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Sfu V . lie Camden JtonnmL ======= : ?#. ? -rprr: - ? ??r-r?r- ? YOL. XXXYII. CAMDEN, S. C., .MARCH 20, 1879. NO. 35. - ffi- 'V 'r ' _ ' ' ' '"i * She (Earadm journal, PUBLISHED EVERT THURSDAY ?AT? CAMDEN, S. C., ?BT? G. G. ALEXANDER. Subscription Kates: (is adyakce.) One Year *2.00 Six Months 1.00 Which Way I Children, stop your play, Ar:d tell me which way^ I Sh&ll taku to roaoh the olfw on fKo V.U1 First the girl, With a smile: This war; Through the woods, across the stile, By a brook where wild flowers grow, Where the birds sing sweet and low ; Then yon forget it is so far, And how tired yon are. For the calm reets yon. makes you still, If yon take th.is way to the city on the hill." Then the boy, With a frown: " This way; By the mill and through the town? Yon will see the soldiers there. Hear the drums and pass te fair ; Then yon forget the way is long While yon walk in the throng, For the ncise wakes you, makes yon thrill, When you go this way to the city on the hilh' The Tile-Room at Deadwood. For twenty years the old mansion at Deadwood, with its gables, mullioned doorways and embayed windows, had stood unoccupied. Colossal elms swept over it, rank shrubbery hid its lower windows, and lush grasses and weeds swampeu the garden, yet still the place was beautiful. It is said to have been built after a magnificent estate in Wales; bnt no one remembered its origin. It stood on a great hillside overlooking the sea, and sailors and boatmen going by always looked np at it a.a something picturesque and grand. The mansion stood solitary, yet was bnt half a miie irora the village by the river crossing the plain beneath, and whpn nffpr t.liis orpAt frriAl rtf itn inftp Btrnotibleness, human life appeared there, it was immediately discovered by the surprised villagers. Half a score of men bad mowed their way up the front door, had set every chimney smoking from the great fires built he- " low, had backed and hewed mercilessly ] at the overgrowth of intrusive shrubbery, and finally a carriage had come 1 bringing a fair young girl with a mulat- ' to attendant. 3* 5 1 C~ " I think it's?it's fearsome like, don't ; you, Miss Qaeenie ?" 41 Nonsense; it's delightfully antique and romantic. Only I'm not going to live in.the dark. Tell the . men to out ' down those locusts, Patty; they shut 1 out the sun and are worm-eaten beside. ! Oh, its going to be lovely here, Patty ' I'll have those walks leading down to ! the gate j ust blazing with tulips in a 1 month." ? " What will you do for company, Minn ' Queenie?" f '' Oi>, Out to uujmuig czio liVou ui May." c - It was early in April then. The brave ? young heiress of Deadwood took bravely hold of the work in hand. She called c the sunlight in through curtains of white t lace. She hnng the chamber wallB with < rose-colored paper. She spread bright rngs over the blackwalnut floors and filled the rooms with graceful bamboo 1 and Boftly-cnshioned furniture. And ! when her little dot was quite expended upon further details of china, books and { rstatues, the girl 'feat down to enjoy the ' hnme she had made. It was the first she had ever had; and < already her homeless life rested hi it i with a feeling of satisfaction which had ] been found in no other source. "lam glad Guy is poor, because now 1 I can give him a home with myself," she murmured overkeY weddingolotheR, which she wa< embroidering. " He shall 1 have a buggy, and pick up a nice prac tice at the village; and so we have our good prospects after all." For the m itrimonial prospects of these young people of eighteen and tweuty* two had looked doleful, very doleful, nutil the woman suddenly rose equal to the emergency. " Dead wood is mine, you say, Mr. Quills?" she said to the lawyer. 14 Yes." " And it won't sell and won't let. And I havo only five hundred dollars of in terest mouoy in bank stock ?" '.Tnst so." " Th^u I will live at Dead wood." "Alone?" " Well, yes, for the present; Patty and I," with a smile, sweet, yet quizzical, at the old lawyer's dismayed face. So far all had succeeded better than she had dreamed possible. She had made the old mansion habitable and pleasant; and now if the fallow land were brought under a man's hand, the hitherto unprofitable piece of property might even yield an income for Miss Elinor St. Edgar and her husband, Mr. Quill declared. T*?1 11 -- f! rtl joni me imugs evor,yuiAij o^pcuu doi- i dom do happen after all, and the things nobody exoected to transpire are always confronting us. After a blithe letter of invitation from his lady-love, Gny Blondel arrived at Deadwood one fine May day, and found Qtieenie, as everybody called her, so pale, so grave, so almost speechless, that he was dumbfounded. " Not a single smile yet, Quoenie ? Why, what has come over you ? Have you seen a ghost ?" The girl winced as if he had struck her. "You do not believe in ghosts, Guy?" "Certainly not; no sensible person does. Bnt what has changed yon so, Qneenie? Ton chill and astonish me, hava altora.