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THE i DARLINGTON HERALD. IF FOR THE LIBERTY OF THE WORLD WE CAN DO ANYTHING.” VOL. II. mwrnmmmmmm SBE IMITATE* BffcDS. ’ A V««ir W*MI Wh« SIwsLIke KatareS Saanslfrs. It is straight-front the throat that Miss Mabel Stephenson lets loose that wonderful flood of rippling, twitter ing bird melody. It is really very remarkable what this modest and gentle faced young girl does. She is such a very quiet and unobtrusive young person attirst sight that the surprise when she gives you the iirst imitation of her gifts is all the greater. , . When in her very ittleas way she begins her little recitation about birds, and thtfii suddenly breaks into it, and frotri that moment goes weav ing and winding all through it, that marvelous linked chain of all the liquid bird melody of an entire for est and meadow bird orchestra, the effect is quite startling. Shut your eyes, and you are no longer in the frowzy atmosphere of a theater. It is an early morning in .Inne, and yon are out in the woods somewhere. There are no electric lights and gas jets. It is blazing summer sunlight. It is the odor of the forest, not of the footlights, that conies to you. ■ Certainly it is a very astonishing thing to be done just by tfie loosening and contending of chords, with the valuable aid nchiaT tubes and a thorax. DARLINGTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1892. NO. 43. you have only to watch fer as she gives imitations to be convinced that this is all rubbish. She simply has a marvelous development of the vocal chords, which has been devel oped by years of practice that begun when she w as a mere child and when the throat muscles and vocal chords were pliant and flexible. The sounds come straight from the throat, as was remarked at the beginning of this article, and as you can see very plainly yourself if you are near by when the imitations are given. You A (alraUtian as It How Lrag Be* f«rr It Will Ctat. There is a distinct limit to man’s existence on the earth, dictated by the ultimate exhaustion of the sun. It is, of course, a question of much interest for us to sneculatc on the probable duration of the sun’s beams in sufficient abundance for the con tinued maintenance of life. Perhaps the most reliable determinations are those which have been made by Prof, l-angley. They are based on his own , experiments upon the intensity of will then very distinctly observe the w | Hr radiation, conducted under throat flatter, as docs that of a canary when he is soaring up in the high notes of some of his dizziest trills. Speaking of trills, Miss Stephenson says these, curiosly enough, arc the easiest and least tiresome of the bird songs to imitate. It is the short, sharp twitters and the long, wailing cries which are the most trying.— New York World. Lrsiwiii f*r a Young Man’s Life. v of A KKMAKKAHI.G ntPT. Miss Stephenson says, and after hearing her you are quite prepared to believe it, that she can imitate any bird that wears wings and feath ers, and as wings and feathers arc part of the anatomical equipment of all birds, it amounts to saying that she can imitate them all. She can give the judicious and nonfrivolous “quack, quack” of the conservative and serious minded duck us accur ately as sl|c can imitate the giddy, soaring song of the vanishing sky lark. It was a very early acquisition with her. She took to talking bird lingo almost as scam as she took to talking the sound commercial En glish of Michigan, where she was born. She is a true American girl, Miss Steplfcnscu, and she has mingled in the very lies! American bjyd society. Her repertoire is almost eyclusively that of our own sweet singing Amer ican birds. Nile was in England re cently, and picked up the songs of the thrush, nightingale and skylark just to show these stars <»f English bird opera that their songs were easy ! the excess of what is radically bail In the “Young Man,” Prof. John Stuart Blacie gives these rules of conduct which have guided him through life: Never indulge the notion that you have any absolute right to choose the sphere or the circumstances in which you are to put forth your powers, of social action, bnt let your daily wisdom or life be in in making a good use of the oppor tunities given you. We live in a real and a solid and a truthful world. In such a world only truth, in the long run, can hope to prosper. Therefore avoid lies, mere show and sham, and hollow superficiality of all kinds, which is, at the best, a painted lie. lad, whatever you arc and whatever you do, grow out of a Arm root of truth and a strong soil of reality. The nobility of life is works. We live in a working world. Tlie lazy and idle man does not count in the plan of campaign. “My Father worketh hither to, and I work.” lad that text be enough. 