Getting HntlsfactUn. H R if an hour before the morning train over the Canada Southern road was to leave yesterday, a pompous, fat man, with several bundles in his arms, entered the depot with a great rush and made a bee-line for a Grand Trunk train. When baited at the gate and asked what train be wanted to take he replied: "I am g°* n K to Toledo, and if you ruake me miss tlie train I'll sue you lor *!?SS this isn't tlie train for Toledo." "Why isn't it, sir; why in the old Harry isn't this train for Toledo?" loudly demanded tiie fat man. -Because the train for Toledo stands oV er on that track there." "Then why didn t you tell me so in the first ulaceP I'm a good mind to re port vou to your superiors, sir!" You'll find the superintendent up •tairs." humbly replied the gate-keeper. ••And I'll lodge complaint against you _ves. I will! Travelers have rights, and those rights must be maintained!" The fat man ruslicd half way up-stairs and the whistle of a yard engine made him halt and turn and rusli down ngain. Reselling the gates of tlie Canada South mi train. he called out: "It is your business to (rive warning at least three minutes before tlie train gate-keeper ; "it is over twenty minutes yit before train time. I'lease show your ticket." . • Show my ticket! Do you suppose a nuUi in my position means to steal a ride oo the hind trucks?" "The rule is for all passengers to siiow their tickets." " I don't believe it, and I want your name! I'll <r up to tlie superintendent •uid see it travelers have any rights in this depot. Your name, sir!" ••My name is Bumps, sir, and I'm a poor widower witli seven children to support." •• I don t care a cent if you ve got seventeen children to support. I'll bump Bumps 'till he'll never dare sass another traveler!" Tin' fat man rushed up stairs again, and was heard galloping the numerous halls ami passages :md calling for the superintendent. Tlie janitors passed him along until he came down the out side stairs on the public street. "Have a hack, sir!" yelled aliout forty drivers in chorus. •• No, sir—no, sir!" lie screamed in ro- ply. "This is all a put-up job to make me iniss the train! Where do I go into the depot ?" " Have a wagon ?" howled twenty ex pressmen in bis ears. "Never! Never! I want to (ret into ' the depot! If I miss that train I'll sue the whole city!" He was shown the public entrance, and he made a rush for a Flint and Pere Marquette train just making up. "That isn't the train for Toledo!" called sevi ral voices, and he hurried over to where Humps was standing ami ■.u. "I'll fix you for this, sir! Is>t me through this gate!" " Ticket, please." " Yes: I'll show you my ticket, and as •eon a* I reach Toledo I'll make an affi davit of this affair and send it back to he superintendent!" He passed through and entered a coach. A woman was saying that site feared her trunk had not come down on the baggage wagon, and lie dumped his parcels into a .seat and said: "I hope it hasn't! It will serve you just right to miss it! A person who hasn't got spunk enough to stand rkrht up to these railroad folks and let 'em kno>v what's what ought to lose her trunk! They tried to bluff me around ust now, and when they found they couldn't do it they couidn t he too hum hie and obliging! Go out and blast them, madam—blast their eyes till they <an't rest!"— Detroit Free Prttt. Hasting Rabbits on the Kansas Plains. Werodeup the deeply-furrowed, steep hillside to the level land of the divide. Here, calling our dogs from the wagon, we spread out, and, each of us accom panied liy his own dogs, rode forward in .me forty rods apart. The dogs trotted slowly along, heads up and tails down, while the horsemen carefully watched for rabbits. A yell from the ex-confed erate in gray, and instantly the hounds •prang forward, and with eager eyes ravd in the direction of the cry. There they saw a jack rabbit jumping nimbly along in front of the horse of the yelling man. At once adozenpnwerftil hounds were in full pursuit. The rabbit at once saw that these dogs meant business, and •topping his playful capers began to run. lit had probably been chased many times by curs, and apparently had no doubt of his ability to run away from any dog; hut tic was considerably as tonished to lind that 'this pack of grim, ■ilf nt dogs with outstretched heads were gaining on him. He redoubled his efforts. No use; the pacx of yellow, blue and white hounas drew nearer and Sever to him. His astonishment now pw pin e to the most intense terror, and he frantically endeavored to IWI ape his fat< Behind the coursing dogs fame a lino of horsemen, all the horses on the full gallop, all the riders yelling • ike demons—each encouraging his own •logs. "Hieon! Yie! yie! vie! Catch 'its. Ponto! Catch 'im!" To this ex rit<ment the cattlemen added hull-like bellowing*. The fastest dog in the pack pn the rabbit. He made his offer