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. '*• Arflde* lot pnblieation riwnM W 4 r - All fihnifea fn >dT«rt!wm«nU must «aeh na on FrUdr. VOL. VII. NO. 32. BARNWELL C- H., S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1884. 12.00 a Year. Ho IBlMK „ mm of the writer, n*t wummm&jtm Mention, bnt an • gwwwtf of food Aidreta, THE PEOPL* , , • Bonwofl C. A. ^ 0L GILBERTS LATEST. * *r 7 T 1 ' , P”, CH lb «X»:f ”f w comic opera, , 'Th» Prioce« ioa, the following aonf In nnne by Oeme, th« FhOaithropiet Kine who kae a crooked 1ch. a olul foot and SOHO. If jon give me your attention, I will tell yon — what I am: I'm a genuine philanthropist—all other kindr are (ham. Each little fault of temper and each social defect In my erring fellow creatures I endeavor to correct. To all their little weaknesses I open people’i . eyes, And little plane to snub the eelf-sufficient I devise; I love my fellow-creatures, I do all the good I can, let everybody eaye I'm such a disagreeable man 1 And I can’t think why ! To compliments inflated I've a withering reply, And vanity I always do my best to mortify— A charitable action I can skillfully dissect, And interested motives I'm delighted to detect-..^. —— I know everybody’s income and what every body earns, And I carefully compare it with the Income tax returns ; But to benefit humanity, however much plan, Yet everybody says I’m such a disagreeable man! And I can't think why! I'm sure I’m no ascetic, I'm aa pleas* nt as can he; ■ _ , . ■' Ion’ll always find me ready with a crushing repartee; Tvs an irritating chuckle, I’ve a celebrated sneer; I’ve an entertaining snigger, I’ve a fascinating -** Iser; To everybody's prejudice I know a thing or two; I can tell a woman s age in half a minute - and I do. But, although I try to make myself as pleasei t as I can, let everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man 1 And I can’t think why ! Small Debts. Mr. Herriot was sitting in his office one day, when a lad entered and handed him a small alip of paper. It was a bill for five dollars, duo to his shoemaker, a poor man who lived in the next square. • ■ "Tell Mr. Grant that I will settle th<> soon ; it isn’t just convenient to-day." The boy retired. Now Mi. Herriot had a flve-dollar hill in his pocket, but he felt as if he couldn’t part with it—he didn’t like to be entirely out of money. So, acting from this im pulse, he had sent the boy away. Very still sat Mr. Herriot for the next five minutes; yet his thoughts were busy. He was not altogether satisfied with him self. The shoemaker was a poor man and needed his money as soon as earned —he was not unadvised of this fact. "I almost wish I had sent him the five dollars,’’ said Mr. Herriot, at length, half audibly. "He wants it worse than I do/’ He mused still further. "The fact is,” he at length exclaimed, starting up, ‘It’s Grant’s money, not mine; and, what la more, he shall have it” So saying, Herriot took up hie hat and left the office. , * * * * » » • "Did you get the money, Oharlee?” | lad., "He says he's sorry he hadn’t the moaey when you sent for it awhile ego.” How the faces of the tailor and bis needlewoman brightened instantly, as if a gleam of sunshine had penetrated the room, , "Here la joat the money I owe you,” said the former, in a cheerful voice, and he handed the woman the throe dollars he had received. A moment after and he was alone, but with the glad faoe of the poor woman, whose need he had been able to supply, distinct before him. Of the three dollars received by the needlewoman, two went to the grooer, on account of her debt to him, half a dollar was paid to an old and needy colored woman who had earned it by scrubbing, and who was waiting for Mrs. 'Weaver’s return from the tailor’s to get her dus, and thus be able to provide an evening and morning’s meal for herself and children. The other half-dollar was paid to the baker when he called toward evening to leave the accustomed loaf. Thus, the poor needlewoman had been able to discharge three debts, and at the same time re-establish her credit with the grocer and baker, from whom came the largest portion of the food consumed La her little family. v » V*-. • • A "CORNER.” said Grant, as his boy entered the shop. There was a good deal of earnestness in the shoemaker's tones. "No, sir,” replied the lad, "Didn’t get the money?” "No, sir.” "Wasn’t Mr. Herriot in ?” "Yes, sir; but he said it wasn’t con venient to-day.” "O dear! I’m sorry 1” came from the shoemaker, in a depressed voice. A woman was sitting in Grant’s shop when the boy came in; ahe had now risen and