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THE TRIBUNE. W VOL. II.?NO. 1(5. BEAUFORT, S. C., MARCH 8, 1876. $1.50 PER ANNUM. Parson Kelly. Old Parson Kelly's fair yonng wife Irene Died when bnt three months wed, And no new love has ever come between His trno heart and the df ad, Though now for sixty years the grass has grown Upon her grave, and on its simple stone The moBs And yellow licliotis creep her name across. Oatsido the door in the warm snmmor air, Tho old man sits for houre. The idle wind that stirs his silver hair, Is sweet with Jane's first flowers; Bat dull his mind, and cloaded with the haze Of life's last weary, gray Novombor daye; And dim The past and present look alike to him. Tho sunny scene around, confused and blurred, TliA tmiftor Blend in his mind with voices long ainoe heard? Qlad childhood's careless words, Old hymns and Scriptnre texts; while indistinct Yet strong, one thought with all fair things is linked? The brido Of hia loat youth is over by his sidB. By i'a swoot weight of snowy bloseoma boughed The rose- tree branch hangs low, And in the nuihhino, like a fleecy cloud, Hwava slowly to and fro. " Oil, is it jouV" the old man aaka, "Irene!" Aud smiles, and fancies that her face he's seen Beneath TliO onminfl' rnafta of o Krl/lal ' Down fro a tbo g&mbrel roof a white dove flits, Tho sunshine on its wings, And lighting close to whero the dreamer site, A vision with it bringe? A golden gleam from somo long vanished day " Dear love," he calls; then, "Why will you not stay V" Ho sighs, For, at his voice, the bird looks up and flies. Oh, constant heart! whoso failing thoughts cliug fast To one long laid in dust, Still seeing, turned to tliiuo, as in the past, Her look of perfect trust; Her soft voice bearing in the south wind's breath, Dro&m on! Love pure as thine shall outlive death, And when The gates unfold, ber eyes meet thine again ! FIDELIA'S FORTUNE. I Who that had passed by the Kingslands' fine and brilliantly lighted honse on the evening of Miss Haroourt's fete conld have imagined that an aching i lieurt, and the dark and unkind passion that makes aching hearts, existed within those dazzling walls ? 1 Light streamed throngh the windows; music poured forth delightful strains; guests wero arriving and departing; the 1 avenue, the grand avenne of the town, was animated with the concourse; and a 1 crow.1 of eager people, encouraged by | < the balmy air of the lato spring night, ] passed into tho shrubbery nuder the i ballroom windows, and stood gaping with unfoigned admiration at the flitting ! figures of the danoe. i All the windows of the two lover 1 stories, besides the wing in which the i i ballroom lay, were lighted. Above them i * intervened a dark space; and over the t third story, in one of the small round * windows of the Mansard roof, a faint i light twinkled. An observer noticing it ) would have supposed that some domestic whose duty did not call to.active ser- ] vioo hail retired betimes. But no! ] The dimlv /il.amhn. - ? " * ' __v UUtUUUCl ill tilt) ruoi ] held in its solitude a daughter of the house. . i The figure of a young girl, wrapped 1 carelessly in the folds of a ooarse gray 1 dressing robe, was flung at full length < upou a narrow bed in nn attitude of un- < mistakable dejcctiou. Her face was i buried in the pillow, her hands clasped abovo the flowing hair that reaohed in unbraided tresses to the floor. Her . whole frame was agitatod by a pitiful ' sobbing that could not be controlled. | A step along the uncarpeted passngo i and a knock at the door had no effect to i arouse the unhappy girl. The knocks were repeated rapidly and more loudly, , and being unanswered, a woman's voice, clear and shrill, but agreeablo toned, 1 called from without: "Fidolia Kingsland, are you here?" The girl arose slowly, and rubbing the tears away from her eyelids with a bewildered air, moved listlessly toward the < door. 1 "Who is it??who calls me?" she asked, with her hand upon the key. I "Airienaoi your mother," answerod > the quiok, dear voioe. " I am dreaming," said Fidelia, not in reply, but sadly to herself, and turned away. " You are not dreaming," answered the vuioe. Fidelia Kingsland cast one glance, bewildered vet imploring, at a picturo hanging above her bed?a portrait that, forming tho sole ornament of the room, occupied the only perpendicular space of walls elsewhere Blanted so sharply as to mako the chamber oppressive, like a cell. " Your mother's friend!" If a voice from that other