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1 k'f ' : i/ i i*"1 * >> " " r- - r '^v- ,-v % .,, m. m ' '&/' 'X, ? '. ' VOX*. Ill* T0 EUROPEIH A BALLOON V Prof. King will try the Voyage If Funds ar8 Raised. PlulivdolpMii Times. r? r c i t rt: . i i l roi. o:\miiHi t\. i\ing, uio wen known aeronat, lias expressed his willfulness to attornpt a voyuge across the ocean in a balloon, provided the necessary funds are raised. Prof. King has made 204 successful voyages sinco 1851 and feels confidant that ho can cross to Europe. In speaking of the project, Prof. King said' yesterday: "My prime reason for wishing to attempt this trip across the ocean is to demonstrate the usefulness of the balloon. The balloon has been misunderstood from tho first. Instead of being intended for atrial navigation, it is really an immense meteorological instrument by which we shall be enabled to learn all that can ho learned of tho atmosphere. Besides that, it is prohablv tho one means of reaching the inaccessible parts of tho earth at some future period after tho full development of its powers. We have had any quantity of experience in ballooning in a small way, and tho main thing which lias kept it alive is tho gratification the public has experienced in witnessing ascensions. Viewing the matter from the standpoint, something more should bo done, something on a grander scale, and that which lies nearest within reach seems to bo an ocean vovago." pkokttssok kino's tiik.opy. "I think the voyago can be sue* cessfully accomplished. Prof. Wise said that ho thought the trip could bo made in throe or four days, and gave as his roasoti the theory that throe miles above tho water there were two constant, rapid currents of air, one going west and one going east. His plan was to get in the east current and then tho only difliculty would be to keep tho balloon in the air a sufficient length of time. Now, there is nothing to support this theory and I do not base my offer upon it. The general direction of the wind on the ocean is east and I feel confident that the balloon would reach its final destination when once started on its way and for a certainty it would not again cotne in view of the American coast. "This ocean voyago will require more than ordinary skill and judgement and a balloon of largo proportions fitted up with unusual appliances. It will have to bo capable of floating in the air a number of woeks. It will start upon an errand the true I ]nature of which we have previous n practical knowledge. Wo would Hj ^ probably encounter a storm the effect HL? of which wo can only imagine. We Wf would have constant waste of water p beneath us which we may be driven m by unforeseen circumstances. We tft, may bo blown north or south out of m our course and so bo delayed in reaching our destination, liut not P withstanding all this I think it can ^ be safely accomplished, and that the * accomplishment of this feat will bo > a fruitful of discoveries of tho greatest value to science as related to me. 7:t te ore logy. * T " THE SUM NK?I>K1). J: "ft has been suggested that the r North Pole might bo reached by a balloon: This may become evident when once the ocean is crossed, and may possibly follow, but until something of this nature has happened there is no hope of any sane person attempting to find the North Pole by this moans. "From 13,000 to 14,000 will be necessary to defray the oxponsos of an ocean voyage. If it is asked what i are ?vo to learn by tho voyage it L may be difficult to answer. It will ?r /li\m/incf ruf a f lia mairnm 4 y UUIilUIIQVl O l/V HIU IIH.ITUIIIUIIU of storms across the ocean, the general drift of the atmosphere, as well as a vast amount of meteorological ?|v phenomenon to bo gathered in no other way. The United! States Sigfl. nal Service Bureau would take great J) interest in such a voyage, and would i > be represented by one or moro obn seivers. The principal obstacle to \ overcome in starting out on such f a voyage is the great expense which \ muw necessarily bo incurred in pro% Aiiei f ItA rv>/\af # Un A gtttttttt liiu iinnt icot wu un v tnut X prudence could suggest. But this JLpr ; might be overcome when once the Ir^i; possibility And benefit accruing is brought before those possessing sufk \ ficient means to insure success. An V effort will be made fco raise funds necessary and if it is successful preparations will bef* begun at onoe. PROVIDING TOR KMKRQKNCIKK. "No balloon has hitherto been