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[ ?fie Mrfidi) Nans M ttoli j??. WEEKLY EDITION. WUNSBOEO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1882. ESTABLISHED IN- 1844. 0fmjM - There's So Wife Like My "Wire. The morning eun is breaking, I The gorgeous Eaat is waking, t, And one, in all her splendor, > . With whispers that are tender, k- N AngeMc lovo id breathing, Angeiic life is wreathing, About my heart so nearly, About nr.- soul so dearlv, Bh \ Enchanted with my pleasure, I eing, in joyous measure: r There s no wife line my wife, There's no wife like my wife, There is no wife iike mine. Her rosy lip ia I'iscious, Her song is like the thrush's; Her laughing dimples cover The glory of her lover. Like the maiden wave of summer, \ - Whose blue lips overcome her, The lambent circumfusion KV * Of Lena's cha rm'd illusion jPh " About me Soars so airy, It half conceals my fairy. There's no wife like my wif?, There's no wife like my wife, L : ' There is no wife like mine. ^ Oh, the frolic of her tresses ! ! \ Oh. her rollicking: caresses ! ^ y And the beaming and the gleaming, And the g ory o'er ber streaming ! So deft and coy ber pat is, } So debonair ber cbat is, Eer blooming grace illumes me. i?yl And Heaven's love consumes me. There's no wife like my wife, I \ There's no wife like my wife, to Tliere is no wife like mine. ?Hugh F. JHcLermoiL RI~ "Thunderbolts" Victory. There are still a tew towns in Massachueetts where '.ho railway train is |\ never seen and where there is no tele pNk graph- Ac unpainted farmhoase, big and square with iong barns and sheds in the rear, stood in such a town. It was a day in September, as Lot and sultry as if it ^ere midsummer. A docEL tors sulky had just driven up to the gate and tie Lorso stood hitched at the post In the yard, lying under one of the elms, was a boy of about thirteen. He was thin and pale; but there was a bright, resolute look in his eyes that L^V attracted one. Fred. Appleton had k. Hppti in Wamham for a connle of Kfe months. He had been sent ont by bis 0P* uncle, that he might have the benefit of country air, after a long and prostrating fever. The lad's eyes were ?x->d ^ on the open door which led into the ^ hall. Everything in the house was ;r\ ominously still. Oat of doors the chickens were "craking" about the yard L and making sudden run3 at insects. Njw a low groan from the room at the left of the front door made Fred, etart and grow pale, His hands shut themselves hard with an involuntary ( L- X motion. Not another sound was heard \ for nearly half an hour, and then steps i * ?T\nw%o^vnfhin V*rvncn or?/3 AXVi-LX W lUUia W*4V UUCW MWVi [/^r v the doctor came out on tiie piazza. He j was followed .closely by a middle-aged , Woman. Neither cf them appeared to i IL notice Fred., and both stopped at the , S^L":'' gate "Doctor, how is it?" asked<3&Irs. Morris, in a voice that was not steady"Bad! very bad! it's a case where I cannot speak with hope. It was an - - awful fall from that scaffold. Take care of her as I have said. It's all that can be done. It is heartbieaking ot hear her call for her father." 1 ML The doctor was evidently in a htirry. ] Be iie jumped into ins carriage- ana roae j -- away, leaving Mrs. Morris standing there. The woman looked after him a j HHHjg.' moment with unseeing eyes, then she J fp"wrung her hands violently, while she ; lEfv. exclaimed in a low voice: "If Charles : h-JB V bad not gone! If he could only be derf* faunedP Fred. Appleton rose, came quietly I mL forward, and touched the woman's arm. "13 Claia going to die f he asked. Mrs. Morris immediately made an effort to control herself, and said: B v "I am afraid so. It was a bad fall, pp. M Oh! it is very hard!" ~~ "You jast spoke about her father, riannot word be eot to him before he goes onboard the steamer?" the boy staked. K Mrs. Morris trembled. The girl IyKL ing in the house was her niece and abont the same age as Fred. She was the * only child of her brother, Charles Roth, and dear as her own daughter to her. Hi The fat; her had gone. He was on his R>\ way to Boston, to embark on board a Ormard steamer for Europe. He had HbL . ' remained in Warcham until the last momei>fc, and had just time to reach the m ' eity, if nothing delayed him. *Mc can't be done!" Mrs. Morris an swered. ' It can't be done! The teleK graph station is ten miles away. Before k any one conld go there Cbarles will A have left, and once on the water nothing can reach him. God help ns! The W first news he bears the other side the Atlaatio will break his heart!' Fred stood an instant, with his bright glance Sied on hid companion's face. K; 'Isn't there time to reach NorthR -v port?" he asked. \l "There's not a horse in the town could do it," was the reply. Fred's eves lightened. "Thnnderbolt ccu.'d," he said, quickly, "and, Mrs. Morris. I will ride him. Clara's 8F? father shall know." The boy started away, bat he was followed and h)s arm canght, as Mia. Morris cried : KSl?^ "He will throw you I Yon know yon are afraid of him! You mast not; do it! And you couldn* reich there." "1 here's a chance of my doing it, isn't there T* he turaed to atk. "Just a chance." "And no time to lose! cried Fred, as he b /Unded toward the bam. Rh& It was true that Fred wa3 afraid of 'Thunderbolt,'' for the colt had kicked him when he had first c me to the farm. and Fred had naturally felt a little timid afterward, for his health had not been robust enough to enable him to BffiW overcorfie fear as he otherwise would have done. p-HfV When the boy entered the barn, a B. shrill whinny greeted him, and a long, black head, with big, wild-looking eyes, was turned toward him from one of the stalls. Fred, as he had said, had no time to lose. He could not stop to think whether he wished to go in the B- Sl stall or not. He stepped in quickly, /\r> oytt? qti/1 m fu70 minutes more the saddle was on the m/S&yf horse's back, and the boy had flung him on also and gathered tip the reins. He knew how fierce of temper the young horse was, and he knew that it might take the notion to stop and kick and H mjk throw himself about, so that he might flp unseat his rider, and he knew also that H "Thunderbolt," if he chose, might cover ten miles in so short a time that he might hope to reach Xorihport in season. Mrs. Morris, sitting by the insensible ^ ^ 1.1? ? m . A -C Egxci, I1G&TU bLLU XUSit Ui bUC UU13Q s> as they went out of the yard, and an inaudible prayer was in her heart. She glanced at the clock which was ticking on the mantel, and she told herself the tiling the boy was trying to do was imposable. There was not a braver boy fcr many a mile than Fred Apple*on, and he had made np his mind that it should take a vpry powerful effort to get him off of ' Thunderbolt's" back, hft hfiflTi nmro robust in health he Imf&ht have enjoyed this furious start. As it "was, after a few moments, when the colt had settled down into itt trexaendous stride, Fred grew accustomed to thus cleaving the sultry air, and ^ gat mors securely, while he felt that savage exultation which comes to one who sits on an animal who seems to have power to annihilate space. Fred f.ung up his hand and uttered a shrill whcop. He was monarch of a force as good as any in the "Arabian Nights." He wonld not exchange his seat on "Thunderbolt" for any magical gift in that book. At the sonnd of his cry tee colt iurcnea iorwara siiu raster and snorted, as if the heavy, fragrant atmosphere were something 'which made him drunk. The boy told himself that he must reach Bucket village by a certain time and Bncket village was half-way to Northport. It was a place where tbe xrlinlft ViT?sir><i'!