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VOLUME I.
4 SAX tTA KT ITRLL.
Perhaps the must noticeable feature
of Lincoln, Neb., is ita artesian well,
sunk in the crnkcr of a large square ad
joining the poetoffice. It is about 1,300
feet deep, and its waters are strongly
impregnated with salt and magnesia.
In appearance, smell and taste, the
water strongly resembles brine. The
citizens make much of the fountain.
They regard i| as a panacea for all
ill* They use it for chills, for colds,
for rt>ffnn»t.ispi, for constipation and its
oppcaile, and nearly *□ the ills that
tieah is. bear to. They drink it and
I lathe in ft—in short, they would be
liedly off without it. Os an evening,
after a warm and sultry day, you can see
hundreds of people carrying off the pre
cious liquid in sundry small jars and
vessels, as if the real fountain of life
had been found.
This water is taken in pipes to the
principal hotels, and many invalids are,
no doubt, boned ted by its use. In
various spots" around Lincoln ars
numerous salt basins, which, in the
distance, look like pools of water glisten
ing and shimmering in the sunlight, but
which, on near approach, prove to be
dry, barren wastes of salt; and some de
posits are almost as pure and white as
the refined salt of commerce. These
salt-basins will, at no distant day, be a
great source of wealth to the country.
"As mad as a hatter” is a phrase
whose origin is lost in the dim recesses
of antiquity. Why a hatter should be
madder than any other class of trades
men has never been satisfactorily ex
plained, but the fact has remained that
hatters are considered mail by the
adage, Perhaps the phrase libels a
worthy company of men just as the
gravediggers in “ Hamlet” lumped the
people of England and called .them all
mail. It would seem that in thia coun
try there is nothing for a hatter to be
mad about, especially as elections come
around so frequently. Yet it ia, also,
too true that American hatters are very
mad at present, and whether the phrase
held good before, it certainly holds good
now. There are 1,000 mud hatters in
New Jersey alone, and at Orange, in
that State, they have nearly had an
Orange riot The cause is a new hat
finishing machine that will do the work
of five hatters. The hatters are re
solved not to allow three machines to be
introduced; henee the trouble. Thus
the ancient phrase "as mad as a hatter"
has new life infused into it
THK COST OK WAR.
M. de Foville, a distinguished French
'ixmomist, has ciphered up the bills
»Inch France has had to pay for the
Franco-German war, and the devasta
tions of the Commune. The total
amounts to $2,900,000,000, which is pret
ty heavy for a war of such short dura
tion. Among the items given, twenty
seven in number, are $1,000,000,000 for
the indemnity paid to Germany, $125,-
000,000 for cost of borrowing money,
$300,000,000 capitalization of the lost
revenue of the ceded provinces, etc.
lie net <Joet of revictualing Pans was
$15,000,000; to rebuild the structures
burned by the Commune cost $10,000,-
000 ; to bury the dead soldiers, $450,000;
the Commune stole $2,000,000 in money,
beside $3,300,000 which they ‘•drew”
from the bank, and the trials and trans
portation of the captured insurgents
coat $2,400,000; the re-establishment of
roads required $18,000,000, and it cost
$375,000 to restore the registers of
births and mamagee wantonly destroyed
by the Oocitnnnista.
tnrrvnvcrtMX rk orris.
The lack of punctuality brings innu
merable evils in its train. It is the can
ker spot of successful business. Many
are the instances in which the neglect to
renew an insurance punctually has led
to serious loss. With sound policy do
the banks insist, under the penalty of a
protest, on the punctual payment of
notes, for were they to do otherwise,
commercial transactions would fall into
inextricable confusion. Many and many
a time has the failure of one man to
meet his obligations brought on the
ruin of a score of others, just as the
toppling down in a line of bricks of the
master brink causes the fall of all the
rest. Thousands remain poor all their
L>ves who, if they were more faithful in
their word, would secure a large run of
so make their fortunes.
Be punctual if yon would succeed. Let
everything in the way of amusement be
negleMS* ts yaa he* a bustness en
gagement to keep.
“Yaa,” said an affectionate mother,
" the first year of my daughter’s mar
riage I thought her husband was an
angel, and I’m sure that every year
since I’ve wished be was one."
Cfltamh ia 3ni it Wiser.
A SitaAS «r user
Tkmwh IS. ton of STai, evwtnre
itesiwsaissA
Sad M<Uala« Um »ol>oZ thy stshlns
Moves It still in • mu antanotM,
An J wUM thou dost ssy In thy
Osn shlsld Uk> sshstksr trans Sara.
