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0 m1 I1. t ni convicts ba-gd in the O.Vt"iM~tatep in 1881, A rkansas head ~4a14d Sn in the pi egI.lature, eight in the d one in the senate. E mill at Wesson, Ne. p. sser efk per cent. divideud, and e stock In worth over $800. Atwo-iuci% erp put in 4"pond near Atlana, twq sifeago, was cught a few days sie, and weighed seven pounds. The Misesisippi presa alarmed at the Srecoq oefnles pfand to speculators tt hst state, is urging that the state ads should be withdrawn from the market until they are explored, classi s and appraised, and then they should - gd such a way as to swell the elioo'revenues of the state. Augusta, (Ga.) News A Pennsylva lila fii is manufa6turing paper at Sa vannab, from what is called the ",aw pal Inetto," a material heretofore regarded -A eaiy Usees. The paper is said to be of superior quality, and especially useful as a transfer paper, which has heretofore bpen .ipported. Mesrs. 1%irz, Finley & Purdy, kave bonded the Mertz gold mine, situated two miles northwest of Gainesville, Ga., to Eastern capitalists for $10,000. The bre Is quartzite, with liberal showing of free gold. Both walls are argillite. A test ton of the ore will be shippod East this week. Winston, (N. C.) Sentine!. A man b the name of Wood- committed suicide kLu ral Springs, Ashe county. He dam.e in-from hunting and atked hi. wife to puli his boots off. She. ref used] do so, which so wounded his feelings that eaughtmu hisn and by he bn is body, killing himself instantly. They wer, both young and lud been married only about a year. -Atladta Coratitution Florida letter: "The Speer grove, with 603) trees, *6uld bying perbaps $50,000, and this is the best in Florida. This is about $8, 500 per acre, for six acres. It is the best because it is the oldest. The lar Igest.n yield ever known from one tree came from the oldest tree in the state, at'StiiAugustine, which bore 14,8000 orarnges. This is held to prove that up to 70 or 100 years the yield of a tree will improve. -There are several trees that have yieldedi7.000 and 8,000 oranges. Florid Keyof the Gulf: A friend describes to us a remarkable scene wit ,rpsed b himu ata areligious mceting on of Islgad. .W. T. A., a mme of jitrel4 Nhile praying, eglled upo% God to strike him dead if' a certain. statement made by him in the strongest an -ostpnequiyocal maprner was not eity .Yrue.' He had hirdly, uttered the las t wqrd, vhen he fell dea'. Corn ing as tifiA dil; in thie churchi, and upon a leading member, the effect upon the eongregation can only be imagined. heiv, says Gov. Bigelow, of Connecticut, in his message, of his trip 86iuth,'"that the visit gaver a large body oi bomneetiut citizens new and truer ideal of the South in feelings and mno tives2 We hope that these Southern $1tteris wvhom me met, and to whiom we ;y are indebted, for such a fraternal wel conia gained truer conceptions (of the temjer of o~r, people toward them. It hYas get~atgy given an added cordiality atid Meartiness to the good feeling b'e wToeb Conne cthit and South Carolina.' Q pt onstitution: Georgia now exports 800,000,000 feet of lumber annu Thelunbergoes to every part of q~ad.from Erazil to New Brune wiekpand from . Algiers to Germany. The getting of thi s lu~mber strips about ~t)cres of land aninually. It is sfe to'estimate that half as much more tihbet is destroyed or wasted by the tejpntIrnd inen. J[t will be seen there-. fore, that we are .getting away with ourggpe.forests ,very swvif tly. There is rj~acticN11y exhaustless reserve of cy press timber -that will be touched upon as soon'as the pine barrens are denuded. Atlanta Constitution Florida letter: "Tien only~ newspaper railroad in the country, is the South Flor Ida, running out froni Sanford to Tam. Asg W'his ioi was built and is owned and operated by the Boston Herald. SIt is now in 9peration twenty-three ir~iee and is being extended rapidly. It will be ninety miles long when the pres ent epntrgets are finished, and may be puee ltO-Wunta Rkssa. The Herald people are doing the work themselves, ggsa Eloidan said: 'They are talk. nug less and doing more work than any 6f 'Mf'drelpe es.' The toad is paying ~ ~ nd rees two trains a day." ~ 1ca :Cultvao says that %.fheavy Texas hides is Je'u source of anxiety +o g$out heavy valling demand is sesr *ni