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1 The Southern cotton mills linve in. creased in number in six yeara from 161 ' to 310, r.nd iu production from $10,- c 387, COS to $30,720,250, or 88 per cent, t They have weathered severj storms, re- { suiting from a too rapid growth, have 1 sccured new markets, and nre now ex- I |wrting goods. i Think of a counterfeit buzzing iu tho J head to cure a cold 1 A sensation has been produced in the London drug market by tho accidental discovery of a substitute for quinine. The substitute is al- | leged to liavo liko medical properties, | *U? i ? r i i. ?uuu^ii uiu tusii ui pruuuuuuu 125 nut uvcr *ix cents an ounce. | Colorado has 890 miles of first-class j irrigating canals, 3500 miles of second- ^ ?ry canals, and 40,000 miles of smaller | pitches, which have cost in the aggregate abcut $11,00 < ,000, and will irrigate $,200,000 r.cres. The operation of this ' great water system has developed con- , dieting claims of various ditch com- I ( jmnies in regard to the use of wntcr, which it is very difficult to settle. The famous shell heaps at Damariscot- | tis, Me., are to be ground up into hen food and fertilizers by a Boston com- ^ |>any. The largest heap 16 841 feet long , toy 120 feet wide, and is from four to ( twenty feet deep. The o~igin of these | shell heaps has been a subject of much | discussion among archmologists. The Peabody Museum is to have all the relics and curiosities that may bo found ( in. the heaps. It has been deemed imnossible that i MT ~ carrier-pigeons could rival the telephone, i but a wholesale baker of Brussels,having fifteen branch establishments, sends to 1 each, with tho first morning delivery, a pigeon, which during tho day returns with any unusual order. At the bakery I its alighting closes a circuit through a I vibrating bell, and announces its arrival, i Tho entire expense of purchase and in- i tallation not having exceeded the cost of two months' rental of tho telephone, tho happy baker felicitates himself on his ' happy evasion of the hello business. Ollr pnncnl n f Plinmnito ^ l?V VUVU?UliO| VI VI tllUU ) | writes the Department of State: "Horse I <neat is extensively consumed by the ! laboring classes, the pricoe ranging from four to five cents per pound. I can also vouch for the fact that a large number of <logs are annually killed for consumption. Dog meat is publicly exposed for ?&le in the markets, and I am informed that many well-to-do people frequently eat it in preference to mutton; and the fact that it is sold from one to three cents per pound more than horso meat, would seem to bear out this assortion* "'Roastdog and dumplings,' is frequently mdvertiscd in the papers by keepers of restaurants, and the Chemnitz papers contain a weekly statistical account of *11 the horses and dogs killed for consumption in that city. Dog meat is supposod to possess a curative power in cases of pulmonary complaint1, and to judge by the number annually killed in this neighborhood, the disease must: hn widespread." -Electric power has been applied in a * very novel manner of lato on the estate 1 of the marquis of Salisbury at IIatfield> * .England, where it has been in operation 1 for some time past in various ways and ? works; but the last is pcrbaps the most ] / peculiar of all. On one of the farms en- 1 - silage has been stored in large quantities, f a farm building being turned into a eilo * tfor this purpose; and, it being decided < tthat the green food shall bo "chaffed" < tefore placing it in the silo, a chaff cut S ter has been crectcd about twenty feet l mbove the ground. This mnchine is not > only driven by the electric power, but t the same motor is employed to elevate i the grass to tho level of the chaff-cutter, i This is done so effectually that about i four tons of rough grass arc raised and { icut per hour. A sixteen light "Brush* i machine is the generator, driven by a < huge water-wheel, and both arc on tho e bankB of the river Lea, a mile and a half < distant. Nor is this all, for the same electric power is ingeniously applied to work the "lifts" in use at tie many haystacks on the estate. - t A problem which is attracting to its ? vtudy astronomers, relates to the earth as 1 a timekeeper. Wo measure timo by di- 1 viding either the period during which 1 the earth revolves around the sun, or that i in which it turns on its axis. By the first method we measure a year; by the | second a day. The earth, according to ] some astronomers, is losing time. 1 Through two causes, tho tun's attraction , and the friction, bo to speak, of the ( tides, the earth each year revolves more ] ?lowly on its axis. The speculative question which these astronomers are discussing is whether in tho end the earth -will stop its revolution upon its axis and will present always the same face to the ?un. When that event occurs there will too perpetual day in one part of tho earth | ?nu jicrpciuai