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iLL'XL***** tUl °®® e ob SSS ^ ***• «Hi Port office 2, BuriaeM latterfl tad 'x>mmanica* i^rJl P .S bI ? h * d J ,hoaI ^ ^ written tnd th ® ^j** 4 o fe »ch ^ne^arynoie when .rtitAI?rc£;, p r»',i? t '!:" f°"J! ke only one eide'of the r hand ’ * n<1 on YOL. VI. NO. <t r. MILHOUS, DENT At SURGEON, o*c». j^ CK ,T ILLK ' hie residence on R.E. Ayenue. Pgj ' — h,T . will L fi J D<1 14 mM '® comforUble t* « d «“? at th « offlee,.. he ha. T Dentt J cb ** r . food iitht sod the i^rmrd Pr0T ® d .•/P li,nce »- He .hnllld be Ini . d MT * ral «*?» previous to their com. in? to prevent any di.appointraent—thouzh nrdayS 0 *™ ^ bB Rt h ' S offic * ou S * 1, • *» U con, i““« to attend eallt throughout Barnwell and adjoining eonn- umfr ly M. B. i. QUATTLI BURGEON DENTIST, WILLISTON, 8.-0. , * *■ . —+>~ ■ - ■ k. 033ce over Oapt. W. H. Kennedy’s store. Calls attended throughout Barnwell Md ^discent countie?. PntioaU W U1 find it to their advantage to haye wo»V done at kfa office. 1( | ‘ DK. J, RYERSON SMITff, Opfrative aod Werhn’iical Dcgtist. r. wiixjston, s. 9. jaeS‘‘in"? * V " th,Qa « hont thi » *“ d « ' for ( »» t* 8 " t'oore Kati.tpctorily per- ' iTth sll the Y" r r’° 1P ' , ‘ hich 8r * «PPHed It the re.' / apj.liance*, than J ... ” re * ^euecx of-pjrtienl*. tending (lisnppcintments, patients inr onestf j ^ T ' slt hl01 * l tVilliston are ie- f" L 8 to corre.pond by nisil before leav. ^ , [sepltt BARNWKhlirC. II., S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1883. $2 sTear. # I- HfMME'S BESfAUfiANT 238 King: Street, 'Oppoaite Academy of Music, CHARLESTON, S. C. Rsorns to let at . r >0 rente a night.: Heel* St hJI hotm—Onters in erorj style- Ales, Wiiirg, Liquor., Hegare, Ac.[mar.301y CHARLES C. LESLIE Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Fish, (iiidif, Lobstfrs, TnrEJfs, Ttrrapins, Oysters. Ktc. Ktc. 8tiUe, Noe. 18 and 20 Fish Market CHARLESTON, S. 0. AH orders promptly attended to. Terms Cash 0/ City Acceptance. •ogMly] f« A. PATTERSON, Surgeon Dentist, Office at ihe Barnwell Court House. Patients waited on at residence if de sired. Will attend calls in any portion 0/ Barnwell and Hampton counties. Sstialaction guaranteed. Terms cash ^^MngSUyj ROBT. D. WHITE M A HB J.K —AND— GRANITE WORKS AIEETINO STREET, ' ((Turwr Borlb-ck’a Alley,) CHARI r.Si ON, 7* T’ U n fttneMy} * “ U & —WHOLESALE— 102 and 104 East Bay Street, sngSlly CHARLESTON, 8. C. * ’ " — * epotof Biiltio? Mif*:i»'s N j.9) Rut Bay SasHj Blinds, Doors, Glass, Etc. Devereux & Co., ' DELLBR8 IN...... Linf, feaent, Laths Flatsw, Bair, • Slates and Marble Mantles, ?p7l>1 CHARLESTON, 8. C. THOS. McG. CARS, FASHIONABLE ri_l-L Shaving: and flair Dressing: Saloon, 114 Market Street, (One Door Eut of King Street,) MtrUOly] CHARLESTON,^’ C. THE SAD FAfcol? AHNAliKr. LEE. Mnny n year has gone down In the (Me Of Mie restless, rolling s,’:i, Slneo I and my newly-wedded bride, The beautiful Anualx-l 1.00, Went, on onr brtdn! nil ro«d ride. That jyas so disastious to me. She was fair, and I was young— I and tny Annabel I.e«; I had the ears and she had the tongue. And tliev who were there to neo Say t hat tho very ear roof rung With the taKy she gave to me. But the ri<*h maroon of that hectic noon Will never lose terrors for me. We stopped-for grub, but not too soon * Kor the beautiful Annabel I^n; For she wan faint as a hungry hoar, From her ivoay feet to Iter cardinal hair, l Was my beautiful Annabel Lee, And she went Into builafiBft then and there. My unfonuiiuto AunaboTLeel ~ , Tho pork and doughnuts,- and pieklea and beans, Disappeared like a frightened flea, And I thought It lucky that adequate means Hud been iuvested in mu. To pay' for tilling my f|itcen of queens, My beantlftil Aunui/el l>o«. Site looked no love, stf snake' ni> snecch; , With her 'twas a matter of silence and reach, Until I began to be A little afraid, and compelled to beseech My dar mg, my darling, my sweetheart, tny To let up on the g-r-u-b 1 And that Is the reason that years gone by My beautiful Annabel Ia*o Went for a piece of raib oud pie. And slid up tho f l u m-e, For she w as htman, and her gastrin force, Though good, wasn’t that of a thoroughbred horse, ,. Or a steam e-n^-^n e. And so it happened that on that pie „ ,M v ihirllng. tuv darling, went up to the sky, My Mkutlful Annabel Igse. Andi f 1 In tho night tide I turn on iffy'right stdtv— > Ami curious dreams come to mo, 01 ntv darling, m.v lovo. lu the realms above, BtUl wreatllngtlia; ro igii p i e. —- —Uialci iTmtltii’ .VjfiuHmi, g. _ ^ ■ • k Import nut Agricnltnrc Statistlcf. A, writer in the International Review, who seems to have drawn his facts and Hguren from official sources, furnishes Rcmie interesting and important informa tion in regard to the increase of various crops in this