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•: to- ii H. r. MILHOUS, DENTAL SURGEON, BLACKV1LLE, S. O. Ofllc® near bis residence on R.R. Avenue. THE PnOPIlET Patients will find it more comfortable te rt dt ‘ * “ have their worl a good Dental most improved appli informed several davs in wi one at the office, as he has Chair, good Jivht and the ences. He should he ays previous te their coin- ir to prevent any disappointment—though ill generally be found at his office on Sat- urdays. He ill A u x - il1 continu ® t® attend nails throughout Barnwell and adjoining cnun- 1 . [auglg ly ties- DR. 0. j. QUATTIE6AUM, SURGEON DENTIST, ATTUIBL’TlSU TO I1IMSEI.V. I'U tako up the hlz of the woathor to scnu, >iiy8 I to inysolf, unys X. And turn out n deeply prophetic younjj mini. Says I to myself, says I; III study the motoorologlcal charts, '1 huu bid all the ships iu the harbors and marls Tio up, for tho fun there will bo In these parts— Says I to myself, says I. " • - m liu4 mo a storm 4«-th* Un-Is of the rad, Says I to myself. snys~I. TWit’ll level Iho trees, la-h Iho waves into yeast, bays I to mys If, snvs I; I II get up a regular howling eyeton ■, Tsot \ < nnor’s, nor Hahtu’s, but my bloo ly own, , : :'/■ ' . -t I'll make the whole unlvers • tremble and -KToan— • Says I to myself, says I. so impressionable, military education WILLim^, 8. C. E Office over Oapt. W. H. Kennedy’s store. Galls attended throughout Ha*nwel »nd adjacent counties. Patients will fin it to their advantatages to have we k ontf at his office. sepltfrj For 1 am the Wiggins, n prophet forlorn. yFays I to myself, says I; 1 ne’er luive'known fame since the lorn. Says I to myself, says I; nut now t > my zeiiith I'll riso wllh a swoop, and groat is tho liofiot *"’ day X lit *' seooii," When tho ilth Whoop- Says I to mj self, says I. tho hohor I'll got for my comes in with a rush und u DK. J. RYERSON SMITH, •iMTitivfi and Mechanical Dentist, wju iston, 8. c. The IV. ‘ t.mnr^iTl fire* Into hoipsJudith f> irroiiMd^ 1 io niysrir, savH TT^ And naint' 'mid tht* cavcnu will Will attend call* throughout this and adr Jacent counties. Operation* esn bo more satisfactorily per formed at his I’arlors, which are supplied with all tba latest approved appliances, tbnu ftjbe reaidenees of patients. ; To prevent dlWppcTffifttienlla, patient* 1 To? tending to visit him nt Wiliiston quested to correspond ing home. fOu A pl, Fays I to myself, savs T. "hen liirhlniug shall pioree tho dread sul- phuroiis gloom, . - And old Moth r Fhipton s ts up In her 1 tomb, "hy,4h<oi-H the time tlilff tlle Wiggins will boom— , Says I to myself, s«\ s Ir ~ V. I’ve nvod for n fdc tn the Rny of Bengal, Sdut by are re mail before ieavr [sepltf uya l tunics. u.savs i, riwrprmt~f7i—nr tli r.raTrv',Trrtb Tw,-rr Ilencath the gre it-for ly iind-tirth parallel, Will Dii'l gomuTftoiTn'Centef t > raise V(juito« spoil,’' Says I to myself, says I? I B< VI. SCO "If those Was 238 King Street, Opponite Academy of Music, CHARLESTON, 8. C. Room* to let at . r >0 rents a night. Meeli Stall hoiirt—Ov,ters in every Mvls. Ale^, Wines, Ixiqnors, Secars. Ac.ImarSOl v V 1 now wo shall ehnps, Says I to myself, says I, Who Jssuc-tho r bulletins, i- iessoi Hud mipa Buys I to iiiyeeif. says I, ' a r c m size up a storm ■ ueh a * I Imvelo: c-iat 'J bat won’t hr.ivo a sad, or a spur or a mast, ’J hat boiei to tho lirec/c bt-ftuo it is posed' Bays t ! to myself.- ,-a' g I. vn. •doji v CHARLES C. LESLIE! Wholesale and Retail Dealer iu Fish, Game. Lobsters, Turtles, Terrapins, Oysters. Ete. Eto. 8UH«, Noa. 18 and 20 Fish Market -- = CHARLESTON, 8. 0. All orders tiWinptly attended lo. — Terms Cash or City Acceptance. ^ <>U nsk bow it is that 1 get on ft* t N. Fays 1 to-mvsvlf. says I, - 11}- tb<; tw11 iVq i>f in \ eofii lue! Hie *'ri biiyk, *- . Biiy.s I tb ujystdLsiAs I; ;z» - rin-se arc tltv Signs, and I eg.li e I hem nut received in his youth, he must be ad- eiistomed to the report of a~gnn. ’ I pressed my knee* against him to make him move on, but lirutus would not stir. X tried to back him, to make him turn to the right or to the loft, but in v ®'®- 1 made him fed my whip, but still lie was nuno able. Unit us waa not td bo displacctXgand yet—do not smile, for mine i.i a tTue history—oaf’ll time I urged him to move the horse turned his head round und gazed upon me with an eye exnrsesivo of impa- -tienee muX wnrprisi nnd then relap-ed into his motionless attitude;—There was evidently so no ni'sundcrstamling i e--f tween me and niy horse. 1 saw it in his eye's.