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Sharp County record., 1879-03-20

is new and important invention just
patented in England. 1t can be rolled
up and slowed away in small space.
Combs of real tortoise-shell are
massive in designs, and show balls and
bars instead of the foliage patterns which
were once in vogue.
"A new street railway track has been
successfully tried in England. The rail
is a fiat plate regularly pierced with
holes which fit protuberances on the
wheels.
The statements of the several ex-
press companies show thattheir business
for 1878 was some 20 per cent. heavier
than in any of the three years preceding
"A Nuremburg chemist is said to
have discovered the secret of black
Venetian gloss manufacture. Sand,
sulphur, and 10 per cent. of manganese
are employed.
The Indianapolis, Cincinnati and
Lafayette management is using barbed
wire extensively for fencing purposes.
1t is put up at an expense OF only oO
cents per rod.
The principal clay-pipe manufacto--
ries of the world are at Dorsetshire and
Devonshire, England, where pure clay
is found in abundance. Several mil
lion dollars worth of clay-pipes are an
nually made in England.
The Ice- Trade Journal says the cost
of harvesting this winters ice crop in
the United States will be larger than
ever before. Four millions dollars, it
is estimated, will be paid for cutting,
hauling and storing, and at least six
times that amount for marketing in
spring and summer.
The General Ice Factory Company,
having an agency in New York, con-
templates a novel experiment-that OF
heating room by means of open fires,to
a temperature of between 50 deg. and
100 deg. Fahrenheit, and while the fires
are burning reduce the temperature by
their machine to freezing point.
"A little cotton mill has been started
at Westminster, S. c., the machinery
costing only about $4,000 run by eight
hands. The capital was made up by a
company of farmers and one mill own
er (who furnished the water power)
who manufacture their own cotton from
the seed, and turn out about S25 worth
of yarns per day at present low prices.
They have a home market for their farm
products, and greatly increase the value
of their cotton.
Sharp County record., 1879-03-20
Bats and Their Ways.

Bats live their active lives in the
night; when sunlight comes they fly
away to their holes, there to sleep until
twilight comes again, when they resume
their occupation of insect killing. The
female bat has hard time of it; she is
the nest and has to procure the food for
her young until they are themselves able
to fly. Often have / seen female bat
with her young clinging to her breast,
flying about in search of food, and the
little ones were not so small either.
How else could they get along? The
oldlones make no nest; if they wanted
to ever so much they could not, and the
chances are that from their wandering
habits they spend the day in one place
and the next in another two or three
miles distant, just as they happen to be
when day overtakes them, and if they
left their young behind them the exact
locality might be forgotten: When the
young ones are able to shift for them
selves their mothers life is easier, and
until winter cones to kill their insect
food she lives luxuriously. Then, when
all nature is preparing to put on the
livery of winter, bats, instead OF leaV-,
ing the scenes where they have passed
the summer, repair to their haunts in
the caves and walls, and hanging by
their hind feet in little groups of five or
six together, pass the dreary season IN
one unbroken sleep.-London Natural
SSt.
Sharp County record., 1879-03-20
School and Church.

There are 178 schools of stenog-
raphy in the German Empire, OF which
81 are in Saxony.
-Ex-students of Vassar College who
marry, are alluded to touchingly by the
-Mtscellany, the college paper, as the
"late departed"
To maintain its 21 universities,
which have about 10000 students at
tending them, the German Empire eX-
pends annually $2,5OO,oOO.
Mr.. Potter, American Consul at
Wurtenburg, Germany, thinks that the
young men of America acquire more evil
tendencies than saving knowledge in the
Universities of Germany.
The report of the Trustees of the
University of Alabama, for the sessions
of 1861 and '7S, to the General AS
sembly shows that the institution is in
admirable working order and its condi-
ton to be very satisfactory.
Professor Swing, of Chicago, con-
,cludes that sensationalism " is term
which ought never to be applied to the
manner of thought belonging to the pull
pit and that it is not the duty OF the
preacher to keep every body awake. lie
recalls the fact that while even Paul
preached young man went to sleep
and fell out of the window.
Miss Josie Baker, though only 10,
has just been appointed tutor of the
Greek language at Simpson College In
dianola, Illinois. She reads and writes
Greek fuently, is equally proficient in
Latin, and is familiar with French and
German When but eight years old she
had read three books of Homer, as well
as other Greek authors, and at IA had
made complete lexicon of a tragedy OF
Sophocles.
The California Constitutional Con-
vention has so amended the educational
article as to exclude all foreign Ian
guages from the primary and grammar
schools of the State. 1t also provides
that the textbooks adopted shall con-
tinue in use for not less than four years.
1t declares the University to be a "per-
petual institution of the State;" its Of
ficers are to hold office for such time as
the Legislature may prescribe. 1t is to
be kept from all political influences.
Sharp County record., 1879-03-20
Old 81 on "Lack Of COnildence.n

