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t. * 4. Sfcv *■ ■ mwm mmm ov •«***(. mr '• iv; :V'V> v 3 TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO. 8. 0.. APRIL 12, 1883. ESTABLISHED 1848 ' ■ .■ , IN RANtriUABT. WtiUe pale wltli rage the wild turf aprings, Athwart the harbor bar, The safe ships told their snow; wing* Beneath the e7enine star. ^ la this calm haven rocked to sleep Au night the; <wlng and sway, TUI mantles o’er the morning deep The golden blush ot da;. Here, safe from all the storms of fate, From worldly rage and scorn. That let me fold my hand and wait The coming of the morn; * hen all night o’er moeaat turf. The wind brings In from far The moaning of the baffled sort Athwart the harbor bar. UUNAING THE TOLL. “Just hint at ‘running the toll’ and grandma will tell you a story,” said Jjily Weatherbee, demure as a little Quaker and sweet as a wild rose, looking up from her Kensington stitch. Grandma overheard her and answered with a smil ^ that made her piercing black eyes sparkle like diamonds. “I don’t think you will ever run the toll, Peace and Plenty,” she said. That was the name she had given Lily when she was a baby. / "No, indeed; one in the family of that sort is quite enough,” laughed the girl; "but here is Hattie waiting to be amused, and you must tell her about it” "Well, how shall I begin, chatter box?’’ "Why, tell her about the old house with the gray moss dinging to the raf ters, and the haunted window and the great baru, first "The haunting was easily enough ac counted for,” said grandma, rolling up the stockings she had been mending and taking off her spectacles; "that was the tapping of the old horse-chestnut when the wind blew, but it was a long time before I found out the meaning of the three mysterious knocks—always three—and when I did, what fun I had at the expense of Miss Bildha Cross, our dress-maker, who bad taken infinite pains to prove tbat I was favored with spiritual visits! Poor Miss Silenal I never saw a creature more disappointed. As for the barn, it had originally been built for a meeting-house, but never . having been finished on account of lack of funds, my grandfather took it for debt and turned it to very good account. That old br was a great institution, and was regularly farmed out during winters for revival meetings, dances, husking frolics and sundry other things. One night we let a tramp sleep there, and the consequence was that by noon next day there was nething left of the bam but smoke and ashes. Poor father! It had been a source of income, and nothing could take its place. Every body mourned the destruction of ‘Uncle Hiram’s barn,’ but nobody offered to rebuilt it. - "We were poor, not tbat we suffered for the necessaries of life. The farm kept our table, but my father worked too hard for an old man, and his ‘boys were all girls.’ The fact of our poverty never troubled me, however; I was too happy. Only give me plenty of fun, plenty of sunshine and nothing seemed hard to me. My genius at improvising all sorts of amusements made me a general favorite in society. Nobcdy looked down upon me because I wore .calico and worked from morning till night. In fact, ‘Jack’ was always in requisition; it was ‘Jack’ who took the lead at our merry gatherings, who filled the gap with some audacious gossip when nobody knew what to say, who was afraid of nothing—who was, I am rather sony to add careless of oonse quenoes, so that she had a good time. ‘‘But I was happy; nobody can ever take that consolation from me. I never sighed for what was unattainable. Fair weather or foul, washing or baking, at home or at the country-side parties, I was always at peace with the world, though my one best muslin gown had done duty for several years.” "Ob. grandma! what would you have thought then of a pink satin reception dress, and everything to match, like the one I am having made?” exclaimed Liy. "Shouldn’t a’ been a bit happier, my dear; couldn’t a’ been,” was the calm response. "Besides; young girls never wore satin in those days, bless you! plain white mull was considered dressy enough, with flowers, which, to my taste, are prettier than jewels and day. And now 1 am coming to how I ran the tolL Ned Hamilton a as considered one of the best young men in town. He would a’ been handsome but his nose was too thin and ins eyes were too dose together, though they were fine eyes. At aB events, he was a great favorite, and the girl who secured him for partner considered herself fortunate. Nobody treated him just exactly as I did, for I would tell him to his face tha he was conceited, though secretly I did feel flattered by his attention, i sup pose the great Hosed ale farm had some thing to do with it, and the two grays and the handsome carryalL Perh pe I was ambitious and didn’t exactly know it; for to tell the truth, when 1 did think e: him at all seriously