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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION WINNSBORO. S. C.. MARCH 17. 1883 ESTABLISHED 1848 ODD SAYING*. As blunt hh a beetle. As sharp as a lance, As grave as preaching, As gay as a dance, As late as the gleamin', As like as two peas, As crook'd as aram s horn, As round as a cheese. As flat as a flounder, As sticky as gum, As wide as a common, As tight as a arum, As white as a miller, As black as a crow, As lean as a greyhound, As bent as a bow. As trail as a bandbox, As stout as an oak, As queer as a Quaker, • As game as a cock, As cute as a lawyer, As square as a die, As keen as a razor, As warm as a pie. As drunk as a piper, As sober as a Judge, As clean as a shaving, As filthy as smudge. As swift as an arrow, As slow as a snail, As blithe as a linnet, As right as the mail SAVED IN SEEEl’. A clear, sweet voice was singing a senseless ditty, with many mocking variations, and operatic trills. A young man swinging indolently in a hammock, underneath the open win dow. laid aside his book and tossed away his unfinished cigar, as he listen- edito the merry trills and quavers. He has come down to posterity a model of wisdom; the cure was as suc cessful and complete as it was unique. “I,” said he, “will arise and do like wise.” He arose slowly; the voice and its lovely owner had uprooted settled pre judices, and overthrown firm convictions. Moreover, an underlying fear that he was about to commit the second great folly of his life caused his heart to trem ble and his feet to lag. Nevertheless, straight as the needle to the pole, tended his steps towards that upper room, and he musical dis turber of his peace. She was minding Mrs. Latrobe’s baby, as usual. Mrs. Latrobe was a presumably young widow, somewhat wan and faded as to beauty, which must once have been re markable—somewhat scrimped as to worldly posses lions, yet strongly bent upon making the most of her second chance in life. In pursuance of which design she displayed the vigor ami tirelessness of sixteen leaving her infant, meanwhile, either locked up in the profound slum ber born of sootliiug syrups, or to the tender mercies of some obliging fellow- boarder. It may have been the latent mother liness in her nature, or something she saw in the pitiful drug-darkened eyes of the child, which made Marie Devoll often care for the neglected little one during the absence of its mother; Harry Raymond was not the man, having made up his mind, to brook any unnecessary delay. He went straight to the side of the surprised singer, who had supposed him a dozen miles distant* and the, baby being somewhat in his way, caught it from the arms of its surprised foster- mother, and, with a dexterous fling, sent it flying through the air into the very middle of a great, soft Persian rug, lying before the window. • Miss Devoll uttered a startled cry of protest. The child, contrary to all precedent, alighted from his airy flight, shrieking with laughter, and lay clutching at the sunbeams, a jewel of a baby, in a golden setting. “Miss Devoll,” said Harry earnestly, “you know, as do all my friends, the story of my early folly. “Years ago, 1 loved an unworthy object, and ever since I have walked the earth blind to all womanly goodness, purity and truth “Through a beautiful woman I lost my sight; through a beautiful woman I found it again. “Tell me, Marie,” hie voice trem bling with eameotness, “if this love is to be the crown and glory of my life, or its second folly? “1 wish that I might bring you clean hands and a pure heart. “I can only offer you an unworthy one, but full of a love that is true and abiding—that shall last for ever,” There was no need of words; he read his answer in her sweet, downcast face, and tender eyes; he sealed it on her quivering crimson lips, and was con tent. The baby laughed, and with a great crash of wheels, and flutter of silks, the baby’s mother returned. So these two, as needs must, came back to an everyday world, that looked all the brighter and better to them for their brief journey into the beautiful land of love. Marie Devoll settled her face in un breakable calm, and Harry lounged about with even more than his usual nonchalance. Nevertheless, the widow, who was wise in her day and generation, saw more than they supposed, and picking up her neglected off-spring, left the room, with a sigh for the dreams of a lost youth. She had returned from her drive be trothed but instead of the raptures and radiance of first love, her soul was filled with vague doubts—an uncertainty as to whether she might not, by longer waiting, have done even better for her self. But no such doubts disturbed the youthful lovers. Their days passed as a happy dream; the course of true