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The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1880-11-26
4 Resnlt q the MlssIssIppI JettIes.

As direct result Of the success Of
Captain Eads' ietties at the mouth of the
Mississippi River, is noted the present
remarkable demand for huge grain carry
ing barges for the transportation OF
wheat from St. Louis to the ocean-going
vessels at New Orleans. This demand
for barges is supplemented by the recent
purchase Of several of the most powerful
towboats ever built at Pittsburg, and
which were originally designed fcr the
coal trade. With 20 feet Of water as
sured at the South Pass, where the Jet
ties are located, the river transportation
Of grain to ocean hulls bids fair to assume
proportions that may jeopardize the over
land carrying Of grain between the Up
per Mississippi and the seaboard. Within
the past few weeks the ST. Louis and
New Orleans Transportation Company
and the Mississippi Valley Transporta-
tion Company have been in the market
as purchasers for steamers and barges.
The latter are Of the variety known in
Western waters MS the "model barge,
in contradistinction to the coal OF square
barge. These craft are built to a model,
and those recently contracted for are Of
the following dimensions: Length 225
feet. width 36 feet, hold 8 feet. The
"cargo box or receptacle for grain hns
capacity for 10000 bushels or about
1900 tons. AT present forty such barges
are being built at different yards along
the Ohio River, and the total number Of
barges that will soon find employment in
the grain-carrying trade between the
points named is placed by good author
ity at 100, A "tow Of such bargea
consists, under favorable circumstances,
Of five, a loaded barge drawing about
eight feet. To make the round trip be
tween ST. Louis and New Orleans re-
quires twenty days, and the freight On
wheat averages eight cents per bushel.
The lack Of return cargoes prevents this
rate from being as great " bonanza at
would appear from an income Of $24, 00t
for three weeks Job. Nevertheless i
is good thing for those engaged in thi'
wholesale way Of sending grain down tht
"Father Of Waters. "-Scicntifc Ameri
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Sensible Advice.

A distinguished writer, speaking Of the
duties which parents owe their children,
says "a mother makes a great mistake
when She does not constantly court the
confidence Of her daughter The daugh
ter should share all her secrets with her
mother Many Of home has been
blighted, and shame has come to many
household because the mother was too
busy or too careless to keep herself III
constant sympathy with her daughters.
The same is true Of the father and son.
The young man who spends his evenings
from home, and feels that it would be
robbing him Of his manly independence
if he should tell where he goes, is bank
ing against every interest in the future.
Fathers and mothers should never allow
themselves to grow so old that they are
not interested in all that interests their
children and their young people. Home
comforts, and home amusements, and
the best society Of young people should
be sought with more care than choice in
vestments in stock and bonds; for one
pays dividends only for o few years, the
other will go on compounding its inter-
ests long after you are gone. Young
people crave recreation and amusement,
and will generally have 1T; how much
better that it should be enjoyed in the
homes Of the land, and directed by low
ing hands. Your wild boys and thought
less girls are mainly recruited from
homes where enjoyment is not to be
found.
"The parent who sees the boys and
girls Of the household full Of fun and
frolic should not grow anxious that he
does not see more tears and solemn
faces. These come soon enough amiC
the anxieties and perplexities Of life
Make home the happiest place in all thu
world-so that your sons and daughters
as they go out into the great world t.
buffet with its trials and temptations
, will in every quiet moment hear the ech'
> of its loving words and remember it
tender admonitions, and thus be stronl
: to conquer in every honorable pursuit.
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A decided sensation was created at
Washington during the Van Buren, adj
ministration by the appearance there Of
a handsome and well-educated Italian
lady who called herself America Yes
pucci. and claimed descent from the nav
igator who gave his name to this conti-
nent Ex-President Adams and Daniel
Webster became her special friends, and
she was soon a welcome guest in the best
society. In few weeks after her arrival
she presented petition to Congress ask
ing. first. to be admitted to the rights Of
citizenship, and secondly, to be gwen
ga corner Of land out Of the public do
main Of the country which bore the name
Of her ancestor. An adverse report,
which was soon made, is one OF the Gu
riosities Of Congressional literature. 1t
eulogized the petitioner as ga young,
lignified, and graceful lady, with a mind
Of the highest intellectual culture, and q
heart beating with all our own enthusi-
asm in the cause of America and hui
man liberty" The reasons why the
prayer of the petitioner could not be
granted were given, but she was recon-
mended to the generosity Of the Amer
| lean people, "I'he name of America
! our countrys name-should be honored,
! e.spected and cherished in the person OF
tie interesting exile from whose ancestor
we derive the great and glorious title.
A subscription was Immediately opened
b. Mr.. Haight, the Sergeant-at-Arms Q
tile Senate, and Judges, Congressmer
and citizens We'd with one another il
their contributions. Just then it wa
whispered that Mad. Vespucci had born
an unenviable reputation at Florence anC
at Paris, and had been induced by pc
cuniary consideration to break off an in
timacy with the Duke Of Orleans, Loui
Phillippe's oldest son, and come to Wash
ington. Soon afterward the Duke
younger brother, the Prince de Joinyillt
came to this country and refused to rec
ognize her, which virtually excluded he
from reputable society. For some yeai
subsequently she resided in luxuriou
seclusion with wealthy citizen of Ne
, York, in the interior of that State, an
/ after his death she returned to Paris
I Atlantic Monthly.
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Tyranny or Appetite.

