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(i ? _ jj ! . WEEKLY EDITION. WIXNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1882. ESTABLISHED Hf 1844. j Robin Redbreast. ET JOHN G. WHITTXE2. ^ My old "Welsh neighbor over the way Crept slowly out in the son of spring, Pushed from her ears the locks of gray And listened to hear the robin siDg. . Her grandson, playing at marbles, stopped, B fcf And cruel in tport as boys will be, Tossed a stone at the bird, who hopped From bough to bough on the apple tree. "Xay," said the grandmother, "have you nc " heard My poor bad boy ! of the fiery pit And how drop by drop this merciful bird Carries the water that quenches it ? .tie onngs cool dew on his little bill And lets it fall on the soul of sin? You can see the mark on his red breast still? Of fires that scorch as he drops it in. " ITy poor Bron rhuddyn ! my breast bcrnec bird! Singing so sweetly from limb to limb, Very dear to the heart of onr Lord Is he who pities the lost like him." "Amen," I said to the beautiful myth, Sing bird of God in my heart as well, Each good thought is a drop wherewith To cool and lessen the powers of helL Prayers of love like rain drops fall, y ?. Tears of pity are cooling dew. ahu ciear w zae nearc 01 our Xiora are au s.-v-* * Who suffer like him in the good they do. jg THE QABDENER'SSTORT. F "And so you have had two wives, Robert, they inform me, and you are a mji very young man still." This was said, by way of parenthesis, to Robert Kennie, the gardener, who had, about a year before, married a Rflamstrp-Rs. VPTr wnf?Tl tn Vila r\run Vior._ pin ess. "Two wives, did you say, ma'am?'' "Yes, Robert^ and the last parcel was thrust into the basket in the same breath with the response. kSirange enough, Robert set the basket upon the floor, and the smile of honest pride and pleasure at the interest we all took in the affairs of little Jeannie passed from his face, and he replied, in a thoughtful, musing manner: "I am not sure about that same, jn 13 i* L x am. j. wuaia oe a gres i> easing to my I mind, ma'am, if you would explain things a bit to me." "Certainly, Robert, I will aid you in any way that I can, to the best of my ability; but will not Jeannie be expecting you home?" "No; Kate Randell is with her, and I think I might be made a happier man by telling a bit about poor Mary." ? He had taken a small rake unawares, it would seem, into the room, and now, having taken the chair I pointed out, " he leaned his two hands upon the handle of the implement, and, to my astonishment, I beheld large tears dropping from his eyes upon the floor. "I think, ma'am, I committed a great wrong in the matter of poor Mary, and my muaa is never quite easy aoonc it. -1 didn't think so much abont it till the . day she died, poor thing. I'm thinking, ma'am, that some women folks are just like these flowers. They must have t just the right kind of soil, and the right light, and the right heat, and everything suited to their natures, or else Lthey will die." "Why, Bobert; yon are certainly indulging a sickly fancy in talking in this wise of Mary; and as to any self reproach, it onght to be cut of the ones rtioB, for I am sore you have too good a I ^ to Wact any one. And then, too, Robert, ! sfiair -speaKTrannyi-Trof I have heard that Mary was a sickly, complaining, melancholy creature, like to make both herself and yon miserable. Now, Jennie?" 'God bless her," interrupted the i gardener, rising to an attitude of re|L spectful earnestness; "but, irdeed, ma'am, that is why I wish to tell of Mary because she v,as blamed when I was the one to bear the blame. God forbid that I should ever have neglected Mary. No, ^~ T stoYA/3 V/a* nifrhfr onil aV Knt. JJ,* J* JL V?i t-U AVi. UV4. bMv. j it wasn't the right kind of care, nor J0ka. the right one, and she grcto sickly, died. She didn't love me, ma'am, . as a woman should love, to become a m wife. "Yon see, when I first came to this country, ma'am, I was employed by old Mr. Brewster upon his grounds, and Mary * was a bit of a lass, doing small work for the ladies of the family. At first she was always smiling like, and l singing. Then she began to grow pale W z, and mute, and I?I, a fool of a boy, f " must needs think she m as pining for me. Then I began to think how wondrous lovely and meek and good she was. One day I did something tender like to her, and she burst,out crying as if her little heart would break. I put her head on fc my shoulder, and eke seemed like a p dear child to me. You must know that Mary talked the whole matter over bew fore she died, aid also seemed more like the Holy .Virgin ia spirit than anything else. ?T "A HCVCI WMAUU. iUYD ULf I'uau VUUU) i . ma'am, never; and yet I began to talk Ik abont going to the priest's. Mary was | fearful in her nature, and she did no* tell me all about herself. She was an g:? orphan, with neither kith nor kin, and, W liie one of these plants, made to cling to something else, or they cannot grow. She had a lover, to whom she had been attracted like ever since they rwertf^Snildren. She did not tell me this till I began to regard her so much . mine tbat it would have been terrible to part with her. He was to come out at a certain period, and she was to keep her faith till that time. If he did not come then, she might suppose he was dead or changed. ^ "Poor little Mary! This was the time k I first began to notice her. She moved ' about, heavy like, and grew pale, and the smallest thing set her to crying. She sometimes thought he had forgotten her; and then came the fear that he might be dead. Then when I began W to go with her wherever she went ' never talking about it?for somehow I X X T 13 X 7 w aia Hoc, yet ? comu nut ue&r w see miyqody else near her, and even was angry when Mary did not look to me lor protection?then Mary told me of her absent lover. She was gentle and loving in her nature, and had regarded me as a brother whom she might love and trust, with no thought as to the future. "Ma'am, I was nigh on't wild when I t lltwu ui wiO| oiiu x unmq ouu^ |/iuliwb that if Dermont did not come within two weeks after the time appointed, she would be my wife. Ton may think she was imiiappy, ma'am. No, she was like a sweet child, that when she saw all Hr smiling and happy abont her, she HT ooaldn't be miserable herself, even thongh things were not qnite to hex liking. Bnt I remember now, and, ma'am, I shall never,-forget how territ fied her eyes looked sometimes, and E, "hnw she tried to smile and it came faint' like, and her hands grew icy cold, and her voice stopped its singing. Bat ] wouldn't- regard these things then; and: God forgive me, often and often I wish ed Dermont would never come?for ] was selfish, and full of a blind love fo: the meek, innocent creature. "Well, the time came, bat 110 love: came with it; the two weeks were over * and the bridal made ready. "We had i few of onr own people, and the pries maSe Mary mine; and she seemed quiti gentle and content, and I though more beautiful and lovable than ever. ! don't know why it is, ma'am, that : sorrowful face should go so nigh to th heart, but so it is. ^ ""We were to have a fine treat; an: * * while the wor^-rr. prepared that in on room, the younger folks were matin perry in the other. We heard a knoc at the door, and then some one spoke Mary sprang for the door, and I ma'am'?yes, I?held the poor chili back with a grasp that left the mar] npon her arm. I held that child fr'on the heart that?" Robert's eyes were distended as i with horror at the recollection, and thei suddenly drawing in his breath, he sanl like a stricken child upon his knees and, scarcely above a whisper, utter >t ed,? "Tell me truly, ma'am, was it not m] duty then at that moment to have giver her to her lover V 'Most assuredly, Robert. God forgive you that you did not." "I did not, and ehe so beautiful, so lovable, and the priest had bound hex to me. She was mine. I could not, would not resign her to another. The very peril of losing her made me more 1 fiend than human." "What did Mary say, Robert ?" "Poor girl! she only looked into my face, so still, so sorrowful, her blue eyes