was leaning on the counter; a look of disappointment was in her face. "It can’t be helped, Mrs. Lee," said Grant; "I was sure of getting,ths teQhey from htoi- He never disappointed me before. Call in to-morrow and I will try and have it for you. ” The woman looked troubled as well as disappointed Slowly ahe turned ..ayay and left the shop. A few minites after her departure Herriot came in and, after a few words of apology, paid his bill. "Bun and get this bill changed into silver for me," said the shoemaker to his boy, the moment his customer bad de parted. * ^ "Now,” said he, as soon as the silver was placed in his hands, "take two dol lars to Mrs. Lee and three to Mr. Weaver, across the street. Tell Mr. Weaver that I am obliged to him for' having loaned it tg me this morning and sorry that I hadn’t as much in the house when he sent for it aa hoar ago.” "V - * * • * * • * ' ' U I with I had it, Mrs. Elden, bit 1 assure you that I have not;" mid Ife. Weaver, the tailor. “I paid out the last dollar just before yoa eatetia. in to-morrow and you ahaB r , to a certainty." lam I tedefchday? II aota east 16 Mart snyfilf wfe'i owe so mne^ at the £ooeri» wlpm l < that ha Won’t And now let ns follow Mrs. Lee. On her arrival at home, empty banded, from her visit to the shoemaker, who owed her two dollars for .work, she fonnd a jprl m whose pale face were many marks of suffering and care, awauii.g her return. i * The girl’s countenance brightened as ahe came in; but there was no answering brightness in the countenance of Mrs. Lee, who immediately said: "I’m very sorry, Harriet, but Mr. Grant pat me off until to-morrow. He said he hadn’t a dollar in tho house.” The girl’s disappointment was very groat, for the smile she had forced into jife instantly faded, and was succeeded by a look of deep distress. "Do you want the money very bad ly ?” asked Mr*. Lee, in a low, half- chnked voice, for the sudden change in the gift’a manner had affected her "Ob, yea, ma’am, very badly. I left Mary wrapped up in my thick shawl, and a blanket wound all around her feet to keep them warm; but she was cough ing dreadfully from tho cold air of the room.” . f "Haven’t yon a fire?” asked Mrs. Lee, in a quick, surpriacd tone. "We have no coal. It was to buy coal that I wanted the money.” Mrs. Lee struck her hands together, and an exclamation of pain was about passing Iter lips, when the door of the room opened, and the shoemaker’s boj came in. "! "Hero are two dollars. Mr. Grant sent them." "God bless Mr. Grant!" The ex clamation from Mrs. Lee was involun tary. On the part of Harriet, to whoir one dollar was due, a gush of silent tears marked the effect this timely supply of money produced. She received her portion, and, without trusting her voiet ■with words, hurried away to supply the pressing want at home. A few doors from the residence of Mm. Lee lived m nun who, some few months before, had become involved in trouble with an evil disposed person, and been forced to defend himself by means of the law. He had employed Mr. Henriot to de what was requisite in the ease, for which service the charg. was five dollars. The bill had been ren dered a few days before, and the man, who was poor, felt very anxious to paj it He had the money all made up tc within a dollar. That dollar Mrs. Lee owed him, and ahe had promised to give it to him during this day. For •pw Thaee warn amathae Mfc MH of three 'dollars wfcfch had been sent in to him, and he had joat concluded to go and pay that, when Mrs. Lee called with the balance of the money, one dollar, which she had received from the shoemaker, Grant Half an hour later, and the pocket- book of Mr. Herriot was no longer empty. His client had called and paid hit bill. The five doUars had come back to him.—T. 8. Abthur. _ —_ Will not Drive Together. "WeM," said the grooeryman, as he wiped some syrup off his hands on a coffee sack. "You can’t drive two kinds of religon to the pole, in a family, with any of sqnnnss You may drive two kinds of religion aingfc or tandem, bat when yon hitch ’em up together and they try to travel along at a good road gait, one will go off its teet and gallop while the other trots, and thm the gab loping mUgien *ttl ted*' What It li, and How It I» Work'd. — The " bear element ” in the market are all those who think that prices of securities are higher than they ought to be, higher than they can permanently remain. In order to take advantage of the unwarranted "inflation of values,” as they nuderstund it, they borrow stocks and sell them at the high prices prevailing, exj>ecting to be able to buy them