country. Ho says that in the last fifteen years the production of wheat and barley has trebled; Corn, cot ton and tobacco more than doubled; bay increased more than one-third, and oats almost 140,000^00- DusheU. Haro rue the statistics: In 1 SOT tho wheat emp was 148,558,000 bushels; iu 18?.), 448 - 756,000: com, in 1805, 701,427,000 bush els, and in 1879, 1,544,8fK).000: ontn, in' 1869, 235,252,000, and in 1^, 864,2.58,- 000, rye, 19.544,OOfK-22,646,000; bar ley, 11,391,000—40,184,000: potatoes, 40M8S,000-181,369,000: hay, 28,588, - 000 tons—35,648,000; UAmcoo, 18.5,327,* 000 ]>onmls—to 884,059,000; cotton 2,- 229,000 bales—5,020,00a The writer attributes tho increase in cereals to the increased population and development of the Western aud North western States. He says that during the present generation the corn has been transferred from tho South to the West, and the wheat centre from the Middle States to the for West. In 1812, 59 par cent, and in 1859, 52 per oeift q£ uiit corn was grown in the Southern States. Iir 1877, 859,000,0i*a btwhvis came f rum Ohio, IndiiHi.'v, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas ami Nebraska. The product of Americans m eotjope. A correspondent Write* lo ihe Spring- flohl Republican; The majority of Americana, when they .come to Enrol*; for tho first time, are always amazed at the expense of foreign traveling. They hod always harbored the impression that the cost of everything on this side of the AUautic—railway ticket*, hotel bills, etc,, were at leant only one-half -what they were in America; fcut, on Hie con- traryj they find,it costs much more to travel here than it does at home. In tho best American hotels the pried of three and four dollars a day seems ex travagant, bat they cannot comprehend why It is that in a first-class foreign ho tel, where the price of a room is onlv three or four franc* a day, And the othe'r charge* seem so moderate, their bills foot up to such high figure*. \yhile taking my breakfast ohe morn ing at tho Hotel Chatham in Paris, five Amerioahs entered the dining-room and ig-i seated themselves^ at a table near mo. There was the father and mother, a son of about 14, and two daughters alwut 15 and 12. From their conversation I learned it was thoIrnrtiCtrip toRnropo, and that they hod coma’directly to Paris on landing at Liverpool, and had no hail a “square meal” since they left home. After •c&nvaasifig among them selves ns to what thoir appetites craved and demanded on the bill of fare, the head of the family gave the waiter the following order; Five plates of melon, Which were then Very ex pensive, five fried soles, five pots of cof fee, five ham and eggs, fried hominy^ five beefsteaks, hot rolls, five fried ix>ta- toea, butter* radishes, etc. tf they had ordered tw#dishc* of a kjftd, so gener ous Was the supply, it would have lieen more than enough to satisfy their appe tites ; but they were “Americans,” and evidently thought tho reputation of their country, in the eyes of other strangers in the dining.room, demanded nothing le** tlmo -n full complement to each per- fcOfi. As near a* I could figure up their account, that breakfort cost iu the neigh borhood of $16. The table d'hote ({in ner at night was at a fixed pnee, and their lunch, at 1 o’clock, corresponded with their breakfast, no wonder surprise is manifested at the Ingh rates of living in foreign hotels. OaUfttroph Tim yoar has opened with a series of terrible warnings of the fragmentanness of human life. The old year isuniloral ly dismissed without regret as weari some And disappointing, if not down right unlucky. The new year is hailed with eager haste as one that may be des tined to stand out in human memory as a brighter and happier |>eriod, in Which the depressing imitiences of un- i foreseen calamities add economic dis- I ns ers htAy be avoided. Eighteen Ima- J tlf MROIffi THU TilMC) THE GREAT REMEDY FOR' ■V \ PULMONARY DISEASES, COUGHS, COLDS, BRONCHITIS, Ac., AND GENERAL DEBILITY. SURE CURE FOR ^Malaria and Jfyspepsia IN ALL IIS STAGES. *^.For Sale by all GROCERS aod DRUGGISTS. ad the rest of tho Union was only -194,- 558,000 bushels. Tit*' tobaicco increase— 100,0(X),000 pounds from 1870 to 1378-— has been, of course, mainly in the South. In tho same section and same period cotton has increased from 3,042,Odd to 5,216,009 bales, Arkansas and Texes being the leading St tl v in this ad vance. Li tho former,*! 