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7 TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO. S. 0.. APRIL 26, 1883. ESTABLISHED 1848 DREAM LIFE. Listen, friend, and I will tell you, Why I sometimes seem so glad, Then, without a reason changing, Soon become so grave and sad. Half my life I live a beggar, Ragged, helpless, and &ione; But the other half a monarch, With my courtiers round my throne. Half my life is full of sorrow, Half of joy, still fresh and new : One of these lives is a fancy, But the other one is true. W T hilo I live and feast cn gladness, Still I feel the thought rehiain, This must soon end—nearer, nearer, Comes the life of grief and pain. While I live a wretched beggar, One bright hope my lot can cheer, Soon, soon, thou shalt have thy kingdom, Brighter hours are drawing near. So you see my life is two-fold Half a pleasure, half a grief; Thus all joy is somewhat tempered, And all sorrow' finds relief. Which, you ask me, is the real life, Which the dream—the joy or woe ? Hush, friend, it is little maiter, And indeed, I never know. SWEET CHARITY. Mr. and Mrs. Maleolm Blythe were seated at breakfast. The steak was broiled to perfection, and the aroma from the steaming coffee- urn sent forth an appetizing odor. Bnt as the yonng wife watched her husband's enjoyment of the daintily- cooked viands, her face wore a look of abstraction notjusoally seen upon it. At last Mr. Blythe noticed it; and also that she was not eating—bnt mere ly toying with the bit of toast upon her plate. “What’s the matter, Letty?” he asked, with a look concern. “Are you ill?” “No, Malcolm, I was only thinking.” Malcolm gave a long low whistle to emphasize his surprise. ** “Thinking! ray bright chatty little girl, stopping her merry nonsense long enough for such an unusual operation! wbat can it be about?” Letty drew herself up with an assump tion of injured dignity; but her eyes and smiling lips bore witness that she was not deeply offended, ‘•You treat me so like a child, Mai oolm, that I have almost grown to think that, though a married woman, 1 can still avoid all trying tesponsibilities, and make life one grand holiday. “But I am beginning to see things in a new light, “I may have but the one talent—still I have no right to waste it. I feel thor oughly ashamed of myself to be such an idler in this busy world." Malcolm looked h*to th with a mock seriousness of expression in his own brown orbs as he said— “Well, Puss, I am soriy if I’m going to lose my pleasant littie companion, and have a long-faced reformer take her place.” Letty smiled. “Not so bad as that, I hope. Is it not possible to do something to make other people either better or happier, without being ’long-faced’ or disagree able mysell?” By this time Mr. Blythe was ready to put on his over<X>at, Letty, as usual, helped him to get into it, then put up her bps for a kiss. Hhe looked very winsome, with the seriousness of an awakening soul cloud ing her innocent eyes, and giving somewhat plaintive droof> to the lips, clear-cut in their outlines, yet red and pouting as a cleft cherry, Malcolm kissed her fondly; then pinching her cheek, playfully said— “I’ll gh e you a mission for to-day. Put on your pretty things, and go anc ouy some presents for your little sisters. Then come home with such a bright face that 1 can warm my heart in its sunshine.” Letiy felt a pardonable glow of pride and pleasure in her handsome husbant as she watched him stride off, turning now and then to nod another “good bye” to her, until the tram car came along whicii wu to take him down to his office. He had bought a neat little pLseton, - —iwuer use, V-tA ‘“‘dom siepppa iniri-j*. himself. She signed as she turned away, though, leeling disappointed that Mal colm had treated the matter so lightly. But witn an effort she threw off the transient cloud, and went to her room to dress and cany out his suggestion. She was the eldest daughter of a large family. Her father Lad never been able to ^afford Ins children the luxuries of life which gave -them an unnatural expres sion. Unconsciously Mrs. Blythe followed the girl as she paused before the differ ent counters, then weut on again with out buying anything. At last she paused before a counter upon which lay a variety of warm stock - inga whose dainty proportions showed that they were intended for tiny feet. She took up a pair and looked at ] them wistfully; at last, with a deep sigh, putting them carefully back in their original place. As she turned away large tear-drops welled up from their fountains, and stood for a moment in her eyes, then rolled slowly down her cheeks. “Poof little Nettie,” she said, half- aloud, “how 1 wish I could buy them for yon.” “Who is 'little Nettie?” asked a gentle voice, and looking up, the girl met a glance from Mrs. Blythe’s eyes which for the