Jor him. Thejack turned like lightning. The empty jaws of the dog came to gether with a snap that sounded like the spring of a steel trap. In turning wt<r the rahhit this dog was struck hy another, anil both rolled over and over on the grass. They got up bewildered, to find the rabbit some fifty yards away, wd another dog ready to make a pass at b>m. It is made, and again the jack is missed; he turned na'de to fall Into the )ws of a pup. The shrill cry of the fabbit and the sound of his crunched bne* j* beard, and all is over. Some one dismounted, took the jack away from the dogs, and tied it to his saddle. y'• rested our horses and breathed our All agreed that the jack had done *•'11. He was praised as a mighty good mbbit.-Ncw fork Sun. At the principal railroad stations in hidia the native pasrengers are served wttli water by a Brahmin. from whom, wing the highest cnate. aH persons may take without dcliteracm. He goes along h' train with his bra* vessels; nsudra. 'or iow-caite man, stoops, ana in his '•Pen hands placed together end raised to tiK-level of his mouth, reoives the Pfeeious liquid. The vessel of the waltmin i not touclie<l, else he would 'l' llled. A Brahmin asks water, ana '* served witli it in the smaller vessels, Join which he drinks, there being no wniement between Brahmin and Brah un.—Kit clechlh Century. THE FAIB HEX. I'Mhlon Not... Indies in mourning edge their lace handkerchiefs with black thread lace instead of white. Fur horderings will be much worn this winter, especially on the clotli suits that necessarily have little other trim ming. Some of tlie newest clotli suits have a wide hand of fur around tlie Ixittom of the underskirt. A very narrow plait ing is nil that shows below it. A now and pretty trimming for a cos tume is made by braiding ribbons in three or four strands. Tlie pretty Per sian ribbons braided in this manner are very stylish. The now ruffs are of lace plaited full, with one half standing up around the throat and the other half billing down, exactly like tlie Queen Elizabeth ruffs. They are worn very high around the throat. The customary white so generally used on tlie wood-work of houses, is f:ving place to a paint of olive-green lue. This color tor years past has been popular in England for similar purposes, and only recently is introduced here. Side siu'hels of sealskin are among novelties in furs. They are sometimes seen when no fur garment is worn, hut appear to better advantage with seal skin ejoak and muff. These sachels also come in all the fancy furs of tlie season. Soft plaid silks are imported laid in folds to wear as fichus on plain dresses especially to enliven black toilettes They extend down each side below the belt, and arc trimmed inside and across tlie ends witli plaited white Breton lace. Tlie blue and green plaids fichus are very popular. Now gloves arc beautifully finished by a kid lace top, so called because tlie finest quality kid is skillfully cut to re semble Valenciennes lace. The decep tion is so perfect that one hardly realizes that it is not lace. Sometimes the kid lace is of a uniform color with the glove, or again we see tasteful contrasts. Tlie width is about three inches. If American Indies should adopt the English fashion of wearing jerseys, they may ss well understand that getting into tlieni is an art in itself, and getting out of them is a work of time and requires much effort. The latest freak in adorn ing them is to embroider a txirder in crewel around the lower edge, collar and cuffs, and to work tlie monogram of the wearer on the front of the garment. Petticoats that are worn beneath short street costumes arc of heavy cashmere or flannel, in bright colors such as scar let, cardinal red, wine and deep garnet. They are trimmed with plaitings of ruf fles, and many are trimmed up tlie back as far as tlie belt, forming a hustle, but making them very heavy; others have small hustles made of whalebone fas tened to the skirts. Hoop skirts are again revived hut arc worn at present by few. The general supposition that "dog skin" gloves arc really made of the hides of dogs is untrue. It is only the name of a species of kid which is ob tained in perfection from Cape Town sheep in Africa—a variety noted for its tail, which is composed largely of fat and much esteemed by epic ures. The cheaper kinds of "dog-skin " gloves are made of the hides of various animals, and it is doubtful if ever the pelt of a dog was thus utilized. Young girls in their teens, and also very small children, wear tlie grave colors used for their mothers, enlivened by the gayest India brocades of fine wool, or else pompadour-figured goods in mixed silk or satin and velvet. A long over-dress, hunched up on the sides and behind, with a plain skirt, is the popular design for their nicest dresses, while the short basque or the frock-coat is used with long, round