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.. . ~~ E. A. WEBSTER. Editor and Proprietor. A Weekly Paper Devoted to Temperance, Literature and Politise. VOLUME IL ORANGEBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1S75. NUMBER 15. TIMELY TOPICS. TUB Freedman's Hunk at Washington has commenced paying \o depositors the twenty per cent, dividend decided on sonic weeks ago._ GEN. GARFIEI? says that lie intends to move a repeal of thc law increasing the postage upon newspapers as soon as con gress assembles. "*> RussrA's part in our exhibition next year m?y be camparatively small, but it will bc interesting all the ?une. It will consist of products which cannot be du plicated by any other country, for they are lo bc confined to those which are pe culiar to her soil and climate. Til KY have recently had the seventh annual cat show in the Crystal Palace, London. The highest priced cat was val ued by its owner at 850,000, hilt it didn't get the first prize. "Tommy Dodd," aged nine years, valued at ?">00 was thc win ner. There were over five hundred eats exhibited. _ Tji? city of Berlin has but one steam fire engine, thc rest being old-fashioned limul machines, and thc water supply i: inadequate. Recently an immense now hotel was burned, and water was brough in barrels and pumped feebly to the sec omi story where there was no fire. A >. length a heavy rain extinguished tin Hames. WASHINGTON dispatches assert tba the Commissioner of Internal Revenu will not recommend any increase of tax ation this winter. The receipts on whif ky, etc., during the last year have l>ee] larger than in any year, except 187t since the taxes were first imposed, and a the increased rate they will bc sti further augmented during the curren fiscal year* COFFEE drinkers will please rememhe that thc crop reports do not hold out ail comforting assurances. A falling off lu been reported all around. Of old J av there is a considerable falling off. Ri - v shows a still more marked diminutioi though there is some coffee of thc pr vious crop left over. The islands nei Java show a decrease of about fifty pi cent, iii production. IT is a significant fact that thc grai trade of New York has fallen off this ye; 18,772,010 bushels as compared with la yoar, while the delivery at Baltimore greater than last last. Philadelphia ali shows a gain. When our southern rai way system is made what it ought to b Charleston, Port Royal and Savannah wi export more grain, flour and meat till . any other Atlantic cities. PEOPLE who write letters will find Btruction in the facts shown in the repo of the dead letter office last year. Son 3,640,797 letters went astray, main through carelessness in directing. Thc was taken out of these letters the astoi ishiijgly large sum of $3,500,000. All . this was returned to its owners with tl exception of $400,000, which remains i a profit to thc Post-office Department. FITZROY, believed to have been chi in thc organization of the whiskey rii at St. Louis, went into court Tucsda and, to the dismay of his counsel, plead? guilty tb all the counts in the indictino: against himself. Thorpe, a late stoi keeper, also threw himself on the mer cf the court. This action is consider at St. Louis as tlie most significant ci node in the downfall of tlie once form able underground organization. -*fe ***-' A COMPARATIVE analysis of thc pub debt statement published shows a < reuse in legal tenders during the 1 month of $700,000, and in fractional c s roney bf $102,000. Thc Treasury 1 ance increased nearly $11,000,000. 1 five-twenties of 1802 have disappeu from ftie interest bearing debt, hay been absorned by thc new fives. 1 $10,000,000 of 18G4 bonds called in, lei but about $i2,000,000,T)f the new fi not taken. There Are about $$,000, of the now 'G4a still outstanding, i ^ they will be called in before the 1 * inst. BA vs an English paper: A'eampl condensed milk, weighing about one. h hundred pounds, was exhibited at rdom?4>f thc Society of Arts, and., an t?resting experiment made (hereon. mammontfc piece of IKolified fluid prepared by Hooke r's? process, it " been exposed to the action of tho air four years and three innntlis, yet quality.was so excellent that in n * minutes it was resolved, by (rhum jiito good fresh butter. This,trial # i only one of a series made at thc Tn tc ional Exhibition,South Kensington, elsewhere!