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WEEKLY EDITION. / WIXNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1882. ESTABLISHED IN 1844. ' ijH To-Mcrrow. " Poor little Daisy! SI -i. i nnqnestioningly to her h U it not rtK.se, Tomorrow, -ate f d* ^ ag ^ou Wso illrequited she do? She weii knows Hy lover soI005 plmMed! ^ is ^ thlol)8 ^ h( Sworn not to change, To-morrow- f()r gteTeil) bnt though 1 / / Sworn not to change-and yet, has been plainly eviden. S y'" We two have never met ? 0f love have been spok< it not strange, To-morrow ? she Bees how quietly, alrt Kafjfet Where dost thou bide, To-morrow? answers her farewell, he In depths; on heights sublime ? heart chills. And the y< m Where dost thou hide, To-morrow ? 7* it does not awake fror Br Past eight; bevoa 1 the prime ? ram doee her ansr *, , .* * warctly remorseml for -k Art cradled with the rose, w _ tiizaa as niR ftwn nftinc. i Charm-wrapt from frost and snows, T~ Z~ '" ' ? . . . it is spoken, every at a11 T1?" moons' brings back the old girlisl Until the south wind blows. Afc length th aW? Tin spring tide overflows? fondiy hoping great res' Tiil all the land is June's? change of scene and surrc where dost thou hide, To-morrow ? They are ir> London, w Thou callest, and I hear thee ; ing Sir. Nelson nrges hi: I haste, but come not near thee : accompany bim to hear VThere doet thoa guide, To-morrow ? tnrer. Whit lir-eas shall I brill- "r do not care m,Ich 10 tcv f . f*' . to please you I will," Dai What sole and proaoas.hrag? And before long, leal And how may I so serve itiee father's ana, she eaters That I may all deserve thee, halL And claim my own, To-morrow? Their tickets entitle th Arrooint the trvstiue-nlace ??? ?' * J Viae? v/i UiO ivjl vUXvOO XV/fT Where thou wilt show thy face, j the usher takes them. And me more tender grace I The lecture begins even Than thou hast shown, To-morrow. What is it that causes I give thee pledges?ay, and tremble ? As the d< I put in pawn To-day; of the orator fall upon But thou givest none, To-morrow. bring back with vivid f( I am too flush and fre?? msr five years ago, whei To lavish all on thee! and unsought her girlis Wilt thou atone, To-morrow ? ker keeping fore* ?Edith M. Thomas. effort she controls herself eyes to the platform. not deceived her. She manly figure, whose hands A LONG PASTING. j eloquent with power ar those of the never-forgott< fancy. "V.. tt 1.3 v ,,il- i. t\_- ^ th9 same moment, V How handsome he is, thirtoDaisr, hjs ^za meets mi her o* as she leans over the rustio fence N?ver aid the ( watchingtbe mower as with long sweeps npoa wMch he is trtatmf of his scvthe he cuts down the swaths pf ^ndled grass. ""I really believe that a man ?0nr ja7orit6 orator n looks better m the roughest of clothes 8elf ? s0 fte yoice of than in those stiff immaculate garments iLthey call ? dre?s suijs'-that is if he is It dofes nJ'tell> for it d 'good-loosing at uL. _ what it was that lent sue It is oniy this morning that Daisy has csaal t;re vigour to come to the country to revel _ in its ntterances . but we who a bracing air for the firsu time in her scenes can S2V that it wa L:Vrrt^roses- rt?"^ SM&ssksL * ?&??&??,b?&ri? *?? hif?bUdn0tiC3 tbS ^ U8"e83 l0?k 01 outstretched ] 141 think I want quiet, papa. I am exclamation : tilled of dressing, calling, and parties. v , , rf -J Papa, may I not go to the countey-to *elso,n!. ?. ? aa ; my old nurse's?instead of to the Branch erefore all the more i k this snmmer ?" prise I read yonr ft And Mr. Nelson had answered yes. " I would ]ike to come with you, but! ^ ?fpers' ,, business will not allow of it. So, enjoy i 1fc ,c> were re ^ ?|! J <*?< ^ ! The bright color bathe Andlith these words, kissing her sf-, "'?i"08ffectedfI,IeStlrs fectionately, he had left her in farmer nswers frankly e Shear's care, who was waiting her arriTal sIlf, her smsdI ?l0 at the small station. Farmer Shear's wife rmT' <^?' a?L vepr fj, had been Daisy's foster-mother, caring motl?er ?* aer wonderment in the celel death-bed, calling her weeping honse- th fi keeper to-her, and laying her child in th ^ h ^ "s^ed me faithfnUy, "???* \K,P , Snsm^d I know yon will be kind to A{?r tha e^e?,me7eni * Ard well that trust had been fnlfilled. 1 The first great grief Daisy had erer ex- ^Ue i perienced had come to her when, two ,? or, , , * i? ? ?? km years before onr story opens her kind g8 rf]owrf h thongt Wk oS^ bylworthXmer who^: P^^nately, to'go oSt Kg H onei?a 5? ?J aw rfl7 tarmer, wno re- withont a word or qnest PH 4 he, whom her lather had ties his farm needed in a mistress. ? ' ,, - . It is two o'clock; dinner has been over , f ,7,^' "L ^ ? :u a j gaged in the scientific p feas been minnating m me wuu uuwers afterward maae his name and thousand and one delights new to kealtil for the tiEie her city-bred eyes. For the past ten fj.om over-application to minutes she has been wavChing the come uncle's?1 mower at his work. She knows that he brother?to recruit, knowi is Farmer Shear s nephew, for she met fyggjj ajj outdoor exeri him aa dinner; but she only gave him an? body, the most casual observation then, ana A month goes by, and < fu now she notices, for the first fame, how j^eiSOn concludes an more than averagely fine-looking ne is. conversation by saying : She thinks herself unseen; but she is "I hopo, Mr. Eaughton, not, for a pair of amused dark eyes are are to be my son-in-law, ^ watching her furtively as she peeps bygones be bygones, and L through the only partially concealing ic slice for the past. I tl ^ screen of wild-rose vines that trail about acting for the bast. My her feet, and, clambering upward, fling , my ai], and I consider their scented arms high over her head, desirable match for her. rsaking a charming frame for a charm- pardon me for my fra: ing picture. A great red lily lifts its asstire you how proudly tinted chalice in the centre of the now resign her to you. r meadow; the sunlight touches it and, mated to you that there makes it such a thing of beauty that suitor in the case I did nc i Daisy longs to possess it. But the in the word?only in tt scythe with its measured strokes is ther9 was one, rich, and w nearing its slender stem. pects, who for some tim< "Oh don't lv _ _ upon Daisy with the sarr ^ rFVirt ar^lorrtafinT) inVOlnfitaW. aTlfi f V>/*\rtnrVi fViA frrrf.V XUQ ?- ? ? y ? ? J V U_L cvii j CUUUOjU UUU ti. UW4. c / Daisy flushes crimson as the mower knew it, she regarded hi t ? glances np as if just conscious of her indifference." P presence. Steven took the old gen "The lily," she says, in answer to his fered hand, questioning-look. "I thought you were "I can certainly condoi going to cut it down, and it is so he answered, "in view % pretty." future which you have c Permit me." me in giving me the righ fc. t is the actio*1 of a moment to pluck my 0wn ;our dear daugh:< it and present it to her, and, as he does And ^ not long after, tl bo, Daisy wonders as much at the young ridg0nf and the sun, strea |H man's easy unembarrassed manner and the stamed-glass church-^ refined tones as she did at the comeli- a j-^iant bensdict: " ness and grace of his appearance. bowed heads of Steven B That was how it began, the summer big newly-made bride, idyll that was destined to have such an abrupt ending. Both young, both im- strai-htenin- Trooke prisive, what wonder that the more these two saw of each other the stronger Dr. Ap Morgan Vance, < w grew the charm tnat arew mem ccgetner j^entncsj, nas jaceiy pern Mrs. Shears looked on unsuspiciously; gical operation which m*y it pleased her genial heart to see ' the ^ distinguished as his i) children," as she called them, enjoying decessor, of the same Si themselves; and so the summer hours DowelL Dr. Vance's op flew all too swiftly by. At length came straighten crooked legs in a day when, all through an