mgoi in another. But there is no occasion for immediate alarm. The rate at which the earth is supposed to loso time only shortens the year by half a second in a century. There are tnoro than 81,000,000 seconds in a year. Therefore, if tho earth ever does cease to revolve on its axis it will be more than six thousand million years before it will stop. r'''\ ? . ' ' . - Nature's provisions arc indeed wonderul. The juxtaposition of coal and iron >ro has often been marked, as well as he fact that most large streams flow >ast large cities. And now the Philalelphia Telegraph, points out another of hese kind providences by noticing that nost of the great pie bakeries aud the pill manufactories of tho land aro centered within convenient reach of ono mother in New England ! Reports of two cases of recent outrages on Americans in China have been "orwarded to the Secretary of State, rhe Presbyterian mission house at Kwa* Ping was looted and destroyed, and the Rev. A. A. Fulton and wife and Miss Mary A. Fultou were forced to flee for Iheir lives. A lady missionary at the Methodist hospital at Chung King was ?toned by a mob and quite soriously injurcd. In neither of these two cases :ould the authorities bo induced to punish (lie offenders or give protection to Jie missionaries or their property. According to the Overland China Mail i method of suicide of an original chnrictcr has been invented and carried into successful effect in Iiong Kong by a Dhiuese servant of the name of YeungJtan-Hing. In the first place he attempted to pass out of life by the commonplace 1 method of a dose of opium. Ho was, liowevc, r brought round by prompt measares taken by a Chinese doctor, who roiided in the same house. But ho was aot to be balked in his intention, and two days later lie procured a heavy hammer and a long nail, and with the former he drove the latter so daeply into bis skull that, although every effort was made at the government civil hospital to save his life, he expired the next day. A man must, indeed, bo bent upon selfJestruction who will hammer a nail into bis head. It would be difficult to ' imagine any form of suicide demanding 1 greater nerve and resolution. 1 "Wiggins, who knows all about it, says , that earthquakes are caused by tho shift- , ing of tho planet's center of gravity. Wiggins is tlie Canadian weather prophet ?or, to speak with precision, hois one of the Canadian weather prophets. He dis- ( :overed, a year ago last March, that the planet was about to shift its center of gravity. Forthwith, he set his prophetic faculty to determine what the conscquenses of the performance would be. Startng upon the self-evident fact that a move- : ncnt of the ccnter of gravity one mile ( from the normal center of volume would :ausc "the parts of the surface at the end , >f the longer axis to be heavier, and tho parts at the end of the shorter axis to be lighter, than normally," he discerned at )nce that "these disks would grind upon sach other," generating heat and lava that , would produce an earthquake in South j Carolina when Jupiter should be near his , inferior conjunction, at the end of August, 1S86. Which settles the question | )f the South Carolina earthquake, with>ut any help of the disagreeing seismolo- ] ;ists, to the satisfaction of everybody. j A Spanish Plow. The latest novelty in plows is at pre- 1 >ent being used in Spain. It works the ' and to a depth of 80 inches, and turns i furrow 2 feet wide. It is drawn by ' % 1 iwo 16 horse-power engines. The instru- 1 nent is constructed on the patent balance- ' slow principle, but of very strong pro- ^ portions. It is a one furrow plow, but ( itted with two skifes, tho first turning a 1 urrow 16 inches wide and 14 inches f leep, tho second following to a dopth 1 >f 30 inchc? and turning over a furrow * J4 inches wide, leaving the land com- * jletely loosened to a depth of 2 feet 6 ^ nches. Drawn by tho steam engines, 1 he account in a foreign exchange says it s possible with this plow to turn over ' 'our acres per day. In cases where it is * lot necessary to turn up the land to this ' jreat depth, but simply to stir up the * indcr-soil, all that is required is to take )ff the last skife and in its place fix a lubsoil tyne, which will go to the depth ( >f 24 or 80 inches. ' I1 Mockery. i Pompous Hanker?William, I'm going i ;o the Exchange. From there I go to < he Directors' meeting of tho Gilde In* 1 turanco Company, after which I shall i ock on my associates in the Bull beef j Syndicate, and then go home. If any- < i>ody calls you will know where to find 1 mo. Good-day! ? Cashier?All right, sir; eood-dav. i (Aside) I am going to Delmonico's. i Prom theie I go to tho office again, afto ] which I shali look in on tho tickct office < of some reliable scalper, and then go to i Canada. If anybody calls you won't 1 know where to find me. ? Tid-BiU. ( Adding Insult to Injory. , Never was true delicacy of consider- ( ation better illustrated than by a thief in the French capital a week or two ago. , A ruffian was struggling with M. Autel fcr h.s watch. M. Autel was proving too much lor the scoundrel, when another Gallic Bill Sikes camo up, and the honest man was laid on tho pavement. The conquerors disputed over their pray, without much chanco of immcdiato settlement, when a happy thought camo to rascal number one. "Sir," said ho to the groaning and bruised Autel, "we beg you to arbitrate in this matter."