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The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1880-08-27
EDUCATION.

No ight-thinlzing person can under
value education, or deny his children
the benefits derived from it; but some
men have perverted ideas on the subject.
They seem to think that because they
have prospered in life without an educa-
ton, or at best limited one, their chill
dren do not deserve any more con-
sideration or any better education than
they received, and hence are indifferent
about the education of their children,
not caring whether they are kept IN
school or not. They forget that their
children are living in much better
educated world than they lived in when
they we're children. They forget that
brains command higher price upon
the stage Of human action than muscle,
and that he who can command q reason
able amount Of both stands the best
chance to make life success. We have
one of the finest school systems IN the
world, and children should profit by it,
and attend school regularly. But il
they are to be educated successfully,
really educated, the physical must re-
ceive due attention, the amount OF al
least three hours each day Of gentle ex
ercise, walking being favorable. Hare
students cannot sleep too much, while
the brain needs special nourishment, a.
certainly as the blacksmith needs nour
ishment for the muscles and bones
Even the students food should b.
adapted to mental labors. Fish con
tains the largest amount Of brain food
while eggs and the grains, including
peas, beans and the like, are favorable
Fruits, as a part Of the meals, are ais
favorable, not on account Of their brain
food, but as an aid to digestion Will
attending school, young people shoul
not be taxed too heavily with HON
duties. -
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1ILL-PoWER.

Illness is sometimes brought on by
imagination and weakness. Courage is
wonderful agent in throwing off dis
ease. A walk of five miles would cure
many an occupant Of the lounge. Will
power will surpass pill-power in nine
cases out of ten, if not in every one. To
hold bottle Of smelling salts in the
hand on account of headache may be
Just the thing, at times, but to fling a
pound Of fruit cake out into the alley,
and then walk furlong as a reward for
not eating the compound, is nearly
always amuch better thing.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1880-08-27

A FELLOW in Chico; CAL, went up in
10 the Record Office to clean out the es-
,ablishment. About three minutes af-
serward a man was seen in the street
with couple of black eyes, bloody
nose, and completely demoralized ap-
vearance. A passer-by, attracted by his
condition, asked him what. was the mat
Ger. 81 went up to see if the editor who
wrote that piece about me was up there. "
"Well," said the other, "did you see
,im?" eyes" said the injured man,
che was in"
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1880-08-27
4 SWARM OF BEES CAPrURE 4 Oar.

Sunday afternoon, when the Chicago,
Rock Island and Pacific arrived, it came
In under cloud. A large swarm Of
bees, being attracted by the cool loca-
ton on the top of the car while near
Beaverly, In Missouri, took deck pass
age for sunny Kansas, and the fears OF
the conductor and other men on the
train of stinging rebuke prevented
any attempt to put the deadheads of.
When the car arrived here Police Officer
Mozart was apprised Of the fact that
he could take in a number of prisoners
If he would visit the car. BE went to
investigate, and, finding the bees snug
" ensconsed on their novel abiding
place, proceeded TO effect their capture
by coaxing them into an empty keg. He
succeeded, after receiving numerous
stings, in capturing the entire swarm
taking more prisoners than he will have
at one time while he Is on the force. HI
says the family is getting along well a
his home in the north part Of the city
-Leavens0orth Times.
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rVo aIANrs ANp Z pwARF.

