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EW’Nortt.’k.—Thome who subscribed for the PlioXOOßAra on trial are expected when they renew U> pay the regular subscription, $2.00 per annum, SI.OO for six months and 50 cents for three months. The Butler Herald opposes the present convict lease system of the State. Col. 11. B. Jon eh, of the Macon Telegraph, is exceedingly unfortunate. A few days siiK’o lie had a fight with Mr. Sam. Jemi aou, of that city. Italy has quarantined against the United Stales, which is unfair, in consideration of the fact that we never quarantined against her infernal organ-grinding nobility. The Legislature, while it ia in the investigating business, ought appoint a com mittee to investigate and analyse Atlanta whis key, as it doos' not seem to agree with some of the members. Why do the newspapers persist in exonerating Gov. Colquitt with an “h ?” Is it bet-ause ho will soon become [an “cx-Hou '. '* There can bo no oilier good reason.—Augusta Krening News. Somebody buried a couple of boxe* of sulphur in a spring not j'arffrom Perry, and now 11*' editors of tho county papers are try ing to make ,tha people lielieve that there is a genuine sulphur spring hi the county. “Observer,” a very observant cor respondent of tho Dispatch, wants all the Pub* lie Printers, from Bullock's administration down to the present time, iuvostigaU’d, to see I whether their accounts arejcoriect. To boil down the crop reports, w» will alate the case us the following language aiid tiding.. »»nu » kind of TSprn that will tuaki. without rain, and cotton and nets which can defy the rust. 5 The State Greenback Convention L. of lowa met aud organized at Marshalltown Tuesday. Only thirty-three delegates were present. Nothing was done beyond efforts to “** harmonize the two factions of the’party, and inaugurate a more decided policy for 1881. Colonel James Bowie, the inventor of the Bowie knife, never intended that it should be used a s’a we«|aiii_of offciise or de fense. It was designed for a hunting knife And yet he was the tlrst to use it for tlio pur pose not intended, and finally tell a victim to it himself from nil parts of New Jcr soy uuiieale a great revival in Jtlie iron trade. Mines, furnaces and forges, which have been idlesin'V the panic of 1813, have been re i opened, and in many places work is being car ried oil day and night. New mines are also being h|s ued and now furuaOM built ’ " 'CtiMMKNTiNO upon the affairs of ’ • tilings in general, we would nsk why it is that one editor of tlie Macon Telegraph and Mes senger has all the fun to liiinaelt T He dis plays a certain am ..at of selfishness that ia Indeed reprolionsible I Old father Clisby and | Joe Jones should take n part iu these occusiou ’ al pie-nics. We bail rather be ]xx>r anti dwell in a hovel, with a clean conacientv for a com panion, than to abide in a temple as costly as Xing Solomon's, with millions of money that was the price of our good name and reputa I tion. Money hides a multitude of faults with some people, but a good name is to tie more highly prized tlian great riches. Fresh troubles are anticipated in t. Cuba by tho Spanish Governmeut.on account yf a statement recently made by the separatist Ciibwi' Junta in New York to General Martinez the effect tliut it considers itself ab solved fi onratt engagements made to him at the | done of the iMe war. Captain-General Blanco \ hue been orderdd to hold himself iu readiness to quell any separatist outbreak that may occur. i, k Anu now it is said the new cousti- is a difficult machine to ad- JuatAsGon? T’dbmbs said, it was made "bits; glar-preof.” Wo hope it is so. Bo far as we ■ understand it, wo like tho uow constitution. Tho difficulties of legislation uow, doubtless, grow out of the expansive qualities of tho con stitution of 1868, which gave the Legislature too much latitude. Cartersville Free Press. When we say that we feel sorry for e a man who has so much wurk’to do that he has *no .time' forj social pleasures and innocent I amuacnionls, whose business presses him so I closely ono day after another, to such an ex- 1 tent that lie has not uj momenta time to even ebat with a dear friend, our words arc sincere "wsßThe editor of the Planter and Grange will die early iu life from excessive (meatal exertion- Itoar Frank, wjiy don't you rest awhile and go to the spring* ? M men A nth iii Southwest Georgia and middle Florida are anxious to joiu an ex cursion to visit our city and make acquain i tarns * amoug onr buxine** men who sell good* at wlioleaalc. In an article in the Pitoxo niuril not long since we asked what liau be nunc of tlial excursion which was being in i augiimUsl for the purpose of bringing to getliur a body of business men who had never saot The Qmliuan Reporter adds io our com 8-. awaU: “True, very true. Colonel; our mer cluihWhliaw been anxious for a tong time to opt'U up a trade with your city, but your mer chants have net er invited them through Uae papers of thia atctlou to come to see them, w TOtt-Wtlie twsaon they haven't coma, and It Is the only way to get Hmm to come. The com (drummers) can’t, nor neither do h lo ,l,e "'e’chan” of Southern L vour city and become acquain mere hauls, lor then. Otlwlio would la- gone." For P ■ v■ ■hr r. f Deran of Jf 7 jttr « KIND Akn SUAVE FOR B*. J Hlys and > ~ DAHHINO AND MAIMING PEOPLE f 8 I ON THE SEVENTH. For spmetime post the police of the * depart Rent of the lower Seine have t been recipiente of complaints against { one Dr. Xavier Dubars, who prac- t tiffed as a dentisfcin Ute Rue Paulinier Doree. The complainants in all cases, < were patients of the doctor’s. They « alleged that he had, in the process of | extracting various invalid molars, ex- i ercised willful or malicious violence. In evidence they exhibited jaws, gums ' and cheeks fearfully lacerated, swollen ~ and in one or two cases permanently!, disfigured. The police investigated the com plaints, forced to