Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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In the orchard boughs, The song of gleefril birds, Lest rarer than their warbling prove The cadence of your words. i j • i I J ‘ Our-lives were in the April time: “ ’Twere always winsome weather,” I said, and strove to search your eyes, "Could welaut be together.” ' * f f r ■* “ Aa well might storm-vexed sunshine Upon your hair that strays * Be tlm’rous of comparison With sheen of starry rays, More vivid than your cheek, the pink That, latest ling’ring, throws, To guide the hasrning feet of night, Wan tints athwart the snows. Yonr voice, though ’mid the shiv’ring trees No glint of robin’s wing, Learns sweet, far note from melody Of hngels’ carolling. What if, dear wife, do now accord Our lives and sombre weather? As blithe as spring the wintry skies, May wc but be together. THIS BOUaS TO LET. Of This house to let.” Mr. Frank Bayberry’s Perston morn ing gown floated “like a meteor on the troubled air,” as he rushed out before breakfast and wafered the truculent- looking bill on the front of the house with four fat red wafers. The milkman across the way stared; the neighbor’s servant-maid paused in her occupation of flirting dust into the comers of the area and then, out again. In short, it made a small sensation in the neighborhood, and sensations, as we all know, widen indefinitely. While Mr. Bayberry went back into the house with the air of one who has not lived in vain. “There!” said he. “I have put a bill up.” * “I’m glad of it,” said Mrs. Bayberry, “for between obstreperous servant- girls, and everlasting plumbers’ bills, and baby’s teeth, I’m completely worn out, and tired of housekeeping. “It will be like a new' lease of life to board for a little while.” “Humph!” said Mr. Bayberry. “I’m ^not so sure of fhfct. “But the bill is up anyhow, and the next thing is to get the old place rented and off our hands.” And with the striking of ten o’ clock (the house, as mentioned in the fine print of the “To Let,” was visible between the hours of. ten and two,) there set in a solid phalanx of house- hunters of all varieties. At first Mrs. Bayberry endeavored to treat the house-hunters politely, hut she soon discovered that self-defence required a different method of treat ment; and when Mrs. Foxley said the cellar smelt like an old vault and that the house wasn’t fit for decent people to live in, she simply remarked that there was no law requiring her, Mrs. Foxley, to live in it if she didn’t like it. Mrs. Fitzfaddle, the bride, didn’t like the location. Her James, she w& sure, wished to be nearer the park; and she was sorry the house had not hard-wood finish and electric bells. “But,” cried Mis. Bayberry, “you can’t expect that sort of thing for three hundred a year.” The bride tossed her head. Evidently she didn’t mean to be die tated to. Everybody was going into flats now, she said, and she didn’t know why she wasted her time in looking at dingy old houses like this. And after two o’ clock, when Mrs. Bayberry had retired to her .room to have hysterics and gre&rtea at her leis ure, the house-hunting public made un ceasing charge up the steps and at the door, still demanding admittance; until at last, Mrs. Bayberry, peeping through the window-blinds, saw a stout gentle man coming «p the steps, with a gold headed cane and a broad-brimmed bea ver hat. “Madam,” said the old gentleman, “I wish to take this house.” “You wish to look at it, you mean,” * said Mrs. Barberry feebly. “But the hours for inspection ” “Madam,” firmly repeated the old gentleman, “I wish to take it. “To engage it—to rent it from the first of May next.” “But you haven’t seen it!” cried Mrs. Bayberry. “Madam,” said the old gentleman, “1 don’t wish to see it. “My family consists of myself, an fhvalid relative, and an old servant. “And it must be a very poor house, indeed, if it does not meet our simple requirements. “Shall I'take down the bill? “My references are Lettall and Co., real estate agents. No-—Pine street,” “If you please,” said Mrs. Bayberry, feeling as if a weight had been lifted off her heart “So down came the “To Let!” and .iuttered Into the gutter. Mr. Bayberry arrived to a late tea, with a lobster and a 1 bunch of spring lettuce under his arm. “How do you know?” said Mrs Bay berry. “The real estate agent told me, just now. ) ‘ “To a very respectable old couple— man. and wife. “Intending to take a few lodgers, I am told.” Mrs. Bayberry opened her eyer very wide. “Well, said she, “he certainljr does look very respectable. “But when he said “invalid relative,’ I had not an idea that he meant his wife; “And I should not think it would e very pleasaut for the lodgers to have a sick person in the house.” And she told