acciden in t have arrived at a certain aj J*. which, by the falling of a tree, Steven ? The patient on whom D Haughtcn nearly lost his life, the thin formed this operation ^ veil which the sauoy boy-god had been kneed" to such an ex Lent t rearing, called friendship, fell aside, stood with her knees togel and his true face became disclosed, and w?re sixteen inches apar with a sense almost of fear, Daisy awoke, made an incision down to as from a dream, to see whither she had little above the knee, on t] been drifting. of the thigh. Then, with ^ "Can it really be that I care for him to order for this particular ^ ?this young farmer whom a few months carefully severed the thig ATnc.y\finn r\$ flio TYI+I ago I did not knowr* VA Thus she questioned her heart, and This he broke, so that the its answer came quickly: had the nature of a fractui "Ah yes, I do! I do!" was instantly straightened And Steven, lying in his room with 80 as he held in positio his broken arm in a sling, felt happier case an ordinary fracti 4 than a king. Never to his dying day once began the work of re< fe would he forget the look of anguish that Pair> what is called the few he had read in the lovely face his eyes thrown out all around th had rested upon when they had opened tremities of the bone, a ||P^ from the unconsciousness that the this callous was absorbe >Y dreadful stunning blow had brought. formed into true bone. T] $3; "She love's me!" he though tri- filled up and after a short HR0r nmnhantly; liand before long, please onlv straight be Mr God, I shall hear her sweet lips say sound. We have never ir bo." operation being perfor: ; But it was not to be, for it so happen- There are thousands of ; red that the young man had just arisen legged people in the worlc from his bed of pain and resumed the he cured by this simp rele of a convalescent, when Mr. Nelson There is no danger about came to spand a few days with his blood vessels are required , daughter. It was but a short time be- ligated. It is likely that i fore, with a keenness of vision for which j claim to have performed 1 he congratulated himself, he saw how j before for the same purpo matters were. He noticed how the blood nshed to the young man's pale Living on Wat* cheeks whenever Daisy addressed him, l sod how an answering light sprang in- They were sitting in * to the maiden's bine eyes. Anstin hotel talking aboul "This will never do," he thought to and how long it takes some himself, in positive alarm. "My Daisy to death. One of the part a farmer's wife?or rather drudge? The "Dr. Tanner is a fraud, idea is preposterous! How f ?olish I friend who has lived by w was ever to allow the child away from the last four or five years, me. But after all it is not beyond '-On nothing but water? remedy. He has not spoken to her, I How can he live on nothii know, for she would have told me. I "Well, you see, he has ? will lake her home at once. Once away invested in the Austin wat .from his society the danger will be pany, and he lives on the pTer." * [Sittings. Ife le acquiesces > The Bearded Lady., Cork a ither's sudden j>r< George H. Fox writes as follows The French ar WiTaf n ,08? nthe Medical Record: The growth of skillful cork-cut what the feel- np0n the female face, to the treat- they produce the sr every_ puls8 ment of which I a^ain invite attention, that can ba obtai as admiration js a deformity which is very frequently corks none but :ed, no words observed. Perhaps few physicians have cork-wood is ns< &n, and when an adequate idea of its prevalence. In cork of a wine lost coldly, he nearly every "museum of living curiosi- more than the r warm young ties" a bearded woman figures as one of years most corkt Ears pass, and the chief attractions, and it is quite machinery, V"L. ^ a that chil*. probable that bnt a small proportion of hand the cor* oris father, in- bearded women are willing to advertise bladed knife rhat he recog- their misfortune for pecuniary gain. I instead of drawi: gratify, before think there .\re at least a half dozen of cork the skillfi ssire : nothincr _-i_ i_.-t_.-i.: *. - ? ? LUIO UU C-LUlUiLlUU LUIUU^UUUt LJUO rw ill ID 11LU11J KJU. t 1 animation. cj^ qj t^e num-b9r 0f ladies in pri- cork over its kee tv Mr. .Nelson vate life who endeavor, by artifice of of its uses we: nits from the various kinds, to conceal the unpleasant ancients, as is s! mnaingg, fact t^a{. ^Qy ^ave Qr kave a reference to it nen one even- ^eard, it would be very difficult to form writers. There 3 daughter to an estimate. I have no doubt that first use as a sto; a noted lec- there are hundreds of such cases. I ated among the ] speak now merely of those who might to close the mou go, papa, but raj80 a ftnd long growth of hair vessels. Bottle < sy answers. which would deserve the name of beard, appear to have I lfh8 tl?0D fq ^ those who have a comparatively glass bottles can the thronged moderate growth upon the face, and teenth century. . particular^ upon the chin, the number is spoken of by 6m /i^khYh111 ^ beyoni computation. boats made of cc s, an er Frequently the opinion and advice of the Mediterranea 3R thflv ATltpr tte physician are sought respecting this Cjesar. T)iiw M Rkrf abnormal and obnoxious growth?and In Portugal tb .LAilSy io Start ?, , , , _ ? r_ -u :?vj-i:*? an<1 fVhiMrftn nbt: B6p rich tones wiiac ^oes ne tmj i j.u an pruuaumkj ?? ? her ear they the patienb that depilatories cork industry. 1 >rce th?t sum- 616 m^rel7 palliative, advise her to pull Spain, France a l all unasked ^lair8 out or let ^6m alone, and along the MeJit h heart went ^ec^are ^t it is a very trifling matter, best and the la 'er. With an a.nd Pe'kaps add jocosely that ifc is not tained in Poring; and raises her ^kely to cause death. Such an opinion longs to the oak Her ears have never satisfies the patient, for no woman like the oak but sees a tall ever y?fc derived consolation from The wood of t] some features' ^ne *acfc that ngliness is not fatal. When a tree is f] id talent are furthermore, the opinion is rot sound, years old the firs 5n hero of her abnormal growth of hair is not generally disposi always a trifling matter. It may not its quality not b< looking down, ^ill the patient, it is true, but it is cer- able for manufs rri> tain to occasion great annoyance. It is takes from sev sreat question Ter^ aPfc to a^ect ter disposition, and to t^e cork-bark I get as ably *niure ter prospects in life, especially I each year's gr if she be young and unmarried; and it 1 marked in the gr irpassed him- may eventually ruin both her health ' said that when the press the an<* ^er happiness by producing a men- "barked" they1 tal disquietude which in many instances The cork is remc oes not know, Ter8es on melancholia. The frequent July and August, h more than oco^e^ce of faeial hairiness among in- " barkers" it is the speaker's 5306 women ha3 been observed by with wonderful r ?- -1 3 I several writers, and although in such taken off in pieci .re ceama tue s the radiant caees the msa&ity has usually preceded feet m length an gladness that ^e abnormal growth of hair,"l have no inches in bread?] > orbs. dorbt that in many instances the mental afterward boiled laughter issue worr> caused by slight facial hairiness pressed under somes towards ^las acfcec* 88 an exciting cause, and served they are thorough hand and the develop an insane tendency. Dr. J. and put up in bale C. White mentions the case of a lady of cork will we ;ee you, who searched loDg for a surgeon who pounds, and the cpected, and W0Tli<i ^7 the lower part of her face, country are gene: welcome sur- aa(^ thus overcome the obnoxious of iron without ar miliar 'name 8rowth. I tare certainly treated one claimed by some als published or two females who were monomaniacs cork can be pr id not know on ^e subject of their facial hairiness, Southern Skates old friend or even w^en this has heen very slight, efforts have been and the most satisfactory result of trest- tion in Georgia s Daisy's face ment in these cases has been the im- York cork impoi > in his tones, Prevenient in general health which has seen American gj md simplv, as fo^owe<i the removal of the hair which it of a very good d hand in his : ser76d to make their lives unhappy. never seen any c ;o meet you." Of the advances which dermatology market, and had ither, who by has made in recent years, the develop- f361^ m1a^>6 to_in ;o his infinite ment of the operation for removal of a. -Cassia brated orator hair is without doubt the most brilliant. 