VOL. i. MAnNING. CLAI)( COUNTY n S. C., WEI)N ESDIAY J UNE :30.N A "MAGNEII 6ilL 1'ALNs. C1 RIOUS CONFE-"lONS OF 41E' E' THAT Pt'ZZLED THE Pr5fESo Hon a Muscular lonna Wwnan DiWt Je Lulu Hurst's secret and Turn" it to Ads.aut a;e--Slinple Explanation or .A1.Maren1I Mar velous Feats. (From the New York Werd.' I ran across a young woman o.n tie street not long since, a girl whose face had become familiar to many o'C some months ago on the stages of pro vincial theatres, very shortly after Lulu Hurst, "The Georgia Wouder, had created a sensation a Wallack's. She had gained considerable notoriety, I remem bered, as one of many "magnetic" girls. The fact also intruded itself that she had been introduced to audiences as a rude, untutored specimen of the backwoods, perfectly guileless, with little education, and remarkable only for the fact that Providence (so the truthful manager put it) had gifted her with a peculiar and marvelous force which enabled her to accomplish most extraordinary things never before seen or heard of. As she tripped along in front of me I saw that she was still a large, well-built specimen of humanity, broad shouldered, and with excellently' developed muscles, whieb might readily deter many a strong man from arousing her anger. Untutored girls from the backwoods, you know, very frequently strike from the shoulder ;and hit hard.' One thing puzzled me. She carried an enormous sunshade of the latest style. This seemed wonderful when I recollected that one of the most peculiar characteristics pertaining to this simple maiden, in the days of her neto rietv, was the fact that she could not hold an umbrella or parasol over hei head for three consecutive minutes with out its sudenly flying to pieces. I re membered abio that no man could main tain in an upright position an open um brella against which she laid the palm o. of her white but large hand. And vel here she was manipulating a sunshadt with all the ease and grace of a Fiftl avenue belle, without any apparently serious consequences. I followed her patiently for several locLs, momentarily expecting to see the daint crimson pachute fly violently from her hands. Nothiig of the sort occurred, however, and then I concluded that she was prob aby no longer "magnetic," or that he] magnetism could be summoned and dis missed at will; that she discarded it dur ing Broadway promenades and called it forth again when the curtain rolled up on- a full house. Beset by curiosity, I sauntered after the child of the back woods untl I saw her turn a corner int a side streeL A few monre steps and she entered a well-known cakvansary. It required but a moment to find her name on the register of the house. This ac complished I sent up my card, and was received at once. The young wonan had discarded the sunshale, which lay unharmed upon a sofa, and met me witli a confidence and self-possession qite ai variance with the manners assumed oz the occasion of her initial enteArt on thE stage as a "wonder." After some pre liminary skirmishing of a polite nature, relative to her health and other kindred topics, I asked her if E-,e had visited Net i>rk for the purpse of appearin pro jfe"donally. Wi a reminiscent ugh, ,balfeshackle and half giggle, she replied "Oh, 4esr, no! I don't do that sort o: thing any more." uWy ot?" I queried. "Has the mageti inluece omaenyou?" Again she gave way to remmnisceni risgh1ities, and murmured some unintel ligible words which sounded like "Hoy AXr you interviewing me?" she asked after her mirth ha4 sibsided. "If so I bave no objection t'o the ordeal, and 3 assure you candidly that yoiu-wili be thE first newspaper man who will hav~e suc eceded in making me talk freely." "In the first place," she continued, "let me mention an important poini which everybody who came to witness my performances totally overlooked.] jiever professed to be either magnetc o: mesmeric. Other people advanced thi theory, not I. I did contend that .L ws able to accomplish some seemmngly ex traordiary feats, and I accomplishec them. There the matter ended. Wher I was engaged by managers who has witnessed my representations they dic niot inquire as to whether I was the pos sessor of any peculiar or unknown force they simply niade contracts with me un der certain conditions, namely, that ] was to give so many performances for s< much money, and I gave them. If .peo ple chose to write me up as mesmeric og magnetic that was their affair, not mine. "Then you did not accomplish vou: feats through the aid of any unknowi force?" The charmingly naive child of natur' giggled again as she answered, in a ver' non-enmittal way: "We won't discus: that point.' butlI will tell you what. will do. With' ten minutes' instruction: I will enabia yiou to perform, withou the aid of