingale ! With
, your notions you only wont n new stock ,
and steam trip hammer to lx- a iiecdh
gun! Don’.you know the dod gusted
thing has to go off before yon get a bird ' >
You sliisit the birds ; you don't wait foi
'em to shoot you !”
“At home we used always to chop
their heads off with an ux,” faltered Mr.i.
H|H*ipndyke. *
"Ho would I if I was going after
measly old hens,” retorted Mr. Hpoopen
dyke, who had managed to uncock the
contrivance, “but when 1 go for yellow
birds and sparrows I go like n eiioitx
mm. While I'm waiting fur n bird,'
continned Mr. Hmxqx'iidyke, adjusting
the cartridge at the breech, “I put the
I load in here for safety, and when I see u
flock I aim and lire.”
Bung ! went tho gun, knocking tin
foil feathers out of-an eight-day clock
and plowing a foot furrow in the wall, !
(s-rfoniting tho closet door and culininnt
mg in Mr Hpoo]M'ndyk<>'a plug hat
“Goodness, gracii.tia !" aqm-ikcd Mrs.
Sjemp'udyke, "Oh, iny!"
Mr. Hixxqa'ndyke gatheied himself up
and I'onteinplated the damage.
“ Whv couldn’t ye keep still'” he
shrieked. “ What'd ye want to disturb
my aim for and make me let it off?
Thmk I can hold back n charge of |x>w
: der ami a jMinml of shot while n tm-iudy !'
woman is scaring it through a gun bar
' re) ?■’
" If it bad been a bird how nicely you
would have shot it!” snggcstid Mrs
S|x«ip<'udyke, soothingly. “If you
j shimld ever aim at a bird you'd cat.L
| him sure.”
The Crater of I’epoeala|»etl.
In a letter to tho I'iuhuielphiii Jlccord,
Mr. Nathan E. Perkins desi rib'-s at
; great length the ascent of the Mexican
voh-ano Porxx-atupetl, having reached
the crater after a toilsome elm b, anil de
scended ns far as he oouhl without a
rope. From this position u good view
was obtained of tho crater-walls. Tl.o
, I s.ttom was hidden by ascending smoke
and Steam. The lower walla wc/u bung
with largo mnsses of snlphur inti-rsfH-rseil
with icicl<*a hundreds of feet long.
“ The crater is alxint one mile «<-r<»u<,
ami has Um apjMiarance of alarge funnel
wbooc sides are but little inclined, and
the Ix'ttom ia hot visible. There seem
to lx- three distinct rings, which divide
it into four zones, the largint lieilig that
nearest the mouth. From the summit
’ the City of Mexico, although nvt r Bai
Igiles away, was plainly visible, and,
surrnundcii by lakes as it ia, seemed like
a magnificent gem set arournl witii
1 jx-aris. The whole great valley of /L-x- ,
n o can lie seen at a glance. At our feet
, lay Arneca, over thirty miles distant,
with iti luxurious growth of tropu-al
plants, orange groves and liannna jilan
taUons, ami on the nght Pueblo ami the
I old cities of Cbilulo ami Taacalla, witii
I tl.eir 365 churches and spires. The dis
tout monntiun of Orizaba, nearly 200
] miles away, the snowy |»-aks of Mdea- ;
eha, the illite Lily anil several others
in tliudistance, sUkmlarrayed Is-foerne.
1 Mt fully reiarnl for my toil in having
climlx <1 the lilghi st mountain in V.rtli
Ane nra. whom- summit is alxmt lx.iHZ)
I f< et alxive the imn-li'Vel.”
O/VRCLT the b|>x for >qam sc . the ou- .
• duct for convictmua
A POLICE INNOVATION,
lbs < bIMW OAerr lbs UMler Fxor.
Concerning Denver's naturalmed Chi
neee policeman, Ixiuis Johnson, alia*
Kunlun Yu, the fact that Johnson u
pm first Mongolian who ever wore the
Atei of u policemman in America, was
ratFy developed in the conversation, ami
is worthy of note. Johnson is married,
and more important. Ins wife u an
American, a lady in all senaea of the
term. ' •
“I mnrrleher,” raid Johnsen,
Louisville, Ky., in 1878. Hhe wax a
Miss Burt, and lived on Twenty-first
street. A gixd family. Oh, yes. First
eliuw. Hhe is of German descent, and
was a working girl, but I assure you in
every way an excellent womau -oh,
yea !”
“Keeps you pretty straight, doesn't
she ?”
“ Yon bet. Hhe objects to my going
among tim Chinese, and mokes me do
just ux Americans do—just tho s.ime."
“ How do you like that ?”
"Oh, 1 don't object. You see I con
sider myself civilized, and my country
men nre not. Many i f them arc bad
|to»ple. They are envious and under
handed. When they ace that a China
man has a gixxl thing, they try to gi t it
away from him by under bidding him."