her husband about the benevolent-visaged old gentleman in the broad-brimmed hat. “It’s very odd,” said Mrs. Bayberry reflectively, “But it’s none of our busineas.” All this being, as they supposed, defi nitely settled, Mrs. Bayberry was not a ttle surprised, the next day, at the ar rival of Mrs. Fitzfaddle, the bride, with a tape measure and a small mem orandum-book. “To measure for the carpets, you mow,” said she. “It isn’t quite the sort of house we could have wished, but dear James’s salary has been cut down twenty-five per cent, so we have taken this house n default of enything better.” “But it’s taken already,” said Mrs. Bayberry. “You must be mistaken,” said Mrs. itzfaddle. “James rented it yesterday for a year, the owner, Mr. Trimmer, No ' ?eanut Court. nered lawsuit, grew radiant again, and matters were all settled. “But,” said Mrs. Bayberry, “if it had lieen necessary to put up that bill again, I think I should have run away to Patagonia ! “Anything—anything but a House to Let!” Flying-Fish. John Randolph In Congress. “And if you could give us possession a feW days before the first of May, it would be a very great accommodation indeed.” “I’m sure I don’t understad it at all,” said Mrs. Bayberry. “You will have to settle it with the andlord. “I’m not responsible.” But while the discussion still waged high, in bustled a portly old lady, just as if the house belonged to her. “Mra. Iludgsnn,” eakl »hc, T.lth comfortabfe io»d ef the freed- . “The new tenant. “Come to see what arrangement could be made about storing a few of my ;mnks and things, before I move in regularly. ” “Madam,” said Mrs. Fitzfaddle, ‘the house is mine.” “I’ve got the blank lease in my pock et, ma’am, all ready for the signatures,” said Mrs. Hodgson. And the two ladies were glaring furi ously at one another, when the stout gentleman in the broad-brimmed hat entered. “I thought,” he said, “that perhaps it might be as well for me to make a diagram of the rooms, so if• The despot of the debates in Congress for many years was the eccentric John Randolph, who would ride on horse back from his lodgings in Georgetown to the Capitol and enter the House, wearing a fur cap with a large visor, a heavy great-coat over a suit of Virginia homespun, and white-topped boots with jingling silver spurs. Striding down the main aisle, followed by his brace of pointer-dogs, he would stop before his desk, upon which he would deliberately place his cap, his gloves, and his riding- wMp, listening meanwhile to the debate. If lie took any interest in it, he would begin to sjieak at the first opportunity, without any regard to what had pre viously been said. After he had uttered a few sentences (and had drunk a glass of |)orter,which an assistant door-keeper had orders to bring whenever he rose to speak), his tall, meager form would writhe with passion; his long, bony index-finger would be pointed at those on whom he poured his wrath; and the expression of his beardless,high-cheeked, and sallow countenance would give ad ditional force to the brilliant and beau tiful sentences which he would rapidly utter, full of stinging witticisms and angry sarcasm. So distinct was his enunciation, that his shrill voice could be heard in every part of the hall; his words were select and strictly grammat ical , and the arrangement of his remarks was always harmonious and effective. Randolph, having had a dinner-table difficult with Willis Alston, of North Carolina, never let pass an opportunity for alluding to him in the most bitter and contemptuous manner. Alston, enraged one day by some language used by Randolph in debate, said, as the representatives were leaving the hall, and Randolph was passing him: “The puppy lias still some respect shown him.” Whether the allusion referred to Randolph or to one of ins pointer- dogs, which was following him, was afterwards a question, but Randolph immediately began beating Alston over the head witli the handle of his heavy riding-whip, inflicting several wounds. The next day the Grand Jury which was in session, indicted Randolph for a Lreach of thn ppace. but. the court allow ed him to offer the remark about tiie puppy as evlaeHce m nation. ” inflicted a fine of twenty dollars. During the debate on the Missouri question, Mr. Philemon Beecher, a native of Connecticut who had emigrat ed to Ohio, and had there been elected a representative, became somewhat impatient as his dinner-hour approached, and at last, ^iien Randolph made a somewhat lengthy pause, moved “the previous question. ” The Sjieaker said. The gentleman from Virginia ivas the floor,” and Randolpli proceeded, to be again interrupted when he paused again to collect his thoughts, by a demand for "the previous question;” nor was it long before the demand was made