11 • M,00d pound*-' were raised in 1870, and AiiT.OOO.OOO in .1878; iu the latter, in 1870, 157,000,000 pounds, and in 1878, 500,000.000* - > Only about 9 per cent., it is said, of thchiational grain crop is exported, in cluding 24.76 percent of the wheat, aljd 6.49’of tlie corn. Tho total exports of all grams wvro 39,6)9,OK} bushels m 1868; in 1878 tlmy had risen to 189,000,- 000. The exports are likely to increasn with the p’.tl'i'tiou, though in afar smaller proportioiT}' and the time is not. far distant when the Uiiited States will be tho dominant power in the grain mar kets of the world . .. The Perils of Pearl iming. The number of shells is not any giiido to the number of jiearls, and even the roughest average whieh the diver may make of tho value of the season's collec tion is, therefore, liable to be utterly wrong. I The shells themselves are, how ever, of greatcoinmercnd value, and often yield a larger revenue than the season's find of gems, so that the diY. r rVn'iry never goes down in vain. The diver has always encouragement in perilous labor; and to the last, even when he takes his fatal (live to the waiting shark, he Inis still Ihe fascination before Kim of a pos sible prize that shall send him homo to live at ease for the rest of his.life. So he calls out to the shark-charmer lo charm his Wst, and, w ith the delusive spell ringing in Ilia ears, plunges down, to death. But the monster of the d<YP that has been lying waiting for him far under the shadow of the boat, cares little for exorcism or enchftntineufcr and so the diver is never seen again. His comrades in the boat feel the roi>e suddenly slack en and as suddenly raised; the lessened strain tellsits grim story at once, and then the empty bucket comes fluatintpup to tho surface, a message that the diver is dead. In the vast majority of cases, however, tho divers grow old at their toil, neither meeting with sharks nor King’s ransoms in their’ gropings along shell-strewn banks, and the Bahrein speak of it as a monotonous and labor ious 'means of livelihood, and one in which they seldom earn a competence. | [The surroundings of their work are squalid, almost revolting; for the shore is heaped with decayiiifc masses of oys ters, a sea breeze perpetually blows the smell of them across tho encampment of the fishers, which lie sweltering under a terrible sun, and but poorly provided with even the few things that go to make the Oriental comfortable, matters are but little better, as far a* the divers are personally concerned, and in China and Japan the i Ihe Court eons Lawyer. You recognize the courteous lawyer at once. He places a choir gracefuuy for his client, whether Hie client is an ele gantly attired lady in sealskins and diamonds or a clumsy bumpkin in homo- spun and liquor. He smiles sweetly at his opponent, and bows to the jury in a deferentially familiar way; He pays the fees to the clerk before lie has the trouble to ask for them, and draws tho bills out of his pocket book slowly, one by ('lie, ns gently as he would lead a belle from her carriageTo the Vmll-room. His bow to the court is almost an apology for ha\ tng come into the profession con- temi*»rapeously with his Honor. He handles a- witness as though he was the frail golden setting and Lis testimony the geinne was trying to remove^ His topes are carefully modulated, and he appeals for a reply to the kindly sensibilities of the witness, “ Be so good ” is tho cap tivating exordium, and “ thank you ’’the pallititive peroration. If he wounds with a question, ho linds up the sore,the next momentAvith the liniment of polity- ucss. To his opponent he overflows with generous waiver, and—admissions, and if by chance ho int< iqHtlutos a re mark, he does it as though he was put ting a boquet in lus adversary’s button hole. Ho thinks he understands tho court. He hopes he docs not misappre hend his htaraed friend. He trusts the witness knows what he moons. In ad dressing' the jury, he unlsiaomA his ap preciation of tbeir Intelligenfie uort ability. Ho lays hi* arguments before them with respect amounting almost to reverencoj as~“though they were pro pitiatory offerings to a deity whom he wished to placate. To the court his whole demeanor is redolent of respect. The-eourt is most honorable; the judge most distinguished. He is, in short, so filled with human consideration for every thing and everybody around him, that he finds excuses igr the jury that beats him and for the eeurt that nonsuits Turn. It is true, he has been know to revile nu adversary in private, to curse surrepti tiously, and to sneer at tue judiciary in the social circle. It is also true that he cap wrench a fs* num a client in a ruth- lesi raeni jui and take a snap judgment when he thinks it safe. But these little trifles sidy show that he is human, and he knows that men are not apt to believe that a head with such a halo of polite ness around it cun have for its pedestal a cldYen foot 1 ‘ . » Joking on High Olympus. -» *' It was a bright Afternoon, and the im mortals were sitting on high Olympus, watching the cremation of some insane American, who thought thoro wasn't enough land on this continent to bury him in, when the blue-eyed