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WEEKLY EDITION^ WINNSBORO, S. C., W^yESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1882. ESTABLISHED IN 1844. ^ * Misunderstandings. Sczss-^few York drawing-room, 1:20 a. m. I clasped her hand and I held it fast, While I gazed in her dreamy eyes, Aad a far-o2 look o'er her features passed, ^ ^ Like the twilight of vesper skies. While, like one too happy or shy to speak, With a throb I coold understand. She turned from my raptures her glowing Ok. cheek, BKc. And veiled it-with faltering hand; F. And the gentle tremor -which thrilled her frame, ? And leaped from her pnlse to mine. To my thirsting ?oul with its message came, Like the magic of cordial -wine. * At last she pitied the hopeless smart Of the passion she long had scorned, And jnst as I felt she had opened her heart, She opened her month, and- yawcei! ?C. C. Carroll, in Harper's Magazine. SO 3PAI5& A1ZD " There was a man in oar town, And. he was wondrous wise." 4N i A clear, sweet voice was singing this senseless ditty, with many mocking variations and operatic trills. A young man swinging indolently in a hammock underneath the open window laid down hi* unfinished book and tossed away his cigar as he listened to ^ the merry songstress. " The man was no fool," said he at fc last. " I will arise and do likewise." The voice and its lovely owner had uprooted certain prejudices and overthrown firm convictions; moreover, an underlying fear that he was about to make a second mistake in life caused his feet to lag and his heart to trem> ble. Nevertheless, straight as the needle to the pole tended his steps toward that upper room and the musical destroyer of his peace. ^ She was minding Mrs. Latimer's baby as usual. Mrs. Latimer was a presumably young widow, somewhat wan and faded as to beauty, which must once have been remarkable; somewhat poorly off as to worldly possessions, yet strongly bent upon making the most of her second chance in > life. The baby, meantime, being much in her way, was either locked in the profound slumber born of drugs and syrups, or left to the tender mercy of some obliging fellow-boarder. Pretty Molly Daily, whose heart ached for the neglected little one, often cared for it during the absence of its mother. Harry Raymond was not the man, having once made up his mind, to beat about the hush. He went straight to the side of the surprised singer, who had supposed him miles distant, and then, the baby being in his way, he caught it from its astonished fostermother, and with a dexterous fling V sent it flying through the air exactly into the" soft middle of a great rug * which lay before the window. Poor Molly uttered a startled cry of protest. The child, contrary to all exand nrecedent. shrieked with laughter, and lay, clutching at the sunbeams, a jewel of a baby in a golden setting. HL story; that long ago I loved an un? worthy woman, and that because of BT- f that love I have walked forlyears willfully.'blind to all womanly goodness and virtue and truth; through a beautiful woman I have found it again. Tell me Molly"?his voice trembled with earnestness?" if this love is to be the crown and glory of my life or - its second folly ?" There was no need of words; he read his answer in her sweet downcast face and tender eyes; he sealed it on ner quivering crimson nps; anu uie baby looked on and laughed. Then, 'with a great crash of wheels and flutter of silks, the baby's mother b returned; so these two, as needs must, came back to an every-day world, that somehow looked brighter and better to them both than it had ever done before. Molly settled her face into an un''breakable calm, and Harry lounged * about with even more than his usual nonchalance. Nevertheless tii* widow, who was wise in her day and generation, saw more than they supposed, an I picking up her neglected offspring left the -rrvvm with a. cicrh fnr thfi dreams of a lost youth. ' She had returned from her drive enr gaged at last, hut Instead of the raptures and radiance of first love, her soul was disturbed by doubts, an uncertainty as to whether she might not, by longer waiting, have done even betl ter for herself. Kjt But nothing of the kind disturbed our youthful lovers; their days passed as a happy dream; the course of true love ran smoothly toward the delight';;rv ful consummation of an early marriage in the autumn. One night. Harry, grown strong in his new love, determined to destroy every vestige of that first mad folly of Phis youth; letters burning with passionate devotion, costly keepsakes, all were ruthlessly destroyed. ii Then, with a pleasant consciousness of welMoing, he slept the sleep of the just, and awoke in time for a long ; early walk with his betrothed, from which they returned damp but raV diant. And in the doorway they met ' a woman, a new-comer, a gloriously beautiful woman, one that Titian might liave worshiped as he painted her in flowing robes of white and crimson and gold. A woman who was a living, breathing dream of perfec tion. At sight of her Harry grew -white to the very lips, then quickly recovering himself, greeted her with manly dignity, presenting at the same time his companion. " I must be a bond of sympathy between you two," he said,with a sudden dash of bravado; "for this," with a courtly bow toward the fair wonderful k-V woman, " is one of my earliest friends, and this," taking Molly's hand, "is my betrothed." BfrV it would have been perfect, only he Bp- rather overdid the thing; however, the Br beauty bit her lip with vexation; she WK was not used to having her victims flaunt their freedom in her face. The days passed on, the beautiful woman, who, beside her natural charms, had the added grace of widowWf hood, trailed her solemn splendor all over the great country house, making other women look faded and commonplace by comparison. Mrs. Latimer and her unpleasant baby were well-nigh extinguished, and ? even pretty Molly looked like some wan field flower beside this gorgeous ^ Eastern lily. PL Harry, to do him justice, shut his W eyes remarkably well: he was blind, Arm* ^ WZ v* ucai vu Ww-aoivxx. ^ ___ But one evening, when Molly was inV" -disposed, the widow captured* him. it was in the great garden ; the moonlight quivered over the roses. Bf heavy with dew, perfume and night, and the wonderful witchery of beautj held him, while the perfect lips told liirn a secret, a little story, a something that changed the very current of his being. The mad love of his youth, fought against, dead, buried, as he believed, sprang in that hour to sudden life. The woman that he had loved and hated, who had wronged, deceived him, stood now vindicated and spotless, ! a victim like himself of another's | wrong, like himself a sufferer. | The man cried out against fate; this ! woman who had been all the world to him in the old days of his honest vouth } was more than that now; in the hour ! of his weakness he would have saerii ficed honor, truth, life itself; but she ! was strong; another life should not be ! blighted as hers had been; another ! should never suffer as she had done ; ; now that she stood before him blameless, she was satisfied. Then he found himself alone, and the devil, in the guise of a fair woman, entered into his soul and abode there. Perhaps the sight of Molly's loving face might have been a safeguard in those days; but she was ill, and refused to see him; so day by day the evil grew and thrived, nourished by soft sighs and false tears. One night he lound. the widow alone I in a little room that opened out of a i tiny conservatory; he threw prndence i to the winds, and