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m ITIZEN. E. A. WEBSTER. Editor and Proprietor. VOLUME J. A Weekly Paper Devoted to Temperance, Literature and Politics. ORANGEBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1875. NUMBER 37. MONSOOR TACHA UV OKOlinR ll. UOWKKtl. Monsoor I'.udia, il i- pleasant I'1 meet Hire. In ti?? heurt of thin treacherous town Where faith ls a i erl! anti courtship n cheat. More false to tho,touch than a rose ?vorblown Willi iv soul lliui is true to iivolf, ivs your own. MnoMHir facha, KS two netUlemeu may, Civilized, city-bred, lints ?r our hands; Sow fimit tho town to H t? desiri away! Ours if a friendship w-ho'e splrtl doiiiwids, Th? scope ot thc sky ami tb? ?-ir.-ti-h rf the Hand*. MoiiMijor facha, dolf your courtier'* carl? ; Wr have niven to courtes .. ?ill "f !t.. dues : Sprint: to your t bro tie on the back t?f your barb, Rhake ;.! t'.ic breezes your regal burnous, and Wave ymir laucc->ci?ptre wherever yon choose ! Moiisbnr, niv chief 1 .iii. I know yon n< length Kine of dir. desert, \"itr children nr? rom" To ublftrr, lil Rsheep, in Hie shade of your strctiKlh, Or lo Kir ike, like ynuti?; Ilona, for country and home, Winn your o>r~ ari' ablaze nt Un- roll of tho il nun ! Mnueoor, my chiel ! now one gallop tn i. The land that yon haveswrnrh that nodcspol shall prim! : Thcnuh nun timor.1 and and. l'y Allah! 'tn; free: Iii. L-rotm uro tr.oKn latices; these HODS of the wind, Our steed* uro tts n<?-V? -n RCtni Invrvod to t)tnd. Moncoor, raj cbief ! liow we dash ?'er tho uml, Hissing lichir.d us 'iko dtortii-driveii k;vi? ! Fito-h Iii? lout! I;UIIH of vour v.i!<l -\rnli band, Iiri\inliKli tho M . ur?-, snd th.? Hfiljl jereeds throw, AH, hair-winced, through tho RliriU- incim; lirei 7"K tte '. Moasoor, raj chief! . .. nd the horses away ; The f iuris ol yon I tribe I have KOO with dc ItRbt, Jiow Iel ne ??? ti while the rom Muled day Farit-s from Um di seri; ami peaee-bearliiK nlnht Shakes Ibe Hrs! i:< in on lier I TOW In our sie?it. Monsnor, my* host ! lo, 1 enter your tent, AK brother b, bruthor, lian.ti- clasping; >'. ,r.' ; I sleep Ilion :i child In u il reata Heaven sent ; Kor hove t liol eaten the sall and the bread? And Monti OJ will answer for me ?Ith hin head. Thc Past Winter. J mr-MKiril Dentil It nie lu Kurope nail Am?rica HM 0?i?*uii?|itlve?i >\v?:j>t Oil und New i MICA Alatli!. Tile past winter lias boon a phono me nai one, and blieb a ooo ?ts tho best iu (oruiod meteorologist t tlc not expect to HOC again for twenty years. Everywhere, from Shreveport, Lia., to Stockholm, in rori ht rn Europe, ii sudden in?rense in the den th rate marks tho crmtiuuaucc, ?nd follows iii the wake bf tho uniter ?d' 1871-5. Dr. Elisha Harri*, registrar of vital statis tics ft r this city, in spea'ung of tho past winter, both in this and other cities trom which bo ieceives weekly rcturus ot deaths, said : "Tho mortality has been fearful in every section on account of the great changes from the normal state of the weather. The ouly winter which at all compares with it is thai o: ..I93B <5 3 The pxst ter-sod* has-been es pecially heavy in deaths from pneumo nia and other pulmonary disease?. The ivestuer has beeu very cobb and also saturate.! with moisture at all times. While the thermometer did not ludiente any specially lor.- temperature, the skin and mucous membranes of the lungs, throat and other passages suffered on account of tho humidity of the atmos phere. In our own city the total ptr e-ntage of deaths will ba from 12 to 15 per cent, additional, and in ibo special classes o? disases most, fatal the ratio has been double 1. Fever cases have been very rare. Typhoid has been al most n matter of chance. lu diphtheria the moitality hasn-s:imed the virulence of an epidemic. Our reports from Ed inburgh, Glasgow, Loudon, Liverpool, Dublin, Vienna, and Hamburg, all show that this particular class of dis ease lins boen specially fatal lhere I'aris b is been more fortunate owing to the ad mit able sanitary regulations in force there. The greatest percentage of fatal eases outside of those of chil dren aro of persons over sixty yeats of age and those who have bern hard drinkets T do not mean drunkards alone, bot those who have beeu in the habit of taking strong liquors, and they are not poor people alone. In these persons the mucous membrane of the throat is weakened and cannot resist (he double assault of a cold atmosphere heavily laden with moisture The ef fects of this winter have not stopped yet, by any meaur,. ] should estimate that about as many as have already succumbed will data thoir death sick ness from colds contracted during the recent enid spell. For the next fifteen years consumption wil l carry off persons whose lungs first showed the germs of tube return' UOpOsitS tnirt pllSt wiwc?V. That ii a serious side of tin; qm stion, and phvhicbimi are carefully considering now what should be done, and how to take precan? ions against these si quenees of the enid. Pcoplo who have colds should get, rid of them ns speedily as possib e, by breathing pure, dry air and getting their whole system in sound health."