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S. BnthirM letter* and oornmnn'ce- Ueaptolie publiabrd rkoald be writien •repMMKte abeet*, end tbe object of eacb dimly indicated by neceeeary note wh'c MqoiradU 8. Artidee for pnbiication ahonld be written in a dear, legible band, and on only one dde of the page. 4, All changes in adyertlaemeata mo >t tech at on Friedr. DR. I. N. I. MILHOUS, DENTAL SURGEON, BLACKVILLE, 8. V. Office near his residence on R.R. Avenue. « — Patients will find it more comfortable to bare their work done at the office, as he ha' a good Dental Chair, good iieht and the moat improved appliances. He should be informed several days previous to their coin ing to prevent sny disappointment—though will generally be found at hie office on Sat urdays. He will still continne to attend calls throughout Barnwell and adjoining coun ter ^ [anglft ly DR. I. J. QUATUESAUM, SURGEON DENTIST, WILUSTON, 8. 0. Office over Cspt. W. H. Kennedy's store -. Cells attended throughout Barnwell and adjacent counties. Patients will find it to treir advantage to have work done at hUnffic' sey Iti DK. J. RYERSON SMITi; Opfrative and Irrhaniral Dentist. r TOJ 1ST ON, 8 V C. Will attend calls throughout this and ad. j scent countie*. Operations can he mere satisfactorily per formed- at his Parlors, which are,supplied with all the late«t approved appliances, than at the reaidenoMi Of patienta. To prevent disapf ointments, rstients in. tending to v ; sit him at Willifton are re quested to correapond by mail befqre lesv. iog home. 1 isepltf hemme's mmmi ■ 238 King Street, Opposite Aciwleiny of Music, CHARLESTON, S. C. U'-om* to let at .'.O cents a night. Meals St all hoiif*—tiv‘ters in every alvie. Aies, Wines, Liquotr, Sec,ars, ic.[m8r30ly CHARLES C. LESLIE Wholesale and Betail Dealer in Fish. Gamf. Lobsttrs, Turtb, Terrapins, t3vtsters, Kto. Etc. 81*1’*, Nor. 1* and 20 Fish Market ^ CHARLESTON, 8. C. All'orders promptly attended to. Terns Cash or City Acceptance. •ug301y] J. A. PATTEJtSQy. Surgeon Dentist. Office at the Barnwell Court House, Patients waited on at residence if de sired. Will attend calls in any portion of Barnwell and Hampton counties. Satisfaction guaranteed. Terms cSET aug311yj ROBT. D. WHITE . M A.RBX.E ~ —AND— . GRANITE WORKS MEETING STREE l\ (Corner Horlbeek’a Alley,) CHARLES AON, : TT 8. C jane91y] ~ ‘ OTTO TIEDEMAII & SONS, _ —Wholesale— Grocers and Prorision Dealers, ——-p—fl " . i ■■ «i I |i'Vi. | -^Bg-S3Wl 102 andJ04 East Biy Street, ang311y CHARLESTON, 8. C. VOL VI. NO. 40. BARNWELL, C. H., 8. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1883. YEARS AFTER. f know the years have rolled across thy grave TUI it has grown a plot of level grnw«— All summer duos it*wreen luxuriance wavs In silken shimmer on thy breast, alas! And all the winter It is lost to sight Beneath a winding-sheet of chilly white. • 1 know the precious name T loved so much Is heard no more the haunts of men among: The tree thou plantedat has outgrown thy touch.. And sings to alien ear* Its murmuring song; The lattice-rose forgets thy tendance sweet. The air thy laughter, and thty*od thy foot. Through the dear wood where grew thy vio lets Lies the worn track of travel, toil and trade: And steam's imprisoned demon fumes and Irejs, With shrieks that scare the wild bird from the shade. Mills vex the lazy stream, and on Its shore harebell swings Its chimes novnorc. ^ lii The timid n But yet—even yet—If I, grown changed and old, Hhould lift my eye* at opening of the door. And see again thy fair head's waving gold, A nd meet thy dear eyes' tender smile unco more. These years of parting like a breath would seem. And T should say: “I knew ft was a drcaV"’ —i.'UzaI»'Ui Aker*, fit Centuru JJajtulno. ’"*** WAITING. *"• „ One dnv, near the end of last Sep tember—It was the Urst bright day we had had for a week or more—I strolled down the main street of the seaport town where I was spending my vaca tion, intending to go out on the salt marshes back of the town. This main street, although little more thin a 'mile long, haa as eventful a career In its brief course as the road in the Pilgrim's Progress Chart we used to see, hung in the sitting-room of our grandfather's houses. Starting from the railroad, it first passes the colony of ftsh-housesand their rows of frames covered with dry ing cod; then it plunges into the hurry* :.nd bustle of tne town, running the gauntlet between the two rival grocer ies which stand insultingly face to face; and passing the store in'whose windows are exhibited two lamp chimneys, a jar of candy and a box of pepper, while overhead hangs the sign: “B. Bearsc, Commission-Merchant." Then it comes to the head