The free citizen. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1874-1876, March 06, 1875, Image 2

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"- ." '-T-~-'-rr.-r--- "' ? ---r--'-______________-f, _----- ? - ; ; ? ? ? ? ? - - HE r 'REE UITIZEN. E.^A". WEBST^R^^Edit?r and ,l?r,oprietor. . A Weekly Paper Devoted to Temperance, Literature and Politics. - ? ?? ? . . .'- ? . ... . ? . . . j , - . ? . . . ? ? j - . VOLUME i: ORANGEBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, MARCH b\ 1875. , NUMBER 30, BEST. BY ALMOST P.AUNKS. Durn lon-, oh light, Burl let the darkness ml. liri ellenoo bo worro fitful Bounds hrwe boon ; Let soul to body be no moro a mate ; Let each, too tired, bo sweetly desolate. Ye?, lot tho noni, e'en aa a too-loved brido, Tarn gently from ita sacred body's side; Love Blumber more than love ; turn ond be atlll, No'.v that they both, or not, have bad their w.ll. What mattera it? they both aro tired to death. They, married with tho breathing of a breath, Would gather vip tho feet and bo at rest, 1 Content to bo oblivious of tho beat ; And happior ?o all discord lo elude, All bitter pain, in that great FoMcltnde f That rca?iics like asea, cool, lnnnile. O'er folded banda and lips to nie nm ry Bweet. A Poa of grassy wsvea, foam-fringnd with flow'rH, Tho tenderest gift of any of oura ; ?'or lo, tho last of all, with floral wile Wo woo ibo mutent thing, tho grave, to amllo 1 If ono gooa gladly at tho close of tho day, *f*nf s all tho playthings of his world away Pulls down tho curtain. lays his aching t >t I And weary body ou a downy bed. Dlveated of all taro, but robed in Bleep, "Vol any one win make it cauro to woop ; Then nitor uno Birth, if there bo no breath, What test la kindlier tban the sleep of death? O soul, we each have wparlod ! Let us turn Both brea-t from breast Them 1B no moro to learn. There {nay bo dawn beyond the midnight's pall, But now 'sweet rest li; bolter-boat of Ml; HETTIE'S FIRST VALENTINE. I? ?wns : a'dover's i raeol ing; a .dovers* parting, when Robert Orey, walking ncroBB the fields in Ibo Bummer twilight, found Hettie Ucl mos nt tho etilo wait* mg for^-him; . :There was noiiRht'?vbor eje? when thoy caught eight of his tall, strong figure coming toward, her, no ami le ou her lips when ho 'stood noar. her waiting frr her to speak. Humbly, yet scarcely with the humility of a lover, he looked into" trie faco before him, BO very young und fair, HO Bteru and pale, rino looked at his hnndsomc face, hia tall form,.and a.shudder shook h?r from liend to foot. Very small, very Blight, lhere was yet a dignity in .irr "voice and look as"she said in a low tono,: /e,i tnrf&teta 'iriHi*"i it " I came to meet jon once more, as yon reqn?s*?ed*, Rotiert, brit you must not think to move mo from my r?solu-, tion." You cast me off, then," lin said, sadly and very, .very bitterly. " lt .is "your own Sf^JL'' . "But, Hettie, t'nm not tho only man who sometimes takeB a glass more than is.good for him," he pleaded. .* Yon are the only man that could work misery <to mebydraukenness." sho tttfirW Ht ? i^lyujaH?, 'i tero ly.... LflTiT. isl^irt. ^..^j-ivovd, Robert,' but it is a true ono. You were taken homo from the ball on Thursday evening helpless from iutoxi-r cation." "But, nettie, it was a fc?tivo timo. AU tho young men wero more or less ^o^ex the influence of liquor." .'.No', ull, Robert. Thank Heaven, nome of tho mothers and wives ve. c reared that anguish." " Como, Hettie, rJps't.be too hard -*n ?.. "ff rlnao y~>t 1t?j..-,j-.i ? --*Oi*y ?Oi'fcQiiV'" "It has happened'once too often, -Robert, for you and for. me. I. told yon I would never marry a men who need liquor, and I will keep my word. How often have you deceived me I will not ask. Thursday evening I Baw you.*' "It shall not happen again, Hettie; upon my bonor^ it shall not ! " "Will you sign the pledge?" she asked, a hopo for the first time lighting her soft brown eyes. "Bind myself that way i .No?!, Yon must trnst mc, Hettie. 