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?ppp r . ' | II I 1 WEEKLY EDITIO N. WPfffSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1882, ESTABLISHED IN 1844. |j| ^ "tYhen it Rains. When it mas, and with the rain Never bird has heart to sing, nd acroes the window pane Is no sunlight glimmering; > When a pitiless refrain | Brings a tremor to the lips, ? Onr tears are like the rain As it drips, dtips, drips? like the sad unceasing rain as it drips. Tm iV. L ?nen ine agio, vi ucntcu a uiuo Is blurred and blotted quite, And the dreamy day to you la but a long twilight; f "When it seems that ne'er again Shall the sun break its eclipse, Our tears are like the rain As it drips, drips, drips? Like the endless, friendless rain as it drips. "Wh^n it rains : weary heart, Oh, be of better cheer! The leaden clouds will part And the morrow will be clear. Take up your load again, i With a prayer upon your lips, 5 Thanking heaven for the rain, As it drips, drips, drips? Wilt ttte golden Dow or promise as it drips. ?James W. Riley. LOSING HER SITUATION. "Now, girls, this won't do!" said Madame Molini, pouncing in npon the six pale sewing-girls, like a wolf into a flock of lambs. "No, it will never do t in the world! I don't pay you all ex orbitant wages to sit and fold youi bands like fine ladies. Miss Sedgewick, we are waiting for that lavender r silk polonaise. Lucy Lisle, why do tou not go on with those button-holes ? afire Foxe, you will be so good as to change your seat from the window to the middle of the room at once!" "But, Madame, I can't see there to lav on these fine bias folds!" ?leaded Jf Miss Foxe. "Yon mean you can't see the carta sad carriages in the street, and the type-setters at the windows opposite !" retorted Madame Molini, whose trne nomenclature was 4'Mollens," and who had been a milliner's apprentice in the goodly city of Cork, before she set np on Sixth avenne as a French Modiste. Lucy Lisle caughtup her work. r ? "I stopped just a minnte, madame, trith that bad pain in my side," she said, beginning to stitch away with eager taste. "If you're sick," said Madame.severely, "you had better go home and send lor the doctor. While you are here jour time is mine, bought and paid lor!" ^ While Miss Sedgewick, in self-deiense, urged that she had not enough silk gimp to*rim the polonaise and was -waiting for more. "Not enough," shrilly repeated madame?"not enough ! I measured that trimming myself, and I know that there is enough. Yuu may jast rip it off p again, and sew it on higher np, and more economically; and I shall deduct this morning's lost time from your -wages ! "What's that, Flora Fay?the mode-colored siik dress ? Finished ? And where are the two and a half yards which were ? left?' "I folded them up with the dress, madame," said Flora Fay, an innocent, bine-eyed yonng girl, recently from the country, who stood, in an unconsciously graceful attitude, before the fat and florid dressmaker.. "Then you were a goose for your pains," shortly retorted Madame Molinij as she .unfastened the.parcel, ab0^ ssracted the piece of glistening,'uncut silk, and whisked it away upon a shelf. "Two yards and a hjJf isn't much, but it is better than nothing." Flora Fay opened the innocent blue eyes wide. hh. ??Wtiaf is cha trninar fn An xcitn it.?" a*, r>^?e> ? ? she asked Miss Foxe, in a -whisper, as madame rustled off to scold the errandboy for pntting too much' coal on the grate-fire. "Don't yon know, little silly 7* whisJ pered Miss Foxe, laughing. "It's -what she cabbages!" "Cabbages?" repeated Flora,, in amazement. "I don't nnderstand yon." "Yon will, when jou see the mode silk made np into a sleeveless basque for madame," said the other, "trimmed ? with the gimp that was left from Mrs. Aubrey's dinner-dress, and the pearl fringe from Mrs. Ossetfs white "damasse ball costume." "But you don't mean," said breathless Flora, "that madame takes the silk that is left from the customers' dresses ?' "Goosie!" cried Miss Fox, "don't talk nonsense any longer. It's what every fashionable dressmaker does, and?" "There's the receotion-room bell." shrilly called madame. "Miss Fay, answer it at once!" Harry Drake was standing in the pretty room, all glistening with satin drapery, gilded moldings and hnge mirrors, when Flora came in?Harry \ Drake, the young bea-captarn^who lived at the same quiet, inexpensive house where Flora was allowed a hall bed-room at a reasonable rate, on account of Mrs. Dodds having once boarded a summer at the old Fay farmhouse up among the Berkshire hills, and still retaining a kind recollection of Mrs. Fay's kindness during an illness which overtook her tharfl. "Oh, Miss Fay, is it you?" said Harry. "Do you work here ? Upon my word, you seem to be in very comfortable quarters." ^ "Bat I don't stay here all the while," * said Flora, noting how his glance wandered from g:lding to fresco, Axminster carpet to bronzed chandelier. "I sew in & little dark room, where there is a stifling smell of coal gas, and no carpet ' on the floor." "I've come for a dress," said Captain ? Drake, plunging headlong into his subject, after the fashion of men in general ?"my sister's dress. She is to be married next week, and some of her friends coaxed her to have her dress made here. Miss Fortescue?she's only my half-sis ter, you snow, in answer to jjiora s look of questioning surprise; "but she's very nice, and is going to marry well, I hope." "It*8 the mode-colored dress," said - Flora, with brightening eyes. "I helped to trim it mvself. Xes, it's all ready." And presently madame came smiling in, with the bill, and the dress folded neatly in a white pasteboard bos, and K Captair Drake departed with a dim / idea that Madame Molini perfectly comprehended the art of high charges. Mips Fortescue herself came the next day. She was a young lady not Ht' lacking in quiet resolution. She knew Wf her rights, and was prepared to defend "Where is the material I sent ?" said she to Miss Fox, who was in attendance in the reception room. "It is not all t made up into the dress. I had purchased enough for a new waist and sleeves and it is not here. ''Yon must be mistaken," said Miss Fox, with an aspect of polite impj^sibility. "The bias puffs and folds cut up the material shockingly, and?" But at this moment, little Flora Fay, who was packing some tuile capes and fichus into a band-box, at the back of the room, rose and came forward, wiih deepening color. ' There are two yards and a half of! the mode-colored silk, Miss Fox," she ; interrupted??'don't you remember?? i on the shelf in the back room." MlftB "FVyt ot>/3 K?f Madame Molini, with ominously-dark_ ened face, twitched the two yards and a half of silk off the shelf, folded it into a paper, and handed it to Miss Forigiyg!^ : tescue, muttering something about " a mistake made by one of her young women;" and the young lady departed, a little dubious as to whether or not the fashionable dressmaker had intended to cheat her. - She had hardly closed the door behind her, however, when Madame Molini turned upon poor Flora Fay, with a scarlet spot glowing in each cheek and lips closely compressed. "Young woman," said she, "you are discharged!" "Discharged!" echoed Flora. "For what ?" I "I want no one in mv service." 