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VOL. IV-NO. 42.
NOT QUITE THE SAME.
Kot quite the same the springtime seems to me
Sinc<s that sad season when in separate ways
Our paths diverged. There are no more such
days
As dawned for us . that last time when we
Dwelt in the realm of dreams, illusive dreams.
Spring may be just as fair now, but it seems
Not quite the same
Not quite the same is life since we two parted,
Knowing it best to go our ways alone.
Fair measures of success we both have
known.
And pleasant hours; and yet something de
parted
Which gold, nor fame, nor anything we win,
Can all replace. And either life has been
Not quite the same.
Love is not quite the same, although each
heart
Has formed new ties that arc both sweet and
true;
' ut that wild rapture which of old wc knew
Seems to have been a something set apart
With that last dream. There is no passion,
now,
Mixed with this later love, which seems, some
how,
Not quite the same.
Not quite the same am I. My inner being
Reasons and knows that all is for the best
Bus oh] the unstilled yearning in my breast,
As my soul’*reyes turn ever backward, seeing
The vanished self, that over more must be,
This side of what we call eternity,
Not quite the same.
—EUa Wheeler, Boston Transcript.
THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE INEVITA
BLE.
With the exception of here and there
a constitutional grumbler, the different
phases of external nature are not ac
cepted with resignation and pleasure.
As far as possible we prepare for the
cold and the heat, the rain and the wind,
and when taken unawares by an ele
mental disturbance—if not too seriously
damaged—we bear our discomfiture
bravely, and usually look back upon such
an experience as something quite out of
the common, as well as a good joke.
The reason for such calmness and pa
tience are obvious. As soon as we know
we are made acquainted with
the fact that the storm that interferes
with our pleasure or spoils our finery is
unavoidable. A child does not cry very
often for the moon toplay with, or long
expect that the north wind which stiffens
his face and congeals his blood will stop
blowing on account of his dislike of it.
Submission to the disagreeable in ex
ternal nature means a knowledge of its
inevitableness. We have no power to
modify or prevent any of its moods, so
we adapt ourselves as far as possible to
all of them, taking some comfort in the
thought that we are not responsible for
results. It may seem somewhat far
fetched to endeavor to institute an anal
ogy between external nature and human
nature, since upon human nature de
volves more or less responsibility. Still
there is an inevitableness about human
relations which it would be well to some
-1 times consider. On the assumption
that a knowledge or realization of the
inevitable helps us to bear what inevita
bly must be borne, let us look at the
marriage relation. We all know that the
institution of marriage is still in a very
crude and unsatisfactory condition. The
desire for position, the love of money,
the fear of being left to a single life, are
some of the reasons that obtain with
people who ought to know better. For
one motive and another, men and women
come together in marriage too often
without the mutual love which should
be the foundation of such a life.
Sometimes there appears to be this
basis, but a short experience of “travel
ing in harness” proves that there was a
mistake. Then again, love—such as it
is—does here and there seem to exist,
but in many instances.it fails to give the
comfort which was expected. Os course
there are great and glorious exceptions
to all this; but it will hardly be dis
puted that marriage in general is not as
prolific of happiness as it ought to be,
or as it certainly will be in the good day
coming when education shall have lifted
the world into a knowledge of good and
HO o
Now, the law which .brings a consci
entious man and woman together in the
marriage relation > as inevitable as the
law of gravitation. Troubles and disa
greements may come, but an inherent
and mutual decency will keep this couple
together and their disaflections a matter
of profound secrecy. The question now
arises, if a realization of the inevitable
I can accomplish as much as this, may it
| not be of more service by enabling those
who suffer from the efiects of certain
I traits of character, for instance, to real
ize that these traits are also inevitable?
1 o many persons who have, or think
they have, greater causes for misery, the
I complaint of a wife that her husband
| does not understand her seems absurd;
and yet there is no more frequent, and,
(perhaps, no more acute unhappiness
than proceeds from this cause. Women,
as a rule, live much more in the imagina
tion than men, and have more time for
the work of introspection. Their ideals
are higher, but not infrequently quite
out of reach even by those disposed to
attain to them.