Whlspnr still OytM
Uss Mill oa tay Mk*. mul I* esra.
TH ths bssoth oT ths brsslh <rf -that morataf -
Wbm, tjrta* with Ums by ths sss.
w * kssw that tbs brt<bi nm ease wuus<
or s storm thst s tsmpsst should bs.
Thou vast tur tn thy f rsnklsa, tay dsHlns
la th« U<hl ourilac rM st thy hslr.
And thy nnos, Ills ths votes <4 a startla*.
Bttmd op all my soars rsest Saseair.
I have lived; I have loved, sod thoo«h eves
As tone ss 1 Mrs 1 shall love,
Tet the mice of thy micths sever
A*sln be sa that of ths dm.
Thon eleepeet and alone *bou ever
Till the soiled of the still snr*ln< sea
Shall, dyln< sway, sink till hover
It sounds like thy saocth« to um.
The sound of s snortny sonorous
Is not MAS the tones of the era;
And soon t>e<oiues utterly borons
As Um bnuluf of bees cm the lea.
1 had toved—l hail loved—bat Um a usee
Thou rosiest In dreams are no droarn.
If thou dreamrat of ma, those wild voices
Must bo what they are sod they seam.
To thee, than, my freckled and dearest.
I'm now a bob<<>blin and sjrcta.
And the form Urat now gra*|*ilh thee nearest
la au<ht but a dream of delight.
Good-by, though I still hold thy neck fMt,
And dream of ths days that are gone.
To-morrow, I know, at the breakfast.
I’ll meet ths am muslin and lawn.
1 » 1 agSSHBB
A SUMMER'S PASTIME.
Buch a tiny, pearl-tinted glove it wtut
fitting faultlessly the white, dimpled
hand, and reaching far up, with ita in
numerable little white buttons on the
round, fair arm, that it wan small won
der, spite of its almoet-infiniteaimal size,
that it filled the scope of John Raleigh’s
vision, as he somewhat awkwardly en
tered the plain country parlor, where
the owner of both hand and glove
awaited him.
“ Won’t you help me?” she said, in a
very helpless way, and held out to him
the little fiffgera a* she spoke.
He saw, then, that the task of button
ing was atQl incomplete. A dark red
flush mounted to hw face as he under
took the duty,assigned him. He gpnU
not see the little mocking smile about
the beautiful mouth, an it puckered itself
into a tiny rnouc at his uncouth efforts,
or the laughing malice in the hazel eyes.
He only felt beneath his touch the cool,
firm fleeh of the exquisite arm, and
thought, with a sort of unconscious
reasoning, how great a pity it was to
hide away any part of it, even beneath
a thing so dainty as the pearl-tinted
glove.
“ Thanks,” she said, carelessly, when
he had finished his task. “Are the
horses ready?”
“ Yes,” he answered, and, handing her
into the light wagon as though she were
a queen, he sprang in beside her, and,
drawing up the reins, soon went speed
ing down the country lane.
Two short weeks before, Adelaide
Armon had come down from the gay
city to the quiet farm-house, to regain,
if might bo, some of her faded roses.
Later m the summer, she was to under
go the nsual watering-place ordeal; but,
as a little respite between the now and
then, she had chosen to spend ths
month of June buned among ita fra
grance. Os course she should tie unut
terably bored, she prophesied with mute
resignation, and, equally of course
there would ba no neceaaity for m<ws
than one “Saratoga” of frightful dimen
sions ; therefore it was with mingled
pleasure and disdain that, on the first
evening of her-arrival, she was formally
presented to Jchn Raleigh, and, looking
anxiously up into his six feet of stature,
decided that, after all, even in this rural
spot, a few toilets might be necessary,
ami the hours would not prove so heavy
as she had feared.
Mr. Raleigh was a farmer himself, ol
good family, she learned, but one who
scorned not to till his own soil, and who
had evidently tilled it to some purpose.
He had a college education, too, but had,
singularly enough, supposed the years
he had spent in acquiring an education
were years to lie devoted to that purpose,
therefore he returned homo almost as
ignorant of the social world as before
going into it. All women he venerated.
To bear a man speak lightly of a woman
always brought a flush to his cheek. To
him, womanhood and motherhood were
inalienably and sacredly intenninglad.