that action by their number. They found Dr. Xavier Dubars a mild looking, pleasant spoken little man of very attractive manner. He laughed at the charges against him. His patients, he said, liad been nerv ous and uneasy, and bad caused the injuries from which they suffered them selves, by their intractability while ' *“■ CHAIR. “To prove to you that I can draw teeth without causing injuries, I offer, to operate on any of you gentlemen free of charge,” he said. One of the policemen ventured the experiment. The doctor extracted a decayed or particularly delicate nerved molar for him with ease, dexterity and painlessness of a skilled hand. Thenceforth the authorities refused to receive any further complaints against the dentist. If the complain ants bad any cause for their accusa tions, they could bring suit against him for damages. The police were convinced that he was a maligned man, especially as many people ap peared to speak in his favor, from their own experience with him. On the afternoon of June 30th, a man appeared at the gendarmerie, con , ducted hither by a policeman. His left cheek was slashed and cut, until in places, the jawbones were left bare. . One eye was completely destroyed; his hands were slit aud mangled as if a knife had been drawn through them. Imbedded in the bone of his left lowing jaw, the police surgeon i broken point of a bistoury. Jjße un fortunate man, whose appeawice be tokened him one of the well-to-do middle class, was hysterAal from fright, and \ COULD TELL NO COHERENT It was two days before the concerning bis mutilation could be gathered. Then the following extra ordinary tale was told: At noon, on June 30th, he had noticed Dr. Dubar's sign, and being troubled by a decayed tooth, he re solvcd to take this opportunity of re- Ueviug himself. He found the doctor extended on a lounge in his reception room smoking. Afty a cordial greet ing and an*" Inspection of the ailing tooth he wask. invited to take his place in the operating chair. He noticed that the doctor locked the door, and asked him why lie did so. “1 always do,” was the reply. “J cannot ixfierate projierly if I fear being disturbed.” He sat facing a mirror. The doctor was quite calm, and went aliout his work most systematically. He busied himself in preparations behind bis subject, and all of his movements were reflected in the glass. .M. Fleury, the patient, was surprised to see him tumbling over a case full of dissecting knives, aud called to him jocularly: “Are you going to amputate my head to cure me of the toothache, doctor ?” The dentist started violently, and cried: “By the thunders! but that is a good idea. It would be a radical cure. “1 NEVER THOUGHT OF IT BEFORE.” And with this he snatched up a bis toury, and sprang upon his patient. The latter utterly unprepared for what was coming, made no effort to defend himself until be received a slash which laid his cheek open. Then he leaped up and grappled his assailant A terrific struggle followed. The dentist, though a man of much slight er mould than his opponent, was en dowed with the giant strength of mad ness. His face was distorted into the likeness of a devil's. As he fought he gnashed his teeth, and fairly spat out curses from lips fringed with bloody foam. After having been injured as de scribed, M. Fleury managed to stun his frenzied antagonist with a foot stool. A policeman found him wan dering the streets, incapable of either directing or agieaking for himself. Thi* horrible event, as will b« noted, occurred on Monday. Every other complaint made against Dr. Dubars had been made on the same day. No >ther period of the week but that was mentioned. The police at ouce juin|>ed at the theory that they had to do with a mailman WHOSE FRENZY OCCURRED ON MONDAYS Unlike the New York police, their theory proved the correct one. A squad was scut to arrest the doctor. He was found calmly writing. A con tusion on his forehead marked where the Wow which had saved the victim's life had been struck. He claimed to have received it through a fall. He offered no resistance to arrest, and when brought face to face with M. Fleury, exhibited no emotion. He gave his name as Xavier Dubars, born at Vevey and educated at Gottin gen. He was a physicicn, graduate of the Paris school of medicine, dentist by choice, and aged thirty-eight. Hi* diploma proved that he had graduated with honors. When Interrogetcd in regard to his attack on M. Fleury be denied it in toto, and expressed the greatest and apparently moat real hor ror. He even desired to professionally examine his victims wounds, to see if his skill cold not ameliorate them. For the remainder of the week he wa* perfecily rational. The authori ties were am.xed at the vastoes* and thoroughness of bi* learning He wrote constantly and with rare knowl edge on medical and physiological subjects. Anatomy wa* a favorite topic with him. He made with bi* penknife, a dissection of a rat which be killed in his geons ill I‘:iris came to AND On the night of Sunday, July J close watch was kept oir him, to ob-' 1 serve if his mania recurred, and in what way. Five surgeons of eminence ’ remained in the prison to follow the ' case up. The prisoner was left alone < i in iris cell with a dog which belonged to one of t|»e Itaepers. He had taken J. a great iaacy to this dog and had pet ted and fed it with loving care. . A few minutes after the prison clock chimed midnight, one of the keepers heard a noise in tlie doctor’s cell. He approached cautiously and found tlie prisoner awake and walking rapidly up and down. He had a lamp by special permission. By its light he could be seen to be in a state of high I nervous excitement. He muttered to I i himself incoherently. His usually pla-1 I cid eyes blazed, and his face was rigid I to distortion. The watching physicians were hast ily summoned. Before they reached the cell door Doctor Dubars had thrown i himself on the dog, which slept in a corner, and