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H His H I H 1 W. S. TIPTON, I c t ll 0 ot, : pi v Hi.' the r i v. of) is 0 wit Ink Idp rial Mtni til' II " Iwfc ' SS a, a. aa. - TI.HMs: One oopy one year oo One copy nu month. oo One oopy three mouths 50 Binglo Oopiei 05 Experienoe hu Uogbt i not to print a newgpapar on credit. INDEPENDENT IN ALL THINGS: KFHI'ONHIBLE FOR NOTHING. VOL. VI. CLEVELAND, TENN., MAY 20, 1881. NO. 19. H t;n'ar rale- of adrerti-iog, 1 par aqnare fir-t inaeition, a'ji 5 ) Mall tacti auUeqaant HaMSUOB. Hual ru iK u mil be madi for ail adter UmduiuU f ir (mm .n-erti"i. - or over. Transitu' adirti.cniiui.) u.waye payable qaarUriy in . i.auce. SUrr.ages at J obituary uotioe, over out uiuare, ebv gt- J for at balf regular ratea. All loovi new. 10 oenta a ;rw for each in rertion. Mo notice, niiierted for lata than fifty ceul. The gaNjIftj i.l. 'Oh, eweet, sweet, svet," MM swallow sung, From the BCa) Ml buikUd liigli; And tin- rpliin'i. raptured c . ti . mug From Ma loafy perch oiosafby, "Oil, IWMt, rweat, sweii," rung the joyful MM "Oli, aweet, sweet is MM arid in June. "Oh, sweet, .wvet, sweet," tin. maiden said, A. MM twined hM bait with flower.; '"roin bird mid hi mum Ukl tOM) el Tlirougli tin- KiMg .in 1 .lifnl Ihihih. "oii,eii, amet, aweet," mag Dm J y fni time, ' Oli.sixei, Bivett, swe.t in tin- "ild in Juiu.' "Oh.swiet, twt'Ot, sweet," tlie swallow suug On HM summer's dying night ; And "sweet, hwr. t sweet," Hi,, i-oho rung, As tin' tobM plaavtrl tor Might; "Oh, sweet in tlm Hummer when junt begun, And nweot, aweet, Mini, when her lite in done.', Hut the maiden, never a word hhe naid, A she dunned her weeds of woo; Tho bird that sun;; in hat heart was dead, With the Hummer uf lung ago; The sweet, uwoi.t, sweet, of the bloom and bird An idle moeliing tier dull our heard. Oh, sweet, sweet, aweet is the whnlo glad earth When tlio summer days are hero; Aud sweet, sweet, sweet in the time of dearth, Though the autumn days are drear; If only deep the heart is heard The gladsome uoug of tho " Hinging bird. An Episode of Bidwcll's Bar. I tliink it is Emerson who says "When you pay for your ticket, and got into tbe oar, yon havo to guest what good oompany you shall And there. You buy mucil that is not rendered in the bUL I have found this remark etui neatly true ou several occasions, partion larlj Whan uiy life-long friend Ruth bears me company. Ruth is the most unconventional ol women. She travels, as she does every thing else, With whole-souled earnest ness, and finds bread where most peojih could gather only stones. Thus, re cently being in the rear ear of the lonj; train, she preferred standing upon the platform and drinking in at one draught that magnificent valley through which wo seemed Hying, than by tantalizing sips, as one has to do from behind a narrow oar window. I followed her. I always do. Aud, holding on to tho narrow railing, we felt somewhat like two lost comets whirling through space. Soon the door bohind us banged, and a gentleman in tho midsummer of life, with a face as classically beautiful as Edwin Booth's, and a waist of Falstailian dimensions, joined us. He beamed on us almost literally. From tho dimple in his lair, soft chin to tho ring of brown, silky hair which lay upon his broad, smooth forehead, tho expression scintillated with intelligent good nature. Withal, there was such a retrospective back ground to tho sunny brightness, that, after n few commonplaces, Ruth, the daring, honest, impudent creature, said, looking up meanwhile into his face with a smilo so honest and kindly that he would . have been a Berserker not to have reflected it: "Sir, permit mo to remark that you are a physical incongruity." "Not so bad as that, maduiu, I hope. 1 am merely a conductor, as by this time you have discovered, and a pretty well-balanced one, independent of my avoirdupois." "But your thoughtful face, sir, that is what perplexes me. It should belong to a body but one-third tho weight ot yours," suggested Ruth, tho wiso disci ple of Lavater. "Myfacois all right," he replied, stroking his cheeks aud chin with an ait of marvelous self-complacency. " It stopped growing ten years