* tn each case Tho sames factory result was obtained, . v. 1_?_. b lil 11. ?IX? <?>? THE SAND HY EU/.A COOK. 'Tis well tt> woo, 'tis well to weil, For so (lie world hut li ?lone Slift-e myrtle*Brow, and roses blew, And morning broughl the sun. Blt1 have n.rarc, ye vonni; and f:.ir, ll i sure you pledge with truth ; Ile certain that your love will wear llevonil the days of youth! For if yo give not heart for heart, As well us hand for hand. You'll find you've played the unwise part, And " built ilium the sand. " 'Tis well to sive, 'tis well to have A goodly store of gold, And hold enough of shining stu fl', l'or charil v is cold. But place not all your hope and trust lu what the deep mine tirings; We cannot live oil yellow dust Unmixed with purer things. And he who niles up wealth alono Will often intro I? stand llodde his coller sliest, and own .Tis " bulli uiMiti the sand. " 'Tis good to spook in Irlcndly guise And soothe where'er we can ; l'air speech should bind the human mind, Ami love link mau lo mau. Hut stop not at the gentle words; Lot deeds with language dwell ; The one who pities starving hirds, Should scatter crumbs ns well. The mercy that is warm and true Must lend a helping bund. For those Ihal talk, yet fail lodo, Ital .' build upon the saud.'* THE TWO NEIGHBORS. Ono evening as thc twilight was dusk ing into deeper Blindes, Farmer Welton stood in his dooryard, with a gun in his hands, and saw n dog coming out from his shed. It was not his dog, for his was of n light color, while this was surely black. Thc shod alluded to wits open in front, with double doors for the passage o? carts, and a wicket lor pedestrians at the hack; and this shed was part of a con tinuous structure connecting the barn with thc house. Around back of this house was the sheep-fold. There had been trouble upon farmer Wei ton's place. Dogs had been killing his sheep-and sonic of tho very host at that. He had declared, in his wrath, that he would shoot thc first stray dog he found prowling around his premises. (Ju this evening, hy chance, he had been carrying his gun from thc house to the harn, when Ute canine i ll tm der appeared. Aye, and in the barn he had hoon taking the skin from a valuable sheep which had been killed and mangled with tigerish ferocity. So, when ho saw '.he strange dog coin ing through bis shed, he brought tho gnu to his shoulder, and, with quick sure aim, fired. The dog gave u leap and a howl, and having whisked around in a circle, two or three times, he bounded off in a tangent, yelping painfully, and was sc>on lost to sight. "Hallo! what's to pay now, Welton?" "Ah-is that you, Frost?" " Yes. Been shootin' something aint ye?" "I've shot a dog, I think." "Yce-s. I seed him scootin oil' It was Bracken's, 1 reckon." Before thc farmer could make any fur ther remark, his wife called to him from the porch, and ho went in. Very shortly afterward a boy and a girl came out through thc shed, tts the dog had came. Down back ol' Welkin's farm, distant haifa mile, or so, was a saw and grist mill, with quite a little settlement around it; and people having occasion to go on foot from that section to the farms on thc hill could cut off a long dis tance hy crossing Wclton's lot. Thc boy and girl were children of Mr. Brackett. When they reached home they were mot by a scene of dire confu sion. Old Carlo, the grand old New foundland dog thc loving and the loved -thc true and thc faithful-had come ?ionic shot through thc head, and was lying, The children threw themselves upon their shaggy mate, and wept and moaned in agony. Mr. Brackett arrived just as tho dog breathed his last. Ono of the older boys dood by with a lighted lantern-for it md grown tillite dark now-and the farmer saw what had happened. "Whb did tiiis V lie asked, groan ingly. " John Welton did it," said Tom Frost, coining upat that moment. " He's been losinf* sheep, an' a guess he's got kind o' wrathy." " But my dog never killed a sheep never! He's been reared to care for sheep. How came be down there?" "Ile wont over to the mill with Sis] and nie," said thc younger boy, sobbing as he spoke ; " and he was running on ahead of us toward home. I hoard a gun just before wc got to Mr. Wclton's, but oh ! I didn't think lie could have shot poor (Jarlo !" Mr. Brackett