mangled it fearfully with | his pocket-knife. He was raving ' mad, and shortly afterwards fell into a sombre stupor, in which he paid no atteution to noises outside his cell. ANOTHER DOG WAS DRIVEN IN. It shared the fate of the first. The maniac’s frenzy seemed to vanish with the death of his victim. W hen it ceased to stir, he sat down and traced mean ingless lines on the table with his blood-besmeared hands. His paroxysms returned with day light. Powerful Opiates had to be ad nunistered to him by main force. Un der their influence he slept till Tnes , day morning. When he awoke he was his own quiet self again. This much and no more could the closest investigation develop. The man knew, or professed to know, noth ‘ ing of his periodical madness. Yet, i though he could tell everything that happened to him on other days in the week, he recollected nothing of Mon day. It was a blank to him as much ’ as if it had been erased from the cal ‘ endar. I His friends, of whom he had many, . declared him a kindly, charitable and . good tempered man, though since his wife’s death, eight years ago, he lias been somewhat quiet and reserved. i His servants affirm him a good and - easy master. Both friends and serv , ants now, however, recollect that Mon- I day was always a day with him, and that bis manner then became sombre ’ and morose. His wife died while un -1 dergoing a surgical operation for a f cancer. Brooding on that event is sup|x>sed to have unsettled bis reason, . jxxd given a direction to his mania. hiuiii ani ' For tho Phoxooraph. The Sign of the Golden Balls. ~ > 1 BY J. ALEXANDER. On the 18th of August, 1868, Mr. Ptolemy Sanders, while engaged in the pastoral mission of searching for a lost cow iTiscovered gold on what is now the site of Redstone City. To say that Mr. Sanders was over come by exciting exultation would be sparing the ilflJecUves with which our language abounds. To adopt the flowing metaphor of .Mr. Sydney Wil son, the second settler, Mr. Sanders was “took ail of a heap” and so for forgot himself us to blurt out his dis covery at ail adjacent RWp' -u» con sequence being a rush for the new dig ging, but not, however, before Mr. Sanders had allotted a goodly acreage of the precious ground to himself. The first great obstacle was the se lection of a fitting name for the now camp. “Sanders’ was suggested, but the discoverer's innate modesty frowned down the attempt to have him father the town—or mayhap as a new arrival—a man of undoubtedly envi ous dis|K>sition —insinuated. Mr. San ders was opposed to paying for the amount of whisky that such an im portant event as the Christening of a cainp would demaud —his as|iersion was, however,not entertained—for .Mr. Sanders’ generosity had been more than once manifested, even in the in terest of divers unfortunate celestials; the discussion, was, however quickly ended by the motion of a gentleman with long hair aud a predominating nose, to call the camp Redstone City; a motion that was unanimously se conded and carried. Thus was Red stone City a candidate for space on the next National map. The claims in local parlance tinned out well and the prosperity of the city was assured. Three saloons—the inauguration of the “ Redstone Thunderclap of Fr’fcs dom” newspaper—and the advent of a stranger who erected a hut and hung out a triolet of golden balls, was the crowning point of (Redstone’s reality. I mentioned the erection of three golden balls over the front door of the new arrival’s domicile, aud In this con nection would allude to the irrepres sible ignorance of the citizen*, general ly Mto their intent and purport. As the debouchment of a new orb on the planetary system disturbs the scien tific world, so diii this triple luminary set Redstone agog, and speculation as to their meaning was rife. “Kordin’ to my tell,” said the long haired gentleman, hitherto introducod —“kordin’ to my tell its a gold plating sign and them's a sample of what he kin do, and there ain’t no denyin' that them’s artistic; besides if my memo ry’s proper, I think that when I was on to San Francisco in ’65 1 saw some thing identical like it, but don’t re member as 1 asked what it was.” Tlie enlightened reader will coincide with me that this individual's Infor mation was as correct as his grammar, though the Redstonera regarded it as almost oracular, in aa much as he waa the only citixen of the camp who had ever been to San Franciaco. Why did not some one go and inquire and thus relieve the public mind ? The innocent read er looks askance I Weil, that would have been a sensible way to allay curiosity, but Redstone City bad as high a regard for frontier eti quette'as other towns, and particular ly for that section of custom's code that says: “I'm glad to see ye, but you’* more welcome ifyoiraxed. K On the 29th of SeptemheftUfa, door of U>« “Flying Panther” flew open and a young man stepped out llis raiment and khe general remark? • iMr. F<’ nr y Hamilton was highly educated in anything appertaining to cards and it was to follow Iris profea ■ aiotxthat he assayed Redstone. The .next morning Mr. Hamilton was reclining in a huge rocking chair on the piazza of .the Great Western, when the proprietor, Mr. Ptolemy Sanders—swollen to the proportions of the proverbial boniface, sidled up anti remarked, “Sleep well last night, Cap?” “Splendidly, thank-you,” replied , the young man, blowing a cloud from a fragrant Reina 'Victtria. Mr. San ders’ satisfaction was plainly evident ! aud he followed up the victory with a few commonplace remarks, which were entirely superficial aud irrelevant, for an observer could discern that ■ some powerful mental labor was strug gling within his breast. He moved a little, closer to Mr. I Hamilton, and glancing nervously around him to asshre himself that they were alone, he with a great effort said: “Say, Cap! there’s something I want to ask you—its worryin’ the boys a good deal and I allowed you’d know, bein’ from the East—what’s them balls a hangiu’ on the front of that house up on the hill thar for?” The last word accompanied by a voluminous sigh pf relief. “Oh! those balls up there,” said Mr. Hamilton, smiling, “Oh, that’s an.inti mation to the public that the proprie tor would be pleased to care for any-1 superfluous, trinkets, like jewelry, watches aiKUtlie like, if a person got tired wearing, or thought it unsafe to lie burdened with them —a mere mat- ’ ter of accommodation, you see—aud I believe he would even at times give the owners a slight monetary dona tion as an avouchment for the safety of their valuables—or, again, say you and I engaged in a friendly game of Casino or Sancho Pedro, and to make it interesting we were to play for a dollar a game or so, just to make it j pleasant you know —well, say you should be so fortunate as to deprive me of my immediate funds, why I, should walk up to the door beneath' the golden globules—knock and say-to the proprietor, “my dear sir, 1 have a very valuable watch—a relic of a late very dear uncle—society is rather du bious just now and 1 would feel per sonally obliged if you would put it in your safe for me for a few days, and by the way, my remittance from New York failed to reach me to-day and! I would feel especially favored if you j would lend me forty or fifty dollars— , which I will hand you when 1 return' for my'watch, and also pay you a pre- Vnium for caring for my time piece. Yhe gentleman instantly accedes. 1 i am replenished financially, iny watch . if in a safe place and all the gentle-! man receives for his trouble aud aux-| iety, is the miserable trifle of a pre- i iniutn, see?” Mr. (sandersdid see, and emphasized i his satisfaction with au “well 1 swear!” ' and an invitation to Mr. Hamilton to ! come iu aud take something—which * that gentlemau did with the utmost grace and good breeding. Os course, Mr. Sanders enlightened . the boys and moved the long-haired gentleman to the 'laconic utterance, i "just what I thot." The unravelling of the mystery Irons no immediate fruit .that is, »J«-re was HO noVlceah’-* Int riittfflß ren tlio prdm. , ises of the balls; uo one seemed in clined to embrace the accommodating disposition of the owner. 1 speak of events under the suu—but Mr. Ham ilton informed me that while he sat at his window at night puffing his good night cheroot, lie could ever and anon see a figure cautiously approach the door beneath the balls, and after glancing around, silently open the door and go in. Mr. Hamilton had an extra room and affairs seemed to flourish with him and he spoke of re turning Fast. After a stay of four months be carried out bis intention and bidding everybody farewell, he took the only vacant seat on the Fly ing Panther, and was whirled away. Two weeks later, the golden balls were taken down and their owner also took a seat in the Flying Panther. Mr. Ptolemy Sanders glanced after the dust cloud and remarked to a de jected group, “Well, gentlemen, I sup pose yer all satisfied now about them yaller balls. He’s gone, and in them big trunks he’s got all the watches and jewelry that Redstone City ever sport ed—besides mortgages aud deoils to most of the town, including the hotel —gentlemen he was obligin' in tendin' us money and a takin’ care of our val ybles, but wa wasn’t up to our word in returnin’ the money and I reckon he’s entitled to the articles—but here’s one man ye can bet on, will take care of his own property next time. And Mr. Ptolemy Sanders sighed. Savannah, Ga., Aug. 10, 1879. Aslant that Kills by its Sting. One of the best pointe about our North American forests is, that a care less person may ramble in them for a month at a lime and come to no harm from poisonous shrubs or vines. Sav ing a few species of nettles, which are not so virulent ns tlie European spe cies, and an occasional poisonous Rhus, the mosquitoes and flies have no com petitors. it is different in antipodean forests. Not only has the traveler to l>e constantly on the alert for about a hundred different kinds of poisonous snakes, but there are trees and shrubs whose poison is virulent enough to make the vapors from the famous upas tree harmless in comparison. There is one shrub growing in Queensland, which actually kills men and horses if a certain portion of their body be stung by it. The curious thing is that the sting leaves no mark, but the pain is maddening, and conies on again and agaiu for month* on every change of temperature, such as the body ex periences wlten in bed. Horses become so frantic when stung that they have to lie shot, and dogs gnaw off affected parte if they can be reached. The shrub is not named butanically. It grows from three inches high to fifteen feet. In the old ones the stem is whit ish, and red berries usually grow on the top. It emite a peculir disagree able smell, but it is best known by its' leaf, which is nearly round, having a (mint on the top and is Jagged all around the edge like the nettle All the leaves are large—some larger than a saucer. It usually g/ows among palm trees. .»• Lemon Fie.