After the old man had taken his or
ders for the day he stopped to say:
"Hit pears ter me dat editorel dis
mornin' on de hard times hit de male
mo- squar'ly dan you's in de habit"
Chow do you make that out?"
"Well, de idee wuz dat de 'kashun
OBJ de hard times wuz de lackness OBJ
konfdence twixt man an man. OATS
jess whar l puts hit, too. Oar amt no
kond6dence nowhar!"
awe spoke generally of the public" -"
can | speaks centrally an individ-
July. Ebber sense de wah Use nott'd
dis CROWN 'spishusness twixt people.
Jess er few years back yer could lend
yer naber er dust fob flour er pound OBJ
meat, an hab some konfidence in gittin
oh hit back in de course OBJ six or seben
weeks; now, eff yer lends hit ter him he
moves away dat same night an dar yer
is lef' with muffin ter sho' fer de pervi-
shuns, 'ceptin' de konfdencew
"It is not exactly that sort of conf
dence we mean"
"Yas; l kno's dat. But whar's de
diffrunce. De higher ar only de same
kim as de lower. Jeans britches is
jeans britches jess de same, whedder
dey is made for GinrGi Grant or Ginrul
Tom Thumb. De same lackness OBJ
konfdence in bizness dat makes desc
big foxes feel hard times an keeps dem
karomin' ebery now an den agin de
po'-house ar de same ez dat which
keeps de nigger shinnyin' round ter
stay in sight OBJ er livin'!"
"That is true enough"
"Hit's jess dat way, sho'! When de
white foxes trus' one anudder dey allus
keeps er lookout ter he'd de creditor of
fun de homestid offs er de bankrup'
shop. An den foxes hez ter put bur-
gler's 'larms on dere corn-cribs, spring
guns in dere chicken-coops, trane er
bull's-eye lantern on dere wood-pile OBJ
nights an set up ter watch fer niggers!
OATS de pass dat things is got ter now!
Jess no longer dan Saturday night er
white man out dar nex' ter me run two
of his mos konfdenchil cullud nabers
outen his smoke house wild one oh desc
new-fangled pistols dat yer has ter put
in tub OBJ water ter stop hit when hit
goes ter shoOtin'!"
"Well, let us hope for better times
and an early return of confidence be-
tween man and mani"
"I'se willin', but in de meantime Use
done glib hit out dat l puts my trus' in
my ole bubble -bar'l shot gun wild nine
buckshots in each bar'l. l don't like
ter be 'spishus OBJ my naberS, but likes
ter be at de safe eend oh de gun when l
meets dem in my backyard desc dark
nights !n-Ahanta Constitution.
Sharp County record., 1879-03-20
A Touching Little Story.

A story comes from st. Petersburg
which is pretty enough to bear repeat
ing. Not long since Government
functionary died in utter destitutlon,
leaving without friends or relatives two
small children, one of whom was boy
about seven years old. Alone, money
less, foodless, with his little sister cry
ing for bread, he wrote on a piece OF
paper as a last resort the petition:
"Please, God, send me three copacks to
buy my little sister a roll" This he
carried to the nearest church to drop it
into an alms-box and start it on its way
to heaven. A passing priest seeing him
trying to put the paper in the box took
it and read it, whereupon he carried the
children to his house, fed them and
clothed them. The next Sunday he
preached sermon on charity in which
he alluded to the incident. The collec-
ton that followed amounted to nearly
81, ,OO0.-Loui8viUe COurierJ0urnaI.
Sharp County record., 1879-03-20
Foreign Notes.