1aantity of cork, a orrrs n%r> FT! thfl ATCh.VDP,X of DeTTTlCltolOOV. flVe I ^ppljll years ago, my friend Dr. Duhring. of ler?^c aughnon?yon Philadelphia, reported the case of a . - ^ bearded womam, whom many of yon P1?11 111 many ?' ing that Mr. have donbtless seen cn exhibition, and ?s* , . allow him to after an exhaustive description and dis- , f" Pou^<i o? %0} . Daisy's side, cnssion of interesting points concluded , - cfnts> a, 11 thing is ex- with the following paragraph: "In re- almost any degr dw it was that gard to the question which was asked .ee t loving her me by the patient, whether the growth COi'?-wood is pu of his life on the face could be successfully Paratus and the ion, and how and permanently removed (and I Paratory to cutti: looked upon reed not add that it is to her ^ft68 lt; reality heir to a source of intense mortification ]r. condition < en then en? and distress), I would say that +r^ v If v! nrsuits which the only justifiable means at our com- that he freqnent. ? noted. His mand are palliative, consisting in either as tinn coars^ ring suffered the daily use of a razor or in the em- are ,n? , ?r , study, he had ployment of a depilatory powder." sweat-bands m 1 bis mother's This was written only five years ago, corsets ?r f0* ^ ng the benefit and represented advanced opinion at on* fac* sise does both that time. I quote it simply to show non-conductor that dermatology in America is not a *en. matei?al t Dne afternoon reflex of European thought, but turing hats and all-important that it is alive and advancing. 4 bats are quite co In the light of what has been a^com- !!* that now you plished by several in this countr j, it is .1< J fV you will let apparent that, in one respect av least, v*? *aA? bear me no we are in advance of our dermatological r rf 1 0. lought I was brethren abroad, who, as Dr. Heitzmann *n ?r? ^m. j . ^ i? 3. __T i +-u,- m the winter. L uaugmer was reiuar.s?, uu not kuow ui,ituui^ nwui Pnolis id you not a permanent and safe depilation. Ltead of piste J. trust you The operation for the permanent re- hats. Cork is a] nkness whenl moval of hairs by electrolysis has been able'extent in si and gladly I described by several who have written rollers. It is ea When I inti- on the subject, and the descriptions dif- cor^ wear 01 was another fer merely in a few non-essential points, strument case m )t deceive you The operation is a simple onei, which quantity of thin te letter?for aDy physician with a steady hand and ttiey nse in iinin v, Pi08; keen eye can readily perform, although, ever jt js desi i nad loosed as in many other Bimple operations, a that will ke le feelings aa peculiar dexterity is required, and far an<j the dampn< wa?i\ a? more satisfactory results are obtained xised. Naturalis m with titter after a certain amount of real practi- about having th( , cal experience. An ordinary galvanic keep their impal tieman s prof- battery is required, and a fine needle, cork. jt jg Cnst< n which is to be attached to the negative w^0le houses wi' le the past,' cor(j# The number of cells required 0Xlt the cold, ai of the joyous for the opperation dapends upon the been done in opened before activity of the battery, the delicacy of The sheets of co: t to WOO for flio nnfio-nffl aViri anrl th.A shrfinirth of ,, J _ ? o-- Httiio auu uuuui -r* the hairs to be removed, and shotild be saj(j to be but li ae merry bells determined in each case by the effect houses so drv an ming through which is produced. I commonly use pants are enable* windows, falls from ten to sixteen cells of a zinc-carbon m0ney that they ion upon the battery, or a corresponding number of to pay for fueL [aughton and a chloride of silver battery. The needle ^ gentleman is introduced into the follicle by the j Spain ?? side of the hair. If this is skillfully york corfc gr ,a I imbs done, no pain whatever is felt by the that in that coui patient. The sponge-cup or sponge- ugea by the peas jf Lexington, tipped positive electrode should not be chairs, beds an jrmed a sur- used to complete the circuit. The make 'houses of vet make him electrolytic action now manifests little rowboats c lnerriAno in fr.rm r> i _ ^ i iuouiivuo Mio itocu. ouujovuitt/xj &u AVAM4 Portugal wmuu ate, Dr. Mc- of a sharp stinging sensation, hastily fashionec eration is to and objectively in the form of Some of these bi persons who bright hyperemia around the needle. and strong enoui ge. In a few seconds the hyperemia will persons. So ci r. Vance per- give place to a blanching of the skin, even jn this com vas " knock- and a little froth will appear at the be purchased to :hac when she mouth of the follicle. If the hair be ^hole garden for ther the heels new seized with a pair of forceps and on6 0f the most t. Dr. Vance the gentlest traction exerted, it will be which cork has the bone a found to be loose in the follicle in the facture of gas fr< he outer part course of from ten to twenty seconds, a chisel made provided the needle has been skilfully Sketching operation, he introduced. With the* finest flexible h bone with needle it is extremely rare to produce Mr. Carl Bocfc ?ytiq1 enrfooo irrViaolo r^oKnlofirtno T? mam? /?aeon is TIOW in Siftm. wound really the effect of the operation is simply to taken a journey i *c . The limb leave red points, wnich soon disappear, tific research, and bandaged The operation is by no mfans a pleasant he states that alt' q. As in the one, but rarely does a patient make any every assistance i ire, nature at complaint of pain. The majority say it he had many c ;overy and re- is not sis UBptea'jsnt as having teeth way by those wb callous was filled in a dentist's chair, and with the assist liim. The e broken ex- fine needle the painful sensation is en liim by rumo] nd gradually greatly reduced. and other suppos d and trans- by stealing his be gap is thus that he would time the limb ^ie ^an=??se ^ a kdler. f00t. At one pla it practically The introduction of the mungoose occurred, which, heard of the into Jamaica as a cure for the onca led the explorer; med before, formidablb rat pest on the sugar planta- A certain chief, poor crooked tions is said to have proved a notable being half-naked I who may yet success. The sugar rat is a huge white dreadfully mar] le operation, bellied fellow, measuring ten inches in allowed his wife it, as no large length of body, his long tail adding ten model for a ske Kfl /?nf. n? oc mm-a tn Kin lonorfh TiY?rTr>prl"P his WOrk he 1US ?ome one will the damage done to the sugar planta- chin, as artists ;he operation tions of the island by these rats amount- more agreeable Be. _ ed to something like half a million dol- and wife immedii lars a year, rising to a quarter of the :rage at 'this sap >r crop in seasons of special ravages. About neighbors were five years ago the mungoose, whose zeal intruder. The front of an as a snake and rat killer is well, known, of the sketch : Dr. Tanner, was imported from India. As a result Mr. Bock, being men to starve the plague of rats has been greatly di- hit upon the exj y said: minished, with a saving in sugar of not the woman alon< "I've got a less tiian 25 