“Are they immoral ? ’
“ Most of them are bud. Ho mv wife
doesn't want me to associate with my
coiiutrvmen here."
“ What do Chinamen pay for the Chi
nes ■ women !"
“They arc tonight first in Chinn.
Young girls uro jireferred. Tlcy are
stolen on thestneta in Chinese cities
and sold to slave dealers there, who
again sell them to men who ship them
to America. They are tonight ther • for
from $250 to tT.JOI) by wliolexale, ami re
tailed in Him Francisco for from f .RK) to
SBO0 —young girla bring the best pneea.
They then to-loug to the men who buy
them, who keep them till they get old
and then sell them to Cliinstuen, with
whom they live ns their wives. Their
owners collect all the money tho women
receive, except what they steal, mid feed
and clothe the women.”
• “ How manv (Jliincsc women are there
in this country ?”
“Well, 1 should ray there arc nbout
16,000. They are scattered pretty thick
ly over tho Pacific const.”
“Why do no more decent Chinn
women come to America?,'
"Da'China everything ia different
from Amerii's The women nre kept
very close. Hence the women don’t get
out much, and tlify don't coms to tins
country."
“Do all tlio Chinese smoke opium?"
" Most of them.”
" l>o you ?”
“Ob, 1 bit the pipe occasionally when
I have n hcadiichc."
" D<xs your wife?"
“ Not much.”
"How many Chinese are there in Den
ver?"
“About 500.’’
Johnson says it ia his determination
to live the life of ii rvsjw'ctiible American
citizen. IL* is a member of the Meth
odist Chinch, while his wife Itolougs to
the Christian denomination. Huhns de
voted mo-t of Ins life to the tea Inis
uh mi. lie whs mituruliz.nl m Evans
ville.
H|x ukiug of Ilia courtship, he says he
met his wife through her brother, who
was a friend of hi*. He courted her for
about n y<ar, and when they decided
thut they encli loved the other more than
thev loved uny one eis« they were mar 4
rieil iiv n ('liYtotlun ISiinater. Denver
A'< ire '
A Bat lie Between Birds.
A gi'«itlmrta»Arotn Htfine C riuity gun
the p irtieiilnnt of n remarkable incident
win Ii ho witm sx. <1 while cniraing White
River on tho tony just above the mouth
of Hyeamore Cr<-i k Wli«-ti nearly half
way across the atri um an enormous eagle
swooped down on a flock of gi-c*c, which
wen swimming m the river rx.rno eighty
rials Inflow the to>at. The fowls, up-on
obwrviiig the eagle approaching, in
stinctively dived under the water just ns
the bird stnick the wave. BatHi'.i in tho
first uaaaiilt the eagle flew slowly up
ward, and when the geese came to the sur
face, darted downward again, and Lrtry
ing its talons m one of them, attempted
to to-ar it sway. Tin goose struggled
violently, while its companions swam
around uttering shrill cries and
sons on th*- ferry I oat nat.-lo
strange scene with ke<-n interest. Once
tbei-agle lifted its prev clear out of the
water and teemed on the jniirit of convoy
ing it U> the mountain cliff that rose
grandly in the air <m the other side of
the strrnm, bnt tho atniggiesof Uiegonso
forced the caotor ilowuwsrd. When
water was again reached the gixmi' mndo
a supreme « ffort and plunged below tho
surface, dragging the i agio after it and
i-aiiaiDg the latter to loosen its bold and
rise upward with a fi-rrec stream.
The eagle next attacked another goose,
bril with the same roaclt. todtig com
p 'lied to relinquish its hr.M when iu in
ti-mlod victim plunged to-ncatli tho
waves. Thin strange content lasted fully
thirty rniuutew, at the end of which time
tho eagle gave up the fight. Ml 1, rising,
soared nwnv to the mountains .westward,
while the flock of geew swam further
down tho stream None ot the thick
were killed, hut the water m tlm vicinity
wm dyed with blexol.-aud the auifai e of
tl.<: siri stu waaooversd witii feathers for
a eouh.derablo drstui,kj. —l.ittb Jl<>ek
Ism r In Atlanta <'onititutiiin.
One of the greatest pleasun-a of
• liitdhrxxl is found in tin- mvsmnen
which it hiilr-s from the akoptii-iam of
t>i .dim, and works up uito small my
tholngvn of Ila own.
Ttm*-IIO' per »■■■■
IN ADVAStX
NUMBER 8.
ÜBF.FUL HINTS.
Nr.van lean the back upon anytlnag
i that is cold.
Nkvkh Itogin a journey until breakfast
lias to>eii eaten.
Hfikitm of ammonia diluted witii
water, if applied with a ajxmge or flannel
to discolored spots ou tho carjtot or gar
'monte, will often restore the color.
Hkim-milk and water, with a little bit
of ghio m it, made scalding hot, will
rtwtore old niaty black crape. If slapped
. tuul jireaaed dry, like mtudui, it will look
as“giual as new.