—Take two lemons, squeeze out the juice, and chop the lemons lino, removing lhescedi; three 1 cup* ot waler, three cups if sugar,' one egg, two-thirds of a cup jtf silted ! flour; beat Hje with half tai cup of water inniHßMmir, lliea eti»; the lemons, How to <mpt ore. Jle faculty— velous Examples. In re ply to au enquiry, how to im prove the memory’, a cotemporary says: As tr|t.he snails soaked in wine, oil and sugar, and anointing the'forehead with the liquid, as a means of improv ing the memory, your common, sense should teach .you that it is pure bal derdash. Memory is a faculty of the mind*; has the snail, or wine, or oil, or sugar, any power in itself to endow the mind with that which neither of them possesses in the least degree? Y’ou might as well sup)>ose that by “anoint ing the forehead,” with the material you mention, at night, you could awaken with power to speak all the languages of the earth, or to work out | 1 all the mathematical problems. You ; might as reasonably claim that this in the mysterious juice, one drop of which would enable you to penetrate all the I seerete of nature, and to have them , unveiled before you. There is no roy al road to the creation of a memory— I the prince and the peasant must alike 1 labor for it. There is not a faculty of the mind that is more puissaut; there! ,is not one of the faculties that can be ; more perfectly and successfuly culti- j vated. As one of the most eminent of th» masters of the art says very truly: ! “Memory is one of the most valuable attributes with wliich the Divuulg' i lias indowed man ; we cannot too fer vently invoke the Deity to gift us with : the strongest degree of that sublime facWy; nor could we praise Him , .enough when He has granted our wishes.” Now, if you wish to attain this ex cellent power in all its excellency, you must find out how to do it, and pursue it with due diligence and appli cation. The Greeks and Romans cul tivated the art and attained consider ble skill in it. The first great teacher among the Greeks was Simonides. Quintilian and Cicero ascribes to him the invention of the memonic art. Herodotus informs us “that those Egyptians who live in the cultivated part of the country are, of ail I have seen, the most ingenious, being atten tive to the improvement of the mem ory beyond all the rest of mankind.” Many tribes of jieoplc surpassed the rest of mankind iu these gifts, in the ratio of the excellence of memonics among them. Cyrus was able to name every soldier in his immense armies. .Mithridates had a great art in this fac ulty, and many of his officers were re markable for it. In modern times Grey came for ward with a system for an artificial memory, but while it was rather bet ter than no system, it was cumbrous and very defective. In 1807 Felnagle made an astounding stride beyond Grey; i>ut while his plan commanded a large share of attontion and approba tion, its inherent defects brought it i into disrepute. It is related that, hav ing closed his lectures in one of the I toww? of France, he took the diligence ,K;? ' WL‘ nol wk«r« 'he engagements fur luuipffxs. ! Sood after the diligence started, one of the servants of the hotel rushed to the front door, hoping to find that the ! vehicle had not started. But it was then out of sight. The servent was asked what was the matter, and he re plied with great concent: “Bless me, it the memory man has not forgotten liis ttnibrella.” Airne Paris soon after . came forward with great improvements ,on F'eluagle's methods. His system was the most perfect one that had been framed, and he commanded an im ineNe success wherever he appeared. ! He deserves to be held in grateful es tecß by all who cultivate artificial menory. And here we must say that artflcial memory is far su|>erior to ■ natiral gilts of the faculty, from the fact that it is cultivated, and is sus cepible of any amount of excellence of which the mind is capable. But the ; hard was on the strings of the curtain,! to Iraw it aside and unveil the attain meit of jierfection. Li 1844 there appeared in the city of New York a young Frenchman, an acctmplished and finished scholar,! naued Francis Fauvel Gouraud. He' wasfrom the University of Paris, in whih he held a high and noble posi tion He waa incomparably the most fiisdnating man we have ever known. All.be treasures of knowledge seem to been emptied into his mind, where w' was put up in packages, to lie drawn fort* whenever he needed it. His | elates in New York consisted of malv of the best men in the State. Th* were numbered by thousands, and io man was ever more idolized by his yupils than Professor Gouraud. Hisiystem is pefect; it can be used forivery department of knowledge. It i is j»st as applicable to the planetary sy«*m as to the most ordinary affairs oflfe. All the longitudes and lati tude of places are as obedient to this sysfein as the multiplying powers of tli« multiplication table. Look, for eßaaple, at a single specimen of its powirs by Miss Pratt, oris of his pu- 1 pila When Sirhave, the Indian King, ♦old Sysla, the inventor of chess, to name Ids reward, Sysla immediately said he would take one grain of wheat isometrically doubled upon itself, from tlit first square of tlie chess-board to thi sixty-fourth square, or last square. ' Tl» King, looking upon this as insig' nilbnnt, ordered his treasurer to de lit# up to Sysla one million of meas ure) of wheat, or the equivalent in mon ey But the Bramin held the King to ’ hi| promise, and it was found that the ' mfelair of grains u[xm the sixty-fourth ' s<|are of the chess-board amounted to ' 3*03,574,010,030 grains. This num -14 was inimcsiiately given Miss Pratt, snl she immediately went on withdis tiiitncM and accuracy to say: As oif pound (avoird ipois f of wheat, of a ixxl quality, contains an average of ! Hllß4 grains, one American bushel, Orjfkl pounds, will contain 719,040 i gains, and one ton, or 2,000 pounds, I 2<ti68,000 grains. Dividing the whole i nanber of grains by these different' pißpnrtions, we find that It contains in pounds, 3,570,894,573,966,475; eq|ial in bushels, 42,846,742,899,441 ; to»», 1,285,409,286,983; which, at $1 a bushel, or S3B 46 per ton, is worth ,846,742,890,441; which would load |a# many canal boats of 40 tons as ! ' 82} 185,057,174, or as many va*Ms of «(W tons as 4,284,67 4,289 f <^|ch' would make as many loaves of brnd of one' pound a* 2,570,804,578,961,475; and! wHinh would feed all the » glolie, K>i.] OTE Saratoga Springs,'- Aug. 11. Tired of the endless song of the surf, I have removed my quarters for a time to this Babel of America. It is but a few hours by rail from the and before one realizes it they-are passing into an atmosphere charged with the electricity of Jew and Gentile, elegance and shoddy, Croesus and Lazarus, managing mamas and matrimonial speculators, sick