<5 tor tn a mftfefnc n f wooden pails of different kinds. Now, just before he came to a sbarp turn in the road, there emerged from round the corner the first of three tall, Ion;? wagon?, piled high with wooden pails. Fred, warned by the pricking up of his horse's ears, gathered the lines more firmly in bis hands and made himself as strong on his seat as possible; ana all his precautions were necessary, for "Thunderbolt" leaped to one side as he shot by the wagons. The boy swayed fearfully; "but he stuck, and then the colt rose high in the air, his front feet pawing out, bis whole figure the picture of terrible beauty. Fred had reached that pitch where it was impossible for him to fear anything; he was too thoroughly filled with excitement; but he wa* afraid that "Thur.derboli" would now * 'cut up some of his antics," and thus delay arrival in North port. He pulled sharply at the lines and potmded his heels into the horse's sides, calling out authoritatively to him. The man on the last wagon had jump ed down from his seat and was running no. '4 Don't touch him!" cried out Fred, who was anxious above all things not to be detained, and whose blood was by ihis time boiiing, and who felc as if he could be a match for a hundred "Thua derbolrs." J he man fell back from before the pawing feet, looking in amazement at the fierj-eved boy who sat upon the borse. Oa the second tone of sharp command, as if in surprise, dropped hi.* feet and darted away, leaving the man staring. ''Good gracious P he exclaimed, as , he walked ba?k to his wagon. "Wa? that 'ere a real horte 'n* boy, or a appearance ? I Hope 'taint a forewarnin' oi nothinT' , When Fred passed through the next village the clock was striking the hoar, , and the sound sent a thrill of apprehen- j sion through him, for it was ten minute* , later than the time at which he had cal- , culated to be in that place. He had , come fast enough ; it was not that. It J must be that tne clock at the farmhouse ] had been slow, and what a fatal slow cess that miv'it be. Fred thought of Clara ; of her father stepping on beard the boat never to see her again ; at <i then came a remembrance of a cart-path which went across a piece of woodland and came out on the main road almost a mile nearer Northport than it was by the traveled way. The path must be close by here. He was sure he had not passed it and there it was. Without hesitation, he turned his horse's head in , that direction and rode on beneath the low-drooping trees. More than half way throngh he saw ahead of him a fallen tree, lying directly across the way. Can yon imagine the pang that went throngh the boy's heart, as he saw that ? No time to go back, and on each side tlncklygroTTxa^ n besvy growth of brier and tmderbrnsh. igain he thonght of the girl lying at home there and moaning and calling for her father, and he resolved to try. He no more rememl^ered himself than if he could not be hart. "Good, Thunder!" he shouted. i The colt was not half-broken in any i way. He knew nothing of leaping; j ^ut he saw that there was-an obstacle before him and his instinct was to jump over it. He flew on; he gathered his four legs under him, he rose in the air like some winged thing, and went over the tree and landed on the other side without having touched a twig oi it. As for Fred, was there any breath left in him ? He thought that it did not come back for several minutes after the horse j had landed; but he was conscious of a swelling sense of magnifbent triumph. mi - 1 J. ? :r 1. ? l?j xne COit WUS HS V* CO ?U> .u lie juau uccu juo, the water; the perspiration dropped off him as he went ai.d his blazing eyes , protruded and seemed to emit sparks. , Three minutes later, the horse and , rider had entered the outskirts of North- ( port "Thunderbolt" was running now. Everybody stood and gazed. It was as j if some demon horse had gone by. Did he have wings, or was it a mortal steed? ( In two minutes more they had reached the depot. Fred was off his back almost before the animal had stopped, , and had dashed into the station. "Telegraph!"' he gasped out to the clerk, who instantly pat himself in readiness, seeing how urgent was the case "Telegraph to Charles Roth, Wharf of Canard Steamers, E?st Boston. Clara is ill. Come back. Have you got it?' The clerk nodded. "Make it go, then. I'll wait," whispered the boy, and he gave his name, and then sank back helpless and trembling on a settee. The reaction had come. Something garbled up to his lips, He fumbled f ..r his handkerchief. He heard some one say: "Mercy! "Wha's the matter with the boy !" And 'ien he nad his handke* chief to his mouth and saw that the linen was stained with blood. He dimly knew that two or three persons hurried to him. He smelled hartshorn and tasted of brandy, but he was not conscious of thinking of anything bnt "Wouid Mr Rjth get it? Some questions were asked him, but ne aid not cry to repiy. Outside, half a dozen men were clustered about the dripping and panting horse. How much time passed Fred did not know. He was laid on a lounge and he was willing to lie very quietly. No more blood came^ and he dropped into a tind ot doze. lie startec. up instantly, however, when he heard a voice saying: "Here's your answer." He took the paper and read:? "Am coming. C. Korn." "Now, I'll go," said the boy, getting on his feet. '-Where's 'Thunderbolt?'' "You are not goiDg on the horse,' said a man, speaking with authority. "I'll take you in my buggy." It was the doctor who had been summoned and who carefully questioned Fred as they rode homeward, the colt having been put in a stable until he should be called for. Contrary to the doctor's fears, Fred was not ill, although he had to be very quiet for a week or two. When La reached the house and was allowed to tell Clara himself that her father had not sailed and that he was coming to her, he thought the look on her face paid him for his journey. When, next <lav. he saw the sirl lvine in her father's | arms, h9 was more than ever glad. "1 should never have forgiven myself if I had sailed," said Mr. Roth to the boy. "I owe you more than I can tell. The doctor says Clara's joy at my return has given hin a hope that her sys | tem may rally from the injury." The gentleman was holding Fred's ; hands in both his own, a3 he spoke, and I his eyes were glisfceniag. ?' 'Thunderbolt won," said Fred, gayly. " Now 1 think of it, it really seems as if I did not riae a no'se, oat some con, uj imp in the shape of one. Nothing else could have made such time, though.'* "When next Fred vent near the colt, it was evident ihat the animal was glad to see him, and soon the whole house1 . C hold learned that "Thunderbolt'' would obey Fred better than any one else, and the boy began to have an affection for the beautiful beast which had carried him so well. A few weeks later Mr. Roth came upon Fred, as he was sitting in i;he barn, looking over some fishing-tackle. "What do you think I have just done?" said the gentleman. Fred looked np. ' How can I guess?" he answered. "i nave Dougnt 'lnunaerDoii' oi iur. Morris." Fred's face fell. ' You will take him away, I suppose ?" he said, in a low voice. "No. I have bought him for a dear friend of mine." Something in Mr. Roth's tone mafo Fred's cheeks flash; but he said r o?vf~ T>^4.U ~?4. . bililix* ttUU IU.r. XWULU V.CIiUUU . "Will you take him, Fred ? I bought him for you." Fred's eyes danced. He sprang to l is feet. "I'd rather have him than anything in the world !" he cried excitedly. Then he went on, with hesitation: But, isn't he a very expensive present ? Perhaps I ought not?" ' Let me be the judge of that," interrupted Mr. Roth. "All you have to do is to take the horse and be careful of yourself and him." Fred sprang to the side of the colt and threw his arms around the shining neck. "We never'll be parted in the world!" he cried, eagerly. And "Thunderbolt's" bright eyes looked as if their owner knew what his young master said. Southern Humor Mr. Henry Watterson writes in the Century upon the "Oddities of Southern Lite," saying: Everv people is known by its jokes. Men are least restrained in their mirtb, and give therein the largest play to their likes and dislike?. The humor of Eariy Fielding, Thackeray tells us, is wonderfully wise and detective ; it flashes upr.n a rogue and lightens up a rascal like a policeman's j lantborn. The sama may be paid of j the humor of Eibelais, though the objects of its ridicule are not alwa>s cheats and scamps. The difference between opera bonffo and Anglo-S*ion farce represeDts the difference between the life of the French and tue life of the English. With Americans it is ot the snob and the husband who are satirized ; our domestic jocosity emhrafiAS fihieflv thfc small bov. the widow. md the mofher-in-law, reserving for its most palpable hits the bullv, the visionary speculator, the gamester, and the jommercial agent. Thus American aumor may be divided into two classes ?that which relates to lighting and hat which relates to money. In the South this classification g'ows still narrower, gaining, however, in whimsicality and local color what it lacks in areadth. There can be no mistaking the origin >f the old story of the traveler who isked a Mississipian whether it was vorth his while to carry a pistol, and ras told : "Well, stranger, yon mout nove around here rdore'n a year an' lever need a pistol, but ef you should leed one, you'd need it powerful." Equally characteristic is the record of i well-known Tennessee case. The principal witness for the commonwealth tes;ified that he was sent to ?et l fresh of-cards^ timi. hA.