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WEEKLY EDITION. ^ WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1882. ESTABLISHED IN 1844. Perseverance. One step and then another, And the longest -walk is en-led ; One stitch and then another, ^ And the largest rent is mended ; One brick upon another, And the highest wall is made; One flake upon another, And the deepest snow is laid. ^ So the little coral workers, By their slow and constant motion, BMr' * Have buiit tho;e pretty islands In the distant dark-blue ocean ; Alld the noblest 1111 Man's -wisdom hath conceived, By oft-repeated effort Have been patiently achieved. TheD do not look disheartened On the work you have to do, And say that such a mighty task Yoa never can got through; r" Eat just endeavor, day !.y day, Another point to gain, And soon the mountain which you feared Will prove to be a plain ! T> x t _ - " -t ?? jwme wasiioi, uuiiueu m s. uay, The ancient proverb teaches, And nature, by ber trees an,1 Ho were, - The same sweet sermon preaches. * Think not of far-off duties, Bat of duties which are near, And having once begun to work, Besolve to persfrvere. ?s < | A MEMORABLE TRIP. "One of you girls must go to he! at once," said ray mother. "Brit. mamma." rir;a3ed Oriana. "T can't go, for I'm in the midst cf mj i post-graduate course at college. "And I can't go !" breathlessly added Louise, who had jast engaged herself to young Mr. Leggett, who kept the stationery store on the corner, and was in a fool's Paradise of bliss. "Girls, don't talk snch nonesense!" said my mother, briskly. "Here is your Cousin Patsey Ponnsett, sick out in "Wisconsin, and needing care and com 1 fl L 1 J. 11 91 pansnip. oome one most nasien mere. ' Let Flossy go," suggested Oriana. "Yes," chimed in Louise; "why nol Flossy V "But Flossy is such a child," said my mother, in a perturbed voice. > "And?" But here I dropped the cat out of my lap, and rose, trying to look as tall as ! possible. "I am nearly eighteen," said I. "And ( oh, mamma, do let me go to rich < n "D.Sni,A ?,-n vsxu. vyuuajn iawrj, auu nuc will make me her heiress." t "Dear, dear!' said my mother, "what i y" can have put such mercenary ideas into i ? the child's head?" - ? "But isn't she very rich 7" I questioned. "She is very eccentric," said my ? mother. "Weil, then, of course she's rich," I < nodded. "Eccentric old maids always 1 are. And, oh, it will be such fun, and I should so like to see what Wisconsin ' is like. I suppose they have bears s there, and giraU'es, and all such jvild I beasts." c And I ran laughing away after the kitten, which had frisked out among 1 the daffodils in the garden. Not, how- \ arcar on (ay Ivnfc fhot T m-rr r jfr mother saying: "What a child she is!" f And Oriana, answered with.?-la-ugh: .. * "Oh, lee her go r~ if Consin rafisey Wb> should take a fancy to her, it might be g HHb. the making of. her fortune. Who J knows ?' s So they bought me a new dress, retrimmed'my plush hat with cherry-satin ? ribbon, and sent me oS to Wisconsin, i with Oriana's new traveling-bag and mamma's waterproof cloak. e I had never traveled before by myself, j ^ but I quite enjoyed the novelty of the s I* situation, I had my novel to read, my s little basket of fruit and sandwiches to c fall back upon, and all the flitting scenery to study from the car-window? c tit)tii. ffettintr out at Eardsdale, to buy ] some oranges 'which had taken my girl- t ish fance, I mistook the car, and found s myself, alone and bewildered, in the t midst of strange faces. "My bag!" I cried. "Ob, I left my 3 bag right here on the seat, and now it ? ' is gone! And my cheque was in it, and i my ticket. Oh, dear! oh, dear! What i shall I do?" And then a tall, plea3ant-faced young ' man came forward. I had seen once or twice before, passing through the train. 1 ie "Was it a black canvas-bag," said he, ' Uir^fV. iH U' rm it 9 -a?aR thftre a < ITibU V/? XJ.I VM AW ,, m . _ _ book and shawl lying beside it 7* And I answered, breathlessly: "Yes." _ i "It is in the back car," said he. "Yon ] were sitting there, I think. Allow me to conduct yon thither. The train is in : \ * motion, and it will be difficult to pass ! from one car to another." < And thus, to my infinite relief, I fonnd my treasures undisturbed, and, all-forgetful of mamma's many cautions, chatted and iaughed with my new ac- i quaintance all the way to Powder City, k- I confided to him tbat I was going to a rich cousin, who would probably adopt ?" 'Kof T noror TinrJ TiAAn awaV frOCl L^-" JJ-LC UXU*U JL MWV? WWW. ? .. ?^ home before?thafc my name was Flora Harper?that my cousin was called Patsey Pounsett?that I had twenty dollars in gold in my pocket-book, and a new, ehecked-silk dress, with fonrteen little , flounces np the front rAnd not nntil he had pnt me in a cab at Powder City Station, and directed the driver to go to Miss Patsey Porrnsett's, on the Cedar Koad, did I realize how foolishly and unnecessarily communicative I had been. "Oh, dear!" I thonght to myself, t4I hope he's not a burglar or a housel* breaker." My Consin Patsey did not live in a j chateau or a picturesque Swiss cottage. It. was a tumble-down old farm-house, I ?- * - onr? fxrrk I W1UI s ^vuu XU liiVJUV) MUV* *I|W dismal weeping ?VLL?*?? at the back. She lay very 2i in &Ottv ;.M parlor, with a fire of damp logs sulking fire-place, and a general smell of camf phor about the premises. She was an ugly, yellow-faced old woman, with a hooked nose, and a xxrastache on her wrinkled npper lip. "Oh!" said she. "You sre Mary Harper's girl from down East ?" "Yes," said I, faintly as I looked around at the uncarpeted floor and mildewed walls. "What can I do for ? you. Cousin Patsey ?" i-1? XV- T Kl/vm "XOU can laxo nie yeuuwro oxlu. uiu?t . k tip the fire," said the old crone. "And you can make me some oatmeal gruel. Mfet Ard to-morrow joi can go out and sell Kp- yarbs for me." Pf "Sell ?" I hesitated, uncertain W*/ whether I had heard aright. "Yarbs!" screeched the old woman. : ? "Ya-a-arbs! Don't you hear me ? Cat- i nip, and penny-rile, and tarragan, and j life-everlastin' and sich?the garret's | f full of 'em. That's the way I makes | my livin', sellin' yarbs; And I was \ mortal 'feared I'd lose all my custom | " * * " ' ?* _ti | with. tins pessy rneumaxiz. jduc nsau right, now you've come." So this was my Cousin Patsey! This was the life of rich refinement to which i I had fancied myself dedicated. I cried myself to sleep that night, and dreamed f I was a beggar-girl plodding from door to door. I was up betimes in the morning to oook Aunt Patsey's breakfast over the kitchen stove?I, the petted darling of the household, who had never been allowed at home to know a single care?to clean her room and comb out her tan? gled white hair. And then, with many reproaches over my sluggishness and ? lack of "faculty," I was sent up to the garret to fill a basket with the ltfctL bi nches of dried herbs which wen dai gling from hooks in the beams over head. 