North Carolina Newspapers

BLUE R1DG J? II. IIALLYBURTOX, Editor and Proprietor. MORGANTON, N. C, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1880. VOL. V -N0.3iS5 nn HE BljM)E.: XI A MT MT MJ1 Mil Oa3 WW A T-WTW SJ Cf i 1 r BY N. W. The tnie happiness of this life con sists, in ft great measure, in the enjoy ment of the present moment, if we will appreciate it. with all of its pleasures "and surroundine-s : but how prone we are to let it hastily and carelessly pass ' jnst partially sipping its sweets and pleasures, reserving the fullest and greatest enjoyment for to-morrow ; which seldom comes. And this is why our anticipations so frequently so far exceed -our realizations in richness of pleasure and happiness in this life. It is always with us, to-morrow, we intend to do so-and-so, and then we shall be so happy ; but when that expected hour has arrived, perhaps bitter disappoint ment meets us instead of the looked-for pleasure. How often it is so. We are ex acting to greet dear and much-loved friends to-morrow, that perhaps we have riot seen for years; the heart is exultant . with joy and untold happiness. The time is passing so heavily or slowly to day, and we are so eagerly wishing and longing for to-morrow, when we shall see those happy faces and dear forms of fondly cherished friends. Alas ! To morrow arrives, and with it what sad words fall upon the ears. Another hor rible -accident. Oiir friends nre wounded or dying; perhaps dead. Crushed ar. nil of those dear hopes, which we have so lovingly 'cherished, finch is this life; its sorrows and disappointments far out balance its pleasures, many times. The pleasures of life are fleeting, but its sor rows are lasting, not easily banished they leave an impression on the heart, as if they were photographed there. Happiness, like the will-o'rthe-wisp, seems eVer to be in the misty future, hrr ingns on, and the heart is always yearning for something jiist beyond its reach ; a (raving that seems to refuse to be satis tied with the present. To bring our minds to feel that to-day is all and even more than we have an assurance of should bo our aim, and with that to en deavor to do a in our power to improve it, by wishing to make alt around, us happy in every respect, .and in IS dS we shall not fail to be happy ourselves. This will constitute present happiness. How many things are constantly oc curring to take people from this world to another, in a very short space of time, without even the slightest warning. We know this, for we see and hear it every day. Our time may come when we lnost expect it, like a thief in the night. Are we making proper preparations for this great event, by improving the pres. cut moment to the best of our ability ? .- Life is full of bitter sorrows and keen disappointments. To-morrow so often inils to bring with it iis rich freight of .treasures, and gilded happiness. The lofty castles that have been so magnifi cently reared, and so luxuriously ap pointed, by hope and fond expectation for to-morrow, are but mere hovels, bleak and barren, drear and desolate ; or they are shorn of more than half their expected brilliancy to-day. Life is but a dream of to-morrow, but when it is to day we have to awake from our Blumber, end, lol the vision of life is a reality, shorn of many of its looked-for beauties and pleasures. We are dissatisfied with the b ringings of to-day, and again we cast our mind's eye to the unseen and unknown future of this world. Far bet ter will it be for us if our future antici iwitionJare placed on a heavenly home, where there are no more heart-sorrows, no tears to be wiped from our eyes, no more bickerings, nor more backbitings and slanderous tongues, no bitter frowns, no cruel, taunting words, no unkind acts, no false friends ; all shall be pure, holy love there, with a free communion of kindred spirits, happy forever more. It is bnt a short distance from us all ; soon we shall arrive at that last great station, when the journey of life shall have been terminated with us, and we I i shall be called upon to give an account of the time that, has been given ns here, as well as the talents, and also- the dis- ii sal that we h&ye made of them. Eaoh one of us must pass through that trying ordeal for themselves. It is in vain for ns to think of a substitute. As we are born, so we must die, and after that comes the judgment. This is very plain language that is taught to ns. Let us each day strive to do some lit tle act of kindness, some deed of charit y. A cheerful word to some poor downcast one, a few words of sympathy for somo one who may be suffering with pain and torture, a kind word for ihe deeply af flicted ones. Oh how it 'will toucn the heart at such a time ; how many times such little kindnesses are almost like angel's visits, and they will bring their reward. The precious moments of time nre more to be valued than the costliest of gems. Let us all improve them wise ly and faithfully, that wo shall not have to regret in our last few moments a mis spent life here. We are told that Cato, at 80 years of age, began to study the Greek language ; Socrates, when past middle age, learned to day on musical instruments; Plu tarch commenced to study Latin when nearlv 80 : Dr. Johnson learned the Dutch language shortly before his death ; and our Benjamin Franklin didn't amount to anything as a philosopher un til he was past 50. But a Connecticut boy of 13 began the language of love last week with a girl of 12 ; they ran away from home, were caught and meet a man wno naa seen ms iong-ao-vrht back, and both suffered an ig- sent boy, and talked vivaciously of him ""-o ' , . nominious " span King irom mr mothers all in a single day. ihat beat your classical days all hollow. Mb. OTLAmnGAN, looking at a tailor's window "Pants for foive dollars? Be gam, that's jest what oi pants for me- Mlfr A TRKE FRESS. The beautiful idea of getting some thing for nothing is nowhere more read ily traceable than in a newspaper office. So much has been spoken, written and sung about a "free press " that people have come to accept the term in sense altogether too literal j If a man has a' scheme of any kind germinating he just steps into the edi torial room arid details it, with the fe-. mars, im not quite ready to adver- tise yet, but a few word will help, lie ., . , , , ' t along. " He gets the few words and never gets ready to advertise.;.... ' Two tickets admitting lady and geni to the "G. E. X. M. grand balL are expected to produce a six-line local and a quarter of a oointan description of the ladies' toilets after the ball is over. Church fairs and the like are worse than balls. They never leave tickets, but demand more space, because "it's a matter of news, and a help to the cause." ', Should a boy saw off his finger, ' Dr. C. O. Plaster dressed the wound with great skill," would be a graceful way of stating it, and, besides, it is "unprofes sional " to advertise. The patent rat trap man brings in one of his combinations of wire and moldy cheese bait, Bticks it under the editor's nose and explains how they catch 'em every time the tipring works. "It's some thing of interest to the community, and if you put in a piece save me a dozen liapers," which he quietly walks off with, as thongh he had bestowed a favor in allowing editorial eyes to gaze on such a marvel of intricacy. t An invitation " to come down and write up our establishment " is a great deal more common than a two-square " ad " from the same firm. Newspapers must be filled up with something or other, you know. The lawyer, with strong prejudices against advertising, is fond of seeing his cases reported in full in the newspapers, with an occasional reference to his ex ceedingly able manner of conducting the same. It is cheaper than adver tising. In fact, everybody, from a to izzard, who has on ax to grind, asks the news paper to turn the crank, and forgets to even say thank you, but will kindly take a free copy of the paper as part pay for furnishing news. The press being "free," all hands seem bound to get aboard and ride it to death. That is why newspapers are so rich that they can afford to pay double price for white paper, and never ask Congress to aid them by removing the duty on wood pulp. New Haven Register. ABOUT THE MAGNETIC NEEDLE. Why the magnetic needle points to the north is thus explained by Prof. C. T. Patterson, of the United States Coast Survey. The earth is itself a magnet, and attracts the needle just as ordinary magnets do, and it is found to be affected by the action of the sun in a manner not yet fully understood. The magnetic poles of the earth aie not in line with the geographical poles, i but make an angle with them of nearly twenty-three : degrees. At the present time the north-1 ern magnetic pole is near the Arctio cir cle, on the meridian of Omaha, and, from the nature of the case, the pole may better be described as a region rather than a fixed point The needle does not everywhere point to ths true astronomical north, but varies within certain limits. 4t San Francisco it points seventeen degrees east of north, and at Calais, Me., as much to the west. At the northern magnetio pole a bal anced needle points with its north end downward in a plumb-line ; at San Fran cisco it dips about sflrty-three degrees, and at the southern magnetio pole the south end points directly down. The action of the earth upon a magnetic needle at its surface is of about the same force as that of a hard steel mag net forty inches long, strongly magnet ized, at a distance of one foot. It is very probable that a study of dynamo electric machines, now so much used in the electrio illuminations, will reveal soon some far-reaching truths regarding magnetism in general. - tWENTY-EIGHT TEARS ABFEXT. Mr. John R. Davison, of this place, sailed from New York twenty-eight years ago, with a young male compan ion, to seek his fortune, assuring his people he should riot return until he had attained a competence. He weathered Cape Horn and brought up in Australia, where both men have still labored with varying luck ; bnt it is evident that in locating and selling claims they at last struck it rich. They left Australia early in 1880, took a tour through Europe, sailed up the Bed and Mediterranean seas, returned to New York by way of Lou don, and arrived in Norwich last week, unbeknown to Mr. Davison's parents. In the old honse where they lived when he left he fonnd an oyster saloon, and the two went in and partook of sea food in the old spot. - They then wandered I over Central wharf, when they espied the sign : " W. r. Uavison, shoemaker, which indicated that Mr. Davison's father still lived. He entered the place, bargained for a pair of boots, talked about the old man's son, whom he claimed to have known in Australia. The old gentleman was delighted to i . . . i i . i I as he used to be, and, when the middle 1 aged man declared himself to be the i son, the fcther was not at first ready to ' believe it; but the proof was positive, and to-day he is enjoying a vacation with the boys, and is as happy and jolly as he used to be a quarterfef a century ago. Norwich (Ct) Bulletin. ERRORS OF SPEECH. Some Very Common Instances. It is so easy, from mere thoughtless ness and unconscious imitation, to fall into a pernicious way of talking that continual circumspection is required to prevent a lapse, How often people who should know better say, " It is a differ ent thing to that," instead of "from." How can any one " differ to ? " Again, " It isn't I don't think," is constantly )Ju"Zr r" u 1 m opposite of what he says, as may be seen 1 oy inverting the sentence thus : "Idont think it isn't," which must be equiva lent to "I do think it is." ..."Hadn't used to," "Didn't used to.ifadn't ought," "tda'KsmfS," an -raW errors, while "It was her" for " It was she ;" " It was me " for ' It' was I ;' .Between you and L" instead of " Be tween you and me ;" "Like 1 did," in stead of "As I did;" "Those sort of things," instead of " That sort of thing ;" "Laying down," instead of "Lying down," are common violations of En glish grammar. For those who have never learned the rides of syntax, or, having learned, for gotten them, it will be useful to point out that in cases of doubt about a sen tence the correctness of it can often be tested by a rearrangement of the words of which it is composed, and by reca pitulating those words which are not ex pressed but understood. For example : " He sat near to you and 'I" is shown to 1 wrong, thus" He sat near to you and he sat near to" evidently the pro noun me follows instead of I. Another common instance " Who is there?" "Me," is the answer, but it should be. of course, "I," the words am there be ing the complement of the sentence. Of almost equal importance to gram matical accuracy is the avoidance of all slang words, terms and expressions. All slang is vulgar, and displays a poverty of language, as well as thought Arid it is a great mistake to suppose that slang is in any way witty. Only the very young or the uncultivated so consider it Avoid also a vague, indeteiminate manner of speaking, such as using the word "thing," instead of naming the object meant, and such expressions as " The what do you call it," "The what is it," "The thingumv." "Take the thing away off the what do you call it," an example of what this bad habit will produce. Other improprieties of speech are clipping pff the last letter of a word, Bpeakin'," "talkin'," "readin'," Vpuddin'," and of adding an extra final letter, as "garding," "parding," "heighth;" drawling out the letter o," so that dog is sounded "dawg," and God "Gawd;" sounding "ow" " er," as " piller " for pillow, " winder " for window, "olber " for elbow, etc.; of sounding a redundant "r" in such words as drawing, often pronounced "droring," sawing "soring," gnawing noring," with "dror" for draw, and nore" for gnaw, "corst" for cost, lorst" for lost. etc. AFTER MARRIAGE. The happiest marriages are those in which a high type of friendship follows love. Friendship of a sublimated sort is what love becomes after a year or so of marriage, and he who is friendly to the very depths of his soul enters into this state happily, and is ready for all the delights that follows. But a man who is capable of nothing bnt that fleet ing affection which ever pursues a new object, and cares for no woman when she is won, hates the domestic ties and be comes detestable in consequence. It is the man who would die for his friend, and for whom his friend would die, who makes a miraculously happy wife of the woman to whom he scarcely knew how to make love when he courted her. Miss Jdua Smith, of Glastonbury, Ct., whose cows have been annually sold for the satisfaction of the tax gatherer, whom she refused to pay, has a rival, and a more-successful rival, in an old lady at Free port, Long Island. She has not paid her taxes for several years. The Assessor, the Receiver of Taxes, the school tax collector ana the census enumerator call, but are not ad mitted. She is either ahaent from the premises, or she keeps herself hidden, from the sight The seal and persist ence of these public officers are said to be a good deal mitigated by a shot-gun which she is believed to have within reach. She has been informed that her property will be sold, but the shot-gun is still lotded. A parliamentary return has just been issued, giving particulars as to the in fliction of corporal punishment in the British navy and army during the ten years ended Dec 81, 1878. It appears that in 1869 corporal punishment was awarded to 61 men in the navy, the total number of lashes inflicted being 2.30L In 1870, 56 men received in the aggregate 2,122 lashes, and in 1871, 61 men received 1,810 lashes. Of late years flogging in the navy has greatly diminished. In 1876, 8 men received 312 lashes ; in 1877, 6 men received 20 lashes ; and in 1878, 7 men