^ an in a few weeks 1 And I expected to find you perfectly triumphant over your success, and ready to obey your directions and turn farmerdootor at once." " Guy, we can never be married." "Qneenie!" " Something has happened to change all my pleasant hopes, Guy?something strange and unexpected, yet none the M less conclusive." Then Queenie told her story. " One of the rooms, Guy, I have not touched or altered?an apartment on the ground-floor, facing the north, finished with tile, and so cold, darn and gloomy that I found it quite a hopeless matter to make it healthy and pleasant. Yet it is a handsome room, with inlaid floor and tiles of snoh great worth that I wonder the old mansion has not been 1 broken into and pillaged of them. Probably no one about here knows their I worth. But, as I say, I left the tile parlor unchanged, even from the cob! webs and yews growing against the winI dows. But it is the only unpleasant place in the honse, and its neighborhood to the bright little sitting-room I have made has never troubled me. " One chilly, rainy night less than a week ago, and* after I wrote you to come, I sat reading by the bright hearth-fire of my sitting-room until nearly twelve o'clock. Patty was asleep in a little room leading from it which is directly 1L -1 I J AT_ - _ 1.1 i ueneam my umtmuer, uuu me otner two servants, housemaid and man, were I asleep in tbeir rooms in another part of the house. I had told Patty not to sit up ; yet when it grew midnighr the solitude of the great house weighed on me a little, and I felt loth to ?o up to my chamber. Finally I wrapp*>L. myself in my dressing-gown and lay down on a oouch before the hearth, knowing that the great wood fire would keep the room warm till morning. I had lain there but a moment, I think, when I heard a voice in the room say, * Look under the hearth of the parlor. It was so distinct a voice that the room seemed to echo with it. I don't know why I did as I did do ; I should thought I would have been afraid ; but I sprang up, caught a light from the table, crossed the hall and opened the door of the parlor." V " Poor little Queenie! You had overATPrtprl \rvnrs?lf_ and vrmr brain bad grown excited and unsettled." "But, Guv, I knelt down in that dark room by the hearth and passed my hand over the smooth tiles. Almost instantly I found that one was loose. It was small, and I pried it np with a hairpin. Here beneath lay a small, yellow, folded paper. I stared at it a moment, then cook it out, and seeing, as I expected, 'hat it was covered with writing, I only topped to look once more around the Mlent black parlor, then hurried back to my sitting-room. "Oh, Gay, it was no coincidence, my finding a paper in that place! The papc r is of the utmost importance. You maysec that for yourself. Here it is," and rising, Queenie took it from ODe of the corner cabinets secured to the wall, and placed it in Guy's hand. A bit of soarse, yellow parchment, the chirography quaint, the ink faded; but it was . tne written conieBsion 01 one utiDert 3fc. Edgar that the estate of Deadwood ' iad been wrongfully obtained, and that < le had wrongfully defrauded the right'ul line of inheritance; and he further- * nore besought and instructed the findire of the paper, which he declared aidden under th6 hearth of the tile ? larlor for safe preservation a few days >efore his death, to restore the illgotten estate of Deadwood to its rightful nheritorp. Guy Blondel's soholarly aoe grew grave and a trifle paler as he ^ iTm, he made a strong effort lor seirjreservation. ] " Queenie, dear Queenie, you surely lon't mean that you are going to give 10 Deadwood and all our hopes for this 5 >ld scrap of paper f" " Deadwood is not mine, Guy." "Oh, Qneenie, don't plunge yourself nto after-poverty and separate ub for :his unsubstantial idea!" " I will not, if it is unsubstantial, 3uy. I hope it may prove so. Let us , both hope so, and be happy, at least un- , til we find out," said the girl, making in effort to stave off her own discouragement. She was full of pity, too, for the pain of the young heart all hers in its freshness and strength Yet nothing overcame the power of that honest blood whioh had come with the strong blue eyes. She held firm day after day, only replying to Guy's pleadings: "Deadwood must be mine, Guy. If it is not mine, I do not want it. It would never be home else." At last Mr. Quill, who had been sent for, came. Qaeenie withheld the story of her dream, as Guy called it, but inquired, as quietly as possible, as to the" existence of Gilbert St. Edgar. " Oh, yes, my dear; your great-greatuncle. I never saw him, of course, but my father remembers him." " I have a reason for wanting to Bee his penmanship, Mp.Quill," said Queenie. "Do you think there is any in existence?" " Oh, yes; I know there is. My uncle, who was a friend of his, left a quantity of old papers and letters, among which are written bills of this same Gilbert St. Edgar. I'll look when I go home, and send you a specimen of the old man's chirography. very interesting, these old relics, Miss St. Ed gar. And Mr. Qaill p irtook of a delicious tea and rode back to town, never dreaming of the strained and anxious