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WEEKLY EDETION. ~ WINNSBORO, S. C., WEI^ESDAY. KOYEMBER 22," 1882. ESTABLISHED IK 1844. Ej"-." j YFaitl % Hsajriliter sxirce -was over, Some snow flakes tarried yet* When in a garden corner ^ /A little root I set. The friend who sent it promised That it should surely bring To me some fragrant treasures __ ?j Before the flight of spring, i- * And patiently I waited, As April came and went, \ And May taught all the song-birda A song of sweet content. But bonny spring departed. And Jane the roses brought, L And, save two slender green leaves, Pi The rootlet gave me naught. i t And so my mem'ry lost it, B/ And summer also passed, When in the garden corner, ? One day I found, at last, BP A very pearl of lilies? P A snow-white flower gem? With conscious beauty treabling Upon a graceful stem. Oh.' weaiy hearts, take courage, With Faith and Patience wait; Though sown to blossom early, Full many joys bloom late. rro.? ui : J? - ? J xuo uuo ui spring- lliaIO M&? l inger on the way. And like my pearl of lilies, Make sweet an aatnmn day. C ' - ?rMargaret Eytinge, in Ehrich s Quarterly. ; Miss Enlalie's Elm Tree.* j r It was a magnificent work of nature, Miss Eulalie's elm tree; so tall and ! graceful, overhanging the street with its green banner, lending a charming shade to her little parlor, which gave it the air of a dim, cool recess in the j *>* woods on a summer's day. Miss Eula- j lie loved it, and, except for her gay young ward, it would seem as if she; had little else to love. Her grand- j father had planted it; it was a sort of . heirloom. She hail passed her youth beneath its boughs; her name was carved on its stem. She never looked | at the tree without thinking of the one who had carved it there ; of the I . still, moonlight nights they had spent together in its shadow. It gave her | i both pain and pleasure?pleasure, because it reminded her that he hal ^ loved her once; pain, that he loved ! | her no longer. She could not guess : why he had never returned to her; what had estranged him was still as great a mystery to her as in those early ] days of her bereavement, when sorrow . and suspense had been her daily companions, rising up and sitting down j with her. Perhaps some fairer woman ' had enslaved him, perhaps he had i: never really loved her at all, and she j J experienced" a pang of mortified pride when she reflected that she had ' possibly been vain enough to make the I! -mistake. YGt by year she watched; >V- the tender green. of the elm thicken i into dark masses of leaves; year by ' sue watcneu meiri laamg anu falling, Rke her own hopes and illusions ; it was a poem to her ; and yet, ' after all, it was only Miss Eulalie's elm _ tree by permission. The home of her 1 ancestors had fallen into other hands; I . she had only returned to it by a happy k chance, not as its owner. Mrs. Vaughn, 1 the purchaser, had a daughter to be ] .educated, and Mi*s EuMiehad taken , i ^e""*5rttrafrK-JBut hcr?s thew^r,',,; befo died she devised that Miss jJuIaiie ; J should make a home with IsabeL be i1 mother, sister and teacher, all in one, ( to that wayward young person till she should marry?in short, stand in the gap. Miss Eulalie had been used i fcgpv;; to standing in gaps all her life; this 1 was nothing new. And it was a home -r-her old home where she had dreamed dreams. When she walked at twilight < beneath the old elm its leaves seemed kL - to whisper, "Just here he kissed you first," and " Here you said good-bye." ; No wonder she loved the old tree! j * "Dangerous thing," said Captain \ Valentine, tapping its trunk with his t A cane as ne walked oy; noliow-nearted jr--'. as a jilt, Miss Eulalie." "You are mistaken," she rejoined: "it is as sound as a nut." " But it must come down," he added, as if his word were law. "Xever, while I live, Captain Yalen- s tine." j' "You forget that I am a man of j *? property; that I pay more taxes than any one in Littleford; that I can buy ; 1 every tree in the place and cut it j down, if I choose.'* j 1 " Then it is only from pure good na- ' ( ture that you beg my consent to cut jr. down this beautiful tree? Do you 1 know I have loved it from a child; my s grandfather planted it?" < | ^ "I know that Miss Isabel owns the 1 I 7 whole estate, and I know that this ;" * i bone of contention, this tree, obstructs 11 * ' 4Vksv tt ' C bUC YiCttO iiUIU JJUJ- 1U.U.V V> o, -UiOO * gw- Eulalie, which is more to the point? I I that its boughs leap into the air so 5 high and spread their branches so ] wide that it blots out the view of the i 1 B sea,' the open sea';" and he passed on i ( up the long green lawn to his new ; < home, with its marble steps and broad i . - balconies, which made its humble; Jk -. jf neighbor seem forlorn and shabby, i Miss Eulalie looked at the imposing ' < structure, at the parterres of brilliant \ flowers, at the fountain tossing its ] head into the sunlight, the velvet ter- j s ~ races and lawn, and smiled. Why had j 1 p/: Captain Valentine chosen to build his :) palace so near her home? Why had j} he built at all, at his time of life, with { no family to inherit and no wife to do Kfv its honors? How lonely he must'be, h I she thought, in the spacious mansion,; ] V with nobody but the servants to speak i1 t.with! Why had he never married?' < Pp'o In the humility of her heart Miss Eu-;; laiie never dreamed that it was because < V" she would not marry hiiu. That had j i happened so many years ago, before he ] and Anson Andrews had sailed to-1 < getherinthe Water Witch. How angry ! fue naa neen men : now je<uou? ui au 11 son! How bitterly he had sworn that! ^ the day should come when she would j s U give her heart's blood to recall the 1 y words?when she should regret her 1 folly in dust and ashes ! But of course i < he had forgotten all that?the ravings 1 . of an untamed nature. H e had been only second mate then, with little or ' ' - wnt.hincr ahead in the world: to-dav lie ! 1 fwas Captain Valentine, w ith that:; world at his feet; the richest man in : town, perhaps. ; "You might have been mistress up . there, Miss Eulalie," he h ad reminded ! i her one day, pausing at her gateway ! after the house was done. "But you took your choice?you took your : _ choice, and"?laughing?"they tell us | IB that beggars shouldn't be choosers." From the very first Captain Yalen& " itne had raised a hue and crv about; Miss Eulalie's elm tree; it almost p::\' seemed as if lie had selected the site to tease her. as if he wished to strip her of ev erything she loved, since she depjlp;dined to love himself. " I have bought the most expensive spot in town," he said, "and spared no money, in order that I might open my eyes every morning on my beloved "ou refuse to sacrifice a tree . Bk Id friend and neighbor, a tree rv (irop of its own will ^ons,.th$?alentiiie," site said, "you | m k once for all; the elm as I ara mistress here. There need be no more words' about it." "Xo more words, but deeds," he answered, and a wicked, angry light flamed in his eyes, such as she had seen thprp nnr?p h^>ff>rp Thf m.tn rrvnlrl fire like iron. But then the subject dropped, as she believed. He did not mention the tree again. "He has given it up," she thought; "he makes a great noise when he can't have his way, and then forgets about it." But Miss Eulalie did not do the captain justice. One twilight, as she returned from a sick neighbor's, it gave her a curious shock j to see her pretty ward, Isabel Vaughn, i talking over the hedge which separated the grounds, to Captain Valentine,! who wore a rose in his buttonhole. ^ AC 