Miss Armon was to him a revelation. He
hail known her for two weeks ; she hail
accomplished her purpose—he was des
perately in love with her. That ahe
might not love him in return was an
easy matter for his mmd, in ita humil
ity, to grasp ; that ahe should try to win
hia love for pastime and conquest—that
she should inflict upon him, with dsllber-
Devoted to the Interests of Columbia County and the State of Georgia.
HARLEM. GEORGIA. TUESDAY. MARCH 8, 1881
ate intent, a wound whose sear might
heal would have been by biai re
ceived as gruss calumny. In his eyes,
was a pure, innocent, beautiful child.
Ad through their drive the touch of her
arm still ttuiltai him, until, when they
had returned and he lilted her dawn
geatly to the ground, an insoudhto tm
pulse caused him to whisper :
“I gm coming over thia evsuiag, I
want to speak with you.”
'• Ftxflfrii boy f* the said to htreakf, i
she drew off the dainty gloves within
her morn. “My visit ia but half done,
and already he wants to bring matters
to a blimax. It must not be. I need
him yet a little longer.”
Therefore, when, true to hia promise,
he returned and begged her to go out
with him for a little walk in the moon
light, she refused, and petulantly shook
her head. She was tired, aha said, bnt
rattled on gayly or every theme, until
he could not speak the words he had
meant to utter. That night he west
away with a strange, new pain in his
heart, yet loving her more madly than
ever.
She had gone out for a stroll the next
morning, when she suddenly encoun
tered him. He had scarcely slept since
he had left her the night previous. She
read his purpose in his eyes, and strove
to divert it As well attempt to stem
Niagara.
“Miss Armon,” he began, “I love
you ! I should not have had the cour
age, pexlia]>6, to tell you, but that I have
dared hope my love might not be unwel
come to you. I know how bright and
beautiful you are, and how I lack in all
that you {xjnaewi. But, oh, my darling I
my darling 1 what I have not the courage
for is to live out my life without you.
Will you shore it, Adelaide, and mold it
as you will ?’’
The words were out now. Bho might
no longer hope to avert them. It re
mained for her but to punish his pre
sumption.
“ Bir,” she said, “you forget yourtelf,
and presume greatly upon my having
been thrown ujion your society 1”
The muu'ii face paled with a sudden
pallor. A hauteur and a dignity equal
to her own sublied him of the humdity
a moment lie fore apparent.
“Did I understand you to use the
word presume, Alikh Armon ?” he ques
tioned. “ May I ask you in what lay
presumption ?”
Silently ho awaited her reply. It was
her turn to be embarrassed and ill at
ease. She had meant to play with a
harm 1 oks tool. Already ahe discovered
her mistake.
“ Tho difference in our stations— ” aha
began, hesitatingly.
He stopped her halting sentence with
uplifted hand.
“ I understand,” he interrupted, a sort
of white, repressed wrath shining in his
eyes. “Because lam not one of fash
ion's fops you gauged the gulf between
us. At least, Miss Armon, I offered you
an honest man's honest love. It was
yours to reject or accept—there was no
need to insult it”
And, turning on his heel, he left her.
Was it only the humiliation she had
meant to inflict, but which had reacted
upon herself, which caused the hot blood
to dye her face, and the smarting tears
to rush to her eye* ? Bho watched him
out of sight, holding himself proudly
ereet, and tho sunlight falling full on bis
fa r hair (closely cropped) as he held his
Btraw hat in his hand, to let the Kummer
breeze play alxiut bis bare temples.
Could it be that something was going
out of her life ahe would fain have kept
there ? Once she started forward, his
name upon her lips, bnt she did not
nt ter it The man was mad. What
destiny did ho effer her ? Only a farm
er’s wife! Then she aoblied, but
checked it, wondering why she wept.
In a week's time she had gone back to
her home and the old gay life awaiting
her. Bhe hail not rivxwmd her roses,
her friends said. Bhe thought to amuse
them by relating her rustic flirtation,
bnt somehow they never heard the story.
Her lips were dumb.
Bhe had gone back to her old life,
and, of course, ths old amusement of
playing with hearts, but it bail lost ita
zest. Os all the men who had flocked
about her standard (and, as ahe was rich
and young and beautiful, there were
many), there was not one, held np in
silent and unacknowledged oomponaon
with that other, but failed in the test.
How grandly he had rebuked her—how
scathing had been his scorn I Was it
for thia he lived so constantly in her
thought that neither by night nor day
could she drive him out ? Pshaw I sho
hated herself for her pitiful wee bn sei.
