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80TANICALGARDENS OF MARTINIQUE The Wonders at Troplcol Vegetation? Vivid Description of tho Scenery. ? In a short time (too short, considering the beauty and novelty of the scenery,) we arrived at tho entrance to the botan ical gardens. Somebody had told me that these gardens were well worth see ing, but that, I soon found, was a mild way of expressing it. The entrance was not at all imposing?only a big iron gate, with a small porter's lodge beside it. Carriages are not allowed to enter, so we left the carriage at the gate and walked in. There were on the right' as we entered several clusters of mammoth bamboos, each cluster as high as a house and as huge around at the base as three or four-hogsheads. On tho left, a short distance in, a high steep hill, and at its base a small artificial pond, walled in. with rustic stonework, and a miniaturo cataract supplying it with water, and the surface of the pond covered with lilies and other aquatic plants. Here the path turned sharp to the left and entered a glen between two high mountains. The foliage wjis so thick it was, impos sible to tell where the hills began, and whether the big trees were unusually high or whether they grew on the mount ain side. Whiarever they grew, they were of immense bight. There were scores of royal -palms, running such a distance ? into the air that it made one's neck ache to look up at the tops of them; and generally their straight round trunks were festooned with parasitical plants, that ran from tho ground all the way up into their branches. Wherever there was any possible place on the trunk of a tree for one to stick, a huge air plant was growing. There were bam boos without number, and hundreds of thick tropical plants that I had never seen or heard of before. The road wound here and there through the ravine, and led us to an elevated spot on which there was a small lake, its edges bordered with such tropical plants as one usually sees in pictures but seldom in reality. There was a grotto cut out of the rock in the mountain side, where the water gushed through holes cut" for it in tho back, dashed itself over a sloping bed of rocks, and was caught in a basin of stone at the foot; and this basin was half-covered with green leaves and growing water plants. liiere were more lakes and more grot toes and natural, cascades where, the water fell: from considerablo' heights and broko itself into foam in tearing over the rooks. Near the shore of the largest lako was a small cottage; with chairs and ta bles in.its single open room?ho doubt a favorite resort for picnicking parties.' There were more liigh trees in that one little spot than I ever saw gathered to gether before. It fairly makes the back of my neck ache now to think of trying to look up at them. And such vegeta tion everywhere ! Just suoh plants and trees as you sco in the pictures of tropi cal countries, and such as you" generally don't see when you visit those countries in. person. But here thoy were, all gathered together in this botanical . gar-. -"aeTT.'tne^wnoie gafu?n'iStjvvtt?g u ?spacBT at a rough guess, of a hundred acres. I remember seeing a gaudy lithograph once in an atlas in the public library in Bermuda of a "sceno in South America." TheTeaves were the deepest and brightest greens, the trees were preternaturally tall, the mountains were high, the foliage was thick enough to cut with a knife, and birds of brilliant plummage sat in the branches. I thought at the time that that picture must have been made by somebody who had never been in a ttopioal country; but here was just such a soene?colors,trees, shrubbery, birds, and in. There' vfas nothing lacking.? Cor. New York Times. Kerosene Mino in Now South Wales. New South Waives ?possesses, in the Vale of Hartley mine avalnable kerosene deposit. The mine is situated in one of the most picturesque parts of the colonyr about eighty-three miles northwest of Sydney, in the center of tho Blue moun tains, at an altitude of 8,llSfeet above the level of the sea. The railway up the mountains has aided greatly in the es tablishment of a number of important industries there. The iron works .at Eskbank are carried on successfully, and the coal deposits aro inexhaustible. The kerosene shale found there is said to be the richest in the world. Considerable quantities of it are used in .the largo cities of the colonies for the purpose of enriching gau. It is also exported for the same purpose to Holland, Java, and the states on the Pacific slope of the United States. Only the better quality of the mineral is exported, the scraps and inferior por tions being retained for the extraction of oil. The seams are from one foot to two and-a-kalf feet in thickness. 