Goes not make such thick leather. Aiether large consolidation of iron interests is nearly affected at Birming W ham, which will unite the Alice and Eureka furnaces now in operation, the la great SBlo furnaces now building, and two more yet to be constructed. The espital of the company will be 10,000,- di 000. The leading movers in the scheme are De Barledeben, who recently sold in the Pratt mines, to New York capitalists for $1,000,000, the Hilmns and Col. Sloss. This would practically consoli- E date all the iron producing interests of D Central Alabama, except the charcoal furnaces The six furnaces would have s a capacity of 150,000 tons annually. a the Dane of Rabit. Habits in little things exercise a petty pi tyranny which is most degradinr. A man - cannot do anything without observing a lot of preliminary forms ; he must have slept just so many hours, have risen at a regular timo, have breakfasted on beaf- h steak and coffee, have read one particu lar newspaper, have walked a certain number of blocks, before he can make A his great speech, or write his brilliant I editorial. He cannot rise to a great oc casion. He becomes a machine. His work may be regular and neat, but it is soulless, cold, touched with no charm of P individuality. Such a man may serve 0 well, but he is not fit to rule. di if, at home, he is frequently respecta ble,, abroad he is always insufferable. He is made so miserable by the disturb- b< ance of his habita in the exigencies of c travel, that he can enjoy neither scenery, r pictures nor people. Yet he prides him self on the "good habits" by which lie has blunted his sensibilities, and limited his enjoyment of everything intended by S Providence to elevate and inspire a fallen ta race. But there is a worse danger yet. This o subject has so long been misunderstood, nd.that which is really a vice has so of ben been upheld as a virtue, that people tj [ave come to regard it with actual satis- 01 Faction. This unworthy contentment is leath to intellectual growth. The mind w s hampered in thought and expression E y mental mannerisms which it is never aught to shake off. In speaking of the typical habitual a] ?erson I have said "a man" advisedly. si Women are more rarely subject to this n rice. I do not put their superiority in ;his matter on the ground of a stronger 0 noral sense. I do not wish to exalt my )wn sex undeservedly. Women are gifted by nature with greater flexibility; i mnd, doubtless, the ordinary circum- a stances of their lives offer fewer tempta- p bions toward habits. We must wait till % woman's outward life becomes as nearly Like that of a man as it will soon become, before we should boast of her superior a moral nature. We must see whether her freedom of soul will stand the crucial best of men's unnatural "regular occu pations." - If a woman would be charming, let her shun habit like pestilence and death. When Enobarbus said of Cleopatra : a " Age cannot wither hor, nor custom stale c fler infinite variety,"t lie meant that she was one of those de lightfully spontaneous creatures who * have no habits at all. Some days, I g rancy, she was very silent, and on others overflowing with talk. When Antony marched home late in the evening he b might be perfectly sure that tho Queen would not be upset by having her dinner n at nine inistead of at six and that shea would be pleased to sit up the rest of ,d the night to listen to his exploits. She probably rose one day at noon, and on the next viewed the sunrise from her garden. r As .I have said, one who has habits, o may be a good servant, but one who i wishes to do more, must get rid of them A soldier, a mother, a frontiersman, .a physician, or any one who has to meet nature face to face, and work with her forces, has nothing to do with habits. Such a ohne must learn to bear fatigue, l heat and cold, broken sleep, irregular t and insufficient food, days of arduous a work, and days of enforced idleness.-r Clarissa in Indianapolis Herald. 