1 f hink ft mon r-igns himself a .coward when ho puts his narq? to such ? paper, as if he was afraid ol his own rosolntion." " Twice yon have trusted to your res olution, ana I havo trusted you. Twico you have failed'to keep your promise." The young voice waa har I and stern again. But n moment later Hettie spoke in a gentler voice. " Itobert," she Raid, " yon have known me only-at? ft nursery governess to Mrs. Reid's chiidron, an orphan and alone in the world. Yonr love was a generous one, for you are above mo in position., have wealth, and might marry a far handsomer and richer girl than I aro." "I jove you," was the Vitrtple reply, and there wero tears in Hettie's eyes as sho heard it. >'- * . "Because I bclicvo you .love mc, Robert, I will tell you what I hoped m i \> ht nc vor have been known here., "My ' , liome is so far away, r.ll I loved there liayp' been dead for three weary .yosrs, and I hoped tho annie might bo buried forever. Bnt, Robert, listen, my father died a drunkard's death after living a diunkard's'Jife'for-fourteen^cars. I cen remember, though dimly, a hand Bomo hmiHu, my mother handsome and happy, well dressed, with every com fort within hor reach. I can well re member tim gr ad ii al downfall from cnn homo to another, o<teh poorer than tho Zrujt, tho warro, comfortable clothing growing nhabbior ?md shabbier, tho bountiful labio growing moro and more scanty. Worst cf 'nil, Robert,child as I waa, I could seo^theT. chango from a noble, uptight manhood to the brutality oka drunkard. 1 havo seen my-moth/jv cowering Under blows, wbilo I shrank and shivered in a hidden corner. I hnve seen little brothers and Bisters, ' one ufti r another laid-in rudo cofflnH, victims of want and sui?ering. I have neon my mother die, bidding rae oaro for tho driveling, prematurely old man, filling into his second childhood from drink. Tho end came when he died raving in the madness of delirium lire men's, and when I turned my back upon his grave I mcdo a vow to my heart that sooner than tie my life to the flbivo of drink I would oin?, f t with ray o wn hand," "But, Hettie, ihai?was an extreme cr.se. Your fatti?r was. you say. tho elnvo of .drink, ^,-w>H never be n?y xu?ute*-,'-' -'. J?at 5,1 It ia your.masternow, si nco twice it has made you break a solemn pledge to . me." M But, Hettie, oan't.you understand ?. A man may take occasionally a little moro perhaps' than his head can bear, and yet never fall into the pitiable state 5'on have described. Heavens, Hettie !" ie oried impatiently, his temper paling nnder the Bte'ady resolution oMho face that could bf ao gentle and sweet, "yon pay me a poor compliment when yon want mo to bind myself by a written pledge not to mako a beast of myself." "I did not come here to exchange compliments," said Hettie, cadly, " but to toll you that I will never take up the urden that o rushed: ray ?mother into her grave, voluntarily, . Never with my oyeB open will I link 'my lifo with that of a man who ever touches one drop of liquor. It is useless to repeat tho old arguments, Robort. Moderate drinkers, occasionally intoxicated, may live for yeara only moderato dvickers, bu 11 will nover bo tho wife of any man who has. not bound himself by a pledge never to touch. liquor in any form. " A total abstinence fool I" sneered Robert, now thoroughly angry. "A total abstinence mau," sho said firmly. "I hope you will bo able to find the soft fool who will put his manhood un? dor your thumb.'- For myself, I will nover bind myself .to a temperance pledge 1" "What!" ho argued, " shall T, tho riebest man in M-, who could marry almost any girl in my own set, bind my self to absolute slavery for a nursery governors, a girl who has hot one penny beyond tho salary MrB. Reed pays her, a drunkard's child, by her own confes sion ? Nevor ?" He waa-very angry, and like most an gry men, very unreasonable. He forgot to think^of the long courtship by which Hettie was won, of the gentle maidenly reticence that had been ono of her great est charms, of her own modest estimate of tho merits that had1 won him. He forgot the times without number when he had compared her in hil heart with all the maidens he knew-, finding her even prettier, sweeter, i?ore winsome than auy. He forgot how he loved her in his anger at her resolution. And Hetty, . walking slowly homo ward, resized &at with her otvu hand sho had thW?t ?S?