1 i o?e, ufcfiti jyu&s x-uiaue, sue cneu? , "see what a basket of roses Captain | Valentine has brought us! And j might I go up to The Towers to-rcor- J row with Mrs. Van Buff to see Captain | Valentine's Corot?" Miss Eulaiie could hardly refuse? why should she??and Isabel returned in ecstasies with the medieval furniture, the Persian draperies, the wonderful carved ivories, the carpets like woodland moss, the Oriental rugs, i and skins of ant-eaters and tawnv ' lions. " It is just heavenly," she said. "It makes home look squalid and mean. It makes me low-spirited to come back.j Why did you let me go, Miss Eulalie? i And the elm tree does interfere with j his view more or less; but what of ; that? He has everything else. He j can gallop to the sea in half an hour, j Such horses ! I've always longed for j a saddle-horse. Captain Valentine has promised to lend me a safe one." And day after day he kept his word, and brought his horses round for Miss Isabel to try, or left flowers and fruits that fairlv inundated the small house :! or perhaps he gathered the young p<?o-! pie together, and gave a fete under .'lis | trees, with dancing on the broad I veranda hung with festoons of Chinese lanterns; and sometimes Miss Eulalie was obliged to chaperon Isabel, and sit, a faded wall-flower, in the house of her old suitor. " I wonder why Captain Valentine never married?" said Isabel, after one I of these fetes. "I wonder how it seems to be so everlasting rich ; to have no worry about money; to?" " Isabel," warned Miss Eulalie, "you care too much for monev. There are better tilings." " Mention one, please." "You will think I am a sentimental old woman, but love is better a thousandfold." "I don't know. Love is very nice, but if you must go without everything rise, without pretty gowns and. jewels and splendor, give me money." "You are too young to choose. Pretty gowns, jewels and splendor lose their ! :harm when you are used to them, hut 1 love outlasts everything." But Miss Eulalic's words were wasted. " I love money," Isabel confessed; "I adore clothes. I don't know about love." in spite or an tnat naa Happened Miss Eulalie was quire unprepaied svhen Isabel said to her: '-I've sonie;hing to tell you. I dare say you know x already, though. I'm going to marry re I "am ft] pjj tia^afid wfe^r cashmeres uiu sapptiires, and go abroS^FT"^*^ lever have to count my change again. Congratulate me." " You are joking," cried Miss Eulalie. "Then it's the best joke in the vorld ! It's no joke to the other girls, of. mp t.plJ vaii " "You are going to marry Captain Valentine? Do you know that he is >ld enough?" " To know better." "Do you love him, Isabel?" " I like him well enough. I love his noney." ' Isabel, don't do it. You will sow j ;he wind and reap the whirlwind. I; ?an't allow it; the idea of your many- ! ng him! It is too preposterous, too j nercenary. "Why, he was once a lover < >f my own," pursued Miss Eulalie, for- j jetting herself. "Why didn't you marry liim and; ;ave me tne trouuie.' saiu isaosi. . 4 But perhaps he was poor then ?" "It was not that." "What then? You loved soir.e)ody else?" "I don't mind telling you now, Is a-1 )el, I had another lover?Anson An-: Irews. I've never gotten over it. j rhere have been weeks and months j .vhen I've tried with all my soul to for-; ret him?to unlove him. He and j Captain Valentine sailed together in j :he "Water Witch, and when Captain Valentine returned he brought me {ill ;he Irinkets and letters I had sent Anion Andrews, but never a word more." "You dear old faithful thing! you ;hall dress in satin de Lyon and thread j ace; we shall live in the lap of lux- I iry, and I'll send word to Anson An-1 Jrews if he is at farthest Thule. How ! >ddly things turn out! Fancy my narrying your cast-off lover!" a TcoKnl T 1 \&fr mil f r* " X J VU 1AVV WV " 2vot marry Captain Valentine fce-j ?ause I'm not in love'? Perhaps I lever shall be in love. You would iave me give up so much for a mere ; sentiment. You mustn't expect every- j Dody to have as intense feelings as! rourself. I couldn't remember a man j ifteen years if he were the Great Mo-1 rul himself." Captain Valentine and Isabel were j narried in the little parlor of the old < louse, shaded by the old elm tree,! svhich made pretty daocing shadows j )n the wall. It was a most informal iff air; and when it was over and the ' clergyman had pocketed his fee, and ! :he bride was trying on her traveling iiat, Ivliss Eulalie stepped into the g?.r:len to draw a long breath. What ivpro flip work-inorm^n flnincr thore at ! " v*v O o ?- j ;hat hour? j " Go into the house, Miss Eulalie," j said Captain Valentine. " I am going : to celebrate my wedding day. Isatel j has made me a wedding gift of the | aid elm tree, and I'm cutting it down to burn on the hearth at The Towers, j while we look out at the 'dreary winter sea.' Miss Euialie, when you | thwart a Valentine you do it at your j [>eril. Do you think I married Isabelj t'or love? Revenue is sweeter than love. "When you refused to marry me : I swore I would make you repent in dust and ashes." Miss Eulalie turned silently toward j the house, but paused to look back from the doorway. There was a crash, and when a strange blur had cle?r ;d away from before her eyes Captain Valentine lay dead beneath a great arm of the tree, which had snapped as it feB. "I feel so awfully wicked," said Isabel, some months later, awed and ashamed at finding herself in possession i of the coveted wealth without the1 burdensome conditions. " I've been ! looking over his papers with Mr. Bill ings, the executor, and we ferreted out this letter. It's from Anson An/tr-nnrc T t.hmiorht. it. pvnlained some thing ; at any rate you might like to see it. It's dated Australia, a ytar i ago." "Dear Yal" (Miss Eulalie read) ?"Here I am, leagues from home, tut j possessed with an unquenchable long ing to hear from the old place, and a I I homesickness which no money can rej lieve. Sometimes when I'm smoking in my bungalow, alone, I fancy I am ; home again under the old elm tree with Eulalie, still young, with hope in j; ! my soul, and presently I awake from j 1 the day-dream and berate myself j soundly for allowing the old wound to i; throb and ache. Believe me, eld j boy, in spite of the fifteen |; years behind us, ray bald head, and j' her double-dealing, I cannot think I' of her and all I've lost without a i: weight at my heart. I was a happy ' wight when we sliipped in the Water ' Witch. I'm free to confess I've never ' seen a happy day since you confided to ' me that you were going to marry Eu lalie. I remember how black you looked when I tcld you she belonged to ' me, and how we then and there swore we v,-ould neither of us marry such a neartless jilt! How have you weathered it, messmate? And .v*hat has happened to her? Has she befooled any more true-lovers V After all I believe that " 'My heart -would hear her and beat Had it lain for a century dead.' "Write me about her, and if the old elm tree, where I kissed her first, is still standing. ' Our love is dead, but the tree is alive.' Xo, love is not dead; I cannot slay it; it smolders and torments me." "Miss Eulalie,'* said Isabel, when Eulalie had folded the letter with trembling fingers, ' there has been a great .?? >r? t>:ii:?t ? i WiUllg UU11C. Jli. (VUU Jl JLUCClH to right it. We mean to send word to Anson Andrews; we are going to tell him -what an angel you are. We have talked it all over. And about this money?I couldn't make up my mind to touch a cent of it if I were starving. I shall found a hospital with it. Mr.