'said madame, "who is too conscientious to fulfill my wishes. You have intermeddled unwarrantably in the matte:: of that silk, and I repeat that you aro no longer in my employment?" So poor little Flora went crying home, with a vague comprehensior. that she had been discharged, because she had spoken out the truth. It was nearly a fortnight afterwarc. that Captain Drake noticed the absence, of Miss Fay from the table at the boarding-house. "Is yonr little blue-eyed lodger ill. Mrs. I)odds ?" he asked. "I don't think I have seen her of late." cVia'o ill " cai/1 TartdTailT "That is to say, not exactly sick. Bat she will be if she don't look out. She's boarding herself, Captain Drake, on bread and crackers, and such like, pool dear 1 and wasting away like a little shadow, because she lost her situation at that dressmaking place, and don't see her way clear to another. And she won't run in debt, she says, not even for a meal of victuals. Ah!;' the good woman added. "I can remember when she was the pet and darling of the old folks at home, before they lost their all. running about among ttoe daisies and buttercups like a sunbeam." "But how did she come to lose her place ?" asked Captain Brake. And Mrs. Dodds, who liked to hear the sound of her own voice, told the whole story. "It's a shame!" cried the captain. "Jast what I say myself," nodded the landlady. And the next day, Miss Fortescne (who was Mrs. Arkwright now) came to see Flora Fay. "It was ail my fault," said she, with affectionate vehemence, "that yon lost yonr situation?and oh, if yon would only come and stay with, me, and help me with the sewing for my new house, I shon!d esteem it snch a favor! "Would yon please?" "Are you quite sure that I can make myself useful?" said Flora, a little hesitatingly. "les, quite" said Mrs. irk wright. And, in the sunny atmosphere of the bride's pretty home, the young country girl seemed to expand into a different creature. Captain Drake, the most devoted brother in the world, came there nearly every day; and little Flora all unconscious of her own feelings, began to watch for his daily visits as a heliotrope-blossom watches the sun. Until, at last, th^re wa3 talk of another long voyage to Japan, and then Flora grew pale and nervous again "I?I have been here long enough," she said. " If I go to the Exchange Bureau, they will perhaps tell me of a new situation. And I need change." 15^r r'rt-rvfrti'n TWoIta trra-nf efrjn<yV?f. frk jl;uu hvmv i*v the root of the matter. "Flora," said he, " are you unwilling that I should sail to Jeddo? " "I always had a horror of the sea,"whis- I pered Flora, hanging down her pretty head. "But of course, Captain "Drake, you must do as you please." "Yes, of course," he answered,absently; and, when he was gone, Flora shed a few quiet tears over the table-linen she was hemming for Mrs. Arkwright. "How bold and unmaidenly it is of me," she thought, " to let myself care for a man who does not think twice of me ! If he had cared one iota for me, would he not have said so then ?" But the next evening, at dusk, Captain Drake sauntered in with that swinging gait of his, as if he was treading the deck of an outward bound vessel. "Don't run away Flora," said he, as the girl caught np her work, and pre- j pared for a precipitate retreat. "Did?did you want to si>eak to me?" j sliejaltered, with downcast eyes. "Don't I always want to speax to you? | Sit down, Flora," said he, ".and hear : what I've been planning" "Now it* is coming," thought Flora, \ with a sick feeling at her heart. "He is going to be married, and he is coming to tell me so.'' "I have decided to give up the seafaring business," said Captain Drake. "Have you?" fluttered Flora, faintly. "I am so glad !" "And I've bought a farm in Connecticut," he went on?"the old Berkshire farm, Flora, where you were born and brought up. I'm going to be a farmer !" She looked up at him, the rose and lily following each other across her cheeks. "Oh!" she cried involuntarily, "if I could only see the dear old place once more!' "But I won't go there to live," said the captain^deierminedly, "unless you'll go there with me, Flora, as the farmer's wife! What do you think of it, little girl ? Shall it be a partnership ? " And when Mrs. Arkwright came in, the papers were all sealed, signed and delivered ; the "partnership" was aforegone conclusion! "I don't know how I shall succeed as a farmer," said Captain Drake, to his sister ; "but if little Flora here is only with me, there's nothing in all the world that I haven't courage to undertake." And when Mrs. Arkwright took Flora's hand in hers, the girl whispered: "I think I am the happiest creature in all the wide world to-night. Because, dear Mrs. Arkwright, he loves me!" ?\.5 liOO&llln IUU ji.aiL5? A government spotter is going through the country looking after delinquent postmasters and mail carriers. A man was seen unlocking the mail bags at the Rome, N. Y., depot, and overhauling their contents. Postmaster Williams was informed, and presented himself on the scene. He came while the man was thus occupied. He inquired of the stranger by what authority he was unlocking the mail bags and looking at the contents, whereupon the stranger told him h9 was a government detective in the mail service and was looking to see what kind of mail matter was allowed to remain lying around the depot without any one to look after it. It seems that after the mails were thrown off they were not removed immediately, and the government employe took advantage of the delay. He told the postmaster that the mails had lain there 20 minutes, and he had been looking them over for 15. A number of years ago a Baptist clergyman, named Clevinger, was one of the most popular men in two States. His house was built in such a mannei that a large hall which ran through it was exactly on the State line between -i/iVf or>/3 TonriACSOA jirifl xrhpnpvpr j v. .. ? v _ j a runaway couple came to him to bs married the obliging parson, on the! first intimation of an approaching pursuit, would usher them across the hall into the State from which they had not come, and from which they could not be legally dragged by a relentless I parent-, HUMAN OSTRICHES. WIio Folks Feed on Pins, Needles and Jackknives, and Swall t>wer? of Coins and Pad locks. There died net very long ago, at Prestwich Asylum, in England, a madman in whose bedv were found 1,841 objects, to wit, 20 buckles, 14 pieces of glass, 10 pebbles. 3 knotted string?, a piece of leather, a fish-book, a pin, 9 copper buttons, *;nd 1,782 nails and tacks. His mad:aess was of a common sort, after all. At the autopsy of a con vict in the Brest galleys fifty-two objects were found in the stomach, including several knives and pieces of iron hoop four inches long. In March, 1809, a sailor named John Cummings died in Gny's Hospital, London, whose experiences completely eclipsed the performances of the boy described by Messrs. Sawyer and Allen in "Pickwick" as addicted to wooden beads. In 1799 he had seen a French juggler "swallowing" knive3 by tie dozen, and in his credulity believing that the juggler actually conveyed them into his stomach, he undertook to rival him and swallowed four clasp knives. Lackily., these did not kill him, and he was satis fied to rest on his laurels until March, 1805, when at Boston he was one day tempted, +/*? Knoef nf on/^ rnr^of rr jaxic bv i^v?.ov *^v?w his performance. In the course of the evening he swallovred six kniveus, and when the next morning crowds o:E visitors came to see him he was induced to swallow eight more. He paid dearly for his frolic; for he was seized with constant vomiting and pain in the stomach, and though by heroic measures j he was relieved of the knives, that organ | was irretrievably mined. But all his j suffering did not (suffice to cure him of j his folly, for at Spithead in December, 1S05, being somewhat tipsy, he resumed his boastfulnese of being able to swallow knives, and to amuse the ship's company swallowed nine clasp-knives, some of them of a Large size. Again he har>ama ill on/1 n?ao in fliA lianas rvf fliA ship's surgeon for several months, during ^hich portions; of knives were discharged. At length he was admitted as a patient at Guy's Hospital, and in March, 1809, he died in a state of extreme emaciation. A milder form of this disease is the fondness for pins and needles. Dr. Stephenson, of Detroit, reported ii 1877 the case of a woman of seventy-five, wlaom be had relieved of a pin swallowed forty-two years before while picking her teeth. Siloy has recorded the case of a woman who made pins and needles her daily diek and from whose body 1,500 oi these articles were taken after her death. Another case, almost as striking', said the London Lancit, abont