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V. J. YATES, Kl)ITOR - J1) PROPRIETOR. I
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CHAREOTTE, N. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1880.
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hh second class postal matter," according to the
rules of the P. O. Department.
ROBERT GIBBON, M. D.,
CHARLOTTE, N. C,
I'f r-rucr fh ami Try on Streets,)
Tender-. U rofVssional services to the public, as a
tractica! Siir- wi. Will advise, treat or operate in
all the ii Ml !' I d p irlineiitM of .Surgery. Patients
from ad, si in , when necessary, will be furnished
coml'ortabl . tarters, and experienced nurses, at
reasonable i Address Lock Box No. 33.
March . lsio. y
Dr. JOHN H. McADEN, ,
Wholesale and Retail Druggist,
CHARLOTTE, N. C,
I Tas on hand a large and well selected stock of PURE
DRUGS, Chemicals, Patent Medicines, Family
Medicines, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Dye Stuffs,
Fancy and Toilet Articles, which he is determined
to sell at the very lowest prices.
Jan 1, HVJ.
DR. T. C. SMITH,
Druggist and Pharmacist,
Keeps a full line of Pure Drugs and Chemicals,
White Lead and Colors, Machine and Tanners'
Oils, Patent Medicines, Garden Seeds, and every
thing pertaining to the Drug business, which he
will sell at low prices.
March 28, 1H79.
WILSON & BURWELL,
WllOLKSALK AND IlKTAIL
Druggists,
Trade Strfrt, Charlotte, N. C.
August Hi, 1878.
J. P. McCombs, M. D.,
Il'ers his professional services to the citizens of
f hai lotte and surrounding country. All calls, both
.ight and day, promptly attended to.
Oiliee in Brown's building, up stairs, oppositethe
! 'harlotte Hotel.
Jan. 1. 1873.
DR. J. M. MILLER,
Charlotte, N. C
All calls promptly answered day and night.
Oiliee over Traders' National Bank Residence
opposite W. R. Myers'.
J::n. 18. IV. 8.
DR. M. A. BLAND,
D c n t i s t ,
(TI AliLOTTE, N. C.
oiliee iii Brown's building, opposite Charlotte
lb
Gru used for the painless extraction of teeth.
l-Yb. 1.. 1878.
DR. GEO. W. GRAHAM,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
I'r'ict i c e 1 i in i t e d to the
EYE, YAW AND THROAT.
Jan. ::o, 1SN)
ROBERT D. GRAHAM,
Attorney at Law
In the State and United States Courts.
Collections, home and foreign, solicited.
Abstracts of Titles, Surveys, &c, furnished for
compensation.
Oiliee: corner Trade and Tryon Streets,
Jan. '., 1880. yr Ciiaklottk, N. C.
A. BURWELL,
Attorney at Law,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Oiliee in the Brick building formerly occupied
by "Vance A; Burwell," near the Court House.
June 27. 187J.
RUFUS BARRINGER,
Attorney at Law,
Also, lends money on Real Estate or good collat
erals; negotiates loans, Ace. Bank rules and rates
strictly followed.
Charlotte, Dec. 21, 187'J ly-pd
T. M . PITTMAN,
Attorney at Law,
()vi.n.V (he Court Ho'ise, Ciiaklottk, N. C.,)
l'r.K lie. s in the State and U. S. Courts, and gives
prompt attention to business.
Wid negotiate loans.
May 28,' 1880. Urn
Watches, Clocks and Jewelry.
E . J . AL L E N ,
Near Irwin's corner, Trade Street,
( IIAKLOTTK, N. C,
P l ACT I C A L W ATC II-MAK Ell,
Repairing of Jewelry, Watches and Clock?
done;.t short notice and moderate prices.