overakirts of plainer suits. Gloves of nearly all colors are worn, ruby, garnet, pfum, slate, old gold, bronze, olive, and in fact all colors that are found in dress good* now in vogue. BlAck kid gloves are fashionable with bright colored suits; pure white are not worn ah much as formerly; cream white and lilac tints are preferred. Light gloves are considered quite as economical as dark ones, as they are cheaply and easily cleaned. Many ladies clean their own white gloves with com mon non-explosive oil. For mourning undressed kid are preferred, and for or dinary use the English lisle thread is worn; they cost (rom forty-five to seventy-five rents, are strong and dura ble. Street gloves are fastened with three or four nut tons, the six or eight button gloves are reserved for ni <re dressy occasions. Woman's Hair. Francis Parkman has an artieieon the woman question in the Forth American Review. It will be seen from the following extract that he is not in favor of women in politics: There are some means of judging from experience whether they arc likely to exert in public life the ben eficent powers ascribed to them. Many eountriii In Raropc have been governed by queens, and this at a time when to wear a crown meant to hold a dominant power. Aocordirg to theory, these fe male reigns ought to have shown more virtuous and benign government than is generally shown under the rule of men. The facts do not answer to the expecta tion. Isabella .of Castile was full of amiable qualities, but she permitted her self to lie made the instrument of dia bolical religious persecution. Catharine 11. of 'Russia was one of the ablest women who ever held a sceptre, and one of the most profligate. Maria Theresa of Austria wa in many respects far above the common level; but she was a sharer in what has been called one of the greatest political crimes—the parti tion of Poland. That outrage was the work of three accomplices—two women ami a man—the Empress of Russia, the Archduchess of Austria and the King of Prussia. The reign of Henry IV, of France was one or the most beneficent in history. His first queen was a pro fligate, and bis second a virago, giavely tttspected of having procured his assass ination in collusion with her lover. The la*t wife of Iuis IV. was discreet and devout; but she favored the dragon nades, and called her brother to share the spoil* of those atrocious persecutions. A throng of matchless statesmen, sol diers. phtlcropherß and poets made the reign of Elisabeth of Fmgland brilliant and great. It was adorned by the high and courageous spirit of the queen, and was sullied by her meanness, jealousy and vanity. Mary of Flngland lives in the memory of her bloody persecutions. Mary of Scotland was the thorn of her kingdom. Her fascinations have out lived three centuries, and so have her tumults of unbridled love nnd the dark suspicion of crime that resU upon her. The mother of Charles IX. of France fomented, if shedid not cause, the fright ful massacre of Bt. Bartholomew, and surrounded herself with a bevy of beau ty 1 and tmscrupulous girls whose charms she used systematically as a means of political influence. There have been many bad kings, many indifferent ones, and few who earned the gratitude of all time. Many women have worn (Towns, but we look among them in vain for one of those royal benefactors to the raco. Not tiiat women iiave less power for good than men. In some circumstances they have more. Their desire for good is often intense; but this desire has not been best fulfilled in the field of poli ties. Teaching Children to Cook. It is generally supposed that small children, from their volatile tempera ments and forgetfulness, can not he tauriit or trusted with cookery. Mjss Corson lias proved quite the contrary. Isist year she had a class of children from the New York Home for Soldiers' families; this year ten of them do the entire cooking for the inmates, at least 150, in that institution. In all the classes of the New York cooking school no pupils are more industrious, helpful, and intelligent than the little children from tlie mission schools and charitable institutions. In point of fact, the children's classes are the most charming and useful and important, for thewiiolcsoine effect they will have on the strata of society they represent. The artisan course of instruc tion for those little folks and elder girls comprises [the preparation and cooking of simple dishes, setting the table, bring ing in the dinner, waiting at table, re moving and washing soiled dishes, and regulating the kitchen and dining-room Iet us go and take a peep at the chil dren. A little flock, under tlie guidance of a kindly matron, is passing down to the basement; we enter with thom. How merrily they babble as they divest themselves ol hats and shawls! What a ripple and trill of childish laughter as they [strive for the first rows of seats! Listen; a sudden hush, a settling down in seats, and a smoothing of aprons, as appears, and, ooffing bon net and cloak, takes her position behind tlie table, with a cheery "Good after noon, children." The lesson of the day, says the black board, is " Fried Fillets of Flounder," " Maitre d'Hotel Butter," "Grilled Fish Bones." and "Caramel Custards." Two or three girls are usually chosen —different ones at each lesson —to assist in making the dishes; so when the ma terial was laid on tin- table, and the les son announced, Miss Corson said," W hat little girl is anxious to help me cut the til lets?