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j \\' TRI-WEEKI.Y EDITION. fl u > /.r WINNSBORO. S. C.. APRIL 5, 1883. ESTABLISHED 1848 J x-\ \ A LITTLE PHILOSOPHER. The days are snort and the nights are long, And the wind U nipping cold; The tasks are hard and the sums are wrong, And the teachers often scold. But Johnny McCree, On, what cares he. As he whistles along the way T “ It will all come right Br to-morrow night,” Says Johnny McCree to-day. The plums are few and the cake Is plain, The shoes are out at the toe; For money you look in the purse in ▼alu— H was all speut long ago. v But Johnny McCree, Oh, what cares he, As he whistles along the street T , Would you havo the blues For a pair of shoes While you have » pair of feet? The suow Is deep, there are paths to break, But the little arm Is strong, . And work Is play if you’ll only ta^e > J Tour work with a bit of song. , And Johnny McCree, Oh, what cares he, {s along ti He will do Irisbest, And will leave the rest To the care of his Father, Ood. i AS he whistles along thje rogi The mother's face is often aid, f She scarce knows what to do; But at Johnny’s kiss she Is bright and glad— fine loves him, and wouldn’t you ? For Johnny McCree, Oh, what cares he, As he whistles along toe way ? » * The trouble win go, And “Itold you so,” Our brave little John will say. THAT SUNDAY. Nobody goes to church on Easter Day without a new Suit in the very latest fashion!'’ said Mrs, Clairville. “Certainly not!” said Alicia, her eld est danghter. “Mrs. Pelham has written to Paris for a new bonnet, to my certain know ledge." “And, of course,” added Emily, the youngest section of the house of Clair- viUe, “As you are spending the winter with us, Madeline, yon will be expected not to disgrace ns.'’ Madeline Moray looked from one to the other of the speakers with a troubled look of countenance. “But, aunt Clairville,” aaid she, “mamma writes me that our old cousin Zephaniah and his wife have oome from Maine, very poor, and that we must economize as much as possible. “They are very old, and they need a great many litUe luxuries, and whatever Clairville’s face darkened visi- Mrs. bly. “Madeline,” said she, “will you never forget that you belong to a farmer’s fam ily down east? “Your cousin Zephauiahs are nothing tome. “Of course, while yon are my guest, I shall expect you to dress as becomes your station as my niece.” Madeline knitted her pretty brows in sore perplexity after aunt Clairville had nulled out, leaving a strong odor of patchouli behind her. i A She had a some bank-notes yet left of the store which they had scraped to gether at home, when they sent her to spend a winter in Boston with aunt Clairville, and she took it from her purse and smoothed it out upon her desk. Twenty-five dollars! She had hoped to sgve it all for cousin Zephaniah. * Her pretty shot silk, with the damasse front, was very fresh and pretty still— she had only worn it some half-dozen tunes—and her neat little split-straw hat wonid look very nice, if she bought Madeline burst into tears. “Very well, Emily,-’ she said. “Then i will remain at home. “Yon need not fear that I will dis grace the congregation of St. Etheldreda on Easter Sunday.” And this pledge evidently relieved the mind of Miss Clairville. And the two elegant sisters did not take the trouble, when Captain Braba- zin dropped in to five o’clock tea, to send up word to Madeliue that there was company in the parlor. “I suppose she don’t care to see me,’.’ the captain tlouglit, yith -a unking heart* when, at fast |e went away, after having lingered as long as politeness wonid admit. r < £ “I suppose he never asked for me,” Madeline said to herself as, from her window, she saw bis retreating flguxp Baxter shtwlv down the street. /to. I matters less than evef now about the Eister suit. j - ^ “Nobody will know whether I have 9ne' or not.” Bnt when Easter Eve came, and Mad eline was crying softly in her own room, to think of the radiant spring sunset that was flooding,all the worlit'at home, the waiter came grinnfng wp to door. “Please, Mias Maddy,” he said, “hyar’s a basket o’ laylocks. m «- “Keal springy-smellin’, I do declare! “Wid de cappen’s card — (Happen Brabazan, miss!” . Madeline nttered