it was the big farm that loomed up, not my liking for him. To Mrs. Hamilton—t^e name was a good one—to step from our homely one-story house Into a grand ole mansion, where the furniture had stood for a hundred years—that was some thing for a poor man’a child to achieve, I was very proud and happy when he showed me any unusual attention, did stir what vanity I had to see his team at orr cottage door, to pass our acquaintances seated beside him, to be singled out at parties—me in my plain dresr, with perhaps only a rose at my throat and another in my hair.” "Now confess that you were hand some, grandma,” said Lily. "That’s not for me to say, my dear, though I believe they did call me rather pretty. One day Ned Hamilton invited to go with him to Silver Spray, a beautiful water fall, six miles away. 1 particularly pleased with the invi tation just at that time, tor matters at , home were complicated, and the atmos- was not agreeable. Father had i paying money on a mortgage, and always made him crow not cross exactly, but very, very miserable. The sight of his sorrowful face and the sound of his depressed voice caused us all to feel more or less wretched. "That night there was to be a party at the honse ot Judge Mills. They only gave one a year, on the occasion of Meeny Mill’s birthday. Poor Meeny! A homelier girl never liven, but the judge was rich, and she wore all the latest fashions, so perhaps she never realized how plain she was. I had been busy over my only white dress, taking a tuck ont here and adding a bit of lace there, wishing, for a wonder, that I could have something new to wear. At sight of Ned and the team, however, ail my troubles vanished into air, and I ran down-stairs laughing. "1 do wish you’d be a little sober- more than that, 1 paid off the mortgage on our little home, in time.” "And then you married grandpa?” said Lily. "Yes, dear, he was worth a thousand Ned Hamiltons—but poor father! how often I have heard him say that I was ] ust as good as a boy.” Hnmbla-M'.oded. minded,” said my father in his fretful way. ‘It seems kinder heartless to be laughing when there ain’t a cent in the house, and nobody, knows when there will be.’ "Why, fttthfei, there’s always potatoes and meal,” was my merry rejoinder. "Yes, and there’s always wares and troubles,” he answered lugubriously. T don’t seem to git ahead like other folks, and I’ve pretty much about given up trying. If you girls was only boys now!” "Think what you’d have to lay out in boots alone,” I said, still laughing, at which he frowned and turned impatient ly away, while I ran out to be helped into the handsome carriage. "What a glorious day it was! The vines lining each side of the read all seemed dripping with sunshine. The shaded valleys, the dancing brooks and the highways bordered with maples and elms—and then my escort beguiled the hour with odd and merry fancies, talked about his farm, his hopes, his aspira tions, and if I bad not willfully turned the subject once or twice,” said the pretty old lady, with a prim little ges ture, "I think lie might have proposed. But 1 wasn’t ready for that yet. ‘In the quiet of the home-going, T said to myself. ‘I will listen te him perhaps.’ "At last- wo reached the water-fall, which, with its accompanying heights and charming scenery, repaid us for the ong ride. It was hard to tear ourselves away, and when we did turn the heads of the spirited horses in the direction of home it was very late. "We shall never be In time for the >arty,” I said, as the twilight deepened nto dusk. ‘Must you pay at the toll- gate? The old man is half-blind, and it rill take him an hour to hunt up change. ; ton the toll, just for the fun of it—you can pay him afterward.’ "That won’t dp,” aaid Ned, Til have to get a bill changed though. Just take the reins a second. By the way—‘I never heard the end of tgie sentence. At that moment the spirit of mischief seized me. 1 snatched the whip and ouched the near horse. Then I only leard the thunder of hoofs and the whirr of wheels, saw Ned's eyes flash fire in the semi-darkness and his face grow mle. Before he oould take the reins from my inexperienced hands, we had run the toll’ in good earnest, and the horses were flying oyer the bridge as only foightened horses can. It was as much as Ned could do to guide them, an t twice we were in deadly periL On they sped, young Hamilton stand ing without a hat, his teeth set, his lips white, his frame rigid, while tho veins of Iris forehead stood out like whip-cord. I just sat back and held my breath, too : lightened to cry out, and catchim whatever war nearest to steady mysel as they raced down the long, hilly street; i o the village, at the foot of which they slackened their speed and were soon under control. "That was a mad freak of yours,” was all the young man said, as he helpec me out at the door; and I knew by the