world into whioh long years ago the lovely being of the portrait forever passed had spoken now to her desolate .child, it could not have a weened more complete and wondering surprise. Mechanically she unlocked the door, and the stranger ontorod. Fidelia gazed at the apparition with a stupor resembling that of a sleep walker. The stranger returned the gaze not at all, but walked into the room quickly, scanned it briefly and studiously in every Eart with a manner much like a petted ird. Her costume added to thin sprightly, pert, bird-like effect. She wore a walking dress of dark blue velvet, fitting her petite figure with nice exactness; a cashmero shawl dropped from her shoulders so low that its point trailed on the floor; a velvet hat set with narrow feathers crested her small head. Her black hair shone in glossy waves; her quick black eyes sparkled like polished jet; diamonds glittered at her ears. She granted Fidelia several moments to recover from surprise. Then she spoke to her in a familiar way, as if she l.?,l 11 i.? i!f- ?? Oil 1 i uuu bjuuitu utu uu uor HID, " Dll UOWD I by my side," she said, drawing her to i the foot of the pallet, and taking a chair I very near. "Sit down here and tell mo I why you were crying." t "Because my heart is broken," said f the girl. \ " That I am glad to hear," returned the little lady, briskly. " We are not c so bad off as we feared. When these t things are much broken thore is no cry. s My dear, I think I can mend your F heart." e "You said you were a friend of my ii mother, "Fidelia murmured, gazing with b childlike wonder at her guest, and actu- g ally smiling through her tears. n "That you may have confidence, let a mo tell you of myself. I was a school friend of your mother in Paris. My s name is Nannette Ricard. I am a widow s; without children; consequently I have v no resting place. I am a traveler; I go s around the world. By accident I paused b at this town to stop overnight at the s hotel 'Two Isles.' There the rumor of ti tho birthday fete encountered me. I k made inquiries. I learned that tho hus- tl baud of my dear school friend whose li death I mourned had married again, and d had chosen for his second wife a widow with two children, the elder being the w h' roine of to-night's fete. ' Where is p Fidelia,'I asked, 'the charming little n daughter of the Eicgslands, the inter- w esting child of whom early letters of my <i friend gave me snch agreeable advice?' jf 'She has grown to be a woman,' they e] answered, ' and she is kept a captive in j,( her own house.' ' I must see,'I cried, tl 'this captive at once.' "I came, and availed myself of doors I opened to guests. From the dressingi?AAm T ? "*"1- ? xwvrux X ivuuu U1J WKJ muu UilllUUlty* At | HI wis a cliild?a visitor, I imagine?who s] condncted me np stairs to the last flight, h Shining of light throngh the crevice of C your door guided me the rest. Now, tl my child, speak to me freely as to yonr 5 owu heart. "There is nothing so cousol- h: ing as a friend. Tell me why you suf- vi fer and what you wish." si "I suffer," said Fidelia, without the slightest reserve or distrust, "because in I am a motherless girl. No oue loves ly me. I have no right?indeed, I often u feel so?to be in the world. And I wish o; ?it is easier to say why I suffer than qi what I wish?I wish to be happy and to bo loved." to The bright little lady listened attentively to this speech. She sighed onco ol ar twice, but at the last seized Fidolia's pi band warmly, and with a bright smile hi said: ec " My dear, you shall have your wish, tli Do not fall into despair; keep your faith ei in life. I shall help yon; I know how. gl To-morrow I continue my journey, but ar ?ny day after a fortnight you may look si for my return. Then I shall send for yon tl: to visit me. Keep courage: sunny days 14 aomo to all; they will come to you. And now kiss me, if you like, my cbild, and pa jood-night." ai Fidelia bent down from her queenly to uengub to man lovingly tno strange little st lady whom an hour ago she had not rc known to bear an existence in the world. She lighted her guest along the pas- si wge; blazing luster below showed plain- y< ly enough the descent. Then she re- ei turned to her own room, and having un- lil dressed and said hor prayers with a ct jomforted heart, lay down in her bod, B ind the dance music lulled her to sleep, ei When at dawn she aweke, her experi- w snoe of the evening seemed like a dream, w Nor could she by such inquiries tut she ventured to make learn anything or her tc guest. A fortnight passed; three weeks; ct i month. On the last day of tho mouth she received a note: ir "My dear Child.?Come and spend the day w, md night with uie at the hotel, 'Two Isles.' P1 [ havo obtained yonr father's permission to st extend to you this request. " Your mother's friend, * " Nannette Ricard." On no more unpropitious day could ai tho note have been sent. As if fate had m decreed that Madame Ricard should vieit si this special town only on its days of un- ir usual excitement, there was this time a hi grand ball to be giyen in honor of a tl distinguished citizen; and not merely c< maa fhn wViaIo r?1onn in n #nw?v?o?