for the third time. Randolph could stand it no longer, hut said, in a voice as the cry of a peacock: “Mr. Speaker, in the Netheflands, a man of small capa- will In the sea there are three flyers that re^ly, from the extent of their flights, deserve the name. Those of our readers who have been at sea, especially in the South, may have seen the common flv- ing-fisn, with its brilliant blue-and-sil- ver body and lace-like, sheeny wings. From the crest of a blue wave they dart, singly or in flocks, fluttering along, ris ing and falling, turning in curves, and returning to the water witli a splash— perhaps to fall a victim to some watch ful bonito (or dolphin) that has been closely following them beneath the water. These privateers of the sea are their grea test enemies, as they rise In the air fol lowing them under water, and emerging just in time to catdK the luckless flyers as they descend. The dolphins will take great leaps of twenty or thirty feet in following the poor flying-fish, which, notwithstanding < their long wings ana wonderful powers, often fall victims to their tireless pursuers. They frequently fly aboard vessels at night, perhaps at tracted by tne lights, or, it may be, caugtit up by the wind from the crest of some curling wave, and carried high in air against the sails. The gurnard, though it has also long, wing-like fins, presents otherwise a to tally different appearance. Its head is inclosed in a bony armor, from which project two sharp spines. Some of these fish are of a rich pink color, while others are mottled with red, yellow, and blue, and as they fly along over the water, and the sunlight falls upon their glitter- A Chines* Fishing Village. It was close on the edge of the water, in Calfomia, where a little inlet rounded in, below high hills. As we drew' near it, the odor of fish came up over the hills, like a smell from something cook- LighU of the Harem. It must not be supposed that eunuchs are a particularly Turkish or Moham medan institution. They were known in the East and formed a portion of the . .- „ „ OQ , f on „ oa -I.„ household of Oriental monarchs long mg in a vast caldron. The fences he the Arabian prophesies of the ing scales, they seem to glow with a gol den luster. With such hard heads, it will not be surprising information that they are disagreeable fellows to come in contact with; at least, so thought a sai lor who was standing at dusk upon the uarter-deck of a vessel, near one of the est India islands. Suddenly, he found himself lying upon his back, knocked over by a monster gurnard that, with a score of others, had darted from the water, this one striking the man fairly in the forehead. The gurnards are also chased by dolphinSj and they are fre quently seen to rise in schools, to escape from the larger fish, while hovering above them are watchful gulls and man- of-war birds, ready to steal then frojn the jaws of their enemies of the sea. In company with these flying-fish may often be seen curious white bodies, with long arms and black eyes. They are flying-squids, members of the cuttle-fish family, and the famouibalt of the New foundland cod-fishermen. On the Banks they are often seen in vast shoals, and during storms tons of them are thrown upon the shore. Vfyen darting, from wave to wave, they- resemble riivery arrows, often rising ‘ ^ are they forb^rMt lour or five liun- dred vessels at St. Pierre are engaged in catching them by means of jiggers. Many of the squid family leave the wa ter when pursued. Even the largest of them, often forty or fifty feet long, have been seen to rise ten or fifteen feet in the air, and sail aw ay as if propelled by some mysterious force, their liideous arms dripping and glistening. They are certainly the largest and strangest of the flyers without wings. “Oh, stop, stop!” cried Mrs. Bayberry j city, with bits of wood and leather, wil despairingly, clasping her hands to her I in a few moments construct that which head. “It’s been let twice over already! I do hope you will not be dissapointed, but ’ A dark frown overspread the old gen tleman’s countenance. “Madam,” said he, “this is scarcely business-like.” “Oh dear, oh dear!” said poor Mrs. Bayberry. “My head is whirling round like top! “I don’t see how it can possibly have happened, but here are three people, all saying that they have specially and sep arately engaged tliis house. with the pressure of the finger anc thumb, will cry ‘Cuckoo! cuckoo! With less ingenuity and with inferior materials, the people of Ohio liave made a toy that will, without much pressure, cry, ‘Previous question! previous ques tion!’” and, as he spoke, Randolph pointed with his attenuated iudex-fin- ger at Beecher, who did not attempt a reply. Cold Weather In Nevada. “The weather doesn’t quite