‘lf 1 could only find sopjerre«Z fault
.2' h a lady to an
“but I have no com
plaint to make save the very common
one of his not understanding me. He is
the soul of honor, kimbhearted, gener
ous and an untiring friend. He has
never, thus far, spoken an unkind or a
hasty word to me, and I know he never
will; ami yet he has no more apprecia
tion or understanding of my states of
aJ v “ling, my intellectual and spiritual
t| inn i ß y next-door neighbor.”
( Those persons who are alive to this
great p'lblein of human life understand
that the remarks of this wife
' 'w made by thousands of wives
> Jfd sincerity. Whether or not
< -ii, ' • er ' Je made a question
ol Borne doubt. It is a
” ' aany temperaments to talk over
a htw fisL-d" perplexities with a sympa-
It was wid. and if the friend be ais-
> well as sympathetic there may
done. But it must be also
Salten Argus.
true that when a woman reaches a
mental condition where it is possible for
h 'to speak disparagingly of her hus
band she is within an easy distance of
marital shipwreck. This article is in
tended mostly for this class of wives;
those who admit they have nothing to
complain of and yet suffer intensely, and
complain or not according as they are
wise or foolish.
“My husband does not understand
me,” says another woman. “He is
honest in all the relations of life. He is
not unkind, but be never reads a poem
with me, or knows whether I am dressed
in red flannel or cardinal velvet.”
Here is another:
“My husband is thoroughly good. He
hasn’t a single bad habit, and I know he
loves me dearly, but, notwithstanding,
he hurts me in the tenderest places, lie
often forgets to put in an appearance
when I have invited guests, and never
takes me to the opera, or seems to care
whether I have any amusement or not.”
Still another;
“My husband is the best man in the
world, but he ne Ver seems to think I can
get tired taking care of children or cook
ing his dinner. He eats and sleeps as
if he thought it my business to drudge
from morning till night.”
The following remark I heard made
not long ago by one of the loveliest
women whom it has ever been my good
fortune to meet. Those who do not
comprehend the fineness of feminine
sensibilities may be at a loss to discover
where the loveliness comes in; but it is
there all the same. There had been
some lively and good-natured compari
sons of husbands of our acquaintance,
when the lady spoken of remarked, with
heightened color and flashing eyes:
“I don’t think it is very good taste for
a wife to talk about her husband, but
what will you think when I tell you that
my husband never asked me to take a
plate of ice-cream in his life ? He knows
there is nothing I like so well. We often
have it for dessert, of course; but many
times when we have been out walking I
have so wished, when passing ice-cream
saloons, that he would ask me to go in,
and because Im hasn’t has spoiled many
a walk.”
“Well!” remarked a plain-spoken old
maid, “l.can conceive of your husband’s
not thinking of such a thing, but I
cannot conceive of a wife who is on any
decent terms with her husband who
would refuse to ask for what she wanted.
Why didn’t you tell him you would like
some ice-cream?”
“My husband knows my liking for ice
cream, and it is his business to ask me,”
was the sensitive rather than the sensi
ble reply. Now this wife credits her
husband with a kind heart, and perfect
honesty of purpose. She even admits
that if the invitation had come from her
he would gladly have accompanied her
to any number of ice-cream saloons.
This complaint seems silly as well as un
womanly, but it doubtless had its birth
in other neglects which she did not speak
of. The failure of a husband to invite
his wife to partake of ice-cream could
hardly furnish grounds for divorce, but
seems in t his instance to have been “the
feather that broke the camel’s back.”
Taken by itself it is certainly too absurd
for a moment’s notice, but it can not be
isolated. Such a state of affairs can only
come from the extremest and most mor
bid sensitiveness, and how much a
woman can do to overcome such a con
dition is the present question. Certainly
not by brooding over apparent neglect,
much less by talking about it. In these
degenerate days the woman who has an
honest man for her husband is to be
congratulated. If he is also kind, gen
erous and provident, she has certainly
drawn a paze in the great lottery. It
must be true that these wives who have
nothing to complain of, and yet who
suffer so much from lack of husbandly
appreciation and sympathy, do not place
a proper value on manly qualities. Is it
not possible for a wife, in consideration of
the cardinal virtues, to get on comforta
bly and lovingly with failure in the
minor points? Such failure is inevitable.