> Billings is to help me. AVe have talked j it all over; I don't care for splendor j any longer; I have found out, Miss j Eulalie, that love is best."?Harper's j Weekly. j FACTS FOR TH ? CURIOUS. | A species of cactus is made useful j in Florida. The strong fiber of its i i leaves is turned into rope, its juice into i a pleasant beverage and its trunk, after 3 the removal of the pith, into pails. s It is related of the Tahitians that, * when Captain Cook first burst into < their lonely isle, they were using nails' < of wood, bone, shell or stone, and that '< when they beheld the iron nails they 1 conceived them to be shoots of some t very hard wood, and, accordingly, d-2- 1 sirous of securing to their own island I such a valuable commodity, planted 1 them in their gardens. . < Flint was used very early as a cut- ? ting instrument by the nations so for-1* frnnate as to rtnsspss it. A sort, nf saw. 1 k r 7 c which passed for a knife, consisted of * flakes of flint inserted in wooden j handles and secured by bitumen or by lasting?; of gut or sinews. Obsedian ( was used in the same way. The 3 South Sea islanders bad no flint or ob- ( sedian, and used shell, splinters ol' 3 bamboo and flakes of tortoise shell In Australia there is a handsome } shrub known as the " stinging tree." j It grows to be about ten feet in height, j Dogs, when stung by it, will rush t about, whining piteously and biting j pieces from the injured part. Hunters | ( by its odor, wiiich is I , disagreeable, and thus many persons escape the sting. A traveler writes that the sting leaves no mark, but the pain is agonizing. For months afterward the place hurt is tender in rainy weather. French enterprise is steadily persevering in the work of redeeming the desert of Saraha by moans of artesian wells. A large number of wells have been sunk along the northern border, j -c more than 150 in the province of Con- j r stantine alone, and the work is ad vancing into the interior. One of the curious phenomena which tl.e digging of these wells has brought so notice is the existence of fish and crabs at great a depths. The learned engineer, M. Jus, c who for twenty years has directed the I work, avers that he once boiled and i ate a crab which had been drawn up ? from a depth of 250 feet, and that, s moreover, it was of an excellent flavor, s The apparatus used for the purpose c of measuring the heighth cf the Xile * is situated oil the island of Eoda, opposite Cairo. It consists of a square i -.veil or chamber, in the center of t which is a graduated pillar divided 1 into seventeen cubits, each about t twenty-one and seven-sixteenth i^Jies 1 long. Owing to the ?p|aigPQ * of the bed of the Xifc^the ^ relative proportion of the rise of i water has been altered, and it 1 now passes about one cubit and two- a thirds above the highest Dart of the r column. The state of the stream is proclaimed in the streets of Cairo during the inundation every day by several criers, to each of whom a par-1 ticular district is allotted. From twenty-four to twenty-six feet may betaken as the ordinary maximum of the ris'3 at Cairo. i ??? 11 >'amfS Tak n from Trades. I s The Baxters belong to the same class ! x oe T oCAnc? Porniun+Qrc? fVin ' ^ cio iuu -utiovuo, tao j Taylors, the Smiths, the Gardiners and ^ the Fullers. In fact, the surnames s derived from trades or occupations are \ more numerous than those of any other c classy except patronymics and" place f names. Some of them belong to existing trades, like those quested above, t while others represent obsolete trades, ( or at letist obsolete trade terminology, s like the Fletchers, or arrow makers, i the A '/blasters, who manufactured j crossbows or arblasts (areubalistse), s and the Tuckers, who worked in the c tucking mills where cloth was prepared s for market. A man v.ho bakes is -i called a Baker; but in earlier times a c woman who baked was called a Bakester, or Baxter. So a man who brews r is a Brewer, while a woman who 3 brews is a Brewster. In medieval English the termination "ster" was a feminine one; and it still survives with its primitive signification 1 in spinster. A huckster was origi- r nally a marketwoman, but the word c has now come to mean anybody, male t or female, who hawks about goods in t the public streets. The same chancre 1 has come over maltster, throwster and ; i many other analogous words. But i < sundry surnames will show us the two j i forms side by side, as in Webber and ? "Webster, ilenee we may conclude ' t that the ancestor of all the Baxters ! t was a woman who kept a bakehouse. < Why her descendants should take their 1 name from her, rather than from their ] father, is easy enough to understand j < on a number of natural hypotheses. J i Joan Baxter may in one place have 1 u,?~ ? 1 , Uccu a. \wuuw, w UU5C cu wuuiu, ; $ of course, be called after lier; in an- j 3 other p)ace she might be a person of ; 1 some character, while her husband ;; was a field laborer or ne'er-do-well, ! 3 and in another, again, there might be i 1 two Piers gardeners or two Wat Car- j 1 ters in the same village, so that it' ] might be more convenient to describe . = . ... ..1 the youngsters by their mother'3 calling than by their father's. 1 Six hundred liens were killed at one ' I show given by the Reman Pompey. j; PETROYOSKY'S PEARLS. The Tbrilline Romancc of a Celebrated Necklaco Now in New York. In the show-case of a jewelry establishment on Broadway, Xew York, there is a rr kl: -e on view composed of about fi oriental pearls of the x. i i 1. .1 ~ most v aiuauiu escnpuun, neiu vviui a black jet clasp, set with two dazzling solitaire diamonds. It is valued at $40,000, and is said to be unmatched either in this country or abroad. The string of pearls rests in a purple, satinlined case. The necklace was the property of the Duchess de Kaufraumont, now of Paris, and as an heirloom has come down from the family of the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. It was secured by Bonaparte from a Koman diamond dealer. Before his last de feat the emperor presented the jewels as a wedding gift to the De Daufraumonts. Its last owner was the Countess Petrovosky, a Russian lady and a near relative of the Duchess De Kaufraumont, who was living in St. Petersburg in retirement with her married sister, Baroness De Seigfretowsky, until misfortune compelled her to part with the precious pearls. It appears that the Countess Petrovosky was a strong advocate of the liberal movement in Russia. She became so enthusiastic at last that she began to write anonymous letters and articles under a nom de plume, urging on the socialistic or nihilist movements. Then came the plot 'or blowing up the - t.:? i l/,<u <inu iuivuj^ ixid mu wim uuaiw. Although the Countess Petrovoskv always was enthusiastic in the cause, she was never in favor of the killing of the ?zar. The police were ordered to arrest any and all persons suspected of being engaged in the plot. This order was executed indiscriminately, so that 10 guilty one should escape. The Countess Petrovoskv was grief-stricken it the fate of Alexander, and delounced the action as wanton to a iegree and a dishonor to the people, riie detectives not only arrested editors >f liberal papers, but seized their private manuscripts. Among the manuscript confiscated were found writings on xaper that were at once recognized as laving been written by a female The oaper on one corner bore the impres;ion of the manufacturer, and through ;his and other marks the papers were it last traced to the countess. Immeliately her arrest was ordered as one it least sympathizing with nihilism, if jot