young hearts he had left behind him. Two days later, inclosed in a facetious note inquiring when the wedding was to be, arrived from Mr. Qaill a bit of yellow paper signed by Gilbert St. Edgir. With the color ebbing from cheek and lips, Qaeenie and Gny compared it to the parchment taken from the hearth of 11 " 1 '* -">o and Uie cut! ptiriur, lux in nao iuva??., the same penmanship. There could be no doubt. " And now, Qaeenie ?" " Now all hope is at an end; at least for long years, Gay. Bat wo may get rioh by-and-bye, and then "? Tried beyond endurance he flung the slender hand from his own. The next moment he turned with a bitter cry of remorse, and snatched the girl from the floor. She had fainted. He never ga^o way afterjhat. No more anger or reproaches, iie reanzea that Qaeenie, too, suffered, and tried to comfort and sustain her. The sad days went by. Qaeenie bid the dainty wedding garments even from her own eyes. At length one evening?the last evening?a oarriage whirled up the drive. The occupant, drenched with rain, sprang into the house and the room. " Excuse my wet coat?rain right in my face all the way. Oh, hang preliminaries ! Here are you young folks making yourselves miserable; both look as if you'd had a fit of sickness; and? and?why, by George, Miss St. Edgar, old Gilbert St. Edgar was as mad as a March hare, and finally killed himself in that tile parlor !" shouted Mr. Quill. "I didn't tell you before? sort of hated to dssh a brave young thing like jou; but they said the house was haunted, and a room where a sui cide has been committed is an ngly neighbor to a lady's boudoir ! But bless my soul! this old parchment ain't worth shuoks?not worth shucks, my dear Miss St. Edgar. He never defrauded anybody of Dead wood. He inherited it from bis brother, as honest a man as ever lived. I've looked up the proofs?been three days about, it?and then came back as quick as I could to let yon know the truth. Hang that old tile parlor I Seal it up I Tear it down 1 But, anyway, get married and be happy, young folks. Don't be frightened out of the wedding." They took his advice? Queenie and Guy. The walls and floors of the old tile parlor were dismantled of their tiles, the whole north side turned into glass doors which opened into the garden, the walls hung with a paper of golden arabesques and rosebuds, and filled with a piano and harp, rose pink couches, books of poetry, pictures and marble Cupids and angels. The ghost of Gilbert St. Edgar never walked there again.?American Monthly. Chinese Poetry. Chinese poetry is the subjeot of an interesting article in Macmillan'e Magazine. Few persons appreciate the genuine poetry to which the Chinese have given birth, yet poetry occupies almost as important a place in their literature as in our own. Here is a literal trans1.1: # . _i L ' iauon 01 a anon, poem: The heart, when it ie harassed, finds no plaoe of rest. The mind, when embittered, thinks only of grief. In the following the writer is Bopposed to be apostrophizing a bed of ohrysanthemum plants in fnll bloom: See their slender shadowB pictured on the fence whilst their delicate perfume scents the garden walls; Their tints, now dark, now light, flash one against the other; 1 The dews as they drop strengthen their framee; ( Hungry, they feed on air? < What can with their bright colors compete ? ? Talking of them one might pity their languor, as of that of an invalid; ETelicate, they open with constitutions at best 1 c autumnal, ret say not that they bloom to no purpose; For did they not by their oharms inspire Tao " to poetry and conviviality? Here is one that has been metrically * translated. It is called the "Tiny 8 Rill:" J 3ver green fields and meadows a tiny rill ran 1 (xno nine precious coquette;; She was pretty, she knew, and thus early i began a Gayly flirting with all that she met. i der favors on both sides she'd gracefully shower, Regardless of whom they might be; i Dne moment she'd kiss the sweet lips of a . flower, The next?lave the root of a tree. ? d would leap from one rook to another in jike a naiad, let the dazzling, sunsraitten ' spray, d Fall in piism&tic gems round her head. Sometimes she would lash herself into rage,. ' And rush roaring and eeethinR along; fill a bit of smooth ground would her anger g assuage, a When she'd liquidly murmur a song. litnUflmtDll Fund. auuiivimvu *wiM From facts and data in our possession, ' says the New York Herald, it is susceptible of proof that nearly all the es- ? seutials of lifo are seriously tampered I with, and that the adulteration of food J is the rule rather than the exception, i The following liBt is carefully prepared, | and will give an idea of the extent to i which the evil extends: i Sausages?Made of impure meats and seasoned with spices. i Bread?Mixed with alum, lime water i and flour ground in with lead. Flour?Adulterated with damaged i peas, powdered alum and casein, in .1 which are worms, insects, acari and smut. Coffee?Adulterated with oocoanut shells, almond shells, chiooory, beans, peas and oorn. m-? rinin.0,1 wiHi Kla/Ur ImiI and lOll ?VU1UJLVU TTAVU MIMVM ? Prussian blue. Oysters, Clams and Lobsters?Stale and decaying. Cheese?Colored with saffron, Venetian red, carrot3 and annotto, which latter is often found to contain poisonous chromates. Essences?Adulterated and contaminated by nitro-benzole, prussio aoid, oil of turpentine, sulphuric aoid and citric acid. Sugar?Injured by putrid blood, with which it is " purified," and adulterated with clay, sand and bean dust, with now and then a fair share of marble dust. Cake?Flavored with oil of almonds, containing prussic acid. Spices?Black pepper, adulterated with buokwheat, caramel or shorts; cay enne pepper, adulterated with red lead, almond shells and ginger. Romance of the Caster Massacre, j Colonel Benteen, of the Seventh cavalry, left the impression in his testimony in the Reno inquiry that Dr. Lord and Lieutenant Sturgis, who were with Custer, and whose bodies were not found, might be still alive and with the Indians. Away down in Maine this ray of hope fell upon the heart of a young lady who is in reality, but not in name, one of the widows of the fatal dash for | vindication. There was more in the [ oolonel's words to her than he intended. For the fifteenth time she wrote to Bismarck, Dakota, pitifully inquiring if there was any possible hope that Benteen's intimation was founded upon fact. Her friend at Dakota answered "No." "" " T ?J on/1 in Rittinc II JUT. J_iuru woo OUIB ~ 0 Ball's camp the Canadian mounted polioe would have found it out long before this. Major Walsh, who is on the best of terms with the hostiles, find is with them a great deal, has made every effort to discover a survivor. He is a great admirer of the dead Ouster, and his personal feelings have been heartily enlisted in the vain searoh. All that he has fouDd has been one horse of the white-horse company. Dr. Lord may be alive, but it is as improbable as Jules Verne's eighty-day trip around the world. The lady in Maine, however, has an intuitive belief that he is still alive, and she will yet see him. She reproaches herself for some little thing she did, thinking it sent him off with Custer, and that he was indifferent to the con; sequences.?Chicago Tribune. I FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD Orchnrd and Garden Notes. Aspabagus.?Rake off the litter from the beds and carefully fork in the fine manure. Lettuce from tie frames iB set it foot apart, in rows, between the cabbages and cauliflowers. Shrubs may t? transplanted and pruned, taking cue to preserve their natural habit Turfing is best for small plots, and should be laid on large lawns along the edges of roads and beds. Rhubabb.?Make,Hew beds by dividing the old roots to that eaoh portion has a bud. Set three or four feet apart each way,,; manuiing the bills very heavily. Habdy Vegetables.?The principal are: Beet cabbage, harrot, cress, cauliflower, celery, endive, lettuce, parsley, parsnip, onions, pens, radish, turnip and spinach. Miscellaneous.?dBepair roads and paths. Uncover beds of bulbs. Lift and divide large dumps of perennials. Sow seeds of hardy flowers.?American Agriculturist. i[ Tender vegetable^ not to be sown until the soil is well wanned, or at oornplanting time, are:' Beans?snap and pole; cucumber, com, melons, okra, pumpkin, squash, tamato, watermelon. ^ r % 1 1*1 t ? ? new lawns snotuai oe maae ns early as he ground is i:i good oondition to havo the grass well established before hot weather, for light soils, rod top, tor stony ones, bine-grass, with p erhaps i little white olover, is in oar experience preferable to mixed seeds. Four to six Dushels to the aore are needed to make \ good velvety turf. , Pears.? Dwarf tires may be grown in he garden, and affirrd a fair amount of hoice fruit, while their cultivation will ifiFord much pleasure; but for fruit in juantitiee, plant standards in the or:hard. Set dwarfs' eight or ten feet i ipart. The variety ii bewildering. For >ne dwarf tree, the " Duchesse d'Angoneme." i EabiiT Cabbages and Cauldpi?oweb8. : ?The earliest crop is from the plants hus treated. The ground should be 1 leavily manured?seventy- five tons of < if nHln mflnnro f r> f.Kp i/irn ifl nnt nnnflno!1 ' 1 >r part manure, and enough guano to ' nake the whole equal to the above heavy 1 nanuring. The ground is marked out < n rows twenty-four to thirty inches < part, and the planks set every sixteen < ches. ( HonaehoM Hint*. I To Clean Brass .-r-Immerse or wash 1 teeveral times in sour milk or whey, iiis will brighten it without scouring, it ' nay then be soourodwith a woolen cloth 1 lipped in ashes. y .< Tn "Ruarrp-rri .Vrrr k_noimd/)fJhrOA. 