love ran smoothly towards the delightful consummation of an early marriage in the fall. One night Harry, grown sixong in his new love, determined to destroy CTery reminder of that first mad passion of his youth, so letters burning with ar dent devotion, costly keepsakes and trinkets ware ruthlessly destroyed. Baying once belonged to that false wo man, they were unworthy, and their value could not save them. With a pleasant consciousness of well-doing, he slept the sleep of the just, and wakened in time for a long early walk with his betrothed, from which they returned, radiant and glow ing as the dawn, yet truth to tell, some what damp and draggled In the doorway they met a woman, a new arrival, a gloriously beautiful woman, not an everyday pretty woman, but a living, breathing dream of per fection. At sight of her Harry stopped, and grew white to the very lips, then quickly recovering himself, greeted her with manly dignity, presenting at the same time his companion. “I must be a fond of sympathy be tween you two,” said he, with a sudden dash of bravado, “for this,” with a courtly bow towards the fair wonderful woman, “is one of my earliest friends, and this is my betrothed.” It would have been perfect, only he rather overdid the thing. However, the beauty flushed with vexation. She was not used to having her vic tims flaunt their freedom in her face, and to make it worse, Marie, who was only a woman, although an exceedingly nice one, could not help laughing a little as she sped away, and her laugh had in it more of malice than she was in any wise aware of. The days passed on. The beautiful woman, who, besides her natural charms, had the added grace of widowhood, trailed her sombre splen dor all over the great country house, making ether women look faded and common place by comparison. Mrs. Latrobe and her unpleasant baby were well-nigh annihilated. Even pretty Marie Devoll seemed like a wan field flower beside this gorgeous Eastern lily. Hany, to do him justice, shut his eyes persistently. He was blind and deaf; but one night, when Marie was indisposed, the widow captured him. It was in the great garden. The moonlight was entrancing, and the red-hearted roses hung heavy with dew. Perfume, and night, and the wonder ful woman held him spellbound, while the perfect lips told him a secret; a little story—a something that changed the current of his being. The mad love of his youth—fought against, dead, buried, was in that hour revived into a sadden and vigorous life. The woman he haft loved and hated stood before him—tearful spotless, a victim of uncontrollable circumstances. A sufferer like himself—lik*^ himself, wronged, deceived, betrayed For bis sake she had be me nncom- plainly the burden of un'.oving wife hood. Reconciliation had been the dream of her widowhood, and he had met her with scorn almost insult. The man cried ont against fate in that hour. This woman, who had been sll the world to him in the old days of his honest youth, was more than that now. In the flood of that terrible reaction he would have sacrificed honor, truth, life itself, for her, but she would have naught of him. She had suttered, and in her heart and life suffering had wrought its perfect work of patience and contentment. Now that she stood clean in his eyes her desire was accomplished. No other woman’s heart should bleed as hers had done—no other woman’s life through her be blighted. Beautiful dissembler! Perhaps tie sight of Marie might have been a safeguard to him in those days, but she was quite ill, confined to her room, and with the perversity of fate, steadily refused to see him, and meanwhile the evil love grew and flour ished. One evening he and the widow were alone in the room that opened out of a tiny conservatory. He tl rew honor to the winds, and the woman, whether she would or no, was forced to hear burning words of passion and mad love,, and in the midst of the resistless torrent of his woe the door opened and a man entered. He was tall, massive, and grandly bearded—a Saxon giant, of herculean monld. He took in the scene in a moment, and laughed. “Oh Lura, Lura! “Will you never have done with your folly?” A great light flamed into her face. A sudaen beauty flashed over it. A smile *ike that might pave the way to death for any man, and he walk glad ly in it. “Oh, Roy, Roy!” she cried, and rush ing to the stranger, flung her perfect arms about his neck. “This is my husband,” she cried, “my dear husband 1” She loved this man. You could not look in her radiant face and doubt it. “Mr. Raymond,” said she. “I was only rtdrensing old wrongs, and opening blinded eyes. “Never think agaih to fight a woman with her own weapons. “My husband and I will leave you now, to make your peace with your betrothed. “She