4 Never forget Nt Paul’s sentence, “Ixive is the fulfilling of the law.” This is The steam of the social chine. ' 5 Bnt the steam requires regula tion. It is regulated by intelligence and moderation. Healthy action is always n balanccof forces, and all ex tremes are dangerous, the excess of a good thing being often more danger ous in its social consequences than ina- TBE END §1' THE WORLD. enough, and tha* anybody who had had a course in an American bird music conservatory could do them. But it is the whippoorwill, the yellow breast,.the ehicadee, the red bird, the catbird, the meadow lark, the swal low, the bobolink and, of c nirse, the robin with the red waistcoat—these are the birds, good Americans all, whose songs she loves best to sing. Then she can give to perfection the wHrd, melancholy cry of the loon and «an pipe so like the quail that you baveonlvto shnt your eyes and fancy that you are out in the brown stubble of the fields. Neither the domestic goose nor the grave and reverend owl can be classed exactly among the merry warbling songsters of the feathered kind, but they each have a method />f expressing disap proval. now SHK I.KAKKED. It was simply for her own amuse ment that she first developed her re markable gifts of imitation, until now she has found that she can turn it to a source of protit, and this she is doing. Her bird language education was only just liegun in the country out in Michigan. When she was a very little girl she came to New York to jive, and since then she lias had to dc}ieml iijkiii bird stores and tipun such birds as sljc and her friends possess fur tuition. 6 Do one tiling well. “Be a whole man,” us Chancellor Thurlow said, “Do one thing at one time.” Make clean work and leave no tags. Allow no delays when you are at a thing; do it tiud lie done with it. 7 Amid miscellaneous reading, read nothing that you do not care to remeniWr, and remember nothing yon do not mean to use. 8 Never desire to appear clever and make a show of your talents before men. Be honest, loving, kindly and sympathetic in all you say and do. Cleverness will flow from yon natur ally if you have it, and applause will come to you unsought from those who know what to applaud but the applause of fools is to be shunned. circumstances that give .them special value. I shall endeavor to give a sum mary of the interesting results at which he has arrived. The utmost amount of heat that it would ever have been possible for the son to have contained would supply its radiation for 18,000,000 years at the present rate. Of course, this does not assert that the snn, as a radiant body, may not be much older then the jieriod named. We have already seen that the rate at which the sun beams are jHiured forth lias gradual ly increased as the sun rose in tem perature. In the early times the quantity of sunbeams dispensed was much less per annum than at present, and it is therefore quite possible that the figures may be so enlarged as to meet the requirements of any reasonable geological demand with regard to past duration of life on the earth. It seems that the sun has already dissipated aboht fonr-fifths of the energy with which it may have oiiginally been endowed. At all events, it seems that, radiating energy at its present rate, the sun may hold out for 4,000,000 years or for 5,000,000 years, but not for 10,000,000 years. Here, then, we discern in the remote future a limit to the duration of life on this globe. We hare seen that it does not seem possible for any other source of heat to be available for replenishing the waning stores of the luminary. It may lie that the hea’ was originally imparted to the snn as the result of some great collision between two bodies which were both dark before the collison took place, so that, in fai t, the two dark masses coalesced into a vast nebula from which the whole of onr system has lieen envol- ved. Of course it is always conceiva ble that the sun may be reinvigorated br a repetition of a similar starting process. It is, however, hardly ne cessary to observe that so teirifle a convulsion would be fatal to life in the solar system. Neither from the heavens above, nor from the earth beneath, does it seem missilde to dis cover any rescue for the human rare from the inevitable end. The race is ns mortal as the individual, and so far as we know, its span cannot under any circumstances be run out beyond a nunilier of millions of years which can certainly be told on the Angers of both hands, and probably on the fingers of one. Delliflneat Taxes Comptroller General Ellerbe has issued the follow ing circular letter to the various county treasurers call ing their attention to the matter of collecting delinquent taxes: Dear Sin—You have been pre sented blanks upon which to report to this office the date that executions against delinquent tax-payers were placed in the