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kl?)',y - * -' -.. . . . .-;~ - - - * f______ unoQuiR~- Inv1 A44O -THE COUSTt. - ---- * \ T ? DLE 00, PICEdSDAY JULY 13 1882. iVOrkNO. 43 t~*a., I.A M ~II n tyis ipg A14ie4s '61, k to onaI round in aris o uty, 8 -bushels of oato this hip7d 5,000 worth foreign ports last Sat. Fla receives about 100 'ec month from the West V0t, Fla., has sixty vessels and e90'3n engaged in the sponge ctory at Augusta, Ga, has just an order of 2,000 bales of goods Afrios. cotten seed oil mill is to be 61 Bailey's all, Jefferson coun, ser capt, are buying up all MW gt go li minets u ae vicinity of Char lotte, N. C. - the cotton factory at Selma, Ala,, hs declared a semi-annual dividend of it pei cent. New Orleans, thinks of establishing a Castle Garden for the accommodation bf immigrants. A mammoth iron furnace is to be erected neaf Covington, Va., by Euro pean capitalists. A company has been formed to oper. ate a silver mine recently discovered near Gaylesville, Ga. The beautiful Confederate monument at Columbia,-8. 0., was totally wrecked ty lightning a few days ago. 4little boy at Charlotte, N. C , swal * lowed a quart and a half of cherries, seeds and-all, and died in great agony. The first appearance of cotton as an article of. commerce was a shipment or seven bales from Charleston, S. C., in 1707. In North Carolina during the past ye'ar Sixty-three new post-ofiices have been established and seventeen discon .tinued. Zast Tennearee has a county in which four of the precincts are nq~med Upper Hog-thief, Lower Uog-talef, Fair Prom s ieaud Never Pay. * Richard Paulk, white, of Union'coun ty, S. C., has been sentenced to one year Sin the penitentiary or to pay a fine of $500 for .anarrying a negro woman. John'Turner, of Savannah, Ga., after servlhig out eight years of-a life-service for murder in the penitentiary, has proven his innocence and been released. At Goldaboro, N. C , a man built a fence, using live cypress for posts. The posts took root and are growing rapidly, bearing the fence slowly but surely skf-. Sward. ~Thckson county, Ga., is the only place ~ n the South where clay fit for jug mnak ing is found. Two. factories are run in the county, and the jugs are all made by hand. * The grapes grown by the stockholders of the Georgia Wino Company, located in Cuthbert, will this year make 20,000 gallons of wine; which is the present capaeity of the company. It Is estimated that the South has this season paid to the North $55.000, ([00 .fot wheat, $50,000,000 for corn, $72, 9)00;O00 fpor meats, anid about $25,00, [00 for hay, butter, cheese, oats, apples, pp)tatoes, etc. The people of Ta vans, Fla , est alliga tor steaks and tenderloins in preference to the tough1Z beef obtainable there.Th ~ est when par boiled and fried presents th~ fair appearance of the breast of a owand possesses a flavor almost as d)cte apd appetizinfg, 59eeotton comnpress to be erect e n kalcburg, Miss., soon is to be one of th%~zest and most costly in the - ~ t ~d tos0, or the world for that * ~tt~wTher' is only one like it in~ex. I ue~,ad that is now being placed in Po~jt1W at New Orleans. VIcsburg is still agitated over her ba$bor, The receding of the Mississipp relleaving only a. lake of still water in fto of the city *here the river once 1Iwdhas a threatening aspect to the A. mwy of Vicksburg, and her citi gVa re abliously inquiring what is to 4o preserve the harbor. *h9f Micajah Martin, doe ~)tts4~aTroup copnty, Ga., will *tthq city of A tlant a to Gi4 l nsd in'ahe very ;hniball House .the water and the earth was seveta feet Yod4e Qer five uino. beforefindinj anoutlek of the lake, a pd g In t4 side of a hill. The lake is ap.eat won der., There is a weed in the 4oth inowi as the wild coffee plait, whieb as cause the planter a good deal of treuble an( annoyance, and has consequently beel greatly despised. It has recently beei discovered that the plant haq its 'use, a rope can be'made from it eqdal to th best hemp, and stronger and finer thai jute. The dis'overy was made by a ne gro who needed a piece of rope, bu could find none. On looking arouni his attention was attracted to.this plant and he cufi the stalks and treated then in the same manner he had been accus tomed to see hemp treated in Kentucky and the result was a fibre of good lengtl and of surprising strength, which