without a tear, and her dear cheek white, and the light curls all away from one side to her face, just as they had fallen when I thrust her back. I thought she had stopped breathing. Then the door opened and closed softly, and the room was hushed as if for the dead. "My mother whispered how Dermont was there, and how she told him all; and that he was sitting by the door with no power to move. And then she turned to Mary, and said: " 'He only asks one kiss of ye, Mary, and then he will never trouble ye again.' " 'One, Kobert, only one,' said poor Mary, rising to co. " 'Ye are my wife, Mary, and James Dermont shall never, never kiss your cheek;' and I held her with a strong hand. Mary neither spoke nor moved." "Robert, Robert, you may well pray God to forgive you?" I stayed my speech, for the man was crushed at his own recollections. "Mary never uttered his name from that time forth. She strove to smile ; she was gentle and good ; and, oh, so nTMof. f TTAnl^ V*OT?O fnrOTJ A<3 to have met an angry glance. I wonld have given worlds to have her reproach me. Bat night and day I watched over her. I was doomed to early lose the being I had wronged, and whose patient misery was a contintial reproach to me. I neglected everything to meet her slightest wishes ; while she, as she never reproached me, so did she forbear to icaLi npon me for the slightest attention. Sne had a forlorn aspect, as a plant will have that has been left to the mercv of a storm." "Did she live long, Robert?'' The poor man started with a sharp ' One day my mother came in and told as that Dermont was dead. It was not a year from that fatal night. The third day Mary was in her grave. A blossom of beauty, aEd a bnd never unfolded to the light My mother?for women feel differently about such tilings from what we do?my mother bade me bnry Mary beside of Deimont, and I obeyed." "Robert," I said, "yon are ill. This is so unlike yon, that I cannot believe it to be real truth yon have told me." "Ay, ma'am, it seems like a terrible dream. I have tried to think it over. I : have tried to find an ezcuse for my cruelty. But poor dead Mary?it is too, too true. It was not love that I bore 1 her?it wa3 the love of power?the ten- : derness of a brother; but I could never 1 bear ooposition. I could not sacrifice : creature iS. tlusrgr?at gneFcif^Sgea ?m^ 1 whole nature." "But where is Jeannie all this time ? i Did you conceal this strange story from her?" "God forbid. I told it to her when I first found what it meant to lose another. And to-night she bade me talk with you, thinking you might see it in a different light from what I did/ "No, Robert, no; do not hide your great fault from your own eyes. Dare* fnno VAV\OTVf. TnoTt.. IU lUUii. 10 ILL Uig iCkVC) auu iv^/VMV fully therefor. Mary was no wife o.; yours iu the sight of God, and you should have yielded her to the lover, the betrothed lover, whom you defrauded by a miserable quibble?fo:: days and weeks are not to be named iu the csilendar of woes between true hearts." Robert bowed his head in silence. At length he resumed, in a tone trembling from anxiety: "Jeannie is not in the least like poor Mary, and yet now when she is moving * 1 - in cue very room wuoid ?/wj. mchj to sit so quietly, and she is silently making this small work, I have more than once shuddered to see just such a look pass over her face as Mary had. I sometimes fear I am to be punished in a still greater manner?that the four poors r?? acnnv is not atonement , enough!" | And the tears gushed from the eyes I of the darkened man, and he grasped i the chair convulsively for support. Little can be said upon subjects like these. They are viewed sccording to the enlightenment of sentiment and conscience; and only to the Great Comforter can the weary heart carry its burden. Robert's presentiments of evil, however, were unrealized. Jeannie is as blooming and more cheerful than ever ; for a house is ever prosperous where love presides at the altar; and the smiles of infancy will of themselves chase away all the spirits of evil. Mermaids. The mermaid of the ancients v>as probably identical with the dugong of the Indian ocean. It is a species of cetacea, but differs materially both from the whale and the seaL its head end heart are not unlike that of the human family. It has flippers and tail like a seal, "but unlike that animal, lives on vege table food. According to an article in the Popular Science Monthly, its usual length is twelve feet and weight is about a ton. It often comes to the surface of the water to breathe, and utters a peculiar cry which has been described as a plaintive appeal, as if a child half awakened ha'd softlj moaned and turned over to sleep again. ."Dagong fishing has become an object of thriving industry, especially at Moreton Day, Queensland, Australia. The submarine pastures on which it feeds lie at a depth of from eight to fourteen feet, where it feeds down the herbage so close as to leave a well-defined track. It is usually taken by stretching strong nets across 1 its feeding track, and in which it becomes hopelessly entangled. The flesh, 1 which the church permits to be eaten ; on fast days, is easily made by various cooking to resemble either beef, veal or bacon, and forms delicious dishes. The ' bones are close-grained and capable of 1 taking a high polish. The skin, which * * t - i * x-_ is sometimes an men ana a nan wiiu&, [ is good to make a jelly as acceptable L and beneficial to invalids as calf s-foot, ' and for leather. It is timid and in no ; vay dancerons. As a food animal, it L is probably unsurpassed. r - Statistics of the average number oi f persons who inhabit a house in the va? rious cities of Europe give an excellent * notion of the distribution of wealth, 6 Among the larger cities of Westerr 9 Europe, where the system of family t houses is dominant, the average is, o I course, small. Thus, the average foi a Bremen is 6?, for London 8, for Am e sterdam 9, for Rome 12, for Cologne 1< and for Frankfort-on-the-Main 16. Ii 3 other well-known cities the averagesar< e these: Paris 35, Trieste 32, Buda-Pest} g 33, Konigsbnrg 25, Breslau 26, Liepsi< k 36?, Berlin 58 and Vienna 57, THE UNITED STATES AHEAD. I Some Interesting Facta and Fieares fro:n j. the C'ennus Returns. i The Chicago News says: The features in Robert P. Porter's book which wili f excite the most surprise in many minds i will be the figures which place the : United States ahead of all other nations, , not only in the aggregate annual pro duct of its industry, but also ahead of any other nation m the annual product r of its manufactures (including flour), l and also in its carrying trade. Our annual product of manufactures is placed ; at S4 410,000,000, as against S'J, 790,000,000 for Great Brits.in, ?2,425.000,000 i for France, $2,135,000,000 for Germany and $1,145,000,000 for Russia. Tha statistics used in these comparisons : with other nations are taken for the United States from the census of 1880, and for the other nations fromMulhall's "Progress of Nations," Mr. Mulhall having assumed of late leading position among English statisticians. So rapid is the growth of manufactures throughout the world that Mr. Porter speaks of the "industries that now occupy 12,500,000 workmen in Europe as having been in their infancy at the period of Waterloo." He computes the number of operatives employed in manufactures in the United States at nearly three millions. The product per operative in the United States is $1,560 oer vear. atrainst SI, 120 in Great Britain, $1,100 in France and $515 in Germany. This may be partly owing to the greater skill in economizing human labor shown by American operatives, but it must also be partly due to our greater use of machinery, healthier and more vigorous mode of life, and to the fact that man who are making better profits or wages on their work will do more work?partly, perhaps, it may be owing to the fact that America has a better market in which to sell many kinds of manufactured goods, though a _ 1J J - | Luis point wuuiu uiKiupwr xi iu >veie j found that the product of manufactures were as much greater than elsewhere when