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The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-02-03
Seeing Venus.

On the street corner, the cnrbstone
astronomer was standing by his instru
ment waiting for customer. Presently
two miners came along and paused to
take a look at the "machine.
"What in thunder's that?" asked one
Of the miners.
ait is telescope" said the student
Of the stars You see Venus for ten
cents
"Consider me in, said the miner,
and he put up ten cents and turned the
tube on q constellation Of the fourth
ascension.
'tDon't think much Of it," he said,
after look, and then he turned the in.
strument down until it was focused on
residence some nine blocks away.
Here the miner paused, pressed his eyes
close to the instrument and became as
still as a mouse.
"Ain't you too low?" asked the planet
sharp. ,+,
III alters was low-sightcd, " responded
the man of the pick.
"You can't look all night; other
customers are waiting"
The miner surveyed the crowd stand
ing uDOub num- dlN lAttuuhb th1 oilNh
man a dollar, asked him to tell him
when he had used up the money. He
lowered his eyes to the telescope once
more aud was again engrossed in his
observations. Suddenly he rose up with
sigh aud remarked TO his companion
"Billy, she pulled the curtain down.
The handsomest woman ever saw IN all
my life. She let down her hair, took of
her collar, and then, just after | give
that coon dollar, she lowered the cur.
tain and shut the blinds. ! think
ought to have about ninety cents change
That old glass tube, though, is about
two hundred hoss power. II was like
being right under the window with {
step-ladder I'm going to buy one o
those machines the first time make 9
raise"
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Size Fetcllcd Him.

Women sometimes have great pres
ence of mind. A iailor's wife saw that
prisoner had got between her husband
and the unlocked door and was going
for it like Scotch terrier for rat hole.
She knew she hadn't the strength to
seize and hold him, and besides he had
knife, SO she didn't try. But she
stepped into side corridor near the head
Of fight of stairs the prisoner had got
to descend, yanked off her hoopskirt,
and, as he passed, flung it before him.
The way he turned handsprings and
somersaults down those stairs was a eau.
ton to cats, and his frantic struggles
after he reached the bottom would have
attracted folks from dog fight When
the iailor came up, the fellow had goi
himself so entangled that he was abso-
lutely helpless, was doubled up in terri
bly, uncomfortable ways and was chok.
ing to death, and so completely wount
mp that the jailor had to cut him ou
with hatchet, and it took half a yard o
court plaster and pint OF arnica t.
make him at all comfortable. --Bosto,
Post
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A pettor WAY.

The wasteful practice of burning or
otherwise destroying love, letters has
been brought into disrepute by young
lady in Iowa, who has had hers bound
in the form of an album, which she
turns out for the inspection aud enter
tainment of her visitors when they have
wearied of praising her tides and finished
the family photographs
The device, economical as it is--and in
that aspect praiseworthy its draw
backs. To visitors who have met-as
the phrase is--''with disappointment"
the sight of such collection would be
narrowing in the extreme Then there
would be the additional danger that
some guest would find among the mis-
siyes one from somebody to whom she
believed she had special claim The
sight, in such a case, of words of love
addressed to another might be provoca-
tive of unpleasantness-p perhaps, even,
of tears or, worse still, Of scratching and
hair-pulling.
These possibilities are to be dreaded.
Fortunately they can be avoided without
recurring to the old-fashioned and waste.
ful method of burning love letters. Such
iiii9SA'eo oVAiViiii-Si NC poPuially menu
to contain--a good deal of sweetness.
Some of them have been described, in
the glowing imagery of girlhood, as
just too sweet for anothing," but this
Is undoubtedly hyperbole. They ought,
however, to be sweet enough for glucose
if there is any semblance of sweetness
about them. Let the Iowa plan be
abandoned then and let the accumulated
love letters of the country be sent to the
glucose factories. The residents in the
neighborhood of such factories might
object But they do.that now,
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GEMS OF THOUGHT.