come up to two years ago, Rob, when the snow’ was seven feet deep, and the trains were snowed in for four days. That was a hard winter.” . “Haiti winter! W’y that was nothin at all. Eight years ago the trains didn’t rocks, the ground—all were covered with shining little fishes, spread out to dry; those on the ground being bud on frames of w'ooden slats. There was only one narrow lane running through the village, and hardly room on that to step between the frames of drying fish. On the roofs of the hovels, even, poles were set up, and stretched from comer to comer; and on them long lines of fish fluttered in the air, like clothes hung out to dry. Chinamen were running about, emptying big baskets of fish; other Chinamen were spreading them, turning them raking them aiwity gathering up the dry ones, and packing them into baskets. The place fairly sw'armed with laborers and their implements; but all the workers kept steadily on, as regard less of our nrr cnee as though they had been ants on an ant-hill. Every man, woman, and child was hard at work; children that were too small for any thing else had babies strapped on their backs, and were carrying them about. Little girls, not more tlian eight or ten years old, were at w’ork industriously cleaning the fish, to prepare them for drying. This was a disagreeable sight; it was done in open sheds, where the floor was black and dripping wet with water and the slimy offal of the fish. Here the women sat on high stools, in a squatting posture, with their feet curled up under them, cutting and slashing, stripping the fish, and dropping them into the baskets with as swift a motion as if they were shelling peas. They had the fingers cf the left hand rolled up thickly in black rags, to protect them against a chance slip of the sharp knife. They chatted and laughed, as if they were engaged in the most agreeable oc cupation in tha world. There did not seem to be an idle pair of hands in the village. Old men were mending nets, old women putting bait on hooks. The oniy unemployed creature we saw was one small baby. It would not be possible to give any idea of the way in which the houses, sheds, boats, barrels, poles, nets, baskets, scaffoldings, and lumber of all sorts were huddled together on one narrow alley not wide enough for two wagons to drive abreast. There was not a foot of open ground. Looking down from the hill on the roofs of the houses, one would think they all belonged to a single set of walls, roofed at different heights and angles. It was a squalid and filthy spot; it would seem impossible for human beings to feeathe such air, and sleep ip A Delicious Cup of Coffee. ength of time, without being made ill. Yet there are in this little uillage nearly two hundred people, ma» v of whom have lived there for thirty years in good health. They are'divided into three companies, each company liaving its leader, who pays wages to the men and women, and has the charge of selling and sending away the fish. The Colugo. “Somebody telephone to my husband, or I shall go crazy.” j yet through here for three months, and , accompanied u nc i e j 0 hn Crayton had to pack all his “Well, Fanny,” said he, “I’ve got good news for you. “The house is let!” In came Mr. Bayberry, by Lettall & Co., RentquickA Son, and Mr. Elias Trimmer, who owned the vertf eligible residence under discus sion! And in this committee of the whole it speedily transpired that the house actu ally uad been rented to three different tenants by the various persons in whose charge it was. , ♦ And not one of them was willing to abate one jot or tittle of his or her rights and privileges. But presently up spoke the fat old lady. “Dear me!” said she: “can’t we all arrange matters comfortable-like? “Ain’t we making a deal of fuss about a very little thing? “Tills ’ere old gent don’t really want but three rooms; and the young lady, 7K with a curtsy to Mrs. Fitzfaddle, whose Rhine pebbles she thought to be genu ine diamonds, “will be quite satisfied with the second floor through. “And me and Hodgson—we want to take lodgers, and will be suited with the basement-ocory^. “And the rept won’t be but a third as much—don’t you see, my dears? and—everybody snug and satisfied.” “A capital ideal” said the old gentle- man. I “I don’t, know but what it is worth considering,” said the bride, “in con- r deration of the twenty-five per cent, reduction of my husband’s salary. “And if one chooses they can call it a flat.” And the countenances of the agent and landlord, who anticipated nothing less annoying than a three cor provisions over from Traverse on snow- shoes.” , , “Yes, that’s pretty tough, but it wasn’t a marker to the winter Burt Howe stole Doc Morgan’s turkeys, and had them all dressed before Doc quit raffling. Don’t