A vonng patient was brought to Super
intandent Coles in the first stages OF do
lirium tremens, with the warning that be
was d bad case, and must be sharply
looked after. AS soon MS he was conyales-
cent, he began to beg for liquor, winch
was, Of course, denied him.
Mr. Coles gathered up the young mons
clothes in his arms, including his boots
and shoes, aud carried them down stairs,
"There, my boy" said Mr., Coles 70
himself. "when You want to get out OF
this establishment, you've got 70 sum
mon me, " and perfectly satisfied that the
Young man could not get out without his
assistance. Mr. Coles applied his thoughts
to other subjects
The patient was determined to procure
some spirits. His room was two stories
from the street, but there was pipe
that ran from the roof to the gronnd-a
water-spout
III can descend by that, he said.
He looked around for his clothes. They
were gone. He found nothing but a pair
Of old slippers. The money he had IN
his pockets when lie was brought 70 the
ASYLUM, was in the bnreau-drawer OF his
room. Mr.. Coles had not thought to
take that away. The young man tore
inc sheets Of his bed into strips, and
wound the strips around his legs, making
4 pair Of pantaioons, then he took com
forter from his bed, made holes in it for
his arms, and thus made tolerably nice
dressing-go gown.
With the dressing gown made from the
comforter. the pantaloons made from the
strips Of his sheets and the pair OF slip
pers, he thought himself well dressed
Only one thing was wanting-a hat. 10
ing into the bathroom, he found large
sponge. He cut slit in this with hii
razor, and putting his head into the slit
lie had fur cap at once.
Then. raising his window, he stepped
outside and slid down the water-spou
! with the money he had in his possession
whel b came into the institution IN TN
crown Of his sponge hat
Half an hour later, Mr., Coles went NJ
stairs to converse with his patient. bu
.. behold, the bird had flown.
"Well," said Mr., Coles, "he mus
have gone out naked, and OF course woul
be Immediately arrested. will lind hiI
I at the police station.
But Mr.. Coles, in passing q bar-roor
, on his way to the station, heard nois
! ! Of great hilarity, and thinking that !
recognized the voice OF his patient, drol
I ped in. There he was, with his dressing
? gown. sponge-hat, and his skin-tgl
y pantaloons, the centre OF an admiring ci
! Gle, drinking whisky punches, and ra
thing offiokes. --Biaghonll1ton I1nl'er'
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4 Woter.Wheel story.