? New York Commercial. { Chimes. < For from tho fern and moss, , Fluttering birch unil weo lir cross, ( A nd the pino's low murmui in?, "Where the frightened lichens cling To the overhanging odgo ' Of the precipice and ledge, ] Fearlosi in their dainty g!oo, ] Wave the harebell* ">rrily. j From the dusky rafters hung, < Ne'er in Bolgian belfry swung Bells more exquisitely wrought I , r>.- 4i.? v. ? 1.4 ajj iuo luuuuioiu uioc/ioa uuuguirTosting, swaying to and fro? While beside thoin, bending low, Breathless I wait to hoar < Echo of thoir chiming clear. I But the airy harmony 1 Is too wonderful for mo, f And I cannot catch a strait Of that rare and sweot refrain, ( Yet the tiny bells still ring,, I And they shall my greeting bring Till, though near so softly stirred, Every trembling note is hoard. 1 ?Marion B. Allen in the Cottag3 Hearth. < A CASE OF BRIBER!. i BY LUKE 8II?VRr. In the ccntrc companion way of most 1 Atlantic steamers there is framed a public notice which attracts a good deal of * attention from tho passengers on tho way 1 over. It is published by the British Gov- 1 eminent, and is ti> the cllect that any' 5 person offering a bribe to one of Her * Mnjcsty's customs officials will be heavily s lined. The amount of this fine i? men- 1 tioned, oithcr ?40 or ?10D or something of that sort. The contemplation of this * * # 1 notice for nine or ten days every time n ' person goes up the centr.- c mpanionway ' is calculated to give that person a very great respect for the unbribability of the ' Liverpool cmtoms offices. Tli >. Ameri- 1 can Government has no such notic.R 1 posted up anywhere that I ever saw. Whether it is because it is so well known that the American customs officer never ! under any circumstance accepts a bribe, or whether the government fears fhat the s public would regard the posting ?f a no- 5 tice as a joke, I have not been able to nscertain. 1 I have never met anyone yet who would bribe a Liverpool customs officer. The ' penalty which has stared him in the fnce 1 during the voyage i$ apt to discourage 1 nil such attempt*. However, there tire ' few things which a person could take ( into England on which duty is axacted. I believe the customs officers have a ? prejudice against dynamite, against pirated reprints of English books, against * tobacco and some thinjjs of that 6ort, but, as a geueral thing, the American traveler carries nothing with him on which duty could be charged. ^ Our big steamship reached Liverpool late one evening last summer. The cus- * foms authorities penned us all up in the s several rooms of a building on tho landing. Here there was a good deal of fuss ( and shoving through a passage way that ' was very narrow, and tho hand baggage was examined as we ^ passed out. This was a very slow ^ and tedious arrangement, and it was nearly 11 o'clock at night before tve were through with it, and even at 1 that time the trunks had not been looked ^ it. We were then passed up into a room which wo reached by a long incline. On ! slirabing up this inclino we entered a 1 arge building .seemingly containing anly one immense room. It was well 1 lighted, and the scene was one which 1 :mce looked upon a person would not ^ forget in a hurry. On the right hand 1 lide were piled trunks, bags, valises,hand ' satchels and baggage of every descrip aon. On the loit ran a long, low countcr on which trunks were being examined ay the uniformed custom house officers, irhile, bending over their open baggage were the owners, generally talking rapidy to the imperturbable officer. All over the room were some 100 excited passengers running wildly hither and thither trying to collect their luggage. Trunks that were marked with names were arranged in alphabetical order. The sections of the building were lettered with ihe alphabet painted arge and conspicuous along thc right hand side, but, as the great majority of the trunks had no nainj, thc >wners had to run about in quest of them. Porters wero there with their ihort jackets and numbered caps, dragging the trunks about under the owner's lirections, and as soon as one trunk had been examined it was taken away by a itahvart porter who called a cab, and its place was filled by another trunk dammed down by another stalwatt porter. It was a scene of bewildering confusion. As I always travel as light ns possible, endeavoring to compress my be'.ongings into a satchel that can be carried by liund if necessary, my