^mi thr-m. ifr3 ri>:nn>iT)?r rvwrj m Liie crass, r 3ere he balked in Ms testimony, and vould go no further. At last, after :ro3s-questioning ana coaxing had been exhausted, tne judge threatened him with fine and imprisonment, whereupon ie said: "Please, your honor, if I must ;ell why I drapped in the jimson weeds, [ suppose I must. It was just, jour lonor, to look over the keerds and mark ;Le bowers." The following incidents ao less reflect the local color of the mte-bellum days : Two Kentncfcians ni? Vkill of 0 Vinffitl 1"n ITC1XU L\J Dt ciacx*. Ktxij. u-u <* *** Boston. There being a dispnte abont the amonnt, one of them grew angry mu Ke?zan to swear, when the other >aid: ' J Remember, John, who yoa are. Elememi yon are a Kentuckian. Pay ;he bill 1 shoot the sconndrel." A Siren. A fascinating woman is not over-burdened with the solid virtnes. She is created to please, and falfills her mission. Her certain spell is the witchery of simplicity, and betrayal of 'design would destroy the ilinsion sh? creates ; She sometimes even seems a little careLess to please, and this gentle indifference, joined to her attractions, stimnlates and excites curiosity. Her face may not be beautiful, but it is always expressive. Her attitude and gestures have a little expressiveness, yet there is ever about them rlfasautness and repose. In dress she knows the value of details, and the art of cunningly bringing ont the loveliness of character of her appf-arance. There is ever abont her something like a h&ze of delightful negative qualities; thus she elicits the i positive qualities of these who approach her: thev out forth all their powers to please, and credit their own agreeability to her. The fascinating woman is, as a rule, heartless, but she has a thousand pretty ways, feline and caressing. She is very good tempered, and always intensely feminine; winsome in manner, having an unstudied grace, exquisite ;n litt e things, and skilled in all the trifles of conversation and conduct. She is always absolutely natural, yet the lcnger you linger by her side the stronger grows the sense that you do not understand her. She puzzles, enchants, throws a glamour over you, and the wilder grows the wii,h to comprehend and win Her, still sn? ever eiuaes aua perplexes you. She may be quiet at times, bat never dull. Tlie calm is sometimes broken by unexpected bru*q aeries, by bright raillery that does not hurt; or the delightful reticence of her demeanor may be suddenly exchanged for a confidential mood, a gentle familiarity. She is selfish, and from this selfish soil springs a host of tantalizing ways. She always lets you feel you are near; but >ou are never snccessiui | enough to know youkare at least grasped her. The pursuit is endless; she beckons but you can never seize her. Splittiug Roots With Dynamite. The destruction of large trees by the severe storms in England has caused inquiries how to get rid of the tough roots thrown out of the ground. Splitting with wedges was found slow and laborious, and in answer to inquiries a correspondent of the Garden describes the mode by which he effectually severed the roots into fragments by the use of dynamite. He remarked that he had employed half a dozen horses and as many men tugging and straining at the unyielding mass of roots a large part of a day, when a few shillings' worth of dynamite including cap and fuse, would have blown the roots to fragments 111 a short time. There is some difficulty in procuring the dynamite in small quantities, but where it can be had he asserts fcjat while it is more powerful than gunpowder, is is much eisier and safer to work with. A hole is bored into the solid part of the root nearly through it, the fuse put into a cap and the whole inserted. Tbe dynamite cartridge is about four inches long and nearly an itich in diameter. The fuse will burn about one foot a minute, and tbe operator can get to a safe distance. Koors four or five feet in diameter are torn to fragments, sometimes several cartridges being required to complete the work. SCENES AT A ftODEO. Hott Cnt'ile are 3Iannccd In the Far West --V?ccaros. ProDlanas and Fand incas? Branding Beeves. The greai cattle ranches of the Pacific coast, in Tuolumne, Mariposa and other of the "cow counties," present, in tthe men who are employed upon them, a phase of life which is very peculiar, I These men have the sole charge o{ the i great bauds of cattle which roam over the countless acres of the cattle ranges. All the year rcun 1 they live by themselves, seeing no one oitside of their immediate family when they happen to be married, except whet, tho supplies are sent to tkbm 00ce in three months, or, on some ranches, once in six. Tiieir bnsine3s is to watch the cattle and prevent their straying off the range, and to ''round them up" once a week. In very dry seasons they are obliged to drive the cattle lrom the grazing-ground to water once a day and to i>ee that the calves and younger cattle pet enough water to support them. The vaccaros live in little houses generally built in some corner of the range, near the watsr. They are allowed two or three horses apiece and have their provisions ? jerked beef or bacon, flour, beans, red peppers and coffee supplied by the man they work for. But the period of the year when the vaccaro makes up for his; long and enforced loneliness, when he .has all of the fnn r\r o fttfnlxrAtvsfV? orl info 1* iUU V/i. a WTT gxiuu.vuvu AUVk/ a week or ten days when he makes his purchases for the year, buys?if he"Teela very wealthy when he gets his year's wages?new spurs or bridle or sometimes a saddle, is the rodeo in the spring. The rodeo, pronounced ro-daoh, with the accent on the second syllable, is the annual branding time. The bands of cattle are driven from the ranges to some spot where the rodeo camp has been pitched, and the days, for the vaccaro, are as full of work as are the nights of amusement. The first thins to be done in selecting inoucd for a rodeo camp is to find abuiidanoe of water. This found, the next srep is to pitch the temporary corral fenc *s. These are made to inclose sufficient ground' generally to contain about two tnousana ceaa, tne objfct leing to drive into them at one time all the cattle in the band. The corral having been tu'lt, the Cittle begin to arrive, each band being in charge of its own vaccaros. The bands are sept apart as ranch as possible, being "xoanded up" on the plain. A b ind having been driven into the corral, the vaccaros follow it, and their first bnsinss is to select and drive out the animals ?vho, from age or other reasons, are to be killed for their hides and tallow. As fast as one of them is driven to and through the gate it is lassoed and dragged to the slaughter ground, where in a very short time the cares of cattle in this life cease to trouble it. The nest operation is to drive ont the stock which have been branded before and to which nothing is to be done. This includes the bulls and such cows ; as