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-_____ E. A. WEBSTER. Editor and Proprietor. A Weekly Paper Devoted to Temperance, Literature and Politics. _:_ii_ VOLUME L ORANGEBURG, SOUTH CAROLUS^ SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1S75. NUMBER 36. ? MY LITTLE LABORER. A tiny man, with Augers soft and tender, AB any lady's fuir ; Sweet eyes of blue, ? form both frail and Blender, And curta of Bunny hair ; A household toy, a fragile thing of beauty Yet with ?-ach riBlng Min Benins biB ronnd of toil-n solemn duty That must bo daily done. To-day ho'? buddln? castle, house aud tower, With won:'vue art and skill ; Or Inborn with MB hammer by tho hour, With nt ron i:, determined will. Aeon, with lltllo loaded cart he's plying . A brisk and driving trado ; Acion, with thoughtful, earnest brow is trying Sumo book'* dark loro to road. Now, laden like como llttlo beast of burden, Ho drags himself along ; And now hui lordly little voice le heard in . Botnltroun ebout and song ; Another hour le spent in busy toillug, With hoop, and top, and ball. And wit h a patience that 1B never-falling, Ho tries and conquere all Uut Bleep at last o'ertakes my little rover, . And on ula mother's breast, Toys thrown aside, the tuiy'B bard labor over, lie sinks to quiet rest ; j And as I fold htm to my bosom, Bleeping, I think 'mid gathorlng tears, Of what tho fut uro mav in atore be keeping, As work for manhood'* year*. * ' Must hu with toll hts daily bread be earning in :ho world's busy mar'. ; Life's hitler leeson every day bo learning, . ' With patleut, struggling heart ? Or shall my little architect be building 8ome monument of fame On which, In letters bright with glory's gildlug, The world may road his namo ? Perhaps some humble, lowly occultation, t. Dut ?harod with sweet content ; l'erhap? a life lu loftier, prouder station, lu selfish pleasure spent. Perchance theBO lillie feet may cross tho portal .Of learnlnR's lofdy fame; Hut lil? -wort; be to scatter truths immortal, Among tho sons of men A Clerical Episode. "It's a very disagreeable duty," thought the Rev. Mr. Thornton., as ho entered Mrs. Mason's parlor, "but as I've been thoughtless enough to make the promise, there's no way of avoiding it." Mr. Thornton was a young and rather handsome gentleman, whose thorough earnestness and sincerity, joined to a fair share of mental ability - and a very large amount of kind-heart ed ne- H, hod made him extremely popu lar with the people of the country town ? in whick he was located, and with no one more BO than with the lady whose house he had just entered. She con sidered him almost prrfect, and would ihave'been deeply insulted if tho had heard anyone rashly oalling in question the froundnesB of his judgment on any t subject. On the present ocoasion ho had come to fulfill a promise to her that lu; would call and have an inter /.-' ^iaw with.her niece, Mies Hattie; Hal-_ ---?~*ldweil",~who was spending a few weeks" at her house. MisB Hallowell was one of the reign ing billes of a neighboring city, and her.jnanner toward gentlemen, though not actually unlady-like, was far too ire 3 and unconstrained to suit her "amit's old-fashioned and rather narrow minded idean of -propriety, and the lat ter had begged her minister to g-vo the young lady some wholosome advice on the subject. After promising to com ply, Mr. Thornton had become more and more consoioua that he had placed himself in a very awkward position, and that the only result likely to ensue from this undertaking to advise Miss Hallowell was a great deal of displeas ure on her part. And though unwilling to give way to what he feared might be a mere want of moral ' courage, he was a good doal embarrassed when the timo carno for the duty to bo performed. His embarrassment was by'.no moans lessened when Miss Hallowell came into the room, looking really lovely in her handsome, darle-blue morning-drosn, whioh enhanced, by contrast, the brightness of her blonde complexion and beautiful light hair. The truth was, she had mndo up her mind some dava before that tho minister was " the only civilized man in the whole stupid little town,", aud had taken some pains that morning to appear at. her boat be fore him.. Hbo greeted him very cordially, and, as lie noticod how frank and pleasant her manner really was, he was troubled by a still greater uneasiness about lec turing her on that point.. But'after some preliminary conversation-during whioh ehe noticed that he waa very nervous and ill at ease--he made a de termined effort to get through with his diaavieeublo task. ( " Mias Hallowell, ". he said, "lam sure you know what a high, regard I feel tor you, and how very much inter ested I have become in you since you have