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-'i-- -j. i. j. .i fflTi'' iliWeill t 1 V-t-’-i* r- f ' V . ! f ; ' f , ; * r ’ r 2 ■ i TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO. S. U. JANUARY IS. 1883. ESTABLISHED 1847 StfBET BVBNIXttS OOMU AND GO. AT «, • -r^ 1 Swmi evening* come and go, lor*. They came and went of yore; Thla evening of our life, love, Shall go and come no more. When we have passed away, love. All things will keep their name; Bat yet no life on earth, love, With ours will be the same. . ’ f \ • The daisies will be there, love, The stars in heaven will shine; I shall not feel thy wish, love, Nor thou my hand In thine. A better time will come, love. And hettenaouls be born; I would opt be the best, love. To leave thee now forlokn. SUSPKNED KLOPEMKNT, I had loved Bella for more than a year. When I say that 1 was over 'twenty-five, my readers of the sterner Sex will, I am snre, be impressed by my constancy. Bella had money. Not that this had, of course, anything to do with my extra ordinary devotion, but it served for a time to be the barrier to our happiness. I first met and fell a victim to Bella’s charms when her mother was alive. Her father Lad then been dead several years. The old lady took to me. I have a knack of getting on with old ladies. This is a very useful gift when they are well off, and are the mothers of lovely daugh ters. 1 advise all young men to culti vate it .The,main point is always to be more attentive to the mother than to the daughter. It is also well to throw m occasional remarks about the appar ent degeneracy of the age, and allude to the superior constitutions and charac ters of the preceding generation. All was working smoothly for Bella and me, when cruel fate, in the shape of a drunken car-driver, crushed the mother under its Jugger-nautian wheels. We prosecuted the driver, and an intelli gent jury, largely influenced by the wealth of the car company, decided that pedestrians have no rights which car drivers are bound to respect. It turned out, by her father’s will, Bella in the event of her motlier’s death, was, until her twenty-first year, to be placed under the guardianship of an uncle, who was a farmer m Vermont. This same uncle was an admirable specimen of the typical Vermonter. He •ould freeze to a chance of making a dollar harder than a lobster’s claw to a small boy’s investigating finger. He had two great hulking sous, and deter mined that Bella should marry one or the other. Indeed he believed lie was acting most kindly in giving her a choice instead of insistingon her taking the first-born. When old Green found out that I had come into the neighbor hood and was hanging about the premi see, he sternly warned me off, and even hinted at the fierceness and number of the dogs which populated his yard at night. I took his word for the dogs— it was about the only thing i would have taken it for. Bella was virtually a prisoner. The old farm house was three stories high— a very unusual thing in that part of the country—and she was locked m at night iu her room on * the top floor. With great uiffioalty 1 managed to get one or two letters U> her; but 'so closely was she watched and guarded during the day that speech with her was im possible. I was in despair. There was yet a year to run before she could claim release from this guarctianship, Was there no moans of escape possible ? While I was pondering over this question in the little hotel where I had now been staying for some, weeks, I heard a strange voice addressed to > the proprietor in loud tones, and distinctly neard the words “portable tire escape." Instantly an inspiration dashed through my mind. 1 joined the party, and in doing so, heard these words T “it’s just the simplest thing in the world. A two-year-old babe couldn’t hurt itself. “No, sir, it ’ad like to have •ue fora plaything, and ’ud amuse itself all day hauling itself to the top of the house and Jettiu’ itself down again. They’re so light and easy, that wren lolks don’t want escapes I often sells them as baby-jumpers. Jest try one ; it’s only $4 50. Make it for you as an advertisement, seein’ you keeps a-hotel and you’d ought to have one fur the pro tection of your guests.” “Guess not. My place is only two stories high; and u we have a fire, they can jump out or burn, just as they may please.” And the oarelul hotel-keeper strolled offl “What nave you there, my friend ?” 