hands of the Sheriff. In some cases these blanks have not been filled up and returned. If such is the case with yon please attend to it immediately. The sheriffs are re quested by law to collect these exe cutions and to make returns to you within ninety (90) days after the date of issue thereof, and you arc in structed at the projier time to de mand of the sheriff a return of all tax executions placed in hie hands, and immediately report the result to this office. . Further, 1 beg to call your atten tion to the fact that it is a violation of law for county treasurers to retain money collected for .State purposes longer than fifteen (15) days. Respectfully, W. II. Em.krhk, Comptroller Gen. S. C. M ho is a EfitleMaiT A gentleman is a person not merely acquainted with certain forms slid etiquette of life, easy and self-possessed in society, able to to speak and act and move in the world without awkwardness, and free from habits which arc vulgar and in bad taste. A gentleman is something beyond this—that which lies at the root of every Christian virtue. It is the thoughtful desire of doing in every instance what others should do unto him. He is constantly think ing, not indeed how he may give pleasure to others for the mere sake of pleasing, but how he may avoid hurting their feelings. When lie is in society he scriipnlously ascertains the [msition and relations of every one with whom he comes in contact, that he may give to each his due position ('•vpaiianshlp is HealthfHl. There is u wise old German say ing that “Only a god or a brute can dwell in solitude.” Men and women need congenial companionship, both for the sake of health and happiness. Just as your lungs, after using up all the oxygen in a close room, need to be tilleil with fresh, out-of-door air, so your mind needs contact with other minds to get new ideas. There is such a tiling as mental as well as physical hunger. Herders on the large cattle ranches of the West fre quently become mad from the isola tion they are forced to endure. Wo- Now, come back to the pliysiologi- men on lonely farms and in small cal feature of the matter, there a tillages g ov morbid and mildly good many people who will tell you : insane, and people do not guess the just exactly how Miss Stephenson j cause is want of companionship. Frff Krhalarsblps in Nasbvillr Narnal Ullrge. A competitive examination for seven scholarships in the Nashville Normal College will lie held in Col umbia on the 20th day of July, proximo, at 10 o’clock a. m. These scolurships are good for two years and pay *100. jier year and expenses to ami from Nashville. The appli cant must not be less than 17 nor more than 30 3 ears of age and may be either mule or female. He or she must be of good'moral character, read fluently; sjiell correctly; write a fine hand; express thoughts in gramma tical English; solve problems of moderate difficulty under all the or- honor, his* proper studies how he may avoid touching in conversation on any subject which may abstain from allusions which may call up a disagreeable or offensive association. A gentleman never alludes 10, never even appears to be conscious of any defect, bodily de formity, inferiority of talent, of rank, of reputation in the person in whose society he is placed. He never assumes any superiority to himself, never ridicules, never sneers, never I (oasts, never makes a display of his own power or rank or advantages, such as is implied in habits or tricks or inclinations which may be offensive to others.— Christian Endeavor. ErrrybaA) Likes Her. A FAMOUS CHOIR. The Exqaislte Yaral Music Heard In SI. Peter's, Rome. lobe ^‘Undoubtedly the finest choir in the world is that of the St. Peter's in Home, known as the Pope’s choir,” •aid Frank Terre, of Baltimore, at tin Southern. “There is not a female voice in it, and yet the most difficult oratorios and sacred music written are tendered in such a maimer as t> make one think that Adelina Patti's high soprano is leading. The cltoit ie composed of sixty boys. They ar< trained fur the wnlk from I tie timv they get control of the vocal chords, sad some of t he best singers are not over nine yeats old. At the age ol seventeen they are dropped from tin choir. * “Tossy that, at the Pope’s service one hears the grandest church music that the world has ever known sounds common place, so ftr short dees it fall of a|it description. lam some thing of a connoisseur, have been a profound student of music all my lif. and have heard every gn at opera produced by the most famous orguui zilnni", but until a tew months aoo, when I heard the Pope’s choir, I had no idea that the Imniaii voice was capable of such performances. I don’t see why the big operatic or ganizations don’t learn a lesson from St. Peter’s and have a vhorotis ot boys exclusively. U Would not. sin 1 lie haldheads, but it would please the genuine lov< rs ol music.