been hero." "I'm very glad, indeed/that yo? like me so much, Mr. Thornton," she an Bwered, with a charming smile. He found it impossible to say any thing more at fi rm. und there was un awkward pause. Then, undor a sense th*at something must.Joe said, and not Knowing exactly what it was to bo, he wont on in a strain that was rather allonger tba? the. facta of the case warranted. * ' "I feel as if I were more than a friend to yon," he eaid. "Indeed, I haven't seen anybody for a long time who excited ray intereet as vou .have done." Hore there waa another panse, during which be becamej.more embarrassed than ever, while his companion began to entertain a ceFtaiff idea about hie meaning. "I want to ask you Box?ething," lie said finally, in a hesitating way, " I'm afraid you'll think it Very Btrange in me to say snob a tbiDg to yon when I've only known : you Ta vfaw week? ;: but I think you will-I mean, I hope-" Here he earns to a dead atop and'was entirely at a lona how to go on. . But before he could put an end to bia hesitation the. lady herself suddenly brought matter? .to .a oliraax in a way that put a Vbry-different aspect on tho affair. "Mr. Thornton," ah? said, with a maimer in which kind feeltug waa com bined with decisive firmness, "I think I know -what you want to say to me, and I'm euro it will bo bolter to stop you before you Bay it. I belicvo you woro going to ask mo to marry j'on. I can always esteem and honor yon very much ; but it would bo impossible for me to be more than your friend, even if I wished to, for I'll tell you frankly that I'm engaged to some one oise. " If Mis-i Hallowell had suddenly spo ken to him in pure Sanscrit or thc choicest Iroquois, Mr. Thornton could not have been more astounded. He sat for n few momouts in silent amazement. Bnt tho utter ridiculousness of tho thing'soon came to him in its full force, and, without any premonitory symp toms, he fell into a violent paroxysm of laughter. His efforts to oontrol him self wore quite useless, and ono or two faint attempt H which he made to sponk wore instantly smothered in a fresh outburst. Miss Hallowell's astonishment was, nt first, as great as his had been. Sho, too, soon recovered from that feeling ; but, instead of being succeeded by mirth, it was followed, in her case, by a passionate fit of anger. With a look of ineffable scorn she got up, walked out of tho parlor, and went straight to hor own room. Mr. Thornton left the house feeling unable to mako any ex placation at that time. In tho mean timo Miss Hallowell indulged in numer ous ruther wild plans for being revenged upon the man who, she thought, Lad treated her so shamefully in return lor her consideration and kindness. Bat at last she fonnd relief in a flood of tears, pnd soon afterward was half-in clined to laugh at tho whole affair her self. Sho returned to the oity a few days after this little episode ; and one morn ing, when she had been at home nearly a week, she received the following note: ERCULAHEUM, Jan, 2, 1873. MY DEAS Miss HALLOWELL-I hardly know how to apologize for what must have Boomod to yon tho most outrageous rudeness. But as the exact truth of tho mutter is all that can afford any excuse for mo, I will give it at onco, I called that morning at Mrs. Mason's requost, having promised hor to givo you BOH?O advice abont your manner to gentlemen; aud fooling, after tho promiuo was made, that you could hardly fail to consider such action very offi cious and unwarrantable, I 'was awkward and embarrassed, and conducted myself in a way whian led to tho very natural -mistako you I made. I bog you to believe that I am heartily sorry for having acted so foolishly throughout, and bono you- will not refuse to number among your-iqonVtsyonr sincero woljl-wishor. ' .'.'.<>-. ? ? - jfc- - -? Aw TnoBNiipii. . .Miss Hallo weirs reply -was an invita tion to her weddingi-Hearth and Home. , ] \ ; How Some Men Have Bisen Twfe'd began as a brush maker, at journeyman's wages. Had he remained ni, his trade and continued honest, his nefcive talent would have insured wealth -but he arose to a dizzy height, and thon snddenly fell. " Hank Smith," who died in his official career of police commissioner, began as a driver on tho Erie canal, and reached at one time a membership in the ring which gave him (as it was estimated) a million. Of this but little is left, and his widow is living in a distant village. Tho late police superintendent, jourdan, began as a newspaper folder in tho service of the Tribune. He was in the office of su perintendent for three years, and left an estate worth, as it is said, $200,000. The salary of this office is $7,500, but the facility of receiving bribes enables the incumbent to get rich rapidly. It has beon