From Geo Ellnts's " Adam Hede."l
The beauty of lovely woman is like
music.
Our dead are never dead to us until
we have forgotten them.
A WOMAN may get to love by degrees;
the best fire does not flare up the soon
est.
A MAN may be very firm in other mat
ters, and yet be under a sort of witcheEy
from woman.
WHEN death, the great reconciler has
come, il is never our tenderness that we
repent Of, but our severity.
IF you would love woman without
ever looking back on your love as folly,
she must die while you are counting her.
We ARE apt to be kinder to the brutes
that love us than to the woman that love
us. Is it because the brutes are dumbP
DON'T want to know people that look
ugly and disagreeable, any more than l
want to taste dishes that look disagreea-
bic.
Then they looked at each other, not
quite as they had looked before, for in
their eyes there was the memory of q
kiss.
THERE'S no pleasure in living il you're
TO be corked up forever, and only drib-
BILE your mind out by the sly, like leaky
barrel
ONE may be betrayed into doing
things by combination OF circum-
stances which one might never have
done otherwise.
"BUr, mother, thee know'st we can
not love Just where other folks 'ud have
us. There's nobody but God that can
control the heart Of man.
THE vninest woman is never thoroughly
conscious of her own beauty till she is
loved by the man who sets her own
passion vibrating in return.
BECAUSE, dear, trouble comes TO us
all in this life, We set our hearts on
things which isn't Gods will for us 10
have, and then we go sorrowing.
A MAN never lies with more delicious
lapgor under the influence Of a passion.
than when he has persuaded himself
that he shall subdue it tomorrow.
WHEN have made up my mind that 1
can not afford to buy n tempting dog, /
take no notice of him, because il no
took a strong fancy to me, and looked
lovingly at me, the struggle between
arithmetic and inclination might become
unpleasantly severe.
IT's a deep mystery-the way the
heart OF man turns TO one woman
out OF all the rest he's seen in
the world, and makes it easier for him
to work seven years for her, like Jacob
did for Rachel, sooner than have any
other woman for the asking.
Bur- 1 believe there have been men
since his day who have ridden a long
y0y to avoid rencontre, and then
ganoped hastily back, lest they should
mis- it lis the fayorito strategem Of
our passions to charm retreat, and to
turn sharp around upon MS the moment
we have made up our minds that tho
day is our own
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An 0nilnM,s SMreihenrt.

The robbers used TO frequently shoot
ut targets in company with their sweet-
hearts, in the shooting the girls making
sometimes almost as good score as the
men, and the yells that would rend the
air a. ones faYorite lady would split the
bullet on the half dollar as it fell for
ward to the ground would have done
instice 10 border scout. Nor were the
young ladies' behind them in equestrian
ism, Miss Ryan, in particular, often
boosting that she could drop the nickel
as often in the race as any Of the boys.
1t may be proper here TO explain the
niodas Operd1di of the "nickel race"
A nickel or other small coin is placed in
the forks OF n tree, about the distance
from the ground that a mans shoulder
would be while on horseback. Each
party has one shot at it as he flies by on
his horse at full speed. The ladies take
their regular turn, and Miss Ryan has
been known to drop the nickel three
times out Of five races, and that she is,
indeed, at home i'll the saddle is demon
strated by the fact that when alightiDg
from her fayorite horse, powerful black
charger, she simply rises from the sad
die and leaps TO the ground, while her
horse walks to the nearest hitching-post
to await its rider. When she is ready TO
remount, her intelligent horse comes at
her call, and taking her saddle by the
pummel she bounds into it and is off at
fast gallop, the only gait she ever rides.
81. Louis Chronicle.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-02-03

A COMMUNICATION in the Charleston
NeWs and Courier calls attention to the
statute which makes the non-payment Of
poll tax of 81 misdemeanor. 1t says
"What prompts me to write to you at
this time is that arrests are now being
made and prisoners are confined in our
Jail charged with no other crime than
neglect to pay their poll tax, and as the
Legislature is now in session I hope the
matter can bo so presented to the people
and our Legislators that immediate action
will be taken" Itis this kind of law
that causes laborers to emigrate, in
stead of immigrate. in South Carolina
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-02-03