afloat twenty-four consecutive >^,*^[COpt Gilford's great captive butVJitoh was loept in the air Exposition lasted. ; balloon was fca great one height 'triL waste of N Vr0**%^ I ?in i __ lower atmosphere, about two thousand feet hijrh. This will be acootu* plisped by a <1 r?ropo or a similar contri valine, and I propose to If ice untiling by wastage. "Another advantage we have in the ocean balloon is that wo chii use i heavy material for the envelope, ilms reducing the loss by percolation to a minimum. In ordinary ballooning it ; is considered preferable to use light- j or material and suffer the loss by ( percolation. To make the voyage, a balloon with capacity of about 300,-J 000 cubic feet will be necessary. It will be filled with pure hydrogen gas, tho lightest known. "Under all circumstances we would be provided for emergencies. If we, should happen to be swamped we' would have appliances which would ; render us capable of rising again. If wo were compelled to leave the balloon we would always have some?i?i. 1.1 <i...?4* tiling i Hill/ >HHIIU 11 Will, nu lliut III case failure did como it need not nocessarily be followed bv loss of life." Women of the West. Tho woman born and reared in the West is a grand and goodly type of womanhood. She is strong and keen and comprehensive; sho is full of life and grace and freedom; she is quite eoual to being her own aven gor. Her eye is keen, and her tongue is sharp; but her heart is warm, and her hand is open. She is always ready with her sympathy and prompt with her help. Her business ability and executive talent are of a very high order, as a proof of which is the fact that some some of the finest cattle-ranches and ; most extensivo and most prosperous sheep runs are owned and managed by woman. I have now in my mind the case of a woman, born in ()hio, who, ten years ago, in this city of Now York, was earning five or six dollars a week, with which sum she supported )ii*p mwflwti* tim] liof ....wo l'IUI.MU.,1 a semi-invalid old man. At the time 1 speak of, when this woman was about nineteen years of af^e, sho obtained, aftor much difficulty and delay, a grant of a cjuartor section of government land to which her dead father had become entitled through his services in the Rebellion. This land was located in Oregon. She sent her old uncle out to take up the land, and she pinched and saved, and sont to him from tune to time, almost dollar by dollar, money with which to hire help to clear a space it) the timber and to put up a log-house. As soon as this poor shelter was provided for them,she took her mother and went out and lived on her land. As sho could from time to time, she bought stock, ami so sho urijpL tin svop i>y siup, until now sue i has a good homo and ham, and last year she cleared from the sale of stock she had raised, and from the sale of her crops, several thousand dollars. And what tins woman has done hundred of women are doing overy yoar. And if many of these women have not got much education, their sons and daughters will have. And it is well with a land that breeds such women, and it is well with the men of the land who have such mothers.? Rosa Ky tinge in BelforiVs Magazine for November. About Doctors. Abbeville Medium About two weeks ago our little daughter had a case of diphtheria. Noarly every man and woman we ! met some had remody that would cure the case without fail. While we have some confidence in what is gonorally known as "'old woman's remidios," out of abundant caution, we' socured the services of Physicians and the little girl is well, if wo had given every remedy suggested the child no doubt would have boon dead in a day or two. A bushel basket would not have held thomedi I villus. This incident gives us cause to mdulgo iti a few reflections. Wo frequently hoar men and womon of our I age too constantly complaining of numberless aches and pains, dyspepsia ' and'catarrh. These diseases arc almost as common as in 1808 when our men were trying to keep out of the army. Many of these diseases e imagi* nary and others arise from a want of oare. (Jur people buy some such cheap book as Every Man His Own Doctor. They find entertaining reading. They study its pages and every little ache arid pain tney think is the beginning of some terrible affliction they have read about in the book for which they havo paid dou. ble price. They drench themselves with bottles of patent- medicine and combine the hydropathic, allopathic homeopathic and all other systems of medical treatment. The wonder to qads that more people do not die %^?n^uch abuse of their stomachs T%ny cases there i? no neceaJiH i 'HE TRI E TO VOI R WORl )NWAY, S. 