is in the conservatory. “I made sure of that before I played this little farce.” The stranger struck off the cliuging arms of his wife, and stepped to the side of the d8»jd unhappy man. “I will not offer you my hand,” said be, “because 1 know that you had much rather throttle me than grasp it. “I cannot ask you to forgive my wife, for I know that she must have done you a great wrong. “It is not the first time, it will most likely not be the last, and yet I love her. “Suffer as you may, young man, you do not suffer alone.” Then he was gone, and his fair false wife followed. Mechanically Harry stepped through the half-open uoor into the conservatory. A bowed, crushed figure leaned agaius a half-opened window. A drooping golden head, a covered face. That was the woman he had promised to love and cherish until death. He could not speak. Softly, and as though he touched the dead, he stooped, and kissed her bright hair and so he left her. Early in the morning the married widow and her husband went away. He breathed more freely, feeling that she was no longer under the same roof. During the forenoon he received a message from Mrs. Devoll. Mario desired to see him. Like a culprit he went to the meeting. He had no hope of a reconciliation. Mane was too much of a woman to ever overlook the utter humiliation into which he had fallen. She rceiyed him with a wan smile. He hardly knew her, crimson-nosed watery-eyed, and swollen-faced, as she appeared. “I told mamma this morning that it was my duty to see you,” said she, in muffled tones. “You must know before it is too late what a hideous being even a slight cold will make of me. “I went downstairs last night, think ing to give you a pleasant surprise. “I went into the conservatory, and the heat and perfume so overpowered me, that I opened a window, and like a careless girl, fell fast asleep beside it. “Look at me, Harry! Look at me will. “Do you think that your love could survive many B uch attacks?” Marie had been asleep, actually asleep. A great flood of gratitude roiled over his soul, as, with a rapturous cry of “My darlingl” he caught her in his arms. He covered her swollen face with pas sionate kisses of thankfulness and af fection. “What devotion” sighed Mrs. Devoll, whose own married lite had been some thing of a mistake. “Was ever girl so blessed?” thought Mario, little dreaming what that sleep had saved her, little knowing that the cold which she deplored was a blessing in disguise, for Harry, grateful and repent ant, yet believed—‘ where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise.” The Youth from Yale. Was there ever, asks a writer a more remarkable creature than the young man of to-day? He is a study. I do not wonder at him when he wears hats so low as to be almost flat and shoes so sharp as to be simply tragic, bat it is when he talks that 1 find myself most amazed. I had the pleasure of sitting in a car on the west side elevated road in New York, recently, when a youth from Yale strode in and discovered an acquaintance in the person of a young New Yorker who sat opposite me, “Well, for charity’s sake!” yelled the youth from Yale, “when d’ you blow in?” He was tall, was the youth from Yale, with a sharp nose, very tight trousers, a microscopic mustache, a'very short coat, and an English hat. “£onie one’s left the door open,” he continued, looking around with a broad and com prehensive smile at the passengers, “and this curiosity has blown in.” This brilliant sally was received by the New York young man with a grin of delight. He retorted with epigramma tic brilliancy: “Ah, go chase yourself around your feet!” Vpon this they shook hands warmly, made furtiye blows at each other’s ribs and sat down together. They both stared at the passengers for some time, expecting them to go into transports of merriment, bat somehow the passengers did not look joyful, but gaz^d at each other sadly and with apprehension. “Oh, you coy darling!” piped the New Yorker in a voice supposed to mim ic femininity. “Why have you not written me? Morn, noon, and eve have I longed for a word from thee, gentle Joe.” “Yob, an' you got left Orlando.” “When d’ yu cum down?'’ “Last eve. Qot on an awful bat with the boys, and went to bed at 14 o’ clock A. M., with a head the size of a balloon jib on a nobleman’s yacht. When I tell oat of bed for breakfast this morn ing what do you s’pose I got? ’ “Qot left.” “No, no deal son; I got a note from a gay deceiver asking me to call around an’ take her tin’ her mamma to the polo ground to see the foot-baii match.” “D’ you take her?” “Hat cher sweet life I d’ m’t. bent note savin’ ‘I’m no hog. JH take you, but 1 draw the line at the old woman. ” “Nothin’mean about you, if you are beaudlul.” "Well, she mutt think I’m a bloom in’ chump to lug the entire domestic establishment to the game. By the way. Rosalind, get onto this hat, will you?” Eight Follies. To think that the more a man eats the fatter and stronger he will be come. To believe that the more honrs chil dren study at school the faster they will learn. To conclude that if exercise is health ful, the more*violent and exhaustive it is the more good is done. To imagine that every Hour token from sleep is an hour gained. To act on the presumption that the smallest room in the house is large enough to sleep iu. To argue that whatever remedy makes you feel immediately better is good for thejsystem, without regard to ulterior effects. To commit an act which is felt in itself to be prejudicai hoping that some how or other it may be done in your case with impunity. To eat a hearty supper for the pleas ure experienced during the, brief time it is passing down the throat, at the expense of a whole night of disturbed sleep and a weary waking in the mom- A 0«hi> irate Gambler. Protection fir the Han<i«. I Me lUHliked t yon all Privilege!*. An occurence has Istely transpired at Nice, France, which is near Monaea, the great gambling centre of Europe. A notorious habitue of the Casino who had made his money principally there, had set np an English vehicle, a pair of horses “tiger” ipid all, and cut quite a swell driving through the neighborhuod. One day he was ridirg in the environs of town upon the fine roads, his serv ant sitting npc n the raised box behind, who has been feeling somewhat uneasy at not receiving his wages for some time, seeing his master quite alone ventured to ask him tbrougn the back window if he would not make it conve nient to pay him. The master was in a good humor, aud asked. “How much is it, La FIciu?” ‘•One hundred aud twenty flvelivres, may it please you, monsieur.” “Very well, hore it is, said the mas ter, spreading the sum in paper curren cy upon the seat of the vehicle. “Now, La Fleur, have you a pack of cards with you?” “Certainly,” answergd the obsequi ous lackey, “I always carry them, mon sieur,” producing the cards at once. “That is well- Now I will be banker and you shall play against me. I will take the front seat, the back one shall serve for our table, you cau look through this back wmdow. The lackey assented to this, amused at his master’s condescension. Luck was rather on the master’s side, but both men became quite eager in the game thinking of that and that onlp. Little by little the footman’s money was going until all that was left of his wages was live livres. He began to feel anxious when luck turned and he won the whole sum back with every sou his master had about him. Piqued at his loss the master wagered a norse, which the lackey won, then its mate next the harness, and lastly the carriage itseit. Luck ran ail one way, and the servant. La Fleur, won every thing. The master took out his watch aud put it dowu against a given sum. The cards were shuffled, the lackey won. “I have nothing more, La Fleur; you have cleaned me out,’’ said the half- desperate gambler. The servant was in high spirits at his strange run of luck. “Here are a hundred livres, monsieur, I stake them against your position, if you win they are yours. It you lose we change seats. ” “Agreed.” Then the cards were shuffled and La Fleur won. The vehicle returned to Nice with his former master sitting in the servants box behind, La Fleur in side. . ' - . A Cairene Brlrto. On alighting from our carriage, says a correspondent who is writing of a v'sit to Cairo, we were hastily con ducted across a large covered court, iu which tables were spread and hired mu sicians were perfonqing, and were shown up to the women’s apartments, passing through a number of narrow, winding pas sages—it was, I was told, a real old-fash ioned Turkish interior—and traversing a number of rooms furnished with a curious mixture of the splendid and the tawdry, until we came to the room where the bride sat to receive the final compliments of her her friends. She was smalt-framed, deli cate-looking person, with fairly regular features and beautiful eyes and teeth, but the former, notwithstanding that her face was thickly painted white, showed traces of tears, and she looked and evidently was tired to death. “She has been crying all day,” whispered the French governess to us confidentially; ‘‘she has never seen him, of course, and has got an idea that she shan’t like him; the fact is, she aid not want to be married at all,but of course her family would not refuse Pasha’s alliance.” The new bride’s apartments have been refurnished in her honor, and were bestrewn wth yellow satm chairs and fautemls, which most of the women carefully avoided, prefering to sit com fortably on the carpet or