1J The Value of Study. t Increase of strength is called "ac quired habit." Our moral and intellec tual virtues are acquired habits. The C acquired power to study is a moral vir-i tue; inasmuch as its exercise forces back the lower propensities and 'urges forwardr the higher faculties. Hence the hardr students of a school are always gentle men and the young man whose appear anice showluhito be arough is never a e hard student. Hence also, men eniinent for great learning are generally eminent for moral virtues. - Self-respect is also a moral virtue; and it has been said that self-respect is at the root of all the virtues. Hope, which is the companion of energy and mother of C success, springs from self-respect. Hope, t which, as Carlyle says, "gives a nian a r ordof strength wherewith to front aC world of difficulty." The value of repu tation springs from self-respect. When Pythagoras admonished his pupils, " De malista pat on aiischuneo Beauton" " But esj cally of all things reverencea yourself, ' and when the apostle reminds 'S us that our bodies are temples of the Holy Ghost, they both inculcate this a same virtue of self-respect. It is the vir tue of self-respect that has deteirmined you to' cultivate, improve and develop your mental faculties to the highest de gree of which they are capable; to make of yourselves, as 1Biohter expressed it, " the most that can be made of the ma terials. You are accomplioshing the end when engaged in the business of educat ing yourself at school. What He Thought. A pleasant faced countryman on a train the other ay politely asked a styl Ish and haught jady a question, and she answered hmwith only a frozen se.It r ~ed him for a inminte,1 and went back to his ~eat and whispered : ~Ithought it was is not gold that dntalways TOPICS OF THIE DAY. WxAT has become of Ben Butler, any SAN FRANCISCO granted 884 divoroen at year. __. IT SXUKs that the country is about to Vote itself to paying pensions. IT is stated that Mrs. Garfield todk no terest whatever in the Guiteau tilai Tan Cincinnati Commercial says the Dglish of Spuyten Duyvil is "Spitting evil." Ix CONGnss are eight Irishmen, fout sotchmen, five Englishmen,. and three; ermans. GurrAu will now await the "divine essure "-irresistible in its very nature of the hangman's rope. EDWARD S. STOxsh, Fisk's murderer, res in a house in New York for which pays a rental of $4,000 a year. THE Photographrers' Association 'of merica will hold their next annual ceting at Indianapolis, August 8, 1882. THE leading London newspapers ex -ess satisfaction over the bonviction of uiteau, but they all criticise the con ict of the trial. THE shipping north of Florida straw eries will begin in a few days. The eam and sugar accompaniments are pe and ready whenever they come. THE compulsory education law of ynora, Mexico, requiring children be. Feen six and sixteen years to attend hool six months in the year, is being iforced. THE jurors in the Guiteau case say tat during the trial they talked with no itsiders and read no newspapers. They ere virtually shut out from the world iventy days. A RUMOR, almost too weak to stand one, says Dennis Kearney is about to art an anti-monopoly party in Califor ia. So then, Dennis is still in the land I the living. TERitE is one person displeased with ie verdict rendered in the case of the isassin of President Garfield and tha't orson is Charles J. Guiteau, "the little iant of the West." CONGREss, as usual, is full of men who re afraid to follow the ghost of *hat onscience they have. What is needed a little hard, earnest work, and fewer rand dinners, receptions, etc. EJrrHUSIASTIo anti-polygamy meetings re being held in many parts of the auntry. The Mormon question seems be about the next thing of any con derable importance for the country to rapple with. THE people up in the Northeast have een taking too many icebergs in their 'eather. Thirty-five degrees below zero met have been more disagreeable than nything Mother Vennor, in her palmy aye, could have given us. IT Is the thing now to be a "boy reacher." The third "boy preacher" f the country has popped to the surface 1 Baltimore, who, it is said, is saving ora souls than all the old gospel >ounders of that city put together. THE murderers of Jennie Cramer, the row Haven belle, are having a delightful me of it in jail. Blanche Douglass ivides her time between sewing and sading the bible, Jim Malley reads ovels, and Walter sketches and plays Lie zither. BAL'rIMOn extended a reception to Escar Wilde and Oscar forgot all about and went on to Washington, and noW taltimore is so mad that they want to otten-egg the long-haired youth. It seie that Baltnnore forgot that Mr. Vilde charges $200 to attend a public re option., _________ FOOmrDs have become so bold in and bout Indianapolis that the citizens bireaten to organize vigilant committees. 