'C., a ty for any medicine at all. There is nothing better for dyspepsia than oxerciso in the open air. Work with the ? plow will cure almost any man. Cultivating the flower yard or vegetable garden is a good reiftedy for the woman. They can take easy tasks at tirst ami groiiuauy increase their i labors. In a very short time they will bo all right without dosing thorn- fi solves with all manner of dicoctions d manufactured for tho money that is h in them. This howovor is not a |iro- '1 fossional opinion but wo have no s doubt most physicians will agree v with us. # t If a man undertakes to managn his t own law business he will pretty sure- v ly lose all his property If lie de- I ponds upon those modical books ho v will lose his life. One who hear no s knowledge of tlio human system is f courting death when ho undertakes a to be his own physician. fi Phe Oldest Female Thief in v A't erica. Nkw York, Nov. 17?The oldest r female professional thief in tho conntry was a prisoner in the Toombs poi:^w i % i ? nut) t;ihi11 ytisiuroav. one is .Mary I Fitzgerald, 80 years old. She lives at 110 Oak street. Her picture in the liognes' Gallery is No. 1,200. She apparently has spent the greater portion of tin* last 00 years in prison. I lor last term expired five months ago. Mrs. Kit/irorald was arrested Monday l>y Detective Sergeant Wool- j dridge, for picking pockets. Mrs. j Beatrice Me/./ano of US Baxter street, attended an auction sale in Catherine street on that day. Detective Wool- ( dridge was there, too. So was Mrs. Fitzgeral whom the detective was watching. When she left the place Wooldridge followed her. As he approached, Mrs. Fitzgerald threw away a pooketbook. When Wooldridge attempted to arrest her, Thomas Whalen, who lives at 100 Cherry street, and is said to be the woman's accomplice, attacked the detective, and Mrs. Fitzgerald made an effort to escape. But a policeman came along, and both Whalen and the woman were arrested. It the evening Mrs. Mezzanno called at police heanqnarters and re ported that she had berni rohbwd in the auction room. She recognized f( the pocketbook that Mrs. Fitzgerald v had thrown away as hers. Mrs. f< Fitzgerald and Whalen aro at tfie v Toombs. q The Queerness of Things. This is a sort of topsy-turvy world. ! No one seems to be satisfied. One . . .11 man is struggling to get justice, ami another is flying from it. One man is saving up to buy a bouse, and another is trying to sell bis dwelling, for less than it cost, to got rid of it. One man is spending all tho money he can earn in taking a girl to tbe ^ theatre and sending her flowers, in the hope that he may eventually make her his wife, and his neighbor is % spending all the gold he has saved to ^ get a separation. One mail is ordered to oat eggs because they aro nut- N ritious, and another is cautioned to , leave them alone because thay pro- j duce bile. One man keops a pistol .' to protect himself against burglurs, '' while his neighbor doesnH keep one } for fear of shooting some member of ' the family Uy mistake. One rich s man wears poor clothes because he is * rich and can do anything, while a y poor man wears fine clothes becauso lie is poor and wants to produce the , impression that ho is not. One man ^ escapes all the diseases fleph is heir to, and is killed on a railway; another |J man goes through half-a-dozen wars without a scratch and then dies of s whooping cough. The bureau of statistics has been j engngod for a considerable timo past in the effort to ascertain the nnmber | of divorces that have been granted in 1 tho United States during the twenty 1 o/l/l ^ 1 nfirt rf 11 v ^imrs uciwoon I Odd and lOOd. I 110 compilation is very nearly completed. '* The statistics bearing upon the f snbject have been derived from the records of the twenty thousand courts !' of law having jurisdiction in the mat- 11 ter. Tne report, it is said, will con- (.] tain a vast amount of information of great value from a national poiiit of ^ view, and particularly as a basis of futuro legislation. There is no coun- ^ try in the civilized world where marriage is so easy as in the United States, and where divorcos are so common. "I was paired five times last sea- f siptij" said the Senator. "Good | gracious!" exclaimed Miss Fairan- s thirty, "and I haven't been paired t once yet. What is the fare to Wash- V ton. John Wanamaker, who gave $50,* 000 to the Radical corruption fund, is to have a Cabinet appointment, is ' the rumor in Washington. Quay fi says he shall .ask for such a place for l his faithful 44hn. Southern Demo- r crats should Buy their clothing and a goods of somi + her house. John is i rather too oil Sunday c School ^ j? m j mm V v * ;jJF i PH ,4 s v': ?