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> THE TRIBUNE VOL. I.?NO. 43. BEAUFORT, S. ., SEPTEMBER 13, 1875. $1.50 PER ANNUM. They Two. A fancier of a magazine fell in with the following lines: identity. Somewhere?in desolate, wide-swept space? Id twilight land, in no-man's laud ? Two huirying sliapos mot face to face, And bade each other stand. " And who are you ?" cried one, agapo, Shuddering in the gloaming light. "I do not know," said the Becond shape, " I only died last night." After pondering them for three days his muse began to hum in the same time, and tlio following was found upon his table the morning after he was sent to a jirivate asylum: couldn't tell. Nowhere?ill the midnight, wiud-swopt streot, In Muddle town, in No Hum town? Two staggering shapes, colliding, meet, And kuock each other down. " Say, who are yon ?" cries one, wboD np, Hiccoughing, with a drunken face. " I dou't (hio) know," says t'other chap, " I'm a stranger 'n this place." MY AUNT'S STORY. "Oh, AuutPam, how shall I mako Jack a little moro dignified ? I want to bo proud as well as fond of him. He's too silly, too demonstrative; how can I cure him ? Aunt Pam, advise me!" Aunt Pamela looked at Belle irresolutely for a moment, then beckoned to Hannah to take the tea away. " I'll tell you a story, Bollo," she said, " if you'll listen to it. I'll tell you how somebody you know came to be a cross, queer old maid?a whimsical, spiteful, lonely, desolate old woman." "I dou't know any such person," cried Belle. " Yos, you do, child; you'll recognize lior portrait when it's drawn. But at your age, dear, she was, I think, passably pretty aud attractive; in fact, you won't believe it, but this heroine of mine was very like you when she was in the lievdav of vnnkh." 44 Hiul she roil liair, nnnt, like mine ?" 4 4 Yes, and the brilliant complexion and high temper that go with it. She was only eighteen when she became the dofendant in a case where all the little property she had in the world was at stake. She was already an orphan, and would have been a beggar hod it not been for the wonderful zeal and ability of her legal adviser?Mr. Reginald Vickers. Long before the cose was decided in her behalf she nail grown to look forward to the nooessnry legal consultations as the brightest moments of her life, though not a word of love had passed between them. In truth, Belle, the lady of our story, whom we will call by my own old-fashioned name of Pamela, had a warm heart under a very cold exterior, and although she knew how to love well and devotedly, could not shape her sentiment to suit the somewhat energotie and passionate devotion of the young barrister. " 4 You are so cold, Pamela,' he would say; 4 one might as well have a bit of archaeology in the shape of one of the mutilated Grecian goddesses for an idol. I whisper ever so many pretty things in your ear, and one would think they stopped at the tympanum, for not the faint est blush tinge* your marble cheek, and the chiseled splendor of your profile remaws as if carved in stone.' " And all this time, Belle, every word of his had been like an electric shock of bliss to her enraptured soul, and she scarcely knew whether she was in paradise or upon the earth. " When her engagement had reached on epoch devoted to the bridal trousseau, she became very much the property of certain relatives and their chosen seamstresses; there wus so much of trying on, of comparing and choosing, that very little time was left for Reginald, of which ho complained most bitterly ; and when the convention adjourned to the country to arrange further preliminaries for the coming happiness, Reginald declared he would follow her very soon. " It was weather such as this, Belle, in the month of May ; and the very morning of her journey the luckless Pamela offended Reginald by repulsiig liim in what she held an unbefitting levity and fumiliarity. He had but twirled her about the room two or three times, caroling out in his gleeful way. * " Pamela bade him somewhat haughtilv to desist- wllinh ll? ill.l until a fwiwn anil wont immediately out of her prosonce, nor did alio see aim again until he bade her a cold farewell at the window of tlio railway car. So alio went upon her way almost broken-hearted, and had no joy in the vernal landscape, nor, indeed, could ahe see Held, or poet, or flying bits of beauty for the tears that dimmed her sight. She took herself to task, and vowed that, come what would, when Reginald should meet her again, sho would welcome him warmly, even should ho enter tho house by way of a somersault. " Nevertheless, sho found