of the wharves, where are congregated the men from the mackerel fleet in the harbor, talking In Various languages, or executing slow dances to the tune of ‘•Home, Sweet Home," from jewsharps and aceordoons; and then it comes out in the old village, with the white church and the trim houses and the flower ; gardens full of peonies and pansies and hollyhocks and larkspurs in their season, and hern mod in by white picket-fences, eacb with its green roll along the top. I walked along liere, catching a glimpse through every cross street of the harbor, until I came out to where the hoTC"s were more scattered. Then the road goes up a little hill, and from the t(fp you have an unbroken view of the harbor on one side, and on the other the salt marshes. Just beyond this hill- tup and standing apart by itself, was and yet so’t70u can look Devereux & Co., „ ( ...DELLBRS IN liae, Cement, Lathe Platser, Hair, Slates and Marble Mantles. Depot of Bnildini Materials No. 90 Kast Bay Sash, Blinds, Doors. Glass, etc. wp71yl CHARLESTON, 8. C. THOS. McG. CARS, , ITA.SHION’.A.BIjE ■ ' _ -■ ™ Shaving and Hair Dressing Saloon, 114 Market Street,. . (One Door East of King Street,) tnsiSOly] CHARLESTON, 8- C. try-®* CAROUM WUITONICI 1 | ^ '— ♦heDSEat remedy for pulmonary diseases, COUGHS, COLDS, BRONCHITIS, Ac., AND .GENERAL DEBIITTY. ^ „ — / SURE CURE FOR Malaria ^nd Dyspepsia IN ALL ns STAGES^ l^-For Sale by atl GROCERS and DRUGGISTS. ‘--•w.w.y.w.w.w.* •>-- - ■ • ■ • ' • - ^ H. BUCHOFF « OO., CharlMtMH'B. C. Sole MatefiKttireri aed Paoprieton ar316o an old house which 1 had never noticed much before, but which now attracted my attention, and I stopped. It stood back perhaps fifty feet fro and was built in the common country fashion, with one story and a |>itch roof slanting toward the road. The blinds were all closed, and their green had faded to a light bhre:—The white paint of the house was much of it washed off, and what was left was peeling and curl ing up. Through the crack between the Iwia^ds of the front door-step was growing a row of vigorous pigweed, anil the front yard was a sea Of Bounc ing-Bets. There had been a grape-ar bor at one' s'ule of the yard, but if had gone, to min, and the vine was traiHug among the weeds. You could tell where the flower-beds bad been by the greater luxuriance of growth, and along either Itorder of the path, from the gate to the doorway, could be seen tbe twinkle, liere and there through the weeds, of sea-hells. The house was surely unoccupied. But there was a certain air about it which suggested something more tluvn this. It looked as if it were wait ing for some one—perhaps very far off now - to come ami clear sway the weeds, and fill the flower-iSals wVtTi volor. .^ind J-UfcuJi-ujiUL wliidow* and let in the sunshine. As 1 was wondering what the story of the house aright be. a white-haired man. who had evidently been a sailor, came trudging down the road. “Who lived here?” he said,in answer lo my question: “Why, this isoldCap'n I’elog's hottse. You can't have been here long if you haven't heard of old Cap'll Peleg. Would you like to look inside? Well, I'll just go along here to tny. house and get the key." He came back a moment later, and pushed open the gate, which moved slowly on its rusty hinges. Wo made our way through the tall weeds to the door, and here, too, the lock and hinges were rusty; but at last the door opened, and we went into a little entry, and from there into the parlor. Although the room was dark—for the blinds were closed and tho curtains down—yet the light from the doorway showed that it had a cheerful, home-like look. There was a red carpet on the floor, and on the walls, were hanging some bright oicLurcs of schooners under full sail. Here by the window stood a big rock ing-chair, with a soft red cushion in it, ami there was another pulled up before tne tire-plaee, and on the andirons were iled brushwood and sticks—all ready down across the harbor and see the vessels going in and out, and he brought all tbe lumber from down South somewhspe—Southern pine—in his vessel, and bad the best work put in. And sure enough, when he died Peleg brought his wife here, and counted on leaving it the same to his boy. Now, if I only had a daguer reotype of Cap’n Peleg, that I raw once, to show you, and one of his boy, you might guess the whole story, all bv yourself. The -eld -Cap'n had black eyes and heavy eyebrows, and a heavy jaw, and close-set mouth, and Hi - that was the boy’s name—be gave promise to take after his father. “ But they got on together first-rate. Cap’n Peleg’s wife died while Hi was only a boy, and so ,Cap’n Peleg and HI had to make much of each other, and they were