—some one with strong hands." A dozen hands were held up at once. Selecting one of the eldest girls, who came around and stood by her side. Miss Corson, taking up a sharp, tliin-hladed knife, deftly cut off the whole side piece or filietof the fish entire, and then hand ing the knife to the watchful girl at her side, gave minute directions from time to time, which were followed so accu rately that the remaining three fillets were soon lying, skin side down, on the counter. Miss Corson, then taking the knile, showed the class how to cut the fillets clean from the skin. Meanwhile another little girl is called for tomake the breading. With Hushed cheeks and an air o importance, a wee little thing steps ufp, seizes the roller, and vigorously roll* the bread crumb to powder, beat* an egg up with a spoons ful of water, and retires. The elder girl, wiio by this time has prepared the re maining fillets, breads lliem, dips tiiem in the egg, and in the bread again,nnd lays them on a disii, in readiness to be fried a delicate brown in smoking-hot lard. " Now, children, yoti observe that wo have a nice bone left; shall wo throw it away, or use it? I think it would he nice (trilled. We will take some mux* tard, salt, pepper, salad-oil. and vinegar —make a paste of them, and spri-ad it over the bone. Then let us boil it on an oiled gridiron, and afterward serve it with sprigs of pareley or slices of lemon. Now. besides the fillets from the fuh, we have this, making two delicious dishes where people commonly make but one." The children lookiil verv wise, a little hungry for the '-oniing feast, and ex ceedingly interested. An unusual flut ter took plai-e, however, when two little girls were railed for to make "Union custards," and one to make " Maitre d'Hotcl Butter." All the hands went up at once at the mere mention of custards. The fortunate girls who were chosen marched around behind the counter, and the resigned remainder subsided into placid attention. One of the little maids heat the eggs lustily, while the other, sweetening and flavoring a quart of milk according to direction, set it on the tire to boil, stir ring it carefully; then a sieve was held over the beaten eggs, the milk with its lemon rind and sugar strained therein, then poured into cups, which were placed in a baking-nan with hot water surrounding them. The little girl then cautiously slid the pan into the oven, her face aglow with pride in the safe per formance of her task. Meanwhile the third little damsel hail chopped her parsley, mixed It with an ounce of but ter, a teaspoonful of lemon juice, and a little salt and pepper, after which she retired to her seat, and another small child came forward to drop the fillets in the snicking lard. All the class waited for the lemon custards, casting troubled glances at the clock. As they were slowly drawn forth from the oven and placed upon the table, the lesson concluded, the children crowded around to taste and receive their shares of ti c finished icsults of the lesson. Little tin pails popped uo mysteriously to receive the well-earned dainties. Hats and shnwls were hastily donned, the little ones hurried out of doors, and pausing on the pavement, cooed and fluttered with satisfaction over the contents of their little palls like so many doves in a dovecote pecking corn.— F. K. FryaU, in Harper's Ma<mzine. Killing s Thousand Rats. The Vallejo (Cat.) Chronicle says: A day or two since a grand rat-kililng carnival came off at one of the slaugh ter-houses on the Napa road between two men. two dogi and a regiment of long-tailed " varmints," in wnich the former came off victorious, and suc ceeded in slaying, by actual count, 1.000 rate in two hours. The ratt were under the floor of a log con a), and the men got at them by lifting one board at a time and hitting what they could with clubs, while the dog* killed the rest. After the battle was over the rats were thrown out in a pile in the road, which made one of the most novel sights ever seen by the passers. They wero finally buried in a grave prepared for their re oeption. Home Marriage Customs. 