was fairly beside him self. To say he was angry would -not express it. He loved that dog-it had been the chief pet ol' his household for years. He was not .1 man in tho habit of using profane language, but on thc present occasion a fierce oath escaped him; and in that frame of miuA-r-litcr a??y boiling with hot wrath mid indigna tion-he started for Wclton's. .John.Welton and Pete;' Blackett lind been neighbors^ from their earliest days, and they had bein friend^, too. Between Ali? two families there had been ti bond of loye and good will, arid a Spirit of fraternal kindness and regard* had marked their intercourse. Both tho farmers were hard-working pion, with" strong feelings and positive cliaractorist-' les. They belonged to thc same religious society, and sympathized in politics.'1 They had had. Warm discussions, but never vet a direct falling out. Of tho two, Welton was the more intellectual, and, perhaps, a'little mo-e tinged with, pride limn was bis neighbor. But the; were both hearty men, enjoying life for the good it gave them. Mr. Welton entered' his kitchen, and stood the empty gun up behind thc door, "What's thc matter; John?" his wife asked, as she saw his tiniiblcd fuco. '2 ' " . i* H * " I'm afraid I've donc :i bad thing?" he replied regretfully. " 1 fear I lune shot Bracken's dog." "Oh, John!" " But I didn't know wlio.se dog it was. T saw him coming out from the shed-it wilt too dark to sec more than that it was a dog. I only thought of the .sheep I had lost, and I fired." " I am sorrv, John. O, how Sirs. Bracken and the children will 'feel. They set everything hy old Carlo. But you can explain it." Yes-1 can explain it." Half un hour later Mr. Welton was going to his barn with a lighted lantern in his hand. He was thinking.of thc rc cent unfortunate occurrence, and was sorely worried and perplexed. What would his neighbor say? Ile hoped there might be no trouble. He wa? reflecting thus when Mr. Brackctt ap peared before him, coming up quickly, and stopping with an angry stomp of thc foot. Now there may be a volume of electric influence even in the stamp of a foot, und there was such an influence in thc stamp which Blackett gave; and Welton felt it, and braced himself against it. There was, moreover, an atmosphere exhaling from the presence of the irate man at once, rcpcllant und aggravating. " John Welton ! you have shot my dog!" Thc words "were hissed forth hotly. i' Yes," sahl Welton, icily. " How dared you do it?" "I dare shoot any dog that - comet prowling around my buildings,ospcciallv when I have had my sheep killed by them." " But my dog never troubled youl sheep, and von know it." " How sliould 1 know it?" " You know that he never did harm t< a sheep. It wasn't in Iiis nature, lt wa; a mean, cowardly aet, and (an oath) vol shall suffer for it!" " Brackctt, you don't know to -whoa von are talking." "Oho!" (another oath) "We'll fin? out! We'll see! Don't put on airs .lohn Welton. You ain't a saint. I'l have satisfaction, if i have to take it ou of your hide !" " Beter, you'd better go home and coo off. You are making yourself ridicu lons." r Kow, really, this was thc unkinder cut of all. Not all the mad words o Brackctt put together were so hard a this single sentence; and .lohn Weltoi put all the bitter sarcasm of the com mund into it. Braekett burst forth into a torrent o invectives, and then turned away. Half an hour later John Welton n< knowlcdged to himself that he had no done exactly right. Had he, in the oui set-in answer to Bracken's first oui burst-told the simple truth-that li had shot the ?log by mistake ; that li was sorry ; and that he was willing to d anything in his power to make amend -had he done this, his neighbor woul probably have softened at once. But i was too late now. The blow had l>ee struck ; he liad been grossly insulted and he would not back down. Mr. Blackett was not so much rolle? tive. He only felt his wrath, which li nursed to keep it warm. That eveniri he hitched his horst: to a job-wagon an went down to the village after a barn of flour. Having transacted'his stol business, he called upon Laban Peppe a lawyer, to whom he narrated the fae of the shooting of his dog. Pepper was a man anxious for fcc He had no sympathy or soul above tim " You say your dog was in compan with two of your children?" " Yes." " And