ago, but it is here, here," touching tho region of his diaphragm with tho tip of his front fore Unger, " that contentment and my rare good look shows itself. Oneo I was as thin as Peter Schemmel's shadow, and " he paused, looking into Ruth's clear gray eyes as if he would sound her soul's depths "I am strongly tempted to tell you my bit of romance, for there la a long stretch ahead, and you look like one of tho kind to enjoy a touch of nature. Isn't it so?" Tho conductor had struck the very key-note of our needs. We were pining for a veritable Oalifornian story, told in an unconventional way, outside the well read romances of Bret Harto and the Argonnul; to be told, too, under such peculiar circumstances would be an udded spice, and thus we besought him to immediately yield to temptation. "I am an old stager," he said, "at least as far back as tho spring of '50. With a blanket strapped upon my back, Ufty cents in my pants-pocket and the biggest stock of hopoaud untried energy that ever made a lad's heart as light as a balloon, I trumped along here in my search for the ' gold diggings.' My am bition was higher thuu those button yonder by thousands of feet, and the top was to be capped with solid gold," pointing as he spike to the throe sin gular and isolated peaks wo were just then passing, known as tho Marysville Buttes, whose volcanic heights looked as inaccessible to us as their peaks seemed brown and barren. "It appears to mo," said Ittttl eas- nring tho almost precipitous sides of those lofty and mysterious hills, "that when a man aspires to touch the sky ho would want a higher guerdon thau mere -.'"Id, not, however, that I hold tin metal in contempt." "1 bad, madam, and that was tin irht4c matter. 1 Has deaj erutely in love -that was a solemn fret expressed in M few words as possible and I be lieved that she loved DM, but the top ol Mount Shasta was not more unattain able to ape than Jennie. Her futher, an old Philadelphia druggist, had money, Bad I had none. He was proud as Luei fer, and as ambitious for his daughter is he Was proud. I felt that t dotted 'more a mountain if I could find I mountain to move, so Jennie and 1 said ood-bye one alternoon under an old ak in Faiimonnt park, and in the very leptha of my heart 1 believed she would I", tine to mo. It wus not a seven da,s' ride in u palace-car from New York to San Francisco those days, and the tall, deader, hungry, penniless lad who tramped along hero t wen ty-nino years igo, seeking his fortune liko another Dick Whittjngton, was a weary and home sick one, as well." " By ' here which you have twice used, do you mean this veritable valley of the Sacmmontor said Buth. " The very same. My objective point was a place now famous in the annuls ol that period, called 'Bid well's Dor on .recount of a rich bar in tho Feather rier, fidl of golden sand, which was discovered by General BidwelL The place was many miles from nie; the country was sparsely settled; 1 did not know a soul (for even tramps were learoa in thoso early days), and so my courage and nif logs gave out together. Pulling oft' my boots about 5 o'clock one sultry day, 1 bared my blistered feet to the cool evening breeze, and creeping into a clump of young man.anitzas, fell asleep, Imping that I would never again wake this side of the I tan. 1 did, however, eonsekus that my toes were being licked in a gentle fashion, and discovered that it was being done by a voting brown setter dog, about as iiungry-lookin and generally dilapi dated as I was myself. " Where he came from I never knew, but looking into his half human eyes, we speedily entered into a sort of dumb OOtnpaot to trudge on together. I found that the poor felloW (I never could call him a brute) had a sore knee, inflamed and bleeding. I tore a strip off from my last handkerchief to bind it up, and in place of the Good Samaritan's oil and wine, gave him my last scrap of cold bacon. It is strange, but forlorn as I was in those days, I recall them with a tender pleasure almost unaccountable. If I had been raised a Brahmin, I would have believed that some immortal spirit of unfailing cheerfulness and unending resources was imprisoned in that