MmLIoNs Of barrels Of crude oil,
enough to supply the world for years.
are said to be stored away in the oil re.
gions. The discovery of oil in Europe
and the sinking of wells there threaten
to affect the foreign market, though sta
tistics as yet show no decrease of the
amount of oil ilexpected from this country.
Our oil men have turned their attention
to South America as a market, but in
some parts Of that section of the world
there are large deposits of petroleum Of
good quality, which can be procured il,
abundance without boring for it.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-02-03

A FOREIGN letter says all Vienna thea
ters are well nigh bankrupt. Nobody
frequents them. The largest amount OF
money received by an one Of them is 5000;
others take in about $50 night. The
police have forbidden all day perform
ances, and have lessened the num-
ber of seats in each. For instance, the
the Ander Wien Theater, which held q
$40 seats, ehas now only 1870.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-02-03

A REMARKABLE use is being made of
potatoes. The clear peeled tuber is
macerated in solution Of sulphuric
acid. The result is dried between sheets
of blotting paper, and then pressed. OF
this all manner of small articles are
made, from combs to collars, and even
billiard balls, for which the hard, bril-
liantly white material is well fitted.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-02-03

AWEsr VIRGINIA railroad company has
agreed to stop at least one of its trains
each way-on being hagged-for passen-
gers and freight at every farm where
right of way is given. The good times
hoped for when every farmer should
have railroad in his own door yard,
seems to have come, in West Virginia.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-02-03

MAYOR HARRISON, of Chicago, has
just had streak of luck. A few days
ago he received letter from lady in
Boston, who said that she lived on Shaw
NUT avenue, was cultivated, had taste
for the aesthetic literature and art, had
cool 100000 in bank, was but thirty
eight years old, and anxious to be made
Mayors bride. The Mayor perhaps
understands the drift Of her argument.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-02-03

THE National Board of Health is con
sidering the pressing demand for better
quarantine regulations at New York and
other ports, sin order to prevent emf
grants infected with smallpox landing
and proceeding on their journey inland,
spreading the foul disease all over the
country.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-02-03

SERGEANT Mason, who shot at Guiteau
more than four months ago, is still in
Jail at Washington. General Sherman
promises that he shall be tried by court
martial. 1t is generally believed he will
be acquitted on the ground of insanity
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-02-03

AccoRDMa to all accounts Mrs. Lin
coin is in pretty bad condition, physi-
calIy and mentally. She is attending
Miller's Water Cure. New York, and is
barely able to walk about her room.
Cataracts are forming on both eyes. She
is troubled with spinal troubles and has
Bright's disease. When told that the
Pension Committee had decided to give
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-02-03
Remember, Young Men.

Young men who are intending to be
farmers should remember that agricHlt-
ure is both a science and an art, to be
carefully studied, and then practically
carried out. The day has gone by when
the ignorant can become successful
farmers. Within the past ten years
agriculture has undergone great
revolution, but the next ten years
viii see greater changes than have
vet been witnessed. The leading
agriculturists viii be the leading men OF
the country. Prairie Farmer.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-02-03
Rev. WhangdoodIe Baxter Tnsulted


The Rev. Whangdoodle Baxter. an
Austin colored clergyman, wished to
hint TO Uncle Mace, who is his near
neighbor, that gift of a cord Of Fl re-
wood would be very gratefully accept ed.
Uncle Mace by the way does not hko
Whangdoodle much. Finally, says
Whangdoodle, insinuatingly, "Unclee
Mace. Use gwine ter be powerful hard
M for firewood dis winter. Can 7 yer
give me load =" -,
Uncle Mace looked all around as If he
was afraid Of being overheard, and then
he said
.sParson, is you very pertlckler
whar de wood comes from
Parson Whangdoodle supposed this to
mean that Uncle Mace was going to give
him some stolen wood, 80 he replied
"Uncle Mace, as long as / gets de
wood, ] don't keer much where itcomes
from"
I" Den Parson you don't keer whose
wood you burns up"
"Hit's ali de same ter me, Uncle
Mace"
"Well, am gwine, said Mace.
g War is ye gwine 2"
! Ter lock up my wood shed. II 1eras
'S.ftings.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-02-03

thu newly. organized American Electric
Light Company, of Massachusetts,,
which claims to have a system for light.
ing residences and small areas.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-02-03