tb old man soon conyerted into rope. A Cheap cologne Water. The only perfume which 'never seema to offen' my and which leaves no un pleasant tang behird it is that of colo g< water, which stamulates while it soothem the senses, and suggests a pleasant whole someness instead of any sickish sweet ness, as e best of extracts and essencea and bouquets are apt to do. We do not mean, of course, the cheap and common colo e water o the'druggists, which i usualy very much worse than none at all and wont to leave, after dying, the smel of burned sugar where it has been used often, as it is made of the poorest spirit, andl necessarily without subsequent dis. tulation; without regard to the fact that it requirep the strongest proof or rectified spirit to dissolve the combined oils properly where the processof dishtllation is not used. Indeed, with no trouble at all, any one can make in her own store room a better article of cologne than that which is usually bought, by thoroughly dissolving a fluid dram of the oil of ber gamot,.orange and rosemary each, with half a dram of neroli and 'a pint of ree; tilfied spirit. As good as can be made out of cologne itself, however, is also quite as comfortably prepared at home as at the chemist's-at so much less than the chemist's prices that one feels war ranted in using it freely-simply by mix mg with one quart of rectified spirit, two flauid drams each of the oils of ber gamont and lemon, one of the oils of orange and half as much of that of rose. mary, together with three-quarters of a dram of neroli and four drops' each of the essences of amberg's and musk. If this is subsequently 'stilled it makes what may be called a pertect cologne but it becomes exceedingly fine by bing kept tightly stoppered for two or three months to ripen and mellow before use, -.arper's Bazaar. Remniscences of Garibaldi. Mr. Morosini, Treasurer of the Ameri can Cable Companyv at New York,-is i old friend and shipmate of Garibaldi who, - is addition to being a candle ~maker, and a liberator, was also a sei captain. His old friend says the lib'era tor looked more like an Englishmai than an Italian ; was "one of Plutarch'i men, a Romaan of Rome's best days.' After Garibaldi and himself had made candles otr Staten Island for a year, ii 1850, Garibaldi was appointed Captai. of, a Peruvian. ship and took' Morosin with him on his viit to China and Soutl America. He was very kind to all hii crew, in fact to everybody, but showei it in his looksand acts,for he was little o a talker. His face looked like a lion'i face, especially when angry ; there was no indenture of his nose adhere, as ir most persons, it joins the forehead. Th< only time that he ever knew Garibald to be afraid was at Newcastle-on-the Tyne, where his ship was loading wit! coalt and where, being barefoot he waw afraid the coal carriers, with their heava hob nail shoes, would step on his toes When at Callao two Frenchmen over heard him telling how he helped defen< home against the invasion'of the French army. One of them accused him o lying. Next mornings Garibaldi went t< his shop and challenged him to a fai fight ; the two partners drawed thei weapons, but en Garibaldi's pretendinj to draw a revolver, they fled. The hun dreds of Italians in port, hearing tha Garibaldi had beeh threatened, tore th4 shop to pieceend would have done th< jame with the Frenchmnen could thea taive been found. French Soldiers Most people who see that 280,001 young men are brought forward an~nu ally for militr service in. France attach an exaggerate signifioabee to this larg number. As a matter of fact, not one third of them'go just now into the rank for five years' service. Out of every 104 of these youths, seventeen serve only fo a year or for six months, twenty-four ar4 exempted for family or educationail rea sons, five or six are set aside for aui iary service because of minor bodily de feats, nine extra small and weak mak< are put back for two years, and twelv< aedcared totally unfit -for service Thus we have the significant fact tha the large proportion of twenty-seven pe: cent. of the young men of Fance are at the age of -twenty, moro or less phys, ically uxnutted for military service. 