The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, December 25, 1879, Image 2
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^ p C'apt. Ei>gell, of the .Seventeenth
Lancers, when shot at UlunJi, fell back
nto the arras of a comrade, a Dublin
man, exclaiming at his last words, "See
that the men spare the wounded. Spare
the wounded." One of his soldiers rode
in the charge with a wooden pipe in his
^BT mouth, and when shot down asked with
his latest breath, '"Give the pipe to brothel
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rji.uv, physics and divinity are well
supplied with feminine members in the
United States. The lady doctors number
.">30, dentists 420, while sixty-eight
are preachers and twenty practice :is
# lawyers. Some ladies adopt two or
three callings at once. A lady living in
^ St. Louis notifies on her door-plate that
Hkf she is an i: elocutionist, poetess, washer
and ironer."
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Tun San Francisco Chronicle savs tha
m the Farls Baron Hirsh, .who is worth
^20,000,000 and recently won S100,(J5o
in a lottery ticket, is almost rich enough
to live in San Francisco. The existence of
rich men in that city has rendered necessary
a course of scientific instruction for
burglars. A professor of the art, a recent
graduate of the State Prison, has begun
a scries of lectures on the subject, for
which fifty cents a head is charged. The
first night the lesson consisted of a trca
the, with a practical illustration, upon
the operation of breaking open a safe.
The outer door was opened in forty-five
minutes, and would have been accomplished
in even less time had not the pro
* fessor been so unlucky a> to break off his
drill. A goodly number of well-known
thieves and burglars were present in the
public hall where the exhibition took
place, and for fifty cents obtained information
which they could have got otherwise
only by months or years of study. At
the end of the lesson a detective appeared
and cleared the Jiaiioi ine mot iioionuu>
?f them.
Thk ruddy planet Mars, now nearly at
its brightest, is under close telescopic
scrutiny. The two moons which for so
many years escaped telescopic detection
have to be newly timed and rated. The
astronomers at Washington hoja-d to rediscover
these minute bodies about the
middle of Octol?er. But Mr. Common,
of Jvondon, caught sight of them as early
as September 21, when Mars was far front
liAj^^^being at its "brightest. He us<h1 a tele.juTx^M^o^
' rc^ect'no lunging a
thrlfe feet'in diameter, and regarded
by some (despite its inferiority to
the Ross telescope in size) as the most
powerful telescope in existence. The inner
satellite has siuee been rediscovered.
Phobos (for so the little moon is called)
w;ls about tlirec-quartors of an hour
ahead of its computed time, judged by
the rating of 1877. Of eon rise, astronomers
infer, as it is easier to suppose, that
that the Washington astronomers calculated
a period of revolution a few seconds
too long, not. that the little moon lias
really been accelerated in its motions.
Tim annual report of the Chief of
the Bureau of Statistics contains sonic
interesting matter. The value of the
exports of domestic merchandise during
the last fiscal year was greater than during
any previous year in th<- history of
the country. ; From 1803 in 1873 the
value of imports exceeded that of exports
in an average of about $100,000,000 per
annum. Duriug the last four years, the
excess of the value of exports over imports
has amounted to $733,000,000.
The exports of merchandise during the
l""4 linva innrpiisetl frnm 8?73
000.000 in I860 to .<098,000,000 in 1879.
The value of the exports of bread and
breadstuff* during each of the last two
years has exceeded the value of the exports
of any other commodity. During
all the preeceding years in the commercial
history of the country since 1S21
(except during the war between the
States), the value of the exports of rawcotton
exceeded that of any other commodity.
From 1821 to 1800, cotton fur'
1 > A _r i1.? ,.f
rUKnOU ?>V per veill. Ui nil- ivuu ui
exports of merchandise, but, during the
last two fiscal years, it has only amounted
to about 25 per cent. It must be remcmbercd,
however, that, while the foreign
demand for cotton is regular and
constant, a staple, in faut, like the crop
itself, the demand for breadstufls and
provisions Is exceedingly fluctuating and
irregular, dependent upon contingency
upon which no man can safely build.
