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v ■ * & TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO. S. U. FEBRUARY 24. 1883. ESTABLISHED 1848 BURDENED WITH SORROW. Burdened witn sorrow, Feariug tbe morrow. My heart la sighing, Jssos, tor Thee. Errors confound me, Terrors surround me, Fainting and flying. Succor Thou me. neartslck and weary, Tatb long and dreary, Desolate, lonely. Death-threatened now; Waters high-swelling. Succor compelling, Refuge, Thou only: Jesus, hear Thou. Hated, forsaken. From Judgment taken, O Thou cross-bearer, Mockingly crowned; Bleeding and wounded, By foes surrounded, Still a Friend fairer Mortal ne’er found. Scoffed at, uplifted, Thy flesh spear-rifted. Thieves there beside Thee, Dying for me 1 Crimson Thy raiment. Making sin’s payment. Sure, Thou wilt hide me ; Refuge wilt be 1 THE TWO SHIPS. Indeed am I sweetly blessed, Mis- tiess MVra. “I should not pause to reck how deep my love, that I should dare—dare' and win, ah, mel a jewel that I have no right to wear. “1 am but a lad with empty pockets; only that Heaven has given me h'ealth of iron and these strong arms, truly were I poor ” ‘'Nay, Julian, and may not the kind Heaven that has given thee these also bless what they may do?” "Gome—and the girlish voice was bantering—"have you won my heart to pine upon it and thrust it back again?” "Heaven grant otherwise, my Myra!” Happy lovers they, standing side by side on tbe vessel’s clean deck, seeming to gase on the dark ocean around them, yet really looking inward at their own true hopeful soms. * Among the pions pilgrims who weigh ed anchor from Cowes, in the Isle of Wright, to plant the banner of religions freedom in tbe wilderness of Maryland, 1633, there was one unlit for the pro tection of that God to whom all prayed us they faced the, perils of their histori cal voyage. fteja^r&puiiards or ©raising Turks Sy greedily almost directly in the course of the two staunch vessels, the "Ark*’ and the "Dove;” storms and privations they could not avert, but heroically anticipated. Our interest lies in the "Ark”, the better manned, better armed of the two. , On board was a lovely orphan, follow ing her guardians when they forsook home and kindred to worship after the oiotates of their own hearts—her name, Myra. She was loved by everyone, and worth ily, for her purity was even lovelier than her face. Especially dear was she to Julian Grange, And when it was observed that Myra regarded him favorably before all others, they yielded the field to the handsome youth. . Only one demurred in his callous heart and mentally vowed that Julian and she should never wed, Peter Hardy had been an open suitor was promptly rejected by both guar dians and maiden, for kis countenance was verily that of a rogue, Three days following St. Cecilia’s Day a violent storm arose. Jost how it happened none oonld tell —but, above the roar of the tempest and crush of waves, the shuddering cry went up— "Man overboard I" At the same instant Myra was seen running across the rolling deck and shrieking piteously— "Julian! Julian'” It required strong arms to restrain her from throwing herself into the rag ing waters. "I want my Julian!” ".Let me go with him!” she wailed, as they forced her safely to the oabin. "He is my Jolianl my love! Oh, he is lost—lost!” Onoe she saw a chalky-white face with a pointed nose and baleful twink ling eyes—the eyes of Peter Hardy; and he grinned infernally at her, even in her misery. Taen ensued a blessed blank, and she lay delirious on her couch. History has recorded that terrible tempest, the mad tossing of the "Ark,’ the pleading prayers preparatory to the seeming inevitable shipwreck— prayers that were answered Dy Heaven *♦ last, still the deep, and giving joy to every pions breast. "But the "Dove,” their consort had vanished. She was given np as lost for ever. While matters were righting on the shipboard, Peter Hardy, in a myste rious way, beckoned the captain aside. ‘A word with you. ’ "What have you to say, Master Peter?” Peter looked slyly from his little twinaling eyes. "I have heard it said that John, the sailor, lost his cop and knife?” "Yes.” "And Rioh&rd, the cook, has l*>t some silken hose?" "True.” "And, Mistress Myra—mind thee— cannot find anywhere a golden bracelet that was hers, a gift from her dying mother.” "Well, and what of all this, Master Peter?” Peter’s lean fingers beckoned towards the cabin. "Oh, come with me, that your own eyes may discover what I but half sus pected.” Togethei they entered tiie cab’n. By one of the berth’s was Julian's chest fast locked. "You are captain,” said Peter, point ing. "Julian Grange is dead; the key is gone with him. Open that and see what yon may find.” The captain