and well, gambler and victim, horse jockey, moneyed magnates, law yers, doctors and rif-raf. Out from the palace car one is dumped into a wilderness of cabs, coaches, phaetons, rockaways, gigs, trotting-wagons, om nibuses, etc., and greeted with a med ley of sounds strange to the dweller ’mid the primeval forests of the Northwest or the canebrake of the South, but familiar as household words to him who treads the flags of our Bi2_adway. “Here you are 1 Right away up to the United States Grand Union Clarendon! Half a dol lar to any part of the city!” And J they will fight as only a Gotham Jehu 1 knows how over any stray victim whose verdancy or innocence offers a ■ fair field for plunder. But to him or her who “knows the ropes*” the pass age is easy and speedy to the ,„cool, lovely room and refreshing bath, and thence to tne satisfactory lunch, after which a ngp, and then to becotpe one l of the thousands which crowd the ho ' tel piazzas, which are the institutions of v the city. I know your readers will forgive me—perhaps bless me—if I omit to dwell upon the familiar features of j Saratoga, which the army of corres pondents have already done to the death. Besides, lam only a woman, and of course I cannot go everywhere nor sec one tenth of the naughty but interesting things the “lords” do; therefore, I can only speak of such things as will interest the general read er or possible traveler and dweller in the midst of this gilt and crystal, whitewalled palaces and shady trees, parks, flowers, music, lime-light and flirtation. 1 should spy something sweet of McGrath, of Kentucky: how hvnd ' some he looked, what noble, fleet horses he has; but—l didn’t win any ducats at the races last Tuesday ; in fact, my penchant for Kentucky horse flesh made my pocket-book look as thin as tissue paper! How, then, can I praise McGrath ? I won’t! I detest him ! lam glad he lost at roulette the night before ! lam glad driifking so much water gave him a headache! There 1 I fancy I hear some of your fair lady leaders inquire: “Bet! Do the ■ ladies in the North go to horse-races 'and wager money?” Oh, no; of course not! They oidy buy tickets in the French pool, and accept what fate 'sends them without a murmur—if they , lot). But don’t they crow if they I win ! I didn’t win, so I think gam bling on a losing horse all wrong. Rut then the geaad Maud is a 'table |iiu6ir» oallerv. and afit sitting for all the styles of two continents. | Here, as everywhere, the modes run a garrut of all the grades and tints of ’attire; des|rite certain interlineations of brilliant color, the tendency is to i extremes. White and black toilets ' alternate, and are worn indiscrimi nately. It is simply a question of I material and garniture. As to the methods of making, they are almost uniform. The fashion of dispensing! with hats renders the coiffure an ob jective point; despite the tendency to low coiffures, ladies cannot readily ! dispense with coronets and finger puffs. The parachute is an indispen ! sable institution, which in many in stances takes the place of hats. Pretty faces appear doubly arch under a can opy of color garnished with lace. The I 250 guests of the Clarendon sport at I least 350 parasols, of every size ami color, one to match nearly every toilet. No wonder gentlemen grow confused, ’ when the charmer, whose sign manual ’is lavender to-day, may be cardinal I to-morrow ; and what recourse have I ' they in their confusion but to rush madly to the Hathorn spring and fill themselves plumb full of delicious water? Delicious? Don’t make a ' wry face, gentle reader; a Kentucky i friend says rye and Saratoga water! 1 don’t mix. So they take it straight. ! i W hicb ? Both. But then it is a sacred obligation ' one cannot omit. What matter that j the water does taste as if all the in-j 'gredients in a drug store were mixed in your glass, and you don’t like it? It is the fashion to attend the morn ing, afternoon and evening levee at the Hathorn pavilion, and one had better be away from Saratoga than out of style. Besides, it will do you good ; so drink it and say you ‘ love it,” as the others do. And then the music at morning, afternoon and evening. How ravish ingly enticing are the concourse of sweet sounds, and how delightful it is to alt on some part of the 2,500 feet of piazza encircling the inner six acres of court yard of the United States, or sling your “Traver's hammock” be neath the shadow of those noble trees, amid a wilderness of flowers, cooled by the ceaseless splash, splash of the fountains. Ah ! this is indeed life, it was this lounging under the trees which induced me to go to Travers A Son, on Beekman street, and get one of their hammocks, and I have not once regretted my foresight. It is light, strong ami portable, and with my book or note-book and |>cneil is my almost constant companion on my walks or rides. I can do without my Saratoga water, but not without my hammock. And all these delights of music and fountains and trees and flowers are due to the enterprise and liberality of the late Major Leland, and to his family, who have followed in his footstc|>s for over a quarter of a century, until the traveling public of two worlds have learned to combine the name of Iceland with home and comfort. And of the village, itself, outside of the factTliat it is a great centre of fashion, diplomacy, money and matri mony, much can be said. The loca tion is healthful, the scenery fine, the drives superb, the private residences unsurpassed In architectural beauty, the Lake a glorious sheet of wnter and the Springs fragrant with— I Strange one must al wavs begin and end with i the Springe. 