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WEEKLY EDITION. WIXNSBOPtO, S. C., WEDXESDAY. MARCH 29, 1882. ^ ESTABLISHED IN 1844. - L V Euildin:* on the Sand. 11 well to woo, 'tis well to wed, For so the world hath done Since myrtles grew and roses blew, And morning brought the sun; But have a care, yo young and fair, Be sure ye pledge with truth; Bo certain that your love will wear Beyond the days of youth. |||g, For if you give sot heart for heart, gsy . A3 well as hand for hand, You'll find, you've played the unwise part. And " built upon the sarrd." 'Tis well to save, ?t:s well to have A goodly fctore of gold. ?*\UU Il'JM fXIOUgU Oi Oiuily For charily is cold. But placc not ali your Lope and trust In what the deep mine springs, We cannot live on yellow dust Uniuixed with purer things: And he who piles up wealth alone Will often have to stand ^ neeiue ms coner ciiest auu. una 'Tia " built upon the sand.'' 'Tis good to speak in kindly guise, And soothe where'r we can; Fair spcech should bind the human mind, And love link man to man. Put stop cot at the gentle wordsLet deeds with language dwelL 3 he one who pities starving birds Should scatter crumbs as well; The mercy thai is warm and true Must lend a helping hand, For those that talk, yet fail to do, JUut " uuiiu upon me sana." ?E iza Cook. THE SQUIRE'S WILL. tt A n/5 eawo T"?im VIOrT">f CQ1/1 Tlfrfl AUU ? f * MMV4 Wjnhart, grimly. If Mrs. "WTDhart had lived in ancient times, she woald most assuredly have been ranked araoDg the Scribes and Pimisees. She was always criticising and finding fault. Ncbody suited her. Acd when she spoke out the short, decisive sentence above recorded, she set down the tea-kettle with an emphasis which jingled the very lid. The neighbors had been there to ** - ? TT71 ?4/UJ? anuK tea. whenever &juvi>mug ui ?ucial importance happened in Sandville, the neighbors always went somewhere to drink tea. And Mrs. Wynhart had had plum cake and frizzled beef, fresh doughnuts and damson jelly, to celebrate the occasion. And now that tea company was gone . (Sandville people always put their knitting work in the bag and vent home early on account of the beach road and the rising tide), Luella, the eldest daughter, was washing up the dishes, and Wintred, the younger, was chop ping raisins lor a pnaamsr. "Oh, mother!" pleaded Winifred, who was a fair-} aired, cherry-lipped girl, always hanging down: her head like a wild anemone, "don'rtalk in that way, please!" "Mother's right enongh," saidLnella. "Why shonldn't I talk that way?" Baid Mrs. Wynhart. "It's the gospel +rr?tT> oin'fc if.? .Ta?V .Telliffe vras a wild fellow, always careering around tlie country when he'd onght to be at home reading his 'Notes on the Catechiz!'" "Bat, mother," ventured Winifred, "yon let him come here to see Luella, v when you supposed he was old Squire Sandiman's heir." "I couldn't put him out doors, could mi" I?" retorted Mrs. Wyrihart, severely. Mr "Besides, that's quite a different thing. * Squire Sandiman cught to know his own nephews better than any one else, and he's left all his money to Simeon, while Jack has only got the Beach Farm, thfi?e's nothine on earth but sea weed and samphire, and long clams, to be had !n "It's an unjust will!" said Winifred, reddening to the very roots of her flaxen hair, "Hoity-toity!" said Mrs. Wynhart, wheeling suddeniy around, and regarding Winifred sarcastically through the moon-like spheres of her big silver spectacles. "What business was it of yours, Td like to knew? He never will be Luella's husband low !" "There never was an engagement," T ^T-^K^Irr CtClf Annrco Q I SitiU. iJUCUO, ka>ouulj< vi vuixlov, <m girl must amuse herself; but I don't care for him." Winifred looked up -with her soft eyes brimming over -with tears. "Was there no such thing, she asked herself, as truth and loyalty in the world? Why did they all turn against him in this way, just when his uncle's will had sc cruelly disappointed him ? So Mrs. Wynhart and Luella went to the "Weekly Chorus of Song," wher^ Deacon Throney led the tunes very much through his nose, and Miss Bet t* -"i 3 l.f 3 _ 1^1.. sey xioxneia laooreu a.iter, uu a i melodeon which wheezed audibly at every 'note and Winifred remained behind to dam the stockings and put her twin brothers to bed. ' Some one must stay, to see that BeDjamin and Abijah don't set the f house on fire," said Mrs. Wynhart. "And Winifred never cared for music," added Luella, "nor for society, I either." It was the way in which matters were always decided in tho Wynhart household. Winifred was quite used to it, and never dreamed of making an appeal. . Luella was undonbtedly the beauty of the family; but there were those wbo 1 i l r .111.. 11 1 1 xmgnc cave preierreutce jeuow iuci.s and limpid bine eyes of the younger sister, in spite of her iound little nose. >nd the month which was perhaps too wide for classic comparison. Bnfc while she sat there all alone, , with the twins snoring npstarrs, and the fire crackling on the hearth, and " *-? _ _ tne goiaen rtiarcH mooa cixtauxiig tuo sky, there came a tap at the door, and in walked no less a personage than Jack Jelliffe himself. "Ob, Jack!" said "Winifred, jumping up with a slight scream. - "Yes, it's I," said Jack, somewhat mondilv. "I inst met vour mother and sister. They wouldn't speak to me." "Wouldn't speak to yon, Jack ?" "Pretended not to knew me," until I spoke. It's all the same. Winifred, you don't believe it, do you r" he burst out, abruptly. k "Believe what, Jack ?' she faltered. * "That I am wild and worthless?that I deserved the slight my uncle has put upon me." t "No, Jack," earnestly responded Winifred, with tears in her eyes, "I never believed it i uecause we were WBUT playmates together, ana you were sLvays, ob, so good to me ! And be^ sicies, Jack, I hoped?I thonght yon might one day be my brother." "I liked Lnella well enongh," said i the yonng man, slowly, "bnt it wasn't she that I wished to make my wife. It was yon, "Winifred!" "T ?n r.j ii ;_i "X i cneu lilt) giri. "I loved you Winifred," said Jelliffe, in a faltering voice. "Whenever I dreamed of a home of my own, it was your face I fancied beside my hearth; but now?" "Well," said Winifred, "r ow?" "I don't care to ask any girl 10 be my wife. I couldn't expect any pirl to go to the bleak loneliness of the Beach "Farm, with its acres of sea-grass and shingly sand, and its old, one-storied house, all leaning to one side with the east wind." Winifred looked at liim with soft, ?__ glittering eyes. ."Jack," said 5he, *lI don't mind the lonlinegs nor the east winds, if?if only you love me ! I'd risk it all, if?" ''Winifred I Do 793 really mean itr And she answered, blushing beautifully: "Yes, Jack." "You'll risk it all, "Winifred, for mr sake?" "Yes, Jack." Great was the tumult and displeasure in the Wynhart family when it was I >; ..1 luIl TT7:?ir J u _ ,3 uiscuvexeu tuai* >fmiireu JLI&U eugageu herself to Jack Jelliffe. "It it had been Simeon, now," croaked Mrs. Wynhart, "1 shouldn't have so much objected." "Bat I didn't love Simeon, mother," pleaded "Winifred. "Love." repeated Lnella, angrily. "Bah! I've no patience with snch sentimental trash; and if Winifred is really determined to go to Beach Farm, she mnst make np her mind to separate herself from us "Ob, Luella! "Luella is right," said Mrs. Wynhart. ,!I never expected to see a child of mine deliberately turn pauper." , And "Winifred, who had been secretly contemplating the idea of a new white alpaca dress to be married in, now resolved she wonld have to wash and iron her old white mnslin, because it was very plain that her mother wonld not open her purse-strings ia her behalf. Winifred, soft and yielding though she w*s in other matters, was most truj j i t A_ auu tu tiitt/A* oviiinc, AH. oyiuu ut the vehement oppositions she met with