'What ami to do with them, Cousii Pa s?y V said I, feebly. "i'ake 'em into town," said Miss Patsey. "Sell 'em." "But where?" pleaded I. "From door to door," responded m^ witch-like consin. "Go everywhere Tell 'em they're Miss Patsey Ponnsett'f yaibs. Everybody knows me. Fiv< e ,r.ts a bnnch for the small ones, ten foi the large ones. And don't let the grass | grow under your feet, for I've got tc | take jry hot drink at one o'clock, anc j you must be home to fix it for me." And this was the fashionable careei of v. hich I had dreamed at Powder City, Wei], what was I to do ? I could not gc back to the East, for I had not monej enough. I couldn't write home, for the matter of the "yarbs" was too pressing to admit, in Cousin Patsey's eyes, of even a half-hour's delay. Moreover, there was the old creature, sick, alone, and in trouble, and I was too loyal to dream of abandoning her. So, without more ado, I took the basket and set forth on my weary way, blushing if any one looked at me?ready to cry if any shrill-tongued housekeeper decried the value of my wares. I sold some herbs?enough to buy Miss Patsey's medicine, and a little knuckle of veal to boil into nourishing soup?and came home, with muddy boots, weary limbs, and a considerably depreciated valuation of myself. Cousin.Patsey had a great many questions to ask, and appeared to think that I might have driven a deal more profitable business if only I had chosen. But she was feeble and weak, and I pitied her too much to rebel. On the third day, I chanced to meet my traveling companion?the tall, dark young man, with the bright eyes, who had been instrumental in finding my traveling-bag on my journey. He was in a store where I had meekly proffered my wares, and he stepped eagerly forward, with a smile of recognition. "Miss Harper I" he exclaimed, offering his hand." "Do you want to buy any herbs ?" said I, with a mischievous twinkle in my eyes. "Catnip, tarragan, feverfew! Only five cents a bunch ! And quite fresh and genuine." "I'll buy the whole basket!" said he. "No," I pronounced, "that wouldn't be business. But if you choose to select half a dozen assorted bunches?" So he bought them, with such wondering eyes that I felt myself constrain* sd to explain. "My Cousin Patsey isn't rich at all," said I. "She earns her living by selling these herbs. And as she is ill aiid mable to sell them herself, I am acting is her proxy." ' You're a heroine!"said he, earnestly. "A very involuntary one," I answered, iigoing and smiling. When he had gone out of the store, I jould not help asking the old woman Dehind the counter who he was. "It's Mr. Aylmer," she answered. 'He's an ar:isf, miss, as paints picters, ind they do say as bow he gets dreadful )ig prices for a bit of canvas as you ;ould cover with a dinner-nlate." Mr. Aylmer came ont to the farmlouse to see me the next day. He wrought me a bunch of rhododendrons, md eat and chatted with Cousin Patsey or a long time. The old crone eyed keepV . ?1 aon fc approve of followers, as a ,'eneral thing," said she; "but I reckon 'ohn Aylmer is a good fellow?and I ort o' think, Flora, that he likes you." "But, Cousin Patsey, he has only ;een me twice before!" cried I, turning rery red. "That makes no difference," said she, sharply. "Love don't go by the multi)lication-table. I've lived solitary and tlone all my life; but I don't want them is I'm fend of to do the same. It's too ireary?a deal too'direary!" T staved with Cousin Patsey a month, loing all the drudgery of her wretched louse, selling herbs for her, keeping np i cheerfnl face throngh it all, and then ihe died?died suddenly and alone, in ;he dead of night. They bnried her, and I prepared to etnrn to the East; not, however, xincil John Aylmer had made me promise that, if he came for me in the antumn, I ivonld be his wife. "We shall be poor, Flossy," he said; "but love is better than gold " I was sitting in the depot, waiting for ;he train, with John talking to me, when old Mr. Dodge, the white-whiskered lawyer, made his appearance. "Miss Flossy," he said, "perhaps yon hadn't better go East just yet. There's i will, you know, and ail Miss Pounsett's property Is left to yon." "Oh, yes, Mr. Dodge," said I; "but it's only a hovel and a swamp, and Mile Mesrs has offered me three hundred dollars for it all." "Yes," said the lawyer; "but the old chimney blew down this morning, and there's an iron box under the hearthstone, containing ten registered onethousand-dollar Sacramento bonds, made out in Miss Pai;sey's name; and of course they are all yours." I looked at John with sparkliDg eyes. "So I am an heiress, after all," said I. "Oh, John?dear John?I only wish it <? Vm-n^-ro^ fimpq as much. SO that 1 could lay it all an voir feet!" For Miss Pounsett had a deal of th^ miserly element in her nature, 'and had died in poverty sooner than to break in upon upon her idolized hoard. And that is how it happens that I am living out here in Wisconsin, an artist's happy wife. And to the end of my days I shall always love the smell of peppermint and rae. bore:6t, and penny ? ?' * ? 1 er _t royal, Uousrn -Fatseya treasured -yarus. Do Fishes Sleep 2 Formerly it was the received opinion that a fish never slept, bnt lately this opinion has been changed, in consequence of such facts as the following: In one division of the Berlin Aquarium were about a dozen carp, that coi_-^nced in October to act curiously. Fiom tiui. time the majority of the fish, occasional*-: .all of them, would asp-nme a crooked and remain so for hours, or ur.tiit^GJ- were disturbed. When worras or other food were thrown into tiae water they would spring up to seize it. and immediately resume their old position. These fish were often very particnlar in choosing their resting-placss. Some would examine carefully with their heads the surrounding rocks and stones; then slowly torn themselves over on the right or left side, c.nd either remain quiet or swim away to seek some other place. Other fish would lie on the gravel, resting on their heads and tails, in the form t.f a bow. One carp always stood on his head, with his body erect in the water?a veritable wonder of balancing that showed the capabilities of its fins. It was easy to arouse most of the fisQ, by means of food or of a noise; but some of them slept so soundly that it was only possible to disturb them by hitting or snaking ihem repeatedly. The lidless, always open eye 'of the fish makes it difiicalt to distinguish its sleep from its periods of ordinary rest, but this last experiment was conclusive. The suggestion that this behavior is ! the result of illness is answered by : stating that this habit of sleep was ob! served nearly every day for more than ! six months, and during all that time j the fish ate regularly, and were free i from any appearance of sickness. Patience, the second bravery of marij is, perhaps, greater than the first. e The Bird Market of Paris. 6 One of lay walks, says a Paris - correspondeat, brought me to th< "Quai am Fieurs," where on Wednesi! da.} s and Saturdays the largest of th( ; many flower markets in the city is held, - j But on Sunday afternoons quite a dif I ferent picture presents itself here, thai i of the bird mirket. Such an animated r BWiiO iU> 11 IS, IUU, Wil/U ll>3 IUYY Ui . filled with singing canaries, cooing 3 doves, crowing roosters and an al5 most endless variety of the feathered c tribe. Even the white-robed, pink3 eyed rabbits are sold here, and one > brown bunny with her host of little I ones was stowed away in a basket like a pile of shabby scraps of cast-away fur. Over the din of all these rose the haggling and bargaining of the crowd of buyers and sellers. Here was a man calling out ' young pigeons at fifty sous each," wnile the so-called young pigeons strutted and arched their gorgeous iridescent necks in the sun and looked ( as if capable of a great deal of resistI ance under the carving knife. I noticed a number of merchants offering canaries, and saw one rub the feathers a little to make them appear as if just growing. "How much ?" said I, and, as quickly detecting in these two words an unfamiliar accent, tli6 merchant veered around and boldly said twelve francs. "Thanks, it is too much." "Ah, but, madame, look you?" and if all this merchant said of the bird be true, it was the only genuine canary left in the world. "I do not want it." "But just to please madame, and, as I have not sold anything to-day, she may have it for ten." "No." "Well, for nine, then," and I moved away as fast as the crowd would permit me, with the bird-merchant shrieking after me, "Will madame give five?" It was difficult getting out of the crowd. One woman was struggling with a refractory rooster she had purchased, and another looking for an escaped rabbit, which search was detrimental to onfi's ennilihrfnin. Onnft out I came across the usual knot of children playing about and overheard the following conversation : "I am tired of this; let us play marbles." "No, I don't want to," responded a curlvhaired urchin. "Well, then, let us go to the Morgue," proposed a veteran of about nine, who was tending a babysister just beginning to walk. "Oh, yes 1" chorused all the voices, and grabbing up the baby they all went off around the corner to stand on tip-toe and peer through the plate-glass windows at the ghastly sequel of some horrid tragedy. Everything looked so fair on this lovely, sunny day I The river so blue, the quai