Three OF the most remarkable men of
the century are now on exhibition in
London at the Royal Aquarium-the
giant Chang, tea merchant Of Pekin
Brustad, a tall Norwegian, and Che-mah,
described as "the Chinese dwarf, the
smallest man in the world" Chang is
the largest giant in existence, stands
eight feet two inches, and is highly edu-
Gated, speaking five different languages,
inclndiug English, which he speaks very
we'll; but with the well-known sing-song
Of the Chinaman. He is eight feet high
without his boots he measures sixty
inches round the chest, weighs twenty
six stone, has span of eight feet with
his outstretclfed arms, and signs his
uame without an effort upon a sign-post
ten feet six inches high. Chang is 33
years Of age, and it is about fifteen years
since he was in England. After five
years residence in the Celestial empire
he returned to Europe for the Paris Elk
hibition, and has since visited Vienna,
| (where the Emperor gave him a ring he
proudly exhibits, marked with the inn
perial eagles and the initials Of Francis
Joseph, Berlin, and Hamburg. Since
his last residence in this country Chan
has grown six inches. He has benevo-
lent Mongolian face, courtly manner,
and wears richly-embroidered dress
worked for him by his sister, who is, like
the rest Of his family, Of only ordinary
stature.
Next to Chang, and next at no long
interval, stands Brustad, about seven feet
nine inches high, very muscular, very
broad backed, having as great girth o
chest as Chang, aud a wider span il
proportion to his height. He has Low
forehead, but speaks English fairly well
Brustad has also ring which he great,
delights in exhibiting. He presented j
to himself out Of the profits, it is sup
posed. gained by being shown. 1t j
lOllI anu OllS-lldl1 Ou4lCSS LII WI4s3nV5 teil'
penny goes easily through it. 7
grasp his mighty hand in greeting
like shaking hands with an oak tree
His weight is twenty-eight stone, create
than Chang's, for his bones are NOR
massive. His age is 80.
Che-mah, the dwarf, gives his age a
40, sings a Chinese elegy, describe
himself with much fuency and variety
and, as his height is only twenty-fy
inches, appears to be what he is d
scribed, the smallest man in the work
1t is common for exhibited dwarfs to |
over three feet high. Sir Geofrey HUI
; son, the dwarf whom readers Of Sir Wa
! ter Scott will best remember, measure
, three feet three inches when he had a
tanned his full stature. London Time
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OATMEAL.

Give the children oatmeal at least once
a day. It is genuine bone and muscle
tood, and they must thrive. Could our
elils make the morning and night meals
on real nourishment-not pastry--take
more to nourish the brain and nerves,
We should have less of the neuralgia
among our women. Indeed, this oat-
meal mush would afford ample food for
the last meal, which should ordinarily
oy the iightest, simple, and easy of di-
sesHon, securing good sleep, while it
may well form part of the morning
meal. Its extensive use would do much
to promote health among us.
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LONG NAP.

s..,s Godsey's Steep Of More Than dsoe'aV
Tears.
For more than twenty years the ex-
.roordinary case Of Susan s. Godsey,
Ssttar known as the "Sleeping Beauty"
has unzzled the most eminent physi-
clans Of this country and Europe. She
vas horn in Obion county, Tenn, about
IL miles from Hickman, KY. Her par
ants we're extremely poor, and lived in
small log house containing only one
room. Until s years Of age the girl was
strong and healthy, and seemed in no
wise remarkable. At that age, how
aver she was stricken with fever, but
was attended by an experienced physi-
cian who soon checked the disease.
The Girl sank into slumber which last
I'd an unusually long time, and finally
awoke weak, but weH. To the surprise
Of the family and physicians, she re-
NAMED awake but few minutes, when
she again went to sleep. From that time
forward, period Of more than twenty
one wears. she has never been awake
more tnan three minutes at time. The
lethargic state invariably lasts certain
number Of hours. She awakes at 6
o'clock in the morning and at Q o'clock
and 5 o'clock each night, never varying
one-half minute from the regular time.
She takes but very little nourishment,
and that only twice in twenty-four
hours During the time in which she
sleeps she does not appear to breathe,
and mirror held against her nostrils
remained untarnished. Her breathing,
il indeed, she breathes at all, is not suf-
fcient to stir the lightest down sus-
pended against her nostrils by q silken
thread When her remarkable condi-
ton became known, physicians hocked
from all parts of the country to see her.
None were able satisfactorily to account
for the phenomenon, although many
theories were advanced. The true cause
has never to this day been determined,
although the woman may still be alter.
nately sleeping and waking with the
regularity of clockwork. One physi-
clan, who visited her continually for six
teen years, frankly confessed that he
could form no opinion regarding the
case.
She is described as rather under me
dium size, and, with the exception tha
she is sometimes troubled while awake
with neuralgia pains in her head anC
neck, and that one arm is slightly par
alyzed, enjoys, as far as she can enjo!
anything, good health. One remarkable
feature Of the case is that, while he
hair has grown to great length, he
fnger-nails have not grown any sine
she was first stricken. Far from any
thing repugnant in her appearance, eve
while animation is suspended, she woul
be considered very pretty lady b
those unacquainted with her condition
She retains what knowledge she poi
sessed at 8 years Of age, but has nc
been awake enough since then to lear
anything more. She knows her relt
lives and friends, and converses wit
them in her conscious moments. Befoi
falling asleep, slight hiccough or chol
ing sound proceeds apparently from hF
throat. She then so quickly become
insensible that she is sometimes unabl
to finish a sentence or even q word viii
talking, Some time since commit,
Of five physicians were appointed
watch the subject, and found the ca
Just as it had been represented to be.
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To Crafty his wife's persistent de-
inand for summer in the country,
Smith hired a suburban villa, of which,
however, the garden was 80 small that
one could scarcely turn in it "But
how do you get the air in such a tiny
garden 2" one of her friends asked OF
Mrs. Smith. "Oh, ii is easy enough, /"
answered that lady. eve have only to
open the dining-room window"
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He stood with his back against the
iront door of the street-car. Every one
else had seats, and he anxiously watched
each face for symptoms of getting out
lot over three miles. 1t grew weari-
some, and he finally shifted his weight
nom one foot to the other, and ex-
claimed: 'sFor the love Of the Lord,
nl nave none o yez ony homes to go top
Then they all smiled, and the conductor
rendered him the ridge-pole of the rear
platform. n
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THE new census Of Oswegc, N. Y,
shows 90, ,622 population, against 2O,9lO
in 1870 and 20, ,42s in 1876. oswego
people are surprised, but citizens Of
Binghhmton, N. Y, are in agony be-
cause the census enumerators counted
10000 noses in that city when they ex-
pected some 10000.
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IT is wen known to persons who have
VISITED the dirty cities Of hot climates
.nat when a soaking shower is followed
Dy bright sun while no wind is stirring
great numbers of people suddenly fall
sick' and physicians are utterly unable
70 respond to all calls.
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A FAcErroUs old lady, describing the
.ambling sermons Of her minister, said
IF the text had been smallpox, HE
ermon would mover catch il. !"
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1880-08-27