maid re marked: -,4 “Mars.” ., ", The Colonel hastily folded up his mn of th# lavs beds and slipped it into Ills pocket. “ Sjieak, Minerva, the class is up. Go red and’ eighty-three, however, has ahead with tlio oral.” dawned with leaden skies and portents “When they put a man into the erema- of evil. In France the greatest Re pub ; lory or retort, orwliatfcyu:. tlieyculi jt, lican htlS been stricken iitwn f and h s | whatfigure of expression does it remma death ha-- been followed by many signs : you of?” ... Of nolit eal incanacity, social agitat oil | The Colonel scratched his grieved shin and n At ion A1 dc^pOildetlcy. Un the | (now don't ask us what it was grieved l ontinent (he lb oils have borne devas- t ftlxmt, or wo will tell you it was grieved tation an 1 misery in their train. From , about to tho knee, (pr wo are in no hu- every quarter there are tidings of dis- 1 mor for nonsense), and pr*d'ntly ho said aster. Tile h'oifii fire in Milwaukee; the ho wasn’t much of a scholar un.rawgrum- (irctis catastro))ho in Uussia, the ra iway mar, but he believed it was a kind of accident near Tehiohipa I’ass. the loss.^erysipelas, “something left out, you of two staunch ocean xteArusliips, and 1 know.” - — . limnflrnilsJitiiay end jmbM^YtU)” mid the.goddesA^f* hut "hut and. are hot < nly appalling horrors, but is left out?” omens of depression and gloom. Men Are Already sAyilig in ibeir hearts: “It will be a disagreeable year, if nothing w iso:” I!e r ore the agcnc cs of s cam, elec tricity add the public press Were multi- blied ( the effect of sudden catAstronhcA Wasconiitted to the localities in which they ofeurped. When tiro tower in Bilcam fell, there was no lack of talk in the neighboring village*, and the f Vigilance lf(*e«Mary In Bslldinl. | The difficulty of geit’ng a house imilt toonsVsattafact on is well illustrated in the experience of a Chicago gentleman. As rclaied iu tiro Sanitaiy AV’is. who hjs just completed a comfortable home, lie gave his architect mo-t dutinito in structions, but he soon found that hard ly anything was being done as he had ireeted. Nobody employed about the buiid ng seemed to inanifo-ttho slightest interest in his work, and bricks and boards were put together'with the ut most disregard of the fitness of things. Lumber w.yi wasted as though it ■wrvw ■■■to - -A* -— ling. Tho gentleman (smo to tho eon- c us ion that it, would 1*’ advisable to stay about the premises, and he d d to mo-t of the time, watching as many of the movements as lie could. The result whs that c:ich day usually opened with tearing down or pulling apart the work 0: ihe day previous. I or ovample, ho 1 thought he stoV something wrong in the laying of the main drain lor the sewer- j ago. Itn reporto i to the architect, who j 1 r IIWrld Iv f*.. xk^*\,w'a. ■ The wor m n insisted tha every thin; was ever a tirak Staboh b causes explosion old man finds it qollarits..,, A Boston paper 1 , a street-ear m that mrir took-9001 last Sunday, but is enfirelr sikbtss lo how many the company goi. Th* Crown Prino* of Gennanr frta more puffing over giving 1 f8 fidua to a blind boy toon an American dosa oral leaving $40,000 to an orphan asyltun. Tiierb is a fortune in stare far tha mil liner who shall devise a bonnet that eon be worn in any part of a church and si* its trimmed side to ihe ana* The CoTond hesitated a moment, and • had been duuc just. o-neUy as it shout said lie h:idn t considered mv rcgarils of | have been. The dra'ns were dug up. that, and Hermes remarked that it teas f-n^nji’llie'es'i. nad - i wras found that no probably an interpolation, because the man was put iu. Vulcan, who happened along with a fiCw hinge for the front gate, asked if it wasn’t botology. Juno didn’t thinkit could 1« tautology, because it wasn’t always the same man; LCUittof j indeed, it ncveewns-tlro wimo man. . ..... - , t iJ er i u * “It’s the same man tots time, ian’l satonr-tTitn rtnr-hdbeoairtry, but the 1 lt n , kr d ) I?r ~ wor.d outside d,d not know what had throwing up his elbow to the level will great | hi* head. Ganymede, tho barkeeper, said bo happened. The collapse of tiro chimney -stack in Bradford a few weeks ago was telegraphed instantly to tho ends of the earth, so that it was known simultaneously itt Calcutta, the Eu ropean capitals. Sati Francisco and Now York that sixty men. women and chil dren had suddenly ceased to exist iu tho Workaday World. But outside Bradford there was si arcely a single point of hit- if <t raan interest in tiro calamity. Archi tects may' have been warned against sacrificing the principles of security to hapely proportions, and life insurances canvassers may have obtained a now fact to lay before working people; but the human suftering which had been cnined left no impression upon tifo minds of readers at a