hesitated. But at last the chest was forced, and there amid Julitn’s tidy clothing lay cup, knife, hose, ana Myra’s golden bracelet. Unfortunate Julian I Soon afterwards, those who had mourned his loss were angrily shaking their heads. Julian, then, was the thief; and even to steal the bauble of his own true lady-love—that seemed unmanliest of all # "It was not he,” aeciared Myra sadly. "I do not—you must not believe it of him, I pray.” '‘My Julian was too good, too noble, too God-fearing for any crime.” When not quite two month later the "Ark” arrived at Barbadoes, seeking provisions, the people weie so inhos pitable and extravagant in their oharges that the captain himself, with three others went ashore to negotiate. One of thp three was Peter Hardy, whose reputation for driving a good bargain was well known. Night came on before they oonld re turn to their boat. The captain urged haste, for in that January of 1684 there was a pending insurrection among the slaves for mur der and pillage. Their haste was. too late. Even as they reached the shore a horde of yelling, frenzied beings poured out upon them. There ensued a terrible fray. Bravely they fought—fought until every bandolier was emptied; but one after an-dFor went down before the bloodthirsty assailants. In desperation the captain sprung toward his moored boat. "Save mel Save mel” screeched the voice of Peter Hardy, directly beneath his feet. it was a hazardous task, but by superhuman exertion the captain reach ed his vessel, bringing with him Peter Hardy. Peter was badly wounded—dying, pronounced the doctor. When he realised that thare was no hope, he summoned the captain .and a holy man to his side. "Let me confess,” he gasped, pain fully. "I cannot die with snob sin as mine untold.” *„ "My own hands pushed Julian Grange into the sea.” "My own hands stole what was n Julian Grange’s chest.” "I had a key that fitted cleverly.” "But forgive me now I implore.” “I loved Myra.” "When I saw that she was not for me, 1 hated him who outranked me in her heart.” "At times I fear I dared to hats her too." "1 am dying.” "Forgive —” The wretch died while speaking. The conspiracy of the slaves was dis covered in time to utterly suppress it and the “Ark” lay tranquilly in harbor when one bright morning there was a clangor of trumpets, and the air quav ered with glad shouts from all oa board. The “Dove”—thd' mourned vessel that had vanished during the storm some weeks before—sailed gladly into view and anchored near. First to gain the deck of the "Ark” was Johan Grange, A plank washed from the "Ark” on that tempestuous night had saved him, after an almost hopeless struggle the "Dove” had rescued him. How describe the emotions of the two fond, re-united lovers I They were at onoe married. From the pair grew sons and daugh ters to become a pride of Maryland— the only state that was not wrested for settlement over the bleeding corpses of the unfortunate natives. TSSC 1 35!Ot During tbe French expedition to Mexico General Martroy was informed by a native ihat a plant grew la his district which was largely used in the domestic surgery of the Mexicans, and he advises the General to lay in s stoex of it for use in the French camp, it goes by the name ot "tbe blood stanching weed ’—the exact native word has been placed on record. This plant has the property, when applied alter being chewed or ertuhed, of almost instantly ar resting the flow ot blood from a wound. General Martroy btought home some specimens of this plant to France, and cul tivated it In his srarden at Vereaillea, where it has thriven excellently ever since, blos soms every yeai and produces a sort of fruit. Meanwhile its transplantation to European soil has not robbed it ot the quality for which it was originally recom mended to its introducer. , Bamboo and Paper In Japan. To enumerate the various uses to which the bamboo is put would be to furnish a list altogether unreadable, for they seem to make everything of bamboo and to treat It m every imaginable manner. It must be remembered that the bamboo is a tough fibrous, giant grass, with hollow stem divi ded horizontally at the roots. Thus it consists of a aeries of cylindrical chambers superposed one on the other, and separated Irom each other by horizontal wooden di visions, the knots or divisions being very close to each other near the root of the plant, and removed from each other by a considerable distance in the higher parts of the stem, it is from these knots that the thin shoots on wich the foliage is borne are protruded. Before me, as I write, are a series of carved boxes, each made from a section of tbe stem, with two of the trans verse divisions, ihe one forming the top and the other the bottom of the bex, ana