If the bread-winner’s head is full of
business, to the exclusion of the new
poem or favorite opera, ought a wife to
feel aggrieved? If in the worry and
press of commercial affairs a man forgets
that his wife has invited guests to din
ner, is it the part of common sense to be
made miserable by it, since the husband
will come home sober when he does
come, and solicitous only for the comfort
of his family? It is impossible for most
men to understand how vital these things
are to women. Even the best and ten
derest will not infrequently fall short of
the mark in such matters. Women as a
rule enjoy details. Men as a rule abhor
them. Why weep and pity one’s self
because of this fact? Shall we be
wretched because our oak tree is not an
asparagus bed f well?
I am not writing now of husbands who
’ wllfnlllj Tiiift their wffci’ twangs, ’Mi
of men who are great and good in the
large, and who fail in the small simply
because the smau does not appeal to
tfieim This determination to find qual
ities that do not exist, to force responses
from lips which may be warm and lov
ing, but which arc dumb to your wish,
is a fruitful source of misery in married
lift. Its effects are broad and far-reach
ing. Education will ultimately develop
more thoughtfulness in men and more
philosophy in women, and for future
generations, as well as for present com
fort, wives would do well to consider the
inevitableneas of the situation, and as far
as possible adapt themselves to it. Most
of the class who suflV* from not being
understood could extract much more
comfort from life if they would only
think so, besides insuring pleasant fire
sides and more harmonious chiliren. —
Christian Union. •
< >
-Cetewayo, the ex Zulu King, has ab
jured polygamy. •
*
DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1882.
Her Dear Richard.
Mrs. Resolve had evidently read that
first impressions help a law suit, and as
she came out she puckered her mouth
into a bouquet of roses, bowed sweetly
and remarked:
“Judge, I beg your pardon for this
trouble.”
“O, dont, Mrs. Resolve. It is no
trouble at all, I assure you.”
“It was a vexatious little mistake, you
know, and I wouldn’t have had it happen
forever so much.”
“No, I presume not I see you are
charged with disturbing the peace.”
“All a mistake, Judge. My dear
Richard is a great hand to frolic. He
had been chasing me through the house,
and as he went out I chased him to the
walk and threw a splinter after him.
He’ll be here directly and tell you that
we live in the greatest harmony, and
have never had one hard word in our fif
teen years of wedded life.”
“Is Richard Resolve in court?” called
Bijah.
“He are!” answered a solemn voice,
and a man weighing about half as much
as the woman, and having about half
the surface of square feet, came to the
front. He had his head tied up, one of
his eves was going into mourning, and
his nose had been peeled half its length.
“Ah! this is my dear Richard!” ex
claimed Mrs. Resolve, as she rushed to
meet him.
He waved her off. Then he cleared
his throat. Then he removed the ban
dage from his head. Then he said:
“Judge, give her ninety-nine years in
the Work House!”
“O! Richard, how can you?” she
pleaded.
“Judge, she’s a .bad’tin. This is the
way she serves me about six times a year,
and if it can’t be stopped it’ll break down
my constitution.”
“Richard, am I not your devoted
wife?”
“No, sir!”
“Don’t I love you to distraction?”
“Not any!”
“Won’t you tell His Honor that you
fell down and hurt yourself while we
were playing?”
“Never! You played on me with a
stick of stove-wood, and I hope you’ll go
up!”
“Darling, your mind wanders.”
“And my body is going to wander, too!
Judge, she’s worse than an Injun.”
The witness fell back, and the woman
leaned over the desk and whispered:
“Really, I must send Richard to
the insane asylum. He’s getting very
flighty.”
“And I’ll see what the Work House
will do for you,” softly answered the
Court. “I make it sixty days.”
“Please, sir!”
“Sixtv days, Mrs. Resolve.”
“Well, I’m sorry, and I'm certain
you’ll regret it,” she said, as she smiled
and withdrew; but the moment she en
tered the corridor she rushed at Bijab,
bit him in the wrist, kicked his shins,
scratched his chin and tore off his. collar,
and she might have crippled him for life
bad not two officers rushed in to his as
sistance.—Detroit Free Press.
o »
Matrimonially Mixed.
By a combination of circumstances
Mrs. Rachel Foster and Mrs. Rachel
Clark—who is one and the same person
finds herself legally bound matrimonially’
to two husbands, and has applied to the
courts to relieve her from the bonds of
the double connubial knot. According
to the papers in divorce filed by Mrs.