received 228 lashes. During the same period there . have been 88 cases of flogging in the O year. He attributes his vigorous health largely to a vegetarian diet, to which he i has been faithful for many years. The vegetarian movement in England, it seems, is spreading. Vegetarian eating- j houses in London (Prot Newman writes to a friend) prosper as fast as it is possible to start them. army, exclusive of cases in which mfli- i great ew lor mercnani prince, a. tary prisoners have been flogged mClafhn, is now earning his bread in Cleve priaon. ! land by the sweat of his brow, in the I capacity of coachman to a Euclid avenue Pbof. Fran-cis W. Nkwman (brother j family." Several years ago the papers of Cardinal Newman) is now in his 75th I were "full of his elopement with Miss AIT EDITOJCS ERROR. Every old Californian remembers the name of John Nugent, editor of the Ban Francisco Herald, in the first gold ex citement on the Pacifio slope. He was once famous and a power there ; but his death a few days ago, at San Leandro, hardly attracted any notice, bo entirely had the time gone by him. He was a striking exemplification of the serious consequence of misapprehension in jour nalism. He had founded the Herald, the original newspaper of that name, and had conducted it in so vigorous a manner that it rose to eminence and prosperity, and his articles, read with eagerness, carried great weight It was thfjeadfog inmwnml 4 tti uglon, anrj todno formidable competitor. But, dur- ing the vigilance committee period of 1856, he, failing to catch the tone of pub lic sentiment, earnestly opposed the committee, then sustained by the best and strongest people in the chaotic, semi-anarchical community. The Her ald's opposition was so vehemently re sented that all the principal merchants and tradesmen withdrew their, advertis ing patronage in a body, and the sheet, though emphasizing its position, and de claring its indifference to the course of its adversaries, could not support itself. It was discontinued in two or three months, and Nugent, thrown out of his place, was so unpopular that he could not for the time get a new one. He had many friends, however, and they all so believed in his ability that, twelve years later, they helped him to revive his journal. The new Herald appeared with much parade and pretension, and its editorials, writ ten or inspired by him, were heavy, in flated and florid to a degree that pro voked ridicule. They would have tyeen accepted and liked in 1855 or 1856, but the public had altered meanwhile, and refused to be content with solemn fus tian. The paper could not secure a hold ; its monetary backers perceived this and withdrew, forcing it into a sec ond and everlasting eclipse. Since then Nugent has led a precarious and dis satisfied life. ' His failures had, as gen erally happens, increased, rather than lessened, his egotism, always abundant. He made the mistake of thinking that he was in advance, instead of behind, the day, and he probably died, poor fellow, convinced that he was a great journalist whom the world could not properly ap preciate. He loved show and glitter; the Herald office was fitted up in a oostly, ostentatious way that has scarcely been equaled since in Omm Fi utcisoo, John Nugent was not very old, but she had lived too long, for he had outlived his generation, and was incapable of comprehending the new order of things. There are many John Nugents in all the walks of the world, and they are particu larly plenty in in this ever-shifting re public. New York Times. A SHREWD STROKE. "Why, George, how are you getting along ?" said one young man to an other in front of the New Orleans post office. " Splendid ! Never had so much fun in all my life," was the answer. "How's that, George?" "Well, you see, Ned, after I lost my situation all my friends left me, and used to pass by without even recogniz ing me. I was determined to get even, so I circulated a report among them that I was the fortunate holder of one half of a lottery ticket that had just drawn a big prize." " Did it take ?" " Yon just bet it took I Why, in Wo days' time I received no less than a dozen invitations from fellows whom I had almost forgotten. I was present ed with two new suits of clothes, four new hats, two dozen embroidered hand kerchiefs, a silk umbrella, a beautiful amethyst ring, and a handsome pair of gold sleeve-buttons. I visited Spanish Fort five times, took one trip to the jetties on the Cannon, and borrowed, all told, $150 in United States currency. Did it take ? Well, I should smile." John Bbioht is opposed to capital punishment. In a speech lefore the University College Debating Society re cently, he said the infliction seemed to him. 3 jkjey as unchristian as it was un J rA which, so far as he could ju, experience of other coun- tri 5lidiled sofar and so long as it had been persisted XSr It seeinea-Ux him that there could; be no plan less op posed to teaching men the sacredness of human life than that of the ordinary and frequent sacrifice of human life to the law. He was glad they had resolved to discuss this subjecl, so that hereafter they might swell the public opinion which would compel Parliament at last to bring our practice up to our princi ples, and to the practice of some dozen other civilized