—Si. Louts Glolie Deniocia'. Great BWies sf Fresh Water. Geographers claim that there are twenty five rivers on the globe which have a total length each of over 1,000 miles. Of these, two (the MisGssip pi from the source of the Missouri in the Rocky Mountains to the Eads jetties, and the Amazon from the source ot the Ben : lit the Isle ol Marajo) are over 4,000 miles in length. To t>e ex ict, the former is 4,300 and the latti r 4,020 miles front tlie ; source to the place where (heir wutcis ate unnglcd with those of the He ‘ffeean. Four claim a total length ot over 3,000 and under 4,000 They are the Yenisei in Asia, length, 3,- 580; the Kiautr, Asia, length, 3,900; the Nile, Africa, 3,240, and the Hoang ho, Asia, which is 2,040 miles. .Seven streams on the globe ate 1111 | der- 3,000 and over 2,000 miles in j length, the Volga in Russia one urle | In-low the surface is one ton 1 Tbe Great Fieri. grea passed away in the South t he follow ing estimate is made of the losses oc casioned by the high water, a loss un precedented in the history of flood: Missouri—Wheat and corn destroy ed (500,000 acres) $10,000,000; homes ruined, $1,000,000; cattle drowned, $50,000; railroad property destroyed, $150,000* Total, $11,000,000. Tennessee—Cotton loss, $600,000; wheat loss, $1,200,000; homes and cattles, $100,000. Total, $1,900,- 000. Kentucky’s loss, $200,000. Arkansas—Farms inundated, 9,- 338; loss as follows: Corn, $2,500,- 000; cotton, $5,000,000; other pro ducts, $2,500,000. Total, $10,000,- 000. Mississippi's loss, $1,000,000. Louisiana's loss, $5,000,000. Total loss, $28,000,000. This cst'matc does not include stagnation ir. business among the merchants and transportation lines. A conservative estimatp of the amount of damage Caused by the loss from the high waters from Kansas City to New Orleans will reach the enormous figure of $50,000,000. The above figures show very plain ly the appalling losses occasioned by the floods in the Western rivers. The lands inundated arc the richest in the country, and when free' from floods province abu idantly. Of course these allevial lands arc far more fertile than the soil in this State, but then we are not subject to such severe losses, and probably in the long run our farmers make as much money as those of this recent ly flooded section. Nearly all the rivers that caused the damage were as high us they have jever been known. A Year Without a Summer. In the year 1816, according to the best records, January and Febuary were warm and spring-like. March was cold and stormy. Vegetation had gotten well along in April when real winter set in. Sleet and snow fell on seventeen different days in May. In June there was either frost or snow every night but three. The snow was five inches deep for serveral days in succession in the in terior of New York State and from ten inches to three feet in Vermont and Maine. July was cold and frosty, ice formed as thick as win dow panes in every one of the New i England Suites. August was still worse; ice formal nearly an inch in in thickness and killed nearly every 1 | l( . i green thing in the United States and WHAT IS PLUCK! A Batrh of Dtliltiaus Seat British Paper. t« a This is the one that won: Fighting with the scabbord when the sword is broken. The following are some of the best definitions sent in: Moral backbone. The power a man has to say “no” when he knows his wife wants him to say “yes.” Fearlessness free from foolhardi ness. The chivalry of nature's knight hood. That‘-which enables one, when lighting against adverse circum stances and knocked down, to rise and try another round. The heart of a lion in the body of man. The best remedy for despair. The force which converts an ordi nary man into a hero. Honest daring without caring. The absence of fear in the presence of danger. The courage to do the right thing at the right moment. 1 rrepressible stoutheartedness. That which keeps a man up when he it down. The offspring oof enrage and the mother of success. Moral grit. A Timely Warning. Do the pople ever stop to think where and how they are being carried? Our judges were elected before partisan strife began among us and were chosen from the soundt st lawyers, the purest men, the most faithful democrats that could be found. Now there is a general war against them. If Governor Tillman’s speeches mean anything they mean that with legislature to suit him he will turn all these men out and have judges to suit him— judges elected as reward for partisan service. Do the people want that? Do they want one man to control their laws and the ex]K)sition of their laws, their liberties and rights, the power of taxation and life and death? If any man wants to lie a slave, if any South Carolinian wishes to throw away the rights for which South Carolinians gave their blood a hun dred years ago and for which South Carolinians have stood sturdily through war, desolation and prose cution, let him vote for B. R. Till man.