measured bj quality as when measured by price. We make to-day ' one fourth of the world's iron, one-fifth of its steel, one-sixth of its textile ' fabrics (cotton goods and woolens), and 1 even one-eighth of its silk, though this, 1 we suppose, cannot include the portion j of the silk product consumed in China, which is said to be very great rela- ' tively to its export. i In the "carrying trade'' the United States are set down as earning $890,- \ 000.000, against S805.000.000 by Great . Britain, ?310,000,000 by France and 1 $345,000,000 by Germany. We assnme j on the face of these figures that the terms "carrying trade'*" as here used cover carrying by land and river as well e as by lake and sea, and domestic as 8 well as foreign. Bat if so, the statement of the "commerce" of the United Rhftfoc in t.Via sftniA khlfl shnnld ho lim- i E ited to the "foreign commerce only, bs v only under that limitation would the ? "commerce" of the United States stand at $1,505,000,000, against $3,460,000,000 13 for Great Britain, $1,660,000,000 for 5 France and $1,920,000,000 for Germany a In fact, the domestic commerce of the * United States is about twenty times as a peat as its foreign commerce. It is the 8 intensity of the demand for the invest- e ment of capital in our domestic trans- 8 portation and commerce which has e caused American capitalists so largely to transfer their capital from foreign to ? domestic trade, because the profits were ? tar higher and more certain. A notable " &%, fl i860 from Panama and other steamship P and foreign transit companies, where ? the losses were prodigious and the dividends fluctuating, to interior railway ? linos, wherein his profits, by various f1 means, were prodigions, even as compared with hiii dividends, and his losses ? nothing. Durant, Field and many ^ others made similar transfers of capital, thns showing that the subsidence of onr ocean carrying trade, instead of being an index of decline in onr national piosperity, was dne to the enormous T ? x i i increase in the activities 01 our miernsu g carrying trade, and so was due to the r almost abnormal rapidity of our national s advancement. c Another striking indication of the r changing condition of the country is c that the annual produofc of our manu- 8 factures not only exceeds the annual s product of our agriculture, but exceeds c it by the broad margin of 50 per cent, j Our manufacturing product is $4,410,- ( 000,000 a year, while that of our agri- j culture is only ?3,000,000,000 a year. , This is largely due to the greater use j that can be made of machinery and ( especially of steampower, in manufac- j tures than in agriculture. And it is doubtless out of this increased use of ( ? *i??~ nAmflr fhaf. mannfac-1 i UlUd LLltUl ii4an uai ^vnv* vmm? ? I tnring nations grow in wealth so ranch j more rapidly than agricultural. j Onr mining industries produce $360- ( 000,000 a year, as against $325,000,000 ( in Great Britain, while onr earnings in ( banking are $260,000,000, against $540,- , 000,000 in Great Britain, $170,000,000 ] in France, $140,000,C00in Germany, and , $75,000,000 in Bussia. The total annual . - ^ *- nt oil C-inr?a 1<J 1 product. UI UUT liJiuuooxxco vx utA vw j 310,395,000.000, as against ?10,130,000, 000 for Great Britain, $6,625,000,000 for . France, $6.345,000.000 for Germany, j $4,3u0,000,000 for Russia, and $3,285,- ' 000,000 for Austria. In the light of these figures 1880 may be set down as , the census year in which the United , Slates clearly and unmistakably as- , j turned the position of the first industrial power among nations. In one or two respects hsvo still a few laps to gain in our race with our competitors. Great Britain still leads us in capital, in banking, and in navigation. But, taking our general race in industry as a whole, we are now cleai'ly at the head of all nations, wnetner weai x>riu?ii I leads us in the quantity of her machine power we do not ^et learn from this volume. These points are but a few of those which occur to us on glancing at Mr. f orter's book, which is one of great and inestimable value?the best work yet done, we think, in connection with any census. Layiag Back the Ears. The expressive gestures which many animals make with their ears are matters of familiar observation. Nothing is more significant than the drawing hick and -pressuie of the ears to the head, which indicates a savage frame of mind. Mr. Darwin, in his recent work on the means of expression in men and animals, gives an ingenious explanation of this movement. He observes that it is only fonnd in the species which fight with their teeth. All the carnivora do this, and all, so far as he has observed, draw back their ears when feeling savage. This may be continnally seen with dogs fighting m earnest, or, perhaps, fighting in play. Cats, leopards, tigers and lynxes show the same peculiarity. It is very noticeable in horses, and the vicious expression it gives to 1 them is unmistakable. Bnfc cattle,; sheep or goats, though they fight, never use their teeth in fighting, ard never draw back their ears when enraged. The elephant, which fights with its tusks, does not retract its ears, but, on . the contrary, erects them when rushing i at an enemy. The connection between ' biting as a means of warfare and laying ' back the ears as a sign of danger is so r uniform 2nd the exceptions are so few that Mr. Darwin's explanation of the ) nrio-in of the habit is highly probable. w#*o? ? ? - ? - 1 He says animals which fight in this 2 way try to bite each other's ears, and rei versely, being conscious that the ear is 3 a weak point of attack, lay it back upcu the he&d to keep it out of the Tray. s. , "Pickety" in Kansas. We make the following extract fron: Mr. Charles L. Brace's article, entitled "Wclf-reared Children,''in St. Nicholas. "Piokety" is a New York street arafc who has been induced to leave the Boy^ Lodging House and " Go West." Pickety at first thought he might be sent where bears wonld hunt him, or InJ * 1. - "L 1_ * J Xl. ~ 2. 1 t 3 uians caicu mm, ana inaine womaearn very little and would lose all the sights and fun of New York, so he was almost afraid to go; but, on hearing all about it, and seeing that he would never come to much in a city, and especially hoping to get more education in the "West, and by and by to owr. a bit of land for himself, he resolved to join a party under one of the Western agents of the Children's Aid Society and go to Kansas? i."L ~ \T ? J.T wujuu iu tue i\bw j.urn uuv seems me best state in the West. We have not time nor space to follow his, fortunes there; everything was strange to him, and he made queer work of his duties in a farmer's house; but the strangest thing of all to him was to be in a kind. Christian familv. He won dered what ^iade them all so good, and he began to think he would like to be as they were, and mcst of all like the One he had heard of in the Lodging House meeting. He was-careful to write to his New York friends about his new home, and here is one of the letters received from him, after he had been in the West a few months: " , , Kansas. "Mr. Mac??Deae Sep.: I write you these few lines hoping you are in good health at present, and not forgetting the rest of the gentlemeD that I remember in the Children's Aid Society. I am fretting on splendid with my studies at school, and I send you my monthly report, but please return it, as I want to keep all of my reports. I have a good place and like my home, and am glad I came. "The first time I rode a horse bareback, he slung me over his head and made me sick for a week. I also had diphtheria but I am all right again and in good health, and can ride or gallop a horse as fast as any man in town. "When summer comes I will learn to plow and sow, and do farmer's work, I will get good wages out here. It is a nice country, for there is no Indians, or bears, or :>ther wild animals-- ceptprairie-wolves, md you can scare them with anything. "If any boy wants a good home, he ;an come here and have plenty of fan. [ have fan with the mules, horses, pigs md dogs. No pegging stones at ragpickers or tripping up men or tramps in he