moment deprived her of her power to answer. it was so kind and sympathetic that her tears came faster tnd faster. At last sue found her voice, and man aged to stammer out, notwithstanding cue lump in her throat, which seemed to rise and almost choke her— “Nett:e is my little only sister. We two are all alone in the world, and oh, ma’am, I love her so dearly." “Did you tlfruk those stockings yon were looking at would fit her?” “Yes ma’am; and I’ve been trying to earn enough money by sewing to get tliem for her, but I couldn’t” “She shall have some stockings, and some nice warm underclothing, and a dress too. You shall come with me and select them.” It did not take long to make the in tended purchases. Then Mrs. Blythe led the wandering ifirl out to where her luxnrieusly cush ioned pb seton was in waiting, and in a few moments they where being whirled rapidly along the crowded streets. Now put your hands into my muff and get them nice and warm, while you ell me all about yourself .and Nettie. 1 will take yon home, and see where you ive and what I can do toe you.” Nauny’s story was soon told. I will give it in her own words— “We live on the top floor of cumber live, Walton St. Poor mother broke ler heart after father’s death, anu only ived two months. I have earned what I could by doing coarse sewing; bnt work is (nt off and pay was so poor that I hadn’t saved anything. I’ve tried to pick up odd jobbs, but they are hard to find. I haven’t begged yet, though 1 walked up and down a good wnile to-day, trying to get up courage to ask for some pennies just to get Nettie some bread and milk, but I A Race for a Kis». out of hia^imited salary. So it was a novelty to her to own a purse so plethoric with bank-notes that she could buy a present for every one of her sisters. As she had been married bnt a few mouths, it was her first shopping expe dition and she soon forgot the serious thoughts in the excitement of selecting something to please each individual taste among the dear ones at home. Malcolm Blythe was a wealthy, rising young lawyer. He had been captivated by Letty’s pretty modest face, as he listened to her graduation composition, delivered at the closing exercises of the free school of which she had been an exemplaty pupil for several years. He obtained an intiodnction, and to the surprise of the gay world of which he was considered an ornament, six months alter their first meeting Letty was installed mistress of a perfectly appointed mansion in ono of the pleas antest streets in town, “Dear Maleolm,” she thought grate fully, as she stepped into her pusston ana was whirled away. “It isn't every husband Who would give his wife leave to spend money lor her family.” Her destination was an extensive es tablishment where nearly every want oculd be supplied—from a lady’s outfit to a child’s simplest toy. As she walked through the different departments she found herself attracted by one face, amid the passing throng. It was so young, yet so sad; with a Strained eager look iie the large eyes ears were in Mrs. Blythe's eyes as she listened to the pitiful story. Then she said— • ‘She ahall not lack again for what she needs. I will hely you until work gets brisk again." As they entered the cold, hare-looking room, it did not seem at first to be tenanted. But at last a curly head peeped out from under a blanket which covered the meagre apology for a conch. Little Nettie had crept under A to keep herself warm. As she caught sight of her sister she gave a glad cry. Then seeing the strange lady she shrank back timidly. “Don’t be afraid, Nettie,” said the kind voice; “X am going to stay here while sister runs and buys some coal and wood, and something to get you a warm supper with.” While Nanny was away she produced the warm, bright-colored stockings, and told Nettie to put them on. It takes bnt a trifle to make a child forget sorrow, and be gay with the gayest, and Nettie’s face absolutely shone with joy, and her baby tongue was soon prattling away as though she had known Mra Blythe all her life. When that lady went home her own heart was fall of the reflected happiness which she had bestowed upon Nanny and Nettie. That evening after her husband had donned dressiug-gown and slippers, she IMS ‘iftAtory of her day’s work, half-expecting he sould make sport of her in uis usual kind, bffi, satirical fash ion. He listened in silence, apparehllj counting the purple rings whicn curled upwards from his cigar. When she had finished he turned to her— “Do you know what you are doing, Letty? Yon are encouraging pauperism! It is evidently my duty to reprimand you seriously,” Letty looked at him in a puzzled way; hat a merry twinkle in his brown ejes betrayed him. 