40~ footpads hit their victims with a bag f sand, knocking thorn insensible, and ben rob them of their valuables. Of a umber who have been thus assaulted, ne died of his injuries. Tirs Ohio State Temperance Conven ion the other (lay adJopted a resolution sking that an amendment to the 9pon titution be submitted to a vote of the teople, prohibiting the manufacture and ale of alcohol for drinking purposes ; lso, protesting against tax ,license, or ny restrictions or regulations whatever. Tuza stock of flour at the principal oints in the United States and Canada, otual and estimated, is placed at about .200.000 barrels. The annual manlufac nire of flour in the country is about 55,. 00,000 to 60,000,00barrels. The stock f 2,200,000 is no more than about two reeks' consumption of the whole popu rttion. Tn Boston Herald thinks that If Wil iam Penn, who was a good old Quaker, vere to-day nominated for Giovetnot of W(assachusetts, he would be snubbed, )eoause he drank wine. The Bostat herald seems to forget that the lougei a man has been in the grona the bettei ho in. thonght afr If Ponn waea alle to-day he would be no better than the rest of us. ftwon B asm Is rapidly going down hij. Ne lately wrote to a German in Chicago who bad been in his service, to whom he said thaboth'his sons and daughters were in good health, " which," he adde, "unhappily, I can not always say of my wife, and not at all of myself. I hunt no-more, and rarely ride, since I am - too weak, and if I do not soon get rest my vital forces will be worn out." Tin Washington Star refers to the singular and suggestive fact that Mr. Webster Wagner, who was burned to death in one of his own palace cars on tie Hudson River Railroad, a few days ago, was Chairman of the Committee on Baihbads in the New York State Senate which a year ago smothered and sup. pressed a bill introduced in that body for the better protection of life on rail Ways. MLLA. RHEA, a Russiah actress who was Interviewed by the Cleveland Leader on Nihilism, said: "The majority of the Nihilists are young men between eighteen and twenty-two. Many of them arp girls of the same age; girls with short hair and spectacles who think they are divinelf inspired to throw bombs. It's queet that women always go to extremes in everything." Yes, it is a little queer, but they do. Perhaps I the actress went just a little to the extreme in this state. ment of here. SENATO* BrnAin says he has received numerous letters from men prominently Identified with public educatiou in the South, indorsing his bill to appropriate money from the National Treasury to aid the cause of general education. The bill proposes to appropriate $15,000,000 the first year, $14,000,000 the second year, and so on for ten years, the sum to be diminished $1,000,000 each Tear. the money to be distributed to States and Territories in proportion to the illiterate population in each. A LourvILE reporter has gotten himself into a nice mess. He tele graphed over the country that Louisville had thirteen cases of smallpox, whereas an investigation proved that there was no smallpox in that city whatever. For his enterprise according to a city ordin once, he will be compelled to pay $50 for each case, an aggregate of $650. As everybody knows that is somewhat larger than the average reporter's pile, there is nothing left for the reporter to do but to elope with his body. Tau imports of German and Italian beans at New York have amounted to about 45,000 bushels thus far, and some 8,000 to 10,000 are in transit. Foreign markets are said to have advanced slightly under this large call from Amer ica, but there seems to be sufficient margin at present cost to encourage im porters. A large proportion of these beans have gone West, where they can be used in place of home-grown stock a~t a lower price. Most of tire sales are at $2.75 to $3; some of the best have been worked off in place of State mediums. THE coming Opera Festival at Music Hlall, Cincinnati, which occurs on the 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th of February, will, beyond doubt, bo the most successful, both in point of musi cal excellence and