this passage over Mr. Welton land, and through his shed, lias bee freely yielded by him as a right of wu to his neighbors ?" " Yes sir, ever since I can remember " Then, my dear sir, Welton is clear liable. If you will come with me, v will step into'Mr. Garfield's and have suit commenced at once." Mr. Garfield was the trial iustice. All this happened on Friday evenin On Saturday it had become noisi abroad invlhc farming district that the was not "only ferions trouble betwci neighbors Welton and Braekett but th they were going fr) law about it. On Sunday morning John Wei ti told bis wife he would not attend chun She could go if she, liked. She had need to ask her husband why he won not go out. She knew he was unhapr and that he could not bear to meet 1 old neighborjn tho* House of God wh thc dark cloud was upon him. Nor < she wish to meet either Mr. or Mrs. Brat ott. So they bot li stayed at home. Peter Bracken was even more misc able than John Welton, though perin he did not know it. Ile held m cl companionship the very worst demon man can embrace-the demon of wra ful vengeance; and in order to maint; himself at thc strain to which iie had his feelings, he was obliged to nurse 1 monster, rle did not attend church that day, nor did his wife. Two or th times during the calm, beautiful S bath, as he. glanced over toward neighbor's dwelling, lie found bini' beginning io wish that he had not gout sec John Welton in such a heat of aug but he put the wisb? away, and nur back his wrath. On Monday, toward noon, the com ble came up from the village, and read John Welton an imposing legal documc It wa i a summons issued by Wm. G field, Esq., a justice of the peace i quorum, ordering the said John Wei to appear before him", at two o'clock, Wednesday, at his office, then and til to answer to the complaint of Pc Braekett, etc. The officer read tho si mons, and left with the defendanl copy. lt was Hie first time John Welton ever been called upon to face thc law. At first he was awe-stricken, and then lie was wroth. Ho told himself that he would ficht it to the bitter end. And now lie tried to nurse his wrath, and became more unhappy than before. ? On Tuesday evening, Parson Surely called upon Mr. Welton. The pood man lad heard of tho trouble, and was exceed ingly exercised.in spirit. Both the men vere of his lloelc, and he loved and re snccied them both.. He sat bown (done with Welton, and asked him what it incant. j "Tell me calmly and candidly all about it," he snid. (After ii little reflection, Mr. Welton told the story. He k"cw the old clergy man for a true mun and whole-hearted friend, and he told everything just as he uilderstood it. "And 'neighbor Brnckctt thinks even nqw, that von ..hot the dog knowing it WHS his'.'" "J suppose so." ^If you hud told him the exact facts iii the beginning, do you thing he would have Jichi his anger? - Thiswas :i hard question for John Wel ton, but he answered it manfully. "Truly, parson, I do not think he would."* "Were you ever more unhappy in your life than you hove been since this trouble came?" "I think not." feAnd, if possible, neighbor Bracket is more unhappy than you." jttto yon think so?"' "Yes. He is the most angry and vengeful." A brief pause and then the parson re sumed: <: Brother Welton, with you are needed but few words. You are a stronger man than brother Blackett. Do you not believe he has a ?rood heart?" '] Yes." 'j I wish you could show him how true amt good your heart is." ? , ' j Parson ! " M I wish you could show him that you possess true Christian.courage." MPars'm, what, do you menu?" . 'jl wish you had the courage to meet bini and conquer him." 'UIow would you have rrTe do it?" "jFirst, conquer,yourself "You arc not oflejidcd?" "(No., Goon." - Abd thereupon Hie good old clergy man drew up his arm chair und laid los hana"?pon his friend's arm, and told him jusTAvhnt he would have him do- i"e ap)f* .-.fjiejitly, lind with tears \ii his ey**: r . '^Brother Welton, have you the heart andjeourage to do this?" Tbe farmer arose and took two or tinc? turns across the lloor ; and finally he said : '. I will do it ! " On the following day, towards the middle of the forenoon, Peter Brackett stood ill his door-yard with his head henr. He was thinking whether bc should harness his horse and be off be fore dinner, or whether ho would wait until afternoon. He could not work ; he could Tot even put bis mind to ordinary chores. '. I wonder," he said to himself, " how the trial will come out! I s'pose Welton Ml hire old Whitman to/take his case. Of course the office'll be crowded. 