1 asked of the stranger, “A portable fire-escape. Simplest thing in the world. But I was fooled to come to this seotion, anyhow. There isn’t a house high enough for a man to nort himself nmoh if he rolled off the roof, and a Vermonter ’ud sooner take chances on his life ttian spend a dime, any day.” •TTl tell you how you can sell one escape for £20 and no tronble cither,” “Yon will 1 I’m yonr oyster.” I uutoided my plot* and found a sym pathetic listener. He was to go up to Bella’s uncle’s house and try to sell an escape. Of course, we knew that would be perfectly hopeless. So, alter being rebuffed, he was to insist on leaving one on trial for a week or two, talihe came around again. He was also to try to smuggle a letter to Bella, explaining she was at night to get possession of the escape, attach it to her bedstead, and slide down into my waiting arms, which would be waiting as near as the doga would let them. On the night she was ready, sho was to signal in a certain way with a candle at tne window. The peddler started off and soon re turnee, having b( en successful m get- . tirg a letter to Bella, ana having given an exhibition of how to usekhe essape. For several nights I waited in vain for the signal, bnt at last It Was shown. I did not hear the dogs about, and I gent ly crept nearly under the window. It was opened. “Are you there, Bella ?" I whispered. “Yea." “You're not afraid, dear 1” “Net very. I’ve tied the end around the bedstead, and I don’t think I. Hip out of the loope. Have you a buggy waiting?',’ . “Yes, dear, at the first turn of the road.” “Very well. I am going to try now. Ohr She had launched herself off from the side and was descending beantifnlly. “Don’t come too fast, dear. Use the check rope if you feel you are coming too quickly.” She had got to the second floor, when there was an nnaocoUiitable stoppage. “What’s the matter ?” I cried. “It won’t move.” “Shake the rope.” “I have.” A 'JLoosen the check.’ ’ “It is quits loose.” “Try to pull up a bit.” “I can’t; I’m stuck fast.” “Let me shake the rope.” “Try. Oh ! Oh ! It's no use ; it won't move.” “Can’t you slip out of the loop and slide down the rope? IT1 catch you.” “No, I cannot. I’m setting in them and can’t get out.' Oh, what’s to be done V” “I’ll try to climb up and see." Bella sat dangling in t|je air, hke Mo hammed’s coffin, between heaven and earth. I tried to climb, but the rope was not half an inch thick, aqd I slipped back. Then came the tragic sequel. There was a rush of something behind me, and a bulldog seized me in that part which had been nearest to him ns he approached. I have beard of sol diers riddled with bullets, or almost cut and thrust to pieces by swords and bayonets who have still advanced upon the enemy. I don’t think they could have done it with 'a bulldog hanging rearward. If any oqe of my male readers doubts (his aspersion of man’s courage, let him get an angry bulldog and try. Other dogs began to give tongue. Bella screamed. Lights were seen moving in the house. “Go 1” she cried. “They will kill you if they find you. “But I cannot leave you, Bel-'a.” 1 was leaving her in small sectic ns down, the dog’s throat, and I felt I must run away. • Go ; save yourself!” By a convulsive effort I shook off the dog, a considerable portion of my trousers and a couple of good mouth fuls of my anatomy, and bounded over a fence and np a tree. From there 1 watched triumphant Vermoneters haul Bella into a second story window. Then they came ont, and with much crying and swearing began to look for me. I am happy to say they were unsuccess ful. About two hours afterward I ven tured to limp home. Bella never tried to elope again. 8he remained proof against all the argu ments oi her uncle and the charms of the Green Mountain boys, and when she became really her own unstress she became mine legally too. Never saw that fire-escape man again. Perhaps it was better for him I didn’t. He never called for his machine. Pos sibly he heard something oi the story m bis travels. I don’t know as there is any moral to this tale, except never to use a rope fire-escape for an elopement. There must have been something prophetic in the instinct of the author of the old song, when he wrote : When a lady elopes Down a ladder of ropes, tthe may go to Hong Kong for me. Qn«en oi ttae Tank. Eating, sleeping,and sewing beneath the waters are among the accomplishments of the New kork aquarian diver who calls herself “The Water t^ieen,” When asked if it required much time to acquire her art, sha said, “about three weeks.” “How much did you weigh when you' began first?” she was asked. “Between 145 and 150 pounds.” “Did the water reduce your’weight?” “Very tittle. It simply tightened the muscles.” “Did it cause-any change in you*’ relish for food?’’ , \ “On the contrary, it increased my appe tite.’’ . “What was your first experience?” “The fln>r plunge made me very sick.” “How long have yon been practicing the tank act?'’ “I commenced five years ago last Aug ust” “What is the longest time you ever re mained under water?” “Three minutes, fony-flye seconds, with 150 pounds pressure to the square Inch on the cbe^t On one occasion it took me one minute and twenty-five seconds to do the sewing act as they call it” “You once troc' the tanbark?” “Yes, I followed Mine. Anderson. I did not have one day’s training, but 1 made up my mind to do it, and I did.. I accom plished the feat of walking 1,200 half miles during so many half hours.” “What effect has lank diving on your ears and eyes?” { “Only a little on my eyes. Sometimes there are specks In the tsnk. When the water is clear I can see a foot from me, but I cannot discern faces. I can see per sons crossing the stage, but there is a sort of blue mist across my eyes, so that 1 can not tell who they are.” “While remaining so the water dia you not feel a sort of inclination to re main there?” “No, I am obliged to come up, for I feel as though my head would burst. But I want to tell you a good joke. I went to Boston once, and afler performing there we thought it best to change the water in the lank. My husband got some barrels somewhere and had them filled with water As soon as I got into th« tank 1 detected the smell of whisky, but thinking that I was mistaken 1 kept in until I got drunk. 1 afterward discovered that the water wac earned in whisky barrels, which soaked through the pores of my «kia, so that 1 had to be rolled out Tte» Hindoo Suttee. In the remote village of Gader Dehee, in the district of Banhurah, there are to be seen two small tombs on the bank of a small lake, containing the holy ashes of a young lady who burnt herself alive on the funeral pyre of her deceased husband. The name of the husband of the lady was Brahamand Gossain, and he died of fever in the morning. She wept not, but sat by tbe dead body of her husband. How we wished that she could give vent to her feelings, and relieve herself. Bnt no, she sat and uttered neither a sigh nor a groan. At last she rose and proceeded straight way towards ihe Tkakoor Baree to the image of the god Krishna. There she went, followed by many men and wom en, and prostrated herself before the the god. Then she stood, and began to divest herself of the ornaments that she had on her person. One by one she took them and placed them at the foot of the god, for the first time speaking: “Here, my lord, take them, I need them no longer,” And then she slowly came back to where the body of her husband was lying covered. She then addressed her brother-in-law, and she said; “Pre pare for the ceremony of cremation, and you know I can't live without him. I must accompany him. ” Though her relations, friends and neighbois had all suspected that something serious was Impending, the first announcement was received with a shock wiiich could not bedesenbed. Then followed dissuasions, and her friends, relations and neighbors all began to dissuade her to no purpose. The uucle-in-law, the mother-in-law, whom a Hindoo lady is bound to revere next to her God, commanded, and then earnestly pleaded to her to forbear, bnt she was not to be moved. Then came the guroo, the purohit, whom, as her spiritual guides, she was bound to obey. They tried their best, but she was de termined. Time rolled on, and she wayered not for a moment. Then ihe last device was resorted to. Her fears were appealed to; they described to her the horrible and painlul sufferings of a living man upon a funeral pile. At first she disdained to give replies to their appeals to her fears, but at last when obliged to say something she said: “You need not be anxious; my soul has fled with my lord. As for bodily sufferings, I shall show you that I need not apprehend them.” There was a lamp burning, under the usual custom, by the corpse, and she put one of her fingers upon the slow tire of the lamp and burnt it without wincing. Crowds had then pullected from all parte of the country. It was then about 4 p. m., and the corpse was carried to the burning ghat on the bank of the small lake, only about a couple of hundred yards fioui Ihe house, and the lady followed, followed by thousands of men chanting “Haribole.” The crowd then began to collect dry faggots, and heaps were gathered in a few mo ments. When the funeral pile was in process of being prepared, the corpse was bathed, and the lady herself per formed her ablations. She than pnt vermilion on her forehead and dressed herself in a new Saree (cloth for ladies) and then slowly entered the funeral pile. Her hair was properly adjusted by her friends, and they adorned bar with garlands and wreaths of flowers. The crowd then with tearful eyes begged of her blessings and some tokens from her to be kept in remembrance of her self- sacrifice. She was supplied with cow ries, plantains, betehmts, etc., and she began to throw handfuls of them amongst the crowd. She then laid her self by the corpse of her husband in the posture of warm embrace. She gave the order, and the pile w as lighted in several places and there was at once a blazing fire. The Suttee raised her right hand and began to ntter the name of Horee, turning her hand round and round. She was dead before the tire had reached her sacred person. Thus a Hindoo widow ended her life on