with its little sheds, under whioh the lively crowd of the bird market were so gay; there the windows of that big building to the left lets the sunshine in on the sick of the "Maison | Dieu," or hospital, and that handsome, gilded, wrought-iron gate on the right, j rm? nf trio olnrioa nf T'oriot ifl tllA ATI trance of the ''Palais de Justice," while a step farther on grand old Notre Dame, now so beautiful in the fall benediction of the sanshine which was denied her for so many years; by the accnmolation of buildings around her, looms up ra front of the Morgue as if t( hide it. A Mechanical Larynx. A remarkable example of how mechanical ingenuity is called to supplement surgical ski'l is famished by the tation therefor of a metal contrivance which supplies the place of the lost organ so perfectly that the patient is able to talk with as little difficulty as if the operation had not been per formed. For the benefit of the reader not familiar with the fractions of the larynx, we may recall the fact that the voice is produced therein by the vibration of the column of air passing through a narrow slit, which forms the entrance to the trachea and lung?. The natural meclianism of the larynx is closely analogous to that of a reed instrument, in which a column of air, passing forcibly through a narrow slit bounded on one or both sides by a 1 thin, elastic plate of wood or met*!, ! first causes the edge of the plate to vibrate with sufficient; rapidity, and is j thus itself thrown into sonorous vibrai T-n lorrnv OCAI-V variation | blUili JLU uuw AUij v ? w?j | between the two extremes of high 3nd | low notes is prodaced in similar man| ner by alterations in the width of the slit and the length and tension of its vibrating edges 01 vccai chords. When, therefore, a person is deprived of his larynx, he becomes like an organ withont pipes. ,The lungs, which correspond to the bellows, are there, and so is the articulating apparatus, which answers to the keys, but there are no means of producing onnd. Dr. Foulis's voice-tube is exceedingly simple. It consists of two silver pipes, one of which pisses upward to the epiglottis and the other enters the open trachea. The lower tube slips into the upper one, and 'aolds the reed plate and button. The articulation of the patient is said to be wonderful, and, saving its monotony, it cannot be distinguished from the natural voice. The vowels are clear and distinct, both in whispering with the reed out and intoning with the reed in the tube, showing that the vowels are products of changes in the shape of the buccal cavity, and are not formed by alterations of the glotti?. The patient progresses favorably, although somewhat subject to colds. r,<\T-/il0CCTHlCV<# W3U J From time to time the papers tell us of persons who have blown out the gaslights in their bedrooms, instead of putting out the lights by shutting off the gas. Of course they have been found dead in the morning, suffocated in their sleep by the gas which had been pouring into the rooms all night. Persons accustomed to blow out lights given by lamps in their own homes should be especially careful lest their habit assert itself abroad, notwithstanding their knowledge of what they should do to put out a gaslight. The stove-damper is sometimes partiallv closed, and the stove door partial ly opened at night in a bedroom. During the night the wind perhaps changes, outside air becomes damp and heavy, and the gas, instead of ascending in the cold chimney, is forced into the room. Here, too, the sleeper sometimes passes quietly into the sleep of death, as the carbonic acid gradually arrests the action of the brain. Under no circumstances should the damper of j a stove be closed in a sleeping room at ! night. Guests from the country are quite apt to leave the waste pipes in our city bedrooms open, in the bedrooms in which they sleep, thus giving free ingress into the rooms of sewer gas, with its germs of typhoid fever, or of other infectious diseases. A cautionary hint should be ! given them by their hosts. People often leave vials containing poisons by the side of other vials that j contain medicines that some person is j using, and the contents of the former ! are sometimes taken or thoughtlessly ! administered instead of the latter, by : the patient himself or by his attendant. Recently the life of a nsefnl and worthy ; man was thns suddenly brought to an untimely end. The two should ngver . be kept together.? Youth's Compaction. I " _ s Italy is the only country in Europe i where all famous men are expected to sit in Parliament, and where the humblest citizen would rather vote for a , great composer or general than for a local celebrity. iNEW YORK i>*DIA>*S. > Tbo Lazy and Shiftlews Onondatas?Tht-i Lot? l'or Liquor. ; A Syracuse (N. Y.) correspondent o , the New York Herald, writing abon . the Onondaga Indians, located in tha ; vicioity, gays: :'One thing which at [ tracts the attention of the visitor to th< C\r>/\y".Aonroc ic + rrr^of nnmVtor nf/^Anrc 5 AO IUU giVMU Wi \Av^kj ; Tbey are a pecul.ar breed, and retail the characterises of the Indian dog t< . a remarkable degree. The valley ii . literally overran with them, and no In i dian is too lazy and shiftless as not to i own one or more. In passing some oi , tbe houses it will be noticed that a stick leans against the outside of the door? generally the handle of the woodei pestle with which they poand theii corn in making it ready for use, Tha' stick is the "lock" of the house, anc any one acquainted with their customs wonld know at once that the family was away irora nome, ana aunongn no sej i3 turned, the house is as sacred to th< Indians as if it had been secured bj bolts and bars. If the family are al home and it is summer leather thej are usually seen somewhere in the shade,and what little work is done is performed by the squaws, for the Onondags man disdains work as too debased foi him, and, while the women labor, sits smoking his pipe and dreaming ovei the -vanished glories of the Ononaagas. If by any chance there should be a crop growing on the farm it is almost certainly planted by some white man, who h:i3 leased the place at a low figure. Once his land is leased it is off the warrior's mind, and he can give his individual attention to occasional basket making, and to the more difficult task of leading his family down to Oneida county for the purpose of picking hops when in season, and giving their labors his general supervision. He also super intends their work when tkey hoe corn for the neighboring white farmers, and kindly consents to take charge of and disbtirse the money which they earn. By this means, with such fish and small game as can be secured, the farnil}' pick up a precarious livelihood from year to year, happy in their ignorance and dirt; for?Bishop Huntington to the contrary, notwithstanding?the Onondagas are not reaching cut for a higher life; they do not want to raise themselves, and would not thank any one who forced elevation upon them. But be it nnderstcod that there are some few among them who are really good farmers and wiling to work, but they are the shining exceptions and not the rule. It * k i . - i-i - 3 -.V _ l _ r\ x _ may ce saieiy staiea mas me unouaagas are lazy, filthy and ignorant, and thf.t their highest aspiration as a nation is to drink all the whisky they can by any possibility secure. Their love for liquor is a passion, and for that they will sacrifice anything. Here, in Syracuse, their general headquarters is Warren street, and on any pleasant day their wagons may be seen strung along in the shade on that thoroughfare, generally occupied by squaws and ps.ppooses, laughing and chattering | with one another, if the head of the | family should be absent-, as he generally [ is, in quest of fire-water. In other parts of the city a noble brave may be seen slouching along at the head of a procession consisting of his mother, his squaw (the latter generally carrying a copper-colored pappoose strapped on her back) and from three to ten young regdkrt<mi0 "beautiful squaw" vanish when you see the Onondaga woman. Poor, jaded and sickly, these femal es lack eveTy attribute oi the woman depicted in Cooper's tales, and, alas! as anxious for fire-water as the slouching Indian who leads them People in Syracuse give but a passing and contemptuous glance at them, and wonder where they will get their whisky, as they will be sure to do be fore they leave the town. The women carry about and sell various bead ornaments and basket work which thay have manufactured, while the head of the fam:Jy continues to skirmish for whisky. Very often some warior is dragged beVnya nn1i/>o infit.iV.A- namftillv driink. 