CITIZEN. E. A. WEBSTER. Editor and Proprietor. A Weekly Paper Devoted to Temperance, Literature and Politics. VOLUME T. ORANGEBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, MARCH i>, 1875. NUMBER 30. REST. Dt ALMOST HAUNTS, Hum |..\v, <>li lii;ht, mut let tho dartsuc?? in ! Lei silence !>o wnerc litful Bound* b?vc been ; Lot HHIII t" body bo no moro n mate; Let each, too tired, bo sweetly desolate. Yon, lrt the poul, e'en a?> a too-lovetl bride, Turn gently from tte sacred body's ?ido ; llivti slumber more flinn love; turn ?iud bo still, Now that they both, or not, have hill their will. W|,*t ma'-tors it ? they both ure tircl to denth. Thov, married with thc breathing of a breath, Would cather up tho feet and bc at rout, Content to bo oblivious of tho best; And happier so all discord lo elude, All bitter pain, ni that groat soitcltnile Thal reaches like a poa, cool, in'ftnilo. Uer folded bauds and lips to memory sweet. A poa of grassy wavos, foam-fringed with Itow'rH, Tho tendered gift of any of ours; For lo, thc Inst of nil, with Horn! wile We woo tho mutest thing, the gravo, to smile ! If ono goo* glidly at tho clono ol' till? day, ?'ets nil the playthings of his worlilnwny J'UIIH down tho cnrlatn. lays lila ?cbiug iii I And weary body ou a downy bod. Divesti'd of all caro, nut robed in sloop, Not any one will mateo lt cause to troon; I'Uen aftoi- ono sich, if there bo nu breath, What rent ls kindtler than the sleep of death? O oout, wc oacb bavo wearied ! IA UH turn Holli breast from brea?!. Thoro is nu moro lo loam. There may be ?lawn beyond the millnIftht'a pall, lint now sweet rest I', netter - bo"! nf all. HETTIE'S FIRST VALENTINE. It wny hi lover1* rneoting, a lovern* purl inp. when Robert tlrey, will ki n g neroRH Hie 1?P1?1K in the Slimmer twilight, fnu tul Hetti o Holmen nt tlie Bli le wait ing foi* him. Thor? was no light in her oyes win n they enught Bight of hi? tull, Bining li^uro coming toivard her, no smile on lier lips when lie stout nenr her waiting f< r her to speak. Humbly, yet E??areely with tho humility of a hiver, he looker! into the face before bim, so very yoting anti fair, no Htern and pale. >J,ho looked ut Iii? handsome fact?, his tall form, and a ahiiddter Rhook h?r from bead to foot. Very small, very slight, there was yet a diguity in .irr voice and look as she said JU a low tonu : " I crime to meet you once ruoie, as you requeued, Robert, hut you must not t in nh to mova me f rum ruy resolu tion. " "You cast mo oil", theD,*'ho said, sadly and very, very bitterly. "It is your own act I" " But, Hettie, I i'm not the only mau wbo sometimes takes a glass moro than is good for him," bo pleaded. "You aro tho onlj umu that could work niicery to mobydrtiukenness.*' abo Ktii/i ?iiitiitb.'-jin.d. *'teroly..-- 'i Tt!_ja_\ah_. ..^tJ vo.d, Robert , but. it in a tune ono. You were taken homo fr.uu tho Dall on Thursday evening helpless from intoxi cation." " But, nettie, it win; a festive timo. AU tho young men were moro or less u'iffes the influence of liquor." "JSo: all, Robert. Thank Heaven, some of tho mothers ami wives wo.o rpared that anguish." - "Gome, Hettie, don't ho tor? hnrd tin r: ll /1..?i>? i:"t. l^i-r-- - ?fj of tun.' "It. baa happened 'once too often, Robert, for you and for me. I told you I would never marry a man who used liquor, and 1 will keep my word. How often have you deceived me I will not ask, Thurfiday evening I saw you." "it shall not happen again, Hettie; upon my honor, it Bhall not ! " "Viii you sign the pledge?" ?he ankod, a hope for the tirst time lighting her Boft brown eyes!, "Bind myself that way ! No!. You must trust nie, Hettie. I think h wan f-igns himself a coward when ho puts bis nanto to snell ? paper, as if bc was afraid of his own roeolution." " Twice yon havo trusted to your res olution, and ? have trusted you. Twice you have failed to keep your promise." The young voice was har I nud btorn again. But a moment later Hettie ppokn in n gentler voie?. " Robert," she Baid, " you have known me only as a nursery governess to Mrs. Reid's children, an orphan mid alone in tho world. Yonr love was a generous