A Cruel Hoax. I
Laet evening, just before sundown, a
gentleman who was sitting by hi3 wincow
on North B street, casually remarked:
" There goes the woman that
Cleorge Brown's dead gone on."
His wife who was in a bark room
ting supjK-r ready, dropped a plate on
the Jloor, stumbled over iho baby, and
ran like a quarter-horse to the window
with: " Where? where? Toil me quick!"
"Theone with the long cloak?just at
the corner."
Then the woman at the window sad
in tone* of deep disgust:
" Why, that 8 Brown's wife."
" Yes, exactly,*" remarked the brutal
husband, quietly.
Then the dir-appoinled woman wont
hack and got the supper ready, but her
usually sweet disposition was toured for
the entire evening.
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Tramps are ^flocking into Florida for
their*winter quarters.
Texas would make thirty-five states
thrt size of Massachusetts.
A new town in Lauderdale county,
Tenn., is named Pilljerk.
A South Carolina man cut22,000shingles
from one cypress tree.
The cause of education Is looming in
many eoudtiesin Alabama.
Chestnuts sell at twenty-five cents per
bushel in southern Virginia.
The sewerage question is the leading
topic of interest in Memphis.
The third crop of figs for 1879 is nearly
ripe in Oglethorpe county, Ga.
There wore 113 deaths in New Orleans
during the week ending Sunday.
The wool clip of Texas this year is
estimated at 22,000,000 pounds.
The colored Baptists are erecting a
$3,000'church at Dallas, Texas.
There were sixty-one vessels in the
jxjrt ofjjavaunah, Ga., Saturday.
Alex. II. Stephens is a consistent inember
of the Presbyterian church.
Arkansas has a state society for the
prevention of cruelty to animals.
Over fifty new firms have commenced
business in Atlanta, Ga., this year.
A Texas boy sixteen years old Is being
searched for on the charge of rape.
The Alabama Great .Southern railroad
will soon receive 100 now coal cars.
A cotton gin with 17?> bales of cotton
burned near Dallas, Texas, Saturday.
A Memphis gun store was robbed of
SI.000 worth of pistols Sunday night.
Panthers are said to abound yet in the
mountains of western North Carolina.
Some of the Arkansas papers advocate
spelling the name of the State Arkansaw.
The tendency of the people of Georgia
to emigrate to Texas is not so great as it !
was. i
A penalty of four per cent, has been
added to the delinquent tax list of Memphis.
!
The burden of the North Carolina
papers is of heavy crops and new rail- :
roads.
The people of San Antonio, Texas,
have suWribed ?2,000 for an emigrants'
home. i
The enrollment in the public schools
of Chattanooga, Tent)., last month, was
l,t>l 4.
Colonel Robert M. Nimw, well known
throughout Virginia, died at Newark
Friday.
A woolen-mill at New BraunfeLs,
Texas, yielded a net profit of $81,000
last year.
The Collierville Tribune is the latest
addition to the democratic press of Tennessee.
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The Grand Lodge of Tennessee, F. and
A. M., met in annual session in Nashville,
Monday.
The expenses of the city government
of Galveston, Tex., for Octolxr, amounted
to ?9,440.08.
There was an increase of forty in the
number of post others in North Carolina
during October.
Taxes have been paid more promptly
this year in South Carolina than for
many years before.
\ colored man in Tennessee goes to
the State penitentiary for three years for
stealing fifty cents.
John Arnold, of Mineral county, W.
Va., raised this year ten barrels of corn
from one ear's planting.
The Council of Wheeling, W. Va., rctuses
ti? encourage the introduction of
he telephone in that city.
The Groesbeck New Era says that onefourth
of the cotton gins in Texas are
destroyed by fire every year.
A widow seventy years of age, residing
near Austin. Texas, takes care of a stock
ranche and 300 head of cattle.
Four calves were found near Talbolton,
Ga., with their throats cut. It is
thought the deed was done by wildcats.
Texas papers are complaining of an invasion
of tramps from the north since
the beginning of cold weather up there.
During the first seven days of this
month, 32,SOI letters and packages were
handled in the Columbus ( Ga.) postoffice.
The registration of the voters of
Charleston, JS. C., closed Tuesday, the
number being 10,777, against 0,086 in
1877.