you mind how the wind blew, too, and now it uilfted. Nick Theiss logged two eighties that winter on section 13, and in the spring Will Bailey happened down that way looking for land, and got onto them stumps. Great bull frog! The shortest stump in that lot was forty feet high. Will bought the stump land at fifty cents an acre, and made 18,000 logging it over again next year.” “Oh, I know all about that. Such stories as that might do to tell in Florida, or in a warm part of Texas. But you don’t want to talk to me a minute about Fife Lake winters. W’y, boy, I was here ’fore you was bom. You never heard of the winter of ’49?” “No; let’er drive. w , „ “Well, that was a windy year, and it was a little cold. Winter set in the 12th of November with the damdest whirlwind you ever smelt of. What do you s’pose I saw when I went down t’ the lake the next morning to take swim?” “What was it?” “Well, the lake had froze thirty-four feet deep durin’ the night, un’ right out in the middle that darned cyclone had raised a chunck of water sixty feet high, un’ it froze there stiff as a green Nor way in Febuwary. The blamed thing ’bout a hundred feet ’cross the top, and tapered down to ’bout an inch at the bottom. The wind was blowin’ like an old settler, too.” “Did she blow over, Rob?” “ Nary ablow. Before the wind could heave ’er over one way it would whew ’round and right her up again. And she kept goin’ that way until the 4th of t Jui>“ ” In coffee-growing countries, where the berry makes but a short journey from the bush to the mouth, this pro cess is not necessary; and in the moun tains of St. Domingo, the native darkies make coffee in very quick fashion “They take the fresh berries and parch them for a few minutes, then crush them iu a mortar—and for each person put a tablespoonful of fragrant fragments into a conical-shaped bag; the exact number of coffee-cups full of boiling water is measured out and popred twice through the bag. This completes the process, and the result is—nectar.” But some one comes forward with an air of authority and says: Take a coffee- cup of the best Java coffee browned to the color of chocolate (not scorched), ground not too fine, and mix with it half an egg. Put this into a coffeepot, or boiler (which is as clean as the cup you drink from) and pour over it one quart of boiling water, stirring as you put the water in; boil slowly for fifteen minutes, then stand the boiler on the back of the range ten minutes to settle; turn all coffee off from the grounds at once into an urn or coffee pot that can stand upon the stove to keep hot. Coffee loses its flavor by standing on the grounds longer tlian half an hour, and should be very hot to be good. But into the cup a teaspoonful of “American condensed milk” and some boiled milk, and turn the coffee into it. No French Coffee is any better. HMIBH “I know abetter w»y than that.” says some one else; and then discourses as ollows: Put your ground coffee in a bowl, a large tablespoouful for each per son (most authorities seem to agree about the quantity), break into it the white of an egg (we use an egg for two mornings, the white for one and the yoke and shell for the next), stir this thoroughly—this is an important part of the process—then add cold water very slowly, stirring all the time, until a tea spoonful or more has -been mixed in. Having previously scalded your coffee pot, pour the coffee into it—rinsing out the bowl with a little cold water; fill the coffee-poi more than half full with boiling hot water; then, with a spoon stir it a moment; set it on the fire, and when it it first boils up. stir it down and add half a teaspoonful of cold water; this settles it Then set it back on. the range, when it will keep hot till your breakfast is ready. It should never be set back far enough to grow cold. When needed, let it boil up once more; and then pour Into your silver coffee-pot, and serve up as hot as possible. Block sugar should be used and condenced milk, or cream; boiled milk alone will not give it the proper color or flavor, Turks wer eveer heard of. Such guar dians were to be found even at the Court of the Byzantine Emperors and the founders of the Ottoman Empire adopted them with other attributes of sovereign State in throwing off all sem blance of subjection to the Seljuckian Sultans. Aping the example of their sovereigns, the great Pachas went in for the same custom, placing the care of their females under one or more such qualified guardians. Of late years the mployment of eunuchs has gone great- y out of fashion, ordinary male attend ants being sent in charge of the ladies when taking their walks abroad. This is due in a measure, I fancy, to the more humane and enlightened ideas with regard to their family life that set n