in at lower prices before it be comes necessary to return the borrowed securities. For instance, A borrows from B 1,000 shares of Hannibal and 8t. Josepb,’which is selling at CO. A pays B $60,000 cash and agrees to return the stock on demand, when, of course, the money will be refunded to him. It is for B’s interest to lend the stock, be cause he gets the interest on the $60,000 during the interval, or, at all events, more interest than he would otherwise have to pay for the use of the money. Under ordinary conditions, B, the lend er of the stock, will pay A, the borrower, something for the use of tho money, but if the particular stock wanted by the bears is scarce it will be lent "flat;” that is, the borrower will receive noth ing for the use of the money while the loan continues. In extreme cases the lender may even get a commission for the use of the stock in addition to the nterest on the money which it repre sents. If the market fluctuates while the loan continues, the borrower and lender settle with each other at the close of each day, so that the amount of money shall at all times be exactly equivalent to the value of the stock. When the bears, or any portion of them, have discovered a weak spot in the market—that is; a security selling for more than it is worth" in their opin ion—they borrow and sell it liberally. Their selling has the same effect in put ting down the price as though the stock were absolutely their own, and their ex pectation is that other holders, observ ing a decline in price, will become alarmed and sell also, thus putting down the price still more and frightening still other holders. They intend, of course, to buy enough at to oi borrowed, pocketing the difference. It sometimes happens, though rarely, that a few (tenons, discovering what - the bears are about, and believing that they (the bears) are strong enough to stand a heavy loss without breaking, quietly buy up all of a particular stock that exists. In order that the price may not be forced up while they are themselves buying, they dead stock freely to the bears, and thus encourage the latter to sell. When they have secured all, or nearly all, of the particular stock that exists they call in their loans. The bears are then com pelled to buy, and since no stock, or very little, is for sale, the price can be forced up to any figure at which the cornering party choose to put it The " shorts” must come up and settle on such terms as may be dictated to them. The last resort is to leave the cornering party saddled with toe whole issue of the stock in question. Whether they make or lose by the operation will depend upon whether they can extort frohi ^he bears more than enongh to compensate them for the loss they may incur in reselling the stock to the general public. Most oommoply the cornering party, as well as the cornered, lose money, which has been gained meanwhile by tlie multi tude, who have taken advantage of the high prices to sell out. For this reason corners have latterly been of rare occur rence. Army of the Potomac. A Story to me War. There is as ona might expect much unwritten history in the life of Thnrlow Weed. Among Mr. Weed’s papers was found the following: ~ * "It will be remembered that early in the rebellion a Russian fleet lay for sev eral months in our hal>or, and that other Russian men-of-war were stationed at San Francisco. Admiral Fj^ragut lived at the As tor House, where hewn fre quently visited by the Russian admiral, between whom, when they were .young officers serving in toe Mediterranean, a warm friandship had grown np. Sitting ifi my room one Asy after dinner Ad miral Farragnt sqid to his Russian friend, ‘Why are ytoi spending the win ter here in idlenessF ‘I am here,’re plied the Russian Admiral, ‘under sealed orders, to be broken only in a contin gency that'has not.yet occurred.’ He added that other Russian war vessels were lying off San Francisco with simi lar orders. Daring toe conversation the Russian Admiral admitted that he had received orders to break the seals, if during the rebellion we became involved in a war with foreign nations. Strict confidence was then enjoined. "When in Washington a few days later. Secretary Seward informed me fha't he had asked the Rntoian Minister why his government kept their ships of war so long in our harbors, who, while in answering he diaelahned any knowl edge of the nature of their visit, felt at lil>erty to say that it had no unfriendly purpose. ^, "Louis Napoleon had invited Russia, I'c did England, to unite with him in demanding iu« o.. "K of our blockade. The Russian