Bowery or City Hall park, "Tell 'Banty' I send him my best reipects. Tell him it is from 'Pickety,' : md he will know me. "Yours truly, ." i He learned his farm-work fast and oon made himself very useful; the next ' pinter ho went to school again, and be- ; ame a verv srood scholar. He knew < low to make money, too; when a far- ! tier gave him a calf, or a lamb, or a < heep, he took good care of it, and by ] nd by sold it, and bought other stock ' pith the proceeds, and in this way, after j few y?ars, he had saved a considerable i um. With this he bought some "Gov- s rnment land," on which he built a 1 nanty; ana so ne oegan to oe a "land- 1 d proprietor." i He was do longer "Pickety," but had 1 Christian name, and for his last name t e took that of the kind people to whom e felt like a son. He had acquired a lir education, too; and the neighbors han,H as they called mm. ne mra ^ uite lost his "wolfish nature by this < imo, and now had a new one, which I ad come to him from the Good Being i iO had heard of in the Lodging House, 1 hrough the civilizing. Christian influ- < nee that had been thrown around him. 1 ind here we will leave him,?a thriving j armer on his own land. J Malibran iu New York. I Maria Garcia was the most accom- , vocalist, the most dramatic . inger, in all respects the most gifted cmsical artist, of modern days ; and he had such beauty of person and tharm of manner that she became the ; uost supreme of prima donnas?a sort >f women who from their first appearance have Deen accustomed to see the rorld at their feet. She was the idol >f society in New York, and was hardly ess admired and beloved by the geniral public. Such a creature had not )een seen before for half a century, and vas not to be seen again for quite as loner. Her voice was a contralto which ?nabled her to sing with equal ease the nusic of "Semiramide" and "Areace." As an actress she was made by nature equally mispress of the grand, the paretic, and the gay. Her face was, peraaps, not in all points regularly beautiful ; but it was full of beauties, each iminent in its land, and had an everinduring, always-varying charm. Her lark, bright ayes fascinated all on whom their brilliant glances fell, and by her smile, which revealed brilliant md beautifullv-ahaped teeth, not only lil men, but even all women, seem to have been carried captive. Her figure was so exquisitely beautiful in all points that it was somewhat extravagantly said that she might be studied for an improvement upon the Venus de' Medici. The poise of her daintilyshaped head upon her shoulders was an appeal to admiration, and her graceful carriage Tvould have been dignified had she been a little taller. To : power of varied expression in her face there seems to have been no limit; but that most natural to it, and most commonly seen upon it, was a fascinating radia tion 01 Happiness irum uw uwu ouu w all within her influence. Nor did her manner and her look belie her nature. According to all evidence, she was as good aa she was beautiful and fascinating?"as good as an angel." There is no record of any other such supremacy, personal, vocal, and dramatic, except in the great G&brielle, who turned the head and won the heart of all Europe three-quarters of a century before her ; and Gabrielle was far below her moral It 11-1- T lyv and m aii icat/ manes wvmzu.? uiuou admirable and lovable. It is greatly noteworthy tbat the career of such a woman as this should bs.ve been really begun and shaped in New York, the New York of 1825. Bnt so it was. In New York she received the first recognition cf her talents ; in New York she first felt the glow of triumph, and was conscious of the poseessesion of sustained power. In New York, too, she passed from msidenhood to wifehood, and acqmrea tno name uy which, notwitstanding a second marriage, she was afterward always known, and will be known while the world reads the history of music. She had not been long npon the stage of the Park Theater when M. Francois Eugen9 Malibran, a French merchant of New York, proposed marriage to her. He was fifty years of age, bhe seventeen ; but she was willing, and after a brief opposition on the part of her father she became Madame Malibran in March, 1826?only four months after her ap o?/3 in +Vin rmrlot. nf Vior iiCi c, c*u.v*. *? v. ? w*. operatic and social success?[Century Magazine. Inventions Needed. A writer on cranberry culture, in the ,'Raral New Yorker, says that there is much needed a machine for separating the rotten and frozen cranberries from the sound in preparing them for the market. A machine of this kind that will do perfect work is not known. A machine" for harvesting the berries n also greatly needed. ?1?IMM??^?1?I In an Insane Asylum. i One Samnel Patton, of Chatsworth, [ 111., makes affidavit to, the trnth of a long statement which he sends to the i Chicago Inter-Ocean, setting forth his I experiences in the insane asylums at Jacksonville and Kankakee, in that i state. He says he was unjustly deprived of his liberty. Among the stories he tells are the following: I saw a man in the Jacksonville asylum ^confined in a cage that prevented him from setting up, except wnen it was opened 10 enaoie him to eat bis meals. He was there, apparently, a strong, healthy man, and seemed to be civil and quiet, but when I last sa?v him, three weeks ago, he was a raving maniac. And when taken from his cage and thrown by force into the bath tub, to take his weekly bath, I saw large sores on his back, cansed by lying constantly in one position, and his body was. reduced almost to a skeleton. Very few patients are allowed outside of the building, and I have not observed a single instance since I came here in which a patient inside of it has improved; but nearly all of them seem homesick and tired of confinement. And new patients coming in contact with those who have been confin?id here for years lose all hope of ever ge#s.^g out, and, being cat off from communication with their friends and the world outside, soon sink into a state of despair that wonld have a tendency, to injure the best intellects. Daring the last year I was there the men were sometimes taken oat into a little yard, three of which, abont 100 feet square, had been, inclosed with a fence about ten feet high, made cf matched flooring. When in the wardroom the men were often severely pun ished for leaving their seats, and I have often seen them jerked from them and knocked down, when I conld see no excuse for it whatever, and stamped in the face by the attendants, who always employed the heels of their boots for that purpose, until the floor aronnd them was smeaied with blood, when the hopeless victim would be taken to his room and locked in. This was of frequent occurrence, and I was once threatened with the ss.me kind of treatment myself for looking at them while engaged in an outrage of this kind. After being compelleid to sit among lunatics two years anil seven months, Trif.hnnf qr\rt hnrta nf T I II4WJ.IVUU v* .*VAVM<.-V) TTUV/1U A was seldom allowed to speak or leave my seat, tinder penally of such treatment as I have described, though I sometimes received nearly as bad, anyway, I was transferred-io the asylum *t Kankakee. This occurred on the 10 th of August, 1881, and Ijhad only been at < Kankakee a few days when one of the < attendants asked me to take a walk with ] him. "When I was jmt into the Jack- ] scnville asylum I weighed 150 pounds, ] but when transferred to Kankakee my \ weight had been reduced to 141 pounds, < and I had become so enervated that I i sould only endure slight exercise. But ( [ was soon after allowed to go where I I chose. I C3n find no fault with the management of the Kankakee asylum, rhe patients are treated with courtesy, md when willing and trustworthy are allowed to do work outside or walk ? a"hrmf. AT<^vAiea qt>/1 mnaf fVtrx v\o- 1 4K/UUV AVi. WAVAUIOV) AUVWV VA UUU ?