dog's body. Did you ever read tho. fairy le gend of 'The White Cat who, after she had persuaded tho young prince, hoi lover, to cut off her head and tail and throw them in the tire, suddenly stood before him a woman, as fair as Aur orn Fritz, for that Was the namo by which 1 culled the dug, looked at mo with Jen nie's brown eyes, half roguish, hall thoughtful, and together wo resumed our journey. Nor would I have follow ed in the wake of tho young prince, even had I known tho result would be similar, for Frit, the dog, was invalu able just as he was. All lonesomenoss was gone now that he rarely left my side, and although our shadows had grown less by the time we reached the ' Bar our immaterial entities were in prime order for anything in tho shape of adventure. ' Havo never seen any gold dug ?' Then I'll not at this late day spoil your first impressions of a miner's camp by describing mine, aslapproach od Bidwcll's Bar. 1 may say though that one might have supposed an earthquake or tomado had just been at work there, tear ing up the hundreds of thousands of cubic feet that had been moved und removed by mortal hands in their fran tic and persistent search for gold. "Tho 'bar' was a world in miniature. Almost every nationality was there rep resented, and almost every feature of human kind but humanity. Armed with a pick, pan and shovel, I, like hundreds of others, began to dig and burrow and wash dirt. But my labor and its results would not balance, foT somehow my little leather bag of gold dust grew no heavier, toil as I would, Wages Doing good 1 stopped digging, and hired myself as a camp scullion. I did every kind of jobbing within the rango of a miner's wants. Wishing ditty flannel shirts anil cotton overalls, patching leather trousers and cooking Sapiaoko is not the most dignified and flower-strewn path to fortune, you must know ; and to a boy, whoso ideas of chivalry, independence and deeds of knightly valor wore purely and intensely Ityronic, such a fate you must acknowl edge, was a sort of poetic justice. My aim, though, was to earn enough money with which to buy a certain claim of which I knew, and that I had, in ad vance, labeled 1 bonanza.' "I might have succeeded, but I was prostrated by a malarial fever, and for days and weeks lay unconscious at tho tender mercy of a few rough Welsh iniiiers with human hearts. My little hoard of money and my energy melted away together like spring snow. But for Fritz, I'd have died of disaptoiut,- inent l.iro, He hud s b plod the 1 never say die' motto, and I a-, often read in his glorious ryes Uifl sentence 'You great old cuwurd! At him again !' as a tender Mad appreciative Kyuiiathy which the gift of Mpcooh could not have made mole assuring. My nurses had pitched me a tout on the south side of a low bill, and left me to get well at my leis ure. My bottom dollar had dwindled into tho value of a dime, my legs intc ! the thjwnaai of a pair of tollgs (for all appetite was gone), and one evening hope failed me. Believing I was goinp to die, 1 resolved to do the fair thing let I Jennie, apprise her of the event, and advise her to forget me. By the dicker ing light of a bit of tallow asndlr, 1 commenced the letter- the first 1 bad written for months. I thought aloud as I wrote. Fritz luy beside me, hi nose wedged lietween hi.i fore paws, but 1 knew by tho twitching of Ilia enrs thai he understood every word I Was Writing. "I bad reached the climax of renuncia tion and wretchedness- or rather ni; expression of it when he suddenly rosi and went out. I soon hoard him pan big and scratching and tearing tho earth about six feet from me, as though he was under contract to dig a tunnel to China before daylight. Thinking he hfnl found the burrow of a wolf or a fox, 1 called him off, but he was as deaf as a rock to my voice. Seizing the earn! h 1 hurried to the spot, around which lay I half bushel if gravel, which he had loosened, whi n my eye caught the gleam of a dull rod streak that stained a piece uf rruarta about the size of an egg, lying among the fresh earth. Would you be lieve it f That streak was worth Oft dollars, for it was virgin gold. Nor was it the only one upon