The Robesonian says there is a well in
Robeson county, North Carolina, over
1U0 years old, wuicn naa never iaueu mi
this fall.
The circuit court of Rockbridge county,
Virginia, granted a decree last week
for the sale of the Rockbridge alunt
springs.
A lot of 149 Sliort-born cattle, averaging
1.570 pounds, were shipped for Europe
last week by Francis Bell, of Augusta
county, Vu.
Two men engaged in digging a well
near Sherman, Texas, two or three days
since, were overcome by diimp and died
from the effects.
A contract has been completed for tho
erection of water works at Knoxville,
Tenn., and the Dispatch thinks that gas
works will follow.
The Board of Health of Augusta, Ga.,
has advised the City Council to abandon
pumps and wells in the city as nuisances
and injurious to heahh.
The jailorof Yancey county, N. C., has
lw>rt for com rdieitv in the recent
escape of the two murderers, the Booncs,
from the Burnsville jail.
The Rome (C?a.) Tribune says that it
is impossible to get cars enough to haul
iron from Georgia aid Alabama to fill
northern and eastern orders.
Knoxville (Term.) Dispatch: Thero Ls
hardly an idle mechaiic in the city, or
an idle laborer of anv sort. All rcexn to
1>? employed and at fair
The Observer says that every railroad
- niinr1nttr> "NT. (1. has done
iuiwiwIq nu,n ... (
a larger business this season than at any
other time within their history.
It will cost at least $150,000 to furnish
the maimed Confederate soldiers of Georgia
with artificial limbs, as contemplated
by an act of the last legislature.
Last Friday th3 Eagle and Phoenix
cotton mills at Co umbus Ga., sold $45,000
worth of their products?Rescue
plaids and ball serins thread.
. James Rice, confined in-jail at Ash- .
land, Ala., for giving his step-daughter
medicine to produce abortion, hung himself
in his cell Friday morning.
Orangcfield, (S.C.) Democrat: A larger
number of trains are employed now on
the South Carolina railroad than at any
previous time to move the freight.
The Cincinnati Times says that during
the past six months five colonies
have gone from Cincinnati to settle 011
lands in Tennessee and Alabama.
Rev. \V. G. Veal, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, ot Texas, has
been deposed from the ministry oil at- j
count of charges of gross immorality. [
The J^ancaster, (S. C.,) Ledger says
that a number of persons who emigrated
to Texas last year are coming back to
their old homes in Lancaster county.
Texas exports $50,000,000 worth of
exports annually, and the Groesbcck
New Era says that if it were not for the
imports the state would soon waxji.ch. ,
Upon the' resignation, hist week, of AT'
Shaw, superintendent of the Richmond i
and Petersburg railroad, he was presented :
by the employes with an elegant gold
watch.
A fire started in a cotton gin in Winsboro,
S. C., the other day, and before it
could be checked three cottages and a !
colored Methodist church was destroyed.
Thursday afternoon a negro woman
and her child were burned together in a j
house in Union county, S. C. The tire j
was caused from a wood chimney catching
fire. j
A colored woman, aixmi miy years uiu ;
and in feeble health, while alone in her
residence in Richmond, Va., last Satur- <
day evening, caught tire and was burned
to death.
A meeting of farmers will be held at
Ilendersonville, N. C., this week to con- ;
sider the advisability of planting a large. J
crop of tobacco in Henderson county :
next year.
Carrollton, Ga., charges a license of
$2,500 for the privilege of selling liquor ;
in that town by the quart or less, and
$2,000 for wiling it in amounts more
than a quart.
The Gulf City Steamship company, '
of Mobile, Ala., has advices from Glasgow,
Scotland, that the fast steamship
built for the company has just been
launched and will soon reach Mobile.
There arc 754 patients in the Georgia :
State Lunatic Asylum. The current ,
expenses of the institution mounted
to $80,029,19, an average of expense per
capita per diem of 32 9-10 cents. 1
In Washington county, Mississippi, a
colored man was elected circuit clerk
jr. I
over two winte competitor*, ne was
voted for by a good many white people ;
on the score of superior fitness and reliability.