these bo^es vary in height according as the joint has come from the center or lower portion ot the stem. Here is a sachi bottle formed of an elongated joint and with an arched handle. On it is a beautiful spray of the magnolia, carved in t h e manner cal led cameo, and with a bud so arranged as to become tee spout from which the sachi is poured, a plugged hole at the top of the vessel being filled with the exhilarating fluid. Here is a spill bordered with a Greek key pattern, and on one side ot which a snake is carvel, while on the oth er we have a flower,the surface being low ered in both cases so that the figure stands out in relief; but, besides the carving, this beautiful spill is enriched with a little lac quer work, in which gold, • oxidized silver and a warm brown color prevail. Here is another spill with flowers cut in iutagho,' Here is a tea box or tea caddy formed out of a root joint, with the spout carved in tbe thickness of tbe side. A hole is made mfthe top, to which a lid is fitted, and the handle consists ot a tuft of lateral shoots. Here is another made out of two cells, and three of the dissepiments, tbe one being used as the handle. But before me 1 see scoops made of portions of the stem, bays formed of the horizontal divisions, both carved and plain; medicine boxes; portable writing cases,--a box formed by splitting a portion of the stem lengthwise; a nest of boxes consisting of a number of superposed joints; a censer m the torn of a tripod, and many ether things. But, the Japanese at tach handles to poations of the stem, and thus make nseful ladles. They use large joints tor the carrying of water as we use pails. They make fences of a hundred different kinds by plaiting and intertwin ing the thin shoots in various ways* They make sun blinds by threading little bits of bamboo on strings,as we thread beads; they split it into laths and form mats by attach ing the strips together with threads; tdey make the spokes of their fans of bamboo. They split a stem throughout a.portion of its length, and make a hand screen by spreading the spill portion? ard pasting paper over them. They make tLeir fishing rods of bamboo, they convey water in bamboo stems from which the transverse members or dissepiments have been re moved; and the gutters around their hous es are formed of this material. The bas kets arc of the bamboo (willow is not used in Japan tor basket work), and by ham mering it till it is reduced to a broken and fibrous condition, they form a fuse used for blasting operations, while the tooth brush is a bit o/ bamboo stem, with the end rendered fibrous by hammering. These are some of the uses to which the bamboo is put In Japan, but they are only a few of a multitude. The Japanese paper is tough and fibrous, and we have seen that they treat it in various ways so as to give it the appearance of other substances. Thue they make from it a material clossly re sembling leather, and also an imitation of tortoise shell so ike the substance imitated that it might readily be taken for the real shell. They make a paper so gossamer like that the air passes through it as it would through a net, and which might al most be used for ladies’ veils. In its leath er hke form paper is used for making the pocketbooks, tobacco pouches, pipe cases satchels, and for most of the purposes to which we would apply leather. In the form of imitation tortoise shell it U inlaid into cabinet? and trays. Japanese pocket handkerchiefs are formed of paper, and some of these may be rubbed up into a ball without their tearing, when they be come as soft as tbe finest cambric. Small parcels are almost invariably tied with string formed of twisted [taper. Water proof coats are formed of paper, as well as tbe aprons of the jinrikishas, and paper is also put to all those uses to which we ap ply it in England. The SuccAMlol Farmer. The Fish Exhibit. The suoce-sful farmer thinks and plans not only how such and such work can be easiest done, but to do it in such a manner as to render any subsequent^work connec ted therewith the easier. For example, preparing his corn ground be is careful to leave it as smooth and as well pulverized as possible, so that there will be no clods to cover up the tender plants in plowing, and m so far interfere with the progress of the work. He lays off his corn row straight so that the plow can run dose to every bill! His wheat land is brokon up in time and so "fined'’ as to enable it the better to conserve moisture as well as drink in the fertilizing gases of the atmosphere. He furnishes plant food to hfccrap* In rts most available form. While bis more negligent neighbor plows under bis 'naani”' in a half rotted condition, he spread! it, well rotted and finely