always together, and Cap’n Poleg was forever making a willow whissle, or rigging a rabbit-trap, or do ing sometljing else for Hi. He'd mar ried late, and was getting along in years, and so he give up going to se* -and staid at home and took to fanning” a little, so's to look after his boy; and almost any day you could see them go ing across the flats for clams, or setting off on a day's fishing cruise in their boat, or carting up a load of seaweed for the garden, ami wherever you see Hi you was pretty sure to see Cap’n Peleg, too. Hi was a nice-looking boy, full of life and fun, and a great favor ite all over the village. ’Twas a pity things couldn’t have staid so right along. But when Hi got a little older there began to be trouole. “ He wanted first to go to sea, but the old man sai<r'Nh7Tmdd^«r r mTr tr—Strl after a while Hi gave in. lie had to. There was no peace to lie had with Cap’n Peleg unless you’d do just as he said. But the trouble was that Hi wiX much the same way, and they'd dis agree on one thing and then on anoth er, though,it always ended by Hi’s giv- ing In. “But at last It came to a point where he couldn’t give in. They had a great dispute, ahuit hung on weelc In and week out, and thev didn't tro ’round loirether so much as usual. They never told any one what it was, but this I .know, that there was one family Me the village, Cap’n Cvrenus Baxter's family, and that Cap’n Felcg had always had a grudge against them—no matter about the redson now, but he distrusted them nil, root and branch. Now Cap'n Cy- renus had a family of nice smart girls, and as things would turn out, III had to take to going there to call evenings, and ’twas about the time the old man found out which way the wind lay that he began to make trouble. But he’d got his bands morc’n full that time And the more they disagreed, the more Hi seemed to look like him, w ith his black eyes aud eyebrows and set mouth. And he knew only too well that his father neverWould yield ou that point. 'Twas no use thinking of sia.'li a thing,- And I gucsaiorjiaveral days they hard ly spoke to each other. “Well, things couldn't last so long, rom the rond^* anff’Anc morning when Cap'n Peleg got up. Hi was nowhere to be found. First, tin: Cap’n thought he’d gone off to be piarried, and he was terribly angry, Cap'n IVlagvns, and said be d never speak to hfi boy again. But after a while be met a man from the wharves that told him he’d seen Hi. “ ‘Whereabouts?’ says theTCap’n. “ ‘Setting sail with Cap'n Norris on the Leading Breeze,’ says. he. “‘Cap'n Norris?’ says the old man; ‘why, he’« going off whalin’, on a three .years’ cruise. Why. I know Hi too well to believe he'd go off that way, without saying a word to his father.’ ‘•‘But he has,’ says the man, ‘I was down on the wharf when the wind sprungnp, towards morning, and they Hi ' r° tne ^ ' * * 4 ••V XW »* 1. They got up their sails and weighed a ehor, and he came onto the wharf : waS getting ready to start, and I see come along through the fog and aboard. I guess he’d talked with Cap'n before, for he went l ight to work. in to cast oft'. So he just shook bands w ilh two or three of us that was standing there, and said “Good-by" sort 'of quiet, and then jumped aboard, and off wynt. and 4 guess you can see tbe vessel now'f you go up on The hill.’ “So up on the Trill Cap'n Peleg went. And he thought he saw the Leading Breeze, but it was foggy, and he wasn't, sure. He often said afterwards that he did wish the fog could have lifted, for a few prinutes, just then . I can’t tell what passed in the old man's mind those three years. He seemed the most unhappy man I ever saw, but I don’t believe m all that time be ever onoc changed his mind. He got a letter from Hi from some foreign port where they’d put in, just saying he w as well, and they was having good luck. And by and bv he got another. And when two years had gone by, and there was some reasonablchope of their com- “ It’s iifteeu years since that tire was built,” said tne old man, throwing open the blinds, and then seating him self in one of the chairs and rocking softly—“Yes, sir, ei^iteen hundred and 'sixty-three. How time does fly.’" “ Aud is it waiting for the owner?" I Ttsked. “ Well," said the old man, whose name, by the wav, I found to be Nehe- miah, or Ne’mfah, ad he called it — Cao’n Ne'miah Blossom—“set down, anil I’ll begin the story and tell it right through, ami t lien you cap answer your own question as well as I Can. “You see this house is quite old now. Cap’n LVleg's father lived here, and then Cap’n rclcg, and it's good now for three or four general oismore. That’* what the old man said when he built it. He was a young man than, bnt he said: •I’m building tbW'hoMSe for my grand- *o:i as well as myself.’ So he picked tut Uu* spot, ’just sbdUuwl by the hill, Into the harbor, ho knew he could get right up and go down to the wharves to meet his boy. But it didn't come, and he got weaker and weaker. “ One evening be sent for mo to come in. And when I got there, he couldn’t seem to make up his mind to tell me \vhat lie wanted. But at last I guessed what it was, and I went to Cap’n Cyro- mis’ and told Abby what I thought the old man wanted. She was a real sensi ble, nice giH, and she put on tot things and coino right down. And she and the old m:»» had a long talk. I don't know what he said, but when she cariio out,T saw she’d been crying, but she tried to smile, and told mo she was coming down the next morning, and she guessed p'raps she'd better stay awhile and look after him, aud try to cheer him mi some. “i look tier nome, amt wncu i came back Cap’n Peleg seemed a good deal softened„down, and he told me he was feeling considerable better, and said he bad more confidence in seeing Hi sood than he’d felt for a long time, and ho meant to have Hi’s clothes brought down from his room the next morning, and laid out in the sun, to be ready for him. But he said he’d tell me then, xvhile he was feeling like it, that, if he shouldn’t live to see Hi, he wanted the house to stand just so, w ith the linr all ready to light, and the chair drawn up in Bunt, and his room up-stttirs all waiting, and everything just so. so’t w hen Hi come— he didn't say if he come, but when' ho come—he'd find it all waiting for him, and know that his father had left it so for a sort of ‘welcome lioflfi 1 " . ‘And come to think,: he mys. Tlpiusl write tt down now.’ So he wrote it down just how he wanted it left, and signed it. And Aunt Nabby laid dow n her knit ting and came in, and I got my wife in, and \Ve signed it foT wiines-tcs. “Then he lay back satisfied, and that night he died.” • - . Cap'n Ne'miah, who, for the last few moments, had been sitting motionless, began to rock again. I waited for him to- goon with tbe story, bpl at last, as lie did not speak, I said: “That was a long time ago. How did it all come out in the end?” “That is the end," ^e said; “that's the whole story, and here the house stands aud waits, and waits; and w ill wait, too. Cap'n 1’cleg's boy never came back, nor any of the crew. And this old house is waiting for some ono that w ill coined Never will come. The old Cap’n left so’t k/ic can come and live here if she wants,” he added. “But she’s no need forthat. And some day the house'll belong to her. That’s all. Quite differentTrom these stories you read, isn’t it?” ✓ Wc rose and went out again, and passeil among the tall weeds and through the creaking" gate. As we E assed there a moment we saw the arbor spread but below-us peaceful in Hm qitiel idirtv of the set l ing Miu. In How a Woman Montlled. A few days ago* man flailed at a boose on Fort street east and asked for a bite to eat He was refused, and shortly after he left a cloak was missing from the hall-tree. The police were notified, and the other day when they arreated a man on suspicion, they sent for the woman to ootne down to the City Hall and identify him. When she was asked if ah# was certain that she could identify the men who had called, she somewhat indignant ly replied: “Identify him I Why, I could pick nim out among ten thousand 1'* She was then confronted with the prisoner. She gave him; a good looking over and called out; Oh! you can’t fool me! You've had your hair dyed from black to red ainoe you asked for cold pancakes, but I’d mow you if I saw you in Texas!” The captain here observed that he never heard of black hair being dyed red, and after a brief examination lie as serted that the prisoner's heir bed not beep dyed at all. ‘Well, I may possibly be mistaken about his hair,” said the women, “but I'll swear to tbat overcoat. I took e good look at it as he went off the steps, and I know it's the coat and the man. I particularly noticed that the third but ton from the topjvas missing.” The captain informed her that it woe an overcoat he had borrowed within the hour and asked the prisoner to slip on. The woman wouldn't give in for some time, but finally said: “Well, I might have been mistaken, but I looked square into his eyes, end I tnow this is the man." ‘ iWMt eohjj;_jiuL. yen, .lo*Jut. ttm ing home—if the whalers have good luck they often make a shorter trip than they expected—he began to get nervous and irritable, and he spent a good deal of time on the hill just above the bouse here. ~ And very early, mornings, before he got there, I used*to see some one else there, too. My house