^'be brightness out of hard life."' Sbolbved Robort. : Hot' be canse ne was iiob, could* give her a wea'th; had abe loved biui, bul for his tender chivalry;for her/his noble intnl h ct, his loving eyes that had sought her >wn with Bitch constant devotion. She had believed him all noble, true and manly when she bad put ber - little hand, in Ids strohg one and promised to be his wife. Six Jp ig months of betrothal had pasfcdlbefore tho summer . evening when tabs- turned from Tum. ria she d>bouglrt, forever. - . And enly irt the last few weeks bad she known of that fear ful, "deadly foe to her hope of happi ness who was fastening his fatal hold npon her lover. -The first tine she heard of Robert Grey intoxicated, a deadly despair grasped her heart. She thought of life-long martyrdom from which she had oeoaped so littled time before, and she wrote to. her lover sternly forbidding him to see her again, and thgn spent night after night weep ing for her lost love. But Robert Grey wonld not accept his dismissal, and pleaded so penitently that love conquered, fear, and Hettie believed that neyeV- again wonld he yield to tho temptation. Again thc 9^>ry eam?4o her, and half maddened, uttW?lit?g t?&elieve the solemn pkdgc brhjgan, jM^aWtl begged him io come tc herTHd^^iovn away the lie. But thc third tim? she had s en him ! Too well she knew what the red, wild eyes, the [ thick utterance, tho reoling step be.tok i ened. Only in answer to the most earn eat petition had she nerved herself tc grant one moro interview, and it hac' ended in Robert's anger and the fail un of her own last hope. Bbc knew Robert Grey had a sense o honor" as ke?n as hor own. That In had failed in bis promise to her wa becouso he looked upon it aa a pledg merely given to answer a girl's fool isl whim. Once bound beforo men by written pledge she felt sure he wonk keep it at whatever cost to himself. S fdio hoped to win him to sign such* pledge Tboro was a strong tcmpei unce rovival in M-at that very tjmt ond on this ibo built a hopo not know inc it was her weakest hold. For Robert Grey, yoting, wealth; and popular, loo-fed upon all this tem pofsnce" preaching ali directed agaim tbo'lowrr oIass,-th ' sots who rolled i gulera, the freqnontors of villago ta\ ems. That he, a gent .lem ni, shout I ?'nee his name to such a plodge na then wre'ajiofl woro porinndod to sigr ?(.?.me d to bim in a measure to, plac himsolf upon their lovel. Theiv, as h told flt ttie, ifrwas a confession of weeli !:<?:-s against which ali of his mnnhoo revolted. . ... The summer days woro- away, an these two, loving each other fondly met but eoldom, only to exchonge coi Strained greetings; Hettie snflbre most in her qniet, uneventful lifo ; bi Bho had been educated in a hardschoo and boro her pain patiently, fihe gre paler, and more quiet, but there wc .nono to notice any change. While el was faithful to her duties to Mt Reed's nursery, ehe waa sure of a hom *nd if there wa? no lore there but thi of the children,she taught, HO, to there was uo cno'to comment upon b languid atop or palo cheeks. If ni sp'-nt t'?ahy nlghfs in weep ng, no o; BOCO bc an explanation so dong j'Mary'e grammar was recited, and Ali said'her A B O's. I But whon tho wintor sei ia? Hot SK ^g'^;^;^;xw IK^?^>^: ,v^tv bad another wrenoh at hor heart-strings. Without a word of farewell, Robert Grey lelt M-to travel. No one knew exactly npon wlmt errand the yonng man had gone. He had been in business, and had left that with an agent, giving no hint of when he would retnrn, or whither ho was bonnd. Orphaned, wealthy, aud free, he had no permission to seek, li in aunt oaring for his house as ehe had done since his mother died in infanoy. Hettie had not realized how hope had still been strong in her heart until Robert was gone. While she could soe him, though they met almost as strang ers, she prayed and hoped ?till tbat bo wonld return to her, and give her the pledge he would value' most as hiB safe guard. Bat he had gone in anger, and the little governess looked a very hope less future in the face. She was a woman whose love, not easily won, would be given for a life-time, and no thought of