nations. Mr. Bright ap proves, it is believed, the policy so earn estly advocated by Matthew Davenport Hill an- others, of the absolute seclu sion of murderers from the world. He would advocate life imprisonment and separate confinement, making pardon impossible except on evidence of error in the previous trial. It is not generally known, but is never theless true, that a son-in-law of the . , - TT T Claflin. who. nbon becoming Mrs. , died, leaving behind her an only child, a little girl, who is now with her papa. ir anger arise in thy breast, instantly seal np thy lips, and let it not forth, for, like fire, when it wanto vent, it will sup- SOUTHERN NEWS. MiswssipH includes 5,500,000 acres of Governmen t lands. The ; Louisiana Land Beclamation Company have 13,000 acres of sea marsh lands ready for the plow. Grayson lia the largest population oi any county in Texas 87,559. Sherman is the county-seat The farmeiB of Northern Texas may be obliged to Vmploy Chinese laborers to gather the eotton crop. H. M. Caipwbuv a North Carolina horticultiuTst grows stonelees peaches py granwg ugon plum trees. Thr oiJiee oMW4t Troaimiwr, in Au Son .'Conn fe, NTG has been abolished by the Magistrate, with a saving of $400 to the county. A proposition has been made to furn ish Wilmington with a complete system of water works, on the "Holly system," for 820O,fMkt. Several farmers' clubs have been or ganized in Abbeville. S. C, upon a plan differing from the Granges, but with the same general purposes. The corn crop in Texas this year is the heaviest ever known in that State. In some eonnties the price will only be ten cente per bushel. The Trustees of the Peabody Normal College of Nashville, Tennessee, award Texas a free seholarsliip for each Con. gressional District A woman in Johnson County, Ga.. only twenty-one years old, is the mother of six living children, of different ages, the oldest being a child of nine years. The foundation for the newi blast furnaces ' at Cowan, Tenn., has been commenced. A stack 160 feet high, the highest in the State, is to be erected there. There lias been paid into the State Treasury of-North Carolina this year, $342,290. G8 in school taxes. Of this amount 23,841.59 was collected on liquor licenses. The f&Si rn Presbyterian uOfaurch has had ii she years an increase about fifty-five "iikfcers, one hundret : and thirty-one clutches, and nearly thirteen thousand comlnunicants. The grand, aggregate value of the whole property of Savannah and Chat ham County, Ga., is returned for 1880 at 17,672,22'i while in 1879, it was $16, 842,316.50lshowing an increase of $829, 905.50. jrt There is; uite a trade at Morgan City, La., in gruen alligator hides. Several men are kept busy all the time shooting alligatoi''a1d j&inning Athem. The X'ii'lMfr'Ajn, las.and shipped North. ' p .- - - -;-- Thb population of Florida in 1850, was 87,455, in 1860. was 140,424, and in 1870, notwithstanding Ihe losses of the civil war and the general destruction oi hei industries, was 187,748. It is be lieved the present population will not be far below 300,000. The cotton factory at Windsor, N. C, uses two Clement attachments with a to tal working force of seventeen hand's. It cost forty-two dollars and ten cents a day to run the machines, which earn sixty-four dollars and twenty cents, leav ing a net daily profit of twenty-two dol lars and ten cents. The Hon. R. B. Iliott, who was recently appointed special agent of the Treasury Department for the States of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, get a salary of eight dollars per diem, and exercises a supervisory control of the custom-houses, post-offiee and sub-treasury offices in those States. Census returns have been received from ninety -five counties in Texas, show ing a gain of 548,356, or a little over ninety per cent It is believed that the population of the entire State has doubled since 1870, when it was only 878,579. There are one hundred and seventy-three counties in the State. Fbaxcijj Fontaine, State . Commis .sioner of Immigration for Georgia, has made contracts with one hundred Ger man families to work at Cedartown and vicinity. He thinks they will be worth to the State at least $80,000, besides their value os settlers and laborers. One hun dred more families are expected in a short time. The water company at Memphis are in trouble over the suit brought by W. J. McDejpriott to compel the fulfillment of a contract entered into with him by sPresident T T T "4l the purjxjse o.anyPO . " , wntei to a large ntajority ui nc people of Mem phis. Some of the German citizens of Mem phis have held a meeting in that city to discuss the best methods of inducing em igration to West Tennessee. They de cided to organize a society, to issue pub lications describing the resources of that section, and to open correspondence with all agencies that can be. induced to aid in the enterpfTe Two prdsoXKRS escaped frors at Dalton, Teifiiby a cunning bilnel plan. WhileYJw jailer was feeding thewi, one asked for some salt, and as tlie jailer I inierted his hand between the bars with ! the article required, it was rudely seized j and he was jerked up against the bars, : when a handful of lime was thrown in i his face, blinding him completely for the ! time being. Holding him down he was relieved of his