— Rrutus was saying as plainly as ho c ould without ejiccch: ‘*1, liorso, do what i ought to do a d you, horse man, do not perfonjn your part.” —1 \v;ia more ])u//.lc(ithaii embarrassed \Mi:d a strangediorso Cheri had sold me! and why doe^i lie look upon me In such a wnyPV ^ was about toproeed to-evtx^meiie.s and administer to him a good tbrasWttg when p.uother shot was lired. ■ . L™ _ T thought l had gained my puhit aiid Bga+n tried to start him, but in vain. Ho stopped short and -plauUHf ftiTiisoif .more resolutely tl.au over. I then got into a rage and my riding-whip oritcnil into ].lav; 1 totik it in bcgli liand- an t struck iho horse right and left. Hut Brutus, too. lost patieru e. and, Uinding -n ly*''*^* .. Hi’-''-•‘‘•sl'kAUAt'' . l:,, .vVa Jfhg, ,<Jc!Oil !i'd J ^1... fbafosai’^ end,—in -lhe iwulst—ei tirr-fa n my JIW.'Ni<-,M ns irrujran.I ip) rcx.iu a doubt, Racuhc tut-, O! vvpnoy, iu<»uw«if' isitoui, Says I to piV-elf so. s i. t)as»cd ids he _ BT, ASOTllKlI. ■ There was a vn!n prophet n .mo 1 Wig/in» wno iHAsed oiuhaaecr of tho *• d!g<-;u.r; • Sal.l he to him-i, If; *■ 1 will re- It seems a < t oh the she' f, ■11 d cy for poor "fggltw. ^ ’ - ' .L lil.i THE TRUMPETER’S HOliSF.. ang30ly] J. 1A.7 I’ATTKRSON, Surgeon Dentist. Office at the Barnwell Court 1 House. Patient* waited on at reaideoee if d*- sired. Will attend calli in any portion —ol Barnwell and Hampton counties. Batiataction guaranteed. Termi caab augSllyJ ROBT. D. WhyTE M A. R B E —AND^. '■ I was nearly foPty=yoars of ago, and (elt myself so^safely anchored in the peaceable haven ol n bacliclor's life that nothing couM induce me to run Um Tisk ot disturbing.it-by mai riage; But 1 had reckoned without tho f’-unuM’ter'a hon-p. * it was at the end of SCptcmher, rMtll, that l arrived at.Haris from Baden, in tending only to temain four-an l-twcnty hours. I liad invited fouror-divo tiriemfs to joihdftfln I’oitou for tin- hiint ny sea son, and as they were to arrive id the bcgiiTTthig of Oc tober 1—had oirtv al lowed mvsjiif a yeekat l.adfoeheTarge to prepare for their rCccpthm; A let t er from homo awaited my arrival at Haris, bringing me Hie disastrous intid!ig.-m-e that out of twelve horses live li..,. fal’en ill or lame during my st-ny nt. Baden, so that I was under die die es- s ty of remounting my; oivdlryd'efore I GRANITE WORKS _MEETINO STREET, y (Corner Horlbeck’a Alley,) OHARLESION, |une91y] t 8. 0 > OTTO TIEDEMAK & SONS, lolt Haris. I made tho rnmtil o 1, all tie- li .r-e deal ers of the Champs 1-ly-cms, where. 1 was feIiowli > W c*ol 1 e t on of screw-*, the aver- qgc price.of which vv:u.‘.l-H, but l was neitherTfi q hmlior nur in cTrdr-fc) throw away my money tipoy, suelT*- esebss beasts. It wns a Wednesday, the da of Cheri’s autiiniu sahrf 1 went to tic Hue do T’bnthieu and ’pufchaattfetsat venture eight h uses which co-fine al- togethcr 1200.—’■•tlttr cfT' Tile miz, a+id,'—io-4*ir--iitrd—oi Sir—'letlt*i wjiilo the horse cape rod aud kicked, nn i 1, exasperated, was dogging hiiu wit h the loaded Inrii t-wl ot -my iu-okc’n whip, Hrutus, nevertheless, loiind tauev- to look at xne.- not on ly- \v t h ife-ptd-uutrcr ami sswprise, btlt with rage and indig nation. While I required of the hor.-o the obedience he refused, lie. on his part, wsiroxpeetinjg of me somethin-• I did-u**t do. 1 low did tlws end? To my shame lo it spoken, I was reicntlesdy and d s- grace'u I ly Unseat oil. Brutus saw tlicro w s to be not lung gained by violuitec',* so judged it ncccssftc-v lo employ mal- iec. Aftar n Inoiuont’y pfU IM e, f-v* >»*Hy 1 in re ’o-t on, the li >rsej[*utCdbwii d ami stood'upright oh liis ;h g * with tlie address andequililAiu n of a c-'own upon his hands. , I was, eonsc- itjlieiitly, deposited .upon the sand, " hk lj, birtunaTcily, liBnpc:ic*d to be rath er tlnrk n tlie place where I fell. : I tt'ivd. to raise myself, but I cried oiit an tell stieichCcl w tli iny faro towards tbc'”yromul. 1 f'mi ns 'If a knife we e tlii-king Jn itjs Jolt leg. . The jiurt did fi' t prove -cnons—the sna!>ping of ono ot ihe snia'I tendons—blit not the less p iihTii. I succeeded. Iiowever, in turn- ing im m-ll, and xd, down: but whiles f was rubbing my eyes, wliieli-wore 11!led " i'li s licit 1 saw the great foot .of a horse des end geni Jy-iipon -mv ht-nc 1 ami again extend mo on mv ha< k. 1 then leit lUut+Mlishearti'nc-cl.anil was rttnknat- ing in PiV mimi what this si range horse ec.'iild be, whonU felt a cpiantity of sand strike- me iu .tlicT faeo-y-, 1 opened my c\es a-'d saxw-Hnitus -throwing up iho dirt with both fore and bind feet, try ing to bnrv-rtutt 'Thtrhist'od /ofgeneral nfinrrtrs. wli n. apparent y thinking me sutlie ent y TiTferred, Brutus knelt by mv_ j-j-gra' c and then galloped around me, de~ sir: ibing h perfeef cirao. 1 called out 1fthim td xtop. Ho ap|)earml tobeem- - bafrttssed; but seeing my hat, which had been separated from me in tlie fall. ho t<si r .4t i -etwomi histtodh and gallojiod tlo v n one of th.o gree n paths out of out am I c nditlly thro * it —— . — • *• But you a;e not hurt?” ‘‘No, but I have put something in my leg-nothing BorioOs, 1 sure. ’’ ; . “And where is tho horse which luu played you this trick?” ‘‘1 pointed out IthitUs. Vho was tpuetly grazing upon the slmots of a broom. ‘‘How! it is him. tho good horse! He lias amply repaired his wrongs, as I will relate to vPu latuh But yob must go. homodlrcctiy. ♦ 1 _ “HO-K.’LLi-aii not morn a «mp ” “But I am go ng to drive you liome, at the riskof om r n ising you.” And calling her little groom, Boh, she led mo gentlyy by orte i.rm, wliile Bob took the other, and made ntc^ gut into tho c arriage. -Five m tiutoc afterwanfs we worn moving’in the cHro.’ticm of La Hoc lie large, she holding the reins ami driving tho p -ny. with a light band, t looking at her, confused, embarrassed, stupid, ridiculous. Bob was charged to lea*t back Hrutus. ‘Tlxtcnd yemr leg quite st'a'ght,” said Mine, do I will drive you very gentle to avoid jciTliiig.’ 1 hen she saw me com oriably instulleiL- “Tctl mo,” she sal»l. ‘ liow you were thrcpVn, and I will explain how l came to your assLitajUMH’ r 1 began the story, bi t when I spoke of the oTorts of Br iftis to unseat me after the two shot-*, ’ f l understand it afT,” she exclaimed; “vou have bought (’old Snaps. ” We're havin' anmo pretty win Irish weather.” said old Daddy WothempooD •’The trmnpctci’s horse?” ' ' '‘ l 'Yes’l that 0'.p!a : »s it .ill. You havci seen tvianv scenes in the Ciri|uq do I’lniporatrieor+htr-porforinanc*! of iho Irulujietc'rs horse. A Chasseur d’ Afriquo enters Hie arena upon a gray horaq; then comes the* Arabs, who fl eTTpon hipi, and ho is wounded and falls; an ^-WHOLESALE- Grocers and Provision Dealers account of his coat. The eatalogu ■ did 102 and 104 East Buy Street, ■ng311—CHARLESTON, g/ft, 1 •F*tof Baildin j Vf itia’i •:N>. 90 C i?t T* »y Sash, RlXitds, Doors, Glass, Etc. -r Devereux & Co., DEI.LRRS IN Lilfi, Laths, Platser, Slates aud Marble Mantles, *®p71yl CHARLFxxSTOxN, 8 Hair, c. TH0S. McG. CARRr - ■ ■>\ - —- 7 Shaving and Hair Dressing Saloon, ~ 114 Market Street, j ‘ (One Door East of King Street,) nut 3111, { pHARLESTON, S- C, w-TRY-w* CAROLINA WI TONIC! THE GREAT REMEDY FOR PULMONARY DISEASES, COUGHS, COLDS, ' _ BRONCHITIS, Ac., AND GENERAL DEBILITY. SURE OURE FOR Malaria and Dyspepsia IN ALL ITS STAGES. I^For Sal® by DRUGGISTS. all GROO H. BISCHOFF * CO., CluurlMtoH, S. C. imt assign him to any special qu iltlica- ti*ms as a hunter. All that it., st .ted was; ••Brutus, a saddle-horse, aged, ■wel'bbrriken.” 1 —It was a large, dapp'er-x gj ay horse, but never had Fscotrono better marked, its smooth, white skin ilapploit over with Hue blaelTs'po'tVr so sight. I was lift alone. I shook off the sand " hi h covered me and with my arm and right h-’g—my left 1 «o»l*l- hot -inovekTZ djaggecl myself to n bushy 1 ank, where 1 icated niy&fiU an 1 shouted witli all for a sistaneeT But no an- mv might t~' " * __ *_g_ 141 * •-* — —' 1 "t 1 — ’■> ' - “ swer; the xvood was perfectly silent and "handT and sank fainting in n.y ar i s. said 1 to ray self, *• there will lie surely four or fivaTWhieh w 11 go.” ;k arsc3 -fbere was one by“tiro ramtr road firwhieh weuT; Wh Lh ’ I tonfcss » 1 bought pr no.pr.dy on enveloped in a eioml 'of dust. ‘ (Iradu- jueserted. 1 remaimwl alone iu this wretched eondilion above lialf an hour, when I saw I'rutua iio, the distance, returning had finished merry noigh._ Sola Maanfutuwn and Propriaton «f>l« ■U 'ir- <*■ regular!. d strrbutccl ^ 1 hb ne l morning 1 left for LaItocho '1 argo and 1 he following day my horses arrived. My first car© was lor, Brutus, lies : ray horse had been runWmg for - the last forty-eight hours in my hc-ad, and I was anxious to try his paces and sec 1 what li© WnttfCiud for, Ik- teeth, ancf every mark of a respectable age. a |>owerful shoulder, and-he * arr ed his head well; but what I mo-t admired in Hru us was tho w~av in which ho looked at me, fo! ow ing every niovu- Tncnt with his attentive, inloliigcnt, in quisitive eye. Kven luv WMrd zCi’ined to interest him; he leaned his hea 1 on one side ns i to hear me, and when L speak ng replied with a Hho otliet- seven horses were- brou hi out U> me in sucre sion, but they resembled any other horses, and Hrutus certainly wiis liillerent from lliem all. 1 was mixious to take a little t i lo in the cdjuntry in or er to make his ac uaintauce. Itrutus allowed himself to lie saddled, bridled and mounted as a home whit knew his work, and wo started quietly together, the best friends possible. Ho had a beautiful mouth, and -answereyt to every turn of the rein—arching hfs neck and champing his-bit. IIB paces were t erfeet ilc began by a slow, mea-ured canter, raising his feet very high' and letting them fall with tho regularity of a pcndulunf. I tried him at a trot and a short gallop, b :t when I sought tO ;quicken hia pacoJic began to amb’e in i-rand style. “Ah.” said I; “ I see'how it is; I have bought an old bo re o t of tlie cavalry riding school at Sauniur.” ~ ' 1 was about to turn homeward, satis fied with the talents of Brutus, when a shot was heard a short distance 0?. Rf was one of my kee|>ers-firing at a rab- -LibWar^hieh shot be it sai*l,en passant, he afterwards received a handsome present from my wife. 1 was # then ex actly in tho (enter of an open space where six long, green roads met. On hearing the shot, Hrutus stopped short and put his ears forward in an attitude ' ’ * X wm mfpriMd to set him FwrmnSfrfrgt . wloped a lv, as it cleared away, 1 saw a little carriage approaching—-a pony chaise— and tin the pony cliaTse a lady, who drove it, with a small groom in the seat behind: A f< w instants after Hrutus arrived covered with foam. “He stopped,before me, let fall mv hat at IHs feet, and ad dressed me with a neigh, as much as to say; .“I have dxme my duty; I have brought you help,” But 1 did not trouble myself about Bruins and -his okplimatlons; J had no ihought or looks save for llu> leiiulilul fairy who had < ome to my aid, an I who, jumping fi bm Ifer ITttlc carriage, tripped liglitly / up to me, and suddenly two exelama- # lions Mere uttered at the same moment: “Madame de Noriolis!” “Monsieur de la Roche Targe!” 1 have an anut (Wietwoeii whom and myself my marry mg is a source of cou- tinunl dispute. - “ Marry,” she would sav. “1 wili not,” was my answer.’' “Would you have a young-lady? There is Mi.-s A, Miss H, Miss (J.” “ But ! wotr’t jnurxv.” ‘‘Then take a widow; there are Mrs. I) , Mrs, B , INI s F., etc. “But niarry 1 will not.” Mine, do Nociolis was arwavs in the- first rank among mv aunt’s widows. To tell me she «a - rich, lively and pruttv AvasT.nneeessaiy. b'fif,": fter’settin forlff all her attractions, my auut would take fruit herseeretnr , a map of tlie district where she lived and point out how tho estates of Noriolis and La Koehc Tai“o joined.-and she had traced a red*line npon tho map uniting the two proper ties, which sh*’constantly obliged me to look . t. * Eight hundred acres within a ring fence! A fine chance fora sports man.” But I would shut my eyes mid repeat as befo e: “I will never marrv.” Yet, seriously speaking, I was afraid of Mrae. d« Noriolis,.and always s ;w mv hea Lcneirclod with :n aureole of her aunt’s red lino Charming, sensible, $ dented arid eight hundred aero< with in a ring fence! Hscapdfo your safety if you will not marry And I always did escape, but this time retreat was impossible. 1 lay ex tended on the turf, covered with sand, my hair in disorder, my clothes in t! t- tei s end my leg stiff. “ What*ro we doing here?” inquired Mme do Noriolis. “What has hap pened?” \ as you did hot fail, tho horse, indignant, at your uot performing your part m the pievc, threw you down. What did ho do next?’ • I related the little attempt of Brutus to bury me. “ KxadCly liko r the trumpeter's horse, He sees hia—master wounded; but tho Arabs may return and kill him, so what does thcr horn- do? He httrie>. him and gallops, oik carrying away the colors that they may uot fall into the hands of the Arabs.” “That is my hat which Brutus carried off.” — Hrecisoly. He goes to fetch tho Vivandier«Ur4ho vivamUero to-'day l.e’ng vonr huml’le servant, the Countess <le Noriolis. Your great grtty horse gal loped into my court-yard, where I was standing on the doorsteps putting on my gloves ami ready to get into my Carriage. My grooms, seeing a horse saddled and bridled with a hat in his mouth and w thout a rider, tried to catch him, but he escaped their pur.Mi t. goes straight dp TRe steps anil kneels before me. The men rtga u try to capt ure him, bill lie gaTTops off, stops at the gate, turns round and looks nt me; so l jumped into my carriage -nml set oT. Tlie horse darts througli roads not al to Uncle Sntnniy Houniwell, as tho two gentlemen met mar tho .City Hall. “ Right for'ord weather for the season. ” “Jist so; jist s<) t ” poUQeded Uncle Kiiminy, Reminds mo of the full of_ 18111. It commenced 'bmg the fore juirt of November, and froiso stiff till March. Good, smart weather, too. 1 remcmlwr that it wa®‘ so cold'Th Brooklyn tliut November that bifin' wats r froze ovef a hot fire.” Daddy Wotherspopn lookedf at him r -.4-4. —_.4- . 1 1 lL L*; .J. TLT _ ’ l' _ *- Trnd lrracod.hTmf'rtt. ’“ Yea, ye^, he; “ J mind it well. That’s the fnlLtiie milk froze in the cows. Hut the cold season was iu 182?. It c<nninenoed in- tlie middle of ()ctol>er aud ran through to April, All tile oil froze in the lamps, and wo didn’t have a light until spring net in,” ' ^ “Ay, ny,” respfSVnh’d Uncle Sammy, growing rigid. “ It’s just like yesterday* t*i me. 1 walked 110 miles due ew*t from Sandy Hook, on the ice, and sud back, owing to the ,convexity of the earth, you know. It was down hill cumin 1 tllte way. But that vraanTrw d’old as the win’ier of 1821. That season commenced iipSrqitciiliHiir, and the mer- ■aid j teenthm-ntury waalalely discovered in Itthe thw archives at Darmstadt. For boiling w, j® enry didiiT risii a de^en tflDMay. Don't - vou reinen iltt'r imW we ukciI to 1 treat I r bard, let it freeze,’cut a hole in it, and epfwl in for shelter ? You haven't forgotlen that?” “Not I,” said Daddy Wothers]>o n. after a short pause. “ That’s tho win- ter w>r us»-d to gfive the horses me!t<d lead to-drink, and keep-a liot fire undiT ’em so it wouldn’t harden Uld tliey got it down. But that was iiolliiu’ tc tiie i»|k‘11, ter part of—August, and jibe boomed Btiddy Till the 80111 of dune” T got Uirttugh the whole sitell Ity living in an ic.c-luniHC.—It was too cold to* go <mt doors, and I jLst eamjted in an iee- house. You rcmemlter that season of 1817. That's the winter we wore utt- dershirts of sand-paper to keep rp a ways adapted for carriages, but I follow him and arrive where 1 find you.” -Al lhe momentMine. de Ne-lolis had finished these words tho carriive re ceived a fearful jolt and we saw in tho air the head of 1 r^t e. who w s stand ing e eet on his hind legs beh'ud -Feeing the little back- seat of the • di- riago i ntenant d. he had taken he op portunity of giving i s nifo her s]»cct- mtn.of his talents, by exectitin^Tlte most brilliant of all bis ciro’s neylor an os. He had phi ed his fore feet upon tlie I aek seat of the little carriage, and was -tranquilly continuing his. route trot ting upon his hind, kgs alone, l-oh striving in vaid to replace him iq on ’om*. Mme. de Noriolis was so frightened that she let th • reins e-cupe fro n hr friction.’’ “Well, I should say I did,” retorted Uncle Sammy. “ Wliat! reim mls r 1817? ’Deed 1 do. That was the tpell wh_en it bsik a steam grindstone four dayH to tight n match. Ay, nyl But do you know I wtw uucomferbibly warm that winter ?” » ‘ “How so?” demanded Daddy Woth* erspoon, breathing hard. “ Rurinin’ around your ioo-houso to find out where you got in. It was an awful sjh’H, though. How long did it last? From August till the .'UHli of June? 1 guess you’re right:- But you mind tho snap of 18111, don’t you ? It commenced on the 1st of July, and went around tgid lapped over a week. That year t^e smoke froze in tho chimneys and we hud to blast it Out with dyna mite. J think that wits the worst we ever had. All the clucknlrbze up so we didn’t knofv the time for a year, and when men used to pot-flro-Urtheir build- in’s so’s to raise the rent. Yi s, indml. I got $8,000 a month for four bunnu’ Imildin’s. There was a heap of sufferin’ that winter, boeause we lived on olco- Ik>I and phosphorus, tiTT the alcohol froze, und then Wo eai the brimstone ends of matches and jum|Nxl nrunud till they caught fire. Say, you-^-’L. TTut Dmldy WotluazqxKin hml ffedr Tire ntatistii* wrere too much for him —^ Brooklyn Euylc. Wi h my h ft hand I recovered the reins, with my right arm I su- ported M ne. d • Nor olis, my log-all thu; time causing th ) most frightful torture. In this manner Mm . de Noriolis m do her firs entry into La Hoe 1 o Targe.' Whoii slie return d six weeks bter -he had hecomc mv wifi’. —a • | ueh. indeed, ft Hfft” she ek- cluimed. “ This wo Id never hay • <*oinc to pa s if you had no fonghlth trm-p > t r’s tiors — A New Commandinent., In the seventeenth century tlie minis ter of a certain parish in Scotland was the famous Samuel Rutherford, the re ligious oracle of tho Covenanters and their adherents,—It is unpftig the tradi tions that on a Saturday evening, nt one of theTamily gatherings, when Ruther ford was catechising Ids children and servants, a stranger knocked nt the door and begged shelter for the night. The minister kindly received him, and asked him to take his plane with the family mid assist at their religious exorcises. It KO’happedod that the question in tho catechism which came bi the stran ger was that which asks : “-How many commandments arc there ?” He an swered, h “Eleveii.” “Eleven !” . wt.- ehumed Rutherford. “ I am surprised that a man of your age juul appearance siiouhl not know letter.; what do you mean ?” And lie answered : ‘“A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another ; as 1 have loved you, that ye also love one another.’.” ' Rutli- erfoni was uiiii'h iinpr* ssed by the an swer, and lie y n tired to rest. The next morning, as he threaded his way to dlmrch through the thicket, he heard uimnig the tret s the voice of the stranger at his devotions. The elevation of the sentiments convmood him that it was no common man, and, on accoetiug him,* the traveler confessed that ho was no other than the grept ,.divine, Archbishop Usher, the Frimate of the Church of Ireland, w ho w ell fulfilled that new com mandment w hich he bore to others. He it was w ho luul come in disguise to sew Rutherford in the privacy of his own homo, Sale bv side they pursued their way to the little church, and from tho rustic pulpit the Archbishop preached to the people from the worgsyrhich hud tip startled his host the evening before : “ A new commandment I give unto you, that ye lore one another. "—Library Hotel. At th© ball: Grace (whispering)— " What lovely Imots your partner's got, Mary (ditto)—“ Yes,' unfortu- he sliiivffli at the wxwg toi," Mary.’’ natelj The ExeeHenee of Marriage. Happy unions are always voluntary, pot only at the banning, but as lung as life lasts. Lov*» camiut l>e made free by a change of statutes. It cannot Tie bound or losLnmler any circumstanewK. If tho State should listen to the jx tit ions of those who ask that sex relations 1>© exempt from control, the cxj>erienco of ~a quarter of a century would convince the world that the old, long-tried, immoga- mic solution of tlie sex question is the wise one. There are evident reasons why such a result would come. In nil tho jawt emotional experiences of the race, It, has l>een found impossible-to create an ’intense idealization of more been found, too, that when such an ideal ization has boon tested by knowledge and timeit'doofl not diminish, but d.H'pons; and that the effect of tliis long-contmtird idealization is to create the In-ht condi tions of . development, both for those who exercise it, and for those toward whom it is directed. Now. if tlie best condi tions of happiness are once secured they should be maintained. It is uot p< .ssil de to brihg out all tlie results of this dm tnalsex idealization in any short period of association. Tho very fact th^t.the association is a permnneut one gives it eaniestncsi and dignity. It would not lie possible to extract from a half-dozen nss<K’iati<nis, extending over a }s ritsl of twenty-five years, the same amount of fine character-development that would come from one fortunate association last ing for tho same time. Wbbtt we are once sure of tlie wisdom, and integrity, and affliction of some friend through long experience, we B]x-nd no more brain activity iu learning ids peeuliarttk’a of character and in adapting ourselves to them. The association of man and wife is rather moral and affectional than intel lectual. It is a rest, a certainty, a l>oiiit of departure for other activities. Once settled, and safely settled, wo waste no power in readjusting the relations, but take tho fruit as it ripens, without tlie need of uprooting the old and planting new trees.—North American tievuu —A bust of Robert Burns, the cost of which has been defrayed by small sub scription*, will be placed in recta’ Cor ner in Westminster Abbey, near the memorials of hU fellow poets and ooun- ■rymen, Campbell ami Thomson. —The wife and accomplice of Marin Fenayrou, tlie murderer of the druggist Anbort, at I’ecq, France, under pecu liarly atrocious circumstance q lias ob tained permission to share her bus- band’s captivity in New Caledonia. -The executioner’s tariff in the four a criminal in oil the executioner re ceived twenty-four florins; if tho wretch was burnt alive the fee was fou florins, and ton for hanging. To break a man on the wheel cost six florins; the fee for tho rack was five, and the same sum was charged for branding on the shoulder or forehead, or for 1 cutting off tho- nose and ears. The number of dUtlnguishod female violinists is so constantly on the increase that the gentlemen players, of the future will have difficulty in holding tigMf own. i«s is a • One of the latest celebrities is a young Italian lady, Signora Tua, Of whose ac complishments the Berlin and Vienna critic* relate extraordinary things. An other young lady violinist is Fraulein Soldat, who has just won the great Men delssohn prize of fifteen hundred marks at the Berlin Academy. She is a pupil of Heft Joachim. ...swsM a wayside inn in tho south of I ranee U a roasting-jack moved by ani mal power. Two dogs turn the machine, working alternately. One day the dog whose proper turn it was being absent, tho other was caught and nut on the wheel. Ho firmly refused, nowever, to work, and neither coaxing, threats nor chastisements produced any effect. After some delay the missing dog was found and set to the task. After ho had ncaily Cbinpleted tho job ho was re leased, and the first tried again, and the animal so lately recusant now offered ho opposition, and ma<ie the wheel re volve with a hearty good will till the roast was finished. —During tho French invasion of Mex ico'a plant was discovered which was found to possess the property—when chewed or crushed—of stopping hem orrhages. To the native Mexicans this plant was known by a name whieh may be rendered as - '‘fowlwort.” The dis coverer carried a specimen toVersailles, and planted it in 1807, and it has since flourished, flowered, and fruited with out apparent change in its peculiar qualities. The action of this plant is said to exceed that of all styptics known, and this valuable property is likely to give it a wider extension, es pecially as it seems to be so readily ac climated in foreign lauds, rts hbtanical name is Tradcucantia erecta (Jacq.) —Herr Von Bismarck had a shoe maker who hail often broken faith with him, despite his most solemn promises, and he at length resolved to put a stop do this sort of thing. One morning at six o’clock a messenger was dispatched to the dilatory shoemaker with the sim ple question: “Are Herr Von Bis marck's boots ready?” Being answered iu the negative the messenger departed, but in ten minutes there was another ring at the shop door. A second mes senger thrust in'his head with tho in- quirv: “Arc Herr Von Bismarck’s boots ready?” And so it went on every ten minutes, the same question all the da} through until evening, when at last the hoots were finished. Never again did that shoemaker keep Bismarck waiting for his bqpts. ^ A Good Card for the Country Where —An loWa editor __ editorial entitled “A Month oil and he was married only about ffix ago.—Toledo Sunday Amoriotm. —The Chicago underwriters w*nt a law limiting tho height ot tatidlagB. They say the fine most be drawn seme where in the sky.—N. 0. Pieayvn*. —A potato can never engage m a prize fight for the naeen ttnt m soon as it begins to take off its jacket a ‘peeler’ interferes and pats oat its eyes. —When a fellow gets n latter lor Ms Bts to give It to her lor a weak or so, te safest way of letting her have U is " and to tie it on the and of s load fishing E ole and poke (t through a window to to.—Kentucky Slate Journal. Kentucky —The trade in mean ooal is sleek.— Olatgow Timet. It’s a grata bosinois all the *am*.-«2V “ yea floe in how did you know! »oott—Ola»ffOUf I%n would Ptdk'i Sun. —“ Those piel*” explained boarder to enothdr nt n table d'hote, he endeavored to relish one, made for the SaHtoga races of 1 te relish one, “ware SaHtoga raoes ot 1875, ed by the proprietor of and wore secured by the proprietor this hotel at aoetion Inst autumn. ,, TWj do not require,mustard or vinegar.’’— Hotel Mail. A well-known journalist wy taking a walk one evening frith his mewnat end ed He Lived. A village merchant from op the ooun- of their shoe-strings. HUU UUW A I Jkoep all It 'kinds of ‘In my whole life," wrote Prince ty v Mettemieh, “I have known only tenor twelve persons with whom it was plena ant to h|»eak—i. <•., who keep te the sub ject, do uot reiwat themselves, and do not talk of themselves; men who Jo not listen to their own voice, who are calti< vated enough no* to lose’thewsdve* i’i common-places; and, lastly, who jmss-ai tact and good teste eiiouifh not to ele vate their own persons above their sub jects.” . a family saw his plum Tux father of a lamily saw trees despoiled of their fruit. .Suspect ing his children, he called them all to-*' gether, and said: “One of you has stolen my plums; and I know which is the guilty one, for he has a leaf ou the end- of Jus nose.” And * u “ — l ---* try hud concluded his purchases, and was ready to go, when he suddenly remem bered something, and said ; “I want vour help to bring out an i<W. I’ve got tired of advertiunig after the old fashion, and I want io strike something new.” o-Dsi yem ever try-the dodge of giving away a chromo to customers?” ^‘ f 'Ses. * Played that out two years ago. Folks don’t take to uhromos as they did.” ” Have you offered a silk apron to the lady making the heaviest purchase at one time?” “I have. And I had to give it te an old \K«niun who purchased an old bed- tick and half a pound of tea.” “ How would it do to give away, say ten half-pound packages of tea during the day? 4 ”1 tried that dodge, and thoee who didn't get the ten wouldn’t trade with me agnnr. I‘V0 J giyofl aiway oysters, sar dines, butter, rolling-pins, washboards, und almost everything else*, and now I must have something new. kinds of goods and wont alt customers." Tyro members of the firm ami the gray-headed old book-keeper went into committee ot . the whole witli-the mcr- chant, but he resisted every suggestion. The “firmvolition ” was md ’spnir, when (be customer suddenly slapped his leg, smiled all over, and broke out with : “I’ve got it—bigg*>st draw vet! I want a pair of tho finest kid shoes in this city—alxiiit No. 3’s. I’ll lake ’em home and advertise to give ’em to the first lady customer who can wear ’em. The catch will be to keep back the size.' “ You won’t have 'cm on your lumds long.* 4 - “ Won’t I? Say, I’ve lived in-t- over forty years, and 111 bet a silk'liat against a codfish that we haven't got a female alsive 12 years old who doesn’t have to tie a towel around her head to get her feet into No. 6’a. You ought to ; cornu up there aud see tlie tracks in the sand alter a smart shower. When I throw out my dodge and they come in after the shoes, they’ll turn whiter than ghosts at the first look, and every blessed soul of ’em will be glad to take a 8-cent cake ot soap and keep still about it”—H’blf .Street the naivete, foreseen dsoounoe himself bfc d the guilty ot een by |tha father, to by nibbing tim one had her, to end of Two cocntry fellows step before the Window of a hat store, and view with odunratiop a hat having a little mirror at the bottom. “ Why do they put a look ing-glass st the bottom of the hat?” asked one. “So the man who baysR can see whether it fits other. •he, who is somewhat romantic admirer of nature, said: just notice the moon I of it, my dear, for less I per^line,” was the reply.—Ctmops “What makes old Bolger stick oat so In front?” inquired one boy of anoth er concerning a rather corpulent, pro trusive neighbor. “I know,” was the reply, ” ’cause I beard him tell father last night. He says he's bean oarrytej a secret a good while, an’ ha can’t! it much longer.” “Shouldn't think ho could,” rejoined the interrogator | "bnl what an explosion there will bo wheti it does go off.”—Fenheri’ Oatelte. -Dumps©} went hunting the ith him. day and took Johnny with him. They saw a rabbit, and Dempsey drew np and shot. Tho cap exploded and them was a long splatter, and finally, tost as Dumpsey took the gnu down, tho run went off. When they got heme the folks asked Johnny what look they had had. “Oh,” said Johnny, “papa saw a rabbit, bat his gun stammered aoheoooidn’thit it.”—Burlington Free Prtet. —There is such a beverage made ant known as artillery pnnoh. We am Mo- ing witnesses to the fact that It la no misnomer. When it attaoketh a man It laveth him low and he knoweth jaofe whence be oometh or whither ho gooth. like death, it knoweth no age or station In life, or, in other words, 'fit is norm specter of persons,” ' It laoka respeot. There’s where the tronble is. Ita work is as quiet as the breathless working of wizard oil. Being so fall of the subject we might write a lecture on it, but will forbear.—Columbus (Go.) Timet. ^ WAIFS AND WHIMS. Somrrania to be sneemd at—snnft * A OBtTKL husband calls hia wife "green because she never with frail,” him.—4— Few men are so awkward with tools that they cannot work a corkscrew quite handily. It is better to give than to receive. This relates especially to adrieo and medicine.' , They say Chicago gills never And ft hard to elope. They make rope ladders •\ - THXBivsre some men so talkative that nothing Imt the toothache can make one of them hold his jaw. Muons Banes, of St Paul, kissed her lover fil l tunes without stopping. Min nesota liked it, anyhow. “Strive to make a good sanLJ< wherever go, Jones, as he pulled his foot out of the mud. When a man and a woman are t one, the question “Which one?" irw bothersome one until it js settled, as it soou is. It is about as difficult to convince a burglar that the owner of the hooseie afraid of him, as to convince the hones holder that the burglar is afraid of Mm. The angel of midnight—the woman who opens the street door tar her hoe- baud when he is trving to nnloek the bell-knob, end then lets him sleep on the hall-floor. When a Michigan minister is about to elope with the wile of n parishioner he prune Iks a farewell sermon and exalts the duty of patience and long selfcring This sort of pears cil on the troubled Waters in advance. Thxkx is to be a club of efrens man. There will be no chain in the dob, noth ing bat trapens. When they dihe every body will stand ou hie head. ‘Than wm be no stairways. The members will get into the dab by climbing the waterspout and coming down throogn the chimneys. A religious tract, called “Pttt Hot Your Trust in Prineea,” was thrown Into the saloon of a simple old Ger man. He read the titfe. and aot&o- quiaed; “Veil, I don’d put SCUM draek in Brinoea. Dey must pay der eaah in dis shop chubt der same as a vita Fob articles of robber which have be come bard and brittle Dr. Fol 1 the following treatment articles in a mixture of water ef i one part and water two parin for n ffpo varying from five mmutee to an honr, according to the droamsteaem of tho case. When the mixlnao enough an the rubber it will have recovered aU f ness. . . i* r •Jc-'.- jsrms*