a year acjo, 1 1 1.1 TV- /I OT< \ nas oeen xecoraea oj xji. vjrmetie i,?oi-?) that of a girl in whom, from time to time, needles were found beneath the skin, which they perforated, and were removed by the fingers or forceps. Concerning the way in which they got into the system no information could be extracted from her. She was carefully watched by Dr. Lepaulmier, and in the conrse of eighteen months no less than three hnndred and twenty needles were extracted, all being about the same size. The largest number which escaped in a single day was sixty-one. A curious phenomenon preceded the escape of each needle. Tor some hours the paiu was severe, and there was considerable fever. She then felt a sharp pain, like lightning in the tissues, and on looking at the place at which this pain had been felt the head of the needle was crenerailv found Droiected. The needle invariably came out head foremost. No bleeding was occasioned, and not the least trace of inflammation followed. That little weight is to be attached to the place at which the needles escape as proof of their mode of introduction is evident from a case recorded by Villars of a girl who swallowed a large number of pins and needles, and two years afterwards, during a period of nine months, 200 passed out of the hand, arm, axilla, side of thora::, abdomen and thigh, all on the left side. The pins,curiously,escaped more readily ana witn less pain tnan tne neeaies.. Many years ago a case was recorded by Dr. Otto, of Copenhagen, ia which 495 needles passed through the skin of a hysterical girl, who had probably swallowed them during a hysterical paroxysm; but these all emerged in regions below the level of the diaphragm and were collected in groups, which gave rise to inflammatory swellings of some size. One of these contained 100 needles. In 1S78, Dr. Bigger described before the Society of Surgery of Dublin a case in which more than 300 needles were removed from the body of a woman who died in consequence of their presence. It is very remarkable in how fsT cases the needles were the cause oI : death, and how slight an mterferen^o with function their presence and movement canse. M. Henri de Parville, the well known French writer on science, has described many cases of this sort, not a few of them of sane persons. M. Berenger-Feraud took a needle from the arm of a woman of twenty-four, who did not recollect swallowing it, and had for weeks been unable to understand why she felt a pricking sensation whenever sha rested her arm on the table. Another case is that of girl of sixteen who was dying from gastritis, it -was thought, till examination revealed, the presenco of a needle, swallowed by accident, she knew not when. What became of the rash youih oE Bologna who, to show how a j aggie:: swallowed a sword, introduced a silve:: > fork into his throat and let it slip down, we do not know. He probably "^eni to meet" the swallowers of false teeth. Brunei, the great engineer, had a nar row escape onc3 npon a time, when amusing some children by causing a half sovereign to vanish from his mouth ' and reappear in his ear, the coin sud- , dedy slipping down into his gullet. He tried to" congh it up without effect. There it stuck. Every surgical device was tried to get hold of it without a vail Ic became evident that if the coin could not be dislodged, fatal results wonld ensue. In the dire dilemma into which he had needlessly brought himself, Brunei devised a wooden structure to which he could be strapped head downward, in the hope that the half sovereign would fall out of his throat by the force of gravity. He was fixed to the machine head downmost keeping his mouth open. To his inexpressible relief, the coin dropped from its lurkingplace and rolled to the floor. A German juggler who had introduced a variation of the sword-swallowing feat by swallowing a bayonet and balancing theron the musket to which it was attached, came to grief under even more alarming circumstances, ts the weapon hrnkfl sVinrfc off and the steel slinoed down into his gullet. He acted on the same principle as Brunei and promptly inverted himself, and with the aid of two friends stood feet npwards till, by force of gravity, the bayonet dropped to where it could be reached from the month and drawn out. In March, 1837, the surgeons at the Edinburgh Infirmary relieved a woman of a brass padlock, an inch and two-thirds long and an inch in width, which she had swallowed. Four years ago they were less fortunate in the case of a boy who had swallowed a piece of brass chain, and in 1S80 a child in Devonshire was vainly treated who had allowed a small tin whistle to slip from the month into the trachea.. Since the introduction of the balloon whistles there have been several fatal! accidents from?by inhaling instead. 01: i expelling the breath to fill the balloon ?swallowing the whistle and indiarubber ssc& attached to it, about the ugliest thing imaginable to deal with, since the toy sticks in the windpipe, and every attempt to breathe tends to inflate the balloon, and so the sufferer is choked as promptly and inexorably as if he were in the grasp of a garotte. The moral of all which is that people should be carefnl about putting solid substances in their mouths.?New York World. WORDS OF WISDOM. Inclination and interest determine the will. Be deaf to the quarrelsome, and dumb to the inquisitive. Happily for little man the giants have seldom any great wit. One day is worth three to him who does everything in order. Frugality is founded on the principle that ail riches have limits. No ashes are ligh'ier than incense,and few things burn out sooner. Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow from them. Unbecoming forwardness oftener proceeds from ignorance than impudence. To correct an evil which already exists is not so wise as to foresee and prevent it. Evil would not be half so dangerous if it did not often wear ihe semblance of virtue. The generality of men have, like plants, latent qualities, which chance Kwnrfo fliorlif. A couplet of verse, a period of prose, : may cling to the rock of ages as a shell that survives a deluge. In general there is no one "with whom life drags so disagreeably as with him who tries to make it shorter. White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral torture!; that red men do to physical torments. In this commonplace world, every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one. He who once did you a kindness will be more ready to do you another than he whom you yourself have obliged. The first step toward making a mau of your son is to tram him to earr. what he spends; the next best step is to teach him to save his earnings. He who bears failures with patience ' is as much of a philosopher as he who , succeeds; for to put up with the world 1 neeas as mucn wisaom as 10 coniroi ic. ( The law of the harvest is to reap more , than yon sow. Sow an act and yov reap j a habit; sow a habit and yon reap a character; sow a charactei and yon reap a destiny. j He who makes a baseless insinnation ' against a neighbor's integrity or honor I is gnilty of an injustice which is atro- i cious and monstrous in comparison with the petty depredation of the despicable i thief who breaks into his granary and I surreptitiously carries away his corn. < ? i Hangman's Rope as a Talisman. The popular pocket piece just now in ; this city is a piece of hangman's rope. | If all the hangman's rope were taken ; from the pockets of superstitiocs St. s Louisians, they would form a rope of j considerable length. The five hang- j ings recently taking place in this city ? have brought out again the superstition j that hangman s rope is a sure cure for j rh eumatism, consumption, h eart disease, ? apoplexy and everything else. The rope is a sure cnre for all the ilLi that flesh is heir to, if properly applied and adjusted ; bnt that is not the way that a great many St. Louis men and women look at it. In the police stations nearly avery prisoner who is