troubles were over, and so I strolled along with comparative indifference, enjoying the strange and bustling appearance of the place. I was able to give some asskt- ' ance hero and thero to companions of * the voyage, and rather put on airs as 1 being an old traveler with some ex- * porience of that sort of thing, don't you * know, and p!umcd myself on having my 1 baggage examined long ago. 1 At tho further end of the room were a 1 couple of ladies who were travelling * alone. One of them had a large trunk, ' and the trunk had a new-fangled lock, f the latest of American patent. A cus- ' toms officer was vainly trying to unlock 1 this trunk, and tho owner was luoking j >n with much concern at his ineffectual attempts. She hud tried herself, it icomori, and had been unable to open it. "You are not doing it rightly," said the second young lady. "You have to push this clasp that way, thou turn the key half way around, push the clasp 'ntrk and give tho key another turn and !i 111 1 i? ? .null 11 will UlllUUA. ' The officer looked up, smiled and diook liis j:irred linger, and I said : "Let 1110 try the unlocking." I followed the directions as well as I :ould and nearly broke my fingers, but ;he key wouldn't turn. I am afraid the nagic words I said were not the "open sesame" that was required. "I am very sorry, ladies," said the officer, "but I shall havo to break tho io?k." The ladies were very sorry too, bm :hey m^de no objection and tho officer icpartod and returned with a hatchet, This he placed under the obnoxious ratch and tried to pry it open. But the lock was built very strongly und it wouldn't give way. Tho hatchet slipped and the officer cut his finger. "Cau't you stretch tho law a little," said I, "and let that trunk pass. Tho llldins iirn nnt imin fr* 1 3 "WW UU Ota J 111 l)Ut arc going directly to France. I am mre you would find nothing dutiablo in the trunk or they would have mado some objection to your breaking the ock." It was now after 12 o'clock. Most of l.hc people had claitmd their baggage, a ad it examined and departed for their hotels. "Well," said the officer, "I ought not :o doit, you know, but I will chanec it," ind with that ho put on the rcquisito mark that would enable it to pass out. The owner was very grateful indeed, and ivhilc he was stamping the trunk she said to me: "I would like very much to give him something. II >w much do you think I should offer him?" "Well," I replied, 1 'as a general thing in England it's safe enough to give a tip svhcre a service is done, but the penalty lere seems to be very high. I don't >hink I would risk it. Yet I don't suprjoic lie would object to a sliiling if it could be given him so that no jue could see it." "I will give him half a crown," sho laid, "if he will take it." "All right," I cautioned, "but don't lo it very publicly." The lady approached and said in her kindest voice : "I am very sorry yon have hurt your 3nger." "Oh," said the officer, "it don't matter in the least, I assure you ; a mere scratch." "Well, I am very much obliged, inIced," she whispered, "I hope you will! let me give you this, not as a compcusa- j tion. vou knuw." ' ' - I 'A ! miss," lie returned, smiling and I bowing very low to her, "glad to have been of any service to you, but really, ?'c are not allowed to take anything; it is against the rules," and he waved txis hands up and down as ho said this. "But," persisted the lady, "it is only i very little, and don't at all come under the head of a bribe." "I assure you, miss," he said, "you ire not indebted to me for anything, and is I said before, I am only too happy to have been of any service. You see, niss," he said, as we walked away after tho porter who had shouldered the trunk, "officers of the customs are never allowed J .o take anything, no matter how small, | jnder any circumstance* whatever." | A.nd with that he again bowed very low j to us, and I walked with the ladies out to their carriage. "Well," said I, "it is refreshing to see a customs officer that will not take a jribe 1" The young lady laughed merrily. "I am glad to hear you say so," she | ,.!J llf? T I ?* >uiu, jur 1 tvuow now we uiu it very jleverly." I ''"Why, you don't mean to soy that you jave him the money?" | 8he held up her hands. They were rnipty. ; "I slipped half a crown into his hand J ;he first timo I spoke to him, and ho con- j ;ealed it with a deftness that convinced ne he had done the like before." I "Then you urged him to take it aftei ' to had it in his hand, and he refused it ' vith such a Ghesterfleldian air while he ! vas really in possession of it!" "Exactly," sho said. "Wasn't it neaty done on both sides?" "Neatly done? "Well, I should say so. iut wnnc a pair 01 Hypocrites Docn oz ,-ou aro I"?Detroit Free Press. A Wise Eel. In the summer of 1808 Peter Kern of Washington township, Pennsylvania, caught a small eel and put it in a well in lis yard, where it still is. It is four