'fh standard of education may be judget from the fact that one in every seven re cruits can neither read nor write. Ter years ago the proportion of the illiterak( was about one in five, and fifty years ag< it was fifty per cent. As to hight-o.a rather the want of ite-thirty-six per Cenlt of the recruit. are between five feet ani~ half an inch (the minimum army hight' and fiye feet four inches;i and .the gr &al average is less than IIye feet gy 4fZA, miammyl didni't~~~~ teolP n4ustn't go in bavin ?" "YTo ohi has ye been diabeyf ,Pelg I" t'No, mm~ tgoodness I haq# seglnM Un I. TOPICS OF THE DAY. Tkni are 10,700 men on the police force of London. hN zIvi months eight persons have been killed by the cable cars in Chicago. Tun Sultau is to grant Jewish refu. goes from Bussia tracts of land in Syria and Mesopotamia, s AT Mobile, Alabaina, female violators a of the law are required to work out their. fines in the chain gang. A, FAoTwUS Contemporary suggests that Congress investigate the Western cyclones while they are at it. L AnAiu BEY is applying the Monro6, doctrine in Egypt by planting dynamite torpedoes along the Suez Canal. Tm person who has attracted consid etable attention the past year, may now be spoken of as the late Mr. Guiteau. STATIsTICs of immigration show that vnry few of the foreigners who come to this country go to the Sonthern States. IN the State of Mississippi there are 30,000,000 acres of land, of which less. than 5,000,000 acres* are under cultiva.. tion. * LONDON publishers bribe school teach era with theater tickets and champagne suppers to buy and recommend the buy ing of their books. JAMEs RUssEtn Lowwra and Dr. Leonard Woolsey Bacon, according to the Washington Post, think of running for Congress next fall. MIss. LANGTRY bas begun to. under stud. something of Amorican advertis ing. She took a special train from Ed inburg to London, at a-cost of,$500. Tau famots Dalrymple farm of Dakota is to be divided, Mr. George Howe, an oil prince% of Pennsylvania, having bQught 30,000 acrosol-it for $80, 000. Tan Belgium Govermbent is soon to adopt pulverized meat for an army ration. One pound of the auicle is said to be as nutritious as six pounds of fresh beef. . - GAMBETTA,'it is said, sufferers con stant fear of assassination, anid his frienl M. Camescasse, Perfect of Police, has given him a bodyguard to watch his house night and day.' ' to -- COn. INGEflSOLra, tWO year*s ago, was credited with having made $200,000 out. of a silver mine, but if present reinrts are correct, lie to-day counts himsell out $50,000 on sid-silve'r mine. Catszs immigrants are. arriving into British Columbia in large numbers, and the Oi-mso mermhztnk of Sim Franis~co predict the arrivaLI of 40,000 .of their countrymnon before next Octobor. SIXTEEN smiallpox patients in San F'ranci sco, while being con1veyed in a boat recenitly, were aill upset and dronehed with cold salt water. In sipite of their exposure they all imnmediately recovered. TuE ,Iews in Rus'ia and Rlonmania are emigrating toPalestine in large numnbers, and large gtms are being subscried to aid them in this movement. It is salid tha'i the maujority- are eager to engige in) agrinulture. Ie frozen by machinery is now being iused .Jargely in Southern cities, as it is cheaper than that from the North, ex cept at seaboard places. The ret i price has fallen fromi $8 per hunded b. fore the war to $1.50. liF THE 3Xpreshion of the press ge.ner ally may be accepted as an indication, Anthony Comstock is getting him~self in bad repute by ugly, spiteful work. He suppresses or tolerates the Granismission of a publication as the fancy strikeis him. ________ .UANNH~wR'splan for removing to the Uinited States the remains of Lieu Stenant De Long and comxrades involves an expondituro) of $25,004), and is not a considered feasible by the Oongressional Committee, to whom the matter was re Sferred. - Natiu e cals a halt in the wvork of un derground telegraphy. It announces that the unergroundl wires in Gehrmany are tu rning out badly, anld that the credit of several millions of fra'ies re cently vote~d for extending the syvstom in F"rance will probably nt be uisel. " Tuunn is not in litenure,'' says the New York Times, " a nolelr or more pa-. thetic story " than the diary of Lieu ten ant DeLong. Still, it was a plain anid very brief narrative of facts. It is the ~reader's appreciation of the surround ings that makes the story pathetio. Tsuns are thirty-three "rajiroal schools" in Russia for the instruction of ,emDployee, established because not ver. .I)Zg agO it was impossible to get flu1 PVith education enough to be en Mr1*.Wlith the higher p~laes, and eveni day~ one-half of all the Ioco~mno inBassia are Gerraans. tbPat GIriflin,*1J toesA~d 0Woh eployed, and hunateds of buhhels are cAt asidi as too ripe Po shipment. 