expression of his countenance that never should be asked to ride behind his grays again. . "I went to the "Hem! hem!” coughed Chas. Grafton s he limped ont and toed the mark. [ want to know where I am.” "At the Central Station Court,” iDe- troit, answered His Honor "What for?” "The charge is drunkenness.” "And who’s the Judge?” "I am.” "Well. I have nghte, and I am bound > maintain them. Before this trial goes any further I- want to go hotne and >ut on a clean shirt and get some ehew- ng tobacco. -1 want to look half-way decent and feel half-way human. ” "Can’t let you go.” "Then I won’t be tried!” "But you will! The law doesn’t care a copper what sort of a shirt a prisoner has on, and if you are dying for some thing to chew on Bijah always has a chunk of shoe-makers’ wax lying around.” ,"Bid you say I was drunk?” "That’s the charge.” "Well. I won’t be tried on no such charge. The idea that a man of my ; rears and dignity would get drunk and >e staggering around the streets is all nonsense.” "Officer was this man the worse for drink?” "He was almost helpless, sir.” "I was, eh?” queried ihe prisoner. ‘Now. sir, do you make oath that I was drunk?" ‘T do.” "How did I act.” "Yoa cried, talked silly, and said you would like to adopt me for a son.” "lour Honor, I can’t stand this; I appeal this case, and want that man nr- rested for perjury.” "I shall fine yoa ten dollars.” "I’lLrot in the bastile before I’ll pay it” "Then you go up for sixty days.” "I never will.” Bijah keeps an empty barrel in the corridor for just such occasions. When Mr. Grafton began prancing around, and declared that he would sell his life at the highest market price, he was ricked up and doubled together in the center and crowded into the barrel, and six minutes had not passed away before le was as humble-minded as a boy at the bottom of a well. Drawbridge Signal*. An Eastern railway company has adopted a system of drawbridge signals which, it is claimed, will greatly reduce the danger of accidents. These signals are worked by a series of levers, five in number, the first two working sema phore signals at a distance of 1,900 feet and 800 feet, respectively, from a bridge. The other three work the switches of the siding and the lock of the bolt *hioh holds the draw in place. Before* the bridge can be unlocked that a ves sel may pass tltrough the draw, these levers must be worked in their order. It is impcssiole to work them in any other way, the interlocking preventing the draw-tender or signalman from mov ing the higher numbered lever until he has first moved the low ' unoUjer. He cannot, when the dra^/ie OK^ed, re place the lovers exoeprinthe regular reverse order. It follows that a danger signal must first be shown at a distance of 1,900 feet from the draw, and if that warning to bring his train under control for a atop is neglected by the engineer, the signal is again given at 800 feet dis tant Should this warning be neglected, the engineer will find his train switched to a side track, and tans prevented from plunging into the open draw, for •the draw cannot be open unless it has previous’y been u: locked ; it eannot.be unlocked until the safety-switch has first been unbolted and set for the si ding ; the switch cannot be set until the home signal kas been set for dan ger, and the home signal cannot be set for danger until the distance signal has been so set. These operations are re peated on the other side of the draw, which is fitted with a bolt at each end. Supplemental apparatus is provided so that the signalman may know at a dis tance of 1} miles that a train is ap proaching, so that tlie draw may not be opened and trains delayed unneces sarily. It is further claimed that when the draw, even if closed, should be un locked, the safety switch cannot be thrown on the main line either by acci dent or design, and therefore no train can possibly run into the draw. Continuous Brakes. Type Nlses. Originally there were but seven sizes. The fint was called "Prima.” whence the name Pnmer. It is now known as Two-Line English. The second was called "Secunda,”now our Double Pica —in France, Great Paragon. The third was "Tertia,” at present our Great Primer. Then there was the middle size, still being called in Ger man "Mittel,” but it is now our Eng lish. After these oame the three sizes on the opposite side of the scale—Pica, Long Primer and Brevier. In Germany tha names Secunda, Tertia and Mittel are still retained. "Pioft,” in France and Germany, is called Cicero, because the works of that author were originally printed in it English printers so styled it from being the type m which the Ordinal or Service Book of the Roman Church was originally set This Ordinal also was at first culled "Pica.” "Bour geois” was so named because it was in troduced into the country from France, where it was originally dedicated to "Bourgeois” or citizen