A. J. Killian, a quiet and highly-respected
citizen of Kllijay, Ga., cpmmitted
suicide the other day. He tied a I
rope around his neck, fixed it to the limb '
of a tree and then shot himself through' 1
the brain. ]
The Raleigh (N. C.) Observer is of J
the opinion that the reports of the As- 1
sessors for the present year will show an. j
increase of the valuation of property in ,
tliut state over last year's figures of $1,- !
000.000.
The city of Richmond, Va., is asked
to contribute $750,000 for a railroad up
the James river, such road to lie con- i
?*....ntosl Iirwlnr ftin nf tllA J.IIllPii l
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River and Kanawha Canal Company.
Nashville American: Lightning en- <
tered the capitol Monday via the tele- '
phone wires, and produced loud reports
in the rotunda, iu the comptrol ler s office
and in that of the clerk of the supreme
court.
The owners of established factories in
Georgia complain of the legislative ex- 1
emption of new factorfes from taxation
for ten years, and it is said that the valid- i
ity of the exemption is to he tested in
the courts.
Lynchburg Virginian: One bf the
most remarkable results of the late clec- J
tion in Virginia was that in which an old
politician who had been frequently
elected to the legislature, was defeated
by his former slave.
Charleston (S. C.) News: In the past
three days three large steamships have
passed out from this port for European
ivrt.-fu u'jfVi oVmiit IQ.Oflf) hales of cotton.
and on a submersion of sixteen and a
half to over eighteen feet.
The law passed at the last session of
the Alabama legislature, prohibiting the
buying of cotton in seed, has ]>een decided
unconstitutional by the circuit court
in Lowndes county. An appeal will be
taken to the supreme court.
The Journal says immense beds of salt
have been found in the Elm fork of the
Jlig Wichita, seventy-five miles west of
Henrietta. Texas. Two wagons loaded
with 5,000 pounds of the salt sold in
Henrietta last week at one and a half
cents a pound.
The Georgia Legislature, at its last session,
enacted a law prohibiting the sale
of immoral or obscene literature, and
now it is rumored that the next grand
jury will indict all vendors of Pol ice On
zettes ana omer similar uiusiriueu pajxTunder
the law.
Washington (Ga.) Gazette : We were
shown u S'JO gold pieec a few days ago
that was made from Lincoln county gold.
Some parties interested in the Sale mine
sent some gold on to the Philadelphia
mint and requested that it be made into
money and sent baek.
Austin (Tex.) Re view : The next Legislature
will probably supplement our
t^nnl iymIo hv .n nro vision makintr it a
misdemeanor at least, if not a felony, for
a railway company to give, or for any
one not a paid employe of a railroad, or
a pauper, to accept, a free pass.
Captain Crook, of Calhoun, Alabama,
has imported some premium Jersey cattle
from England for his farm. Hia example
in this matter has aroused a great
desire on the part of farmers to in troduce1
blooded stock altogether to take the'
places of the common kind now raised, i <
During the recent session of Pasquo- <
tank court, in South Carolina, a negro i
swore a lie at 12 m. The Tarboro South- j
cmor says the solicitor was instructed to 1
draw a bill for perjury ; the grand jury ;
found it true; trial and conviction at once 1
ensued, and by .r? p. m. the perjurer '
was sentenced to the penitentiary for five <
years. j
Dublin (Ga.) Gazette: We learn that (
"fliere is not a sufficient Quantity of labor j
in the county to house tnc cotton crop of '
the present year, and, furthermore, that ;
some farmers in various parts of the '
county have icsorted to very unfair '
means, and arc actually going to the
fields and hiring the laborers from their
employers.
Jvducational progress Is apparent in
many counties in South Carolina. In |
Fairfield county many districts have petitioned
the right of local taxation, and
upon the expectation that these petitions
will be granted, several graded
schools have already been established.