pijlverised, o*! ‘the ■urfftof*. in stead of applying it on his corn ground he uses it on his wheat, where it will be of more service in helping along his clover. He not only sows clover on all his small grain, but knows that to get the most ben efit from it, it must be allowed to develop itself, and thus keep the soil shaded to in sure its nitrification. In order to accom plish this he never pastures it the first sea son, or not until the second year, and not even until it is in bloom—having provided a permanent pasture for his stock. Real izing that underdratniug warms a naturally cold soil ar 1 fits it for earlier cultivation in the spring, he prefers to invest his capi tal in draining all such, rather than in the purchase of additional land. Instead of investing his means in railroad or other stocks, he is always looking for a proper investment in tne hne of his business,eith er to improve the productive capacity of his fields or the quality of his Hve stock. He knows, too, that life is too short to en able him to master the whole business of farming without availing himself of the experience of others, as found in the agri cultural literature of the'day. He also makes the surroundings of huhome attrac tive and pleasant, and fosters in his sons a love for the farm. He lightens the labor of nis wife and contrives an occasional holiday for all his family. In short, he aims at thoroughness in ell he undertakes, and finds his farm improving from year to year as well as his own information. Fol lowing a regular plan of work, he hits the market, and often finds his profits greater in years that prove disastrous to hU more negligent neighbor. The United Btates is to be well repre sented at the London Fish exhibit which opens next May. The fish industry is one of great importance, and of late years has received most intelligent encourage ment and direction from the Govern ment. The exhibit gathered together by the United Btates Fish Commission is apparently complete in every depart ment It is of scientific as well as prac tical interest, because it embraces colored casts and photographs of all the important food fishes captured in our sea and inland waters. For the practi cal people there is a wonderful exhibit of fishing apparatus, from the boats, harpoons, gnus, Ac., used in whaling to the nets employed In mackerel fishing. The methods of packing and canning fish and oysters are fully illustrated, and the processes of fish culture will be shown on a large scale. Even the angler has his department, and a very beautiful exhibit is made of rods, reels, files, Ac. This is the kind of specialty exhibition, complete in every way, and arranged to impart information that is of the great est possible educational value, and of much more use in that way than an in complete general exhibition, U.rtM au<t Anlmsia. Reicho, the Bird and Animal Importer of New York, has a lot of some 800 Eng lish pheasants coming from Europe, of which number 100 have been engaged by Pierre LorUlard for the preserve on his estate. Three prominent shooting olubs will take most of the remainder for the purpose of distributing them widely, and giving them a chance to be come common in American forests. The quality and jnioes of meats are far bettor preserved if the meat is wiped with a towel instead of washed. The Rush of an Eagtmto a Fire, You are sitting at tea when the alarr, rings. You don’t know the box, but you rush out on the street sad stare around you. In a moment the ominous rush comes on the ear. The horses carter out of their stables, the firemen, nn^bleas cats, leap to their stations, the wide dotts are thrown open, three policemen dash out of No. 1 to see the start, and bangl ding! whishl rush 1 G’lang ! crack 1 look out 1 ding, dong I ding ! away they go like a tor nado. Crash ! a baby may be burning. Bangl sleeping children may be smothering. Ding dong, ding 1 An old man, feeble and rheumatic, may be staggering in smoke nook out! tbe strong man, blistered with flames, is yelling for his babies 1 Look out, then! look outl stand aside and let them pass. Here they come; like a storm. The driver, stooping down with slacked rein, speaking to the intent steeds that, big eyed, wide nostrilled and strained go thun dering on. The foreman sitting by his side, erect and defiant with arms folded, looks lion faced at the sky.searching for the ominous glare. The firemen behind him clinging like cats to a ladder, dressing themselves as the machine thunders on. The ubiquitous reporter taking notes on the boomplate of tbe lefty ladder. Bang, boom, bangl look outl They pass a cros sing like an earthquake on wheels. The horses, alive and stung with the same en thusiaem which fills tbe firemen,spurn