from her family. '*1 love him, mother," she said, piteously, when Mrs. Wynhart was most merciless in her vitnperation. "Humph!" said the stout matron. "It's a pity you didn't fall in love with Billy Seeley, who has just been sent to the poorhouse!" So matters stood, one bloomy, blowy April evening, when Winifred went oat under the crimsoning maples of the woods to meet Jack Jellifie.. For Mrs. Wynhart had made herself so obstrusively disagreeable that all hopes of pie sant evenings by the fireside were abandoned, and Winifred lived only in the brief, bright moments when she met her lover in the winter sunset, with the frozen branches crackling overhead and the chill stars shining in the sky. Jack Jelliffe was there before her. | "Well, lassie," he exclaimed, joyously, as she came up, "I've been waiting for yon this half-hour! And I thonght you never were coming!" * ****** * Mrs. Wynhart was cutting out little cloth waist-coats for the twins, by the light of a smoky kerosene lamp, when the door opened, and Winifred came in, leaning on?Jack's arm! She glared at them over her spectaclerims with most ungracious eyes. "Mother," said Winifred, in a low voice, "we have something to tell yon. Jack has sold the Beach Farm?" "Humph!'' said Mr3. Wynhart. "And you're expecting to come here to live, are you? Bat you can't!" "To the city cf Sandport," went on Winifred, as if her mother had not spoken?"for a sea-side park. And they have paid him twenty thousand dollars for it." "Twenty?thousand?dollars I" gasped Mrs. Wynhart. "For a hundred acres r\f Viorron oao.oan/^ ' Tt nin'f. tmp?T don't believe it I" "And," added valiant Jack, "we have bought Doctor Bailee's farm, with one stone house, and I rjn give Winifred a home at least as gtf^d as the one I take her from." "As good as yon take her from ! I should think soejaculated Mrs. Wynharfc, remembering with regret that all this golden prize might have been Luella's. Squire Bailey's stone house ! With a bay-window and donble parlor?, and blinds, to everv window! Well! Only, Winifred, I hope you'll not be too set up to speak to ycur mother and sister when you've moved there ?' "There is no danger of it," said Winifred, laughingly almost hysterically? for, brave as she nad been in the face of trouble, good fortune almost took her by surprise. "Bat oh, mother, if you'll only kiss me, aud say that you're glad I'm going to be so happy?if you'll only do that!'' And Mrs. Wynhart did so, from ,the very bottom of her heart. Neither was it: on nf {- mofTw'ttv. "For Winifred *v J f J ' j engaged to a man -wort!: twenty thousand dollars was a different sort of person frora Winifred who had resolved to marry a panper. And this was the sort of logic by which Mrs. Wynhart argued her way through life. Squire Sandiman's will was so different from the way in which people generally had interpreted it. Simeon, with his five thousand dollars in cash, was all very well?but the Beach Farm had sold oi-rv^Ti-nf OT?^ f.nO fllSU I 1V1 1VU1 Iri iiii.,1 UUUU CilUVUliV) MMVk inherited nephew had become the hero of the day. How was Squire Sandiman to have foreseen all this ? Btit "Winifred cared little for all that. She had loved Jack before, and she loved him now. It was nice to be married at home, in a new white dress, with Lnella to arrange her hair, and she was gkd that they all liked Jack so mnch. But she loved him?nothing else mattered much?she loved him, and that was enough. A Tartar's Courtship. "What do pay in ycur country for a wife V asked a Tartar of an Englishman. "We pay nothing. We ask ihe girl, and if she says yes, and her parents don't refuse, we marry her." "But if the girl does not like yon ? If she hit yon on the head with her whip,or gallops away when yon ride up to her side V" replied the Tartar, referring to his nation's method of courtship by running alter a girl on horseback, "wnat do you do in that case 7" "Why, we do not marry her." "But if yon want to marry her very much; if yen love her more than yonr best horse, and all yonr sheep and camels pnt together?" the Tatar persisted, putting an extreme case for the sake of the argument, "We cannot marry her without her consent." "And are the girls moonfaced?" he continned, setting forth a Tartar's per fection of female beauty. For a few moments he seemed lost in meditation. Presently, removing his sheepskin hat, and rubbing his shaven neaa, ne as-sea: "Will you take me with you to your country ? It would be so nice. I should get a moonfaced wife, and all for nothing. "Why, she would not cost so much as a sheep." ' Bat suppose she would not have you?" "Not have me!" and the Tartar looked astonished "Not have me! Well, I should give her a white wrapper or a ring for her ears or her nose." "And if she still refused you?'' "Why, I should give her a gold ornament for her head, and what girl could resist such a present ? " At Centrcville, Ark., where there is no Bergh society, a wager was made as to the endurance of a certain tough mule. The trial drew a crowd, and the betting was heavy. The treadmill of a threshing machine was used, the mule being fastened in it and compelled to walk without rest. Whenever he was inclined to stop h9 was goaded to keep him moving. He was not allowed food or water. For over three days the -walked, and when he finallv fell down it was to die. The value of the writing paper annually manufactured in the United States ^miboutSlO,000,000. > ; 103. TIVZ FAIR SEX. A Boston tiirPs Whim. For the past scvon months there has been living with the Omahas, thirty miles below this city, an educated young lady?a Boston lady, too?who ic ir\y i.TtA fimc* o m^>rr>Af friViA because she hopes in this way to learn j something of the inner life of this, the oldest tribe, excepting the Pawnees, in this part of the West, This lady, Miiss A, C. Fletcher, was in the city, on Tuesday, with Dr. Wilkinson, agent of the Omahas and Winnebacos, The agent says that on taking charge of the Oma has a few weeks ago, he fonx d this lady with them and nearly starved. Miss Fletcher is a brunette, soiidly built, about 25 years old, rather goodlooking, and with a directness of speech and a way of standing silent while irrelevant conversation is going on that probably comes of her present mode of life. Miss Fletcher intimated to Dr. Wilkinson that before coming to the Omahas she had been with some of the warlike northern tribes, and from her present place of study she would go to the New Mexico Pueblos, thence to the Flatheads of Washington Territory, and retnrn East by \ray of the Sioux country. ?Sioux City Journal.. Ribbons. Lace ribbons are the novelty of the e^oo/vr* imifofa a /3ooinmc r\f ! moresque and Spanish laces, which are woven in thick figures on a lace-like ground that forms the ribbon, and the edges are scalloped. The familiar arabesques, great rose:?, and leaf patterns of Spanish laces are perfectly copied, and a soft, light, lace-like trimming is the result-, that will be very effective on the bonnets of plain English and Tuscan straw. Trimming ribbons are wider than those of last season, and will measure three to four inches. Another new j ribbon combines faille seduisante with the lace patterns and with satin; thus the center stripe will be faille; a lace stripe edges this on one side, while on the*other side is satin with brocaded small flowers cr leaves. There are also ribbons that are moire half their width, and the moresque lace designs make up the other half; sometimes a watered string is through the middle of the rib I bon, and there are lace stripes on each edge. Lace designs in one color, however, promise to be the favorite, if the bnlk of the importations predict fairly, as all the new shades are seen in these patterns of ribbon three inches "wide. The old-time chine effects that look like hand-painting arc also revived