State and county courts were closed
in San Antonio, Texas, last week, in honor
of the circus. Families came from a
distance and camped near the city for ]
three days before the "big show," and, <
when it came, there had to be three ex- "
hibitions in one day to satisfy the anxiotia
sight-seers. ' <
The Mississippi Valley Cotton Planters'
Association held its annual medting
at Vicksburg this week. The president, j
in his opening address, said that if the
planters of the south would only raise
the feed consumed by their teams, it
would add to their wealth every year
i>32,000,000, which they now expend for (
this item. . j
Dallas (Tex.) Herald : Two or three 1
\cars ago au enterprising lightning-rod
man, with prophecy in his soul and faith
in his heart, visited the Valley View 1
neighhorhood, ia Cook, county, and rodiled
every house at good figures, taking t
notes therefor, payable when the*railroad
reached Gainsville. It has reached 1
(iainsville, and that ageut wants his i
money.
Little Kock (Ark.) Gazette: A company
composed of ex-Senators Dorsey '
and McDonald and others have recently
purchased silver mines in Colorado for *
the sum of ?700,0U0, and the purchase (
money paid in cash. It is reported that ,
ln?th of our ex-senators have, recently '
made enormous sums by lucky invest- J
mcntfl in mining stocks.
1
Murfreesboro (Tenn.) Free Press: Mr. \
J. M. Yearwood showed us on Tuesday <
a red careless weed which grew on his t
farm in this county, it l>eing twelve feet 1
high, ten and three-quarter inches around i
:tt the ground end, and had limbs upon I
it that measured seven feet in length.
Mr. Yearwood stated that it had seed
enough upon it to sow a ten-acre field.
Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times: A farmer
of McMinn county was arrested Sat- !
urday by a U. S. revenue officer for sell- '
ing seventy-five cents worth of tobacco
r.f his own production. He was found
guilty and thrown into prison, where he (
must remain until the Federal court eon- !
veaofl in Knoxville about a year henci. '
He will then be fined perhaps ?100.
Considerable interest is being mani- j
?? iU/x CauII. in vneror/1 tlm mnn?
IV^IVU 111 L11U %J*JUllX 111 iVqUiu wv vmv iiiuM 4
ufacturc of sugar from the sorghum
plant, which, with the new varieties of
plants, promise to be both practicable
ind profitable. The interest has attained
uich proportions as to warrant the organization
of the Mississippi Valley
Cane Growers sssociation, which will
hold its first annual meeting at St. Louis,
Mo., commencing on the 3d of December
and continuing several days.
Shelby (N. C.) Aurora: The first
ease of corporal punishment in this
date since 1F.GG occurred in this place
last Saturday. When General Holland,
a boy, was convicted of an assault upon
tlie person of Julia McSwain, Judge
Jiuxton informed his father that he
would not pronounce sentence if he
would thrash the boy in the presence of
the Sheriff. The boy's father took him
into the Sheriffs office aud executed the
sentence of the court.
('larksvillc (Tenn.) Tobacco Leaf: For
some time there has been doubt as to
1 1 X" L..J1K
whether the uwensnoro ana ;>;wnnn;
railroad would run by way of Springfield,
Tenn., that place not l>eing in the
air-line by several miles, but the qucs
tion has now been settled on very favor- ^
able terms to Springfield. The demand f
made upon that place for the diversion *
was $20,000. The committee appointed <
to raise the sum failed, and tendered the 1
company as a bonus four acres of ground j
and a fine brick depot building, which '
Colonel Cole accepted, and now the J
Springfield people ean rejoice. ^
Richmond (Va.) State: It is sad to '
think that the burning of the Academic
hall at Hampton was the work of an incendiary
black man. This institution is .
supported by the government, the State
and the people for the especial lienelit of ,
that race, and it was a matricidal hand
that applied the torch. An appeal has ,
been made to the country for money to
rebuild the hall and cover the loss, by '
Gen Armstrong, and we hope it will not J
be iu vain. This Ls among our most useful
institutions, and in the success <Jf its
various experiments in race culture and
discipline all have a deep interest.
Charleston (8. C.) News: The following
is about the present condition of the
crop in this .State: Weather for picking
in October and .November very lavoraoie:
some damage from the drouth, which
lessened the 'abundance ? f the fruit:
amount pickea in the upper section of
the State, seventy*five per cent., and in
the lower and middle sect oils eighty to
ninety per cent.; injury from rust, limited;
tne total out-turn for the State,
while showing some irregularity, is cxpcctd
to about equal last year's growth.