ono, lor you are abovo mo in position, have wealth, and might murry a for handsomer and richer gul than 1 am." "I jove you," was tho imple reply, and thero wero tears in Hettio's PVCB UH she hoard it. "<. " Because I behove, you lovo rat, Robert, I will tell you what ? hoped might, never have, been Known hero. My . homo is BO far away, :;?i I loved thoio li'ivc been dead for three weary yoars, and I hopod the same might bo buried forever. But, Robert, buten, my father died a drunkard's death after living a drunkard's hie f >r fourteen years. I cun renumber, though dimly, fi hand some, iimibc, my motlier handsome and happy, well dressed, with ovory com fort within hor reach. lean well re member tho grndnal downfall from one homo to another, cudi poorer than tho ?..>::*, the warm, comfortable clothing growing rdiabbier and shabbier, thc bountiful labio growing moro and more scanty. Worst of all, Robert, child as I waa, I could HedtteT change from a nobb:, uptight manhood to tho brutality ol.a drunkard. I have noon my .mothar cowering under blown, while I shrank and shivorcd in a hidden corner. I have seen little brothers and Bisters, one affcf r another laid-in rudo coffins, victims of want and fui/leriug. I have neon my mother die,bidding mo carofor the driveling, prematurely old man, falling into his second childhood from drink. Tho end came when he died raving in.the madness of delirium tre m?is, and when I turned my back upon his grave I made a vow to my heart that sooner than tie my life to the slave pt, dr?ikJLwonld oud it with my own h*h?W**?tt?*% ^ - .* But, Hettie,.that /was an extreme o.f.HO. Your father was, you pay, the slave of j drink, ^t>wi)l never be my Master/' .$Ht? " It ia your muster now, sinco twice it baa made you break a solemn pledge to me." *' But, Hettie, eau't you understand ? A man may take occasionally a little moro porhaps than his bead can boar, and yet never fall into the pitiable state yon havo described. Heavens, Hottio !" no cried impatiently, his temper paling under tho steady resolution of the face that could bi? BO gentle and sweet, "you pay me a poor compliment when yon want me to bind myself by a written pledge not to make a beast of myself." " I did not come hore to excbaugo compliments," said Hettie, sadly, " but to toll you that I will never take up the urdeu that o rushed my mother into ber grave, vohuitarily. Never with my eyes open will I link my lifo with that of a man who over touches ono drop of liquor. It is useless to repeat tho old arguments, Ilobert. Moderate drinkers, occasionally intoxicated, may live for years only moderate drinkers, but I will never bo tho wife of ony man who has not bound himself by a pledge never to touch liquor in any form. "A total abstinence fool 1" sneered Robert, now thoroughly angry. "A total abstinence man," she said firmly. .'I hopo you will be able to ibid Ibo soft fool who will put bis manhood un der your thumb. For myself, I will novcr bind myself to a temperance pledge !" "What!" he argued, "shall T, tho richest man in M-, who could marry almost any girl in my own set, bind my self to absoluto slavery for a nursery governors, a girl wno bas not ono penny beyond t ho salary Mrs. Heed pays her, a drunkard's child, by her own confes sion ? Never ?"" He was very angry, Bud like most an gry men, VOIT unreasonable. Ho forgot to thinkfOf tho long courtship by which Hettie was won, of the gentltsmuidenly reticence that had been one of her great est charms, of her own modest, estimate of the merits that had won him. Ho forgot the timos without number when bf had compared her in his heart with all tho maidens ho knew, finding her even prettier, sweeter, more winsomo than auy. He forgot how he loved her in bis anger at her resolution. And Hetty, walking slowly home ward. roaHzed,t*;"at with her own hand she had thtuat ?ii hs brightness out of hard life. " Sboi loved Robert. Not be cause ho was rich, could*givo her a i;r.n-f1iao?^?c Inr;1, r.??