ATLANTA
“GOD REQUIRES NO MAN TO BELIZE WHAT IS UNREAONABLE."
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THE UMV3GR8ALS1ST CO.MFBSSION
OF FAITH.
Adopted at Winchester, 5. H.,180*.
Art. I i-We believe that the Holy
Scr /ptures of the Old and New Test
aments contain a revelation of the
charaot e r of God, and of the duty,
iuterf ,gt and final distination of man
kind,.
Abt . II.—We believe that there is
one God, whose nature is love, re
vealed in one Lord Jesus Christ, by
one Holy Spirit of Grace, who will
finally restore the whole family of
mankind to holiness and happiness.
Art. III.—AVe believe that holiness
and true happiness are inseparably
connected, and that believers ought
to be careful to maintain order, and
practic'd good works; for these things
are good and profitable unto men.
NEWS GtEANiNGS.
Selma has fifty fine artesian wells.
The tobacco crop of Virginia will be
short this year.
Vegetation is frightfully parched in
Middle Tennessee.
Real estate is on the up grade in Baton
Rouge, Aa.
The blackberry crop of Pulaski coun
ty this year was worth $3,500.
Arkansas has 2,500 miles of navigable
rive's.
ping a large amount of lumber to
Hayti.
Selma, Alabama, has fifty-five over-
flowing bored wells affording a plenty
of good water.
Mississippi produced the largest
amount of cotton in 1880, the number
of beles being 955,808.
The Mississippi river commission will
build ninety barges, and will have five
steam tugs.
A live oak tree in Miconopy county,
Florida, measures twenty-two feet in
circumference.
A North Carolina colony is talked of
which shall be free from “beer saloons,
churches, ministers and lawyers.
Nashville wants to be the iron center
of the South. It is now the next thing
to it—the rock center.
Railroads, railroads, railroads, is the
cry from one end of the South to the
other.
Southwest Georgia is happy in tho
success attending the boring of artesian
wells. Wator in abundance has been
obtained at a depth of 530 feet.
J. B. Morrison, of McClellansville,
South Carolina, has raised three hun
dred pounds of excellent Malaga grapes
his season.
The Fort Smith oil-mill and cotton
compress is about completed. It is one
of the largest in the country, and cost
$75,000
Pleas Harper, a negro, bought a plan
tation on Broad river, in Georgia, pay
ing for the same $32,000: It comprises
2,100 acres.
One of the Cotton Exposition’s at
tractions will be an “ ensilage cattlery”
in full operation. The pits are being
dug, and the multitude of horses, sheep,
hogs, cows and mules will be fed in the
ensilage during the exhibition. The
main object of the system is to save la
bor and time.
The Georgia Legislature has passed a
bill making a complete change in the
management of the State penitentiary.
By it the office of Principal Keeper or
Warden is abolished, anti, a board of
three Commissioners elected, clothed
with unlimited power to control the
operation of affairs. This power was
formerly in the hands of the Governor.
The thirty-eight States of the Unien
contain 2,299 counties. Texas leads off,
having 151 counties, followed closely by
Georgia’s 137. After Georgia in the
table comes Kentucky with 117 coun
ties; Missouri, 115; Virginia; 105; II
linois, 102; Ibws, 99; Tennessee and
North Carolina, each 94, and Indian
'92. Asa rule, the Southern States have
more counties than the Northern
States.
The Charleston Courier comes to the
defense of the Southern girls who are
charged with being unwilling to work.
It says that “it is only necessary to look
at Columbus or Augusta in Georgia, or
at Greenville or Spartanburg in this
State, or wherever manufacturers are
established in the South, to prove the
falsity of this charge. Charleston will
be no exception to the rule now that
favorable opportunities are gives to the
people.’’
There seeens no longer any doubt that
there are Southern cotton mills that can
sell cloth below the Eastern mills, and
make better dividends. Mr. Francis
Cogin, manager of the Augusta (Ga.)
cotton factory, says : “Southern mills
can sell cloth one-half cent less per yard
than the New England mills, and still
make more money than they do. Mr,
Bussey, of the Eagle and Phoenix mills
of Columbus, Georgia, says the South
ern manufacturer has one and nine
tenths cents per pound over the North
ern.”