an exclamation / of delight Oh, the lovely purple things! Clusters of lilac fragrance. Delicious reminders of the springtidp at home. Ob, how kind it was of Captain Brab azan to remember that she was a ooun* try girl, exiled here among brick walls. Madame Creesonde'a young women sat up until twelve o’clock that night, to finish the three elegant eostumes which Mrs. Clairville and her daughters ordered. The three bonnets did not come home until Sunday morning. Bat Madeline watched them sail forth to ehnrch, to the glitter of golden sun beams and the clanging of melodious bells, like three fashion-plates. And then she put on her plain little “made-over dress” and, taking a fresh cluster of lilacs from the vase of water, pinned it across the split-straw hat. address her niece with a view to mar riage. That was Madeline Moray’s Easter gift. A mac’s t^ne and loyal heart—the dawn of a great happiness, over a life which np to this hoar had been bat ohill and solitary. There was no denying that Mrs. Clair ville was much disappointed. Emily and Alicia had been in society three seasons now, without having re ceived any eligible offer; and it did Tb» TlireatMes Families. Old Hyeua Putmlter. A Great Farmer. By the proposition to expel from French territory all the members of; families which have reigned in France, if it should be adopted, no less than thirty-one persons are affected. Of the -elder branch of the house of Bonrboni only .two—the Comte and Comtesse de Chambord, resident in Australia, bnt at present free to live in France if they please—would suffer. There are Bour bons of Spain, of the two Sicilies, and spfem strange that this pate; quiet little r of Parma dwelling ia France; bnt they girl from the back-woods, os Mrs. Clair- — *— 1 1 * 1 ' —‘ ville contemptuously expressed it, should Jravq earned off such a glittering prize Captain B^baaau; for it never occnr- 1 to them 't&at Madeline’s sweet unselfishness and ipliet self denial coaid are foreign princes, and would not be included in this rwiseptog banishment. On the other hand, upwards of 28 mem bers of the Orleans family-—which, by the way, has been remarkable for its j g reft t surprise. The other morning, while the urbane manager of Woodward’s Gardens was smoking a-fonr-bit cigar, and medita tively listening to the muffl'd wads of a tomcat that had jnst been swallowed alive by the anaconda, a tall, thin, scien tific-looking man, with a goatee and blue glasses, entered the gate and re marked in an insinuating manner! “Of coarse, yon pass the scientific fraternity?” “Of course, we do not!” said the 'showman, emphatically. “What., not the aenrauts, not the pio neers in thu^reat march of the mind into the fatherland of the inflaate be yond?” returned the professor, with peculiarly quiet attitude—might be possibly have had anything to do with, jumed “bag and baggage” out of the ttkA f't.twtn+A on/) the matter? Aid'W fotig as old datisin Zephaniah ahd>'hia tvufis lived, Captain Brabazan mode them an annual aflowanoe which jra& ampld for their simple wants. Fsrycluas Courage of the Alghau. Afi TTT corrQBponi dent contributes some no98 Of ilia JWptn Afghan istan.” Balerring to^ the ngnting qual ities of the Afghan soldiery, he says: An Afghan never thinks oi asking for quarter,' 5 bullfights, with the ferocity of # a tiger and clings to life until his eyes glaze and his hands refuse to pull a pistol-trigger or use a knife in a dying •ffjPlt jtoihfdp or, kill his enemy. The stern realities of war were more pro- nountAl oil fto Wattte-flelds in Afghan istan man per naps tney have ever be en iiVIndia, i if we expfid thsj retributive days of the mutiny. To spare a wound ed man for a minute was probably to cause the death of the next soldier who unsuspiciously walked past him. One thing oar men certainly learned in Afghanistan, and that was to keep their wits about them when pursuing an enemy or passing over a hard-won field. There might be danger larking in each seemingly inanimate form studding the ground, and unless care and caution were exercised the wounded Afghan would steep his soul in bliss by killing a Kaffir just when life was at its last ebb. This stubborn way of fighting tn extremis is prompted doubtless by