Ambassador at LftiuQnJn* formed his government that England was preparing for war with America on account of the seizure of Mason and Slidell. Henee two fleets were imme diately sent across the Atlantic under scaled orders, so that If their services were not needed the intentions of the Emperor would remain, as they have to this day, secret. It is certain, however, that when our government and the Union were imperiled by a formidable rebellion we should have found a power ful ally in Russia had an emergency oc- e lower seals of quo- -j-oatved." ‘ The latter revelation is said to be cor roborated by a well-known New York gentleman, who was in St. Petersburg when the rebellion began, and who, during an unofficial call upon Prince Qortsohakoff, was showt by the Chan cellor an order written in Alexander’s own hand, directing his Admiral to re port to President Lincsto for orders in case England or Francs teded with the Confederates ■ Life in the Turtle. "You wilTTiardly credit it,” said a Staten Island fisherman^,whorn- a re porter talked with the offer day, "but the head of a turtle will retain A very marked interest in existence long after its body has tieen served up in soup and steaks. I believe it is a well-known fact, but I only discovered it six months ago. I found a friend engaged in shell ing r. small turtle. ‘Now,’ he said, put ting the bead on the dresser, ‘that will AS OYSTER STUDY. tations to deliver back what they have The preliminary arrangemetffl for the reunion of Ute Antay of toe Potomac iu Brooklyn, on June 11 and 12 next, are being made. General Newton, presi dent, has Appointed the following local Executive Oommitteee from the mem- bars of the society resident in Brooklyn: —Major General Henry W. Slocum. Major General E. L. Molineaux, Major. General James Jordan, Brigadier Gen eral Calvin E. Pratt, Brigadier Francis E. Pinto, Brigadier General 8. L. Wood ford, Colonel Samuel Truesdell, Colonel James McLeer, Colonel Charles N. Man chester, Colonel James H. Platt, Major E. W. Brueninghauaen, Major James L. Farley, Captain Harry E. Ellis, Sergeant Henry C. Larowe, Corporal James Tan ner, and ex officio members General M. T. McMahon, treasurer; General Hora tio C. King, recording secretary, and General Georgs £L Sharpe, correspond ing aecrstary. In addition to tote committee it is ex- peoted tost a large citizens’ committee will he formed. The celebration In be fibre and aotivq to-morrow morning.’ Of course I laughed at him, but I agreed to call next day and test his prophecy. Next morning my friend asked me to step into the kitchen. The hoad was still on the dreaser, and though it had been separated from the body for at least sixteen hbnfs, the eyre were wide open and b^ght ‘Take care,’ exclaimed my friend^ aa I put my dnger near the mouth. jHis warning came not a second too a of the turtle absolutely Where its motive power cannot explain, but it toward tee, and wiih a ticiousne* l>cen surpassed by s cornered rat. I think it had been holding back its life, ss men of strong will power, for fixed purposes, have been known to do, until an opportunity offered to avenge the de struction of its body, for after it had do environ the infant oyster, made the effort its eyea grew fixed and filmy, and in an hour it was dead. Next to the turtle in obstinate persistence in living must come the eel." The head pad at me. from I two inches my finger not have I.ooktHf (ato Biralrulnr Anatomy - How ft* Oyottr JfaNb and Maintains Itortf. [From the Baltimor* O.utte.} Every oyster has a mouth, a heart, a liver, a stomach, cunningly devised in testines, and other necessary organs, jnst as all living, moving, intelligem creatures have. And all these things are covered from men’s rudely inquisi tive gaze by a mantle. of (>«arly gauze, whose woof and warp put to shame the frost lace on your windows in winter. The month is at the smaller end of the oyster, adjoining the hinge. It is of oval shape, and, though not readily seen by an inexperienced eye, its location and size can \m easily discovered by gently pushing.a blunt bodkin or simitar instru ment along Abe surface mentioned. When the spot is found, your bodkin can be thrust between the delicate lips and a considerable distance down toward the stomach without causing the oyster to yell with pain. From this mouth is, of course, a sort of canal to convey the food to the stomach, whence it passes into the intestines. With an exceedingly delicate and sharp knife you can take off the "mantle” of the oyster, when there will be disclosed to you s half-moon- shaped space just above the muscle, or