the woman was i forced to hear burning words of mad' ness and devotion. In the very midst of the resistless torrent of liis woe the door opened and a man entered. He was tall, dark ! and grandly bearded, a Saxon giant of | herculean mold. He took in the i whole scene at a elance. " Oli, Lura, Lura!" he cried. "Will ! you never have done with your folly?" j Then she turned. Such a light I flamed over her face! Such a sudden j beauty flashed upon it! A smile like i that might pave the way to death for any man. " Oh, Roy, Roy!" she cried, and j rushed to the stranger, flinging ?her | arras with glad kisses about his neck, j " My husband," said she, turning to ! Harrv. " And never think again to fight a woman with her own weapons. I was only redressing old wrongs and opening blinded eyes. Your lady-love is in the next room. 1 made sure of that before I played this little farce." The stranger shook off the clinging arms of his wife and stepped to the j side of the dazed, unhappy man. " I cannot ask you to forgive my wife," said he. " f know that she has done you some grievous wrong. It is ; not the first time?most likely it will ! not be the last. And yet I love her. I Young man, you do not suffer alone." Then he was gone, he and his false wife. Mechanically Harry stepped through j the half-open door of the conservatory. A bowed crushed figure leaned against a half-opened window. It was that of the woman he had vowed to love and cherish always. He could not speak. Softly, as though he touched the dead, he kissed her golden hair. She never moved, and so he left her. In the morning he received a message from Mrs. Daily. Molly desired to see him. He went to the interview as a traitor to his doom. He had no hope that Mollie would overlook his perfidy. She was too much a woman to hold hers&wf so'Lginty ; too noble in herself to | tolerate the humiliation into which he | had fallen. Molly received him with a pitiful smile. ?Ler iace was crimson, ner eyes swollen and purple. This Xiobe-like woman bore hardly a trace of the pretty, merry-hearted girl once so dear to him. She spoke in muffled tones. " Look at me," said she; " look at me ! Well, last night I was quite myself, and went downstairs, thinking to I orive vou a nleasant surprise. I went | O - * .S x into tlie conservatory, and like a foolish child fell asleep by the open window. It was the heat?the perfume? something. Xow look at me ! "I em a fright, an object. I always am when I take cold. I thought you ought to see me, ought to know." Then Harry's arms were around her. j Molly had been asleep! His heart J sang for joy as he pressed kiss after I kiss upon her pink and purple face. ! " What devotion!" sighed Mrs. | Daily, whose own married life had i been something of a mistake. " Was ever girl so blessed as I ?" ! thought Molly, little dreaming what the cold which she deplored had saved her from, for Harry, grateful, repentant, yet believed that ignorance was bliss. Language of Tramps. Tramps in England have a unique system of signs- and countersigns, by means of which they escape many kicks, cuffs and neglects. There is a perfect science of this odd method of ! speech. The language is vernacular i to two classes?the vagrants themselves and the lodging-house keepers, who make a profitable^and permanent business of giving them sheker. The latter are the brains of the combination. There are said to be fifty different sets of password systems in use in the country, each having a field peculiar to itself. The tramp landlords form among themselves mystic circles, small circles from great ones, and so along the great highway pickets are j kept out over an area whose di ; mensions may be titty by tnirty miles. | In each set the passwords once adopted ! are good for three months' ise. At | every change the traveling fraternity ' buys the new signs, this price being i uniformly three pence for every comer, i To the landlords?a peculiar tribe, | some of whom have had the business | in their families for generations?this i tax is a source of gain. Its collection ; is easy and sure, for the advantages of initiation to the vagrant are many and I i : ? OUVIOUS. J.LSC ?tlUUd.Ci ?LU UCU IULIV j never hesitates to share his good for! tune with his less fortunate brother; i the magic word or phrase or sentence i ?unintelligible jargon to the outside { world?is an " open sesame " to his ! store of beggar wealth. England's Mercantile Marine. The new issue of Lloyd's Register \ gives the following account of the merj cantile marine of Great Britain : It I includes 5.207 steamers of more than i 100 tons register, of the aggregate j measurement of 5,934.851 tons; and at I ?15 per ton, of the gross value of | ?89,022,765; iron and steel sailing j ships amounting to 1,722,657 tons, ; valued at ?12 per ton, at ?20,671,884; : wooden and composite sailing ships of ; 2,840.258 tons, valued at ?6 per ton, at ?17,041,548. giving the total value of vessels afloat at ?126,736,197. In addition to these there are now in course | of construction steamers of the ag! gregate measurement of 1,260,000 i tons, valued at ?35,000,000.' It is esti| mated that the amount of capital in; vested in vessels engaged in the Ausi tralian and Indian trade and on the ! coasts of China and Japan, in tugs, ; passenger steamers and the fishing j fleets, may be set down at ?60,000,000, ', and therefore that the aggregate value ,' of the mercantile marine of Great , | Britain may be represented by the ' j sum of ?230,000,000. O'Connell's Ready YFit. At the Clare assizes in Ennis, two I brothers, named Hourigan, were j arrested for setting fire to a p< lice i barrack, the property of Darby O'Gi ady, i Esq., and it was stated the barrack had j been ignited by means of ajar of j itch, j found half consumed near the burned | barrack. O'Connell was emp]oyed for the j defense, and by his desire a skilltt con j taming pitcn was secretly piaceu ue<ir j the witnesses' chair, and ever this O'Con! neil placed liis broad-brimmed hat, so j as effectually to corceal it. The prinj cipal witness for the prosecution swore I" that he discovered the barrack on i fire, and knew it was set on fire by j pitch, for lt? got the smell-of it.1' "You know the smell of pitch. I then r" said O'Connell. " I do, well," rephed the witness. "You seem a man able to smell pitch anywhere ?" said O'Connel " Anywhere I found it." " Even here in this court-house, if it were here." "Xo doubt I would." "And do you swear you don't get the smell of pitch here?" asked O'Connell. "I do, solemnly," replied the witness. "If it were hera I'd smell it." Then O'Connell, taking his hat off the skillet of pitch which was placed beside the witness' chair, cried: " Xow you may go down, you perjured rascal! Go down!" This saved his clients. The jury discredited the witness. At Limerick O'Connell had a case to defend which presented slight hopes of his being able to obtain an acquittal. I His two clients were indicted for rob- j bery, and the case was substantially ! proved against them. They called a young priest for testimony as to their character for honesty. He thought to make a parade of his learning by the use of big words, and his replies to the usual inquiries were in the most polysyllable terms he could dej vise. Having stated " their reputation j for rectification of habitual propriety was exemplary ana commenaaoie, Judge Torrens. who chafed with irritation as the young priest rolled out each jaw-breaker, at last cut him short with: " Come, sir, no more of this. Say shortly what you know of these men. Are they honest'?" " As far as my experience of their