the funeral pyre of her husband. Her husband was dead and the world appeared to her a dreary waste. She was determined to follow her lord to the unknown world, undeterred by the sol icitations of her friends and relations ami the temptations of worldly pleasures. Her fears were appealed to, bnt in vain. She felt she could not live a moment without her lord; sho must accompany him, and under the influence of this overwhelming impulse she entered the flames without the least display of fear and with an alacrity which surpasses all description. We ask, who can com tempkte this spirit-stisring scene, this wonderous spectacle, without feeling a sort of veneration few the lady who thus offered herself as a sacrifice on the altar of connubial duty? May her spirit rest in peace, and from its place in the heav ens shed light upon her surviving Mothers and sisters and upon her coun trymen, inspire them with courage in the accomplishment of their ends in life. Bag ttemoiia*. “When tho old State Savings institu tion failed in August. 1877,” said Re ceiver L. B. Otis, “the books of the bank showed the names of 14,600 de positors, and of this number 11,212 have drawn dividend. The remaining 2,388 are—no one knows where. The face of their unclaimed deposits is $26,- 000 or $27,000, and all efforts to find them have proved unavailing. Many of these accounts are very small, and some are only for interest, but in order to pay a final dividend it is necessary to know just how many claimants there are.” “On July 24, 1882, six different divi dends, amounting in all to 45 per cent., were in process 4>r payment. As no dividenefs had beem drawn upon many of the claims against the institution, and for the purpose of enabling the re ceiver to pay a final dividend and wind up the affairs of the institution,.an order was entered by the court that all credi tors and holders of deposit-books should draw their respective dividends on or before December 1, 1882. This date was subsequently extended to February 1, 1883, after wbich time all claims upon wbich dividends are not drawn by that time are barred and excluded from auy participation in the funds of the institution iu the bands of tbe receiver. There is now, and m all probability will lie on February 1 next, about $26,- 060 of unclaimed accounts, and the dividends on these will therefore go to the other depositors, thus increasing the amount they will receive. “Within the last month the receiver and his clerks have gone through the books of the institution, and, using the latest city directory, besides resorting to other.means, have endeavored to find out the whereabouts of these unknown claimants and notify them by circular that dividends were awaiting their pleasure. As a result we have made some interesting discoveries. “There was an account of $327 75, for instance, in favor of George P. Lee, formerly assistant treasurer of the Chi cago k Northwestern Railway. He moved from Chicago to Fond du Lac, Wis., in 1870. He was traced to that place, and when informed of the fact could give no explanation of it. He had at one time done a large business with the bank, and supposed Ue had drawn out everything. He was, how ever, glad to draw his dividend. There are still 2,388 unknown claim ants, and very few if any of these will be found. Tbe fire scattered a large number of them, aud many of the serv ants who had small sums in the bank went back to Europe. I ass still trying to hunt up the old depositors, but do not to and many more of them. The claims against the bonk amounted to $3,000,000, and when the final divi dend is paid, sometime after February 1 next, about $1,500,000 will have been distributed to creditors,” BrltUh Ignorance of Amelia-. A Lamprey’s Nest. A correspondent from Paris, Says I was lately at a dinner party where the guests were all Americans, and all of them had made a sojourn of longer or shorter duration in London. The con versation turned on the really comical ignorance of all things American dis played by the best educated English people, and numerous anecdotes iu il lustration of the top in question were cited. One of these related to the son of a former United States Minister in London, Mr. Edwards Pierrepont At some public dinner one of the guests asked Mr. Pierrepont, jr., while his father was in the ac+ of making a speech, who the orator was. The young gen- tlejnan made answer that that was the American Minister, “Is he of the old established Church or a Dissenter?” was the next question. But this does not quite equal the query of the Archbishop of Canterbury, wbo lately asked of an American visitor to explain to him “the attitude assumed by the United Utales toward Dissenters. ” A general of our army next told how he had accompanied an English officer of high standing to visit Newburg, and informed him that Washington had onee had his headquar ters there. “Which