either mesmerism or magnet ism, any feat which von sver saw m< attempt. Do you remember the con test? A man takes the article and hold it before him at arms' kngth with a han< tightly grippjing each end of it, and en leavors to stand still after I have place< my hand gently upon it. Let us try ii Take ihe stick." I did so, bracing myself ais rigidly a an iron bar. The young woman lai~l th< palm of one white hand lightly upon th rod, and after a moment I felt myse] swaying to and fro. Then I was jerke violently forward, thrown backward an< yanked promiscuously about the apart ment until I was entirely out of breat] and began to feel very red in the face I sat down pnffin anad panting, whtil myfair hostess giggledlgleefully. Th thg was asgreat a mystery to me a ever, and I confessed the fact as soon ai I had recovered suflicient breath to em press myself in 'words. "It is very simple," laughed m; friend. 'MI may have accomplished it b; means of magnetism, but I will sho' you how to do it without. 'Take th1 cae and brace yolurself againt. You se you are in a nerfectly rigid positioa with every muscle strained to its utmo: tension. Consequently the slighte: - -~s~r from me noon the stick, whet] er that pressure be magnetic or not, is bound to throw you off your eq.uilibrium. Now I place my open palh upon the article, and I need only use the slightest pressure to move you. Do you see? To demoustrate how simple the thing is h-t me give you an additional point. When you feeil that the pressure is about to sway vou, relax your miuscles. When the pressure propels you backward let 'vou arns give in the direction of the io Cvement. When the pressure is for waird avail yourself of the same precan tion. In other words, instead of bracing yourself firmly, remain perfectly limp. amd then I think it will require a super natural force to move yoi. Ag-'ain we essayed t&L 1at, I closely following the young woman's instruc tions. fhis time victory was on ny side, and I stood abashed at the simple explanation of a feat which some time ago'had seemed sufficiently extraordina rv to call forth letters of inquiry from some of the most scientific minds in America. "Let me show you some thin," said my fair entertainer, taking a batch of letters from an open trunk and selecting one inelosed in a blue en velope. "Here is a letter from an Ox ford professor who happened to witness one of my performances. If you will glance over it you will see that he was particularly stru:k with the cane test, which he considered marvellous. He asked about the date of my birth, my general health and wished to learn whether any of my ancestors, so far as known, possessed any of my peculiar characteristics. He also requested, as a particular favor, that I would give a private seance for the benefit of himself and several well-known scientists. The performance was not given. Now, that man, like thousands of others, learned as he was, instead of trying to elucidate my feats through the medium of natural agencies, dipped into abstruse science and got lost, for of course there was nothing abstruse in the means I used." "In regard to some of your other feats, may I ask how it is possible to hold a chair raised a few feet in the air so the united efforts of half a dozen men cannot force it to the ground?" "It can be done very easily," was the rerly, "if you pose. a cfrtain amount of physical strength, and it is imuch nmore difficult to control a chair held by one strong individual than it would be if it were held by six. I will make it clear to you. We wiU suppose you to be the 'performer. You are a man of strength and will and you are determined to sur ceed before your audience. Failure means nuin to you so far as financial sue cess is coneerned. Threfore you forget your audience and everything else but the end in view. You take possession of the chair with a resolution not to be shaken by surrounding circumstances. The six m'en, on the contrary, are think ing principally of the derision likely to follow an exhibition of muscular superi oritv. There being half a dozen of my opp.!lents, not one of them could secure anything likea L firm hold on the disputed article, and each onz, as a rule, tugged in an opposite directioi to his neaighbor. On does not try to hold the chair up. Simply by pushing it with all my strength I forte it agaimst miy foes and shove them from one adie of the stage to the other. The derision of the .andi ence quickly relaxe% their muscles, while I never for an instant lose my self-con trol. While I keel) on pushing persist ently, my opponents grow more unsteady on tir Iimbs, and finally, wearied out, they rire ini 1sst." 