*A xi ^ vuv nuuiv ^/iwvaj iu n iuimcub) Ullt til each liouce had its share of excitement, w the Kingslands' not the least. k The citizen whom the ball honored ft was a yonng soldier, Colonel Darrel, whoso habitual bravery had been made r< famous by a brilliant aot of valor. Tho tl war having ended, ho was commissioned U to go abroad on an important diplomatic ft service. He possessed the hearty ap- w Ereciation of his townsmen; and though p e had dwelt but briefly in his native' p place, yet as he was a fine looking man, 1 with affable manners, and, moreover, a* the largest landowner in the oonnly, he h had the happiness to possess the good- " will of his townswomen also. b This feminine regard was heightened n by au appeal to compassion. Edgar Darrel had met with a sad misfortune. F While still in boyhood he had lost by tl me night's tragedy both his parents. A ire, quickened by a tempest, had stacked his homestead and burned it to ;he ground. His mother, an invalid, perished iu the flames; his father, iraggod from the burning building in in unconscious state, survived his wife jut a few days. The only heir inlierit>d the estate encumbered with this lifeong grief. "You surely will net be so heartless is to leave your sisters to-day?" said ilrs. Kingsland to Fidelia, when the im)ort of Madame Ricard's note reached ler. '' Your father, manlike, forgot all hat must be done to make your sisters )resentable to-night. For once in your ifo you can be of use. The Paris ball Iresses, only this morning arrived, re inire stitches and tact to make them it." i Fidelia sighed in spirit, but, schooled 1 o self-sacrifice, uncomplainingly re- i nained. Conscientiously all day she died her needle and exercised her taste, ler arrogant stop-sisters did not liosi- i ate to wreak upon her at once demands < or her service and contempt for her sorile state. ] It was evening when, hooded and i loakcd, bIio flow from tlio door. All ho way to the hotel alio encountered igns of the coming event. The atmosihere was impregnated with a sense of xpectancy. Groups of gossips lingered q the streets. The dooraof t?o spacious all where the ball was to take place was ;uarded by liveried men, and straggling lusioians sauntered across tho avenue ud disappeared in adjacent vaults. % The lovely Juno night had its nir eented with the perfume of roses, yringas, and honeysuckles. The sky ras flushed with the rosy lights of suuat. Fidelia forgot her sorrows, and egan to affiliate herself with the joyous pirit that inspired the scene. By the ime she hid reached the hotel she was indled by sympathetic excitement into le blooming beauty that only the magnant depression of her i nhappy conition had kept paled. Madame Tvicard, whose apartments ero tho grand rooms of tho "Two sles," received her'guest with tho utlost cordiality. A tcte a tete dinner as served in luxurious style, and Fielia, who felt herself in happiness, en>yed the fenst, from bonilli to ice, and ntered freely into the chatting mood of er hostess. They spoke at dessert of 10 hero of the night. " He is a friend of mine," Madame licard said. " How happy you must be to possess rich a friend !" exclaimed F delia. with aarkling eyeB. " He is a hero?a real a ero of the timo in which we live. ould thore be an act more courngeo is . lan his part in the victory of October ? Ah, how I slionld love to look upon 0 is bravo face! But I forget. I am a issal by fate's special design. Why lonld I dream of heroes ?" "Goon, my dear, with j our dreamtg,"saiu Madame Ricard, with a friend- R little nod. "That is precisely the ? le of an occasional slavery, lo make le dream of noble things. You are aite free at this moment, however, fould yon like to go with me to-night i the ball ?" S It was well for the hospitable impulse v ' the little lady that this astounding I roposition