GovERNoR to small boy" Benny,
shall keep you in if you don't learn
your lessons better tomorrow; I'm go
ing to turn over a new leaf with you. "
Small boy" You can't turn over new
leaf /; it's feared out"
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liz anger arise in thy breast, instantly
seal up thy lips, and let it not forth, for,
like fire, when it wants vent, it viii snp-
press itsalf
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-02-14

largest brook trout that any body ever saw.
They weighed all the way from one toitwo
pounds and half. Think of that, We dis
ciples of Isaak Walton |! Specified trout
weighing two pounds and half! They
were bred in the aquarium of Hon. A.
Mason Sanderson, at Railroad Flat, gen.
tleman who can boast of having produced
the biggest mountain trout ever grown.
We have to thank Andy for 24-pounder.
A New STEAM YACHT. Ward Stanton
& Co., Newburgh, N. Y. builders of the
Henrietta, are now at work on new yacht
for j. G. Bennett. The intention of owner
and builders is to produce the fastest steam
yacht in the world, and every other con-
sideration will be made subservient to this
object. The rig will be that known as the
''felucca three masts with single lateen
sails. No expense will be spared in max
ing all the fittings and arrangements con-
venient and comfortable.
A Coop RESOLVE Folsom Sports
mans Club has resolved to hold grand
wing shooting tournament ON the ODD in
slant There will be liberal offer of
prizes and plenty of birds. The club will
run special train from Sacramento and
will feast all visitors. This is good move,
and we hope to see large attendance.
FISH PLESTY.-H. B. Gibson tells us
that rare fishing sport is enjoyed at Bolinas
these days. There were twenty-five per-
sons ON one reef one day last week, and
loads of rock cod and sea trout were taken.
[San Rafael Herald
SLAUGHTER The Mountain ReUie,c re-
marks that hunters are Staying deer within
mile of Susanville. Saturday Jesse Cole
found herd of seven and killed all of
them. The snow is so deep on the noun
tain that they cannot run far, and are easy
nrav
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RELIGIOUS NOTES.