1 ll is much more difficult to mine than coal, and is usually got out with iron picks and pointed rods. It doss not run down readily into blocks, but has to be sepa rated piece by piece and splintered off into sharp thin pieces.; It is easily lighted with a match, and burns with a steady flame like a candle and emits a strong odor of kerosene. The company working the mine, beside their opera tions at the mine, have extensive oil works at Waterloo, where they manu facture kerosene lubricants, paraffine, etc.?Iron. Superior Intelligence of the Pike. There can be little doubt that the pike is deoidedly an exception to the rale that fish have little or no intelligence. Even the size of his brain is worthy of respect. Its proportionate size, as compared to the rest of the body, is as 1 to 1,800; in the shark, whoso intelligence has bo often been vaunted, it is only as 1 to 2,500; wliilo in the tunny it.is but as 1 to 8,700. The only thing that dulls the pikes intelligence is his greed; but even this may perhaps only be caused by an overwhelming confidence in his own gastric juices. Like many other vora cious animals, to swallow seems to be nis only joy; palate he has little or none.? Chicago Herald. It is stated that whorever the mesquite wood will grow the olive will flourish and bear well Revolutionary Heroen Not Venerable. ? Probably nine persons out. of ten have the idea that the men who carried through the revolution, and established the government of the new nation wore venerable worthies. First impressions are always apt to-be lasting, and those familiar pictures in the school histories of the staid-looking gentlemen whose hair appeared white with'years, if it was really nothing but a powdered wig, were certainly calculated to give a pretty uni form effect of great age. It is therefore with no little surprise .that most peopl learn that Washington was 48 when he became coramander-in-chief of the pa triot army; that Jefferson was only 38 when he wrote the Declaration of Inde pendence; that more than half of the thirty-nine delegates; to the con vention of 1787 who signed the constitution were tinder 45, while a dozen of them ranged from 88 down to 35, and only four had passed 60; that Washington made Alexander Hamilton first secretary of the treasury at 88, and John Jay chief justice of the new su preme court at 44, giving him, in James Iredell, a colleague who was only 80 that New York in 1789 chose Rufus King a carpet-bagger from Massachusetts only the year before, United States senator at 34, and that almost two-thirds of his original associates in the body were men under 50.?New York Evening Post. Another. Use Discovered for Cold. Reduction of temperature in air or liquids by means of refrigerating ma chines are used on ships, and refrigerat ing plants are to be found in packing houses, cold storage warehouses, etc Among the more recent applications of freezing temperature is the freezing of sand and mud in tunneling operations. The idea, in one sense, is not wholly new, because in sinking shafts through quicksands, freezing mixtures in pipes have been used to freeze the sand solid, and thus enable the workman to dig through the sand and brick the tunnel up before the sand melted. In a tunnel constructing under a hill near Stockholm it was found that tho in terior of the hill consisted of wet sand, and the moment this was cut into it be gan to flow like a thick liquid, and there was danger that there would be a "cave" on the surface above. . Several houses threatened to collapse and sink in the cave, and the work had to stop. Then the idea of freezing the sand was an en tire success. By means of chilled ah from a refrigerating machine the loose wet sand was frozen solid, arid then it was easy to cut out the hard sand and build an arched tunnel through it. The tunnel then held the sand in place .and it was allowed to melt, as the tunnel arch would support it as well as the houses above.?Demorest's Monthly. To Keep tho Muscles Developed. George Hank?, the oarsman, in speak ing of the exercise requisite for an ordi nary man to keep ids muscles properly developed, condemned gymnasiums for ordinaiy purposes, as they overdo tho tiling. Heavy lifting is very pernicious, J?JlL^PiPVe^onp^?et.pf^ musclea at tiv* r-jrpense oT~anothcr. The plain, old f asldoned rubber