1" *rly New. among J ewe, Pagans and pqristlans, the practice of crowning the bride and bridegroom with chapleta of flowers was almost universal. Among the Anglo-Saxons a chaplet of myrtle was kept in the church for this purpose. The origin ol the veil is lost in obscurity Mr. Jeaffreson thinks that it may he ascribed to the Hebrew ceremony, or to the east, whert veils have been worn from time immemorial; or to the yellow veil which was worn by the Roman brides. It has not always been looked upon its an indispensable adjunct to the bride in this country. It may surprise my gentle readers to learn that knives and daggers were part of the customary accoutrcnukits of a bride, and were com monly worn by ladies. The wedding knives differed only from others in being more highly ornamented. Shakespeare, in an old <juarto, 15i>7, makes Juliet wear a knife at the friar's cell. The wooden girdle, or cincture, worn by Roman brides, was a most essential part of their custom, and thcoeculiar form in which this girdle w:is tied originated the true lovers' knot. But wedding cakes, as we understand the term, are comparatively modern. The origin of our bride-cake in its pre sent form may be traced back to about the middle of the seventeenth century. These cakes or buns, superseded the hard, dry biscuits of an earlier date?. They were made of suite, currants, ni/lk sugar and eggs; ana provided in large quantities, not only by the bridegroom but by most of the guests,\t an Eliza bethan wedding. Bome were thrown over the bride's head, others put through herring and eaten for luck,or preserved to inspire pleasant and prophetic dreams. In Sweden a bride lias her pockets filled with bread. It is supposed that every piece she gives to the poor on the way to chuieh averts some misfortune. In Norway the bride herself hands around strong drinks,'that all the company may drink long life to her; the wedding feast lasts some days, and the guests have no wish to let their moderation be known. In Liburnia it is the custom for the bride to retire from the table before the end of dinner, and to throw over the bridegroom's house (!) a hai d cake made of coarse flour; the higher she throws it the happier she will be. In Circassia there are always set upon a carpet in one of the roortis in the bridegroom's house a vessel of wine and a plate of dough; and the first tiling the bride does on en tering is to kick over the wine, and scatter the dough with her hands about the room- In some parts of Russia the bride and bridegroom during the ban quet, which always takes place on the evening of the wedding day, arc separa ted by a curtain. The parents of the couple exchange rings, and a basket ol •heesc and small loaves arc blessed by (lie priest. In the time of "Good Queen Bess," weddings of the aristocracy and great people were distinguished by banquets, pageants, etc. Most of these forms of celebration have now fallen into disuse. But there are some characteristics and features of weddings that have been preserved, with certain variations, for many generations. From time imme morial the practice of presenting the bride with marriage gifts seems to have prevailed. During tlie last century it wss usual to celebrate a marriage with sports and o|>en house, to which all tho inhabitants of the district were bidden. Cumberland was famous for these fetes, France. The custom of throw- In* the slipper is both "ancient and honorable.' Tlie slipper was a symbol of authority in the Flnst, and in token of submission to her husband the bride re ceived a rap on the head, administered with her nusband's shoe. In Jewish times the delivering of a stone was a sign of formal renunciation of authority ovtT a woman. Formerly a peculiar form of shoe-uiarriage was celebrated at llaworth, in Yorkshire, the place in which the gi-ntle "Currer Bell" lives! and died. In throwing this symbol of good luck the left shoe should always be taken The Romans were very supersti tious as to the days and seasons when marriages should be celebrated. The Kalends, Nones nnd Ides of every month were strictly avoided. The most fortun ate time in the whole year for marrying was that which followed the Ides of June. The sum and substance of all the popular belief that govern tlie choos ing of tlie " appointed hour " in the pres ent age is nriefly contained in two rules: " Who marries between the sickle and the sythe will never thrive" is one. The other the hackneyed lines: Monday for wealth, Tuesday lor health, Wednesday for the best day ol all; Thursday lor crosses, Friday lor losses, Saturday no luck nt all. Scan the marriage notice columns o the newspapers, and see how closely people follow the curt advice of the stansa. The origin of the term " honeymoon " is an open question. Hut good authori ties sav that it is said to have been de rived from the Teutonic custom of drink ing a concoction of honev for thirty days, or a moon's age, after a wedding feast. Attila, the Ilun, is said to have cele brated his nuptials in such a glorious manner in the beverage hydromel that lie drank himself to neath on the wed ding day.