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/yi > • Special Reauesta. m 1. In writimr <n this (flSce rn hu^inM * slwsvs giyo your nsn e and Poat (ffic address. 2. Business, letters and communica tions to be published should be written on separate sheets, and the object of each clearly indicated by necessary note when required. 3. Articles for publication should b? written in a clear, legible hand, and on only one side of the page. 4, All changes in advertisements must mch uj on Fria ly. DR. I. H. F. MILHOUS, DENTAL SURGEON, BLACKVILLE, Si <J. ()ffice near his residence on It.R. Avenue. Patient* will find it more PonPortahle to have their wort doce at the oflRre, as he has a good Dental Chair. Rood Jieht and the moat improved appliance*. He .bouhl be informed several oats previous to theiremn- ine to prevent any disappointment—thmivh will generally be found at hia oflSce on Sat urdays. . He wi'l stilt Continue to attend . calls throughout BarnwellSujd adjoining coun ties* [suglfi iy DP.B.J. QUATTI ESAUM, BURGEON DENTIST, WILLTBFON, S. C. » Office over Cspt. W. II. Kfnnrds’* store Call* attended throughout Barnwell end adjacent counties. Patients will find it to their advantage to have work done at bis office. repltf DK. j.'ryerson smith, Omralivh find Mtrliimifal Unitist. AV1L1ISTON, y. c. Will st'end'calls throiigliout this and ad« ’ at*pnt counties.;” V Dpf rations can be more sttt ; s f actori!y per- ^ formed at hjs 1’srlors, wliich are srppfied v »th.«U theJadot approved ap.phac’c^s, than rtthe residfreev of-paiients. To prevent disappointments, patients in- inline to v sii him »t Willistrn ore re- i.uetted 1c mrsspoud hy mail betcuc Ichv- '*:g home.-' fsej tif t, 2.‘IS Kinjr Street, Opposite At ademy of Music, CHARI.rsTON, S. C. I’-oms to irt at .'0 cents a night. Meals nt at] homr—Oy*ters in every fcvle. Ates, Wines, l.iquois, Secars, Ao.fmsrSOly CHAPLE3 O. LESLIE Wholesale and Retail Dealer in i ish. (Jiimc. Lbsttrs, Turtb, Tfrriipins, < H’.^l ers. Ktc. Kt c. Mai!*, Nop. 18 and 20 Fish M at Vet 1.X1II All LESION, S. fl All orders promptly attended to. Terms Cash or City Acceptance, i rgJOljL v. VOL VI. NO 37. BARNWELL, C. H:, S. C„ THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1883. $2 a Tear. e ilKSTM TS. O.van in the orchard, all the day, I'h« apple- ripened and dropi—i away; Tawny, and yellow, and red they feli, Pilling the air with a spicy amelL ri.ntllic aturdy cheatnnta onr the hill i.uardcd their prickly caaket* .till. And laughed In scorn at the wind and rain, beating their burly llmtm in vain. ‘Hush;” said the frost; “If you’ll hold your breath TUI hill and valley are still ns death, I wid whisper a spell that shall open wide The caskets green where the treasurea hide. ^ Over the roofs of the sleeping town, i >\er the hillsides b ire and brown: Field ami meadow and wood were erossod by the shining trail of the silver frost. I’l,-we at-the door of each guarded cell ITe breathed the words of his wonderful sp-T), \Sh1 the brislhug laiiees turned a^idii And every portal opened wide. wr ^ * I’p iprsng the wiud with s 1 >ud “ IIo! ifo!' 1 And sceinreu lA,c treasures to and fro; , 'mjth* children shouted, “Come away! I he re *ta sport in the chestnut woods to-dny.’’ In un Insect’* Blare. ' What a horrible place must-this world iH-t ar when regarded ncr-mUng to our deaa from an insect’s point dTvSW! The tir infested with huge flying hungry iragous, whose gaping and snapping mouths are ever intent upon swallowing ffio innocent creatures for whom, accord ing to the insect, if he were like us, a Droperly constructed world ought to be exclusively adapted. The solid earth A STORY WITH A MORAL. (he. IVbat I he f'nrr.vtnv «.f ■ n-Mtqast (• Wrang 11 • urns t ITi-i-.r I. i fTulinuy Bnndne*, m K.w Turk Tribune. | It was "hot 16ng ago that a gentleman said to me—he was in wine—“Johnny, I will take your best bouquet—that, big one on a tray, tit to be the bridal l>ed of Eve—if you will carry it to this ad dress. ” „ How fo Mind a Baby. . ^ wr 1 ^ First a man must have one to take care of— It isn’t every one that is fort unate enough tp have one, and when he does his wife is ala-ays wanting to run over to the neighbor’s live minutes, and **. u * v ** " u " *****'* -w TIiTirasTo atfend to tlie baT3y; t?ometimra True, we have mteroecopes, wtUt wbieb- slre caresses him, and oftener she says, w ® <5®!“ see one thing at a time if eare- st.mly, “ John, take good caro of the : fully laid \ipon the stage; but what is .•Mid till "1 ritovrY-** Van wumI i- r.. Ilhe liiu.