April 17, 1870. y
HALES & FARRIOR,
Practical Watch-dealers and Jewelers,
Charlotte, N. C,
Keep a full stock of handsome Jewelry, and Clocks,
'J;; cueles, Ac, which they sell at fair prices.
liepuii ing'of Jewelry, Watches, Clopks, &c, done
promptly, and satisfaction assured.
Stoic iiext to Springs' corner building.
i-dv 1, 187!.
j. Mclaughlin & co.,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
Groceries, Provisions, &c.,
Colli-:.; k Stkkkt, Charlotte, N. C,
Sells Groceries at lowest rates for Cash,
and buys Country Produce at
jijjhcst market price.
I'ft" i Mil ton ami other country Produce sold cm
commission and prompt returns made.
SPRINGS & BURWELL,
Grocers and Provision Dealers,
Have always in stock Coffee, Sugar, Molasses,
Srups, Mackerel, Soups, Starch, Meat, Lard, Hams,
Flour, Grass Seeds, Plows, &c, which we oiler to
both the Wholesale ard Retail trade. All are in
vited to try us from the smallest to the largest
buyers.
Jan. 17, 1880.
.3?? Thejliessemer process of maaufte-
turing fcteeUfaas become so uecessfijr0
w II aa Krnnomical t hitt it. la now lioinor
. . f. . A I 4 . tzjit
utead of iron ...the construction of
very marked improvement in
' . ,
. ryur-
tei'ture. One ot" the effects of the substitu
tion of steel for iron is that the iame
strength, if not more, is obtained,' With con
siderable less weight, thereby: adding very
largely to the carrying capacity of vessels
So constructed. .The question of durability
is yet to be polvod. Although, under or
dinary uses, steel is found to be stronger
than iron, according to the opinion of some
scientists, the chemical action of salt water
upon it ii much more destructive than upon
iron. How far this theory will stand re
mains to be tceji. .
THE CHINA PALACE
OP
JOHN lil tO OK FIELD & CO.,
China Dinner and Tea Sets, Bohemian Vases and
Toilet Sets, China Motto Cups and Saucers and
Mugs, Lava Smoking Sets, Boxes. Rusts, &c.. Fancy
Wine and Licpior Sets, Dolls, fine selection of Irides
coat Glass.
Silver and Silver Plated Ware
In great variety. Fancy Work Stands, Boxes and
Baskets, Chinese and Japanese Fancy Goods,
Parian Marble Busts, etc. ; Alarm, Parlor and Sti ik
ing Clocks', Brackets, Frames, Wall-Pockets, Baby
Carriages and Wagons, etc., etc.
Come and see us and we will give you bargains.
Wholesale Buyers
Will do well to call. We have on hand a full
Stock of Crockery, Glassware, Lamp Goods, Tin
ware, etc. Fancy Goods at Wholesale.
Orders by mail promptly executed.
Very respectfully,
JOHN BROOKFIELD & CO.,
Trade Street.
MACON ACADEMY,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
The undersigned takes pleasure in announcing to
the public that he has connected himself with Prof.
OTTO COI1AIIN. a gentleman of high literary
attainments, and that the School will be organized
both with a view of affording a thorough business
education, and preparing boys to enter the Fresh
man and Sophomore classes in our best Colleges
and Universities.
English and Mathematics, of course, being the
principal branches taught, special attention will,
however, be paid to bo k-keeping, French and
German.
Tkhms f 40 and $00 per session of forty weeks,
to be paid quarterly in advance.
tW No extra charges made.
The session will open on the 13th of September,
1880. For circulars and any information desired,
please apply to Prof. O. Coiiahn, or at Tiddy's
Book Store.
W. A. BARRIER.
P. S. To accommodate a larger number of pu
pils the present building will lie enlarged.
Aug. 20, 1880. lm
Smokers Concede
rhat Dr. T. C. Smith keeps the best Five Cent
Cigar in the city six for a quarter.
July 0, 1880.
CLOVER
SEED.
CLOVER
txr BUSHELS FRESH
SEED for
WILSON & BURWELL.