that hillside. Frit bad found a lode (thanks to a gopher), and I, thereby, had found a fortune. As soon as possible I had the gold ol that first precious stone wrought into a ring of my own designing; all of it, ut least, but the contents of one blunt cornel-, which, in its native roughness, I had mounted as a simple brooch. Sending these to Jennie, I " "An act of great generosity, sir, I think," interrupted Ruth, with a laugh ing glint in her eye. "One would have thought you'd have preserved such a piece of rare good fortune as a memo rial stone." " You anticipate me, madam. It was as a memorial that I sent my first bit of treasure, but I expected to get it back again within two years, and the girl with it." " And did you ?" "No; nor oven received a line of ac knowledgment that my oiler had been accepted. Nothing flndl gold quicker than gold, when a man has once got a fair share of it, and in two years I had, in various ways, secured S?U0,000. Investing it, as I thought, safely, I re lumed to Philadelphia in all the pride of a conquering hero. My story ought to end here; to wind up with the chime uf wedding bolls and u ' beautiful Ra chel' as my reward for faithful serving, but I hail scarcely arrived when I heard incidentally that Jennie had gone with her father to Europe, nor left one sign that she ever remembered me." " You certainly did not let that fact dampen tho ardor of your pursuit?" queried Ruth; "you followed her, of course ?" "Of course I did no such thing, madam. I returned to San Francisco and plunged into tho excitement of gold-hunting with a recklessness that a woman cannot understand. Six months after and I lost ovory dollar, but, by that time, I had learned that experience is worth nothing as solid capital until it has been dearly bought. I whistled my rhyme: Loss aud gain, pleasure ami pain, Balance the see-saw of life, In the sensitivo ears of my faithful Fritz, hugged his brown head close In my shoulder don't laugh, that dog was my friend rolled up my sleeves and again went to work with a vigor that I knew meant success if the vein hold out. It did, and five years after ward I had a bank account which ran largely into the thousands. I invested it iu land. By that lime I was a bach elor of thirty. Hard knocks and my one big disappointment had shaken all the romance out of me, and when I again went Fast it was on business connected with the construction of ( his railroad." "And you had quite out-lived yirnj boyish fancy, as your heart began to lose its youth?" said Ruth, with tho least bit of cynicism in her tone. "I think Fritz knew," said the con ductor, quietly, " I had become almost a misanthrope for his sake. If I left him to go into society such as we had for A few hours he either whined like a sick child or kept up siuh au increasing barking and baying that, to save him from being shot as a nuisance, I went to no place where it was impossible for him to accompany me. The old fellow went with mo oven to New York, and on tho journey I often caught myself cogi tating how habom in a wilderness of wild mustard, and as fond of camp-life as an Indian would take to tho con straints of an old city. 'Well, I had not boon in New York a week before there was a Btrong tugging at my heart to run down to Philadelphia. Not that it was hi Hue fur in, for my parents had died before 1 fltaf left if. 1 nailed the rh sin ' the cliariu of asmiei.it ion,' and It led me i to decide at once to run over to the Quaker city. " There, as I first Went down Arch street, my poor dug lost liir wits and the sober dignity of his muturity. Ho hud '. a remarkably tine scent, I always knew ! that; but no sooner had wo turned into tlutt particular street than, with nose I close to the ground and rigid tail, he ; ran zig-zag to and fro as though he was ' on the trail of an erratic fox. I called to him, hut he gave no hod. People l got out of his way. The gamins shout ed, and with a wild, shrill bark, he rod lattly bounded into th doorway of a large dry foods store. bounded aflei I him in UflM to see him rush up to a lady in black who was examining some gloves and dance uround her with signs of the most extravagant joy. There