deportment, I am under that impression." " You tliink they are. That comprehends a great deal," said the judge, still displaying temper. Turning to the nriest. he said : " That will do?go down, sir." O'Connell. assuming an air of great indignation, as the priest shuffled oil the table, addressing the prisoners in a tone of deep commiseration, said : "My poor fellows, bigotry is on the bench, and when your excellent young pri'est has been so ignominiously turned out of court, I am in despair of being able to serve you. Here's your brief find fee." He flung the brief and the notes to the agent for the prisoners, and commenced putting on his cloak, muttering: "My innocent clients, I despair altogether now of your acquittal. I You'll be hanged, and never were men ! j hanged more unjustly. The only hope I I can look to is that, if your senter ce is not carried into execution before the twelve judges meet, I will bring tlxis outrageous case before them." This had the effect intended. Judge Torrens invited O'Connell to continue the defense of his clients, and to this, after some pretended reluctance, O'Connell assented. The case went on, and the judge; to show that he was no bigot, put the character for hones:v given the prisoners by the priest :>o strongly that the jury, almost instant iy, brougnt in tneir veraict, not guilty. | ? Why She Talked to the Fly-Scmn Man. She knew he was the fly-screen man by the samples under his-arm, but sfce held the door open and permitted him to say: " Madame, I notice that you haven't a fly-screen at any door or window." "Not a one," she answered. "You must be overrun with flies?" " We are." " Flies are a terrible nuisance?" " Yes, indeed." "And this seems to^be a good locality for mosquitoes?" " Oh, yes sir." " T ? ? ? Vrt4-ViA?? ** x presume tucj UUUIICL j\Ju nights ?" "Very much." " And a great deal of dust blows into a house not protected by screens." " A great deal, sir." " And how many windows have you in the house?" " Sixteen." " Each one ought to have a half size." " Yes, sir." " And I can make them cheaper to you than any other man in the busii ness." " I think you can." " Do you prefer plain green or figured?" "Well, I always did like plain green." " Very well; I will measure the windows and take your order." " You needn't trouble yourself any further," she quietly replied. " "What! Don't you want screens?" " jSTo, sir. The other day the woman across the street had ten minutes' con VtJi&itUIUll Wii/ii o iiuu. pouuiti, ouu. cuv tj had her nose ill the air over me ever : since. A fly-screen man is about three | times as high as a potato man, and I've been talking with you to let her see that she isn't the only lady in town who can put on airs. She's as mad as a hen by this time, and now you get up and dust or I'll have my dog run you clear to the river."?Detroit Free Press. Cruelty to the Donkey. A correspondent of the Louisville Courier-Journal, who is traveling through Italy, says: The exception, to the general rule of idleness and treachery is the Neapolitan donkey. Overworked, half-starved, cruelly-treated, this poor, patient animal performs its daily routine of hard work uncomplain- j : ingly and with a truly martyr-like j spirit. It carries a load that would | stagger a cart-horse, and if, through ! snmfi fault of its brutal master, this ; load would slip from his willing back, he is belabored with cruel and terrific j blows. But little larger than a New- j foundland dog, he is often hitched to a cumbersome wagon, into which as ! many as thirteen lazy whelps some- j times climb, and this poor, dumb brute is compelled to haul them over the j streets of hilly Naples. Some days ago j in the Via Roma a load of grass, which ! j nact oeen insecurely lastenea, snppea | from the back of one of these poor j brutes. It was not the fault of the ; donkey, but, nevertheless, the cruel | master became enraged and beat it un mercifully over the head and ears, and i i then deliberately took it by the mouth I | and, dog-like, bit it between the nos- j ! trils until the blood flowed freely. If ; : there ever was an inviting field any-1 j where in the world for the labors of a j ! society for the prevention of cruelty : i to animals it is Naples. THE HOME DOCTOR. ' ^111 sudden checks to perspiration should be avoided, and a flannel shirt | or belt should be worn at all times to avoid such a result. "Wear flannel | constantly. Intemperance and drunkenness in- \ duce attacks of cholera and fatal diar-! j rhea. Temperance in eating an AdrinkI ing is a great safeguard against all i fatal diseases of the bowels. The in-1 ; temperate are the first and often the ; only ones attacked in a community. | Every person attacked with loose-' ! ness of the bowels should at once se-: j cure proper medical attendance. ! ; Children suffering from diarrhea should ; i be taken directly to a competent medi- j j cal man. Purgative medicines should ' not be given uni?ss ordered by a legal-j ly qualified and trusted medical practi-! tioner. Do not neglect these beginnings of disease. According to the Practitioner a simple and effective remedy for removing the pain of wounds caused by burns | or scaius is a sai/uraieu suiuuujll ui uij carbonate of soda in either plain or ! camphorated water. To apply the I remedy, all that is necessary is to cut a | piece of lint or old soft rag, or even I thick blotting paper, of a size sufficient to cover the burned or scalded parts, and to keep it constantly wetted with | the sodaic lotion so as to prevent its drying. By this means it usually happens that all pain ceases in from a ! quarter to half an hour, or even in much less time. When the main part i of a limb, such as the hand and forei arm or the foot and leg, has been burned, it is best, when practicable, to plunge the part at once into a jug or pail or other convenient vessel filled with the soda lotion, and keep it there until the pain subsides, or the limb may be swathed or encircled with a surgeon's cotton bandage previously soaked in the saturated solution and kept constantly wetted with it, the relief being usually immediate, provided the solution be saturated and cold. Dog Fat for Consumption. The attention of a Mew York reporter was attracted while at the dog pound by two boys, who were carefully skinniL-g and dressing a dog that had just been drowned, according to law, for vagrancy. "{What are you doing that for?" was asked. "Per consumption," replied one of the boys. "Fer a two-dollar bill," said the other. It was finally explained that many residents of the east side of the city firmly believe that dog fat is an infallible cure for consumption. ' The boys told you the truth," said Dr. Ennever, the veterinary stationed at the pound, who was next questioned. " A great many people believe that dog fat and even the flesh of dogs is a sure cure for consumption, and on an avprflcrA nnp el no- a wp.fk is taken from here and reduced to medicine." " Who comes after them ?" " Generally women. They come up here and after carefully examining all the dogs select one that seems to be healthy and fat. They then point out their selection to an attendant, j who ties a string around its neck or marks the animal in some way so as to identify it. The woman is told on what day that particular beast will be drowned; she returns at the time specified, gets the body and tums it over to some of the hoodlums round here, who for a dollar or two skin it and take off the fat. If she wishes the carcass they dress it for her just as a butcher would a Iamb or calf. Xo, yellow dogs have no value in this way; a black dog is always