July UO, 1880.
PLEASE READ THIS.
Complete Hurst of the Great Monopoly.
The following is the latest Price List of Ziegler
Bros.' goods, of which a complete line can be
found at
J. MOVER'S
Boot and Shoe Store,
Tuape Stukkt, Charlotte, N. C.
Best Pebble Goat Button Boots, French heel, $2.75
" Kid Bux Toe " " " ' 3 25
" " Fox " " " " 3.00
Serge " " 3 00
High Cui Kid Lace, " " " 3 00
" ' Fox Lace, " 44 2.50
" Kill Newport Ties, 44 " 2.50
" Kid Fox Lace Boots, plain heel, 2.25
41 Serge 44 44 44 44 2.25
44 Pebble Goat Congress Boots, 44 4 4 2 . 50
44 Serge 44 44 44 44 2.50
44 Kid Crimp Vamp Cong, boots, plain heel, 3 25
Finest French Kid Button Boots, French heel, 4.00
KIT" My Stock of Gents' goods cannot be sur
passed. Call and see them.
May 0. 1880. J. MOVER.
A. A. GASTON,
DEALER IN
Stoves, Tin-Ware
t i ww i r l
1HU uousc rurmsning uoous.
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
He keeps the largest stock of Stoves and Tin
Ware ever offered in this market. $100 reward
will be paid to any parly that ever sold a larger or
heavier Stove than the "Barley Sheaf." I have sold
the "Barley Sheaf " for eleven years.
Call at my Store under Central Hotel building,
and examine my stock.
EST" Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware manufactured to
order, and all Repairing promptly executed.
A. A. GASTON.
Feb. 1, 1373.
PHOTOGRAPHS
At greatly Reduced Prices.
Photographs of a superior quality can be had at
half the usual price bv calling on II. BAUMGAR
TEN, over Nisbet & Bro's Store.
FRAMES for Pictures of any size, at very low
figures, furnished at short notice.
II. BAUMGARTEN,
Over Nisbet & Bro.'n Store.
April 13. 1878.
Tailoring,
S. 8. KLAM, practical Tailor, has his Shop iu the
Democrat Office Building, second lloor, where he
will be pleased to serve his customers and friends
promptly. Particular attention paid to repairing
Rubber Belting.
A complete Stock of Rubber Belting, Rubber and
Hemp I kl-tg. Also, all sizes and kinds of Rope
at bo, tm prices.
Nov. 1. 1879. KYLE & HAMMOND.
v,'J)o we Eat too Much?
-; tfTom the London SUndarJ i
' . . . ...
'. ne amount oi noiinshxncnt which a t.er-
ecd s greatl yd epends on his cortslitti-
w u. .a i r aii iihx i ii i u inn :i mi u. t r u
8edentarv mau requires less than one whose
requires 1
duties demand the exercise of his muscles.
and a brain-worker needs more than an idler.
But unquestionably the majority of us take
more than we need. Indeed, food and work
are distributed most unequally. The man
of leisure is also the man of means, and, ac
cordingly fares sumptuously every day;
while the laborer toils for eight hours, ami
finds it difficult to get enough to repair the
wafte of his tissues. Yet a Chinaman or a
Bengalee will toil under a tropical sun, and
find a lew pence worth of rice or jowrah
sufficient tastaiahiRtrengtlu; A French
man will not eat half what an Englishman
engaged in the same work will demand, and
a Spanish laborer, content in ordinary times
with a watermelon and a bit of black bread,
will toil in the vineyards and grow fat on a
dietary of onion poridge and grapes. It is
true that Mr Brasscy, when building the
continental Railways, found that one En
glish navvy was worth a couple of spare-fed
foreigners. But, on the other hand, the
British Columbian and Californian gold
diggers, than whom a more magnificent set
of athlets does not exist, live in the remote
mountains of the Far West mainly on beans,
flavored with a few cubes of pork. But
they also obtain the best of water and the
purest of air, and their out-door life and ac
tive exercise en-ible them to digest every
ounce of their frugal fare. The English
soldiersthough better fed than those of
any army, except the American, do not get
one-half ihe amount of solid nutriment which
the idlest of club loungers considers indis
pensable for his sustenance. An athlete in
training is allowed even less food ; yet he
prospers on the limited fare, and prolongs
his life by the regimen to which he has been
subjected. King Victor Emanuel v. as a
monarch of the most robust physique, yet
he otdy ate one meal per day, and it is man
ifestly absurd for any man to require three
raori; or less weighty meals, and an after
noon cup of tea, to support the exertion of
walking to the club, tiding an hour in the
park, writing a note or two, and dancing a
couple of miles around a ball-room. The
ancients had their "amethustoi," or ' sober
stones," by which they regulated their in
dulgence at table. The moderns have not
even this. But they have their gout and
their livers to warn them, when it is too
late, that nature has been overtasked.