Tne ex-Confederates Association of
Virginia, at a recent meeting, adopted
the following resolution: “That our
organization being purely social, we
have rejected the harsh allusions made
by one of the speakers of yesterday to
the President of the United States. We
declare that the United States is our
country, its Government is our Gov
ernment, and we deprecate every at
tempt, no matter from what source, to
revive the bitterness of the past.”
They are after the alligators lively in
Louisiana. The New Orleans Democrat
says : -‘Times seem to be growing bad
for the alligators. Within the last year,
or exen less, there his sprung up a de
mand much greater than ever before for
their skins, and now the negroes, with
old muskets and rifle in hind, 'ar
launching their pirogues in eve; v > / ou
As Louisiana is the headquarters of these
ATLANTA, GA„ WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31.1881.
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NUMBER 15.
ated quite a stir, and many people have
engaged in hunting them for a living.
The skins are taken off and sent to this
city, from whence they are shipped to
Europe and the North.”
The Wounded Horse.
Pity and kindness have a wider range
of subjects than the sufferers of our own
race and kind. Touching pictures like
the following will meet and appeal to
every observer more than once m a life
time:
In the year 1870, during the sad war
between Franco and Germany, a news
paper correspondent was visiting the
town of BazeUlee, in France, which had
just been the scene of a battle. Among
many other distressing sights suggestive
of the miseries of war, which were to be
found on every hand, he particularly
mentions the following interesting story,
which teaohes its own lesson:
In the fields, just outside the city,
there was a miserable-looking horse,
standing motionless, with his off fore
leg poised in the air.
We went up to him, when, without
moving in the least, the poor beast
turned his neat blue orbs from one to
the other of us, saying, as plainly as
looks could do, “ For mercy’s sake, gen
tlemen, help me if you oan.”
One of us examined the leg, and soon
found that a bullet had lodged in the
crown of the hoof, which was very much
swelled and sore, and the dies had been
dreadfully busy with it.
Of course, to cut it, and remove the
cause of a month’s agony, was but the
work of a few minutes; and if you could
have seen how grateful the old fellow
was when he put his hoof to the ground
and found that he could once more limp
along, you would have believed, as I do,
that horses can speak with their eyes al
most a* well as human beings.
It is terrible to think what that
wretched animal must have suffered dur
ing his long days and-wiights of agony
since first that stinging throb oame in
his foot and he was left alone in his mis
ery.— Youth's Companion.
That Man Venn or.
Henry G. Vennor, the Canadian
weather prophet, who has gained a wide
spread reputation for the accuracy of his
predictions, takes exceptions to state
ments published concerning his early
life, (a so-called biography) and ad
dresses a letter to the editor of the Wash
ington Republic in which he says :
“I was bom In 1841, at Montreal (not
1840,) and my parents are English. My
early life was spent, not in poverty, but
in ease and luxury, my father being a
head partner in the leading wholesale
hardware establishment of “ Budden &
Vennor,” with houses both at Montreal
and Liverpool. My mother was a Pat
terson and was connected with some of
the oldest, families in Scotland. My ed
ucation was not “obtained wholly
through his own exertions,” but with
my brothers at two of the leading
sohools in Montreal, and after these at
the University of McGill, where I was
immediately under the tuition of Princi
pal Dawson, Dr. T. Sterry Hunt and
other leading Professors.
Before leaving the University I took
two years of civil engineering and two
honor courses in science. I also attend
ed the ohemistry classes of our Medical
College. After spending about five years
in the wholesale hardware firm of Messrs.
Frothingham & Workman, of Mon
treal, (during the whole of which time I
was a great colleotor and student of birds
and animals,) I reoeived an appoint
ment, througn the late Sir Wm. E. Lo
gan, Government Geologist, on the geo
logical survey of Canada, and spent my
first season (1865) in a survey of the
Grand Manitouiin Island, Lake Huron.