was not mado until after they 1' id dined. Fidelia turned pale with stasy at the very thought. To go to ti le ball! To see with her own eyes the e ichanting scene ! To have a veritable ii impse of the hero's bravo face ! She p lswered after a moment of profound n i.1 ?:*u - t - iruw; nun yum u leiuimno reservation p lat veiled the intensity of her assent : h I should like to go, if I had a white"? ti " There is nothing so easily obtained," a iid Madame Ricard, " as a white bodice R id skirt." She bade her maid hasten r i the office of the hotel and order np R airs a trunk marked with a bine ti isetto. a Ont of this trunk came white gauze ? lirts, which were made to envelop the tl uing girl in layers of grace, until the a feet of white was dense, yet ethereal, d ke a lily. A bodice was found that b informed easily to the pliant form, h lue ribbons, the tint of forget-me nots, ? nbellished the draperies; the coiffure, d ith the exception of a plain blue fillet, r< as left in its natural "falling grace." j o "Simple and comme ilfaut, and al- b igether as I wish," said Madame Riird, when the toilet was complete. They arrived late at the ball, but not ritated by haste; and Madame Ricard as gratified to find the excitement of leasure at its height. Fidelia was presnted to the hero of the night, and at is own request. Ho engaged her hand >r the next dunce. Not the next waltz only, but the next id next, Fidelia found herself the partsr of Colonel Darrel. Ho took her to lpper, and she beoamo tho object of iterest to all eyes. The gossips made r Br the heroine of the night. But of r iese leaser honors Fidelia was quite un- J' mscious. She revelld in the thonght [' mt she had seen again and again?and '* ith an expression in his eyes of so mncb indness to herself?the hero's brave y ice. 11 Aiter supper he left her a while, bnt iturnod to beg a briof promenade npon <l le balcony, which liad been deoorated 11 > l?e one of the attractions of the niglit. M [adame Rioard gave oonsent. And it as there, under the green archway of alms and hot-house plants that im- $ rovised a tropical vista, that Oolonol '' >arrel said to the young girl who soem i to him the personification of guile- v !88 sweetness and dignified beauty: ri Will you give me one of these little lno rosettes as a keepsake of the ight ?" F "I would?indeed, I would, said b 'idelia, with oliarminghesitation; "bnt n ley are not mine to give." w A strango expression darted across the hero's face; and then, with bended head, ho gavo one glanoo into Fidelia's eyes that made her cheeks, from her very heart, blush. "These aro yours to give," he said, touching gently the brown curls that the evening wind had blown across his arm. "May I?" he asked; and being unforbidden, and while they still moved onward in the current of the crowded promenade, he succeeded in possessing himself of a lock of the beautiful hair; and ho took the little keepsake with him when ho wont to Europe upon his appointed embassy. And Fidelia?had she any keepsake of him ? None, excepting the association of his grandeur with the fascination of her " first ball," and a recollection that 1 she never took without droppiug her eyelids, and blushing cheek and heart? a recollection of one glance. Two years abroad, but all this time Madame Ricard corresponded with her friend Colonel Darrel; and she sent him every three months, quite unknown to Fidelia, a photograph of her lovely protegee, whom she managed to have frequently with her in cities where her passion for travel allowed her to linger i fortnight or a month. The people of the town in which the Kingslands lived were much excited by m oveut that occurred during the first pear of Colonel Darrel's absence in Europe. The event was the rebuilding >f the Darrel homestead in a style of ningled comfort an<J magnificence unparalleled in the region rouud. When ;ho edifice was complete, the grounds vere elaborately embellished, and the nterior was furnished in captivating ;aste. Still greater was the excitement when, ,wo yoars after tho night of the ball (iven in his honor, Colonel Darrel reurnod to his native town; and having lettled himself in his superb mansion, nnde Fidelia Kingsland his wife. It was nmored that there had boen a correipondouce between tho now wedded overs for half a year or more before the solouel's return. In tho meantime the bright little lame, Madame Ricard, had vanished rom tho earth. But Fidelia never for;ot her benefactress. Particularly she emembered the