fanaticism, $nd we saw so much of it that our men at close quarters always th« drove -their bayonets' well home, so “There,’’shethought as she tied the that -there^should-be no mistake as to strings under her chin, “ho Paris exotic ever looked half so sweet as that! “And I am sure Heaven will incline its ear no less favorably to my prayers than if I went to St. Etheldreda’s in Worth’s newest design.” And she crept to the little church in tneadjoining street, which hod long been out of fashion, and where the spectacled old clergyman practiced all the austerb, ties of the early fathers, through dire necessity. Easter Sunday! She sat. there, listening to the anthems, and thinking of the dear ones at home, an^ wondering if cousin Zephaniah and his poor'old wife would ever know that she, Madeline Moray, had oast her mite to relieve their sore necessities, and recalling tagtrtfly Ute'poor widow whose offefhig had oi&e beenpo precious In the holiest of eyes." * ‘ L Hers was not much now, bnt she also had given it from a free and willing heart 4 r . As she moved qnietly, and with re new ribbon for it and re-arranged the- verent, downcast eyes, outof theohuroh, flowers. 4t least that was the mental conclu sion at which ahe had arrived, when Mrs. Clairville issued her commands, binding as an imperial nkase, that a new Easier suit was among the necessi ties. Madeline knew very well that she was pretty:’ F* . She never looked into the glass with out perceiving the difference between her fresh apple-blossom of a face, and the enamelled and rouged qomplex- ions of her city cousins. She knew th»t her hair was like burn ished coils of gold, her long-lashed eyes like stars, and she would have liked.a new Easter suit as well as any one—and the bonnets in Madame Printemp’s window looked infinitely beautiful in her eyes, with their French roses and perfectly simnlated. violets; bat there was the old man and his enfeebled wife to remember—the ancient relics of a bygone generation, who had out-lived the sympathy of almost all the world. “No,” said Madeline to h&rself, “I most not spend this money, Easter salt or no Easter suit.'’ Bo ahe sat herself down, in the rainy March afternoon, to riy np the short silk dress and alter it over so that even Alicia sad Emily should not know it for the same. Bnt, with all her skill in amstenr dress-making, the folds wonid not hang stylishly, the old creases would obtrude themselves on the eye, and the costume proclaimed, in its every glisten and puff—“Made over, made overt” Emily Clairville shook her head. “Madeline,” said she, “it is of no nse. “You never can wear that dress! And your hat, tool “A plain split-straw, without so much I* $ French flower.” some one stepped to her side. “Yon have dropped .something, Miss Moray,” said Captain Brabazan. And lie held np $he cluster of lilacs, drooping now, and a little faded. She pnt her hand np to her bolmet with a scarltt blush, r.i “Your lilacs, Captain BrabaiBn,” sue said; * * j, iri+i T v K«<^^gbtened. ‘ . j, “I am prouuthat yon ueemed them worthy of your wearing. ^ . “Yonr oonkjn to'd me that you was such an anchorite that you did not oare for flowers, or books, or society—that yon were not even going to church on Easier Sunday.’V,-' •*- . . “I?” cried Madeline. * “Oh^ Captain Brabazap, 1 like all three! “1 cried over your flowers when they came last night “They seemed to me like dear friends from home. . “And 1 wore them in mv bonnet be cause—because I oonld noV affordWii- fioal blossoms, 1 “There! now yon know jgtt how poor And she laughed, even while the roseate tinge suffused her cheek. •T do not know whether yon are poor or not,” said he; “bnt I do know that I think yon the nearest to perfection of any girl whom I ever saw.” “Huy I tell yon ail abont it?” ahe asked h urriedly, “for I do not want you to thin* me avaricious or semi, barbarian, as my cousins sometimes pronounce me. And then you shell tall me whether ycu think I am right or wrong. ” ) They walked slowly home from church in the soft, blind sunlight of that Easter Day, and when they reached the Mown atone mansion in Silveraton street, Cap tain Brabazan went in and formally asked Mrs. ClainriUes penqjssion to the deadliness of the wound. The*phy- sioal