eet long and about five inches in diameer. It keeps itsolf concealed at the jottom, except at irregular intervals, vhen it comes to the top, and these ap >earances aro alwavs followed by rai bVithin a day or two. During haying ind harvest and other critical periods of urm work the farmers for miles around lend every dity to Korn'd for intelligence >f the cel. It will havo no other kind of ish in the well, and kills all that oro put in.?Philadelphia Record. CLIPPINGS FOR THE CUUIOUS. It was not until the curly part of the present century that whipping posts nn?1 stocks were abolished in Massachusetts. F.ics have been employed as sanitaiv inspectors and used for detecting the location of causes of disease from decotn pesed substances. There are two families of the name ol Dodd in Barton county, Gecr^in. Tlu-} arc not related, and interest in their JiriC<?Q frAm ~e * 1 ' ..V.... villi mub II1IVU OIIU OI I lie ianulies is composed of nine girls, while the other is made up of eight boys. In the reign of William III. of England those who received parish relief had to wear a budge. It was the letter P, with the initial of the parish to which they belonged, in red or blue cloth on the shoulder of the right sleeve. J. M. Means of Liberty, Mo., has a forty-yenr-old clock that is a perfect barom ter. Just before a rnin the bell, usually of a clear and distinct tono, tells the hours in a tone so dull and muffled as to be hardly audible. It never makes a mistake. The R'.-v. Robert Cushman preached the first sermon in New England. It wa? delivered at New Plymouth, Dec. 12, 1G21, and was "On the Sin and Danger of Self Love." It was printed in London, and is believed to be the oldest sermon extant preached in America. An English writer remarks that th recent successful attempts at balloon steerage in France have led many thoughtful persons to believe the day not to bo far distant when we shall see balloons plying in well-paying passenger traffic between England and the continent. In an Indian mound near O.ikland, Ind., was unearthed recently a stone wall ten feet square. "Within were five or six skeletons, three copper vessels filled with fifty pounds of rich silver ore, a copper axe weighing eighteen pounds attached to a stone handle, and a number of stone hatchets. Chns. Leroux, an athlete of this city, earned $500 on Jtlmday by jumping from the roof of a Philadelphia museum, 100 feet abovo the pavement, with a parachute, lie went down fast, just missed a lamp post, struck a spectator on the head, and cut his own forehead slightly but was otherwise unhurt. St. Augustine, Fia., is the oldest town in the United States, a fort having been built by the Spaniards there under Menendez in 1505. By some it lias been contended that Santa Fe is the oldest. It was first visited by the Spaniards about 154*2, wheu it was an Indian pueblo. It is not known exactly when it was settled by the Spaniards. Gallantry. O'.d Mr. Snooks is an inveterate wag. He lives at a large boarding house on West 14th street. In the same h? use live a couple of young dry goods clerks. They are both of the genus dude, and affect an air of extreme and feminine languor which Mr. Snooks declares makes him sick at his stomach. The other 'morning, ju: t after Mr. Snooks had taken his seat at the breakfast table, the two young exquisites lolled into tllfi rnnm nnfl ?!??; chairs. "Geawge," drawled one of them to the waiter, "wait on us immediately." "But," said the waiter, "Mr. Snooks was in ahead of you, sir; I'm waiting on him." "Wenh in a huhwv, Goawge, and must bo waited on1" In despair, George turned to Mr. flnnnlra * * W l\of cVinll T /1a Ulivvikwi TV UHW Oillill JL V* Wj OAK I "George I" said Snooks severely and audibly, "always wait on the ladies first I" .The dudes now express tho opinion that Mr. Snooks is a coarse, brutal man? ' sells potatoes on Chambahs street, y'know."?Life. In formation for Ills Father. "Father," he said, as he sat on his parent's knee; "have we got lots of money ?" "A pretty fair sum, my boy." "Did we make it in Canada ?" "In Canada? How could we mako it in Canada ?" "That's what I told the Smith boy; but ho stuck to it that it was the same as making it in Canada. He said you compromised with tho bank for half, and was allowed to return. Father, I?" "You go to bed, sir," exclaimed the indignant father; "and if I ever hear of your playing with that Smith boy again, I'll have your hide on tho lenco."