1t is reported that Prince Leopold,
the eighth child and fourth son of
Queen Victoria, now in the twenty-sixth
year of his age, will enter the Church
of England.
Princess Matilda, the niece of the
King of Saxony, is one of the few mar
riageable daughters of Roman Catholic
reigning houses, and has been for some
time spoken of as the future Crown
Princess of Austria.
The marriage of the Duke of Con-
naught is definitely fixed for the 18th OF
March. A fancy ball on a magnificent
scale is to be given in the Exposition
Palace, Dublin, on the occasion of the
Dukes marriage.
-Garibaldi has written q letter to the
effect that if the present King renders
Italy prosperous, he will deserve the
gratitude of all Italians, including the
Republicans. The latter pretend that
the old man has sold out in his dotage.
1t is said that Princess Beatrice,
Queen Victoria's youngest child, will
soon visit Berlin, and it is further ru-
mored that the trip is not entirely un-
connected with matrimonial scheme
planned in her behalf by her eldest Sis
ter, the Crown Princess of Germany.
Sharp County record., 1879-03-20

The King of Spain recently met
King Louis II. of Braganza of Portugal
in Eiva, on the frontier, on the occasion
of the opening of a new railroad from
one kingdom to the other, and it is said
that their meeting, ostensibly to honor
the opening of the railroad, was really
to treat upon the marriage OF Louis's
eldest son to the Princess Maria Pla,
second sister of Alfonso.
Sharp County record., 1879-03-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

~ Personal and Literary
b Paul GervaniS, an eminent French
novelist, is dead.
Florence Marryatt's latest novel is
sHer World Against Lie"
W. wai "A volume of Hans Christian Ander-
sR yen's letters has appeared in Denmark.
1--WE -Gladstone's admirers intend 10
sad build a hospital to his memory that will
J cost $4,000.
Is 1t is said that the Goethe collection
ens,f the late Bayard Taylor, consisting OF
rich and rare volumes, some dating
wefrom 1870, will soon be sold.
lefe Gen. Jubal A. Early will write
nav" virginia's Part in the Late War;" in
IS connection with Prof. COnrad's " His
tory of Virginia for the Use of Schools
Wand Colleges"
l0h Mr.. F. Hassaurek, the well known
'esreditor of Cincinnati, who was United
nlEStates Minister to Ecuador under Presi-
oetd dent Lincoln, has written a romance
lde called "The Secret of the Andes"
md Miss Blanche Nevin, sister of Cap
Ststain Nevin of the Philadelphia Press,
ere has been commissioned by the State OF
up Philadelphia to make a statue OF Gener-
TO- al Peter Muhlenburg.
loS R. w. Glider, of Scribner's Monthly,
it is said, has broken down in health
ON from too asSiduous devotion to his work
Ibis and will sail for Europe shortly to spend
no four or five months, principally in Ven
ice.
y Ralph Waldo Emerson is thus de-
&c ;scribed: His figure is still erect and
'e firm, his face still full of vigorous ex-
preston, and he talks with accustomed
in strength, though his memory is not so
d. good as it used to be. He still holds his
3e faith in the future of humanity.
Is Of English authors named Smith
l. there have been $40 whose full names
I are known. The next longest list is OF
: Wilson's, who number $50; and the next
Williamses, of whom there have been
; 1926. The Taylors come next, and the
Whites next after them.
The Goodale children, who write for
.Scri6ner's and who lately published a
, volume entitled "Apple Blossoms,
have rival in Maggie Quinn, a girl OF
IL, in Atlanta, Ca, who rejoices in the
title of L" The Child Poet " and has just
published poetical book called "Vio-
let's"
1t is said that there is little or no
hope of another novel from the pen OF
George Eliot, at least for years to come.
Mr.. Lewes left at his death an addition
al work on "Positive Philosophy" to
the completion of which she has al
ready brgun to devote all her time and
energies.
Madame Won Stamwitz is to ap-
pear as the heroine in Joaquin Miller's
new play, "Mexico." The New York
correspondent of the Indianapolis Jour-
nal says she is "such a superbly stately
lady-nearly six feet tall, and gener-
ously developed; a large, eloquent
mouth, large, lustrous eyes, large cor
dial hand which does half of her talk
ing, and turbulence of dusky hair
crOwning a majestic Juno"
Sharp County record., 1879-03-20

Wooden Bowis In buying a new
wooden bowl, it is well to remember
that if you grease it well on the inside,
and stand it near the fire, where it will
soak in, it will save it from cracking.
Sharp County record., 1879-03-20
Science and Industry.