courage which distinguished the untrained mobs who fought so resolutely against ns was worthy of all admiration; the tenacity with which men, badly armed and lacking skilled leaders, dung to their positions was remarkable, to say nothing of the sullen dogged ness they often Showed when retiring. EN^Whl^.B^rtjd^of^be fight set in folly against them and they saw that further resistance would involve them more deeply, there was so sudden change always apparent that one could scarcely believe the fogitiyes hurrying over the hills were the same men who had resisted so desperately but a few minutes before. They acted wisely; they knew their powers in scaling steep hilja, or in making their escape by fieetness of foot; and the host generally dissolved with a rapidly which no one but an eye-witness can appreciate. If cavalry overtook them, they turned like wolves and fonght with desperation, selling th&r lives as dearly as men ever sold them; but there was no rally in the time sense of the word, and but faint attempts at aiding eacii other. Thfelr regular troops were bnt little attfenable to discipline by reason of deficient training, and they resorted to the tactics they had pursned as tribes men, -when once they were forced to PAti-VA ±l t 'J* mmmm Railway Accommodation*. In these days when it is fashionable to complain of corporations as purely selfish, it is greatly to the credit of the-Pennsylva nia Railroad Company, that it is cc-atant- ly furnishing increased facilities for the accommodation of \h6 traveling public. Recently they have commenced running a through Pullman Bleeping Coach from Washington and Baltimore to Chicago on their Pacific Express, which leaves Wash ing every day In the year at 9 60 p. m„ and Baltimore 11.16 p. m. The arriving time at Chitego is 8.00 o’clock the second morning. The portion of the train which starts from .Washington joins at Harris burg with the section from New York and Philadelphia on ifhich there is a hotel car. This arrangement gives passengers from Baltimore and. WsJhmgton Just the same eating facilities as enjoyed by those from New York, as the first meal en route is breakfast os the, first morning, after the two section! have become one tram. On their West Jersey connection, also, they arranged for placing, tinoe February 19th, a through passenger car between New York sad Jersey City as follows: Leave Brooklyn 12:80 noon; New Yqrk, 1:00 p. m., and arrive at Atlantic City (via Trenton and Camden) 6:47 p. m. Leave Atlantic City at 7:26 a. m., arrive at New York, 11:40 noon; Brooklyn 12:80 noon. The car will not be run in either direction on Sundays. The latter will furnish not only desirable facilities tor the citizens of Nqw York and northern New Jersey, but will enable sum mer visitors to N«W York city on business to take a run down to the “City by the Bek” conveniently and in a few houra. ■ ->*- - ^-Thereare 2760 languages. — American patent medicines are in great demand in Belgium. country. These are the Comte and Comtesse de Paris, living at the Chateau d’Eu in Normandy, bnt now at Cannes for the season, and their children, the Duo d’Orfeans, who is stadying at the College Stanislas, the Princesse Helene who made her debut in society about three months ago. and two little prin cesses. Then oome the duo de Char tres, younger brother of the comte de Paris, now stationed at Rouen as colo nel of the 12th chasseurs, the Ducbesse de Chartres, and their children, Prince Robert, Henri and Je&n, and Princesses Marie and Marguerite, all of whom are with their parents. * The Duo de Ne mours, general of division, who is re siding in the avenne du Bois de Bou logne in Paris, follows with his chil dren, the Dno d’Alennou, captain in an artillery regiment, and his wife, the duchess, who with their little son and danghter, Prince Emmanuel and Princess Louise, are now sojourning at Vincennes, and Princess Blanche d'Orleans. The Comte d’Eu and the Princess Margnerite have become foreign subjects, the foimer through his marriage with a princess of Brazil, now his adopted country ^ the latter by her marriage with Prince Ladislas Czarterpski Next comes the Prince de JoinviUe, vice-admiral, with bis prin cess, both of whom reside in the Rue de Bern in Paris, and their children, the dno de Pentlueyre, a lieutenant in the French navy, and Princess Fian- ooise, married to the doe de Chartres. Lastly, the dne d’Aumale, general of division and a member of the Aoademie Franoaise.