- tbw . JT.fi M? on r\t wea'th; bad H^IC loved bun, but for bis tender chivalry for her, biri noble intu? h ct, his loving eyes that bad sought ber ?wu with such constant devotion. She had believed him all noble, true and manly wh<>n she bad put hor little hand in his strong ono and promised to be his wife. Six Jp ig months of betrothal hod paar cd J before tho summer evening when (all? turned from bim, rta she thought, forever. And < nly in the last 'few weeks bad she known of that fear ful, deadly foe to her hope of happi ness who was fastening his fatal bold upon her lover. Tho first, time Bhe heard of Robert Grey intoxicated, a deadly despair grasped her ht art. She thought of life-long marlyrdom from which she bad SFoaped so littled time before, and she wrote to her lover sternly forbidding bim to nee her again, and th?n spent night after night weep ing for her lost love. But. Robert Grey would not accept his dismissal, and pleaded so penitently that love conquerid fear, and Hettie bobeved that ne*ti again would he yield to the temptation. Again the story came.to her. and half maddened, uBwHlliifg iq?jelievc tho solemn pledge brbkftp. fh&^pl begged bim to come to 11er^Ktl wpiain away the lie. But the third time fha had s en him ! Too well she knew what the rod, wild eyes, the thick utterance, tho reeling step betok ened. Only in answer to the most earn est p?tition had sho nerved berpelf to grant one moro interview, and it had ended in Robert's anger and the failure of her own last hope. She knew Robert Groy had a sense o? honor as kc?u ns her own. That hf bud failed in bis promise to her wa* because bo looked upon it as a pledge un rely given to answer a girl's foolisl whim. Ouee bound beforo men by t written pledge, sho felt sum Ito wooli: keep it at. whatovercost to himself. Ht sim hoped to win him to sign snell'? pledge. There was a strong temper ance rovivai in M-at that very time anti on this the built a hope not know inc it was ber weakest bold. For Robert Grey, young, wealthy and popular, looked upon all this tem poiahce" preaching as directed agaius tho lower class, th . sots who rollt dil glitten?, tho frequonlors of village lav eins. That he, a gcntlcmui, shoiih p'nee bis name to such a pledge aa I bc i wro'ebes worn persuaded to sign ftcrmid lo him in a measure lo plac? himself upon tb?ur lovel. Thor *, us lit told flt tt ic, i fr wan a confession of wr.uk DOftl against which all of bis manhooi revolted. The summer days wore- away, am these two, loving each other fondly met but seldom, only to exchongo con strained greetings. Hetti? sufferc moist in her quiet, uneventful lifo; bu sbo had been educated in a hard achoo! and boro her pain patiently. She gre' paler, and more epitet, tint there wc none to notice any change. While sh was faithful to her duties to Mu Reed's nursery, the was sure of ahomi and if there waa no love there but tnt of the children .she taught, so, tot there wos no one "to com ino nt upon h< languid step or pale cheoks. If si spent many nights in weep ng, no ot sought an explanation so long i Mary's grammar was recited, nut! Alii said her A B O's. But when tho winter ?ot to, Holt lind another wrench at her heart-strings. Without a word of farewell, Robert Groy left M-to travel. No one knew exactly upon what erraud thc youngman bad gone. He had been in business, and had left that with au agent, giving no hint of when ho would return, or whither ho was bound. Orphaued, wealthy, nnd free, be had no permission to neck, his aunt caring for his house ns Fhn had dono since his mother died in infancy. Hettie had not realized how hope had still been strong in her heart until Robert was gone. While she could see him, though they met almost aR strang ers, she prayed and hoped still that be would return to ber, and give ber the pledge he would value most as his safe guard. But he bad gone in angor, and tho little governess looked a very hope less future in tho face. She was a woman whose love, not easily won, would be given for a lifo-time, and no thought of another, to replace Kobort, ever came to her faithful heart, oho bad givon him up because fdie thought duty demanded tho sncriiice, but sho could never ceaso to love him. Winter festivities left ln>r often alone. Mrs. Heed took the children to