3?" When the U. S. Senate was
debating
the bill to admit classical antiquities free
of duty, Kirkwood of Iowa, managed to
tack on an amendment remitting the duty
on salt used in curing meat for export.
Classical antiquities atid salt, sentiment and
sausage! A Western man is nothing if not
practical.
Day Department,
CAROLINA MILITARY INSTITUTE.
The Superintendent of the Carolina Military
School announces that the Day Department will
be open as usual to the boys of the city, and the
immediate neighborhood. A Classical, as well as
an English course will be at the command of pa
trons of the Institute. Only the military cap will
be required in the way of uniform in this depart
ment. Arrangements have been made which en
ables the Superintendent to give more time than
heretofore to the younger cadets, and the day school
will be in charge of an experienced teacher, ami it
will be conducted in the new and commodious and
admirably ventilated hall, fitted up for the purpose.
Only so much of the military will be employed in
the case of the Junior Cadets as may be necessary
to improve the figure of the boy and give him an
easy and graceful bearing. Boys under ten, as a
general rule, will not be received. For the boys
attending the Institute there are beautiful and
ample play-grounds and fine water. The Super
intendent is gratified to announce that from present
appearances a large increase in his School is confi
dently expected.
The Session opens Sei'temuek loth, 1880. I he
Terms have been reduced; and poor boys will be
received at special rates.
J. P. THOMAS,
Sept. 3, 1880
Superintendent.
1880. FALL STOCK.
1880.
We are now receiving our Fall Stock of Gents'
Hand-Made, Machine and Cable-Sewed
Boots and Shoes,
All grades and prices. Ladies', Misses' and Child
rens', all prices and styles.
A pretty line of
Trunks, Valises and Satchels,
And the latest styles ot the celebrated STETSON
HATS. Also, lower grades in Frit, Saxony
Wool, &c.
Give us a trial.
PEG RAM & CO.
September 3, 1880.
For Farmers.
1 P OOO SHANK-HANDLE HOES, of the
jVywVy uest make, just received by
KYLE & HAMMOND.
Jan. 23, 1880.
Counters for Sale.
Eight or ten nice Store Counters, about 25 feet
long, for sale.
Apply at DEMOCRAT OFFICE.
Aug. 27, 18S0.
Grandest Opportunity
Ever Offered Merchants, Travelers
and Pleasure Seekers.
Excursion Tickets from Charlotte to Baltimore
and return $1G ;
From Charlotte to New Yoik and return, $2G,
Via Virginia Midland or Richmond, Fredericksburg
& Potomac, all liail. God on any train going
&ortu to Sept. 1st, and until Nov. 1st returning.
24 hours from Charlotte to New York 20 hours
quicker than by any other line. Secure tickets as
early as possible. " S. J. PERRY,
Aug. 13, 1880. Charlotte, N. C.
N. B. Don't forget to get a supply of Perry's
celebrated Bouquet Cigars (best 5 cent Cigars sold)
to puff on the way.