1 rater.Put all eggs not wanted liOT ( laily use into this brine, and they will ( ;eep all the year rouad, and the whites j roth almost as well ai fresh eggs. ( Ornamental Tree?..?Plant when the \ toil is in condition; evergreens may wait i month or more. Where old trees in # ?MAt? V\a vnmnTTO^ hilt. enere, uruuuuuo uv jvu?vtvMV ~? hey never should be pruned in suoh a nanner as to change their natural shape. Old lawns will need a top-dressing md a sprinkling of seed in places where ;he grass is poor. If manure is applied, let it be so thoroughly decomposed that ao weed seeds remain alive. Ashes, guano, nitrate of soda and fine bone are all good manures for lawns, and bring in no weeds. Early sowing in drills twelve to fifteen inches apart should be made of beet, carrot, leek, onion, parsnip, spinach. Radish and turnip-re,dish seeds may be sown with beets, as they will mature and come off before they are in the way. Eirly potatoes should be planted and early peas sown. To Mend China.?Mix a little limo with the white of an egg, to use it take a sufficient quantity of the egg to mend one article at a time ; shave off a quantity of the lime, and mix thoroughly; apply quiokly to the edges and place flraly together, when it soon sets and becomes strong. Calcined plaster of paris will answer in the place of lime. To Remove Stains :.'kom Stockings.? Place them to soak in tepid water over night; in the morning put a pailful of water in your boiler over the fire and cut up an ounce of soap in it, stirring until it melts and forms a lather ; when it ccmes to the boiling point put into it a tablespoonfnl of the magical mixture ; stir it around, and having previously soaped the stains on the stockings, pnt them into the boiler and stir them around for ten minutes; take them out, and un leas very badly stained, they will need j but very little rubbin g;; rinse and blue, and when dried you will find them free from all stain. To Remove Greahe Sfots. ?To extract grease spots from books or paper, gt ntly warm the greaned or spotted part of the book or papor, and then press upon it pieoes of blotting paper, one after another, so us x> absorb as much of the grease as possible. Have ready some fine, clear essen bial oil of turpentine, heated almost io a boiling state ; warm the greased leal a little, and then with a soft, clean brush wet with the heated turpentine both sides of the spotted parr. By repeating this application the grease will jbe extracted T.nal1?r rm'tVi onnfVicr KrnoVi ilinriivl (in IjaObiT) niUU HJUVVUVM h/&UWU '.M rectified spirits of wine, go over the place, and the grease will no longer appear, nor will the paper be discol ored. Camllflovrer. This very common vegetable is one of the market gardener's most profitable crops. It is closely related to the cab bage plant, and, like that, the eatable part forms a head; bat while the head of the cabbage is formed of the leaves, the head of the cauliflower is formed of the flower-stalks, which grow up in one compact, conical mass that, in well grown specimens, measures nine mones to a foot across. There are many vari eties in cultivation. A kind known as Lenormand's short-stemmed requires a good garden soil, richly manured; it is titleless to attempt to grow it on a poor, gravelly or binding clay soil. Cauliflower is mostly grown as a crop for spring or early summer; as a late crop it is more apt to fail. For an early crop the seed should be sown in the first half of September, and later the plants should be set about three inches apart each way, in a cold frame. During the winter they should be covered with sashes, and in oofd weather have an additional covering of straw mats. On every mild or sunnv day air should be given, by raising the sash a few inches, and as early in the Bpriug as the weather will permit, the sashes should be re moved entirely during the day. In the latter part of March, or as soon as safe from hard frost?a little will do no harm?the plants should be set out on well-prepared and richly-manured land, in rows two by three feet. The seed may also be sown on the hot-bed in ' FoKvtjqw nn/1 V\vr nronar norn fViA A VW1 UU1J I ItiAU UJ WWAV ?**V plants may be ready to set ont in the beginning of April; but in this case they mutt be thoroughly hardened before they are planted in the garden, or a little frost will kill them. By giving proper attention to this point, spring plants are but little inferior to those wintered over in the cold-frame, and may produce as good a crop. Lenormand's Early Paris, Erfurt Early Dwarf, Large Algiers, and Autumn Giant are some of the beet varieties.? i Rural New Yorker, ] What to Do in Cases of Diphtheria. The following is from the circular of the Massachusetts State board of health: In the flrBt place, as diphtheria is a oontagious disease, and under certain circumstances not entirely known, very highly so, it is important that all praotical means should be taken to separate the siok from the well. As it is also infectious, woolen olothes, carpets, curtains, hangings, eto., should be avoided in the sick-room, and only suoh material used as can be readily washed. All domes, wnen removea irom tne patient, should be at once placed in hot j wt.ter. Pocket-handkerchiefs should be laid aside, and in their stead soft pieoes f of linen or ootton cloth should be used, f and at once burned. Disinfectants should always be placed in the vessel containing the expectora- c tion, and may be used somewhat freely in the sick-room; those being especially useful whioh destroy bad odors without causing others (nitrate of lead, chloride B :)f zinc, etc). In schools there should f be