'Irw San D ledo O/sronicle relates that whilde . fot deserters from a ship at (Gueytos, a few days ago, the searchers diso6vered a man covered from head to odt Wthlong , shaggy hair, of a reddish .oolo On their approaching him he,. "W''menced to run, and they ohised him, foUowing him for a distance of A niileor moo oe to the beach, where he jumped from reektosrock with the agil ity of a chamois and was soon lost to sight behind a jutting point. They a!-. Erward discovered the cave which he Inhabits, the floor being covered with skins, and the indieations were that he subsisted entirely on raw fish. Organ ized efforts will be made to capture him. Somn of the Iowa and other papers are arguing that the cyclones in the West are increasing ,in number and fierceness every year. In a certain sense this Is probably true. That is, there are 'years and seasons when they are more severe and frequent than at others. Between 1860 and 1878 these tornadoes wero very rare, and between 1878 and 1880 there were only one oi two of a formidable character. Bu during the last three years they have been intense and numerons. Doubtless a long interval of quiet will soon succeed these tempestuous years. But in an. other sense they will always increase in destructiveness. As the State become populots, they will seem to be more fro quent, and will actualy be more calain. itous. KAN AND HIS BUTTONS. is iMetAs o newtn Thena on- 8nd the DhI~sAtes zeounesZd. [New York Graphic.j Did you ever see a man in the solitude and privao9 of his study attempt to sew on a button by himself? It is, in all its details, one of the most interesting per formaznces in the world.. First he hunts for a button. Generally,.to secure it, he robs Peter to -pay Paul, and cuts from another garment This button may be much larger or nauch smaller than the size he is wearing. Next he hunts a needle. Probably lie goes out and buys a paper of needles. He always chooses the largestneedles, having an impression that large needles will sew stronger than small needles., As to thread, he gets the coarsest he can find, and this he doubles. He-would thread his needle. He takes his big needle in one hand and his coarse black thread in the other, He bites off the thread to a desired length. Then he tries to twist it to a fine point. Gener ally in this he succeeds in making two, and sometimes three, fine points out of one, end. Of course he can't get all these fine points through the needle's eye it once. 'He tries hard to make that needle and thread get On friendly terms with each other, but they won't. They don't want to get acquainted. They do not wish- to have anything to do with each other. Sometimes it is the needle that kicks; sometimes the thread. Some times ho imagines he has really threaded his needle. It is an ocular delrnsion. The thread has missed the needle's eye by half an inch. It is harder work than sawing wood. \At last the needle is threaded. Now he tries to sew the but ton on without taking his trousers off. This proves a failure. He twviets him self into an uncomfortable position, and so would sew. But he can't sew so. He runs the needle into himself, and the contrary thread always insisting in foul ing or in doubling around the next but ton. Then one part of the doubled thread won't work harmonionsly with the other part. One part draws through the button's eye first and leaves the other part behind. Then it gets hitched up, and the embassador swears. Or the needle breaks. And then he swears. He may not swear audibly. But the re cording angel knows what is going on inside of him, and debits him with every item. He sews hard. He has forgotten all about the necessity for a thimbhle. He 'ams his thumb down on the needle's hea and it punctures his thumb or runs under the nail. By and by he sews the button's eye full of thread. His big needle won't pass through any more. He must stop. He ends by winding the thread as many times as it will go under the button. And perhaps he leaves oft with two or three inches of thread stick ing