the rough stree* and dash along as If a prairie on fire was chasing them. They need no Whip, they need no lash: their big arteries are churning with hot blood; their big mus cles are strung to the task they love. The wild horse, followed fast by rea fire, never sped like they. With ears laid pack, with eyes standing out from the bony face, with nostrils red as if with blood, they gallop on untiring. The branchman gets cut his key, the foreman is all ready. Ding, dong, swushl The fireman gather themselves for tbe final jump. £*ngl "We’re near the fire,lads” —look out. Crash! All right. Bang t Here’s tbe box. Jump for your lives. Bangl bang! bangl They jump. The horses’ sides heave like big bellows. Their noble Mads fall between trembling knees- the sunk tails quiver, the [minted ears droop like limp leather, and the fire men, eloquent with enthusiasm, dash into the street, and an old woman, wiping her hands on her apron,comes out on the steps and says—"the Lord bless you, gentlemen but it was only our chimney; and the Lord bless you, I—” and the gang go home and play dominoes. The horses stand waiting for tbe next, and just as willing to jump as the man who has been waiting an hour for a shave. Bridal Customs. The exhibition of bridal gifts has been sanctioned by royalty. On the marriage of the Prinoees Royal in Eng land. in 1858, the tributes to the bndo, amounting in value to a fabulous sum, were displayed, not only before the eyes of the Court, but also for the bene fit of the general public. After the marriage of the Prince of Wales, in 1868, the bridal presents werealso pub licly exhibited in Kensington Palace. Reporters and newspaper artists were expressly admitted, that they might, in type and picture, reproduce for the curie os public the wonders of the mag nificent profusion with which the youth- ful princess of Denmark had been en dowed by the crowned heads and weal thy magnates. The Bose berry Rothschild presents were unusually superb. They werse exhibited in throe rooms of the Roths child mansion in Piccadilly, the tables on which they lay being magnificently adorned with expensive ffowenr. On the principal table were the carl’s sifts to his Dride, enclosed in a border of tea-roses and orchids. Among these were the Rose berry family jewels, consisting of a, tiara, comb, necklace, earrings, and cross, all of magnificent diamonds. There were also presents from the bridegroom of a diamond diadem, with seven large centre stones of the purest water ; a bracelet of doable hearts, tied with a lover’s knot, a copy from one worn by Mary Queen of Scots; a suit of pearls, a large spray brcoch of bril Hants in the form of a roseberry with a matchless pendant pearl, and anotner ■pendant of immense and faultless sap phires setAn brilliants. There were al so some presents of interesting histori cal memories. The bridegroom presented the bride with a beautiful painted fan which formerly belong to , Marie Antoinette, and an exquisite gold box with an enameled portrait of some unfortunate queen. The prince of Wales gave Lend Rose- berry a beautiful and ourions dressing- case of silverwork of the period of Louis Seize. The Sykes club presented a silver punch-bowl of the period of Dr. Johnson. Earl Beaconsfieid’s offering to the bride was a ring of turquoises and diamonds arranged oheokerwise. The presents ot the Rothschild family, in aU parts of the world, m might be expected, were snob as one might hope to see only in dreams—gold and jewels of the most sumptuous and priceless kind. Among American gifts were a silver coffee service from August Belmont, and a picture of the earl and his bride in a gondola, which the bridegroom is steer ing, and which is drawn by six swans, from Mr. Beard. The bnde cake is no less sanctified by antiquity than is the ring. It is the symbol of "plenty," and is intended to express the hop© that the newly-mar ried couple may alnays be supplied with an abundance of tne good things of this life. Passing pieces of the cake through the wedding-ring nine times, and put ting them under the pillow to dream upon, was a practice in vogue long be fore our great-grandmothers lived and loved, and the custom is not yet obso lete. A pleasant onstom formerly prevailed, after the ceremony had been concluded, of handing round to each guest a ring bearing the names of the newly married couple, after which the latter received the leiioitatioos of their friends. We are told that Edward Kelly, a famous philosopher in Queen Elizabeth’s days, was openly profuse in giving away rings, twisted with thiee gold wires, at the marriage of one of his houshold, to the value of $20,600. Though wedding o us toms differ in different countries, yet they are all designed to express