— MarrharWt " Betrothal* and Bridal*. llow Many People Have Fifty Dollars Some one said the other day that in the entire world the number of people who had SSO, or its equivalent in cash, at their command wns extremely small —so small, indeed, that altogether they would not outnumber the inhabitants of the little kingdom of Belgium, which has a population of 6.000.000 souls. But this estimate appears to be far below the mark in the light of the fact that in the savings hanks of France in 1N77 there were deposited no less than $153,800,- 000 by 2.503.2H3 depositors, the average sum of each depositor being S6O. The number of these depositors continually increases, and they are, to a very large extent, members of the working classes. 8o in England, also, the number of de positors in the postal savings bank is very large—not less, on the whole, than two millions—and their deposits, on an average, amount nearer to $250, the limit allowed than to SSO. In Scotland and Ireland the savings of the people are large and constantly increasing. In Germnny the people do not generally place their savings in banks, hut they have comfortable little sums laid away In teapots and old stockings. This, also, is the case in France. In this country the number of peaple who have SSO at their command must amount to quite as many as in either France. Ger many or Great Britain. The world o working people is not nearly so poor a many imagine it to be.— New York Graphic. Industries of Atlanta. It was in 1866 that the citizens and merchants came back to their desolate homes at Atlanta, Gn. Only one build ing, of all the commercial part of the town, had survived the flames. Busi ness had to be built up from the very foundation again, and the energy witfi which this task was attempted shows the strong faith Atlanta men feel in their lively town. One of the first to return was the present president of the board of trade. He secured a cellar under the sole remaining building (on Alabama street,) paying $l5O a month for its use, and began the produce and groceries trade, increasing his income by renting ground privileges of a few feet square off his sidewalk of S2O a month each. Soon the owner of a cor ner on Whitehall street built a brick building containing two store-rooms. As soon as these were ready, our mer chant and another moved in. paying $3,000 a year rent each, and giving half of it in advance, in order to aid the proprietor to go on with his construc tion. (The accommodations for which that SO,OOO a year was paid now rent for $1,500) Thus by mutual help and j enterprise, together with a vast amount ' of personal labor, the ruins were re- I placed by substantial business edifices, 1 new hotels of magnificent proportions were erected, churches more lofty in ga ile and spire arose upon the sites of those destroyed, ami the vacant streets were refilled witli people. Atlanta be came at once the distributing point for western products, and now finds trib utary to her a wide range of country- I She bandies a large portion of all the grain of Tennessee and Kentucky, be sides much from the Upper Missssippi valley Much of the flour of the north western mills comes into her ware houses, and thence finds its way south ward and eastward. The same is true of the canned meats of Chicago, St. | Louis and Cincinnati packing houses; j this is a very important item of her wholesale business. The provision men ! naturally were the first to obtain foot- j hold intlie new town. After them e&me the dry-goods people. Most of them ! began in a very modest way —brought \ their goods tied up in a blanket almost j —yet now the jobbing trade in dry- . goods alone amounts to some millions of dollars annually. No tobacco can be grown in the vicinity of Atlanta, hence she is without tobacco factories; but she .used to handle an enormous auantity of it, and there are half a dozen firms who deal wholly in it now, It was found that Atlanta'sdry, equable climate, consequent upon her great al titude, made this point the safest place to keep stores of the grateful plant; it would not mould, as it is liable to do in I a damp atmosphere. A few years ago, I the revenue regulations were not as ef fective as at present. The practice of | stencil-plating package of tobacco af- i forded easy means of evading the pay- j in en t of fluty, and great warehouses here were stored witli "blockade" to bacco, from which Uncle Sam had de rived very little, if any, pocket-money. Enormous profits accrued, but the in troduction of the stamp system put a stop to this, though Atlanta was left a very large legitimate business in stor ing and selling tobacco at wholesale. Another source of prosperity to the | city is cotton. The "cotton belt" of j Georgia is a striD of country between j here and Augusta. Years ago