directly connected in the plot for ;he czar's assassination. The lady felt ler position keenly, endeavored to explain and show her innocence, hut ail ivas useless. Through the inlluence )f her family and connections she was illowed a private tribunal. It was alnost decided to send the countess to Siberia for life, when through almost superhuman efforts she was at last reeased on the payment of an enormous ine and an agreement to leave the country for life. Xot only did this arrest take <dmost every coin the lady )wned or could get together, but also 'orced her to part with her jewels, imong these went the string of jparls mentioned. The necklace was pledged and only became the property )t its holder through the iailure of the countess in the jiven time to release it. The lady :ept her pledging of the necklace a secret, until, being unable to get money enough to redeem it, it slipped from ler possession. Countess Pefcrcvosky lad worn the necklace at some of the eading fetes at the czar's palace, and ;he rarity and beauty of the gems vere known all through St. Peters>urgh, vhere the oriental pearl is preatly prized for its purity. At present Countess Petrovosky lives dependent upon her relatives, but helps to :heer herself by contributing sketches md writing stories for French jourlals. THE HOME DOCTOR. Recipe for Ivy Poisoning.?Muriite of ammonia, one ouncp; water, one piart. Apply as a wash to the affected >art frequently. Or place a piece of inslacked lime the size of a walnut in i saucer of water and use the water ifter the lime has had time to become lacked. Or olive oil, two ounces; sali:vlic acid, one dram.?Dr. Foote's health Monthly. Eating Before Sleeping.?Man s the only animal that can be taught o sleep quietly on an empty stomach, [he brute creation resents all efforts o coax them to such a violation of the aws of nature. Tiie lion roars in the orest until he has found his prey, and vhen he has devoured it he sleeps over intil he needs another meal. The lorse will paw at night in the stable ithI the r>ior will Rnueal all nicrht in the r~n -a - o )en, refusing all rest or sleep until hey are fed. The animals which chew he cud have their own provision for a ate meal just before dropping off to heir nightly slumbers. Man can train limself to the habit of sleeping with>ut a preceding meal, but only after ong years of practice. The sleep vhich comes to adults long hours ifter partaking of food, and when the tomach is nearly or quite empty, is rot after the type of infantile re>ose. There is all the difference in the vorld between the sleep of refreshment tnd the sleep of exhaustion. To sleep veil the blood that swell the veins in >ur head during our busy hours must low bac^, leaving a greatly diminished -olume behind the brow that lately hrobbeci with such vehemence. To linroct tcoII thic IVInnrl ic nppilprl in t.hp tomach and nearer the fountains of ife. It's a fact established beyond the >ossibility of contradiction that sleep lids digestion, and that the process of ligestion is conductive to refreshing leep. It needs no argument to convince us of this mutual relation. The Irowsiness which always follows the vell-ordered meal is of itself a testirtony of nature to this fact.?Chicago tribune. A Testamentary Curiosity. In 1877, a man who died in Berlin, eaving behind him a fortune of 34,000 narks, surprised all who knew him by levising that 32,000 marks should go onfV?/vri + i s\f ivo nlo/>o onrl ,\J CvUlUVU ll/A'.O V/A- AUO iHUi ? V, UliU ,hat the remainder should be divided )et\veeii nine relatives and a friend with vliom he had quarreled, the share of any me of the legatees becoming forfeited f he followed the testator to the jrave. His relatives religiously obeyed ;he dead man's decree, but the es:ranged friend, remembering old times, ;ould not refrain from going quietly ;o the churchyard and paying his last respects to the deceased. By-and-bye i eouicii camu 10 ugut, uuecuug uiau f any one of the ten legatees under the svill should disobey the injunction regarding the last ceremony he was to receive the bulk of the money left to the testator's town, and, thanks to the shrewd device, the man who thought more of his old friendship than his old friend's money found himself comfortablv provided for for the rest of his Life.?Chambers* Journal. The Rothschilds are virtual owners of one-fifth of the fertile lands in the delta of the Nile. Their share in Egyptian bonds is popularly estimated at $12,000,000. y - POPDLABSSCIEXOE. Chemically regarded mica is made of I silica, albumina and'potash. Silica is i one of the hardest^substances in na ; ture, known in itsjsf>urest and most ; beautiful lorm as rqjck crystal. A tree called th^travelers' tree, ol Madagascar, yields" at copious supply of fresh water fr^n itsfeaves, very grateful to the traveler. $<Jt grows in the most arid countries^'and is a good proof of the wondemil' wisdom of nature* !& 1 Experiments witl^a submarine telephone were made &e other day at Havre. France. A's^ip was sent out a considerable distajifce on the ocean with a wire, and the'ifesult proved that the voice can be transmitted under water more distinctlyzand. louder even than on land. ? <' Dr. I-Ianamann h appointed out that the practice of removing leaves and twigs from wood covered land is a pernicious one, as it depsYjeS. thesoil; of.the nutriment which t^e"deca^.'.-6f-the . vegetable matter wa^^as^jielaljned to it, and also impairs^tf Voil's power of retaining moisture.-:A quality of California redwood is ! its ready absorption of water when heated, which, for a ume, makes it almost fireproof. The quickness with i which fires are extinguished in San Francisco has often been remarked, ; and the celerity with which blazing j buildings are often transformed into i charred remnants is greatly facilita- i ted by the entire lack of resinous ele- I ment in the redwood lumber. i The amount of water which passes : through the roots of ,a plant is enor- ; mous. jjr. j-iawes, or Jingiana, nas i found that an average of 2,000 pounds , of water is absorbed by a. plant for i every pound of mineral matter assim- i ilated by it. At the French agricul- j tural observatory at Montsourw it wa3 I found that 7,702 pounds of water ' passed through the roots of the wheat i crop for 10? pounds of grain produced, j or 727 pounds for each pound of grain i in rich soil; while in a, very poor soil | 1,616 pounds were passed through the j same quantity of wheat for a product j of about half a pound of grain, or ! 