Washington?” languidly demanded the Briton. Next came an accomplished yonng Southern gentleman, the son of a United States Senator, who described an in terview that he had recently had with an English lady, who was introduced to him as a prodigy of intellect and of learning. “You came from the South ern States, sir?” she remarded amiably. “Which of the two do you come from— Missouri or Peru?” With great pres ence of mind, my yonng friend in formed her that ho was then residing hi Peru, but intended shortly to re move to Missouri. But I rather think that the climax was capped by an English author, who, ou being told by an American lady that she came from Missouri, said, thoughtfully;—“Mis souri—let me see—what State is that in?” “Missouri it a State,” responded the lady, “Ah, yes—yes—to be sure it is—it is Mississippi that I was thinn ing of.” Fortunately the lady in ques tion was well used to the peculiar ign irance of Englishmen and English society in general respecting our coun try, and she did not even smile. I myself have become thoroughly case- hardened on the subject; so when a charming English lady, the wife of a distinguished Indian officer, asked me one day if it were not very dangerous to walk in the environs of Philadelphia on account ot the rattlesnakes, i was enabled to answer her without moving a muscle o* my countenance. A Florwi Ke.-r, Among tbe women married recently in New 1 ork was one who from early girl hood has been extremely lond of flowers. She decided to spend her energy and her father’s money upon floral decorations in stead of in the direction of fine gowns. Her floral feat is a matter of remark with every guest who attended the reception that followed the marriage ceremony. Palms and terns made the hall lovely. In the drawing room the grates were filled with maiden hair fern and bright cut flow ers beneath. A medium sized plant rose from the centre. On the ends of the man tels were floral fans widespread. The centres were sn all white daisies; the frin ging of rosebuds and ferns. The sticRs were marked with ardesia berries. Another fan on an easel of smilax was composed of white pofhpons, edged with bon silene buds and fringed with yellow daisies. The sticks were of violets. Both of the fans were hand paloted with sprays of the loveliest combinations through the centre. On the mantel stood the “Old Oaken Bucket,” a marvelous piece of flor al work. Upon a bed of licopodiums, fringed with cissus, crotons and ferns, with terrestrial orchids springing up in places and a spray of passiflora rubra near near the old shaft, stood a square well, the sides made of different blossoms. One .. side was of yellow pompon artemesias, one! tlie 01 ^ Vampire Bats In Braatl. Probably no part of Brazil is more afflicted than a portion of the province of Bahia with the scoorge of vampires- Whole herds of cattle are sometimes destroyed by this venomous bat. It was long a matter of conjecture how the auimal accomplished this in sidious and deadly work; but scientific men have now decided that the tongue, which is capable of considerable exten sion, is furnished at its extremity with a number of pipilia, which are so ar ranged as to form an organ of suction, the lips having also tubercles sym metrically arranged. Fastening them selves upon cattle, these dreadful animals can draw tbe blood from their victims. The wound, made probably from the small needle-like teeth, is a fine round hole, the bleeding from which is very difficult to stop. It is said that the wings of this deadly bat flying aronnd daring 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 the creatures measure tw« feet between the tips of the wings, and they are often found in great numbers in deserted dwellings in the outskirts o A writer says: One day late in spring as I was passing over a bridge I chanced to see two lampreys, or “lamper-eels,” as they i“*e usually called, engaged in building their nest in the creek below me. It was one of the most curious spectacles I ever saw in our stream. They were a few yards below tho bridge just where the water breaks from the still pool beneath it, aud flows with a rapid current over its roughly paved bottom. They were distinguishable from the yellowish brown and black stones and pebbles amid which they were working only by their motions. Tney were tagging away at tbe small movable stones with great persistenoe. 