'Can you te ia 'a i-, by simply placing your open palms agains the sides of a chair, you can lift it when it is ocnpicd by a man weighing 200 p~ounds and overr?: "Some person zoui amosnolish it readily," was the answer, "idpadby er tain favorable conditions. Most nien in sitting down throw themselves back in such a way that the front legs of the chair are nearly all the time clear of the round. Almost the entire weight falls on the hind reg.. JBy 'rossing the open palms closely tothe siAes of a 4lyr such as is generaly used in the performnancesl you cannot help 'gripping' to a certain extent. If you possess a goodly allow ance ,of rtrength this grip will enable you to raise tihe ,imir a few inches from the round. Of cones~ i is only a few nches, and you drop it agrin rather suddenlh, but the audience hiears the Slegs strive the floor and you are victori ous.Se? "Well, haowbt the story that you could not possibly 'carry a mised umbrel la for more than three consecutive mo ments without its flying to pieces," I in ~quireci, eveing i1nwhile the discarded and unharmed parasol repodpg by the oung woman's side. "Oh," she replied, displaying embar rassment for the first time, "I was order ed not to carry a parasol in tly~ streets and I simply obeyed instructions. It was unpleasant, of course, to walk about unprotected from the sun, but by that little sacrifice of personal comlort in summer I was ,eabled to enjoy a fine sealskin sacque in winter." "How did you first discover your abili t to perform these feats?" "I first discovered it." was the guile less rejoinder, "by going two or three ties to Walbmek's Theatre and carefully watching Lulu Hurst's exhibition. Th~e spectators really furnished the greater part of the performance. It was really -amusing to notice how the audience used to watch my every move and construe it into something mysterious. To illus trate-I had .nd still have a habit of Ipassing my hand i,efo,e my eyes and also of running it through' my bangs. Well, a young man would trip upon the stage to try +he cane test. He would brace himself rigialyr, grip the stick and look me square in the faice, determina tion p)ersonfied. The audience were on Ithe alert, and he knew it. I would quickly raise my hand from the stick and pass it before my eyes. Half the -spectators would immediately whisper audibly, 'She-s mcsynerizing him.' Then~ the young man began to grow nervous Sandobtful. After a moment my hand would again ulyconsciously forsake the stick and run through my bangs. Anoth er audible whisper, 'She's got electricity -in her hair.' By this time my would-bc conqueror was I alf beaten, and to finish Shim was comp)aratively easy." "You have fully decided, then, not to .give any more exhib itions?" e 'Yes; magnetic girls are at a discount. ,They were valuable, though, while the it furor lasted. You see they- were some tt thing novel, and that is wha Americans . jlk. armnum demonstrated the fact long ago.' "What do voa -hink of Luln Hurst?" "Preciselvi hat she thinks of me. "And that is-?" "A.k her." ARTHUit ADAMS. ikewi ie the E umutonieat 1:0:: Feimiine NAAE More women have been named Mary than any other name which has blessed or cursel the feminine sex. It stands as the typical name for the holiest and most abject of women-for the virgin and the wanton. And in every language of Asia and Europe, as well as that of Egypt, this name appears almost without varia tion. It has been an equal favorite with the aristocrats of France and the piitans of New England, and it equally becomes literature or kitchen. It is stately when we speak of Lady Mary Worthy Mon tagie; it is simplicity itself when we re fer to Mary O'Brien, who brings in our breakfast rolis. At one time it may bring up a picture of a divine painted face, hanging in the rich gloom of an Italian gallery, and at another of a red-clieeked dairyinaid, with her bare feet in the daisied grass. Two of Enghnd's five queens have borne it, and the most memorable woman that Scotland ever produced has made. it immortal. The proudest women of France have dignified it, and the worst women of Russia have disgraced it. Thoro ar'e as many Marys smiling at the circling suas that make the brief summer by the northern sea as loll through the luxurious days by the Mediterranean. The name that the Catholie missionaries gave to the first converted Indian niaidean was Mary, and )erhaps the first daughter of every fami v for all tinge will stand in imminent oint attained by Lieut. Lockwood, with adequate sup plies for man and beast. the vexed problem of the Polar sea will be forever settled; if my best judgment and experi ence did not teach me this, I would not be so romantic as to undertake to leaive the huiu'ies of this zone. When Lock wood was obliged to turn southward from that spot, less than 400 miles from the Pole, he could travel from seven teen to twenty miles a