< i > AND 101)11 WORK AND 11U K SPA Y N A HUMAN FIEND ~< I nother of the Bloody Hatfield Gang Cap- { tured i'? , \\r v.. v in ? v. 11 i\ iv14r?r> i v^4> f u , % n.y i>UV, IV ? * Another of tho murderous Hatfield < amg luis been dragged in manacles i rotn the rough mountains, whore the lesporadoos have so long defied the f aw and slaughtered as they ehoso. I 'ho bloody border war that has * trown tho shores of tho Tug River I kith graves is rapidly being brought o a close by tho iron nerved detOo- ' ives who tiro prowling tho great ' wilderness to which law has so l(,||g ' ?eon a stranger. It takes a man i with a lions heart to go into the < trongholds of tho llatfields now. < Cvery trail over the mountains or long tho creeks leading to tho Ilaticld settlement is picketed by am- ( uished murderers, who would kill 1 without mercy any man they suspect- i d. These detectives are [going hrough experiences such)'*as one cads of in dime novels. It seems iar? 1 for a mail who hears their'tales i) believe that such things can hap on in a oivili/.td land. Kllison Hatfield, alias Mounts, tho j iP11 f ?> tvlw\ vunu n<ii\hii'/??l I - vv ?. iiw 1MIO v Uj'un ^Vl (II igi i I urn* loruto struggle in iho mountains /it(1 Detectives Gibson an;l Cun- ( iugliam about three weeks ago, undo a full confession. Iloimplicued Alexander Messer as one of the i layers of the McCoy btyrs, who were | hot to death in August 5 years aero by j merciless ' tribunal of ? tho * woods | iceded by "Devil Alice" llatliold. lesser is known as one of tlie most lesperato rullians on the border, and | vas a ^conspicuous figure in the ireathitt county trouble in Kentucky ( , few vears a<ro. It is said that he / M # t ;illed live or six men in that county i nd boasted that he had killed twon- | y six men since tho war. i So frightful weio the deeds of this inn that he was feared even amoiijr i he llattields, to whom tiie shedding ( f blood is commonplace. Governor iuekner, of Kentucky, offered a re- \ .ard of for MosserV. body, and , iibson and Cunningham have boon ii inn uuua over miic ! iooy cft;) ured Ellison Ilatfield. As ho had eft tho Iiatliol J settlement soon nf- ; or tho inurdor of the McCoy boys, curing tho vongoanco that Kentucky rould wreak, tho two detectives ound it harl fo locato rhirn. It is : Forth a man's lifo to ask too many questions or to j)ry around too'much ii me region vrnero inoy Had to go. Finally tlioy struck tlio clesporu lo's trail and learned that ho was iving in a log hut, on Ugly Creek, 11 Lincoln county. On last Wodicsdav thoy mot a man[at Chapman's tore in that neighborhood who anworod to Messer's description. Fearng to make a mistake, the detective nancjeuvred. After a short talk with hem the man invited them in his abin. Tho detectives accompanied lim, and when in his homo ho menioned his name. Gibson at once , rhipped out his revolver and cover- i <1 the assassin.~2In another moment : deader was handcuffed. llis fury i ?as beyond description. Tho captured murderer was > rough t to this city and taken from lero to Catlettshurg, Ky., whore he s now in jail. He is about fifty-ono ears old and has a wife and six chilIren. lie was formerly a deputy liorifE in Perry county, Ky. Me*}er declares that ho would never mve surrendered and would not have >een captured only that the dotecives got between him and his gun. le admits having lived with tho bitfields at tho time of tho murder >f tho McCoy boys, but denies that io killed either of them. Ho is the otolith of the Hatfield-McCoy murlorers arrested by tho detectives. 1 Gibson, who made the arrest, is ho youngest member of tho force, 1 ?ut one of tho most fearless detecives in tho United ^tates. Single ' innded ho went into the McCoy setlenient and captured two of the \Lc;?y gang, brought thorn to this Stato nd received the reward offered for 1 horn. In company with other d<?