financially, that has ever been held in this country. Patti, whom at all other points in the country it costs $5 to hear, will sing upon this occasion, and to the entire series of per formances, eight In number, a season ticket can be had for $14, which is made transferrable, and can be divided up among several persons and thus still further reduce the price of admission. Those in distant towns desiring choice seats -can got them by applying in ad vance of the occasion for a plat of the auditorium of the Hall.. ABinDEEN, Ohio - known as the "Gretna Green" of America-is the scene of many romantic marriages. No licenses are required and in consequence persons of any age or color may be united in wedlock without risk of violat ing the law. An unusually exciting event is reported as taking place there a few days ago. The candidates for matri mony were from Kentucky, four in num ber, named Mr. B. Smith and Miss Alice E. Garrison and Mr. Willard F. Garrison and Miss Maggie Neal. They were in a very great hurry, having traveled all night and part of the day to reach the place, as the bride of Mr. Garrison was being pursued by her parents, who objected to her getting mared1 on account of her age, she be ing only thirteen years old. But they managed to beat the old folks, and all were married by 'Squire Massie Beasljr, in his usual graceful style. The thirteen-year-old girl, it is said, was so excited that she did not know her right hand fromt her left. Taunu are poeta anud there are poets --poets honored by a nation, and poets who, for the sake of humanity, should be hurried pell-mell to the nearest pile drive~r and there annihilated for all time and eternity. From a late copy of a fatm journal, which, in a's agricultural point of view perhaps is unsurpassed in excellence, we fna sonre verses written to "S3weet Madoline." As & sample of the whole we print this one : Oh she's as sweet a the lily of the valley, Her equal ne'er was seen ;* Mow lightly she trip along the alley, Her natne i3 Madoline. It savors somewhat of rinhness to nie. ure in your mind a sweet maidan trip. lug along an alley. There awe some dMeys in which we fear sweet Madoline would wish she never bad gone. The itench of the refuse would overcome all he sweetness she ever did have and eave her a sad wreck, But what in the iame of heaven an editor-yes, an ed tor-oould see in such doggerel to merit ts publication is beyond human concep. io1. After the author of the verse luoted has been crushed under a pile yiver, it will he high time to visit that ditor's sanctum and hit him in the head vith a stuffed club. Too Much Talk. There is probably too much talkin in the world. too much writing, too muct printing. There is much more said that is well said, much more written than im well written. As a nation we are toc noisy. We talk and write at random an of us talk and write on all manner ol subjects, whether we know anything about them or not. Wo are getting t< be worse than the French. We ough1 to act more and talk less-all of us thai are writing and talking ought to. W< multiply words continually. There is too much sad-too little done. IBtt wh< amongst us is going to commence the needed reform by holding his tongue and going to work? A proposed reform sets everybody's pen and tongue to running, till the thinp is talked and written to death, and all become heartily disgusted with the whek matter. Free speech is h fine thing in theory, but a rather poor thing in practical use, Speech is so cheapened by heing free that no value is set upon it. The Amer ican people are persistent talkers, )ul impatient listeners. Speankers are mor< numerous than listeners. The issue o: books and papers in all shapes al( forms and upon all pomsible questions, iq simply immense. No man need novv wish in vain for his enemy to write a book, or print a newspaper, or mnio speech, to the diagust of his neighboi and his own dlemiolitionl. It is Hie age o hpeaking and printing. And in the con flict and clash of words we lose sight o deeds. We talk much and act but Jittle whereas we should act much and talk bui little. We shall havo to reform ou ways. Our prattle is out of all propor tion to our performance. Thousands ar wielding pen and tongue who are bett, adapted to the pulling of weeis or th hoeing of corn. Almost ev( ry fro American citizen who can read and writ feels himself competent to instruct hi fellow-beings. But it is a free country and free speech must prevail. Ever man must talk and write all he wants t< and make people listen and read if bi can.