Foster-Clark with the Prothonotary’ of
the court of Common Pleas the lady in
1860, at the age of fifteen years, was
married to Thomas Foster. Their hon
eymoon was brief, for in two month’s
they’ quarreled, and he left her to strug
gle along as best she could. With the
breaking out of the rebellion the truant
husband went forth to the defence of his
country’s flag and the girl-wife became
a grass-widow only to don the widows
weeds after the first battle of Bull Run,
when word came home that Foster had
fallen on the field of battle.
In the spring of 1866 she succumbed
to the wooing of Elisha Clark, who was
connected with the United States marine
corps, stationed in this city. They lived
very happily’ together till 1881, when
Mrs. Clarke made the discovery that in
stead of occupying a hero’s grave her
first husband was in the flesh and a
resident of Bridesburg. They met on
friendly terms, the peculiar situation in
which the woman had placed herself by
her second marriage with ('lark was
discussed, and a separation from the
latter followed. It was at this juncture
that sjie sought the advice of counsel for
assistance in extricating herself from the
peculiar position in which she had been
placed. She then filed in Common Pleas
Court Room No3two libels in di voice,one
from Foster on the grounds of a twenty
years’ separation, ‘ind. 'hm-ritrWr 'from
Clarke on the grounds that her marriage
with him was voidable, owing to the
libelant already having a husband living
at the time the marriage ceremony was
solemnized. Since the proceedings in
divorce were commenced the fact has
been developed that Foster, her first love
in whose interest she instituted the suits,
had also taken unto himself a second
wife, thus complicating matters consid
erably. When the case comes up for
adjudication spicy revelations are prom
ised . — Philaddph ia Times.
—The London H’orW tells this story
of Balzac: Balzac was the neighbor of
Prince Z., and often used to pay him a
visit in the morning, clad in the com
pletest nciy/q/e. One day Balzac met at
his neighbor's a niece of the Prince, and
felt bound to excuse himself on the nature
of his attire. “Monsieur.” replied the
young ladv, “when I read your books I
(lid not trouble myself about thy Wad
ing.
Instincts of Elephants,
If nature has not given intellect to
these animals, it has given them an in
stinct very much akin to it. A man has
only’ to hunt them in their wilds to learn
how wonderfully Providence has taught
them to choose the most favorable
ground, whether for feeding or encamp
ing, and to resort to jungles where their
ponderous bodies so resemble rocks or
the dark foliage, that it is very difficult
for the sportsman to distinguish them
from surrounding objects; while their
feet are so constructed that not only’ can
they’ tramp over any kind of ground,
whether hard or soft, thorny’ or smooth,
but without emitting a sound. Some of
their encamping grounds are models of
ingenuity—some of them perfect for
tresses. I once followed up a herd and
found them in a small forest surrounded
on three sides by’ a tortuous river, im
passable for ordinary mortals by reason
either of the depth of water, its precipi
tous banks, quicksands or entangling
weeds in its bed, while the fourth side
was protected by’ a tangled thicket,
further protected by a quagmire in front.
To get at them without disturbing them
was impossible; at last, when I did get
within shot of the forest, the elephants
retreated by the opposite side to that by
which I had approached, and after fol
lowing them for several hours I did not
get a shot. The damage done to rice
crops, Mr. Sanderson thinks, is exag
gerated. It maybe so in Mysore; but in
Burmah, in many places, it is excessive.
While employed on survey work in the
Tharawaddie district, I have been fol
lowed about by villagers pointing out the
damage done and asking for a remission
of tax, mistaking me for a revenue officer.
No one supposes elephants have the rea
soning powers possessed by’ man; if they
had, we should be their slaves, and not
they ours; but their instinct is wonderful.
I will give a couple of instances: When
war broke out with Burmah, a lot of ele
phants were sent across from Bengal to
Prome by land, under the charge of Capt
ain Baugh, of the Bengal Twenty-sixth.
Among them was a magnificent tusker.