on faille gronnds. These are seen not only in ribbons, bnt in silk dress goods, with alternating stripes of moire or of satin. A Romance of the Telecraph. During tlie last two years Miss Lonise Eib and Miss Laura Jordan, telegraph operators, have worked together in the Western Union office at St. Joseph, Mo. . Persons about the office who could not ! read the tickings of Miss Eib's instru- ! rnent were puzzled frequently to see Miss Jordan put her hands up to her ears. The very inquisitive, noticing that during the quick motions she j shoved bits of cotton into the auricular J channels, sometimes would ask if any- , thing was wrong, but Miss Jordan would avoid the question. Not until two weeks ago, indeed, was light thrown upon the mysterious movements of the young woman and the smiling habits of 1 her associate. Then it "was revealed ! that Miss Eib is to bs married shortly; . that the yonng man in the case is John ! Martin, a Kansas City operator, and : that the young couple have been mak- , ing love by wire since 1879. In that ( year they agreed upon a cipher alpha- ( bet, by the nse of which many tender ( sentiments passed to and fro. Miss , Jordan soon caught tip the key, how ever, and, that she might not be in the j way, kindly stopped her ears. The ! men in the office oftsn wondered at? j Miss Wh's f/lmno'htfn] silfinfift thft" happy smiles that completely mastered \ her at she sat at her operating desk; and, now that they know the secret, they insist that she shall be married by wire, but, being a sensible girl, she ( prefers the hand-to-hand custom. * Fa?bion Notes. Faille is coming into fashion again. Pearl combs are a Parisian novelty. ccc??t ~ ~, gDULiyuuL lauc j-o <x new xuipux Worth loops tulle drapery with birds. Tulips are worn with street costumes. Double trains sompleteFrench dresses. Pink acacias trim garnet velvet dresses. ' The English dress is worn by children. Tiny humming-birds loop lace drapery. French dresses are voluminous at the back. A comb of roses fastens up low coiffures. Scantily gathered Mils trim new dresses. Tan colored fluffy feathers appear on black bonnets. Two points finish the back of new evening dresses. Violet velvet corsages are worn with white moire trains. Pink hyacinths are worn with pink, white, oi black dresses. TiorKps wvTi Titian red hair delicht 111 j ' - O black satin and jet toilets, New bodices have short basquss | pointed in back and front. India mull, with rosebuds, is used for trimming velvet bodices. A jabot of lace trims each side of the square neck of dinner dresses. Ecru Venetian embroidery is used on black velvet and satin dresses. "Eighteen Century embroidery'^ is tne name given new open worE. Fringes of silver and pearl beads are used for trimming evening dresses. Artificial flower garnitures are de rigenr, with a gauzy and semi-diaphanous ball toilet. Lace and gauze brocades in lace designs for millinery purposes are brought j l out in large quantities. Tan-colored long gloves with loose wrists axe -worn on all sorts of occasions, and with any kind of a dress. Dentelle Orientale is a new darned lace much in demand for bordering large collars of Surah, satin, or mull. Prevailing styles in silks are rich brocades, moires in antique styles, and satin striped and brocade striped moires. The looking-glass beads used in millinery are toned down with opaline, iri descent, and milky pearl effects that modifv the slitter. Artificial facetted glass beetles, ccccinellas, dragon flies, and butterflies appear as ornaments on the first importations of Paris bonnets. Tbe most elegant white wash dresses of the coming summer will be of linen, lawn and sheer linen cambrics, soft as India muslin and almost as transparent. Paris prescribes very plain dresses for young ladies, evening w;ar, on which no lace appears, the only trimming beins: plaitines of tulle or of the material i No lace is worn in the neck, only tnlle plaiting. Medium-length bodices seem to be going out of fashion, for, if not extrava- j gantly long, the basque, so-called hardly deserves the name, as it is but a ! waist pointed in front, and very much i up over the hip3. ) I A new skirt is coming in favor in Paris, called the fourreau. TJntrimmed, save with a huge niche of the material around the bottom, ifc will be a violent reaction against, the over-trimmed skirts eow universally worn. A Picturesque Beggar. A New York paper of recent date s*ys: People who took a stroll on the lower part of Broadway early yesterday morning had the pleasure of witnessing an unusual sight, even in this ~~smopolitan city. This was a thoroughly characteristic specimen of the lazzaroni of "sunny Italy," without the hand-organ and monkey attachment. The specimen had evidently been out of Castle Garden but a very short time, presumably but a few hours, for while pursuing his profession of begging he frequently stopped to gaze abont him in apparent wonder at the massive buildings on either side ol the street. Jie siowiy forged Lis way up Broadway, crossing from one side to the other, as he espied a specially susceptible looking party strolling toward the Battery. He was the picture of health, and was apparently not more than twenty-five years old. His most noticeable characteristic was a peculiar jacket. II; was made of undressed skin, trimmed with fur. Down the center of the back were two stripes of embroidery in gay colors, each terminating in a bit of fancy-figured work. The jacket was caught together in front I by loops of imitation gilt braid. Taken altogether, it was a picturesque bit of costume to find on Broadway, and attracted considerable attention. It was, however, the peculiar style of begging in which the artist?for he was an artist in his business?indulged that was a revelation to nearly every one who bslw him. "When a person approached him the beggar would take off the shaggy cap he wore and with a graceful sweep of his arm seem to deposit it on the walk close to the person appealed to. At the same tiir.8 he ben!, one knee until it almost touched the sidewalk. Surprise was the first thing noticed in the features of the party appealed to. followed in most instances by a smile and a look of disgust. Immediately opposite Trinity church two well-dressed me:: to whom the beggar appealed tried to kick him, evidently disgusted with a specimen of mankind x?ho could so thoroughly degrade himself as this one was. doing. After these rebuffs, which seemed to cause the lszzaroni more surprise than the peculiar manner of begnrin rt cTTrriVic^^ fit a Tio<3COrC- TlV f.VlA Italian crossed to the other side of Broadway, possibly because he thought he wa3 working on some other beggar's territory. For fully half an honr, while a reporter watched him, the fellow received nothing in the way of alms, although the bootblacks and proprietors of peanut and fruit stands from the same sunny Italy looked most contemptuously at him, and followed him with volleys of curses as he ^movedr'on. In front of Triniiy church he practiced successfally his plan of begging upon a Handsomely aressea iaay wno was walkicg down town. A dainty purse was opened, a few coins were taken therefrom, and a small cleanly gloved hand was extended to d:*op the coins into the cap. Suddenly the beggar caught the har l with his right band and pressed it to his lips. Surprised at this action and at the muttered Italian words that accompanied the action, * * ? 1 1 ?3 1 tee iaav quicsiy witnarew ner band from the contam inating touch of the lazzaroni's lips. The action scattered the coin on the sidewalk ?