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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 <f hin sharoi have hitherto
b en frilitlosH. The kh?dive evidently
f tin red that Eat 1 ind will become too
Iowerful on ibo canal, and Ihiroforo
nr?'?r? thc 'aUiliin ffuo. As for M. De
E's cps, he continni H to nc nd protest?
t} Constantinople about tho cabal dues,
and h's linnncrs are booming ?one
everyday, 'flic co it of tho maintenance
of the canal and ibo Iging-works i-i from
15,000,000 to '20 000,001) franca a year,
white hin total receipt H I.Iiis year have
oojy amounted to30,000,000 francs, aud
it in *ory linc?!tain whether tony will
ho maintained nt that ligure. Mer
chants hore aro unanimonrdy of opinion
that something must be done to pre
vent tbi iitsoful work from being ruined,
and that M. Do Lesseps should either
be allowed greater freedom of action,
cr be given an opportunity of se.ling
the shares to a new company."
-According to Kepe?y, the surgeon
to the Austrian Polar expedition, ohoca
late, as a beverage, proved most valu
able of all; tho preserved meat and
vegetables in tins being also of the
greatest servieo in sustaining the
strength end ?pinto.
Tall Servrnts.
Mr. Conway, in bis Inst. Commercial
letter, says : " There is uo doubt that
the English nobility have rs way of em
ploying servants which offers grnnd op
portunities to rogues. In most cases
tho outside bf the servants is the chiof
thing. If tho coachman or footman is
good looking in his livery and of the
required dimensions his character is
not inq tired into. A well-known duke
recently advertised for a footman of
exactly live feet oleveu and a half
inolies -n height, whose solo business it
would )0 to stand nt tho back of his
coach beside another of like station.
A yout't, now in tho employ of a lady
o? my ??qnaintanoo, applied for tho ad
vertise? position, and says that his
charact er was not asked for ; he was
taken ii lo the set va nts' hall and meas
ured, rod dismissed for lacking the
i half ireh demanded by tho dnko.
There it a passion for tallness in ser
vants, and of ono noble family at least
it is a .-.ule to admit no man servant
under s's feet. There are six of theec
eminent personages in their fino man
sion. '.{Jho English servants aro good
looking, neat, and constitutional fluu
koys nn.l flunkoycHses. They aro very
shrewd, and have their class rules ns
well defined as trades-unions. Down
ing Blr ?ole docs not possess more
pigeon iades aud red tapp than a man
sion of ?he wealthy. Au upper house
maid w< old die at tho stoko before she
would i1 ) a bit of work that cunio with
in the province of tho under house
maid. V swell butler wotile' throw up
his pos'tion in the fae? of the Lord
Chancellor himself if ho were oxpeotod
to bind; bis own boots. There aro
many boys of thirteen kept in brass
1 inltons. and in many au instance tho
sole duly of thI'H boy is to brush tho
clothes 'aud boots of tho butler the
master (if the house having his own
separat?., valet. Qi course it is not
pride T\ vicb hus made tho inflexible
laws of etiquette among these servants,
by wbiol? they refuse to btep out of an
oflicinl ; Voovo of function. It is tho
I determination ol their olnss to prc
[ seivo tie. conventional number of tho
servants required lor any tirst-oiasn
housshc' ;1. They particularly dislike
servants from other countries, espe
ciully th, QermAns, because ii\well paid
and web teated they will do anjthing
requests vf them."
.. ke Effect of Exercise.
! lt j:, o'.ml by observation thal tho
I effect of." training," or tho persistent
use of f- puiaatie exercises, is to enlarge
thc hoii':f ?'nd lungs both in size and
capaoitArchibald MeCinren, super
internleui of the Oxford pymnasium,
and author of " Physicto Education,"
pay?: '??fono of the aim, otlicers sf.nt
to me t V bo instructed in gymnastics
gained i -" inches in girth around the
client Jii'b ss than tlu ; e ojontbu." That
this gr- yth is not explained by the
mere ' e, 'largement of tho pootioral
mn:.?-! ai if- proved by tho inereor.ed
volume [>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