have no calves running beside them. . The stock so driven out is taken a short J distance away and" there "rounded up" ' by vaccaros who are watching it. This J operation of '-rounding up," by the 1 way, simply consists of four or five men 1 riding slowly around a band of cattle. As long as they continue this the cattle will stand in a compact bunch, and will mrplv nrf^rnnf, fn rre>t awav. Than ' comes the operation of branding the taiseeftKe^rSo^lier^s^xsn^&iS3^ always branded during the first year. ' Any animal found without a brand when ! over a year old may be taken by the fii-st comer. The cow with the calf J running alongside beiDg driven out of 1 the corral, two vaccaros dart forward on 1 their horses and la*so the cow, one taking the fore and the other the hind leg ! A third vaccaro lassos the calf, gener ally around the neck, and throws ii down or drags it over to where the forces are. Here a man takes the I brodingiron, which is generally of a : dnll red color, and presses it upon one flank lo?g enough to destroy tha roots of the hair. Each cattle-owner represented at the rodeo has his own brand, which is either a letter or some device, such as a star, which marks all his animals. The operation of branding does r ot take more than a few seconds, and then the'calf is liberate? At the same time the vaccarosSwho have been holding the cow, by a pecaliar trembling kind of shaking cause the loops of their lassos to open and drop cff the legs, and the cow gets up at unce, the calf joiDs her, and together they are driven ont of the band. riia tifftcoso r>f 1 & takes sev* eral days, and all disputes as to the ownership of calves are settled by a court composed of three men, whose award is final. Under the direction of this court are all matters relating to the camp, such as the hours for watering stock, and the land to be occupied by the different bands. As there are sometimes ai many as two or three hundred thousand cattle ccming to the rodeo, actually there and going away, and five or six hundred men, women and children. some form of authority is plainly necessary. The rodeo moves from place to place about once in three weeks, taking up its new grounds in some convenient spot for the owners of the cattle. And wiih it go the persons who crowd to a rodeo as fli^s gather to e. su^ar bti- in First in importance are the traveling merchants, who have either Wnts in which they display their goods or huge wagons-regular booths on wheels. Iu either of these you can buy nearly any ar icle you may call for. Jewelry of tbe cheaper, and, f-peaking in a metallic sense, baser sort; dry goods, dhawls needles and thread, buttons, clothes, saddles, bridles, spurs, revolvers, knives ammunitions, blankets, looking-glasses ?tbe great difficulty in writing a caraloRue of their wares would be to know where to stop. The vaccaros ar<; paid off the first day of the rodeo and, as a rule, the regular thing is to adjourn at once from the pay wagon to the store { and buy such things as may be wanted ! or needed during the coming year. The families of the vaccaros always accompany them to the rodeo and the greatest anxiety is naturally shown by the thrifty wives to make the purchases before the men have a chance to sit down at the monte games. For jour full-blooded peon can no more resist monte than a toper can an invitation to drink. The game is one which possesses few attractions for American?, but "irhieh has a perfect fascination for the lower class of Mexicans. Professional gamblers are, however, not often seen at rodeos. The vaccaros prefer to play among themselves, and each is the owner of a monte pack, with its queer little cards. So well is this gambling propensity among the vaccaros known that in the cases of soma of them the employers pay one-half of the year's wages to the wives ara protect them in the possession of the articles purchased. But there are other scenes besides gambling in the evenings during a i rodeo, jneariy every iuexican uau piay | the guitar and all ar<3 passionately fond jf dancing. Booths are erected, and in them, bjthe light of flaring lamps, fandangos are held. The problanas, as the girls are called?it would perhaps be courteous to call them las senoritas and the young vaccaros dance to the music of the twanging guitars,'while the elder women and sometimes the men stand watchiBg them and talking of the fandangos held when they were young. The fctately courtesy which seems aiwavs an adjunct ot Spanish blood marks their every gesture. That the rodeo shall not lose any element of human interest, it is during the short time one lasts that the marriages are arranged. A young vaccaro 6ees a gM he likes, makea love to her, proposes, is accepted and married?and all in a week's time. Nor' do these marriages 1 turn out, as a rale, anything but happily. Spanish women of all classes make good wires, and the men, apart fiom tie gambling, treat their wives well. There is one thing which strikes an American at a rodeo with peuniiar force. Notwithstanding the fact that the time is one, from a vacaro's standpoint, of the wildest liberty, not to say license, there is very little drinkiag to be seen. There may be a few men who delight in consnming mescal brandy? probably the worst form of liquor ever invented or distilled?but tbey are very few. The majority confine themselves to pnlqne, which is about as strong as hard cider. ; - A St^ry or Ciiro. A great scandal occurs to?my mind, sayj a writer in AU the Ytnr Rnw'd, as happening in Ca&o in 18S0. Scheikh Hamuda Berda lived in a quarter of the town less fashioi^ble. than is generally affected by wealthy -saints who have gained recogoitibn. With modest assurance he declared that Allah had personally granted him.to cnre all diseases By the hand of Mahomet himself, the Meroiful One confided to him drags and lotions which restored the signt, replaced an amputated limb, and so on. As for mere pains and aches, he removed them at a word. Daring many years* residence in Cairo a vast number of j persons profited by his supernatural skill, but he specially laid himself out for female patients. In later times the good man founJl his practice Enlarge that he ceuld |io longer attend poor people. From ^pery part of Egypt, Arabia and Syria, wealthy ladies came to consult the Scheikh, and of course thev brought a handsome present. One day, toward the middle ot last year, the young wife of Izzet Bey, a colonel in the Egyptian service, pr> uosed to visit him for an affection of the eyes. The^colonel sent, her with a proper retinue 'of Attendants, who returced. I know aot wtyy, after depositing their mis-ress at the door of Eamuda B-rda. She entered with a favorite slave, but never came out again. For some days her husband trasnot alarmed, ninee enrgical operations demand a certain time. Anxious at le-gth, he called upon tbe ScheiSh, whose manner was not, reassuring. "He protested that the young woman had left on the evening of her arrival, cared. The colonel was not satisfied. Ee appealed; to the policy and they searched the dwelling minutely. I presume that Izzet Bey wa:i a man of influence. Nothing was found in the saintly house, but a very foul and malodo'rous well in the garden dretF their nntiefi. Rfimnvinff the cover the? found the-corpses o 1 the young woman and her slave among such a mar.s of patnd bones as showed that wholesale murder had been going on for years. "Brought before the cadi, the saint confessed his habit of strangling every woman who came to consult him, if her jewelry seemed worth the trouble. Such hideous stories now md then shock the grave, dumb population of the Ecst. The Ancient World. In a recent lecture on the world at ;he time of man's appearance, Boyd Dawkins, the English geologist, gave a lition of the earth's surface. In the ?ocene and miocerie penode, he said, Europe was united with Iceland and Sreenland, and also with the United States of America bv a barrier of land, 2xtendingj>ast the Faroe Isles, which was covered bj dense forest, composed bo a large extent of the same trees, in Earopo and in