* The due de Montpensier and Princess Clencutine, brother and sister of the dno de Nemours, would not be included in the decree of expul sion. as the former has become a Span iard through his marriage with the In fante Louise, sister of Queen Isabella, while the latter is the wife of the duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. The members oi the Bonaparte family who would be directly affected by the adoption of the Floqnet proposition are Prince Na poleou and his wife the Princess Clc- tilde, with their two sons—Prince Vic tor, who is at Orleans with his regi ment, the 32d artillery, and Prince Louise, now studying at the Lycee Charlemagne, and their daughter, the Princess Marie, who is with her mother at Monoalieri, and the Princess Mathil da. The other members of the Bona parte family, children of the late Prince Pierre aud Prince Murat, would hardly be included in the proscription. Mottoes of the H.bsburcs- The celebration of the foundation of the Habsburg monarchy has suggested to a writer in one of the Vienna journals the compilation of the mottoes adopted by the Emperors who have successive ly occupied the throne. The founder of the dynasty, whose motto was “Fes- tina lento” before his accession, after ward adopted that of “Melius bene imporare qnam imperinm ampliara.” Albert I, with “Fugam victoria nesoit,” and Frederick III, with “Beata morte nihil beatus,” were succeeded by Albert IL and Frederick IV, whose mottoes were “Amiens optima vitas possessio,” and “Amor eiectis, injnstia ordinat ni ter.” Charles V, had two mottoes, “Nondnm” and “Plus ultra,” while the motto of Ferdinand I, the founder of the German line of Habebnrgs. was * *Fiat jnstitia, pereat mundns. ” ‘ ‘Dens providebit” was the pious motto of Maximilian JJ; and, passing over those of Rudolph II and two or three other sovereigns, that of Charles VI, the author of the Pragmatic Sanction, pos sesses peculiar interest, as he was the last male descendant of the House of Habsburg. Hu high temper and force of character are embodied in the moito, “Constantia et lortitudine ;” while his danghter, Maria Theresa, who founded tiie house of Habsburg-Lorraine, chose as her motto, “Justitia et dementia.” The motto of her husband, Francis I, was “Pro Deo et imperio,” while Joseph H took for his device, “Virtute exem- plo,” and his brother, “Leopold II, "Opes regum oorda subditorum. ” He was succeeded by Francii II, with the mottoes, “Lege et fide” anfl “Justitia regnorum fundamentum.” Th<f late Emperor Ferdinand’s motto was, “Rec ta tuen,” while that of the reigning sovereign is, appropriately enough, “Yiriboi tmtis,” for there is mors strength and unity in the dual empire Hum when he came to the throne. “I will not deceive you," sarcastically replied the proprietor of the only sala- marder; ‘ we paps nothing but the quills on the fretful porcupines—1 mean the press. You can't seethe ostidges unless you oome down and put up.'’ “Dear me, dear me!” sighed the sci entist, refftectively. “To think that a professor of cosmographio oonohology should be denied admittance to a third- class Zoo ! Has the Skamgatibns been fed yet?” Skam which?” asked the tiger importer. “Why, the Skamgatibus; you’ve got one, haven’t you?” “Ye-e-s-s; I believe we’ve a small female somewheres,” said the grizzly's friend, doubtfully. Why, I never knew a first-clais col lection to have less than two pairs,” said the professor, oontemptuonsly; "how do yonr Azimuths stand this cold weather, eh!" “Azimuths?” asked the Napoleon ag gregator of curiosities; “what’s them?” Some kind of bird—you don’t mean ostri- -?'’ “Ostriages be hanged?*’ said the successor of Darwin; “ostridges are nothing. I’ve shot more ostridges with quail shot than you've got hairs on your head. You dont actually mean to sit there and tell me yon haven’t got a single Azimuth to yonr back?