searched, carries a bit of rope, and a great number of private citizens treasure np the ghastly hempen mementoes. Every tramp carries one, and in the alleys frequented by the colored populace, there are yards of rope with which Ellis and Ward were r executed, me supply is not y?c ex- i hausted, and half an inch of the esecu- t tion rope Bells for the phenomenally e low sum of five cents. ~A gentleman, vrith whom a reporter had a conversa- t tion, stated that a very nice lady had asked him for a piece of the rope. She was handsomely dressed, and pi'etty, too. With recklessness he promised to procure her a piece, not thinking she was in earnest. He met her again. She asked for a piece of rope. He straightway proceeded around among his friends, but could not get any genuine. He had to have a piece for that lady, however, and the brilliant idea struck \ him that he could give her any piece of ] twisted hemp. She would never know t the difference. Ee gave her a piece of . frayed and broken clothes-line, saying that it was a strand of the rope, and ] she put it in her purse and went away j ha-DDv. Several oarties have been sell- ; IT JT / * B X ing the rope about town and taking in i the gnllible people.?St. Louis Repub- ( lican, ^ Topping Corn. One of our best young men called on an up!own belle the other evening and after the usual round of small talk and resthetic conversation had become a trifle wearisome, the subject turned on popping corn. " If Jane hadn't let the kitchen fire out, -we'd go down and pop some corn." "Oh, the kitchen fire is no matter," said the gallant. " I presume the fur nace fire would be a great deal better.' The sly dog. No sooner said than done. Down into the cellar basement with corn and popper went the sentimental pair. And really there was a beautiful picture. Seated on a wash bench in froit of the trt?T*orkA Ar\r\y fV?Ck rrl rmrrn cr 1 ?nrTif tVicx laxuavo uuu* , vuu v?, umu coals reflecting in tbeir faces, ?nd the corn piping and popping its merry accompaniment to th-3 seance which in the remoteness of the cellar from the old folks' bedroom was all the more interesting. After one or two poppers fnll had been popped, his arm stole around her waist, her head dropped on 1 his shoulder, the popper hung listlessly in the fire, till at last a shout from ; above, "It you don't be careful you'll j burn that popper full!" wakened them ' from their dream of bliss. But then, ' there wasn't more than three cents worth of corn spoiled.?New Uciven ' Register. Sacrificed His fetunips. Felipe Honali lost parts of both arms in a railroad accident in New Mexico, and while recovering in a hospital had plenty of time to consider the problem of how to get a living in the future. The railroad company gave him $2,000, and the alternatives that seemed to pre sent themselves were those of living well on that amormt while it lasted and living miserably on the interest. Bnt he hit npon a singular plan for remunerative employment. He had seen armless men in side shows, and he resolved to sacrifice his own useless stumps, thus qualifying himself for a human curiosity. It was a long time before he could in- ! duce any surgeon to make the fresh amputation, but he has at length found one who took his view of the utility of the operation. Ee will soon present the ; appearance of having been born armless. ' ine itoman leasts uunng i^ecemoer I < were tbe Faunalia, sacred to Faunns, and the Saturnalia to Saturn. The lat- < t?r was a thanksgiving for the hai-vest i and lasted seven days, during which time slaves had their liberty/presents i were exchanged, schools closed and, [he i senate did not meet, : TATTOOING. SInsnlar 3Ietliod? $t Barbarous Ornamentation of the Skin. Tattooing is mnch more commonly practiced in the world than is generally supposed. The snbject has been specially investigated by M. Magatot, who has endeavored to determine the geographical distribution of the different forms of tattooing. The following is a resume of the principal results of this study: \ Tr> ik mn-iT oimnlA fnrma fattnoinc exists everywhere. It is not rare, we know, even in Western nations, to meet with men and women who have drawings on various parts of the body. The most ordinary process is to burn powder on small incisions penetrating the epidermia. As to the object of it, this is in some obscurity. Men regard it as an ornament, and as a proof of virility and mark of distinction. Taking a general view of all peoples, it often presents itself with the character and signification of other mutilations. M. Letournean records the case of a Ha- ' waiian who tattooed himself in token of grief and respect ofi^the death of the king. But more thia any other mntilatic: , it serves a^/,aa ornamentation anion*- naked people:,, and as a title of |1 nobility and dignity among the ' uncivilized. '"T Man seems to have commenced with i adorning the body by painting in vari- 1 ous colors, as so many savages do at < present. And it is, perhaps, by the ' simple application :of different colors ' to the skin, that he determined his tribe > and his rank. The tribes of the Ama- 1 zon are still distinguished by the col- < ored marks they make on the lips and 1 the tody. The idea has aiisen among ' many people to make marks for intro- ? dnction of the coloring matters (gener- < ally obtained from the juices of plants,) 1 and so render these marks indelible. < Tattooing by pricking ie the most i One if. in n.11 1 VTlVAdJ VA^/UUV4WM V-V ?. , parts of the world, from New Zealand j to the Tongouses. It is largely prac- i ticed in its most perfect form in Poly- < nesia and Malaisia. Bnt m Polynesia, ' particularly, they do not fo:r the most \ part, confine themselves to simple i pricking. J Applying to the skin a design, cut in < a leaf or piece of bark, they follow the < lines of it with a special L:ife of bone, t making incisions in the skin, and 3 stanching the blood as they proceed. < They do not always content themselves, I after incision, with introducing the 1 coloring matters, but often add corro- < 3ive plants for the purpose of producing < pimples in the wound. This is espe- 1 jially practiced in the Viti and Mar- i juise Islands, and in New Zealand. It * * ? - -! 1 iL.t IT ! c is well Known, in particular, mat auauri c warriors thus carry on their faces a t tattooing quite in relief, the operation * 3f which is extremely painful. The i designs, often very well executed, are } jomplicated to indicate the rank, the i family and the exploits. Among the t Australians, some new designs are fi idded at each solemn period of life. i The Tchoukehis of Eastern Siberia ^ [who are completely clad) limit them- c selves to making deep incisions to de- i aote their prowess in fishing, in the f ;hase, or in war. But even in this de- ' jree of simplicity, tattooing seems to * lave become a rite among certain peo- t pie. It is frequently old women that c ire charged to praotice it. But in a nany cases, lis among the Alfourvins, J t is Ihe priest or the chief that presides c it the ceremony. a All who have seei; men completely i attooed, fcaow that.1 tattooing seems to a ake the place, to some extent, of nTT/a f.ViCk im? I /IVIiUCOt J.U UUUUi9 VV VMU Dression of nudity. It is, moreover c lighly ornamental, and one can nnder- c itand how tha Polynesians, who become a ikiJlful in covering themselves with * pracefnl arabesque, circles and lines s egalarly combined, have a passion for a he art. This passion, it appears* often z josus dear. la his recent voyage in t Micronesia (1876), Miklucko-Maclay re- c narked that the inhabitants of the Pe- t an Archipelago were less tattooed than o hose of the neighboring island of Jap, a md the other Polynesians. 