printers of that capital. "Brevier obtained its name from having been first used for printing the Breviary or Roman Catholic abbre viated Church Service Book. "Minion” is also of French origin, and was so termed owing to having rapidly become a special favorite on its introduction in that country. La Afiffone is "the darling.” "Nonpareil” was so named because at the time of its introduction it had "no equal,” being the smallest and finest type then produced "Pearl is of English origin. The French have a type of the same size, which they call Parisienne. It is a smaller type than Nonpareil, and was thought "the pearl of all type.” "Dia mond is another fancy name given to what was regarded at the time of its origin as the ultima thule ot letter foondary achievement. Trepanning in Prehistoric Time*. Hie Pugilistic ] black "Did one of party, seemingly as gay and light-hearted-as ever. It any feeling of regret lurked under my care less speech and manner, Ned shoul< never know it. In the midst of the fun when I was holding my little court, and the laugh and the jest were going round, who should appear upon the scene bat my fattier, in his homely, patohec clothes, quite regardless of the figure he out in the midst of that brilliant com' pony. He waked straight up to me, his hair in disorder, his face as pale as death. 'Jack,” says he, 'did you run the tol to-day?' “Thehorses ran,” I said, with a touch of levity, though 1 trembled from heat to oot. ‘What did they know about toll?’ "Weil, the bridge-keeper has been to the houte, Jack. He told me the young man was getting the money when you oaught up the whip and set the horses to running. Now, there's a fine for that, an’ I’ve got to give him $5; he won’t let me off— and I ain't got five cents to my name.’ Tears stood in his poor, weak eyes, and, regardless of the surroundings, he took out his handker chief and wiped; them away. Imagine, it you can, how l, felt. "Allow me to pay, sir,” said Ned, coming forward; and that capped the" climax. I could haye screamed with mortification. I just ran out of that room, witbout waiting for wraps or any thing else, and flew home so ashamed that I think I hardly knew what I was doing. As you may suppose, I cried pretty much all night, and it was a long time before I recovered my spirits. "I have no doubt it lost me Ned Hamilton, too,” said the old lady, with a queer little toes of the head; "but that didn't matter much. He left and took Mary Bean, old Deacon Bean’s daughter —the pjnk of propriety, and who would no more have dared to say her soul was h?r own than she would have dared to ride wild horses. It was a little morti fying at first, but after his uJuriage folks said that he was miMrly almost beyond belief, and X am positive Molly Hamilton only has one new bonnet a year, poor aon!!—though by this time she may have. gone where they don’t need bonnet*, "However, I was bored from that time of my thoughtless pranks. I went to work and soon paid back the tfi/and saffH UoileU Water. In AKA iaa WA tlfio cookerj, Mr. W. Williams called attention to the danger of using drink ing-water full of organic impurities. Such water, he says, supplies nutriment to those mioroHoopic abominations, the microco-ci, bacilli, bacteria, etc., which are now shown to be connected with blood-poisoning—possibly do the whole of the poisoning business These little pests are harmless, and probably nutritious, when cooked, but in. their raw and wriggling state are horribly prolific in the blood of people who are in certain states of what is called "receptivity.” They (the bacte ria, etc.,) appear to be poisoned or somehow killed off by the digestive secretions of the blood of some people, and nourished luxuriantly in the blood of others. As nobody can be quite sure to which class he belongs, or may pre sently belong, or whether the water supplied to his household is free from blood-poisoning organisms, cooked water is a safer beverage than raw water. "Reflection on thii subject,” says Mr. Williams, "I have been struck with' a curious fact that has hitherto escaped notice, viz., that in the country which over all others combines a very large population with a very small allowance of cleanliness, the ordinary drink of the people is boiled water fla vored by an infusion of leaves. These people, tne Chinese, seem, in fact, to have been the inventors of boiled-water beverages. Judging from travellers’ occounts of the state of the rivers, rivu lets, and general drainage and irriga tion arrangements of China, its popu lation oould scarcely have reached its present density if Chinamen were drink ers of raw instead of cooked water.” Honor Bright. Somewhat over two years ago M. Herisson, (he French Minister of Public Works, issued a circular enjoining all French railway companies to supply their passenger trains, running at the rate ot 37 miles per