-,V. Y. .??>./<*. The greatest depth of the groud can yon of tho Yellowstone is but 1,000 feet, ?nd tho average for miles along the deepest part is rot, over 600 feet. Clear Greek canyon, in Colorado, which Grace Greenwood, Baja'rd Taylor, find othfr.r traviler* have praised as rivaling the Yellowstone, is but little over J,000 feet at its hight st point. Prof. Gannet declar- n that there is nothing in Amer ica that equals tho i cw wonders of the Grand and Guunison. Tho while walli), contras!ing strongly with the others in the neigliborbf oil, in many places cut and seirred into curious nud fantastic shapop, spires, tower* and minarets, standing out above, add to the startling picturesqueness and awful grandeur of thrt scene. Hero and there, along the lower sides of tho canyon, may bo traced strins of coloring. This is duo to t!ie minsling waters from several springs that line the river banks, iron sprin . s producing the red colors, and sulphur springs tho yellow. The river bed is shallow, and tho wa ter clear.-Dir. Hayden. -Tho average masculine stomach in this cbantry craves liquor, and society mast be revolutionized before a betttr otu te, "i things ono exi.-ti - Ko.'fl jfi'ifild. Thc Japanese. Tho subjoined translation from au editorial in a leading Japanese journal in full of practical good House, worthy of a nation of much higher civiliza tion. The growing commerce between Japan ?md our Pacific states and thus with the Union, causes an increasing interest in thc progress of that peculiar peoDle. Wc quote : Many among us are desirous that our civilization should take equal rank with that of Europe and America. But, as our country in poor and tho peoplo are ignorant, wo mutt first promoie agri culture, so that tho land should yield ?aoro abundantly. We should promoto commerce. Wo should promote tho ed ucation of our children and compel tho indolent to bo industrious ; and when all this has boen done it will be limo io talk about rivalry with foreign countries. But our scholars who desire all these changes imtncclintoly aro like j those who wonld set a child to hard la bor, or who imagino that tho poor should abound iu luxury like tho rioh. We do not mean tu say that wo are in the same condition that wo were soverul years ago. But, as we have said before, tho first and most important thing to be done ?3 to build schoolB, and to se cure the diffusion of useful knowledge among the people ; then to make an ad vance iu commerce aud agriculture, so us not to be decorating tho outside only and doiug so much expensive work in vain. Our scholars of European sci eoco ought to be assisting both the government and the people. This is the manner in which they will best show their patriotism. And wo entreat them, too, to have a little patience, and lo cool their ambition that all those changes should occur at ouce. Let them prepar? the way for them, so that when they come wa may be ready for (Item and they may bo really to our profit. Thc Etiquette of Court Presentation. Tho Court Journal gives tho follow ing in a review of tho etiquette of tho court of St. Jame's drawing-rooms : "The lady wishing to be presented must lirst lind a lady willing to present her, aud ai?o to attend tho drawing room at which she wishes to be pre sented ; for, although it is by no means necessary that tho two ladies should paBS at the same time, or even that, they shonld_m_eet..it:'? abpoluf^ly de rigueur that a la'ly who presents another should attend the drawing-room. This pre liminary bei tig arranged, the presenter gives her friend a note addressed to the Lord Chamber lain, btatiug her inten tion of attending a certain drawing room and of presenting Mrs. Jones. This uote Mrs. Jones leaves at the Lord Chamberlain's office, at least, two clear days before the drawing-room, accom panied by a large card, on which is legibly written : 'Mrs. Jones, presented by Lad j' Brown ; ' or, 1 Mrs. Jones, presented on her marriage by Lady Brown.' From the Lord Coamberlaiu's oflire she receives on application two pink preseutation cards, on which 'Pres entation' is printed iu large let ters. These abe takes io the palace with her, giviDg one to tho pago in-waiting at the corridor at the top of the grand staircase, and reserving the other to be given up ut the door of the presence chamber, where it is tum 'e.I from one official to