distance. Throe hundred people «re trampled under foot or burned to death in a circus in Boland; but the fact excites no more emotion in tho heart /of an American reader than the footings of a table of mortality statistics. Four hundred emigrants and sailors are suddenly swallowed up by the sea. There is a Bljort Controversy respecting compart ments in a ship’s hull and a momentary curios ty to learn what excuse the com mander of the other steamship can offer for not attempting a rescue; but the agony which was caused in a single in stant, when hundreds of tliesc quiet and simple j casants and working people were'brought face to face with their doom, issonly a vague generalization. In a week it is forgotten by the general public. conurction had been made with the street sewer at a!L7 The last section of pipe hod beon too short bv several im'.hev nn l to the crafty drain la\cr, who was interested in tea v ng time and material, it was not considered necessary to Iciigihcn i . Tho fresh air duct lead ing to the fmnuve. had bciru ordered built of unusual capa ity, for tho icason “ttrnt"the^trwner■ rrrtrr*e4 ■more--of the* i common difficulty about getting suf- i ficicnt nir to venthate a^ well as warm . ., | his house. Ho watched the work on this thought it was a hyperbole, Ikwiuho it a.r duct very closely and was congratu- was awfully extravagant; $35 |>er man at latlng himself that it* was well made, the Washington (Pa. j Crematory was the ’ regular charge for every barbecue, nre: Bstum, who came up tliis aftornoon, It being Friday, with a string of fish, said he thought it was synedoche; tvnt on being asked whet syneuoche was, frank ly confessed that went down three. Apollo thought it was a bit of trochaic meter, because the man ivas ymt~ hr. I its, coffin. .1 It took tho Immortals a long time to catch on to this, and theji Jupiter re marked that they weren’t running a col lege infirmary up there. “ No,” said his amiable maiTuidJiwter,, “no, -pharmacy’s sake, don’t talk doctor- shop. What do you think it is, Miner va?” ™ . . The blue-eyed goddess turned down her place in Emerson, adjusted her eye glasses ayd said, with great precision: “ WTiy, the retort scorches. Does not it strike you that way?” * But after ajnomout of silence the Col onel said he wasn’t, up to this new fangled pronunciation very well, and tho immortal Jove cailled to Ganymede to bring him a “light one,” at the some time holding up all tho fingers on one band behind his wife's head. the hiSTen* with Uu^hter doing uldn’t but, at last, discovered that thowork- | roan purrowed thoNnlet bv drawing in each succeeding course of bricks as ho I neared the top. When remonstrated : with,, he said ho thought he was ' tho proper thing, as ihe duct w to didn't know, and . let in so much cold air if smaller. So . _ in everything done about the horse— tho workmen had no more conception of the purpose which a healthy, com fortable. and convenient house was to serve than tho to Is which they used. By hiring an architect to watch them, and then w atching the architect himself, ho succeeded at length in getting a house iu whieh l;d itakes some pride; but it was at the expensoof extra hind'; much valuable tinieaa I patient waiting. II. B ISC HOFF * CO., Charleston, 8. C. MsauLe’.arers ted Proprietors oirMfia Ladies Dress in Persia. a bright red satin skirt, '* How Site wbre richly embroidered with gold lace; itwas very full and short, barely reaching to her knees; a loose jacket of blue velvet, also mufch trimmed—tliiiTTimo with sil ver lace; the sleeves were made of cash- mere shawl buttoned by about twenty small buttons. She wore several neck laces, most of them very massive, stud ded with fine turquoises. On her head she wore a white shawl, with a band of jewels round her forehead, and at one side a large pearl star. She had on l>oth arms at least a dozen bracelets—some handsome ones, some only bands of col ored glass. Her feet were covered with coarse white socks; her shoes green leather with scarlet heels. Some of the ladies wore bright red trousers, reaching to tiro ankle; but this was quite the ex ception. They wear a long veil, reaching from head to foot, generally made of some smart print of muslin. I ought to men tion that every lady wore a small leather case around "her neck, containing some earth from Mecca and verses from the Koran. The faces of my hostess and Ceylon friends were much decorated, the eye brows broadened and carried quite across the nose.' Some bad email designs tat tooed on the cheeks. The hair is very * it is It s only in exceptional instance^ that these tragic occurrences leave any per manent impression upon the public, mind outside the immediate localities where they occur. The facts are known, but suffering is not brought-eJese to Hie emotions and sympathies. A