Savannah (Ga.) News: Laet night
about nine o'clock a white woman was
seen on Broughton street in a shameful
state of intoxication, reeling from one
side of the pavement, to the other. She
was loading by the hand a little girl some
five years old. Aa the woman staggered
about the child was in great danger uf
being injured. At one time tho little 0110
was thrown upon the rubbish in front of
the building next to the Masonic hall.
The inebriate was plainly clothed, but
child was very neatly dressed.
Dallas (Tex.) Herald: Dallas has in
Seed a cosmopolitan population. Tin
patient on the first ben as you enter tin
dty hospital is a negro, the next a Swede
cue tmra oea is occupiea oy an rmguhii
man. followed by orte in which a son o:
the Emerald Isles swears away the hour
is he discusses what he claims is the ty
rannical rule of the English government
Hie fifth bed is occupied by an Anieri
;an, who seconds the Irishman's argu
nents, declaring that a republican forir
if government is the best under the sun
V Hebrew Occupies the sixth lied, ant
listens to the others quarrel. Next isj:
Polander, and last a Russian. A fev
lays ago a Mexican was discharged fron
this institution.
Punishing Violation or Marriage Vows,
The Indians are very severe in theii
punishment of marital infidelity. Ever
among the civilized tribes of the Indiat
Territory, the Choc taws. Creeks, Chieka
saws, ChcrokeesandSeminoles, who havt
flourishing churches and schools, adul
tery is a crime punishable according t(
their ancient laws. A citizen of Ala
bama has just been circulating among
these tribes, and says:
The Creeks have no marital laws, bul
the .Baptist Association adopted i
memorial on the subject, urging the nexl
council to pass a proper marriage lair,
Iheir custom allowed several wives, but
the churches have so altered public
opinion that it is rare to find a man with
two wives.
" How do you punish a violation oi
marriage vow?" I asked an Jndiat
lawyer.
" You see that man there?"
" Yes."
" Well, his wife was taken by anothei
man, and one night he went with some
other men, arrested the betrayer, beal
him senseless, and then cut his ear* of
with a dull knife."
" How did they treat the woman?"
" The same way. Sometimes they Iel
her off easier than the man."
" What became of the man and woman?"
" They are living together as man and
rvife, and the injured husband got liim
another wife."
" Was that your custom?"
" Yes; the chief made that law, and
Bverybouy louoweu it."
Sometimes they cut the woman's nose
ift by way of variety.
If the criminalcould hide out till aftei
'Busk," the annual festival, he went
free. Some of the tribes had cities of
refuge, like the Israelites.
The severity of the Indian custom of
aunishment prevents many violations of
ihe marriage vows. The Creeks have
Irafted a memorial to the Legislature for
;he enactment of the Christian plan. If
his is done the Indian lawyers will bejin
to reap a rich harvest in the courts
laving jurisdiction of divorce.
How Soldiers Snffer.
The London Times publishes a terribh
iccount of the sufi'erin~s of the Europeai
soldiers marched back into India, from
a f.?vionictnr> last. .Tune, throucrh the
Khyber Pass. They had only one hunlrecl
and seventeen miles to go, but the
march occupied twelve days, the men
Dcing able, from the heat, to march only
n the early morning, and the nighl
narch usual in India being abandoned,
for fear of attacks from the hill tribes
Although every precaution had beer
taken, cholera broke out en route, and
' on reaching Jamrud and Hurri-Singka
Boori, and especially as they made thfii
5nal marches, their distress was very
apparent; their clofkcs were stiff and
iirty from the profuse perspiration and
lust; their countenances betokened
jreat nervors exhaustion, combined witl
\ wild expiession difficult to describe;
the eyes injected, and even sunken; s
burning skin, black with the effects ol
mn and dirt, a dry tongue, a weak voice
tnd a thirst which no amount of fluid!
seemed to relieve. Many of these men
staggered rather than marched intc
their tents, and threw themselves down,
ltterly incapable of further exertion
intil refreshed by sleep and food." The
nedical officers were worn out, and
jefore they reached Peshawur, six officers
ind one hundred and twenty-one men
lad died from cholera in the second
livision alone; more, perhaps, than it
ivould have lost in a severe engagement
Signs Attending Feigned Grief.