are tones that live without the aid of pho nographs. ' Roy ! Hoy ! Dear old Roy ! was all she said, but I'd have sworn the voice was Jennie's if I heard it on the summit of Mount Blanc. A white hand was laid upon his head, and my ring was on the hand." He panned. "Yours? Sir, I hope you did not claim it," said his practical collocutor. " I did, and the hand which wore it just as I originally intended." Nor did Alexander, in his hour of greatest con quest, ever smile a more serene approval of himself than our conductor at this stage of his story. "But tho conduct of Fritz, and tho lady's silence, and all the queer con comitants which exist only in fiction--how do yon reconcile them with an 'ow'r true tale!' " said Ruth, the truth loving. " Fritz was Roy, the Roy who had often been Caressed by Jennie before his young master, Jennie's cousin, got the gold fever, when I did, an! came to California never to return. Jennie had written, but her letter never reached me. She thought me dead. Why the dog came to mo, when his master died, is one among the riddles of my life which I will disentangle in the here after." "And to-day where is she?" He stood waiting for the question. " On our ranch near Sacramento, and 1 belicvo one of the happiest women in the State. We have a boy ten years old whose name is Fritz, and all the dearer for the sake of the old friend who has long since gone where I hope die day to meet the human of him. 1 wish you could stop oil' a while and set my wife. Queer, isn't it, that I should have intruded this bit of private history upon you, but the truth is . Yes, coming. I'll bo with you again, ladies " A brakeniau beckoned him inside, and we had seen the last of our handsome conductor. The evening shadows had begun to lengthen. The setting sun had turned the vast plain of the Sacramento valley into a " field of the cloth of gold," and the distant peaks of the Sierra, clad in their eternal snows, but now rose-tinted and glowing, seemed to eh avo the azuri above them as with a wedge of burnish ed silver. It was starlight when we reached the end of our car ride and were registered for the night. " The conductor's story was a pleas ant little episode, Ruth, wasn't it? Dc you believe it all happened?" I askei is I leaned from my pillow to hers U oavfl a good-night kiss on her round chock. "I liko Fritz," was -her sleepy an swer. " There's an instinct about some dogs that the half of mankind can neither appreciate nor attain. I trust a man whom a good dog loves." San Francisco Ary annul. ll Certainly Taus. If what Fdisou says is true the electric arc light is doomed, for it will find every lady in tho land its im placable foe. " Will the electric light tan the face?" Edison was asked. "Tan ? The arc light ?" said Mr. Edison. "Tan a man?" (With alacrity.) "Well, 1 should say so. Why, I was working for a couple of hours trying to fuse some metal in an arc of 20,0110 candlo-power. When I got through my skin ww copper-colored as nn Indian's, aud that night my face burned as if I had been roasting it, and my eyes I thought would jump right out of their sockets. I tore the bed clothes all to pieoes and got up and tore the Carpet to shreds. It laid mo up for three days, and tho skin nil peeled off my face. One of my assistants worked less than an hour with tho same light and it tanned his hide a brown as a butternut. It made him blind, too, and it was three days before tho scales came off his eyos, and his skin come off in great patches. When we did not work so near tho light, or had a light that was not so strong, it did not use us up so badly, but the arc light will tan, and no one who has had any experience with it will deny it." He also said ground glass globes would somewhat modify the effect of the light in this respect, while tho incandescent light, except when very intense, would not tan tho skin. A number of other electricians agreed with tho Menlo Park wizard, whilo some were doubtful. 