day ) as e-/, and men are thinking of some thing newer and pleasanter. A month goes by, and 1883 is not considered especially unlucky, but only an average year, With starti ng o currences now and then, but with the i.sual out omo of peace, prosperity and Tecucky, A year rolls by. and there U a vague feclin of d sappointment and depression an an eager hope that another year will bo checnor and brighter. There is in variably a speedy reaction fpnm the (Iis‘- coura:einent and sense of insecurity caused by the vicissitudes of human destiny. r lt may be that the world as it grows older is becoming more ai^d more ac customed to the conditions of its being. ( erta nly the impressions of helples - ness caused by catastrophes like those which Uav# : l)cen recently recorded are only vague and transitory. Tho thrill of horror o'.qlted by such reclfals is felt only momentarily;'the sense of insecur ity and the feeling of unrest soon pass away. Men learn to expect catastro phes and to make allowance for them in the Providential scheme of the uni verse. Yet they can not explain (hem. That seventy weary travelers' and hotel servants should suddenly be exposed to the horeors of an agonizing death, that ihree hundred men, women and chil dren hoiild be wrenched out df life with tortures unspeakable while en toy ing a town show in 1 oland, or tha' four hundred emigrants seeking their fort unes in a new land should be drowned before they have fairly lost sight of the old country, is as inexplicable to-VTay as the death of the thirty victims of the Tower of Mloam was Tb the .Jews of old. The question is no longefr asked, as it was then: “Have these men sinned or their fathers, that they should pfcriih •o miserably I”’ But it is no easier now than it was then to reconcile tho vicis- sbudes and mysteries of human fate with an orderly scheme of government for the unh er.-e.—N. Y. Tribune. 1UV/UUU..UU Japan the industry is one , _. , „ , that attracts only the k»w*r orders. From Jong and Buck, generally died red; these sources most of tire gems of our markets pm derived, bnt the pearl oys ter k of such extensive distribution, a creature of every shore, that nearly oH countries contribute pearls to the general stock.—London TzUgraph. ? A woman who has four sons, all sail ors, compares herself with a year, be cause she Tribune,] ha* four seasons, —Kokomo worn plaited in many thin tails, twisted with gold thread. The hands are well shaped, bnt nails and palms are stained a dork red.—Tins In/’* Magazine. — ^ 1 ■ ■ ■ /' “ Wn,” asked a governess of her lit tle charge, “ do we pray God to give us our daily breed ? ... Why don’t we ask for four days, or five days, or a week ?” “ Becausa^e want it fresh,” replied tho iagentooe-chiid. Laughed all the godi; broke, And wise Mruerrs thought ’twu at her juke. —Burlington ilaukryo. Mammoth Trees in California.' A correspondent who has been visiting the grove of big trees in Calaveras County, CaL, writes as follows: ' It has always been so difficult for me to form any conception of the size of the mammoth trees from given figures, but when I went into the grove and saw them standing, and elimlitd twenty-six stoop stops to reach the upper side of a fallen sequoya.and became dizzy on looking down to the ground I rcAlized their im mense proportions ; .one of tho gentle men of the party reaehdd his arms’ lit full length and it took eight measures to span one of the smaller trees. Visitors have the privilege of naming any of the big troos, and placing a mar ble slab with the inscription thereon. One noble great tree was called the “Mother,” another tho “F'ather," the “Three Graces,” “Henry Ward Beecher," “General Grant,” etc., etc. • In this grove there are trees within eighty acres, horses and rode six miles to where wo saw the largest world, “Old Goliah.” In tbi Preparing the Uronnl For a Law*. ninety-nine We took the “Son” tree in the, tins grove there are thirteen hundred and eighty less than six feet trees, none measuring in diameter. We rode our eight horses into the side of one tree that nad been burned out; the guide said tin ro was room for ten more, and we could well believe it, for wc aid not take up one-third of the room; and yet the fire had not affected tlio life of the tree ; there was enough vitality to . grow on unconcerned. In this grove many of the big trees were named for States, which seemed more appropriate. The succes-i of a lawn depends upon a vast deal of work that La quite out of sight. We expect more o the soil devoted to the lawn than wo do of any other part of the grounds, for we are (ontmually cropping it, nnd it ban only give a con stant succcsaion of g ass when the roots have a deep soil ami sufficient nourish ment. it is desirable lo have thO grass well established be ore hot weather