Here I made a very large collection of
birds. In 1866 I continued my geologi
cal investigations in Hastings County,
Province of Ontario, and thence year af
ter year explored eastward until Ottawa
was reached. From this center and be
tween the years 1875 and 1880 I exam
ined the whole of Ottawa County and
traversed the rivers Gatenian, Lieveire
and Rogue to their source iu the “un
known wilderness” to the northward. In
1881 I conoluded my geographical re
searches in connection with the Govern
ment and have opened a general mining
agency in this city.
“ I have only further to state that my
" Birds of Prey ” cost me some $2,600,
and as the work was too expensive for
Canada, a great deal of money was lost on
it. I have given away a very large num
ber of copies through the United States.
“ My almanac I hope to make a me
dium for the exchange of meteqrologioa’
America. Gain is not my object, and
hitherto publishers and agents have
made all the profits. I attribute my
present position or reputation entirely
to my close study of the course of storms
in years gone by, and a comparison of
these with those” of to-day in every sec-,
tion of country. I have carried the pen*
pie along with me. not so much by one
general strikingly accurate forecast
(such as that of the winter of 1881 as a
whole), but by numerous well directed
local predictions, unostentatiously pub
lished, but telling in their effect upon
the people included.”
.I Preventton Better Thau Cure,
rot £. G. Jane way leotured ^before
tin Young Men’s Hebrew Association
ah' irl t the prevention of disease, advising
that great attention should be paid to it
cur-
come.
HHHB. ■■rait
of sickness, involving the ekpenae of
m Aioal attendance and, loss of Airne,
wc rk and wages, but jauay were igno
rant of how to prevent if A man should
fir, 'ifleam
if p 'e was
»1- v'd w „ ,
hi ' hia ohoioe of an ocotn
d> Ding-place, ete. Ai
K^ ewliat hpon the tendeifer? to com
tendencies, and
writ disease, he
itbyhia:
Incident ef Ltifcutfs Murder.
“Those are not cfieqrtil-looking
lings, are they?” said Oouns&tetjlf. A.
cDonald, as he sauntered into
floe of the United States Majshal, an!
pointed to a pair of handcuffs jftioh were'
lying upon the table. T ‘Jujl
“Not especially enlivening,” feplied
a deputy, picking up the roguVs
bracelets and examining them thought-
There was a time when I thought
they were the most oheerl«ss.and terrible
things in the world.'
of , The- deputy looked fi
F ft “Yo« ,r XI
Better Yet.
On a Canada Southern train a Detroit
er had a seat behind a couple who got
on at a little station near St. Thomas,
and he thought he had seen the man’s
face before. He was looking at him
sharply and trying to remember where
he had met him, when the man turned
and asked :
"Aren’t you Thomas , of De
troit?”
“Yes; and aren’t you William ,
of Buffalo?”
“Yes.”
“I thought so when you oame in.
And ain’t you running away with old
Judge Blank’s daughter, of St.
Thomas ? ”
“ I’ve got a better thing than that,”
whispered William, as he leaned over
the seat, “ I’m running away with his
wife I ”—Detroit Free Press.
child
,, care
should be taken from the earliest infancy
—; trst to develop the body. Ashe grew
older he should be trained to avoid worry
aijT anxiety. Action was desirable for
sc ih a person rather than undue reflec
ts ■£. All mental shocks should be avoid
ed It was bad for him to be wrapped
up in one idea, sneh as the acquisition
of money or power. He should choose
a congenial pursuit and by no means be
forced by his parents intp a distasteful
oi p. There were good reasons-why he
sl’onld not marry, but, if he did, he
should carefully choose a congenial
wife..