said that Jourdan know tho secret of tho Nathan horror, and that an enormous fee secured a pledgo of immunity in favor of the guiity partios. Another man who has risen from poverty to wealth, is Brown, the noted sexton of Grace church. . He began lifo as a carpenter, but being of a portly turn ho found the trade laborious, and obtained an appointment ns inspector of carriages. Next ho was made Boston of Orneo ohurcb, and for twenty years he has had all the patronage of that rich aooiety. He is extensively em ployed to manage social reunions and receptions, in which branch ho is an adept. He has the run of all the fash ionable young men, and many a $5 note in handed bim to refresh his mem ory when invitations are to bo circu lated. Snob a man may assist a friend tb an entrance into a'certain blass of society, if not into the best. In this manner Brown, though occupying a second-rate position, is in fact au auto crat among many of the fashionable world, at least in that which is next to tho creme de la er erne. ? Instead of shoring the plane at $15 a week, ho now has a country seat, nnd is estimated at a quarter million. Ohvor Chin lick, who is now president of the Long Island railroad, and is considered a millionaire, began busi ness ns the keeper of a grocery on the wharf, where the profits of the orgies of sailors and longshoremen gave him both money and political influence. Oharlick was .at .one time n leader in the city government, and this was a itch , source of plunder. Of course he be? came wealthy. These results, and others wbioh could- be referred to, !fhow what curious changes occur amid :the social revolutions of a great city. -And he gave it for his opinion that whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of man kind, and do more essential tor vico to .his country than the whole Tace of poli t ic i a mt put together.-Swift. - -Mrs,- S wi ssh ol m lays down ns leroad principle regarding the male .portion of the human race : " Only in his ooffin ia it safe for a woman to kiss any one man in a thousand." Little Stories from the Scandinavian. Traualated by II. Hanson. THU UNGRATEFUL oniUDREN. It is justly enid that God, paronts and teachers can uovcr bo repaid for tho kindueFR thoy have bestowed on nuy ono.. But alas ! in this world it goes too often according to the well-known problem, that ? father cm easior sup port six children than six children one fat her. Here wo bnvo snob a uarration about a father who, wbilo liviug, gave all that ho owucd to hts children and expected them to support him after wards in his old agc. But when he had lived a wbilo with his oldest son ho bo came tired of him, and said : " Father, last night my wife gave birth to a son, and where your arm chair stood tho eradlo must now stand. "Will you not movo over to my brother's ? Ho has got more room than I have." After a wolle, tho Bccoud sou also be came tired of him, and said : "Fathor you always liked a warm room, aud I have the headache from it ; would you not Uko to go to my brother, who is a baker, he can stand it better." The father went, and after ho had Btayed somo time, tho third son said : "In roy honso wo aro always running in and out, so you can never get your afternoon sleep ; wouid you not rather go to sister Kima, who lives outside the city gate ? You will be moro quiot with her." Tho old mau looked at tho clock and said : " Very well, 1 will go and try and live with my daughters." Worn n have generally a tenderer heart than men. But, after he had stayed a wbilo, the daughter became anxious to got rid, of him alpo, aud preteuded to be very much frightened whenever her father had to poss down the high stairway, oither when going to church or any where else, and said: "At sister Ma ria's yon need not go down any steps, as she lives on the flrst floor." The old man admitted that she was right, in order that everything should go on quietly and peacefully, and went to his second daughter's. When he bad stayed a couple of days, he became a burden to her also, and she gave him to under stand, through a third person, that her house, being too near the water, was top damp for a man abo suffered with rheumatism ; but her sister who was married to the sexton of St. John's graveyard had a dryer and healthier house. Ho ho went to tho house of II?B young est daughter, Laurina. He had stayed him : "Mother told Aunt Hilda, yes terday, that for yon there were no bet ter quarters than such as father was digging in the graveyard." When the aged parent heard these cruel words, his heart broke, and he fell back into Iii H at m-ch air and died. St. John's graveyard received him, and showed more mercy towards him than his six children had shown ; there ho can sleep