/CM ^ ;ients who were removed from Jackson sdlle when I was are greatly improved, ] showing tha advantage of good treat- j nent over hopeless imprisonment and ' ijranny. -j' | Americai.it is. 1 Pearls are found. rrY country, and * j-tXt^TAnr am tTCTirj-i . i , ;ome from the Gulf of California, ; :hough about ?3,000 worth come from 1 ;he fresh-witer musnels, all over the * Union, especially from the Miami river, 1 3hio. A Now York reporter having in- ' erviewed I\Ir.Andrews, the head of the * jewel department of a New York house, | learned from lxim the following facts: ' The California pearls are as fine as ; - '"v? x_*J ?nvA trolnn/^ oo nij unsntti.i pcuiiS) 24u^ aiu uha\JSA HU highly. Tie fresh-water pearls are ' almost all small, but brilliant and some- 1 what rosy in tint. About half the Cali- 1 fornia pearls are blaci, and command a better price than white pearls. Some years ago about eighty per centum of | California j>earls were black, the proportion having diminished rapidly ! during the last ten yeirs The biggest pearl ever found in this country wan the celebrated one found 1 about tweu'iy years ago in a New Jersey pond awcl sold to the then Empress Eagenie. Of late many small ana almost worthless pearls hare been received from Texas farmers, who have an exaggerated notion of their value. The firm buy them more as a 'matter of encouragement to the pearl-hunters than anything else. Some day these hunters may discover valuable gems, and their custom may be worth something, Mr. Andrew showed the reporter a handful of these small, pink, irregular-shaped pearls, the majority of them not larger than a pin-head. The larger they are the more defective they are in shape and color. Home 01 me larger ones might be mistaken for bits of bone polished L.p. The only use to which they can ba pnt is for replacing lost pearis in old jewelry of no great valne, which is sent for :repair. Sometimes they can be cut into thin pieces, and a small piece of fair pearl can be obtained for enameling. rpu,* finnat cfinner nf rvAarls ever J. lid UUVOU -V- J. _ brought to this country is now in possession of the firm. It consists of sixty pearls, the largest being about the size of a wren's eng. Every pearl is perfectly round and pnre in color, and not one is valued at less than 8500. While examining this string, the reporter happened to remark that he could not tell the difference between that string of enormous value and one of imitation pearls. "No more can any one," said Mr. Andrews, "until they are handled. The best,experts cannot tell a good imitation pearl from the real without touching it. The weight is deficient in imitation pearls, and the surface is different to an experienced hand. They can only be distinguished by touch and weight. But every pearl in a ball-room might be false without the best expert in the trade suspecting it." Johnny's Composition. The trustees of a school once offered a r.ri7:c- tn the scholars in it for the best composition. All the boys were compelled to write, and were allowed to choose their own subjects. One boy declared that he could not do it. He could not think of anything to write about. Nevertheless, he was obliged to become one of the unwilling competitors. When the day of trial came, he read his composition or rather part of it, for he was not permitted to read it all. He began: "My composition is about spring. Spring will soon be 1 * f ^ " T 0 "DAnnnon nere. nuw UU X auvtt uuau i jL;^vauo^ it came last year, and.the year before that and that the year before that. The grass will soon grow green, and the trees pnt forth leave?. How do I know that ? Because the gras3 grew green, and the trees pnt forth leaves last year, ana the year before that. And the little lambs will come., and they'll gambol and play and have a good time. How do I know that ? Because 'the little lambs gamboled last year, and the year before "* *1 1? x? i m ) that, ana tne yearoeiore mat. - anai i will do, Johnny," interrupted a trnstee, ; tired of the iteration, and Johnny l marched from tb.e stage to his seat, rei peating: "And the year before that, ; and the year before that." The anii. ence screamed with laughter, bni i Johnny's composition did not gain the prize, V } \ I A Horrible Beast in a Sewer, One of the most remarkable incidents , that has jet come to light?or rather to i .darkness?in North St. Louis is recorded, and although the hero in the case , escaped with his life, he is not particularly anxious to go on any more exploring expeditions, even when they are in the interests of home comforts and re T> *ii T~? l i- 11 qu-ireuiouts. jdiiiy rrani js a wenknown meat-shop keeper doing business on Ninth streeN near St. Louis avenue. Be resides at Elliot and Sullivan avenues, and the Rocky > Branch sewer carries away the ofial and refuse of tbe locality. For some time Mr. Prant has had trouble with his sewerage, and the other afternoon he took his jounger brother with him tq investigate matters. The sewer is a natural one, and large enough to allow a wagon with a double team to drive throu/h it. From the surface the depth is something over twenty feet, . and a rope and a ladder was bronght into requisition. Mr. Prant descended through the man-hole, which was barely large enough to allow of his descent. He had scarcely entered the sewer when he heard a rushing tnrough the rushing stream cf water and offal, which sounded as one might imagine the breaking out of a menagerie, and by the uncertain light he saw plunging toward him a monster dog, with eyes bloodshot and emitting sparks of phosphorescent fire. The animal was about two and a half feet high, and was heavy i- - ? U - t. . 31 "1 ?-- "At eec, 01 tee Diooanounc. species, wiin a crossing of mongrel blood, and prob- i ably weighed as znnch as a deer ' or a colt. He was howling i madly, and his white, gleaming i fangs were bared in a manner which 1 evidently meant business. The beast ] was covered with short white and black \ hair, and was endowed with other characteristics which were peculiarly inter- t esting and worthy of research. Mr. ( Prant, however, remembered an import- 1 ant end of the ladder, and, after break- 1 ing the paralysis of fear, he moved np c the rungs as quickly as possible, and y not a moment too soon, leaving the 1 beast howling fiercely at foot, and \ expressing its rage in canine shrieks, c ji*? mi? nuiw tvwciwiijf muun-uuruiiug. Jiue i younger Prant heard the noise below, f and felt the ladder shaking violentlj, i and his heart stood still until t his brother appeared in da?- v light, looking blanched and agitated, h Mr. Prant soon got back to terra firmaand postponed investigations of that e nature. Mr. J. Kurtzelom, a gentle- s man who is particularly well posted in d matters in that locality^ expressed his v opinion that the dog must have been ti carried into the sewer when a pup, and t] had lived there all its life. It was too t] large even to get in through any man- m iole, and as for its getting out at any t] iime, that is simply absurd. The only tl is hv wav nf t.Tifi riwr +.Via am", nal would be drowned instantly if he w jver attempted to get out that way.? a; St. Louis Post-Dispatch. fc .st A Woman Turning into a Man. The Troy Time3 says: Another u itrange case of metamorphosis, in j ?hich a woman was turned into a man. ^ rhe person referred to is described as laving been a "sweet little cherub" in E nfancy and childhood, and grew up to jj De a handsome young lady. Her name w yas Eosa Fear, and she was quite a ^ jelle in the neighborhood in which she 01 ived, in Erie county, not far from Buf- ^ alo, and was much courted and ailv. T5?ao f 1 r? el^A /innort/'l f a <vA ? lWtnT w ng, the family in which she lived was ^ istonished to find her missing, together ^ p?ith a snit of male garments, while her a] )wn wardrobe was left behind. A let- ? :er addressed to her friends tcld them ? ;hat the writer had gone away; that it would be useless to follow her; that e* her life had become unbearable; that 1 within a year natnre had worked a j* complete metamorphosis, nnseiing her, md making it necessary for her to change her home and raiment. Here a. is the sequel: ^ A. moDth passed away and a letter ]( came in Eosa's fine hand. It informed j, the family that the writer was well and ' was working as a farm hand in Ohio, _ " ? -u us u but tne stamp on tne letter wouiu givo Q ro clew to