tons of sugar on each es- all her companioi ater alone for tate* There is also saved the expense While this was " of rattage, formerly amounting to hun- executed a roug Impossible! dreds of dollars a year [Scientific Arner- woman quickly t< igbut water?" ican. detecting the r ill his money ' played upon her.erworks com- Floral jewelry in tinted silver, witn dividends,"? diamond dewdrops sparkling on leaves Paper made f and flowers, grows in favor constantly, novelty in Germa ,nd Its Uses. An Ambascade. t e eaid to oe the most '*** following story oi the early days | * ters in the world, and of TYalpole, N. H., is from an interesting ! ^ s best champagne corks ' chapter of colonial reminiscences by ined. For champagne j Charles Charlenton Coffin. The enconnthe finest quality of | ^r Gideon-like victory here de- me 5d, and frequently the scribed took place in 1755, near the t bottle actually costs | commencement of the "French and ? bottle itself. Of late j Indian War." The settlers had heard t j have been made by I that war had begun and they knew that aea. V.T71 the French and Indians might be upon CfcAV , n uses a broad thin- j fche"ta at any moment. They therefore ~r i a very fine edge, and [ stengthened their block-houses. No ng the knife over the j one ^ent alone to the field work. The ll workman holds his ;men always earned their guns with ?'Wri he table and draws the j thenf. Tkey had some faithful watch- ^.'Qe n edge. Cork and some j which always growled when *ea3j re known among the Indians were about. hown by the occasional There were nearly forty meD in the _ made by the earlier settlement, stout-hearted and determin- gC< is a tradition that its ^ not to be driven out by the French ?ve aper for bottles origin- and Indians. They approached Colonel er< Egyptians, who used it Bellows to be their leader. He had a j ths of their rude water suspicion thai Indiana were about. t?w< jorks, however, do not "We must have a supply of meal, so r?? )eccme common until in case we are attacked we tle into use in the fif- liave something to eat," he said. j The cork life-preserver The settlers filled each a bag with j ' Plutarch, and small c?ra> shonldered them, and then, in I 'x oinnla filo man V^rrTinc liis PTin. I u >rfc bars were in rise on 0 0 ?. .n in the days of Jnlius marched to the grist-rr^1?r-?. wen m.ef j- ' had erected, ground the corn into meal, y ousandsof men, women shouldered the sacks jonce more and j ain a living from the etarfced homeward, their faithful watch- ?_ Cork-wood is raised in d?gs trotting in advance, paying no at j- .nd in various places Mention to the squirrels or partridges or vanc erranean sea, but the 8am^' ?f that sort. ^ ,, rgest quantity is ob- Suddenly the dogs came back growl- ff. eJ. The cork tree be- 1;k? to** on their backs in a mff. J species. It has acorns "There are Indians about. Throw ~ the leaves are smaller. dowi1 jour sacks," said Colonel Bel* gaf be tree is very hard. Jows- w rom twelve to fifteen Tiie m6n threw their sacks on the ^ t bark is taken off, and ground, dropped into the ferns and t_ 2d of as virgin cork, looked to the priming of their guns. eyer iing regarded as desir- The ferns were tall and completely ns icturing purposes. It concealed them. Colonel Bellows sus- ^ en to ten years for pected that the indians had laid an am- u_ w to grow again, toscade at a narrow place in the path owth being plainly which they must pass. He crept slowly b ain oi the cork, It is ^or^ard to see what he could discover, ^tej trees are properly oar?fal not to break a twig or make w j will live for 150 years. aD7 noise. oear( >ved in the months of crePt to the top of a little hill ?nd , and by experienced peeped through the ferns, and discov- ancj ( stripped off the trees ?red a great number of Indians crouch?:jh T4. ire behind trees or lying on the ground, fo*n -10 XO UOUflilj v 4 _ *s of from tliree to four waiting for the white men to enter the unce d twelve to eighteen traP- .Ee ma<?e Ms wa7 back tis all n h. These pieces are issued his orders in a whisper, accui in water, scraped and and ^ crawled through the ferns them heavy weights. Then toward the Indians till they were only _Lo hly dried hefore a fire, a rods from them. is for shipment. A bale All were ready. Every man sprang igh from 'U>0 to 200 k*8 yelled 68 1?U<1 as he bales that come to this could, "Hi-ya, hi-ysl" It was a ter- Fe rally bound with bands ri^t^owl. . capit ly other covering. It is The next moment not a settler was to Mutt American dealers that ^e 86eQ> had dropped on the ground ports ofitabJ.y grown in the and the7 were concealed by the ferns, two I , and a few modest In an instant every Indian was on his one-] made in that direc- feet, firing his gun, but hitting nobody, day. and Florida. A New There was an answering flash from per c ter said that he had the ferns, each settler taking aim, and A1 rown cork, and thought the Indians sprang into the air, or fell inclu , quality, but he had headlong before the bullets. with rf it in the New York red 1:1611 outnumbered the set- Edws * * ' "* ? ?ivm 1 a 1 l. - * ,,a? tiers. due tney were bo asouunueu uj a. troXe t^ ere S the"'surprise that, picking up the unkn r the lajeft ded' fchey made a *"?* rstre,at Un*t( The neoDle of those into the swamp, and the settlers made m it, ;^t inPa h 'ndred dff! aU taste to to their block-honse, antici- land, faom?tdsci P^ing an attack. Not one of them m, vane! k dishes are quite com- injured. . I the European coun- Wonderful Bat Cares. snow :k costs from three to A gentleman writes to the Galveston t can be obtained in Nexvs concerning a very interesting ' ee of thickness up to subject. He says: The bat. caves ol At the factories the Texas have been known to bear hunters t into a steaming ap- and turkey hunters and^other^adven- comjA iroughly steamed pre- txtrous persons a long tiia^C Tney arc i' ng it. The moist heat numerous in the mountains or semi- ^ ? L pliable, and when in mountainotui regions of the limestone , ' can bo split into very districts. I dare say if any one should ae manufacturer said turn out to hunt ihem they would be ty cut jork into sheets found by hundreds. Whenever yon T ) paper. Such sheets find a considerable cave with an open- ^ ' various purposes?for ing there you will be quite sure to find . lats, for stiffening in bats by the million. 1 have never seen * tists to paint pictures the caves mentioned :in the arti cle, but . . ; that cork is a have seen several. The only one I ever | makes it an excel- ventured to explore was either in ' ^ o use in manufac- Medina county or Bandera. Tney are shoes. Cork helmet not very pleasant places to go into, as mmon now, and nearly one is continually hsunted by the fear ^ haR adopted the prac- of rattlesnakes, she bears with cnb3, P ,. k to es for shoes. In and the danger of falling into unknown jV ie wearer of the shoe abysses. They are regular witch holes. . J M Te xl L A Z-T-i TTf/\rlrl f V* C>V?k com Id HgLiber i/iiau. ica tu<cj. jj LLlbrW UO Wiiuu^ xu uio ttvaau wmv^v ad warmer than leather you will find them. is far back as thirty I should think thai I explored that h hatmabers nsed cork one in Bandera, or Medina, several (board in making silk hundred yards, as I judged, nntil I so need to a consider- came to a fine creek rushing and roar lk mills to cover the jug through it. Beyond the creek I jiine: id that one lining of could see another opening leading, no j PJ at three of rubber. In- doubt, to still deeper and darker <;t*or' akers require a large depths; but I had got enough of it Rnd 13 sheets of cork which and refused to venture any further. In SQ2ar g their cases. "When- this one I encountered the bat guano efe.