day over clear ice, whereas before he was limited to ten miles a day, owing to the condition of the superfice. His supplies would not hold out and his orders were to return. This was in the month of May." "So you are confident of reaching the Pole if you begin where Lockwood left off?" "Yes. It will reqiuire less than thirty days' more travel, and I shall make ever endeavor subsidiary to this one etrort, for therein lies the mystery of the cir cumpolar world." "How numerous a party will you take with you from the northermost coast of Greenland yet reached by man?" "I shall have three young hunters and their families, and I shall get them from the country about Hudson Bay and Cumberlandl Inlet. You may add, too, that I shall in uo way be embari'assed for funds or suplies. While my friends and those interested in polar discovei'y have sent me mnyn vahmble arms and instruments, and w hile such are always welcome, I hav~e no misgivings about be ing adeqatelv provided. Col. Gilder is a inan of stocky physique. aiiable disposition, self-conildent with out egotism, and self-poised without anyv of the I-am-lhe about him. His consti tution has stood every shock that can visit a journalist, explorer and man-of the-world, and his temiperanment every onslaugh t that makes dysp~epties of somec and tedious narrators of others. H-e oes about his present undertaking with' out excitement or solicitude, just as if it n-rea e very day affair. CONFEDERATE GENR.LS. What They are Doin;: and Where They are Located. The recent meeting of ex-Confederate generils at Moigomery, Ala., leads a Washingiqiton correspondent of the Louis Ville Post to look up the present where abouts and ocenipations of some of the principal survivors among the leaders of the Confederacy. Of the six full generals appointed by the Confederate Congress, only two survive-Joseph E. Johnston, now United States commissioner of rail roads, and G. T. Beauregard, adjutant general of Louisiana and manager of ihe Louisiana lotterv drawings. Of the twenty lieutenant-generals ap pointed to the provisional army, several are living. E. Kirby Smith is professor of mathematics in tie University of the South, in Tennessee. James Longstreet is keeping a hotel down in Georgia. D. H. Hill, of North Carolina, was, till recently, president of the Agricultural School of the State of Arkansas, and now earns a living chiefly as a magazine writer. Stephen B. Lee is a fanner, and presi dent of the State Agricultural College of Mississippi. Jubal A. Early practices law at Lynch burg. Of the major-generals, A. P. Stewart is now president of the University of Mississippi at Oxford. Joseph Wheeler is in Congress, is very! wealthy, and one of the largest planters in Alabama. John B. Gordon is a millionaire rail road man. General Loring, of Florida, was en gineer in Egypt until a few years ago, when ie came to New York to work at the same profession. B. F. Cheatham was recently appoint ed postmaster at Nashville, Tem. Sam Jones, of Virginia, is in the judge advocate general's office. Lafayette McLaws is postmaster at Savannah, Ga. S. B. Buckner lives in Louisville, Ky., where he owns a great deal of real estate. S. B. French earns a scanty subsist ence by engineering in Georgia. C. L. Stevenson is in Frederickburg, Va. John H. Forney, brother of Congress man Forney, is in an insane asylum at Selma, Ala. Abiney H. Maurayis Washington agent of a New York life insurance company. John G. Walker is also in the ins-ur ance business. Isaac R. Trimble is in retirement in Baltimore on a fortune. General Heath is employed by the government on some Southern rivers. Cadmus Wilcox is writing a history of the Mexican war. Fitzhugh Lee is governor of Virginia. "Extra Billy" Smith practices law at Warrenton, Va. Charles W. Field, once a doorkeeper of the House, is superintendent of the Hot Springs reservation. William B. Bate is governor of Ten-; nessee. W. H. F. Lee is a Fairfax county farmer. C. J. Polignac, who came over from France to espouse the Confederate cause, 'is back in Paris busied with railroad operations. William Mahone is in the Senate as is E. C. Walthal, of 'Mississippi. John S. Marmaduke is governor of Missonri. Pierce 31. B. Young is United States consul-general at St. Petersburg, M. C. Butler is a Senator of the' United States. G. W. Curtis Lee is president of Washington and Lee University at Lex ington, Va. Gen. Wade Hampton is in the United States SEnate. Only a few of the several hundred bn-igadfier-generals cau be mentined. West Adams is postmaster at Jackson,I Mi1ss. Frank Armstrong is nowi waiting tihe Senate's confirmation to be Indian age.nt. John C. Brown was twice governor of; Tennessee. built the Texas Paicific rail road for Jay Gould, and is the latter's attorney