7Viv Times. ( I mors PACTS. There is a stalui iHte cave tit I lerchborg, ! Austria, in which the jaw -bone of man, with the teeth well preserved, has ! bmaj found among a pleiitifnl deposit ot i the remains of the Ursus splca-us. From statistic of deaths from acil i lent, negligence, violence and misad I venture compiled in Great Britain, Mr. J Cornelius Walford infers that tho risk to life and limb increases in a certain i ratio with the progress of civilization t conclur ion whieh will evidently bear j very considerable qualification. Some shells lately received from Lakes ' Tanganyika, N'yassa, and other like ; waters of Africa, at the British Mu. . nm. I are of great value to naturalists, because . they bear several maiks of having been j tiio defendants of certain marine uncos , tors. Mr. Edgar A Smith read a com munication on the nature and structure of these shells at a meeting of the Zoological society, London, February 15. In a paiwr on dew and fogs neri Dines says that morning fog along a river course arises when tho water is warmer than the air over it, the evap oration going on more quickly than tho vapor can be carried away, and is, therefore, condensed and sj Head as fog. The evening fog on moist, low-lying meadow land he attributes to a lower ing temperature of the grass surface by radiation, and a consequent condensa tion of the aqueous vapor in the lowest layers of the atmosphere. Statistics show that since 1&M then has been an increase of risk from light ning in various parts of Germany, Aus ria and Switzerland, while there is ho corresponding increase in the uuii.bei of thunder-storms. Herr Holtz, who has been investigating the matter, in clines to the belief that tho causes fot tho greater liability of danger from lightning an to be sought in the changes produced of late by man on the surface of thu earth; such as the clearing ol orests, tho increase of railroads, and ol the great use made cf iron iu tho con st nation of houses. Bravery of Female Soldiers. Femalo soldiers have been more nu merous in foreign armies than in the English service, f may mention a few. In the French army, for instance, there were (among ot hers) Louise Houssaye deBsnnea, who served from 1702 to 1795, and was at Qatberon; Angalique ittulon (neo Duehemin, for sho was married), sons-Lieutenant of infantry, decoree with the Legion of Honor, w ho was born in 1772, and died, I believe, in tho Invaiides about 1859; Thereso Fig tieur, who served as a dragoon for four teen years, from 171 IS to 112, and had four horses killed under her; she died in 1861, at the ago of eighty-sovon, in tho Hospice des Fetits Menages at Paris; Nirginio Chosiiieres, who served during the Peninsular war as a sergeant in the Twenty-seventh regiment, ami died in 1873. Louisa ScanagQiti was a lieutenant of infantry in tho Austrian or Sardinian army during the Napoleon wars. Marietta Qinliani and Hermiuia Kfanelli fought nn lord iribaldi in Ls;c; Ucrminia was at the battle of Oustozta. Augusta Kroger fought in tho war of liberation against the French as a bub- altern in the .Ninth ntuutfan regiment, and was decoree with the Iron Cross and tho Russian order o.f St. George; sho (after leaving tho army) married a brother officer in fHlti, and in her grandson received a commission in his grandmother's regimeut. Bertha Weiss b said to have fought at Spiohoron in 1S70, but I am not sure that her ease is genuine. Tho most recent instances that I know of are the following three: A young Russian ollicer (her name ;s not given) whom the Times OORespon i cut, on September 5i9, 177, reported to have fallen at. Kacelyevo, after display ing the most brilliant gallantry in rally ing her men against the Turks: Svlna Mariolti, a private in the Eleventh battalion of Bersaglicri, who served from ISOli to 1H78, and who fought at Onstozaaj and Dolores Bodriguez, cor poral (at tho ago of eighteen) in the First regiment of Peruvian Sappers. She, it appear.", fought in tho present South American wars, and is still in MI? vice. Nut' s and Quoin. Telegraph Statistic. In 184 I there were forty miles of line and no w ires. In 1818 there were 3,000 miles of line and 11,000 miles of wire. In 1858 there were 14,670 miles ot line and 23,018 miles of Wire. In U 60 there were 17,692 miles of lice ami 2'i.'!7.") miles of wire. In lWt5 there were 20,412 miles ol line and 50,211-1 miles of w ire. In 1R70 there wore 68,408 miles ol line and 107,2-15 miles of wire. In 1877 there were 111,052 mil 61 ol hue and 257,074 miles of wire, In 1680 there were 142,:j(il miles ol lino and .'(50,018 miles of w.re. The iirst line of telegraph in the Pin ted States was established between Hal timort and .Washington in 1H41. His was tho Morse plan, whieh has since be come the almost universal system of the world. Fifty million tin stages wen sent during tho year 18S0 Tho compa nies employ 21,000 persons, and have 11,000 offices. ' P. J. WHCnMlbK CaalUnoega, Tclij. IJirOHKIt PICKENS, CtovcUnd, Tenn. D. J. WHITESIDE & CO, DEALERS IN HATS, CAPS, Cents' Fine Furnishing Goods, ' 211 MARKET STREET, Chattanooga. Tenn. SHIRTS MADE TO ORDER april 26-1 1 BUILDING AX K.l (mi. Tin hi nil ol lIouM-M Petals I i" iu Near thr Rarta role. The builder selects snow of the propel consistency by sounding a drift with t cane made for the purpose of reindeei horn, straightened by steaming, and worked down to about half an inch is diameter, w ith a ferule of walrus tusk 01 the tooth of a bear on the bottom. By thrusting this into the snow he can tell whether t e layers deposited bysucces bivo winds are separated by bands ol soft snow, which would cause theblockt to break. When tho snow is selected he digs a pit to the depth of eight ecr Inches or two feet, or about the length of the snow block. He then steps ink the pit and proceeds to cut out tin blocks by first cutting down at tho eud of the pit and then at tho bottom af tenrard, cutting a little channel about an Inch or two deep, making the thick ness oi tho proposed block. Now comet the part that requires practice to ac oompliah succi ssfnlly. Tho expert will with a few thrusts of his knife in just the right places split off the snow block and lift it carefully out to await removal to its position on the wall. The tyre will almOct inevitably break the block into two or three pieces, Utterly unfit for the use of the builder. When twe men are building au igloo one cuts (lit blocks and the other erects the wall. M'heu sufficient blocks havo beeu out out t3 commence work with the buildei marks with his eye, or perhaps draws a lino with his knife, describing the cir oumferenee of the building, usually ii circle about ten or twelve feet in diame ter. The first row of blocks is then arranged, the blocks placed so as to in cline inward and resting against each other at the ends-, thus.iffording mutual support. When this row is completed the builder cuts away the first and sec ond blocks, slanting in from the ground upward, so that tho second tier, resting upon tho first row, can bo continued on and around spirally, aud by gradually increasing ihc inward slant a perfect dome is constructed uf such strength that tho builder ean lie flat upon the outside while chinking tho interstices between the blocks. Tho chinking, is however, usually done by women and children ns the building progresses, and additional protection secured from the winds in very cold weather by bank ing up, with a large wooden snow shovel, the snow at the base often being piled to the depth of three or four feet. This makes the igloo perfectly imper vious to the wind in the most tempest uous weather. When tho house is completed tho builders are walled in. Then a small hole about two feet sipiaro is cut in the wall on the side away from where the entrance is to be located and is used to pass in the lamps and bedding. It is then walled up and the regular door cut tibont two feet high and niched at the top. It would bring bad luck to carry the bedding into the igloo by the same door it would bo taken out. Before the door is opened tho bed in Constructed of snow blocks, and made from one to three or four feet high, and occupies three-fourths of the entire sjiace. The higher tho bed and the lower tho door tho warmer the igloo will Fmm an Artie ExplorWt lieminisaiiices. He Lost by II. A Oriswold street lawyer was looking out of his window yesterday when he recognized a familiar figure and made hurried preparations!) vacate his room, leaving on the desk a card bearing the legend: "Gone over to circuit court be back iu two hours.'' lie