on the lowest foot-stool they could find. The bride sat like a little image on a chair raised on two steps in one corner of the room; her hands, incased in tight white kid gloves, were croLSed on* her lap, and she never moved at all, except that she acknowledged our courtesies, as strangers, with & slight, grave inclination of the head. The other women kept up a pretense that if was all very delightful, and occasionally stroked her dress smilsng in passing, or rearranged the heavy gold fringes of the veil, bhe had put off a magnificent bridal dress of white satin on entering the house of this husband whom she “bad never seen,” and was now arrayed in pink satin heavily em broidered with gold, having on her head a veil of tulle and gold ornamented with tlowera and diamonds,wbile large diamond brooches and bracelets glittered on her dress ami wrists. The long train of her dreass, made in European fashion, wts spread ostentatiously halt across the floor. Those of her relations who had come with her were also very smart and very modern. Her sister, in addition to a pair of high- heeled shoes, had advanced to the civilized length of wearing tight stays. A Little Mure, Oue of the stockholders of a new Wes tern railroad was a farmer who had ac cumulated his money by hard toil, and when he had put in appearance at the meeting to elect a Board of Directors he felt it his duty to remark: ''Gentlemen, as I understand this thing we elect the Board and the Board elects the officers.” Borne one said be was right, and he con tinued: “I don’t go a cent on high salaries, and I want that understood, I sm in favor of paying our President a good living salary, and no more.” “How much do you call a good living galaxy I ” asked one of the crowd. “Well, I? a day is the going wager, but " Here the meeting began to roar, and it was two or three minutes before the orator had a chance to conclude: -“But of course we want a man who can run an engine, switch a train, handle freight, keep books and lick anybody who want pay fare, and so I shall not object to $2.00 a day.” It is exceedingly disagreeable to have the hands rough, swollen and sore, es pecially if one wishes to write or sew ; yet I never could wear gloves success fully about my house-work, as many house-keepers do. Even when doing cold, rough work in which mittens or gloves seem indispensable, I often find myself casting them impatiently aside as I murmur to myself the time-worn proverb about a cat in gloves. They seem clumsy and in the way. Neither can I spare my bands by use of the •‘dish mop” so landed by an occassional pen. It may possibly be owing to the force of long-continued habit that I can not wash my dishes satisfactorily with other than a linen or other soft, easily-wrung aud easily-kept clean dish cloth. There are a few tasks in which I find mittens or gloves a veritable necessity, and one of these is the blacking of stoves. Not only is the blacking itself difficult to remove, but it actually seems to poison the flesh. Old, cast-off gloves will not answer, as they are always more or less out at the finger-ends, as well as short in the wrist. Gloves or mittens about as good as any for this purposed may be made of coarse, thick cotton cloth ; or canton flannel may be used, but this does not wash so easily. They should be made to tit tne bands comfortably, with long wrists, to come well up over the sleeves. Thus pre pared, with a big apron from top to toe, a thick tnrban over your hair, a brush for putting on the blacking, and another long-handled one for polishing, the blacking of stoves is not the most disa greeable work in the world. Still, it is better to turn it over to the men ot your household if } ou cau. They will doit in half the time, and, the proba bilities are, with more satisfactory re sults. Another thing for which mittens or gloves are important is the hanging out of clothes in cold or frosty weather. They will save much aching of fingers, if not, indeed, some colds and sore throats also. A pair should be kept ex clusively tor this purpose, for if allowed to be used in other ways they are sure when wanted to be so soiled as to spot and blacken the clothes. If you can knit or crochet, gloves or mittens of tine white yarn are very desirable, though a pair made either of fine canton or real flannel will answer every pur pose. The seams should be stitched on the machine; then pressed open, and “oat-stitched” down by hind. But most important of all are gloves or mittens for handling wood and keep ing winter tires, and especially when stoves are used for burning chunks or wood, which oftqp has to go m at the top. If the hands are at all deli-' cate or sensitive they will, unless pro tected, be continually rough aud sore, not only from