-st InstmjUUjLilpss can pr.Klueo rnonstrate, but cannot pluck up courage exclusively auaptpu. ine aoi.u en.ui , .. An r i g i lt , boss,” was my response, Jonhnna ly shaken by the approachn.g M I took hi» $10 hill, and observed a Tearl o hideous giauts-mmii.g mount- , devUl ,h light iu his eye, while ho- uns-hat crush out precious lives a wrote a name ou a card. It was « lienm ;very footstep, an occasional draught of ' v t|ie blood of these monsters, stolen at life-risk, affording but jioor compensa tion for such fatal persecution. - Let us hope that the little] victims are less like ourselves than the doings of mts and bees might lead ns to suppose; that their mental anxieties are not pro portionate tp the optical vigilance iudi- lated by the 4,0!k)eye-lenses of the com mon house fly, the 17,000 of the cabbage butterfly and the wide-awake dragonfly, Dr the 25,000 possessed by certain spe- 1 ’ 1 Dies of still more vigilant beetles. The K , ' insect must see a whole world of won- | ders of which we know little or nothing While the awful female oye-is upon you ; so you prudently refrain, and merely re mark: “Don’t stay long,' niy dear.” Site is scarcely out of sight when the luckless babe opens its eyes,, and its ruHHth ah>o.--aad' ^caita g yell whicli 'eamiee m'e eaY^vooOinffce on fra the dSi^r 1 ns if .stiaie.tbintf Inul stunc it. You tine of the light that shone in the eye of Cain ns the discriminating flame of hcavot> shot past Lis offering and blazotl on Abel’s altar. However, I was not. particular about what was going on inliiv mind, and he slipped the card in the bouquet, and I started off to . deliver it. Stopping close by to change my note and oat a bit of lunch, a^gnod many peo ple gathered ne'antbo-grgiit prize 1km- quet and began to talk about and smell it, and so, whether some jealous riv^d de that card, or whether 1 bad dropped oti the street, the card was missing when I took up the great salver of flowers again. ~~T lya?tteued back to the place where \ -bail met the gentleman.' Ho had gone aw;iwiu a carriage. I told my trouble f ^ , q;)(|‘ ohjivt *'* tin I ln>tcLrIcrk, the geniiil (Tillis, and glasses, all of thtyn iwobablv achromatic, be said, J I shan Hake it to bis wife. He and each one a living ihstrlitncnt with 5.° S 1 ,0, ‘ ,11I K lnu ''- ■anch siq.plving a separate [ >>^.tliat gentleman I knew, by an' oTky.ii hnvtf /if vxtiuQinnr lir A A, PATTER SOX, -^^uirgeon Dentist, ( ffice at the Barnwell Court House. i'aiisnt* waited-on at residence if de-' she'd. Will attend caHs in any r°rtiotJ c! Barnwell and Hsinpton counties. S.ttis*action guaranteed. Term-i cash, v augSllyJ ^ * ROBT. D. WHITE M rV K B Tj —AND—. craMite works ' MF.F.fraaBTBEEf, (Ooreer Horlbeck’s Alley,) iuntOly] bit of sugar ; not a bit of use, it spits it out. You get wrathy and shake it. It stops a second, and you venture an other, when, good heavens! it sets up such a roar that the passers-by look up in astonishment. You feel desperate; your hair stands oneiidaud the p. rspira- -non (sizes out of every pore as the ago nizing thought comes over you, what if the, luckless child should have a fit! You try* baby talk; but “ litiy, litfV amby” has no effect—for it stretches us if a red-hot*]>oker bad been laid upon its spurs, and still it yells. You are afraid lire neighbors will lie alarmed, and give it your gold watch as a hist re source, just in time to savJ your whis-. kers; though it throws down a handful >f your cherished mu-tarhes to take the watch, and you thankfully And an easy hair to rest your aching limbs,when .1. nvu c.*me»-jthat .ctjptly watch upon tlinJluor, .tnd tire cause of all the trouble breaks into an ear-splitting roar, find you set yOur tcetlr and prepare to admim.-Jer icrsonal chastisement, when ip rushes the happy womau known as your wife, -u ik'lies up the long-stlffeting child irom your willing arms, turd, sitting lown, stills it by. magic, while you gaze mournfully at the remains of your watch and cherished mustache, and* uttering a malediction on Why kind in general, ind on the image of its fattrer in partic- Tthtr, vdV never-to take care of ttrc baby ’ again—until the next time. OTTO TIEDEMAN & SONS, —WHOLESALE— Gtocets and Proiision Dealets, 102 and 104 East Biy Street,1^=— Tu ? 31lr eHARLE'TON, S. C. Ingenious But Ineffectual. In Illinois some gentlemen had'a most elaborate plan for obtaining drinks. They formed iMT association for tbc- ayowed purpose of promoting teniper- ance, frieuttpliip. and such like virtues. One of the associates was already the happy possessor of a dramshop; the as- socintiqp bonghtdam out, hock, stock, and bacrel; then—for he was a jolty good fellow—they elected him to the honor able and onerous positron of treasurer, and left him iu charge of the old shop. So anxious were the promoters to extend the benign benefits of tennieraiK'e and friendship that the "-doors of their society at-rn tbrowiTopen to any and to all who were wiHing-to pay the—ftommal fee of one dollar, intojeenot payment of the fee the member received a ticket ujhjh which were-the numbers from one to twenty inclusive. When movedrby one oftho compared to that with own. nerve