undisturbed. THE NOBLE-HEARTED SONS. Thi re lived once in Stockholm an old man of nearly a hundred winters. Ho was a tailor by profession and had twelve sons, who all had served, under Charlea XII. Once they got a fow rtays' leave of absence from their regi ments to go and see their old father, whom they fouud on their arrival with out broad and nearly ?tarving. "Fa thor has no bread," said ono of them, "yet ho has given to Sweden twolvo warriors 1" Our dear father innst be helped; but how?" "Can't wo find somebody who would bo willing to lend us a little money?" asked tho youngest, who had a good deal of faith in God and good-hearted people. "Try to borrow money, when wo havo nothing to give in security ! What good will that do ?" asked ansthor. " Have wo nothing at all ?" asked tho youngest ; " my brothers, I will show yon that we have. Our father is a tailor, and hos carried on his trade a great many years, sud ?B now about to dio of starvation. This is sufficient proof of his honesty. We, his sons, have served for many yearB in tho ranks of the Swedish army, and no one can yet show a stain upon our honor. Lot ns give this, our honor, as security ; I think we might borrow s little money on such a pledge." This idea won tiioir general approval Tho twelve brothors wrote and signet tho following letter : " We, twolvi Swedes, Bons of a tailor who is noarh. ont! hundred yearB of ago, deprived o* tho necessary means of snpport, pra; tho directors of tho national bank fo tho sum of two hundred dollars, to; b used for tho support of our old am helpless father. Wo pledge our bono os security, and promise to pay tb above named sum to tho bank with i one year. This letter WOB handed t tho directors. Tho sum asked for wn given to thom, and tho lotter toni t pieces; f nrthermore, tho directors pron ieed to take care of their old father o long as he lived. Soarcely had tbi happened before it was made know through the entire city, and rion an poor paid visits to the old white-heade man, and nono went empty hander! The tailor was thus placed in good ci: onmstances, and after his death left small capital for each of his sons, reword for their filial lovo. THE MTTLE FLOWER. ' One day, two young girls went I town. They were both daughters o( gardener. Each of them carried a ba Set full of fruit or flower?. As the went elong, one of them became dissa inned at the weight of her basket ; tl other went easily, singing all the tim 411 cannot understand why you sing, said the first to ber sister ; "you ai not a/ry stronger than lam, and yoi bosket is just as heavy as raino."' , % " The 'reason is, " said the othe smiling, "that I have put a litt flower in my banket, which keeps n from feeling its weight. Do yon like Wise" m ''That must bo it very costly flower," ?aitl her sitter, " but I should Uko to own it very much; piense toll mo its natno." (' Tho little ilowor," said tho other, M which mnkos thc heaviest burden catty, is called-Patience." How to Keep the Children Pure " Will you not uso your influence in trying to deter largo boys from contami nating tho minds of small boys ? Things which should bo told in a wholo fVome manner and ns solemn truths tiro distorted into vilo shapes, and perma nent injury is dono to children's minds. Would it not bo bettor for tho body to ho poisoned than the mind, that parents might seo tho harm done, and thereby bo < uablcd to use cures and antidotes ? But I am sorry to say that I think tho trouble lies deeper than with tho big boys. I have been looking around, and tim quite sure that it docs. A jury might acquit them with tho verdict, more sinned against than sinning. It ia tho men that I am coming at, for just st) long as they mcot in groceries, on Street corners, and in shops, telling stories unfit for tho oars of their moth ers, sisters, wives and daughters, just so long big boys will listen and think it cunning to emulate the filthy example. Ii? it not a terrible thing to look into a ypung man's face and think of tho im purities his mind must be loaded with rinle"B ho has strength to cast off tho unclean thing and be ? nobleman ?" No subject more vital in its bearirjg a\> tho morals of the young conld have ??ace in this column, says the New York '/ibune, in reply to t?o above letter. There are parents who recognize among the duties they owe their children that of' instructing them with renpect to fhe origin of life. This is left shrouded in impenetrable mystery, and all manner o?/lies are told in reply to the questions winch at a very early ugo children will ask, The mother leaves this matter for her daughter to bo told about by any cilanco schoolmate, who, with the few gqnins of truth she may communicate, ieimorc than likely to sow tares that never oan be weeded out. The inno ctnt-heorted boy learns from his rough companions what his own father or n?it?