America, and which allowed cf a comparatively free migration of animals to and fro between England and the United States. In the rivers of Europe were alligators and fish not to abo distinguished from those of America. In the pliocene age the barrier of land became depressed, and for the first time in the history of tbe world what is now the Atlantic became con c 2AT-. IT. ? A a Tl n tt n ct oil WItil Lilt? ^.xuuxo oca< mu these changes the British Isles formed part of the continent, and the Atlantic seaboard was marked by the five hundred fathom line. As regards the changes in climate in Europe in the three periods, the lecturer said that during the first period tho climate was tropical in Bzitain, palm:i and breadfruits and other southern trees living in tViA snntheast of Ensland. In the sec ond period the climate was cooler and palms were scarce, but magnolia and tulip trees and sequoias aboande'i. In the third period tihe clime te became tvmperate. These surroundings of man were gradually shaped in Ine three earlier stage of the tertiary period until they arrived rery early at that equilibrium which is found to-day. Eoman Remains in London. Modern Loudon is built on the debris of the London of the times of JnLus A/??irtAla on/1 if. iq hv T)0 I V-iOJttl ivLIU. ZlgllV/UiMl MM%4 * w ~j means infrequently that 1800-year old relics of tbe Roman town are fonnd many feet below the surface of the existing streets. There- was a rich find recently in the vicinity of Warwick Square at the depth of nineteen feet, j The mo*t interesting relic that came to light was hitherto unknown coin of the year 50, which lay alongside of about a dozen urns containing the products of cremation. Just think of 'he pangs TT,Kiy?V> A T-t'n rr nmnl/1 haw ftfflifited Oil those ancients if they had known that there ashes would have been seen and handled by an unknown race eighteen centuries and a half, nearly, after their demise! The most aristocratic nrn was of glass and fifteen inches high. Well executed leaden pots inclosed several of these depositories, and roofing tiles the rest. The nse of lead, as well as of tin, by the way, has great antiquity in Britain. Herodotus speaks of the production of tin there. Emblems of more or less significance touching the future state appeared on some of the receptacles. Along with the coin of tbe year 50 were others of uates between 46 and 300. But the Romans left something besides these useless things to be remembfired bv. They introduced into Great Britain its chestnut, walnut, peach, pear and cherry trees, } An "Eltclric Boy." The Australian electric boy arrived at New York rec. atly from Melbourne. When eight years jld he gave evidence of wonderful electric power that has been developing since. The only food for which he cares is that which con+cino wKncnlmms- When not eufficientlv charged with magnetism he complains of nervousness and heartache. When he goe3 to sleep the supply of electricity becomes slightly diminished, but is much more constant than during his waking hours. He is now twenty two years old. He stands upon a matting made of cocoanut threads, and allows the curious to examine his clothing in order to convince them that no electric apparatus is concealed upon his person. \Vlien he louches any one a current of electricity <?oes from mm rnio tne otner, producing the sensation that arises from cod f act with a galvanic battery. He tf/ld a reporter that he was always rthnrfred in the morning, but that during the day he gave off so much power that it left him completely exhausted in the evening, Connecticut is tne only state in the Union in which the pardoning powei is vested exclusively in the legislature. -. *? . ... . ,.v-v THE SULTAN'S TREASURY. Thn Priceless Gem* and Untold Gold of the Bankrupt Ruler o fa Ruined J?cop!e-The Funds of I-.liun The American ministers to Turkey and Austria Teceived permission?now very rarely ?rant<?d?to inspect the imperial treasury at Constantinople, and were surprised at the amount of treasure in the vaults and the great number of precious stones displayed. There were forty officials in attendance, who opened the Jocks with many formalities. The imperial treasury is situated within the inner court of the Seraglio, in one of the heavy stone outbuilding? of the ancient palace. One going thither J from the city must pass through three massive walls ere he enters the court where etand the treasure-house, a building of dull gray, stone roofed trrifh loo*} and navirior ft fiincle door of " ?% ??>?, ? O O massive iron. A low, arched doorway leads to the interior, t^o connecting chambers, each about eighteen feet square, heavily vaulted and lighted by 3mall windows with strongiron gratings. Round each room runs a gallery, and the wall space to the ceiling is occupied by glass cases, while in the center of each apa,r:ment is a large glass showcase. There is a guard at the outer door, and all round the walls stand sentinels, mute and motionless, all clad in the everlasting black broadcloth and red tez. One gallery is occupied with effiqies of the sultans, each in the robes and jewels and armor of the monarch as he lived. The dresses are mostly of silk brocade and cloth of gold, and many of the figures are weighed down with jewels and magniQcent arms. Prominent among them is Mohammed II., the conqueror of Constantinople, who left the mark of his bloody hand high up on the pillar of what is now the mot-quo of at. aopma; tae mic or ms dacgt-r is a single emerald, tco inches long and half as large. All the figures save two wear the turban bedecfce.i with diamond;'. TVo thrones are in the outer room. Oae? that of Nadir Shah, of Persia?is of tine, dark wood, delicately inlaid with pearl and ivory, and having a canopj c f the s ime material, frcm which is snspendt-d a great golden ball, decorated with previous stones. The other is a platform about two and one-half feet square, witn a ousmou 01 cloth of gold, embroidered wirh rubies, diamonds and pearls. Around three sides of the cushion is a low rail supported by miniature coin inns and stand ing some eight inches high' it is of 8 old studded with cluster* of rubiep, and the whole throne is covered with plates of pold. In on* cabinet is shown the state cradle of many sultans, which stands low on its rockers like those still in use in the East. The two ends rise a foot above the mattress, and are connected at the top by a bar running lengthwise as a support for a curtain. The whole is of solid gold, crusted. on the outside with pearls, diamonds, rubies and turquoisc-s. It u __J. i. WUU1U null UO |JUa01Lrit5 IU UCO UiUC xn detail the contents of these rooms. There are antique arms and armor, ' heavy with gold and jewels; there are innumerable horse-trappings and sad- : dies, covered with plates of gold and studded with emeralds, rubies, tvpazes,. 1 diamonds and pearls ; there are saddle cloths embroidered with precious stones. 1 Several sofa-covers hang in the cabinets, 1 they are worth $150,000 a[>u c? ?a;'l are of heavy cloth of guiu embroidered ward, at the bottom; sacks of velvet ; embroidered with gold and pearls and diamonds; "samplers" of red velvet on which texts from the Koran are cm- , -- 1 ? broidered m cnamonas; amoer muumpieces for pipes studded with diamonds and rabies, vases of crystal, agate and onyx, many enriched with jewels; ink- ; stanks and snuff-boxes innumerable, ; coffee-sets, tea-set', knives, forks and spoons of solid gold, with jewels on . their handles; au immense array of clocks; fans beyond counti.:-;; umbrellas of white silk, exqiisiS Ir < tnbroidered TTTHVI ori/5 M T.V1 ; ' I:}? LtHldlea matchless sprays of cj; : j. jurd long; tea-sets of tortoise-shell as thin a3 paper. One toy, a figure of a sultan seated on his throne under a golden canopy ribbed with alternate rubies and emeralds, the whole structure being perhaps six inches high. The body of the figure is a single huge pearl; the lower extremities are carved from a olue turquoise, and the turban is a solid mass of diamonds. After every conceivable use has been made of the jewels, tho surplus unmounted stones are gathered by handfuls into crystal bowls, in one of which are three uncut emeralds, j the largest the size of a man's fist, and I the smallest as big a* a Lea's egg. During the late war x'r.a government pledged some of its jewels to the ba^ks for a loan of ?30,000,000. The bankers removed to their own vaults precious stones of value sufficient to b^cure the loan fally, yet the contents of the three | mail boxes leifc no appreciable gap in V./-. ??