*’ “Don’t believe I have,” admitted the alligator breeder, mortified; what are they like?” “Oh they’re of the order Spinalis, about eight feet high. For peels off in the spring, yon know—the Siberian spbeies. I mean, I suppose yon’ve got one of those Rectangular African Flipgoohlies that reached New York the other day?” “No,’ said the much agitated show man; “here I’ve been keeping an agent in New York on a big salary to look out for attractions and he doesn’t catch on to the first blamed thing, Spends all onr money on second-hand panthers and kangaroos with the rheumatics. I’ll bounce him by telegraph!” “Haven’t even got a Flipgoohly, eh?” mused the scientist, in a tone of great pity. “Aud I shouldn’t be surprised if yon didn’t have a Golden Greeted uus- pidor in your whole show." “Neither I have—neitner I have,” re plied the wretched promoter of pelicans in a tone of great bitterness. ’Spose yon just step in, sir, and look round; mebbe there is something else you could say—” “N-n-o, I guess not,” said the tall nian. “It would hardly pay me to spend so much valuable scientific time in a fourth-class show like this. Not even an Azimuth, eh? I should think you’d be afraid of being actually, mobbed some time. I’m sorry for you, my good man; sorry for you. I’ve no doubt you mean well, but—not a soli tary Skamgatibns—Great Scott I” And as the disciple of Andnbon passed into a saloon across the street and swapped a lead niokle for a glass of beer the bar-keeper heard him ohnokle something to the effect that he had got even on that old hyena puncher, and don't yon forget it. Dr. Glenn’s ranch in Cdito-nia com prises about 60,000 acres of land, and the number of acres iu wheat each year ranges between 40,000 and 50,000. Reckoning an average of from 20 to 25 bushels to the acre, the aggregate crop each year amounts to something more than 1,000,000 bushels. This enormous amount of grain requires vast appli ances for planting and bringing it to market; and the capital invested in machinery alone sums up a considerable fortune. During the harvest time there are employed on the entir^anofi some 500 men. Dr. Glenn was general-in- chief of his force, and his ranch is divi ded, for convenience of operation, into nine smaller ranches—each with a dwelling-house, barns, blacksmith shop and other necessary build ngs. In charge of those are seven foremen, un der whom are sixteen blacksmiths, fourteen carpenters, six engineers six machinists, five commissaries aud nu merous cooks and servants. The com mon workmen are divided into gangs, and detailed where they are needed. There are needed 130 gang plows, 60 herders, to which belong 180 wagons; 6 cleaners, 100 harrows, 18 seeders, 6 threshers, 6 engines. Besides, there are many smaller instruments and veh icles, whioh cannot be classified. Co operating with their human brethren in the great labor are 1,000 work-horses and mules, with a kinship of brood, mares and younger stock which have not yet achieved the dignity of lalxir. There are 32 dwelling-houses, 27 barns, 14 blacksmith shops, and other struct ures sufficient to swell the aggregate to 100, The machinery could not be replaced for $125,000; the work-horses and moles are worth $110,000; and the brood mares and yonng stock $75,000. The ranch is about twenty miles above the town of Oolnsa. NEWS IJS BRIEF -During the past fifteen years 3 churches have been built in this country —Berlin with over 1,160,000 popnla- 5dp h “ 0117 f ° rty ' five p,ace * o' ww- ^ °f the Grand Army of the jjjpuhho has been established iu Hono- money on past year. Origin of the Cereal Oramt Wheat ranks by origin as a degeuer- erate and degraded lily. Snob in brief is the proposition which this paper sets out to prove, aud whioh the whole course of evolutionary botany tends every day more and more fully to con firm. By thus from the very outset placing dearly before our eyes the goal of our argument, we shall be able the better to understand as we go whither each item of the cumulative evidence is really tending. We must endeavor to start with the simplest forms of the great group of plants to whioh the ce reals and the other grasses belong, and we most try to see by what steps this primitive type gave birth, first to the brilliantly colored lilies, next to the degraded rushes and sedges, and then to the still more degenerate grasses, from one or other