-er should have told him with per f^.B?mplioily and inge uousness, and k;?ns a grejitideal that they would never hr-fo had hip* to know. Trflth is,sacred, t.-!? h ?s pure and never coirujpts any Ti ^.t^e vile:adrxnytute..of false BflHTwitnTt that contaminates."^fcivory-' f;t'.;f, in human physiology eau bc so communicated to a pure mind that its delicacy sholl not be in the least of fended. The time to make these facts known is wh n tho desire to inquire into them manifests itself, and the best teacher is the parent. As between hus band 0Qd wife, so between parent and child there is no place for shame, where virtue reigns shame cannot come. A child thus taken into sacred inti macy with its parent will instinctively revolt from whatever is vulgar and base and obscene. At every period in the d velopmont of the young life tho parent should be before overybody CIBO in preparing and fortifying his son or daughter against the dangers whioh lie in hts or her path. There is nothing that BO strongly binds a child to virtue and honor and chastity, as perfect and unrestrained int i macy between it and ?ho father and mother. We arc careful about tho sewage of our houses, about ventilating them, and soe to it with .lil i gen co that overy nook and oorner is kept neat and sweet. Lot us carry tho p.QtnA thing into character and cpsn all tho doors and windows of tho soul by total frankness and transparent sim plicity, Chat tho pnre air and sunshine of heaven may have access to them ind koep them pure, One word more. If homo is made, so ittraotivo that boys and men prefer it bo tho corner groceries, an ouuco of i re vention will bo found better than many pounds of eure. A Prescription for the Cure of Drunk enness. Thoro is a curious proscription in En. land for the cure of drunkenness, by which thousands arc said to have been assisted in recovering themselves. The recipe came into notoriety through the efforts of John Vino Hall, father of Kev. Newman Hall and Oapt. Vino Hall, commander of the Great Eastern steamship. He had fallon into such habitual drunkenness that his utmost effort to regain himself proved un availing. At length he songht the ad vice of an eminent physician, who gave him a proscription, which ho followed faithfully for several months, and at the end of that time he had lost all de sire for liquors, although ho had for many years been led captive by a most debasing appetite. Tho recipe, which he afterwards published, and by whioh so many have been assisted to reform, ?3 as follows: "Sulphate of iron, E grams ; magnesia, 10 grains ; pepper mint water, ll grains ; spirit of nut meg, one drachm ; to bo taken twice s day." Thin-preparation aots as a tonic and stimulant, and partly supplies thc place of the accustomed liquor, anc prevents that absolute physical anc moral prostration that follows a Rudder breaking off from the use of st i mu luting drinks. --Scientists now tell us that the in roads of grasshoppers into the north west, of late years, is due mainly to th? havoo made among tho prairie hens wliich are slaughtered by tens of thou sands every year to gratify the epiourei of this country and Europe. Tht prairie chickens need to " absorb" tin grasshoppers before the latter reaohec tho settlements, bat they are no longe: equal to the em ergon cy. Tho Volcanoes of Iceland. Iceland is situated at tho termination of the great volcanic line, skirting tho oxtremo west of tho Old "World, which has existed since tho Cretaceous period cortainly, whilst tho points of oruption appear to have traveled northwards. AB all the rock H aro igneous, or igneous derivatives, no stratigraphical arrange ment can bo rando out. Basaltic lava st ..remus are common in the vicinity of Reykjavik, though no active volcano exists in this pnrt of tho island, which is in tho secondary stage of solfataras and bot spriugs. These solfataras arc mero pits of bluish whito siliceous mud, the result of decomposition of contig uous tufa. Tho prinoipal - gas exhaled is sulphuretted hydrogen. Their posi tion changes. The hot springs aro working out their own destruction by tho accumulation of sinter ; tho com position of tbis varies in springs within a few yards of each other, Tho largo rifts in tho old lava at Thingvala wore attributed to tho flowing away of tho undercurrent of lava into a yot deeper depression, thus leaving tho unsup ported crust to siuk down in tho mi idle. All tho lavas of Hedda aro basaltic, and contain crystals of felspar and oliviuo. Au ash and cinder forms tho summit of the mountain. There were four craters; tho longest ono ?B au elliptical depres sion 250 feet deep, at