'loni Frost says it's noised everywhere, und that everybody Ml bc there. Plague take it! ? wish-" His meditations were interrupted approaching steps, and on looking up ht beheld neighbor Welton. '.'Good morning, Peter." Brflckctt gasped, and finally answered "Good morning," though rather crustily Welton went on, frankly and pleas autly : "You will go to thc village to-day?' "I s'posc so." " I have been summoned hy Justice Garfield to be there, also ; but really Peter, I don't want to go. One of ui will be enough. Garfield is n fair man and when he~knows the facts he will di what is right. Now, you can state then ns well ns I can, and whatever his deeis ion is. I will libido by it. You can tel him that I shot your dog, and that you dog lind done nie no harm." "Do you acknowledge that old Carl never harmed you-that he never troul led your sheep?" inquired Braekctl with startled .surprise. " It was not his nature to do harm t anything. I am sure he would hnv sooner saved one of my sheep than bay killed it," "Then what did ycyj shoot him for? "That is what I waa just coining ni " Peter. You will tell the Justice tba I lind lost several of my best sheep-kille by dogs-that I had just been taking th skin from a fat , valuable wether that lin been so killed and mangled-that I wu on my way from my burn to my house with my gun in my bund, when" I saw dog come gut from' my shed. My fin thought was that be- had come from m sheep-fold. It was almost dark and could not see plainly. Tell the Justit 1 had no idea it was your dog. I nevi dreamed that I hail fired that cruel she nt old ('ario until Tom Frost told me." "How? You didn't know it was ni dog?" " Peter, have you Atbought Bombard < me ns to think that I could {(nowingi ?ind willingly have harmed that granel ol dog? I would sooner have shot one* my own oxen." ? , "But, you didn't tell nie so at firs Why didn't you?" " Because you come upon me so-so s?ddcnly-?-" "O, pshawK' cried Brnckctt, wi tn' stamp of his foot. " Why don't you sp it out ns it was? .Say I enm^ down c you so like a hornet that you hadn't chane.! to think. I was a blamed fool! that's what I was." "And I was ?motlier, Peter ; if I hadn't been I should have told you the truth at once, instead of flaring nj?. But wi' will understand it now. You eau see the Justice-" ".Justice be hanged!-John- Dang it all! what's the use? There!-Let's en I it so I" r From her window Mrs. Blackett had seen the two men come together, and she trembled for thc result, div and by* she saw ber husband, as though (lushed and excited, putout his hand. Mercy! was ho going to strike, his neighbor? She was ready to cry out*with affright-the cry was almost upon her lips-when she beheld a scene that called forth rejoicing instead. And this was what she saw: She saw these two strong men grasp one another by the hand, and she saw big, bright tears rolling down their checks; ami she knew thai die fearful storm was passed, and that the warm sunshine of love and tranquility would come again. Arsenic Katers. At a meeting of thc German natural philosophers in Vienna, Dr. Knapp in troduced two arsenic eaters from Styria ; the one ate .30 grammes of yellow sul pha ret of arsenic, the other .?10 grammes of arsenic acid in sight of the assembly. In his lecture on the arsenic eaters Dr. Knapp said, among other things: "It is difficult to give any certain particulars as to the increase in number of arsenic caters. I have convinced myself that there exist many of them in Upper Styria. and also in Middle Styria ; very many stable boys, hostlers, wood cutters, ami foresters, are known to me as arsenic eaters; even the female sex is addietcd to the practice. Many began already at seventeen or eighteen years of age to take arsenic, ami continued il to a great age. Most arsenic eaters keep the mat ter secret, so that it is impossible to give accurate statistics. They all assign as their mafivc for indulging in the habit that it prevents illness; furthers their wish to look rosy and healthy ; that it is a remedy against difficulty of breathing, and assists the digestion of indigestible food. A poacher in Upper Styria, who made,experiments in my presence of eat ing arsenic, ?.told nie he had acquired courage hy trie habit. 