* | OCtivOS llhout two weeks mm tin I' uade a raid on tho Hatlields, capturng one and shooting tho foro finder ( >ff 'Pom Chambers' hand, also shoot- ' him through tho side. On that 1 rip Gibson lay in tho woods throo 1 lays without anything to oat except that chestnuts he could find among ho leaves. 1 - - - ? The Future of Medicine Tho practitionor of medicine in tho nture will bo the High priest of Pro- , ihylaxis: his duties will confino him to { tudy tho prevention, rather than seek o be only the ouror, of any form or ;ind of disease. , Specialism, as now understand, i vi 11 be discarded. Why? Because a well-educated doctor rill then occupy a position analo- , fous to a counsellor at law of the iresent, as to medical student will lave learned to free himself from the iuthority of his.books, and to assure nstead the masterful reasonings of :ommon settle from* The uncertainties forever brooding Ill II I 1*1 ?? YOVR COUNTRY." ()V EM 15 KII, 2* >vor the lifo of every man dominate lis actions entirely too much; and not laving logically studied his duties to limsolf, he naturally seeks a doctor >vho will assure his burdens of real >r'anticipated disease. Having placid his health in the care of an eniin int specialist, he feels content in ben# relieved of his responsibilities Should ho unfortunately die, his friends console themselves because tie liad been attended by so eminent and ioientitio a physical!, paricularly if lie bo a specialist. Would any sano man in the world mrrendor his bank account to an aminent financial specialist? Would lio turn over his views on law or politics to the eminent special jurisprudent or magnetic loader who now dazzles our horizons with ponderous law or brilliant political coruscations? 1 answer, No. Vet this is constantly done when human health is concerned, and the result is the usual marble shaft in the tenantloss habitations of the (ireat Mystery.? MontroH' A. Pallen, M. I)., in He/for r/\? Maya iizuiajor i> ovemocr. Friend of the SoldierWilmington Messongor. If.Julian (Jiur keeps on fooling1 with the Confederate soldiers, they in id their friends will ho removing him from the private station. IIo has just been caught in an act that reflects the highest credit upon him, and we propose to proclaim it ihroad in the hope that others may he found doing likewise, when occasion offers. There is in Cleveland county a blind veteran of tho Confederate war, whose homo was under mortgage und about to bo sold over his head. Mr. W. H. Miller, of the Shelba Aurora, took the matter in hand and made an appeal for tho poor man through his paper. Tho responses wore not as ready or as liboral as might have been oxooctod. Tho An rora says: "Those who were most ablo did not tlio most. The liberal and t_ronorous moo are not often found in the ranks of tho rich. Material wealth wealth has a dwarfing ofTect, upon tho soul, and increase of monoy oreates a desire for more money and diminishes the love of humanity. "One noble exception is Mr. Julian S. Carr, of Durham, N. C., who saw tho appeal for help, and the blind man s homo for sale, and gladly came to his rescue, lie wrote us to attend the sale and buy in the homo for tho blind Confederate soldier, and draw on him for tho deficit. In his letter to Mr. Miller, Mr. Carr said: "While I have money, no blind Confederate soldier's house shall bo sold from him." The sentence just quoted deserves to be cut in imperishable marble. Wo have no doubt it will bo an inscription on the monument of tho man who penned it, It will be engraven on the heart of every Confederate soldier. It will challenge tho riuminiinm or every man ot soldierly qualities, wherever read or heard. Looking Ahead* 0 Columbia Record, Assuming, what now seem scrollable, that the Republicans will control the House, and, thorofore, control Congress, with the President fully in sympaty with them, there havo been many predictions touching the policy which shall result from thoTeturn of the party to full power in the administration of the national goverment. From the best information now obtainable, it soems that the purposes of the part^ will include the following: 1. To postpone the consideration of the subject of the reduction of the revenue, and all tariff legislation, until tho Republicans shall be in full possession or the government. 2. To enact laws to admit at the earliest practicable moment two States in Dakota, and Montana, Washington, and possibly Wyoming. 8.To convono Congress, possibly in avtm aocc! AM nn \ T n ?/?l. A 1 ? ? - v?n niniuu *t| uruer m 3iganize the House, and to give effect to the administration policy as early Fts practicable. 