Steel rails are produced with one
fourth the fuel and one-third the labor
required in the production of iron.
"A flexible carbon for electric lights,
Sharp County record., 1879-03-20

"A young son of the Rev. Oscar
Lupe, of Iowa City, Iowa, was fatally
burned while playing with some
matches.
Sharp County record., 1879-03-20

Mrs. John Winke, of Detroit,
Mich, ran out to call upon a neighbor,
leaving her 5-year-old son alone at
home. The little fellow, while trying
to entertain himself, got his fathers
pipe and went to the stove to light 1t
with handful of shavings. A spark
fell on his calico waist and in an instant
he was ablaze. Agonizing screams
were heard by his mother, who ran
home and found him a mass of blis-
tered flesh, writhing and shrieking with
agony that could not be alleviated. A
physician was called, but the little SUI
ferer died in less than half an hour.
Sharp County record., 1879-03-20

Frank B. Wilkie, of the Chicago
Times, is to publish his collection OF
letters from Europe to that paper.
Sharp County record., 1879-03-20

Miss Pella NJ. Robbins, teacher IN
the Plymouth, Mass, public-schools for
% years without losing day from her
duties by sickness or bad weather, has
just resigned.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-03-20
Warning.

You are an aged woman and you
ought to know better said the court to
the prisoner.
'rTwas owing to my absent minded
ness, SIR she replied. I had a glass of
beer where I washed, and | forgot it.
/ had another glass where | stopped in,
and it slipped my mind. Then | took
another glass at home, and | was tops
heavy before / knew it. Please excuse
an old woman, who has been married
three times and buried eight children.'
'You may go this time. but don't
come here again. he said. If this
should slip your mind and you should
reappear within six months. there'd be
another slip. You'd slip into the lyce~
nm on the HILL
L knew it-yes-thanks-verY kind
good bye-hard winter, sir she re-
piled, as she wiped her mouth on her
hand and departed.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-03-20

Crescent City Sugar Refnery,l
New Orleans. Jan. d, 1873.
Mr.. Hugh W. Montgomery, Agent Messrs John
D. Moore & Co, 26l. 2G2 and 263 Broadway
New York, for Vigler's improved French Pro
cess for DisIncrusting:
Dear Sir-I have tried the disincIuStant you
are the agent for thoroughly. We have been
using it for several weeks. | din this az a per
sonal fav or TO you, for generally dislk' max
ing experiments. I can only say tlat-I AIN g ad
I have given the disircI Instant a trial for it has
turned out by far the best thing OF its kind that
| have ever used. II comes up to all 1t 81 inns
on its printed circular, and IN future | shan re
commend MeSsrs \. Thomson 4 Co., To use il
exclusively in Their boilers over and in prefer
ence 30 any other process for disllcrusting
steam boilers,
remain, very respectfully,
JAMES +. KING,
Engineer Crescent city Sugar Refinery,
We endorse the above.
A.. THOMSON 4 Co,
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-03-20
Wur nessrrt.

Song of the dry goods clerk-,SwiEg'
ing in delaine.
WHY is a young wife hike a hinge?
R.cause she is something to adore.
The mans wages who works in a dis
tiIlerv are Excelsior-still hire.
When a man has no mind OF his own
his wife generally gives him a piece OF
hers.
There's music i'll the heir says
Jones. Jones has q bran new baby at
his house.
He is the only rich mar III the world
who has learned to be content with
what he has.
Two things go eff IN a hurrw an mr.
row dismissed from a bow, and o beau
dismissed from a belle.
The difference between our sanctum
ania dairy is: One as an easy char
aud the other a cheesy air.
House>cleaning is like a man going
through a tun mel on a dark night. He
never knows when he's through.
4 young lady rebukingIy ask us;
Which is worse, to lace tight or get
tight?' We give it up-we never laced.
Who was the first girl mentioned in
the Bible? Jennie Sis. And who was
the latest man? Paunchs Plate.
4 young man asked a young lady her
age, and she replied; Six times seven
and seven times three added to my age
will exceed six times nine and four,
as double my age exceeds twenty
A quaker once hearing q person tell
how much he felt for another who was
in distress and needed assistance, dryly
asked him, Friend, hast thou felt in
thy pocket for him?
Have you any nice fresh farmers
eggs?' inquired a precise old lady, Mt a
grocery stors. No. ma'am,' replied
the practical clerk, but we have some
very good heu's eggs She took three
to try.
Why don't your father take the pa
per?' said a gentleman to a lad whom
he can ght stealing his newspaper from
the doorstep. Cause replied the
young hopeful, he sends me to take it..
A Norristown young lady who enter
ed Vassar College only a few weeks age
writes home. to a friend that she is
making wonderful progress in hei
studies, being already able to chew
gum in foar languages and slide down
the banisters.
A trace medium reports having had
vision of the future world. He didn't see
any winged angels or hear any harps
playing, but there were lots of sharp
featured young ladies working out a!gc>
braic problems on blackboards and be
concludes that his vision must have
been confined to the Massachusetts, de-
pnrtment
A citizen Of Leavenwortb, going tc
his barn to milk in the dark OF the
early morning, got into the wrong pen,
and undertook to milk a mule. He
don t remember which side of his barn
he went ont at but expects his buckle
dawn in a few DAYS
When a Hartford woman patted hel
friends seven-years>old youngster or
the head and said; L should like tc
have such Il little boy as you are; We'll
I guss you can; I don't b'lieve God.
lost the pattern of me-
Boys said Allen Casou the Other
night, talking about fast railroads.
rode on the New York Central once and
the engine had no whistle on it. It's
tbe honest Truth, the cars went so fas'
fast that it out-run sound. 'Pshaw
that; amt nothing said an ot
'%yerner' in our office this morning
L was on the A. & C. Railroad once
when they had to stop ever three mile,
to let the reflection of the head ligh'
get in front Of the engine
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-03-20