another till it reaches the Lord Chamberlain, who announces the name to the queen. Care should bc taken by the lady to write lier own name and also that of the lady presenting her very legibly, so that there may be no danger of mistakes. In the case of the presentation of a bride, it is usual for her to bo present ed by her husband's mother, sister, Ol some, other member of his family, il possible and convenient ; but this is n matter of taste, not of necessity." Circumstances Make Women. Tho queen, speaking of unappreci ated women, says the woman who might have been "a Joan of Arc or a Maid o Saragossa, in favorable oircums'aoces hemmed in by the narrow chances of i ?.mall locality is only a rather masculin) person, who has, probably, independen notions on the subject of dres<, an? whose boots would not boar tho improH sive of Bond Street. Tho unattached sister of mercy is a fussy, kind-hear tet person, who has the most extraordinary pleasure in nursing sick folks, and who as often as not, gets no thanks for ho: pains. Tho possibl ? Hypatia or Olym pia of a village town is simply a 'veri odd young woman, who has th? strangest notions and tho most eccen trie ways of expressing herself;' wht lias, moreover, tho character of reading undesirable books, and whoso wurdi and ways form part of the staple loca gossip, not losing in transmission Yet, thc power is the same in tho conn try girl who is half despised and hal feared, as that which onoe founded i school, and lins been celebrated bj historians and biographers, centurie after. One of tho unsolved myBtorie of things as they are, is tho waste o lifo and energy that goes on in th Physical world ; and the world of mim follows that of matter. There is a per peinai smothering of potential queo bees into ordinary workers, useful, bu nr>t prolific ; industrious, but not mop niflcent ; and possibly, excellence is bc i og forever pressed into grooves wher only the tamest and most commonplac powers can exist. We plant too man of our oaks in iron-bound flower-pott mid never givo them the chance even < fracturing tho mold. We put a aerul bing-brush into tho bands of our Co inness, and set Sappbos to tie down tl jams, and seo tout tho bonito linen neatly mended. All sorts of love faculties whinh iwould have made rn? moro floriona and lifo moro full of pleasure, had they been given their full, free outlet, are hemmed in to fulfill moon uses ; or are atrophied altogether, starve ft out of existence for want of nourishment. It seems to poiat to tho uoed of some more perfect organization of society than any we have attained ; but perhaps this* too, is among the many Utopian dreams with which we bewail thc present, and imagine a bet ter futuro, when power shall have its work, faculty its object, and merit its placo and reward." What Children do for us We hear a great deal about what p i routs do for their children, aud the ditty and obedience which they owe them in consequence, but it is useful to us at times to look at the other side of tho question and FOO what children do for their parents, and not for their parents alone but for the world at large, Tako the cases of unmarried men and women, or of married men and women who have no children, and wo shall see what an utterly joyless world this is to t hem - how destitute of alt l he saving in fluences which follow in the train of a new-born child. It is true that they do not always know it ; true that they sometimes con gratulate themselves upon the freedom which tho absence of responsibility gives them. But what docs this free dom do for them? If they do not use it in earing for those who have none to care for them it simply incloses them in a wall of selfishness. If allows them to iudnlgo their own whims and fancies to their own destruction, and deprive them at tho last of nil the consolations which spring from participation in fam ily life and a consciousnesss of duty well performed. Children aro really all there is in lifo worth living for. There are many other things whioh are pleast-nt in it, there aro many things which give zest to it, there are many things which seem necessary as a relief from the absorbing care which the rearing of a family of children brings, but none orosent sufticieut mo tive for continued effort or sacrifice: aud if it were not for children, therefore, mindi of our stimulus to exertion would bo taken away and the most imperativo work of the. world remain unperformed. Bacause thc father supplie-i the food, because the mother prepares it in a man ner sm tobie; jfor tho grflwrji of titrer bodies', we "consider all the obligation is on one side. Bat to how many hungry hearts hos the lovo of a little child been nourishment and consolation and sup port? How many