herself hoping that his lirst visit among these simple country folk would prove to them that he was altogether a superior being, not fashioned after the same clay as tliemsolves?picturing him aa she had so often scon him when deep in legal controversy, his high whito brow bent into a frown, his eyes glowing with a secret flre, words falling out of liia mouth like molten coals upon tho heads of his adversaries ; only some honest, faithful hearts that loved her far beyond her dosert. " Reginald reached tho farm one balmy ev? ning, riding from the train in a convenient ox-cart, his traveling suit of gray and broad straw hat, his flowing neck-tie and tho air of easy nonchalanco and careless simplicity about him, gravely vexing his betrothed. He had not been half an hour with Pamela bofore ho was on intimate terms with the wholo of her uncle's family. There was not the hint of a frown on his brow, and no trace of legal lore or dignity of state embarrassed his intercourse with her simple relatives. '1 To hear his talk as ho stood there by the flvo-barred gate, swinging little Elsie to and fro, one would suppose that ho had never pleaded a case, that ho had never quoted a poem, or delivered an oration. Pamela's uncle drawled to him in his provincial dialect, her aunt joined in the conversation without even dropping her sun-bonnet, and Cousin Ephraim, tho bashfulest of mortals, sat down to tea with the stranger guest. Tho supper tho young lawyer dovourcd that night would have honored the appetite of a laborer in the ofT kitchen. Pamela looked with dismay at her Olympian, .1 ~ Z 4-1.., 4- 1 11 At nuuviciiu^ u. bum UUUlll UU LI1U Wttjr U1U gods dined upon ambrosia. So, wounded and disappointed, scarce knowing why, she sat silent and cold by his side when they were alone together once more. They had the whole of the grim Earlor, with its whitewashed walls, its ideous portraits, its horse-hair sofa and chairs, to themselves ; but the door of the sitting room stood ajar, and Reginald looked longingly thenco upon the gay rag carpet, the well-polished stove, with its grate aflame, the warm cushioned chair where hor aunt nodded, and the bit of holly-crowned glass, where Epliraim made himself smart to visit sweet little Jessie Downes. " 'She is the loveliest creature, Reginald,' said Pamela, * that the sun ever shone upon.' " Except one,' said Reginald. ' But I don't believe old Sol's rays otten reach you, my Pamela.' "The very next morning, at the country church, ho saw Cousin Ephraim's sweetheart. As was her wont, she nestled in her father the deacon's pow, and looked with rapt eyes to the good old minister, while Reginald's eyes, once fusteritju on her primrose face, never left it throughout the sorvice. By some magnetism their eyes met, and poor little Jessie's rapt gaze left the face of the minister to feast shyly upon the classical allurements of the young barrister. " Reginald walked homeward by Jessie's side, while Epliraim and Pamela followed after, both proud and please! that the little maiden had found favor in the sight of so distinguished a guest. "Reginald prolonged his stay in the country, declaring that he needed a vncation, and was out in the morning betimes, fishing in the neighboring streams jor 8iiuu.su, auu garnering wild uowera and ferns ; coming back at sundown somewhat abstracted in his manner, but sallying forth again the next day. " Pamela declined to join these excursions, as the sun and wind together would have made sad havoc with her complexion?as they would with yours, my dear, you very well know. But there are complexions, Belle, that the sun takes to kindly enough, and paints with a magical brush, the wind putting in a crimson that was never found even upon the palette of Sir Joshua Reynolds. "Upon the May fostival, which was arranged late in the month as a farewell celebration for Pamela and her bethrothed, the beauty of sweet Jessie Dowups seemed to our pale patrician of the city like something almost supernatural. She called to Reginald time and again to tell her if he had ever conceived of so glowing and vivid a loveliness. and could not take her eyes from a head that made the sweet blossoms with which it was crowned seem faded and dull by comparison. " The day grew somewhat chill toward evening, and in the hollow of the wood, where Pamela wandered alone, it seemed fn Imr flinf fixO vxriixrl nrliioflittrv nno/xnrt 4-lw* ? ?? *"? trees arose to ft kind of sob tkat was almost human in its intensity. And as she walked along, half anxious now to escape from a solitude that seemed peopled with melancholy sounds, she heard a murmur of voices close at hand, just beyond the little thicket that barred her progress. * 4 It is so hard to say good-byo, my sweet child,' said a voice that was the one voice in the world to Pamela. 