of whose richer grains man has finally developed his wheat, his rice, his millet, and his barley. We shall thus trace throughout the whole pedigree of wheat from the time when its ancestors first diverged from the common stock of the lilies and the wa ter-plantations, to the time when sav age man found it growing wild among the untilled plains of prehistoric Asia, and took it under his special protection iu the little garden-plots around his wattled hut, whence it has gradually altered under his constant selection in to the golden grain that now covers half the lowland tilth of Europe and America. There is no page in botanical history more full of genuine romance than this, and there is no page in whioh the evidence is dearer or more convin cing for those Who will take the easy trouble to read it alight. Lead Poisoning in uressmakem. Lead poisoning is often produced in an unsuspected manner, The occupa tion of dressmaking might be regarded as one likely to be exempt from it; yet a dressmaker jnst admitted into the Leeds Dispensary, England, was found to have a distinct blue line on her gams, with simultaneous symptoms, such as a furred tongue, inflammation of the lips, and general debility—all signs pointing to the probability of poisoning by lead. The physician in attendance for some time failed to discover the source of the lead poisoning, and was beginning to think the blue line had been caused in some other way. when he accidentally learned from a merchant that silken thread, being sold by weight, and not by length, is sometime adul terated with sugar of lead. He than questioned the patient, and she inforsa- ed him that it had been a common practice with her, when at work, to hold silk as well as other kinds of thread in her mouth, and that ahe had dona this the more readily with silk, inas much as it often bad a sweet ta te. This is a sore indication of the presence of lead, and all thread poMeesing itshould either be rejected or used with caution, it will be found that the silk thread of the best makers is tasteless, whereas some inferior threads are sweet. —ll a L. Texas, went ham Shirley, of Dallas ‘4 with $800 county, in cur rency in his pocket, and used paper for wadding. He was loading from the wrong pocket, however, and had shot away over $60 of his money before he discovered his mistake. Kara Old Win*. One lot of 1,000 gallons of sherry had been in the London wiue vaults for nearly fifty years. It was brought from the South by its owner, who had fallen dead in the vaults. The wine, along with his other property, had passed in to chancery, and tne litigation, whioh has continued for nearly half a century, is as far from being ended, apparently, as when it begun. But the wine has been growing old and valuable, and if sold now, wonid probably bring five guineas a gallon. The fact is that wine rarely gets as old as it is credited with, and there is bnt little sherry or port of an older vintage than 1879 to be had, and then at very high prices indeed. The majority of still wines in common use are not more than two years old, and a glass of sherry that has been in wood two years anil bottle five more is a rare treat. Etypt* Egypt is to have a large police force, composed mainly of Europeans. Ac tive recruiting for this body has been going on in Switzerland, Germany and Belgium. Natives of those countries are deemed equally eligible. French and Italians are, for political reasons, excluded. The recruits are not to be under twenty, nor over forty years of age. They are to get from $30 to $60 s month, from which about $8 a moath is to be deducted for the cost of vatious. The Egyptian Government is to pay the expense of conveyance to Egypt, and there is a special agreement with-the Swiss recruits that, in case their coun try should become involved iff war, they are to have the privilege of rotaming immediately to their homes, attheex- * penae of the Egyptian treasury . r A lady, Miss S. Clark, has been an Exe^N:T rer0,a * 8aViQg * bank ^ T r T , h ? LoWer H * nae of tl »e Missouri *“i 10 -MuSmSS' and find mnch favor there. ' -Gash girls in New York store,, are ‘ v '° S W8 f k * 8 ° me ot toem $2 after years of.experience. FnTit lT don lecturer declares that Lugland has spent daring the lust yem -ei,«0,000,000torli q “ o * . • 000 ‘ 0 ? 