OswEao, New York. is decidedly a
healthy town. Rev. Simon Parmalee.
on the 10Th of January, celebrated his
centennial birthday. Another Oswegoan
died recently aged 10S years and Mr..
Clark, of the same town, claims to have
passed his 10th year.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-02-03

1T IS gratifying to know that tue
bill for murder in the first degree has
been found against the murderers oi
Jennie Cramer, at New Haven, Conn,
the 9TH of August last. Walter L. Nal.
ley, James Malley and Blanche Douglass
are the persons indicted.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-02-03

sar @aS =, me sne Detroit Free Press. aThe
IA - loiz ended sixty-seven years ago,
,sns;. - ~ over 10000 widows are drawing
a us H. granted on account Of it. That's
's load Of old widows
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-02-03

A RAILROAD disaster is pretty serious
thing for the company which owns the
road. It is said that the Ashtabula dis
aster five years age has cost the Lake
Shore 1000, 900, and some Of the suits
for damages are not ended yet. The
Spuyten Duyvil disaster will cost the
Central tremendous sum.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-02-03

i. : BALTIMORE teachers are required to
lOl' ,s 'wice a week the number of whip
'~sS v administered. :. and those who re.
ssa., s~' the fewest whippinss have the
'aoothest sailing.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-02-03

Il said that of 72,OO0 900 bushels Of
gram sent from America to Europe last
year. not a single bushel was carried by
an American ship.
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her $4,000, which amount was due her
under arrears of pension, she manifested
great satisfaction. She will remain in
New York for the winter.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-02-03

The Boston Globe believes the mthetic
Wriggle, which fashionable women have
adopted as a manner of locomotion, will
cure rheumatism.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-02-03

j That l,l ihfnitesimal specimen of human
w Tom Thumb, has become convert
2 0splrltualism, and believes in almost
Nerytnng Of ghostly nature.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-02-03

j. I Is claimed that on account of the
salS they eat Boston women look
osaser 4 Y at forty than Chicago women
49, 1 = ,nlrty years of age. Still, it is
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-02-03

The committee, after cogitating the
matter. cane to the conclusion, perhaps,
ihat the partakers Of these luxuries had
had almost too good a time Of il, and so
tLev only allowed "ior four gallons Of
vine and three quarts Of brandy, S22 -
iVashfnqfoa Letter ~ ne Loxisvitc
Courier-.JouTnat.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-02-03

IaE aesthetic knee. breeches have one
sisas I advantage = they do not bag at
" u Knee, and they have this great disad.
''u'age-they betray On unshapely calf.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-02-03

!, osoAR WILDE says that in all England
a'sie I, is not an actress so powerfully
'''snse as Clara Morris. This remark
Aoris. 'l'ln en' 70 Nisl
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-02-03

Il ls in order to announce that Secre-
sly !. foiger has no one to do the honors
Il I us palatial home but a grown daugh-
I mother words, he is a solitaire,
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-02-03

THERE is one thing the Land Act has
aOne in Ireland; it has filed the prisons.
eut what other benefit has been derived
uon it would be hard to say.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-02-03

Miss ANNA DICKINSON has scored a
success in male character, as Hamlet. I"
Her determination to wear tights has
prevailed.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-02-03

~ husslA goes steadily nearer bank.
,sp'cy each year, and last December
s.: ..sea with difficulty the gold to pay the
''lui'annual interest due foreign debtors.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-02-03

A RESIDENT of Belfast, Ohio, has been
put under bonds for opening his wife's
letters.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-02-03