When October earns she determined
she would go abroad, but, one morning,
when September had not half sped, sit-
ting alone in her loxurieus non, a let
ter was brought her. It was from John
Raleigh's mother, and it told her that
her eon was dying. The letter ran thus:
He had a mnatraka last wsek, and has teen
Mrtou ever tex*. The doctors say U was
M tte climax to tataoae nwvons strata, otlwr
it would not have proved ratal. HU da-
Miu> has reveals! all k> sw, and I write that
toonld know that my boy aigtat kw if life
ware «weet to him t bat. when m— umosei
ootam, it wfl> only bo to the old trouble, sad
ho will sink under it Re way my all and row
will have killed him, for your summer poe-
Uau.
Hicy were orne', words, and the girl
sat reading and re-reading them with
widely-staring eyes, which seemed to pray
for blindness, that she might shut them
out At last she arose, and mechanic
ally prepared for a journey, as though
earn ing out the studied intention of
months rather than tho half-formed im
pulse of a uiament Bhe was as ret
scarce oonsclous of her purpose, whan,
at nightfall, she stood a suppliant far
admittance at John Raleigh’s door. A
sad, weary-faced woman softly opened
it, and stood as though mutely asking
her errand.
“John?”
This was all the white lips could utter.
“Ho is sinking fast” answered the
mother. “ You knew my boy ? ”
For as yet she had not divined the
truth. The woman her son loved was
cold, and cruel, and hoartlcM, Not
even the knowledge that ho was dying
would bring her here. Bo ahe liad rea
soned, when, with a low, choking eob,
the girl before her fell on her knees,
with outstretched, imploring hands
“You said," she wailed, “ that he
would not hve, because Ids was no lon
ger sweet to him—let me tell him how
dearly I love him, and how cruelly I
have suffered 1 Let me ask him to live
for me !"
Then two gentle hands liftol her face,
a kiss foil on her brow, a voice mur
mured : "Oh, my child I give him back
to me I” and then she found herself
within tho sick-room, and alone with
that still, quiet form lying upon the
lied How white and won ho looked.
“John,” ahe moaned—“ John 1"
opened his eyes and saw her.
*Yotf have cumol" he whispered.
“This ia kind. It will bo for a little
time only. I can no longer presume
upon it"
“Husli I" she commanded. "Oh, do
not make iny task harder I You will
forgive me, dear, I know. Only grow
strung and well agaui for me I"
“ No," ho said, faintly. "1 am con
tent now to die. You have wiped out
the Imrnlini HS of your words—”
But she interrupted him with a kum
“ You asked me once to beyour wife,"
she "aid. "I did not know my own
heart then.; but now—oh, John, live for
mu, or take mo with yon, for I have
li i.rned that I cannot live without you I"
Two hours later, with her hand clasped
m his, John Raleigh fell into a quiet
hl'xVp—a sleep which lasted through
long hours, while still she sat motion
less, fearing to stir ; but when the dawn
bi oke she knew that with it had van
ished the dark night of their unhappi
ness in Hie dawn of an all-potuiible fu
tam ~, u -n
AMTIDOTK tM CHl.'iajl.,
Prof. Htuemmi, of Gottingen, has
made some interesting investigations re
luting to tho antagonistic and antidotal
action of certain drugs, and especially in
respect to chloral hydrate. He confirms
what was previously known of the lat
ter—namely : that it is an antidote to
strychnine, irescuing the spasm, and
even preventing death. Ho finds that
it has a similar action in the case of the
mixture of strychnine bases sold under
the name of brucin, and also against the
opium ■ alkaloid, thebala, which simul
taneously tetanizea and lessens senu
bility. The spasms produced by chlorife
of ammonia diminish under the employ-f
went of non-fatal doses of chloral hy
drate, and can, indeed, be completely
•topped. Nevertheless, death oocu*|
probably from the paralyzing effect of
txfih substances on the reapiratory cen
ter. Bnt tho antidotal effect of chloral
oil the action of the poisons which cause
convulsions by their action on the brain
is not the same for all theec subetancea.
It is not economy to have too few
brooms. One for the sleeping rooms up
stairs, one for parlor and sitting-roan,
ami onefor the kite hen are not too masy.
As they are worn they may be passed
down a grade at a time, tho new one al
ways being reserved for the parlor. If
the new broom is allowed to stand in
cold water for twelve bonrs, afterward
drying it, it will last much knger. A
nrootn should never be permitted to
stead on ita brush, as it makes it one
aided and >ll shapes. Hang it up by a
loop in the handle.
m MOTOJtr Os TKK SA TOM KT.