--Seymour Times. Homle! How many pleasant recollections ar called into being by that one word Home ! that sweet word has caused tear to flow unbidden to the eyes of hardened criminal, or calmed his grosse passions. 'Tis the one haven of earthl rest. Should the outside world buffe one around, if he has a home--now: must be understood to mean a hom< where there is unison and symipath; among the inmates, not a mere plac to eat, drink and sleep-when he goe home, heart-sore and weary from hi contact with the world, how soon lie wil be refreshed I His spirits will be reani mated ; he will feel, let come what may that he may retire to the bosom of his famn ily and there find rest and contentment Cannot one toil manfully all day witi his hard duties, if he has a home ii view ? Will he not feel abundantly re paid for all his preseverance, to meet, oi returning home, his wife, or sister, wh<i is waiting and watching for him? Ah how sweet to him will be the tende: smilo and loving kiss of welcome ! The' will be doubly sweet to him now, and h4 'will thank heaven for giving him sucd love and tenderness. Now to make homeo attractive an< cheerful is woman's work. No hom< can be a home unless woman's presenc< can be discerned in the neatness an< coziness of everything around. Somn females may rave about politics and al such subjects, but if they could hay their way they would put themselve where God Almighty never intended the ever should be0 placed. 'Tis man's duty to go forth and battl with the world; woman 's work to gover that realm of bliss-home. When woma is raving about female suffrage, (100s sh think she is wiser than man ? No ; sh does not think any such thing. She: one of those masculine women who ai too idolent and hardened to havo a so: spot loft in her bosom for such duties s are required to be done for "homE sweet home." Some women should n< be allowed to invade the sanctum < those lovable women who rightly appr< ciate domestic felicity. A modest, sensitive woman will fin her heart expanding around the famil hearth, instead of growing contracte like those of worldly-minded women wh think the& have a call to go forth an govern the out side world, and let he own little world be governed by servant or by chance. Now, as home should b the dearest p~lace on earth, it is the dut of every member of the family to mak home as agreeablo as possible, so thE each of the inmates of that loved plac may say with the poet : "Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home, -. D). B. The Vanities of Teaching. The desire to push a boy ahead to .1 velop precocious tendencies, to ha have bright pupils, is among ti vanities of teaching. The sure growths are the slowest. He w' makes haste slowly will genemsally win the long run-win at least all that worth having in the prizes of life. TI truth will come to general acceptarx with education. A Goethe, a Hugo Carlisle and an Emerson living on green old agn are of more value to i world than the corruscating careers Burns and Byron and Poe, going ont an hour as it were, and leaving behi them ihot so much the work they td the sorrow ofa mankind that they did: do the great work that was in themi New York Jlerald. A Wonderful Tree. Why men occasionally see sea serpenh and other snakes is plain enough; but what -is there in a Jersey cedar toso. lount for the following from the Olinton, N. J., correspondent of the Philadelphia Times. He says: " A farmer living near Sohooley Moun tain has greatly excited his neighbors by an account of a wonderful tree which ho discovered several years ago, and which he has been watching ever since. He says for three years it has gone through the cold weather without shed ding a leaf. It is a maple tree, and Its sap makes very good maple sugar. " The farmer noticed it first while fol lowing the trail of a fox up over the mountain early in December, 1878. All the other trees, even of the same species were entirely bare, while this tree hA not, to all appearances, lost a single leaf. There were no dried leaves underneath it, and the leaves on the branches were all green. It was with great