iespecial supervision, as the disease is cftan so mild in its early stages as not [ to attract'Common attention; and no . child should be allowed to attend school e from an infected house until allowed to f lo bo by a competent physician. In the B caBe of young children? all reasonable j cars should be taken to prevent undue g exposure to the oold. _ T'nre water for rlrinkinor should bo . ased, avoiding contaminated sources oi " mpplj; ventilation should be insisted ? >n, and local drainage must be carefully L1 itttinded to,-' ^Privies and cesspools, f ?bould not bo'allowed1 fo'smta mm t'do -r surface of the groind near dwelling- f horses, and the cellars should be kept ^ Jry and sweet. In oities, especially in tidal districts, basics, baths, etc., as oow connected with drains, should never communicate directly with sleep- j. ing-rooms. t In all cases of diphtheria, fully as -j great care shonld be taken in disinfect- a ing the sh k-room, after use, as in scar- j letl'ever. After a den th from diphtheria, j the clothing disused should be burned ^ or exposed to nearly or quite a heat of } boiling water; the bcdy should be placed ( as early as practicable in the ooffin, with disinfectants, and the coffin should be , nMidr?r> at least, and < llgilbJjr uavouui ? m better adults also in most oases, should ' not attend a filter U from a house in which a death from diphtheria haaoo- f curred. But with suitable precautions, it is not necessary that the funeral should be private, provided the corpse be not in any way eiposed. Although it is "not at present possible . to remove at. once all sources of epidemio disease, yet she frequent visitation of such disease, and especially its continued prevalence, may be taken as sufficient ovidence of insanitary surronndincs. and of sources of sickness to a cortain extent, preventable. It should be distinctly understood that no amount of artificial "disinfection" can ever take the place of pure air, good water and proper drainage, whioh cannot be gained without prompt and effioient removal of all filth, whether from slaughter-houses, etc., publio buildings, crowded tenements or private residences, Can Ojsters Whistle! This little oyster story is from Thornburg's "Now and Old London:" The shop was first established by a Mr. Pearkes in 1825. " It appears," say-a writer in the Daily Telegraph, "that about the year 1840 the proprietor of the house in question, which had then, as it has now, a great name for the sunorW fvrrelilence of its delicate little ' natives,' heard a strange and unusual sound proceeding from one of the tubs in which tire shellfish lay piled in layers one over the other, placidly fattening upon oatmeal and awaiting the inevitable advent of the remorseless knife. Mr. Pearkes, the landlord, listened, hardly at first believing his ears. Theie was, however, no doubt about the matter; one of the oysters was distinctly whistling, or, at any rate, producing a sort of aifflement with its Bhell. It was not diifiouJt to detect this phenomenal bivalve, and in a very few minutes he was triumphantly picked out from amongst his fellows and put by himself in a spaoious tub, with a plentiful supply of brine and water. The news spread through the town and for some ^ "? * J davs the fortunate Mr. i^earaea iuuuu his house besieged by curious crowds. * * Douglas Jerrold's suggestion was that the said oyster had been orossed in love and now whittled to keep up appearances, with an idea of showing that it did not care." Tt ackeray used to declare that lie was once actually in the fthnn when an American came in to see the phenomenon, as everybody else was doing, and, after hearing the talented i mollusk go throngh his usual performance, strolled contemptuously out, declaring " it was notliing to an oyster he ' knewof in Massachusetts, which whistled i * Yankee [Doodle* right through and fol lowed its master about the house like a i dog." TIMELY TOPICS. There are in France 82,878 lunatics, of whom 39,887 are at the charge of their families, and 42,986 supported by the State. The proportion is about fnrn r>n* 1 AA/1 r\t fVin nnnnlaf.iATl In the course of a suit recently brought in London by a druggiet of Bogota, United States of Colombia, to restrain Mr. Holioway, of pill and ointment lame, from charging in his adver; tisements that the aforesaid druggist dealt in spurious Holioway pills and ointments, it was stated Chat Mr. Holioway spent $200,000 a year in advertising, while the yearly profits of his business were about $250,00. As left-handedness in children is not ii_ J j J? ?ui~ ? i. gcuertuiy uuiioiucicu uoououic, ^ xo well to preterit it, if possible. It is a well-known fact that moat children in arms are oarried on the left arm of the mother or nurse, as the case may be. The oonseqnenoe is that the right arm is fast against the nurse's shoulder, while the left hand is left free to grasp at anything that oomes in the way. Let the nurse use the right arm at least half the time, and the mischief is obviated, A grim story of life in a lighthouse somes from the Burnish ooost, and is printed in the Bangoon