4 You have crept into my heart, warming and blessing it.' 44 4 And shall I never seo you again?' sobbed little Jessie Downes. 44 4 Nay, darling, how can I tell? Porhaps "when this sweet madness is cured'? 44 And then. Belle, poor Pamela hoard no more. A blessed unconsciousness soizcti ner, aun ior tue nrst time in iier life alio fainted. Not the last; alius ! since thut moment of agony her nerves have not been so strong, and upon the recurrence of certain sounds or certain remembrances slio loses herself for a time. A little while ago, when you pictured tlint soeno in tho woods, it put into words that bit of the post; I saw again tho mosses and ferus at my feet, the littlo black pool of water half covered with withered leuves, and I heard the dull thud or discordant croak of the frogs. "When, upon that time long ago, I awoke to consciousness, Reginald was bending over me with a white strickon face, and all tho rest wore busy with possets and restoratives in my behalf. ' When wo wore left aloue togethor, and I found that Reginald hopod I was unconscious of all, I was tempted to accept this negativo happiness hold out to mo by* a niggardly destiny; but ho bogged of me, with a persistency which I interpreted yi my own way, to follow him as quickly as possible to tho city, whither ho was going tho following morning. ' You may as well jomain,' I Haiti,coolly : ' a cowardly retreat now will ava^ nothing. Seek your happiness where you may, Reginald Vickers; it has never been dependent upon mine. I heard your words to Jessie *? 44 4 And if you did,' he broko in, 4 what then ? They woro tho first fond ones I ever said to lier, and these were wrung from me by her sorrow for our parting. I never meant to do you wrong, Pamela, and was not disloyal to you in heart. I It was a mad, foolish impulse ; forgive 1 it, I pray you. Do not let this one fault make misery for both our lives. I will promise never to see her again.' " 4 And do you think,' I cried, 4 that her agony will mend mino ?' 44 ' Nonsense, Pamela ; it is not in a nature like hers to suffer long.' 44 4 But it is iu a nature like mino,' 1 said. 4 Nevertheless, Reginald Viekers, your path and mine lie apart honcefortli and forever!' 44 4 But it so, then,' his face whitening to his lips. 4 Let your pride bo tho cause, as it has always been. Had you ooeu less coiu, jl nau not sinueu against a lovo strong and perfect as its . birth, but stinted and starved every day that I lived. I beg of you, as you atloast value the peace of others, to breathe no word of this to your cousin Ephraim ; he isa good fellow, and deserves well of happiness. Let hiua win and wear his ; wild blossom, as pure and sweet, so help me Heaven ! as when first he found it. As for me, I will trouble all of you no more !' " He went, and with him went the rest of my life ; for th )ugh I am nearly fifty years old, I only lived to tho age of twenty. It was fortunate, at least, that mine was the only life bereft ; for Reginald married five years after, and Jessie took up tho thread of her love for Ephraim where it could bo so readily mended that my honest cousin never knew it was broken." "Dear me, Aunt Pam," said Belle, her eyes full of tears, " in all those five years, before he married that other woman, why didn't you make up? Why didn't you write to him, or fall in his way somoliow, or pretend that you wanted to consult him as a lawyer ?" " I was too proud, Bollo," said Aunt Pamela, brushing tho tears from the young eyes looking wistfully into her own. And theu there was a clatter at the door, and Jack came bounding up tho stairs two at a time, leaping from the landing into tho parlor, and taking Aunt Pamela and Belle into one hearty i a.: _ 1.1. t~> . _ i i _ emuracu* At \Y;I? uuuct'uuio iuui j>uue found no fault with this lack of dignity, nor found Jack too demonstrative. " How jolly it is here, Axiut Pamela!" said that ardent young lover. " Belle is like a blamed icicle at tlio house yonder, and I never had any yearning toward the polar regions." A bridal Tour. There came one day to a little inland town in Kentucky a youug rural couple who had just been bound by the "silken bonds." Their destination was the depot, and the bridegroom was evidently quite impatient for fear the train should arrive before he could reach the office. Buying one ticket, they stood on the platform until the train had stopped. When they entered the car the bridegroom found his bride a seat, kissed her most affectionately, bade her " good bye," and going out, seatod himself on a ' box and commenced whittling most vigorously. He watched the train out of sight, regret depicted on his face, when a bystander, thinking the whole proceeding rather strange, resolved to interview him. Approaching him carelessly, and chewing a straw to keep up his courage, he said : " Been gettin' married lately ?" Yes," said he, " me and Sallie got ?i *i.;? :?