<jf ired to make a box immediately on entering, and it con- 7?8lte. ep out tho heat tinned a great distance. I could not ;ss cork is invariably judge how thick the deposit was, '*? fc ts are very particular but was certainly many feet. There cj?an.c s cases in which they could not have been less than several ... 13 aA inaof?f.H llTlPri with I f^/vnoan/} tnn? nf lf._ ftTld it WSS aCCUmU- I ' juawvvvv uuvuowuu v? *vj ? nlCAA' omary in Russia to line lating with great rapidity. I should "*? ~ th cork in order to keep not be surprised now to learn that the , id the same thing has cave has been so completely filled up , England and Canada, by the deposits that the bats can no ^ ' rk are put between the longer go into it. Votto the floors. The cost is One can scarcely conceive of the ttle, and it keeps the great multitude of oats there are in the ' . d warm that the occu- world until he has gone into one oi ? ? 1 to save a great deal of these bat caves. They not only covei erj would otherwise have the walls and roof completely, several , tiers deep, apparently, but they actual- ,, who visited Portu- ly hang from the roof in enormous , ,, as buyer for a New bunches. When you stir up one ol , m, last year, says these great pendant bunches of bats P.. . ltry the cork bark is there is a squeaking and fluttering, ta ,. , antry for cradles and be sure. The substance cast down by j d sofas, and even to these bats is rich in nitrate of potash, j coyer . ne saw scores 01 Jt'or tC.6 manuiacrare oi wiab earn ut, j ^ ,n the small rivers in other substance in the world can com-; the cork-cutters had pare with it. I saw any quantity of ii i out of virgin cork, in the Bandera or Medina cave, which, | ^ter jats were large enough by some natural process, had been con-1 ^ $h to hold six or seven verted where it lay into pure ssltpetei | < ieap is the virgin cork, apparently. It would _ undoubtedly j ^ , , ttrr, that enough can make a very strong fertilizer, besides j ^an tastefully ornament a furnishing gunpowder, etc., but whethei ( , , $10 or $15. Perhaps the raw stuff is worth 860 a ton or not i extraordinary uses 1 o I cannot say. If it is worth anything ,. ( teen put is the manu- like that figure I should say that a j , , 3m it. Texas bat cave is better than a gold ? mine. the ChiePs Wife. ? the eastern explorer, ^ *or Tat* _ where he has under- "Jeptha," said Mrs. Jones, reflective* ;or the object of ecien- lj, as she noticed askance that her hus- gg2 g Writing in September band was counting out his money in 9 ere<j hough he had .received plethoric roll of greenbacks, " I should i more from the king of Siam, like a new satin dress; it would be cooj j gr betacles placed in his for summer and satin is really the most ^mei o had been deputed to economical material now in use." kind! natives tried to fright- " I don't seo what you want of an* sooni rs of fevers, evil spirits other satin," answered Jones, with a tears' sed clangers, and ended sardonic smile. heart horse, never dreaming "Another! I'm sure I haven't a j^e cc decide to proceed on satin dress to my name." ye ice an amusing incident "Why, what's the matter with the j Eex^ however, might have dress you have on?" asked her husband; j 3 into serious difficulty. " it has been sat in for the last five j affajr who is described as years!" I foii -i O " TTT._5. Tnnaol 1 1CT.U , Dimu. ui out) tiye, tuiu worcis iaiieu uu vuu00 ently ied with small-pox, mind and she bided her time ; it came; reali to become the traveler's she had made Jones a dressing-gown a jefin tch. In the course of few days previous on the anniversary wan^ t touched his sitter's of his birthday, and it had fitted hi? sem, will, in order to get a nicely with one exception?it was a an(j pose. Both husband trifle short, a defect she had prepared j itely flew into a violent for and knew just how to remedy. Last I ^aTlg] >posed insult, and the evening one of the neighbors dropped i a7er? called in to eject the in to talk over aflairs and smoke a social ,^ instant destruction cigar, when Jones brought out his new Anr was insisted upon, garment and put it.on. unwilling to iose it, "\Vhy, my dear," Ire said, pleasantly, jedient of giving it to "yon have forgotten to lengthen it.; ?, and demanded that You know it was several inches too g( is should be sent away, short!" # of E being done he quickly ? Oh! never mind, love," said hiB cert8 h duplicate, which the wife, with malice in her eye, " it will be cert? Dre in pieces, without long enough before you get another!" tione use which had been There was an omiDOU3 eilenca, and ^y s< - [Chambers's Journal, the neighbor remarked that he had for- an(j , gotten to take the shrubbery in, and DOw rom soap is a recent there might be a frost, ind he excused pecti ny. """ himself and vent home. ?>on' Elephants All Cowards. J AX ALLIGATOR FARM. j once had a grand scrimmage with a . T I ? ? __ a?a gu~ v?,a _ i j And an Interesting Account of the Habits ? :ess. She had manled my own of tae Reptiles, ser badly, had crunched the mahout's ?fT#^ * *' *i. n-* * i ; into a jelly, while she bad caused ,, '3f 7^ nt to see the aUlJrtor'aa to be thrown off, and after mauling observed the colonel, if yon other elephants, not badly, she had S? * ma,n..w has beten red us to retreat for the time, aa it btol,?ht. ?P 'em. lf yon want a ? dark, and not an animal would go 84Mre view of the reptile in bis native rber; we bad no howdab,. Neft 3S. %7J'? <.?*' ^ S ning we found her dead ar.d took her PlaStat'^ , Judge is the only man ?*t r a , ,, ? in South Carolina who can talk allica- to p camp. As an experiment, we bad all tor all d^Ionff 3nd B0ttdl alta." ce, "?n| J"-l 1 did??' Ssee the alligator in his ar< ^ w t jinRle, and I rode across the ?" head and iowJ, and had its back t j.?, SPt fully cut by the charah ropes, went - j +- wf i,* ^ a h, ha< T' V . i 1.1 F %' lZ i Old-time, old-fashioned Southern resi- na( e ^ tmnk ' jDRfArtij S dence, with its lone verandas and bean- yai carcass mth its trunk, and stood by tifal sMe. Half a mile away were the hel ancernedly, but none of the other fl t sj f bi ? jt 1 wh tnaKers would go near her. They ^ thatsbayon that fhe 4gator nn: s then jammed together and dnven his years in basking and eating and or * * ,ey.^ af^ ^'h j65"38 keeping one eye out for the flash of a W1 3red until their tusks plowed up ^ ? * J 0f ground, uttering most pitiful cries. ..f 'j ^ that b ? Baid fte a ? sn within a yard or so of the dead Jnd " t ted alIigators for MSk they jerke- up their heads, andeall_ j was fignriig up the other ?P fv??n v i day and I calculated that I was the itt nthstandmg the punishment of at leMt 1000 alligators. 0? a ,, received from ^ their ^ ma- thev come and bo. but I calcu- in? , away uT'r ou x.uuuwnicu ate steady acc i. It was the most absurd sight I tenants." ' life, saw. The next day, although the akR big mes ^ of 1 e where we were encamped was aa ?A \ ^ are 86ven or eight in 1 , of vegetation and level aa a 0.1- oia 60ciers which ^ ^ there lor mo table, not an elephant would ad- ^irty vears, if j was pinched to it I the :e alone to drink water or to be think I could exhibit two or three rep- at I ed. Thebheelwas not 100 yards ti[ at lea3t f(mrt(,6I1 leeU(mgi anFd wh so the mahouts holding on to there u one theM which oak , of the ear of an elephant,!ed them twenty t? an inch?" apa , body down toward the water. ,.H?wloI)g io tleJ liver the lenly a young tusker, Jerry, which ?WeUi that's a hard ouestion. The wh been boin in captivity and onQ j gpea^ 0f ^en personally &ev 0 a Tl ST*??, te?Ptr' known to ? for over forty fears, anS Thi ipeted and bolted, followed by joean't show any signs of second exp 7 M,T , "J .ramS: f4 ' f76 childhood yet. I reckon the average oha great deal of trouble to recapture alligator pn"te ^ fr0m fifty to seventy wit ' Am?e ?' 