keys, the cell opened, and ; the prisoners escaped. The jailer is suf i feriig severely with his eyes, and it is I feared that he will lose them . At McKinnev, Texas, a colored woman named Sukey Hunt reported to be 140 years old, was buried last Sunday. She was the mother of nineteen children. While nursing her sixteenth child she suckled Mrs. Hunt, of Weatherford, who is said to lie in her seventy -eighth year. Aunt Sukey died on the premises of Judge Andrews, of McKinnev, on whose charity the old forsaken colored woman had lived for the past ten years. She was so bent with age that she was buried, as it were, in a sitting posture, it being impossible to strighten her back and limbs. She was in full possession of her faculties to the last MIND. BY A FORKIONM. ; j When I arrived first in the country o i England, my foreign acquirement 'of the language did not keep me .from diffi culties with some words and their several i meanings and applications. The old story of a person situated as I was, and i the word " box," made me escape from; mistakes in that word. Bnt another had before of that word were of the intellect the soul ; naturally, therefore, I was surprised and confused by the use of this word in circumstances utterly incompatible with my previous ideas ! Large as the power of the mind must be as the spirit, I found its power as a word almost equally great I Its use I first discovered at Calais, where I com menced the use of my knowledge of the English language. That I spoke it well was shown by the Commissionaire ad dressing me as an Englishman, for, as we passed along the pier in the dark to the Dover boat, he constantly called out "Mind de rope!" This, at first, puzzled me, but I have found he meant " avoid de rope." I have since found the English never "take care." They always "mind!" "Mind what you are about I " " Mind your own busi ness, and don't mind me !" ' " Now, then, stupid ! mind your eye 1" exclaims the cabman who has nearly run over you. " Mind how you get down I" says a polite omnibus conductor. "Mind arid don't miss the train !" These in stances might be increased ad infinitum, but are enough to show one's mind the different uses of the word. But notwithstanding all this telling people to " mind," there is a counter phrase, quite as often used. It is " never mind .' " If a little child falls down, it is told to "mver mind!" If you lose anything, you are told to " nevermind!" In fact, I found in England you are con stantly cautioned against evils and ac cidents, by being told to "mind!" And when the ills of misfortune do come on you, you are immediately told the con trary you are to "never mind !" This, doubtless, has a good effect on character, producing carefulness to guard from ill, and a stoical, or philosophical bearing of it, when the care taken has proved unavailing. f This little traatifRi on the wiijrd '.'mind.' win, I trout, be netu to other foreigners, who may come to England, as I did, with ' some knowledge of the language. I recommend them to .study the use of the word " mind " before they come over, so that they may " mind " and make no mistakes. But if they do not take. care, or "mind,"' and do make some why then " never mind I" , QUESTION SUBMITTED. Some time since the relations be tween pastor and congregation in a cer tain colored church in Michigan became so inharmonious that it become necessa ry to bounce one party or the other. At a church meeting the preacher was called a liar, and in return he upset a deacon with a blow on the jaw. It was decided to submit the case to Brother Gardner in the following forrr : "Sposen you was a preacher of de gos-pil- an' de leodin' elder of your church called you a liah ? Would you hit him or forgib him ?" " If dey wants my opinyun on dat case it can soon be gibben," said the old man as he rose up. " If I war a preach er of de gospil, an' de leadin' elder, or any odder elder, called me a liah, an' he was in dead airnest, I'd light down on him like an elefant rolling ober a lamb! Yes, I would, an' den I'd ax him if In had any friends who wanted to see me wid my coat off an' my muscle worked up. I doan' go a cent on de man who gits such a fill of religion dat folks can make a foot-ball ob him." Detroit I'n Press. NOVELS. Whether it is right or wrong to read novels, people will do it. And, as a ride, three-quarters of the novels are read by people who ought to read books which give useful information, and three- q fi Tl:T7, r,. tna doom oi anno: iniorma tion are read by people who might de rive benefit from reading a good novel now and then. The trouble with novel reading comes chiefly from the bad or indifferent qualities of the novels which are read, which are worthless, if not worse. It comes also, in large part, from the fact that fiction constitutes al most the only reading of a great and in creasing class of persons who need actual knowledge anddiscipline of mind, and the more novels they read, the less they are inclined to read anything else. Parents and teachers mav try in vain to prevent the reading of novels, but they ran and should cultivate a tax t for read ing other and more useful works, from which real and lasting benefit can be derived. Tee large number of inexcusable ac cidents on pleasure steamboats in tne United States has