> ? nj/iiucu luio muiillii " Was that her you put on the train?" "Yes," with a sigh. " A likely lookin' gal," said our questioner. "Anybody sick, that she had to go away?" " No;" but here ho grew confidential. " You seo me and Sallie had heard that everybody when they got married took a bridal tour. So I told Sallio I hadn't money enough for both of us to go, but she shouldq't be knocked out of hern. So I jist brought her down hero, bought her ticket and sent her on a visit to some of her folks, and thought I might get some work harvestin' till she got back." That afternoon found him busily at woik, and when in a day or two after Sallie came back, ho welcomed her oordinlly and affectionately, and hand in hand they started down the dusty road to their new home aud duties. SI range Accident to an Elephant. An unfortunate and unprecedented accident occurred at tho Zoological Gardens in the Regent's Park, Loudon, to one of tho elephants. Tho female African elephnnt, being very fidgetty and restloss, is usually tethered by a ring round one of her fore feet to the corner of her stall wiuie tno eiepunnt-nonso is being cleaned out in the morning. On the day iu question, about half-past eight a. m.y the keepers were alarmed by this elephant calling out suddenly, as if in great pain, and on running to the spot found tlint alio had actually torn off" tho top of her trunk. It seems that she hail thrust the end of her trunk underneath tho ring by which her foot was confined, aud tlion, pulling against the ring with her foot, hurt her trunk. This caused her to exert such forco in tho attempt to withdraw her trunk that the end of this organ was torn off in tho effort. For some time after this extraordinary ovent tho elephant was in great pain and very uneasy. She has now begun to feed again, and seems likely tor recover tho use of her trunk, as the wound lias not inflamed much, and is gradually healing over. The Treatment of llnbilual Drunkards. Tlio roports -which havo appeared of the short address of Sir Thomas Watson on the occasion of the recent deputation to Mr. Cross givos an imperfect idea of his words and meaning. Short as was his statement, as under the circnmstanoes was useful, it was so pregnant with meaning and will have so permanent value that wo take au opportunity of presenting the actual words : Sir?My humble advocacy of this petition may be expressed in a very few sentences. I must preface them by saying that, although for much the greater part of my long professional lifo I was profoundly incredulous of the permanent reformation of habitual drunkards, facts have more recently come to my knowledge which have made mo an almost sanguine convert to a better hope and belief. Among habitual drunkards there are many in whom what was begun as a vice passes into a frightful bodily and mental disease. The frequent use of intoxicating liquors in excess, and especially of alcoholic drinks, leads at length to an In English Courts. A recent English ease of extreme cruelty, passing under the guise of justice, has been much commented on in the papers on both sides of the Atlantic. There seemed to be something peculiarly revolting in tlio circumstance tliat a little girl of thirteen, who had plucked a geranium-bud in an almshouse garden, should be sentenced to imprisonment for a fortnight in jail, and for four years longer in a penal institution all too mildly termed "reformatory." But, as a matter of fact, severe sentonces such as this are by no means rarely pronouuced from the benches occupied by the " unpaid magistracy " of England. Justice, in the hands of the gentlemen who are called upon to administer punishment to petty offenders in the English rural districts, is especially stern with those who in any way invade the sacred rights of " pronerty." Theft or trespass, in their eyes, is too apt to be regarded as worse than wife beating, or slander, than perjury or murderous assault. Such sentences as thnt accorded to poor little Sarah Chandler are far from being as uncommon as the conspicuousness of her case would imply. The very same clergyman who sought, in