0 f av .wandered ye?s in this world of trouble." mo >rd of fiity miles, not being recov- A ?What do the aga for a week. There was not the ?Most eTerTt?illg. ^ amgator is. ble test cause for this stampede. It , h : ^ he ^ |et food Wh fered with our sport considerably; he will chew way at a pine log! jnst as l4d: n a few aavs thfi plenhants ar>- i -v. , . _ 3 v ?" J . ' "Tif ~>r a nungry man win cnew a tootn-pici. n?L^ 'e FK-T* the? ST'' That Dig one devoured a steer lot me hav ^tv.or J1 t*oes th.is spring, and was nosing around alJj rther game off them mthont show- after more meat in half an hoor. I had lap iny uodoe fear. 1 have always a ea]f tied np to that tree down there mai i elephants bom in captivity most one day fat fall, and a reptile came cot sha ttsin m their tempers. They lose of the a]Jd t?ok Ln off, chain by ,ar of man, while, from not bemg a aU ia if he d^t swalloffthe nic, Jtomed to wild beasts, they dread chain ; neyer ^ abl8 to find on; and are thns useless for sport.- it j ha? eeen , ^ thlow.eman in* 071 old plow-point, and it would be ewal- acc " lowed at a gulp." ^ The Diet of the Japanese. "Are they dangerous to human the w natives, except officers in the . . , , , ?,, . ***! al, sailors and soldiers, eat beef. "Not if you Bit here, but if there is a and on and pork beyond the treaty ?an in this c-n y who dares cross hot ; are scarcelv vet known. About fchat bay?n 111 a sklff at sundown he can His tundred varieties of fish are eaten, have my plantation. As near as I can re? aalf of the people eating fish every fi^reup those reptiles have got away w<s The food of the masses is "ninety th fifty negroes, eight or ten white and v J men. thirtv cattle, five or six mules ?>i ist of the food-plants in use, not and no end to pigs and geese in the last byenpX? -wttXy the liveliest?- ml ird Kinch, of the Tokio University. ''Eull?Pe m0^,* ge number of these substances are .6 see! . v s. x aT,j own, or at least unu.-ed, in the and the snn is pretty hot, bnt I gness and id States. Of rice, which occupies weT?an stlf nP ? *ew* , , . ,, fh 3 culture one-half of the cultivated ^ there are two hundred and fifty Won, and the noise we made in the ttou ;ien of seed in the country. Millet Z * and reeds brougnt a score of ove teusively used, but bread raised P *8* ^ surface. The and a "sponge" of yeast is scarcely vet ^ndge had a billet of wood in his hand, g n in the popular diet, the old and presently gave it a toss far out on tmt .Portuguese word,on being, how- ^h^U^S^ & e soy-bean, which in chemical com ^7 a ferocious fight over the billet, and peti ion closely approaches animal fibre, his Honor quietly ODserved: _ , tensively cultivated. Probably no *ereilt ^ 111 ** " ay excels Japan in the variety of ^ me call the dog. riinous plants raised for food. Of v ge whistled to one of the dogs left gen s and roots, the sweet potato is behind on the veranda, and when the pa nnflt nnnnior Mm oh f,n animal reached us it was encouraged to aisc is much tabooed by the aristocratic bark. That fetched em. I believe oy J is, as onions are supposed to be ^*at a^ least 300 alligators put in an ap- bim g us. Sixteen million bushels of pearance inside of a minute, some con- apa: "Satsuma potatoes" were produced ^enfc rema^1 stationary?others plung* dec ear, while the "Java" or "Dutch"? mZ about and blowing and fighting. witi iommon white potato-is left to ''Louder,King-louder!"commanded sur< jners, the native palate not liking the Judse, and the dog barked as if he ver jily bulbs?sixteen varieties?serve had traed a coon. The number of rep- Am id, boiled and served with "drawn tiles increased by at least a hundred and real r." The lotus root is eagerly eaten the waters were thrashed and paddled will int oblivion of country or decay of *il the odor from them was quite stiff his jtism. Poppy seeds powdered as "Can't fool the old veterans that way," of ment, infusions of salted cherrv observed tne Judge as he turned away, tior 3ms for drink, horse-chestnuts and "They are down on the muddy bottom seei s are among the articles of diet. in fch? *eed?, and the? v that this is only a jalse pretense. Let a Uni Negro come down with a fish-pole, and did Concerning Color. that would mean business. They'd ea s an interesting series of expert- swim the bayou and not leave a ripple, l?u 3 Sir John Lubbock showed that and thouZh the ^ass as &oitl? as no* is to bees the most attractive color. a snake. , . . ,,,. laced pieces of paper of different 4"Is the alligator possessed of mujlli- plej 3 in equally favorable positions ? don .pon every piece fastened a bit of ,, ?? I regard him as keener for . By patient watching he discov- ,tban the serpent and fiharper than the act* that the bees most frequently Let one start to crawl to thehouse gm< d the blue ground, and his inves- and m}\ take ^vantage. ?/ the The on was sufficiently prolonged ground and Dushes and grass just as a grai >rbid the suggestion of mere wolf or tiger would. do < *. Following a similar line And ^u't you get nd of them?- km, iquiry Mr. A. Anthony Nes- "Good lands! but I dont want to! difi an analytical chemist, has I want to foster them. I want em to cou vered that blue is the healthiest thrive and increase and multiply until weL for fish fat least for carp), and, the bayou won't hold'em. Ten fifteen hou lore, presumably their favorite or twenty years nence me pnce or suib"- lar . It wis already known that fish tor hids mil be fonr times what it is side ;e in shade when the color of the E0?' ">d then Illtnrnin on 'em and ore m of the water in which they live "Jfhe some money. That bayon is my rooi meed, becoming darker when the alligator farm. The seeds are there spa: m is darker and lighter when the and the plants are growing and when I larg mis lighter. For the pnrpose of can fienre that I own 3, COO good sized Anc taining whether this alteration is ""'gators I shall let cotton go for one can. >nly to the quantity of light, or seas M,a, "nd alligator hides to pm ner actinic rays and the color maT^|t, -'lees yon, my boy, bnt l lad; e light have also an inflnence in wopldn't let a man crack away here with m0i icing the change, Mr. Nes- f0 a v ^ gold-piece. He d get roo] began a series of experiments nervons and skeery, and like enongh thai 1 have extended over several ?? ffflole s!hg?'or farm wonld sail off cha: hs. His earpwereplacedin globes down the mer in search of a new owner, sot ed externally with colored vanish, I want to keep'em right here. There s soei Dps being covered with large con- going to he big money m that sort of leas <?vers similarly colored to the hve-stwk before we are ten years ton is, air being freely admitted by the 0 [Detroit Free Press. thai mention of corks between globe ' the cover. His conclusions are, first, -r..tc j5 ; --- +i,A UVJS' full JUAUJL lO a IflViUVi XU vuau^o au as the bine produced darker fish Though we venture to cleave to the pari the black, and red had no action opinion that the average schoolboy, ven aver ; and second, that bine, the wlien at school, is literally a young bar- The of the sky, and not black or green, barisn, it is fair to discriminate. The styl jolor of mud and foliage, is the sma11 boy, before his term at school, is net md most healthv color for carp. often an imaginative little fellow fond wit! | of reading and even of poetry. He soon for' gets that knocked out of him, and enters ups< Will Remit Soon, the grubby stage, adjuring sentiments, muc ? - 0 and living chiefly on chestnuts, or mges, pan eermgworis these? taffee, tarta, and "sock" in general. In yet e edi 0 sits in his ano , e a gtage he is a good deal bullied, and grac f co 00^"' if is initiated by painfnl ceremoni's into soft together 82 83 and needs bnt $90 tbe mJBteriesJof1'tte tribe. His ^4 ^ n6T, . Letter a ter le e is p ed, and a^ajnet mast-ers and monitors, and everv the1 ids a wonderfnl nnan.m.ty of sen- m\n> ^ d ; dnst ^ Wi h"e it npon the part of his debtors, a a h d A u b t ^ .y feeling, a disposition to remit . Th; ?L, J tte aradnallY Th Any wonder that the unbidden pJf " grnooy state graanauy Tin. that the "iters as _the boy takosjo the nse^of A "" . ~:r' \ 8cent, ana 10 aecoiaxe hib person wiwi +>,ft , is softened, his sonl lifted i p as ' - .