hour and upward, with continuous brakes within a space of two years, and altough this time has now elapsed, no definite measures have yet been taken to carry out tins plan. Various railway companies, it appears, are making extended experiments with different kinds of brakes, and according tly trying the r^atn ^frafceT tTfe Westinghouse automatic and the Aohard electric brake. Although the lists have been quite exhaustive, none of the com panies have adopted any of the different patents, and it has been found necessary to put fresh pressure on the companies to induce them to furnish the proper security for their passengers, and M. Hensson has now issued another circu lar, informing the companies that suffi cient time has been allowed for experi menting, and that it is necessary for them to make a definite choice. He distinctly disallows the chain brakes as unsatisfactory for ordinary use, and, judging from all appearances, desires to see the Westinghouse system gener ally adopted. A tochuioal committee that was appointed to consider the sub ject reported against the adoption of a uniform system on ail the lines as tend ing to discourage invention and hinder the introduction of improvements. M. Herrison, in setting forth pointedly the alleged merits of the Wenger brake concludes by leaving the companies entirely free to adopt any model which is both continuous, controlling all tne wheels of all the vehicles and automatic, and capable of beiiuc worked by the en gineer or brakoman. Whatever type they adopt must be fully applied in the course of the present year. It is thought rather singular by some that the Wenger brake, with which very little experience has been obtained, m meeting with so much approval by the Minister of Pub lic Works, who regards it apparently as ! an equivalent for the Westinghouse, the ‘ efficiency of which has been so exhaus tively tested in this and other countries and with such excellent results. He was about to take a Woodward avenue oar in Detroit, when he changed his mind and waited for a man coming up the street. He looked stem and solemn and unrelenting and there wap ice in,his mouth as he replied: "Yes, fine day enough. Mr. Jones, do you remember that you met me (me day two years ago and. asked for the loan of *10?” "Two years ago—$10—asked for a loan? Let’s see. No, I do not remem ber, but 1 do not wish to dispute your word.” "Weil, sir, you asked for a loan.” "And did I get it?” "Of onnrse you did,” "Is that so? Well, if I did, it was the only time in my life, and I ought to remember it. Did you want to lend me ton more?” "No, sir! I want you to return that loan!” "Sorry—very sorry, but I can’t do it this month.” "I want that money before Saturday or I’ll take steps!” "Ah!" ‘Til poet you as the meanest man in Detroi*!” "Honor bright?” "Yes, sir.” "Say,” said Jones, as he looked greatly relieved, "I wish you’d go ahead and do that. I’ve no commercial rating no social standing, and am continually struggling in a half-way position be tween being able to get credit a: d dodge old creditors. If you’ll only post me I’ll know just where I stand and what to look out for, and it’ll save me work ing half an hour to get a peanut-vender good-natured enough to trust me five oeuts’ worth. AhlSmitb, I knew you’d do me a good turn if it ever came handy!” -A: v'^'Vv 'v - i.' *’' 4 ' ‘ 'V-. w* . v •'•■'a • One of the most curious traces ot primitive belief which have come down to us is found in the trepanned skulls which have been discovered in several caves and dolmens of France belonging to the earlier portion of the new stone age. Dr. Paul Broca has devoted a >amphlet to the description of these trepanned skulls and the discussion cf their significanoe. The fact is certain that a great number of these skulls were trepanned daring lifetime—proba bly in infancy and early youth—and that they healed up again, the subject of the operation surviving it for many years. M. Broca supposes this trepan ning to have constituted a sacred rite of some sort, for we find that the skulls gone the operation in their lifetime were after death subjected again to the same operation. A number of small disks were cat from them in such a way that each disk contained a portion of the cicatrized edge made by the origin J trepanning. These disk were used as amulets by living persons. But the skuli thus treated was in its tom pro vided with one of these talismanio disks in place of those which had been (jut from itself. From this custom M. Bro ca baa argued a belief in the survival of the dead man, and supposed that the disk was placed with the skull to serve as a kind of viaticum into another world. "Where did your pa get the eye?” asked the grocery man. the minister hit him, or was it the sisters?'’ "0, he didn't get his black eye at prayer meeting,” said the boy, as he took the mittens off the stove and rubbed them to take the stiffening ont ‘‘It was from boxing. Pa told my chum and me that it was no harm to learn to box, cause we could defend ourselves, and he said he used to be a holy terror with the boxing-gloves when he was a bov, and he has been giving ns lessons. Well, he is no slouch, now I tell yon, and handles himself pretty well for a uhnroh member. I read in the paper MMMpk Bruce played it on a friend b^^Prting jem Mace, the prize- fightan to knock him silfjy-tnd I asked pa ifoe wouldn’t let me brings poor boy, who had no father to teach him boxing, to our house to learn to box, and {(a said certainly, fetch him along. "He said he would be glad to do jmy- thing for a poor orphan. Bo I went down in the Third Ward and got an Irish boy by the name of Duffy, who can knock the socks off of any boy m the ward. He fit a prize-fight once. It would have made you laugh to see pa toll him how to hold his bauds and how to guard his face. He told Duffy not to be afraid, but to'strike right out and hit for keeps. Dufiy said he was afraid pa would get mad if he hit him, and pa said, ‘Nonsense, boy; knock me down if yon can, and I will laugh, ha! ha!’ Well, Duffy hauled l ack and gave pa one in the nose and another in both eyes, and cuffed him in the ear and punched him w the stomach, and lammed him in the month and made -his teeth bleed, and then he gave him a ride-winder in both eyes, and pa palled off the boxing-gloves and grab bed a chair, and we adjourned and went down-stairs as though there was a panic. I haven’t seen pa since. Was his eye very black?” "Black, I should say so,” said the grocery man. "And his nose seemed to be trying to look in bis left ear. He was at the market baying beefsteak to put upon it.” "O, beefsteak is no account. I most go anu see him and tell him that an oyster is the nest thing for a black eye. Well, I must go. A boy has a pretty hard time running a honse the way it should be run,” and the boy went ont and hong up a sign in front of the grocery: "Frowy batter a speshnlty.” NEWS IN BRIEF. i the ermu- Cho—Cm. This delicious breakfast beverage, America amSTeTeh inkaVope.^tM • - very anted Steam a*» Light heflcctor. I As everything pertaining to the im provement of the methods and paraph ernalia of illamination is at the present time looked upon with special interest, we reproduce, for the benefit of onr readers, an acoonnt of a recent patent anted in Germany to Herr L. Bran- ,u, of Berlin, in which he proposes to utilize the emissive properties of steam for illuminating purposes. In describ ing his plan, the patentee refers to the fact that steam in condensing forms dense white vapors, which possess the property, when exposed tc an intense source of light, of partly reflecting and partly absorbing and subsequently emit ting it, as the clouds oehaye toward the sunlight, diffusing a mild aud uniform brightness. In adapting his system to overhead and side lights, Herr Brand&u employs au apparatus consisting essen tially of a glass chamber into which steam is admitted, on passage way for its exit being also provided. This is then either illuminated directly, or with the aid of mirrors, by the source of light. Novel as it may seem, the plan ap pears to us to have decided merit, aud it is not impossible that the idea of Herr Brandau may contain in it the ele ments necessary lor the successful moderation and diffusion of the blind ing brilliancy of the electric light, which has in most situations proved to be a aerioua drawback to its usefulness. The high absorptive and emissive properties of water vapors, both for heat and light, are well known physical facts ; and the commonplace allusion to the sudden gleam of brightness that follows the es cape of oiouds of etoun, especially no ticeable wlien the sunlight is hidden, will serve as a familiar example of a principle that Herr Brandau proposes to turn to useful account Aid whlblou. Bo; Diver.. In the Singapore harbor, and in other places, we saw the boy divers spoken of by all travelers in the East, writes a clergyman. The moment we came to anchor onr steamer was surrounded by a swarm of naked boys paddling about in their tiny canoes, laughing and shouting to os to throw a copper or a sixpence in the water, promising to catch it before it reached the bottom. In broken English they said; "Now, you throw sixpence in water; me go down; me catch ’em ebery time; me good diver.” Holding np a piece of silver, we shouted, "Ready?” A dozen eager tongues answered, "Beady 1” Next moment the coin was glittering in the water ten or fifteen feet beyond them. In a moment two dozen feet were in the air and a dozen black heads cleaving the water. Every boy dis appeared. For fully half a minute, which seemed half an hour, there was silence; then, one after another, up came the boy-divers, one of them shouting, as he held up the money, "I’ve