4.V/XW wvawv , ? y # but it is impossible to find out from him "where his liquor was obtained. It is really wonderful to hear him lie. "Bc-y bring him from Ofcisco." "r-jun man fetch bottle from Oneida." "Find him in woods." Anything except the truth. And there are many white men mean enough to not only sell him liquor contrary to law, but swindle him with all the counterfeit and mutilated coin they may have on hand. Occasionally these men are hauled up, but; as it is imoossible to get the Indian to testify, thej generally escape punishment. Mecnauicai Jiusic. The Black Forest is famous for these mechanical organs-orchestrions, as they are called?and in some instances they are brought to great prefection. There is a shop closo to the exhibition, bearing the name of Lamy Sohnej fnll of clocks and singing-birds and orchestrions, where you may pass half an hour in a fairyland of surprises and all kinds of mechanical music. One morning I went in with an old lady and gentleman ?the latter a grave dignitary of the Church of England. "A very tirincj thing," said the old lady; "all up and down hill; the only fault I find with the Black Forest. Couldn't they level it, my dear?"?to her husband?"or build viaducts or something? Or at the very least, couldn't they organize pony chaises all over the country?like those you know, that we found so useful at T>? Tnr-l TTfoii 0" "To I-O Q l-Tlftir JO'JULUCLLlUUUll i.?ou jew. ^ , my love," said the old gentleman, sympathetically, without committing himself to an opinion. Aud he placed one for her, while the young man in the shop (whose jolly, good-natu?ed face and broad grin delighted one to behold) wound up the orchestrion. The old lady sat down somewhat heavily from sheer exhaustion, and immediately the chair struck up the lively air of "The Wn.f-.tVh on the "Rhine." with a decidedly martial influence upon its occupant. She 3prang from her seat as if it had been a gridiron, and asked her husband reproachfully if he was amusing himseli at her expense, and whether her age was not sufficient to secure her from practical joking. "Dear me !" cried he, in amazement, looking at the offending chair as though he expected it to walk away of its accord. ''What a musical nation these Black Foresters are! It's music everywhere 1 The very chairs you sit dotf n upon are full cf it." At this moment the orchestrion struck up s selection from "Don Giovanni," and the old lady recovered her amiability in listening to a reaiiy spienaia msi/rumeiii.. I left them still enjoying it, marveling at all the birds and boxes and thinking each one more wonderfnl than another, Snakes. A trout thirteen inches long was founc the other day in a water rattlesnake five and a half feet long and thirteei inches around, at Reid's Station, Ga. H?nry N. Jones, a Mount Pleasant Fla , schoolboy, was bittea by a larg< rattlesnake, and although every remedy was 35romptly nsed he died in ten hours John S'.ew rt, of Hillsborough, Fia. was cutting the rattles from a snaki ! +v>o+. >ia Rhot. when the reniili struck him a blow that stunned him The snake was seven feet long. W.iien the nve-year-old son of Oht< ! Rust, of Kendall, Texas, was bitten b; i a copperhead snake, his father cut ou the near with his pocket knife, thei , hurried with him to a physician, wh< , cauterized the wound, and saved th( child's life. A STORY ABOUT EAKS. 1 An Admirable Snb*tStnie for the "nako I .Romance?The Wonierfui Ears of an ln? ! tllun Boy. *! The Lafayette (Ind.) Courier has f this curious story: A strange '; and wonderful phenomenon has been " j brought to our office in the 9 i person of little "Willie Lester, whose I father is a well-to-do farmer on the Wea 1 Plains. Willie is oclv about ten years 3 old, unusually bright and intelligent 3 for his age, and has always been re* markable in his neighborhood for his I wonderful ears. Ei.3 right one is perfectly Immense, beinar, we should iudore. as large as a palm-leaf fan, while the other is no bigger than the ear of an 1 ordinary-sized wax doll. Until quite r recently nothing unusual had ever been I" noticed in his hearing, but lately he 1 has developed wonderful powers in that 5 direction. With his small ear he can 3 hear the faintest buzzing of the emall7 est bugs and insects, and can even de5 tect sounds uttered by the minutest [ animalcules?so small that they are not 5 even visible to the naked eye, A fly r running along a window-pane, a cater' pillar crawliDg across's. sheet of paper, ' makes sufficient noise to attract his atk tention, even when his back is turned. : The sense of hearing is so acute in this ' ear that it is absolutely painful to him, and he is compelled to wear a cork in it &t all times. The right and large ' ear is quite the reverse of its little companion in both its powers and properties. To it those minute and near sounds so plainly discernible to the other are lost, but distant neises are readily heard. Although residing fifteen and a quarter mjles from any railroad?Lafayette being the nearest point?yet Willie can distinctly hear the trains and mills blowing their whistles, and can easily distinguish between the engine bells and the city bells. When the Wabash roundhouse blew up some weeks since, Willie felt the shock as severely as though he had been in the building itself. He had been unwell for some days and was sleeping later than usual that morning, and when the explosion occurred h9 sprang from, the bed with a frightere-'l 3ream, and, holding his ear wit-l .hands, stood for some time tremblii... in the middle of the room. On clear days he has often heard Sheriff Taylor summoning witnesses from the court-house window. He distinctly heard the noise of the mob at Kokomo on Monday night, which was a very clear night. Although unable to make out what they were j doing, yet he heard tiae shouts "Rope's | down 1" "Time's up !*' and heard poor | Long sing "See That My Grave i3 Kept Green," the tune of which Willie at once recognized, and in a low, sw?cc voice sang the accompaniment, it being quite familiar to him. He can hear the coming of a storm long before there are any signs of ic in the air, and even long before the weather bureau gives notice of its approach. At the suggestion of a neighbor, Mr. Lester had a wire-gauze lid with a tin rim made to fit over Willie's ear. It consists of two thicknesses of gauze, the outer one being of larger mesh than the inner one; between the two there is an intervening thickse3s of loose flannel to soften sounds. Willie wears it continually, and this with the cork in the small ear has the effect of reducing his hearing to a normal condition.. Willie i? a handsome, fair-faced, golden-haired little _ any notice taken OrETm seems toTTe quite painful to the little fellow. Saluting Infant Royalty. At the gnardhouses there is consider able fuss made whenever any royalty passes that way. It is the duty and the only duty of the sentry on guard, to keep his eye open for royalty. When he sees it?and he seems to have a remarkably long range of vision?he yells at the top of his by no means musical voice. The rest of the gnard drop their ! cards and pipes, rash precipitately out, fall in, and present arms with drums beating. This sort of thing is gone through with every time any royalty passes. Even the infant children of the crown prince receive the same homage. There is something strange in seeing a lot of grown men present arms to a year-old infant. Bnt they do it. every time the nurse of the crown prince's family takes the children ont for an airing. But this -"isn't a circumstance," as Chicago sa;ps, to what, according to the story of cne of the American colony, happened here once. The nurse had a little child of