words said to her by ler strange visitor on the night of her mhappiness: ''There is nothing so ousoling as a friend." When she became established in her >wn house, she would not allow herself o sink into the absorbing happiness of ove. She was good and affectionate to .11. oven to her step-sisters, who forgot tow in her prosperity that in adverse tours they had treated her with conempt. The townspeople called her, aeordingly as tho adjoctives struck their ppreeiating sense, affable, kind, cliari awe, courteous, friendly. Friendly was the true word. "For friendship was my fortune," aid Fidelia. "Lot me never be a miser f the inestimable prize." Posthumous Advice of a Millionaire, The will of the lato millionaire, David inow, of Boston, contains suggestions of alue to his devisees and to the public, u the closing article of the testament e says: It is my earnest desire and request liat all my heirs (this, of course, is more specia ly directed to tho males) should avest their means in the safe way, and iursue some steady, permanent, legitilate business or employment with great erseverance and indsutry, and success i sure to crown their efforts in due iuie. This conrso is not only an honorble one, but is almost always the most nccessful and satisfactory in tho long uu; whereas dealing in stocks and en- < aging in uncertain and rash specula ions l regara as a species of gambling 11 fc best, a mere lottery, and although : ometimcs pleasing and exciting when < tie luck is good, still in the maiu such 1 course is generally very injurious and ? emorulizing, and often ends in ruin, 1 oth pecuniarily and morally. It is my ope and ardent desire that my heirs ' rill ever bo honest, liberal, steady, in- j ustrious, kind to the needy, and attend egularly some church, my choice being, f course, the Methodist, which has een so long dear to me. Quite a Saving. 1 In nothing has the advance of praoti- , al science been more clearly evidenced iian in the extent to which substances irmerly wasted and lost aro now relaiuied and made to constitute an imortant element in the profits of the j lanufacturer. One of these applications (insists in the recovery of the soapsuds < roin the washing of wool in woolen faciries. These were formerly allowed to an down the sewers and into the ( [.reams, to the great pollution of the itter; but in Bradford, in England, hey are now run from the washing owls into yats, and there treated with nlphuric acid. The fats rise to the sur ice in a mass of grease a foot or more | i thickness, which is carofully collected | lid treated in various ways, mostly by , istillation. The products are grease, ] sed for lubricating the cogs of driving 'heels in the mills; oleic acid, which is ] orth about $160 per ton, and used as a l nbstitute for olive oil; stearine, worth \ 400 per ton, etc. It is said that somo \ irge mill owners are now paid from \ 2,500 to $5,000 a year for these suds, j rhich a few years ago were allowed to j nn to waste. ( ^ ^ I A child a year and a half old died in \ 'ranee recently, which weighed at its ! irth eight pounds, and never weighed i ?oro than that. For the last year it . reighod only six pounds. < A Christian Sheik in Arabia. Tlio National liaptist is responsible Joi for a remarkable story which has been j widely circulated, and is, in substance, Tir as follows: A man named Randall, liv- g iug in Oneida county, New York, about g forty years ago married a Welsh girl, *" ^ who soon afterward visited her friends in Wales, where a sou was born. This boy was educated in Wales, and afterward went to Syria. While there a sheik's daughter fell in love with him, and ho was arrested while traveling from Damascus to Jerusalem by armed men, taken to the sheik's tent and married to dij the girl. ( It does not appear that he made any mj strong remonstrance. His tent was guarded by night and his person watched by day, lest ho should escape, and this guard kept over him for years. He an and Arzalia, however, seemed happy; j children were born to them, and their sal domestic life was marked by kindness Co and true nfffic.timi Ttun^nll quired tho Arabic language; his wife as 54 rapidly mastered the English. Their qq{ children were tanght in both. When he was admitted to the sheik's * family they had to receive his religion as well as his person. Through him his P6' wife.became a Christian; his father-in- ?