4. To consider, and, if possible to pass the lilair Educational Hill, incl any otlicr measures which receive the support of Northern Republicans, us to which the Southern Democrats are divided. 5. To attempt generally to enact laws which will receive tho support of a considerable portion of tho South, and to sook to enlist that portion of trio Southern Democracy which is assumed to favor protection, subued-es, and educational measures, and encouragement to enterprises which a "paternal government can give, in movements wich, it is expected, will tend to render the South less solid. 0. The admission* of Oklahoma as a Territory, and its subsequent admission as a State, if it shall appear that the population is likely to pe Republican.? ' -i 7, The exdnotioic of polygamy in Utah, ^nd^ nben that shall have been S' v' 5* * ill ) ,1888.' accomplished, tho admission of C'tal as a State. 8. The passage of tho Tonnag< I Jill of tho present Congress, or o some bill which will encourage sub sides and shipbuilding. 0. To devise, if practicable, furtho measures which shall give tho Kodora GoVorinent a bettor supervision of na tional elections within tho States, ant especially in tho Southern States Tho held covered by those proposi tions is an extensive ono, but tho Iio publicans don't mind big under takings. HORRIBLE CANfBALISM JPERREIRATEOIf - AFRICA The Victims' Blood Drunk by Children Conoon, Nov 1(.) A report hai jnst been rocoived at the war oflict from tho cuusu I who investigated tin outbreak and tho revolting cannibal ism that followed, at Okrika, an is land situated about fifty miles vij tho Bonuv river in tho British protec torato. It appears that recently a soctioi of the. Ogoni tribe, onco a powerfu people, but now split up into fae tions through internecine feuds, ap 11, . ? 1 - - I>tmiou u> mo King ami einois oi < >k rika to intorveno in a dispute between thcinsolvos and another faction. Tin Okrikans sided with the appellants and warned their opponents that ii the event of hostilities tlioy wouh assist them and put a stop to the fond i The warning was, however, withou j elTect, and the hostile Ononis attack led the allies of the Okrikans wluh thoy wore returning front the mar kots, killing a chiof and taking i number of prisoners and a quantity I of property. ? The Okrikans, on being infonnei of this raid, planned with their friend a diabolical scheme of revenge, whirl thoy proceeded at once to carry int< ofTect. Under the pretext of an invi tation to a friondly palaver for t)i< purpose of settling tin differences bo tween the parties, tin; Ogonis con corned in the attack referred to, ac Conipnnied by eighty of their cliiofs woro treacherous!) lured into a traj captured and taken to ()krika, wher thoy were barbnrously butchered am eaten. The victims included women am children, and to^such a height ha< the taste for blood risen that the Ok ?>ii^.i ?i.:i.i ? 111\ u 11 o v/\/hi |k;i iiiru VJ III nil *" 11 l1 drink the blood of their victims on of calabashes. The condition of th town during the tragedy was itrtlo scribably horrible. Mangled ro mains and remnants of human being wore atrown in all directions, wluh mutilated bodies were observed float ing down the Bonny river. Afte the capture of the party invited ti the palaver, a raid was made upOl the virtually undefended village whence they came, and the rosul was further atocitios. It is difficult to estimate the num her of killed and eaten, but the mos reliable reports put the number, a tho.lowost, at* 150. \ Tno consul gravely informs th government that in punishment fc these astrocities bo imposed a lino c 100 puncheons of palm oil upon th Okrakaus. A |?lf?iBlid?" Extracted After Scventee "MiiithV Burial in a Man's Arm. Wilmington Messenger. Mr. H. F. High, of Clarkton, Bh don county, had an encounter with llnviKirttln nlnipiiotnr uainn u<nmii)nA months ngo, in which lie received knifo thrust in tho left iirm botwee the shoulder mid elbow. Tho blad was broken off and has been in hi arm since until extracted a few day since by physio&ns in this city. Yet torday Mr. High brought tho blad into tho Jlfesacnfft-r ollice, his ari hanging in a sling and swollen th size of an ordinary mail's body. Th blade had buried itself in the bone i the arm, and had given Mr. High th most excruciating pain for man months. The blade is that of an 01 dinary Rogers pocket-knife, iifchc in lehgth and a half inch in