with the advent to the throne of Abdul Aziz. He abrogated the cruel aw by which none of the male children x)m of Sultans were allowed to sur vive their birth, and no princess to have sons that might become possible preten ders to the throne. The birth of his own son, Yusuf Izzedin, was kept care- ’ully concealed, and when this liecame no longer necessary he rejoiced the icarts of his sisters by allowing them he same privileges as all Moslem wo men, whose greatest desire is to become he mother-of a male child. The time, however, is within the re collection of many persons at Constanti nople, when no carriage with Turkish adies was to be seen unaccompanied by mounted eunuchs, armed with keen cut ting scimitars, which they were apt to use on the slightest provocation. There is gentleman still to be met with out lere who obtained a handsome Indem nity from the Porte for the severe pun ishment he received at the hands of a i mnuch for what the latter considered impertinent glances thrown by a ‘Ghiaour” in the direction of the fair True' Believers” promenading the sweet waters under his care. To re turn, however, to the subject of the ‘Darusseadet-Oghasse.” This high office was only instituted in the reign of Sultan Murad III., and the first person appointed was a negro called Mehmet Agha. His successor was a white eunuch, for it was the fashion to have these guardians of both colors. Several of the keepers of the “Gate of Felicity” have been men of marked ability, and some of them of considera- de attainments, so that it is not Bur ning to find they should occasionally idTOTne pihmc 1 iitemi&i. 1 *-‘ In the forests of the islands constitut ing the Indian Archipelago is found a curious flying animal tliat forms the connecting link between the lemur and the bat. The natives call it the colugo and also the “flying fox,” but it is more like a flying-monkey, as the lemurs are cousins of the monkeys. Like the bats, these animals sleep in the day-time hanging from the limbs and branches o:! trees, head downward; but as evening comes on, they sally forth, often doing great harm to the fruit on the neighbor ing plantations. In some parts of Java they are so numerous that it is found necessary to protect the fruit-trees w’ith huge nets. The extent of their flights through the air is something astonish ing. They sometimes drop to the grown and hop along with a shuffling kind of leap, but if they are alarmed, they spring to the nearest tree and in a mo ment reach its top by a series of bounds. Out upon the branches they dart, and with a rush are off into space. Sailing through the air like some great bird, down they go obliquely, swift as an arrow, a hundred and fifty feet or more rising again in a graceful curve and alighting safely on a distant tree. In these great leaps they carry their young, which cling to them, or sometimes fol low’ them along in their headlong flight, uttering hoarse and piercing cries. The colugos live almost exclusively on fruit, preferring plantains and the young and tender leaves of the cocoa-palm, though some w’riters aver that they have seen them dait into the air and actually catch birds. The flying-lemurs are perfectly harmless, and so gentle as to be easily tamed. They have lovely dark eyes and very intelligent and knowing faces. ment, however, has never fallen to the ot of other than white eunuchs. Two of these latter even became grand viz- ers—the one a certain Kliadum Mossili Pacha in the reign of Selim I, and the other Kurdjis Mehemet Pacha in that of the first Sultan Achmet. Others again, have had the title of Sadr-Azane (Grand Vizier) bestowed upon them without the office, and were styled high ness, just as Beiram Agha is in the present day. While the “Gate of Feli city” has thus led to great honors in the past to some of its guardians it has, in the case of others, but proved the portal of deatn by the bowstring and yataghan, for Ottoman monarchs were mighty jealous of their honor, and the slightest suspicion of anything being wrong in the harem was wont to jiend many an inmate to the bottom of the Bosphorus, together with those who were supposed to have shown a lack of vigilance. The chief eunuch enjoys great power in the harem, and although the days of the “sack” and “bowstring” are past it is decidedly bad for the lady who falls out with the guardian of the gate, for he can make her a close pris oner and deprive her of all comfort. Portal Not—. The law authorizing the issue of three cent “postal notes” will go into effect about September 1,1883, or at an earlier date if the necessary engraving and printing can be sooner done. The pos tal note is about as large as a greenback. At the right hand are two columns giv ing the months of the year and the dates of twelve