branch supplyitig.a se|iariJ sensation? To creatures thus endowed with microscopic vision, a eUmdof sandy dust must apjiear'like an avalanche of utterly ignorant. ()ur audihorj' appariitns suiqilios us with a knowledge of sounds. What are these soumby ! They are vibrations of matter which are capable of producing corresponding or sympathetic vibrations of the drums of our ears or the bones of onr skull.'' When we carefully examine the subject, and count the uuml>er of vibrations that produce our world of •sounds of varying pitch, we find that the human ear can only respond to a limited range of such vibrations. It ^they exceed fl.OQQ per second the sound becomes too shrill for average people to hear it, though Rrmrc exceptional ears can fake up pulsations or waves that Succeed each other more rapidly than this. Reasoning from, the analogy of stretched strings and membranes .and of air vibrating in tubes, etc., we are justi fled iu concluding that the smaller the drum or tube the higher w ill be the note it produces when agitated, and the smaller and the more rapid the terial wave to which it will respond., Tbo drums of insect ears,and the tubes, etc., connected with them, are so minute that their world of sounds probably begins where ours ceases; and what appears to us as a continuous sound is to them a series of separated blows just as vibra tions of 10 or 12 jier second appear sep arated to us. We begin to hear such vibrations as continuous sounds when they aniuymt to 30 per second. The in- sect's continuous sound probably bn gins beyond 3,000, The bluebottle may thus enjoya_ whole world of exquisite music of which we know* nothing.—Jkluravia. accident of passing his house, nrtd I had often admixed the Thflexible, the solitary, tbeTofty and self-reliant quality in him. Ho w as kind to his inferiors, manly to hr to bis sm.crion ■d on r rought ,<mt the eonsauguiiiity, I" sahl lb "niy • self: “These flowers will wither for which I have been paid. I believe he meant to send them to his w ife, and I will take them there.” I rang the door-bell of his house and asked for the lady. Shown into the par lor I saw my buyer’s—picture over the mantel. The house was not expensively furnished, but looked like the abode of perseverance in some moderately com pensating profession and slow but gam ing conquest oi» half /-fnrtunm-. _ A., lady., entered the parlor amYbeheld the flowers, She turned to me and sAid: “Who are these'for?” - - , “For you, Madam.” “For me ?” Her face flushed. - “Who has dared fo send flowers to me ?’“ -I saw I was in for it somewhere, and that there was no safety save in con- sistent lying. “Your husband sent them, Mrs. -—I heard his name, and felt that this w as bis w ife. l**d>and ?” Her voice faltered, camb he to scffd me flowers? Have you not made some mistake?” “No, madam. He thus never Isiught flowers from me b< fore. Ho is not a customer of gallantry. There is no mistake about it.” She seemed all fluttered like a widow- told that her dead husband has returned to life. Looking now at the flowers, THE UROWTH OF A t’HlLO.. • * .. Iiitereatlnir ObMirvailoii* in (he l**i * cbological Ntudr«f InfiiiiUa 'Die Mrdiral llvi-ord rourodueos the leading features of the studies nf Prof. W. Prayer, of Jena, in a field aa yet al- oiohI tinbroken—that is, m the psycho logical study of infants. This study lo gins, the professor saya, with the oTiser- v itionof the movements and sensations of a child, and then proceeds to note the development of the different senses, the formation of speech, etc., and the effect of all these things in awakening the in telligence. The first manifestation of voluntary motion occurs about the four teenth .week, when the infant begins to hold up its head. After f< ur mouths the head is usually balanced well, and at ten months the power to sit up is acquired Ability to stand Was usually, in tlifc cases studied by the professor, gained suddenly at the end of tho first year. Tin* first grasping motion of tho liond in the fir.it qunrter year is entirely teflex i - ° , ., and mechanical, tlie first voluntary ab f'^ er mf tn® eocoanut. tempt to take hold of an object not b< ing ,n lt ‘- am *- B noticeil before tho seventeenth week. A child does hot show self-consciousness, a knowledge of its indejiendent existence, until the oecond quartet* of the seeond year. Tho sensibility Of the skin of a new-born child is very low, and it will give aosigns of discomfort if it be pricked on the nose, or lips, or hands. Tim eyes, too, close slow’y when totielied, and do not close at all m tlie bath. An incraas of smjsiliility, however, appears in a day or two after birtlu All infants are deaf the o«Ter ear is closed at birth, because and ttiero is a^ voLno.air in thninidiUojaafc.. A lespun.