'The appearance of the arsenic eaters in all eases known lo me is healthy and robust. I think only robust persons can become accus tomed to the practice. Some of them attain a great age. Thus in Zeiring 1 saw a charcoal burner, upward of 70, still strong and hearty, who, I was: told, had taken arsenic lor more than forty years. I heard, too, of a chamois hun ter of SI, who had long been used to eat arsenic. 1 never observed an arsenic cachczy in those addicted to the habit, it certainly happened once that such an arsenic eater (a leather dresser's appren tice in Ligist, I8(>5), while intoxicated took too much, thereby poisoning him self severely. According to his own ac count he had taken a piece a-- large as a bean. Ile entirely recovered, however, and ute arsenic afterward, but more care fully. As far as my observations extend, white arsenic, namely arsenic acid, As. 03 (also called flowers of arsenic), and the yellow arsenic, As. S3, (orpiment ), are taken, and that taken ina dry stale, alone; or on bread. The dose is of course very small at first, and is gradually in creased, the largest quantity eaten in my presence by the poacher in Zeiring being fourteen grammes. A certain Matthew Schober, in legist, ate seven undone-half grammes before mc on thc 17th of April, lS(if>. Thc intervals, too, at which ar senic is taken vary-every fortnight, every week, twice or three times a week. But all doubt as to the existence of ar senic eaters is now removed l?\ the pres ent experiments." -There is an old lady living in the town of Zebulon, Go., who is famous foi an implicit belief in thc truth of every sto j she tells, without reference to the impressions she created upon the minds of i carers. She ha l lately lost a cow, and in telling her neighbor where it was found, said : "You know them punkins o' ours? Well, the vines of them punk ins they growed right acrost our creek, ai.d they growed so thick and so heavy you could cross on 'em just like on a lot. My husband he walked acrost them punkiii vines, thinkin' to hunt our cow, when he heered sunthin a chawmpin an' a chawmpin around him, and he listened to beer what it was, when what do you think? Ile spied ono*cf them tharl punkins what growed on them vines, and thar he ibu id that our cow bud bit inter it on one side, and had gone so fur into it he couldn't sec her tail, but found her eatih' her way thro' the otherside." RUSSIAN INDUSTRIES.-in 186(5 Rus sia brid, one hundred foundries and ma chine shops, and only fifty-two of which wero provided with steam. At the present time there are three hundred and sixty-two of these establishments, seven ty-nine of which are exclusively occu pied willi the manufacture of agricultu ral implements. Statistics are tolland concerning one hundred and seventy nine shops only; th ?so employ 46,528 Workmen. Jiu IS(?8 there were two hun dred and twenty-two locomotives made in Russia; last year tbe number was seven "hundred and ninety-eight. A large number of English workmen are employed in Russian engineering shops, but they complain of being treated as naturalized Russian ? subjects; that is to say, their personal rights and liberties are but little respected. - During a clerical conference thc fol owing conversation was heard between I wo news boys: " f say, Jim, what's thc meaning of so many ministers being herc altogether?" " Why, answered Jim, scornfully, "they always meet once a year lo swap sermons," FACTS AND FANCIES. -Tho Punch man notices that the bald-headed men*comb their heads with towels. -Helpsomebody woree off than your self, and you will feel hotter ott' than you fancied. -Children should bc taught the fre quent usc of good, strong, expressive words-words that mean exactly what they should express in their proper places. -" My faith," says De Quincy, " is that a great man may IM? an infidel, by a rare possibility, hut an intellect ot the highest order must build uj>on Christianity." I know not why my path should he nt times So straightly hedged, so strangely barred before, I only know (?od could keep wide the door, Bat I can trust. -Young women are advised to sit good