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WEEKLY EMTION. WiyySBORO, S. C., wii)yESDA Y. MARCH 1, 1882. ESTABLISHED Df 1844, Our School-Honse by t:ie Way, Some distance from the roadside inn, Adown a pleasant street, Wheio, summer (lavs, you'd see the prints Of little, bate, brown feet, \ O'er which the great, cool shadows fell . Through all the gladsome day? There stood, by trees a secret kept, Our school-house by the way. * Outside it had a dress of white? Had windows half a scoreHad blinds as many, brightly green-? wbp1 a sicgse western aoor. Within, a uall of dainty white, Of books a bright array, With flowers and pictures; all made glad Oar schoil-hoiise by the way. Southward, two maples, twins by birth, And twin-? to growth aud mien, With branches, twisting overhead, y* Where bird ling nests were seen, y Stood guard, and through the summer-time i he sunshine kept at bay, Lest it should beam unkindly on Our school-house by the way. Northward, an elm of wondrous size, His branches drooping down, Threw all the day its waving shade "While looking toward the town. "Westward, in front, were poplars three, Arms lifted, as if they Would call rich blessings down upon . Our school-house by the way. *> *' Eastward, 80 near, the golden fruit Tempted oar childhood eyes, An orchard str?od within the mead, With trees of giant size. It had an ancient, time-worn look, Being old and somewhat gray; ^ 'Twas planted long before they bnilt Oar school-hoase by the way. ? Its owner was a kind old man, His mien and manners mild, He thongh fourscore, had not forgot That he was once a child. And so, to gather flowers or fruit In autumn or in May, There went the bright-eyed children of Oar school-house by the way. Ten paces3onthward tbrougti tne ra eaa There ran a babbling brook, Coursing beneath the orchard trees With many a carious crook. There at the sultry noontide hour The children loved to stay, And with them she who taught within - Our school-house by the way. But years have passed; another band Sits by that dainty wall, Or wanders by that orchard brook Where early robins call And still, adown the pleasant street, Through all the gladsome day, There stands, by trees a secret kept, y Oar school-house by the way. ? ?The Teacher.?C. S. Y. 'z - A Touch of Jealousy. "Done! finished! Thank fortune!" eaid Kate Wise, with a great sigh of relief, as she threw down a velvet huntingjacket which she had just been mending - - - t 11 *_ t j jf lor ner cromer-iu-iaw; tmumg, ai? wc next breath: "If I thought I should ever have a husband to make and mend for all the days of my life, I should get some kind friend to put me in a lunatic # asylum to begin with." " Then, if you really do intend to remain a maiden, Miss Wise, it is quite time you were beginning to put your wf age back/' commented a mischievouslooking young man who seemed very much at home in the cozy morning-room; "for you know that some oi your illnatured friends already believe you to be twenty?at least." "As if I care who knows it!" retorted Kate, with a scornful toss of her dark, ATrwlv Vino.3 <*T rrm. twftntv?fit least." J - ? ? ? ? movingly, "and I hope to b? twenty more before I even begin to think of \ settling down. Just look at Laurie, there?orJy two years my senior, and 1 > have actually looked upon her as an old married woman for the past five years.' "Nevertheless," put in Laurie, smiling contentedly over her work, "my weight of years has not utterly crushed mc-. At least, I believe I am not grayheaded yet." Oh, no, not quite so bad as that I" admitted Kate, rather reluctantly. "But you know very well that you spend many an evening in the nursery or the sewing-room, when, if you were not married, you would be enjoying life, dancing and flirting, like the rest ol us. Beside, you no longer have the delightful privilege of choosing your escort from among half-a-dozen anxious suitors, but have to content yourself with the same one always, whether you r lite it or not." "Still, I am always sure of some invitation,retorted Laurie, with a goodnatured laugh at her sister, "and that one is certain to be from my favorite." "Oh, pshaw!" said Kate, contemptuously. "You can't make me believe f that that married woman lives who does not regret the freedom she has thrown away!" "Mark my words, Kate, you will live to take back that assertion, and wonder that you ever made it 1" exclaimed Jack Brandon, rising from the sofa and gathering up his hunting-traps, as J TKncHa-nr? AnfprAfl to doll the jaunty shooting-jacket which his kindhearted, but liberty-loving sister-in-law had mended so neatly. But Kate's only acswer to Jack's taunting remark was a decided shake of the pretty head and a saucy, defiant J laugh, as the two gentlemen strode down the walk in the crisp Autumn air, whistling to their dogs as they went. Accustomed as he was to hearing- it, Kate's latest tirade against matrimony jarred unpleasantly upon Jack Brandon's ears. All day l^ng, amid the most exciting sports of the chase, her ^ taunting words rang through his heart and disturbed the full tide of happiness which the bracing air and his s-rnmal sr>irits sect throucrh every fiber of his young and healthy frame. "I can't doubt that she things she means it all," muse-I Jack, walking slowly up to the biii which had just f dropped, with a last fluttering gasp, to the ground. "Poor thing!" he said, pityingly, as he took it up, "I wonder if Kate would care if she saw mo lying wounded and dead like this?killed by her cruelty! Bah ! I'm getting sentimental ! The truth is, I know she likes me?and I believe that she would dis cover that she loves ire, too, if she would only take the trouble to -look S into her own heart a little. But that S she will never do while her life glides on so smoothly. No wonder single blessedness looks delightful to her? half a dozen devoted slaves always at her command, and myself the greatest boobr of the lot! Well, suppose we disturb the evenness of tie current a little, and see what will come of it I" That evening the pleasant parlor of Laurie Morton's hospitable home was 'f- brilliant with light and music, and her sister Kate, the willful seamstress of the morning, was entertaining,. in a charming fashion, a party of gay young friends, herself the most attractive and admired of the group. Jack Brandon lingered about her, with his usual half-careless, half-devoted manner, save that to-night there was a preoccupied air about him, so different from his natural sunny gayety of disposition that Katesoon began to rally him upon it. "To tell the truth, Kate," said he, "I have been thinking all day of what you said this morning. If yon really mesji all you say " "Mean ifel" she interrupted, indignantly. "Of course I mean it! Have Sf'"-:- . I ever given yon, or any one else, any reason to snppose I did not V" "No, I can't say that yon have," admitted Jack, ruefully. "But, as I was saying, if yon really never intend to be married, why, there's no use in a fellow making a fool of himself for your sake forever. So I must seek elsewhere for the love which I foolishly believed yon I rrnnlrl oranf mo BAmft dar Of rwnrao J O- ?