another, to roplooe Robert, ever came to her faithful heart. She had given him np boeanse she thought duty demanded the sacrifice, bnt she could never ceaso to love him. Winter festivities left bor often alone. Mrs. Reed took tho child ron to their. grand mother's for Thanksgiving, and again for Ohristtiias week. In all 'this timo Hettio was loft in charge of tho house. Homo Christmas .gifts wore put upon her dressing table, testifying tho chil dren's love urjd Mrs, Reed's appr?cia tion of her care; but though Hettie vnl ued theso^highly, they could not fill tho dreary void in her heart. Sometimos in her lonely weeping uko 3HOB ti on od the resolution RUO had ?ought only duty, wondering if her storuneFS had driven Robert moro into the path she wished him to avoid, whothor her influeuco might not have oaved him. Then she remembered her mo thor's prayers, her patience, her pleading, and felt how powerless a wo man ?B when drink is her rivtd. January wore away, and February was half gone, when ono morning Alice Reed, in the midst of her babes, ex claimed : "It is Bl- Valentine's day, I wonder if I sholl have a valentine !" "Papa will bring the mail atdinnpr," said ten-year-old Mamy, gravely? "I know cousin Ben will send UB a valen tine ; he always does." " Will you have one,- Miss Hettie?" questioned Alice. ' "No, darling, I think not," Hettie said, smiling. '?-:X&&t irtitftT piipi^r^ngit?-!??^:, iii uer, and tho children rushed out tb moot him, not tte li curd him say : "Take this letter to M?6B Hettie, Mamy." ..'X / . A letter foi hor V There was no ono in the wide world^to write a letter to Hettie, except^-. IA'wild hope snraoar in her heart. CouTI Robert have whit ten? \ Ir, wa? a bulby letter, and Mamy, eager lu str? "if ittfr f?itjmr lind a valen tine for her, loft Hettio alone to open it. y.-^letter, closely written, was inside, end. folded within this a temperance pledge, and at the foot of it tho bold sigfOtnre, " Robert Grey." The letter was Hettie's first love-let ter, and I have co right to intrude npon her pi,vacy ; but in the spring, Robert Grey came back to M- to fiud In's bride, who put her hand in his, loving ly, trmtingly, won by the love that had prompted tho sending of her first valen tine. The Suez Canal. A lottor from Ciiro to the Eastern Bndge?-, dated the '1st December, says: " The present s*~?Le of the Suez canal is far !fGm ?al-.infan'-ory. Tho canal is neither completed nor in good repair, and if matters are ieft as they-are nt present it will become .tjaglesB in a .few y?ars. It is broad eriotrfdi to accommo date three steamers abreast, bnt ita depth is fo variable that ore ship only can pass through it at a time. When a vefsel comes from S nez tho ships c >m ing from Europe must wait at Port Slid, and if the ship getsapronnd on the sand the whole communieition is Btopped until it is set afloat again. Tliis, ol courso, causes great, injury to tiade, and complaints aro freqnont. The ohio! caneo of tho evil is tho want of money. Tho Engliph, who uso tho o mal more than any other nation, hnvo long beer thinking of gctiing tho cinal into theil -own hands, but a majority of two-thirdf of tho shareholders is nf cissaryin ordei to chango tho management, and ns th< viceroy is the pospessor c f one-third ci the fharo?,- he has practically tho oust ing vote. It is true that ono th.?rd ol tho abaros are a'so in tho poss. Bsion o: Englishmen, bnt tho attompts whicl have boen made-to indue.) -he viceroy tc dinposo < f his sharei have hithcrtr b eli fruitless. Tho 'kb on ive evidently fon red that Enplmd will becora.*" tot lowerful on ibo canal, and thirofon wo'crH the. alalu?. quo. As for M. Di lirs^ops, ho continu? 