is the only one where you c: n see folks.up there where they look oft', and I never told any one about her being there. It was easy watching then, because there was no reason to be anxious if they didn't come. Bbt when the third year went by, and tb« the months began to creep afong, and creep along, one after another, ilTwas trying times. By and by it was four years. The old man’s hair was fast getting white then, and he had to take a cane when he went up on the hill, but he kept his spirits, and he was dreadful hard to get along with. Aunt Nabby kept house for him then, and she said he couldn’t sit still a min ute, or think or talk about anything but Hi and the Leading Breeze. “ Then it got to be four years and a half, and then five years. Most of'the crew on the whaler had been from other parte, so there weren’t many others on the lookout, and, what there was lost all heart—all but two; anil they never met 1 ^ “ Bot the old man was failing fast. One day, after he came down from the hill, he took to his bed, and be sent in for me and got me to keep a lookout for him. and he said that 1/ be should some such bright harbor, perhaps, old Cap’s Rclcg liad long since met ins hoy. Cap'n Ne’miah shut the gate with a sharp click. “It'sgetting ratherehilly," ho said,as he turned toward his Own cottage. “Good-night." — Stewart Chaplin, in K. IV Examiner. Water as a Drink,— Many persons drink oftiuarily as little water as possible, and none at ail at meal times, because they suppose that water dilutes the gastric juice. Experiments, however, show that dilution does not di minish the ilower of the gastric juice, and farther, that water alone, os well as solid.food, awakens its secretion. A pa per read by Dr. Webster, of Boston, at a meeting of a learned medical society, took-the ground that water, used moder ately at meals, is beneficial, and that i large class of persons drink too little, The result is,' if toertittie water is vltmuk —especially if the person eats heartily— the perspiration and the kidney secretion arc diminished. Not only they, but the waste of the system, which can be re moved only in a state of solution, is not eliminated with sufticieut regularity and fulness, and the system becomes gradu ally clogged by it. The accumulation is slight from day to day, but in time un pleasant symptoms are developed. These symptoms are of an indetmitfr-character —discomfort, even pain, sometimes in one place and sometimes in another, con stipation, and unhealthy line of the skin ‘‘Patients,” said Dr. Webster, “who drank no more than a pint of water a day have told me that they were not ’'Bursty. They were surprised when told to drink more. Those who have fol lowed this suggestion in tlq^ course of a week have developed thirst, aud drank as many as tluee pints of water a day.’' We may add that water taken into the stomach is at once rapidly absorbed by tbe blood vessels. A bowl of well-sea soned broth, as a first course, is special! helpful to the aiiove class of patients large qipmt'ty of ice water is harmful to auv ono. . The papers are black—coal were r “Blue, sir, light blue. “But this man's eyes black!” So they were. The woman was dumb with asionisbment for a time, but finally rallied and said: “Didn't this man wear a slouch hat when arrested ?*’ “No, ma'am—he wore a cap.” “Anddon’t you think he is the man?” “I don't think anything about it, as I never saw him until an hour ago.” Is it jHisitively necessary that I identify him as the man?” “No, ma’am.” “Then I guess I won’t The fact is, I was a little flu moil that morning, and 1 don't think I got a fair sight of the fellow. Besides that, 1 think the cloak was stolen the day before I missed it bv an old woman who was selling notiono.” Detroit Free Fret*. A Blofalar Mary. going the rounds of the it the old pirate*wbo Aaron Barr's daughter Theodosia “walk the plonk ” bos died again, recalls a story tola sane twenty-five years ago by a venerable gentleman, now deceased, who passed his youth in Southern Berk shire. It wss to the effect that la one of the earlier years of the century a fine looking, middle-aged woman, come to one of the towns near Stockbridge and purchased o smell cottage. She ap peared worn with distress of some kind, end although seeming to have abundant means, <he neither sought nor accepted any society, save that of the poor and unfortunate, with whom she mingled ss a rule, ouly to relieve their distress. There wee pne.exoeption, however, in an unfortunate woman who had been be trayed in her youth. This outcast she took to hot home, where she was her nanion and finally her nurac, until the benefactress died, leaving her poor friend what remained of her