certain ideas, more or less correct, upon whicn marriage is founded. The ancients considered certain days in the calendar as unlucky for matri mony. Lovers were told to beware of the entire month of May, and especially warned off irom February 11th, June 2d, November 2d, aid December 1st, And it was particularly desirable that the weather should be clear, and that the ceremony should take place in the day time, for “Bleat la the bride on whom the son doth ahihe.” Nottuac More To Say. I had often read of the slow speed made by southern railroad trains, but noticed nothing unusual until reaching Macon, says a writer. The train puffed oat at about fifteen miles an hour, slowed down to twelve, and the waits were long and tedious. Borne of the crowd didn’t seem to care if we never got there, but the drummer for a Phila delphia house took on terribly. He was blasting away when the oondnetor came along and inquired what ailed him, "Why, 1’U be left !” hotly exclaimed the drummer. “Let’s see ? You go to Thomasville ?” "Yes, sir.” "You change cars at Smithville ?” "I ought to, but the train will be gone.” "Not a bit of it. That train is two hours behind time.” "Well, I’d rather wait in Smithville.” "You oonldn’t wait in that town two hoars without being asked to drink some of the worst whisky ever made, and if yon refused you’d have to fight.’’ "I could go to the hotel.” "Then yon’d have to walk a mile in the sand. No ’bus comes down until our train wills ties,” "1 might drum up a ostomar. ” "You couldn't drum nothing. The last Northern drummer in Smithville had to fiy for his life.” "Couldn’t I wait on the platform?” "No, sir. There is no platform to wait on, and if there was, you d be suspected of wanting to start a turpen tine fire.” "Well, it’s awful slow/’ "What of it ? The other train is still slower; no dinner can be had until we get there ; there is nothing to see ; the depot won’t be open ; you ean" sell a paper of pins in the town; yea can’t get on to Thomasville ; no one in the town plays poker ; yon can’t find a de cent cigar there, and from what I know of Bmlthville I can assure you that it has at least thirty citizens who would take a pop at you on general principles within six minutes of your landing there.” Tfee tri Far!; Utah’; Ba*a Ora;.; The wonderful value of the base ores of Otah la made strikingly apparent by the carefully-prepared table made by Mr. J. E. Dooly, agent for Wells, Fargo A Co., in this city, at the cloee of last year. By that table it is seen that there was pro duced last year of copper $75,785; of lead refined, $410,690, and of unrefined lead, $1,361,096; or altogether more than 20 per cent, of the value of ail tbs money from the mines. But the table further show? that of tbe silver produced 47 3 10 per cent, was obtained from base ores and 56 5-10 of the gold was produced from base ores. This fact shows how inextric ably mingled are the lead and silver inter ests of Utah. From what-is known of the districts which areliable in, future to pro duce most, this iiercentage will be in creased ra her than diminished in future. One important district which is liable to become largely prodnotive is the opening of the Denver-aad Rio Grande road has many base metal mines, and. tbe indica tions are that the districts immediately surrounding Milford—Cave, Star and Lin coln—will within the next year add heav ily to the same quality of ores. We ex pect, also, a much heavier yield of tbe same metals from Tintic before the close of the year. It seems, too, that of all the precious metals produced in the United States west of the Mississippi River, 35 per cent, is produced from base ores, in Utah for the past six years the average of silver obtained from lead ores, that is of ail the silver produced, 46} per cent, has been from base ores, and of the gold 51 2-10 per cent, has been produced from the same source. These figures show how important the lead interest is, and what a blow to mining a serious blow to the lead interest would be. It also makes clear how safe a business extensive works for producing manufactured lead ia ill its forms must be. Nature has drawn around Utah a protective tariff in the form of mountains and deserts which no legisla tion can repeal, and though by special rate? the railroads may modify it some what, they cannot overcome it. Utah mine?, only scratched as they have been so far, produce 10 per cent, of the gold, silver and lead of the West, which shows what kind of a mining country it is. The RoMuchlld’a 1’alaoei. FOOD FOR THOUGHT. The princely ohate&u of Ferriers, where Baron’s Alphonse de Rothschild has been given a series of entertainments in honor of the Comtesse de Paris, bids fair, to outdo Beauregard for the