their grand mother's for Thanksgiving, nnd again for Christmas week. In all this timo Hettie was loft in charge of tho house. Homo Christmas gifts were put upon lier dressing table, testifying tho chil dren's lovo and Mrs. Heed's appr?cia tion of her caro; hut though Hettie val ned these highly, they could not. lill tho dreary void in her heart. Sometimes in hor lonely weeping ?ho questioned the resolution she had thought only duty, wondering if her sternness lind driven Robert moro into the path slio wished him to ovoid, whother her inQueuco might, not have saved him. Thru sho remembered her mother's prayers, her patience, her pleading, and felt how powerless a wo man is when drink is her rival. January wore away, and February was half gone, when ono morniug Alice Reed, in the midst of her babes, ci el uim ed : "It is Ht. Valentino's day, 1 wonder if I shall have a valentine !" "Papa will bring the mail at dinner," slid ten-year-old Minny, gravely. " I know cousin Ben will send us a valen tine ; ho always does." Will you have one, Miss Hettie?" questioned Alice. "No, darling, I think not," Hollie said, smiling. f ?.t.' ?Y?Hh? '' ptfp??/* <"V>.Iir?-l>-r.,..Tr 1.7-.*.?.-f i uer, aud tho children ru abed out to meet him, Hettie li card him nay : ..Take this letter to Mies Hettie, Unniy.n A letter for uer ! There was no ono in tho wide world>to write u kiter to Hettie, exoept-. ;A wild hope sprang in her heart. Con. J Robert nave w.it ten ? \ Ir, wa" a bulby letter, nnd Mnmy, oogcr lu a?;e if lin, dither hud a valen tino for her, loft Hettie alone to open it. A litter, closely wrir.len, was inside, r.nu folded within this a temperance niedre, and nt the foot of it tho bold signature, " Rohorfc Grey." The letter was Hettie's brat love-let ter, aud I have to right to intrude npon her r'.?,vacy ; butin the spriug, Robert Gre} came back to M- to find Ins bride, who put her hand in his, loving ly, trustingly, won by the love that had prompted the sending of her lirst valen tine. _ The Suez Canal. A letter from Curo to the Eastern Budge*, dated the ' 1st December, says: " Tho present el-Le of the Suez canal is far irom satisfactory. Tho canal is neither complet?d nor in good repair, and if matters are i eft as they are nt present it will become unless in a few yenrs. It is broad enoiftHi to accommo date three steamers abreast, bnt its depth is fo variable that ore ship only can pass through it at a time. Winn a vefsol comes from Snez the ships e ra ing from Europe must wait a*- Port S nd, and if tho ship getsaeround on the sand tho whole communie ilion is stopped until it is set niloat nguiu. This, of course, cur.ses great injury to trade, and complaints aro frequent. Tho chief cause of the evil is tho want of money. The English, who ?so tho c. mal more than any other nation, hiivo l'?ng been thinking of getting tho o ind into their own lmuils, hutu majority of two-thirds of tho shareholders is nr c issn ry in order to chango tho management, aud ns thc viceroy is thc possessor r f one-third < f the pharos, ho has practically the o ist ing vide, lt is true tba*, one third rf tho shares are also in the. possession of ?oglishmen, bnt tho attempts which have been trade to indue J the viceroy to dispose i air which tho lungs ore en abled tiiexpire, ns is demonstrated by the ?prometer, and post mortems abundantly show an increased capacity as welt ? * rizo in tho heart and large blocd \jesse.?B. The lungs increase in length .iud brea.".th, forcing tho tibs out ward md the diaphragm downwards. lt ir, fdf this reason that athletes omi gymnasts aro cnu'uie to make prolonged and vic*'nt exet lions without getting out of Find. The capacity of the heart and central arteries being enlarged, they ean accommodate moro blood, Their contractile power being increaser by this new demand upon them, the;, are eneb?rd to send on the curren through the lungs with increased ve locity, and thus by their greater enpne i ty are able to oxygonize the blood ni fast ns it is supplied to them, and so m congestion takes place, and no incon vonienco is felt. The normal capaoit; of the. lungs of an adult male