comes, the seed mu-it hi sown early, aud to this end the soil must ho prepared as early as the season will ftitow. Only small areas, such as fruit yards, croquet and tennis grounds, should be perfect ly level. A slightly undulating surface is more pleasing to the eye than a dead .level, and it may be mado logive the impression df a greater extent if the surfaceMs laid out in gentle swells, and will give a better effect if s’fghtlv higher us it approaches the house. Of course there must be nothing like abrupt hills and hollows and ifauysuchoco ir where tho lawn is to be, they m st be either cut down or filled iu. If the lawn is simli Out it would require dramiu to fit it for garden crops, then it wi need draining for a lawn. Indeed all Ink very light sandy soils will be im- proved bv draining wUh tiles. The depth an 1 dislanc ■ apart o the dra ns should be such as are found bed in the fields of the \io'nity. The next re- quis t<vk a deeply worked soil In En gland thb soil is thoroughly trenched two spades d ep, but we can hardly ex pect our | oople, who avoid the use of the spado wnere er possible, to tren h the ground for a law n. Ths most we (an hope for is the deep st pra-ticable p o’vu g.w th ths use ef the snbsoM plo^ If the sod is j oor, a generous coating© manure sho.iht be turned under, but itln fair condition, lop dr ssin s may bn depended upon for fertilizing. After this preliminary work, the ground shouM remain as Png as ’possible be fore sowing, in order that it may proper 4ey% present: grugation. j- ■' ■ I A poultry ctithority says that “ chick ens should have an ampk range.” II depends upon the number of chickens. little chicken will broil pretty well over a very small stove. Many persons who rake through an* other’s character with a fine-tooth oomb, to discover a fault, could find cue with less trouble by going over their own character with a horae-raka. ^ It cost* more than a hundred milhona of doUam annually-to keep the fences of this country in repair. Now, gentlemen, get off the fence and stay off till after election, and save your country a few millions of this outlay. Growth-up sister—“Oh, Chalky, tf you must go away can t von introduce me to one of your school-fellows, to look after me till you come back?” Charley— “Ob, no, it wouldn’t'SM B would bo too rough on a fellow to kg him out like that”—Punch. — j Somebody who appears to knoy how fashionable schools are managed, says: “To educate young ladies is to let them know all about the ogies, omeniee, the ifics, the ties and the mistios; but nothing about the ingysoch as sewing, darning, washing, baking and ” “I BAY, mister, this is a dcmble seaA and yon can’t lay over it in that way,* said a stand-up passenger in a crowded car to another passenger Who was — fci "g himself too much at home. “Can’t lay over the seat?" echoed the loafer. “Bet your life I can. See here, I hove a lav over cheek from the conductor, and ii m good.” —The colored bannock, Va., are a- populution of Tapp^ excited over the dis ci, line recently employed in the case of u ' ' ’ ~ Principal of the Colored igraded sehefw. The girl pleaded a headache for tardi ness, and the teacher adopted the fob lowing novel remedy to cure both: A boy was sent to the druggist for castor- oiL and on his return the teacher then and there attempted to make her swal low it After a long struggle he suc ceeded in tying the hands of the girl, and adminis'ered the oiL—Chicago Times. ■ ‘ Changes In Jerusalem. A wonderful change has taken place in Jerusalem of late years, and it is proba bly now a mare comfortable residence than ever before in it* history. Mr. Schick, who holds the appointment of Surveyor of Buildings in the Holy City, has lately Issued a verjr instructive re port. He tells us that ruined houses have been restored or rebuilt by iudi- viduals or companies, and buildings ou the Peabody plan have been erected by associations. The streets arc now lighted, kept, for an Eastern city, most exceptionally clean, and the aqueduct from the pools of Solomon has been iv* a colored female scholar by C. A. Yancy. stored, and water brought theuce to the New Carrots with Cream.—Trim a quantity of the smallest new carrot* that can be obtained, and boil them in salted water. When done, drain off the water. Melt one ounce of butter in a saucepan, add to it a deaert-spoonful of flour, in-p- per, salt, grated nutmeg, a pinch of pow dered aagnr, and a small quantity gf cream. Put in the carrofs, simmer fcoa- tly »few miuutee, tad ffjrvo. city. Tanneries and slaughter-houses have boon removed outside the town. The sanitary department in under the control of a flaftnetf pkyiidou. Bethle hem and Nazareth are cagcrlv emulating tho progress of the capital. In the latter place windows ore becoming quite frequent. It is asserted tliat there is a fixed resolution on the part of thouonds in Prussia to make that country as hot cs possible for Jews, and it'fs not unlikely that this may in a measure increase the already considerable number now return! ing to Palestine, more especially as the the German Jews already are a power in Jerusalem. The improvements are, further, likely to lead to rnanj Europeans wintering there. “Sure, the wood won’t burfi. IT , thry a little of warsdf, me dariint," as Bridget said to the koroeone. “You Wowed I” as the kerosene said to Bridget, A young lady received the following note, accompanied by a bouquet of flowers: Dear -—, I send you W the boy a bucket of floura. This is like my love fear u. The nito shade menea kepe dark. The dog fend menea I am yaw slave. Boeis red and poais pad, my love for you shal never fate.” The flowing reporter who wrote, with reference to a well-known belle, “Her dainty feet were encased in shoes that might be taken for fehr boots,” tied .Mb wardrobe up in e handkerchief end left far parts unknown when it appeared the next morning: “Her dirty fort feet wen encased in shoes that might be I ferryboats.” A Young lady who k studying I lately wrote to her parents Oat she invited to a cUjeuner the day before, end was going to a fete champetre the nasi day. The professor of the college was surprised to reoeiae a dispatch from the “old man” a day or two after saying: “If you don’t keep my daughter away from these menageries mid ride shows, I will come down and ase what ads her. It is amusing to watch a slim weigh himself. He steps on to ihe) form as an elephant steps upon 1 with an awful fear of breaking t down, and then puts the three-li pound weight on the end of the Of course lie takes it off does this unostentatiously, that he weighs, say, one handled twenty, if you watch him carefully; will see him slide tho Wright al one hundred and seventy-five. ^George!” he will exclaim 1 “I’ve lost ten pounds l He doesn’t say how much he weighs now; if you wish to know there k the scale. He know* you wifl look. night, a coach, a minister and the ie of a friend, and the elopement is y settle. If in any place ihe ground settles unevenly; then iresh soil must bfc (led, where needed, to bring the low soots up to the proper level, Whether the lan is to I c laid down with seed, or as is sometimes pro erable, if the area is small, with turf, the prel minary nreparation mu-t be e junlly thorough, if a line and permanent turf is desired. Agriculturist, ^ Elopement Fashions. Tho fashions for girls who elope just how are vary plain. Some white drapery, a convenient window, a long ladder, a dark house over. If the irate father, armed with a' double-barreled coal shovel and a town constable, does not pursue, the affair is, although picturesque, not exactly a suc cessful elopement If the father of the bride relents within two days the fool kb couple are not happy. If it leaks out that the mother of the bride is in the much of the pleasure of the trip If both the father and mother bride are in tiro secret of her going away, and have actually left the ladder near the window, and that fact k found out, the clo]X‘mcnt is a failure. In the olden time tho eloping bride packed all her portable goods on herself and went away heavily laden. Now, as she is alx>ut to return in a day or two in her lady friend’s dress, ahe goes away quite light —A young girl who has tried it^sajrs few idgMe al one of the tbs story that kissing wool l cure les lacks the important element of truth; but there is one thing, she almits. greatly in favor of the remedy - it is not disagreeable to take. Hors, however, may be a deep-rooted, stubborn case, and she shouldn't feel discouraged he- { eau.ve fifteen or sixteen bundftrepp^' ““ cations failed to eflhrt * I OOfli ID Bull *1 ~s In the Shortly after 12 o’clock a ago a Philadelphia guest arge Atlantic City hotels 37 a nudge from the sharpest of wife's sharp knuckles. Ae he opened us eyes he sew by means of the mtr roly faint light that ] the hail ipto the 1 man, wljb stood silent and v %feo, as it ^ . . tor whatever valuables might fell into his clutches. Tho wife dung to husband’s arm and trembled so violently that the latter feared lert the ‘ should hear and the 1 ’ bed and* hofdmg hk pillow as t shield, he reached the burglar fetal In tho midst of crushed broken bric-a-brac tha down, with hk smrilent on top. robber struggled hard to ike, hot, ; the occupant of mni had the thief spread oak aff MB with the pillow on hk hand. H quercr’a wife rtroek a light ee qnkto its poasibleandnmg shandy far * * tendon t. """ ** the room y ^ , t uhkt figure of which Othello strangling it the middle of the floor, was set in pillow ^ showed him to be fte MgMy t of toe adjetefeg above rcprce®b. He taken toe and when hesawathrimagtofaln