for all his roads west of the MIississippi, as well as receiver for the Texas Pacific, with headquarters at Dal las. J. Ri. Chalners represented the "shoe string" district, in MIississippi, in Con ress, until he was left last fall by party splits. John B. Clark, of M1issouri, is clerk of the United States House of Representa tives. F. 31. Cockrell and A. H. Colquitt are United States Senators. . . E. Coiston is in the surgeon-gener al's office. W. R. Cox, of North Carolina, is in the House. X. B. de Bray is commissioner in tihe land office of Texas. Basil Duke edits the Southern Bivouae at Louisville, Ky. J. T. MIorgan, of Alabama, and S. ID. MIaxey, of Texas, are United States Sen ators. A. 31. Scales is governor of NorthI Carolina. C. 31. Shielly is third auditor or the treasury. E. L. Thomas is in the land oilice -of the interior department. R. 31. Vance is assistant commissioner of patents. The slaughter of Bird&. The recently organized Audubon So ciety for the protection of birds has col lected sonme telling statistics concerning the slaughter of the feath ered innocents. One Broadway tirnm buys fromi 5110,00(0 to 1,000,0001 small Amtiean bir every vear, obtaining~ them from every State in the Union. Gulls terns. orioles. crows, blackbirds, bobolink- ..nl.-, larks, parows, e.tc., are gt atly in i mand because they are cheap. Another house has 5,000 sparrows in stock: aund 40,000 pairs of GermaLn maieis ma~de upl a recent conigmemnt. A million 1obo links are said to have been killed in one month near Philadelp>hia, anAl one mil lincry house h ad 2(0,U00 bird-skins oni hand at one time. The killing of birds in order to earn a few cents or dollars has heconme a common practice on Long Island and elsewhere.& One of the ob1 jects of the Audubon So ciety is to swiure the enactment of laws in all the~ States against the barbarous practice of umihng beautiful and harmless birds pay tribute with their lives to the demands of fash in--Frank Leslie. FREEM.ASONS AND KNIGHITS. xiracts from the Canadinn Bishops' Patoral Letter. The collective pa.. ral letter of the eleven Catholic Bishops of this pro vineeias proved a disappointment to many. It was believed that the Knights of Labor would be rouldly denounced, whereas the anathema has been reserved for Freemasonry and the Knights are only casually referred to. The following are extracts from the letter: "Freemasonry lies in the hands of half a dozen unknown individuals with sinis ter designs. A great Protestant states man wrote in connection with the En ropean revolutions: 'All these great movements of oppressed nations, etc., are controlled by half a dozen individu als, who give tleir orders to the secret societies of ;ll Europe.' It must be ad mitted that there exists in Freemasonry a concealed Board of Directors, which varies according to the times, place and country. "Besides these societies there are oth er forbidden ones, which must be avoid ed under penalty of grievous sin, and among these must be remembered espe cially those which impose on their mem bers a secret which is to be made known to no one, and an unreserved obedience to hidden leaders. Such is, in particu lair, the society known as the Knights of Labor, which' the sacred Congregation of Inquisition has declared must be classed among societies condemned by the Holy See. The cosmopolitan char acter of secret societies, and that of the Knights of Labor in particular, neces sarily exposes many who belong to them to obey the orders of a council sitting in a foreign country, which at a given mo ment may be opposed to interests and even at war with the Government to whom its members owe allegience. The principal dangers of these societies are found in the fact that the members are bound to secrecy and become vile in striunents in the hands of a few leaders who may exact from them the most out rageous and tyrannical acts as is shown by numerous most deploraLu strikes." The Bishops have, it will be seen, left themselves free to change their front should the Knights alter their constitu tion so as to meet the wishes of the church. The principal stipulation will be that Knights shall sever their connec tion with the order in the United States. A meeting of the local branch is being held to consider the matter, and should they fail to come to an arrangement all Catholics will be peremptorily ordered to leave the society.