chosen in preference to any other color, if he is fat and healthy." " How do they take the medicine, as I suppose they call it ?" " In different ways. Some reduce it to oil and take it as a liquid by the spoonful; others try it out and then after it gets cold spread it on bread as you would butter and eat it so." " Do they eat the meat, too ?" "Yes; and as a matter of fact, it's not bad eating. I've tried it myself, though I was not aware of it at the tUULiC. ?0 1WA& lli\v ^UUllg YCfll. " Have you any regular customers ?" ""We had one, a Miss Farley, who used to live at the corner of Avenue A and Sixteenth street. She was pretty far gone with consumption, hut she used to come every other week for five or six months and get a nice fat dog. I have not seen her for some time, but I don't think she's dead. Some one told me she was living over on Ninth avenue. But as a general thing we don't know our customers' names. This superstition is so general on the east side that many of the drug stores keep dog fat or oil in stock. There are any number of these household remedies for different diseases. Through Vermont and New Hampshire the fat j cl-nnb-c ic licarl <ta a (>11W ffiT frflllTl I Vi. ^AUJUXVO AC UOV.k Mf vv** v v? w and rheumatism. Then at the South negroes use dog's flesh as a cure for rheumatism. The dog must be jet black or the medicine is without efficacy. When the animal is chosen it is fed on nothing but the lungs and livers of raccoons until it is so fat it can hardly walk, when it is "rilled and eaten. After that if the patient is not cured he is perfectly assured that his pains and aches are attributable to some other cause.*' A Hen Set on Golden Eggs. A well-to-do farmer named Frede rick Kline, who lives near f osters Crossing, Ohio, has lost his surplus wealth in a manner that is calculated to destroy his confidence in all the safeguards with which treasures of gold can be surrounded. Some time ago he was a depositor in a Cleveland bank which suddenly suspended operations and was found to contain no assets. Farmer Kline, hearing of the suspension, came to the city to collect his account, and, finding that it was worthless, declared tiien and there, in a manner in which emphasis was not lacking, that he would never, so long as he lived, put another dollar in any bank or like institution. A short- time ago he came into possession of $800 in gold, hard cash. The question at once arose where he should put it for safety. Procuring a strong tin box he placed the money in it, fastening it securely, and put the box in the bottom of an old ash barrel in his woodshed, lilling the barrel up with various kinds of rubbish. He placed a box on to]) of it, which he filled with straw, and i placed in one corner a dozen eggs and j an old setting lien lie argued that | thft thieves come around thev ! would never think of looking for any-1 thing valuable in the old barrel of j rubbish, and even then should they chance to suspect the hiding-place the hen would make such a clatter that the household would be aroused. One Sunday when he had nothing else to c.o he examined the barrel. The hen was unusually cross, which pleased her until Tip fmind that thft till box. with its contents, was gone. The neighbors who dropped in later in the day to console the old gentleman explained the unusual irritability of the hen on the ground that she had been seriously disturbed the night previous b?? the visit of the thieves. , f TJ** Poisonous LeaTes. Says Land aid Water: Some of our most admired ri'owers, which we should least wilimgly'ibanish from cultivation, ! are associated foUi green leaves of a j very poisonous* character. The nar- i row long leaves.of the daffodil act as an irritant poison; the delicate com- ! pound leaves of laburum have nar- | cotic and acrid, juice which causes ! purging, vomiting and has not unfre- ' quently led to -<ieath. The narrow leaves 01 tne meaaow saurun, ur a.utumn crocus, give rise to the utmost j irritation of the throat, thirst, dilated i pupils, with vomtting and purging. The ; dangerous character of aconite, or monkshead I^ives, is doubtless well J known, but each generation of children requires instruction to avoid, above all things, those large palmshaped leaves, dark green on the upper surface. Leaves of coarse weeds I provide an abundant quota of danger, but frequently their strong scent and bitter or nauseous taste give timely warning against their being consumed. Of all nnr Tlrit^Cb nr^p.rs nf Tilants perhaps the umbelliferous order contributes the frankest and most widespread elements '.>>? danger. The tall hemlock is everywhere known to be poisonous, and it-, is one of the most abundant occupants of the hedge. A peculiar " mousey " odor can generally b^recognized on squeezing the leaves, which are deep green in color and trebly compound, the small lobes being lanceolate and deeply cut. It is said that the mousey smell can be detected in water containing net more than a fifty-thousandth part of the juice. Hemlock is both an irritant to any sore place and a general narcotic poison, producing neaaacne, lmpenect vision, loss of power to swallow and extreme drowsiness, with complete paralysis of voluntary muscles and muscles of respiration. The water dropwort, too, a flourishing ditch plant; the water hemlock, fool's parseiiy, must be ranked among our most dangerous poisonous plants, belonging to the umbelliferous order. The fool's parsley leaves are sometimes mistaken for genuine parsley, but their nauseous odor and darker' leaves should prevent this. The night shade order is another, with dangerous and often extremely poisonous leaves. Indeed no nightshade can be regarded as safe; while the deadly nightshade, with its oval, uncut leaves, soft, smooth and stalked, are in the highest degree to be avoided. Henbane and thornapple again with their large and much indented leaves are conspicuous members of the "dangerous classes." Holly leaves contain a juice which is both narcotic and acrid, causing vomiting, pain and purging. Even elder leaves and privet leaves may produce active and iniurious irritation wlien eaten. "With regard to treatment in cases of poisoning by leaves, if no doctor is at hand, produce vomiting till all offending matter is expelled, and when considerable sleepiness or drowsiness has come on, give strong tea or coffee, and again bring on vomiting; then stimulate and rouse the brain in every possible mode. Sledging it to the North Pole. The most northern district of the Danish settlements in Greenland is Upernavik, or TTpernivik, whose extreme northern . 