* ?WW ? ./ - ^ a girl knows best what will make iier happy, and I won't annoy yon any more abont the subject. Bat we mast always be good friends, Kate, even though yon won't marry me." "With all my heart, Jack!" said Kate, a little huskily, giving him her hand. "You are the most sensible man of my acquaintance. No doabt there sire plenty of other girls who would be only to glad to resign their freedom and become Mrs. Jack Brandon." "Oh., I shouldn't wonder," returned Jack, complacently (the hypocrite!) "only, you see, my preference for yourself made me blind to their charms. However, I must now make up for lost time, since nature never intended me j fnr a. hanhftlnr " And with one of his brightest, friendliest smiles, Jack nodded a pleasant au revoir, and sauntered across the room to the vicinity of Rachel Bo wen, a young lady who had always ranked next to Kate in Mr. Brandon's warmest regards. "How coolly"he takes it!" thought Kate, her glance following his movements with a little surprise which she could not quite conceal. "Of course, I never meant to marry him, though he's good enough for any woman living. Still, I must say, I never dreamed cf his over growing tired of the situation!" So the weeks went by. Jack Brandon called upon Kate frequently, but she was no longer bored by any lover-like demonstrations. On the contrary, he was so entirely and simply the disinterested friend that she often found herself longing for some of his old fond glances, some of those countless indications, in tone and manner, that she was more to him than all others. But none ever came. Never did one of Cupid's slaves shake off his gilded fetters so easily, and "with such graceful good nature, as did tae once tiresomely devoted Jack. Occasionally he brought Rachel Bowen's name into the conversation, quite casually, but with a certain air which showed that she was fast gaining a deep hold upon his interest. And in these days it was not handsome saucy Kate Wise who received Jack's invitations to party and theater, or who rode behind the musical jingle of his sleigh bells, tucked up in warm fur robes, in the nattiest little cutter the town could boast of. Oh, no ! it was pretty, winsome, dove uke Kachei ?5owen wiio earned on all these honors, and who evidently enjoyed it to the utmost, too. Kate was rallied unmercifully about the sudden defection of her chief admirer ; and the worst of it was that nobody seemed to think of him as her rejected lover. She could not even have that triumph, for she was too proud to intimate such a thing, herself, and Jack's demeanor was such that no one could possibly imagine to be a disappointed swain. So, though deeply chagrined at heart, she bore the situation bravely, and pleasantly joined in the laugh at her own expense. But a time came when Kate's laughter changed to tears; at least, in th9 solitude of her own room. Jack Brandon had broken his arm, and had been taken at once to Mrs. Bowen's motherly roof to be cared for. Day after diy Kate pictured her pretty rival bendirg gently over the handsome sufferer, isoothing his pain, and rendering herselE dearer to his heart each passing hour. It was now that she most keenly realized what a sweet privilege she had thrown away. To see Jack's handsome, sunny face daily brightening her home had been such a common thing that she had thought nothing of it; but of late she had come to treasure np every word or glance of his as something precious, and now it was Rachel who was always to be blessed with those loving 5 looks, those radiant smiles! To be sure, Kate would still have her glorious freedom, but, alas! what was freedom without Jack ? In the midst of her grief she was one day surprised by a summons to Jack's bedside, and it came from Rachel herself. "Poor Jack seems out of his head," she eaid, "and as you and he were such 5 3- T U1 gooa inenas, x tiiuugm? j^uu wuiauu n mind helping us to watch with him occasionally." "Wouldn't mind!" Kate's heart was throbbing to suffocation as she stood by the couch and looked down upon the sleeping sufferer, with his poor, bandaged arm and deeply flushed cheefcs. She had expected to find him looking pale, but, thinking he had a high fever, she stood watching him in silent pity Ion? after Rachel had pleaded fatigue and left her alone with the handsome patient. Of course her womanly compassion soon conquered her pride, and a few pitying tears fell upon Jack's hot cheeks as she smoothed his brow and murmured seme Iot, caressing words. Then Jack suddenly opened his eyes and caught the fond, wistful look and the sweet 1 *-?? ?^ TPflQ n A lUYlUg Y>UXU..TJ, m UCJL T7 HiVU UUV1V TT MU uv earthly use in her trying longer to conceal her feelings ; and then, somehow, before her considerate rival again entered the room, Kate found herself actually engaged to Jack Brandon, and learned at the same time that his supposed love for Rachel and his broken arm was a shameful h^az, end that Rachel and Laurie had both been in the plot. Of course Kate threatened to break the newly-formed engagement straightway, but, having once conquered, Jack was cot afraid of that. "I knew you loved me all the time," said he, composedly, "and I thought a touch of jealousy would show you what a treasure you were in danger of ! losing.'' Let any one ask Mrs. Jack Brandon to-day if she regrets her girlhood's freedom, and she will answer, with the evasive diplomacy of a Philadelphia lawyer: The Symptoms of Smallpox. In the first place smallpox has five stages, namely: Incubation, primary fever, eruption, secondary fever and dequamation. The stage of incubation is when the disease is not known to be in the system and is gradually matarir^ toward uneasiness and pain. The stage of primary fever may be generally defined by saying that this is the time when it is first noticeable by pains in the back and head. The stage of eruption is when the virus comes to the surface and breaks out. The s?x:ondary fever is when the patient is delirious and most sick, and the last stage, that of" dequamation, is when the eraptions dry np and scale off. "Whenever you see pimples depressed in the center yon may take that as a sign of smallpox. Smallpox pustules appear first on the face, then on the neck and hands, end afterward on th(i body. At first tbty are the size and have the soliditv of small shot. ! but a layman would "not be able to judge of tkem until on and after the fourth day, when they become depressed in the center, and surrounded by a circle of pink that turns a dark crimson. These pimples are often eo thick tbat they run together. There is an odor accompanying the disease that, c ;e noticed, cannot be forgotten. The urease lasts generally about three ' weeks. THE HOME DOCTOR. Warm ajtd Cold Baths.?The physiological effects of warm and cold baths are thus noted by a writer in an English medical journal: Warm baths produce an effect upon the skin directly contrary to that which is brought about by cold water. The cutaneous vessels dilate immediately tinder the influence S\? An rrVl A !ftfl An vx tuc neat, auu, ?VLLUVJU.?JLL ijllu uiiouiun is followed by a contraction, this contraction is seldom excessive, and the ; ultimate result of a warm bath is to increase the cutaneous circulation. The pulse and respiration are both quickened in the cold bath. The warm bath increases the temperature of the body, and by lessening the necessity for the internal production of heat, it decreases the call which is made upon certain of the vital processes, and enables life to be sustained with a less expenditure of force. While a cold oath causes a certain stiffness of the muscles if continued too long, a warm bath relieves stiffness and fatigue. The final effect of both hot and cold baths, if their temperature be moderate, is the same, the difference being, to use the words of Braun, that "coid refreshes by stimulating the functions, heat by physically facilitating them, and in this lies the important difference between the cold water system and the thermal mode of treatment." Teb Management of Sick Chudben. ?The vicissitudes necessarily incident to an out-door and primitive mode of life are never the first cause of any disease, though they may sometimes betray its presence. Bronchitis, nowadays perhaps the most frequent of all infanti e diseases, makes no exception to this rule; a draught of cold air may reveal the latent progress of the disorder, but its cause is long confinement in a