8 to send protest ii Consioutinople about tho canal duet? und his Annnora aro becoming ?erv every day. Tho co*t of tho mein'enano of tho canal and di o lging-works is froo 15,000,000 to 20 000,000 francs a year wrii'e hin total receipt? this year bav only amounted to30,000,000 francs, am it ,is *ory une?! tain whether tuey 'vi! to maintaiued at that figure. Mei oh rm te. boro are uoaniraoafly of opinio i hat something must be done to prc vent tbitunefnl work from beiug ruiner and that M. De Lesseps ni; on ld ci du be allowed gif aler Jreedom of actioi or bo given an oppottunity of se.lin the shares to a new company." -According to Kepesy, the Burgee to the Austrian Polar exp?dition, chooi late, as a beverage, proved most vail nMe of all; the preserved meat ar j vegetables in tins hoing also of tl greatest sorvleo in enetaining tl I Ktangth pud )? ni vit*. Tall 8 er vants. Mr. <Uonway, in bis last Commercial letter, says ; ' There is no doubt that the English nobility have a way of em ploying servants which offers grand op* portumtieB to rogues. Tn most oases the outside of the servants is the chief thing. If the coachman or footman is good inking in his livery and of tbe required dimensions his charaoter is not inquired into. . A -well-known duke recontly advertised for a foo in um of exactly- five feet elovon and p, . half inohca in hoight, wh'osesolo business it would be to stand at the back of his coach beside another of like station. A yous'i, now in tho employ of a lady of my acquaintance, applied for the ad vertised, position, and says that his character was not asked for ; he was taken ir lo tho soi vants' hall and meas ured, 'find ' dismissed for lacking the half ii?oh demanded by the duke. Thero h a passion for tallness in ser vants, aud of one noble family at least it is n rule to admit no man servant under B'S foet. Thore aro six of fcheeo eminent personages in their fine man sion. '.Che English servants are good looking.'.- neat, and constitutional fiun koys and flunkeycsseB. They aro voiy shrowd, and havo thoir class mles as well defined nu trados-nnions. Down ing strcots does not possesB more pigeon holes and rod tape than a man sion of fh? wealthy. An uppor house maid would die at the stake before she would do a bit of work that came with in tho province of tho under house maid. A swell butler wouh\>-throw np his pos'tion in the face of the Lord Chancellor himself if ho wore oxpected to black his own boots. Thore are ninny boys of thirteen kept in brass buttons, and in many an instance the solo duly of this boy is to brtiBh the clothes 'and boots of the buller the master of the house having his own separate; valet, pi course it is not pride wjdeh has made the inflexible laws of etiquette among these servants, by whiolf they refuse to step out of an official j&ooye of function. It ?B tho determination ot their close to pre serve th?v, conventional number of tho Berva???". required lor any first-olass hou3?ho"?h They particularly dislike servants; from .other countries, ospe ciully thi( tuermwas, because ifkwell paid and welV. if catgut they will do anv thing request*.^ ?vf-them." he Effect of Exercise. It ?8 ,??i?(i by"observation thni/lliOT effect of#4training," or the porsistont uso of ? tunast?? oxcrciscs, is to enlarge tho hortrjt' and lungs both in size and eapaoit- ''' Archibald MoClaren, suptr intondeufr of tho Oxford pymnasium, and autljor of " Physical Education," pays1: '.)yhoof the army officers sent to me fe,y bo instructed in gymnastics gained nw inohea in girth around the durst, 7M[C9B thou three tuMntb*." Thnt this gr^yth is ?iu^ frxplainsd by tho mere*'?v'iiU'gemcnt of the peotioral mnsnlosj is proved by the increased volume m air which the lungs are en abled tetoxpire, as is demonstrated by the sparomcter, and post mortems abundatjtly show an increased capacity as welii.M size in the heart and large blocd rassels. The lunga inorease in length and brear.th, forcing the ribs outward and the diaphragm downwards. It is foi: this reason that athletes and gymnasts aro enable to make prolonged' and violent exertions withont getting out of wind. " Tho, capacity of the heart and central arteries being enlarged, they can accommodate more blood, i heir contractile power being inoreased by this, new demand upon .them, they are enabled to nena uu the ou?rent i throngh the lungs with increased ve- j locity, and thus by their greater capac ity are able to oxygenize the blood as fast as it is supplied to them, and so no congestion takes place, and no incon venience is felt. The normal capacity of the lungs of an adult male is about 200 cubic inches. It is computed that an