* ^ Ine "adders this uniform kindliness? fft? this h eith bec anJaiUete a:" ay issrsz= " , .. , , ,, > > J ment of society or man abont scnooi, so i remit soon, and if he tackles ttem t k j kf d f ^ of 1 , they will remit soon These The^ characteristics abi? ^th him wswho say they mil remit appar- mtil he gets int0 tte ^ >cd the P? neSLgof the^rord, a sort of nn- wS?^ oriole abou*?^ '?P ed idea that that settles it. We " wJf a man to say that he will pay, or t0 furnish his study. And so he ceases or whack up, or come to time, j0 be a boy, and becomes an nndergrad- M* then we feel that we have some , forgetting hie grubby ways and of realizing; but experience has harhW,ns rales of conduct. Bnt in all ?! blSmual^?depend ?P0D tlle steges he is byal to the unwritten lawa Zi g remlt 18 of hie tribe, and will endure ell thing to e niaeter ?Cincinnati Saturday Night. ?H**tor-[Saturday Review. the Every duty brings one peculiar de- doi >nry Morley, who knows the history light, every denial its appropriate com- roc nglish literature well, says that "a pensation, every thought its recom- in f in average of popular culture and a pense, every love ita elysium, every on kin proportion of literary reputa- cross its crown; pay goes with perfcr- hoi i have never failed to be represented mances, as effect with cause. Meanness pre jme mind of extraordinary power, over reaches itself; vice vitiates whoever str: as that average and proportion have indulges in it. pec been reached or exceeded he ex- is < 3 a great genius to arise very soon. CapeJColony exported last year $22,- j toz t all speak at once. 500,000 worth of diamonds. ' Ho AMONG THE MEXICANS. A Canons Care for Hydrophobia. The Carrollton, (Mo.,) Democrat, of autlful Customs in Vogue anions: the Jfa & late date teUs about an alleged CUXO tives of the Sister Republic. of hydrophobia through the virtues of a a letter dated Lamnazoa Mexico mad-stone as follows : Some weeks ago ra: The X^JtTatwJS^? ".jf* Mr f Vf^" i^T69 hSV? 8 CnStCm S, *' Sifts ftoi, and bit a twelve-year-old d life which seems to me a pretty one. ^ Vfl .jfj i??V?>d and wife have entirely sera. son of ^ King* The cattle 611(1 hOTS0M e a7artm^trand neither i^ eLS 8000 ^teT developed violent cases of ;.. M hydrophobia and oied. Dt on invitation. These apartments however, was made by the !?yuntfl !m the same honae, or afleast the ne inclosure, yet they are usually ^-TT? rCV -.*; Of ' ' >arated by a considerable space. Each tinned since atoiMjwn. Of g 3 a separate set oI attendants^ ser- conrse the parents of the hWe f^W its, mil nothing seems in common felt great ' iween them except the table, at and fan^ll7 hearag otn , , ich they always eat together, the possession of ^ TOtawm rsery for the children, ""and the yard of this place, deterged to come * court, with its fiowere, figs and viaes. once and test its virtue. They xewhed len the husband desires the company Carroll ton Wednesday and ^ ^ ? bis lady in his apartments he writes proceeded to Mr. John W ote of invitation in terms of the most residence, and the reporter of this.paper mal and lofty politeness, incloses it in f^ted <?.be Prese?fc **d erinmed envelope, seals it and sends the test. Tne wound was sks^tly o her on a silver tray in the hands of scarified and the stone placedI upon.& Brvant. The lady acknowledges the Xt immediately adhered with such ten- |g -i?ir i_ il. - ~ j _v-~ tipcg .tfcfl jgOfiTH ' mm -i '-Su Violent mouons ome doay *w?i v ely to do, she appears at the door remove It thus contained to his apartments at the appointed hour, absorb the poison for about forty-five bridal costume, escorted by one or mhrotes on the first appnration, when re of her ladies in waiting. These pores became filled and the scone n retire. The husband receives her was placed in milk to relieve toe cells ;he door, leads her to a little table, ?* substance. Subsequently appli- jvsflj are he treats her to chocolate or tea. cations were made, each time tiie Btone es, frnits, etc. In the midst of his adhering for a shorter penod, nnffl jt xtments he has a room furnished in refused to stay on at alL Ine little most exquisite way he is capable of, fellow told us that the drawing power ioh he holds sacred to his lady and ?\ ^e stone was felt very sensibly Ip er occupies unless she is present, him and from the first application^ his is room is his pride. He spares no head had ceased to trouble him. j.t is tense to make it as unique and believed that whatever of poison was ?-? ? _?:vi? rm,?? ?I <*nTnmTmicated bv the rabid dope has tTJUULLlg pUBBAUlG. ?HOJ WUUV?> ? * i*i.S h one another until the following been removed and that the child is ease ming after. breakfast, when they from hydrophobia. . - ^ v^aj in separate, to meet only at the ta- owners of tnis remarkable stone , in the nursery, or in the court. inherited it from their father, and he ien the gentleman has received his received it from James. Nackley, of y in his apartments it is not proper Howard county, nearly fifty years ago. leave her one moment until they It is of a grayish color, very porous, --,7^ ?? 'e breakfasted, which does not usu- filled with peculiarity formed cells, ia ' occur riTitil nine o'clock. After the quite beautiful, and would attact atten? 3e of some days?I do not know how tion in any cabinet of curiosities. ay?etiquette requires that the lady has been tried in a great many caseff 11 return the husband's compliment and has uniformly refused to adhere to sending hi a similar invitation, any wound not made _by a mad-dog, and, sly sealed in a perfumed envelope on the contrary, as in the case above a silver tray. He acknowledges the cited, clings close and firmly_ to every itation with many thanks, and if he cue made by a rabid canine. The epts, which it is presumed he is Messrs. Wilcoxson freely offer the use te sure to do, he first indulges in j of this stoDe without charge to anyone, hatli. nrics himself tit) in his best I and are anxious to have its elncacy iv, patronizes his perfume bottles tested whenever an unfortunate may I his pomades, and at the appointed offer occasion. They refuse, however, ir appears promptly at the door of to let it go out of their possession. lady's apartments. She is there to sive him, dressed like a queen, A Great Sin ger's Early Life. ring orange blossoms in her haii it is interesting to trace a glorious * ??soin\ , cornets him career to its origin Mme. Nilsson is i little table, where he is offered ^ daughter & very p^r parents, e and cakes and fruit. After this natives of the province of GottlancL aat she regales him with song and They were jacks-of-all-trades aid very sic on the guitar. She also has in musical. Christina had, at a very early midst of her apartments a room agCj to do for herself, and was pafcroneh she holds sacred to her husband, i^ed by the owner of a ferry, who took which she never occupies unless he country folks across one of the many present. It may^be supposed tl^t lakes about the town of Wexo. She i saerea room m ner pnae awiw ?u m started by inm as an inlaw lgs, and to adom and watch prodigy, and her singing and Tior it the chief occupataon drew ^ . joy of her life, lhey remain a rival boat. When she waa big enough , la vSA ftMrtmea.ts she "tramped- with hep father aid a breakfast, after which they again mother lr0? fair toMr. lt ma8t not arate. Thus there ^ is a continual ^>e supposed from this that she was on irchange of courtesies and a per- fte j**" Ieve] o? the