contact with the rough wood, but also from the action of the undue heat upon the flesh. Mittens of yam, or any woolen material, scorch too easily and not suitable. Mittens of stout canton flannel will answer, though a pair of small-sized men’s gloves of some soft, stout leather, with deep gauntlet wrists, are best. The ex pense is not great, and they will more than pay for themselves in one season, if you have many fires to build, in the greater comfortableness and smooth ness of your hands. The Oattle Plague’!: Gout. Until recently little has been postively known of the origin or true diagnosis of the cattle plague, which Is necessary to its successful treatment and eradication. It appears from the records of tbc Agricul tural Department that attention was first called to the existence of this disease in a dangerous or epidemic form during 186#, and tbat during that year the danger to be apprehended from its spread from conta gion was recognized and measures adopted to meet the contingency.' By references to the reports of the Commissioner of Agriculture it is found that an appropria tion was recommended by the Commis sioner, and adopted by Congress, for the expenditure of a sum that seemed adequate for the occasion, and a commission, whose duly it was to report upon its nature and extent, was appointed to investigate the cause and recommend measures for its treatment. During that and the succeed ing years of 1870 and 1871 the sum of $12.605 60 was expended in a careful manner in these investigations with re sults that are of great importance when viewed in connection with the vast inter est involved in its consideration. A recent estimate places the losses occurring an nually from the cattle plague at from two to three millions of dollars at the present time, which, if esttma.ed at five per cent, makes a total of from $40,000,000 to $60,000,000, which Is imperiled by the consequences, with a prospective increase of many millions. Emaucijiated Turkloli Women. One result of the British occupation of Cyprus, according to an American observer, has been to revolutionize the status of Turkish w^men in the island. The emancipated Turkish woman, he says, is not only to be found in Cyprus, but she has been emancipated so rapidly that, in his opinion, the harem system will not long survive in Egypt or any other country where a British garrison Is stationed. In Cyprus, according to his account, the Moslem woman “has openly thrown off the yoke and claimed her independence, and with a vengeance too. Tarnish husbands, fathers, brothers and friends are frantic with despair at the turn affairs have taken, and should a Turk come here from any other part of Island he would not be lieve his own eyes.” The women go about unveiled, walk arm-in-arm with the infidel, give coffee parties to Eng lishmen, attend cafes chan touts, and in some case have even taken to drinking. The Woman's Suffrage Society should lose no time in starting a branch in Cy prus, for if drunkenness and the can can are the first fruits of female eman cipation iu the island, there is certain to be a severe reaction before long, in which the Turkish husband _i likely to come to his own again unless due pre cautions are taken by the liberators of the other sex. The other day a lank young man from the country, accompanied by a good-look ing young woman, arrived in the ci'y and stopped at our largest hotel. “1 want you to do the best you ken for us,” said the young man to the clerk. “We’ve just got married, and want to splurge a little. Down in my country I’m the boss. I ken lift agin any man in the community, and 1 ken iplit more rails in a day than any body sepenter knock-keed Bill, the old Guinea nigger what works on the Ligc Sanders place. Tell us where our room is, please. But I reckon we’ll take the range ot the big room whar all them big lookin’ glasses is a shinin’.” “Do you mean the parlor ?” asked tbe clerk, twisting one of his diamond shirt studs. “Yes, the pcrlur.” “Certainly, sir.” The young man and his wife followed a grinning negro and ascended to the parlor. Shortly afterward the clerk, while passing the parlor door, saw Rube throw his arms around his bride aud kiss her. “Here,'’ said the official, “none of that. If you stay in this room you’ve got to be have yourselves." “Ain’t I got a right to kiss her?' 1 asked the young man. “Yes, but not here.” “I’ve got a right to kiss her here or any whar else. She’s mine, ain’t you Jule ?” “Yes, Rube.” “Didn’t the Justice of the Peace say that you must cling to me ?” i'Yes, Rube.” “And you are goin’ to chug, ain’t you?” “Youknow i am R ibe.” “ 1 hat settles it. Put her thar,” aud puckering up his mouth he received a loud resounding smack. “The law ot Arkan saw says you can put her thar, aud