2.693 pounds of water 'for each pound j of grain. o - --r V- TT^ ut- T>i? aume ui neu xurn's x?ig jduuuiuks. i Forty millions in nine months for ; new buildings, says the N ew York cor- j respondent of the Detroit Free Press. \ Gotham keeps growing right along, j The forty millions, though, cover improvements in Brooklyn as well as New York. Many of the buildings are prodigious in size and enormously expensive. We don't build mere j houses any more?at least not many, j Mansions and palaces lake the place j of old-i'ashioned homes, and the new I ! T->iiciniico 1-milrlinoNj are such Annr- ! mous piles as were not thought of ! twenty years ago. The Mills build- | ing on Broad street, for instance, put j up at a cost of $3,000,001'. is a huge ' mountain beside any building erected 1 in the same neighborhood before the j war. The new produce exchange at ' Bowling Green will be another mon- j ster, costing, probably, nearly as much. ! Cyrus W. Field's ""Washington" build- ! ing, on the other side of-the historic little park, if a place that is never open^ may be called a- parkfwiff -$1,000#00. The same figure is named as the probable cost of the two mansions which Mr. Yanderbilt is about to build near St. Thomas' church for his two daughters. He will spend another million on a hotel opposite the Grand Central depot. On the next block a hotel building that will cost ?1,150,000 is now going up. The total cost of the Metropolitan opera -house probably will not be | less than $2,000,000, though the presI ont octimofod firmro il SI SOD OAA That of the new Casino, hard by, which was to have been finished a couple of months ago, is set down at $1,000,000. The rage for putting up enormous flats shows no abatement. A score of buildings .of this class, of fairly stupendous proportions, are' under way. The largest, as well as the most costly, will be the Navarro co-operative Hats at Seventh avenue and Fifty-ninth street, facing Central park. The outlay on these will be | about $5,000,000. Another gigantic pile is the enormous hotel flat, nine stories high, that the late Mr. Clark, of the Singer Sewing Machine company, was putting up at the west side of the park, near the museum of natural history. As to high buildings, though, the elevenstory flat called the Knickerbocker, on Fifth avenue not far from Delmonico'p, nans the climax. A family livinsr 0:1 ' i the eleventh story might be said to en- i joy high life, anyway. The cost of the Knickerbocker is about $1,000,000. The Hat craze may yet prove a serious one for the speculative builders. Should another panic strike Xew York before they "get out," some of them will probably be laid so flat that they will never sret up a?ain. Many of the flats are put up wholly on speculation, i Enormous loans are made on them, i and while the boom continues every- : thing is all right. But just wait till ! the next big panic comes along. If some of the speculators don't go with a crash, I am no prophet. A Unique Hotel. Joe Beefs hotel is unique. It is a big four-story stone building on the river front of Montreal, and its cus- : tomers are chiefly boatmen. On the j first iloor is a barroom, decorated with j human skulls (the proprietor says they | are the heads of his relatives), and on j one end of the counter, for a free lunch, always lies a huge piece of raw beef, with a knife for hacking off pieces. The second floor is a cheap restaurant, and above are lodging-rooms at ten ! cents a night. There is also a concert j hall. But the strangest feature of j the concern is a row of cells in the j cellar, where Joe locks up bis guests j when they become boisterously* drunk. j " I won't have any policeman around j my place," he said to a Boston Herald j correspondent; "I'm my own police, i inrlo-A nnrl inrv ami 1 TfPf-r> mv mvn J""ev r ?j ~ ' ? jail." His followers submit to his j system, because they escape the fines : that would be imposed if they fell i into the hands of the police. Hard to Counterfeit. The Bank of Prance has just issued ' ; some hundred-franc (twenty dollars) ! bank notes of an especially elaborate j pattern, wnicn win Dame me most : skillful of forgers. An eminent painter has furnished the design, and the engraving has been executed by artists of i ; the first rank. The distinguishing ! 1 feature of the new note is its double 1 j water mark. That to the left is the head of Ceres, and that "o the right i the head of Mercury. 0:ae is visible , with the note placed flat, and the ot her when it is held up to the light. Thesf ! water marks are not printed over. Louisville. Ivy., has an establishment which manufactured over 75,000plows | in 1881, and now has a capacity for i turning out 600 plows a day?one I plow every minute. The Yibratioii of Buildings. Few persons who have not looked into the matter have any idea of the trouble which the managers of large manufacturing establishments often have in preventing vibration of the buildings in which their work is carried on. This is not due to faulty construction; indeed, vibration is found usually in mills winch are admirably built. In all cases it is what is termed synchronosis, that is to say, it is occasioned and maintained by the vibration of some other object which strikes what may be termed the key or note of the building. Just as the wire of a piano will respond to a proper vibratory force, so a bridge or a building will vibrate when its keynote is struck with sufficient force by some other object. If the human ear had a greater range of power the sound made by the vibra tion might be detected. It is not now heard simply because it does not come within the limits of what are to human beings audible sounds. In a recently published "work, on mill construction by L Mr.-C.X H. Woodbury, a number of interesting instances of this synchro^ vibration are given. Ac one of the print works of Xorth Adams, Mass., a new and unoccupied building was fonnd to vibrate in consequence of the puffing of a small steam engine sixty feet away. At Centredale, R. I., it has been necessary to change the height of the column of water flowing over the dam to prevent the excessive vibration oi tne adjacent mm. s\z ii.mesoury, Mass., out of eleven mills that are near the river, two vibrate when water in certain quantities flows over the dam, but the tremor can be wholly stopped by changing the flow of water. The most frequent cause of vibration is due to the running of the. machinery, and it has repeatedly happened that a complete cessation lias been obtained by increasing or lessening the speed at which the machinery is run. This is not always profitable or possible, and the fact that this vibration results in a loss of power, variously estimated at from ten to t wenty per cent., is a strong argument in favor of the construction VN/S/t/Nf. ui uuc*otuij liiiiio, which. v>uiuu liacy sarily vibrate much less than factories having a height of six or eight stories. But it is not alone the loss of power that has to be considered, for in addition there is the straining of building and machinery, and in the manufacture of -textile fabrics this unsteadiness causes a great breakage in the threads, and a consequent damage to the material The Yellowstone Part. The Yellowstone park is simply a land of wonders and surprises. Such photographs as I have seen totally fail 10 give tne sugniest conception oi it There is nothing like it in the world ; the Swiss Alps appear small and insignificant to me after seeing these mammoth sulphur springs and geysers. They are literally indescribable. Their extent, their variety, their infinite irregularity must be seen to be resized. Their in crusted forms seem to have a law of their own construction. Imagine a series of huge basins formed as regulariv as the fountains in a European city, leaning over each other hundreds of feet in height, and each varying in color from a duU___ crystallized suipnur, countless geysers of hot sulphur -water that throw up jets and columns from twenty to 200 feet. As a great sanitarium it seems to me the park will some clay be a national resort. It is bountifully watered by clear streams that abound in fish, and game is plentiful. Except the Marshall house, a rude frame structure, there is no place or accommodation there as yet, and while the trails and roadways are obvious enough and fairly passable for veliicles, there lias been a strange omission on the part of the government custodians to erect sign-boards at the crossings giving the distances and the directions to the various points. A government police N is sadly needed to prevent wanton and careless conflagrations, which have already destroyed vast bodies of valuable timber, and