would have falleu by indifference or through temptation if the necessities of a littlechild had not with held them. People who avoid children for tho sako of getting rid of responsibility find in timo thor, they have missed the pleas ures o-uiy, not the cores, and bul a few of the pains. Association with our fel lows entails certain burdens and obli gations upon all of us, and if we have not voluntarily assumed any of our own we shall lind them thrust upon us and be obliged to corry the weight without the happiness of a strong incentive in the nearest and dearest of earthly ties. Childless men and women uery often console themselves with the reflection that children are as likely to turu out ill as well ; that time; and strength and m??nev aro frequently wasted upon them," and, therefore, might a^ well be saved or put to other use. But physi cal science is beginning to show us thai cauFO and effect oct as directly in tin production of tho human species as ir any other phenomena of noturo om" that caro and cultivation bestowed upor natural ly good qualities produce as lim results among men and women as upoi a fruit farm. If this were not the case, however, i the results were dependent npon chance men and women ought still to accop the duty of roaring children for thei own sakes. Tho woman knows nothing of I h possibilities of her womanhood, th man of his manhood, until they are db covered in the strength of the love, th efforts the sacrifices (not felt as sueli which are exercised and made for littl children. Is there any pride equal t.? that whio thc father feels in tho growing dang! tor? fs there any lovo equal to th? which the mother knows when litt] hands clasp her and a soft check lay its velvet against her own ? Friends may grow cold, ambition ma be disappointed, slanderous tongul may poison yonr good name, an though all are folt moro or less, y< homo and the love and confidence r children ore n sure and certain refugi n harbor /rom the storm, inexpressibl comforting and consoling to the wear and abused mon,and beartsoro and ne; looted woman. But it is not for their simple fait and trust alone that we should valu children. They deserve cultivation they abundantly roquiro core and kin( ness, attention and the forbearnni which it is necessary toward their in maturity and want of judgment. Ot leisure, at least moro of it, should I given to them. Wo should toke pail to And out what they think that we mi guido them aright and teaoh thom avoid the shoals and quicksands upi whioh wc perhaps have been strande -Hearth and Home. -A large, heavy-set man who resid? near Indianapolis died recently from disorder whioh no Indian doctor ron make ont. At the limo of hin death 1 was little moro than a skeleton, 1: flesh having wasted away. A post mc tem examination showed that his liv was full of abscesses, so that his foi had not been properly absorbed, ai that ba had actually starved to deat i The Khedive's Half-way Munificence. The Fitch-Shermau diamonds still rom?|n under lock nacl key in the vaults of tho' New York custom-house. It niayseem a little odd, but it is neverthe less true that tho necklace hus never been appraised by the officials. Nor do the owners evince any great curiosity to HBertnin its real value. This is per haps attributable to discretion, says thc Worlf), and calls to mind the fanions Portuguese rough diamond exhibited in the pnlrtce at Lisbon. This diamond, though it is as large as n hen's egg and weighs over eight hundred carats, ha.': never i been subjected to tho tests ot Rutting find polishing, simply because there is doubt, about it. For there are experts in the trade who pronounce it to ho merely a very fine piece of chrys olite. Half the charm of the Khe dive's present would vanish if this cel ebrated necklace wore t??ted by tho appraiser's art. Tho Jewelers* Cireu ?ar for March gives an excellent draw inr; of the necklace, and says of it " Tho estimates of the value of these jewels hare been exaggerations beyond all precedent, and ?540,000 really repre sents the most liberal valuation thal can be put upon them, the number anti size of the diamonds are so counter balanced by their off-color. " The Kbe dive has probably never seen the neck lace ; and he would hardly be pleaser L:> learn that these who were intruder with the order in Taris had an eye tr quantity rather than lo quality in malt ing the purchase. This ornau.enfc con tams, it is said, about seven hundrct and seventy brilliants of all r-izes, fron u seven or eight carat stone to some ai small fis one-twetth of a oarat. Tin nggregate weight of the diamonds is a least 300 carats; bat the quality is wha is known as Cape Bywater- a quality nf diamonds technically described a? being of "off-color," and they are wei paid for at $100 per carat, cost of set ?ing and nil included. The duty at '2.' per cent, on tho jewels would at th< utmost only be S 10,000. The Dress-Pattern Trade. The Vow York correspondent of tin Boston .onrnal writes : "A great butti aces liga grown up apparently out o not hi op .. The business i;j. tho makin] if dress patterns out of a flimsy sort o paper 'made for that purpose. Tin tmoup'- ot business done is simply mar veIonV..'L>''^'*<vagl? it ladios in. tte btusfc wood?,, in the country, und in the re motestmnd sparsest districts can at th jost of.a dime or so secure the lates fashio?? for themselves and children Ono Ox theae establishments sued i lion se ir- New York on a note given fo goods delivered. The defense Bet nj was that there was no considera1 ion. / \aaat.ity of goods wore brought int? iourt arid their llimsy textures exhibitec 0 tlie inspection bf the intelligent jury i'hc jury gave a verdict for tue defend int on the ground that there was m property in such material. Yet th lealinge in this frail fabric are hardl; equaled by any other branch of trade 3ne house does ?100,000 worth of trad 1 year. The paper is manufacture expressly for the work, and is sent int ine city tons at u time. A single orda ixhausts 5,000 reams. This house ha 1,000 agencie-i. They are in every par jf the United States, in Canada, an ?cross the scns. Ord? IM toi pattern ioma in from S25 to ?1,000. The larger ..srnlilishin?Mits in New York. Brooklvi Philadelphia, and Chicago buy ?50 worth nt n time. One hundred an lifty hands are kept constantly at wor to meet the orders. And yet a No -Jersey jury alhrmB that there is no ma: ket value in this business." The Great Work. A telegram from Nevada says tl Sntro tunnel, which has leached length of 9,000 feet, has approache within one hundred feet, of shaft No. ! which is filled with water to a depth < eight hundred and seventy-five fee From tins point a diamond drill hi been started, successfully tapping th great column of water, which it wi feared might drown every man in Li tunnel before it could have been poss hie to escape. The workmeu cnn no approach within twenty rive feet oi tl column, when n great number of hob will ho bored to let the water off alti gether. As an additional means i safety, a bulkhead, suggested by n officer of tho United States enginei corps, is constructed, with a tunnel i sufficient strength to withstand a pres ure of 2,000 tons, with a self-shuttir gate only sufficiently large to aile ears to pass, which gate* tho approac ing rush of water elopes, giving tl workmen time to escape in tho event a sudden Hood. The amount of wat flowing from the tunnel will bo i oreased lo about ono hundred minei inches. The connection with shaft N 2 will insure pood ventilation. Tl tun?.cl at (his point enters the miner belt ?II whfch ibu Comstock lode situated, -Ton great Ressemer steamshi which wis to abolish the horrors of tl English Channel, lins been tried and only a partial HUCCO-S. The ship steam? fror? llidl to Gravesend in a gale wind and proved an excellent P'.abn and fast. Her two faults appear to an excess of draught and the austen iness of her movable saloon. The fori er is partly accounted for by an oxt supply of coal, and may lie got rid in one way or another-munt bo g rid of before abo can ontor Calais on i ordinary tide. As to tho saloon it n pears that the machinery intended control it, and to neutralize, so far it isconcerned,thc movement of tho sin is in some way defectivo. The saloi cnn be handled with ease, but cann be kept still ; in other words, shnr tho motion of the ship. These fox I aro gathered form a letter written to ! tho London Times by Lord Henry Lon nox, who carno in tho ship, and who ex plains that the present trouble arisca partly from some wrong arrangement of the levers and partly from the inex perience of the mau who works them. Thc Golden Rule of Agriculture. Plant3 live a double life. They have a two-fold nutrition-mineral and or ganic. Their mineral food is derived from tho soil and tho organic from the air. While tho organio constituents of plants are generally uniform, by a striot analysis of their ashes it is discovered that tho different classes are marked by the prevalence of certain mineral ele ments. S >rao abound in potash, others in lime, some in phosphates and others in silica. Different parts of the same plant have also their preponderating elements. Thus it appears that the renison why all crops aro not suited to tho samo soil is a variation of tho min eral elements. All crops ore not suited to tho snme soil, and mainly because it is deficient in certain mineral elements, or they exist in too large quantities. The fertilization of sods is tho