-Montreal Dicpatch. .Iiddle Seats in a Car. A very common theme of conversation among travelers is the question of wheth er or not a car rides easier in the middle than above the trucks. One of our rail road contemporaries some time ago pub lished an article on the subject, and took the ground that there could be no differ ence unless the sills and franming of a'car vielded like the buckboard of a wagon. There is certainly no yield to. car sills and framing; yet every old traveler avoids the seats, and especially the sleep ing berths, above the trucks, and old travelers generally know what they are doing. if the party who insisted that there could be no difference in the mo tion in the different parts of the same car had ever crossed the stormy ocean in a moderately long steamer he might have received sonic enlightenment, es pecially if sea sickness urged him to find the point of least motion. It is well known that there is less motion amid ships than there is at the stem or stern, and less motion at the bottom of the vessel than there is on deck. A car acts in a similar way. Anything defective about the track jerks th'e wheels, which transmit the irregular motion to the truck, and that in turn to the body of the coach. The movement among a few veteran soldiers in this locality to create feeling in respect to the proposed visit of Robert E. Lee Post of ex-Confederates, of Rich miond. Va.. to the New Hampshire re union, at the Weirs this year, is unwise and unpatriotic. Elsewhecre throughout the country this mingling of the gray and the blue has led to happy results, and no New Hampshire Union veteran can furnish any objection beyond a silly egotism to the proposed visit of R. E. Lee Post. If there is here and there one who thinks that his honor is in dan ger of being tarnished or his loyalty tampered with, this is a good time for him to take to the woods. When these squeamish gentlemen get through with this job, they might turn their attention to fencing out the east wind or putting a curtain in the sky to obscure the sun. If New Hamp~shire fits thus poorly in the Union of to-day that the tread of a hun dred visitors from Virginia is liable to displace it. it matters very little whether it stays in or not. But before the mat ter goes further we desire to remind these over-sensitive sticklers that they are far from constituting the State of New Hampshire or representing her veteran sohtliers.-31auchester Union, liuor .imong Thices. A haurglar was going through a house ini a Dakota L .wn one night and discov ered an exceptionally large roll of money. Curious to know whether lie had broken into an editor's house or that of some other variety of capitalist, he turned to the owner, who had just awakened, and said: "Excuse, me, Colonel, but I would like to inquire how you came by such an un-' usually large wad of wealth?" "Si'~ replied tihe moneyed man, "I am a nimber of the Territorial Legisla 'A thous~and pardons'" e'xclaimed the polite' bu"'ar. dropping the money. VShe We never steal from members oft thle profeiCsi n. Good night. "-Estel .\n Iiiusurr'e'""iu St raie. The' s.tiking mania reached a colgred prahrin a town in 3Iississippi the other dav; and lhe ars before his con gregation anid said - "Chill'en, I'ze been tryin' hard to p~reach de gospel on .32 a w-k, a 1 ze got discouraged. Y.ou has c'tthel' got to raise the salary to 83, or Cze win togo out an' skirmish fur ho is anehickens 'long wid die res~' of \' ' an' take my" chanees of' gwine to lleaven." By, a'unianimous vote of the conregtio~itwas decided to continue the salary at s2 and let him skirmish. ,Wall Street News. NEW BREIEDS OF SHEEP. I am making two b recds of sheep. One I call the "Farmers' Sheep," and it is to be a mutton sheep, with thick fleece, thicker than that on the English breeds and better adapted to our change ful and rigorous elioate. The truth is, no one ever yet haported any of the English breeds and kept them up to the standlard of the imported stock. We need an American breed adapted to our climate and the modes of feeding and care we give. This vill require a sheep with a very compact body and a close fleece; sheep with open wool are not suited to our wants. I shall not aim to get a good sized sheep with square body, broad back and short legs and as meaty as possible. Such a sheep will mature young and the azths will do to slaugh ter young; and they will make a good weight. Legs and lank qvuarters do not weigh much. I take pleasure in show ing farmers my foundation sheep and the line of breeding. This year a pure bred Oxforddown ram is being used. There is in reserve a dash of Merino to make the fleece more compact. It takes two years to fix types in breeding and to establish uniform characteristics. So the sooner we begin such work the bet ter. Why should we not have breeds of our own? The other breed of sheep is "Mutton Merino." The future must necessarily find Merinos more plentiful than any other breed, as in the past. This is on account of their special adaptation to mountain lands, dry plains and rough and sterile plades where other sheep would not exist. No others can endure what Merinos