-vu ' * • - - • • ,f 1( , i to a strong sound is ol merved at t earliest in six hi>uxs, but often nut for a day or two. The awakening of the sense may lie defected by the blinking which a lond noise occasions. No other orgasffc thought to eontribute to the in- tellectual development of the child so much as the ear. The first perceptions are those of light. Tho infant shuts its eyes as sixm aa lighten tors them; within a week it turns its glance to the window, but it is three weeks before the eyes will follow a light moved before them. The stupid expFeasioxi on the child's face does not leave it until the second quarui year, aufl. the fwtM crows more huyxan and spirited w ith the Wrense eM tlie power of seeing iutelligentlyL The power to distinguish colors follows that of intelligent attention, and light and TiVight colors are preferred, But the. jsiwer to distinguish tin m by name do s ( aptnrlnf Monkft*. j The monkeys ore frequent!^ captured in nooses and tra{« built in the shape of hotisea. The only entrance is a - trap door in the roof, which communicates with a trigger set npon the ground. Food is spread about inside, the, mon keys enter, and, skirmi-htng around, disturb the trigger, and the trap shuts them in. Tho uxird method for catch ing them is s most ludicrous one. An old, hard eocoanut is taken, and a very small hole made in the shell. Furnished with this and a jiockotfu! of Baled rice, tlie tqiortaman sallies into the forest, and stops beneath a tree tenanted by monkoya. Within fnll sight of these in- quiaitive spectators he first eats a little nee nnd then puta a quantity into the eocoanut with all tlie ostentation possi ble. The nut is U en laid u|>on the grouud, and the hunter retires to a con venient ambush. The reader may be sure that no sooner is tlie man out of sight than the monkeys race helter-skel ter for the eocoanut The first arrival peeps into it, and, seeing the plentiful store of rice inside, squeezes his hand in through the tiny hole, and clutcliea a handful. Now, so paramount is greed over every other feeling Connected with monkey nature, that nothing will induce tho creature to relinquish his hold. With his band thus elmqied he cannot jKisthbly extract it, but tho thought that if be leaves go one of his brethren will obtain the toast is overpowering. The siKirtsman soon anpearsyqion the scene; the unincumberco monkeys flv in alldi- motion*, bpt the unfortunate brute, who still will not let the rice go, is thereby handicapped beyond hope with a cocoa- 1 nut Its lirrge as lumaolb a.*taU; of affair* quite fatal to rapid locomotion, either terrestrial or arlioro&l. The sequel is that he falls an easy capture to the hunt er, a victim to his own greed. Even when caught he rends in the actions of his captor a design to roh him of his rice, and he clutches it all the harder; and the very first thing he does when the nut is cracked and the hand released is to cram its contents into his mouth. Thoughts of eecaiie come afterward.-— London Fit Id. Ora tract ad days aftat ftrst wtaa stipulated. draMtrf the writer, aal publication, bat aa* Addraas, tacts aid ncnnuB. hiffbor rf Iftaca than fiagara ora Like Me. tho (OAAV* XV IV “*y! “How Devereux & Co., DKLLRES >N lime, Oincnt, Laths Platsfr, Hair, Slate* and fliirMe NnntlfS, Depot of BnildinR Mtterlals No. 90 East Bay Sash, Blinds, Doors, Glass, Etc. w-illyl CHARLESTON, K. C, ■ > 1 TH0S. McG. CARS, Miavin; anti Hair Dressing Salooi, 114 Market Street, (One Door East of King Street.) ramaoiy] CHARLESTON, S’ C. HUM TOLD TOXIC! ' tflE GREAT REMEDY FOR PULMONARY DISEASES, i COUGHS, COLDS, BRONCHITIS, Ac.. AND GENERAL DEBILITY. SURE CURE FOR_ s Malaria and Dyspepsia IN ALL ITS STAGES. ^ c B^uFt:r Sale by all GROCERS and Druggists. \ 'Reasons why men drink; Good wine, a friend, because I’m dry, Or lent I Hlioulii Im by and by, Or any other reason whyT’ tho member cidlcd upon the treasurer, presented his ticket, had a number punched, ami received his liquor or his cigar. The treasurer took all the money, gave* -no account to the others, and bought nil the drinkables and smokables. The. court was so prejudiced, narrow minded, and opposed to tho enlightening influences of temperance and friendship that it considered. the whole affair a fraud and a device to evade tlie law, and that the treasurer was guilty of tWlaw- fidly selling intoxicating liquor. Iu due establishment whenever a cus tomer purchased a cigarette he was handsomely treated to a glass of whisky. The court (knowing perhni>s from per sonal experience the cost of such ar ticles, or having had evidence thereof submitted) considered that the transac tion w as a sale of tho whisky as well as of tlie cigarette, and acted accordingly. — it. V. Jioycr*, jnu. t in Albany Law Journal. ^ Solemn Suggestions. When a man sits down suddenly in an icjr mass of slusb.Tangk * Msariu v. - Di course he sits down for your es]>ecii.l 7'diff?Mion.'