Ths history of the bayonet is thus sot
forth in the catalogue of Gen. Pitt R>v
•re’ anthropological collection, which
the British Government will probably
buy for ths public benefit and place on
snhUahfon tn the 8o«th Kensington mu
seum. la the early part of the seven
teeath eotury it was found ueoeaaary to
retain the uee of pikamen ia the infantry
an account of the dafeaaaleas position
of the firelockmen when the enamy ap
proached to cluee quartern To remedy
thia defect they were accustomed about
the middle of the century to stick the
handles of their daggers in ths
muzzles of their guns in order
to use them as pikes. Os course,
when the dagger wae so fixed the gun
aould not be fired. But as many of the
daggers had rings at the guard, the mon
saw the ex]X‘diency of fastening ths dag
ger to the munis of the pieoo by means
of ths ring. Boon the dagger or plug
bayonet was so secured to tho outride of
the barrel that tho firelock oould bo
loaded and discharged although tho bay
onets were fixed. The British had their
first experience of what may be called
the compound pike and gun in the time
of William ILL, in the Flanders cam
paigns, and they " swore terribly,” no
doubt, when they found their opponents
oould fire at them with fixed bayonets.
Rivers' collection shows all tho transition
stages of ths bayonet from the plug
handle to tho modern tnbo-and
catch attachment. This is only
a sample brick, so to speak, of
the civil and warlike groping* of man
from precedent to precedent to Lis pres
ent condition. We have a fine oppor
tunity es doing something of the same
kind on thio continent, and tho marvel
is why oorao men of wealth do not em
brace it, and so secure the perpetuity of
their own name tlirongh the advance
ment of an important department of
scianoe. ”
TOKTVKK OK HORAKS.
Among the every-day torments to
which the horse is subjected we will enu
merate the following: 1. Abraded
breast. 2. Inflamed back from defec
tive saddle or . haruees pad. g. Boro
mouth from too tight gag rein, a revive
bit, or both. 4. A sore tail from too
tight or illy-made crupper. 5, An obra
mon under the liody, caused by a too
tight or badly-fitted belly bund. 6. Ir
ritation of tho eyes from blinders being
strapped too close together, or,
on tho i ilbar hand, iieing allowed
to swing around, first striking
one eyo and then tlio other.
7. Ears chafed by tho brow liand being
placed too high, or by metallic rosettes
with a sharp outer rim, the base of tho
ear presHing across thia at every motion.
8. The excessive fatigue of all tho struc-
ture of tho ntx k under the influence of
tho tearing rein. The bearing rein, if
made tout and kept so for any consider
able length of fiiae, is w souroe of dis
comfort to all horses, and an insuffer
able torment to many. A taut rein can
lie used with entire propriety on horsee
of fine, easy, up carnage, especially
while in motion, but, if themnscles and
temy structure of the neck extend for
ward horizontally from an upright
•Lonlder rather than strung out from a
slanting shoulder, then the most intense
suffering will be inflicted by straining
the neck up to aa-ofigto « ntiro>y unnatu
ral to the animal, eepecialiy if this
•train be long kept np. To strain a cul
prit up by tho thumbs till only his toes
touch the ground is certainly one of the
severest admismbie punishments that
can be inflicted upon mortal, and the
check rein is undoubtedly akin to it in
its extreme application. New Yorh
Hrrald. '
JWUH IM -OLD** r/ar.”
1 * In the filea kncrn
meat al impend waa more Tita*... 1 than
h m now, th* paaae «f proeii ■ « ’*“
't<Fwkua by MtWhi In 1278
« “beat Umb" wae to ba weld for aix-
I>euoo from Chrialmaa to Lent, and for
fonn*n<* at other tfmaa. AMa waa to
I* Ixinght for threepence half-penny,
and a pullet for a penny three fartliinga.
Tn 1802 the vain* of a hull waa eeven
ahiUinga and aixpenoa, and that of a fat
aheep one ehilling. Twelve yean after
ward wo find a gxaak adutmx. *nd an
edict waa iaau*d tn regulate the naing
pncee. A ‘beit gfta» fed ax" waa
fixed at six teen ahil toga; a “fgnin-fod”
one at twenty four. A aheep roe* tn one
ahilling and fourpenoe , but a hen waa
cheaper, being only three half penw,
•nd egga were twenty for a penny. In
1572 th* hen waa ainopen< *, and a j>enny
would only procure five egga.