The Observer says of the independent
philosophy that it "misleads the minds of
the young, unsettles Christian faith, incul-
Gates contempt for the Bible, tends to
make rationalists and then infidels.
The forty missionaries of the New York
City Mission made during the month Of
December 4, $50 visits, held 395 meetings,
administered lS5 temperance pledges, dis
tributed 10000 tracts and aided 500 fami-
lies. The receipts for the month were
"a, 00l and the expenditures S3,40l.
The Rev. DR.. Jacob Ide, who recently
died at West Midway, Mass, had been in
the ministry nearly seventy years. While
settled as pastor at Portsmouth, N. H.,
Daniel Webster was one of his hearers.
He filled the Congregational pulpit at West
Midway for fifty-on years
1t is said by the Churchmdn that no less
than twenty-six ministers of other demon
nations were received into the Protestant
Episcopal Church in 1879 Eight of the
accessions were from the Congregational
Church, five from the Methodist Episcopal
Church, four from the Baptist Church and
three from the Presbyterian Church.
On the 10th of December, in a small city
in Eastern Bohemia, thirty-one persons
were fined 81 so each for attending Bible
service not connected with the State
Church. The leader OF the meeting was
fined SO So On the l4th of December
the attempt of few believers in Stupitz,
near Prague, to hold Bible service in one
of their homes was frustrated by the po-
lice. All this in Austria, whose Constitu-
ton grants religious liberty to all citizens.
The Christian Leader says Mr.. Moody
told st. Louis reporter the other day that
"there isn't ray of hope held out in
the Bible that hell will be otherwise than
endless" The great expounder has over
looked few passages of Scripture. These
for example; And death and hell deliv-
cred up the dead which were in them. p"
Rev. Xxx. Is. "And death and hell were
cast into the lake of fire." Rev. Xxx ID.
Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell. :"
Pc wi 10
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of Lisbon 6104'. The mean temperature
of the coolest months was: Brighton,
49, "a; Naples, 47.04', and Lisbon, 51.o4'.
This comparison of temperature Of the
warmest and coolest temperatures convinced
him that if orange culture was success at
Naples and Lisbon, there should be no eli
matte reason why it should not be q success
at Brighton. SO Mr. R. determined to try
dollars worth of decayed oranges. One
would suppose that he selected the decayed
fruit because he could get them cheaper.
This was undoubtedly true, but it was not
the only reason. He had learned that
orange seeds from oranges just ripe enough to
eat well are not ripe enough to grow well. So
he bought over-ripe oranges to secure seeds
ripe enough to grow. After soaking the
oranges in water and washing away the pulp
and saving the seeds, he planted in light
soil, and they came up very well. He kept
the little trees in beds till they were two
years old, and then transplanted them in an
orchard at Brighton in a mixture of red land
and river sediment. In 1876 he irrigated
them during the summer every three weeks,
and kept up this irrigation SO that the last
watering took place the 18th of September.
In this late irrigation there was mistake, as
the next winter proved. On the I'd of JAN
uary, 1877, the thermometer fell in the night
to 260, and this low temperature was reached
every night for week The result, as stated
by Mr.. R., was that the orchard looked very
ragged-the new wood was all killed, the
sap-cells bursted and the leaves fallen Off
and ten per cent of the trees were killed en-
tirely. The following spring the vacant
places were filled by trees from Los Angeles,
and irrigation proceeded as on the pre-
vious season, only the last watering
took place on the LIST of August
The following December the thermometer
sunk to 22', but the weather for week or SO
the caution in checking irrigation a month
and half earlier and the moist weather sue
ceeding the cold snap this time the trees re-
ceived very little damage-the leaves dropped
and curled some, but no wood was killed.
Mr.. Redding therefore concludes that orange
culture may be made success in all parts of
the State where the temperature does not fall
below 2j', but irrigation should not continue
late in the fall so as not to allow all the
young wood to be fully matured. Mr.. Red
ding concludes that it is not safe to grow
lemons where the temperature falls below %,
and that the leaves of lime trees will fall at
30' and the trees will be killed at 250.
These are practical and valuable points to
be remembered
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-02-14
HELEN OF TYRE.