>nd [lightened the beggar so that he dropped forward on his hands and knees as ihe lady moved rapidly down Broadway. There was a look of astonishment on the beggar's face and a mutte:*ed oath, presumably at American manners or lack of manners, according to the manner in which he looked at it. Then be gathered up his coins and carefully deposited them in a rather plethoric puree that he took from an inner pocket of his jacket. He looked down the street after the rapidly retreating form of probably his first victim, turned on his heel, shook his head, pulled down his cap, and slowly started up Broadway, followed by the gibes and jeeers of several Italian bootblacks, who apparently were ranch ashamed of their conntryman. THE HOME DOCTOR. A Suggestion.?A correspondent of an exchange says: "I wonld like to mention to any among yonr readers who have charge of invalids or delicate children, or who are not able to go cnt tilnrinnr fVio h nf TroafVior t.Vl af, air of the room may be mtich improved by hanging thick towels dipped in cold water, with a little vinegar added, to the open window sash, so that the air passing through is refreshed with moisture and becomes easier to inhale. This is in imitation of a custom prevalent in Calcutta, where matting is kept sprinkled on the sunny sides of the houses.' Foreign Bodies in the 'Windpipe.? Foreign bodies in any part of the windpipe are always serious, and may be immediately fatal. The accident commonly happens frcm a child having some plaything, such as a bean, small marble, bead, or nutshell in its mouth, ' ' 3 A_l._ ZL L ana Demg aesirea 10 iaK.? is> uui>, citxici in the hurry to obey, [or possibly its disinclination to do so being quickened by a cuff, the foreign body slips into the windpipe and produces seriou3 mischief. In the well-known case of the late Mr Brunei, the eminent engineer, whose life was endangered by an accident of this kind, it arose from his performing a conjuring trick with a half sovereign in his mouth and the coin slipping into his windpipe. When the foreign body becomes fixed in the upper part of the windpipe, or laryns, so as to obstruct the breathing, the UtjUUiUCS Uiaun. XU bUV it*VQt (*UU falls back apparently dead. This sometimes happens during a meal, from a child or grown-up person happening to cough while eating, and thus drawing a piece of food into the air passages. Whatever the cause, a bystander should, without hesitation, thrust his forefinger to the back of the throat, and endeavor to hook up with it the offending body and this can often be done, when the patient can at once breathe again. If this method is not successful, the patient, if a child, should be held up by ? > 1 - XI? 1.1 Kn _ me legs ana oe smartly tiium^cu u*tween the shoulders, when not improbably the foreign bcay will drop on to the floor, and the child will then begin to respire and cry; but if respiration is still suspended, cold water dashed on the chest will probably rouse it, or, if not, recourse must be had to artificial respiration. Of course, medical aid will be summoned at once in any case of serions choking, if possible, but the majority of cases do very well without it. If, however,the foreign body is not dislodged by the efforts of bystanders, an operation will be necessary to save life, and every moment will 1,- - Pron if tfift nrtronf. uc Ui lUipuiittatc. A* symptoms have passed off, and tlie child appears to be restored to health, yet, if the foreign body has not been found, the advice of a surgeon should, nevertheless, be sought at once, as it may still be lodged in the deeper air passages, where it may cause fatal mischief if not dislodged at an early period.?Family rhysician. On some of Italian railroads the cars, which are of the American type, are warmel bj hot water contained in metallic cylinders. Theso cylinders are of a portable size, and as they get cold are changed at the stations for fresh ones, The heat is said to be particularly agreeable. sGUI THAU'S SCAFFOLD. An InfctramcDt of Death Which Will be Used n the Case of Gnitean. A "Washington letter to the Philadelphia Tin ?$ says: The scaffold upon which Bedford and Queenan were executed will be used for strangling Gnitean. It is standing in the north wine of tfc6 jail, snd has been painted a drab shade. It is of Georgia pine, and stands twenty-one feet in height. The cross I beam is of six by eight timber (strengthened by a heavy top piece for double works), supported by timbers eight inches square. The platform is thirteen feet from the ground, and is made of tvo-inch boards, on stoun joists, morticed and bolted, and in eleven feet s snare. It is supported by siz eight-inch uprights in addition to those supporting . the cross-beam. Abont three and a half feet above the platform there is a .surrounding rail. The trap is five feet square, framed in the center of the platform, and is flush with it. It is attached to the platform by two heavy strap hinges, and is held in place by the ends" of the U-shaped iron. At the bottom^?? the ircn is attached a small but st'ong rope passing over the pulley at th^back of the structure into a bos about jour inches square, through which the rope runs into one of the cells, where some person, unknown to outsiders at the signal from the warden (usually a motion with a handkerchief), gives ttie fatal pull. The platform is reached by flight of steps with a railing on either side. To complete the structure aad make it ready for use, it is necessary that the rope should be attached arid the hinges oiled For a single hanging it is customary to use a rope of manila seven eighths of aii inch in diameter and thirty feet long. It is not the custom here, as in Eome cities, to use a rope specially made for the purpose and have it prepared outside the building, for the officers of the jail here are always equal to the occasion. In fact, with the exception of the manufacture of the rope and 'the iron, the structure has been made in the building. There are on band now several ropes purchased for banging purposes, and recently several have been received at the jail contributed by persons anxious to have them tried on Guiteau. When it is necessary to rig the scaffold a rope will be select ed and the hangman's knot will be made by one of the guards, who is quite an expert at it. Then it will be run through the center hole of the cro3s beam, thence to the side, passing down one of the uprights to a cleat on the side, where it will be made fast. Generally the slack is four to six feet, and commencing near the knot the rope is for three or four feet anointed with soap, that it may slip easily. In some parts of the country tallow or other grease is used, but General Ci-ocker!"and his associates prefer the soap. There is also on hand a full supply of small rope to use in pinioning the armi5 and legs A the victim of the law, and black caps to draw over his face. It is customary to rig the rope 4-lia An-rr \yafn-ra +V>a avarm f l'ntl an rl it bj letting drop a hag of sand weighing from thirty to fifty per cent, more than the doomed man. Never having met with an accident or mishap in hanging, the jail officials look on this test as useless; but it is always made as a precaution. To make sure, however, of carryiD g out ihe sentence within the hours specified th^-eia (Usually two hours being allowed), the prisoner is bronght in on time to allow fifteen or twenty minutes for services prior to the trap being sprung, and with thirty minntes or more to spare beside. Thus should there be a mishap of any kind, there would still be ample time to prepare and rig aaother rope if necessary. The Tarantula. The Texas tarantula when ifc it, full grown, is bos;j among spiders?"what Jesse Jame3 is among robbers, or Jay Gould among railroad magnates. He has hair all over his legs, and wears his eyes on the top of his head to see that nobody takes advantage cf him. "We are not describing Jay Gould, but the tarantula. He is big enough, and hungry enough to gobble up all the rest, which remark however, applies as well to Jay as to the tarantula. The