4-ling post is Tasiusal',in nortLcrj Jrtnde seventy-nine degrees twenty-tjur minutes, about 1,100 miles due south of the pole. Of this place it is claimed that " it is the most northern abode of civilized men and women." The northern coast of Greenland has never been circumnavigated, but it is generally believed by Arctic navigators that it lies not far north of the highest latitude reached by Xares in 1875-76, about eighty-three degree north. Some scientists still cling to the theory maintained by Dr. Kane, the great American explorer. J that between the northern headlandof (ireenland and the pole there is an open. sea. If so, that would set a limit to sledge expeditions. But Xares and other explorers, who got still nearer the pole, declare that as far as they could see to the north all was ice. The longest sledge-journev in the Arctic regions on record was made by Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka, U. S. A., who in 1878 and 1879 made an overland search for the lost records of Sir John Franklin's expedition. His small party was landed by a schooner near Depot island, in Hudson's bay ; passed the winter in camp on shore ; became accustomed to living much like the natives, and in the spring started, with some Esquimaux assistants, in sledges drawn by dogs to explore the northern " *- -r rr: ana western snores ui xviu^ yy miam o Land. They were gone on this expedition eleven months and twenty days, during which time they traveled 3,251 English statute miles. It would, probably, be a much more serious matter to travel in the farthest north, provided land or ice fields are continuous from Upernavik to that long sought point, the North pole. However, there seems to be about as much reason to expect that it will be reached by sledges as by any other means, and the plan of establishing meteorological and exploring stations in the northern latitudes, and depending largely on sledge expeditions to extend our knowledge of tiie Arctic regions, nas oeen aaopteu by learned bodies, and in some instances by the United States and other governments. Our government has one such permanent station at Franklin Bay, in the northern extremity of Alaska. There is reason to believe that there will be a line of such stations before long along the western coast of Greenland. Skobeleff and MacGaJian. It is not yet forgotten in the United States that, when poor MacGahan, the famous American correspondent, who, in company with Frank Millet, a Boston boy, did so much work, for which Forbes got all the praise, was dying with the black fever in Constantinople, Skobeleff was the only man who dared to visit him. But the famous soldier and the modest journalist were great friends, and when the former heard i one day, when the Russian army was j * * i i iAl. . T) "L - I camped ontue naiiKs ut uie uospuoi. us, i that the latter was very ill, he galloped j into the Turkish capital, and throwing ! himself from his horse in front of a hotel, rushed into the place, demanding to be shown to MacGahan's room. The nurses told the general that no one was permitted to enter the sick man's room, as it was certain ! death to a stranger if lie breathed the atmosphere poisoned by the dread dis- j ease. But SkobelefE dashed the men : out of the way, and was soon at Mac- ! Gahan's bedside. Then he took the i poor sufferer up in his arras, and, as ; he kissed the fevered face and the ! sunken eyes, hy said, as kindly as ever a fond mother spoke to her tabe : "My dear, dear brother, did you think I had forgotten you altogether? Why, bless your dear, great heart, I did not know until to-day that you were sick." j While his loving tears' were bathing ! MacGahan's hair, the angel of death i came into the room, and suddenly and j silently the soul of one who was al- j ways gentle, good and brave took its 1 flight, and the famous Kussi;m soldier 1 held ii/his arms the lifeless form of ! * ^V4 XX Av*4U? I J A Eemarfeaole Discovery. The United States patent office has jiist extended its official wing over one of the most remarkable discoveries of the present century, and one, it is safe to say, which will not only effect a revolution in the present methods of producing and applying heat, but seriously undermine the very structure upon which the at present generally received scientific notion of heat rests. The model apparatus patented by Mr. Calver, the inventor, consists of a number of small looking-glasses arranged in rows upon a frame so fixed that they i can be converged upon any one point. A working model, of which he has a number, was exhibited to a "Washing- j ton Post reporter in the yard in the j rear of his residence. Forty innocent, guileless-looking fifteen cent giltframed mirrors, each 3| inches by 5| inches, were arranged upon a frame propped up like an artist's easel, and bearing a striking resemblance thereto. Facing the easel was the fragment of what was once a barn door, also propped up and partly covered with a worn and faded sheet of zinc that bore *1 r\YYiio+'olroVilo nf havinor VkAATI burned through in several* places. It was but the work of a minute to converge the forty mirrors upon a space 3$ inches by 5| inches upon the barn door, and then the revelations began. As each mirror cast its quota of light upon the common store the parallelogram of light grew whiter and more dazzling, until at last it looked like a batch of electric lights. But little patience was required to await results. In less than thirty seconds a thin curling puff of smoke gave evidence of the progress of the experiment. In a minute the board was bursting out in flames. The focus was then shifted upon the zinc. In a few moments it began to turn color; then shrink as if anxious to get away where it was cooler, and then in less than three minutes the entire surface covered by the focus was literally melting, drop by drop. To melt zinc requires a temperature of over 700 degrees Fahrenheit. A Farmer's Remarkable Window. A remarkable story is told of farmer Jesse Smith's remarkable window by the Cincinnati Enquirer as follows: Six miles west of Demossville, Ky., lives an elderly farmer by the name of Jesse Smith. He has occupied his present residence for twenty-five years. Nothing peculiar was ever observed about his window till about the close of the civil war, when, at that time, just after a severe storm, there ap pearea tne peculiar uispiay 01 coiors so plainly visible even to the present day for a distance of fifty yards or more from the house. Mr. Smith says that its appearance just at that time when the country's welfare was in a most critical condition excited in Jhe minds of some of his neighbors the fear that it was the forerunner of some dreadful calamity, and he was advised to remove the sash, but, being less superititious than his friends, he decided to leave it just as it was. The rainbow is about six inches broad, and reaches from one side of the window to the other, involving all of the three panes of the lower sash, the colors from the top downward being orange, red, purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, red, violet?blue and green varying somewhat from the natural graduation of the colors of the rainbow. A singular fact is that, plainly as the colors show from without, not even a tinge of color can be seen when standing in the room, which accords with the fact that we never see a rainbow in the south. Another observation was that on hoisting the window -Li - ? ? tne rauiuow iiiuveu wim lug gi<*ss. There is no creek or spring in front of the house that could throw any reflection on the window. __ Indians as Workmen. The popular theojy that the Indian cannot be made to work is not altogether unfounded. It by no means follows, however, that he cannot be induced to work, and work well, when removed from his native surroundings and supplied with the proper incentives. The Indians in the industrial schools at Hampton, Va., and at Carlisle, Pa., have shown a readiness to acquire trades and a capacity to learn +/-? Vionrllo tru-ilc clrill-fnlltr that. must. stagger the prejudices of those who have adopted the frontier creed that the only useful Indian is a dead Indian. At the public exercises at Carlisle, a Plains Indian was the proud, thongh seemingly stolid, exhibitor of a wagon built entirely by himself, a piece of work that older mechanics might not have been ashamed of. The Springfield Republican says that there are now on exhibition in Boston samples of shoes and harnesses made at Hampton Institute, which both in finish and serviceableness are able, in the opinion of competent inspectors, to compete successfully with the products of