disfigure the face of the country. There can be no doubt of the abundance of game in the park. I saw a herd of elk on three different occasions, scattered antelope every few days, aad bear tracks were plenty in the snow. We had no difficulty in procuring elk meat, and, what was far better, the meat of the "wiltl mountain I sheep. It was the best mutton I ever tasted; in flavor and delicacy I think it was superior to the famous Welsh mutton. We met every now and then camping parties. Captain Gorringe counted more than 300 sight-seers; they came principally from the Pacific siope. >v c aiso came across companies of men engaged in fishing and shooting and drying and salting the trout for winter use.?Senator Bayard. His Goods Advertised Him. A solicitor employed by a well- j known publication recently stopped at a leading hotel in a Western city and | asked the proprietor for an advertisement for his periodical. The landlord, who was not troubled with an excess of modesty, turned upon his interlocutor, :md with a look that was meant to be annihilating, and in a tone intended to be crushing, said: "Young man, my goods advertise me better than any other known method could do. They are sufficient." " Well," said the apparently some 1 *- L - Ii ? ? io fV*A WI1UL ftUciSIieU bUUCitUl) IJL uiau xo vlus . case I will invest seventy-five cents in J studying your plan of advertising. I will take breakfast here." " Do so and be convinced," said Boniface, grandly. The young man paid his money and entered the dining-room. When he emerged some time later he seemed intent on making an immediate departure, but mine host was on the watch for him. He had, in the interim, informed those who were standing about how easily he had silenced the man of the press, and he now wished to m^fee his triumph more complete by having the advertising man confess himself worsted in the presence of the assem Med company. "Hello," he cried, as his guest j seemed about to depart. " What do : you think of my advertising now, ay?" " Capital, capital," replied the other, j "Well, guess you'll remember that | meal longer'n you would a card in a paper, wouldn't you ?" " I certainly should and will." "Ah! well now, you can tell your j friends where to get a meal when they i come to , can't you?" " Oh! I don't know about that?" "Xo! why don't you ?" "I didn't suppose you meant that breakfast to advertise your table. I thought it was intended to impress the guests with the fact that you ran a curled hair factory, and had invented j the most perfect cockroach traps ever . known, and you couldn't have hit on a better scheme." The guest left then. It cannot be said that be carried the door away with him, for, fortunately, the door happened to be open when he wanted to pass out; but?he left, "THE B'?X MARCHE? A Wonderfnl Parisian Store?An 'Employer Who Looks After All the Needs of His Clerks. A Paris correspondent of the Boston Traveler writes: This afternoon we have been to the " Bon Marche." Al- j most every one knows that wonderful; >tore, but I think not many know that | it is an admirable benevolent work as well as a successful business undertak- ! 'ng. We were in the reading-room of i the store this afternoon, when a gentleman entered and offered to show the household and business parts to as nany as were curious. This offer is nade every afternoon about 3 o'clock. Mr. Boucicault began life as a poor >oy, and when able to have a little ;tore of his own his attention was at >nce directed to the welfare of his ;lerks, and he gave them, as soon as le wasabie, a home in his own house. From this small beginning the work las grown wonderfully. Mr. Bouci:ault died a few years ago worth mil ions ot dollars, ana. to-aay trie r joon \farehe," carriedon Jby his widowv*wiploys 3,000 people,' / f Two thousand of those people live in the building and the 3,000 take their meals there. "We were first taken to a large hall filled with desks, where a great many boys and young . nen were studying bookkeeping. They have the benefit of reviewing all the books of the store and are paid a small amount on every mistake they find. In the evening lessons are given gratuitously to the employes in English, German, instrumental and vocal m o r-? oi?a rnvan uiuoiVs, aiiu JL vuLv^ci uo aic^iv CJLI by the store, in summer, in the square by the side of the building; in winter, on the ground floor, which can be cleared by the porters in twenty minutes of counters and goods, when it is needed for that purpose or balls. There are four dining-rooms?one for the men clerks, one for the girls, one for the workwomen, and one for the porters, messengers and drivers. The menu for dinner we saw: it con sisted of soup, one kind of meat, one kind of vegetables and dessert, and for each person a half bottle of wine. Coffee is extra; it costs two cents for a small cup, and three cents for the larger ones. The kitchen was very interesting. Thre^ hundred people are employed '\jie as waiters in the "dining-rooms. The kettles are perfectly immense; they must be certainly three feet high, and I am sure no man could meet his arms around one of them. Of course, when they are full and hot, they are beyond the ability of any man to move, so pulleys are arranged which lift the kettles from the fire and place them where they are wanted. For the clerks there is a room for amusement, where there are billiard tables, chess, checkers, dominoes, etc., but no card-plaving is allowed. The lady clerks have also a pleasant little parlor, where there is a piano and where they can spend their evenings when they choose. Each girl has a room entirely to herself, which is plainly furnished. There are rules to be observed by all. but they are not burdensome or oppressive ; the doors are not closed on week days until eleven, and on Sunday until 12:30 at Xu > VlJ* J-J-L Oti VIV/C VI J^JKJLX ilarche " receives a certain commission on everything sold or delivered, and after a certain number of years' service each acquires an interest in the <tore that increases yearly. It seems to me this is the most complete, most beneficial work of benevolence that 1 have known. It would be almost impossible to think of any details that are rot attended to. There is a barber's shop in the building for the use of employes; a physician is employed by tiie store and his services are free to all; moreover, there is an infirmary in another part of the city where those who are sick are cared for; indeed, a pair of boots is blacked for every member of the establishment every day. We asked if any board was paid, and the answer was "JSo"; 'out I suppose at least some difference is made in the salary. Domestic Life Anions the Battas. The following extract is from an article?"Life Among the Battas of Sumatra"?published in the Popular Science Monthly. The Batta does not make his morning toilet in the house, but at the special bathing places, or pantjurs, with which every village is provided. These places are arranged at a running stream or a canal made tor the purpose, by fixing a water pipe of bamboo in such a manner that a man standing or sitting under it can Krt*r/\ TTofai* rim oil rwrcxr* Vnc HclVC 1/11C ? atci X cti-1 au w ? VI 1110 wvuj Sucli baths are taken morning and evening. Sepal-ate pantjurs are provided for the women. It is one of the morning duties of the women and girls, even down to children of four and five years old, to bring drinking water in the gargitis, a water vessel made of a thick stalk of bamboo. The size and strength of growing girls are generally measured by the number of gargitis they can carry. Let us