tarantula is a desperado among insects. In one respect, V? A. trflTHT WTIaVi iTATYi JUOYCX LJIdi-COO) XJLC> f j amuvw the Texas desperado. The latter is more dangerous wher. in liquor .than at any other time, while the tarantula is the most harmless one on the road, as long as he is under the influence of alcohol, and the bottl6 is corked up tightly. The tarantula makes himself respected with a pair of hooked fangs, which at the same time axe the principal cause of his unpopularity. As long as this amiaole insect ::s not interfered with, he attends strictly to his own business, but if anybody punches him in the small of the back with an umbrella, or spits tobacco juice on him, he becomes irritable and peevish. Under such provocation he will jump up and down, sling his arms and legs about, gi\ash " " ' ' ? * ? -11 ?"U 1J3 his teem, ana go on 10r ?u me wuuu like a stump speaker whose veracity has been questioned by a man in the crowd. On such occasions he will jump on anybody, regardless of his size or social status. Like all disagreeable people, the tarantula has his personal enemies. The enemy he likes less than all the rest, is a large black wanp, whose only mission in life seems to take the conceit out of the tarantula. Be accomplishes this remarkable feat by vaccinating the tarantula on tha back with a sting. When the tarantula goes out to bulldoze inoffensive tumble-bugs and grasshoppers, he has to look out for the wasp. A fight between the wasp and the tarantula is almost as interesting as a Congressional debate on sectional issues, and it alwa s ends with the death of the spider. As soon as the tarantula hears the buzz of the wasp, he looks for a hole to crawl into, and if there is none handy, it is "good-bye T^Kt. " irri+Ti "Mr Srviflor Tho TFRRn fvir U \JU>?? rnu*.\ w ., -? cles around the excited spider, very mnch as a hawk does over a barn-vard. Suddenly he dives down, vaccinates the tarantula, and flies up again. It does not seem as if he had touched the spider, but he has, and it has taken too, for in a few seconds, the desperado of the prairies begins to walk zig-zag, very mnch like a fashionable young man returning from an oyster supper. In a short time the tarantula feels tired, and finally swoons away, whereupon the wasp alights, takes a good look at his victim, and, seizing him by one of his legs, drags him off to some seclnded spot where he administers on his estate. The would-be desperado can learn a great deal if he will ponder over the relations between the wasp and the tarantula. The bite of the tarantula is not as bad as has been represented. It rarely causes death, but it is very painful, causing the bitten person to dance about as impatiently as a man who goes to the postoffi?e, finds his box full of letters, and then discovers that he has left the key in his other pants. The tarantula can be successfully tamed by patting him on the small of the back with the flat of an ax.?Texas SifLings. "Yes, sir," said the market-man, "plenty of game on hand. "What'll you TmvA?" And th-3 Gentleman replied: "Oh, I don't wish to purchase any now. 1 don'c know as I shall want any at all. But I expect to go hunting this afternoon, and I just thought I'd make sure there was some in thi market, in case I didn't bill any." 'i \ t l t FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. Ashes us a Fertilizer. Charles A. Green, of New York, holds that ashes are a feitilizer of unquestioned value. Most constituents of the oat! ?*a ^ar> Irtr. ouu axe xuuuuiu uuo aougo ui ? Ashes liaving been once used in the growth of vegetation may.be largely used again to nourish renewed productions. The farmer is indifierent, careless and wasteful of this great ally, though if a supply chances to be lying about in the way, he will, from necessity apply it to the fields, often inconsiderately, and breathe freer for the riddance. A large part of the most valuable ingredients of ashes is lost to the farmer through exposure to the rain, as ashes are often out in boxes and barrels six or eight months. Barley for llorucs. The Arabians, and we believe the Spaniards also, feed this grain to their horses almost exclusively, and never experience any bad results from it. Not so the English, for with their horses it swells in the intestines and produces many evils, even death sometimes. But if boiled before feeding, it is not injurious, as this swells the grain to its full capacity. On the other hand, oats are said to be very injurious to Arab, Spanish, and some other horses, which have not been fed thereon from colthood up. When these are brought to England, where oats are exclusively fed, tbey must get accustomed to them f-o-yrr erm AnQ 11 Tr on/1 Tuifh ft mfrfcTITA flf other food in order to prevent injury, and even this, we are told, does not always prevent it. Rotation of Green Crops. A writer in the Journal of Horticulture says that the common idea of the necessity of rotation does not apply to the quick-groining vegetables that are used green, and that even cabbages after cabbaces mav be continued without rest ' ? ?O y or change for years if good dung ie used and occasionally a dose of lime or charred refnge. He has raised salading, cauliflower, peas and broeoli unremittingly on the same ground for a dozen years quite satisfactory. This may be. Plants which do not mature seeds take little more than carbon for their structure. But one important reason for rotation is the plague of insects, some of them unseen and unsuspected, which are parastic on certain plants and which are apt to increase to a destructive extent if the s*me place is resown and no insecticide measures taken. Charred refuse is probably as useful in repelling insects as in refreshing and dividing the soil. SnbsoiliDff. There is no doubt, says the Prairie i Farmer, as to the benefit derived from ! subsoiling?that is, loosening the earth below the furrow of the turning plow ?tinder various circumstances. For instance, in stiff soils imperfectly drained, and again in the case of lands that have lost much of their original fertility by continuous cultivation. Ex ptjllIIIGilta UitVS ucmuiujbxa^cu uum uvi', | and removed the question beyond the realm of profitable controversy. In the cases mentioned, the roots of plants penetrate more readily and deeper in the earth, and thus are brought in contact with food necessary to their growth. But in gravelly or sandy soils, subsoiling xnay be, and generally is, injurious, for obvious reasons. Instead of penetrating the subsoil and rendering it more loose and porous, the object should be to make the subsoil more compact and tenacious, so that the surface soil or tilth will retain moisture ? ?