Black Alp tca "a IS, worth Is,
d" "a rs, - 40.
a" ~ IS, 40; h 50.
Black Cashmere Ia rs, worth 40.
Black cashmere "a 40, worth so.
Black cashmere "a 60, IS, IL SIS. worth twice the
money.
Black silks "a I5,& 81 90 per yard worth s., &sl ,25.
3 cases pretty poplins a. 10, former price IS.
3 cases Broche alpacas at 20 & %, worth twice
the money.
8 cases solid colors alpacas at ", worth %.
and our whole stock Of dress goods at proper
innate prices.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-03-20
Her Husbands Letter.

A middle aged woman had a letter
handed her at the general delivery in
the Post office, and sat down on the win-
dow-sill to read 1t. Her attention was
intense from the start, and she spoke
mp and said:
He calls me his little darling. That's
good!
After reading a few lines more, she
said:
And he misses my society so much.
Half, way down the page she spoke
again:
And he calls me his sunbeam-his
guardian angel!
She climbed up on the sill q little
further, turned the letter over and
unused:
And he's lost three pounds of flesh
worrying about my health: He's just a
darling--that's what he is.'
She reached the top Of the fourth
page, and exclaimed:
What! Going East, eli?
Further down she growled:
And he met that red headed widow
Kernshaw on the cars, eh? I'll see
about that! He probably didn't tell
her he was married.
She got down to the p. 81 glanced
over a few lines, and then yelled right
out:
Not coming home till next week
Trains not running! Great press of
business! I'll see whether he isn't
comingl Boy, where's the telegraph
oficep
Aud she ran across the street, and
sent her husband a dispatch which
made the operators hair stand up as he
receiyed and read it.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-03-20

We are sold agents for one of the bestsbrandS
OF Kid gloves which we sell for
ONE DOLLAR.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-03-20
Orleans Barber Shop.

Common ST., Opposite St. Charles Hotel,
s New Orleans.
Shaving. Shampooning Hair Cutting
andDyeing in the most Artistic style.
Also, the celebrated genuine Engiish
Hair Brushing Machine in sucessIul
operation in this shop.
GEORGE HUBENER, Proprietor.
Janls-ly
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-03-20

Handsomely trimmed, english mattalasia cloaks
at $500 former price $500. N
\ large stock OF beaver cloaks at 81, 100, 500, 500,
500, Il IL. go.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-03-20

Leeds Foundry,
New Orleans, Fel. 3, 1879.
MI. Hugh w. Montgomery, New Orleans, La.
Agent for Tigiers Improved French Process
for DISTINGUISHING Steam h Hers:
Dear Sir-After having used the Nigler Pro
cess for some months, AMI gwen it ! tair ani
fun trial we can state that 1t has produced. tie
most satisfactory results on oar boilers by re-
moving inrrustatiOns and cHectualiy preventing
the formations ofthe same.
We cordially recommend II to those using boil
ers. ARCHIBALD
superintendent LeCdsls Found. y.
HENRY KENYON,
Chief Foreman.
LEEDS & 70.
PIuprietols Leeds Foundry.
Discount to the tradr. send for Circular to
Hugh W. Mon;E emery; 100 common street New
orleans, Sole Agent Tor the Southwest.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-03-20
CLOAkS & SHAWLS.

Owing to the short season, we will close on
our iInmence stock of cioaks 4 shawls ut