—Greenville News. There is a type of a girl that everybody likes. Nobody can tell exactly why, but after you have met hor you turn away to some other woman and say: “Don’t 3011 like Miss Grosvenor?” Now, the reason you like her is a subtle one; without knowing all about her you feel just the sort of a girl she is. She is the girl who appreciates the fact that site cannot always have the dinary rules of arithmetic; solve Iirst choice of everything in the equation of two unknown quantities; parse the words of/u ordinary Eng lish sentence; locate the principal towns, cities, rivers and mountains of the world and describe the leading events in the history of the United States. Any candidate who has any chronic disease, such as weak lungs or weak eyes will be rejected. The use of tobacco in any foym is a disqualification for a scholarship. If it should appear that a candidate intends to use his scholarship chiefly as a means for securing an education or of preparing sion other than world. She is the girl who is not aggies sivc and does not find joy in inciting aggressive people. She is the girl who has tact enough not to say the very thing that will cause the skeleton in her friend’s closet to rattle his house. She is the girl who, whether it is square inch. Storm waves soiu. iiinej- i» Europe. In the spring of 1817, travel at. a speed of fin y miles an hour,, corn which had been kept over from and the distance bet w. en tin* t w o | the crop of 1815, sold for from $5 to crests of a wave is fifti en times 1 he $19 a bushel, the buyers purchasing •■eight—a fiv. -f-ot wave, then for.-, being seventy five feet long. The force of I be s*‘a at some |Hiinls is said to be equal to seventeen tons to tlie square rod.—Herald ofGospcI Lib erty. Ilia Time Had (tar. Is for seed. On May 10,1835, snow fell to a depth of a foot in Jamestown, Va., and piled up in huge drifts in most of the Northern States. There was snow in many parts of Iowa and Illinois on May U, 1878, and again as -late as May 23, 1882.—Globe I lemocrat. there a man in all this andi ence,” fiercely exclaimed a female lecturer, “that lias ever done any thing to lighten the burden resting on his wile’s shouldet? What do you know of woman's work?” “Is there a man here,” iln eonlin tied, lolding her arms, and looking over her audience with superb scorn, ‘'that lias ever got up in the tiioru ing, le wing his poor, worn-oul wife to enjoy her slnnibi rs, gone down stairs, made the fire, cooked his own breakfisl, sewed the missing hut tons |•ll'•lllc children’s clothes, darned the family stocking-, scoured the pots and kt-llliH, cleaned and tilled the lamps, swept the kitchen, and done all this, if necessary, day after day, uucimiplaiiiingly? It there is such a man in l ids audience, let him rise up. Water rarllraliaa. Professor draw ing attention warm or cold, clear of stormv, finds * should like to see him!” no fault with the weather. She is the girl who, when you in vite her to any place, compliments you by looking Iter I test. Site is the girl who makes this himself for a profes- wot Id a pleasant place Itccaitse she is teaching he should so pleasant herself. And in the rear of the hall, a mild looking man in spectacles, in obedi enee 10 iln* siiininims, timidly arose. He was the Itushiud of the t-loquetil speakt r. It. was the first time he hail ever had the t lianee to assert him self. I’etterkofer has lieen to the inqsirtant place occupied by the plant life of our rivers in purifying the water. His view is that the organic matter w hich floats on our streams is remov ed by the various forms of plant life growing in the water, and that the water bacteria also take their jiart in neutralizing the effect of the harm fnl organisms arising from the pre sence of sewage and like noxious material discharged into rivers. If, however, the sewage he discharged in a crude state, or the water becomes impregnated with acid or |ioisonotis waste products from industrial estab lishments, there is resulting diminu- : lion of plant life and consequent loss of the purifying power which that life exerts.