He took a dislike to this officer, why was
not exactly known. Some said it was
because he had knocked off the elephant’s
neck his mahout; but be the reason what
it may, this brute tried to kill Baugh, and
him only, several times. I have seen him
thrashed for this several times by other
elephants armed with chains, who wield
ed them much as a drummer does the
lash at the halberds; but it was of no use,
his dislike was inveterate, he would take
no food except from a pet female, (he
had two lashed alongside of him,) and
eventually’ died at Shoaydoung. As a
rule, elephants are timid, quiet, inoffen
sive; but when wounded and closely’ fol
lowed up, or females with young, their
fury knows no bounds. They dread fire
more than anything else; but one ele
phant belonging to the battery’ in Assam
was an exception, and would assist in
putting out a fire. This same elephant
would do what I never knew any other’
to do, viz., when a beast’s neck was cut
through, all but the vertebrae, (it did not
matter whether the beast was a buffalo, a
deer, tiger, or anything else,) it would,
when ordered, put a foot on the neck,
twine the trunk around the head, and,
with a. wrench, separate it from the body
and hand it up to the mahout. I have
seen one or two elephants that would
hand a dead bird up; but most, of them
will not touch anything of the sort. Nor
would they’ intentionally tread upon a
fallen man or beast—those used for exe
cutions in the Guicor’s territories—Ba
roda —have been taught to do so. Some
foolish men teach their elephants to
trample upon a dead body’, and by so
doing ruin them for sport. An elephant,
unless vicious by nature, will only do so
at first with the greatest reluctance, but
after a time, if anything falls before it,
it is apt to charge, and if it does not
kneel down suddenly and throw the oc
cupant out of the howdah, it gets the
animal between its legs, and plays a sort
of football with it, throwing it backward
and forward between the front and hind
legs until it is of the consistency of a
jelly. Men are occasionally thrown off
the back of an elephant; what would
their fate be mounted on a beast who
had been taught such tricks? An ele
phant I bought of Mr. Tye had once
been cut by a rhinoceros. Nothing
would induce her to enter a jungle where
one of these animals was; the very
slightest scent of one would send her
fly ing. A splendid female muckna be
longing to my department cared nothing
for a tiger; would kick one out of her
path without showing the slightest signs
of uneasiness, but if she met a pony
nothing could hold her.— London Field.
Too«too .Esthetic.
•• Yes, that’s the spot. You can see
ivhat a beautiful esthetic splash it is,”
ind she knelt softly.
“O how tranquilly Delicious so-so
purplish-pluming in color with such a
lanquid tendency to spread,” answered
her friend.
“Yes, that just delineates it; and what
a breath of expression—what power of
concentration —it is positive genius.”
“ I think mum,” said the scrub lady,
“you moight get it out with gall. I've
heerd ”
“ Heard, not heerd, Bridgetina, and
as to t hat splash on t he carpet, no money
would tempt me to have it erased. Why
that is where deal Mr. Oscar Wilde up
set his inkstand when he kindly per
mitted us to entertain him on his recent
four. He is the apostle of beauty, Bridge
tina.”
“Faith, thin, if he was the apostle Pe
ter, he shouldn’t spoile me foine carpet
like that!” retorted the lady from
Galway.— Detroit Post and Tribune.
—We ought not to judge of man’s
.merits by his qualifications, but by thu
u«e he makes of them
The Ros?*Rrowing Craze.
In consequence of the extraordinary
prices obtained for rosebuds dnrino’ the
past two or three years, not only have
the regular florists used their" large
profits in extending the green-house
structures for that purpose, but the
fabulous reports of the profits of rose
growing have excited the cupidity
of many' capitalists in the vicinity’ of
New York. Boston and Chicago, and in
all probability’ in the other large cities
of the Union. These men have an
abundance of means, and begin on a
scale usually at which the ordinary flor
ist, who had to climb his way up, ends;
so that we have already in the vicinity
of New York at least a dozen establish
ments for the forcing of rosebuds in
winter, owned by men who count their
capital by millions. These gentlemen,
of course, know nothing practically
about the business, relying altogether
upon their gardeners for success—for
who ever heard of a millionaire florist?