liis capacity as a magistrate, to brand hor for life as a "jail-bird," because sho plucked a flower, sentenced, not lbng ago, a small boy scarcely out of bis pinafores to prison for a month, because he scraped the leavings of a discarded tobacco cask, and sold his scraps for a half-penny ; and condemned a young servant girl to six weeks in jail for putting some photographs, which sho found in a waste paper basket in the house whero she served, into her pocket to show to some friends. Not long ago sixteen fishermen and women, living 011 the Northumbrian coast, were cast into jail for a month for picking up mussels on the shore, with which to bait their hooks. It was an audacious assault upon the property rights of the squire whose estates ran to the water's edgo ; and the clergymen and squires who administered the law without pay in that region could not let the flagrant defiance of the rights of property pass. In Essex tliree very reputable and not disorderly lads, aged about sixteen, sallied out for an afternoon walk. In crossing the fields they came to a brook ; a grassy knoll on its banks tempted them, and they threw themselves upon it and began to road some books they had brought with them. Suddenly up rode the owner of the field on horseback, and roughly demanded their names. Soon after they had re bUlllUU 1IU111L' LUl'J WCiO UllLt'U ill fllllff;!) by ft policeman, brought beforo the magistrates, accuseil of trespass, and heavily lined. A little girl of thirteen was recently condemned at Dorchester to twenty-one days' imprisonment at "hard labor," and five years in a reformatory, for stealing an earthen milk pig. It turned out that the jug, which v as cracked, had been given to the girl without authority by a servant. The supposed thief, too, was ascertained to have the best character lor honesty.? Appletrm's Journal. A Practical Farmer. Boating is no doubt a good thing when judiciously indulged in, but an old gentleman residing in Detroit, the Free Press says, whose son was a member of ono of the winning crews nt the Toledo regatta, has rather conservative notions concerning the muscular art. On Sunday the following dialogue occurred between the father and son : Father?My boy, how much did you weigh when you began to train tor this regatta ? Son?One hundred and sixty pounds. Father?And you pulled at 145 pounds didn't you ? Son?Yes T worked down to llmf beautifully. Father?And how much is that badge worth that you won down there ? Son?Don't know exactly, but I think I heard some of the fellers say they cost $27 a apiece. Father?Um ; $27. Now then, if you'll work off the same amount of llesh next season by sawing wood I'll give you a badge worth just worth four times as much as that one, and an order on my tailor for the best suit of clothes you can find. The young gentleman intimated that ho guessed he would take a little run down to the boat house. A Treasury Incident. Tlio Washington Chronicle contains the following : A rather suspicious circumstance occurred in the printing bureau of the Treasury department, which resulted in the dismissal of the principal actress. It appears that one of the young lady employees was passing from ono room to auother, when four five-dollar notes fell from the folds of her dress, to which they had accidentally adhered, or in which they had been concealod. Two other young ladies engaged in the same room, who were following almost in her footsteps, observed the notes fall and picked them up. The fact being reported to the chief of the division, he. e.r?nfrrmf/?.l flie unlucky girl and demanded an explanation of the circumstance. She asserted her innocence of any guilty knowledgo of the money being about her person, and stated that sho believed it must have stuck to her dress as sho brushed by the tablos on which tho notes lay piled,prerions totlicnccidont. Although the belief was generally entertained by the attaches of tho bureau that the girl's story was truthful, the rigid rules of the nffico required her dismissal as a warning agaiust tho recurrence of similar mishaps. accumulation ot tno specinc poison 01 alcohol within the system, so that the bodily tissues, which include the brain, becomes so impregnated, so charged with the poison, or so affected somehow, as to produce a degree of craving which the unhnppy dipsomaniac?for so he is rightly called?is utterly unable to resist control. So imperative is this morbid craving, that in somo instances, by his own confession, he could not refrain from swallowing the customary stimulus even if he were certain that death would be the instant