ad dition to the soil of suitable pabulum for tho growth and development of plants. If allowed sufficient time, plants can extract organic materials from tho surrounding atmosphere to attain a vigorous growth ; yet if wo ap ply to their roots manures yielding am monia, carbonic aoid, nitrogen, etc., wo supplement the atmospheric supply and hasten their development. Liquid ma nures are, therefore, of high value, as their action is immediate and powerful. But if this polioy is long continued it will exhaust the soluble mineral ele ments in tho soil and render it com paratively worthless. Hence, in nil permanent systems of agriculture, min eral fettilizersoan no more be dispensed with than organic. Long-continued oropping removes from the soil all tho available mineral constituents of plant food, unless we restore to tho soil in the shape of ma nures exactly what is lost in tho crop. This, then, is thc golden rule of agri culture. By failing to heed this im poitaut. principle millions of sores of the choicest land hnvo become worth less, tnd millions moro aro now under going the samo ruinons process. Wo should economize every source of fertdily. Mauuxe.heaps should all bo sprinkled with some absorbent, such as gypsum or diluted s Iphuric acid, to prevent tho escape of ammonia, liquid excretions preserved in tnuks that none of it may bo wasted, ashes saved aud spread cn tho holds. Compost heaps should be formed where oil refuse-ani mal or vegetable-may bo utilized ; ond while tho accumulation of filth and noisome odors is prevented, the soil is enriched and farming mode remunera tive. With fertilizers the careful farmer can accomplish mach ; without thom he can accomplish nothing.-Cor. Ameri can Furm Journal. Boys and Farming. Formers' sons upon arriving ot a cer tain age oftsn becomo dissatisfied with their vocation. In New England the majority ol' the boys leave tho farm at tho age of eighteen or twenty. Why is this ? Perhaps the most potent reason is aversion to bord work or a mistaken idea of its ignominy. One reason why boys loove tho farm in tho wost lies in tho fact that so many forms are so iso lated that neighbors are few and far between. Tho boy who toils day after day in tho field mingles vory little in society. He longs for associates and neighborly influences. Many farmers aro so absorbed in work and profit as to core very little for outward appearances. I will illustrate o cose : It was a riokety-looking ploce; tho buildings had been long out of re pair. Tho born and its accompani ments wero close by the house. ? big hay stack occupied o prominent posi tion, with which the winds ond unruly members of tho barn-yard hud raised sad havoc. Near by was the hog-pon, whop.e aroma was anything bnt pleasant to the sense. The intervening ground was scattered profusely with old logs, cortH and wagons. What wonder is it that the boy gets tired of such slovenly farming os that, ond that tho familiar scones of homo are not attractive? As he grows up into manhood he re solves to get into some gonteel business. " Farming will do very well for the old folks ; but I've had enough of it ; I'll go to tho city and seek my fortune.'1 ? He sees tho well-dressed clerk ot thc counter. Visions of wealth fill hit i mind as he views the stately column* ? that industry has founded. "I'll bo f . merchant !" he soys to himself. A situ atiou is secured with a salary of two 01 i throe hundred dollars a .year ; he moj in time bo promotod ; but his chancel i of suce ss are small. Where ono mer I chant succeeds, thirty becomo bank i rupts. Boys, keep (?ut of the city ; it is ovor crowded already. Seek employmen elsowhoro. Formers, beautify youl homes ; strivo to moko them so attract ivo that your boys will bo reluctant t< leave. Provide o library for your fora ily, ond teach tho boys to farm by the \ ory as well as by prnofice. Don't com plain ol hard times and the uncertainty of crops, but tell them of the nobility of ogricnltiire as a life-calling, its iude i pendonce over all other employments and without whioh no branch of indus try could flourish. Rise up, then, y sturdy sons of the soil. " Buckle 01 thine armor," and cause tho barrel waste to glow with fruitfulness.