outside. A woman can, through mang' outward indications, tell when a mayi has been trying to sew on a but ton. He doesn't know the shibboleth of needle and thread, and it catches some where every time. At last the button is sewed on and he_is uroud of his work. Human Progress. It is said that there is a certain fixed amount of cruely in every society, and that the only difference is the form in which it is expressed. Where people, for example, who are kind to a~nmals, are frequently unkind, or at least not sympathetic, with those of their own kind. The venerable Henry Bergh, of New York, is charged with being willing to sacrinice the health and comfort of his own species ted thatof the quadrupeds he champions, The philanthropist that devotes his time to alleviating the wrongs of manind is often accused of neglecting his family 'and allowing them to sufler, while the Qold, selish, cross, grasping, hard moneymaking man of the world, is at home an affectionate husband and a tender father. Whether this be true or not, it Is lN a degree condirmed by the apparent advance In humanity already made at Yale College. There have been years :In the histary of that instiu tion whent "hazing" was. iatioed. Buit that Ks. bees aban o~1of late. Instead of that hWin. Tv! vat' son has intredteed ba4exhiuatin hhav ing procured a dget for tMpurpose --and rat-killing.- He has Wtefr whicb is "death oij rats," a4the othet hzthQU~e ;'idog kl zata tesand th T2AT LTELX COAT. 3. 38M.J. V. O. X0.os. Then wa a man, 'tUs ad to se, LAved in dar famous city, Whom none that ever knew him well Oould either love or pity. Re was no bigger than a mouso I do not stretch the story; ~ Retad a tiny, old-time house, Illumined with his glory. He had a coa this little man, 31e at exactly in it, No longer Win a a a, Nor wider than a minu Thread-bar, and old and dirty blue, Yet all who ventured near him Ho'd squeee Into that coat-'tis true Till folk wee taught to fear him. It was the coat his father wor, Ye% father's father's father And yet he'd worry, tease and em, , nnoy vex and bother All that e met abotut that.coat And its etoinal fitness For high and low of eve note Who could Its virtue tnes. Now don't you wish he could hag seen The fo1 of this passion, And let his neighbors choose between His and some other fashion ? Curlois Scene. A most resptable jury-every one of them a X50 freeholder-was impaneled at Clonmel, Ireland to try a most im portant question. During the course of the trial the learned Judge had to retire for half an hour, promising to be back on the expiration of that time. Thi. Judge then retired, and so did the jurors. In some time after, one of the jurors re turned, and stated in open court, to an astonished audience, Tat he had been to a christening, drank the child's health, a speedy uprise to Its mother, and that her son might be a much better man than its papa. This caused so much surprise that those who heard it re mained silent. He asked a learned coun sel to give ; him the song called " The Low-backed Car." At this request the learned gentleman shook his head. The ur then said, " You won't won't you? )hen I'll do it myself ; " and so he did in excellent style, and concluded amid the bravos of a crowded court. He then made a speech on the duties of a pater mal Government, and acquitted himself with equal credit, and was vociferously applauded. H then demanded that the Judge should be sent for; and, this de mand not being acceded to by the crier, ho stood up and called the learned Judge to come into court, on a fine of ?50, This he did three different times, and in the usual way. He then declared that as the Judge did not come he wouldn't wait-he should go back to the christen ing ; and lie accordihgly left the jury box, and finally the court. In about half an hour he returned, and, not see ing the Judge on the bench, he com menced singing "Rory O'More," after which he stopped into the jury-box, re suming his seat among his fellows, who appeared quite " glum" at his an tica; bt he, seeming not to mind the wry faces of his brethren, began to hum a song. He then tried what he could do at the Kent bugle, and succeeded to admirL tion ; but, just as he had concluded a splendid solo, the learned Judge made his appearance at the corner of the bench, where he stood listening, in mute. astonmshment, to the music of