“ If you have no influence yourself, toll your superiors you have none. It will relieve your mind, at least, M your hear ers do set you down as a foreign sjteci- tnen of disgruntled nothingness. 1 When you pass a lady on the str» ct, turn around and watch her till she’s Imli a block away. By doing so you will dis cover whether she turns around to look at you or not. When you “ are driving, never give more than one-fourth of tlie road to Idle Men in the House of Commons. . Everybody who lias ever road it re members Carlyle’s famous description of the work-house of St. Ives, iu Hunt ingdonshire, and what the picturesque tourist saw: “I saw-sitting on wooden benches, in front of 7 their hostile, and within their ringwall aiul its • railings some half hundred or more of these men. m iddle agefoi- lionest cor i n to nance, ma ny of them thoughtful and even intelligent looking men. They sat there, near by one another, but in,a kind of torpor, and especially iu a silence which was very sinking. Ill sileitce; for alnsT what word Wa.s to- be said? An earth all ly ing round crying: *Come.and till me, come flmjjekp me^-yct wo here set en chanted! In the eyes and brows of these men hung the gloomiest expres sion, not of auger, but ui grief and sliiuiu! and manifold inartieulateNlistrass and weariness; they’ returned my gknee with a glance that seemed to say, ‘Do not look at us; we sit enchanted here we know-not wliy.’ Tlie sun shines mid the earth calls, and, by the governing powers and impotences of tins England, we are forbidden to obey. It is impossible, they teU us! There was something that reminded me of Dante’s he’d in the look of all this; and I rode swiftly a way.” Aii exactly similar scene may bo w it- nessed any night by a tourist, pictur esque or otherwise, who finds his way to tlie House of Commons. There they are, moody and listless on their benches, flitting aimlessly hither and thither from corridor to corridor, sauntering through the tea room, idling in the [smoking room, all at their wits’ ends haw do get through tho dreary hours, and hoping against hope that the morrow may break the horrid spell. And ho “many of them thoughtful and intelligent looking men.” —Fall Mall Gazelle. I — .- not come until the Wginu n# of the tluia year. The recognition of form, size and distance comes slowly. In the first month the infant pays no attention to the swift approach of the person's hand to its face, and in the third feM it will show ignoranee'of size and lib apprecia tion of distance. The profes-or set down iu writing every sound uttered by a child during its first two wears, and which could l>e so represented, At first only vowels are heari', but even in the first five weeks these sounds are so diversified a* to exprens different feelings. Thus, the professor says, the pericKlically broken cry, w ith kmt eyes, denotes hunger ; the continuous whine, cold, and the high, pSbctrating tone, Looking ' pain. The consonant m was heardinthe seventh •week,.aud in tbe-H ventll-ihoulh, b, d, u, v, and, rarely, g, h and k were distingulshisl. Its perfect imitations of sound were bear.^ m the sixth month, and at this time voices began to be-dts tinguisbed by tho-child, (heat progress is made in (he imitation of sounds aftei the third half yt'ar, and the power* of articulation l>erome well develoja-d b^ the f jurtli lialf year. again at his portrait, her eyes dilated and her temples flnshi-d She walked to me like a woman of authority, hud under some high mental excitement into my eyes, site said: “What did my husband say?” “die said, madam, T have not made a p?psent to my deal wife for years. Busi ness and care have, arisen lad w een us Take her these flowers, that their bluo^j tingnished by tlm child soms may dis|iel the winter from our *“ >*' 4 '*“ imitsHoi hearts and make n* young again.’ ” She turned to the bouquet and rained tears upon it An orange 1 md she took, all blinded so, and hid it inher laisom. She sank ui>on her knees, and lauf inn head among th(wflou< rs to let the.cool--j ness refresh' lug purr-bed, - ncgletted dteark -ftmL-acdibfid the joy of love and confidence again. I stole away like a citizen of the world. As I went up the street and stepped at tho sannihotel, the husband was there. “Johnny,” said he, “did you deliver tlie houquet ?” “Yes, I took it to your wife.” “To my w ife ?” _____ “Y’es, boav^mi are too good a man to wander as you wished to. Theme is The FHlon that Looks F.xeept an Irish landlord, says London World, no memlicr of tlie Peerage is more to lie pitied than Lord Airlie. For several years post he has been endeavoring to stop the career of a" clever adventurer, who has l>een pleased to adopt the iianiq.of his eldest son Lord Ogilvy, and, under that desig nation, to run up dchfn, forge bills and swindle i>ooplo generally iu all parts of the world. The number of