0 ■B 001 ' 01 “““d a year and three or four thousand cords of wood in tbe making of spools -New York will raise by taxation to defray the expenses of iu dtv government, about $20,000,000 in 1883 -An agent has gone to South Africa to secure oustrichea to stock a farm to be established in San Betadrdino, Cal. —A thoughtful citizen of Kansas City Mo., has presented each of the letter-’ carriers in the city with a pair of creepers. —During the past year sixty-one Cougregationalist ministers have died in this country, at an average age of sixty four years. K —The total number of oases of shoes 310 525 fr rL L7 | mi ’ m 188218 aiV.&Zo. This shows a gain of more than 25,000 over 1881. —Women Stenographers of the high- < J?“ command and receive salaries of $1000 a year and upwards, when em ployed in large establishments. —The Rev. Osborne Ingle, an Epis- copal clergyman of Frederick, Md., has J® 8 * Rn d seven obilnren, mostly by diphtheria, within a brief year. # -In a corn-raising contest near Rome, fea., flye young men took part. The winner of the pnze raised thirty-seven bushels and seven ounces on a half acre. . — A boy in Mobile, Ala., burned down two buildings to win two beU aggrega ting $4 that there would be two fires in the city before certain specified dates. —A stow watch caused the loss of five lives cud the woondiog of two meu, besides the destruction of considerable property on the Ohesapeak 2k Ohio Rail way. —The Duke of Sutherland, by his recent purchase of land in Florida, be comes, it is said, a larger real estate owner in the United States than iu England. —Immigration to the United States is lessening in volume. For the five months ended Nov. 30, the arrivals ag- “ ” wrea wiU ‘ —Russia’s debt has almost doubled since 1872, the annual deficit in her finances averaging $120,000,000. A loan rsceatijr negotiated brings the debt ui lo $2,765,000,000. * Lha Texas cattle drive for the com ing spring is estimated at 220,000 head. Of these not more than 120,000 will reach the open market The rest will be reserved for ranch purposes. —The gold product of Galifornia from the discovery ol the precious metal by James W. Marshall In the tail-race of Sutter’s Mill, Jan. 19, 1848, to June 30, 1881, amounted to $1,170,000,000. -The produo. of the Leadville (Oolo- rado) mines for the past three months is as follows : Ponnds of lead, 17,009,- 228 ; ounces of silver, 1,337,116; ounces of gold, 2, 921, Total currency value, $5,792,123. —The memorial library building which the sons of the late Israel Wash burn are to erect at the homestead in Livermore, Me., is to be of granite, and is to be ready for use during the com ing summer. —Husnewell, Kansas, shipped daring the last season 4,000 car loads of cattle, averaging twenty-two head to the oar. The cattle brought $86 per Head at mar ket malting over $8,000,000 worth ship ped from tuis one point. —Some Maine officers a temp ted to seize a car load of beer in Portland the other day, but a locomotive came along aud earned beer and officers to Ports- month, N. H., 60 miles away where it is not unlawfal to bold beer for sale. —Daring the five years ending De cember 31, 1881, there were l,870hotels burned in the United States aud 360 in Canada. Daring the month of Novem ber, 1881. there were thirty-nine burned in the United 8 ates and six in Canada, more than one for every day of the month. —The aggregate value of tbe eleva tors belonging to tbe Northern Pacific railroad is $300,000. They do an animal grain trade of from $2,000,000 to $4.- 000,000, and in their merchandise de partment they did a business last of 100,000. —The best compliment puid the wub- lio schools of Washington by a forog ner, qualified to judge, is the fact mat the children of the Swiss Minister pt- tend public whool in the Peabody build ing, and Gen. Frey, as is well known, presided over the edtteatiopal depart ment of his native State-for a number of yean. —General Booth, of the Salgai Army iff England, in his report tor says that in that year 609 of his soldi ers, including 274 women, were knocked kicked or brutally m. and that 56 buildings in Whlffh and windows. mi YV*-", V A -Mi •: ■ ■ Lk: