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 he, with J. B. Finlay, each versal. Even little toddlers are con ments than in our own, no trace is as he could on crackers and water, and
 packing one end of a box placed on a firmed in the habit, and the appetiteseems found of this singular practice of ex- was found one day in his office dead
 table, packed a box in one minute anda to increase with time. While clusion. Out of the 639 members of from lack of nourishment. He should
 quarter, or one box in two minutes investigating the matter, I entered a the last English Parliament only 122 never have entered the legal profes-
 and a half to the man-176 in a box. cabin occupied by one of these poor were lawyers ; that is, less than one- sion, for he had no ability in that di-
 They also packed seven boxes in ten families, and saw a little chap tied by fifth ; eighty-four of the members were i rection. As a farmer or a mechanic,
 minutes-176 size. The time was the anlke to the leg of a table, on whichwas classed as authors, journalists, physi- he might have lived a long,useful and
 taken by Mr. Jno.Sauls,who was then placed a big dish of bread, meat cians, surgeons, etc.; eighteen were successful life.
 superintendent of the De Bary groves. and potatoes within easy reach, The connected with the liquor interest; two "No boy, of course, should enter a
 Great preparations are being made child was kicking and crying, and T were laborers-one a mason and the i trade unless he feels himself fitted for
 for the Tenth Annual Carnival at asked his mother why she had tied other a miner-and 153 were manu- it ; but, on the other hand, he shouldnot
 Daytona ; also, for the tournamentand him up. She replied that she wanted facturers, merchants, ship-owners, it seems to me, let the false pride
 other games, on Washington's him to eat some food before he went traders, or were otherwise directly against manual labor, which now pre-
 birthday, at Ormond, and the fancy out to the clay and he refused to do so. connected with trading or commercial vails to such a wide extent in our
 dress ball to be held that evening. The woman confessed that she ate the interests. In other words, in the Brit- country, prevent him from endeavor-
 Quite a party from Jacksonville will clay herself: but explained that the ish Parliament the contingent of busi- ing to do better work with his hands
 attend the festivities at Ormond, Pres- child's health demanded that it eat ness men was larger than that which than in his inmost thoughts he knowshe
 ident White having proffered a spe- some substantial food before eatingany represented the legal profession, and, can do with his head."
 cial train, with open observation cars, earth. Almost every one I met it may be remarked,furnished some of -- --a-- -
 to take them from the St. Johns riverto in this section was addicted to this I the ablest leaders in the House of Corns Business Education.The .
 the rails' end, where they will be habit. They were all very thin, mons. American Grocer says: "The
 met bv 01 teams from Ormond. their flesh seemed to be puffed out. In France the representation is diversified importance and necessity of an educa-
 The Ormond planters, having no This was particularly noticeable about in very much the same wayas tion that will fit a man for businesslife
 more work to do on the orange crop, the eyes, which had a sort of reddish it is in Great Britain, although has often been urged in these col-
 are all industriously planting their hue. there a prominence is given to the umns. Our colleges and universities
 rich hammock clearings to vegetables, "All of the clay eaters were excess- profession of journalism in parliamentary excellent as they may be, do not givea
 and will ship them over the White ively lazy and indolent, and all these representation that is not to be young man that practical insightinto
 railroad. X. conditions combined led me to the conclusion found in any other country. But commercial affairs which he may
 that there must be some sedative amongst its members of the Senate desire to gain ; and when such a youngman
 The Clay Eaters of North Carolina.It or stimulating qualities, or both, and the Chambers of Deputies a large enters into business or public life
 has been a matter of speculationfor in the clay, and I determined to find number is to be found\ whose occupa- he must not only unlearn many thingsbut
 years as to why the "poor white out whether there was or not. I con- tion outside of their public duties is must acquire what is necessary by
 trash" of central North Carolina ate sequently brought a lot of the clay purely merchantile in its character, i experience. For the attainment of
 clay that is found in that part of the home with me, and Prof. Tiernan and and who are thus well fitted to speak such practical knowledge as this a
 country. It remained for a Philadel- myself made an analysis of the stuff, and vote on questions affecting the great step forward( has recently been
 phia physician to solve the mystery.A and discovered that, instead of clay trade and commerce of their country.In made. Some time ago Mr. Joseph
 short time ago Dr. Frank H. Getchell eaters the inhabitants of central North the Congress of the United States Wharton, of Philadelphia. seeing the
 of 1432 Spruce street, went on a Carolina should more properly be this healthy, because diversified, representation need of such aid, made a proposition,
 gunning expedition to North Carolina. called arsenic eaters. All of this clay does not seem to be found. which has been accepted, to the trustees -
 His quest for game led him into the contains arsenic, but exactly in what In the Senate, if one excludes those of the University of Pennsylvania,
 wild country back of Salisbury, whichis proportion we have not yet discovered. who have obviously purchased their to establish and maintain in connection -
 inhabited for the most part by a mis- Arsenic eating is common in many seats, only one or two Senators are left with the University, "The Wharton -
 erable race of beings with only just parts of the world, and is practiced to who are not lawyers by profession. In School of Finance and Economy."
 enough energy to eke out a wretched'i a greater or less extent throughoutthe the House of Representatives the disproportionate fIe states that the object of this school
 existence. These creatures are all world. It acts as a sedative and representation of lawyersis shall be "to provide fur young men
 veritable living skeletons, and, with also as astimulant. The mountaineersof almost as great, while in the high special means of training and of
 few exceptions, are addicted to the Styria, Austria, are habitual arsenic Cabinet and other prominent official correct instruction in the knowledgeand
 habit of clay eating. eaters. They are better able to climb positions under this, as under preced- in the arts of modern finance and
 While shooting wild turkey and the mountains after eating the poison, ing administrations, it seems to be con- economy, both public and private, in
 other game in this wild region, Dr. and their explanation is a perfectly reasonable sidered necessary to fill almost every order that, being well informed and
 Getchell made an incidental study of one, as arsenic acts as a seda- vacancy that may occur by applicants free from delusions upon these important -.
 this peculiar habit or vice among the tive to the heart's action. This habit selected from this particular class. subjects, they may either serve
 inhabitants. It is a mountaneous is also prevalent in the Tyrol and on .. the community skillfully as well as
 country, and in the spring little rivu- the Alps.-Philadelphia Times. Trades for Our Boys. faithfully in offices of trust, or, remain-
 lets start out from the caps of snow on .. .* George J. Manson, in St. Nicholas, ing in private life, may prudently
 the mountains, and as the days grow Preponderance of Lawyers. i says: "The trades in our country, of manage their own affairs and aid in
 warmer the little rivulets become tor- The Boston Herald says that it has I late years, have almost been monopo- maintaining sound financial morality ;
 rents, and great washouts are being been recently pointed out, in speakingof lized by foreigners. The American in short, to establish means for imparting -
 made along the mountain side. The the death of Vice-President Hen- boy, however, when he does take a a liberal education in all matters
 soil is of a heavy clayey nature ; but dricks, that it is almost as necessary in trade, goes straight on to the top of concerning finance and economy."
 there are strata of clay that is heavier this country for a man to be a memberof the ladder. It seems as if our boys I -.- ---
 than the rest, and when the water rushes the legal profession as it is for himto would rather be fourth-rate lawyers or A HARDY EUCAL YIJrfU8.-A French
 down, this clay is formed into little be an American citizen. Why, ina physicians than earn their living by journal describes a species of eucalyptus -
 pellets and rolls and accumulates in practical mercantile community, working with their hands. Only the which has stood five successive
 heaps in the valley. These little pellets such as our own, this undue prefer. other day, I read in a New York news- winters without injury. Of the fifty-
 and rolls are what the clay eaters ence should be given to the membersof paper of a young lawyer in a distant five species which have been tried,
 devour with as much avidity as a toper a single occupation or profession, it city, whom I knew some years ago this is the only one which has proved
 swallows a glass of whisky. would be exceedingly difficult to say. when I resided in that section of the quite hardy at Pau, where the ther-
 "Among the poor people of this sec- In other countries, where tradition and country, who literally starved to death mometer went down below zero. It ia
 tion," said Dr. Getchell, yesterday, usage have ordinarily much greater He made scarcely any money, was too of slower growth than the tender
 "the habit of eating clay is almost uni- power in controlling political move- proud to tell of his want, lived as long species. Its specific name is not given

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