?Wall Street New?. Onion Tears, Crocodile tears aro things of ancient history, and tears produced with the aid of onions arc equally well known, but it has remained for modern science to find a way to produce onion tears without betraying tho presence of tho aggressive onion itself. In fact, the aggressive onion need not bo proscnt at all. An essential oil is extracted from it which. hns all tho tear-compelling qualities of tho solid vegetable itself. One drop of this oil on a handkerchief it good for one flood of tears, two drops produco a persistent fit of sobbing and threo drops an appcaranco of uncontrollable grief. A QUEER SOCIETY. The Wor*k of a Cigar.?TipSaving Association. Collecting and Disposing of OgarEuds in the Interests of Charity. Not long ago the average American citizen bit oil or cut c IT the small end of h:s cigar, before lighting, and threw it away. Since an internal stamp duty was placed on cigars, and thoir price has advanced a3 a consequ -nee, he does not generally dispose of the ends in ttiis way. On the counter of nearly every place where cigars are sold is a little machino for cutting off the end beforo the smoker places the cigar in his mouth. The tips fall into a recept-iclc, from which they aro collected at the cose of each day. In some cases they arc disposed of to persons who smoke pipes, and in others they are sold to manufacturers of fine-cut or granulated smoking tobacco. Stockholm is the headquarters of a benevolent cigar-tip-saving association, of which the King of Sweden is president. All members of this society provide themselves with an apparatus for cutting off the ends of cigars, with which is combined a box for holding the fragments. This is carried in the pocket find run if rlnoirofl !?/> ?- 1 - I ?.? >) ?v>o.IUMJ VJ abvuuiiuu IVJ U1 II1H 1U a part of a cigar case. At convenient times the contents of the little box aro emptied into a suitable rcccptacle, kept at home, and toward the end of the year the entire collection of cigar-tips is forwarded to Stockholm. There they aro sold at auction and the proceeds employed in providing a Mimptuou? banquet for poor children. At this banquet, which usually occurs at Christmas or New Years, there is an illuminated tree on which presents for the poor children are plnced. Branches of this association have been established in Germany and Great Britain during (he past few years, and the revenues of the society are now I very large. It is now proposed to form a similar association in the United States. In several European countries charred cigar "stumps" have a commercial value. They arc bought by shepherds for making a decoction for killing insects ou sheep. Florists also buy them for the purpose of burning in green-houses or for steeping in water that is used for syringing plants infested by ants or other in-ects. Some Hardeners employ them for making nicotine water, which is said to hasten the growth of certain flowering plants and to causc them to put out "cry largo blossoms. In Paris, nccording to Lo Temps, collecting the "stumps" of cigars and cigarettes is an industry in which several hundred persons of both sexes are regu larly engaged. To be successful in this business it is necessary to be up early and late. Late at night, discarded rolls of tobacco can bo seen by the fire on them. The collectors accordingly throng theatres, opera-houses, concert saloons, restaurants and wine shops, ready to pick up the fragments of cigars nnd cigarettes that the patrons of these places throw into the street. The boulevards and parks are visited early every morning long b Jore the sweepers make I their rounds. The remnants collccted 1 i : ii-- -i? ? uiu auriuu uunug inu uuy :inu spread OUC on paper to dry. Some of the fine tobacco is murlc over into cigarettes. A portion of it is converted into 6nuff. The leaves in cigars, deprived of the ashes and burned portions, are sold for smoking in pips?. The waitersfin restaurants Bave the cigar and cigarette ends left on plates and sell them to dealers or manufacturers. Thus hundreds of people provide themselves with the necessities of lifo in saving the remains of the luxuries of the rich.? C hicigo Times. productive Roughness. If we seek for the pi.ices where men have gained least from nature, and are most degraded, intellectually, morally and spiritually, we shall generally find them to be the places where nature has been most profuse in her gifts, most lnvnrinnf". in linr nrnrl nofitmnnca T? these favored regions thu savage eats and drinks and bleeps liis life away in lazy sensualism, while in less kindly lands where a substanco has to bo forced from the barren soil, and whero tho forces of nature war continually on human kind, man arises ns a king over nature, makes her forces subject to his own .purposes, and wins from her her most jealously guarded treasures. So true it is that tho most promising fields of human effort are not those which arc externally tho most attractive. ? Sunday School Times. He Left Haatilj* Suitor?Mr. Boggs, I have come to ask for your daughter. Boggs?Very welll When do you wftit her? Suitor?At oace. I do not want to wnit ut all. Boggs?Well, I suppose you want all that belongs to her, too? Suitor?Of course. Everything that pertains to her is sacrcd in my eyes. Uoggi?All right 1 llcre arc her bills v for the past month. Milliner, $97; dressmaker, $220? ?But the suitor had melted away.?* Jiavibler.