vitiated and over-heated atmosphere,andits proper remedy, ventilation and a mild, phlegm-loosening (saccharine)!diex, warm, sweet milk, sweet oatmeal "porridges or honey water. Select an airy bedroom, and do not be afraid to open the windows; among the children?of the Indian tribes who brave in open tents the terrible winters of the Hudson Bay territory, bronchitis, croup and diphtheria are wholly unknown; and what we call "taking cold" might often be more correctly described as taking hot; glowing stoves, and even open fires, in a night nursery, greatly aggravate the pernicious effects of an impure atmosphere. The first paroxysm of croup can be promptly relieved by very simple remedies : Fresh air and a rapid backward and forward movement of the arms, combined in urgent cases with the application of a flesh-brush or piece of flannel to the neck and the upper part of the chest. Paregoric and poppy syrup stop the sough by lethargizing the irritability and thus preventing the discharge of the phlegm, till the accumulation produces a second and far more dangerous paroxysm. These second attacks of croup (after the administration of palliatives) are generally the fatal ones. 'When the child is convalescing, let him beware of stimulating food and overheated rooms. Do not give aperient * * meaicine3; costiveness, as aii aiuer effect of pleuritic affections, will soon yield to fresh air and a vegetable diet. ?Dr. Felix Oswald. Staying1 Off a Run. In times of severe panic people have been known to refuse Bank of England notes and prefer local notes. In country <listricts of Scotland the old one-pound notes were greatly preferred to sovereigns. It is said that when there was a ran upon the Bank of England in 1765 the device was resorted to of paying the country people in shillings and sixpences, One acute Manchester firm painted all their premises profusely, and many dapper gentlemen were deterred from approaching the counter. A story is told of Cunliffe Brook's bank. When there was an impetuous and unreasoning rush for gold, Mr. Brooks obtained a number of sacks of meal, opened them at the top, put a good thick layer of coin upon the contents, then placed them untied where the glittering coins would be manifest to all observers. One Dank procured a cumber of people as confederates, to whom they paid gold and then slipped around again to a back door and refunded ic. and thus the effect of a stage army was produced. At another bank the chief cashier himself examined every note with the most searching scrutiny, holding it up to the light, testing the signature and making believe that, on account of alarm as to forgery, there was need of the most scrupulous care. When he had completed his pretended examination he handed the note to one of his subordinates very deliberately, with, in slow and measured terms, "Yon may pay it." Other plans were to pay the money very languidly, counting it twice over, so as to be sure the sum was right, and to give a sovereign short, so that the customer should complain. and the counting have to be done over again. At one of the banks peck measures inverted were placed in the windows facing the street, a pile of gold upon the top, after the manner of the fruit exposed to sale at street corners in the summer. At another the coin was heated in shovels over the fire in the parlor behind and handed out as "new" at a temperature of 300 deg. Fahrenheit. The clerk in charge, accommodating his phraseology to the occasion, cried out loudly every halfhour, "Now, Jim, do be gettin' on with them sovereigns; folks is waitin' foi their money." "Coming, sir, coming." wss the ready reply, and the "folk" thought the power of production boundless. It is ahvays the simple-minded and the uninformed who constitute r such : v# UUUHSlUilS 1115 CiXiCi j^uiuva v>i buu throng, jast as the people "who go to extremes are the half-edacated ones. The crowd were easily persuaded, the proof that all was right was burning their lingers.?London Society. The Man of the Period. I wonder how much right men have nowadays to rail at women for extravagance. * Let us figure npon the outfit of this man, who comes this wuy with a gay swing, softly whistling an air he can?lit at Boccaccio last night when Gettinger sung. He swings a cane worth $5, there is a silk hat worth $7, his ? n? nc ~????r oo <5 3ft UUiittr AO cento. suoii gu, suux yj? u. vj\s} overcoat $60, shirt $4, undershirt $2, coat and vest S75, pantaloons ?15, accessories $4, shoes SO, seal ring $40, watch and chain seal S250?how mnch have we? About $500. He is only in his business suit, and he hasn't got his diamond studs in his shirt, and wears a cheap pair of sleeve buttons. The average 'woman on Fifth avenue doesn't represent a greater investment, dia- j monds excepted, and she has a faculty ! of having her dresses made over, 1 whereas our lord of creation spurns a renovated coat.?New York Letter. One Mile Square. A correspondent wishes to know whether there is any difference between one tuiu I/JLIC muc There is not. Either expression denotes a square surface, each one of whose sides is a mile in length. There is a considerable diffeience, however, between two square miles and two miles square?a difference amounting to two square miles. The difference between three square miles and three miles square is six square miles, and so on. If, instead of saying "three miles square," the proper expression, ''three miles squared," were employed, the obscurity of thought abont the matter would for most persons disappear. POPULAR SCIENCE. Salamanders, during the first part o their lives, breathe by gills alone and are thus related to fishes; in the latter part they breathe by lnngs and are other ways related to the higher animals. The archaeopteryx, the famous fossil reptile-like bird, was about the size of a pigeon, and had a tail as lorig as its body, supported by numerous vertebrre, a t>air of feathers corresponding; to each vertebrae. Dr. Sternberg, who has teen investigating the causes of yellow fever, believes that its germs are carried about in clothing and other articles, and are only invisible on account of their minute size. Whether an animal will suffer or not from eating mold vegetation depends very much on the constitution of the animal. One animal will suffer no bad effects from the same fungus which will destroy the organs of another animal as a malignant parasite. A bill has been lodged in the English Parliament for the construction cf an electric railroad under the Thames, to connect Waterloo and Charing Cross stations. As the gradients on each side will not be great there wiil not be much power required to work the line. Dr. Alexander Graham Bell denies ! the assertion that deaf mutes, when taught to speak, have the accent of their native district. Some children 8rticulate after peculiar dialects, but on investigation it always turns out that they could talk before they became deaf and this cannot correctly be ascribed to heredity. Two new kinds of preservative paper have lately come into commerce in Europe. One is produced by dipping soft paper in a bath of salicylic acid and then drying. The bath is prepared by mixing a strong solution of the acid in alcohol with much water. The paper is useful for covering apples, etc. The other paper, meant to preserve from moths and mildew, consists of so-called Manila packing paper, dipped in a bath and dried over heated rollers. The bath in formed of seventy parts spirit of tar, five parts raw carbolic acid (containing about a half of phenol,) twenty parts coal tar at 163 degrees, and five parts refined petroleum. From the phenomena presented by retraction, Dr. A. Kerber has estimated the height of our atmosphere to be between 117.4 and 119.7 miles. The editor of the "Journal of the Franklin