is abou 200 cubic inches. It is computed tba an enlargement of three inches aroum the chest gives an increase of lift; inches of lung capacity. Ey thc Pacific When tho lid??, is out, Panama lie stranded-au inland town. It. look odd lo seo vast troops of buzzard blnckcnii'? hero aud ?here the sen weed-billi they arc tho tcivengers o tim tropics ; their lives protected b law, and their swift scent for carrion i really Ibo protection of tho people fror miasmas that else, would cooli bepCnfci leuce. Panama is a donni littlo pl?? hiidill d upon a rocky peninsula juli in into the Kia from ibo bare of too vo! curio A noon. Leaving tho pier, on follows a rnthrr atraggling street, whic winds among negro huts, grog-shop; ami many curious varieties of ni estate and live tvtock,until it del i vt] him wit !?in t he walls -no gates arti vis bio, n*y does ?ny one exact ly li now win bo g? is inside, oxc?'p? by a vague fen mg t hat he i ? in- n h TO semblances < p iving a-'id, side walks appear ; thoro : au ocuasi?nol corner with its sido stree tho I oiiFoa indu'go in veranda?, nomi times of ihreo stories; queer lookin fchopa -including some where beef sold by tim yard -get. thicker ; muir denke*?, dogs, poultry, pigs, piokannii nies, grinning gu la and turkey buzzarc ? abormd, and hero and thorn an ol church iii peen, until, of a Budden, yr aro in tho piaza; tho cathedral, witl? i two towers with their shell-ornamentei pyramidal termini, on whoso lofty sui mite-as well as ia all inferior orovice ledges, and all other possible places grass is growing, and plants ato flou ishing and blooming with the mest ti tonishing none/tatanne, is on your lol the not very magnificent btato hon and palace of justico is on your ligl and beyond it ?B what ?B left of tho ol end what ?a ibriaJird. nf tho new "f-ran hotel of Panama. Tho average travel er hud s little beauty in bia surround ings ; bnt there is n certain newness about the picture which pleases him for tho sc uso of novelty is a pleasure in itself. _ The Polar Wave. The cold weather we havo been having of late in these latitudes is ns tho balmy breath of the Moy time in comparison with what they have been having in Montana, according to a correspondent. .'Writing from Silver Bow, in that ter ritory, he Bays that tho previous mid night the thermometer marked fifty-Bix degrees below zero. That was the night whe-u Chinamen and whisky froze, as reported by telegraph. Daring a severe cold snap in Iowa some years ago, when tho mercury ranged for many days between fourteen sud thirty-six degrees below zero, tho teamsters used, so it was currently reported, before starting on their long trips to buy a gallon of whisky, bore a hole through it and B?ng it by u string to the coupling polo of the wagon ; then they could knock off a picco with a hatched whon they wanted a drink. Tho Montana correspondent tells of his success in freezing mercury. A tumbler full of the ordinary fluid m rf al was exposed to the air on a cold night. At forty degrees by tho ther mometer it WHS still fluid ; at forty-one degrees it had bogun to bardon ou tho outside ; at forty-two degroes it was solid. Of course spirit thermometers aro employed there by weathor observ ers. One of thom, a very careful man, wishing to bo accurate, ordered a spirit thermometer from Now "iork, to bo made with special attention to correct ness in tho scale. It c mo in duo time, and was a very tine instrument, but was ouly graduated lo thirty degrees below zero. The disgusted meteorologist pro nounced it a good enough summer ther mometer, but not calculated for north ern Montana. A Chinese Comedy. The San Francisco Call speak?? of a performanoo by a newly imported troupe of Chinese actors and gymnasts as fol lows : "The pieeo presented wa* evi dently in the low comedy liue, judging from the great merriment of the nudi ouee, excited by the dialogue ; but the lending features wore tho grand military f pt cinch s, jugglery, and acrobatic Per formances. At different limes Chinese soldiery, of ?ho old style, .vi Mired npoii?iiti Milgi . .. .T., -'..."y y or li tty, it nd c ??il i?ii d thc modo u. war