the land j iiecame exhausted, and the cultivation i of cotton came to be of small account. Then followed the dlscovenr of the guano islands of I'eru. and the subse quent invention of nrtifieial fertilizers having similar qualities to the natural manure. These superphosphates are manufactured mainly in Boston, and cost the farmer about forty dollars a ton. It was proved that by their use the worn out cotton-belt oeu Id be made to produce as hountifnl crops in a series of five years as the Mississippi bottoms did; and, moreover, that cotton could be raised as far north as the foot of the Tennessee mountains. Atlanta, there fore, lias come to be not only a great depot of supply for this guano, furnish* ing its vieinsge a hundred thousand tons a year,but also the entrepot of all the cot ton produced within a circle of nearly twojiundred miles.fThis cotton is bought mainly for foreign export, and is shipped under through hills of lading to foreign ports, thus dodging the factors at New York, .Savannah, and othpr coast cities. The business is not done on commission, but by buying and selling on a margin of profit. There are other extensive business in terests. Iron is mined near by, and ex tensive founderies and rolling mills manufacture it. Great crops of corn and grain are raised throughout the cen tral part of the State, winch find their way into Atlanta distilleries, while her wine merrhants are many and rich. Site ran make the best ot brick, and has a whole mountain of solid granite close bv. with other building material acces sible and cheap. She sighs for only one more commercial advantage, namely, a railway to the coal regions of Alabama. Now her coal is largely supplied from ex-Governor Brown's mines in the ex treme northwestern corner of the State. —Harptr's Mnoaxinc. Words or Wisdom. Too swift arrives as tmdy as too slow. Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The whole value of manner lies in its sincerity. That glory is short which is given and received from men. Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child, or children. Justice is like a glass, which cannot be bent, but is easily broken. The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse. It is the mother who molds tfie char acter and fixes the destiny of the child. He who lias a true friend lias great riches; he who lias a false friend is hope essly in debt. A failure establishes only this, that our determination tc succeed was not strong enough. letters from friends are sunbeams on life's horizon that cheer our way and lighten labor. No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with only a single thread. As the error of a moment makes the sorrow of a life, so one good deed done is the joy of a life. There is liappine*s enough in the world for all of us. The chief difficulty is in getting our share of it. The first time a man deceives you the fault is Ids; II he deceives you the second time the fault is your own. Modern education too often covers the flngeis with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrists. FARM, HARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD •<IKUM Pultrr. I send the following which I hare ob served for some years in purchasing poultry,and which may be of use to some of your readers who may not be familiar with the age of poultry: Few housekeepers, and fewer oooka, are as good judges of the age of poultry as they ought to be. We all know when poultry comes upon the table, whether it is tender or tough; and there should be no difficulty in knowing just as cer tainly whether a chicken, duck, goose or turkey is old or young, when it is offered for sale. Now the following is offered as a rule,by which poultry can be safely judged, which if read over for a few times and then laid away for ready reference when needed, no person need purchase old, tough poultry unless from choice. If a lien's spur is hard, and the scales on the legs rough, she is old, whether you see her head or not, but the head will corroborate your observation. If the under bill is so stiff that you cannot bend it down, and the comb thick and rougli leave her, no matter how fat and plump, for some one less particular. A young hen has only the rudiments of spurs; thescalesonthe legs are smooth, glossy and fresh-colored, whatever the color may be; the claws tender and short, the nails sharp, the under bill soft, and the comb thin and smooth. The old hen turkey has rough scales on the legs, callosities on the soles of the feet and long, strong claws; a young one is the reverse of all these marks. When the feathers are on and the old turkey-cock lias a long tuft or beard, a young one has but a sproutless one; and when they are off the smooth scales on the legs decide the point, besides the difference in siz.e of the wattles of the neck and the elastic shoot upon the nose. An old goose when alive is known by the rough legs, the strength of the wings, particularly at the pinions, the thick ness and strength of the bill, and the fineness of the feathers; and when plucked, by the legs, the tenderness Oj the skin under the wings, by the pinions and the bill and the coarsenees of the skin. Ducks are distinguished by the same means, but there is this difference—that a duckling's bill is much longer in pr? portion to the breadth of its head than the old duck. A young pigeon is dis tinguished by its pale colors, smooth wales, tender, collapsed feet, and the yellow long down interspersed among its feathers. A pigeon that can fly has always red-colored legs and no down, and is then too old for use.