'v They are, however, not less fond of a ;attooing, ancl sometimes produce very * :ompiicated forms of it. Bat they do 1 lot bear the operation welL They do c lot appear tc be less robust inconstitu- * ion, but from some indeterminate I sauses, their jystem, perhaps more ner- \ rous or more sensible to pain, does not i tlways prove resistant. Their health { s affected by the operation, and they - J-Ia fnViA >r? a?vi nn "knnn if >ULLlt) b I ill CO UIC. J.UC nuiUCil uuu 1 u leit her better nor worse than the men. They adorn the backs of the hands, ialf the arms, and the onter sides of ;he legs with rows of crosses, stars, joints, lines simple and zigzag. The Indians of America tattoo, it is mown, very little. Though strongly resistant to pain, they look npon tattoong as a kind of disgraceful mutilation. 1 few years ago, an Indian cf the tribe >f the Apaches, in Arisiona, sought a roung Comanche girl as his wife. The Domanches Were then a, hostile tribe. Daught in a pillage-expedition by the ipaches, she was by them tat toed over the whole of the back by way of punishment. The painful operation was prolonged fifteen months. This unhappy girl escaped, rod was received is servant in an America]a house at loseph, Arizona. The complicated and troly rosthetic , ;attooing which forms the garb of so ' nany Polynesians is not known in Africa, rhe Niams-Niams, and the women of Hammedj, Mataubue, Makoude, Manjanja, and Machinga ornament them!o1\roa tpifVi (>nmnarfl.t.irolv plAcanf, Dands. The Bans paint tliemselve3 j vitli pipe-clay, the Besuvs arid the Ber:as with red ocher, the Monbnttos with ^ :ed wood, or black juice of gardenias Dut, in general, they confine themselves t :o pretty gToss incisions, sc.ch as the ' arge cuts in the cheeks and the temples in the Berabras and ciae Bedjas, rad the colored cuts of the Bantetochs ^ Df Loan go. The Bongos tattoo themselves pretty ' completely, even the ams ; but they do not make drawings with a series of prickings. They make according to Schweinfurth long incisions, the cicarisation of which they retard, by appli- , cation of irritating substances. The wound forms pimples, and, the 5eshy excresence once cicatrized, there remain8 an indelible swelling. The in- , habitants of Onwinnzi, to the east ard | on the coast of ILiake Tanganyika, hav<. according to Cameron, a strong taste for tattooing. They are covered with , small incisions forming spirals, circles or straight lines. More to the sonth, : on the same lake, at Kusanngalohowa, a line of tattooing is made, descending in the middle of the forehead, and two lines on the temples, proloning sometimes to the chin. Cameron found in , these marks means of distinguish- ' ing the tribe. To the west of Lake Tanganyika, in Ouhigh, tho tattooing common to the two sexes is without regularity, and the frightful stars left by deep inci- ! sions for the purpose of ornament are very repulsive?not so, however, to the natives, and they often disfigure themselves in the most surprising ways. Many of them are not content with incisions. Dr. Tarrant has recently (for example) indicated a mode of tat- J tooing particularly in use on the African coasts, and which ip as follows : It is applied only to the face. It i consists in a strong torsion of the skin, : added to the ordinary jinethod of tat- < tooing by incisions. A 'long and pretty ; thick steel needle is introduced obliquely > into the skin at a depth varying with the ' }i2o of the tattooing to ike done. The . i \l needle is then raised forcibly in a direction at right angles to the part pricked, raising like a lever the skin, which is cat below. The strip thus obtained i3 strongly twisted and wound into a ball round the needle as an axis, and the contraction of the tissues suffices to hold it until complete cicatrization, in the form of more or less regular balls. This operation is practiced most frequently from the lower and anterior part of the nose, raising in a c+TQiorVif. lino f.r? thft hpffinniric nf the w w ~ O O hair. Certain tribes tattoo, in the same way, the lobes and the outer border of the ear. It is generally on children of tender age only, that this tattoning is performed. It is donbtless not so painful as those in which irritating substances are applied; but it must be very dreadful for children. Civilized nations seem to have definitely renounced this fashion of barbarous ornamentation; but one need not go far to find in the piercing of ears, the often painful use of corsets, and certain deformation of the cranium (as the Toulousian) some reiics of savage practices. Salt. There would seem to be some persons on this earth who are constantly trying to make water run up hill, and yet they never make out beyond making themselves miserable and every one around them who is in any way connected with or related to them- Only lately a man asked us if taking salt with his food ffould be of any value. He was pale .Hid the lips nearly colorless, and this feature at once betokens to the experisnced eye that the blood is poor, poverty-strickened, "toothin," to makeuseof * slarg phrase; but the "doctor"?and i miserable one at that?had told him ihat "salt" was not necessary, and that hie should not upon any account whatever partake of it. It is a well-known kcfc that the human blood contains a jreat amount of saline matter, and of shis a little over one-half is salt?nothing less, nothing more. Now this is jarried off in several ways?perspiration is always salt if you taste it?and ;he kidneys are busy taking away salt i n their regular duty; the skin carries < iway salt every hour, either sleeping )r waking, and the bile consists largely >f salt when it is healthy bile, and all i ;ne cartilages of tne body contain salt, ifow, with the waste going on, sleeping >r waking, working or resting, will this i D. tell tis what is to be done in the yay of replacing the salt that is taken ' rat of the system by the regular course 1 )f nature? People often become ner- ' "ous, peevish, fretful and "good for j lothing" because they deprive them;elves of fresh air, proper exercise and 1 salt. It is a simple thing, but when j he Almighty made man Ha not only i nade him about right, but gave j nto his keeping all the natural eJe- t nents for maintaining and repair- 1 ng the body and its wastes. Among ] hese, salt in a great variety of forms, ] tnd in a bountiful supply, was given, j ^nd it is a matter of wonder how men ] rho pretend to be "up" in the matter i >f handling this body and the diseases i ncidental to it, can perpetrate any such { oolishness as to attempt to say that you i 'must not eat saltsuch a man or < eoman would be "white liveied" in { hrAA mnnths. and rmen to everv chancre i >f weather or food, and consequently ,11 the time "ailing." Eat all the salt on reqnire, and shake your fist in t<slightfnl independence in the face of . ,ny such" snidekeep the salt in food, a yonr system, and be happy. It is an tbsolute fact with the best stock breedirs, that if cattle do not have modeately free access of salt, they soon be:ome "weak," lifeless and afHicted with Liseases which are entirely unknown ,mong those who have access to salt whenever they desire. Does not the ame law apply to people, who -re of as much consequence in the ninds of thinking people and those Fho have any knowledge ? Salt is cne ?f the essentials, and the body cannot >e supported without it in a reasonable ? J mi MA M /V / f A m [uaimiij. j-iicre j.a uu CJVJXU UX UOO xjjl ^ ttempting to do without it, and if yon t rill take notice of those people who \ ,re advocating disuse of salt, you will 3 ina them "lunatics" upon the good ( lealth question, and probably devotees >f the Dio Lewis "oatmeal" as a doc- 3 rine, and first-class beefsteak as a i >ractice. Sensible people will not be i nought into this kind of a trap, w-ich j a the immediate future makes work 3 or these veritable M. D.'s.?Boston ] Journal of Commerce. ] Lile Amonjr the Hindoos. The London Times, in reviewing a ecently published book by Shib Chun- ( ler Bose, "Hindoo Manners and Cus- 1 oms," says: ( Wealthy Hindoos are ofteh lavishiy ' >stentatious when a death, a marriage, , >r one of the annual religious festivals >ffer them an occasion fcr parading * heir generosity. They illuminate gar- , lens that reflect the pleasures of