her address. Two years ^ elapsed, and one morning a fine-looking young man, with sun-burned face, magnificent beard and heavy, dark mustache, stood at the gate of the Fear homestead. "Do you not know me, s Mary?" he said to the young lady who E came out to ascertain his business, j The tones were deep and manly, and ? there was a familiar note in the stran- c ger's voice. "It is Eosa!" said the girl, j and the next moment the spectators of ? that scene were regaled with the sight ] of Miss Mary Fear clasped in the arms j nf a Toniiff fellow, eivinsr back as many . kisses on his mustache as he showered a upon her uplifted face. "Not Rosa, ^ but Charles Fear now," said the whilom g housemaid, and then he told them how, ( after that wonderful change, he had j hired out as a male help; that he had j made a little money and had come home j to live and work on the farm. Mr ? Charles runs that farm to-day, and j Ripley has no citizen held in higher ] estimation than he. Since his return : he has twice been appointed a teacher , in the pnbiic school?, and he can be , seen on the Fear farm every day of the ] week. 1 The facts are vouched for by the ] most reliable residents, who are fa- miliar with Fear's history. Lightening His Work. i A certain laborer attending a plas*?-nraa on the LCXCX TTUW 0 third story of a honse fotind that he 1 had much to do; for, work as hard as he could, the plaster-board was alwajs empty and the plasterer waiting when he got tip. At last he hit npon a novel way of lightening his labor. He purchased three cents' worth of hickory i nnts, and, pntting a few among the mortar in the hod, he emptied it on the board. The plasterer, seeing a nut i sticking among the lime as he was lay-1 inar it on the wall, picked it out, and, j cleaning it with his apron, cracked the she)l and ate the kernel. Repetition of this several times took up so muNh of his time that when the hodman time np with the next hod very little of the former one had been nsed. Tha hodman put in a few more whenever he was falling behind, and at night told his boss if he would add a quarter a day to his wages he would keep any two plasterers going. Geographical. On what part of the map do yon look for the North ? On the cold side, of conrsc. What are the meridian circles ? The marks left on the ice by a new j beginner on skates. Try it once and | be convinced. What are parallels of latitude ? Compromising with official embezzlers. Plenty of latitnde and heaps of -n.niialc in t.Viis rnnntrv. What does the term climate signify ? J About fourteen different sorts of weather mixed together and ladled out in quantities to suit. How many zones are there ? Dead loads. You can't throw a brickbat without knocking one over. " They are usually tame this year. Why is the climate not in the torrid zoue ? Built that way to spite plnmber3 p.Dd ' ice dealers. > When duty eeenis to clash, * 'the moral law always has the right of way." The Cruelly of the Cuckoo. The cuckoo leads a wandering life, building no nest, and attaching itself to no particular locality. It shows no hostility toward birds of another kind and little affection for those of its own. If two males meet in the course of their wandering, they frequently fight with ! infnnpo ^V* rvon oivt/vl a ij-i uc-uoo ouimuoiiijj uiiu inccc; oju^ic combats account 110 doubt for the belief formerly entertained that the cuckoo was the only hawk that preyed on its own kind. It does not pair, and it is unusual to see even a male and a female together. It is, however, frequently accompanied by a small bird of another kind. There does not appear to be any mt?macy or any hostility between the ill-matched pair. The larger bird flies first; tbe lesser one, as if spell-bound, follows it. If the cuckoo perchea on a tree, tbe other posts itself crt another hard by or on another branch of the same. If tbe cackoo alights on the ground, the other is by its side. No sooner does the young bird see the day than he proceeds to secnre for himself the whole space of the nest and the whole attention of his foster parents, by insinuating himself under the other young uuuv auu our cggo wiuull m a J jrumuiii unmatched, and hurling them over the edge of the nest, where they are leic to perish. The singularity of it3 shape is well adapted for these purposes; for, different from other newly-hatched I birds, its back from tha shoulders downward is very broad, wiih a considerable depression in the middle. This depression seems formed by nature for the design of giving a more 3ecure lodgment to an egg or a young bird when the young cuckoo is employed in removing either of them from ;ne nest. A young cuckoo was hatched with ;hree young titlarks on the 6th of June. Dn the afternoon of the 10th two of the ;itlarks were found lying dead at the Dottom of the ditch. The other had iisappeared. Subsequently this cuckoo vas removed and placed in another titark's nest nearer home, for more conrenient observation. On the following lay the cnefeoo was found covered by he old titlark with outstretched wings rom a very heavy shower of rain, while ler own young ones had in the meanime been expelled by the cuckoo, and rere lying lifeless within two inches of ler nest. An eye-witness of the crime thus decribes the murder: "The cuckoo traggled about till it got its back uner one of its nestling companions, rhen it climbed backward, directl? up be open side of the nest, and hitched ; tie bird from its back on the edge. It j ien stood quite upright on its legs, i, 'hich were straddled wide apart, with j. ae claws firmly fixed half-way down j ie inside of the ne3fc, among the in j ;rlacing fibres of which the neet was |, 'oven; and stretching it wings apart j 1 ad backward it elbowed its victim :: lirly over the margin so far that it j' :ruggles took it down the bank. After I lis the cuckoo stood a minute or two ; :eling back with its wings, as if to J take sure that the little thing was fairf overboard, and then ^subsided into t le bottom of the nest. As it was get- , ng late, and the cuckoo did not im- j Lediately set to work on the other nest- { ng, I replaced the ejected one, and j1 ent home. On returning nest day, ; ( oth nestlings were found dead and cold, j, it of the nest. I replaced one of * ^ lem, but the cuckoo made no effort to , 3fc under and eject it, bnt settled itself } Ihe tor j}f it._ But what . t a feather, or even a hihr ol future p iathers; its eyes were not yet opened, ad its neck seemed too weak to sup ort the weight of its head. Its com- ! anions bad well-developed quills on ( le wiags and buck, and had bright res pariialiy open; yet they seemed uite helpless under the manipulations f the cacsoo, which looked a much , 5ss developed creature. The cuckoo's jgs, however, seemed very muscular; nd it appeared to feel about wih its 'irigs, which were absolutely featherjss, as with hands. The most singu*r thing of all was the direct purpose rith which the blind little monster lade for the open side of the nest, the | nly part where it conid throw its bur- j .en down the bank.' Effect of a Liglitninsr Stroke. The Arizona teamster who survived a troke of lightning which killed his two aules in their tracks last August has ast returned by easy stages to his old tome in Illinois. A pair of mules which annot kick an electric bolt right back nto its native cloud are worthy of no espect or sympathy, but the man who ived to describe such an expert-ice 3 entitled to pity and esteem. 'The current touched his head jast ,bove the right temple," says a Western )aper, "divesting that side 01 ins neaa ind face of all flesh. Its course whs lown the neck to the shoulder, where t divided; darting from the shoulder t reached the waist, where it encircled ;he entire body, nearly destroying the ibdomen and tearing off the flesh from he right hip in a frightful manner Bat this destructive element had lot yet spent it3 icrce. ai, [?ent coursing down the right leg with slight damage until it reached the ankle, when it laid the bones absolutely bare. He was picked up about five hours afterward in an unconscious state. The work of snppljicg the missing flesh confronted the physicians, and this was done by grafting flesh from the bodies of other men. It is tbe opinion of his physician that he will altimately recover the use of his limbs sufficiently to go about alone." Bamboo for Oregon. The American consul-general at Shanghai has recently sent twenty boxes of bamboo cuttings for transplanting in Oregon. He writes to the state department that in the Chinese empire, south of the Yang-tze, about sixty varieties of bamboo are said to grow, although five or six furnish the principal materials used. At Foochow and Swatow the 1 --? ?