got it, master; I’ve got It, master. Chucking the coin into the only pocket he had (his mouth), he mumbled out, "Now pop in rt nudder one.” We "popped in” another piece, still further away, and down again plunged the am phibious boy-divers, never failing bring up the money. A Judge f ooled. As illustrating some of the remarkable laws of Indiana on the subject of divorce, the Hon. Thaddeus P. Rollins yester day related a story of a divorce which he procured in Cass county some years since before Judge Chase. The allegations in the complaint were drunkenness and general worthlessness of the defendant. When the case came on a witness was called to prove the character and habits of the defendant. Mr. Rollins asked him the question Do you know Mr. , the defendant i this case, Mr. Baird?” The answer 'as in the affirmative. At this point Judge Chase looked up aud said: "Mr. Baird, toll me if that man is the came Mr, who was in Company K of the Indiana Regiment daring the war. "The same man. Judge,” was the answer. "Yon need go no farther, Mr. Rollins,” said the Judge, "the divorce is granted,* and judgement was entered accordingly for the plaintiff. After Court adjourned the Judge vrex joked about the hasty entry of the judgement, referring to the fact that no evidence had been introduced into the case. "Why, gentlemen,” uud hie Honor, "I knaw that fellow. He was in tty com pany during the war, and I will never let a woman live with him if she asks me for a divorce, 1 know him better than any witness that can be brought here.” distinguished origin. It was inven by the celebrated Frenoh Philosopher Voltaire. Voltaire hit upon this new and brilliant idea while he was guest at the Sans Souoi, a favorite residence of Fredrick the Great oi Germany. He partook of it constantly at breakfast. Voltaire mode in one part of coffee and milk and the other part chocolate. He made the name by writing the first syl lable of chocolate—oho-and oafe-oal these two first sylables made oho ca. Ecch beverage was in a boiling state when he united them. He poured them into a common vessel slowly. He held both at an elevation of about eighteen inches. This he said made P extremely light and digestable. This drink be came a great favorite, also, with the great Napoleon. He used it constantly. It was frequently remarked by those who attended his person that after the exoitemont and fatigue of a great battle two or three caps of this beverage seemed to restore ail his wanted energy and strength; ou ordinary occasions he used only one cap. The celebrated culinary artist, Boyer, admired this beverage exceedingly. In regard to it he wrote to his wife m the following enthusiastio manner: ‘‘Here, dear Eloise, is an entirely new aliment which has never yet been introduced into this country. A semi- epioore of onr acquaintance, on return ing from onr visit to the National Guard of France, presented me with a pound of it which he purchased in Paris. But even there, he laid, it is almost in its infancy. You may fancy if I were noi i anxious of making an immediate tnal o: 1 it. I have found it most delicious. Mr. B. has not yet tasted it, being for a week in the country, but I am confident be will like it, especially for breakfast As usual, dear Eloise, you will no doubt reproach me for having so such enthusiasm. I will now give you my formal recipe for making ctio-oa. Make your best coffee; blend hot milk with this coffee, half and half; this makes cafe-au-lait, or half milk aud half coffee; now, in your usual way, make your best choc olate; and these yon are supposed to have in separate vessels, boiling hot and duly sweetened; now hold both well up, say eighteen inches, and pour to gather into the same vessel; now say grace in your devoutost manner and proceed to sip. Ol.M BOOM.. —Indiana kas 60,000 more sheep now than in 1880. ~—A full kit of bank burglars tools is said to bo worth $2 000. —There are 60,000 colored Baptists in Tennessee, with 150 churches. —In 1880 only one-thirteenth of all the manufactured products used came from abroad. —Anthony Trollope left his family $125,000, and tbe copyright of fifty novels. —The Marquis of Lome se Princess Louise was ordered to da by her physicians. —The director of the mint states that he coinage of the new flve-oent pieces will be continued. r —Boston reports an increase of $30. 000, last year, in the amount received from fees for licenses —The cable system of street car traction is about to be introduced into England, at Highgate. —Pennsylvania made 850,908 tons. Illinois, 362,250 tons; Ohio, 113,806 tons; New York, 105,021 tons. —The semi-annual dividends payable in Boston in March will amount to $4 . 