enlargement of three indies around the ohest gives an increase of fifty inches of lung capacity. By the Pacific. When the tide is out, Panama lies stranded-au inland town. It looks odd lo see vast troops of buzzards blackening hore aud ihore tho sea weed --bm thoy are the toavengera of the tropics ; their lives protcotod by law, and thoir swift scent for carrion is really tho protection of the people from miasmas that else would copu bo pesti lence. | Panama is a demo little pince, huddled upon a rocky peninsula jutting into the Sea from tho bare of tue vol susie * A ;? co ii. Ijcavipfj tho pier, one follow^ a rather straggling street, which winda! among negro lint*, grog-shopn, and many outious varieties of nat calato and live (-tock, until it deliver* him wjihin tho walls-no gatos are visi blo,. n*r does any one cxacl ly Know when I ho g?\n inside, qxoep? by a v.iguo fool ing that ho i? in-wh3ro semblances of paving ar>d aide-walks appear ; thoro is an occasional comer with ils side street; the. Y one on indn'go in vorandan, some times- of th?ee stories ; queer looking srhopp,-inclading some where beef is sold by tho yard-got thicker ; miller, donkeys; dogs, poultry, pigs, pioknnniu nie?, grinning gula and turkey buzzards abound, and hero and thorn an old church ia seen, until, of a sudden, yon are in the pinza ; the cat her] ral, with its two towers with their shell-ornamented, pyramidal termini, on nhose lofty sum mits-as well as ia all inferior crevices", ledges, and all other possible places grass is 'growing, and plants ate flour ishing and blooming with the most as tonishing nonchalance, is on your loft ; the not very magnificent state house and palace of justice is on your tight, and beyond it is what is left of the old. and what ia finished of tho now "Grand" hotel of: Panama. The average travel er finds little beauty in his surround ings; bat there is' a certain newness about the picture wliioh pl oases him-' for the sense of novelty is a pleasure in itself. -, The Polar Wave. Tho cold weather we have been having of late in those latitudes is as the balmy breath of the Moy time in comparison with what I they' have been 'having in Montana, according to a correspondent, " Writing from.Silver Bow,' in that ter ritory, he 'kays'that- th?' previous mid night the thermometer marked fifty-six^ degrees below zero. That was the nighty, when Chinamen and whisky froze, aa' reported by telegraph. > During a movere cold snap; in-Iowa some years ago, when the mercury ranged for many clays between fourteen and thirty-six degrees below'zero. tho teamsters used, sb it was currently reported, before starting on their long trips to buy a 1 gallon of whipky, bore a hole through it and sling it by a string to tho coupling pole of the wagon ; then they could knock off a piece with a bat ched when they wanted a drink; The Montana correspondent* tells of his success in freezing mercury. A tnmblor full of tho ordinary fluid metal was exposed to the air on a cold night. At forty degrees by tho ther mometer it was still fluid ; at forty-one degrees it had begun to harden on the outside; at forty-two degrees it was solid. Of courso spirit thermometers aro employed there by weather observ ers. Ono of thom, a very-careful mah, wishing to bo accurate, ordered a spirit thermometer from New "kork, to be made with special attention to correct ness m.the scaue. It o me in due time, and was a very fine instrument, but was only graduated to thirty degrees below zero. The disgusted meteorologist pro nounced it. a good enough summer ther mometer, but not calculated fornorth-r er n Mon tana. -E?j-Ut A Chinese Comedy, The San .Francisco Call speaks of a performance by a newly imported troupe of Chinese actor's and gymnaste as fol low-* : "The piece presented was evi dently in the low.comedy line, judging from tho great merriment of the audi ence, excited by the dialogue ; but the loading features were tho grand military spectacles, jugglery, and acrobatic per formo noes. At different times Qu?nese soldiery, of Ibo old style, appeared apotjtho ?tag? . _?U-. . . ~,{*.T??