was scarcely out of sight when i In individual seen from the window entered the room, read the card, and at once planted himself in a chair with the look of a man who meant to sit right then for twico two hours if necessary. Hut it wasn't necessary. Ho left the room iti about half an hour, and the owner hur ried back to find a note reading: "DsAS Hut -1 came up this mominj to borrow 96 of yon to help mo out on my board. You were not in, but one ol your Client! has called and loft 10. have receipted for tho inoimy in youi name, and will consider it asaleiau until I see you again. Ta-ta." Tho lawyer wasn't over ten secomh realizing that he eonhl havo saved 90 b staying there and lending as much, and he wasn't of any good tho rost of the day. iVefl Press. SNYDER'S CURATIVE PADS! THE M03T WONDERFUL HEALTH HBSrORERU KNOWN TO MEDICAL SCIENCE. Are worn externally. We make three dif ferent kwaV, No 1, 3 sod 3. No. 1, For Chills and Fever, Dyspepsia. Ia ingestion. Bilionane a, hick and Nerrotia Henri Ache, aud all diaeane. arising from a Ten id Liver. The most etttctive lilood Fcrifier a tant;piven atreDgth to tho weak and debilita ted. Prioe, 2. No. 2. For Female Woaknese and .rregulari tie., Falling Womb, White.; enrioheK tlm blood, purifies the secretions and strengthens wi-aklv and delicate females. Prio No.'S. For Kidney, Bpino. and Bladder Affec tions, Bright'. Disease, Dabetx-s, Lame or Weak Back, Toue. up Titality and rontons lost energy. Trioe $3. If yonr drugeists. does not keep ' BmfDENS CURATIVE PADS," and will not get ono ft yon do not i it him palm off worthlusa imita tion., bnt m. ml the prioe to ns in a letter, au) we will mail them to you. Addreas E. F. BNYDER A CO , 113 W. 4th Bt., Cincinnati, Ohio. For sale by JNO. D. TRAYNOR, marohl-ly Druggist, Cleveland, Tent,. THE HERALD Job Office la prepared to print anything in the line of LETTER-HEADS, BILL-HEAD 3, NOTE-HEAD, VBIl'INQ 0ARD9 tUSINESS CARDS. SHOW-BILL5!, ALL SIZECtnCDLXRS, TOiTERS, Aa., Ac We have a. fine Presses as any oflno iu the South, and will guarantee all our work to glf satisfaction. We print in live oolors whan ilt aired, at but .mall xtra jt. Justioea and Clerk, of Courts furuislieJ Blanks on short notioe as chean an any ofticu. Sample, of Job Work and Piioea sent on applioatiou. Adaro.. W. 8. TU'l'OV, Proprietor ClaTultud, Tenn. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Opium kills 8,000,000 Chinese every year; so the missionaries say. An Illinois butter factory uses up two hundred thousand pounds of milk a day. It is easy to pick holes in other peo ple's work, but far more profit able to do bettor work yourself. Cicero has said of men : "They are like wines ; age sours tho bad and bet ters the good." We ean say that mis fortune has the same effect upon them. 1). 0. Mills, the California millionaire, has paid 11,400,000 for a lot on Wall street, and will put up a building on it to cost as much more. The oldest church in the Slate of Now York is in Tnrrytown. It is built ol stone and brick, tho latter having been Imported from Holland for tho express purpose, It has an antique belfry, liigli w indows placed aboe the range ot Indian arrows, aud hipped roof, A quantity of Hour was exposed by a Fran oh experimenter to a pressure of BOO tons, reducing it to one-fourth its original bulk. A portion of it was then put ill cans and sealed, tho tame being done with soino impressed flour. A year afterward the cans were opened, when the impressed Hour was found to be spoiled, while tho pressed wns in ex cellent preservation. Hpealong Of smallpox, the surgeon in charge Of tbe unellpOX hospital in Chi cago says: In Cincinnati there died in 1872, 1,171) ; in 1H7.'I, (158 ; in 1870, 7'2'i; in 1876, m. For 187J tho death rato In the Btate of Wisconsin, where (here was no hospital was 211.25 per cent,; in the city ef Montreal it was 2H.4.'I pel cent., and in Chicago it was nearly 17 per cent. In Chicago, the cases treated at the hospital within three years num. bored .'110, and the deaths during that period were 40. This was a record which had never been equaled in London, Bngland, during a period of one hundred and nineteen years. aaUSM