Smith's Worm Oil
Is not an Oil as its name would imply it is as thin
as water and has not a drop of Castor Oil in it.
It is a great worm expeller onlv 25 cents at
DR. T. C. SMITH'S DRUG STORE.
Save the Fragments.. .
There is a storv told of a window in an
English Cathedral that is, as an illustration
ol lite, many sidtd. It is said that in the
building of this Cathedral the architecthad
planned a number of stained glass windows
through which the light was to stream in
softened and many colored splendor upon
the worshippers. But as it approached
.completion it was found that there was one
window short. The Architect was. in de
spair, when an apprentice stepped forward
and offered to meet the want. lie had
marked that the workmen who made the
windows flung aside many a bit of glass as
though it were useless. These he carefully
gathered, and with them at odd hours of
leisure he fashioned a window. It was
brought out and .fitted intp the vacant
place, and when the Cathedral was finished
and the light streamed upon altar and priest,
it was seen the window made of the frag
ments was the finest of them all. In like
manner has many a m m accomplished great
things, in very deed the greatest, by seiz
ing and using the fragments of oppor. unity,
the odd moments of time others let slip by
or regarded as of little worth; in other
words, by taking care of the odds an 1 ends.
Notice the importance of "odds and ends
of opportunity." The most of life is not
made by embracing some one great oppor
tunity in any department of it activities.
Great opportunities come to but few people
and come but rarely. But there are many
which individually seem small and unim
portant, which if seen and embraced in the
aggregate produce great results. Take as
an example opportunities for the acquire
ment of knowledge. We have a way of
speaking of some men as having received a
liberal education, and others as si If educa
tors. In the truest sense every man must
educate himself. A man is not a bucket
into which knowledge can be pumped till
he is full. Whether he goes to college or
not every young man must be his own edu
cator. I have a great admiration an 1 sym
pathy for a young man who is pushing his
way without much outside help.
There is a disposition on the part of some
who have been through college, and all
they gained there seems to have tone
"through them," to speak contemptuously
of those who had not similar opportunities,
but who aro perhaps doing infinitely better
work. I can recall the time when such ex
pressions of disdain would sting me like a
whi-lash. lut now I glory in nothing
more than in this, that with hand and brain
I earned my bread ere I was out of my
teens, and gained an education by seizing
every opportunity to learn.
The best educated men are not mere col
lege graduates. This alone instead of fit
ting a man for life often unfits him. Said
Ho race Greeley in 1869, "I know there are
to-day one thousand college graduates
some of them having graduated with honor
at German Universities who are walking
the stony streets of New York and know
not how to earn a living." I do not object
to what they learned in college, but to what
they did not learn. I say of any education
that it should be such that if an educated
man should be by circumtancts compelled
to dig a ditch he should dig a better ditch
by reason of that education than any unin-
struejed man could dig. The best educated
man, my fiiends, is the man that has the
greatest amount of valuable knowledge
available for the practical purposes of life.
And such men you will find always are ob
servant, inquiring, thinking, careful toavail
themselves of every opportunity to learn.
Rev. Mr. Lloyd's Address to business
students.
The Girls at Long Branch.
Cincinnati Enquirer Letter.
; The thoroughly fashionable girl, as rep
resented at this Capital of frivolity, looks as
if she had stepped out of a picture painted
in the middle of the last century. bhe
droops her shoulders, represses her bosom
and humps her back until she is interest
ingly shaped like a consumptive in the
stages next preceding death. Her shoulder
blades show like rudimentary wings through
tfie thin muslin of her white dress, and her
hair is arrayed wiih angelic simplicity.
Over her shoulders and chest is a fichu like
the neckerchief familiar in the standard por
trait of Martha Washington. Her skirt is
gathered in at the waist and hangs as
straight and plain as an old-fashioned petti
coat to within fix inches of the ground.