The lecturer then spoke at great
length on the necessity for pure air,
water and milk, giving several instances
ofi the deleterious effects of bad air,
a.Aong others that of the passengers on
tie ship Londonderry in 1848, 150 of
whom were shut up by the Captain dur
ing a storm, in the steerage, an apart
ment .18x12x7 feet. Seventy of them
died in an inoredibly-short time, having
Ci ,*u 'ulsions and bleeding at the eyes and
esrs. Speaking of the danger of lm-
i joperair in dwelling-houses, the lect
urer described a house he had examine., 1
il which he found the cold-air box of the
ffhiace oonneoting directly with the
slwei;. In another house he knew of
trnee cases of malaria where the tenant,
•■>n mining a drain that the owner had
Vyaranteed to be all right, found a cess
pool under the house. He had also
Inown people to put their garbage bar-
mis under the cold-air box of the fur-
j ace. People should examine the
■ Jnmbing in their houses for themselves
Ad not be satisfied when a plumber
dd it was right Whenever it was
isible, a tenant, builder or purchaser
a house should insist that the plumb j
Yes," eon'
1 had -them, both on my Band#
.once for a number of,hours,
rtieu- crou they are not plei
/dtHA t wear.”- * '■
“Were
About 7,000,000,000 pins are made in
the United States every year, just about
enough to hold aevsn women’s toileta in
poriDon.
Austrian Dogs.
In Austria, while the large dogs are
made to work, and make themselves use
ful in various ways, the little fellows are
taken to the bosoms of the ladies, and
treated as if they were veritable angels.
It is not uncommon, when traveling, to
see almost every lady with a dog in her
arms, and occasionally a footman or
maid, whose sole duty in traveling with
the mistress is to take care of the dog,
and see that he has water and food on
the route.
The doctors tell many amusing anec
dotes of baring been called np at mid
night and finding that their services were
needed for a poodle that had been over
fed in »he effort to kill them with kind
ness. They could make heavier charges,
with the assurance of prompt payment,
in such cases, than if the patient had
been a child or a husband. “Love me,
love my dog,” seems to be the sentiment
of these ladies; and on one occasion the
writer saw a finely-dressed lady, who
had her dog in her arms, take off her
gloves while standing in a railway sta
tion, and diligently pursue and kill a
flea which she had discovered depredat- ~ W*
ing among the fleece of her favorite. It well-i
is quite common to see them led tender
ly along with ribbons, and in some cases
to see a gold chain attached to a lady’s
belt, and at the other end of the chain a
poodle dog traveling by her side or re
posing in her arms.
Signs in the shop windows tell you
that “Dog soap is sold here,” and that
various patent compounds that will in
duce canine health and longevity are on
sale. A lady walking in any of the pub-
lio grounds with a dog is sure to be ac
costed by a number of seedy-looking in
dividuals, who will draw out of their
pockets pups, which they oiler for sale.
The offering for sale of anything in the
publio grounds being prohibited, they
thus keep them concealed in their pock
ets. In the upper grades of life a moth
er trusts her children to servants and
g overnesses, but her poodle dog she
eepe under her own eye; and a scream
from the nursery might pass unheeded,
but a yelp from the drawing-room or tho
boudoir would startle “her Ladyship”
from the soundest sleep. Of oourse
there are exceptional cases, but it in
cludes most of those who aspire to fash
ionable life. We see dogs oaressed mnoh
more than children are, and their oqmfort
studied with jealous care.
HUMORS OF
Auntie, lam
ai me piumot
ib-v.:- aijW
walls. If people would all insist
on it houses would soon be built so.
t if the plumbing is in the walls the
peppermint test should be applied. A
'considerable quantity of the essence of
peppermint should be poured into the
highest trap in the house, and if there
was a break anywhere the peppermint
odor would betray it. Bad odors in a
house were like the rattles of a rattle
snake. They meant bad plumbing and
danger.
Ho then spoke earnestly in regard to
Vaccination, saying that 100 years ago
ton deaths in every 100 were caused by
small-pox. Now, by vaccination and
(eolation, the prevalence of the disease
was cheeked. By being vaccinated in
infancy and once in fifteen or twenty
years afterward a person was compara
tively safe ; but, by being vaccinated
about once in seven years he was as safe
as he could be. He then conoluded
6y put on to keep ybu a
prisoner ?” queried the deputy, wonder
ing if his friend could have done any
thing criminal.”