The expression of grief has recently
>een a subject of investigation by at
Italian physiologist, M. Paolo Mentejazza,
who has studied with great care
ill the contractions which suiTcring pn>
luces in the human face, and endeavored
:o arrive at an exact distinction of the
phenomena of real from those of simulated
sorrow. All the forms of dolorou:
Hypocrisy he exposes mercilessly. The
following, according to M. Mentcgazza
ire sisns of grief: 1. The expression i:
nearly Always exaggerated relatively tc
the cause of the grief; 2. The visage it
not pale, and the muscular disturbanc<
is intermittent; 3. The skin has its nor
rnai heat; I. There is not harmony ir
the mimicry of grief, and one sees cer
tain contractions, certain relaxations
which are wholly wanting in real grief
5. The pulse is frequent in consequence
of the exaggerated muscular movement
(5. A surprise, or any object which viv
idly attracts the attention, suffices t<
make the tragic mask suddenly fall off
7. Sometimes ono succeeds in discover
ing among the tears, the sobs, and heart
rending lamentations, the presence of :
chuckle, which expresses, perhaps, tin
malignant pleasure of practising a de
ception; 8. Tlie expression is eccentric
or is wholly wanting in eoncentrii
forms.
An Uncompleted Education.
Some of tin so seminary graduates cat
throw a very powerful stream of word
from the engine of their cultivated in
tcllects, but they can't bluft' everybody
The other day a fully diplomaed miss o
eighteen walked into a music store oj
Kearney street and asked the clerk fo
a song entitled "Demonstrate by ocula
proof the verdue of my sepulchre;1' and
as he handed her a copy or "8ee That M;
Grave's Kept Green," and raked ii
thirtv cents over the counter, he smilei
blandly and said: "Is the ditty know a
'Argentine filamen's interspersed will
the aureate capillary attractions' i
novelty to your auricular repertory?'
She concluded to go back to school fa
one raoro year.
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1W*
WAITS AND WHIMS.
^ Cashmet.e slippers are worn with fou
; lard wrappers. They are trimmed with
- large foulard bows.
F Only those, according the Elmira A&
s vertiser, with warts or blemishes on their
f v J 1 J 1.
- ioreneaa, wear uaiigeu uair.
Golden-legged green beetles, that
* look like painted cockroaches, are seen
" on some of the new bonnets. 4
1 Black surah petticoats, bordered
: with kilt plaitings, are to be. worn thiswinter,
it is said.
Very long and absolutely plain silk
t waists of plain or brocade silk are made^^BH
for young ladies to wear in the evcning.^^^^J
A Davenport lady is about to sue foj^Hgnj
a divorce on the ground that her hum^MHj
' band "has no style about him." BH
A member of a London ladies' club1
was requested to resign for kissing herBHSf
' brother in the dining-room. Bfl
Hoops are coming into fashion again. 9
Hoops are tilings to put around w -m"
j to keep them from bursting with v?x ^^9
"John! John!" shouted the farm
; wife, " the butter won't come. Ru> sBH
quick, and get me another sack
\ hair." - HH
i It's not at alfr surprising that AWare 9
fc fell. He had Eve'constantly about jgHjfl
, talking about a nude dress, ano s. gjj^Mj
t one every day.
In a discussion with, a
i lecturer, a tope^asked: If water^HHBH
your bootafwhriHRfctinust it have
E the coat of your stomach?
' "Yes, Mr. Barkeeper; I am not like
the rest who, when they owe you money,
never show themselves any more; I re.
main faithful to you. Giv's 'nothei
I bottle I"
5 Professor?"Now, I ask you> as a
[ practical miner, what spade do you think
is the very best?" Third-year man
(scornfully)?"Why, the ace, of course.
\ (Sensation.)
An exchange has an article on " How
to run a newspaper." Thi9 should be
read only by editors, as every otter per- .
1 6on in the world knows just ln?w a news-t
paper ought to be run.