'Here railroad magnaUis I control the desttypes of commnm; polili<Mhns make and unmake kinge-*- ts: and stocks wear hoofs « ia * “ morr - v revel > m y Hilton and his henchman Glair,oPthe Grand Union, are in ill repute, owing to their action “last year toward the Jews. And by the way, Corbin, of Brighton Beach, is aping HilUni in his crusade. But last week he “put bis foot in it” by driving off the Beach one o£ the saleswomen at the Wheeler & Wilson Newark agency because, lining a brunette, he fancied she was a Jewess. A law-suit may follow, for she • has no more Jewish blood in her veins than has Mr. Cor bin, himself. Au observation of life at Saratoga reminds one of some of the humorous scenes in the Georgia courtship of Major Jones. 1 have been re-reading the late publication of “Major Jones’ Courtship,” from the press of Peter son A Bro., of Philadelphia, and its quaiut narration of this rustic’s ex perience is an unending source of de light. It is as fresh' to-day as it was over twenty-five years ago ; and I be lieve it is the best of all the humorous publications of the day. The edition has been placed at such a price that one can afford to lose it or give it away and not miss the cost. But, pshaw! my escort is thumping at the door as if he imagined me one of the “Seven Sleepers,” and he says I must go to the Lake, for everybody is on the road, and as he has the finest blooded horses in the place, why, I’ll not keep him waiting, but say au l # Mas. S. J. Barrfv. DRAMATIC DOINGS. Louiae Pomeroy' is anxious to play in England. Lotta’s stay in Europe will not be over six weeks. Pauline Markham has made money in San Francisco. Annie Pixley Is in Canada, and Blind Tom is at Saratoga. Miss Nellie Barbour and her mother are at Atlantic City. Adelaide Neilson is said to have a weakening for roulette. Harry Hawk will travel with Fanny Price nee Daver.port, next season. Mrs. Lucy Hooper denies that she is educating her daughter for the stage. Henry Crisp and W. S. Gilbert have been engaged to support Ada Caven dish. An effort will be made in Chicago without delay, to put a stop to Sunday theatricals. Mrs. Oates has found it quite diffi cult to V/rganize her company for the coming season. We are told by a Boston manager that Mrs. D. P. Bowers is America's greatest tragedienne. “The Two Orphans” will lie revived at the Union Square Theatre, New York, next season. Henrietta Vaders is at Atlantic . City, and Stella Boniface, is summer ing at Bridgeport, Conn. It is intimated that Lizzie Creese will not tread the boards next season, and many desire to know what’s up now ? 'I r * VenmClancey was the recipient of a large and handsome stand of flowers in Philadelphia, last week Wantnold, the negro minstrel, who has been reported to be dying of con sumption, says he never has enjoyed tetter teteMi « . it Mrs. Henrietta Chanfrau, will tour the country next season with a strong . company under C. W. Tayleuro’s man agement. Sothcrn has offered Lizzie Harold 175 a week to travel with him, which may possibly lead to her cancelling her California engagement. Rose Eytinge will appear at the Adelphi Theatre, London, late in the I fall in “The woman of the People,” “Oliver Twist,” and possibly “Cleo patria.” The yellow fever scare is blocking the game of managers for Southern business, and has a depressing influ ence upon the general outlook for the ’ next season. Charles 11. Thayer is to manage the tours in New England, of five attrac tions next season, among them being Joseph Jefferson, whom he has engaged for twenty-four nights. During F. S. Chanfrau's coming en gagement at the Boston Theatre, he will probably bring out a new comedy on New England life, written for him by a New York lawyer. Another immense company of min strels is to take the road. This time it numbers seventy-five performers, and called the Allen, Delehanty and ' Heugler Mammoth Minstrels. Mr. D. S. Thomas has concluded to try his fortune with the Liliputian Op era Troupe again, and will travel with them next season, presenting a new opera written by a Boston lady. Alice Harrison has received an offer in London, and will remain there, thus breaking ter engagement with John Rickaby. He will take out in place of Alice Harrison, the Gus Williams com bination. J. K. Emmet, according to advices, is playing to excellent business in Liv erpool. On July 4th, Mr. and Mrs. Em met, Master Emmet and George Wii ton, partook of a dinner composed en-| i tirely of American dishes, cooked by J. K. Emmet in the Uoui Mrs. Edward Price will resume her maiden name of Katie Baker. Mr. Price consented to have the divorce i decree go against him, and pty his , wife a sum cash down as alimofit ai , well as a regular income weekly ilphe ( would make the suit cleanly in pgco ( of scandalous. Mr. Henry C. Jarrett is not thell. * C. Jarrett with whom Mlle. Harsh Bffp- J hardt has made an engagement or I America, and possibly regrets the fat. * The fortunate impressarto is M. 1 Henry C. Jarrett, of London, who t 1 not related to the New York in.uiagf r in any way. . “ George C. Boniface, Frank Mop , daunt, J. 11. Rowe, James Henri sot ‘ William Gleason, Edward Coyle, Jeai h Burnside, Mina Crolius, Eva Harrison L and little Eddie Harrison, make mJ' the Mordaunt A Boniface “QueeirJl Evidence” combination which opens at. the Walnut, Philadelphia. Mis* Maria Booth, daughter or J. B. Booth, will present herself next season among the stars—acting in a serio-comic play by Mr. Taylcure. Thia seems a little precipitate on tlig. part of a person so young, and, com paratively so inexperienced; but Miss Booth is a tai- nled and pleasing per former, and her courage may be Jua | tilled in success- A girl waited a year beflwe bringing a suit (yr Batria gsa agaiaat a man who had kfksed her jrfdiout. warn ag, aid Um onshing HiCtbf one eent damages too* h«r Feminine A 2| foot bride has wedded groom at Sherill’s Mound, lowa. <-C*i Crimping the hair is still in favor among young ladies Whq^wlliug. l " sae—- rifice their locks in ,ohler to look Co-, quettish for the present. A short costume for Newport is of Sevres blue foulard, with hatin of the same shade, and trimmed with satin ruffles and Breton lace plaitings. It is stated that some of the fash