The only suggestion of modern earthliness
is the glimpse of gay stockings underneath.
There are exceptions, however, to this gen
eral affectation of simplicity. A full-blooded
brunette, with a face of scarlet and am
ber, and a form as pliant and sinuous as a
well-fed cat's, wears rich, dark costumes.
One of her dresses makes every man turn
his head to look, yet it really makes no ex
pensive exhibition of her persor. The
sleeves are slashed at several points from
her rounded wrist to the top ot her plump
shoulder. Spaces of her smooth warm skin
are thus left bare, and with a wonderfully
alluring effect. If her arms were wholly
nude they would gain no more than a pass
ing glance; but these spots of exposure are
just enough, as I plainly see, to fix the male
eye upon her. She is well aware of this
and has a way of shrugging her shoulders
that brings dimples to the precise places
that are uncovered. The expressions of un
consciousness which t-he simultaneously as
sumes is worth goinr a mile to see.
pAi'iii: Ulaxkkts. Paper blankets are
a late invention, made of sheets of strong
colored paper, perforated with wadding be
tween alter the manner of carpet-lining.
They are said to be very light and warm,
giving as much warmth as two pairs of
woolen bbnkets weighing seven or eight
pounds.
Where to go when short of money
to work.
New York Characters.
The Matrimonial Brokers.
Marriage Ladies and Gentlemen Desirous of be
ing happily married will consult their interest by
applying to the undersigned, who gives all bis at
tention to this branch of business, and who has al
ready been very successful in bringing together
persons adapted to each other by similarity or
taste, temperament and sympathy. Terms reason
able. All communications strictly confidential.
Edward De Creville, Matrimonial Agency, 1267
Broadway, New York.
The readers of the News are no doubt
aware of the existence of stockbrokers, ship
brokers and cotton brokers, but the idea
of matrimonial brokers possibly never en
tered their imagination. That they exist
here the above adveitisement attests. It
is the easiest thinj in the world to get mar
ried in New York. You can proceed in the
slow,"1 orthodox way, with its accompani
ments of labial exercise, chocolate caramels,
moonlight excursions, etc., or choose the
rapid transit method, which consists of
going to a matrimonial broker's office,
"paying your money and taking your
choice," or as is frequently the case, your
choice taking you.
One would hardly think that such adver
tisements could attract customers. The
idea of seeking marriage before one has ex
perienced the affection that leads to it,
seems unnatural to persons who regard the
relation of the sexes sentimentally. Rut
the majority ot mortals here I mean men
are matter-ol-fact, and look upon every
thing in a purely practical way. They
marry as they buy a house or sell a horse,
invest in real estate or go abroad. The
reason they go un wedded is because they
don't find time to look for a wile. If any
one finds her lor them and throws her in
their way they take her as they would any
piece of property that seem desirable.
Matrimonial brokerage is merely match
making systematized. The brokers do for
money what amateurs do for excitement,
and from a passion for managing. They
have an uncertain trade, and yet more busi
ness than would be supposed. They don't
expect much custom from home or from
chics generally, but look for it from the
country people, to whom they send circu
lars soliciting patronage. Their mode of
procedure is interesting.
Peter Smith lives in Jones or Washing
ton county, and comes to town. He has
often read the above advertisement and
it has put the idea of a wife int his head,
lie has a small farm, is 35 or 3G years of
age, likes women, but is shy afraid of
them indeed, and consequently he has
never got along with them. "If I could
only get some fellow to do the courting,"
Peter has said to himself, (forgetting the
story of Paolo and Francesca,) "I'd been a
husband long ago." He goes to the broker
and announces the object of his viit. The
broker is always distrustful of strangers,
fearing they are not sincere, but after a few
minutes' talk he sees that Peter is too un
sophisticated to be guilty of a ruse. He
soon puts his customer at ease and tays
that he knows a number of elegant and ac
complished ladies who will suit him exactly.