Englisb WOmen courtship. They tell me that children who tramp tSough Kent i pretty way of doing continues jo the hog picking season. Poverty is 1?E^, e' oven if it be , not so degrading in Sweden as in Great hundred or mow years. A Menran BriWn.au&ln^italityis a universal Uemau conducted me thraogfc his ^ ^ peaaantiy of ... ir%-i rtments, and also his wife's. He IcandinaviafChrietfiawaaluoteipjsed ' ? T \nt? thl teldT to degrading hardships in roving childum to hie lady, but when I sated hood? it ms at a country fair that an to show mo the room in hisi lady's MlIeneal.Swedish gratleman disrtment held sacred by her to him, he | mvMei her mnsi , B } ^ lined, iayi'gthat he could not do so aame' was Tornerbjelm, "and lie had lont his lady's await, and was hear<J her sing a ^lin M. i she would not give that. I was companiment, which she played herr sorry I oonld not see that room. eelfc^At thjs time she ^ Ween, sure I.would have found it a little M. Tarnerhjelm opened to her succes ? , , enchantment His room si7ej^ the Academies of Holmatadt and oh he had prepared for his wife in stoctholm, obtained for her the proapartments, wa3 a perfect litte gem Section of the king and qneen, and had wmty. When I expressed admire- h when she wa3 fit ? Pali^ ifor it his eyes sparkled and he 8mt there to stndy onder WarteL Ndaned greatly pleased. He asked me eon-s qualities as a lyric artist were redidnotdothmgsthatwayin the ffiallif?6tl7 boa tJhe 0ntset of tted States, and when I told him we her ^ of a u h order_ not he expressed snrpriw and look- Ftom the' moment she obtained is if he felt that we had mnch to ^ opportunity to sing in pnblic she n in civilization, thoi^h he did want$ neithei pnff no? clsqie. Howsay anything of mat kind. eTer> tbat opportunity she wonld not he Mexicans, no doubt, denvedthis have had it not been for the clever isant custom from the old Castilian management of M. Toraerhjelm* He 8, who have for ages been celebrated got hold of the emneror and empress theij high-toned and chivalric char- 0f the French through the king of ir. Their ladies Sre equally distil- Sweden a jd Dr. Evans, the dentist A jhed for beauty, dignity and grace, ^ish expressed by them to the directors sse traits have been thoroughly in- 0f the Theatre Lyriqne and the Operairtfa rartA. aTld there can be I linnca mag 4qVnn on an rtrdflT. Christina loubt that much of this is due to the Niisson made fcer debut at the former ?htly and queenly custom. But the a8 -'Queen of the Night" in the Magic iculty about introducing it in this Flute. When she was there Ambroise ntry is that our houses are not so Thomas wrote for her the score of I constructed to it. The Mexican "Ophelia" as it now stands. "Without ses of the higher classes, always, so fitting well the role, she wa3 admirable as I have observed, occupy, four in it. 1 'Ophelia" has not much characss of a square, with a handsome yard ?er. Nilsson hag, and always had, a ourt in the middle. This gives great g^t deal.?London Truth, n, with ample space for separate , rtmenta It is as if there were four _ n - . ;e separate houses instead of one. ? Origin of Fencing. I to manage it as the wealthy Mex- Fiom the first invention of the sword 3 manage it would require a good down to the period when the fifteenth se. I imagine that the Mexican century was drawing to a close this f gets away with a good deal of weapon had always been used as an ley in fixing up her husband's arm of offense. The person wielding n in her apartments. I am told it thrust it or hewed it into the body of i they are constantly effecting his antagonist whenever he had a ages in^its furnishing and decoration, chance, and the only defense against it hat the" husband is treated to a new was stout armor or an interposed shield. ie nearly every time he enters it. At It is not to be supposed that an ancient it one-third of the Mexicans appear warrior or one belonging to the earlier ae t"* be pure Indians; much more middle ages never thrust aside or i a third are of all shades, between parried with his own blade a stroke pure Indian and the Spaniard, and of his enemy's sword; but this comparatively a small portion are method of defense was not depended Castilian or Spaniards. I am very upon in those days; the breast-plate, the aal to this upper class, who are a helmet or the bnckler was expected to r <v>nrtfioTi8 and hosoitabie race, shield the soldier while he was endear- \ iir ladies are of singular beauty ~-a oringto get his own sword into some e of beauty which we Americans are unprotected portion of the body of his accustomed to see. It strikes us antagonist. But about the time of Fer1 a pleasing sense of novelty, and dinand and Ieabella of Spain the scifchis reason we aie quite apt to be ence of fencing was invented. This new et by these ladies when thrown system of fighting gave an entirely new :h in their company. In the com- tise to the sword; it now became a y of gentlemen they are very sweet, weapon of defense as well as offense. always with remarkable dignity and Long slender rapiers, sharpened only at jefulness of bearing. They speak in the point, were the swords used in , silken, silvery tones, and I have fencing. Armed with ODe of these a sr yet heard one laugh aloud, though gallant knight or high-toned courtier, j smile a great deal. \?ho chose the new method of singlr combat, disdained the use of armor; the strokes of his opponent were e Fall of a Nevada Mountain Peak. mrfed cff by M/^own ^ bout 11 o'clock Thursday morjing weapon, and whichever of the two conwhole town-was startled by a terrific testants was enabled to disarm the : and a jar like an earth quake, which other, or to deliver a thrust which t people flying out of their houses could not be parried, could drive the ,11 directions. A glance up the side sharp point of his rapier into the body M Mount Olsen revealed the caus9 of of his opponent if he felt so inclined phenomenon. One of the sharp The rapier, which was fdapted to com ' " * ' ??Kof T-iQ+araan +ts7o nerKftris. and nrrf: fnr E.8 01 Iuiiaiea granite iiear mo i uai r , imit, loosened by the late rains, had : general warfare, * soon became the pled over and was rushing down a ! weapon of the duelist; and, as duels ;p ravine directly toward the center : used to be as common as lawsuits are ^ the town with appalliDg force, ; now, it was thought necessary that a suing and grinding everything in it? ! gentleman should know how to fence, hway. For a few moments it looked ! and thus protect the life and honor of :hough several houses were doomed himself, his family and his friends ? inevitable destruction, but fortu- ! Nicholas. ely the slide scattered and was j icked in the talus at the foot of the : When the people see a man advertise, is, causing it to stop short of any of j says an exchange, they know he is a i buildings. One immense boulder, business man, and his advertisement ighing not less than fifty tons, came j proclaims that he is not above business, vn with fearful velocity, striking the j but anxious to do it. Customers, like k bench above town and breaking'it sheep, are gregarious, and flock where \ thousand fragments, whioh stopped thej see others go. If nobody else were the flat a few rods from the China engaged in tha same business, it would uses on Clarke street. During the be important to tradesmen and dealers igress of the slide everybody was to advertise in the paper, because peoicken with consternation and many pie are tempted to buy what they read )ple sought safety in wild flight. I* of. Bat others are eDgaged in the same estimated that at least 1,500 or 2,000 business, and even if they do not adverts of rock came down in the slide.- tise?ifc becomes more important for you mer Index. . j to do so; if they do advertise, it be-; comes doubly important,