widtl Notwithstanding the prosenco < this ugly bit of steel and tho fact c it eating its way into the bono, Mi jHigh has borne up with heroic forti j tudo under his suffering and gon about his daily vocations; has plow od and chopped wood and perform? other physical labors that are ama> ing under the circumstances. Be his suffering becoming too great t bear he determined upon having th blade removed, and came to Wi mington for that purpose. "I don't say marriage is a failure, said Adam, candidly, as he sat dow 011 a log just outside the Gardhn c Eden, and looked hungrily at th jjuit on the other side o? the wall, qut if I had remained single th wouhletTi have happened." Child (looking at ugly tnsn)1 "Who made man, mama?" "God, in d??ur." "Did God make him?" "*Ye dear." A marked pause, and thei I "I guess God was tickled when he g< i him finished.0 - ^S NO 20. 1 >>| MISQUOTATIONS f Familiar Lines Commonly Ascribed to tbe the Wrong Authors. r Philadelphia Times, I It is a peculiar faculty of human memory tomisipioto proverbs and pol otry, nrul almost invariably to place . tho credit whore it doos not bo long. Nine men out of ton think that - uThe Lord tempers tho wind to the shorn lamb" is from tho Bible, whereas Lawrence Sterne is tho author. J i "Pouring oil upon tho trembled wa1 tors" is also ascribed to to tho scared volume, whorens it is not there; fact, no one knows its orgin. Again. wo hoar people; "The proof of the pudding is in chewing s the string." This is arrant non' j sense, and the proverb says; "The ' proof of the pudding is in tho eating * thereof, and not in chewing the ' string." Nothing is moro common than to A man convinced against his will > Is of the Htunc opinion still. 1 This is an impossible condition of . t ho mind, for no one can bo convinc. od of an opinion and at the same . ti 1110 hold nn opposite one. What i Butler wrote waseminently sensible: , lb* that complies against his will Is of his own opinion still A famous passage of Scripture is I often misquoted thus: uIIo that is without sin among you, let him cast ' tho first stono." It should be, "Let him first cast a stone." Sometimes wo are told, "Behold how irreat a (ire a little matter kinn dleth whereas St. .lames said, "Be1 hold how ereat a matter a little fire if 1 kindloth," which is quito a different j tiling. Wo alays hear that "a miss is as ^ good as a mile," which is not as scu1 siblo or forcible as the true proverb, ' "A miss of an inch is as good us a mile." I "Look before von leap" should bo, "And look before you ere you leap." Pobe is generally credited with having written; InmioilHt words admit of no dofencc, For want of decency Is want of sense. 0 though U wouiu puz/.lo uny duo to il find tho verso in liis writings. Thoy worn written l>y tho Karl of Uorcomd nion, who died before Pope was 1 born. Franklin said, '-Honesty is tho best * o policy," but tho maxim is of Spanish t origin, and may bo found in Don o Quizoto. Hon. Jaa. Hunt's Murder. H (3 \ Atlanta, Nov. 1(1 ? Moore, tho r slayor of Koprsontativo Hunt has so' cured Gen. L. .1. Gartroll to de[X [ fond him on his trial. 11 is father and s mother arrived lato at night, anil t stayed with him in tho jail, whore ho <pis incarcerated, The story of tho affair as told by t Hunt,s friend'is as follows; t Hunt and Moore, up to tho time of tho Wiling, woro considered frieuds, and no ono ever dreamed of tho friendship terminating thus. Hunt. )f Moore, Shaw, "for.es, Fiucker and Thurman were in the room, and in ? some' way Moore ?ud Shaw began tusseling, and finally Mr. Hunt took - a hand, all which was in a friendly if and good-natured way. Mooro did not like the way in I which ho wys handled and so exj pressed himself, whereupoa Hunt t ! apologized, and everything was ad' a justed satisfactorily to all concerned n Mooro, however, was not satisfied, I but wont to a closet, opened his n i trunk, and in a short time told Mr. Hunt that ho would be a dead man jH in about 15 mieuteo. All parties s left tho room and reached tho first floor, when Moore stepped in front of 0 Hunt and dealt him a blow, Hunt ox? claimed: "He has stabbed me!" and ii ...i i. ~ a 0 ami*. u? niu iiwui", vr iit;iw no oa^iiou e in a short tiino. Hunt was an attor,f ney, ft married man and tlie futher of 0 three children. -1 "The Madonna it thi Til," s! of whom Miss Phelps writes, was a genuine specimen of health and 'J strength. 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