Some one tells the following story,
which serves to point moral: "Ihere
were two men Gin about 1889, Stick
penny and Whewell, who owned q saw
mill near Old Town, Maine, III common
The arrangement under which the mill
was operated was that each had the mill
all TO himself during alternate weeks.
SticlIpenny was mean, rusty old chap
Whewell was shrewd, investigating
young man. The mill was run by q
crude, rough kind Of an undershot
wheel, that gave very little power for the
amount OF water used, SO that the water
was often short Whewell wanted to put
III new iron spiral-vent wheel, then Just
coming out. but Stickpcnny would have
nothing to do with it. He wasn't going
to lay out money for any such Job as
that. Finally, Whewell said he would
pay all the bills, to which Stickpenny at
last agreed, but provided You put the
wheel III iii Your week. So the now
wheel was put iii, and Whewcll, being Of
mechanical turn Of mind, experimental
with it, and soon found that by plugging
rp some Of the orihccs the saw went
through the log faster than when they
/ were ill DlleHs ~ hG liiAESNh tilNiAl ~ H.
during Ills week, and always pulled tile
plugs I'LL out again for Stickpenny to op-
crate with. Soon it began to be noticed
that somehow or other Whewell always
managed to saw a couple Of thousand
feet more Of lumber iii lis week than
ever Stickpenny could, no matter how
the pond was
Finally Stickpenny went down K
see Wheewell about it. Says he, 'Whe
well, how il it that you manage to say
more lumber in given time than | en-
when my turn comes round2 Say
Whewell, Don't you know how that il
Waal, I'll tell ycu. It's because yot
amt been treatin' Of me fnirly III TIN
matter It's agin nature Yon can
expect the mill to saw is well for you q
it does for them as do the square thinl
all around Stickpenny wouldn't DC
lieye that, and went away. But still th
mill went on turning out regularly NOR
lumber for Whewell than Stickpenn
managed to get ont Of it; 50, finally, til
latter came round, and said, What
your bill? iii pay my share.
He paid it, and thereafter Stick
penny managed to saw lumber just D
lively rs Whewell did. well, said I'll
old fellow, 4 always knew that the fol
around here were all ag'in me, but
never thought that the Almighty was
and he died without finding out the q
planation Of it at all. g"
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AMUSEMENT NOTES.

Miss Emmy FArrHFuL will not visit us
this season.
"WANrEp- 4 new husband" Mrs.
Oates.
CAL. WAGNER said Cincinnati was not
like Paris and the Ciucinnatians. hissed
him
SARA BEBSHARDr took the @h' from
her iirsi name and placed il IN the mid
die Of her second.
The theme of the new comic operetta
Deacret, the music of which y hy MT.
Dudley Buck, relates to Murmonism.
THEODORE THOMAS conducted the first
chorus rehearsal of the Cincinnati Musical
Festival Association for the May festival
which takes place in 1882.
OLIVE LOGAN, writing from London.
says that the music hall song, On, MaiY
dlia, F'ie for Sha2Hc, I IeH loW Aia!
is i'll the rago there now.
THE custom-house officers in New
York carefully inspect the inside q fish
ing rods. Sarah Bernhardt cant slip INTO
the country ii that fashion.
Al PtrrsBuRa paper says that Mary
| Anderson is billed 10 play in New York
f0r i've weeks iii December. II takes
the handsome Mary to spin ont time.
MISS Anna DICKINSON announces an
| intention Of returning to the lecture
platform, bnt will still prosecute her
various dramatic projects, lecturing on
DaRt0R and giving readings from her
play, .4MeiiaR
A NEW star III New York is Lillian
Spencer, and She il only l6 o. Il years
old. She il d little thing no bigger than
IIotta. Bit She has voice that was
mouldcdfor tragedy. Hercareer promises
to be iii interesting one.
"WEIL, what 10 you think of X.'snew
fiye-nct tra8ady?' Huml There we're
ive Of lis iii our box, not bad judges 81
play rs Judges 60, md We all agreed
that one act should have been omitted
.sIndcedl Which act?' "Wel, no two
81 lis ngreed o. that point.
A STATEMENT published in this country
that the whole performance Of the
Passion Play ut Obernmmergau has been
SO cleteriomted and vulgarized that, after
tlis wear, 10 representation Of it is TO be
allowed" ii totally mud unequiyocally
denied III tie Munich papers.
ALI, tllat the American public knows
Of Sarah Blrnhardt ii that she is I'M ex-
tragagant woman, both ia purse md
character lean to boninoss, On the shady
side Of five aud thirty, caprieious, unre-
liable, shrcwd dabbler il the arts, who
las made vast success by clever puitery
Of herself Brooklya Eagle
The moment the death Of Miss Nelson
I was known tile yigilant police Of Paris
!, sealed the doors of her room at the Hotel
] Continental. After the investigation the
I, seals we're broken and ii was found that
! the window lepding to the piazza was
!. open Ill the time, and any one walking
: on the outside could easily have stepped
z into the room. Tho sealing process
!, doesn't seem to have been worth con
Z tinental.
i THE beautiful play, Hazel Rirke
q which will be performed at the Mad
"A ison Square Theater tonight for th,
"A 253d time, has won the laurels, hayinf
accomplished Tie longest run on record
q It is probable TINT Hasct Rirke will b.
y played through the present season, a
y there seems no signs Of abatement in TIN
a attendance, and like Tennyson's Brook
it looks as il it will 60 on forever --Neu
York Commercial 1dvcrtiser.
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ny ARTHUR LOT.