fare with spears and other ancient weap ons, ^he fencing exorcises and com bats with the doubla swords display ! marvelous dexterity and agility, and I, demonstrate that the Chinaman on his '. , native heath, wnd with ins own Btylo o? i weapon, is n dangerous antagonist. The mode of combat with batch" ' und, meat-ch?ppers and the utility ol' the.' ; cumbersome bambou shield ure nisei displayed. Tue jugglery, which con - o'sfs in running each other thru rgb Willi swords ami "Tprnrs. braining one j nuothcr with mr-nt-nxen, etc., ?B i?irdl iug, but rather ghnstly in itu effect, and most wonderful! deceptive. Tho blood is seen streaming down tho naked bodit s o? the upparenfc victims in appnarauce that is wonderfully real, and. after b> iug decently slain in one of tho terntic combats, it is quite surprising to ob serve tho deceased ariso again, abd go prancing off tho stage with a ment clenver stuck in his skull." A Parisian Extravagance. Writes n Paris correspondent : "Fur niture and utensils for doll houses are in great request this winter, and a large wholesale house that is exclusively de voted to this branch of production has dono n larger trade thi* vear than ever before. This house employs CO hands, male and female, nil tho yenr round, and turns out this class of toys to the amount of ?80.000 per annum. The cherpest * set' cf ' furniture' turned ont by this lirm consists of a box mnde of deal, a glass decanter, two dishes, and four plates of china, two glasses, a pow ter dish cover, two knives, f jrks, and spoons ; tho whole for threo sous, [.mm ?his price the tots mount up by lt gular gradations until they reach the nb nul puce of ?210; no fewer than | six * s? ls dolls' house li tings havd boon sold this winter by this firm at this price. These miniature articles, care fully arranged in e.tscs of morocco leather, consist of every variety of ob ject in silver, nilver-gilt, lino porcelain, sparkling crystal, delicate leather, cust ly woods, ivory, bronze, silk, velvet, fi\t tho whole thing hoing of tho most exquisite workmanship. Tho same house Mills tho highest classes of dolls, willi their trousseaux, at tho modest price of ?120 each." OIIIOIN or 'run A vieuuitcs.-? poor launer io Scotland, in 17.00, finding it ?dmod, impossible to subsist, took great i adm to have h's childn n drive liiw cn v where oho could eat I he richest and duckett crass, to house her in the. wiu tor, and to feed hor with careful!?.stored hoy; iu line, look unlit ard of onro of his cow. The grateful animal rewarded her owner with a thin calf and an linne ll?] abiuidiincB of milk, and thus the celebrated breed of Ayrshiio cows wns produci d, though it. was not till about tho first of the pref eat century that it was brought ti perfection. - Human intellect, though varying in capacity in different individuals, has its limits in all plans of enlargement by acquisition ; and these limits cannot be transcended without aggregate deterior ation in distracting thc attention, over loading the memory or overworking tho I brain and ".upping the foundation*! of I health.-Jacob fJif/clou), At. J), FACTS ANDJPANGIES? -A Now York man was recently sen tenced to three months' imprisonment for barbarously killing a eat. -Cincinnati girls refuse to kiss their beaux who were shaved by female bar bers, and so the enterprise was starved to death. -A woman recently died in Alabama leaving to somebody, it is said, an inher itance of no loss than 287 hoop-skirts. That woman was as well hooped as an imported barrel of French brandy. -" I'd liko to give something to tho poor," remarked a Toledo lidy. " It's hard timeB- and they must be suffering, but I've got to uso this ?10 to buy an other switch." -There's nothing in women, nftor all. Gail Hamilton and George Sand have both said they would willingly rolinqoiah their talents if the sacrifico wonld make them pretty, ri -A gentleman by tho nome of Har ott has been haunting tho approaches to a certain newspaper office in San Francisco, looking for tho editor who called his Clara (ncc Morris) a "Blondo Bonanza." ..