*> maffnra +.V?o.f. mav Chilli UUC Jic-x uwwvv^w WMMU j vw supplied by manures or the roots of vegetation left by the crops that have been grown partly for the purpose of making the soil more compact and fertile. Take Care of the Cherry Tree*. "PwAiwf CQTTO fVlQ AH V CXjr VUCliJ c?jo uuu v< vx man town Telegraph, must be fully aware of the great necessity to observe the utmost care in protecting cherry trees from injury of any kind, especially bruises. It if, therefore, not for them, but for those who do not know, that we give these hints. A blow of the hoe, tfiie scratching or barking by the single tree jlll miuyvillv <j? ncuiv*1^5, vi ^ * wu a kick by the heel of the boot will almost invariably causa damage that the tree will never outgrow. A kind of gangrene sets in, which all the efforts of the tree, however young and vigorous it may be, will never recover from. We had a Downton tree as thick as a man's arm, which having a few ripe cherries that we wished to jar off and taste, it being the first fruiting, we struck the trunk with the heel, of the boot, which broke throngh the bark. It seemec. to be so trifling as not to be worth a thought; but the following year tne Darfiiwas aeaa two incnes in diameter. The following year it was three inches, and in four or five years after one-half of the wood was exposed acd dead, and in a year or two more the tree itself died, clearly from the cne slight blow of a boot. Sheep. The crvinfif need of American asrricul I * O W ture to-day is a mora general incorporation of the sheep into the farming economy. More prolific than horses or cattle, as well as more tractable, subsisting on scantier herbage and requiring less supervision, it claims an additional advantage of "paying for its raising" in annual instalments of marketable fleece pending its growth to maturity. It is more readily transferred from one inclosure to another, and is easily restrained by fences which would prove no barrier against the encroachment of other farm stock. Its light tread and love of repose warrant its access to fields and pastures where the tramping of cattle and the tearing of hogs would not be tolerated. It wastes less food in proportion to the quality consumed, and will hunt and utilize much that would otherwise be lost to the farmer. Yielding a return in both fleece and flesh, it furnishes its owner with the double advantage of catching a good market for his product, requiring less water and disposed to work for its food. It is without a peer when summer's drought taxes the farmer's resources for enabling his live stock to maintain an average of thirst and flesh. All tbat can be said in behalf of feeding live stock on the farm, as distinguished from the soil-impovensmng policy 01 placing the raw grain and grass upon the market, will be found to apply with double emphasis to the farm that carries as a part of its outfit one or more sheep per acre. No, the animal returns more fertilily to soil in proportion to the amount exacted for its support, while none equals it in the evenness with which the droppings are distributed. Notwithstanding the evident advantages an increase in sheep culture brings, the agriculture of a country is generally and especially inuring to the benefit of such farmers as incorporate it into their sjstem, the fact is apparent that sheep are not so numerous or so evenly distributed as they should be.?Breeders' Ga zette. Flecks, or "Wbitecap*,"' jn Cream. Flecks are generally supposed to be pieces of dried cream, and possibly sometimes they may be, but usually they are not, for occasionally they eiist in the milk before any cream xises, and sometimes are mingled with butter made by processes of cold-setting in which the cream remains soft, no part of it being dried at all. They I seldom appear, however, in butter made by eold-setting; they are saostly / MM found in butter made in dairies where the milk is set without any other cooling than that of the air in the room where the milk stands. For the most part they are developed in the milk after it come3 from the cow. By quickly cooling milk to a low degree change is so much arrested that they cannot de| velop. They can only form within cer tain limits of temperature, and when they do are likely to appear as plentifully in the milk as in the cream, and often more so, which is evidence averse to their being originated from dried cream. In milk which is in a perfectly normal condition they never appear. They always occur in milk which is more or less faulty. They are very apt to accompany an inflamed state of the udder, and seldom or never appear without it. When milk is all riglit the surface of the cream may be exposed to currents of dry air, until it becomes quite dry and hard, without showing any indication of "wtate caps," as iney are sometimes called. The dried cream, when mixed with the rest and well stirred np, soon becomes soft, and chnrns like the rest. But when milk, which is a little feverish, or in some ; other way faulty, is thus exposed to the air without being first well cooled, flecks will be pretty sure to show themselves in numbers proportioned to the exposure. Whenever flecks are liable to bo developed, there can, with the aid of a microscope, be seen in the milk small specks of solid matter, with fragmentary shapes, which form the nucleus of the flecks. When such milk is set in a giass vessel and kept without much ittAOA AOT> OQOn fft AH, ^UVXIUgj tUCOO Ovau Kf\j uwvu ww %/**- i large bv the coagulation and adhesion of the milk in contact with them. Sooner or later they swell from gas forming within them, and becoming lighter than the milk, rise toward the surface and more or less of them become imbedded in the soft cream. When they form in the milk they are almost wholly composed of curd, but when formed in the cream they are very rich in cream, having as much, and perhaps more cream in their composition than curds. ?A merican Agriculturist. Household Hints. Chapping of the hands, which is one of the most disagreeable inconveniences of cold weather, can be easily prevented by rubbing the hands with powdered starch. You will not be troubled with carpet moths, if you scrub your floors with hot brine before tacking the carpet down, and once a week ecrub your carpets with ccarse salt. Housekeepers will find that zincs may bo scoured -with great economy of time and strength by nsing either glycerine or creosote mixed with a little diluted sulphuric acid. Glue frequently cracKs because of the dryness of the air of the rooms warmed by stoves. An Austrian paper recommends the addition of a little chloride of calcium to glue to prevent this. Black cotton gloves will not crock the hands if scalded in salt and water before wearing. The salt prevents fading. When almost dry, one should put them on, in order to stretch them and keep them in good shape. Beeswax and salt will make flatirons as cle?.n and smooth as glass. Tie a lnmp of was in a rag and keep it for that purpose. When the irons are hot, rub them with the wax-rag, then scour with a paper or" rags sprinkled with salt. A lady correspondent of tbe Country Gentleman claims that by dipping the joint or fleshy ends of turkey, geese or -1---I uliiu-kcj-l wljjgd iulu a OUL\jjj.g ova u. lavs .u v/jt copperas they are made moth-proof, as well as more durable than when treated in the ordinary way. Recipcs. Quick Boiled Kice.?Have ready a kettle of boiling water with a tablespoonful of salt in it, also a cnpful of rice picked over and washed; throw into the boiling water and boil fifteen minutes. Skim out; drain wsll and serve hot with meats. Cold Slaw.?Chop half of a good cabbage-head very fine; put a cupful of vinegar in a spider on the stove, add a half-cupful of sugar, a piece of butter as large as a walnut,and a little pepper ; pour over your cabbage, stir well together and send to the table. Plain* Tapioca Pudding.?Soak a cup ot tapicca over night in a little cold water; an hour before wanting add a quart of boiling milk, a coffee-cup of sngar, four beaten eggs, half the lind of a lemon, grated; stir thoroughly, pour into a buttered mold, cover tightly and set into a pan of boiling water in the oven; cook from forty-five to sixty minutes ; turn out and eat with hard sauce. Berbox Cake.?Two cups of sugar, two-thirds cap of butter, one cup of sweet milk, three cups of flour, one tea ? - * ** ?? ~ a x epoomtu oi soaa Gissoivea iu uuu, iwo teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar sifted in the flour, salt and flavor to taste. Put half of the above into two square, oblong pans; to the remainder add a tablespoonful of molasses, one large cup of stoned and chopped raisins, onefourth pourd of sliced citron, one teaspoonful of cinnamon, one-half teaspoonful each of clove, nutmeg and allspice, and add a large spoonful of flour. Put into two, or one, as you prefer, same size of the pans as above, then put the sheets together while warm, alternately, with a little jelly or raspberry jam' between. Cut in thin slices or squares for the table. It will cut ?