"Perhaps I don't know what an elegant
and accomplished lady is," observes Peter,
"but I'm afraid its not exactly the sort I
want. I'd like a kind o' nice, good wife,
that wouldn't put on too much style, and
look down on a fellow because he wasn't
quite as good as her."
"Certainly ; : you need a good, domestic
woman who loves her own fireside and is
bound up in children."
"Well, if I had it my way," hesitatingly
remarks Mr Smith, "I'd rather she wouldn't
have any children that wasn't mine."
"Precisely. I mean yours, my dear sir.
I wish to say, when she had made you the
happy father of a beautiful offspring, that
she would devote herself to the family, be
an angel in her home, a presence of love
and peace, filling it with sunshine, and all
that sort of thing."
"Oh, yes, that is it," responds Smith,
caught by the cheap rhetoric of the broker.
"I have a lady in my mind now. I shall
charge you $10 for this interview, and if we
consummate the marriage you will, of
course, pay more. Call day after to-morrow."
As soon as Smith is gone the broker takes
a letter from a drawer and reads:
"Dear Sir : I should be willing to accept a hus
band who could come well-recommended; who
has good habits ; was well educated ; and was of a
domestic turn. I have some reputation f r beauty
and accomplishments ; am youne, although no
longtr a silly girl, and would, I think, be au orna
ment to a well-regulated household. Sincerely,
Bessie Makriox."
The broker drops a line to Miss Marrion
soliciting an interview. She comes, and is
not what might be anticipated from her
note. She is about 35, has a thin face,
faded blue eyes, high cheek bones, is
freckled, and anything but handsome and
elegant. She talks rapidly and is intelli
gent, though not very delicate or sensitive.
She has b.en a teacher and a seamstress,
has had a hard struggle with life, and see
ing the broker's advertisement one day
was tempted to write him by way of ex
periment. An interview is arranged for her and
Smith in the private office. They meet,
and are both disappointed.
"I would never have him," she thinks.
"I would not marry her for anything," he
says to himself.
After half an hour's conversation they
find themselves mistaken. They lather
like each other. He proves to be candid,
upright, independent, and good hearted.
She is amiable, affectionate and truthfnl.
When they have been acquainted three
days they believe they can get along to
gether. Smith pays the broker 125, takes
15es6ie Marrion to his farm as his wife, and
they have lived comfortably, rearing pump
kins and babies ever since.
The brokers are not men of very high
principle. They are willing to make money
in almost any way, and the marriages ar
ranged by thera rarely turn out well ; but
that happens so frequently under- all cir
cumstances that' it may be imjtrst ' to the
Frofession to make them responsible1 for it.
n a number of divorce cases in the Courts
it has been shown that lhet?6uple; seeking
separation became acquainted 'through the
matrimonial brokers,1 and'T do not think
this calling can ever have any legitimate
success. Gil. in HaleiQhNews.'r" 'V
. Turning to ' the Right.
. 1
Why does the. custom prevail of passing
to the right in driving? This query is
somewhat difficult of answer as tliejre are
no substantial facts that can be adduced in
explanation.- The custom originated, per
haps, in the early days. of.Ccw England
when the roads were passable onty to horse
men and ox tcajii. In driving, ox en the
custom has always been for the driver to
walk on the left side of the. cart in order to
better sec the road, make the require cal
culations f r teams passing .in the .opposite
direction, and also to enable him lojfarrup
the team with his right hand. In thin way
the two drivers came together, and any ac
cident by collision or interlocking of wheels
was thereby avoided. When the roads be
came settled and were accessible to lighter
vehicles, the ox-carts were, in a, degree,
superseded by the former, but the drivers
were probably the same, and consequently
retained their old-time habits. The custom
in England and most foreign countries, with
the exception of France, is to pass to the
left in traveling either by carriage or rail.