Time*. A telegram having announoed that the light m the Alguada reef was riot visible, a jteamer was diapatohed to ascertain the : sause. The captain, on landing, disoov- j ?red two of the men in the lighthouse j lead, while a third was lying in a precarious state. The keeper stated that < signals of distress suoh as " I want im- , nediate help " and " Man dying" had j ieen exhibited by him for about twenty lays. As a last resort, all his signals laving failed to attract attention, he larkened the lights on the Bassein side, ' eeling certain that this step would not ail to attract attention to the light- . ton Be, And so, with the dead and the 1 lying, he watched for relief, which 1 ame at last. , 1 The famons marble quarries of Oar- c ara, although they have been worked ] ince the reign of Augustus, and have i nrnished a steady and enormous sup>ly to the whole civilized globe, seem ( o be inexhaustible. They oompose an | ntire mountain range, and embrace , very variety and quality of marble, rom the coarse common kind to the- . tatuary marble, Monte Oreetola. and f lonte Sagro yielding the largest and f inest bloofes, The quarries number o&e 600, only about twenty of them c nrnishing the marble used by soulptors, c nd some 6,000 persons are employed 1 a them. The marblfc taken out year' efore last was in the vicinity of 120,000 cons^ valued, .82*400,000, of which ! asincreHgta . " ?.JL o fifteen years, the third largest mar>le firm now at Carrara being American. ^ Lingual Difficulties. 8 On one occasion an estimable attache o the late Mr. Bennett, and who, from he fatigues of the,job press of the New fork Herald, aimed to study medicine t ind become a city coroner 01 uotoum, j llastrated the power and the. petwse of j angnage at one and the same time. The i rery first case of the doctor's ooronership ( vas that concerning the death by mar- f ler of on Italian. The only or ohief j iritmess was the terrified son of the , nurdered man. . He was brought before i he learned dootor,who said, in an im- ; serial tyle, worthy of a Gotham ooroner: " Well, my lad, what language do yon jpeak?" No response. " Do yon speak German ? " No response. " Do yon speak French ? " No response. " Do yon speak Spanish ? " No response. ' 1- 9 " JJO you Bpuu& i No response. " Well, do you speak Irish ? " No response. Turning to the jury, the classical doctor said: "Gentleman, in the whole course of my professional experience I Luve never had suoh an astonishing witnese brought before me. As yon see, I have addressed him in five different languages, and he has responded in neither. ?Harpers Bazar. Cream Instead of Batter. A housewife writing for the New York Tribune propoees virtually to abolish butter. She says: "It would be well to train a family from the outeet to regard butter as an incidental or luxury, rather than a necessity. The manufacture of it is one of the hardest and most time-consuming tasks that a farmer has to perform. Moreover, with all the work it involves, butter adds less to the * * I health and sustenance 01 ioe inmuj would the eating of the cream that goes into the making of it. Where one physician advises the eating of butter, a thousand recommend the consumption of cream. I think not one will dispute the statement that of cream and butter* eaters the former enjoy the best digestion, the best health and have the finest complexion. Then, why work oneself to death for worse than naught ? Why not eat milk and cream instead of turning it into butter ? Good bread is good enough without the addition of a condiment to make it palatable; and, | eaten with sweet cream, what is more delicious ?" Harried in a Wagon. ' A ? As our worthy uora paaiumuicr, wuv is not only postmaster, but is olothed j with justioe' authority to solemnize marriages, was meandering his way on horseback, west of his own premises on the highway, he met Esquire Elliott and Mrs. Nealis sitting on a spring seat in a two-horse wagon. Our worthy esquire and postmaster was halted and informed that his services were in demand at once to perform a marriage ceremony, the license being promptly presented in due form. Whereupon the accommodating esquire rode up to the wagon, 4i,A v-ioi-fipfl who were seated requeb^u tuo ? on the' spring-seat to join hands, and then and there solemnized, on the publie highway, without a witness, the marriage of the twain,?Otwego (.San.) Independent, '4 m ' * \ Ht,' J7*<; i, ADVERTISING RATESt fnaL 1 in. X col. X ool.jl col. 1 W6Bkr.r.Tr.....T*1M*6.00i oo 2 " ..*: 1.76 7.60 12.26 20.00 8 " 2.60 9.00 16.25 24.00 T 1r'v.........? - s oo -w.6o isto 27.60 6 " 8.60 11.76 20.fi0.81.ro 6 ' 4.00 "12-60 22.75 34 00 7 " 4 60 -18.25 24 75 37 n0 8 " 6.00 14.00 26.00 40 00 8 months. 8.60 17.00 82.00 60.00 4" M ?.... 