n, shpn the oceans wave unless you'd waive
Salty from sickness OF the sea, and see
yHnrseif ~ i'll you'd gravey wish the grave
would ope and wretched retching cease TO bel
some grassy lea you'd sec ulon the lee,
And Win that YOU could land upon the land,
since MI your food 50 freely seemed set ireei
Rnt yainly YOU would come with such command,
Unless The ship should strand upon some unknown
strand,
The seas on seasonabe days, HE high
When mighty winds blow up he deeps below
Ara gea foaui's raised far up toward the Sky,
while wayelets into mi shiy billows grow
M mister then the mystery can know
az ali tnatis hid hepenth the hideous waves
nj which, in vain, woe loudly cries out whoa
Without i caveat to oceans caves
Their prey unwayering waves sweep swift as II 70
graves
some memorable days does memory bring,
when almost at see-saw one saw the sea,
Sometimes tar skyward giant waves 'twould ning,
Sometimes its breast as smooth glass would bei
When eke1 the ship with huge rocks on its lee,
And gentle winds blew waves oi blueish hue
From every danger seemed the sea then freei
Yet when DER ocean buethe fierce vino blew,
Its true with wrecks the rocky shore swift dlu y
sirew.
on shun the ocean's breast, unless you'd breast
Rlw northern winds with their terrific roar,
And meet the waves as they swell high and crest,
And see It's hungry NAV cape wide for more
Of human prey, though there's crore IN its erawl
D shun the cans tide, lest there betide
10 y0n some w0 safe shoar yourself on shore,
And by some quiet brolklet ever bide,
Where, in past days, some dainty maid sighed by
your side.
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The oldest Treemason alive.

Mr.. Parkinson, of Brockway, st. Clair
County. Mich, and q native Of County
Down Ireland, in letter to brother
Mason. writes: 81 am the oldest Mason
IN America. / was initiated on the 27th
Of December, 1873, in Lodge 1909,
which met in Clough, County Down, in
those days. The Lord has blessed me
with long life, good health, and comfort
IN NV old age. We have five sons and
five daughters. / have seen them all
married. most of them very comfortably,
with thirty grandchildren living and five
or six dead.
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HeaIihfnIness Of Fruit.