* law became a patron of his son-in-law's ' faith; his children were brought up sul "in the fear of the Lord;" his son has po; become sheik of the tribe?the father- mi in-law having died. All tho surround- , ing tribos have becomo favorable to the new religion, and have pledged their P01 swords in its defense. Many have been :?c baptized; hundreds of children have been taught the new religion. 1 But a dervish, a zealot of tho M sham- tht medan faith, had for a long time been fro endeavoring to stir up opposition and wo persecution; he strove to have Randall's ly 1 sons thrown out of the employ of the 'j Turkish government, and failing in this gju turned his assault upon a daughter of eq the foreigner, and charged her with witchcraft and apostasy from the true faith. She was brought before the meglie, composed of one hundred and ^ forty-four venerable sheik9 and effendis, "er to answer charges which involved her eu' life. Tho charges having boen present- no' od and substantiated as best they could *fcri be by witnesses, she was called upon to *ro) answer. She defended herself and was A acquitted. teei The trial was in October, 1872. In rail June, 1873, while Rosa was teaching a lest class of forty-two little girls, in a grove, tra< the way to heaven, the dervish stealthily har approached, and before any on? was / aware he hod murdered the maid and tor fled. Tho fleetest horses of the tribe, 8Ug with armed riders, went in pursuit. He I was soon captured, tried aud executed. one yiel In the Olden Time. I Ou March 20, 1676, Providence, B.L, tV? was burned by the Indians. At this * 8 tiuie tho town contained, as nearly as j can bo ascertained, about two hundred ? inhabitants, and the principal settlement P was at the north end. In view of the B exposed condition of Providence, a gar- con rison was established there under the ami command, of Captain Arthur Fenner. fou: Roger Williams, through whoso effort in h the town was fortified, also held a com- was mand. When the Indians approached, T it is said Mr. Williams, whom they high- , ly respected, went out to meet them with V? the hopo of turning them from their pur- ?y pose, but In vain. When told that Mas- 6 sachusetts could raiso thousands of men, 9Pn' and that as fast as they fell the king J 8* could supply their places, the chiefs deflautly replied: '4 Let them come. We are ready, for them. But as for you, had Brother Williams, yon are a good man. You have been kind to us many years, olsti Not a hair of your head shall be touch- hair ed." They proceeded with their work, the< and about thirty houses (some accounts the say twenty-nine and others fifty-four) tend were destroyed, among them the house Ai of John Smith, the miller and also a orau town clerk, who lived on the west bank houi of the Mosliassuck river, a short rlistanoA north of Mill bridge. Several of the nays houses burned were on the east side of effe< the road, south of the present North case street. Williams retired, seasonably, to ask his house, situated on tho north side of Howland street, and was spared. A house in tho vicinity of the conflagra- | Lion, which oscaped tho general doom, J^1': was tho Whipple House, still standing on Abbott's lane, which with its im- J1"1 menso chimney, its projecting second story (alterod some years ago), and its aror interior arrangements, was a fair speoi- loos men of tho architecture of its period. As waH most of tho people had fled from the " town, no loss of lives is reported. John Saci Smith saved the town records by throw- far, ing them from his burning house into too tho adjacent mill pond, from which they latel were subsequently flshed up, carried to the < Newport and kept there until the war in a< ended. hav< som Mother Stewart in England. A Mrs. Stewart, better known as t ( "Mother Stewart," the originator of the qA women's whisky war in the United . \ a. d?i i ?i 1x3 1 k]k>?WB, 1.1 HI/ JI1UBOU1 111 riU(}iiiuu, wiiere ' she is holding a series of moetings in aid . J* of the temperanoo cause. At a meeting , held in London reoently, for the pur- . nose of welcoming her to England, Mrs. Stewart mado au address, in which she gave an account of her work in the Uni- W ted States. She regretted to say that vard they had mot with a good deal of opposi- inns tinn ; and sho could assert as a fact that Wh< in Indiana tlio Legislature was bribed aftei by tlio rich proprietors of saloons, and wer? others interested in tho liqnor traffic, to "I the tnno of $40,000, to induce them not youi to pass any laws against intemperance, fath She had defeated licenses in Ohio, her nud oativo Btate, on the eighteenth of tho August, 1874, and bad since obtained The snormons support. him ? 