bands or tubes are best. Fasten thorn to the wall, >? about breast high, and then begin. There is no par ticular formula to go through! Motions will suggest themselves. Exercise the legs by another set lower down. Ho doesn't believe in plunge or shower baths. Strip in a: comfortable room. Wet a towel, wring it out thoroughly, and wipe the surface of tho entire body. Wot it again, but leave a little more moisture in it, and rub the body again. Once more, with' still more water on the towel, and then rub off dry.?Chicago Times. Pack of Playing Cards from Alaska. Dr. Wymon, of Sitka, Alaska, has sent to his brother in Detroit a pack of play ing cards such as are made and used by the Tinklet Indians in Alaska. The cards are bits of bamboo a trifle over four inches in length, the surface of each cyUnder is very smooth and even, and on the surface are carved a variety of odd designs?faces, figures, animals, birds and other hieroglyphics. In their goneral character the signB have features strongly resembling both Japanese and Egyptian designs. The method of play ing with these carved sticks is known only to the Indians, but it is known that private seals, made in the same way and of the same material, are also used by the Indians. The impression of the charac ters on the oylinders is made by rolling the cylinders over melted wax or by fill ing the carved lines of the designs with ink and then rolling it over paper or parchment.?Chicago Herald. Dornt Cofftee no an Antiseptic Dr. Oppler of Strasburg has discovered in burnt coffee a new antiseptic dressing for wounds. Tho action appears to be two-fold; first, that produced by burnt coffee as a form of charcoal, and, sec ondly, that which is due to the pungent aromatic odors which are fatal to the lower orgam*Bm3. As coffee is always on hand in military expeditions, it will be especially serviceable as a dressing dur ing war times.?Demorest's. Transparent Pnper' Made from Seaweed. A Japanese inventor has discovered a means of making paper from seaweed. It is thick in texture, and, from its trans parency, con be substituted for glass in windows, and, when, colored, makes an excellent imitation of stained glass. Watch-Making Industry In Switzerland. The single town of Besancon, in Switzerland, omploys over 15,000 persont in watch-making, and the annual pro duct approaches 600,000 watches. A government horological school is main tained there.?Inter Ocean. New Silver Dollars for Tonquin. The French government has coined a new silver dollar for circulation in Ton quin. It is a close copy of tho Mexican .dollar in weight, size and thickness ?Philadelphia Call. In spite of four famines in India in th( last twenty-six years, which killed ofl millions of the population, the numbej of inhabitants steadily increased as f whole. THE LIME KILN CLUB. Brother Ga'rdnor Once Moro Takes a Viper to His Bosom. As tho meeting opened Brother Gardner announced: tBat tho Hon. Standoff White, of Montgomery, Ala,, was in the ante-room. Tho distinguished gentleman was on his way to Chicago to see his dying sister, and had taken advantage of the occasion to stop over three or four days and make himself ac quainted with members of the Lime Kiln club. He had a little address which he desired to.deliver. It was entitled: "Do We Realizo Where We Were and What We Are Now!'1 If there were no objections the addresser would be brought in. Whalebone Howker arose, not to object exactly, but to inquire if the Hon. Standoff bad brought any credentials with him. How did the club know but that ho was a base impostor? "Brudder Howker!" sharply replied the president, "do you emagine dat I would take a pusson into my own cabin1 on' loon him a clean shirt on' purvlde him wid a pipe and terbacker, if I did not know dat he was all right?" "N-no, sah." "Den you kerflop yersolf down into your cheer, an' de less we h'ar of you fur de next two weeks do better it will be fur all hands round 1" THE HON. STANDOFF. The distinguished stranger was then ushered in. He appeared to bo a person about six foot high, lame ia tho left leg, of sanguino temperament, and to bo possessed of great presence of mind. Ho bowc-d right and left, smiling liko a tickled baby, and began his address by saying: "Nobody knows how good it mokes me feel to stau' in de shelter of dis famous ola Paradise hall an5 look down upon do 5?0U faces turned up to do shingles. If my ?istoi hadn't takon a noshun to die, an' if I hadn't got a half-faro ticket to como dis way. I might nebbor hov sot oyes on dis famous ag gregation of wisdom, prudeaco an' pn> grcshun. [Cheers.] '?Whar' war' de cull'd pcoplo of dis keutry twenty y'ars ago? Lot your momoriov run back to do closo of do wa\ Wo war' men in statoo, but chill'n in intollock On do day dnt peaco was declar'd, had you put mo down in Cincinnati wkl a $20 bill iu my pocket J should hev bin helpless. Your wiso presi dent hero couldn't hev told whether a shot gun loaded from in front or-behind. Had y<m" o?ltca""?fr~T3iac 'VTatp?r?