~ ? or titty, and exhibited tho modo o." war fare with spears and other ancient weap ons, '?he fencing exorcises nnd com bats with the doubla swoxc?s display marvelous dexterity and agility, and demonstrate that the Chi nam ?in on his ! native heath, and with his own stylt? of i weapon, 1a a dangerous antagonist. Tho mode of corabel with batel?/-* and,) mf-at-chopper* and inc utility xii the) c'lmberfiomo^bftiuboo suiol? are oleo displayed." .Titfe ji^glery, which cbn-> s'ats in runmfcrr <$oh" other tbioagh with swords ana Tartars, braining on? another "with me?t-ax?o, etc., is %'?rill'--' ing, brit rather ghastly in its effect, and most wonderfull deceptive. The blood is seen streaming down tho naked bodies of the apparent victims in appearance that is wonderfully real, and, after be ing decently slain in one of the terrille eombatB, it is quito surprising to ob serve the deceased arise again, atd go prancing off the stage with a meat cleaver stuck in his skull." A Parisian Extravagance. Writes a Paris correspondent : "Fur ..11_-i ..i-: i" .3"ll i_ Ilium; aUU UlCUOlto ?VA V. VT ?A UUUDoa mu in great request this winter, and a large wholesale house that is exclusively de voted to this branch of production has done a larger trade thu year than ever before. This honso employs GO hands, male and female, all the year round, and turns ont this class of toys to the amount of ?80.000 per anniim. The cher pest 1 set' cf ' furniture' turned ont by this firm consists of a box made of deal, a gloss decani or, two dishes, and four pluto? of china, two glasses, a pew ter dish cover, two knives, forks, and spoons ; the whole for three sons. From thia price the tots mount up by Hgubrr gradations until they roach the ab .iud price of ?240; no fewor than j six ' sets' dolls' house-lutings have boon sold this winter by this Arm at this price. Thoso miniature articles, care fully arrauged in cases of morocco loather, consist of every varioty of ob ject in Bilver, silver-gilt, Ano porcelain, sparkling orystal, doliente loather, cost ly woods, ivory, bronze, silk, velvet, &x, tho whole thing being of tho most exquisite workmanship. Tho same house rolls tho highest classes of dolls, with their trousseaux, at thc modest price of ?120 eaoh." ORIGIN OF THU Aymminus.-A poor larmer io Scotland, in 1750, finding it almo.-.t impossible to subsist, took grent | i aniH to nave Ins chi hin n drive his co.v where sho could eat the richest and ! hieket t. grasp, to house her in tho wiu tor, nnd to feed her vith carofnlly-stored hoy ; in tine, look unheard of caro of bis cow. The grateful animal rewardeel her owner with a fine calf and an unne U'il abundance of milk, and tbua the celebrated breed of Ayrshite cows was produced, though it was ?i?$ till about the first of' the pretest century that it was brought tn perfection. -Human intellect, though varying in capacity in different individuals, na? i tn limits in all plans of enlargement by acquisition ; and those limits cannot be transcended without oggrogate deterior ation in distracting tho attention, over loading tho memory or overworking the brain and tnpping the foundation*!- of health.-Jacob JJif/clow, M. />, FACTS AND JP ANGIE S, -A Now York map waa recently sen tenced to three mon tbs* imprisonment for barbarously killing a cat. " '".. -Cincinnati girlB ref URO to kiss their beaux who were shaved by fomale bar bers, and so tho enterprise was starved, to death. -A woman recently died in Alabama leaving, to somebody, it is said? an inher itance of no less than* 287 hoop-skirts. That woman was as well hooped as an imported barrel of French brandy. -" I'd like to . give something tb the poor,1' remarked a Toledo Hdy. M It's hard times- and they must be suffering, but I've got to use, this $dU) to buy an other switch." -There's nothing in women, after all. Gail Hamilton and George Sand have both said they would willingly relinquish their talents if the sacrifice would make them pretty, ri ~A gentlemen by tho name of Hor ott has been haunting the approaches^ to a certain now?paper office in 8an Francisco, looking for tho editor who called his Clara (nco Morris) a "Blondo Bonanza." .