— Bell’s Messenger. A lily in Twe Hrmixphem. In one respect at least Quito, the capital of Ecuador, is the most uni que city in the world - it is situated in both the Northern ami Southern hemispheres, a distinction claimed by no other place of importance on the globe. At Quito the sun rises and seis at f* o’clock the year around. You may forget to wind your watch while you are visiting the Ecuadorean capital, hut you need not hunt up a regulator—set it when the sun rises or sets and you wd| In* sure to be right. Old Sol makes no mistakes. In one part of the city, tlie summer season does battle with old winter, who is just across the street. The seasons, as far as names arc concern ed, change almost instantly; but, as the temperature is remarkably even, these curious points are seldom thought of or commented on by the 60,000 people who make Quito their home. F«p«lar Seifice. A corresdondent tells this interest- dor- thesi* wonderful imitations. It is nothing more than whistling pure and simple, many of them will say. The very keen ami knowing ones sneer even at whistling. Nobody could whistle in that way, they say, with just the whistling apparatus It is for this reason that a woman's work at homo is always more trying w | ljtc vo „„ tl>*"» 'l»*" »f I"'' - husband, who goes; Smith randii.a. to his office, sees new faces, and has ! .«• ——_ the friction that is produced by moot-' AIhjvc all things, avoid tault-lind- ittg other jieople. Even the fanner ' ,, 8 ‘""I a habit of criticism. Ia*t lias more intercourse with his neigh- )' ,mr n| 1c '» reference to your social not Ik* allowed to compete. The ; And, by and by, when you come to object of t his college is to train teach-: think of it. Isn’t site the girl who ers for the profession of teaching. ^ makes you feel she likes you, and This examination is open to every ! therefore you like her? -Boston and woman in Globe. ing snake story: “A few days ago I sent two boys to tire spring after water, and in a moment one of them came, ' lin, l M ' vcre being lit, m naming back in great fright, saying j ,m to ‘ s 'l * n a " 1 ‘"' An angry Georgia Alliance man that he saw a stinging rattlesnake legislator was tired and has iot a cat out of a bag, which it is ' vi,l ‘ rattlers on his bead and a horn said threatens to destroy the whole! 0,1 ^'s tail, and one-half of the snake “There was a negro down in one of the counties of my district,” said Congressman John M. Allen, of Mississippi “who was elected to the legislature during the reconstruction times and served one term. He was uneducated, but knew enough to vote with his party every time, and besides picked up a vague smattering of parliamentary law. the winter afte** that he was drawn on the jury of the court. The docket was crowd ed and the court held until a late hour. It was his first service on a jury. Oik* afternoon lute, just as he was called The ex- did not relish (Ik* prospect of being kept away from his supper. No after the required twelve had been accepted and counsel for the plaintiff was In all artificial light the waste is over ninety per cent. •Seventy-three per cent, of the rail road passenger cars of Massachusetts are heated by steam. There are 413 species of trees found within the limits of the Uni ted States and Territories. The banana yields a larger supply of food for man than any other plant on a similar extent of ground. It has been scientitieally demon strated that the eurth’saxisonceeverv 437 days undergoes a distinct oscilla tion. The microscopists say that a mos quito has twenty-two “teeth” in the end of its bill—eleven above and the same below. The corporation of Glasgow, Scotland, is about to erect a generating station large enough to supply 40,000 incandescent electric lamps. In testing the conditions of the atmosphere inside a petroleum tank, if the air at the bottom is found not inflammable or explosive the air above is sure not to be so. A new cure for hydrophobia was successfully tried in the I’asteur In stitute at Milan, Italy. It consisted of a subcutaneous injection of tlie virus in the “fixed form.” An English paper proposes* a new spraying machine that will deliver the spray under cover *> that the wind will not disturb it. and also one that will raise tip lb.* .im- ainl thus pc’mit the spray to reach all sides. A further great reduction in the cost of aluminum has been hoped for by M. Fattre, whose process consists in obtaining cheap alttmiiitmi chlo ride and decomposing it electrically. The chlorine would be a valuable bye product. The commercial success of the plan, however, is not yet as sured. It has been found t hat by passing mixed hydrogen and carbonic oxide over nickel and cobalt they can be separated. Then by apply ing the hydrogen to strips of platinum, a powerful primary battery is formed which will yield, it is stated, fifty per cent, of the total energy in the hydro gen absorbed. An installation of c!i*etrie light is being laid down in the Batignolles Tunnel near Paris, France, in which the incandescent lamp* are placed at a height of about fifteen feet above the rails. The light is received by plates of bttrnisted tin covered with glass, whieh reflect a soft and agree able light into the carriages. Long distance photography is rendered quite sncpe-sftil by a new camera with a telescope objective, which consists of a concave lens of short focus and a convex lens of con siderable length