- ?flf+Tr fcaf Tiiorh large size gru wo iuilj w and six or seven inches in diameter; on the Island of Formoso it is fonnd even larger. The bamboo serves at least five hundred different purposes in China. The roots are carved into images, lantern handles and canes; the tapering culms are used for every conceivable place where poles and ribs can be put; the leaves are worked into thatcbes, umbrellas and screens; cut into splints, the wood is woven into baskets, plaited into awnings, and twisted into cables; the shavings stuff oillows; other parts supply chop sticks for eating. beds for sleeping, brooms for sweeping, pipes for smoking, fuel for cooking, skewers for the hair, paper for writing, rods for whipping, tables to eat on, bnckets for water drawing, and the tender shoots are highly esteemed as a vegetable to be eaten. The consul-general urges the naturalizing of the bamboo in the Southern S'ates and on the Pacific coast. " a-TTdt for man. not men i for institutions; and the ultimate te&l of an? system of politics, or body ol opinions, or form of belief, is tbe effect j produced cn the conduct and conditior j of the people who live and die undei 1 them. I There's a young ludy who follows tl < I fashion so cicsely that she will not c a 1 oysters unless they are scalloped. IIASH-HEESH EATERS. 1 How They Submit Themselves to Its Effect 1 aud tlie Iiesa!?. "Is there any habit equivalent to the . eating and smoking of opium?" the writer inquired of 3Ir. Jomacmahn, professor of chemistry, who was seated in bis private laboratory. "Yes," replied the professor, thought* felly, as he stroked his side whiskers. "There are those who eat hasheesh." ''Is that habitual?" j "Certain!/," was tiie rejoinder. "But it is not common in tilis country, though I personally know of two or three mc-n who ate hasneesh eaters." "Are the cHecic aiid the results the same as those of opium?' "No?not exactly," replied the profesfer. "The effects are generally pleas anier and the results less harmful. A man under the influence of hasheesh is jost as happy as it is possible for a man to be, or, perhaps, just the opposite extreme. The hasheesh is a preparation of Indian bemp." "Bat does not the hemp of other European countries, or even that raised in America, have the same properties?" "No," said the professor, emphatically, '-they do not. In the Northern I&tifc-'i'ied biw ntjTlip jji&iii' g?uwa nimuai entirely to the fibre, and is a great resource for mats aad cordage. In the South?oi rather lulia, however?the plant loses its fibrous texture, but se' cretes, in quantities equal to one-third j of its bulk, an opaque and greenish resin. Hasheesh is obtained by boiling the adhesive parts of the plant in alcohol, which is afterwards distilled off, leaving a resinous extract with a somewhat fragrant odor and a bitterish, acrid taste. The stimulant and narcotic of the Indian hemp has been known in the early times. It was employed as an anesthetic as far back as A. D. 220. At < present it is employed in the Eastern i countries as an anodyne and narcotic, < and to affect the mental functions. It ! It is considered safer than opium, bel i. i -- ?:i lauoaua a.;, u siuiuac iciucwcoj aa m < does not check the secretions of or im- ] pair the digestion. It has teen known by several expressive names?for in- 1 stance, 'Causer o 1 reeling gait,' 'laugh- 1 ter-mover,' and various others. It Is \ generally beliered to have been the < nepenthe of the ancients." i "How is the drag taken?" "It is 1 sometimes taken in its crude state as it 1 comes from the stalk. Then it is man- f nfactured into a conserve with classified < butter, honey r,cd spices. The dried j plant is also smoked in pipes, or chew- t ed. Again, it is taken in the form of a pill, in Arabia, Persia, Syria has- s neesli saloons are 111 comparison as com- c mon as the liqnor saloons in this conn- } :ry. The interiors of the saloons are c lot unlike the concert saloon? of Jf T? ^ fork. The walls and ceiling are gorgef- c ously paintnd to represent picturesque r scenes in Oriental type. They are hor- I rible daubs, however; yet to the has- f lieesh eater, or smoker, they grow gi- I zantic in proportion, and appear to be c genuine scenes of rare beanty. A few string instruments furnish the music, md an occasional story-teller--the genaine story-teller of the E^st?endeavors :o carry his listeners through a land of I wonders; and he usually succeeds, for a ais listeners, under the influence of the o Irug, with a little assistance, will allow e Via *'Trt3<rm*t?rm tn n.irrv them to the t extreme. The twang of the musical in- n struments, even though shuck in accoid, t! Till reverberate through the saloon j frith a sweetness uneqnaled by any t siisic listened to in a sober state. I 1 gisfEs^iaw''maerthe ".v ' The effect upon different people is L is various as that of alcohol; with some I it merely produces stupor, while others t experience a mental ecstasy. Alcohol f enlivens, saddens, excites, depresses, f fills with tenderness, or nrges to brntal- f ity, imparts vigor and activity, or nau- f seates and weakens, while on tne otner e band hashe _-sh gives rise to still greater ? phenomena. The first sensation ex- < periencea bj the eater is sometimes a ( pain in his head. The top of his skull 3 seems to move up and down like the 1 cover of a cofToe-pot when standing on the stove. After that sensation has j passed away lie begiii3 to have visions t of no ordinary kind. For a time he is 1 apparently transformed into another be- i iug, and has taken Sight to another i world. Ee becomes exceedingly happy, i and his visions are of a p easant nature, j Occasionally he will burst out into fits ! Jwi'cforrnc innchter. with no idea of ] vyi wuik>i,L*vwv what lie is laughing at, except that every thing has assumed a ludicrous appearance. Time lengthens, and a i minute seems like hours; space expands, : 2nd a distance of ten feet seems a long way?a tiresome journey. 'What ^decided effect will the drug have upon a pei son?" "Hasheesh is always characterized by the most remarkable phenomena, both spiritual and physical. Experiments made by eminent medical men at Calcutta some forty years ago proved that it was capable" of producing ordinary nr even of trance. 5 ' Vi V-WWiV ^/..y j w- ? . ? -Constant use of th3 drug causes imbecility." "Can a hasheesh eater be detected by appearances 9'' the wri'er inquired. "Yes,".replied the professor, "by the extreme pallor of the person's face, or by a peculiarity in his walk." "But what seriou3 physical results will constant use of the drug have ?" ' Like many other pleasure-producing habits, it is injurious. For a momentary happiness a men may lose his health j and sacrifice many years oc his life, i ~v,ni vniii ia ncif. /wnfined entirely to hasheesh eating alone, but excess of any pleasure that requires a mental or physical effort will lead to the same results." 'Is it ever used as a narcotic in preference to opinm and timilar drugs?" "Yes. it has been successfully used in many coses," replied the professor. "For iaitance, in cases of amputation or other surgical operations that would necessarily be painful to the patient." "Is there any effectual antidote for nasiiecsn i znc wrxicz uuuuj "There is no effectual antidote. The jnice of a lemon will allay the sensations somewhat, bnt will not restore the person to his normal state," concluded the professor.?