No intelligent person can doubt that
the free use Of ripe fruit is conducive to
health. On the other hand il is obvious
that fruits as an exclusive article Of diet,
do not meet all the wants Of the system.
The chemistry Of the apple, the pear,
the tomato, the grape, &c, IS well un-
derstood, and il can be stated how much
nutriment or assimilable food each is ca
pable Of atording; but this does not an
swer oil the questions connected with the
subject of the healthfulness Of fruit.
Besides furnishing nutTiment, fruit ex-
erts other influences upon the animal
economy of the highest Importance. Tho
acids Of fruit are properly nutritiye sub
stances, but they produce physiological
effects of a cooling or corrective nature,
which are highly salutaly.
Fruits are largely composed Of water,
and this fluid has come to them through
extraordinary channels. The tiny root
hbres have collected it in the dark earth,
and, by vital action, it has been forced
through the most minute tubes, until it
is finally deposited in the frnit cells. So
far as We know, the water undergoes no
notifications; it is water in the soil, and
& II IL llit buiilG III WbAilNAANA tf1HH~A's
tions in fruits. 1t, however, holds sac
charine elements and other principles
which modify its physical appearance
and taste. The great amount Of water
4 contained in fruits is in itself an advant-
! age. as it aids in cleaning the alimentary
4 canal and the other exeretory ducts, and
thus promotes healthy action.
Fruits are capable Of sustaining life foi
long periods, but the lack Of the nitro
peneous elements detracts from theil
strength-giying power, and any one liy-
ing exclusively upon them would not be
able to labor effectively. We have heard
OF the man who rowed his boat along
the entire coast Of New England sus
tanned alone by whortleberries; but j
the voyage had lasted six months, O
even three, his nerves and muscles woult
have entirely failed him.
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Boston Suburbs.

Boston has, perhaps, the finest sub
urbs Of any city in America, if not in the
world. The population outside OF the
city, within a radius Of twenty miles of
the City Hall, is 100000. The roads
connecting these suburban cities, towns
and villages are as near perfect as roads
can be made, and no higher compliment
can be paid to them than to note the fact
that they are the paradise Of the bicycle.
The house of the suburban Bostonian is
generally cosy and unpretentious, many
Of the dwellings being Of wood, but the
grounds are marvels Of culture-horti-
culture-and good taste. About $4,000
of the suburbans ride into Boston III the
morning and ride out again in the even
ing. and the collection of 100,0 fares
every day forms a mammoth business by
itself Steam railroads radiate in every
direction, like iron spolIes, from the
Hub; and from Cambridge, Chelsea,
Someryille. Newton and other towns jogs
the slow and sometimes sure street car
horse. Many Of the suburbans use sea
son tickets. The Boston and Albany
| Road brings in l 900 season tickets every
day. The Boston and Maine carries il
| / 900 daily, and the Lowell Road 81
equal number. The cheap package
| tickets have reduced the number of sea
son tickets. The Boston and Providence
Road sells $4,000 package tickets ever,
month. The rural Bostonian lives in hi
suburban residence not only in summer
but during the other three seasons a
well. A man with an easy conscience
and horse and buggy can put in YER
enjoyable time in the suburbs Of Boston
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and could not be recalled. although he
still recollected the initial and could get
at the word by turning to his book Al
though he could not recollect his own
name or those Of his acquaintance, he
never was at loss for the initial Of the
word he wished to use
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THE HUMAN TELEGRAPH.

The Wonderful TcIegrapIilc system in tI,e
Human skuII-HaWw sadly II Works
when the wires Are Down or ont OF
Repair.
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EVERY Prince of the Royal family in
Germany is taught when young some
useful trade for the purpose Of SOLDERING
the mind and bringing it face to face
with the material world and the realities
Of life. AMI among the profusion Of curl
osities and artistic relics which crowd
the Emperor Williams private cabinet
NAV be seen specimens of book binding,
carving. carpentering and other handi-
work performed by his sons and grand
sons.
TEE amount Of butter now made in
Iowa creameries is estimated at so, ,000,-
900 pounds per annum.
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"AIY cousin, whom I sent You last
week, doctor, is an imaginary invalid,
isn't he ?" "Of course Ae is. The fell
low has constitution which defies all
orr remedies.
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TT Is asserted that half Of Thoreau's
manuscripts have not yet been published.
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