property. This woman, in order to moke good her formal claim to the gift which was not in a bequest, stated in confidence to a magis trate that the giver was no other than Theodosia Burr Allston, and that she hod revealed to her under strict injunction of secrecy Uiat her melancholy and singu lar seclusion was due to tlie fact that the had been compelled to live for two or three years with the pirate captain and that when she was at lost released, with some money in her possession, she was so overwhelmed with shame that she de termined never to let the world in which she once moved know of her existence, h»fc.ko spend .tha.,ramaiadf,r.ul her Ufa, WIT AVB HUMOR. Sic transit—An i A nan flU-Deliritim i Evkbt man's hottse ie hhf every man can’t be King of A On is a seal ring and the other it * real sing. Eh? Save enough, was the conundrum? A tocno man described a to a bevy of young girls as one who' o’ upholsters animals 1 Ha took coke. Tub difference between the eadcr and an advance agent i* that is Head Center, while the other is ahead. Never address your conversation to m person engaged in tooting up a column of figures. These’* nothing so deaf aa an adder. An Irishman who was found guilty of stealing a lot of coffee wss asked tnr the magistrate what he did with it. Made tay with it/’ was the Hibernian's repfy. Young lady, examining some bridal veils—“Gan you really recommend tide one ?” Over-zealous shopman—:" Oh. yes, miss 1 It may be used several times.” ‘T’x afraid tbe bed isnotlougsnoagh for yod,” said the landlord to a seven* f “ot guest. “ Never mind/* he replied: Tlf add two more feet to it when I got in.” “Winn yon name the 1xmM of the bead?” said a teacher to one cf A Remarkable Calculation. A curious illustration has been afforded by the New York foumal of Commerce. It takes up an utterance of the Bev. Adriimdack Murray, who said in a re cent lecture: “Now the population of the earth is LtKK),tKK>,0Ut>, and a generation dies in deeds’ of charity. She hail selected Stockbridge at first as a place of resi dence, from a family tradition of its se el nsion—her grandfather. Rev. Jonathan Edwards, having been an early pastor there—but she found intercourse be tween that town and New York had be come altogether too frequent for her pnrpose, and she retired to a smaller town,—PitUfield (MattachutclU) Sun. Obtained What He Wanted. The Philadelphia Times contains an account of a young man employed in a large iron manufacturing house in that city, who become dissatisfied with the wages he was getting—(this alone gives the story a fishy look his employers and told them frankly that he would like more pay. Some young men, if they had wanted more ]iay, would have died sooner than let it lie known, but this young duck didn’t seem to core for anything. So he told them ho must have more currency, and they aoid they would raise him from 860 a month to $75. He was a shipping clerk, and had few equals ss an artist with a camel’s hair brush and a pot of lamp-black. He could not. therefore, accept $75 a month, and he told them so. Then tiny hum bled themselves tiefore him aud asked him what he would take to say nothin every thirty years. In every thirty years, then, 1,000, (*>00,000 human beings go ont of the world aud 1,000,000,000 come in. Forty years ago the church taught that the world was 6,(XX) years old. She ilotvm’t to-day pretend to guess within 100,000 years how old the world is. Very well. What has bqen the population of the world since the rare began? Wl* 0 can estimate the number? By what arithmetic shaH yon compute the sWfirni- ing millions? 'Fake the globe and flat ten it into a vast plain, 24,000 by twenty-four, and would it accommodate but a fraction of the human beings that have lived upon its stinface ? " Where is the locality of the judgment to bo, Uieii? Can it have a locality ?” To this the Journal replies; ‘ make the widest conceivable estimates. Tihem through the roof ? Suppose that the human race has ex it more about it The shipping clerk sail he wanted a partnership interest, havin read of such things probably in a nov As soon os tbe members of the firm oould recover from their astonishment, they promptly kicked him out AH this oc curred eight years ago. ‘‘ To-day,” says the Timet, “he is the leading member of a firm which employs nearly three thousand men and boys, turns out fifty thousand tons of iron a' ye&r, pays out over % hundred dollars % month in wages and salari&t- au H does a business of $4,- 000,000 a yearT* Aud we supiiose if any one of those three thousand men one boys should go into his office ahjfrkskjor a partnership interest in the concerir they woulu get it, would they? Or wouh ’Now ^he stand them on a spriug-tioard aid fire Deck's, Sun. Whisperings for Bachelors. None but the married man has a home in his old age; none has friends then but he; none but he lives and freshens in his green old age, amid the affections of wife and children There ore no tears shed for the ok bachelor; there is no one in whose eyes he can see Idmself reflected, and from wlsDse lips h»» con receive the unfailing assurances of care and love. No, the (fid bachelor may be tertersted'fev—hiS' money; he may eat and-driiik and revel os auch do; and he may sicken and die in a hotel or s garret with plenty of at- tendmts about him, like so many oormrrants waiting for their prey; but where ore the moistened eye, and gentle band, end Iming lips that ought to re ceive his lost fare-veil? He will never know what it is to be loved, and to live and die amid a loving circle. He will go from this world, ignorant of the de lights of the domestic fireside, and on the records of humanity his life is noted —a blank, A p^peh said to be proof, against firs sod wiffer is prepared in this way: Aftei * mixture of two-thirds ordinary paper pulp ifid one-third asliestus hs* been Lhorouxlily incorporated, iUis steeped in a Bolutfm of common salt aud aluui. It U then,made into paper, which is finally ooated with shellac varnish. is ted on this earth 100.000years, that the population has nevee from the first day u>eeti smaller than this estimate for the present time — namely, 1,000,000,000. For the sake of easy calculation, instead of the estimate of thirty years to a gen eration, call it three generations to a century. There will apfssar to have been 3,000 generations of 1,000,000,000 each, who, being assembled, require standing room. For a crowded meeting of men. women, and. children, it would be am ple estimate to give each Two square feet of room. A square mile contains, in round nambera, 25,000,000 square feet, and 12,500,000 persons oould stand on it. Therefore, eighty square miles wonld hold a generation, and 3,000 times that space wonld hold the population of 100,000 years. That is to sav, 240,000 square miles would contain them, and, gathered in a parallelogram, they would stand in a space 600 miles king by 400 broad. They conk^eosily be accommo dated in one or two 61 oar States. “Dead and bnried, side by side, they wou|d require five times their standing space, or (say) 1,200,000 square miles, and the United States has ample wiki lands, as yet unwanted and unoccupied/ to give them a cemetery. If any one wishes he may estimate now many thou sand years of generations oould find graves in this country without Crowding each othei. Whoever will may imagine the population assembled in a circle, os in a vast theater, with floor above float, each floor diminishing the surface of the building. It will do people of vivid imaginations good to redune such imaginations to the facts of figures, and any school girl eon do it” The Dlawflai Quboui The most conspicuous feature in the evening scene F t Saratoga) was a lady from Philadelphia, fair, and young, and petite, a Mrs. Moore, whose sleeveless dress of rare point-lace is said to have cost $20,000; and in whose hair and ears, and on whose shoulders, bosom, neck, wrists and hands were displayed di monds that must have run up mto hundreds of thousands in value: in sol itaires, crescents, horizontal bonds and grace ul pendants, tbat flashed and gleamed whenever there was the shad ow of on excuse for them. Her hus band, a gentlemanly, middle aged man in appearance, supported her on his arm: and a little in their rear, solenut- visaged and absorbed in fetensfl watch fulness of her, a private detafltive in citfren’s dress, wound hjs waff In and out amid the brilliant scene. It was a strange spectacle. People held their breath and called her -“the Diamond Cask Yersus Credit. Any retail dealer can buy closer with cash than with credit The closer he bays the greater are his profits. Money put down »u his counter gives him a chance to discount his paper, meet hii botes and pay current expenses. Charges' on the book mean cash next month, or the month after, or next year. Cosh no fsvors except to be waited uj Credit must have a bookkeeper, a collec tor aud a lawyer. If a retail dealer in groceries asks the price of starch, he is told that be can hose it at so much credit, or so much for spot cash. If a consumer asks the price of the retaiier, it is one price to Cash Down or Dead Beat The more ope thinks this matter over the more he realizes the force of the re mark of a prominent Western financier, who lately observed: “The man who odth when he con get credit is a And so say we all If Dead Beat is to have the same price as Cash Down, with an additional advantage of sixty•sixjdayi’ time—which means ninety in nineteen cases oat of twenty—why dp *ny of na pay cash? Why not all. take credit?