magnlflcenoe of its fetes. The Rothschilds possess upon F’renoli soil as many fine mansions as were formerly possessed by the mon- arobs whose veins were coursed by the blood of the Valois. Saying nothing of the houses of tbe family in Paris, the more prominent of these residences may lie mentioned. There is, to begin wits, the splendid Abbey of Cernay, which has been transformed into a modern castell&re by tbe Baroness Nathaniel. Then there 1? the mansion of Chantilly, which the unfortunate Baron James Edward was having erected in the shadow of the house of the Condss at the time of bis sudden and tragic death, and which has since bet n completed by hm widow. Next comes the chateau of Boulogne, bought by the Dowager Baronness de Rothschild, and to which she has impart ed a magnificence which ia only equalled by that of her own villa at Cannes. The Baroness Adolphe holds a plenary court in the early day? of autumn at the charming little villa of Fregny, on the shore of the blue Like of Geneva.. Lastely, there is Femores, tbe residence destined to pass from generation to generation to the eldest son of the house of Rothschild in France, in order that he may there main tain a sovereign pomp as chief of the dynasty. Unarm Bird*. When Michigan was invaded by the army worm, the blackbirds did excellent work for the suffering tarmers. On the prairie myriads of these birds, yellow birds and robins were hovering over the place most invested, evidently maxing a meal ot the worms. Just In front of the right flank of the army of worms is a cornfield, all along the east fence, which seperates it from the meadow, a line of blackbirds were stationed in as good order as if mar shaled for a fight under a military leader. They would fly in a solid mosa to me ground as if attacking something, and fall back to the position on the fence, from which they repeatedly advanced in a body. "Those birds,” said a gentleman, "are protecting that corn.” Surely enough examination showed that the pestiferous insects had come up to the fence, hut had uot gone an inch beyond, and none could be seen on the corn. But a large number jf dead worms could be seen on the ground where the birds had been east of the feace. it is certain that the birds nad made havoc with the worms, and it really looked as if they had a design in it to keep them out of the cornfield. The Streets of Paris are lighted by 48, 000 gaa lamps, and 429 lamps which burn petroleum and colza oil. There are in ad dition 25,000 jets of gas In tbe buildings which belong to the municipality, and the total ooet for lighting them is estimated for the current year at 6,500,000 francs An ordinary gas lamp burns about six gal lons of gas an hour, and the cost for a year, supposing the gas to be burning for about ten hours every night, is almost ex actly 105 francs. The petroleum and oil lamps cost about 50 per cent. more. The gas company employ seventy-six men looking after the lamps and the mates, many af them being told off to inspect the meter? and the pipes in private houses and see there ia no escape. The lighting power of the gas supphed by the company is tested every evening at eleven laboratories, situated in different parts ot Iht city. The Hangbly Porter. The porter of the Fifth Avenue Hotel. New York, is. perhaps, the most aristo cratic and haughty porter the world has ever seen. His business is handling trunks, but he would no more touch a trunk than he would touch a red hot coal. He commands a small army of under porters, who wear check jackets and really move the trunks of guests. The head porter seldom speaks, but contents bimaelf with posing in elegant attitudes about the corridor of the hole!, smoking fragrant cigars and gazing with immense condescension upon the Legislators and bankers who thiong the hotel. His attire is fashionable in the extreme. It is not gaudy, but it is rich, lie wears & ilia hat, a blonde beard parted in the middle and light glevea. 1 am told by a man that kaowa him that he talks with great gravity and weight upon politics' affairs, and has a fondness for things 7 oropeea, but that he never talks of the hotel and becomes magnificently silent when tranks are mentioned, even in an indirect and casual manner, It must be a great thing to be the greatest porter in t^e world. uiuneJieas. The Government of India did a capi tal stroke of bnainesa when it estab lished ohinobona plantations. The cash profit on the Bengal plantations alone the peat year was $40,700, besides $10,100 saved on the quinine furnished to the troops—that sum representing the difference between tbe cost of pro duction and the market price. The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favors. Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience In everything. The manners of nature make & man; the manners of art unmake Mm. There’s not a string attuned to mirth, but hath its cord in melancholy. The current may be strong,- but that which defies the current is stronger. Religion oar capture a heart easier than it can overthrow the pocket-book. Much of the charity that begins at dome is too feeble to get out of doors. • ^ The shame of being thought poor, leads to worse eyils than poverty itself. None are so desolate bnt something dear, dearer than self possesses or pos sessed. Who wonld venture on the journey of life, if compeUed to begin it at the end? Character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs. « If you would not have affliction visit yon twice, listen at onco to what it teaches. Devote each day to the subject than in time, and the evening will find some thing done. Comparisons, whether os to sense, courage, beauty or rank, are always offensiye. Nothing from man’s hands, nor law nor oonstitntion, can be final Truth alone is final. Law and equity are two things which God hath joined, but which man hath put asunder. The charity of the rich is much to bo oommended, but how beautiful is the charity of the poor. Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing. Advance with it. It is from out tbe depths of our hu mility that the height of our destiny looks grandest. When slander and falsehood aro hitched to a person’s tongue, the devil acts as coachman. Matrimony is a great blessing, be cause even a blind man has his eyes opened after a little while. A wise and good man does nothing for appearanoo, but everything for the sake of having acted well. Wait for others to advance yonr in terests, and you will wait until tfey are not worth advancing. JL- - It ia true wisdom to ipaak bokmtie • of the injuries yon have received, or the good deeds yon have done. Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves. Few, with the hope of another life, would think it worth their while to live above the allnrements of sense. It is better to be thonght a fool than a knave, says the saw; but it ia better still to be known to be neither. A man’s first; care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next, to escape the censures of the world. May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us.to remember wrong that has been done oa? That we may forgive it. Nothing, indeed, bnt the possesaion of some power ©an with any certainty discover what at the bottom ia the true character of any man. A man has bo more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one; no more right to aay a rude thing to another than to knock him down. Discover the opinion of your enemies, which is commonly the truest; for they will give yon no quarter, and allow nothing to oomplaisanoe. A word, a look wliieh at one tim« makes no impression, at another time wonnds the heart, and like a shaft flying with the wind, pierces deep. Employment, which Galen calls ‘ -na ture’s physician,’' is so essential to hu man happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery. The talent of streeess is nothing more than doing what yon can do well, and doing well whatever you do, with out a thought of fame. We cannot too strongly attack super stition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genome religion; which is the support of it. The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such au inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proud palaces have cause to envy the gilding. Many persons, after onoe they be come learned, cease to be good. All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not the science of honesty and good nature. Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the scrutiny of the State. As the beams to a bouse, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things, They teach ns to remember; why do not they teach ns to forget? There is not a man living who has not, some time in his life, admitted that memory was as much of » oarei? sa a blessing. The way to subject all things to thy- seif is to subject thyself to reason. Thou shalt govern many if reason gov ern thee. Wouldst thou be crowned tbe monarch of a little world? Com mand thyself. Sk Paul gave the palm to the women who were stayers and workers at home; for he recognized that home is the crystal of society, and that domestic love and dnty are the beet security for all that is moat dear to us on earth. It waa a very proper answer to him who asked vny any man should be de lighted with beaaty,|that it was a ques tion none bat a blind man oonld ask; since any beautiful object doth so much attract the sight of all men that it is in no man’s power not to be pleased with it. mm