A rasTR made of whiting Mid benzoin
will..clean marble, ami one made of
whiting and chloride of soda, Bpread and
left to dry (in the sun if jxwuble) on ths
murblc will remove s|M>ts.
Uklkry. lioiled iti milk and eaten sritli
tho milk served as a beverage ia said to
to- a cure for rheumatism, gout and a
specific in cases of small-jx>x. Nervous
ja'iqile find comfort m celery.
Nkvkh stand still in cold weather,
csjx'i'iully after Raving taken a alight
degreo of exercise ; mid always avoid
standing ii]M>u the ice or snow, or where
the pcnxin la exposed to a cold wind.
A flannel clokli dipped into warm
aonp suds and then into whiting and
npplied to paint will instantly remove
nil grease mid dirt. Wonh witii clean
w ater Mid dry. The most delicate tint
will not Im* injured, and will look like
new. •
T'< remove grease from white goods,
wash witii soap or alkaline lyes. Col
ohhl coHous, wash with lukewarm soap
yea. Colored woolens, tho same, or
nuiniotiia, Silks, uimorb with French
chalk or fuller's earth, and dissolve away
with to'tizineor ether.
Fob Halt-rising bread, stir up quite
Huck in tho usual way, using cold water,
and place upon the sitting-room coal
stove over night; it will lie light enough
to Bjxinge tho bread by morning, and is
quite a help when the liftys are so short
for rniamg tho emptying* ; my family
prefer thia rising. When one lira not a
warm-enough place to set their milk put
hot w iter in to raise the temperature.
T<> make a light wheat lonf, take tho
thick buttermilk from the bottom of your
buttermilk dish ; stir just as ypu can,
allowing one heaping tensjaxinful of so
da to a pint I nix in ot buttermilk. Pot
)>ie is nice mailo in the same way, only
put about uni' third sour cream. A puil
ding made in the same way with dried
cherries and steamed in tho cake dish
witii n hole in tho center ia nice. Tlio
udviuitagu of the holo in the center ia
that the ■tram pi wee- through center
of U*i pudding into the steamer. Eat
this pudding with sugar and cream ;
nice tart apples will answer very well
for fruit.
POI’I I.AK MCIENCB.
Fob a< ver il years it has lieen observed
that the Eurojiean glaciers are steadily
retreating.
The moleeiiles of hydrogen, at a tern
jierntltre of 60” Fahrenheit, move at the
average of 6,225 feet in a secund.
FI.VMM*HI an says that the tall of s
eonii-t must sweep through apace with
the velocity of 16,tXN) leagues perseooml.
Mn Hbinh, her Majesty's astronomer
nt the < upe of Giaxl Hope, has just com
pleted his g.'est catalogue of Houthern
star*, the result of ten years' latoir at the
cape.
Tin: alga' known iw protococcsc. m
have one jx-cullarity—they do not live
in the water but in other plant*, some in
dead, some in dying Mid others in living
' parts.
Home people have coma to believe
that suiting or smoking will kill trichiiur,
but a tem|x-riituri' of 212” Fahrenheit,
or ut l« sat 160” should bo reached in
every part of the meat to bring stoiut
this result.
The colors which distinguish our sum
mer and autumn flora -reds, pinka, blues
and yellows— are caused by ths presence
of . substances which require a strong
light and high temperature for their
< product iotu
It w*x at one time supposed that
I among twining plants each had its own
■ direction, some twining toward the sun
; Mid others agMpstit; but, though the
theory la true in the niMn, there are
' fouil'l exceptions to the rule.
The amount of nervous action may l>o
measured by the quantity of blood con
aiirnc l m its performance. The plethys
mogrtpli. meiwuring the volume of an
organ, when the arm is brought in con
' tact with its records the amount of blixal
j drawn from tho toaiy to tho brain, and
I thus indicates exactly the effort in men
tal action.
Exfesimenth have rooently been made
to sluiw that the preeenoe of ozone pro
duce-! luminosity in phosphorus In
pure oxygen, at a temperature of 15® C.,
and uinler atiuosphi-ru- pressure, phi»-
phorone is not luminous in the dark,
and a bubble of ozone introduced under
tho Indi glass protlucesmomentary pirns
phorescence.
The practical value of the Faure ac
cumulator for the storing of electricity
la yet to lie proveiL it is said that aev
end such butteries stationed in a house
and charged with electricity during the
day will be sufllcu-nt to light up the
rixinis at night and perform such light
oja-rationH ns turning • coffee-mill ar
sewing-machine.
" Pautiwo is such sweet sorrow,” re
marked a Isold old Isuiheior to a pretty
girl, as be told her gixsl-nigbL “I
should smile." alm repiiivl, glancing
tqsiu Lis hairh-.xmens and winidenug how
be ever did it.
■mi ■ iai ii—iiim iv ' - ~ ~ ' ———
Farrz has named his dog Non tteqnit-
UT, taesuse It dies not follow.