Knowledge is the right bower, and
one of the showiest cards in the pack,
?' ret in the game of life, cheek is the
ittle joker that is oftentimes the
1 winner.
"Money does everything for a man,"
' said one old gentleman, pompously.
: "Yes," replied the other one, *but
money won't do as much for a man aa
, some men will do for money."
Mb. Thomas thinks it is one of the
| most touching things in me to near a
, Western liog singing to its youngest,
" There's a litter in the uiire, baby mine,
| baby mine."
i That was an observing fellow, if he
was but six years old, who said, "Papa,
I wish you'd quarantine against Tom
Jones comic.' here every night to see
Jennie. It's got to be too epidemic."
i The Boston Post, lias invented a new
1 gun for the use of the didn't-know-itr
i was-loadcd people. The Post explains
> that "it lets the charge out at the
* breech."
? Russian ladies have just begun to
i take part in boat races. In Saratoff the
' first prize, a golden bracelet, and the sec- *"**' ~
; ond, a golden breastpin, were adjudged
, to the two young ladies who handled the
. rudder.
i A Chinese maxim says: "We require
1 four tilings from woman?that virtue
* dwells in her heart, that modesty playe
* on her brow, that sweetness flows from
' her lips, that industry occupies her
I hand."
| The girls ought to be comparatively
1 happy. They are wearing boy's hate,
1 boy's ties, boy's cravats, and it is hinted
i that they contemplate a raid upon an\
other important part^of the male's ap
1 parel?according to Dr. Marv WaiJccr.
, A young man who had lost a bet of
the oysters with three of his friends, said
t he wouldn't pay it unless he was four
Btew. He has since made a bet with
[ nine of his friends, and says he in ten
, stew this time, if he loses." Later: He
declares two of the bets off, and when he ?
| comes to lose and pay, it will appear
that he eight stetf.
A whiter in the August Gentleman's
, Magazine says that it is true of nations
as of individuals that a sneer is almost
as unpleasant to bear as a blow, and
that he is not sure that Dickens' "American
Notes " did not do more to estrange
. for a time the two countries than th?
, Alabama difficulty.
A London gent, walking in Dublin
, for the first time, got into easy oonver.
eation with a native, and chaffed him
[ considerably, winding up with this
> smart observation: "Now, tell me, Pat,
where you would be if the devil got hi?
j dues?" Pat replied with feigned sim5
glicity, "Sure, then, I'd be rlone, year
, Honor."
3 At a social gathering in Ireland the
) conversation turned, by some accident,
3 upon marriage. One of the girls, ad3
dressing a handsome young man, quite
. unconsciously, as she explained, sai(f: "If
i I were you and you were me I would
. have married long ago."
, 4. Yorkshire trainer recently re;
vealed his method of meeting a conjugal
5 storm. His plan, he said, was to keep;
silence and nod his acquiescence toevery
thing, no matter what was said by his
uV.ull rnmnrl-nri (inn of hlS
) | Bpuuac* ivc, ?
I friends, "'but then she has it all her own
- way." "Just so," replied the Tyke,
- with satisfaction; "ana nothing annoys
i her so much. There is nothing women
? hate like a walk-over."
, The Postal Service In Europe.
21 On the 31st of December. 1877, there
; wore 58,546 post offices in Europe, with
| 223,517 persons employed, or one postal
j establishment for every tl, 134 inhabij
tants. These post offices are most
, thickly planted in Switzerland, in Great
. Britain and Ireland. A striking con!
trust to these two countries is afforded
f by ltussia and Turkey; there being in
j the former only one post office to every
_ 5,768, and in the latter, one to every
r 1,105 square miles. Altogether, 5,682,000,000
letters, papers, etc., were sent
I by post in Europe in 1877, 3,597,000,000
, being letters or post-cards, 1,522,000,000
j newspapers, and 503,000,000 pattenw
g and tne like; and the greatest number
j of letter?, papers, etc., were scut in Great
. Britain and Ireland, the total number
i dispatched being 1,483,075,000, or at the
r rate of 84.7 letters and 0.4 newspaper*
for every inhabitant.