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 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 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 touclie7, 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 •|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.