'Oh, Malcolm! yon are too bad! you are making fun of me.” Not at all Letty; I shall take your punishment into my own hands at once," And before the yonng wife knew of his intentions he drew her upon his kneo and kissed her tenderly. I see you’ve found your mission; Letty; and you may do ail the good you wish to while I find the funds. Does that seem right and good in your eyes?” ' Malcolm, you’re an angel!” The answer was somewhat irrelevant, bnt it was satisfactory. Mss. Blythe soon obtained steady employment for Nanny. .besides being enabled to support herself and little Nettie comfortably, she was slowly and sorely laying up a sum of money against a ‘ rainy day.” Would that ever;, happy, prosperous woman felf 9 it to be her miaeion to lift the harden from some suffering sister, Sparing something for “sweet charity’s sake” out of her own abun dance, and thus laying up a store of that imperiahable treasure which “neitl er moth nor dust doth corrupt.” A butter pedler from Honey Lake re lates with great glee how a neighbor of his was cured of too frequent tipping the gin- bottle. This neighbor married a young, handsome spirited lady, and for a month or two all went well In the house and about the farm; then the husband fell back into his old tricks. The wife remon strated and for a time the husband re formed. Presently, however, she became satisfied that the “bottle tippiug” was agaiu going on. When she spoke to her husband about the matter he swore that the “aroma” she detected was that ot a colic,medicine he was taking, he having developed a most intractable colic, for the relief of which he had brought home and paraded a bottle of medicine. The wife was confident that there was kept somewhere about the premises a con siderable store of a very different kind of medicine. Bhe kept her own counsel and at the same time a strict watch. In a day or two she discovered under a manger in the barn the secret hoard. She said noth ing of the discovery to her husband. Boon after the huspaud had business at a neighbor's some two miles away. On his return be was somewhat surprised at see ing a note pinned upon his front door. He hastily advanced and read as follows: “Ben: You will find the key ot the house where you keep your colic medicine. I have taken Kitty and gone home to my mother. Father and brother Bob will come to-morrow for the trunk in which 1 have packed my things. Nelli*.” The husband rushed to the bare. At a glance he saw that Kitty, his wife’s mare, and the side-saddle were gone. Dartl ug to the manger he hauled out his corpulent demijohn of gin, and suspended from its ueck found the key of the house. Securing the key, he sent the demijohn whizzing and crashing against a post of the barn. Bounding forth, he ran to and mounted the horse he had left standing in front of his house. - Away he dashed. It was ten miles to the house ot his tather-iu-law, and he was determined to overtake his wife before she could reach it or kill a horse in the at tempt. Baid the butter man: “Now, I seed Ben’s wife come over the hill, half a mile south of my house, on her little mare Kit ty, and begin to perform some queer abo- lutions. After she’d got over the brow o’ the hill she paced up an’ down the road or a time; then she rid up and looked over the ridge for a while. After lookin’ a bit she turned about and rid up and down the road a few limes, then went up to the brow o’ the hill again. Bo she kept doin’, an’ once or twice she got off and led Kitty up to the top of the hill. “I was puzzled os to whether she was waitin’ for somebody or had lost something while on her way to her father’s place, some four miles lieyond my house. I was just about to walk out that way when I the hill and begin to play her whip. more practicable, we soo.i found we had lost our way. To return upon our steps or to find a path that would lead us out of the woods, seemc l equally impossible. We sought for one whiL the day lasted, but the mors we sought, the farther we plunged into the depths of the forest, and it was black night, when, at last we arrived at a little bouse as black. We entered, not without suspicion, but we had no choice. Within we found a family of charcoal- burners at their supper, which they in vited us to share with almost their first words. My companion did not wait for the invitation to be repeated, and in a moment, we were eating and drinking with them,—he was, at least; as for myselt, I was chiefly ooCupied in examining the place and the face* oi «u> aueta. They had the appearwee of charcoal-burners, but the house mfght have been taken for an arsenal. On every side were guns, pistols, sabers, knives, cutlasses, AH this displeased me, and 1 saw well that 1 pleased the people as little. My comrade, on the contrary, made himself one of the family, he laughed, he chatted with them, aud with a singular imprudence which 1 ought to have foreseen,—for I should not have trusted to a head of 20 years,—be told whence we