the crown prinee out for a walk, and happened to pass one of the guardhouses. The sentry on duty yelled, 11 1 3 ? ? i. w\?iAOAY)faf^ xue guara lurneu uuu auu COCilU&U I arms while the drums beat. Just as the nurse and child got in front of the line of soldiers, the child espied a heap of nice, clean sand suitable for the manufacture of mud pies. The instinct of the child got the better of its training ; it broke away from its nurse and began to play in the sand. The nurse protested,' entreated, begged?but it was of no use. That child was bound to indulge in a little plebeian amusement. It had its own way, and played in the sand until it had satisfied its royal mind, and all this .time the guard stood at a "present arms," while the drummer nearly wore his drumhead out.?Berlin Litter. A Minister's Happy Thought, The late Rev. Dr. J. B. Wakeley related to me, with great glee, how he extricated himself once from a most awkward dilemma. Preaching in a Hudson river town on a warm summer afternoon to a congregation of farmers mainly from the text, "If any man draw back, my soul hath no pleasure in him," he inadvertently observed, "My brethren, sheep never fight." Those who were awake looked; np at him, and showed, by their interest, that the minister had never seen two old rams trying to bntt each other's brains ont The doctor discovered his mistake as soon as they did, but not seeing his way out of it he repeated the statement with greater emphasis. These of the audiI ence who were awake nudged their : sleeping brethren, who, on opening their eyes, looked to see what had happened, This greatly embarrassed the , doctor, and he was now sadly puzzled. : He ventured with still greater emphasis, to repeat the statement. "My brethren, sheep never fight," whe:i luckily he saw nr!Klin or Vna I j ma way uuu, auu uu?.,^,6 -? , struck it into the palm of the other ' hand, adding, with gennine nnction, "except they first draw back."?[Harper. The Editor's "Treats." ^ The editor's hardest task is to dispose I of his time. His wonld be a monoto' notis life, indeed, were it not for the kindness of a few hnndre-i people who call npon him every Jay to enliven his dull life with stories of their grievances, I of their brand new enterprises, and ( with antedilnvian anecdotes. When i yon grow np to be men and women, children, remember this, and spend all the time yon can in the editor's sanc' turn. He loves company so very much, j. j on know, and sometimes has to be ai ' iant and alone lor a wnoie nail minnie. Is it not too bad? ? The business of the editor is to enter3 tain itinerant lecturers, book canvas s2 ers, exchange fiends and other philan* thropists. lie gives his whole days to these. He writes hi3 editorials at night > after he has gone to bed. 7 The editor is jaever so happy as when t writing complim"5qtary notices. For 1 ten cents' worth of presents he will gladly give ten dollar?' worth of adver 11 A nlanenvA -i+> 3 I tising ail Oil kucuuiiu v.- WUW jl/aoaoiuo iv I giyes him to write, yon know. t ? i i ' V | amosg the japs. ; Scene* in a Leadins Japanese City?Carious Vehicles. j A correspondent of the Detroit Free Press, writing of a visit to Yokohama, I .Ta.no.Tv Tntinc a "namnan" T lpft the ship, and during the mile pnll that brought us to the shore I had ample opportunities to stndy the peculiarities of the craft and its owners. It was nothing more than a flat-bottomed boat I very rudely constrncted and propelled by meanj of two great sculls of a peculiar form. The boatmen beloDg to a class that live in their beats the whole year round, and were small but powerful. In sculli.ig the boat, on9 man takes his place in the stern and the other on the side. The oars are formed of two pieces and are triangular in appearance, something like a Hie with the faces rounded out. As a substitute for rowlocks, they have a pin fastened to the gunwale and a crescent-shaped piece of wood, with a hole in the rounded part for the pin, fastened to the oar. Where the man catches hoid he has another pin, and over this he passes the loop of a rope fastened to the bottom of the boat. In sculling, each man has an inclined rest for one foot. The boats are clumsy looking things, but move very rapidly. The men are a wild, savage-looking set, and very small. They are all bare-headed, and nearly all, as I was informed by my boatman, have a circular patch on the top of their heads shaved. Most of them wear sandals made out of straw, though many go bare-footed, even in winter. On arrival at the landing I was besieged by a crowd of men, who followed me as persistently as the hackmen in the United States follow railroad passengers, each and every one wanting to know if I would not like a "rifcisha." Picking out one of these famous carriages of the East, I seated myself, and told the man to take me tip to "Bentendori, a street in "Japtown," as the foreigners call it, where most of the silk and lacqners stores are. The "jin rikisha," in appearance, looks like an enlarged baby carriage, and is in fact nothing else. It is drawn, not as one might suppose by a horse, but by the man himself, who jogs along at a steady trot, bare-headed, bare-legged, through mnd and water in his sandals with apparent ease. The "jin rikisha" business is an important one in the East, and all rates are regnlated by local enactments, the same as our" cab fares are regulated in America and England. There is an immense difference, however in in the fare patd for a hack and that paid for a "rikisha." The latter may be had for ten sen an hour, or about six cents in American money. ' ( The city of Yokohama is of very re cent origin, but is growing rapidly, ( having at the present time a population . of about 45,000 Japanese and 2,500 ; foreigners, the latter forming a colony ! or their own. In the European part of , the city the houses are very substanti- ] ally built of stone, but in the native J portion the buildings are very lightly ( built. Few houses in either portion of { the city are built very high on account j of the earthquakes which occur quite ( frequently. There are many Europeans > engaged in business here, principally ^ in the trade with 'Frisco. Owing to : the depreciation of the native paper ( moneji eschange,s_ flourish,, oru near]v?IbroK^rbusiness seems to be entirely in , the hands of John Chinav.--, who also j controls the tailoring business. The ^ taste of the Japanese is displayed in the I beautiful public buildings that have been erected, nctably the depot of the Tokio and Yokohama railroad, a building which would evendo credit to Detroit. ' Curio" Town, for so the Japanese portion of the city might be very aptly called, is the m?t interesting portion of the whole city. The streets are alive with people, from the little Japanese children with their queer-looking faces, flying kites and playing in the streets, to the letter-carrier with his bundle of letters. Dismissing my "rikisha" as soon as "Bentendori" was reached, I wandered on from store to store gazing in amazement at the curious, beautiful wor&s of art. One might spend many hours in a single store looking at the lacquer ware, curious carvings in tortoise-shell, and in stained pig-skin, which so closely resembles tortoise shell that it would take an expert to tell them apart Then the ] -? * t Al_ bronze wor&, done m every iorm, me : work in mother-of-pearl and ivory, the old armor, swords formed from steel , that is as finely tempered as the famous Damascus blade, in beautiful lacquered j scabbards, photographs, paintings on silk, embroidery, and many other things, j will not allow your attention to flag for an instant. One has to be in Japan but a very short time to realize that tne . people are naturally artistic *nd me- . chanical, and that they are fully as in- , telligent as any nation on earth, and infinitely more polite. They never meet one another in the streets without saluting, and in their houses and stores ?