regular workmen. The shoes are part of a contract for two - - "? ?AT mousana pairs wmcu cue guvernment gave to the superintendent of the institute, General Armstrong, last spring. The government has also ordered seventy-five sets of double-plow harness. General Armstrong is confident that within five years, as the hundred Indians at Hampton, the three hundred at Carlisle, and others under instruction elsewhere, become masters of the craft, all the slw\?s and harness needed on the plains can be made by Indiar young men at home. A Legend of Saratoga. in Tn/liori o4*_ JL llCit; ID ClJJL JLliVAi.Ci.li OU^IOVIUUU OUT tached to Lake Saratoga, which probably had its source in its remarkable loneliness and tranquillity. The Mohawks believed that its stillness was sacred to the Great Spirit, and that if human voice uttered a sound upon its waters, the canoe of the offender would instantly sink. A story is told of an English woman, in the early days of the first settlers, who had occasion to cross this lake with a party of Indians, who, before embarking, warned her most impressively of the spell. If was a silent, breathless day, and the canoe shot over the lake like an arrow. About half a mile from i j.1^ ..V 4-K^v snore, near tut; cfiitcx uj. uic iiiivc, mc woman, wishing to convince the Indians of the erroneousness of their superstition, uttered a loud cry. The countenances of the Indians fell instantly to the deepest gloom. After a minute's pause, however, they redoubled their exertions, and in frowning silence drove the light bark over the waters. They reached the shore in safety and drew up the canoe, when the woman rallied the chief on his i credulity. " The Great Spirit is merci- i fill," answered the scornful Mohawk ; | " lie knows that a white woman can- ! not hold her tongue I"?Saratogian. There are 7,000 hawkers of newspapers in London?big men, little boys old women and young girls. They are in the preliminary or normal condition of paper, i. e., rags, and live from hand to mouth on p<x:keting pennies and yelling their journals' names and contents. BRA YE BLUE JACKETS. Gallant Acts Performed by American Sailors in Protection of Their Country's Interests Abroad. The action taken by Admiral Nicholson, of the United States navy, during the late bombardment recalls, says the | Boston Herald, many similar acts on | the part of American naval officers. | It may be fairly claimed, without men- j tioning those instances where the! i Union marines have gained great dis- j tinction and renown in foreign waters, ; while .acting under direct authority of Congress, in the bombardment of Algiers and Tripoli, during the conquest of California, the war with Mexico, and the two wars with England, they also have earned and sustained a proud reputation for prompt and efficient action in the protection of American interests abroad. During the year 1823 the Porto Rico (Spanish) privateers, having upon several occasions interrupted our commerce, Commodore Porter sent a com munication on the subject to the authorities of the island. Lieutenant W. H. Cocke, in command of the brig I Fox, in attempting to enter the port of St. Johns in order to receive a reply to the commodore's official communication, was fired upon and killed. Commodore Porter threatened to bombard the town, and was dissuaded from doing so only by the prompt apology of the authorities of the island. Again in October, 1826, Lieutenant Piatt, commanding the United States brig Beagle, learning that one of our merchants doing business in St. Thomas had been plundered by Spanish pirates and his goods taken to Foxado, a small port in the island of Porto Rico, proceeded hither to recover his property. On making known the object of their visit Lieutenants Piatt and Ritchie were arrested and detained under guard for a day. Commodore Porter, with his characteristic promptness, proceeded to Foxado to demand explanation and redress. Finding that the authorities, upon his arrival there, intended to open fire upon his vessel, he landed a force of sailors and marines, took their batteries, and compelled from the offenders the fullest apologies. In February, 1832, Commodore Downes, in the frigate Potomac, ascertained that the Malays had captured the American ship Friendship, of Salem, Mass. An expedition was fitted out from the Potomac, officered by T Clini*Kw/*Tr TT/vff Tr?rr^rcAll UiOU U^XACiiXLO kJUUiUllVAj AXVilj Xiig^lOVU and Totten, of the navy, and Lieutenant Edson, of the marines. The Malays made a determined resistance, but were finally overcome and several of their forts captured and destroyed. For this action the officers of the expedition received the thanks of the department. While Commander Kelly was at Shanghai, in 1854, in the sloopof-war Plymouth, a combined attack of the English and American forces was made upon the encampment of the imperialists in retaliation for aggressions committed by them upon British residents. In this action the Chinese were severely punished. This voluntary act of Commander Kelly received tiie approval 01 ine -rresiaent ana uie department. # In the latter part of June, 1853, wliile Commodore Ingraham, in the sloop-of-war St. Louis, was at Smyrna, Turkey, he received information that a Hungarian named Martin Koszta, with an American passport and papers, had been arrest?^ by some Austrian officials (on the charge of being a deserter from the Austrian army), and was held a prisoner on board an Austrain brig-of-war, which vessel was supported by an Austrian steam gunboat. Commander Ingraham immediately made a demand for Koszta's re1 pfl.qp at the same time running out his ?uns and preparing his ship for action. Koszta was promptly released, and the spirited action of Commodore Ingraham received the highest commendation from the government and a gold medal was awarded him by Congress. In January, 1854, Lieutenant Strain, of the nav\, was engaged exploring for a canal across the isthmus. During the progress of the work the natives committed various outrages upon the persons and property of American citizens employed in or connected with the survey. In retaliation Captain Hollins, of the sloop-of-war Cayne, bombarded and destroyed the town of San Juan de Nicaragua. In April, 1858, Lieutenant Almy in the Fulton compelled the relr^se of ?ix American vessels that had been seized and detained by the authorities of Tampico, Mexico. On this occasion the Mexican government desired to refer the matter of the seizure of these vessels to the official action of the respective governments. "You will release the vessels first," said Almy, "then the governments can indulge in all the 'palaver' they want to." In August, 1858, Captain Kelly, in Oor* K\r Q /\f l/UC octi KJJ U UA^'AM^ V*. force at San Juan del Sur, in Nicaragua, the release of two American citizens who had been unjustly imprisoned. In August, 1856, Commander Sinclair visited Waga, one of the Fejees, and inflicted summary punishment upon the natives for the murder of two American citizens. He destroyed their town and laid waste the country for miles. In November, 1850, Captain Lavalette, in the frigate Wabash, visited Beyrout, Syria, to investigate the outr^frps rnmmitted unon our citizens, and "1 ' particularly the circumstances connected with the murder of Mr. Dickson, near Jaffa. All but one of the party implicated in the outrages were promptly arrested, tried and sunmiarily punished by Captain Lavalette. The First Dead Confederate. The Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution says: Major D. II. Ansley knew the " rebel" who is now figuring so prominently in the papers