1 'H*"' 1 1 Jenny Etssed Xe. iny kissed me when we met, dmpiDg from the chair she eat in. tie, yon thief! who love to get Iweota into your list, put that in. r I'm weary, aay I'm cad; lay that health and wealth have missed mo ; r I'm growing old, but add? Jenny kissed me! Facts and Fancies. Fox hunting is all the rage in Inula. California's wool clip will reach fifty llion pounds next season. Ton can never do too much to make me happv ?and men never try to, adds old maid. & Lydia Sherman, the convicted wholeo poisoner, is said to be dying in tho nnectiout State prison. London has 5,000 miles of sras mains. ,000 street lamps, which burn 8,000,) cubic feet of gas each night. Sold mounted coffins are considered ) thing now in New Ifork. Wealthy aple arc quite carried away with them ifter death. rweed must enjoy immensely, in his Durban retreat the reading of the re rts of the one million, and the. six llion and all the other suits. ft may not appear of any?partioular reonal interest to any of us, but it is a t that there will be a total eclipse of > sun on the eleventh of August, 1999. The newest thing in female apparel is i patent vibrating bustle. viewed m behind, its effect is something nderful when the wearer walks activeuoag. The commander-in-chief of the Abysian army is an ex-sergeant of the glish army named j&irkam, who has roducod mitrailleuses, Remington es, and Oolt's revolvers. i Canada journal has discovered a mit in the town of Perth who is sevy years old, and for forty years has ; worn any clothing summer or win, in spite of which he has never been sen. l Lincolnshire (England) boy thir a years old, who put ac iron nut on a of the Great Northern road, doubt> in play, and threw an engine off the :k, has been sentenced to six months' d labor. i Sacramento beet-sugar factory ued out 3,000,000 pounds of white ar in 1875. The beets yield thirteen one half per cent, of sugar?five and half per cent, more than the average d of Europe. t's a Davenport (Iowa) inventor this e, who has perfected a water motor, only thirteen inches in length and incnes in diameter, bnt it sends ator loads of 2,200 pounds to the of a four-story building. enjamin Franklin introduced broom 1 into the United States. While exiling an imported corn whisk he nd a single seed, which he planted is garden. From that seed the oorn propagated. 1 Kentucky they have a " ground day "?the eeoond of February? >n Mr. Wood chuck comes from his i, looks at the sky, snuffis the air, and sludes whether to stay out and call iring, cr go in again and call it winbey were out riding and his mustache got entangled in the hood of his sr. Said he: "Confound thin or and this cold wind ; I've got three s frozen on to my nose, and two at sorner of my mouth." "Where's other hair, dear!" she inquired, lerly. a old physician asserts that an tge eaten every morning half an r before breakfast will eventually dey the desire for alcoholic drinks. He i that he has never known it to fail in sting a cure of the most confirmed a nf inaKriofv* W/\rn -wVae* ? Awnj wuw WVUIU for a more agreeable mediovne. woman who was gathering weeds on seashore in Japan for burning, laid young child down on the beach. A htful cry told the mother that all was right, and on examination she found a cuttle fish had put one feeler ind the baby. She out the feeler e with her sickle and the youngster unharmed. This loaded cigar business," says a -amento paper, " is being carried too and as a practical joke is beooming serious to be amusing. A citisen y had his left oheek burst open by explosion of one of them, and will, Idition to the pain and disoomfort, > a bad soar to show as the result of 0 friend's fun." hnge tower is befog build upon the Di a new brick building in Virginia , Nev., upon which a large dial is to placed with the names of the leadmining stocks upon it, to which a 1 points as the stock goes up or n, all befog done by electricity oyer re runnfog from the Ban Francisco k board room to the tower. hen young Hopeful entered Har1 he wrote to his parents thai he t have a study table. It was given, m his father visited the room ayear rward he inspected the table. There i marks of tumblers on it. He said: judge, my boy, that your rank in r class will not tie very high* "Why. i.ii ait i< ma -.i hi, uuw uui juu hjui " xiid oMim er the table is not worn at all, bet covering is a good deal defaced." old gentleman had been to oollage self.