result. Now, of such persons, it is found that, if they can be strictly debarred from all access to alcoholic drinks, they will surely, though slowly, recover from this form of mania ; that the incorporated poison will be gradually dislodged and eliminated from the system by the silent and solo efficacy of that bencfacent force which we medical men acknowledge so thankfully, the vis medicatrix naturse ; and the wretched man or woman will become once more able, and in no small percentage of cases willing, and even anxious, to abandon the vico which had been the first step toward flio itiilnctinn nf Hm maniannl din. ease. Now, if this be so?and from all that I have seen and heard and read on the subject, from experience gathered on a large scale in America, from the teachings of some of our own lunatic asylums, anil from the testimony of private observers?I am fully persuaded that it is so ; I might even appeal on this poiuv to some members of the deputation now present?then I conceive that the sanctioning, by some legislative measure, of retrents anil reformatories, wherein, at the instance of his relations or friends, or by his own wish, or by the sentence of a magistrate, such a sufferer could be legally detained for a timo (which has been estimated to be betwoen three and twelve mouths, though, in my judgment, three months would be far too little, and, of course, ample provision should be made against any possible abuse of such detention), such legislative action, I say, could scarcely be regarded as anything less than a national blessing.?British Medical Journal. " Treasury Girls." A correspondent of the Cincinnati J2nr/uirer wntea irom wiisuiugton : "Treasury girls," be it known, are not all young ; in fact, some of them, no doubt, have children as old as your correspondent, while many aro yet in the full bloom of girlhood, and more have entered the cypress-hung portals of old maidenhood, or have worn, or still wear, the widow's weeds. fitill, according to ye fcstivo correspondent, all ladies engaged in the Treasury deportment are "girls," even though they bo grayhaired matrons and mothers of families. ' As I bavo said, "Treasury girls" are not all either young or pretty, as is generally supposed, and in looking over the "sea of faces" I have discovered but few who look as though their owners consider lifo^is a great flirtation made up of little flirtations ; on the contrary, the majority of faces belonging to Che "Treasury girls " bear the impress of an earnest purpose earnestly pursued, while many aro evidently shadowed by sorrow or disappointment ; in fact, the ladies who are ongaged in tho Treasury department are only a small detachment of tho great army of women who find themselves deEendeut upon tlioir own resources, and ave, as is natural, sought out the best place they could command. Tho averago "Treasury girl" does not go to work ill silk and lace, according to tho popular idea, but, on tho coutrary, wears a loose sack and overdress of some light wash goods over a worsted skirt, and, by way of taking all romance out of the matter, carries a little lunch dono up in a paper or pinned up in a red napkin. Neither do all "Treasury girls" preserve the lines of beauty in form or face ; on the contrary, there aro thin, angular, and perpendicular women among them, and there aro somo who aro burdened with flesh ; most certainly there aro many who evidently did not win thoir positions by means of personal beauty. Wanted to Maury.?Tlio following advertisement appcarod in the Jrish Times of July 2: " Matrimony.?A mother, suffering from a mortal disease and longing to seo her two daughters suitably married before she leaves this world, wishes to meet two gentlemen, respectable parentago ; minimum income ?100 ; ago under forty. Girls nro good humored, trained liousekeopers, very handsome (advertiser can guarantee this), ages twonty-two and nineteen, eldest very sensible, youngest a little llighty, fortunes ?000 each. Enclose carte, etc. Address Y., 72, oflleo of this paper." Items of Interest. The census of Wisconsin shows a population of 1,207,821, being an increase of 183,251 since 1870. Precise old party?"Conductor, do, pray, get on. I've an appointment"? " All right, sir ! Now look alive, Bill; here's a hold gent wants to meet his young 'ooman." ? An electric magnet weighing 1,800 pounds was lately shipped to West Point, N. Y., by Wallace & Sons, of Ansonia, Ct. The magnet has a sustaining capacity of sixty tons. They don't ask a woman in Wisoonsin to teach school for any paltry $2 per week. They offer her $1.25, and if she refuses they