-i_ a. 3 cl? easily tut: uitj? muet iu ua&cu< Timl)er in Europe. Some European countries are almost as bad off, as far as supply of timber is concerned, as is the United States. According to a French agricultural journal, the oak of Sweden and Norway is about exhausted, and they are compelled to buy their wood in Poland, and the pine is being rapidly removed. The forests rf Russia, along the shores of the Baltic, in Finland and in the southern provinces, have been so rapidly thinned that the forest area of the empire is now only one-tenth. The forests of Germany are well cared for, and there Amr>ir? Jihnnfc 34-. 000.000 acres of forest, (over half of which are in Prussia,) valued at about $400,000,000, and producing an income annually of nearly ?50,000,000. The greatest effort is made to preserve the forest acreage (about ?500,000 being annually expended iu replanting by the State,) and the imports exceed the exports by over 2,000 tons. There are about 43,000.000 acres of forest in Austria. Austria, however, has so recklessly cut her forests that she is obliged to buy most of her timber in Bosnia and Montenegro. Servia, Honmania and Portugal have good forests, but the fine forests of Italy and Spain are so situated that they cannot reach a market when cut. It would seem that the United States might profitably follow the example of Germany and save her forests. South Australia is at present engaged in this work and planting trees on an extensive scale. xm An employer of many laborers in Scotland sought to encourage their attendance at church on a holiday by promising that all who went to hear the service should be paid their wages the same as though they had worked. Thereupon a deputation was appointed to wait upon him and say that if he would pay for over-hoars they would "attend likewise the Methodist chapel in the evening." RELIGIOUS KE1DIXG. "If we work on marble it will perish. If we work npon brass, time will efface it. If we rear temples, they will crumble into dnst. But if we work on immortal minds?if e imbne them with high principles, with the just fear of God and of their fellow-men?we engrave upon these tablets something which no time can efface, bnt which will brighten to all eternity." In this way we may all be artists; and even the most ordinary and unlearned, if we have but an earnest and loving heart, may produce a masterpiece. The profesor or lecturer may cut deep lines and fashion wondrous forms on the unwrought material before him. The teacher in the common - _i * n n i_v .il. - -1 i ?x_i_ scQooi or cue oaooain-scnooi may, wim the sunlight of truth, photograph upon the tender minds committed to his charge a thousand forms of holy beauty. The humblest, most quiet man may write upon his neighbor's heart good thoughts and kind words which will last forever. And such a monument will be a real immortallity?"More enduring than brass, and loftier than the real majesty of the pyramids." Such a record, instead of growing dim with time, will grow deeper with eternity; and will still be bold and legible when the sculptors of Nineveh, which have outlasted the centuries, shall have faded out. and the steel pictures of modern art shall be all forgotten. And when the things which the dimness of time obscures shall be revealed by the light.of eternity, the names of these unknown artists shall be found written, not on tables of bronze or stone, but on ' the fleshy tables of the heart aad the unfading pages of the soul." Religions News and Notes. In Scranton, Pa., with a population of 50,000, there are six Baptist; churches. The Lutherans iu this country built 141 churches last year, and 505 in the last four years. There are at thi3 time thirty theolocical students in the Lutheran Semi nary at Gettysburg, Pa. A "Ministers' Anti-Whisky Convention," of all denominations, has. been held in Lexington, Ky. There are in Boston f487 charitable organizations against 191 in New York and 215 in Philadelphia. There are now more than 700,000 members of Baptist churches in the United States who ara of African descent. Within the past six months three Congregational churches have been dedicated in Denver, CoL, all of them free from debt. It is proposed to unite the three i _v . _T _ n J- ? jsnecnoaisi; cuarcuss in v^anaua iu uue. A few years ago three united to form the Canada Methodist Church. There are in the Canadian provinces 91 Congregational churches, with 51 partors and 5,635 members. Their church property is valued at $500,000. At a meeting of the board of the Congregational Union held in this city a few days ago, tho Keverend L. W. Cobb was chosen secretary for the ensuing year. Daring 1881 the missionaries of the American Sunday-school Union in the Northwest, established 547 Sundayschools, aided 1,044 old schools, distributed 5,142 bibles and testaments, and visited 9,188 fam^es. - ' The Protestant* Episcopal Diocese of Philadelphia CBishoD Stevens), which covers Philadelphia city, and Montgomery, Berks, Delaware, and Chester, counties, numbers about 200 clergy and 26,000 communicants. Of the 12,142 ministers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 2,808 are not in pastoral work. Upwards of 2,000 are superannuates and supernumeraries, 204 are connected with college?. 88 are editors, agents, secretaries, &c., and 445 are Presiding Elders. There are 20 churches connected with the Harpoot Mission of the American Board in Asiatic Turkey. These churches during the past year paid their pastors 82,793, and gave $5,748 to schools and benevolent objects. It a aounted to an average of nearly $12 to each male member. The JTonntain Laplander The Laplander, says Da Chaillu, in his "Land of the Midnight Sun," by the severe training he undergoes from childhood, sleeping on the bare ground or resting against a stone, suffering hunser, and being exposed to great changes in the weather, has very great powers of endurance. In summer he hss constantly to follow his herd, which is for the greater part of the day on the march, as they are not then obliged to dig to get to the moss. He is also compelled to go through swamps and bogs, or to cross patches of soft, deep snow, to swim or pass rivers swollen by melted snow or the flow from the glaciers, as I havo frequently done; often hungry, and obliged to milk a reindeer for subsistence, when he comes to the kata he is generally overcome with fatigue, and changing his wet clothes, fails into a sleep brought on by sheer exhaustion. Frequently he wanders over a tract of nearly one linndred miles, remaining three or four days in a district, then moving six or seven miles farther. In winter he travels over dreary wastes, dnrinst violent storms, suffering from hunger and cold. On the watch night and day for bears, wolves, and gluttons, perhaps he is suddenly awakened after sleeping an hour, and summoned for the protection of his stock against enemies which may scatter the herd and reduce him to poverty. All this makes the mountain Laplander one of the hardiest of men, and hia physical strncture shows at once that he :'s equil to the demands of his life. He i& of short stature, compactly but slightly built, with strong limb3, his light weight allowing him to climb, jump, and ran quickly. Ophthalmia is quite prevalent, on account of the cold winds and the glare of tee snow; m tne spring great care has to be taken with the eyes, as the reflection of the sun is very bright in April, May, and the beginning of June; without bine or green goggles one easily becomes snow-blind. The men and women are active to a great age. Their life in the open air and constant wandering on foot preserve the elasticity of the muscles; their simple habits, the keen invigorating dry air, and the ' ? ? ? ? ?in wifViAnf oil puro