so-called " heart.” This speoe is the oyster's pericardium, and within it is the real heart, the pulsations of which are readily seen. The heart is made up of two parts, just as the human heart is, one of which receives the blood from the gills through a network of blood vessels, and the other drives the blood out through arteries. In this important matter the oyster differs in no respect frotfrOther warm or cold-blooded ani mals. And fiG Ch® o®® 4 l» Q g h incredu lously at the assertion thlt ejaters have blood. It is not ruddy, according to the accepted notion about bipod, but it is nevertheless blood to all oyster intents and purposes. In the same vicinity, and in marvelously proper posi tions, will be found all the other organs named. Bat it is very proper to lie incredulous about that mouth and or gans. At first glance it would Mass tote they are utterly useless, for the mouth cannot snap around for food, and the oyster has no arms wherewith to grab its dinner or lunch. True, apparently, but only apparently, for each oyster has more than a thousand arms—tiny, deli cate, almost invisible. And each one of them is incessantly at work gathering up food and gently pushing it into the lazy mouth of the indolent, comfortable creature. The gills are the thin flaps so notably perceptible around the front- face part of the undressed oyster, below the inutcle. Each of these gills is cov- ered with minute, hair-like arms, very close together, and perpetually in mo tion, to and fro, in the same direction. They catch food from the water, strain it carefully of improper substance*, and waft it upward over the mantle’s smooth surface to the gaping mouth, which placidly gobbles it op until hunger is appeased and than the body goes to sleep without turning over. Any one can observe this singular process of feeding by placing a minute quantity of some harmless coloring matter on the gills. If it will not offend the oyster’s delicate palate the coloring matter will be seen at once propelled by invisible hands toward the month and thence slowly down into the stomach. And this is all I know about oyster anatomy, except that the livtfr almost entirely sur rounds the stomach, and is of a dark 'green color. It may be new to many to know that oysters are born precisely the same way the shad and other Ash come ixto the world. A well-educated lady ojeter will lay about 125,000,000 eggs— so it is said ; I have not counted enough of them to strike such a large average— and every one of the*e eggs will ulti mately become fit for a stew or .fry if they escape the multitude of perils that The WHICH FART » SAFEST» Anawrr « Mleeplaa Car Csa4art*i Modo M the Uaertlaa. THE HUMOROUS PAP] WHAT \VK Four men half hidden in the smoke cloud of a smoking box of a sleeping oar on the Hudson River Railroad spent an hoar discussing which part of a oar was the safest to ride in. They dually agreed to leave it to the conductor. "Middle of middle car, right-hand side,” said that personage when asked. The rapidity with which he spoke and the mechanical manner in which he made the reply, ted one of the mem to halt him as he was (mssing on and ask him to explain himself, "Why,” said he, "everybody asks me that question, and I am so used to an swering it that I’ve got it down to the fewest words possftls. I shouldn't wonder if you were to ask me that when I am asleep if I wouldn't answer it with out waking up. The middle oar of— train is the safest, because it is the furthest removed from a collision either in front or behind. Even if an engine plunged into an ‘open draw-bridge, it might not take more than a cor or two with it Couplings would be likely to break, you know. Always sit in the middle of a car, liecause when care telescope they tee apt nqt to telescope many foeti AM yon ean’t toll which end will telescope, and as I Kith ends may telescope, take to the middle. Whatever oar you go in, sit on the right hand side of the Aar, which is to say, the side furthest from the other track, because it sometimes happens that freight projects too far beyond a flat car, and rips the windows oat of passing trains.” "Do railroad men observe all these precautions when they ride ?” "They take no precautions at alL Those that I have mentioned are sensi ble, but you can’t always sit where you Hke, and there arc plenty of jieopls un lucky enho^a • is be kiiifor fh®™*” th *7 sit. Railroad men never possibility of accidents. They could not be railroad men i] they did.” Fl.ND IM THBM TO SMI LA IV KK. RoroH os nan. "Oh, doctor, doctor, doctor l” acted * woman, who rushed. breathlessly