follow a woman into one of the inclosed dwelling-houses. The floor is made of round bamboo beams about as large as one's arm, across which are laid split bamboos far enough apart to let the water and dirt through and make sweeping unneces| sary. Broad, raised seats and lounges, covered with mats or various patterns and styles, are arranged on either side. In the corners are fireplaces of a primeval simplicity, fiat, square boxes filled with earth, and upon these some thick stones, between which the fire burns quite briskly, while the rice is cooked in home-made earthen vessels set upon them. The number of families living in the house can J generally be calculated from the I number of fireplaces to be seen. Xo ! division is made in the daytime between the parts of the house occupied Hin rlifforpnt families hilt a spr>? ration is made between the sleepingplaces at night by hanging up mats. Ordinarily, only blood relations live together in the same house. The children of both sexes, after they have grown up, sleep outside of the house and not with their parents, the young men in the sopos, the girls in parties of several with some old widow ; but the 1 children, till they have households of ; their own. take their meals with their parents. At meals the whole family sit around the rice-pots. They formerly used leaves for plates, but they now generally have European plates. As a rule, they eat immediately from the hand, wK">js previously washed in a vessel 01 .. .?er kept ready for tlie purpose. The nice point in eating consists in not allowing the fingertips to touch the lips, but in letting ' the rice drop from the fingers into the : hollow of tny band just before it is ; given to the mouth. It is proposed to erect anew morgue in Paris, the present building being' ton small. Twentv ve.irs a<ro the num ber of bodies carried th(jre for identification was not more than 500 a year, but of late the average has risen to { 1,000. I Selection of a Farm. There are many things to be consid| ered in the selection of a farm. To j the rich gentleman who wishes to re1 tire from the noise and tumult of city ; life a farm has a different meaning than j to the poor man who must toil daily for the maintenance of himself and family. The former will look through golden eye-glasses and seek tor luxuries in the country, while the latter must obtain the necessities of life. The one will let individual taste rule in the choice, the other asks himself, " Is this the best place for me to do substantial farming?" Xo general rules can be given for the rich man who buys a farm lor the purpose of spending money, while for the one who. seeks to make a living from the land, there are some words of advice. JLIIC UJL a. lOI 111 ^UUUIU UC OUltCU ! to the capacity of the pocketbook. Many young farmers make the mistake of buying a large farm with little money to pay for it. There is nothing .that so binds a man as a heavy mortgage. It eats the yery l\eart out of lie farmer and hangs- Hfe a- teamen weight upon every aspiration of his wife and children. It is better to buy a small farm and have enough capital to work it weiL As the surplus increases it may be invested in more acres, or in a better culture of those that have already proved profitable. There is a size below which many of the economies of the farm cannot be practiced to the best advantage, and on the other hand there is danger of going beyond that acreage where the most nrofitable farming mav be carried on. It requires considerable executive ability to manage a large farm, and therefore many men are excluded from such a lack which they may not fully appreciate until the trial has been made and the failure recorded. Farming is not like the taking of a citadel, and cannot be | done successfully with a rush and a! noise. It is a thoughtful and steady working out from well-laid plans?a conquest for crops, and the head must be clear that wins where the seat of a campaign for a lifetime covers townships or even square miles. The soil is the foundation of farming, and it should be fitted to the kinds of crops that it is desired to raise. The difference in the nature and capabilities of conrl on/1 chnn'M Via r>^prcfnn/1 and a favorable mixture of the two obtained if there is an opportunity for choosing. A rich soil, with proper management, means good crops at once, but it may be as profitable to invest much less in an equal area of overcropped land, and bring it up to a high state of cultivation by green manuring and other methods of restoration. The farmhouse is to be the home of the family, and therefore the locality for the farm should be healthful. The richest land for the price may be on the border of a malaria-breeding swamp, but the profits of the investment may be more than balanced by the doctor's bills and loss of time, not to mention the discomfort of fevers in the household. It is important that there be an abundant water supply on all farms, both for the family and the live stock.| ^There are ^fecial" consider^' *ws^ nfP.< should overlook in making a choroerOf" a farm. He lives not to himself alone; the children need the privileges of good schools, etc.; in short, the community should be one in which sympathy, goodness and intelligence prevail. "With a good farm of proper size, healthfully located, abundantly supplied with water, good neighbors and a handy market, a man is so well situated that lie ought to make himself and those around him happy. Choose well, and hold on to your choice.? American Agriculturist. Yampire Bats in Brazil. Probably no part of Brazil is more afflicted than a portion of the province of Bahia with the scourge of vampires. "Whole herds of cattle are sometimes destroyed by this venomous bat. It was long a matter of conjecture how the animal accomplished this insiduous and deadly work; but scientific men have now decided that the tongue, which is capable of considerable extension, is furnished at its extremity with a number of pipallae, which are so arranged as to form an organ of suction, the lips having also tubercles symmetrically arranged. Fastening themselves upon cattle, these dreadful animals can draw the blood from their victims. The wound, made probably from the small, needle-like teeth, is a fine, round hole, the bleeding from which it is verv difficult to stop. It is said that the wings of this deadly bat fly around during the operation of wounding and drawing blood with great velocity, thus fanning the victim and lulling while the terrible work is in progress. Some of these creatures measure two feet between the tips of their wings, and they are often found in great numbers in deserted dwellings in the outskirts of the city. The ?? /\/WAAO on/1 Tn/^ione oorkGniollv ArAO/1 I "^lUCO cuiu xuuiaiio vvikal^o.\x them, and there are numerous superstitions among the natives in regard to them. Extermination of Salmon. The destruction of fish seems to be going on in a terrible way, both in Oregon and at Lake Tahoe, in Nevada, as the following two items frill show: The first item notes that a gentleman, who came down from the Cascades lately, states that one of the fish-wheels there caught 4,100 salmon in twentyfour hours. The fish appear to be running in vast numbers, as he saw a man with a dip-net catch seventy-eight at the head of an eddy in less than an hour. He caught three at one scoop. The lish, in making a passage of the cataract, are compelled to keep close to the shore, and so are readily captured. The second item, from the Reno (Xev.) Gazette, states " that 1,200 pounds of Tahoe trout were shipped below by express one night. Of this amount H. D. Burton caught 400 pounds. For the past two weeks an average of 1,000 ?