“ You would have thought so had yon
been in my place. I was arrested by
officers who thought I was J, Wilkes
Booth.” * v '
“No!” ejaculated the deputy, more
as. an expression of surprise than an in-,
tentional reflection upon the veracity of
Mr. McDonald, A "
“It came about in this way,” began
tha^wyer, whose dark hair and eyes, even
now that sixteen years have passed, bear
a striking resemblance to the assassin of
Lincoln : ‘' Lincoln had beeh murdered
but a few days, and the en tire'conn try,
plunged in grief, was wild with desire for
revenge upon the murderer. My home
was in Titusville, Pa., and I was on the
way to it from Washington, where my
father was then a Government con
tractor. The route was by way
of Erie. The train had left Erie
and gone perhaps a dozen miles, when a
couple of officers surprised, me by put
ting me under arrest and clapping hand
cuffs on my feet. , In vain I protested.
They would not belies e that I was not
Wilkes Booth. To add to ther unpleas
antness of the thing, and a fact which
also gave oolor to tne belief that I was
the President’s assassin, it' was well
known that Booth had interests in the
oil regions of Pennsylvania; and had
been there a number of times. The men
who arrested me did so, upon the
strength of my great resemblance to a
picture of Booth which they had in their
possession. When it became known on
the train that the assassin of Lincoln had
been arrested and was on that very
train, the excitement was intense. • The
officers who were guarding me had all
lo to prevent the, refumfe;!
fromaomgTne bouity liariffl
with a few directions in regard to disin-
feoting and nursing in oases of infec
tious diseases.—New York Herald.
It has been ascertained that the rea
son for placing lumber yards near to
railroad depots is to enable travelers to
get a board easy.—New York World.
Benevolence to Animals.
Almost all boys are fond of dogs, and
■at nearly all will persecute cats, rob
ilrd’s nests and pelt frogs. There are
exceptional boys who delight in cruelty,
and they frequently grow up with their
evil propensities strengthened by age
and exeroisa. There arc also men of
brutal disposition who have acquired
their ruffianism after passing through the
juvenile stages of their existence, and
they are at once the plagues and the
puzzles of society, defying its punish
ments and resisting its benevolent en
deavors.
Cruelty to animals is partly the work
laftees.-fclKbfsfvrtly perpetrated
■meaning people, under the in
fluence of bad habits; and if we could
estimate the total quantity of cruel in
fliction imposed upon birds, beasts, rep
tiles and fish, be should probably find
that by far the larger proportion resulted
from the ill-regulated action of good
and even benevolent persons. Mnoli of
ill treatment of animals comes out of
the ordinary proceedings of trade. It
has been the oustom to bleed calves, to
cram sheep and poultry into the smallest
possible apparatus of transport, to drive
oattle for long distances without permit
ting them to drink and to slaughter
them without sufficient avoidance of
pain. Each little circle in whioh these
malpractices ooour forms its own theory
of cruelty and benevolence, and laughs
scornfully at outsiders who objeot to its
wavs. The fox-hunter thinks a man a
passengers
It had been telegraphed along the line
of the road that Lincoln’s murderer was
under arrest, and would pass through on
his way to Titusville. At every station
the train was met by infuriated men who
climbed upon woodpiles to get a glimpse
of me, and many times on that journey
I feared that the mob would get posses
sion of me. When the train reached
Curry there was a man boarded the train
who knew me. But the officers would
not listen to him, and it was not until
Titusville was reached, where every man,
woman and child knew me, that the
handcuffs and manacles were removed
from my wrists and ankles, and I was
allowed my liberty. I have the photo
graph wh'ch furnished the clew to the
officers wno arrested me in my posses
sion now.”—Denver Tribune.
A Wkstkbh desperado recently shot
dead a man .because he wouldn’t pray.