Old truth* art? aiwaye new to ua if
they come with the ameU of heaven up-
I on them. —JbAn Bunyan.
ia-sree pee *■••■
!■ amvTscb.
NUMBER 12
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But nevertheless Troy was to rsmata
impregnable so long as it retained th*
Palladium, which, as wo hare botae
said, had been given by Zeus to ths
founder of the dty, Due. Ulyoaee, how
ever, having diaguised his person with
miserable clothes and oslf-inflioted
wounds, introduced himself into the
city and found means to carry away the
Palladium by stealth. Ho was reoog
uized only by Helen, who oonoertod
with him means for the capture of tho
town- A final stratagem was resorted
to. At the suggestion of Athene, Epelu*
and Ptmopeua constructed a hollow
wooden horse, capacious enough to eon
tain 100 men. In this horse the most
eminent ol the Greek heroes conoestert
themselves, while the whole Greek army,
having burned their teuta and pretended
to give up the siege, sailed away with
their ships, which they anchored behind
Tcnedos. Overjoyed to see theaaeelres
finally relieved, the Trojans issued tatm
tho city and wondered at tho •tupemfoua
horse, on which was written, that
it was dedicated to Athena by tho iiyrt
ing Greeks. They were not long at a
loos what to do with it; and the anxious
heroes from within heard their oontoha
tious, as well as the voice of EMan,
when she pronounced the name of each
hero, counterfeiting the accent of his
wife's voice. Home desired to bring it
into the city and dedicate ft to the gods;
others advised distrust at the enemy's
legacy. Laoooon, the priest of Pose
idon, came with his two sons, and, in
his indignation, thrust hia spear sgauist
the horse. The sound revealed that the
Lorre whh hollow, but st the sama mo
ment Laocoon and one of hia sous per
ished miserably, two monstrous serpents
lisnug Ixwi rent by Here out of the ses
to destroy them. The Trojans, terriflwl
by this spectacle, and persuaded by the
jHirflilious counsels of the traitor Bimon
—who luul been expressly left behind by
the Greeks to give them false Infor
niHtion —were induced to drag the fatal
fabric into their city ; and, as the gate
wuh not large enough to admit it, they
even made a breach in their own wall.
Thus the horse was introduced into the
Acroplis, and placed in the Agora before
Pnom's palace. But even now opinions
were divided ; many demanding that the
horse should tx> cut in pieces, others ad
vising that it should be dragged to the
lughMt point of tho Acropolis and
thrown thence on the rocks below. The
strongest party, however, insisted on ita
being dedicated to tho gods us a token
of gratitude for their deliverance
After sunset the Greek fleet return*!
to the shore of tho plain of Troy and
•waited the preconcerted signal. While
the Trojans uululgod in notous fastivi
ties Bimou kindled the tire-signal and as
xistol tlie concealed heroes to open the
HOi-ret door in the horse'* belly, out of
which they descended. The city was
now aesailed from within and without,
and was completely nackeil and de
stroyed, nearly the whole population
lining slain. Priam, who had vainly
nought shelter at the altar of Zens Her
ketea, wss kilted by Nooptolemns. His
son, Delpbobus, who, after the death of
his brother Paris, had become the hus
iiaml of Helen, was attacked l>y Ulysses
ami Menelaus. He defended hie house
desperately, but wss finally ovsroome
ami alain. Thus Menelaus st length
won buck tea wife.—Dr. Schliemann't
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nVTTKK AKD OLKOMAK9AKTKK.
7 here is a movement on foot to dis
criminate between the butter and the
oleomargarine which the United States
Hhi[>* to Europe. There was a time
when butter was plentiful everywhere,
’for the agricultural and working classes
never thought of using any except on
fi'rtive days. The English peasant still
rots bread and dripping, or bread and
lard, when he can gel it. But the
dwellers in the towns, down to tho very
poorest, insist upon having bread and
butter, and the street children begin to
conrirter this a staple article of food.
Tho yearly consumptwn of butter in
London has been estimated at ten
jxiunds per head of the populatam, or
40,000,000 pounds per year, without in
cluding earns 8,000 toes neceeserv tor
victualing ships leaving port. Keeping
in view that the price of all ether pro
visions has bean steadily anhaneed, and
that meat has doubled in price within
the last twenty-five years, white butter
hsa made hut a elicit advance, it be
comes evident that acme substitata has
taken the ptecc <rf real butter.— Eaghth
paper.
Whkn you say that a girl'* hair is
black as a coal, it is just as well to
speexly that you do not atean a red-hot
coal.