7.60 19.00 89 60 69 00 6 " 8.60 24.00 48.00 84.00 9 " 9 60 80.00 69 00 106.00 12 " 10.26 86.00 68.00120.00 $A~ Transient sdrertliementa must bo aooom panied with the osah to insore insertion. ' - . ITEMS OF INTEREST. \ Striking objects?Olooks. News of the weak?Hospital reports. Murder, like the knees of a- boy's pants, will out. ' { In anoient times diphtheria was considered incurable. Home training should aid the teaching ohildren receive at school. n Domestic rabbits are frequently bred to supply furs for various purposes. For two centuries there has been a depression in business every ten years. will hnild a. UIOUOW/UO O OUUMAVkw 1 hospital in his honor that will cost $110,000. "(Dome listen to my tail," said the dog as he thumped his appendage on the floor. The Boston Journal believes that when a girl turns ont a deceiver it serves him right. Gannison wants to know if " time is money," why "oan't he take time to gUhis debts?" v ,, It is said that " performing birds " are taught their tricks through a cruel course of lessons. r1 The wrong boy who. was interviewed by the hemlock twig, feelingly spoke of it as the misplaced switch. " He lives above his income," Was the dark reproaon he bore, Till et last it was remembered - That he lived above his store. "Oh, look, Louise 1 Fred just'sent me this sweet little puppy. WaBn't he kind?" "Yes, dear; bat it's just like ton." , Instead of saying " too thin," Biohard 3rant White translates it into the ex pre&SlOIl * * 01 me uuuuan icuifibjr ui tabrio." The Journal of Chemistry says that 10 European nation' is so advanoed as Italy in its methods of teaching agrimi tore. ' " > An Indiana lady of fighty-eighi years s growing a third set of teeth,'which ire so far advanoed that she is able to lsethem. Near the site of Jacob's well, in the rity of Samaria, Palestine, there is a Baptist church with & congregation lumbering 100. The king of Siam has a bodyguard >f female warriors. They-are said to >e very beautiful?the most killing roung ladies of his realm. " Did you ever," asked a brother lumorist of Josh Billings,- "stand at he hall door after ypur lecture and isten to what the pec pie said about it a they went out?" Belied Josh?" I lis.?nriw (a na-naa ftnrt A lifffaWbnt I'll tevar do it again." ?. ^ Spain has ninety-two dukes, 866 mar[uises, 632 counts, ninety-two viscounts, jid ninety eight barons, besides fnh. iity students this year number 16, coy, ' >f whom 6,823 are studying medicine md 6,409 law.- --r West Indian Superstitions, As regards animals, Guinea pigs may >e mentioned as specially unlucky, at east in St. Groix. - There are families ;here, among those Xrom whom one vonld not expeot snch things, whose ^ jhildren would on no account be allowed . to keep these pretty little phts. What precisely is the harm they do is not 3tated? All yon* can get out of one is, " Oh, they always bring trouble to a house; they're very unluoky." And yet, if the writer of this was an adept at one thing more than another in his emailboy days?which were spent in Barbados ?it was at keeping Guinea Digs. They were kept by him on a scale so large that he could set up some of his schoolfellows as Guinea-pig keepers. He even ran the risk of keeping them sometimes /looir at school, boring hoTfes and outting slits in the lid, to give the little bright-eyed creatures air. And4it. was a ^ ? great risk to .run, for. those were the good old "licking times"?now, hap- % pily, almost over. for schoolboys* The W master of the school was one of. those men who are now, it is to be hoped, early as extinct as the dodo?men who believed that you could teach a boy through h^s back, or through the palms of his hands or the seat Of his pantaloons. But yet the Guinea-pigs never brought a thrashing upon their owner or his friends. Some of the boys at this very school were possessed of a _i? t? .wot-mo vnn nerfect sovereign pum iui u..>^eil? in yonr lessons, which may have kept off the trouble the Guinea-pigs would otherwise have brought on the schooL When yo>i had learned any lesson thor oughly (and some fellows kept the talisman iu their hands all the time of learning the lesson) rub the. page up and down or across with a large seed, called a " good-luck seed." Then return it to The pocket, where it ought to be kept. This done, you need not fear. So muoh for superstitions.?Contemporary Re view. A Poser for the " Hawkeye " Man. 4 ?avidentlv repre A youuK juoii| -..v. ? eente some St. Lonis house, asks me where I am from. 1 tell him. His eye brightens. He says: "Doyou know Gust. Hirsch, there?" No. I tell him, I do not. 'Know Marx Oppenheimer?" I don't know Marx Oppenheimer. " Do you know Joe Helminghausen ?" I fail to remember Mr. H. " Then do you know Ohris. Erlingenschaftlicher ?" I don't believe I do. "But you must know Ernest GundlartKanatrfiihiohdukirohsenliebalstenhei minghaus ?" I think possibly that I may have known tome of him, and possibly a great deal of him, at different times, but I am quite positive that I never knew him ail at once. The young man froin the St. Louis j house looks amazed. ~ I " Well," he says at last, "you ain i J got much acquaintance in Bnrlington." a And I sadly remarked' that my ac- j quaintance there is rather 'limited, and * he goes away. Presently he returns. "Oh," he says, "them fellus I said ^ >? to you about lives in .uavenpuru. And I feel greatly relieved, for I had begun to think that I didn't know anybody in Burlington,?R. ?/ Burdetie.