[Brooklyn Eagle. Origin of the Names of Fabrics. Many kinds of dry goods possess old English names, which are used, more or less corrupted, throughout the world. The origin cf these old names are given by Sir Gocr~e Birdwood as follows: Damask is frr,m the city of Damascus, * /lall'/tA satin iroui /^j?vcowuj m y^inuaj vo^iw from Calcutta ir-nd muslin from Mosul. Bncbiazn derived its name from Bochara; fustiun comes from Fostat, a city of the Middle Ages, from which the modern C.:iro is descended. Taffeta and tabby from a street in Bagdad. 1 Cambric is from Cambrai. Gauze has 1 its cucie from Gaza; baize from B3jae, dimity from Damietta and jeans from Jaen. Drugge t is derived from a city in i Ireland?Droghcda. Duck, from which Tucker street, in Bristol, is named, comes from Torq;ie, in Normandy. Diaper is not jrom D'Ypres, but from the Greek diaspron?figured. Velvet i is from tho Italian vellnte?wolly ~~ ** * * *? f t \ i t {Latin, veiius?a Liuie or pen.; onawi t is the Sanserif sala?floor, for shawls ^ere first used as ca:pets and tapestry. Bandanna is frcm an Indian word meaning to bind or lie, becaufe they 3 are tied in kncts before djinjj. Chintz t i comes from the Hindoo word chett. 1 Delaine is the Trench of wool. BACCABAT. The Latest Fashion in Card Gambling1 which is Fashionable in New York. In certain circles in New York, says a city paper, baccarat has to some extent taken the plSce of poker. There is no 3 J ?1?1 ? ?' A/I zero ana uuuluo zexv oo xu iuuioiuc, um xo there the "splits" of faro. The bankerhas . _ absolutely nothing in liis favor except the "guessing" which his antagonist has to | constantly perform. There ie a general [ belief that it is impossible to cheat at baccarat, but this is quite a mistake^ although in clubs and gambling places the possibility of cheating is reduced to a minimum, by the use of cards with monograms upon them. Baccarat is ?1 Va??? aUVm vrnllrk eu LU 11CB JLV1& uuua mvu iviu packs of cards, and before dealing these packs are carefally shuffled by the dealer. When the play begins, the banker gives one card to the right, one to the left, and one to himself, and then repeats the operation; court*cards and tens count as zero, and if in his two cards he can get nine, he wins all the stakes placed upon the cards given to the players on the right and left. The cheating banker puts all the packs before him, with their backs_to himself and theif faces to the players. Suppose that there is * three facing the players; the confederate notes this as the "bilker" moves it to the top of the packs, and so soon as a six appears at the bottom of the pack the confederate makes a sign to the "banker,'' who at once moves it to the top of the packs, taking care to place two cards above it When he deals, his own two cards are consequently six and three, making nine. He thus arranges a series of consecutive conps which he is certain to win* The cards are then handed to be cut, and by a trick which consists of pinching some cards and slipping others, which, although impossible to explain, is not difficult in practice, ne anrmw *ne cut* leaving his series at the top of the pack, where he had placed it. An adroit cheat ?an arrange a series without any very lengthy shuffling. The player cheats the banker in this way: He puts a nine np his sleeve; when he is given two cards, he takes :he chance of one of them being a ten )r a court card. Supposing that he gets > ten and a three, he takes the cards up, ;hrows the three up his sleeve, and wrings from it the nine; then he exhibits i ten and a nine, and thus wins. Any )ne with very small practice as a conurer can do this without fear of detecion. Quite recently an officer of the British irmy was detected in cheating at baciarat at the Eoast Club. He was in the labit of putting a five-pound note just rat side the line on which the stakes rere placed. If his card lost, he withtr?w the note; if it won, he pushed the tote wi&in the line. The club expelled iim, as dfii another club of which he pas a membe*,- and he killed himself, lis previous losses baccarat had been onsiderable. / All About Tornadoes. General William B. Hazen, Chief Jnited States Signal Officer, is paying good deal of attention to the subject f tornadoes. There is now in press an 1oVu?o4fl nM^Aonnnal natur wWftli rtfltl. ^VAVWIWUIM n ?- ? aim a tabulated statement of 600 torado es and some generalizations from heir facts. The 600 storms cover a eriod of eighty-saven years and the rhola conntry. Their examination eads to the conclusion that tornadoes ccur most frequently is the ^th of :as Lad fifty-four from, lkl4 fcfl" Iwwiv- ? , Missouri has had forty-four from 1814 o 1881; New York has had thirty-five rom 1831 to 1881; Georgia thirty-thiee rom 1804 to 1881; Iowa thirty-one rom 1854 to 1881; Ohio twenty-eight isos fn iftfil: Indiana twenty IViU AVMV m even from 1854 to 1881. The States ind Territories that haye had only one ?ach from 1794 to 1881 are Colorado, California, Indian Territory, Nevada, STcw Mexico, Montana, Rhode Island, {Vest "Virginia and Wyoming. The storms occur most frequently from ive to six in the afternoon, although :here is no hour of the day that has 3een entirely free from them. The iverage width of the path of destruction is 1,085 feet, and the* storm clouds run fflth a velocity of from twebe to sixty miles. The wind within the vortex 3ometimes attains a velocity of eight hundred miles an hour, the average relocity being three hurdred and ninetytwo miles. Among the most valuable suggestions of the paper are those with reference to the pncnlianty oi ujo movements of tornado clouds, containing rules for arriving at their violence; A tornado clond always has a center, and it always moves forward from west to east. It may, however, sway from side to side in its progressive movement. Changes in motion are sometimes very sudden. In tho event of a sudden change the observer who is east or sonth of east of the storm shonld move quickly to the sonth. If he is northeast he shonld move to the north. If within a short distance of the clouds the observer RhnnM ran east, bearing to the south. This indicates the character of the directions which have been given for the avoidance of the disastrous effect of storms. VjSSj A Hint for Summer. The tattie in India, says Chambers' Journal, is a large curved or sloping screen, which accurately fits into each door or window facing the west, and is made of the roots of the khus-khus grass (Andropogon muricatus), which singularly combines strength and porosity with the most delicious and refresh ing fragrance. These screens are aoout an inch in thickness, and, during the hot and dry west wind, are saturated from outside with water, which imme- . b* diately commences evaporating under the fierceness of the blast, and as evaporation always implies cold, the wind which, in the veranda, would raise the thermometer to 120 degrees Fahrenheit, *-A- xr- - 1??oaworfr.firp IYP passes lnro mo hullo*? au uv*_ ___ eighty degrees, laden with a delicious fragrance. While tatiies are in working order all other cooling appliances are unnecessary. In the neighborhood of G walior and Jhansi there is another form of tattie, A small, creeping, thorny variety of the ber (Zizyphus jujuba) is largely found in the jungles; this is collected and dried, and at the proper time the whole west veranda is inclosed with thorny walls nine to ten inches thick, and these being saturated from the out~ " J ^ side, all doors are tnrown open, ?uu a delightful temperature is secured. Tatties are of no use during the easterly wind, which ushers in and accompanies the rains; laden with moisture, it is a damp wind, and therefore retards evaporation. s _ ri/stmanv Vim twenty-three steel works with eighty converters and a yearly production of nearly one million tons. England, with the same number of work 8, produces one million four hun dred and sixty-one thousand tons, Asutria turns out from twelve steel works three hundred and fifty thousand tons, France from seven works three hundred and sixty thousand tons, Bussia from "? T-~ ??? Vnnrthousand toes, Jive wurAs Sweden eighty thousand, and the United States one million fire hundred The giiading of leaf sumac in Vir; cinia, amounting in 1881 to abouS eight M I thousand {oas, repreeented aboT^ |S