-*i.U tney always wan on you wuu gxavo autention, and bow you out vcith th9 same politeness, no matter how much trouble and inconvenience you may have put them to, and especially is this true among the business men. In their houses the people are very particular about leaving their shoes outside. This practice is probably duo in a great measure to the fact that the sandals 1 they wear in the streets would be very clumsy affairs in. the house, and they therefore change them. Hence the curious sight one has sometimes ol a dozen or so of sandals in front of the house. In all their habits and customs cleanliness is the prevailing trait. They abhor dirt in any iorm. It would hardly do to pass over the silk paintings by merely mentioning them as an attraction. Given a photograph, the color of hair and eyes, and the Japanese artist will produce an enlarged and correct likeness of the person, clad in Japanese costume. The one defect in their work is the tendency to put in Mongolian eyes, and against that it is necessary to warn them. If j an original scene is desired, they will j paint birds and auimals in all manner j of positions, and embroider the plumace of a bird or the petals of a flower, J shading as delicately with the needle as j with the brash. My first thought after entering one of these stores was that it wonld never do for a man to let his wife get into one of them by herself, or he wonld be a bankrupt before night. Scarfs, shawls, dressing-gowns, cloaks and other articles of the finest silk, embroidered and ornamented so that each article was a complete work of art in itself, were in profusion. I had entered the store with the intention of purchasing, but the beautiful appearance of each article rendered it so difficult to make a choice that I was ' obliged to give up in despair, and fairly | ran avray from the temptation to spend j every cent I had. I .Measuring: a Plant's tJnunh. A New York firm recently exhibited j an apparatus for measuring the rapidity i of growth of a plant. The plant itself ! is connected with an index, which ad- \ vances visibly and constantly, exhibit- j I ing the growth on a scale fifty times j ! magnified. TVhen the index is con- j nected with an electric hammer, the ! current of which is interrupted as the i index passes over the divisions of the j circle, the growth of the plant becomes not only visible, but also audible to the ear. In this way it is now possible, "" " ? rrvn oa CTY OW n 1 literally, w &< ?-< ? A MAD ELEPHANT. Killing Twenty Persons, and Desiraylns Properly in Hi* Headlong Charges. Mola Baksh belonged to the Maharaja ot Benares, and was lent by him one January to a small shooting party in South Mirzapnr, consisting of three gentlemen, two of whom had along with them their wives and children. He was without tusks ; of great size, and of what amateurs call beautiful points : standi with tiger, trained and tractable, bat credited from tho first knowD of him with an uncertain temper. On the 15th of the month he took part in an expedition into th*? jungle ; pelted a wounded tiger in a ravine with clods till the brute charged and fastened on his ear; then got his foe between his legs and kicked bim from hindfoot to forefoot, and back again, till he was done for. On the 19th he carried some of the party, including two ladies, for an outing, nothing unusual being observable in his manner, evcept a rather excited rivalry with a horse which was cantering by his side. On arriving at the camp, h8 was fed as usual bv female hands, and his affectation humored of haviDg a biscuit put actually into his mouth. He had, however, about him rather a menagerie smell, for which a bath in a neighbor- ! inc ri7er was Drescribed. In nerfect peace of mind all retired to rest. But 1 at midnight came the cry: "Mola 1 Bnksh has billed his mahont!" This 1 was true, but it was generally thought < that the act was accidental. The par- < oxsysms had come on him about 2 a. m. 1 He at once tore himself loose, and went ^ in search of his second attendant. This ' man was a pnrloiner of grain, inatten- < jtive and cruel, and greatly detested by ' the animal. The mahout and his dep uty were sleeping side by side, under a < tree, shrouded in their coverlets, as the manner of the country is. Mola knelt ] on his enemy and killed him, and, 1 perhaps, in attempting to rise, slipped 1 onto the mahont, who was a drnnkard 1 and not likely to be easily awakened, or 3 to think of rolling aside. At any rate, some honrs afterwards, when the ani- ? mal returned and saw the bodies, he * only looked down at that of the mahout, T but seized the other and tossed it hith- 1 er and thither. All was alarm, natural- t ly, in the camp. Cots were elung up in c the trees?one fortunately a banian? t and the ladies and children put in com- t parative safety. Morning wa? anxious- 1 ]y looked for. When it came, however, 1 the coast was clear. Mola Buksh was I passing his time in wrecking a village 8 at some little distance, unroofing the 8 houses and plundering the sweetmeats t und grain. The other elephants had ^ been driven into the jungle ; the men a nToro armor! vionl&n+. fVia cawonto 3 on the wat^h. As no alarm was given, <3 a forced march was determined on, and r off the whole party get for an encamp- c ment ten miles on. This was reached g in safety, but the elephant was soon in a pursuit, upset the camels, loads and t ill, on the road ; lung to right and 1 left the burdens deserted by the flying n coolies; caught up two unhappy linger- a 3rs and killed them both; and pounded i iway over the hill stones with madness a in Las head and the unnatural activity r 3f overheated excitement in his limbs, h rhe various friends were seated on b ;runks, watching their growing encamp- t< man): irhon tV>o chnnf. arnso " ic t) ?oming!" And, sure enough, headlong d a * g 1 J ' 'J * T?'?Jn ? -J ?riew the reckless mamoth, as if the n iends were close behind him. Tl-c ivas a moment indeed. Wives, children, t! md ayahs, were hurried to trees scarce- f ly of adequate height, and the men and 1 servants took their places for defense t. reside them. But one?I shall certain- b ,y name him?Wigram Money, a magis- b ;rate of Mirzapur, advanced on the h little plain between the tents alone to t! xieet the approaching brute. He re- t! :eived Mold Buksh at fifty yards with h ais first barrel, and the ball struck the g center of the forehead. This stopped * aim, and a second made him tnrn again ^ towards the hill.- He was pursued on * horseback, and tliougii he aouoiea f round and again approached the tents, v be remembered his lesson ; and, indeed, <3 though he dogged the hurried marches t jf the party, appearing suddenly and ' causing great alarm, for the next day r Dr two he seemed to have a dread of I 3oming quite close. The distances he t> traveled were scarcely credible; by r light and in the dark it was one excited n md destructive raid, without exhaus- t tion and without repose. He tore off <3 roofs, he tore up wheat, he devoured or e scattered the contents of shops. The B nillnnATO man and WftrnATI. t Viiia^Cio wvm MUX* ? ) ? and old people?fled before him. He invaded two other sporting camps be- rj sides the one he was first attached to, tossing the equioments about, maddening the horses, and at times surprising 1 some unfortunate attendant. He har- G assed the Maharaja himself on the line * of march, pushing oyer his camels and f breaking his furniture, and forced the i Prince to save himself, by sheer gallop- * ing, in a country palace. One of his c last feats was this : A Kanee of high s birth, was on a pilgrimage to Benares. 1 She was encamped in a grove. Ked and S white striped tents were enclosed by the 1 canvas wails ; in the innermost was she 2 herself. The rag-tag entourage of < native rank encircled her. A seedy se- 1 poy or two, with shakoes over their c tied-up heads and old unloaded flint- t lock muskets, stood about. There was I a rush of cattle and peasants down the 1 i "i ? .i- 3 - T roaa, aust m ciouaa, auu a uij ui a no elephant!" The Ranee's currish hirelings left her. Mola Buksh leveled all opposing obstacles, and stood before the miserable princess herself. The slave girls had hidden themselves. The old lady fled to her palankeen. The mad animal tore her from it and put h; r to death. He feasted on a heap of cakes which had been prepared for the shrines of the holy city. A Brahmin crept in to see what the fate of hia mistress had been. MoJa seized him and destroyed him, and flung him on the road, where his body was seen by my informant. Oa the 27th the fit subsided, and Mola ttto! \raA intn V>in fit TtaiD ? U U2\Ou naia^u nuggar, the fort of his master, near Be- 1 nares, glad to have his wounds attended ] to. He had been a week on the loose? i had killed twenty persons and wounded \ others, and had destroyed a great deal i of property.?