/? odoTunnlofifln ftnoTi is fhp treasure house of the bankrupt ruler of i a ruined nation- The commander of the faithful, it may be added, has at his disposition, under certain circumstances, a still more remarkable accumulation of wraith. This is the I "Treasure of It>latn," the offerings of gold and silver deposited by many successive generations of pilgrims to the tbree holy places?the Ctaba an Mecca, the vaults of the mo.-que of Soliman at Jerusalem and the crypt of the tomb of Ali at the gates of Bagdad. The fands thus collected are designed solely folo m in if o nrf rami. i'jr i 11C UDiriiOD Ul XOiuwu iu ivo ujLWiguil ty, and their guardians would yield them for no other purpose. A contemporary calculator lias placed the rate of accamuktion at $600.1)00 a year, :nd the total value of ihe funds at $600,1)00,01)0; but these figures are by iess enthusiastic authorities regarded as largely beyond the tiu'.h, and io is added that on .several occasions in modern time3 the sultan has drawn upon the funds for war expenditures. Nevertheless the "Treasure of Islam" must amount to many millions of mcney. "Make it English." Mr. Fox, the father of the orator, y*" 7 ? T ?? oAn U02.rie5 J iilUCb JJ Ui, tiaiucv.iuio ouu iivrn childhood to share in the government of Eagland. This anecdote shows the child's precocity. While the elder Fox was Secretary of State he need to illow Charles to read all his dispatches. One day, when the secretary brought home a paper which he had very carefully written?an answer to be sent to a foreign government with whom England had good cause to find fault. fie gave the paper to Charles, and asked him to read it. The lad did so. "What do you think of it9" asked the parent, earnestly, for ho thought it extremely grod. The boy shook his head. Then he looked into his father's face; the? ^e straightened himself to his fail height, and smiting his liitJe fist upon his swellin <7 hrt-ast. he exclaimed; "Oil .'?make it stronger ! make it? bier! ?make it?English I" Fox caught the inspiration from the look, the tone, the words of his boy. He threw the papor into the fire, and then sat down and wrote again, and prcdnced a paper which electrified ths country. Oa the house 7 Craven street, Strand, London, a circular tablet has been fixed with these words: "Lived here i Benjamin Franklin, Printer, Philosopher and Statesman. Born 17C-6. Died 1790." t A JIanWho Employs Nearly 20,000.'tt<;u. The following very graphic description of the immense works of Herr Frederich Kmpp, at Essen, Germany, is contained in a private letter from Hon. J. S. Potter, United S?tes counsel at Crefeld (Germany), who recently visited the establishment in company wit': Colonel Carroll D. Wright, chief of the Massachusetts buiem of statistics. Mr. Potter says : A ?. i-V J-* to tjft *_ ?7 3.11 .at lain urns 10 ui-s is me uauy average number of men employed in this manufactory for the production cf everything that is composed of steel? especially war material. Steam and smoke were issuing from countless chimneys and smoke stacks, and rolling in immense volumes over the 650 acres of buildings within the walls : which ineL-se his grounds. The view from the outside seemed to indicate a tornado of excitement and a rush of bu?iats3 withm. Upon entering, however, the scene presented was sur prisingly quiet, vvnen a man was seen, whether workman or manager, he was as serene as 3 morning in tbe tropics. There was no excitement, no rash; every man's motions being all in tbe hie of svstem and order. I do not remember to have heard a loud word spofcen amocg the thousands of men in the different buildings through which we pasted. Bat th9 unceasing smoke ^ i - y j n # ana steam continued to ascena irom pipes and chimneys near and as far away as the eye could see, and the ; subdued hum of machinery everywhere was as steady as the roar of Niagara, i Great cannon were being moved as silently as if they were going to the i funeral of the masses of men they were i made to slaughter. One c:nnon recently finished, weighing, with wedge, ? about eighty tons, and throwing a shell ; weighing one and a half tons a distance < of more tnan ten miles, was being j placed in position. Only a mild word was occasionallv uttered bv the man in 1 charge, and the or at mass went stead- i ily iii the right direction. No fups, no I false motions; every tic erance and motion was just the one that ought to j be made. The man in charge was a , complete ' boss." The average , numuer composing the families of ' these 18,542 men was four and a j half to each?thus making between eighty and ninety thousand human b9- j ings dependent upon the business, skill t aod maoagenent ot Herr Krupp, who j was born iowlv, ana tnirty years ago was a poor man. He provides every r thing?-dwellings and homes for all? , schools, churches, preachers, supply $ stores, bakeries, slaughter-houses. r butchers, doctors, bar.hin^ establish- j ments, life insurance and fire compa- t nies, pension institutions, hospi ? baia, uuucuan.ci3 auu luuciaia, uuu j all works smoothly and well. In ^ reply to a question covering the j vast responsibility, anxiety, care and dif c ficulties in managing such a complex a and extensive establishment, he said he c had little nnxiety and no difficulty in s managing his increasing business, j His care and responsibility was chiefly } exercised in the selection of men for T positions of management. He had no , friendship for "bosses" who were not f exactly fitted for the position they were r engaged to fill?and no mercy for those j found negligent or inefficient. To his t caution in the selection of managers he at"ribnted the chief success of his life. A 1 ? A HorribI* Tragedy and Its Sequel. t snra n Vi Ling a tragic event which took' place i recently. It was on the northern fron- t tiers of this empire, over against Sax- c ony; the sceae, ak inn; time, evening. I Many old customers of the place were t assembled in the snug room, with its s time-polished- tables, its tail-tiled stove, its anrazing pictures of saints 11 and angels. Beer enough to float an iron-clad, wine enough, to intoxicate a a continent, had been served ont in tbat i place since its fir3t dedication to Bac- r chus two centuries ago. To night the worship of the wine-crowned deity was c proceeding as merrily as nsual, and c the air was thick with tobacco ? smoke, when a man, with a sleeping child in his arms, slouched in and sat down in a corner. He drank a glass or two of beer, while the child, a golden-haired little felio ^ of abont five, vested his head on the ^ table and went on with his nap. The \ iollv toners soon forcrot all aboat the ( stranger, who after a while desired to be shown to his room, as he wished to put his son to bed. Bnt soon an angry dispute was heard withoat, at the foot of the stairs, the father using shocking language, the child whining piteously : " Father, father, you know I have been unable to go up stairs by myself ever sine* I broke my leg." " Nonsense," exclaimed the man menacingly, "you can get up very well if you choose, and, besides, you have only vourself to thank for vour broken leg? J " - tt -Tap you go or I will beat yon black and ! bine," and he administered a cruel | blow to the cripple. Several of the , guests had come out into the p9ssa?e, and now remonstrated vehemently with the brutal father. " Is that your child, you monster ?" asked one. " What is that to yon ?" was the an- j swer. "Ypp, oh, yes, he is my father," , moamd the boy, ssbe Sit helpless on the fctairs, and rocked himself in an it^ony of tears. The man became ^till ' more enraged, and would, doubtle-js, have belabored h:s son, had not one of the persons present laid hold of him, exclaiming, Cease ^onr brutality, or we'll fetch the police." But this only bad the effect of throwing the father iuto a real paroxism of rage. He drew , - 1--? 