nail the door up and hang up a sign of " noa skule hear." A young American girl in Paris lately stopped with her friends in a crowd to observe a carriage accident; she had very long hair hanging down over her Bhoulders which some thief completely oat away. A young man, searching for liis father's pig, acoosted an Irishman as follows : "Have you seen a stray pig about here ?" To which Pat responded: " Faix, and how could I tell a stray pig from any other ?" A Scotch preacher, who not long ago had entered into the happy state of matrimony with a maiden named Grace, rather surprised his hearers on the ensuing Sabbath by giving out as his text : " Unto me is thin Grace given." An old man living at Guelph, G. W., was discovered the other day by his neighbors chained to the floor in a stable. His son had pinioned him thus because they could not agree on some question affecting domestic management. A very neat bit of satire is embodied in this clipping from the Danbury News : A milk pitcher, thrown by his wife at a Nelson street man, missed the aim and ruined a handsome frame which inclosed the words : "God bless our home." The whole number of oonvicts in the Georgia state penitentiary is said to be eight hundred, only one-tenth of whom are white persons. Many young negroes are constantly sent there, ranging all the way from ten to fourteen or fifteen years old. A rustic youngster being asked out to take tea with a friend, was admonished to praise the eatables. Presently the butter was passed to him, when he remarked: "Very nice butter?what there is of itand observing a smile, he added, "and plenty of it?such as it is." During a dense fog a Mississippi steamboat took a landing. A traveler anxious to go ahead, came to the unperturbed manager of the wheel and asked why they stopped. "Too much fog; can't see the river." " But you can see the stars overhead." " Yes," replied the urbane pilot; " but until the biler busts we ain't goin' that way." The passenger went to bed. Jfe A small image of a human head carved in stone, which was dug up in a farm in a. ir*_? V* uuMwjr bowumup, aiicuigan, Home years ago, was exhibited at the Detroit meeting of the American Association. It appears to be made of Potsdam red sandstone, which does not exist in nature in that part of the oountry. The features of the face are of an Egyptian oast. A new prophet has arisen in Europe. He is a photographer. By means of his camera he made visible an attack of smallpox twenty-four hours before it came out. Although no one oould as yet observe anything on the skin of the patient the negative plate showed stains on the face which perfectly resembled the various exanthem, and twenty-four hours later the eruption became clearly evident. In Providenoe, R. L, a fellow called at the house of a man who was out of town, and told his wife that the captain of a vessel in port?a particular mend of her husband's?had five gallons of rare wine on board for him, and wanted some demijohns to put it in. His story was so piausiDie mat sue went to me store and purchased the articles for him. He disappeared with four demijohns, and has not been seen by her since. Mr. Jacob Keller, of Pittsburgh, Pa., while dredging the Mcnongahela river, has token ont of the mud several pieces of a skeleton which arc thought by looal scholars to belong to a mammoth. A tooth weighing ten pounds is the specimen which attracts more attention than any other. Mr. Franklin Piatt, the assistant geologist of Pennsylvania, is desirous of unearthing the whole skeleton, and will probably interest himself in tho work. Cur Ions Story. Massachusetts papers are printing the following story: John Manning, a young man of North AdamB, went to work in some print works in New York about six weeks ago, and did the work of two men who had been discharged. After he had been in his new situation a week, he was * invited by these men to go with them on an excursion. The next day his employers missed him, and his continued ab senco iea tnem to uunx mat nomeuusg was wrong. A search was made, which resulted in finding him in a piece of woods not far from the city, raving mad and almost dead from exposure. Word wan sent to bin father, and ho was taken home in a sad condition, it requiring four men at times to prevent him harming himself or others, and he had to be sent to the Northampton asylum. The physicians having charge of the case pronounce it a bad one. The insanity ia supposed to havo boeu the result of Homo drug given him maliciously by the men with whom ho was last seen. When found ho had been robbed of his watch and bo 1110 money.