[London World. j Facts About the Sahara. ' A young French geographer named j GorlofF recently made an interesting re- ( port upon his explorations in the ] Sahara. His only companions were j two Arabs. He described the sitting- j room of the town council of Metlili as a j subterranean gallery, ornamented with ! run run or rnnrifl a deer) well. Bv t J/UAOiB, 0 . , that contrivance the council was kept . cool even in hot days. The men of ^the . Touareg tribe were not allowed to have ' more than one wife each, and she p03- , sessed the greatest influence, not only ' in domestic but in political affaire. The . Touareg women were far more ( highly educated than the men. They conld read and write well, they possessed some musical talent, and their poems were celebrated in the desert. It appeared thai in the middle ages some persons of high bath emi- i grated to Africa among the Touaregs, and some of liiem coasted or iuoinmo- j rency descent. At one time M. GorlofT and his guides were overtaken by a j seveie snowstorm. The guides lost their way, and they were in mnch danger of being frozen to death. There were many in France, said M. Gorloff, who proclaimed the Sahara a rich country, where fortune was to be made. Ho would like those persons to travel in it; they would then change their opinion. OILISG THE WAYES. A Contrivance for Calmfns the Sea Sarins 1 Stormy Weather. The subject has at last been taken up in good earnest, and it is to a citizen of Perth, Mr. John Shields, that is due the honor of taking the initiative in a movement which, if fully carried out, must prove of incalculable benefit to our seafarms' t>or>illation. Five vears w t x * ago, as he stood beside a mill-pond on a , windy day, he observed that the waters, whici had been considerably ruffled, suddenly became smooth. On examina- v tion, he found that this arose from oil having been accidentally spilled from some machinery, and instantly forming . such a film on the surface of the pond as to offer no resistance to the wind. ? Happily, it at once occarred to him that it might be possible to apply oil in * such a systematic manner as to calm , the entrance to a harbor in stormj c weather. The idea having once sug- ^ gested itself, he never rested till he r had thought it out and devised means 1 of executing it. The plan he hit upon ? was that of laying iron and lead pipes 1 from the beach right out across the ^ harbor to the open sea, terminating in the deep water 200 feet beyond the bar, f and then, by means of a force pump on the shore, to pump oil into the tubes 1 and eject it at the bottom of the sea c outside the harbor, so that as it rose to * the surface it might be driven inward a md prevent the formation of breakers ? Dn the bar. The pipes are fitted with thiee conical valves fixed seventy-five J Feet apart at the sea-end of the pipe. . Ihese are forced opep. by the stream of ] ail as it flows out and instantly close 1" when the pressure is removed. Mr. . 3hields fixed npon Peterhead, in AberJeenshire (the easternmost headland of * 3cotland, and consequently a spot ex- ' posed to the full force of every gale ? ;hat sweeps the east coast,) as the most f suitable spot for his test experiments, ** Eere, then, he proceeded to submerge ? L,200 feet of lead and iron piping. A large barrel containing about a hundred F' gallons of oil was placed in a shed on -t ;he beach in connection with the forcejump. Toward the end of February oof- TMiAliminow TOCkTCk >aou ovwo miiudij v ama vm tt vav ^ tied on a small scale, but the amount >f oil expended was very trifling, and 0 he effect was disappointing. One of v< he fishers standing by remarked that ^ le could not understand it, as his own s< ife had once been saved by hanging P jieces of whale's blubber overboard, ,nd he was certain that the same means ? ystematically applied must produce ? he desired effect On the first of March * ve may say that the apparatus was fully 5C ,nd practically tested for the first time, , ,nd with puch success as to leave no loubt that it must shortly be a recog- ^ tized necessity in all harbors dangerous a* ?f access. On the day in question a 91 alp waa hlnwinc from the sontheast. . ccompanied by a heavy sea. Huge b: tillows from ten to twenty feet in a] Leight, curled in white crests as they teared the harbor mouth, and broke in . lad surf above the bar. No boat could 1D lave dared to face those breakers, and sr ny luckless vessel wrecked upon that ock-bound, inhospitable coast must .ave been abandoned to her fate. No etter dav could have been selected to est the soothing power of oil. If any t* erceptible difference could be pro- & need on those raging, tumultuous wa- m -?-j - -i lerely a ques tion of how much oil was ' '-L'J o I expended. In the present instance st he big 100-gallon cask was filled. The to orcing pump was set in action, and a ai iTge quantity of oil was driven through & he pipe3, whence it was ejected at the w ottom of the sea, at some distance >eyond the impassable barrier of mighty ti renters. The oil immediately rose to A; he surface, and formed a thin film on ar he water extending right across the th arbor mouth. Straightway the dan- ti erous white crests disappeared, and, si hongh the strong tide still swept in- ^ ?ard in hugh swelling billows, they Oi ?ere shorn of their terror, and became S terfectly smooth rollers on which any w essel or boat might have ridden into ock. Owing to tfce strength of the T ide and the severity of the gale the oil a: ras swept shoreward so rapidly as to T ender continuous pumping necessary. & Jut as long as the oil supply was kept s* p the surf was kept down, and there &1 emained no reasonable doubt in the fc ainds of the spectators that henceforth he raging of the waters could be 6ub- u< ued at will, and that ships might be si nabled to make the port in safety, no ^ natter how wild the tempest.?[Nine- ti eenth Century. b a tl .'he Most Dramatic Singer in the World, g Madame Marie Wilt, who has how w eft Vienna fcr Leipsic, is one of the a ;reatest vocal losses the Kaiserstadt si las experienced. Her voice is wonder- ti ul, almost snperhnman in its power. It ai s like a steam-whistle on some high t< totes, bnt the grandeur, breadth and is >rgan quality oi' her medium tones are T uperb. A coarser-looking creature tl lever tortured the eyes of an audience, g Jhe is impossible to disguise. The aagnificenc9 of her re^al costume in o: klargaret of Valois, the stately velvets si >{ Lucretia Borgia, the violet robes of ii Bertha in "Le Prophete," could not ai :hange fhe fat ungainly form or refine I he coarse features of the thrifty frugal p lousewife whom Strakosch is said to b lave found ecrnbbing her kitchen floor o: vhen be called to secure an American o jngagement with her. However this c nay be, she is a noble housewife, and G jrefers disputing over the price of eggs, c md the amoimt of Wurst given for v en kreutzers, to singing for anything jut money. She has no sympathetic L Cllfl Tin T jciiiua u\j nuia tjuw iinging at the age of thirty-one as a rade, and a trade she has made of it )ver since. One of the best stories told ^ >f Wilt, quite possible and probable, is a ;hat on her goca natnred days she gives n ;wo kreutzers to the Zahlkellner at the ft :aie, bnt when ill-tempered she asks p iim to return one of the kreulzers she t iad given him the day before. Not- 1; nthstanaing all this small gossip about n ler miserly ways, she rises to sublimity g n her art. At one of the last Kunstler v Vbende at which she sang before leav- p ing Vienna, her rendition of Schubert'ts e "Die Allmacht" was grandiose ? kolos- v salisch "a3 the Anstrians express a cer- v iain grandeur of effect. This evening ? * # ?1. lUarie Will sang as 11U wvuiaa c?ci caujj h oefore. She is probably the mos-. t Iramatic singer the world has ever I blown, . Cover your eyes, and it seem* c is if an unknown instrument was iead- t ing and overmastering the orchestra. 