1 1 - J ? 4.' 11 ? a Kmre ana scruggieu iraiuivaujr. ' Take care, take care," screamed the boy, " he will rip as all ap, same as he did my poor mother." " Little fiend," yelled the father, and freeing himself with a great effort, he buried the knife in the child's body. The poor little soul sank down wi:h a groan. A shout of indignation came from the others, who rushed at him en masse; but the man, taking his hat off politely, said with a winning smile : " Gentlemen, we have to do with a wooden child. I am a ventriloquist and no mean one either, as you will admit." A pause of speechless astonishment, during which could have been heard the dropping of the traditional pin, and then the rafters shook with prolonged (Homeric) laughter. The clever deceiver was dragged into the parlor, where, besides eihibiting many a funny trick of voice, ho took much ii n r? i-- ? ?J more wine xnan was gouu xur wu, uu finally rolled to bed tfith his pockets full of money, and his murdered child smiling blandly under his arm. " Sot Yet." The emperor of Germany does not propose t > be crowded fr^ the throne. When he gets ready, ? f? when summoned by a higher poorer, he will go. This intention to stick was made manifest awhile ago, wben a distinguished flarm an nrt.iflfc asked Dermis si on to Daint I one oc the great conrt ceremonials. l'Lo permission was granted, and the emperor asked to see the preliminary sketch, which was sent him. He was represented seated on the throne, at the foot of which stood the crown prince with his foot on the first step. The old kaiser is skilltul with the pencil, and he qnickly changed the posit on of the priucp, bringing both feet together on the floor, and sent the skttch back to the painter, with the laconic remars, " not jet," written beneath the figure of the heir to the throne. 53*^3^^*' i*? * ' ' 'r- ^ - ijiVv' I HAKKIAGE 15 STiEBOCL. The Dark Picture Presented In the City?Slaves Educated for Husbands and Wires. "Without intelligent sympathy at a home, forbidden all amusement and diversion out of doors, ignorant of bojiah sports, even of riding, probably the Turkish lad falls into dissipation. For any kind of vice he finds liberty u -i. oi.?i?xt^ eiiuugii ab oiauiuuui. iiu viuicwau have I ever met so bold, even in im- j agination, as to draw h picture of the dark places in that city. Bat several J of these educated youths have assured me that the luxurious temptations of immorality in Stamboul? not Pera nor Galata?are unequaled in their not inconsiderable experience of Europe. The state of society was revealed to me with rather startling force one day. I called upon a young Mahomedaa whose English education has made him ons of ourselves in all respects saving that it has not shaken his religious faith. He held in his arms a lovely child of two years old or so, who screamed. tilth passion. A small Circassian boy, fair haired, bine eyed, was trying to distract her, bnt the apparition of* the "Chelebi" was more successful. The children were presently dismissed to the harem, and my friend observed : "I dread to think of that boy's departure. Jly baby has the temper of a little fiend, and only he can manage her." Knowing the small Circassian to be a 3lave, I asked why he was leaving. "I must send him to Kobert (Joilege soon," was the reply, "and get another playfellow for the child." ' Robert College is the American school where so many middle-class fonths are being educated?well edu- , :ated, tor*, though perhaps the training , is not in all re spects the best. I said: "The kindness of your peo- ] pie toward their slaves is well-known to ] ne, but I did not think it ran so far as , ;o pay their expeases at college." t He answered, lauahinpr: "Not as a j :nle, of course. But my intention is to < carry those two if Ahmet tarns out < veil. Ho is clever and well disposed, rhe missionaries will keep him honest, 1 [ bope." This was such a novel view of the elations between bondslave and missress, that I discussed the matter at , ength several times. My friend told me that snch matches, , lever rare in Tarkey, are now quite lsual. The state of morals is snch in ! Jramboul, that parents do not willingly ake a dargbter or son-in-law from * imiues or uieir own rana. ?ney aisrust all the world. Ic has lately be- , :ome a common thing to choose a slave, )oy or girl, to grow up under their byes. The first expense averages, per- 1 3aps, forty pounds, and the female child ;ost little. She is tanght truthfulness j ind virtue, fine sewing, the mystery of , joSee-making and of filling a pie?the irts of a very simple housewife. A boy , s vastly more expensive, as in this case , ie must be sent to school, launched lpon some kind of employment, and provided for until the parents are satis- , ied that he will make their child happy. Chen the pair are married and the ex-1 slave becomes a member of the family, hough that makes little change to him. 1 My Moslem friend is on sucn terms "pith me that I speak of his wife almost ( is freely as I should speak, of a Chris- ( ian's. answered , hat ib-wss her own conceiving. And ' hen he related various stories of lomestic misery and crime within her . mowledgs, which had brought his wife o a fixed resolve that her daughter hould not wed a Turk of Stamboul. 1 I asked what she propsed. to do li tnis , ittle slave died before marriage. "Ia that case," said the father, "we \ ,re determined to look out a husband ] n Syria, where there are still honest j aen." Sach is the view which a Tark, eda- j sated in the real sense, expresses of his ' ionntrymen?not the elder, but the new j eneration, of whom so much is hoped, j " j Two "Ways of Beginning Life. i In dne time the city girl becomes engaged to the man of her choice, who , whatever hi3 means, forthwith proceeds \o bny her a diamond ring. The court- . >hip is conducted in an ostentations ? a-nA +>ia Viridal imois afl uauuci.) VUV W - ilaborats as papa's means will admit. They are married in <*burch with anmerons bridemaids and flowers. The jrangft blossoms and veil of the bride ;remb!e with emoiion?the only unreined things in the -bouse. Emotion "has gone out." After the ceremony ;he couple get into a hack and ride iround for a while, ana then go back to the third story at "mamma's," while the marriage notice comes out two weeks latei. They cannot go to church antil aitei ifc is published, but they go theD, and everybody shakes hands with them, and they tell of what they saw in that back-room. They must have bad a kaleidoscope or a huge magic lantern. Meanwhile the country girl mames, too xne ceiemouv wieo at home, and she has a bridemaid. She is eDgaged with a plain gold ring, and wears a plain silk diess?perhaps she made it herself. After the wedding there is a supper, and then the young man bids her people good-by, and putting her into his buggy, drives over to his home, where &he at once takes the place of housekeeper. They do not stay away from charch the following Sunday, even if the marriage notice is not ont, and sometimes it does not appear in the papers at all; but everybody knows and calls to Eee ^ ? - t L ? -m- ( ? I IM A mem. CJQe 14 "HWluiljr uruiLu wo times.'' but loots really happy, even if i: is the fashion for brides to look sad. Nutrition in Fi<h, Fles'n and Fowl. Professor Atwater, of the Agricultural college of Connecticut, has deduced from the various analyses and investigations of chemists a table illustrating the comparative nutiitive value of various speciss of fish, flesh and fowL Some of its conclusions will surprise many persons, inasmuch as they are onntraw tn <7Anerallv received -- o ? notions on the subject. As a basis the professor takes medium beef?neither fat nor lean?as having a nutritive of 100. He puts fat pork at 116, smoked beef at 146, smoked ham at 157, ordinary