\Annrlc Tiorn fhrAnrrli . jjuuuuo nave uttu ciiiyyw uuvMgu I Wells, Fargo & Co.'s express at this j place daily. There is little credit in ! matching trout at Lake Tahoe at pres ent. Women and babes and sucklings ! are catching-their strings of from forty i to eighty trout in the space of from od<* to three hours." Among the creatures which attracted j Professor Haeckel's attention during j a recent tour in Ceylon was the great i black scorpion?nearly a foot long?; wnicn ne-ioima u> exist iu j>uuii iiuixi- j bers that he collected half a dozen speci- j mens in the course of an hour. Snakes j were also noticed in great abundance, i Slender green snakes hung from almost every bough, and at night the great; rat snake "hunted rats and mice over the roofs of the huts. Although these { rat snakes are harmless, Professor Haeckel considers it by no means a ' pleasant surprise when one of them,; five feet long, suddenly drops through a hole in the roof into one's room, per- j haps alighting on the bed. 1 % TIMELY TOPICS. A Monterey (Mexico) paper says it is impossible to say who afford the small boys of that city the most amusement?the Kickapoo Indians, who are constantly seen strolling through the streets, or the recently arrived Americans, who are commencing to pour into that section. A London statistician figures up a sum!us in all wheat-Droducinsr conn tries of 2,350,000 quartets of wheat? 18,800,000 bushels?over all possible demands of wheat-importing countries. In his figures he puts the import demand of Great Britain at 126,400,000 bushels (more than is usually allowed by other statisticians); and Vjl raits the prrwirt. <uirnlns of the TTnited. States at 160,000,000 bushels, which is ; 40,000,000 less than the Produce Hay - Jjj change Reporter estimates, and that paper usually is under the real out" An Erie physician and chemist, Dr. . i<wett;-is credited with discovering [process of embalming which consists or placing in a comn, irom wmcniae air has been exhauked, several ingredients that, being dissolved by electricity, fill the vacuum with a preservativegas. The body of a young child in the first stages of decom]>osition has already been preserved two months ; without change, decay being arrested and the odor of decomposition destroyed. He also claims it as a preservative of meat, his experiments so far having been successful. The gas is not injurious to food nor to water. An Illinois farmer went home the other day, and throwing his coat on the around leaned his farm vard fence. A cow took charge of the coat in the meanwhile, and in doing so swallowed*? $600 in paper money he had just borrowed from the bank He immediately called for his deposit, but this new " v||| savings bank had already closed its doors and declared itself insolvent But -:^Wi the money not being insolvent, he at once proceeded to break into the bank by force and recovered $400 of the assets, which, however, had, such was its condition, to be sent to Washington to be redeemed. So $200 and a valu- "WM able cow was the price he paid for leaving his coat on the ground that morning. Mr. C. Piazzi Smyth, the astronomer royal of Scotland, predicts that the comet now visible early in the morn- * ing will collide with the snn a year hence, with such results to the people of the earth that "subsequent pro- ceedings will interest them no more." On the other hand, Professor Swift, of Rochester, says it has gone as near the sun as it will, and is now receding, while a distinguished European scientist thinks that even if it should strike the sun it will affect the inhabitants of the earth about as much as a man's striking a match to light his cigar would affect a man looking at him Ft/wi fhn other aide nf the sfc. "*fc. There is, however, a good de?l of perturbation among certain portions Qf ^7^ jhe people in Europe, and it has begg^^T issue proclamations dispelling these """ fears and quelling alarms. The veracious Detroit Free Press tells this story about a funny election ' J in Dakota: In Huron, Dakota Terri- *"> tory, not long since, the citizens assembled to hear the result of the election. They were all impatient to learn the vote on judge of probafce^^^^ggj^j The clerk read the returfisfor county commissioner. "Bother the county commissioner! We don't care anything about that. Go on to the next" " For register of deeds?" "Go on! Go on!? "For sheriff ?" "No matter about the sheriff. Go on to probate ^ 0 judge! probate judge! probate judgeT cried scores of voices. "I am sorry to announce that the vote for probate judge is a tie and that therefore there . - ^ is no election to that office." Fierce cries of fraud and treachery arose and the igures were demanded. "Gentlemen" said the clerk, "there were 9 37?: vnt.As There were 2.378 names. Each received one vote. Every man voted for himself." The members of the council committee of the city of Cleveland appointed to confer with the trustees of the Garfield monument fund will, says the Cleveland Leader, probably exert their influence to have the eastern end of Lake View park, or the grounds of the city hospital, formerly the Marine hospital, selected as the site. The last named is considered by many the best place, as the property belongs to the A 1 11_ ' 'J&Sk United States government, js. kuk with prominent East-enders developed the fact that popular sentiment out ? that way is strongly, in favor of Lake View cemetery as the most fitting place in which to uprear the pile of granite and marble in honor to the memory of the late President. They argue that his remains lie in Lake View cemetery, and the monument should mark the grave. Those who favor Lake Yiew park base their argu- ^ ments on the fact that the cemetery is the property of a private corporation, and is six miles from the center of the Mr. James Temple Brown has been ?4^ collecting in New Bedford, Mass., for the museum of the Smithsonian insfci- . tution at "Washington, a multiti&e of implements illustrating the history and present operation ot tne wnaiing industry. No article properly connected with the subject lias been despised, and even a sample of the "pigtail" tobacco supplied to the sailors has been included. Thus far Mr. Brown has not succeeded in making a complete collection of harpoons, although he has obtained fifteen different varieties. The collection of these articles has not been the sole purpose of Mr. Brown's visit. The literature pertaining to whaling isjjrincipaliy of the sensational tvoe,ariu^<otally untrustworthy. To fill this gap it was resolved to publish, a complete history of the whale fishery, and for three years Mr. Brown has been engaged in studying the traffic and collecting material for the work. The history of whaling has been traced to its beginning, and Mr. . Brown has secured valuable diagrams which will illustrate the work, and the various methods of taking- whales and securing the oil will be given with the greatest exactness. As Mr. Brown expresses it, " there are as many methods of conducting the whale fishery as there are ways of getting to heaven," and it has consequently been a difficult .. ? matter to obtain definite information. In the season of 1881-82 more than 3,000,000 trees ^ere planted in Great Britain, out of *r?iich number Scotland claims about 2,000,000. England 600,000. Ireland 300,000, and Wales 4 A AAA ' " ; ' | av,vw. A glass factor}-, the products of which, it is claimed, will rival the I foreigD manufactures, is being erected : in Guadalajara, Mexico. 1KB