1 EEer voice is unearthly in its wondrous fc power. One is forced to admire the t study that has brought sucb power into | ( rocal control. It is astonishing mechan- i ism, but a heartless, soundless voice. <3 "Die Allmacht," however, seemed ar; t ascription of praise; Heaven and earth, t mingling in the tones of the singer's ? roice, seemed filled with the majesty of ? God's glory.?[Harper. c Times Have Changed. ? A man who happened to be in a vil- c lage when it was plundered by French v BoHiers, a great many of whom wore * npon their breasis the cross of the Le- ? gion of Honor, made the remark, con g iidential to bimsolf, however: "How t changed are the times! Formerly they u?ed to hang the thieves on the cross, but now they hang the crosses on thithieves." A similar change in the f treatment of criminal* has been ob t served in this country. In old times \ the jury used to hang the murderer, but J now it is often the murderer who hangs s the jury. < Hotels in India* Writing of his traveling experience n India, a correspondent says: The lotel in question is a study in itself Doth from the nniratched picturesqueless of its cloistered front and its batilemented roof, and from the romantic egend attached to it. It is said to % lave been originally a native mansion, vrnlfc hv a wpalthv Parsee at remiAftt )f his soul's adored, who, when the ask was completed, ungratefully "gave lim the mitten" and married some one slse. The heart-broken bnt still busiless-lifce lover at once sold his intended >ower of bliss at an enormous profit to ;n enterprising German from America, ?ho turned it into an hotel. An hotel t still remains under its present owner, nd a very- passable one as Oriental nns go. Indeed, were Dickens alive gain, he might make an invafitefeje ddition to bis "Commercial Traveler?^ >y a chapter upon East Indian hotels, rhich are quite unique of their kind. rou generally arrive late at night, when . . v| f. is fcnn dark- tr? rriftlrA nnfc anvtTnncr ond the general outline of the buildDg into which you are ushered, amid a fhirl of dusky faces, and glittering eeth, and outlandish dresses, and ilamorous outcries, suggestive of your laving fallen among a gang of Eastern obbers. You are formed into a proession and marched off to a room ap>arently as high as Westminster Abbey nd empty as a church collection bag ir the head of a man of fashion. Yon all asleep under a cloudless canopy of aosquito curtain, and probably dream hat you are the first Napoleon, lying a state, or Mohammed in that imous aerial coffin which anticipated he Bessemer coffin by more than welve centuries. Aroused about sun lav uy iuo cawing ui tut) OIOWB mat oost on the veranda, yon drape yourelf in the quilt, like an ancient toman, and open the door, causing an istant "stampede'*' of native serroots,- . ho are sleeping on thf> floor, acciLoj n& 5 custom^xTicside the doors 01 ...^ isyritfe masters. Your first thought as" doubtless been to ring the bell, xgetting that in this favored clime a ere are no bells to ring. So you tand on the landing and roar out, Qai hi?' (Who's there?) the shibboleth ? British India, which has given to all eteran Anglo-Indians their generic ickname of Qoihis. At first there ?ems to be nobody there at all, but resently a black face, crowned with a low-white turban, is seen rising up le stairway with the inquiry, "Chota azri, Sahib?" (Little breakfast, master?) ou nod, and the apparition vanishes, > return with a small tray of tea and. read and butter. Fearing that if you >t this comet-iike attendant escape du may never succeed in catching him jain, you seize the chance of giving it your boots to be cleaned. Tl? ' ' % isciple of Brahma responds with a risk "Bhot atcha" /All right), and re- ' jpears half an hour later with a pair ! worn cut "elastic-Eiders," or, worse ill, of dainty feminine bottines, with litation buttons, instead of your own ibstantial "lace-ups." Arctic Whalers. The San Francisco Bulletin says: The renty or more whale ships which came >wn from the Arctic last autumn hare ostly started again for the 'same dqp- Jfe ley fish by the way, making long retches ont of a direct course, somemes getting well over toward Japan, id sometimes nosing about the Okhotsk ;a, for any chance to strike a few hales. . Besides the fleet of sailing ships, lere will be three steamers in the rctic this season, viz: the Belvedere id North Star, of New Bedford, and ie new steamer now on the stocks at lis port, which will be completed inde of the next two months. The Bailg ships are all old-fashioned, short, it Km'It. cTiirvj xpliifth hflva done ffood irvice in other business before they ere sent around to the Arctic. Some I them were packets fifty years ago. hey are still strong, weatherly ships, id seem to be independent of all decay, he cold weather of the Arctic and the iteration of oil have a tendency to pre>rve ships. Unless these old vessels st nipped in the ice, they may be good >r at least a quarter of a century more. By that time there will probably be o use for anything but the screw steamlips in whaling. .Even now, another >e of steam in whaling has been in oduced?the steam tender or small oat with steam, strong enongh to tow dead whale a long distance and to tow le whaleboats to the fishing grounds, team cannot be used in following hales, on account of the-noise. But it in be used as an auxiliary in the ways jggested, and, it is said, with substanal advantage. A great many whales "i"! lAof Rnt aiffiam LC Obiuv^rv ouu IVOM. M wvvv.? -v.?^w. ) hitch on and tow thirty or forty miles ; the latest improvement in whaling. he old sailing vessel will wear out in le business. They do not represent a reat deal of capital Sow and then an old ship worth five r six thousand dollars, and twice that - f lm in the matter of outfit, will come lto. port with a thousand barrelft of oil, od as much bone as can be stored away. 'he interest on capital is small. The rofits are large. That is why these old luff-bowed ships soaked with whale il are so dear to the hearts of their wners. The steam whaler with outfit, osts anywhere from $70,000 to $120, * , .VLl 00, according to size, xnese muss ome into port with large fares, or the enture would be a losing business* he Boy Violinist in Sontag's Dressing. Room. At Sontag's first concerts here, the 'onderful young violinist, Paul Jullien, ppeared with her. He was then a xere boy, hardly more than a child, or he was but ten years old; but his >erformauee was already that of a viraoao, and his tone and style were nearer those of a great master of the instruaent. One evening, after Madame iontaghad been here about a month, I rent, at one of her concerts, to her rivate room, where she had been kind nougti to receive me before, for she 7&s one of the very few prima-donaas rith whom I was on familiar terms, 'jEntrez!" said a male voice when I :nocked at the half-open door. I enered, and what should I see but Count lossi and Paul Jallien sitting together >ver a basin of water, which was beween them on the sofa. Count Rossi ooked up and smiled as he held out his i*nd without rising, and then blew ino the bo^k He was engaged with Paul who a few minates before had astonshed a delighted and cultivated aul--? eoiH-riflr rflneT.Knofa ufiiAn uci:v;cj ~~ ? he little fellow had begged the count o make for him from concert programmes. The basin frcm Madame >ontag's wash-stancl furnished the sea >n which the fragi'e fleet was launched. Dfce boy continued his amusement unil Madame Sontag entered, and then lastily -drying his hands upon another concert, bill, took up his violin, and phile I was yet musing in wonder at he strangeness of the seen*, my rnmilation was disturbed by theoutberst ox ipplanse wnien greeted ice entrance ux he^little boat-sailer npon the stage. The importation of Mediterranean rait at the port of New York dnring g|jj he year 1SS1 consisted of 117 cargoes >y English steamers and 2f> oar~*es by .^58 [talian and Norwigtau sa vessels, md comprised 819.223 boxes and cases :t cravges, and 83S/241 boxes of lemons. .