as the first to meet his death in the Confederate Tn raniv to -A rpmipst for thfi particulars of the man's death Major j Ansley said to a Constitution reporter: "Yes, I knew Perkins, the man to whom you refer. I went to the war as a first lieutenant in the Clinch Rifles, from Augusta. AVe were at Pensacola, | Florida. I was going over to the navv ; yard one day when I met Perkins, who I had a little snake in his hands. He j was holding the snake by the tail. It was reaching up its head and biting ! him on the back of the hand, j Tf. lnnkpfl like ;i carter-snake. I asked 1 o him if lie was not afraid, to let the I snake bite him so. lie said that he was not; that it was only a garter- j snake. The snake was not more than j a foot and a half in length: Perkins J went on to camp. He went into his j tent and was not found until the poi-: son had taken hold of his system. The ! snake proved to be a species of cobra, I and that evening the man died. The : snake was sent to Augusta and preserved in alcohol. In explanation of 1 the man's conduct I can say that the j ! man had boarded in Augusta with Dr. { Dearing, who was a snake fancier, and j his familiarity with the snakes there ! had made him bolder than he other-; wise would have been. He was mis- i taken in the species of the snake." 1 Pioneer Life in Wisconsin. Judge D. J. Pulling, in an address at| Green Bay, Wisconsin, gave the fol-1 lowing interesting reminiscences of pioneer life in tliat State^^Sss^'ere without the luxuries of lifeTalthough we had sufficient for our necessities. "We had pork in plenty. True, it was fattened on acorns, and five pounds would fry into one, but it was cheap, and I have sold it for ?1.50 per 100 pounds; and we had corn-meal and flour, and sometimes groceries; we had sometimes sugar but usually molasses. On one occasion molasses was very plenty in my neighborhood. When I came into this county, the law business was not very flourishing. There were but few settlers, and they were peaceably inclined, and to get a living I kept a store at Fox Lake. Customers were scarce, and I spent much of my time in reading. One day a little girl came for some molasses. I set the measure under the faucet, and as it was thick and ran slow, I sat down to my reading to wait for it. I got absorbed in the book, and the little girl was too timid to say anything to me, and how long I read I don't know, but when I JIZA ?.a4- rt-ri?fA Vvq/>V TWYm UIU gcu up OJJ.U gU JLUW vuv k'wvtt the molasses oa-the floor was. oyer my shoe tops; from that circumstance came the expression, "Let the molasses run." We lived in log-houses and the most of us used oxen, but our hearts were as big as our oxen and our sympathies as broad as our prairies. Our latch-string was always on the outside to the wayfarer and to our neighbor, and in our social relations there was that heartiness which would now be looked for in vain; all were welcome to our table and a bed, albeit the bed was often on the floor. Indeed, so open was the hospitality that the doors were never locked, and the people were so honest that thefts were unknown. I have many times got up in the morning and ?^ ocl onn /\y\ vnr CVCjUL iUUilU. JLLLVUCLLI.O V/JUfc AXIJ kitchen floor. And then the' friendly relations among us?how can I describe them ? We seemed to be all one family, and the cares and woes of one were felt by alL No bickerings or backbiting, such as follow in the train of what is called " refined society," but a hearty effort on the part of all to help one another; and yet the people who settled this county were as cultured and refined as any of this or any other day. In the poorest shanty you often found books of science and literature of the highest order, and even the piano, and those long winter evenings, when the horses would be harriPCQPd nr "Rnr.k and Bricrht voked ud to the sled, and the whole family, and oftentimes some of the neighbors, pile on and go off several miles to visit friends and sit and talk of our prospects and our trials, or crack jokes upon each other until the " wee small hours," or when we hitched up the team to go to market or to the mill we carried a grist for everybody, and did errands for the whole neighborhood. And then the good old times when we started with our grain to market at Milwaukee one hundred miles away; after the first day there would be a long siring ul teams, pciiiaps oiaoj uj. seventy or 100, and when we stopped at the hotel for the night the stories that would be told and the pleasures that were had were simply indescribable. I am reminded of what our uncle, Ben Kogers, said to me the other day : . " Away with your railroads; there never was such times as that when you could get supper, breakfast and lodging and horses fed over night for six bits and whisky free. But whisky was not used as it is now; the old settlers took it as a medicine, and sometimes tliey took it in a way that one of our old settlers did upon occasions. I do not like to tell his name, but for convenience we will call him Sam. Sam was once in his life drunk, and I guess only once. He was over to Clark Walker's or Knox's, or somewhere, to chat and spend the evening. They had found a bee-tree in the woods near the lake, and had brought the honey home. They made some metheglin, and having a little whisky in the house in case of sickness, they put some of it in the mixture. The honey so overcame the whisky, and being wholly unaccustomed to the use of it, Sam drank more than he could walk under, but nevertheless he started for home, hoping the effect would pass off before he got there, but it didn't. His wife was in bed, and Sam crept into the house as quietly as possible, took off his clothes and his boots without noise, and got into bed. He was just congratulating himself that his wife would never know anything 9 Km it it "tvhpn shp said* " whv Sam what on earth is the matter? You have come to bed with jour hat on!" Sam had taken off everything but his hat. But it would not be true to say that a pioneer's life was one of unbroken joy. There was toil and labor, a house and fences must be built, a farm cleared or broken, and provisions and clotliing to be provided, and many times, too, we were attacked with that most miserable of all diseases called homesickness. Apprentices. One of the best carpenteis in New York, who owns his shop and does a large business, said: It is scarcely an exaggeration to say that the race of good workmen is dying out, and that were it. not for the emigration of foreign workmen we would be at a loss for men to do even the commonest jobs. The best workmen do not come here at all, finding enough to do at home, so that those we do find are not such workmen as we had twenty years ago ; but at least they are better than the men who have failed to learn a trade here. The newspapers say that men do not r-t OVO V\A _ JELUUW tllClX liauto uv? auoj o ; cause there is no such thing as apprenticeship, and the reason we have no apprentices is that the trades unions will not allow more than one or two apprentices in each shop for fear of too much competition in the future. There was an attempt some ears ago to restrict the number of apprentices, and I believe that in Chicago the boss masons are allowed but two apprentices, whether they employ live men or fifty. But all such rules are useless here because it is not in the shopowner's interest to liave any apprentices at all. There is no such thing as a legal apprenticeship bond between a boy more than sixteen years of age and an employer; consequently a boy who is taught something useful in a shop will leave when he can get