the special juror, who was equally astound egl when lie heard the cry of " Hats off ! Be p~lernscd to keep silence !", In the meantime something was said to the Judlge, who good-naturedly adjournied the court for the further hearing ci the case until the following morning. Good Manners. Perhaps good manners are not good morals, though-the time was when the words morals anid manners amounted to pretty much the same thing. When the New Testament was trans lated into'English, in 1611, it taught its readers, and still teaches us, that "eovil commnicmations corrujpt'good manners." And the revisers of 1880 have left the good manners to stand, changing only communications into company. So I have very high authority for saying that what I am driving at in this letter has something to do with the basis of char acter. A bad man may .have the hand somest manners, the manners of a gen tleman, and thereby the more thoroughly fitted to work all manner of mischief with greediness. He is a hypocrite in the world, as one who mnerely pretends to be a saint is a hypocrite in the church. But the beginning, middle, and end of good manners may be condensed into the divinely given principie of preferring others to ourselves ; denying self for the happiness of another ; rendering to everyone his duo, as superior, inferior, or equal. If mothers form the manners of the children, they should feel the burden of responsibility. They may permit the inborn waywardness of the child to go unchelied, while he grows to be a pert, saucy, forward, disagreeable, dreadful boy, a terror to the neighborhood, and a numsance to everybody but his doting mamma. She gives him a stick of candy when a stick of something not so sweet would do him more good. She coddles him into a curse that by and by will come u n her own head. Just as the twig, e . Blood is great, and blessed are they who are well bomn. But more than blood, better than pedigree, is cul turu. iain up a chill in the way he should go. He will go in it then. Teach him to respect those who are older than him self ; to rise up before the aged. AEneas was pious, because he honored his father. It'is a long way toward godli nessi to obey one's .parents. And happy is the parent and happy the child when love is returned with love. The blood Dish Humans Make. The cednibals have long since decided that in the delicacy of both flavor and texturQ " long pigs' is far superior to "shor; pig," and when aaked how he liked children Charles LamN said he liked them "boiled." It is well known that tigers and lions prefer human flesh to all other, and will leave off atting catt tie and sheep tot pull down a mian. A ourious confirmiation of this 1a the pref eece which tigers show k monkeys, h~Ich, according to Dqwin, are but a below the human rum. Tigers l~opards are very fond of tesak.eof the delicay I fte She Po2e ThereIs a story, now generally 6 asrded " fabulous that a feale named (others say Uilberta or Agnes) of English descent, btit born in Ingeiheim, Dr Mainz, Germany, fell in l9v, with a Young Benedictine monk named Velda, and n order to be admitted into the Monastery or Fulda, where he was olos tered, assumed male attire. She after ward went with him to Athens, where he died while they were pursuing their studies. Soon after this she went to Rome, where her great learning brought her into distinction, and from a success ful career as a professor, she was elected by general consent of the college of Cardinals to be the successor of Pope Leo IV., who died A. D. 885. Others say she was the immediate successor of Pope Adrian II. who died A. 'D. 872. Her title was kope John VIII; a title which in the Roman Notizie, or official calendar of the Roman pontiffs, is as cribed to a different person. Itisfurther related of this "female Pope" that she administered the pontifical office with great ability until her sex was discovered by her giving birth to a male child dur ing the excitement and fatigue of a pro cession to the Lateran Palace, which was quickly followed by her death, some say puerpdral fever, while other narra tives declare that she ~was stoned te death.