difficulty that a leaf could be pulled from the twig to which it was fastened, and a strong breeze, which was blowing at the time, had no effect upon the leaves. So astonished was the discoverer at the phenomenon that he forgot all about the fox he was after and the cold character of the day, and spent several hours ex amining the tree. " He went home greatly puzzled, and returned several days later with a clergy man living in the vicinity. They de termined to mark several of the leaves and see how long they remained where they were. They also resolved to keep the thing a secret and watch its progress until spring. This they did. When April arrived the leaves which they had marked were just as green and fresh as In December, and the tree itself was not affected in the least by the severity of the weather and the many windy blasts. " The bark was tapped every week and yielded a plentiful supply of sap; enough to keep both the farmer's and min ister's families in syrup all winter long. The same has been tried ever since ; not a leaf has fallen, to the best of their be lief, since the day the tree was first noticed, and the sap has flowed with the same regularity and profusion. "As far as can be ascertained, there is no cause for the mysterious vitality of that particular maple. There is nothin in the sod or sub-soil to render growth more available or make the trunk and branches better able to stand the storms and cold weather. r "A number of people have lately vis. ited the curiosity, but each one comes away perfectly mystified. At the pres ent time not another tree on the whole mountain, with the exception of several evergreens near the hotels, has a leaf on it, and the trunks and branches stand out ' bleak and bare. This maple is in an 0 exposed spot, unprotected from the winds and surrounded by rocks. Just why it is as it is baffles the ingenuity of all beholders. Even the regular Decem ber fox hunt is cast in the shade by this ? perpetually green maple tree." " Walter Scott on the Literary Pr'ofes slon. r The following chiaracteristic posteript L to an unpublished letter of Sir Walter [ Scott's has been placed at our disposal 3 by the courtesy of the corresponident to r whom it was addressed. It gives in a 3 forcible form Scott's welbknown opinion a of literature as a professioni. It is dated a February 2, 1828, when Scott was hard I at work on " The Fair Maid of Perth :" - " Will you excuse my offering a piece of serious advice ? Whatever pleasure .. you may find in literature, beware of looking to it as a profession, but seek i that independence to which every one i hopes to attain b~y studying the branch - of industry which lies most within your a reach. In this case you may pursue > your literary amusements honorably and I happily, but if ever you have to look to literature for an absolute and necessary support you must be degraded by the , necessity of writing Whether you feel in clined or not, and besides, must suffer all the miseries of a precarious and de [pendent existence." a This letter was addressed to the Rev. 3 Charles Room, under the impression that 1 Mr. Room? then a young man, proposed a making literature, a profession. This, i however, was not the case, as Mr. Room a was at that time preparing to enter the s Christian ministry.-A cademy. I CAN this be an extract from the diary of that astounding commercial traveler, a " Samuel Plastrick, of Posen ?" Miles traveled.....2,500 Hants ordiered........... 8 n Number of truanks.. 2 Suits of clothes made 2 e Shown samples...... sldfo ohe Hold goods.......... rm......$,0 eBeen asked the C~iis~sfo 5 ne ws.............50rlfrs...$8 e Told the news ...... 1 pr a Didn't know.......20 vd.riidal x Dreca k cdtor...11p...............$42 Changedl politics... oeyptinny tChanged religIon.. as nhud....7 .fDaily emxpenses al- odrk.....1 lo'wed fby house..$9Bdyroe p 2 SDaiy expenses,act- fSipdoto oe ual.................... Been to church..... rsrokd . 0 Accom panied girls ICgr ie wy. hom~nefromnchurch 17ubrdysatl GiOrls flirtedl wIth. 4 ok......8 Agreed to marry... 2Nbnerdyca 0 Expected trouble e im.....4 rKicked out of II, p........ house . ...........seracs 8 Left by hack door.. 8Maeobes...S0 e Dodged fair on Ls nbt . 