Institute," says: "Some of the observations on meteors and anreras hs.ve led to the conclusion that the atmosphere reaches a height of mora than 500 miles. Laplace's limit of synchronous rotation would allow a possible height of more than 26,000 miles. The theory of Fresnel and Grove, that the lnminiferous ether is only a very tenuous atmosphere, would make the portion which belongs to the earth of the same height as. Laplace's limit." Influence of the Soil on Health. The influence of the soil upon the health of those living upon it is brought out very plainly during the prevalence of epidemic diseases. That malarial diseases, like intermittent fevers, originate from the soil, is already accepted, and the more exact studies, in recent times, of the manner in which cholera, abdominal typhus, yellow fever and the plague are spread, has convinced many that these diseases, also, which were formerly considered independent of the soil, because: their specific germs are 1 communicable and are actually communicated by human intercourse and trade, are still in some way connected with it, although the nature of the connection is yet to be found out. The explanation of the frequent, sharply defined local imitations of cholera and typhoid has been sought first, in influences not of soil but of water and air, to which the germs of disease have been imparted from men ; but a clear and impartial examination of the local prevalence of these diseases in circles of greater or lesser extent, has now fnrniahed evidence that in many cases air and water can no longer be maintained to be the cauee3 of the localization, but that the sources of the epidemic must be sought in the soil In the occurrence of cholera on ships at sea, where any influence of soil would seem to be absolutely out of the question, that influence often makes itself apparent in a striking manner by tV.ii {onf tViaf orilv novarmR wlin Vi&va come from certdn places are attacked, while other parsons on the ships do not even have a diarrhea, although they are all the time with the sick, and use the same food and water and air. Ships at sea may be considered as in themselves safe from cholera ; usually sickness brought upon them in individual cases di ss out; and it is regarded in seafaring practice as an excellent prophylactic measure to go to sea. taking the sic1 \le <? and breaking up all communicat" the men with the infected port or shore. Exceptional cases of epidemics breaking out on ships cannot be regarded as arising from contagion from person to person, but always from previous communication of the ship or its crew or passengers with some placa infected with the disease.?Popular Science Monthly. A Corn-Crusher Wanted. A Louisiana sugar planter writes us that there is great need in the South for a machine that will crush or grind unshuoked ears of com, as they come from the field, into a coarse meal of com, cob, and husks, and do it rapidly. He is aware that there is a machine that will crash com in the ear thoroughly, one ear at a time; what he wants is something that will receive a bushel of ears or nubbins at once, and cruuh, say, twenty tushels an hour. One oi the great trouble? of sugar planters, he says, is the preparation of food for their mules. To crush com in the ear with existing appliances, the com has to be hasked, costing rr>T7<Vh labnT. and there is ant to be great loss of small ears. "A fortune awaits the inventor of a machine to crash by the wholesale corn, cob, and shucks together." The problem does noc seem to be a difficult one, and some of our inventive readers may find it profitable to undertake its solution.? Scientific American. Monkeys Joe, a monkey at the London "Zoo," could never be got back into his cage when once he was allowed his liberty outside. But he had one weakness? that of curiosity?and the keeper, looking down a dark hole, attracted the attention of the monkey, who slowly approached him to find out the cause of the investigation. Suddenly the keeper would start back and the monkey's courage, deserting him, he flew to the i .1 r 1.1 r.? sneiser ui ma cage wucu tuouvui nuiuu be shut. This trick was successfully played on him every time, month after month, he never seeming to learn it. Another monkey, "Miss Jenny," that came from India, and parted her hair in the middle, smoked real tobs,cco, and wonld snatch a half-smoked cigar from a visitor and finish it. She wonld also hold a bottle of ale with her hind foot and take long draughts between the priffs of smoke. Abont $40,000 a year are now paid ont in scholarships, loan and other pecuniary aids to poor students at Harvard. About one-eighth is paid to students of theology. ~ Si?ns of1 Insane Neurosis. Professor Charles Dod says in the New York Home Journal: "An irregular and nnsymmetrical conformation of the head, a want of regularity and harmony of the features, and, as Morel holds, malformations of the external ear, are sometia^s observed. Convulsions are apt to occur in early life, and there are antics, grimaces or other' spasmodic movements of face, eyelids or lips afterward. Stammering or defects of pronunciation are also sometimes signs of the neurosis. In other cases there are peculiarities of the eyes, which, though they may be full and prominent, have a vaccillatine movement, and a vacantly abstracted or half-fearful, half-suspicious and distrustful look. There may indeed be something in the eye wonderfully suggestive of the look of an animal. The walk and manner are uncertain, and, though not easily described in words, may be distinctly peculiar. With these bodily traits are associated peculiarities of thought, feeling and conduct. Without being insane, a person who has the insane neurosis strongly marked is thought to be strange, queer and not like other persons. He is apt to see things under novel aspects, or to-'think about them i under novel relations;, which would not have occurred to aj- ordinary mortals Panning on words is, Tarn inclined to thiak, sometimes an indication of the temperament, and so also that higher kind of wit which startles us with the use or an idea in a double sense; of both which aptitudes no better example can be Riveofthan that of Charles Lamb. This case too may show that the insane temperament is compatible with, and indeed it not seldom co-exists with considerable genius. Even those who have it in a more marked form often exhibit remarkable special 'talents and aptitudes, such as an" extraordinary talent for music or for calculation, of a pro digious memory lor details, wnen tney may be little better than imbecile in other things. There is indeed a marked instinctive character in all they think and do ; they seem not to need or to be able to reflect tipon their own mental states. At one time nndnly elated, at another depressed, without apparent cause, they are prone to do things differently from the rest cf the world ; and now and then they do whimsical and seemingly quite purposeless acts, especially under conditions of excitement, when the impnlses springing ont of the unconscious morbid nature surprise and overpower them. Indeed, the mental balance may be easily upset altogether by any jjreat moral shock, or by the strain of continued anxiety. Stopping a Panic. Six or eight congenial spirts sat around a stove in a Grand river grocery the other night, and after several other subjects had been exhausted some one introduced that of panics in churches, theatres and halls. This gave Mr. Hopewell a chance to remark : "Gentlemen, I just long to be there." "Where ?" "Why, in one of those panics. Yes, sir, Td'give a new twenty dollar bill to be in the theatre one night when there was an occasion for a panic." "Why?" _^"Why, because one cool, levelheaded man could stop the thing as easily as yon could end