tho bottom of which lay Bnow, though some ashes.and clay wero still quito hot. Tho district of Mydals Jokull, containing the terri ble volcano Kotlujia, is remarkable for the confused intermixture of aqueous and igneous,ejectamenta, producing ag glomerates and tufas. Sand and hot water are tho principal productions of Kotlujia itself, which has not been known to produce lava, though ancient felsitio lavas were noted at its base. These floods a?o produced, in addition to the molting of tho Jokull, by the bursting of large cavities in which*wator lias accumul?t* d for years. Snob a res jrvoir was noted in a small neighboring irater, at the bottom of which WBB a loop pool of turpid water, into whioh several small streams emptied them selves, but none ran out again. To Vatna Jokull the prinoipal volcanic "orces of Iceland seem now to have re heated. This is a vast traot of snow ind ice which rests.upon a negt of vol canoes, many of which have been in -ruption during historical timo. The Vatua rises from a series of basaltic platforms. Tho existence of penna lently-active volcanoes in tho. unknown i?tyrtor^bi lins ma's?,Ws^^u6?3croi??nDi' inprobable. How Fish May Be Improved. It is now well known that the.rich, lelicato flavor of the white-fish in many vestom lakes comes from a celery-fed parasite on which it lives. This celery s the marino plant tbat gives to tho lauvas-buck duok its glory among con ?oisseurs of tho tablo. Hero is a good rint in tho line of fish culture. Why nay not the common varieties bo made able delicacies, for instance, by put ing them on a mild diet of Worcostor ihire Bane . before they aro eerved? It s tho creosoto and gas par?sito, how >ver-tho deadiy refuse of oil and paper ailie-that should be first looked to. D?ame and oysters and even fish aro hus being foully impregnated and lomotimes killed. Tho fish of tho SenoBoe river were recently found BO a i n ted with kerosene from oil mills as o render them unfit for food. A mim ar condition in tho river Iscr, produc ing au appeal from tho fishermen of Munich to tho government, has called mt an eminent chemist, Prof. A. Wag ger, who shows by experiments, that in ?voter with one por cont, of gas rofuao, bib dio in six minutes, with one-half mr cent, they die in thirty minutos, philo one-tenth por cent, kills the hard est river fish in twenty-four hours. A partial guard against this, the profes sor suggests, is to allow a gradual dis marge of tho refuse into the stream, instead of tho wholesale dumping now practiced. An Italian Sunset. A correspondent of tho Hertford Times writes from Italy : " liaat night wo woro driving slowly home, laden with flowors, after a warm, golden aftor uoou, when tho air about us became soddenly glorified, aud looking baok we saw tho most wonderful snnsot of our lives. Driving to a commanding point wo gazed at tho mar velona scone, the setting sun and dazzling western clouds being only a part of it. Tho hills around Florence on overy sido were bathed in purple light, soft and tender, and exquisite ?s a dream, whilo tho sky above, after tho first blaze of western glory, was aglow with rosy light that flooded the heavens and rolled ill billows over the bills . and even seemed to touch oar cheeks in its omnipresence. At homo I have seen equally brilliant displays in tho woBt ; they have seemed like a far-off wonder in whioh I had no part-a panorama to be admired at a distanoe. Here the whole world seemed tremulous with color, sky and earth glowed together, and it was near us ; we wero in it. The very air we breathed was rosy red, and over all thero was a softness, a poetry of color, an ecstasy of illumination perfectly indescribable, th? owing such a glnmonr over us that when at last the light died out of every thing we awakened as from a trance, and, breaking the long (.dence, ex claimed : 'So this is an Italian sunset I Well, I shall always feel that I have been in one !' " -Mr. Hollwell, the Shokspoarcan onthusiast, has obtained leave to search tho paneling of the houao of Lady Barnard, the grand-daughter of tho Bard, for Shokpeare's missing papers. FACTS AND FANCIES. 'Tia ALII SHE WANTS : A soal-:<kin sack und a camel's bair shawl. Diamouos, rabies and oran ne ; A brown stono houso and marblo ball, And a boaa to danco tbo Connan. A front row box at tbo opora, Whonovor I wanted to go; ..?..