applications which Lord Airlie has received for “pay ment on my aduount” from tradesmen, wlin thought they were trusting his son and heir, is simply incredible. These bills oorne in a perfect shower from all parts of the Continent and the United Stub's, and although public notices and warnings of all kinds tiavo been launched ut tlie head of the impostor, and once or twice ho actually has l>een arrested, yet, after a short time, ho is certain to be found at his old trjeks again, and poor Lord Airlie is obliged once more to ex plain to a phalanx’'of clamorous trades men that they havtn boon duped and robbed. No real Lord was never trusted half so much as this spurious one. His manners are said to be “distinguished,” his personal appearance is attractive, and with the fair sex he bps always been a groat hit, Meanwhile Hie real Lord Ogilvy is always with his regiment, the Tenth Hussars, in India, not having half such a-good time of it ns his double. Lord Dun boa aa 000 a year. Lxeb Ebir la 844 feet Lake Ontario. The foils of 162 feet high. Tm batter, cheese, sgg, and mflk business of this enantrjr are estimated to be worth $40,006,000. Tam British Government spends f700,- 000 annually on its consular sendee, and the United States only $300,0001 Three firms are now engaged is can ning Boston baked beans, and their on* nniu production is not leas then 4,000,- 000 or 6,000,000 cons. In various ports of Ireland, Scotland, and Wales are remains of beehive-shaped hats, nndemesth which sra chambered burial places. These huts ore of great antiquity. About the year 400 of onr era died Simon Stylites, a Syrian, who had lived r in self-imposed martyrdom for thirty years on the top of a granite column 80 or 40 feet high. <* Ow the New England coast, moss in collected in greet quantities. The white kinds are kept for food, forming an im portant indnstrr, while the coarser kinds are placed on the farms. Near Jerusalem is a building entirely rock cut, about 90 feet wide and a 100 feet high, which is reported to lie the place to which tho Apostles retired be fore the siege of that city. In Australia the average temperature for s certain three months* was 101 de gree* Fahrenheit in the shade. In the .winter snow-storms ofteAlast three [ weeks, and cover-thognmnd-to a depth . of 12 to 18 feet Fragments of celestial bodies in the form of meteors occasionally reach ns from the distant regions of space. The stones exemplify the same chemical and crystallographic laws as the rocks of the earth, and have afforded no new element or principle of any kind. The Marquis of Lome receives $50,- 000 a year salary aa Governor General of Canada. The Princess Louise has an annual grant of $20,000. Bhs received |I60,000 on her marriage, which brings in $6,000 more, and with an allowance of about .$15,000 to the Marquis from his father, the Duke of Argyll, the ooaple have an annual income of abontflOQ.OOQ. Strict economy is the rale at Bidean f Hall, as it i* at Windsor Castle. In the tropics of the Old World the annual rainfall is, oecording to Dana, about 77 inches, while it is 155 inches in South America. In the Eastern United States it is 40 to 60 inches, bat west of the one hundredth meridian, beyond the [iasiMipjn to the Sierra Nevada, it is mostly 12 to 16 inches. The annual •mount in Great Britain averages 85 inches; in France, 20 to 21 inches; farther from the coast, in Central Ger- "' many and Russia, only 16 to 20 inches; bat about the Alps, it is mostly 35 to 60 inches. 1 ■ A Live Man. A prominent citizen of Western Texas wiw i» Galv«atou,auid.wati > introduced Ut , Gilhooly. They got to talking about ~ the frontier telegraph. Gilhooly said it wan a great blessing to tho people of the frontier, but the stranger shook his head, and said it had caused tlie arrest and imprisonment of his uncle. “ What did he do ? ” * - “Nothing—only robbed a stage.” “Well, you know that is an isolated case.” “Yes, that’s so; he has been isolated ever since.” “But, you know,” observed Gilhooly, the Government allows private broken. Your wife is full of gratitude. Hived by a mistake, embrace the^blessed opening made for both of you; plant those rich blossoms on tlie grave of your estrangement, and in the words of tho '*great good Book, 'cling to the wife of thy youth.”’ I ’ He staggered a moment, looked ns if he ought to knock me down, and rushed from the place. Next day I met her npon his arm. “Johnny,” said he,. “bring her ns big a ixmqtfet every week, and save one scarlet rose for me.” X Atlantic Ocean Patrol. The New York Time* makes • good suggestion and asks this question: “Has not the time come for the gov- „ amenta of England a;.d the United States to take some action to diminish the risks of ocean navigation? Every municipal government patrols its streets, and there is no good reason why the great ocean highway should not lie pa trolled. Were England and the United States each to provide two steamers, the route between New York and Liveniool could be thoroughly patrolled. These .