-Walt. Whitman has begun to sing about tho cold weather. Warbieth Wait : I howl a whoop, And willi tho hnwliuonl of tho whoop I vip a yawp, And with a million otiill-botlrigled volna I bow mo to the wintor'H aovoreiKuty; O biloHomo lireo/.o! O quakeaomo wavop! and all conglom?ralo olenionla of gotid Ulinga! -An observant ushor in one of th theaters ha? got HO ho can tell a man's business by tho way ho asks for pro gramme. A real estate man wants a " description of the ploy." a hotel pro prietor " thc bill of fare," a politiciou " the run of tho play," au editor the points of the plot,," and a lawyer al ways asks : '* Will you be good enough to hand mo a bill of particulars ?" -In ouo of th? couria, lately, there was :% long and .heated diBcunsiou be tween the (counsel as to whether a wit ness should bo allowed to auswer the following question : "What did Mary say?" Three judges took nearly an hour to decide tho point, and at last answered it. Tho question was put to tho witness by the defense, and tha rep'-'- ' I and sweet -" Not wor ' -nd well-bred ^otn ; . i*? jii.T.-.. ' '? - they li y lt) bo pleased ; il ?tiybpdy t*"?es to at to nish linn* they have Ibo courtesy lo he RtYtonishvid ; if peoplo become tire pome, they'ask 1 .m',.boJy ilse to play, or sing, or wha. & but they don't Qhticib? " And Jouri Ruskin holds that this ir tho woy it s\io?ld be in the world as well as in the drawing-room. Ho does iiot like erities ; and jet what eise is he himself ? - - A coincidence in tho matter of names will be nolicoab ?J in the renate of tho forty-fourth irungresa. There will bo 1 two Camerons, two Joneses, and two Merrills, and, with the exception of a t. two Johnsons-Senator Jojunbton, of Virginia, and Senator Johnson, of Ten nessee. Did not tho term of Mr. Ham ilton, of Maryland, expire on the 4th of March next, lhere would hnvo been no lees thon five couplets of similar tinnies in tho senate. -It's a deep mystery-tho way the heart of a man turns to ono womun out of all tho re?t ho's reen iu tho world, and makoH it ensier for him to work s?veh vt ara for lier, like Jacob did for Rachel, tenner than have nuy other woman for tho unking. I often think of these words : "And Jacob served soven years for Rtchcl, and they e^.- lcd but a few days, for tho love he had for her." -G cory r. Elliot. -A rich old widower of Oswego told a young girl there to drop her other beaux. She obeyed, no often took her out riding, and assured her that " when we get. ready wo can go off snd den like, and surprise tho gossips, Tho youDg lady did not demur. Thou the rich old widower popped off very Budden like, and married a lieh old widow about his own ugo. Tho jury is siced for 815,000 damages. -Dr. Wilkes, in his recent work on physiology, remarks that "it is esti mated that tho bonoH of every adult person requires to bo fed with limo enough to mako a marbi o mantlo every eight months," lt will bo perceived, therefore, that in tho course of about ten years each of IIB oats threo or four mantlepicces and a few sots of front door steps. It in awful lo think of tho consequences if a mon would be shut, oil* from his supply of limo for a While and thon got loose in a cemetery. An ordinary tombstone would huntly bo enough for a lunch for him. -In a few remarks upon I ho action of lightning-conductors, Bccchi, tho well-known Astronomer, desotiboH tho storm of November, 1872, in which tho cathedral and palace of Alntri woro struck by lightning, these structures having boon freo from Mich visitations for many yours. Tho (bining . dono on this occasion was, as ho shows, due in great measure lo the fact that, tho light ning-rodH, ins!cad of being directly connected with tho molal o guttt rs and other portions of tho roof, were isolated from them. Tho fluid, therefore, fought to mako its own May to such other good conductors as were near. Alter quoting other instances, he ex ptepsed the opinion tbat tho conditions most favorable to safely consist in join ing the lightning-rod directly kb all the metallic portions of tho roof, and es pecially to tho rain-water pipes, in or der that greater faeilitv may bo offered tn tho oleotrio fluid in its passage to tho earth i