ionable fans in Paris cost $2,000 each, being jeweled and painted by eminent artists. But how can “thej - raise the wind Very large Leghorn hats, bent in the most outlandish shapes, are ex hibited at the fashionable millinery establishments. They form one ot the coming styles. Holmes’ poem on the “First Fan” is going the rounds. She must have been a nice girl. Will he tell us about his second Fan, and the third, and so • on. Gay little Pompadour suits for the country are made of foulards and cot ton fabrics. Church and street short costumes are made of black silk, satin and grenadine. In each new importation in mil linery, all red bonnets predominate, and are of all shades, from dark jna- , grepkt, to brilliant cherry coiln tqjled i •’niche. •- Every girl who passes through the Boston schools now receives three years’ instruction in various kinds of needlework, and is capable of being an expert seamstress. 4 The first female clerks ever cm- I ployed in the National Treasury were appointed by Secretary Chase in 1862, and now more than 1,300 women are employed in the departments at Wash ington. The most recent improvements in the production of lace, is the intro duction of shaded tints in the flowers and patterns, giving them the relief of a picture. This effect is produced by varying the application of the two stitches used in making the flowers. Silk handkerchiefs are introduced for making handkerchief costumes in the way hitherto confined to Madras bandannas. They are creamy white silk like twilled foulard, with quaint tracery and borders of black, blue or red; they are used for the bouffant overdress, with plain foulard skirta. Nothing pays better than making carpet rags. After a woman has cut up a dozen old flannel shirts, five pairs of pantaloons, seven coats, ten vests, and fourteen old dresses, and spent three months in converting them into oarpet balls, she can take the whole lot to carpet weaver and get two dol lars for them. A veteran observer says that ladies in crossing a street, get one-third over, see a team approaching and the driver trying to pass behind them, then in variably turn around, and unless the driver is quick, will throw themselves under the horses. If they would go on or stand still they would be safe, but ' they will turn back. Watch them and see for yourself. They pay female school teachers > good salaries in England. Miss Buss, head of the North London Collegiate School for girls, is paid £I,OOO per anuuin, with a properly furnished and convenient suit of apartments. The head misters of St. Daul’s school, • WsJlTn Lonitoii, receives the same lib reral compen.-IWW - tc hrru nrtr twenty school-mistressships in Eng land, the compensation for which is from £3uo to £SOO a year in each case. At a matrimonial bureau lately opened in Vienna the ladies pay a fee, and are required to attend for two hours daily. Men call and are intro duced. Women who possess accom plishments are requested to play the piano, and are examined with regard to their sentiments and acquisitions. Gue visit sometimes settles a case, but more are often paid. The ladies have the privilege of rejecting candidates without being subjected to additional j fees during the period for which they * have paid. Learn to darn stockings neatly, and see that your own are in order. Don’t let a button be off your shoes a minute longer than needed. It takes just about a minute to sew one on, and oh how much neater a foot looks in a trimly buttoned shoe than it does in a lop-rided affair, with half the buttons off. Every girl should learn to make the simple articles of clothing, and we know a little girl of seven who could io till of this and also make the whole of a blue calico dress for herself, and pieced a large bed-quilt. She was not an overtaxed child either, but a merry, romping, indulged only daughter. But she was “smart,” and she did not die young either. Indeed, we have seldom known children “too smart to live.” Very few ever die of that complaint, whatever the grandmothers may think. So never lie afraid of a bit of over doing the business. Help ail you can and study over the business daily. Once get in the habit of looking over your things, and you will like it won derfully. You will have the hide pendent feeling that you need not for anyone’s convenience in repairing and mating, but that you can be beforehand with all such matters. The relief to your weary mother will be more than you can estimate. Phenomena of Bain. One of the most curious things alxxit rain is the inequality of its dis tribution. The reader is of course aware that rain may be measured iu inches in almost any vessel set out to catch it. If a pnil, for example, lie put out in an open space on the . ground, it will catch as much rain as wouht otherwise have sunk into the ground on the space occupied by the pail. If we visit the pail after every shower, we may by menus of a two foot rule tell what depth of ruin lias fallen- This is Hie principle of the ram gunge. In practice better merns are of course adopted, so as to prevent evaporation and to measure the depth. ,Now it is of great consequence where we place our rain gauge. It might be of no importance whether it Were on the top of the bouse or in the garden close by. And yet, strange to lay, » guage in the garden near West-. minster Abbey caught twenty-three inches of ruin iu the course of the Mar, while one on the roof of a house ■ught only eighteen inches, and one • top of the Abbey only twelve •lies. The fact is, rain forms at a •y low elevation, much lower than imene rally supposed ; or, if not ac- f t»Uy funned at a very low elevation, iye leases the size of the drops which •Bhfrom higher levels. Thus, while » Ml Ohisher wm descending in a bal- -A Wfc, he passed through a tulthroqgh a was dt.o* i.f lain wars , j . I "wT A_.. eXsrfng bls notwbooklike^WßKl. These increasedh» sfcM oa sjn»wwah. _r IM the earth, but more sap j(l< > vsbjnsaitlie.earUi.