will, or thrive in such large flocks. But cannot Merinos be made to fill more than one sphere of usefulness, and thus become proportion ately more desirable? Yes, and I wish I had got this idea twenty-five years ago - and had just so much time to develop it. We must have a mutton Merino to give a large fleece of fine wool, and with char acteristics well established, to breed a lamb which, with good keep, can be made to dress thirty pounds or more at four or five months' age, which is ten pounds. ahead of- the present average. Moreover, slowness for maturing must be bred out. The average Merino, al though the smallest sheep, is the longest to get its full growth. I have my ideal mutton Merino, and am now using a ram which is perfection in some respects (wool and form), but of course the na ture for quick growth is lacking. This must be coaxed into the blood by selec-. tion, crossing, and good feeding. The offspring must exceed the parents in size and rapidity of growth. A real mutton Merino would be the most valuable sheep in America, because adapted to such a wide extent of country and wants. -F. D. Curtis in The New South. The catiholie ('ardnals. Several of the New York papers in their articles on the cardinalate, make a mistake in saying that Cardinal Gibbons is a Cardinal Bishop. The distinguished prelate of Baltimore is a cardinal priest, just as was the late Cardinal McCloskey, of New York, and will so rank in the sa cred college. On the first of January there were just sixty cardinals, the limit being seventy; of the sixty cardinals thirty-six were born and educated in Italy. The number of those styled cardinal bishops is limited to six, and these dignitaries live in Rome. At present five of the cardinal bishops are Italians and one is an Englishman-Ed ward, Cardinal Howard, archpriest of the vatican Basilica. The officers of the others are respectively dean of the sa cred college, librarian, great penitentia ry, prefect of the congregation of indul gences, and Lord Chamberlain. The actual archbishops of sees who are cardi nals are always cardinal priests. Henry Edward, Ca'rdinal Manning, is arch bishop of Westminster and the primate of the Catholic church in England. The famous Simeoni, prefect of the propa ganda, is a cardinal priest; so, also, is Jacobini. secretary of State. After the cardinal priests come the cardinal dea cons, there being at present thirteen. John 'Henry, Cardinal ~Newman, meta physician, poet and preacher, one of the most eminent men of Great Britain, al though a priest in the clauch, is a cardi nal deacon in the sacred college. Car dinal McCloskey was the first prelate in America to receive the cardinal's hat. That was in 18753, when he was sixty-five years old. At that time Dr. Gibbons was bishop of Riclhnond. The second prelate to receive the cardinal's title was Bishop Gibbons, the first insignia having been handed to him at his residence yes terday. The third prelate in America who receives the same dignity is Arch bishop Tascherau, of Quebec. He was chosen a cardinal at the same consistory which conferred the honor upon Gib bons. Some of the New York papers have also made a mistake in stating that Ireland has two cardinals. At the time Archbishop McCabe was made a cardinal he was the only wearer of the red hat in Ireland, and he had borne the rank only a short while when lie died, leaving no Irish cardinal; but recentlv Dr. Patrick Francis Moran, of Ireland, was sent to Australia as archbishop of Sidney and wa created a cardinal. iDr. Walsh, car dinal McCabe's successor as archbishop primate of Ireland. has not been men tioned in connection with the cardinal ate, so far as the pub lie has been ad vised. -Richmond State. Sec~ret, of thue .1poteer - (cerk. There is one fiel in which, so it is said, woman, lovely womn, will never find employment. She canl never be an apothecary's elerk, because she is not able to keep a secret. A pharmacy is a regular confessional, and into the ears of the discreet attendant are poured weighty secrets, w hich it woul never do to in trust to the possession of the ga..king gossippy female. In the regular course of his business, the dispenser of pills and powders knows all about people's bodily afflictions and wveaknesses, and becomes acquanted witlh little sins and things of that kind which the interested parties would not ave the worl to know for any thin. Then, too, he learns who paints, whto piowders, who cats opium, who uses beliadonna to brighten the eves, arsenic to whiten the skin, who is obliged to us inse.ct powder at home, and various things~ of that kind which would be too gr'eat aL temlptationi for a talkative womlan to give away. A. S. icek, of Fa~drbiiks, Lexington, cut a 15 pound eabbuge from his spring pntch on the 20th.