The English settlers of New England pro
bably retained this habit on their first en
trance to the new world, but were after
ward obliged to abandon it in view of the
exigencies of Iocomoting by oxen. If this
theory, and it appears reasonable, is ac
cepted, the custom of passing to the right
by our forefathers .was of course perpetua
ted to their descendants, and has thus been
handed down intact to the present day.
However the system of locomotion in
America now in vogue may Lave origina
ted, the custom is uncouth and sometimes
fraught with danger. Why a man who is
driving a very spirited or unruly horse
should sit on that side of the wagon furthest
removed from passing vehicles, and thus,
by his incapacity to obtain a full and clear
view of the road and his proximity to other
vehicles, engnder risk of limb or even life,
surpasses the common understanding. It
may be argued that he can better use his
whip hand in this position, but by passing
to the left he can still retain the use of the
right hand, and at the same time avoid the
danger of collision.
The same may be said of railway travel
ing. The engineer is located on the part of
the engine the furthest' removed from the
parallel tracks, and is thus prevented from
seeing any immediate obstruction or danger
that may imperil the salety of the train.
Until within a few years the Pennsylvania
Kailroad followed the English system of
passing to the left, but for some unaccount
able reason it has changed that method of
traveling for the prevailing American way.
Perhaps mechanics and scientific men may
be able to assign some plausible reason for
this custom, but to the average mind it is
inexplicable. Jut go to the right always.
m
Our Littleness in the Universe.
From the Popular Science Monthly for Sept.
Astronomers say that this world of ours,
which seems to us so large, is in fact so
small in comparison with the sun and stars,
that its presence or absence is, to the uni
verse, a matter of inconceivably small im
portance; and that, even in its own system,
would hardly be noted by an eye capable
of taking in at one view the sun and its at
tendant planets.
Sir John Herschel gives the following il
lustration of the size and distance of these
bodies: "Choose," he says, "any well
leveled field. On it place a globe two feet
in diameter; this will represent the sun;
Mercury will be represented by a grain of
mustard-seed on the circumference of a cir
cle 1 04 feet in diameter for its orbit ; Venus,
a pea in a circle of 284 feet in diameter;
the earth, also, a pea on a circle of 430 feet ;
Mars, a rather large pin's head in a circle
of 054 feet; Jupiter, a moderate-sized
orange in a circle nearly half a mile across;
Saturn, a smaller orange on a circle of four
fifths of a mile; Uranus, a full-sized cherry
upon the circumference of a circle more
than a mile and a half, and Neptune, a
good-sized plum on a circle two and a half
miles in diameter."
If our earth were struck out of existei.ee,
it would hardly be missed from such a sys
tem. Uut this is far from the extreme
measure of our littleness. The evening sky
is studded with stars. Between us and
them is empty space. As we look across it,
the distance does not seem so very great,
and even astronomers were long in learning
how great it is, and how utterly isolated
the sun with its train of planets is from
even the nearest star. Keeping the same
scale as before, in which our inconceivable
distance from the sun, ninety-two and one
third millions of miles, was reduced to a
dozen rods or so, and then setting out to
visit our neighbors, if we arc lucky enough
to turn our steps to the nearest, we find
before us a journey of nearly 9,000 miles,
Had we directed our course to any other of
the stars, our road M ould have been many
thousand miles longer. There arc stars
lrorn which light requires C,0C0 years to
reach our globe.
tn -
Hkais on Postage Stamps. So far the
heads on postage stamps arc as follows;
On the 1 cent tstampis the head of Benjamin
Franklin ; 2 cent stamp, Andrew Jackson ;
3 cent stamp, George Washington ; 5 cent
stamp, Zachary Taylor; 6 cent stamp, Abra
ham Lincoln ; 10 cent stamp, Thomas Jef
ferson ; 15 cent 6tamp, Daniel Webster; 31?
cent stamp, Alexander Hamilton ; 00 cent
stamp, Commodore Perry. A man must be
dead to be thus honored.