How very dangerous Western life would
be for many of ns. —New Haven Reg
ister. ■■ ,• , i, > „.* “ **
: “How could you think of calling
auntie stupid? Goto her immi "
and telt her you are sorry.!
goes to auntie and savii, “Ai
sorry you are so stupid.’'
Emm/ Abbott haa invented a new kiss.
:If she. desires to dispose of the old lot at
cost she can learn of something to her
advantage by calling at his office out of
business hours.—Lowed Citizen,
“Xwbntv.years ngo,’”# colored
^philosopher, “ niggers wiv' wpf a thou
sand dollars apiece. Now d, v would be
deah at two dollars a dozen. It'* 'ston-
ishing’ how de race am depreciatin'.”
. “Your husband is not in to-day,
ma’am,” said a collector who called at
the door. “No, he is not.” “Do you
know where I can find him ? ” “I guess
he’s gone fishing. He enrried a glass
bottle with something he called bait.”
Atrar Matilda—“And do you study
geography, * Janet?’ 1 Janet—Geogra
phy? I should think jjo, indeed I”
Aunt Matilda—“Where’s Glasgow?”
Janet—“Glasgow? Oh, we haven’t got
so far as that. We’ve only got as far aa
Asia.” • ■ ,
Now that elephants’ milk haa been
analyzed and found to be superior to
cows’ milk, of oourse it will beoome
fashionable. And as it will be sold at a
high prioe, dealers can afford to make it
of a fine quality of chalk and very pure
water.
“Sam, you srf not honest. * Why do
you put all tliq good strawberries on the
fop of the measure.' an$ the little ones
below?” “Same reason, sah, dat make*
de front , of your'house marble and de
back gate chiefly slop bar’l,.sah.”—Rx-
change. .. »
Uncle Mose asked Gus De Smite
why it was that the weather was so muoh
warmer in summer than in winter. “ I
thought every darned fool knew that,”
growled Gus. “ So did I, boss. That’s
why I puts’ de question to you on pur-
paae‘■Texas Siftings.
“But do yon know,
farmer’s daughter, when h'
about the addresses of his'
son, “you know, pa, ma
marry a man of culture.” “ So do I, my
dear, so do I; and there is no better cul
ture in the country tkaa<&griculture. ”
“The Bible savs. ‘Love your neigh-
• s?
said the
je to her
Shbor’s
me to
fool who reminds him of the unbenevo-
lent oharaoter of his sport, and the fine
ladies who flock to aristocratic pigeon
matches have no more oompunetion at
witnessing the suffering of the poor
birds than the Spaniards have for the
gored horses and tortured bulls in their
disgusting national recreation. It may
be affirmed that the cruelty of custom
or indifferenoe does not lead to the de
moralization whioh inevitably results
from a deliberate ohoice of action that
inflicts unnecessary pain, and yet all
familiarity with needless and useless
suffering must tend to damage charac
ter,-unless it exeites strenuous resistance
to the evil and efforts for its cure.
Some Familiar Sayings.
Shakspeare gives us more pithy say
ings than any other author. From him
we mill, “ Count their chickens ere they
are hatched.” “ Make assurance doubly
sure.” “Look before you leap.”
“Christmas comes but once a year.”
Washington Irving gives ns “ The Al
mighty Dollar.” Thomas Norton quer
ied long ago, “What will Mrs. Grundy
say ? ” while Goldsmith answers, “Ask
me no questions and I’ll tell yon no fibs. ”
Thomas Tasser, a writer of the sixteenth
century, gives us, “ It’s an ill wind that
turns no good,” “ Better late than nev
er," “Liook ere thou leap,” and “The
stone that is rollingwill gather no moss.’