—Oerman tonm Telegraph. I'tedlat Pin. A Yorksnire iarmer in England says of different food for pigs: "After trying nearly all the different kinds of cereals, and weighing my pigs once in fourteen days, I have come to the conclusion that if you want to gain weight fast, give ple?Ry of barley-meal and milk. Corn meal may be substituted for the barley." " Indian corn," says Dr. Voelcker, an eminent authority, "is richer in fat forming matters than almost any other description of food. The ready-made fat in corn amounts to from five and a half to six per cent. Rut animals should not be fed exclusively on Indian meal, because the flesh-forming matter in it is small. Bean meal for pea-meal) sup plies the deficiency. Five pounds of Indian corn-meal to one pound of pea meal is a mixture which contains the proportion of flesh-forming and fattening matters nicely balanced. If the farmer has not the pea-meal to mix with the corn he may use oat-meal as a substi tute. A very common food for hogs is boiled apples and potatoes, mixed while hot with corn meal. This is a good food, but lackj in the nitrogenous ele ment. which should be supplied either by the addition of cotton seed meal, bran, pea meal or oat meal. If cotton seed meal is used, only one part to ten of corn meal would be about tne right propor tion, while one part of the other kinds to five of corn meal might be used. Any one who has had any experience in feed ing pigs must have noticed the differ ence there is in the readiness and cheap ness with which some can be fattened as compared with others. In I.awes' and (filbert's experiments two pigs in eating one hundred pounds of corn gained three pounds, while one pig, which ate ona hundred pounds of corn during tha same time gained nineteen and one quar ter pounds. It is readily seen that it is highly important to secure the right kind of pigs if the feeding of them is to be made the most profitable possible. With a judicious selection of pigs and the right kind of feeding and general management, there is money to be made on our farms in pork-raising, notwith standing the gloomy picture of the busi ness presented to the public during the political campaign by Solon Chase.— < Lcwiston Journal Whra>|lo Apply Maaara. The common practice among farmers is to make a general clearing or the yards and ham cellars once a year, either in the spring or fall. Either practice makes a heavy draft upon the teams, and it has its disadvantage*. If this work is done in the spring, it is when the ground is wet ana other work is exceedingly press ing. If the manure is drawn out in the hill and dropped in heaps upon the field to be cultivated next season, there is more or less waste by leaching and by evaporation. There is a growing dispo sition among our intelligent farmers to apply manure directly to growing crops, or as near the time of planting and sow ing as possible. It is felt that the sooner manure is put within reach of the roots of plants the better for the crops and their owner. Manure is so much capi tal invested and bears interest only as it Is (x>nsumed in the soil. The burn cellar may be no manured u to manufacture and turn out fernliseni • very month in the year, so that the fanner may suit his convenience in ap plying them to the soil. When manure is not wanted for cultivated crops, it U always safe to apply it to the grass crop, either in pasture or upon meadows after mowing. Top dressing is growing in favor with our intelligent farmer?. Grass fiays better than almost any farm crop n the older Stab*, and the spreading of mm post saves the necessity of frequent plowing and seeding. By ton dressing at any convenient season or the year fields may be kept profitably in grass for an indefinite time.— Ihrntl Sun. " Hello, Bill, when did you change jour boardini^- housef" said Charles Gal lender to William Creamer, at New Vienna, Ohio, as they met in the street Creamer had just been released from prison, and regarding the question as insulting, he drew a big knife and stab bed the offender; but Callender was quick enough with a revolver to av his own life and kill Creamer.
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