Whether they do succeed or not in mak
ing a profit of a few thousand dollars a
year is not vital to men who count their
income by the hundred thousand; yet it
is curious with what interest the rise or
fall of a few cents in the rose market is
regarded even by them. New Jersey
has more than her quota of these mill
ionaire florists. Already we have four
in Madison, one in Summit, and two in
Orange, New Jersey, and it is said that
there is as much interest manifested by
them in the prices at which, in the tech
nical slang of the flower-shops, “Cooks,”
“Jacks,” “Mermets” and “Perles” are
quoted in Broadway’ as is evinced
in Wall Street in “ Wabash,” “ Lake
Shore,” “ Erie” or “Central.” It is true
that one, at least, of these gentlemen
gives all the profits that accrue from his
roses to charitable purposes; but it is
feared that he has few imitators among
his compeers in this particular; for the
motive is the same as in all other invest
ments —to get the largest profit possible
from the smallest amount of money in
volved. Within the past twelve months
I have been consulted by at least a score
of gentlemen about to embark in the
business of rose-growing, and I have no
doubt others of the trade have had the
same experience. It is true that many
of these amateur florists will get theh
lingers burnt, and will not only never
realize a dollar, on their investments,
but will work at a loss; yet enough of
them will succeed to give zest to the
risk, for at present prices, when success
is attained, the profits are so great as to
produce the present “craze” on the sub
ject—a “craze” that probably’ will re
sult exactly as the Morns Multicaulis did
in 1840, or the grapevine fever in 1865.
All experience shows that in the perish
able commodities of fruits, flowers, or
vegetables, whenever an oversupply
floods the market and brings down,/ >
prices below a paying level, less is sold
than when they bring a fair price. Two
years ago, in .lune, strawberries and
cabbage in the New York markets got so
low as not to pay even the cost of mar
keting. The result was that hundreds
of loads ’had to be taken back and
dumped in the manure yards, aS they
could not be disposed of at any price.
Some thirty years ago peaches one day
fell down to twelve cents a basket in
Washington Market, New York, and
would not sell at that. In those days
the crop was perhaps held by a score ol
dealers only. They got their heads to
gether and decided to destroy every
peach in the market. It was done. A
scarcity was produced and in twenty
four hours peaches went up to one dollar
a basket. The leader in the movement
had no doubt been a disciple of Adam
Smith, and had wisely studied the laws
of supply’ and demand.
The present excitement in rose-grow
ing is no doubt largely due to the un
precedented prices realized this winter,
which have been caused in a great
measure £>y the unusual heat and drouth
of last autumn, which weakened in
many casesfland in others entirely de
stroyed, the plants that would have been
used to produce the crop of flowers.
This, together with a brisk demand, has
resulted in profits which it is unreason
able to expect can ever be long contin
ued in any legitimate business. — Peter
Henderson, in Gardeners' Monthly.
DeLong and Franklin.
The points of resemblance between
Franklin and DeLong are too striking to
escape attention now and in the records
of historians hereafter. Their mission
to the polar seas was substantially the
same; both failed to accomplish the work
for which they set forth; both exhibited
the most heroic qualities of daring, en
durance and fortitude, and both died of
starvation. There is another point of re
semblance which has pathetic interest,
as the world remembers the woman
whose, faith in her. husbanjl s return ha*
remained steadfast through long month s
of suspense, but .s to-day broken by the
inUdliger.ee sent by Melville from the
Lena delta Like Franklin, DeLong
leaves behind him a noble wife to mourn
his fate, and her sorrow challenges the
sympathy which the world bestowed so
freelv upon Lady Franklin. It remains
for the American people to see that the
memory of DeLong is honored like that
of Franklin by his countrymen. The
first duty of the Nation is to see that the
body of the explorer, with the bodies of
his comrades, is brought to America for
honorable interment. It will then be a
duty to see that a monument such as
England erected to Franklin, isrearedto
the memory of a hero whose name ill
henceforth be a synonym for bravery and
and manly fortitude. an '
Express. . _
—ln some thills ‘iialmt . is « greater
plague than ever afflicted Eygpt; in tly x '
formation of -..baraeter it is an /
TERMS: SI.OO A YEAR.
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.
—Moody and Sankey have de lined
the invitation to spend a year in Lom'fon.
—There is a school population of 741,.
331 in Missouri, and shool funds to the
amount of $541,671.83 have just been
distributed.
—The Episcopal Clergymen’s Insur
ance League had paid $316,000 to the
widows and orphans of deceased clergy
men during the last thirteen years. °
—As the result of a vote taken by
sixty-one Presbyteries, instrumental
music will be introduced into the. United
Presbyterian Church of North America.