* A noat coapo and landau, too, . . And moals- a la Delmonico. Thon in summer go to Newport. With droFHoa rieb and many; And to KOO my immo in tiio fashion report, Wbilo pa bniitlH out tbo money. -A Chicago man thinks that tho worst speller ought to got tho diction ary, aod tho winner should have a " wreath of sorrel, or some other garden sass, like them Greeks." -Tho production of raisins' from California grapes is a growing business aud is strongly urged UH likoly te bo of great profit. Tho whito muscat of Alexundria is named as tho best raisin grapo. -Among tho numerous phases of crime daily developed, did you ever hear of anything equal to the not of the Jersey City mau arrested for forgery, who Hays bo did it in ordor to bo sent to tho state prisou to escapo from his wife ! . As an illustration of the limitless number of combinations whioh tho three primary colors are capable o{, it may be interesting to know that in the Gobelin tapestry manufacture 28,000 distinct shadings of yarn aro employed, each one distinguished by tho practiced cy1' -A French soldier is to be punished with death for insulting an upstart offi cer. This gives Victor Hugo au oppor tunity to thus compare the case with that of Bazaine : Having sold his flag1 having surrendered his army, having betrayed his country-life ; lutving struck his corporal-death !" -Peroire got a little tired of return ing the bows of an uncomfortable polite man in his f st abliskmt nt, and finally gave the polite man this conundrum, at point-blank range: "Sir, what would becomo of tho hours if the min uto-haud stopped to bow to the second hand every time they met." -The Parisians devour 100,000,000 apples every winter. An eminent French physician thinks that the decrease of dyspepsia and bilious affections in Paris is owiD#-?o^iL^increased consumption of this -fruit, which -b* maintains, is au admirable prophyaoui*. "nd tonio, as well .-os a_ vory nonti shjng^?ndi^easijy-^ digested artiolo of fooTC -Mr. Valentino, the soulptor, has nearly com ploted the life-size recumbent statue of the late Gen. Lee, and it will bo placed over tho contemplated mau soleum at Lexington. Mr. Valentine modeled a bust of tho general from life ia 1870, and after the hero's death it was determined that he should bo se eotelto exec ito the statue. -" Woll, Uncle Biby, don't you want any more civil rights !" '* Not anyting mo', I tank you,'' replied Billy. 11 Near ly done mind now. Hev fc'i pay my own doctor's bill, lost all my money in tho Freedman's bauk. n< boer got no forty i' eros an' de mule doy promised mo, an' can't help myself to a little chicken, fryin' size, widout gwineto do penitentiary. l'so got 'miff cibbil rights !" JKAN VAUBAN A morry wight, fond of Iiis ease, Wbilo bo sings hin Hongs and rill okeb his kiicC?, And Unlit as tho air which sways tho loaves, Ia Joan Valjoan, tho cobblor. Through tbo Hummer's day bo sits and sings Of tho olden days and of anciont tilings, Of tho damos of yore and of bygone kings->- ' Sings Joan Valjoan, tho cobbler. Tho birds aro singing in every tree Till Ibo air is filled with tho melody Of song as light and gay mid free As Joan Valjcan's, tbo cobblor. Willi tho waning shadows tho bird in ita nv*L And Joan in Iiis cot, oacb seek tho rost>V ~ 5 Which Bwoet sleep brings, with no cares* op pressed, Ab ! happy Jean, tho cobblor. -The London Sporting Gazetto.ref er ring to tho statement that tho Emperor Wilban? ba?? forbidden tho exportation of horses-beyond the Gorman frontier, says: "This stnrtling announcement, heralds n revolution, the results of win .di are likely to very soriously affect tho horne trade in England, as throe fourths of tho carriage aud draft horses in London ut this moment havo boen imported from Germauy, Moreovor, wo aro dependent on Germany iu avery urge degrco for our troop-horses, and it ?B not clo ir whence we shall obtain the necessary supply now that we are shut out from Germany, especially as' both France and Spain ere also in want of tro'jp-horst s, tho former requiring 10,000, and tho latter 5,000. -Tn Brington church are two sepul chral stones, ono bearing the date of 1616 over the grave of the father of Washington, the emigrant, in whioh his arms appear impaled with those of his wifo. The other stone covers tho remaius of his uncle, and presents on a basB the Bimple family shield with the oroscent appropriate to a younger brother. We have before us a tran script of this shield, and from it we are constrained to believe that the United States flag as seen now very certainly took its origin. In this shield are five horizontal stripes, of alternate g ul CM and white, as are those of the national flag, while the three stars in the nnper stripe havo the par all (di pooali ari ty of being five-pointed. All this may no* be of interest to those who care very littlowhether George Washington had a grandfather or not, but then again there may be others who will not think any tho less of the father of the great repub lic because hia ancestors fought against Cromwell and his Ironsides'to keep Charles' head upon his ehoulders.-St. Louis Hepublioan.