their , >aradise; they throw their mansion { >pen to all comers; they feed troops j >f hecroar* and r>r5fi9ts for davs and ometimes for week3. And although he Bengali, as a rule, is frugal to stinginess, looking closely to the fixpendiure of each rapee, the observances of lis faith must be a heavy tax on him. iis the Brahmins live at the expense of he laymen, it is to their interest to see hat these observances are maintained. Che great Doorga Poojah festival in itlelf must be a fruitfal source of embarassments and insolvencies. Everybody s bound, if possible, to live in luxury or the time, to indulge in merrymaking bat degenerates into orgies, *nd to I Iress in cevr and stimptuous clothing rom head to foot. "Persons in strait- \ med circumstances, who actually live J :rom hand to mouth, deposit their hard- ' earned savings for a twelvemonth to be ( spent on this grand festival." The beg- ] jars have their wants freely relieved, : md it is the season to which mendicant , Brahmins look forward as the occasion for replenishing their empty purses. j According to the anthor, it has been 1 roughly estimated that $50,000,000 are : spent annually in Bengal alone, directly or indirectly; and the Doorga Poojah Dnly represents on an exaggerated scale i waste that is going forward at intervals through sll the rest of the year. Either on religions grounds or on the occasion of family Ceremonies, there are many days when a circle of acquaintances must be entertained, and when offerings which become the perquisite of the officiating priest must be laid before the shrine of the tutelary idol. So the Brahmins victimize the saperstitons community, and yet the members of the sacred caste are so great that most of them barely keep body and I soul together. This is a common say- ! ing that a Brahmin is a beggar, even if he possesses a lake of rnpees, and "if an officiating priest can make ten rupees a month he considers himself very well off.-' Naturally, they cannot afford to be scrupulous, and it seems strange that, with their unblushing mendicity and their open disregard of morality, they retain their hold even on their ignorant devotees. The author relates facts to show that the most sacred laws of the caste are sacrificed to pecuniary temptations. The heads of the order X- 3 X- .1 iU* nave consented tu cuuuun's tu? jiiuou flagrant offenses when the culprit could afford to bribe them sufficiently. There seems to be no occupation so dangerous as that of brakeman on freight train?, and many insurance companies refuse to take the risk of ! insuring their lives. It is said tbat only twenty-five per cent, of freightbrakemen dis 9xcept by accident,?Dr. Fooie'a Health Monthly. BUKXIXG BODIES. The Prosress ami Status ot the Cause of Cremation in Aincrico and in ?ui-ope Last Year. The reports circulated freely in the fall of 19S1 that the Le Moyne crematory at Washington, Pa., was to be dis- j mantled proved to be untrue, and in March last the trustees, Messrs. Julias Le Moyne and V. HardiDg, issued the following circular, covering the points on which correspondents usually desire information: "Dr. F. Julius Le Moyne erected his cramatory for his own use and that of n^rsnria in tlip neighborhood, and not for the general public, his hope being that crematories would be erected in different parts of the country. He, however, allowed the cremation of a few bodies for the purpose of keeping this reform before the pnblic, as well as to gratify a strong desire of those who had no other way of showing their interest in the subject. The trustees endeavor to follow his wishes, although be left no directions in the matter, nor any fund for keeping up the crematory, hence a small sum is added to the actual cost of cremation. "The crematory is situated at Washington, Washington county, Pa. The pi ace may be reached by rail from either Pittsburg or Wheeling. "The trustees will receive no bodies for cremation nnless they are previously satisfied that death is recent and from natural causes. This information must be accompanied bv a certificate from the attending physician and the Board of Health, and some referees known to bcth parties are desirable. "A timely notice is required for another reason. It requires abont twenty-four honrs to heat the furnace before the introduction of the body; after the body is placed in the retort it is consumed in about two hours, but from twenty to twenty-four hours must be allowed for the cooling of the retort before the ashes can be removed. "The body is removed from the coffin before cremation; hence, if a sheetbe laid in the coffin under the body it can be lifted out more easily. Simple clothing and a plain coffin are recommended. "The ashes are generally placed in a sealed tin box and can be carried away by the friends or sent by express. The weight of the ashes varies from five to seven pounds. "The cost of cremating a body is $45. rhis includes all expenses after the body reaches the railroad station at Washington?hearse, carriage and box, is well as fuel, attendance, &c." By way of proof of the spread of in:ere8t in the subject may be mentioned ;he fact that New England manufac;urers have been making inquiries with i view to preparing cinerary urns for ! ;he market. The tenth cremation at Washington took place on the 19th of February last, the body being that of Dr. Konradin Homberg, a prominent physician of Indianapolis, Ind., a poitical exile from Germany, and a derated scholar. He was past eighty-five rears of age and a bachelor. On the > )ih of March the body of Mr. Arthur 1 Strabos was cremated. He was a civil mgineerwho not long before had gone 1 :rom New York to Pittsburg to perfect 1 jlans for the Monongahela bridge. 1 Je died suddenly of typhoid fever, leavng directions for the cremation of his :emains, which were duly carried out, hough none of the members of his ' amily were present at the incineration. 1 )n the 31st of Mych were cremated ' he remains of Colonel J. N. Ross, of 1 3olden, Mass., who ' had commanded ' he Nineteenth Ohio Volunteers .daring ; he war and had afterwards been a mer- J jhant and railroad superintendent in Massachusetts. On the 23d of May the 1 )ody of Miss Frank M. B. Kendal, who lad died or consumption at the age of -hirty-seven, at Madison, Ind., was J . 1 T- - I J2 1 i ;rematea. j? or twelve years sue uau uceu i jrincipai of a female seminary at Madi>on, to which place her ashes were reurned to be deposited in Springdala cemetery. The fourteenth cremation ;ook place on the 24;h of Jane, the )ody being that of Mrs. Henry Hahernan, of New York, who had died of 1 jonsumption. ; Abroad, the cause of cremating is 1 making steady progress. Italy is still 1 n the forefront of the movement. Accord- 1 ng to the Revue d'lhjcjiene new socio- ( ;ies have formed, which now number 1 line in all Italy, and new crematories : aave been constructed in Rome, Venice, I Pavia, Oremonia, TJdine and Leghorn, it last reports the Cremation Society.at 1 Rome had 183 members, and bad select* 1 ?d a site in the cemetery for a cremato ^ r.w> +Vi? /T-rtvirv-i ctctom Thp msf, nf .lUJUi 1/JU UUO VAVXAUJ. WJWWV,ui. ***v ~iremation is from $G to 810. and the tirn 1 josts fiora SI to $2. At Milan the : novement maintains its strength, and 1 ;he English Consul, Mr. Colnaghi, reports that between 1876 and August 31, L881, seventy-one incinerations of bodies lave taken place at Milan and fif- | ;een at Lodi, making a total of eighty- 1 iix. The first crematory fnrnaca set 1 lp in Milan was heated by ordinary gas, ; nade on the spot and passed by means ' tubes into the urn. This system, ,( lowever, had to be abandoned, since it vas found to be neither rapid nor ! jconom?cal, five hoard being required for i he operation. Two rival systems are ] low being^tried?one the invention of Professor G orini, of Lodi. and tbe other : ihat of Messrs. Porna and Vennini, of 1 Milan. Both are heated by wood, and ; ;he flames are brought into direct con act with the body; combustion being increased by the introduction of atmos- ; pheric air. Cremation does not appear ;o be a cosily process, for the total 1 :ost of incinerating a human body at 1 ITCI4ftlfl This 1 .LLIiUil 1 "5 C ^iiigniiau uuuv-* jbarge covers not only the fees to the cremation society and to the municipality,' but the cost of a niche foi the cinerary urn in the colum - 1 barium erected for that purpose. The Japanese Gorernment, it may be added, sent a commissioner, Mr. Mono- . suke Jaca, to Milan, not long ago, to study the Italian system of cremation. Gotna ranks next to Milan as a center of cremation. The furnace erected there in the autumn of 1878 had up to last August, been in use 57 times?once in 1878, 17 times ir. 1879, and 3.6 times in j 1880. For last year; up to August 17, i the number was 23. Ox the total of 57 cases, only 1 came from Berlin, 1 from Breslau, 7 from Dresden, 1 from Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1 from Hanover, 1 from Carlsruhe, 2 from Leipsic, 3 from Munich, 1 from Vienna. 