put her thar agin, Jule. Now mister man—” but the clerk had vanished, and Rube, turninsr to his wife, said: “Arter a while you’ll find out that I m a hero and a boss. Put her thar sgin, Jule,” How Apple* areSold tu Kuulaii*. There are five auctioneers iu the busi ness in Liverpool, and all the apples re ceived are sold by them. The sale is held in a large amphitheatre, iu the centre of which is a large table, on which a barrel of each mark is poured out as a sample. Each auctioneer sells for three-quarters of an hour at a time, and the sales continue, if necessary, till 10 o'clock at night. Apples are sold iu lots of twenty barrels each. The un derstanding is that the app es shall be perfectly tight iu the barrel, when such bring 25 shillings per barrel: “shakers, ” or those not tightly packed, will bring 4 shillings less. The next grade is “wet and wasted,” which brings only half the price of the best. The Baldwin is the only variety sold to any amount ; it is the only oue which can be obtained in sufficient qnanty to sell by the thousand barrels. Retail Jots and odds and ends are not wanted. Bales are held three days in a week. The tradg dates from about ten years ago. When it became apparent that New England could raise apples enough for its own consumptiou, the New York growers began to ship, in packing, a basket of high-colored aud medium-sized speci mens are placed in the bottom of the barrel as close ns possible, with the stems all down, and the barrel is shaken as often as a basketful is put in. It is filled half an inch above the chimes, the head is pressed in by means of a screw, and the barrel is then turned over and marked on the face head, so that when opened it shows an even and uniform surface. Apples thus faced will oriug from twenty-five to fifty cents more than those not faced. There is very little demand for sweet apples. Apples are sometimes shipped success- fnliy in warm weather, when later ship ments, m cooler weather, will decay. Facts Worth Knowlmc. A book account can be assigned so that the assignee can sue thereon in his own name. A master may recover the value of the apprentice’s service for the unex pired term from one who abducts him. The owner of lands is responsible for damages arising from au area unpro tected opening into a public footway. Tearing off the seals of a mortgage or even its entire destruction, by an unauthorized person will not cancel it. An assignment of rent after it is due will not convey any right of suit to the assignee, nor divest the lessor of his rigid. Untying and removing a horse from a public hitching post, when done by any one without authority amounts to trespass. If a person intoxicated fell asleep in bis wagon and his horse ran away, he would be liable to all damages arising therefrom. it is a debatable point of law, whether striking a horse attached to a carnage in which a person is sitting is an assault on the person. A female cannot be arrested in a civil suit in this Btate for fraud, but she may be attached for contempt for non-payment of costa A person whose goods are unlawfully distrained for rent does not forfeit or waive any legal nght by not claiming the goods when the distress is made. The owner of a steam boiler, which he hao in use on his o *vn property, ip not re sponsible in the absence of negligence for the damage done by its bursting. A bank is not liable for loss by the bur glary of valuables deposited in tbe vault of the ba-ik, and no compensation $&id Iherefoit, when the effects of the bank are kip: in tuc same vault. Tue itrorae Age- During the excavations in the Fiazza Vittorio Emauueli. in Rome, the work • men have fonnd a sepulchre of the bronze age. It is a hole dug in the tufa and lined with rongh stones, the whole bung six feet long and three feet wide. No ashes were found, and the other remains proved it to belong to the transition period between the stone age and the bronze age. The whole space between the Via Meruiana and the railway station is coyered with similar graves lying deep under the ancient Esquilue. considering the number of remains discovered during the last twelve years, and those recorded by old waters, it is probable that a town was founded on the site in the bronze *f! e « NEWS IN BRIEF. —Her husband aud baby traveled with Madame Albani. —Missouri is sending acorns to Europe to improve the forests. —A negro who is alleged to be 138 years old lives ia Warren county, Miss. —The salaries of tbe officials of all the bonanza mines have been reduced. —Nearly 46,000 immigrants came to the United States in the month of Oc tober —Feng Yiug Wang was the name of tbe person who introduced printing-in- to China. —The total cost of the new capital of the state of New York to date has been $14,222,993. The number of small pox patients under treatment at Baltimore is 463, in a population of 400,000. —Wm. F. Cody, better known as “Buffalo Bill,” is sutfering from penu- monia at Newburg, N. Y. —The Young Men’s Curisti m Associa tion of New Jersey gained 2226 new members during the post year. —There are 69,000 colored Baptists in Tennessee, with 150 churches. —There have been 2,400 divorces decreed iu Maine during five years, making a ratio of one separation in ten marriages. —Mr. Stephen A. Douglas, son of the “Little Giant,” has beeh au invalid in Chicago several mouths, but is now able to ride out. —Lieutenant Colonel McDougall, of Guelph, has been selected 10 command the Canadian artillery team at Shoebury • ness during the coming season. - British architects appear to concede that plumbing and other sanitary ar rangements ot American houses are far better thnn those of the English. —Mrs. John Jacob Astor is said to be tbe only lady iu New York, or any other city, wUose earthly possessions include a dinner service of solid gold. —Oue of the passengers on the trial trip of Fulton’s steamboat, Mrs. Sally Smith, died not long since at Edgar- town, Massachusetts, aged niuety-two. — Out of nearly 37,000,000 of people- in the United States above ten years of age, 5,000,000 are reported unable to read, aud over 6,000,000 unable to writs. — A Marine and Mechanical Exhibi tion will be opened in London next July, and it will contain practical ex amples of gas, hydraulic aud electric engineering. —The Princess Louise has sent to Kideau Hall, Ottawa, a large number of Indian and Ctnneso curosities pur chased by her during her tour through British Columbia. —Professor Robinson, whose alleged heresies mode such commotion in the ecclesiastical circles of Scotland, has accepted the professorship of Arabic in Cambridge, England. —The yield of wheat for the year 1879, 1881 and 1882 in the United States is given as follows : 1879, 459, 479, 505 bushels ; 1881, 380, 280, 000 bushels ; 1882, 502, 798, 600 bushels. —A bonfire, Which has communicated with a bed of cool beneath, is said to be still burning on a hill near Troy, New York, having been lighted to cele brate General Garfield’s election. —Nancy UcComb, a very aged col ored woman, who died, a week or two since, in Milledgeyille, Georgia, was the cook who pn. parefl General Lafa yette’s dinner when he visited thai city. —Louis Blanc left 20,000 francs to Parisian children who have bepn deser ted by their parents. The deserving of each year arc to receive savings bank books with 100 francs set down lo their credit. —In the Khoyra district, India, which comprises a considerable portion of the Bunderbunds, more than fitly people— timber-cutting aud collecting in the jungle-wore killed by tigers dunng the last official year. —Water for domestic uses is so scarce in Augusta, Mo., that many families are having ice iu large blocks hauled from the river to their doors and melt ing the ice for drinkiug, washing and cnlinaiy purposes. —The London Fire Brigade has but fifty steam engines and 500 firemen. The estimated value of the property to be protected is $6,000,000,000, aud Londoners pay an insurance premium of 120th part of 1 per cent, — The bright yellow tint of many Japanese vases has never been succss- fuily imitated by European artisans. Its popularity in Japan is no doubt owing to the fact that from time immemorial safiron tint has been considered lack/. —John G. Whittier recently received from a Chicago lady 200 engraved visi ting cards with a request to write his illustrious name on each of them, as the writer was to give a reception to her friends and desired to present them with some memento of the event. —A piece of Plymouth Rook, eight inches long, throe inches wide and four thick, has been forwarded to the Rev. Henry Alton, of Mission Chapel, Isling ton, London, to be built into the front of the chapel pulpit, by the Pilgrim Society of Plymouth, Massachusetts. —According to the Journal den Fab- ricantt dc Sucre, the production of beet-root sugar in Europe this year amounts to 1,920,000 tons, an increase of 137,500 tons over last year. Germany is still the greatest producer, heading the list with 675,000 tons ; Austrian Hungary ranks next with 450,000 tons ; France third, with 410.000 tons; Polish Russia fourth, 27i,G00 tons. —Krnpp’s works, at Essen, now em ploy some 439 steam boilers : 456 steam engines, with au aggregate horse power cf 18,500; 88 steam hammers, varying in weight from 200 pounds to 50 tons; 21 rolling mills ; machines for making tools, 1,622; xurnaoes, 1,556. of which fourteen are high furnaces; 25 locomo tives, and five propellers, with a tonnage of about 8,000. Annual production, 300,000 tons steel and 26,000 tons iron.