into Dr. Grccnawalt’s office the other day, "my boy. Johnnie, baa awnUowid a mouse t” "H’m; swallowed a mouse, has he? Well, go home now and have him swal low a oat. Tho Jlooeior. “tzjoW v«v . % ^ ■ as Boxxsrr ornnos. Jonre—"You were at Mrs. Blank’s party last night?” Smith -"Yes.” Jonre—"Heard mo sing, didn’t youF Smith—"Yas.” Jones—"How did my singing strike jrou?” Smith Wit did not strike at alL It just kind o’ grated like filing a saw." WHY THBT MADX TOO. "Yon folks don’t seem to be troubling us mneh yet,” remarked the superintend ent of n old railroad to tire superin tendent of s new rival lina. "I would have you know," wm the reply, "that ww make better time than you every day, and on long trips can Wat yon by s full hour.” "Possibly,” answered tbs first; "but you see, ss there is no one to get on or off, you don’t lose any time at i —Evening Call. ISDIAW COKH IK ITALY. W. A. Croffut, in one of hip enter taining letters from Italy jo. tb® Chicago. htirr Ocean, says: One of the common est crops here, and tbs one most wel come to the American eye, is Indian corn, or, as they always call it, maize. We saw a few fields in Belgium, bat it was sowed broadcast for fodder. In Bavaria there was considerable growing iu hills and ripening-^nto ears, but they fed it only to pigs, not regarding it as fit for human food. I felt like adapting the witty retort of the Scotchman, and saying: "That accounts for the superi ority of Bavarian hogs and American men.” Before we reached Verona, how ever, we became aware that maize had Wcome a prime crop of Italy. I have no figures on the subject, but they most grow nearly ss much ss they do of any other product, except the grape. AH toe way from Verona to Venice, and from Venice to Bologna, and from Bo logna to Florence, Indian corn, hemp, flax and grapes nod to each other from field to field. I Bskcd the porter at our hotel Florence how long they had had Indian corn, and he said, "Alwaya,. never with out the maize.” I assured him that it was an original staple of America, and that we revealed it to other nations. “Oh, well,” he said, " then Christophe Colombo must bring him over long, long, long time ago.” Certain it is that Indian «oorn is one of the great staples of Italy. I have seen it cooked in many different forms, one of the nicest being toe maize wafer, as thin as " Bosfon chips,” sold on the street and eaten by the populace. A GOOD fcOCATIOW. Resident—"Yoa don’t intend to open a shop in this barren waste, do you ?” Plumber—"Yes, I have jnst bought the property." Resident—"Bat you an half a mite away from the nearest house, and fully a mile from the center of the town." Plumber—"Yea; I kndw it That te consider ? 7 itiJttot- Howao? ? , Plamber-"Itwm^* B * ^ * *7 to come back after my toote. (Ulphia Evening Call. Eastern Man—"Have you any^Judes in your town ?” Western Man—"Well, I should say so; the wont dudes you ever saw.*’ Eastern Man—"I did not suppose the species had got so far West" Western Man—"You jnst bet the East ain’t got mnch that the West hasn’t Why, sir, some of the dudes out West wonld just make yoa laugh younaM sick; they’re-»o queer." Eastern Man—"Indeed I" Western Man—"Yes, sir-ee. Why, I know one what’s so pastielar he changes his shirt every weak." A XABUCW BSCAra. " Sister!” cried a little boy running into toe room, "your little pug dog has bit me on the leg." "What!” exclaimed toe frightened young lady. "Beauty hat bitten you on the log? Let me see.’’ She hastily polled down his stocking, and, sure enongh, there was the impres sion of his teeth. IV"Yon Haughty boy,” said his sister, shaking him violently. "Don’t you know better than to tease Beauty ? Some day he will bite a big lump oat of jom eg, and it might make him deathly siek." ♦ THK OLD nr *v- Opfotal Hcraee Poeter will and Mr. John Savage celebration will cover dvoolude with a banquet, orohabjy at Oenay Island. They All Inew H#^» I took a large spider irate his web under the basement of a mill, put himoo a chip and set him afloat on the quiet waters of the pond. He walked all about on the sides of his bark, surveying the situation very carefully, and when the fact that he was really afloat and about a yard from shake seemed to be Bflly com prehended, he proepeeted for the nearest point of tend. This point fairly settled uptra, he immediately began fo east a wgb fotiCBe threw it miterAoeaible in,to** *W**mWCHLt raeched the shore, end made teal to toe spiies of gram. Then he tamal himself aboyt and in true sailor fashion began to liaol in hand over hand on Ms cable. Carefully be draw npon RuntS Me bark began to BSove toward too shore. 