5 Y Number of persons o aa e cheated...........8 Fimsa alpot Trid t chat61 foodrsl for daher slamminglon CopastSins Mfrom wt botvlvs5id open th firm........ of8a was reersed braary w6er whiay e Sdownand w 2t aeedomudsl efrtth 11rinwsspc Monsy pas i reahd-h m7 igann.......$0 ~O conductorhrun.ing.f.rward. ~ Joe ? ased h Gt rnr e...n.....l.. the "eyofouslped it is, hote ~ tiketpunhie whie epes........... a crowgaraupmoked.w.....faces. ~ "hat rght"siar gten maway ...k 2 of break Alway Numell days atuhal 42wlrsp c yor............ 8 2i eree Numersdayscharg lads*tr t wnar 2t Attfresh o8hi ae ons...... U.S. scoug~i bue~ giv pride a lime. ounR man gaoin see the 1e. r "" o "r" in1 hie ward Tim es. "HAvN a place everthing inita. a other this won' rwr; place for ourweaith, -bik if we can put it there ;W Evanevwile Argw. "Dos our talk onq of a compay an old gentiama station the othel ma'agm," was the nad e reja'~,~ married night on to forty yes ford Times. "W ENI dielet m be. stove, so that my uaes the grate," says the Boston Star. In the man's ashes will the grate; the chanoes re simmer as a base b A xrr~un in Peru, his mill and bent.fr got caught in some -zi1b17 yanked out; and, oftoe him, and his first bewl tion was: "Durn it, w-fe matter now ?"-Boto .4..vuar gushing young )~tto Mr. Snap and asked hn in tones: "Oh-oh-Mr. What-what-4s your la ness?" Mr. Snap full meaning of the gue k dooteA groun " "YOU are on the l pilot's wife, when the arose with the nsul "No," he replie fte nation, "i'm on th me dead ifI ain'to~ it."-Burington Hatokeyje " HAVZ some mote of tho pIngtte$ Mrs. Slobson to her ekt6*~~i stinately refused.- Again themn, adding:. "ISf you d nA W have to throw it away.. It much longer." Strang&'*& e appetites departed. Thist is ecseteUu amenities of boading-heamIfk WHEN you are om l4 stairs with a buoket of d* two pies andajplate b other, and a loa of bread arm, it is exceedingly 'trying to ge down and cautiva youiset*0* preserves on the swinging j*. corner of the collar next to jelly. Been thebe,"hawen'ty liamnsport Breakfg~t Tabil. LETTER OF 4GEORGE 31EQ~,~ wer VsertI@ er Mset "mnet ansee [Prom thestbanaabs. ni - We owe th1eopporttai ofp the following letter to., Professor D. Kaufman,. toW was addressed. .PrfoSser well kno wn by his trmark#4 e. Deronda," and It will be seen tha oriticisms attracted -the. n9t4ig yar novelist, and led her to wri ~ Mv Tnr ParonT, N MDEAR B~IRay,DW1 author, have -1 had a deeper: may say a more heartfelt oy,. given me in your estia. of"ane I must tell you thati .is1 strictly observed, not to read the my writings. For years I -have $Ibi stinence necessary .to presere discouragement sean produce in me. For far wore tbsh as to the proportion of 'good and ea~~ work is the painful imp os~f that for a public which has no disoeaernt ofps and evil. My husband reads any notleed of10 com-s before him, and reprt te sa o A refrains from reportin of tire notice, or some strikes him as shoiring l d insight or an obtuseness tha SPPI to be amussing. Very a critique of me, he has ~it te iai ing, "You inust read thiL." An4 30Or mate of "Daniel Deronda" made-one of rare instances. Certainly, If I had been asked t should be written about say should write It, I should have not anything so good as what have ten, but an article which must Jew who showed not merelysu bost aspirations of hises, & - insight into the nature of art and of the artistIc mind. Beleve r'e P~i~ have cared to devour eYes afdedt P$I* u bad not come from one who showed *~ criminating sensibIlity, th~e fli606 PSqt the artist'teno, fullest, rarest $oy to one Mbe~q9f ward conviction, an4 noQ~ current fashions. Such r~ushu an author not onl wha in i is to come.'* I mean that ea~l mative, narrow eretoofwhats work, Impresses one WI ensD -~i be poor, perishablie st's tISf a any lasting hold In the mf psi - any Instance of complete .o~b~ 5 oourikges one to hope tha tI~eM In has foreabadowed, WI 1sf , aneedinother zeusemte thatlIwrite .g4 hans diml, What Ihaef i article. It'has af oso ede nd the ennobifng of Judaies in the Christian communiy ness of the JTewish com M -~( moment made me repent may has been added proof tomse needed-yet I confess that K hunger for certaingns ef oernment, which yu ha~ mention as oneSp of the relationl het Jewish element med life. I worktMW'er4 for we are j3tRUlhf summer all 1 I1& tioxi axoun0U1e swering your~ etter to ~ Mmhesbenld as5 feeIrstefna to voOs