“All ciw and no wool ” is found in But
ler’s “Hubibras.” Dryden says: “None
but the brave deserve the fair,” “Men
are but children of the larger growth,”
“Through thick and thin/’ “Of two
evils I have chosen the least,” and “The
end must justify the means,” -are from
Mathew Prior. We are indebted to Col
ley Cibber for the agreeable intelligence
that “Richardis himself again,” Cow-
S er tells us that “Varietyis the spice of
fe.” To Milton we owe “The Para
dise of Fools.” From Bacon comes
“Knowledge is power,” and Thomas
Southerns reminds us tint “ Pity’s akin
to love.” Dean Swift thougnt that
“ Bread is the staff of life.” Cnmpbell
found that “ Coming events cast their
shadows before,” and “’Tis distance
lends enohantment to the view.” “A
thing of beauty is a joy forever,” is from
Keats. Franklin said “ God helps those
who help themselves,” and Lawrence
Sterne comforts us with the thought
that “ God tempers the wind to
shorn lambD
So fab from persistence being an as
sociate of weakness and inferiority, it is
itself a power whioh underlies and up
holds all others, and without which they
oould never develop into value or effi
ciency. The feeble, inefficient, inferior
man Is he who, whatever may be his
latent abilities, laoks the foroe necessary
to make the most of them.
It is a remarkable foot that the centre
of population of the United States has
advanced in a sk i.ight line since 1790,
due west from Baltimore.
Good nature extracts sweetness from
everything with which it comes in com
tact, as the bee extracts honey from
every flower which it visits.
but of course we must not take this lit
erally. If you manage to love your
neighbor one-huudredth part as muoh as
ou do yourselves, many of you, it will
ie all that oan be reasonably expeoted of
you.”—Boston Transcript.
Mamma—“Did you enjoy your ride,
EliBe?” Elise—“No, mamma, and rea
son enough, for Connie James says the
Van Smiths are going to give a dance,
and we’re not asked.” Mamma—“Well,
my dear, your poor aunt’s death was
providential—of course we oan’t go.”
It is said that death lurks in oheap
colored stookings.—New Orleans Pica
yune. Sho! We’ve known death to
lurk iu the toe of an enraged parent’s
boot, but didn’t suppose he could kiok a
man to death iu his stocking feet. We
wouldn't go there auy more if we wers
in your place.—New Haven Register.
Laughing Away a Duel.
Laughter is an antidote to anger. Even
duel has been prevented by some
amusing answer which turned wrath
into mirth. A man holding both his
sides ean’t hold a pistol.
A Georgia Judge named White, who
wore a cork leg, once challenged a
brother of the bench. Dooly by name,
and a wag, to mortal oombat. At the
appointed hour both appeared on the
field, but Dooly was alone. White
sent his friend to ask where his an
tagonist's second was. “Gone into
U> e woods,” replied the humorous
Dooly, “to get a bit of a hollow tree
to put one of my legs in, that we may be
even.”
The answer was too much for Jadg#
White; he laughed and so did his
second, and the challenge was with
drawn.
An Irsh lawyer, who had neves fired
a pistol, was challenged by a famous
duelist whom he had offended by severe
comments upon his testimony in court.
The duelist, having been orippled in
one of his duels, oame limping upon
the ground. He had one favor to ask,
permission to' lean against a mile-stone,
as he was unable to stand without sup
port. .
The request was granted, and, just
as the word “ Fire 1 ” was about to be
given, the lawyer said he also had a
request to make. He asked the privi
lege of leaning against the next mile
stone.
A hearty roar of laughter from seconds
and ohallenger dissipated all thought*
of a duel.
The great orator of the Revolution,
Patriok Henry, once reoeived the follow
ing note, preliminary to a challenge
from Gov. Giles, of Virginia:
"Sib: I understand you have called
me a ‘bob-tail’ politician. I wish to
know if it be true; and, if true, you!
meaning.”'
Mr. Henry replied in this style:
“ Sib : I do not recollect having called
yon a ‘ bob-tail ’ politician at any time,
but I think it probable I have. Not
recollecting the time or oooasion, I oan’t
Bay what I did mean, but, if you
will tell me what you think I meant,
I will say whether you are correct or
not."
Of course there was no duel—Youth's
Companion.