MASSACHUSETTS, entire representation
IN Congress-two Senators and eleven
Representatives-are in favor of woman
Suffrage.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-02-03

a New YORK paper advertised for
vllslnal short stories, and received over
w responses. The world has an abund-
lnce Of literary talent.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-02-03

CoNTRARY to report, Annie Louise
Gary is not to be married.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-02-03

PARTS baggage consists of twenty.
three trunks.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-02-03

The long-haired Wilde's first lecture
netted him 81, 400.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-02-03

THE project for the Worlds Fair in
Boston has been abandoned for want of
money.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-02-03
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

soovnnE has one faculty. He car
talk.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-02-03

Mans value is IL proportion to what
he has courageousiy suffered, as the val
ne OF the steel BLADE is in propo ttion t.
the tempering it has undergone.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-02-03

ONE hundred newspapers in this coun-
try are edited by colored men.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-02-03
senntorInI PerauIsItes Many years Ag0.

Francis Maloone, a United States SEN
ator from Rhode Island, died in 1909. His
remains we're inferred in the Congress.
gional Cemetery. Among the items OF
expenses for his funeral were the follow
ing Sixteen pounds of crackers, So
III pounds OF cheese, $2.81. The COM
mittee to audit the expenses Of the Senate
evidently thought that, though their
brethren seemed to be on pleasure bent.
they should have the accompaniment OF
frugal meal. Therefore, they econom-
ically ordered that payment be msde for
the crackers, bnt rejected the claim Tor
the cheese. This same committee also
had presented toll the following voucher /:
Seven gallons best MADEIRA wine. ..,..s2s % %
-Four gallons Cognac brandy ....,-..t.. o 0o
Twelve pounds almonds. .,......-....t' o. o.
len pounds Of raisius...,.. ...',-,'.'. oV
so en-
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~ FRED. GRAsr is the President d
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-02-03

SMALL. behring's arc packed as sardines
IN factories on The coast Of Maine, but
tler appear in the market as French
brands.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-02-03

A NEw YORK Tribune sncorrespondent
believes that cotton seed oil may yet re-
place lard for cooking purposes, and he
thinks q pure vegetable oilshouid be pre-
ferred 70 the product Of the swine"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-11-24

are diversified in small particulars and are
modified to suit the figure Of the wearer. The
lynx and black marten furs are the most used
as a trimming for these garments and squir-
rel fur for lining sometimes in place of the
fur lining, plush is used, especially with the
ottoman reps and the heavy brocades. In
fur as in everything else, the fashions are
positively luxurious. l never saw such su-
perb sleigh robes in my life One of Russian
sable was lined with crimson plush and an
other Of white wolf was lined with dark blue
broadcloth.
There has been another change at the Ad-
vertiser Office Mr.. L. F. Waters has with
drawn and Mr.. Call, formerly Of the Herald
has taken his place. Mr.. Waters retires to
enjoy life aud will probably make an extend
ed European tour He is wise to leave bust
ness while in the flush of life and while
yet in perfect health to enjoy the de-
light Of travel. There is general regret at
his departure, but if he must go he could
have no more welcome successor than Mr..
Call, who brings youth, enthusiasm and good
training with him to his new position. Mr.
and Mrs. Waters gave, last week, brilliant
reception to Miss Emma Thursby. 1t was
one Of the pleasantest social events of the
season. SALLIE JOY WHITE.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-11-24

THE WoMAS's SILK CULTURE ASSOCIATION,
of Philadelphia, which began two or three
years ago to agtate the subject of silk raising
in this country, has made excellent progress,
and the prospects are that the industry will be
established on paying basis. Persons have
engaged in the raising of cocoons in all parts
of the country, and the specimens produced
are pronounced by good judges to equal III
quality any imported from Italy. An exhibi-
ton is to be held at Philadelphia next month,
in which a number of prizes will be offered,
and competitors have been heard from in all
parts of the country, from New Jersey to Cal.
ifornia The ladies' of the association advo-
cate silk culture especially As an industry in
which women can engage with profit aud
pleasure in addition to their household duties.
The work is light and easy, but requires good
judgment aud patient care.