up that barrel of flour-" "Well, I dnnno abont that," ob erred one of the Bitters. "There is omething awfnl in-the cry of fire, and hear it where- ^nff-r:>hen von may if: 'startles and frightens. What wonld yon do in a theatre in case there was a cry of fire and a rnsh ?" "I'd stand npon my seat, pnll a revolver from my pocket, and shont ont that Td shoot the first man who attempted to crowd or rnsh. One cool man wonld check the panic- in ten seconds." While the snbject was being iontinned the grocer withdrew to the rear end of the store, ponred a little powder on a board, and gave three or fonr men the wink. Directly there was a bright J-ufrOJLi} jf'eiib ui JUUO i ttuu. puwuci i and every man spvang np and rushed. Hopewell didn't spring np and talk of shooting. On the contrary, he fell over a lot of baskets piled between him and the door, got np to plow his way over a rack of brooms, and when he reached the sidewalk he was on all fours, white as a ghost, and so frightened that he never looked back until he reached the opposite side of the street.?Detroit Free Press. Lire Animals Thrown Into a Crater. Ancient Hawaiian history attributes the periodical outbursts of the volcano Kilauea to the power exercised by a mythical female, the goddess Pele. From time immemorial it has been the custom whenever a volcanic eruption took place, for some notable chief or chieftainegs to proceed to the month of the crater ancl throw various articles of food or drink into the burning mass as a species of offering. The eruption of 1846 passed over without any such offering being made, but the avalanche of lava which threatened to destroy the town of Hilo during last fall having assumed gigantic proportions, the natives clamored for a repetition of the old custom. Notwithstanding the remonstrances of the missionaries, and the religious advisers of the present royal family, the Princess Rath?a sister of Eamehsmeha?accompanied by a number of Kanaka chiefs, came from Honolulu and ascended to the crater. Into the burning, seething mass of lava two or three dozen fowls were thrown, a couple of goats and pigs immolated, garlands of flowers, and a dozen bottles of whiskey, rum and Holland gin served to wash the solid matter down the insatiable maw of Pele. Strange to say the day after this performance, which wound up with a hulahula, the lava stopped short of a thousand yards from the town. The natives attributed this x _ x-L ZH J3 - K? i.l~ ~ occurrence 10 me saunuue xuauts l?j wo Princess, much to ihe disgust of the gospel-spreaders, who had vainly interposed their objections. Poes's Last floors. Dr. J. J. Moran, of Fall Church, Va., who was with Edgar Allan Poe in his dying hours, in a recent lecture said that the slander had been reiterated that Poe died while under the influence of liquor, and nothing could be further from the fact. Upon his arrival at the hospital the doctor questioned the hackman who brought him there, and he declared that Poe was not drunk, nor was there the smell of liquor about him when he lifted him into his vehicle. As Poe's last hour approached, Dr. Moran said that he bent over him and asked if he had any word he wished communicated to his friends. Poe raised his fading eyes and answered "Nevermore." Jn a few moments he turned uneasily and moaned, " Oh, God, is there no ransom for the deathless spirit V Continuing he said: "He who rode the heavens and upholds the uniyerse has His decrees written on the frontlet of every human being." Then followed murmuring, growing fainter and fainter, then a tremor of the limbs, a faint sigh, " and the spirit of Edgar | Allan Poe had passed the boundary line [ that divides time from eternity." ? There are in Philadelphia fourteen churches, eight ef which are German and tun missions bearing the Lutheran name. They have an aggregate of 8,785 communicants. In their parochial schools are 702 children. TIIE ATLANTA EXPOSITION. Its Co?t, Its Size, Its Character, and the Result of the Exhibition. The cost of the exhibition was $250,000, of which $150,000 in round figures was in buildings and improvements, and the balance paid out for running expenses, printing, etc. The receipts were from $220,000 to $250,000, of which $115,000 came from stock, $15,000 from privileges, $15,000 from entry fees, $90,000 from gate receipts, and $5,000 i fvr-m micpfinononno rocnnr/>aa A/-?r1 tn JtaU U4iUVViiMUVVU? i-VUVy Ul iJlUV4 LV those receipts whatever the buildings will bring, and we have about the total receipts of the International Cotton Exposition. Patting the gate receipts at 8100,000, which is a fair estimate on the figures, we see that we have about a quarter of a million visitors at the exposition. At 50 cents each, $100,000 would give 200,000 people. It must be remembered, however, that on several days children were admitted at 25 cents, and that in many cases schools and colleges were passed in at these reduced rates, and that every day during the exposition hundreds of children were carried in through the gates by their parents without paying for them at all. There must be added to this a large number of complimentary tickets, or tickateto employes and exhibitors, ol which it is said there were over five thousand issued, and invitations for the opening and closing exercises, and for special days during the three months. It is safe to say, we think, that a quarter of a million people witnessed the Cotton Exposition. Outside of these three points, however, the exposition did a vast amount of gord in tlie diiec-1 tion of improved agriculture through- j ont the South. The amount of sales made of improved machinery was simply marvelous. The exhibitors all agree that they never saw a better selling exposition. There is scarcely a neighborhood in th6 Southern States into which an improved stomp pnller, post hole borer, plow, cotton planter, manure distributor, sulky plow, cultivator or barrow,has not gone, and which when introduced will induce the purchase of others. The benefits which will come from the sale of improved machinery may be accounted among the very best benefits to be derived from the'exhibition. Changes of a Century. The nineteenth century has witnessed many and very great discoveries and changes: In 1809 Fulton took out his first patent for the invention of a steamboat. The first steamships which madereg ninr trips acros3 the Atlantic ocean were the Sirins and Great Western in 1830. The first pnblic application to practical use of gas for illumination was made in 1802. In 1813 the streets of London were for the first time lighted with ga' In 1813 there was built in Wu:cham, Mass., a mill, believed to have been the first in the world, which combined all , the requirements for making finished : cloth from the raw cotton. In 179C there were only twenty-five postoffices in the whole country, and up to 1837 the rates of postage was twentyfive cents for a letter sent over 400 miles. In 18C i wooden clocks began to be ' made by machinery. This ushered in j the era of cheap clocks. About the year 1833 the first railroad . of any considerable length in the United In 1840 the first experiments in pho- , tography were made by Dagucrrc About 1840 the first express business , was established. The anthracite ccal business may be said to have begun in 1820. TV. 1 QQft + t-i/i r.ofant -f/vr +.Vio ir>vonfirvn JLXX JLUUV bUW waiVUU XV/* AUTVMIMVU of matches was granted. Steel pens were introduced for use : in 1803. The first successful trial of a reaper ' took place in 1833. In 1846 Elias Howe obtained a patent ' for bis first sewing machine. The first successful method of making vulcanized india rubber was patented in 1839. j Mirage. ' i Professor Tait describes three forms j of mirage. The first, and most com- i mon, is that seen in the desert, where ( the