examples, because young men are always following them. -That writer does tho most that gives the reader the most knowledge anti takes from him thc least time. -ThelMilwaukee Sentinel remarks that 'times will continue bani as long as the $2,000 a year man strives to appear as a $10,000. -Now put padlocks on your coal-bin floors and graft small powder niagazims into your woodpiles-St' Louis Globe Democrat. -It was observed of a deccasedilawyor that lie had left but few effects ; tb which a lady remarked that "he had hut few causes." -" Jimmy, give us tho core of y er ap ple, will ye?" (Johnny, still eating), " You don't want this, it's a cooking ap ple. I never give a feller a cooking ap ple." -Two hu ntl red and sixty-three years ago Sir Henry Walton said in a letter to a friend: "An ambassador is tin honest niau sent to lie abroad for the good of tlie commonwealth." -" Bless you," said-John Henry, with tears in his eyes, "she takes her own hair off so easy that perhaps she doesn't know how it hurts to have mine pulled out."- Hunton Journal. - London Fun-Old party (who stam mers, comos in for some ipecacuanah) "Oh, if you p-plcirsc, young m-r*an,-I w-want some ip-ip-ip-ip-?-" Festive assistant fired bv recent reminiscence) "Hurrah!" -When a mau has been 1 ird at work in an obscure way for yea- ' 1 at length achieves Huceessr-nHJts-tcii'i.-;^'" :' \ :?: quain tanc?s insult him by offering con gratulations on his "luck." - Boston Transcript. - Loan your money, deposit your earnings, intrust your wealth as you may but be sure it is. not loaned to R "fast" borrower, deposited with a "splurgy" hanker or intrusted tor a "magnificent and princely" acquaintance. -At an elegant wcanm? til recent date at Lockport a very decided position was taken by the parents of the bride in relation tt) the custom of wedding gifts. On ono corner of the noto of invitation was significantly engraven, "no pres ents." -The reason why a woman requires a huge wallet for the transportation of a twenty-live cent sh inplanter is as deeply wrapped iii mystery as tho reason why a dog always turns around three times when he gets up after a nap. -It ia thc curious logie of sin that its fruit should be no greater than its seed ; but acorns swell to oaks, and grains to primaries full; and grains of sin grow harvests of the death that deathless spirits know.-Jay. -They do things rather "fast" down *jh . in Heston, sometimes. A certificate of marriage was issued in that city a few ri days ago, to a woman only eighteen years old, 'who had been married twice before. -An exchange affords the etymolo gical information that the aboriginal -s title of Niagara was " A wniagarab ; " which closely accords with tho pronunci ation of thc world by thc modern Eng lish tourist.-New York ]Vorl<1. -" Pa, I guess our man Ka! ph is a good Christain." " I low so, my boy?" "Why", pa, I road in thc bible that the wicked shall not live out half his days, and .Kal ph says he has lived out ever since lie was a little hoy." -Mount Holyoke seminary has sup plied ono hundred anti fifteen wives for foreign missionaries, the last two grad uating classes furnishing eighteen ; hut , it is impossible to say whether or hot Mount Holyoke has done well until the missionaries express themselves. -"The first step toward wealth," sa j's an exchange, "is thc choice cd' a good wife." " And the first stop toward securing a good wife is the possession of good wealth'" says another. Here we have ono bf those good rules which works prettily both ways. -Tf nil thc gold in thc worM wore wi lded into ono solid cubic block, ono side of thc cubic would measure only twenty-three feet. It ins'! much td' a lump,' to be sure, hut wo should like to play with it a ?lay or tw?.-JJuffulo /...? pra?. - Dr. A. W; Saxe recently described before tho California-academy of sciences a colossal tree, one of a grove discovered in Santa ('lara county. Its circumference, as actually measured six feet from the ground, was hut a few inches loss than one hundred and fifty feet ; as over one hundred feet of the lop had fallen, if was impossible to determine the exiict height, though this was probably aimil t three.hundred feet! This tree, even in that land of vegetable wonders, stands, chief over all, although the other lives in tlie grove aro said to bo of immense growth