The ballot stood 616 to 606.
—There are ten groups of churches all
subject to a general council. These are:
Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch,
Jerusalem, Russia, Cyprus, Austria,
Mount Sinai, Montenegro and the Hel
lenic Church. The number of members
in all of the branches is nearly 75,000,-
000.
—The general minutes of the Metho
dist Episcopal Chiffch, South, give these
statistics for 1881: Traveling preachers,
3,704; superanuated preachers, 307; local
preachers, 5.865; white members, 844,-
367; colored members, 993; Indian mem
bers, 5,451; total ministers and members.
830,687, being an increase last year of
12,984; Sunday schools, 9,310; teachers,
62,442; scholars, 462,321 —increase last
year, 21,707.
—lt may surprise some persons to be
told that the seat of learning in the
United States having the largest income
is the University of Michigan, which has
$300,000 a year at its disposal. Harvard
comes next, while Yale and Columbia
are close together. In property be
queathed by private individuals Harvard
leads all the rest, of course, its entire
endowment practically coming from that
source.— Chicago Herald.
—The Connecticut Legislature has
provided that School Boards, on the pe
tition of twelve adult residents, may
order instruction in the public schools
concerning the effects of intoxicating
beverages. The liquor dealers in some
of the cities are preparing to oppose the I
use of text books made for the purpose/
by total abstinence societies and to insist
on scientifically accurate works. The
brewers will take a part in the contro
versy by demanding that the children be
taught that beer in moderation is not
hurtful.
—Elder David W. Patman, rather tht
leading light of the so-called Hardshell
Baptists of Georgia, is dead. He was
an eccentric man, of no education, a
blacksmith as well as a preacher, but a
man of grej^' 1 and virtuous life. In
his smalj>*' Cobbham, he preached
forp*-' ms flock never grew very
yjr was made up of white and
people. They were separated
> a railing, and the women sat apart
from the men. They washed each others
feet on communion Sundays with great
solemnity.
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
—The difference between a “bad cent
and a demolished apple” ‘hat one’s
good for naught and the other’s gnawed
for good.
—ls people would follow Emerson’s
resolution, “I cannot afford to be irrita
ble,” there would be more happy fami
lies in the country.
—The Germans call a spinster “Ein
iitzen-gcbliebenes Mtedchen,” “a maid
left sitting.” Much more euphonious
than our epithet of “ old maid.”
—A wise and learned doctor gives
forth the information that gulf weed is
an antidote for obesity. He docs not
say, however, whether it is to be worn
about the hat or applied as a plaster.—
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
—lt is said that the proportions of the
human figure are six times the length of
the feet, "but there must be a mistake
about it. We have never heard of any
•St. Louis woman nine feet high. — Peck's f
Milwaukee Sun.
-“A Lady Subscriber” ask' w’ jf
Paris papers are so wicked. We do
know, but an exchange informs u*
there are 100 women journalists in
Does that help you any?—
—Post obit: Mrs. Malloy— <, u
Mrs. McGinnis, an’ it’s rathe,
yer looking this morning.” Mrs.
nis—“lndade, thin, Mi’s.
o-ood raison I’m havin’ to look
Here’s the postman just been
doore to tell me there’s a dead
waitin’ fur me at the postoffice»
can’t for the life of me chink wh<TTt
that’s dead.”-- The Judge.
—The twain were in the palace car—
Said he: "1 do believe me
This vehicle hath lungs;” said she:
“How Thoma*? Undeceive mol
“ I will.” he added, pointing at
A ventilator pannel.
“ It must be so, for don’t you
That Bullman-airy | 4ta.yie[ TE . | . ZK
- What shall vre do wi
is the serious question wh
article of importance going,,
of the W hy not Utahlu
said the paragraphed Then
a report as if a cannon had explode,
a we-shall-mcet-and-we-shall-miss-t
expression on the faces of the survivi
members of the force.
—“ You are looking bad,” remar’
Snowbergcr Colonel Percy Y**
“What’s the matter?” ‘
says my lungs are affectmTand that I
must not take more thaiy4hree drinks a
dav ” “I would try son/ 1 other doctor.
“1 did, and be Saiffi/he same thing.
“Well, then,
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