sunlight is reflected from the heated , layer of air resting upon the sand to the i eye of the observer, and irresistibly < ?ives rise^to the impression of a reflect- . ig surface of water at the point in the \ q sert from which the rays are pro- ^ jected. A second form is that observed , in the Arctic regions, of which many , beautiful illustrations have been given ( by Scoresby. The principal phenomenon is what is called "looming"?distant objects showing an extravagant increase of vertical height without alteration in breadth. Distant hummocks of ice are thus magnified into immense t.nwors and m'nnft^lpR. and a shit) is i sometimes abnormally drawn out until it appears twelve or fourteen times as 1 high as it is long. The celebrated 1 "fata morgana" of the Straits of Mes- ' sina is of this character. Rocks are 1 seen drawn up to ten or twelve times j their proper height; and houses, as well as human beings and animals, ap- 1 pear in like exaggerated shape. The most remarkable instance of this kind ' of mirage was observed in 1798; when from Hastings a portion of the French coast, forty or fifty miles away, was seen as plainly as though but a few inilos distant, although ordinarily hidden by the earth's convexity. The third and perhaps most extraordinary form of mirage is that observed by Vince in 1799, in which a ship at sea showed three distinct images?a lower and an upper one in an upright position and an intermediate one in which the object Jtood inverted. A Cat Boxing a Child's Ear. The Spectator delights in cat stories. May I add one to the interesting list which has from time to time appeared in your columns ? Picture to yourself a little girl, about two years of age, sitting on a low stool b9fore a drawingroom fire. Coiled up on the rug is a favorite domestic cat. The child is in a fretful mood, and has been erring for an mo TVia f?af, PTidnrps th? an novanee for some time, though evidently displeased. Bat even feline patience has its limits. So pussy uncoiled herself, walked up to the child, and gave her a box on the ear with her closed paw, and then lay down again before the fire. The child, taken completely aback, cried louder than ever.. Again passy tried to endure it. AgaiSy her patience became exhausted, and she delivered a second box upon the ear, which nearly knocked the child off her stool. It was now the little girl's turn to be enraged. She rushed at the cat, and dragged it round the room by the tail. The story rests on the authority of the child's mother, who was witness of the scene.?London Spectator. The escape of Colonel Tom Buford from the gallows, after his deliberate murder of Judge Elliott, has been con | demned in the Kentucky legislature, I and a formal expression of dissent with the verdict was all bnt secured. A resolution to erect a monument to Elliott was introduced, and the preamble asserted that he had been "shot down and murdered in the sight of the Capitol by the ruthless hand of an assassin, who escaped just punishment under the guise of the recently popular plea 3 insanity." Sufferings of a Convict, A recently-discharged convict was convicted in Owen connty, Kentucky, of a crime committed by others, that crime being grand larceny. He was a stranger, and was assured that, by consenting to a plea of guilty, his punishment would be but a light one. He was sentenced to a servitude of two years, and his labor, with that of fortyseven others, white and black, was contracted to a firm known as Warner, Tabler & Co., to work on railroads. They were afterward stib-Iet to Irwin & Long, and put to work in Bath county, on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. These men, according to the convict's story, were quartered in a miserable cabin twenty feet long by twelve feet wide, and compelled to labor fourteen hours a day. They were allowed no pay for extra work, although the law made a different provision. Daring the rigorous weather of last winter they were constantly kept out, working on the railroad each secular day and cutting wood for their taskmasters on Sunday Their own iires were insufficient to keep them warm, and the convict says: "Often and often I have gone in from work late at night with my clothing frozen stiff, and would have to go to bed without being allowed to make a fire to thaw and dry myself." He was a good draughtsman by occupation and unused to hard work, but was placed between two negro men and compelled to perform as much labor as they did. Failing to always keep up he was ordered to be whipped, and the negro convict appointed to inflict the lashing, not performing the duty in ac cordance with the wishes of the fiend in charge, was savagely beaten with an ax handle, and died two days afterward from the effect of the blows. In continuation of his story the convict says : "I belonged to a gang of seven?six negro convicts and myself?and before spring came the six negroe3 were dead, but I stood it through. John Dowell, a negro, had his hands badly frozen and begged the boss to let him go to the fire and warm them. The boss said he was playing off; but, in order to convince him that he was not, Dowell struck his fingers on the cartwheel and they rattled like stocks, but he was not allowed to warm them. His fingers dropped off shortly afterward, and he was not able to work any more. "We were locked up in the log shanty on Saturday night and not even allowed to go after water until Monday morning, and, unless the bosses wanted us to do something for them, the door was not opened in the meantime. Before the State Inspector of Convicts would arriver to look after us we were quietly informed that if we gave him any in iormation we wouia pay aeariy lor it. ?Louisville Courier Journal. I)arty*s Ham-Pie. On the lines (45, 46) in Pope's "Imitation of the First Satire of Horace:" " Each mortal has his pleasure; none deny Scarsdale his bottle, Darty hia ham-pie," is found the following note: "Charles Dartinenf, or Dartiquenave, was .surveyor of the king's gardens, and paymaster of the board of works. Jis character is frequently noticed by writers of the period, among others by Swift in his 'Journal to Stella.' He died in May, 1738. * "We have found in a cookery book published in 1730, a receipt for a 'Westphalia Ham-Pie,' which will illustrate the meaning of the text, and which is worth preserving, both for its own sake and for DartVs. - rtrscn5onr~yoTLr namTHBtar nor-Twr mnch; take off the skin and pare off all the inst and ontside, and take out all the bones; cut some hacks in it in the inside and season it with pepper cloves, mace and ginger, and wash the top with the yolk of an egg, and season md strow over some thyme and parsley oinced; make a coffin and put in yonr ham in the middle, put some forced meat ronnd, and round that partridges, chickens and pigeons, and some Forced meat between ; season ill ; but lay over some hard yolks of egg?, artichoke bottoms quartered, and chestnuts blanched; Ly scalded lettuce or asparagus scalded in short bunches; put over butter, and close it and bake it; cut it up and take out the fat, put in some good gravy, md shake it together, and put over it i ragonst of pallats and sweetbreads, cockscombs, morrelles, truffles and serve it away hot to the table; garnish with the cover cut." The book from which this ingenious idea is extracted was written by Carles Carter, cook to the Duke of Argyle, and is said on the title page to have been " approved by drivers of the prime nobility, and by several masters of the art and mystery Df cooking," of whom Darty was doubtless one. fe'ct Health. No labor, pains, temperance, poverty nor exercise that can Rain it must be grudged. For sickness is a cannibal which eats up all the life and youth it can Jay hold of, and absorbs its own sons and daughters. I fignre it as a pale, wailing, distracted phantom, absolutely selfish, heedless of what is good and great, attentive to its sensations, losing its soul and afflicting other sonls with meanness and moping, and with ministration to its voracity of trifles. Dr. Johnson said, severely, "Every man is a rascal as soon as he is "sick." Drop the cant and treat it sanely. In dealing with the drnnken we do not affect to be drunk. "We must treat the sick with the same firmness, giving them of course every aid?but withholding ourselves. And the best part of health is fine disposition. It is more essential tnan talent, even in tne vrorKs 01 talent. Nothing will supply the want of sunshine to peaches, and, to make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom. Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished. The joy of the spirit indicates its strength. All healthy things are sweet tempered. It is observed that a depression of spirits develops the germs of a plague in individuals and nations. Fasting Sixty Days. < In regard to the case of Miss Chloe Ann "Violet, who died in Alexandria, Ya., recently, after a voluntary fast of sixty days, Dr. Alexandria McWilJiams, who attenaea ner, siatea m an interview with a Washington Star reporter, that the fast was commenced on the 4th of November last, Miss Violet having been for some years out of her mind in consequence (it is supposed) of the death of her brother by drowning. She claimed that she had received an inspiration that if she would not eat any more she would be sure of heaven Dr. McWilliams states that every conceivable measure suggested was tried to induce her to break her fast, but she resisted, and would become furious when they attenpted to force food on her. They endeavored to give her liquid food in her water, but she was not to be dec~'-el The only food they succeeded in getting her to take was two teaspoonfnls of milk the night before she died. Dr. McWilliams regards this case as a genuine one of long fasting, and taken altogether, the most singular case he ever saw, for she did not at any time claim that she could not eat what was set before her, but said that she could eat at any time, but would not. All railroad conductors in Georgia are now clothed with the power cf polioemen. FACTS FOE THE CURIOUS. The mackerel buries itself in mud during the winter. The pattern of the Dutch crying dolls came originally from Japan. London cream is said to be sometimes thickened with calves' brains. The religion of the Siamese forbids them to kill animals, but they elude the 1 1 11* XT A _ J .law uy Bulling luem iv iixonammeuaus. The eggs of the dinorius, an extinct species of bird, from the island of Madagascar, were large enongh for a footbath. Forks are mentioned in a charter of Ferdinand I. of Spain, 1101. They were introduced into England in the sixteenth century. The oldest bank in the United States is the Bank of North America in Philadelphia, which began active operations on January 7, 1782. When a Laplander wishes to marry he courts the girl's father with presents of brandy, offering her a beaver's tongue, or some such delicacy. A swam of locusts invaded Italy in 591, and being drowned in the sea, produced a pestilence which carried off nearly a million men and beasta. Fleur-de-lis is not, as some suppose, a lily, but as iris, the common name for which is flower de lace. It was assumed by Louis YII. of France as his device. Along the main road from Sacramento to the summit pass of Sierra Nevada the annual rain-fall increases at the rate of one inch for every hundred feet altitude. The Indians of South America eat white ants, which they catch by pushing into the nest a grass stalk, which the ants seize and hold on to most tenaciously. 3ince 1610 523 theaters have been burnt down in the old and new world, 460 disasters of this kind having taken place within the last 100 years (up to 1 frnm 1R71?S f.lio ?T7oro.r7fi rate was thirteen theaters per annum. It is estimated that 378,151 persons are employed in coal mines in Great Britain, working in galleries extended over at least 58,744 miles. The greatest depth of the coal mines is estimated at 2,800 feet. It has been stated that a horse requires at lease 2,466 cubic feet of fresh air per hour. The army regulations allow in new stables to each horse 1,705 cubic feet, and 100 square feet of floor space. This allowance is shamefully deficient in many stables. So microscopically perfect is the watch-making machinery now in use, that screws are cut with nearly 600 threads to the inch?though the finest and in the watch has 250. These threads are invisible to the naked eye, and it takes 144,000 of the screws to weigh a pound, their value being six pounds of cr re crold. It is a mistake to suppose that the Arctic winter, in the higher latitudes, is a long, dreary one of opaque darkness. The highest latitude yet reached by man is eighty-three degrees twenty minutes twenty seconds, and there twilight lasts four hours and forty-two minutes on December 22, the shortest day of the northern year. Man will have to go some 327 miles further north than he has yet gone if he is to reach the region of absolute darkness. The pole itself is in the dark but seventy-seven days?from November 13 to January 29. There is a period of about four dflyq WhiVh ffy*-Rnr> shines onboth poles at the same time. This is due to the fact that the sun is larger than the earth, and that his rays are bent by tne earth's atmosphere in such a way as to converge upon its surface. Nativity or Congressmen. During the first forty-five Congresses all but 142 of the 5.237 members were born in the United States?New York ha\.nc 704, Pennsylvania 598, Virginia 532, Massachusetts 439 and Connecticut 340. Most of our foreign born statesmen have come from Ireland. England, Scotland and Germany have followed in about equal proportions. There have been two who were born in Bavaria, two from Bermuda, five from Canada, seventeen from England, five from France, twelve from Germany, fifty-two from Ireland, one from Madeira, one from the Netherlands, one from New Brunswick, one from Nova Scotia, twenty-one from Scotland, two from Switzerland, four from Wales, and four from the West Indies. Out of that long list there have been some 2,000?considerably less than half?who received a classical, collegiate or liberal education. It has VIA at* in f.Vi & Eastern States than in the West, to send their representatives to Congress for long-continned periods. From the colonial days to the present it has happened that several generations of the same family have served in one or both branches of Congress. The most notable among these are the Adamses, Bayards, Breckenbridges, Harrisons, Chandlers, Stocktons, Frelinghnysens and Heisters. Cry for More Oysters. At the same time that the more thonghtfal and observant are nttering protests against the extinction by wholesale dredging, of the oysters of the Chesapeake and its tribntaries, there come3 a cry from England for more American oysters. The New York Herald qnotes from a private business circular which has foundjts way into the office of that paper. The circular in question is a piteous appeal to be furnished with more ousters, on the ground that the supply in the English market falls below the demand. The trader in question states that nearly twenty-eight million American bivalves were eaten in England between the middle of October and the day of the new year. Between March and May will be the season for planting, and when the demand on this account is supplied it is'estimated that no less than tifty millions of our oysters will have been either devoured or naturalized in Great Britain. This exibit only makes it more apparent that the oyster beds of the Chesapeake and its tributaries?the chief