prompted officials in the Treasury Department at Washington to examine the law relating to inspec tion. As the result of this investigation it is found that when disasters occur the statute leaves the inquiry as to the cause and responsibility with local inspectors, the very persons who make the original inspections, and who in some cases, no doubt, are the guilty parties. Until a different device has been adopted by Congress it is useless to expect the offi cials in question to overhaul themselves very severely. A DAMJBQ MBXICAJT. We learn f a piece of reckless daring performed bya Mexican, which, for downright iadhshneaa, put to flight any of the daring- performances of the he roes of the4une novels. - Ii appears that the Ufatfean, accompanied by his dog,- was eat, his way to Tempe todo some trading he the dog treed Urge California Mpav'1. The aaa was nnArxaed, ave withjlaitatnher-knife, bate, othae OMntedf mi, itnowing where he could aeQ t)w aim forfli he whipped' oat hi knife and itarted to . the ree af ter the ajweim. ithe king 44.4 Uipptatirup yithinjtfteAmg disianeot W and was instantly bounced upon by the dog, when the man hastened from the tree, sprang upon the beast and planted a home thrust through his heart, with out further damage to himself than hav ing his hat torn in pieces. The lion measured about eight feet from the tip of his nose to the tip of his tail, and had he got one good blow at the man he would have mashed him into a jelly. This same Mexican killed one of these beasts about three months ago that measured over nine feet from tip to tip, using no other weapon than a small pis tol and knife, and he came near losing his life in the encounter. Phcr nix A. T.) Expositor. WHY EETH DECAY. There are two active agents in the process of dental caries, namely : The action of acids and the development of a vegetable parasite, the srptothrir bur. eatis. By actual experiment it is de monstrated that it does not require strong acids to separate the phosphoric and carbonic acids from the lime con tained in the tooth substance. Even water that contains earlionie acid ivill dissolve the calcareous salts, and water alone will dissolve the teeth in time. A lady who had two sets of artificial teeth made placed one set in water until tin other set was- worn ont. After seven years they were taken from the water and found to lie- as much corroded a the set she had worn in her mouth. All mineral as well as vegetable acids art promptly on the teeth. In "forty-eight hours acetic, citric and malic acid will corrode the enamel so that you may scrape it away with the ringer-nail. Acid tartrate of lime, having a greater affinity, for the lime of the teeth than for its own base, will rapidly destroy the enamel.. Grapes in lorty-eight hours will render enameA of a chalhy coBmu tin acid is farmed. Hutrar has no aelef f - ous effect, except in a state of acetous fermentation. Animal substances ex it no injurious effect until putrefaction i.s far advanced. A WORD TO FATHERS. Love is capricious, and the pretty, well-dressed girl of 21, for whom you, the father, have kept a handsome house and grounds, so that some worthy young gentleman of good means may be at tracted toward her for the background of apparent wealth, is no better in the market of marriage than the girl who is not sin-rounded so. In fact, if you wish that your girl should be married off your hands, she will be more attractive, and less for sale, if she appears as her self in all her own maidenly adornments of prettiness, taste, education, without the help of your house and grounds. If she prides herself upon what you ap pear to lend her only during that period when her lover is coming to your fine house and grounds for her she may lie come a hypocrite; while if you bring no lover to her through, any aid of yours, and permit her to love some one who has not stepped within your gate, she may marry happily and live, not in your house, but the cottage which he planned without seeing you. A CUBE FOR A CUT LIP. f Ants fight with the utmost fury. S deadly is their grip that frequently tin whole abdomen of the enemy, is torn away; and yet, thongh little more than an infuriated head and legs, she still keeps up the fight. Sir John LtihlxM-k states that he' bun frequently found jin enemy's head hanging on to the legs of a living ant, who, through the tenacity of the grip, is obliged to carry about with her on the most festive occasions this ghastly and inconvenient memento of her victory. M. Mocqueys even assures us that tiie Indiana of Brazil iLake use of trrte imnaitf in the ctm of wounds, causing the ant to bite tli lips of the cut, and thus bring them to gether, after which they cut off the ant'n head, which thus holds the hps of the wound together. He asserts that he has often seen natives with wounds in course of healing with the aHtii&tance of seven or eight ante' licads. A man who marries a Vassar girl will have to provide something besides love in a cottage. Just glance at the it-ms these girls used up lat year. Among these we note: " Forty-five tons of freh meats, two tons and a half of smoked meats, two tons of poultry, three tons of fish, five barrels of mackerel, 28,000 clams, 442 gallons of oysters, five barrels of pork, 255 barrels of flour, two ; tons of buckwheat, 36 bushels of leans, 1,919 bushels of potatoes, 8,409 dozens i of eggs, .93.602 quarts of milk, 8,005 ' bananas, 22,611 orange, and other deli- and substantial in proportion." 