**who'SuTtkb gpoaro wo-, ho would hev crawled under d{ bed iu confushuu. Trusteo Pullback had dt 'Pilgrim's Progress' all mixed up wid .dc 'Pirato's Promenade.' YTaydowu BobeO didn't know whether do Ohio ribbor emptied intc do Mississippi or Salt crock. [Great ap plause.] "Wo waiJ chlll'cu in feolin' au' ackskuu. Do tones of dc fiddlo war' mo' to us den dan do voico of Trogres.? am now. If wo had hoecako an' bacon wo war" content to let de rest of do world hov poetry, science, art an1 wealth. Our religtra might hov him all right, but do rest of us war' all wrong. In our ignoranco, do sun riz on do -plantashuu to do oast of us an' sot on do ono to do west Do world was composed of about fo' staits, an' ell do knowledge an' wisdom was sup posed to bo carried under do hate of a dozen white men." [Agitation.] ' Horo tho orator paused to wipe bis brow and straighten up his wilted collar, and when he had got his second wind ho con tinued: . "Now, fur whar1 we ore. Tako de finest ile paintin' in do land an' walk into any harbor shop.in do kontry an'.you'll find mon to criticiso it,. D.oy'll pint out do fack dat de foreground has skipped a cog, or dat do per spective cprkscrows top much. Doy'll light down on a bad sky liko a hawk on a chicken, an' you kin trust 'em to diskiber anything wrong wid a waterfall or a side hilL [Choors.] "White men who como to us an' look wise an' talk about do sciences am astonished to find dat doy am barking up do wrong tree. We has got darl Sewer gas keeps just as fur away from de cabin of de black man as,from do palace of d? white. De science of.government am discussed ober ?ur din ner pails as often as in de halls of legiala shun. Natoral philosophy has to keep dodgin' to ^et out o' our way. [Prolonged applause.] Do cull'd race was a long way J back whoa do last gun was . flrod, bat doy has bin trabblin' on a run ebor since. "I should like to talk to you fur two! hours, [cheers] but do occashun am not pro pitious. If anybody among you has any doubts dat our race bos not passed de throe-quarter polo lot him sot out and trabble a fow miles. I shall now pass on to soo my dying sister, and I shall always romembor dis ovont wid de moos' malignant pleasure. In wishin' you farowoll, permit me to uso de worcU of Socrates to de Egyptians: "Cum dig Solis.'" PENSTOCK TRIES A SHOT. Giveodam Jonos moved that a voto of thanks and the freedom of the city bo ten dered to the orator, and added that he hadn't had anything do him so much good sinco watermelons went out of market "I hope dat moshun will not prevail," said tho Rev. Penstock, os ho bobbod up "I claim dat do greater part of dat speech was stolen bodily from" ono I dolivorod in Richmond six y'ars ago!" "It doan' seem possible," replied the presi dent "But I am suoh of it, sah. I worked fur threo weeks on dat speech, an' I remember almo^ ebery word of it." On motion of Waydown Bobeo a com mittee of two wont out to find tho Hon. Standoff and bring him in to faco the music, but ho had gouo. Also, Elder Rafflo's plug hat, Samuel Sinn's overcoat and a lantern belonging to Antimony Johnson.? Dotroit Free Press. Mr. Tlldon's Wit. A picture of a floating church used to hang over tho fireplace in tho office of No. 12 Wall street It was part of tho old Bal ance dock property?an attachment of tho floating docks at tho foot of Piko street, in which Samuel J. Tilden was interested. A client in tho office ono day wanted to know if it was a high or low church. 'Tbat de pends on the tide," replied Mr. Tflden.? New York World. GIVEN AWAY. ? The balance of Henry Kohn's Immense - . j Stock of WINTER DRY GOODS, CLOTH ING ami SHOES will be sold at prices to ti ?????? i astonish you. I have carried over too many heavy goods, and as I want to make room " ? ? . : l. ?{'!*?? J ~ ill -4.-! ' I ?. ... ? ? ? \ ? -y. ,: '.OS;ti 3..' . . ? . ?? ? ..w..???.?? ? ??? veal* for SPRING GOODS, tlic balance of my if/.? ? i J J > ..?!:' j ? Iii?... , ;s."? ??.i.v.:-; . ? ..: ?J ? <?'... i , ?,. i ?i !