source of supply for the most succulent bivalves ?must be protected from depletion, if an industry promising such large proportions and valuable returns is to be fostered. There is food in this English circular for the Maryland and Virginia Legislatures. A. Montana Farm* Mr. Curtiss has a fruit farm in Helena, Montana, says a correspondent, on which he has 8,000 currant bushes and 5,000 gooseberry bushes. Last year he gathered off this farm 7,000 quarts of strawberries, gooseberries and raspberries, and ripened 1,000 bushels of tomatoes. His sales of fruit during the fruiting season often ran as high as ?200 per day. But why say mere? This one little farm yields Mr. Cnrtiss from 84,000 to $7,000 per annum, and he could sell ten times as much fruit as he does if he could raise it. Strawberries bring forty cents to SI per quart. Raspberries fifty cents, currants forty to sixty cents per gallon, tomatoes ten to twentv-five cents tier pound, and all other small fruits twentyfive cents to forty cents per quart and gallon. Turkeys sell at $2 50 each, chickens at fifty cents to $1 each, and butter at fifty cents to sixty cents per pound all the year round. Seed and Harrest. When the balmy winds of spring-time .,;3| Blow their breath across the plain, Melting off the snows of winter, Filling things with life again-? . * Then within tbe earth's broad bosom Scatter we the precious seed, Looking forward to the harvest, Providing for a future need. And, as days of summer lengthen, How we watch with eager eyes The slow progress of our harvest, Growing to a ripening size. For when summer's heat is over, And autumn winds go blowing past If we've been faithful to our duty, The seed will bring good fruit at last. Thus ic is life's seed is planted, Planted in our youthful days, And it grows into a harvest, As we go upon life's ways. _ . If we plant the seed <Jf wisdom, And destroy the weeds of sin, Happy lives and many blessings Is the reward we'll surely win. ..-yjgj No matter what our worldly profit, No matter in what place we go, Our reward will be according - To the kincUof seed-we sow. Then as we sow good seed in springtf rrw. Let us sow good seed in youth; Always trying to be faithful To oar duty, and to truth. ^ ?Boston Pilot. HUHOBOUS. While stingy husbands are not popular, every maiden likes to have her bean . _*-;4 very close. *' v||j A man named Onion lives in a neighboring town. He does not care a scant , adoue ms queer name. .::r3 Physical heat is only motion. Mental .^J heat is only emotion. The two combined make commotion.?Lowell Courier. Boiling hair in a solution of tea _ will darken it, says an exchange; but ." |j some folks don't like to have their tea *%?? darkened in that way. When a man is headed for the pawnbroker's with the money to take out Ids pledge, he may be said to have a redeem- >v|l ing point?Boston Bulletin. Mistress?"Bridget, I really can't allow you to receive your sweetheart in the kitchen any longer." Bridget: ?g|g 'Thank you kindly, mum, but he's too bashful for the parlor.1' ^11 A Michigan girl tried to commit - ^ suicide by swallowing thirty-six skirt buttons. Fortunately her digestion mistook them for railway restaurant : beans and she was saved. A Norristown second-hand furniture dealer has a toy said to have been made ~\~fjgjn bv Georee Washington. This reminds - us that a Philadelphia dealer in brio-abrae has a soap bubble blown by George wh^r. years o\<L-Philaddpkia Jfevu. A drop of ink may make a million thiii k?Byron. Yes and, it may make one woman express, in very %gS strong terms, her thoughts regarding % man who can't write two lines without ^ getting it on his shirt cuffs.?Siftingu A Missouri woman has collected 17,000 spools. Being an industrious woman, . * she was only eight years in making the collection; but unfortunately by the time her task was accomplished, spools had gone c ut of fashion in the bric-abrac line, and the Missouri woman sold Vr fift**?!? ?r- T~^ An es-Sfcai&. senator of Colorado; ^wc~~ while recentlyin New York, rode up to Central park to see the Obelisk. He immediately xm dors toed why the government brought it here. He said ik" showed that the Egyptians had recorded on it the same kind of cattle-marks that ^ are employed by the Mexicans. An out-of-town druggist entered a Boston apothecary shop and had &sim- . pie prescription pnt np. The charge . i was $1.50. He remarked that it was rather dear, because, as he was a druggist himself, he knew the price of the ingredients. "That alters the case," was the response; "seventeen cents, please." There is a dentist up town who ad- vjigj vertises that he can make a set cf teeth for a person in ten minutes. Double c >^Js3 sets are set on hinges, and if they don'fc happen to fit the owner, all he has to do is to grab them and chew his food V with his hands, which is not only a novel invention, bnt one thatisveiy saving on the jaw.?Puck. "Pray excuse me," said a well-dressed young man to a young lady in the second tier of boxes in the theater; "I wish to go ont and get some refreshments?don't leave your seat." A sailor seated in the box near his sweetheart, , and disposed to do the same thing arose and said, "Harkee, Poll, I'm going ashore to wet my whistle?don't fall overboard when I'm gone." " That was a sorrowful sight presented on one of onr streets yesterday. A blind man and his one-armed deaf and dumb companion ground music from an orguinette for some time, in front of a recently vacated ice cream saloon. "When the deaf and dumb man went to the door and found it locked he commenoed 4 swearing in the meifc terrible manner. * The eruption was something wonderful for a one-armed man.?Oil Ciiy Derrick, When Middle ton's boy was led out into the woodshed to receive parental ^ discipline for punching the heid of a neighbor's son, the old gentleman anticipated the regular proceedings of the meeting by the remark: "You've been licked for this sort of thing before, and know what to expect." "Yes," whimpered the culprit, ' I know I did. wrong, but I couldn't help it I had un inspiration." So had his father, and he fulfilled it with a trunk strap.?Brook-, '-vQ bjn Eagle. We are too busy to go down to New ivS York and welcome Oscar Wilde to this country, the heme of the sunflower, a0 it were. Nevertheless we rejoice that he is with us. In honor of his presence we have endeavored to dine off a long look at a lily, and we fonnd that the more we stared that lily out of countenance the more hungry we grew. There was a nine hours after breakfast frenzy at work in our gastric juice factory that _ *3 refused to be satisfied. When we assume the role of the aesthetic again . % it will be on a corn beef and cabbage basis.?New Kaven Register. The Denizens of the Jo Boats. TCMoVn*/* "Pa Vioo n Annnn* IMIa community who live in what are called . "jo boats'" A jo boat is an old barge or flatboat, no longer useful for cany- ' j3|j ing coal, which has built upon it a kind ,'M of house, like an enlarged freight car, that serves as a human habitation. In the old times jo boatmen were peddlers, and carried stocks of dry goods, ionware and notions up and down the river, stopping for a hail from either bank, and selling, buying and swap- ~ ping everything that came to hand; but railroads and steamboats took their occupation away, and jo boatmen have fallen. Now they mostly toil not, bat f.hftv ahpal and ati^r niek Tin nncon sidered coal from about tne river, and lead the most shiftless, worthless and disreputable lives. The boats are knocking about in the water and mud, and sometimes half on dry land, and are dirty and comfortless; but they furnish roots, such as they are, the J|9H dingy decks make play grounds for the -'-^1 children, and they are free from visit*) .~$sm for rent and tax collectors. ' .*!?