1 from Paris and 1 fiom "Weimer. Gotha contributed 23. Only 1G cases were women. Of the 47 men, 19 belonged to learned professions, 4 to the army and 4 to the nobility. There were 10 physicians. At the last meeting of the Copenhagen Cremation Society it was announced that the society counted 1,400 members, among whom were S3 distinguished physicians and many Protestant ministers of well-known character. The apparatus adopted by the Danish Society completes cremation iu about an hour and the operation does not cost more than from $1.25 to SI.75. It is expected that this economical result will assist in extending the system among the poorer classes, for in Denmark the cost of a funeral by the ordinary method is very bigli. In Fxance, a few weeks ago, the minister of the interior put a veto on any experiment in the way cf cremation, even with the "debris" of the hospitals, on the ground that the decree of Prairial Year XIII, which deals with the subject of the disposition of the dead, only takes cognizance o? burials. The French society has 106 members, and its receipts for the firsi year of it-q existence were $1,400. & England the cremation movement has made little progress of late, about the only notable item, recorded being the j passage by the Oxford Union, by a vote j of 37 to 19, of a resolution that "cremation ought to supersede our method of burial." VACCINATION IS AMERICA. Tlie Method of Obtaining the Vims?'The Present Outbreak of Smallpox. Dr. E. A. Lewis, who is one of the largest dealers in vaccina in this country, upon being questioned by a reporter of the New York World to find ? l - 1? .I ;3 . OUiaDOUt. mo supply ui >&ccuie, IKUU . "We have a large farm in New Jersey, where we keep a stocK of calves, principally Alderny, for they seem to take and keep the vims better than any others. In a busy season, snch as this, we rise a calf nearly every day. The method of vaccination is the same as in the case of hum an beings. The belly of the calf near the ndder is cleanly shaved, leaving a perfectly smooth skin. Then abrasions are made and the vesicles are applied, the only difference being that while in a vaccination of a human being there are seldom more thaa^two abrasions of the skin, with the calves between twenty-five and thirty vesicles are sometimes applied, when we reach a large quantity of virus. The additional number of applications moto nn ilifforon/ia in +.T10 rnialitr nf the vims, and the vaccination produces no applicable effect upon the health of the calves. So the protests of Mr. Bergh and his colleagues are groundless. The time for removing the virus is usually on the seventh day after the vaccination. The virus is taken out in different ways. Sometimes on quills or wing points, and sometimes in glass tribes. Sometimes, too, the scabs are removed, but in bovine virus these are not often to be depended upon. When taken off on quill slips, or wing points, it is allowed to dry thoroughly, and you would not recognize the presence of any extraneous matter on the and of one of thes9 quills or points, should you examine them ever so carefully. Probably the most effective form of vaccination is with the quill slip. They serve to preserve the virus better and retain its vitality. When dried thoroughly they are ready for use. The vaccination by glass tubes also is a very effective process. The virns preserved in these different forms is packed nr> a-nA cant V>t7 moil TTia mftin r?r?inf in preserving is to keep ifc dry and cool, i "When exposed to heat any length of time it loses its vitality and becomes absolutely useless. We find that the mail is the only safe means of transportation, and never send it in any other way." 44 What virus do you use to inoculate your calves ?' "Several years ago I visited a number of vaccine faims in Europe, and brought home specimens from several places in France, but most of them < proved worthless, and soon ran out, My virus is transmitted from an epi- 1 demic of cow-pox discovered in Veauguery. It is of a very effective quality, and was found there in 1866. It was brought here by Dr. Martin, of Boston, and has been transmitted in an unbroken chain from one calf to another ever 3ince.:' ?'TY-v wrtn rr>n/?T-i /if voiWtiftA JU V J VU gVAA AAA U VU V4 ?MV ? MWVAMV from your farm?'' "Yes. I am one of the largest dealers and producers in this country. I 3end it by mail everywhere, all over the country. This is the be it season of the _ year for its transportation, for it is more easily preserved now than in warmer months. I am sending ofi enough now to vaccinate 2,000 people a day." "How do yon accoint for the prevalence of smallpox this winter?" "We are bound to have an epidemic of smallpox constantly recurring as long a3 there is no compulsory vaccina' tion. It see ns to return with additional < virulence every fifth year. About ] five years ago, duriDg the winter of i 18/b ana is//, it spreaa very generally 1 all over the United States, both North ; and South. A great deal of vaccine ? was used bj the people, and in the j 3pring it disappeared and we were free , Erom it, nntil abont eighteen months j ago, when there were cases all over the j country. LasS winter it became quite i an epidemic in Brooklyn, and isolated ] cases appeared elsewhere. During the i summer the seeds were kept alive, and j now it has spread so that there is a j general prevalence of the disease as far West as the Mississippi. Why, we , are sending packages of vaccine daily j to people in Kansas and Missouri j But there is every probability that dnr- , in/* +>ia crvrinnr tVio ^icecicp will ATttirfilv disappear and the country will have an , immunity, at least from epidemics, for , a number of years." "You are an advocate of compulsory i vaccination ?* , "Indeed I am, and of stringent quar-- ] an tine laws and greater powers for the , boards of health. Oar great trouble is, , that the people are allowed to act too ] much as they please. In Prussia, where j every child has to have a vaccination certificate, there are no epidemics. In i England, where an anti-vaccination i party wields great power, there is a j great prevalence of this disease. So . rare are the bad consequences that no 1 well-founded conclusions can be drawn \ from them, against vaccination. A , great deal of the smallpox in the "West j is undoubtedly due to emigration. | Emigrants carry the infection out there with them and there is consequently i much more of the disease than there | ffould otherwise be. I never heard of j a German case yet, so complete is their , system of quarantine and compulsory vaccination. I "Wir Plants frnm rhina and Jar\ New plants from China and Japan are ] being added to the agriculture of Cali- i fornia, says a San Francisco le' ter. The ! United States consnl general at Shan- j ghai sends us a good supply of seed from two valuable tfeeS for distribution, i viz., the tallow tree and the lichee. , The tallow tree will thrive here. Besides being a handsome tree, resembling ; fcbe