of focus. These are put at a certain distance apart, depending on the difference of the two foci. By the laws of optics this arrangement projects an inverted image of an object at a long distance from the lenses. A photograph by Dr. Gill, present ed to the Paris Academy, shows from 30,000 to 40,000 stars, besides two nebula?, in an area of four square degrees. The exposure was over three hours, instend of one hour, as ar ranged for plates of the international chart of the heavens and if such ex posure were possible for the entire man, it is thought that 300,000,000 stars w ould record their existence, in stead of 30,000,000. Dr. Gricsbach of the Geological Survey of India, who has returned to Rangoon from a tour of exploration to the north of the Bhumo, reports that near Myitkina,in a district ab solutely uninhabited, he 1ms dis covered most remarkable alluvial gold deposits, stretching for a great dis tance up the course of streams and less than fifteen miles in width. A ton of alluvial deposit produced twenty-five grains of gold. Lead also has been found in abundance. furnished by nature. Miss Stephen- Ixtrs at the market, or at the village; sentiments Ik* simply this: Pray for sou, they will toll you, has some in- grocery than his wife, who may not the bad, pity the weak, enjoy the getiious little niechantcal device for see anyone outside of her ow n family gnod, and reverence Imth the great uinking the sounds, whieh she con- for weeks. It is a great mistake fori ,,,K ' s iiialI, us playing each his part ceals in her mouth. ; young married people to isolate them- aptly in the divise symphony of the All this msk s the gifted bird selves. Even if their tastes lead them universe, soloist laugh. She could not whistle to a quiet life, they should make it a „ ; s world’s a note if she tried, she says, and as [point to cultivate a few agreeable' | H ,palatum is iiierea.sjiio at the yttte fqr carrying something in her mouth j friend# ! y f peui ly ti.uou a yew, An exchange says that the first comet has uppeaml in the Northern hemisphere since 1882 can now seen bv those who get up early enough in the morning. Hisclearly visible tiefore dawn, and will not disap|•car until the latter part of June. Its length is about twenty organization. He says that at the was black, and t he other half spotted, meeting of the State Alliance last 1 went there to see the monster, and year an inside ring was organized when we got there a Mack snake about J ttiidtr tlie native of “Gideon’s Band,” - . .. . |k . and that In* was appointed organizer tosnake about 2J feet long. The rat- j >') rising to Ins feet and exclaiming K for his county. Gideon's I land coo- »hr was rattling with alt bis might sists of a select uiimlicr for each tlll “ whnvd brother was swallowing about to state his case, the negro swallowim' a ^t- 1 slatesiiian-jnror us ton i lied everybody county, not to exceed thirty, and isj with all his power. We left them, intended to direct and govern the unit went back in about an hour and policy of the order. It alone d«- both were dead.”-Great Divide, cides who shall or shall not offer for degrees, and it has eight well dcvel- public office. The band is oath- In Turkey, the disappearance of I tails. It shines like a star of the 1 I he other members of the n,,. sl|1| al u :jri,t accounted for by •• 1 order are not allotted even to know 1 op fourth nitignitMde, and can bo found'oFTtsTxisteV'crTresidei'i't laving- j t,H ' l* ri,Hlical retire,ne "t of jnst West of the constellation Be-1 ston, when asked about the baud, rc-| P* ull ° luminary for prayer that and ££cti»Md. ■ fused to talk about it. I religious reflection. in a loud voice: “May it please de coht, I moves yo’, sab, dut dis coht do now adju’n ontil toinorrer maianin’.’ The judge was amazed at the unseemly interruption and informed the sable juror courts never adjourn- , | ed except oil their own motion. ‘“Dat’sall right,’ resjamded Un parliamentary juror, “but sab, yo kiiint deny dat a motion to adju’n is j alius in ohdah!’ Florence Dhtriet Appointments. JOHN M. WlldMIN, P. E. Choniw station Ium» in. If* Chentw circuit, Mt. Olivet fuw l**\ H* llartavillo, DHiniwctts June 24 Hyde, Union Juno 25, 26 Durliinrtmi circuit, Wesley Uha|>el July 2, 3 TIininoiiNville, Pine Grove July H Uartersville, St. Paul July li, 10 Lunar, Lunar July 1*1, IT Scranton, Uoncord July 23, 24 KrtinKliAni, Oak Grove... iMkeUity, lleliron JohiiMonvillc, Muddy Greek Auiruftt Ul.44 Klnindroo, Ellin August 20,21 Georgetown circuit, St. PauPrt August 27, 2H Salters, Harmony August 2H, 2f» Georgetown Mtation Sept. 3, 4 East Effingham, Hethlehem Sept. 10, II Mars Bluff, Fricndihip Sept. 17,18 The Order of the Garter is the most coveted of all the European orders. It is also the oldest; excepting the Dauuebrog of Drnmark. July HO. HI Auiniet 'I. t