3 As it moved too faster he the it to keep Me hawses touching the watete Vary seen the ■hose, and 'pj^Hy Two Views of It borrowed of jxm A warm mys boots and shoes be railmed waten. pTeel l^ teekteg fte them (orifefoe bonis in tokk soap I wsj jwstor, , ^ Mb to move our residence, having been comfortably e are for so lonjt a time. * flmia heaped hh way tho tear will praohjde j mg then tost ha might be a pert, and an exception in that ffhere in a yunag men in our ward wbe is teeming to play the baas teWti-ZrOte* CWfcm. — boetmanahip to the rest of * ®ompOn ions, I tried several of tjham, end they •U - - - A few days ago a business firm in Cin cinnati got into trouble among them selves, and one of the partners posted off to a lawyer to ask advice. When be had related his case he inquired : "I presume the correct way is to ask that a receiver be appointed F’ "That’s one view of it," replied the lawyer. "Why, I didn’t knovy there were two , views to such a question.” "Oh, yea. If none of you dare set fire to the store and burn up everything and call it square, you’cTtetter ask for a receiver and let him be two months stealingyou all blind. I should advise the torch, as that will save paying two montirn' rent ” Tkabs.—The Archives d Ophthalmo logic states that observation leaves no WA TKB- WMMML HOPB. Everywhere in Europe we have fonnd | the grain mills stationed in the languid streams and propelled by undershot wheels—that is, the floating mills are anchored, and the great wheels are slow- ; )y turned by the water running by. These are along the Rhine, in the ‘Id< r, the Adige, the Po, the Arno. The wheels go at a snail’s pace, but that te the pace of all Europe, and it doesn’t take mnch celerity to satisfy the restful spirit of the average Italian.—Letter *rom Haiti. The Elephant Business. The controversy about Mr. Barn urn's sacred white elephant— if it te sacred and white—promises at least to serve ss an object lesson in natural history, if the controversy te aver decided. A London newspaper opnrsapondent calls the brute pink, and says it te no more white than an alligator. A gentleman who has jnst returned from Siam declares tost it te toe color of Jersey mod. The Siamese Min ister at the Court of St. James’s as there is no such thing ss s white ele phant, and the Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts told his congregation Sunday evening, T ““ U»t k>. Btroom wu t^iog top^m od l»noJblood~ll,<» OT n,U>oo«k ro «k ! , ln „ 0 ., Wph „ ll „ oou^d o». are mu. Referring to a recent in point, tbs writer lays that the phenomenon te not cauaed by any special local disease, though it generally coin cides with other hemorrhages in the akin er moeoua membranes. The htoml lost varies from a few drops to a winefelaes- m unity for a white on* -4-: —: -- ET-- Hocne.—When William B. Aator died he had 720 houses on his rent-roll in New York City. The present nnm her of Aator honses exceeds 1,200, the h whole estate being valued at 980,000,000, ful; the flow teste but 0 few minutes, producing is intermittent, ~ 1TQ1. . aa inooaM of $8,000,000 a wmas tut A fanner boarded a Central train at Syracuse the other day and took his seat beside a handsomely uniformed army officer on hie w^y to hie poet at Governor a Island. "Well, sir,” commenced the officer, keen fora little fan, "how are the potato bugs this year? 1 Good cropF’ The old man eyed him a moment and shook his bead sadly." "Ain't no more potato bogs,” said he. "Can’t find an insect in New York State nowhere. Even the army worm te gone.” t "Have, eh?” replied the officer, with a grin. "Wbat haa become of them?” "I don’t know,” sighed the old mqp. "Lesstway I don't knew for sure, but I hearn that a good many on ’em have been jugged for duplicating their pay aooonnts 1" QUALITY SrPBKIOB TO QUAMTITT. "My dear,” said a Brooklyn man to bis wife, after perusing the evening paper, "are you aware of the fact that a man’s brain weighs three and a halt pounds ?” "You’ve just read that, haven’t you?** "Yet.” "Well, doesn’t the article say that a woman's is somewhat lighter ?” ‘’Jt certainly does.” »—•',--a "And it also informs ydii that a wo man's brain te of much final quality ?” "Yes,” “Well, then, joat concentrate your three- and-a-half-pound intellect on that scuttle, and figure out how mnch it will weigh after yon bring ,it np full of coal from the cellar.” The man with a gnat head departed for the lower regions in match of In formation. ■ value ClVKOT.— pnt an article) (Kittle with an 50 cento fcOtt, aa meats, aideven of phtoti, te nuaHy by the Btejjr ,• A