-" Un cir. Ned " in Western Bural. -A Scotch molden, upon her love remarking, "I think I'll marry thee Jone," replied : " I would be mucki i obleeged to ye if ye would." FACTS AND FANCIES. BARY : They called Him tiddy icklo Bing, And"soothing nyrups tlioy did bring To atom tho l ieiiiK squall In vain they Bought for socrot pin. And gave him peppermint und giri - Yet louder did ii" bawl. benoath II?B potticoata bis feet, biko little mice who pussy mee' . Did twist and twirl about ; And, ob ! ho roared in mich a way- ' No costard poller hlitlio and gay Give? half HO lond a shout. Flis tears an instant coaeo lo (low Anon ho wildly squoals, ns though Somo lloa had blt bim badly. Poor pa, ho T?HOH up in iro, Strong argument does him inspiro - , Things end for habv sadlv. - Fur. -Go mid buy a cow right away. A WiRcensin cow came homo tho other night with a bag of gold on her born. -Ohio IISR n new roi igiouB soot called the Internalists, and they are eternally fighting to ROO who shall lend them. -A fashionable Puris dress-maker anuounoes that 'Madie?' shrouds are now cut d?collette." -A postal card picked up on tho street at Norwich, Coon., the other day, bore this Rolonm appeal: "Deer mary for luv of God pond mo n pare of pants."; - A Vermont lady fainted away at a party, aud, when a young man cried out for some ono to saw her eorset RtringR iu t wo, Rho arose, drow a pair of ?-h?arB, and said Bhe'd like to Fee 'em -A wonderful exhibition has been opened nt Bransels. It ?H a collection of about 100 landscapes of groat merit, painted by a boy named Frit/. Ker ehove, of Bruges, who died an idiot at eleven yearn of age. -HatB are flaring, with broad brims turned up, or turned down, or raised, so aR to display branches of trimming under the brim on one side. They are picturesque and pretty, and aro vastly becoming to young faces. -From a 3'ounp lady in town to her friend in the country : " T'm sitting on the latest spring style, Mary," And, judging by tho number of monstrous buttons one sees in tho fashion-plates, a very uncomfortable seat it must be. Too b?d ab>ont Bator Katnreh ! , Sbo wanted to sit on*} jury ; Hut th? rtnpn who hal got on " _ Didn't wiflh to bo sot on-; I'm sorry for B?Htor Katuroh !| -Great preparations aro afloat at Trieste for tho unveiling the statue erected to tho memory of Maximilian. Invitations have been sent to all tho companies who served under tho em peror in Mexico. -Cardinal Manning, in accordance with a usual custom, will take his title from some church in "Rome, and has selected the church of St. Gregory, after whom he will be called. If by any possibility be should be elevated to tho papacy, he. would therefore became Pope Gregory XVII. -A. gigantic swimming bath, com posed of iron and roofed in with plato glasB, has been moored in the Thames at London. The water that is admitted to it flows through a thick bed of char coal, and is KO effectually filtered that it sparkles and glistens as if it were drawn from an artesian well. -Johnny saved himself trouble but lost marks in bis definition exerciso tho other day. He got bravely through "presbyter," which ho found, by look ing it out, to bo ono wlio had had tho laying-en of hands hythe presbytery. The next, word was "dissenter," and in an evil moment Johnny, without turn ing a leaf in his dictionary, wrote, "one who has had the dysentery." -Tho following harmless (if hard) hit wo find in ono of our English exchanges. Tho "doctor" roferred to, it will be perceived, is a reverend doctor : " I cannot praiHO tho doctor's eyes, I novor uaw his glance divine ; He alwayH shuts them when he prays, And wlion ho preaches ho Hhuts mino." -The prenant programme of the Brit ish arctic expedition proposes that tho two vessela shall leave. Portsmouth about the ?ntter end of May, and tnking tho usual route to Baflin's Bay, en deavor to pass np Smith's Sound. In 81 dogiees or 82 degrees north latitude they will probably separate, and while ono will esploro tho northern coast of Greenland, the other will push still further northward. AN IGNOMINIOUS CONCLUSION.-Mary Ripley, of Columbus, is sixteon years of age, and feeling that tho'time had como when she should commence her work in behalf of humanity, she hired a hall and invited tho public to come and hear her lecture on "Social Topics." Mary began as follows: "Ladies and gen tlemen : If there were no men in the world thero would bo fewer poor, mis erable girls wandering-" Mary pro ceeded no further in her discourse, be cause at that point her father walked upon the platform aud led her ont of tho house by tho ear. THE CUBAN INDIANS.-Tho good na tured aborigines, who, according to accounts, must bavo numbered aa high as two or threo millions in tho irdand of Cuba, a writer pays, have been near ly extirpated. Thousands perished from overworking for invaders, who treated them as slaves ; thousands vere shot and lacerated by dogs as if they were game ; and thousands were killed by foolish and bloody Spaniards, who had made a vow to slaughter every morning thirtoon heathens in honor of the Savior and the twelve apostles. It is, therefore, not to bo wondered at that tho AntillenoH knowingly committed tho suicido of their ontiro race by solemnly pledging their women not to bear children.