231,881. ’ —A resident of Woodburv, Tenn., but 30 years of age, has just been married for the fourth time. —A Florida orange grower has order ed 200 barrels of snuff from Connecticut for use as a fertilizer. —Charles Maokay, LL. D. t the Eng lish lyrical poet, is just recovering from a long and dangerous illness. —Russia had last year 776 periodical publications, including newspapers. The largest circulation was 71,000. —Canadian papers report the arrival of a new bird in considerable numbers which preys upon the English sparrows. —Sir Moses Montefiore, the oldest English baronet, will be oue hundred years old on the 25th of October next. —The production of Bessemer rails was 1,438,155 tons ; iron rails, 227,847 tons ; open hearth steel rails, 22,765 tons. —Of the 1,700 mules employed in the Philadelphia and Beading company’s mines but few see the light of day Once a year. —The value of our farm products for 1882, are estimated at $7,600,000,000. Exports of same, $600,000,000, oreigkt per cent. —The ice harvest from the Kennebec river is now estimated at 647,000 tons, and there were 200,000 tons left over from last year. —Senator Sherman h*. a)' ing the last twenty years, and they ’thousand. It is certain that the glass houses of Alexandria were celebrated among the andonts for the skill and ingenuity of their workmen ; and from thence the Romans, who did not acquire a know! edge of the art till a later period, pro cured all their glassware. Most of the large, greenish glass vases in the Brit ish Museum are probably the produc tion of extensive Egyptian or Roman works; they are large, and of excellent form and workmanship ; but the glass ii somewhat impure, of a greenish tint, has numerous globule* and atria, and is not like the modern common crown ot sheet glass In qualify, Btrabo re lates that a glass maker of Alexander informed him that an earth (probable manganese) was found in Egypt, with out which the valuable colored could not be made. It is also that the Emperor Hadrian reoeiv present from an Egyptian priest era! glass cups, sparkling with ev color ; these, a* costly wares, V dered to be used only on goodfe number nearly forty t —Mrs. Augustus Hemenway, of Bos on, bas given $5000 to the permanent : and of the Women’s Educational and Industrial Union of that city. —The total prodnetion of iron and steel rails last year was 1,688,794 net tons, or 1,507,851 tons gross, a falling off as compared with 1881, of 8 per cent. —Mr. Dennis, the British antiquarian, has bought the site of the temple ol Cybele, at Sardis, Asia Minor, and great hopes are entertained of the disooverien among the ruins. Saint Gandens, the well-known sculptor, has modelled a colossal bas- relief of Dr. Alexander Vinton, to be placed in Emmanuel Church. Boston, where he has so long officiated. Lords Wolsely and Aloes ter have been presented with swords of honor by the Egyptian people. The weapons Rave fine Damascus blades and. hilts studded with jewels, and cost $8750 each. William Beach Laurence bought a farm at Oohra Point, Newport, forty years ago, for $12,000, wbioh having been cut np into budding lots and sold has netted the Laurence family $800,- 000. —Daring 1882 over 1,200 electrical patents were issued. The electrical division is the largest in tbe patent office. Considerable attention is now being given by inventors to secondary or storage batteries. —The Moody Church, in Chicago, built durinffthe Moody excitement in that city some years ago, has a Sunday school which, perhaps, is the largest in the country. Two thousand names are enrolled on the school register, and the average attendance is fifteen hundred. —In 1881 there were examined in the Municipal Laboratory, Paris, 3,001 samples of wine, of which 271 were found to be gc:d, 991 passable, and 1,- 781 bad. In the first five months of 1882,1,869 samples were analyzed, ot which 372 were good, 683 passable, and 814 bad—145 of the latter being very injurious. —The Cerana reports show that dur ing the census year, the railways of the country transported 290,897,895 tons freight, for an average distance of 112 miles, at a oust of 0,76 cents a ton per mile. The passengers numbered 269,- 583,340, earned an average of twenfy- three miles, at an average cost of l.fl cents per mile. —The moving bog in the vicinity of Oastlerea, in Ireland, is advancing rap idly toward that town. Several thousand acres of land are submerged, mills are stopped, bridges are choked up, and traffic on the road from Ballinagara to Oastlerea is now suspended. The bog ir- A* ... ■ • Al at Baeilick, which moved soma time ago, is also breaking up in several plaops. —The Scotch production ofpigirou, for 1882, as elsewhere quoted, amounted to 1,126,000 gross tons, a decrease of 50,- 000 tons from Ihe figures of 1861. There were 113 furnaces in bleat at the close of the year, which was a gain of seven over the total of the year previous. reAohed 585,000 tons, 897 000 tons in 1881, though th«( ilill sl IB I aSK m v; • * ; ; V -j iilgji . V» ’ . ■ ; L .r SKaia >y. ri v* :•*> ses ... a, ■.