-finverawcot steamers could remove sunken wrecks, warn passenger steamers Tire Tobacco Habit With Women. “It is true that American women do lorgdr lisn tnlmrm In fact, they al- ways have. American ladies of African do.-cent iu the South have always smoked their pipes, and their white sisters do not altogether disdain tho pipe and ‘dip ping.’ But hero a at ihe North many ladies have, in imitation of Cuban, Mexican, South American, Spanish, French, nnd even English women, taken -to- tlie use of cigarettes, to their very d detriment •' Why more so than to men?” Some Mea’i Lacfc. - Gen. Gordon was severely wounded four time* in one battle and within on hour, and Uv6d to fight again; and this is only a specimen of tha singular good luck that attended some men. In 1884 a Michigan cavalryman named Drake. was oat (waging in the Shanandoah Tal ley in company with a comrade named Cooper. ~ Cooper was in a smoke-boom after meat ind Drake was on gnoad at the door when thirteen Confederates They were moant- II. BISCHOFP & CO., Charleston, 8.-C. Hole Manufacturers and Proprietor* -* • * v .. . - „ ' * more uiau uue-iumtn mo r ••♦liot , . . * * lililL VUO VTOYCX liUldlD rail's wo isaavuw mo ^ ffttnng in they*p iudmdunls to use the wire, and that is a posite direction eeptaruUly if voy Ihim convenience to people on tlie a lumber wagon and meet nothing but frontier ’’ 4. Light buggies a._ ■> on Never go to a public meeting until all the business has he<n dispose) of. Then, just before adjournment, vrni can step in, object to everything, abuse ind vilify those who came t ariy and d.d all the work, opd your name will be handed down to posterity—as a p I'dic frontier. '“ That’s where you are fooling your self. laaedb few huudrod yarda of the fenre of. wire to naake been subjecT’ and incohyjSi and try it, mind about ing any cot Nfe - wire fenOe of, and I have i to all sorts of 'expense nee. You just gu West, .d you will ,cliange your it telegraph company l>e- rt to a live man.”—Ga4 of the locality of icebergs, and afford re lief to shipwrecked vessels. A steamer with her machinery broken down would be towed free of charge By tlie patrol steamer, and would not, as is too often | the case, decline assistance in order to 1 save $30,000 or $40,000 of salvage. A shipwrecked crew com|>elled to take to their Boats would have a reasonable de gree of confidence that in two or three days’ time a patrol steamer would pick them up, and the owners of a missing steamer would have good reason to be- lievetlmi, were she in danger or distress, help would lie not far off. — (W —*^ IbHDsbrmBmi .jas?- -(-f The tenor Campanini is pronounced ^perfectly splcudid and fust too awfully loo too for anything,” by the bang- wearing ladies of New York.—Neu Or- am Firayttn*. Awfully too too what? Comp&niui is a wocal st not a too tootist. But as Toot* would nay, “ It’a ot no cousequenoe. ’.. ,Y Y. Com- mtntiU. m ' ‘ ‘ I don’t think men are often injured by the inodi riite tts<- of tobacco in smok ing. Bat the feiinde body is Ilo more adapted to the use of tobacco than tho female mind is to mathematics. It causes neuralgia, headadu*, dysjiepsia, palpitation of the heart, and, worst of all, mins tho complexion and (hsorflers tho teeth. I say nothing about the health, but I think, nevertheless, that all will agree that the stale odor of to Ixicco coming from a woman’s mouth is worse than the same smell exhaled by a man. As to chewing in men and its analogue, 'dipping;*' in women, nothing con Ih* filthier, and I k.'tow that both are productive of diseases of the nervous sys tem.” * • “But, Doctor, does not smoking cause diseases of the nervous system in men as well as in women?' f “ Certainly it does, if indulged in to excess. But then men’s nervous systems are not as impressionable us womens', and hence a man can do many things with impunity or even lienefit, imp< s.*i- hle for a woman to do without great risk. And besides, it does not make much difference to a man if his com plexion is a little sallow, 1m eye luatre- less. his liody^shriveled up and his skin rough, whtveas these things are very important to a woman.” “ I see you are an admirer of beauty in women, Doctor?” “ Yes. It is the greatest gift a woman can have, for it not only means esthetic enjoyment for all who looks at her, but it means a healthy mind and a.healthy body; and then tbe means necessary to preserve beauty are the very ones neces sary. to keep the mind and body in sound health.”—Dr. Hammond in New York v The Cocktail. In a vocabulary of driuking terms, the ft rid Her remarlnrregarduig tlie “cock- “tailr” “A word ot very uncertain ori- trin. Conjectural etymologists have traced it to the Mcoeo-wothie, the Chi- ' ncse, the Cherokee, and the Gumbo; one has settled it to his own satisfaction that it is of Sandwich island origin; aiA other that it is Celtic; and still another that Noah left the recqx' to his sou Slum, giving the leverage the name Ko’kdal, written in the old Hebrew char acter with the Mnasorctic point*. The probability is that tlie name and the l leverage were invented hy the mound builders, and the most prominent phil ologists are inclining more and more to that opinion. n The ItrAailer also gives the following information : “ The cocktail is mode of brandy, gin, whisky, or ch&mpeogn, mixed with bitten, sugar, and a small—very small—per centage of water. It ia an early-morn ing drink, and is higldy esteemed for its medicinal properties. A large propor tion of those who use it habituallv will never eat solid food until the flooring of the stomach has been overlaid with cock tails. There is no time in a man’s life when he is more deserving of heartfelt sympathy than when, in a condition of jiecuniary collapse, he craves a morning cocktail and craves in vain.’' . ** *- • The investigations, which were under taken by a commission of the French academy, in relation to tlie filling 6f tlte m • 1 . R A 1 ? - AA ^ AJ_ A _ _ _ ‘ A French Farmer. The lol of a French farmer is neither happy nor jolly. He fares frugally on soup and the' thinnest of ordinary red wide or cider. The stock of his soup is bacon, and he eats butcher’s meat only twice a week—that ia on Sunday and market-day. When he attends market he makes a succulent dejeuner and drinks a good deal of beer at the ca/e. This is his only cheerful time; at ordin ary seasons he is morose, troubled about the weather, the conscription which ia going to take his son iu the army, and about politics, of which he understands just enough to be in constant dread of revolutions. He is conservative; that ia to say he upholds the government of the day, whatever it is, for fear of anarchy; but no government is popular with him, for every adminis trillion finds it neces sary to Uy on new taxes.* The climate, however, is in his favor. A bad harvsat is not a common thing in Francs, and a of .had harraata newer oooar. od, and advanced at a them firing os they rode np. *j found a suitable opening wall of the smoke-house, i killed Cooper deed in his woe standing beside hia hone, and hia •addle was hit by three ballets one of which glanced through hie hat' Aa soon as the trooper could raeUae what hod happened he swung himself into saddle and dashed at the cinle lim. Th* moment hefappeaed he was a target for carbine and pistol. Hia hone mode a rash at the line, bnt was driven book. Followed by Cooper’s hone he galloped around anil across a circle not over 100 feet scran, all the time u nder a steady lira by the Confederates. This fire was soon re turned by Drake, who fired away seven cartridges and then drew his saber. Hia seven bullets, as afterward vouched for. killed two men, wounded two mora, and killed one hone. His fire broke the circle, and hrf’got oat of it, bnt far thirty rods, as he made off, he was exposed to the fire of nine or ten men. Cooper’s hone was killed in the circle, while Drake’s was bit no less than-nine tiara and yet not disaoled. As for the riikr, his comrades, on his return to coapt counted np a record of a trnly-mincu- lous escape. Three bullets struck Us scabbard, two bis hat, four went through * ' i clothing, one burned hia cheek, cm raked hia Knee, and two hit hia left book While one single bullet killed the one trooper, the other had stgtera fired point blank at him and yet did not low a drop of blood. Cooper’s hone won killed by one bullet, while nine failed to -nporaa ■$!» « • zv * th * rr*. 1 - 4 Ilia m ran fnr flirarn APA IflW PTRIfK have been finished. The conclusions are entirely favorable to the project and wonld lead to the establishmeut of an interi’ir sea, 248) mih** long and about 990 Hides in ciivumfnrenoe. Ir all hearts were frank, just, and hon est*. the major part of the virtues would be raalrai tom—Afottcrs. disable the larger and mote m*L—Detroit Free Free*. Poetry ifiqfcee hope » forma' mokes it s solace, and desolation the brightest flower that adorns eaMUjr creation, while even disappointment asm delusion whisper darkness .mi of theety of to-day into the sunshine of to-annem. Sobt ‘ the but hope will niaa it np again. man's birthright, which, aftra ett ddoWHIt M?er mmketh —haintri to hone ever. Airy foneies i—- -mXZU mQ iwiHiig Moral treoohsry, but hope fiito the hnaon heed and * the rainbow < the this is so, for there tie ftw landlords who wonld be in a position to remit any oart of a year’s rent after a l»ad harvest. The rale in Franca ia that farmers’ rent must be paid as l as lodgers’ rent. If it be not ejection is resorted to at body thinks of MaaiU*uMd: >■«. I I T I