years, beginning with the present. At the left band are three columns of figures, One, representing dollars, is numbered up to 4; the sec ond, representing dimes, is numbered up to 9; the third, representing cents, is also numbered to 9, and each series ends with a cipher. The note is for sums less than five dollars. The postmaster at the office issuing the note will punch the month and the year, the number of dollars, number of dimes and number of cents in their respective columns, thus pre venting any alteration of the amount or date. By this system the postal notes can be issued for any sum from one cent up to $4.99. In buying a postal note no written application will be ne cessary. The note will be Lought like a postage stamp and will be payable to the bearer at any time within three months from the last day of the month of issue. The body of the note is a form stating the office at which it is issued and the office to which it is sent. When paid the person obtaining payment puts his signature upon the note. It is not claimed that the postal note furnishes the same elements of security as the postal order now in use, where written application is made and where the sender’s name is privately forwarded to the office where the order is to be paid; but it is believed that its conven ience to all classes of people will be so great as to render the decrease in se curity of trifling importance. It is ex pected that it will take the place for transmission of money through the mails of the old fractional currency. Since that was withdrawn there has been no safe and agreeable way of trans mitting 8iin.ll sums except by postage stamps, which are not regarded with favor as currency, or by the cumbersome process of the postal order. The postal note system has been in use in Great Britain just two years, with great popu lar acceptance. The last annual report of the British Postmaster General shows that 4,462,920 of these postal orders, amounting to £2,006,917, had been issued in one year. The average time they were in circulation was six days, showing that there was no foundation for the idea that they would be devoted to permanent use as currency. BorthVttaAaw. There always eeems to be a shadow of Some sort over Edwin hi chief sufferer. She young American, who three or four months ago was almost asphyxiated in haling coal gas. As his recovery ha* The dandelion, it is rumored, is to be the flower of the season. Clara De Vere writes that little clusters of the blossoms are mounted on the rim of the bonnet, mixed with pompons and ribbons, or i.he two shades of the flower in the rib- ion loops are used, one the pale lemon like tint of the edge of the petals, and the other the darker orange shade of the centre of the blossoms. Par example: An exquisite little bonpot of Havana brown straw is trimmed on the brim with a mass of gold-colored pompons, The Lowly Dandelion. been very slow, Mr. Booth wrote to the young man’s father to send the invalid to them while they were In England, as he supjiorted a change of surroundings and the sea voyage would hasten his re turn to health, and the pleasure which the lovers would experience iu being to gether would be a great factor in the case. The father of the lover consented, and the young man’s sister accompanied him. They have been with the Booths now several weeks, but the invalid’s health has not improved. His blood seems to be poisoned, and it lias affected his brain in a peculiar way. He is not insane, but he cannot remember as for- merlv, and has to be directed and watched. He has lost all interest in his profession and hi his contemplative marriage. Miss Booth is plunged in melancholy by the sad circumstance, and can seldom be coaxed out of her ho tel. The doctors say the young man may recover inside of two years, but they think it doubtful. It is probable that he and his sister will return home in a few weeks, or at least they will not travel with the Booths, as there Is no thing to be gained by making two peo ple wretched. He adores Miss Booth, but knows that something has made it temporarily impossible for him to show his affeation and regard. The hopeless ness of the case is the saddest feature. And of course Miss Booth realizes tliat there is nothing she can do to restore him.” ji.'i The Newer Arithmetic. At $0 per to i how many tons of coal can be bought for $24? [The greenhorn 9.”] will answer “four tons, _ wiui » ,««« w r , A stage coach robber was enabled to ostrich tiiw, dandelions—flowers, leaves lay up $4,580 in ten months, but a Nm- - 11 * * _ 1........ I 11 > IxijtLrmnrt oolro/i /lAU/Tl Vl V Any one who desires to get up a reputa tion for good coffee should not forget this. The best coffee, according to a house keeper, who always has a delicious be verage on her table, is a mixture of three4!ourthB Java and Mocha in equal and one-fourth' chicory. The «.tter, she says, when judiciously used, gives body and coior, and seems to bring out the delicate flavor of the other two. Circa* Uymnart* and Rider*. “The best gymnasts are Americans, but the best riders are English, said a manager. Robinson and Fish are both wonderful riders and both Americans, but they never received that rudimental training that gives afterwards such grace and pose to the English profes sional. Mme. Eloise Dockrill is unques tionably the greatest living rider, and draws a salary of $350 a week. The first lesson a rider is taught is about the same as tliat taught an actor, and for aught I know an opera singer—that is to dance. They should be thorough dancers and masters of motion before they are placed on a horse. The great est male rider is oames Robinson; he re ceives from $300 to $400 a week. The greatest jockey rkbr is Frank Gardiner. He is also the most celebrated leaper. I was present at Dtbuque, la., in 1869, for the cliampionship belt and on a wager of $500 with Mr. Batehelder, he threw a double somersault over thirty-two horses. His salary is $250 to $300 a week. Gymnasts are numerous, some very good, others the reverse. Did you ask about a triple somersault? There are no triple somersaulters; it never has been done. When any one tells you the contrary, put him down for a—mistake. Two have tried it, but never lived to imAoi a second attempt. Yes, some are well paid; some are not. Performers— good ones, of course—the best. The poorly pain men in the profession are the 1 agents and officers. and buds—and has a rosette-like bow of gold velvet at one side. Strings of gold velvet, two inches wide, finish the bon net. Dandelions also crop out in com bination with crushed stawberry tints. A medium-sized poke bonnet of pale strawberry pink straw has a band of velvet an inch and a half wide placed near the edge of the brim. A large bow of satin in strawberry color and in two widths, one an inch wide and one two wide, is placed on the top of the rim, and a cluster of long-stemmed dande lions is nestling on one side. The strings are double in the two widths of the ribbon. Whatever else the bonnet has, it must not lack a touch of yelh w. ’ • Strasburg and Mats* The sum of $13,000 000 voted for the reconstruction of the fortresses of Stras- burg and Metz, according to the Cologne Gazette, has all been expended, and a further sum of $150,000 will be asked for soon. Previous to the war of 1870 Strasburg had only a fortified rampart, but the Germans have provided It with twelve detached forts, nine of which are on the Rhine, and all of them are completed except the external works of Mundelsheim and the Altheimer Kof. Around Metz the ramparts comprise nineteen bastions, surrounded by ditches and protected by thirteen advanced works. Metz, in addition to this strong defence, is surrounded by eight detached and independent forts, distant on an average about two miles from the centre of the city, and forming a circle fourteen miw in circumference. These forts are named J*ter tne German generals who distinguished themselves the roost during the war of 1870, and two of them are provided with annorplated on this, turrets, gara Fall j hackman salted down $5,265 in nine. How much better is it to roi“ at Niagara Falls than out West? A tramp gets a cold biscuit at one house, a piece of meat at another, an old vest at the third, and the owner of the fourth house runs him three blocks with a dog. How much more does the tramp respect the fourth person than the other three combined? It takes twenty blows of a hammer in the hands of a woman to drive a ten- penny nail three inches. She misses the nail twice where she hits it once. How many blows does she strike in all, and how far can her voice be heard whenshe strikes her thumb. A gentleman who has a library of 12,000 volumes, opens fen per year. At this rate how tong will it take him to reach the last book? In one month the owner of a three- minute horse lied ninety-four times re garding his speed. At this rate how many times would he lie in a year, and how would it help the speed of the hows any? '-’189 A school teacher gives a pupil four teen paragraphs in the science of govern ment, thirteen examples in ATRLmctk , three pages of history, one of grammar, one of orthogragby, and half an hour of writing as a daily lesson and expect* him to pass 75 percent. At this rate how tong will it take her to rush him into a lunatic asylum? If a lawyer charges a plumber $5 for advice, and the plumber CBMqges. the lawyer $5.50 for v^ipe, how A satoonist buys a _ _ . bulk and draws two barrels ft the drink? 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