beef at 91.3, mutton at 86.6, butter at 124.1, cheese, from skimmed milk, at 159, hens' eggs at 72.2. In fresh fish the highest place is given to salmon, 107.9. Spanish mackerel are estimated at 105.9, boned cod at 19G (above ail fresh fisb, save salmon), canned salmon at 107 and salt mackerel at 111 1. Oysters, supposed by many to be so nutritcus, at 21 8, and lobsters at 50 3. A very satisfactory point in this estimate is that what is cheapest is the mo>t nourishing. The exceptional i n ? a nutritive character 01 smoKea ana | aried preparations is dne to the evaporation of moisture and compression of tissue. The enormou3 amount cf nutriment in cheese explains the vast consumption of American c heese in England, where one sees laborers eating it f XT J O'.d Mr. Hazlett, of Oregon, thought he wa^ going to die, and in order that his heirs shonld have nothing to quarrel over he burned $22,000 in greenbacks. Be didn't die after ail, and now when his heirs see him sawing wood to earn his bread, they naturally feel that, they are ahead of him. rOPELAB SCIENCE. The radiant heat of the sua is twioo its illuminating power. Ice lyinz in the interstiees of rocks ^|9| will expiode them as effectually as dy- - |1| Were the absorptive power of our Qfmncnhero rpmnvpd all veceiation would cease. The use of salicylic acid for the preservation of food has been prohibited by the French government as injurious. The tunneling of tire English channel /I is progressing so well that the firstquarter of a mile is now completed. An English artist has photographed swallows on the swing, and fixed the 4-UATT An a nnrid in XCJJH7A4WJU. tokXUJ ilbiWH VA? wr ? f. . . The rate at which aqueous vapor is ?*j?gjj9 given off bj plants is more than one ill and a quarter ounces per square foot of leaf surface every twelve hours. When the stomach of the sea cucumber becomes troublesome, from indigestion or other causes, it ejects it through its mouth along with its other .'^3 internal organs, and quietly awaits the growth of a new set A new and Interesting proor inai toe .. . earth is round has been presented by M. Jf Dnfonr in a paper lately read before ' the Helvetic Society "of Natural Sciences. In calm weather the imayes of distant objects reflected in the Lake of " ' >'1^8 Geneva showed just exactly the same ~ degree of distortion which calculation '|j would predict through taking into con- siaeration the figure of the earth. The relation which the color of flowers and fruits bear to their methods of distribution is a curious branch of botanical study, it appears mac in cue straggle for existence during a long v-^JH series of generations, those seeds and fruits that have a tendency to succulence and color are most a*ttraetr?e-4p birds, and that the*e tendencies are -"^Sm tensifird by inheritance and natural selection. It it also found that in those fruits that are distributed by mechani- : ;|| :a! agencies there is a suppression both 3f color and succulence. - ^? ? Banging a Blood and Thunder tfowlist* The other day a stoat woman, armed prith an umbrella and leading a small irchin, called at the office of a New Fork boy8' story paper. 'is this the place where they fight [ndians?" she inquired of the pentleman. in charge. "Is this the locality where ;he brave boy charges np the canon and peeds a bnliet to the heart of the lusky rtd?kin T and she jerked the m irchin around by the ear and brought ler umbrella down on the desk. "We publish stories for boys," reDlied the young man, evasively. "I wast to know if these are tbe premises onwhich the daring lad 'springs ..Jag ipon his fiery mustang and, darting ;hrough the circle of thunderstruck saviges, cuts tbe captive's cords and bears aim away before tbe wondering Indians lave recovered from their astonishment? That's tfce information I'm ifter. I want to know if that sort of ;hing is perpetrated here!" and she swung the umbrella around her Head. "I don't remember those specific icts," protested the young man. : :aga "I want to know ifthis is the prerfnet where the adventurous boy jumps ^ 3n the back of a bnSklo and with un"rrnr nim n;<*Vo ^ ^a-j^MgrwMiiiaM lust at every crack of his faithful rifle I Fm looking fot fee place where that soft of thiug happensV and th'stime she brought the unlucky young man a xemendous whack across the back. *-J think?1" commenced the dodging 71CQZ22* ''''"* ^$81 "I'm in search of the shop in which ||j ;he bov road agent Holds the quivering stage-driver powerless with his glitterng eye, while he rob3 the male passen zers with an adroitness bora of longand :ried experience, and kisses the hands 3f the kdy passengers with a gallantry )f bearing that bespeaks noble birth md a chivalrous rature!" screamed the woman, driving the young man into the corner. "I'm looking for the apartment f'oaf. hn<?in#>'5s is transacted 1" and down came the umbrella with trip- ^IIS hammer force on the young man's head. Upon my soul, ma'am?F* gasped the wretched youth. "I want to be introduced to the jars in which you keep the boy scouts of the -M Sierras! Show me the bins full of the boy detectives of the prairie f Point out to me the barrels full ot boy pirates of the SpanL-h Main 1" and with each demand she dropped the umbrella on the young man's sfcull until he skipped over the desk and sought safety in a neighboring canon. '' S&M Til teach 'em!" she panted, grasping the tirchin by the ear and leading him off. "I'll teach 'em to make it good or dance. Want to go fight Indians any more? Want to stand proudly upon the pinnacle of the mountain and scatter the plain beneath with the bleeding bodies of uncounted 1^8 slain 1 Want to say 'hist!' in a tone '* * 1 ?t Durttwcn j tnat oroozs no cuHunvuiuuvxi < to spring upon the taffrail and with a ringing tone of command send a broad- r^k side into the richly-laden galley, and ^ then mercifully spare the beautiful maiden in the cabin, that f-he may become yonr bride? Eh? Going to do i , any more ?" With each question fhe hammered the jelring nrobin until his bones were - - v * sore and tie protested ma peraisucub -,:. abandonment of all the gloiies enxxmer *Theii come along," said she, taking him by the collar. 'Let me catch joa around with any more ramrods and carving knives, and yon'll think the leaping, curl in?, resistless prairie fire en?cnt with-a ferocioris roar of triumph across the trembling plains and lodged in your pantaloons to stay 1"? [Brooklyn Eagle. Hott Nutmegs Grw. Nutmegs grow on little tree3 which look like little pear trees, and are generally not over twenty feet high. The flowers are very much like the lily of the valley. They are pale and very fragrant. "?ne nmmeg is mo ?.* ->s? the fruit, and mace is the thin covering MM over the seed. The fruit is a'^oat a* large as a peach. When ripe, it breaks open, and shows a little nut ia*ide. The trees grow en the islands of Asu and tropical America. They bear frnit for seventy or eighty years, having ripe frnit npon them all tha seasons A fine tree in Jamaica has over ionr thousand nutmegs on it every year. The T*"4-"1, bo-tra oil this trntme? JL/ait'il UOCU W M?rv c trade, as they owned the BancU i-lands, and conquered all the other traders, ;/|a and destroyed the trees. To keep the price np, they once destroyed three rjsja piles of nutmegs, each of which was as big as a church. Nature did not sympathize with such meanness. The nutmeg pigeon, found in all the Indian . islands, did for the world what the || Dutch had determined should not bo done?carried those nuts, whbL are their food, into all the surrounding "-**'3 ^aab orroin til A UUU-UtliCO, OJJU uicmo gig IT ? world had the benefit. The Mormons. It is estimated that the Mormonsgain about 2,000 a Tear bv emigration. Fi*om ' *" - - ? r*i All 1840 to 1854, or in fifteen years, crossed th^ sea and the mountiins. Between 1840 and I860, 28,740 bad entered the Land of Promise. Within the next decade some 25 ( 00 more took ship from Earope to Salt Lake, and not far from the same number between 1870 and 1832, or, in all, from the first shipload in 1840, say about 85,000. . _jg|