1 went down to the water’s edge where they were within reach ot my staff, the better to observe them. They would run np to the edge of the still water and seize upon the stones with their suction mouth and drag them back with the current and drop them npon their nest. I understood at once wby their neats, which I had often observed be fore, were always placed at the begin ning of a rift; it is that the fish may avail themselves of the current in build ing then. The water sweeps them back with the pebble in their mouth, their only effort being iu stemming the current to seize it. They are thus ena bled to move stones which they could not stir in still water. The etones varied in size from a wal nut to a goose egg. When one of them was tugging away at a stone too heavy for it, I would lend a helping hand with my staff; I would move the stone along gently, and the lamprey seemed entirely unconscious of the fao: that it was being helped; it would drop the burden at the proper point, and run up for another. Indeed my aid and pres ence did not disturb them at ail, From time to time, the larger of the two, which was the female, would thrust her tail with great violence down among the pebbles at the bottom of the creek and loosen them up, and set free the mud which tbs current quickly carried away. The new material thus plowed np was carried to the nest. Twice in the course of the half-hour that I ob served them, the act of spawning took place. iiMivtini? rr%*\y** tlm larger stones with my s aff, I several times plowed up the bottom with its point, thus relieving the female of that duty. The fish took it all as a matter of course, and seized upon the pebbles I had loosened with great alacrity. When I thrust my cane beneath them and tnen to lift them ont of the water, they would suck fast to the stodes and pre vent me; bnt they did not manifest any alarm. The lampreys become much exhausted with the spawning and nest building, and large numbers of them die wheu it is over. In June it is not unusual to find their dead bodies in the streams they inhabit. Oia uoot». The archeological treasures of Paris will shortly include a collection of old boots. It will be tbe most carious feature of the new talie to be opened next mohth in Connection with tbe Musee de Cluny, and promises to be the most complete history in leather of the bootmaker’s art that the world has yet seen. To the specimens already acquired by the museum have just been added two fsmods private collections— namely, those of M. Jaoqpemart and the Baron Schuter—together with a number of boots once worn by Venetian courtiers, purchased on behalf of the French Govertnent in Italy ajew days since. In the same room will be shown the ancient tapestries and articles of clothing formerly belonging to the Chateau de Boussac, which but for con venient French law would have passed into foreign hands. The Commune of Boussac, being in want of money, was actually negotiating with German agents for the sale of these relics of the past, when the Government of while, one of crimson king carnations, one a la purity carnations. Each one was sprayed with a knot of roses. The top of tbe well was mossy; on one corner perched an owl, wise in expression; the owl’s back and wings were wrought o( cbry*»in!lier n, i55; and his breast was of pale purple artemesias. His eyes were of yel low daisies. Tbe well bucket was full of sweet smelling violets, and trailing moss seemed to have been caught en the pendu lous stick. The floral screen was effect ively worked out. There was a clover leaf on the marble of the pier glass, and loose baskets of roses were interspersed throughout the rooms. The portiere of mes and smilax chains wiiich swept in the arch between the extension and the draw- bag room was the most effective work. This was looped back with rosettes of white satin. In its centre swung the wed ding bell, a bed of roses sprayed with pale buds. A Doctor’s gafeAtitBte, The negroes and Indians especially dread them, and there are numerous superstitions among the natives regard ing theqj. iikm Diwosiiou of on UHtrleli. How to rronouoi’c clerk. —Senator Edmundq has endowed a room in the Mary Fletcher Hospital, in | ing the collection under Burlington, in memory of hi* daughter^ “ Miss Julha M. Edmunds, who recently died. The endowment, 15000, provides stepped in, daim- der the Historical Monuments law. The tapestries are now being restored, and so cleverly will tbe work be done that only the eye of for the support and care of one free an experienced arohmologkt will be able pfctisntan ready boan ana its first beneficiary has al to iHcfcmgnkh the new patch** freon the ancient fabiie. He was a young man with a wild, disordered look. He rushed into the office of a prominent city physician yes terday, placed a small cup on the deek, took off his coat, bared his right arm, and whispered: “Stick me!” “Do you want to be bled?” “I do! Open a vein, and let me catch the blood in this cup.” “Too full in the head?” “Alas! too full in the heart My affianced will not believe me when r tell her that I love her better than my life. I will write my love—I wijl write it in my own life-blood! Proceed!” “la that all you want?” I'Alll Is not that sufficient?” “Young man yon area dodo I Put on your coat I keep a red ink here for tbe very purpoee you desire, and will sell you a whole gill for a