>(: 1 . i! f.? f vnrwaoES^stocjctwiii nxTglvcn rnwnrsrj COME ONE ! COME ALL ! HENRY KOHN. Hrhathcs there a man with soul so dead Who never to his wife hath spid, " I will a flower pardon make, Iloth Lr my own and thy dear sake, And sow with seeds to come up quiet;. Which you, of course, will buy of ViCK 1" If such there be, I pray repent, ?nd hate an order quickly sent. Then tweet thy rest, I'm sure, will be. And thy dear wife will smile on thee. The Guide is a work of 150 pages, Colored Plates, tooa illustrations, with descriptions of the best Flowers and Vegetables, prices of Seeds and plants, and how to grow I them. It teJs you what you want for the garden, and I how to get it. Printed in English and German, PriO! only 10 cents, which may be deducted from first order. BTV ONLY VICE'S SEEDS, AT HEADQUARTERS. JAMES VICE, SEEDSMAN, Eochester, N.7? XTEW "VORK Q TiO B E 1Y E W X ORK U T 0 B E t .: ALWAYS AHEAD I Upward and Onward, MY MOTTO! I Defy Competition Always tlie Leader of Low Prices -o Having Enlarged My Store it is Now : the Largest in the City and Fill ed With Every Desirable Goods Imaginable at the Very Lowest , PRI C E S ! To See is to Believe! What Wo Say, We Do, or Money Refunded. It would take this entire paper to enumerate everything we keep to sell, Our Stock embraces $50,000 worth oi' DRY GOODS, ..CLOTIIING, BOOT AND SHOES HATS AND CAPS, OIL PAINTINGS, SHIRTS, TRUNKS, DOMESTICS, . CARPETS. RUGS, WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWEERY, &c, &c, &c. CAEE AND SEE VSl AITO SAVE MONEY! CARPETS, WINDOW SHADES and LACE CURTAINS big specialties. CALIFORNIA BLANKETS at a great sacrifice. GUNS to suit auy price. Come and See. Don't fail to Come and See Us. Once dealing will bring you again. D. EPSTIN, New York Store. URIC GUANO. TO THE MAN Y ENQUIRERSI WOULD state that one car has arrived.. The de mand for this MANURE will he larger than supposed.; To CASH BUYERS the-prico will be re markably low. Orders filled as rapidly as.possible. TO OWNERS OF STEAM . MILLSfc&c.,&c. 1 have Just received! a lot of WROUGHT IRON % and I inch,. PIPING, COUP LINGS, ELBOWS, JS. G,. BRASS VALVES, CHECK VALVESand PACKING STUFF. AN INVOICE OF FRESH FLOUR. GOOD at $5.00. BEST AT 56.00. ALSO. BRICK, CEMENT, PLASTER PARIS, LIME, HAIR. Stock JFood and Hay ON HAND. John A. Hamilton. C. MAYHEW. J, M. MAYHEW. C. Mayhew & Son, COLUMBIA, S. C.. MONUMENTAL ARCHITECTS AND BUILDERS, COLUMBIA MARBEL WORKS. Mann lac t u rc ra o f a n d Deal e rs i n ' All Kinds of AMERICAN AND ITALIAN MARBLE WORK.' Mantels,/Monuments, and Tablets furnished to any design at Lowest Prices, Polished Granite "Work,, either Na tive or Foreign, to order. Building Stone of all kind furnished. Correspondence solicited with those in want of any work in the above line. Jan 7-1 yr.. Wtixl. M.SMOAK77 Wishes to inform her friends and the public that she has REMOVED her Millinery Establishment next door to 15. B. Owen, where will be found constantly in Stock a'A the Latest. Novelties in LADIES' HATS AND BONNETS, NECK WEAR, GLOVES, HOSIERY, LACES, EMBROIDER Y, &C. Agent f,or the Genuine ISINGER SEWING MACHINES. NEEDLES, OIL AND ATTACHMENTS. Orangebmrg 0. II., S. C. April 16._ FRUIT! FRUIT!! FRUIT!!! Finest variety of Tropical Fruits in Mar ket. Fresh cargoes every week. MALAGA GRAPES. BANANAS, ORANGES. COCOANUTS. Northern Fruits. APPLES, PEANUTS, NUTS, CITRON, RAISINS, FIGS. iSTOrders filled with dispatch. C. BART & CO., 53, 55 and 57, Market Street, oct 22-gma CHARLESTON, S. C. Van OfsMl'sPMopflli Gallery OVER B. B. OWEN'S, Russell Street, Orangcburg, s. c. To the Public : I have opened a first dasa Photo Galleiy. 1 would be pleased to nave samples of work examined at Galleiy. &.11 werk strickly first-class. Photos of Groups and Babies a speciality jy instant method. All Vewing Exteriors, Dwellings, Horses, Dogs and Animals taken at short notice by instant method. Old pictures copled.'and enlarged. Special ittcntion given to this branch of work. Pictures finished in water colors, India Ink mil Crayon. Also Pholo taken from the size of smallest pocket to full life 3x5 feet All work done with neatness and dispatch. V'ewing any where in the State. Special liseoiuits oil all orders over?10.00. Give me a call, 1 will assure satis!action. All work CASH ON DELIVERY". Pustively no credit. VAN ORSDELL, Artist, July 17 Russell Street, Orangeburg, S. C. ""THOMAS' KESTAITI6A?T Is constantly supplied with the very best Oysters and Fish that the Charleston Market affords, which is sohl at a reasona ble price. Meals can be bad at the Restau rant at any hour and cooked in a way that will please the most fastidious. uov 5-5m