8rx-TAB-OLr " Ma, what's mellow?" Mother "Bipe." Six-year-old "Then is pa ripe?" Mother "Why do you ask T Six-year-old" 'Cause the cook said to the chamltermaid that pa came home rather mellow last night" San ifrnotooo Wasp. PLEASANTRIES.", -ssi Titers is a report that GW4rArul be placed npoa the retired list. Thb man who fell out of his onl on the steamboat explained thathi black ened eye was a berth-mark, rm " Hribii love," said a young to his girl. " Y-o-u," she timidly essayed. The courtship had been a protracted one, bnt they are married l Whsv a kev was callarf 1nr ndtbe i gentleman pulled oaf a qrk tow one remarked Him thaWwas L Ike milocttdiiia'gait bS VI aw Vwios i f j that cannibals may eat philopehaif'' ' " Gentlemen," said an amatevtarm er just from the city, wTiis 4d the Chairman of an agricultural society, " put me down on your list of cattle for a calf." 'i It has often been remarked that chil dren will ask questions which even the wisest are puzzled to answer,?"' fatam ma," exclaimed Charley, "how r was I wheu you was a little girl ?" The alarming peculiarity of certain counterfeit bills on the Exetange Na tional Bank of Baltimore isiat they differ from the genuine article chiefly by reason of artistic superiority, 1 " When I was tout age," smd old Mr. Tret, " I rose with the lark." I beat yoa clear out of sight then," said Tom, woarily and triumphantly, 'Tfj been up all night with him. " Mamma "Look, Cissy, here is the dear doctor coming. What a favorite he is ! See, oven the little, phjekons run to uieet Ikin l", Cissy-r,iJs, ma ; and the little ducks cry, ' Quack, quack I'" Mihs Brows, I've boon to learn to tell fortunes," said a young felfftw to a brisk brunette. "Just let ttijj have your hand, if you please." " La, Mr. White, how sudden yon are ! Well, go and ask pa!" 1 "What would you give to bo as young as I am ?" asked a fop of Talleyrand. The wrinkled old wit and diplomatist looked at him a moment and said : "My faith ! I would almost be willing to be as foolish !" A pretkntious man once boasted to Douglas Jerrold that he was descended from Cardinal Wolsey, at which the caus tic wit exclaimed : " Canliuvl Wolsey I My dear sir, you must mean Lihaey Woolsoy." A uorr faatidloiu nu hi; Whenever lie got tight, i - i .T1- '' '- 'T 't"" r And eke i"t i tS. a And cite nl" And hark hit noMdi most Fut-tUddji-iu Dian wv h. Park. A certain caravan orator at a fair, after a long yarn descriptive of what is to be seen inside, generally winds up by saying, " Step in, gentlemen, step in. Take my word for it, you will be highly delighted when you cor.io out. " A' poor emaciated Irishman, having called in a physician in a forlorn hope, the latter spread a large mustard plaster and put it on the poor fellow's lean chest. Pat, when he with tearful eyes looked down on it, said, "Docther, it strikes me it's a dale of mustard for so little mate." "Ma," snid a thoughtful liy, "I don't think Solomon w-hs bo rich as they gay he was." " Why not, my dear, what could have put that into your head?" " Why, the Bible savs he slept with his fathers, and I think if ho had been so very rich he would have had a bed of lus own." Ginballard's duel: "As you re ; reived the affront, my ilenr loy," said his second, "you have the choice ct wraions." "Was it, an affront?'' " Why,' so you told me." " It was what I should call a punch in the head." "Well, what ditr.Ter.os docs H make? It was an affront, auy way you put it." ' A well-bred gentleman might give an affront ; he would not punch a fellow's head. I will not fl(ht blackguard," Tub word census bad its origin from the office of Censor in Kome, one of the duties of which was to estimate (censere) the number of citizens and the value of their projierty, and apportion taxes ac cordingly. In the Middle Ages the word man applied princiialy, if not wholly, to the practical work of taxation, hut in modern times it has lost this meaning. The enumeration of the people of the United States provided for in the consti tution is the first modern Instance rf an undertaking of the kind. The first' United St;-t- census was taken in 1790, and the first British census (exclusive then of Ireland) not until 1810. In the United States, the census serve chiefly a political purpoiw, affording the basis M representation in the lower honse. In Great Britain iis object is entirely sta tistical and economical When Berson, theLieutonant-General of artillery, gave his coffoe plant to the Jardin des Planted, in the last century, he little dreamed that 600,000,000 pounds of the fruit would be one day produced from plantations which all had ' their origin in the sample given by him to the Paris museum, of which a shoot w:ta carried to the West Indies. Nr mifrht his surprise have been h-ss rj-al had he been told that at no very distant dat as. much as 6,000,000,000 franca' worth of the beverage made from the berry would be sold st the cafes of the boulevards, and that in 1878 the estimated produc tion of coffee throughout the entire world would l- set down at 1,080,000,000 pounds. It is the impecunious toper who always has a glass sigh.