half a dollar more a week in some other place. A boy will not stay in a shop for more than a year without pay; we have to pay them for allowing themselves to be taught a trade. As boys are usually not worth - their salt in a rarnenter's shoo we do without them. I have not had a boy for years, and will not until the law frames an apprenticeship indenture which will insure me some return for the trouble of teaching apprentices. The consequence is, that boys pick up a trade in a superficial way instead of learning it. Among the plumbers it is somewhat different, because every plumber has a helper, who, beginning as a boy, scon learns the trade, if he is bright. A Gypsy Dance in Malaga. . At last the moment for the flamttvio arrives. The leader begins to beat monotonously on the boards, just as our Indians do with their tomahawks, to set the rhythm; the guitars strike into their rising and falling melancholy strain. Two or three women chant a weird song, and all clap their hands in a peculiar measure, now louder, now fainter, and with pauses of varying length between the emphatic reports. M The dancer has not yet risen from her seat; she seems to demand encourage- . ment. The others call out, " Oiler' (a gypsy word for " Bravo!") and smile and nod their heads at he: to df&w her on. All this excites in you a livelier curiosity, a sort of suspense. " What - A can be coming now?" you ask. Fi nauy sue gets up, smuu^ u<ui >m?ufully; a light comes into her eyes; she throws her head back, and her face is suffused with an expression of daring, of energy and strange pride. Perhaps it is only my fancy, but there seems to creep over the woman at that instant. a reminiscence of far-off and mysterious things; her face, partially lifted, seems to catch the light of old traditions, and to be im bued with the spirit of something belonging to the past which she is about to revive.; ^eir arms, ace. . thrown upward, she snaps her fingers, ~ '*? and draws them down slowly close before her face as far as the waist, when, . with an easy waving sideward, the " pass" is ended, and the arms go up again to repeat me muvcmcuu uu . .-ybodv, too, is in motion now, only slightly, with a kind of vibration; and her feet, unseen beneath the flowing ' ^ skirt, have begun an easy, quiet, re- '^jgj pressed rhythmical figure. So she advances, her face always forward, and goes swiftly around a circle, coming c back to the point where she began without appearing to step. The mu-r sic goes on steadily, the cries of her* companions become more animated, and she continues toexcute that queer, aimless, yet dimly beckoning gesture with both arms, never remitting it or cnonninor nf her filHTftrS. in fact. until she has finished the whole affair. Her feet go a little faster: you can hear them tapping the floor as they weave upon it some more complicated measure. But there is not the slightest approach to a springing tendency. Her progress is sinuous; she jglides and shuffles, her soles quitting the boards as little as possible, something between a clog dance and a walk, perfect in time, with a complexity in the exercise of the feet demanding much skilL She treats the performance with great dignity; the intensity of her absorption invests it with a something almost solemn. Forward again! She gazes intently in front as she proceeds, and again as she floats backward, looking triumphant, perhaps with a spark of latent^ mischief in her eyes. She stamps harder upon the floor; the sounds follow like pistol reports. The regular clack, clack, clack of the smitten hands goes on about her and the cries of the rest increase in zest and loudness. " Olle! oUe!" " Bravo, my gracious one!" " Muy bien! muy bien!" " Hurrah! Live the queen of the ants r shouts the leader. And the au- . dience roars at his eccentric phrase. The dancer becomes more im- ??^gjg8 passioned, but in no way more violent TTor h/vlv does not move above the - hips. It is only the legs that twist and turn and bend and stamp, as if one electric shock after another were :'-^l being sent downward through them. Every few minutes her activity passes by some scarcely noted gradation into a subtly new phase, but all these phases are bound together by a certain uniformity of restraint and fixed law. Now she 5| almost comes to a stand-still, and then, ,^0 we notice a quivering, snaky, shudder- >^j ing motion, beginning at the shoulders and flowing down through the whole body, wave upon wave, the dress drawn tighter with one hand showing that this continues downward to her feet. Is she a Lamia in the act of undergoing metamorphosis, a serpent or a woman ? The next moment she is \ M dancing, receding?this time with smiles and with an indescribable air of - . * i invitation in xne tossing 01 ner arms. But the crowning achievement is when the hips begin to sway, too, and, while she is going back and forward, execute a rotary movement like that of the bent part of an augur. In fact, you expect her to bore herself into the floor and disappear. Then all at once the stamping and clapping and the twanging strings are stopped, as she ceases her formal gyrations; she walks back to her seat like one liberated from a spell; and the whole thing is over.? George P. Lathrop, in Harper. Mushrooms in the Ear. J.L VY <K3 lUJJg CLo'J U1SWYC1CVI blltio every parasite was troubled with other parasites. The flea bites the dog, a smaller bug bites the flea, and so on, indefinitely. More recent investigations revealed the fact that many diseases were caused by fungi, which is either inhaled or becomes attached to the body. Throat diseases and catarrhal affections are often caused in this way. More recently it has been discovered that the cavity of the human ear is a most favorable place for the propagation of fungus growths. The funsri. which is known bv the techni cal name of aspergillus nigra, are per- . feet mushrooms, with whitish stalk and black head- They are so small that it requires a microscope of a power sufficient to magnify three liun- """ dred times to render their forms clear and distinct. The growth spreads around the walls of the auditory canal and over the ear-drum, causing itching and dullness of hearing. The growth is strengthened by the use of oil or water in the ear, and there is no doubt but many of those who suffer Af V?oorirtrr oro roicinrr 1 IHJIU UUiiUCtX? vyx c?* v x crop of mushrooms in their ears, ;md their efforts to " soften the wax " are the most potent means of increasing the trouble. The Oldest California "Vineyard. The oldest vineyard in California is the San Jose vineyard, situated under the mountains in Santa Barbara ccunty, between Goleta and San ilarcos pass. It was the property of the church up to 1853, when it was sold , by the archbishop of the Los Angeles diocese to an eccentric old pioneer named James McCaffrey, who, with his sons, now cultivates the old vines, producing annually about eight thousand gallons of the best vintage. One of the strangest things to be mentioned concerning this ancient vineyard is this: It bas not been plowed or cultivated tor thirty years. It produces a good crop of wild oats for hay year after year, but no plow is permitted to disturb the soiL The old man declines to explain how he never fails to have a full crop while his neighbors have none. Here upon the sides of an ancient old adobe building is a vine which, starting near the door, divides and sends a branch in opposite directions, and after making a circuit of the building, more than one hundred feet, both ends have been grafted together, forming a complete hoop around the ! building.?San Francisco Alta.