The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-09-05

Hundreds of people who never read a line of George Eiots writings eagerly read Miss Cleveland's book and declare that the first lady's" criticisms of the great Loamshire woman are correct.
 Dr. bio Lewis, in his Nuggets D. which, by the way, is an excellent publ- cation-says, in an argument against to- bacco, that none of the prize fighters nor "muscled men" can afford to use it. This is very good argument, but the doctor should remember that prize fight CTS are not long-lived men. We never hear of an octogenarian prize fighter. The man who pays less attention to his muscle and more attention to the food he eats, even though he smokes pipe, is likely to live longer than the man who does not smoke, because it interferes with his hard hitting" Philosophers, histo- rians and poets smoke and many of them live too long. Look at Tennyson. He smokes.
 Occasionally startling though true story comes from Alabama. Several days ago Mir. Henry Battleworth, who lives near Birmingham, discovered, upon awakening at morning, that he and his entire family were drunk. Of course, as he nor none of his family had drunk any thing, he was puzzled. The intoxication was of a rather gentle kind and soon wore of. The next morning he again found that every member of the family was drunk. He was puzzled more than ever, and being an investigative man, he devoted himself to the task of discovering the cause of his family's discom6ture. He was successful, soon discovering that his house was nightly infested by mos quitoes that came from distillery. Mir. Battleworth is now writing book enti- tied "The Bite of Mosquito or Hyper dermic Insoxication." The book will doubtless have an extensive sale.
 Mir. George w. Cable, the novelist, will again-in paper soon to appear in the Century Magazine-speak for the south. MT. Cable has happy faculty of expressing the sentiment of large ex. tent of country. "The south thinks so and so," Mir. Cable tells us, but he rarely tells us what he thinks. He does not, in his controversial writings, speak for him. sell, but he speaks for great community. He defined the white mans position with regard to the negro, and as the white man "hemmed and hawed" in disap- proval, Mir. Cable, greatly astonished, purposes to demolish the white man. This is all wrong. Mir Cable, just be- cause he is the possessor of great gift, should not demolish the south. He should show that sympathy which the powerful man sometimes feels for his weak neighbor. It has been suggested that it would be better for Mir. Cable were he to con6ne himself to light rom ances, embodying the amusing mannerisms of the Creoles. This is doubtle ss true. As a space writing novelist Mir. Cable is a success.
 The man who discovered the inde- structible cotton has retired. This species of cotton was a most remarkable vegeta- ble production. It would not burn. The man who discovered it said that you might throw a handful of it in the hot test fire and when the fire died away the cotton would be as cool and pleasant as November morning. This discovery created quite sensation among cotton men and 90 successfully did the dis coverer work his scheme that he sold many thousand dollars worth of seed. Colonel Harvey Patterson, who lad seen man who knew that the cotton pos< sessed the great endurance claimed for it. invited great number of friends to his house, when the first boil opened. " Nov, gentlemen" said he, as he proudly handled the cotton, "let me show you something that will astonish you will wrap this fifty dollar bill in the cotton, this way. and throw it into the fire this way BOW after awhile-" When the cotton and the money had burned up, the colonel said: "There are some men who are not truthful would have made an experiment. with this before sent for you gentlemen, but l only had one bol1. There are some men who ought to die, and know one of them A calamity wi1 befall him when we meet" !"