quarter.” . And the young man was not stuck. —The vapor oi tobacco juice will destroy all kinds of troabiaaome iaawts that infest hot-house plants. It has commonly been made to appear that ostriches are so stupid or so greedy as to be totally indiscriminate in tlia matter of food; but this is a mistake. When two kinds of food are placed be fore them they will prefer the one, and are notably fond of certain kinds, such as mealies and prickly pears. Many of them even show delicate choice But a hungry bird will eat almost anything. His system requires food iu large quan tity, but he always prefers the suitabU kinds. It is a fact, however, that the ostrich often dies a victim to over-in dulgence. Ob the farm birds also die by the score from apoplexy, brought ou by their keepers stuffing them constantly with all they can eat. An incredible number of pebbles are sometimes found In an ostrich’s stomach where they serve the same purpose, in triturating the food, as sand in a pigeon’s gizzard. Mr. Tillbrook, a farmer of the Graaft Reinet district, once found a carcass, the giazard of which contained some nine hundred and thirty stones, of size* varying from that of a pea to that o a walnut. Moat of them were bright and hard, and all more or less reuuded by constant rubbing. We may see the reason of that instinct which prompts an ostrich to stretch his neck ever the fence and pick off e gold stud or a dia mond pin from the breast of the unsua pec ting visitor, or in default of e jewel iu attractive, to attempt to pull a button off his coat. “Clarke." 1 suspect that a surname, so spelled, is dis- 1876. 1882. F. W. HABENiCHT, Proprietor of the Freeman, tbe historian, in a readable paper on American speech and pronuncia tion, published since his return to England well says: “Tbe words ‘motropolis’ and ‘provinces’ used in this way, I venture to call slang, whether the city which is set up above iu fellows is London or New York. Anyhow thin use of them is in no way distinctly American; indeed the misuse of the word provinces, is, 1 fancy, excessively rare in Amerisa, and it is certainly borrowed from England. Each side of the oeean unluck ily finds it easier to copy the abuses of the other side than to stick to tbe noble hen- tago which is common to both.” What he has to say about the pronunci ation of the word “clerk” is wirth repro duction at length: “The word “clerk” is in Bngland usu- alb sounded “dark,’' while in America it is usually sounded “durk.” I say “usu ally,” because I did once hear “durk” In England—from a London shopman—and because 1 was told at Philadelphia that some old people there still said “dark,” and—a nrst important fad—that those who mid “clsrs.” also said “msrciuuii.” Now it Is quite certain that “dark” is the older pronunciation—the pronunciation which the first settlers must have taken with them. Tins is proved by the fact that the word is a surname—and it is iz one of the commonest of surnames—is al ways sounded and commonly written “Clark” or •‘Clerk’’ as tinctively “bcotch,” In the modern sense of that word. Also in writers of the six teenth and early seventeenth century, tbe word itself is commonly written “dark,” or “clarke.” But of course “derk” was at Sll times the moat clerkly spelling, a- showing the French and Latin origin of the word. It is plain, therefore, that the pronunciation “durk” is not traditional, but has been brought in artificially out of a notion of making the sound conform to the spelling. But “durk” is no more the true sound than “dark;” the true sound is ‘dairk,” like French “clerc,” and a Scots man would surely sound it so. “Clark” and “durk” are both mere approximitioa* to the French sound, and “dark” is tbe cider and surely the most natural approxi mation. Tbe truth is that we cannot sonnd “derk" as it is spelled; that is, we cannot give the e before the r the same sound that we give it when it is followid by any other consonant. Wt cannot sound > e in “derk” exactly as we sound c in I bis applies to a crowd of words, some of Teutonic, some of Latin origin, In which the spelling is e, but in which ihe sound has, just as in “derk,” fluctuated between a and u. The old people at Philadelphia who add “dark” also said “merchant.” And quite rightly, for they had on their side both older English usage and, in this case, the French spelling itself. The sound “mwrebani” has oome in, both in England and America, by exactly fhs asms pfocew as that by which the sound “dtMt”haa same in in America, but not in Bnglaad ’ I respectfully call the attention of the public to my superior fuJUties for sup- plying everything Lx my line, of superior quality. Starting business In Wians- boro in 1876, I have In all this time given the closet attention to my busi ness and endeavored to make jny estab lishment FIRST-CLASS in every par ticular. 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