—Detroit Free Press. his I’ve got ’em all in ay head, ‘ "bat Ii can’t class. "I’ve got ’em all teacher,” replied the pupil. Rive ’em away." 44 I'll Uke jour btsthg:. Hood faith IN- need to clln( to.” “ Oootl faith. Indeed! ” aald aha, ** but. My arm 1* not the tiling to Ini i-a rt fou that! " Hmi|Xiad*d ha. With ftpa that ne’er dented fear, •‘ Qoud tatta la fauna flde, girl.,. . - — _i_ And thla la bona of l<to n We are constantly told that "the evening wore on ”—but what the even ing wore on such occasions we are not informed. Was it the dose at a sum mer's day ? Why is a thief your only true phi* losopher? Because he regards every thing from an abstract point of view, is opposed to all notions of protection, and is open to conviction. Thu is a little coeducational scene: Professor: “ Who will see Mr. B. before next Monday?” Lady student, hesitat ing and blushing a little more: " I shall see him Sunday night, probably." lew Some Famous Anthers The fluent and graceful literature the >orld admiree-was by no means aa eaav to Brake aa it is to read. Pope is af firmed to have kept his fear or two for study arid and even then his printer’s proofs ’ 10 full of alterations that on lion, Dodsley, his better to bare ~ than to make the necessary Goldsmith considered four lines good work, and was seven yean in mg out the pure gold of the “ “ Village.” Hume wrote hia England " on aaofa, Bat he on correcting eVery edition till Robertson need tences on small after rounding tin to bio satisfaction, book, which, in its siderable revision. Burke hod all his printed two or three times i press before submitting them to! jtirhir i*kg”flidt mil (fytf 4 fatigable correctors, laboring < and so was our prolix and i inativa poet, Thomson. On the first and latest “ Seasons,’’ there will l ’ a page which does not his tasteUnd industry, i the poems lost mu jh of under this severe regin were much improved m cacy. Johnson and Gibbon' laborious in arrangusg their the press. Gibbon only MS. of hia “ Decline and and Johnson’s ware written a) Both, however, lived and mot were, in the world of letters, or caring of little else—(me in Ural of busy London, which he dm and the other in his silent den wrote Bk 1 E3’» Lausanne. Drydea wr provide for the tor. 8 bis "Paul and Virgil 8Jdn Grafting. The process of skin grafting promises from the ! applied to i that in one to receive * fresh imi labors of M. Anger, a French surgeon. The main feature of his diaoovenea is that jp&OOQS of akin taken from amputa ted limbs may be used to obtain cicatri sation on the bodies of other subjects. Hitherto portions of akin were taken from one put of a patient’s body and another part It is stated the sturgeon cut pieces of akin from the surface of an ampu tated finger, »nd applied them to the lilncatan leg of parson. In three days vhe bandages were removed, and the grafted parte were found inti mately united to the surface and tvi- dently vascularized. It seems essen tial to" the success of the process that the graft b# made immediately after amputation. The name ’given to this operation ia "heteroplaety.” Ronsseau wss a very coxcomb matters; he wrote on fine j card-paper when he could gat j don watched long and i bright thoughts, as the "School fbr Scandal,’”'ih its stages, proves. Burns compose open air. the sunnier the ' labored hard, and with taste and judgment, in < Lord Byron was a rapid but mode abundant use of the pruning^ knife. Sir Walter Scott evinoed Us love of literary labor toy the revision of the whohiof the "Wav- erly Novels.” The works of Wordsworth, Southey, Colendga and Moore, and the •ocsMonid variations in their difltesnft editions, marie their lore of re touching. Southey was unwearied after hia kind—a tree anther cf the old school The bright tfcMff&ta ft Campbell, which lances, were mans equal care. Deetreyiag the Haaua Stomach. The manufacture of cheap candies from white earth, or terra alba, mixed who m mite sonr man giuco*©, is oorneu on extensively in New York. A eenaoa taker, who investigated theoonfoctiooery business, reports that seventy-five ^par cent, of soma candies ia composed of these flubatancaa, and acme oamdy, notably "gam drops,” contains itflriter sugar. What is called a fine brand, of cfatile soap haa been found to be pored chiefly of this white Mith - "Are your domestic able r asked a judge of a < neaa. "What’s dal ooujunetten, bore] "I ask, are your family I "WaU,no,aah. Whan a 1 be’a sober, I dean’ think ant, aah.”->dritmiite TYweafcr. ing no 1