Wilder ^yyiiiun xo TTibuvuu xxuxvy uia | contribute to sccure longevity to those who have been able to pass the severe ordeal of childhood. Many attain very great age, some more than a hundred years. Although the Lapps live chiefly on animal food, barley flour is almost always found in the kata, to be used for mush, unleavened bread, or blood-pudding. They often mix their m'lk with sorrel grass (Eumex). They are great drinkers of coffee, inveterate smokers, and snuff-takers. The vice of diunkenness, once so prevalent, has now almost entirely disappeared at home; but whenever they go to a town, and can procure spirituous liquors, they generally have a frolic for a day or two. A mail may have a thousand acquaintances, arid not one friend among them. It is better to live on a little, than to outlive a great deal. By others' faults wise men correct their own. We should take a prudent care for the future, but so as to enjoy the present. A sage hen: One who avoids the A Love Songr. Whisper it softly, breathe it low, Tis the sweetest hope that my heart hath known, Tis the sweetest seed that was ever sown In human hearts; to ripen and gro'x Where the tides of an endless affection flow? Whisper it softly, breathe it lowl . . jg Whisper it sol tly, breathe it low; Tis like a song from snother shore, More wildly sweet than ever heard before la this dull life; 'tis like a glow Of heavenly fire, it thrills me so. v \ Whisper it softly, breathe it low! Whisper it softly, breathe it low, T il-n thA snff: low moan of the throbbing sea: 'Tis a song that lias an attraction for me; It thrills me o'er, and the heart below Throbs with a joy that I only know. Whisper it eoftly, breathe it low! HUMOROUS. Never judge a man by his clothes. His tailor may have a suit against When a man coins his own words, he . J does not necessarily make cents of them. ?Yonkers Statesman. _ . The home paper having- said, "Great credit is due to Mr. Smith," etc., Smith showed the paragraph to his grocer. The shoe worn by a horse is a wronghtiron shoe, but when the horse loses the shoe from its foot it becomes a cast-iron shoe. The careless man and the thief are equally troublesome. Neither of them ever leaves anything where he finds i<?^ * ?Courier-Journal. An editor who thinks he knows all about farming, says in speaking about strawberries, the best way to raise them is with a spoon.?Rawkeye. "Don't you think that Miss Brown is a very sweet girl ? " asked Henry. "Oh, yes, very sweet," replied Jane; that is fA flflw olifl \a WAII TM^corrTA^ " W o<i t j ouy io n via ^/ivuMiwvM -^355 No tidings have been received from Stanley, the explorer, for two years. It is rumored that he did not go to Africa, but that he joined the New York police force and has gone to sleep on^his beat. ? The other dav seven Denver girls, each worth half a million dollars, were standing together in front of the same. store. Can't see how any young man stays East on a salary of $3 per week. Free Press. Sophia, sentimentally: "I dearly love to listen to the ticking of a clock. It seems to me that a clock has a language of its Q7T2." Mr. Smart: "Ye3, Sophi^ the clock has a ianpruage?yoa might say, a dial-ect." >?4k A Western editor receive 1 a letter from a subscriber asking him to pablish a cnre for apple tree worms. He replied that he could not suggest a cure ^ until he knew what ailed the worms.? Net* York Post. The czar has ordered that onjy wood shall burned in the imperial palace, It would appear that the Nihilists are making it warm enough for him with otic tne assistance or any ocner generator of heat.?Rome Ssntinal. __ _____ SMw Little Bobby, who talks slang for the whole family, said to his father the other night, "There are fixed stars, ain't there, papa ?' To which the father - ~j| replied, "Yes, Bobby." And then the young rascal asked, "Are they 'well fixed,' papa V?Philaddpkia Sun, ? Fritz has- been- huniiug up-ihe-pedi?.. gree of Dr. Tanner, the celebrated hungry man, and finds ho has very ancient lineage. The forty-third verse of chapter nine, Acts of Apostles, reads: "And it came to pass that he' tarried mauny days with one Simon A Tanner." Two old ladies, evidently from out town, were walking along the street, one day last week, when one of tUem discovered a bunch of bananas. Stopping to look at them, she adjusted her glasses and exclaimed: "Well, I do declare, if them ain't bigger string beans than I ever saw in my life." A philosopher says: "The man ^rho laughs is the sympathetic man." That's about the way philosophers make don- . keys of themselves Hang it! The sympathizing man is the one who doesn't laugh, but looks the other way acd doesn't pretend to see you, and gives you a chance to get up. "I just went out to see a friend for a moment," remarked Jones to his wife .as he returned|to his seat in the theater "Indeed," replied Mrs. J", with sarcastic surorise. "I supposed, from the odor of your breath, that you had b een out to see your worst enemy." Jones winced. 'fx 'Oh, papa, that plaque is just too too," said a lovely young girl as she stood looking in a shop window in Water street "Only $2.02!" said the old gentleman in surprise. "I should think that was cheap,"'You'd better buy it" It was a natural enough mistake, but the old gentleman bought the plaque nil the same, thouarh it did cost him fifteen dollars.?Keokuk Gate This was in a restaurant: A gruff old fellow had ordered broiled mackerel, and just as the waiter was rushing along between the tables with it, he slipped, and in an endeavor to catch himself, the mackerel, plate and all went skimming through the air and landed in the cornor of the room. "Well, well," said the gruff old fellow, "I've been to sea most o'my life,but I never knew mackerel was a fiyin fish afore."? Weaver. Physicians at Shanghai. The authorities of Shanghai, China, have recently brought the native physicians up with a round turn, It appears that the doctors, relying upon the demand for their services, have not only been charging exorbitant fees and requiring their patients to pay for the hire . -'3 of the chairs in which they are carried upon their professional visits, but have fallen into habits of indolence and neglect. The decree just promulgated declares that an evil practice exists by which doctors will not visit their patients before 1 o'clock in the afternoon; some will even smoke opium and drink tea until late in the evening. These are abuses, the magistrates say, which they will on no account permit Doctors must attend their patients at all times; 11 ? -X. lll/lTn CAT?. iney must, n .uwca&aij', timu lugui . eral times daily; they must think more of them and less of their fees. Notice, therefore, is given to all officials and people that a physician who does not attend when he is called must receive only half his fees and half his chair hire. -|gj Old-Time Tithing. Around some of the parsonage houses of England may yet be seen enormous V?a?rie /3aHncr from the time when tithes were paid in kind. The author of "Not Many Years Ago" relates some stories about this period, which few now personally recall. His father, a farmer, sent a polite message to the rector that he intended to gather his apples, and thought the yield promised some fifty bags ; he would, therefore, if the rector pleased, send six. Bat the recicr preferred to send his man to watch, who, therefore, appeared witn a cnair, muie and a good supply of cider, and after sitting in tha orchard two days, carried back three bags. On another accasion, some potatoes were taken np for dinner, --Jl and half an hour later a message came from the rector's daughter, demanding the portion due of the potatoes taken up that morning. Erery tenth day the rector sent to take the milk of the cows, and on those occasions the milker was not too careful to extract the last drop.