-Walt. Whitman has. begun to sing about tho cold weather. Warbieth Wait : - I howl a whoop, And with tho howlmont of the whoop I yip ? yawp, And willi a million ohill-betlnglod "velue I bow me to Ihe winter'a sovereignty ; . ,- . O bitesomo breeze ! 0 qna&esomo waves ! and all conglomerate elements of gelid Ihlnge! -An observant nBher in one of th theaters hos got BO he can toll a man's business by the woy he asks for pro-, gramme. A real estate man wants a *' description of tho play," a hotel pro- . priotor *' tho bill of fare," a politician the run of tho play," an editor " the points of the plot," and-a lawyer al ways asks : Will ypu bo good enough to hand me a bill of particulars ?". 5 .: 1 -In one of th* covais,-lately, there was a long ?nd .heated discussion be tween the counsel RS to "whether a wit- ! ness should be allowed to. HUH wer the following question: "What'did Mary say?t" I Three, judges .took .?early an hour to decide the point, and at Inst answered it. .The -'question was put to tho witness by tho, defense, :and tha .rep'- \l and sweet- "Not wor .,'fol : .: V -iid well-bred "?a?<v . - io j,u.r.,.. . tbdy tty lo be pleased ; il anybody tries to astonish thtjn they have Ihocuitrte&y to bo ne'tonishi'd ; if peoplo.become tire pome, thoy 00k I ?x??bo Jy elso to playo or sing, or whai gfik) .but they don't cnticine " And Jiuai Raskin holds that this in tbe way it nltoV?d bo in the world < as well as int'hodr?wing-room. .Hedoes not like critics ; anti jct what oise is he himself? - A ooincideneo in tho matterof names" will bo uoticoob ? in tho fjenatn of tho forty-fourth congress. There will bo " two .Camerons, two Joneoes, and two Morrilla, and, with tho exception of a t. .two- Johnsons~Senator Johnston, pf Virginia, and S??otor Johnson, of Ten nessee. Did not the term of Mr. Ham ilton, of Maryland, expire on'tho Ith of March next, thero would have boen no lops than five couplets of similar names in the senate. -It's a deep mystery-the way the heart of a man tnriis to one woman, out. of all the rest ho's reen in the world, nnd makes it ensier foi him to work seven years for her, like Jacob did for Rachel, tooner tbau havo any other woman for tho MAIUK. X often think of these words : "And Jacob nerved seven years for Rachel, ?W?^thoy. e'er.'yied but a few days, for tho loy?} he hadfor her." -Qcoruc J'Jlliot, ~ -A doh old widower of Oswego told a young girl there to drop her other beaux. She obeyed. He often took her ont riding, and assured her that " when we got ready we eau go off. sud-' don like, and surprise .tho gossips/*''' , Tho young lady old. not demnr. Then* tho rich old wJdox^Br popped off very sttddeu like, nnd married a ii eh old' widow about his own -Mp. The jory is ' sked for $15,000 damages. -Dr. Wilkes, in his rrecont work on physiology, remarks, that " it is esti rrfated that the bonos of every -adult person requires to be fed with lime enough to make a marble mantle every eight months." lt will bo perceived, therefore, that in the course of about ten years ench of tts oats three or four . mantlopicces and n few sots of front door steps. It ia awful to think of the consequences if a man would bo snub off from his supply of limo for a whilo and thea get loone ina cemetery. An ordinary tombstone would hardly bo. enough for a lunch for bim. -In a few remarks upon tho action of lightning-conductors, Sccohi, the woll-known astronomer, describes tho' storm of November, 1872, in which tho cathedral and palace of Alatri were struok by lightning, these structures f having been free from ?uoh visitations for many years. The damng . done on this neoniiion wac, as he shows, due in great measuro to the fact that the light ning-rods, insiead of being direotly connected with tho metalio guttt rs^and other portions of tho roof, were isolated from them. Tho fluid, therefore, Fought to make ita own way to such' other good conductors aa were near. After quoting other instances, he ex . pteased the opinion that tho condition* most favorable to safety consist in min ing the lightning-rod directly to all the metallic portions of the roof, and es pecially to the rain-water pipes, in or der that greater facilitv may no offered to tho eleotrio ilnid in its pansage to tho I eartfui