asp2n, it bears great clusters of nuts j whose kernel are filled with white j tallow, which is softened by steam and then removed. lb is in general use in j substitution of animal tallow. After ; extraction a very large quantity of rich ! and valuable oil remains. The lichee < bears a fruit that is delicious when fresh. Jt is dried and largely exported. The tree is an evergreen and very ( beautiful. Both of these valuable trees will grow in California, and doubtless in many Southern States on the Atlantic f-ide. the seeds are distributed freely i i i- i 1 ti.? oj ine pnonsnerb ui one wan x itui^w Evening Bulht:n. List year the Bulletin distributed the Soji beans of Japan, which grow luxuriantly, and which will supersede all other varieties as food for men and animals. For centuries these heavy-podded beans have fed the millions of Eastern Asia, and they are now favorite food in Southern Europe. The plant gro^s scrubby Jtiere and three feet high. The pod never drops its beans on the field. No other leguminous plant bears beans of such tasteful, healthy and nutritious qualities, in which the straw participates largely as fattening food for cattle. Analysis finds in Soja beans 34i per cent, of albuminous element and 18\ uer cost, of fat, while horse beans show only 25* and li per cent, respectively, and rcaue contains 10? and per cent. only. As an alternative crop the Soja bean will prove a blessing and a restorative to the soil here and in all your Southern States, w^tere wo predict its speedy^Ptroduction, Human Hopes. Like to an airy bird, With every feather stirred, A skylark mounting npward to the sky; Yf hit though its nest we pass Whsre low winds wave the grass, And butterflies and bees go flittiDg by. It lives not in the now? \ iii Though blossoms deck the bough, The harvest fields with golden spires it seee, The seed falls to the ground; ^ v It knows no burial mound, Bet crimson fruit that glow amid the trees. And when fierce storms do blow, And bare boughs in the snow Songless and fiowerless stretch through gloom afar, * Still, still the angel Hope . Bids us with life's ills cope, And through the darkest shades see every ?Lydia L. A. Very. HUMOKODS. One touch of vaccine makes the whole world kine. . When a man gets abpve his business he is bound, to fall oil . ^ A successful debater?The hornet always carries his point _ J A man that is variable is not esteemed very able by his neighbors. No one ever thinks of complimenting a clock for keeping good hours. The sun is no invalid, but it always goes South to spend the winter. ^ Pugilists strip for a fight, and then present each other with heavy wraps. The phrenologist is governed more bv his feelines any man in any other business. The good die young, The bad live to lie about the weather, and are spoken of as the oldest inhabitants. Chicago's chief of police has a gold badge set with diamonds. The poke* and bunko men of that town have good taste.?Free Press. If some religions people we know . would prey on their neighbors less and their knees more, the ^orld would be better off.?Baltimore Every Saturday. A New Yorker who had offered $50 to any one who would remove his bunion now turns around and wants $10,000 D Cause a bixet:i, cat ituMuuvvuiKu ....... Shakespeare asks, "What's in a name ?" Well, it is a good thing, sometimes. Not necessarily for publication, bnt merely as a guarantee of good faith. The German government can now call 1,000,000 soldiers into the field at a day's notice, -while orer here it takes the best part of three days to hunt up the man who borrowed your half dolThe mayor and city council of Austin have got the smallpox . Now don't get scared. Give us a chance to finish the sentence. They have undoubtedly got the smallpox under control.?Siftings. rv As large crops rewards the farmer Who has sown with lavish hand; As encores thai greet the charmer Who out sings the big, bras3 band; So the ardent advertiser of tt o-jUVi flf small ATrtonaa Through the paper; for 'tis wiser Than to bulletin the fence With a small, Gaudy sheet, Not at all ' ' NIce'or neat. " Who, into journal', of his " dust" A liberal portion pours, Will nevermore complain of rust On the hinges of his doors. ?Eackensack Republican, Mexico and Her People. Upon landing on the coast of Mexico one is struck with the singular dress, habits and customs of the people. All ye see is new to our eyes and senses. ^ 1'he houses are 01 tne simplest construction; and the furniture in them surprisingly meager. Of course these remarks refer to the rural districts. The Did time plow of 2,000 years ago is seen in th6 field, and drawn by oxen, and the yoke fastened to their horns. The producing class is the Indian. The pronundiados, or revolutionists,comprise the middle class ; while the better class is pure castilian. The latter class bold the offices, fill all the positions, md possess all the wealth. The middle class are not renowned for virtue, while the upper class are. The lower class ire stupid but honest; the middle class ire not. There are many rich people in Mexico, but the government is poor and the country xmpoverisnea. jraupera axo plenty; and yet one rarely hears of a death by starvation. Bread is cheap; and fruit can be had for a song. The bread in general use is the tortilla, made 3f corn. It is the bread of the Aztecs ind Tolteea of 700 years ago. It is the bread Montezuma ate in his day. And ibis is how it is made: The corn is soaked in warm lime prater for a hajf day; then worked, when the hulls drop off; then ther clean grains are placed upjn a flat stone, and i stone roller passed over them until "he corn is ground and looks like mor:ar. Some red pepper is put into the lough, when the operator takes a lump in her hands, pats it until it assumes the form of a cake and then places it anon an earthen plate, laid upon tho ;oals, and the famous tortilla is ready to be eaten. The cake is quite palat * ible, and with soup it is* not to be lespisecL A Spanish writer, when dilating upon the wealth and extravagance of the JLnjian emperor Montezuma, declared that the emperor never u*ed the some spoon but once. But he did not tell all the -j. story. Montezuma ate his soup like all bis subjects. He took piece of tortilla, _ shaped it like a spoon or cup, dipped ifc int-o the dish of sonp, then swallowed the soup and tortilla together. Mexicans, wlio are not worth a dollar in the world, do the same thing to-day. The Lower class and middle class, too, to a large extent, use no spoons, knives or forks, when eating. The manufacture and sale of this cake is one of the few fields ooen to women .\Sh5S in Mexico. They bake them and then hawk their goods upon the streets or deliver them to families at their houses. But they never grow rich in their calling. Indeed, in this country, the object of the people is not to get wealth; it is rather to obtain the comforts of life. A Mexican will work thrte days in the field, and sleep the other three days of the week awaj. The seventh day is market day, and also church day. m' in t.Tio JLDG CULLL1XlUJ-l uo.v simplest and fewest garments, in fact they are never overdressed. It is surprising how few clothes will pass muster m some districts of that country. A blanket spread on the earthen floor of their huts is considered good enough for any sovereign of that land; while a cot is regarded as a luxury, and only - indulged in by the well to-do people. . \ Everybody smokes, but no one chews or snuffs. The ladies smoke as gracefully as they dance. They smoke in the parlor at home, and when visiting; and are content only when they have a cigarette every half hour. They use wines at :|a the table, but at no other ticae; acd all classes eat frequently but f-piringlv. >~i|p Dyspepsia is rare, and a dentist could no' earn a living if be Lad an entire . ^51 canton in which to ply Lis vocation. ''am Life is deemed a period of eDjoyment, with the rich and p doa They eaf, sleep, '% dance and die. And they die early too. Old people lire ?eo? jn