- Dr. Dollinger has written an elaborate analysis of the various stories in regard to this personage, going to show quite clearly that she was a medie val fiction, yet it cannot be denied the belief in the veritable existence of the pontificate of Joan was general through out the Catholic Church from thirteenth to the fifteenth century, and was not discredited under the Reformation, when it was made use of by the Protestants to scandalize the papacy. Dollinger says she was first mentioned by Chron icler Stephen de Bourbon, who took his information, he thinks, from the chron icle of the Dominican, Jean de Mailly, no copy of which is now known to be in existence. He attributes the origin ol this scandal upon the infallibility of the Poapacy to a grudge nourished againsi the popes on account of the perscutionE inflicted particularly by Pope Benedici VIII. on the monki of the Domican ani Minorite orders. Certain it is that goo Catholics at one time had such faith i the existeue ofePope Joan, or John that they placed in the Cathedral o: Sienna, along with those of the othei popes, a bust. of the popess, with the in sciption, "John VIII., a woman fron England:" and this statue held its plac without serious objection on the part o priests or people, until the beginning o seventeenth century. The " Holy Chair is the chair used in the enthronement c the popes. The tradition that the fory of this chair is due, in a certain particu lar, to the fraud said to have been pei potratod by Joan, is now treated by hui torians as a vulgar fiction.-Chticap Inter-Ocean. French Soldiers. Most people who see that 286,00' y'eung men are brought forward anmt ally for military service in Franice attach an exaggerated signifleance to this large number. As a matter of fact, not one. third of thoem go just now into the ranki for five years' service. Out of every 10( of these youths, seventeen servo only foi a year or for six months, twventy-four art exempted for family or educational rea. sons, five or six are set aside for auxil. inry service because of minor bodily de. fects, nine extra small anld weak makc are put back for two years, and twelve are declared totally untit for service. Trhus we have the significant fact thai the large proportion of twenty-seven pea cent. of the young men of France are, at the age of twenty, more or le'ss phys icaily unfitted for military service. The stariard of education may be judged from the fact that one in every seven re cruits can neither road nor write. TOen years ago the proportion of the illiterate was about one in five, and fifty years agc it. was fifty per cent. As to hight-oa rather the want of it-thirty-six per cent, of the recruits are between five feet and half an inch (the minimum army hight; and five feet four inches ; and tlhe gene eral average is less than five feet fiv4 inches. The Nose and the Face. A somewhat singular fact has beer observed with reference to the shape oj the nose, e,r rather the setting of it it the face, so to speak. To be strictl2 correct, from the artist's point of view, the nose should be accurately in th4 middle of the face, and at igh angleN with a line from the p~upIl of one eye tc that of the other. As a matter of fact, it is rarely or never thus placed ; -it ii almost invariably a little out of the " square," and the fact of its being so is often that which lends a peculiai expression and pignancy to the face. A medical writer points out that there aire anatomical reasons why a slight devia. tion from the true central line may be expected, an-i that the nose which i thus accurately straight between the twe eyes may after all be considered ar abnormal one ; the only absolutely true and correct organ being, in fact, thai which deviates a little to the right et left. -Phrenolozjicial Journal. -A Cat's Angry Passions. Mr. TI. P. Blurkinroad, a merchant oi Wills Point, Texas, is the owner of at old cat and young kittens, which he keeps in his store on Fourth street, Some time ago a man drove up ini front of the store and hitched hia horses. The kitten was playing in the street when 1 went. near one of the horses anA rubbei against its feet. The horse SNicked the kitten, throwing it some distance..on th4 ground. This so angered the old cai that she-sprang upon the horse's bacd and frij fully tore Its skin with bei claws. eherse became so frightene4 at this n~peoted attaoIh that he tries to break loose. She thien stoppeM wint the horse besaue quiet, then she. ro newed the atimek. hie- was set. several * Ng teemed to his words the sand by she is all sole," a lady who - as qute aWe her by saying': that yOM. pit-t h deeplyq ando~trtg few seconds, said,"id of tone and style as sho " Welif I do ' mistake and puit WOW A qoo old lady, meeting and givi s and confidence e fet If I was ready, this AT the arms of FBeelzabub You mean Abrabm I" bas ij a brother sitting near. W ham, then," was thn rems" make any difference. ey re men. "No, ix daughter,"said 1Eew matron, "I cannot consent f r io w keeping company with young:3 He had the insurance to -Me" aIRO ageress, right to my. by eveng" al y, ma, tha bad al all." It is. young man that it .Is A he assumed to insulate Ine pitched him over the banln dear, ma, I wish you woul 'sqL aphors so," and both women the dictionary to substantiats i guage. "I'M SHAVING myself most o time now," said the young man as he adjusted his head to e of the chair. The barber gazedth a fully at the gash in. the left &he4 if the irregular Maltese akoss in the chin observed the finely execuftdondlipi map of the Hell Gate excavations on the left side, hovered over th0e ear that was held in placewi t7 plaster, and pityingly seodute 4~~ collection of pimples and blotohu bpa ornamented the neck. " Yen, I1oU you are," he said musingly, as he sfl strapped his razor.? ON MONDAY of last week gg'ha.&' a letter to the office boy, telling bit ti I drop it into the mail. Thia was eatly In the morning. In passing the o" desk in the ,afternoon Pog saw t~ letter. " I say, Johnny," sadhe, "b E time this week will do for that letter, ya e know." Next day Fogg saw the .letter - still lying on the boy's desk. Fierce ha 1 broko forth, lie wanted to know whWt 3 mi the substantive that adjective I~BtteZ I was doing there. Why in. th0 suhtan f tive it hadn't been mailed? "I didn't ' know you was in a hurry abotit it," sai4 i the boy, "y~ou told me any .tifne thin ai week would do" -Deaf and Dumb Barbers. o A man dressed in a thin summe~ woolen suit and a dilapidated straw ha entered our sanctum.r " Sir," he said, "you see beforoe o a reminder of the summer'asunso speak. I am not from 'J.t~fs neither am I dressed for ej~i it~ - comforts of atrip insearchofl e1iortl ' i pole. Excuse me, no North pcle for 3 me," and his teeth chatteredg while quiver of icy chilliness seemed tQ 'run~ across his whole frame. . " Are you cold?'' we asked. Ifs. walk up by te stoveand get wa~" "No, sir, no!t warm as the sprfr -the equatorial line. I am needy, b broke, sir. You see before you a lator whose cart Is keeled over broken, with the horses on a rtin so I ahead a greased streak of lightnin can~ not overtake 'em. Four months cune A started a barber shop. Now, thinsZ I'll strike a new beat. So I just goes and hires four deaf aid dumb tonsorlaM artists and then put up notices thiatcus. tomners comin tomy shopwould ha e and nb questions asked. The thing'tqok on the start, but, when the confound~ed barbers pulled their slates and began writing out the usual questions, blow me if I didn't diaeover thatlIwas arn.. ined man. Yes, sir, barbers is barberg - I and, when I closed my shop, busted u and started on atramp, Iljust ses i myself it's no use. If dead men coidl " be learned to handle the razor over a a" man's face, the blamed things wouM&~' have spiritual mejiums asking their ,ie- . - timns the same old line of guestions---..Ah!'i thank yAr, sir ; ta-ta. With this dime i'll send a counter-irritant down my~ throat that'll knock the thinness out Z-''. this summer suit and give my stonyld a cleaner shave than any learber can" And, as the shattered vase retired, the -' perfume of the roses remained in the~ sanctum until an open window rest*k~ the natural tone of the atmodphes..t W~hitehall Timca. Poland Becoming Gernianin~ Journals of Prussian~ ?ola4 . the rapidity with which the ce becoming Germaniked. Ee erty and population are' all fW the control of the domlitn#T The Polish peasantry is immwg large proportion coming to th States, and German farmers apd craftsmen are being sent to aes place. This, together with i 4 Geran s he f~caland - guage, is enough to orowd out nal , vernacular. As - estates of the old Polish -c~~~ are fast being bougtu y capitalists. During 1881 -e five thousand acres, qag - -i4 Polish owners to Gevnan In the past four yearse - dred and thirty thouxgand that way. Polish pa vain to stem ther tide, restoration of th3 - fading. . IT wA a gone ogi Iestood l 7