What phantom is this that appears
Through the purple mists of the years,
Itself but mist like these2
A woman of cloud and Of fire
1t is she it is Helen of Tyre,
The town in the midst of the seas
o Tyre in thy crowded streets
The phantom appears and retreats,
And the Israelites, that sell
Thy lilies aud lions Of brass,
Look up as they see her pass,
And murmur Jezebell"
Then another phantom is seen
At her side, III a grey garbadine,
With beard that floats to his waist
Il is Simon Magus, the Seer;
lie speaks, and she pauses to hear
The words he utters in haste.
He says: Z" From this evil fame,
From this life al sorrow and shame,
/ will lift thee aud make thee mine
Thou hast been Queen Canjace,
And Helen of Troy, and shalt be
The Intelligence Diyine!"
oh, sweet as the breath Of morn,
To the fallen and forlorn
Are whispered words Of praise,
For the furnished heart believes
The falsehoOd that tempts and deceives,
And the promise that betrAys
So she follows from lard TO land
The wizards reckoning hand,
As a leaf is blown by the gust,
Till she van shes into night
reade stoop down and write
With thy finger in the dust.
O town in the midst Of the seas,
With thy RATS of cedar trees,
Thy merchandise and thy ships,
Thou, too. art become as naught,
A phantom, shadow. thought,
A name upon mems lips.
Henry W. Longfellow, in Atlantic Monthly.
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Answers to Correspondents and Corr

Two men near Poughkeepsie staked out
a field of ice on .ths river in front of their
property, as. Speculation, having no ice
houses of their own, but hoping to sell it.
When the thaw set in, this ice went down
the river aud against dock, damaging it
considerably, and now the owner OF the
dock threatens to bring suit for damages
against the two men.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-02-14

The EPISCOPAL CHURcH.-The Church
man gives list of twenty-six clergymen
of six or seven other denominations who,
during 1879, entered the Protestant Epis-
copal Church, and says: at is evident be-
yond question, we think, that our church
is attracting more and more the attention
Of those who stand around her, and that as
her position and character and claims are
getting to be understood, she is exercising
growing attractive power upon them. In
this country, we believe, she is only on the
threshold Of her career Wise direction
and truly catholic policy must make
her in fact what she is in name, the church
Of the American people"
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THE QUIET HOUR.
THE TANGLER'S" PARADISE OF CHA
RADEs, ENIGMAS, ETC.

Contributions to this department should be adj
dressed "Quiet Hour" RECORD. UNION. Write
upon but one side OF the sheet. Accompany all
contributions with the answers, The true name,
and postoffice address. The object of the depart
ment being to cultivate wit, encourage patient
inquiry, and afford compromising mental recrea-
ton, contributors will receive the advice and
assistance of the department, and privileged
to engage courteous criticism of the productions
published
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THE DAILY RECORD UNION.
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION FOR THE
FARMER AND THE oRCHARDIST.

| This Department is prepared for the SACRAMENTO
REcoRD-UNIoS by its Agricultural Editor. All
matter relating to the agricultural interest viii be
found under this head
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oRASGE-cULTURE AT BRIGHTON.


That is practical lesson which B. B. Red
ding has learned by his experiments in
orange-culture at Brighton, in this county,
lesson which it will do well for all who are
growing orange trees in this vicinity, or any
other in this State, to heed. For the benefit
of our readers we will, in as brief words as
possible, state the lesson learned by Mr..
Redding. We take it from paper read by
him before the State Horticultural Society at
San Francisco, January Doth last Before
entering into the cultivation of oranges at
that locality Mr.. Redding examined the
records of temperature of Brighton as COM
pared with similar records for Naples and
Lisbon, where the orange is success. He
found the mean summer temperature Of
Brighton to be 60.4S', OF Naples Coos, and
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Answers to January 3Ist.

553. Centrals: Rajah each side: Cad dam
554. ~ Arch, march, larch, starch. q.
Light night, write, kite, fight, right, sight,
write.
555. Prelste, relate, elate, late, ate.
500. Happy New Year.
557. Arkansas, Delaware thus: aid rye
ksl ave now spa air sue
sos. Liberty and union, now and forever,
one and inseperable.
$50. ~ Iowa: g" Our liberties we prize, and
our rights we will maintain" (2) Massachu-
sets: BY the sword she seeks peace under
liberty"
$50. Father, mother, brother, sister, uncle,
aunt, cousin.
sci. "Would to God night or Butcher
would come !''-Wellineton at Waterloo.