came, whither we were going, and, worse than all, that wo were Freuchmen Imagine a little:—alone, lost, among mortal enemies, far trom all numan help; and, that nothing might be lacking that ijould destroy us, he pretended to be rich, and promised these people whatever they wished for our expenses and lor Mo«30w and the KremUn. In spite of the threats of the Nihi lists, preparations for the coronation of the Czar Alexander III. are progress- ing at. Mosoow, aud news comes daily of some new and more expensive elabo ration of the machinery for the impe rial pageantry. The Kremlin, wherein the principal ceremonies will be per formed, is one of the most remarkable structures in the world. Its usual designation in the West, “the palace of the Kremlin,” is entirely misleading, Tuere is within its walls a palace, it is true, and a mpst magnificent one in Cure* by Electricity. “Why don’t you take some slock in the new electric lightoompany.”said an aged man to a middle aged man, as they stood up to a bar taking a drink. “Not none," said the middls aged man, as he stirred the beverage witn a spoon, and swallowed it—not the spoon but the beverage. “There’s too mnoh electricity, I tell you, and I don’t know where the electricity craze is going to end. We send messages by electricity, point ol both extent and decoration, talk by it, onr streets and houses are to but tL.it is only a small portion of the | be lighted by it, i nd now they havegot which is a combination of for whole, „ trem, arsenal, ecclesiastical capital, official headquarters and Imperial resi dence all in one. The gremlin is really the citadel of Mosoow, and undoubtedly occupies the entire area of the ancient city. It is surrounded by an earthen rampart varying from 30 to 50 feet in height, at whose base on one side flow the waters of the river Motkwa. With in the walls, overlooked by the tower of Ivan the Great, whose gilded cross is 325 feet from the ground, are cathe drals, churches, palaces, monasteries aud mouumeuts grouped together with out any attempt at symmetry of ar rangement and representative of almost every known variety of architectural and period. There are the “In half a minute she was fly in' past my place like a wild woman. I sto.xl at my front gate by the roadside, ready to holler out at her to know what was up, but, bless you, she never looked to'ards me. Her eyes seemed sot in her head, her face was pale and at every jump she let into Kitty with a whip. 1 sw ar, her ndin’-aku t fairly cracked as she bounded past. “Jist then I heerd a tremendjus clatter behind me. Turnin’ about, 1 seed Beu a cornin’ over tke pitch of the hill on his big black boss, like a wild Comanche. He was ridin' with loose reins, leanin’ away for’ard, and diggin’ his big spurs into his horse like he’d rip his insides out. “He passed by, with hair aud coat-tails sailin’ back m the wind, and never turning hi* head to right nor left. I thought 1 seed murder in his eye. I tell you, a mil lion thoughts weut through my brain in a second. AU the stories I’d ever heard about jealous husbands and insane bus banfis went through my head in a lump, and I do believe If I’d ray gun m my hand I’d have taken a wlngshot at him On sus picion. 1 seed Nell look back once and then lay the whip on Kitty hotter’n ever. Ben was goin' like the wind. I knowed Nell was headed for her father’s; and I seed plain as day that Ben would get her ’fore she was safe lauded. “At last he was upon her. It then was ueck and neck for a time, with Ben reach ing out for Kitty’s bridle. At last he got it, and the two horses gradually slowed up till- they finally stopped. 1 mounted my gate-post all of a tremble, expectin’ to see somethin’ dreadful happen. “They stopped in the road talkin’ nigh onto half an hour ; then I seed Eeu lean over and Nell lean over till thar two heads come togefts,':. “ ‘What the mischief!’ says 1, ‘Klssin’ Instead of kilim’. Well, that sort o’ fracas gits mel’ After the head-bumpin’ the pan turned about and came slowly loggin’ along back. “As they passed me 1 called out to Bon to know what iu the living jingo it ai! meant. Ben began to stammer someihiig ’bout half of which never go* through hi. big beard, when Nell singa out to me: ‘Only a race for a kiss t’’ and givin* Kitty a cut that made her bound ten feet, she called out to Beu: ‘Come on 1 A race to the top of the hill for another!’ and away they both went. “That was five years ago, and I never knowed the meaniu’ of that wild haram- scarum nde till ’bout three months ago, when the story ’bout the ‘oolic medicine’ eaked out among tne wimmen folks. For i good while after tho nde, howsumever, [ remember o' the neighbor men wonder in’ what had coin* over Ben that he had shut down on his gin all of a sudden and wouldn't so much as take a glass o’ Oregon cider. “To this day no doubt Ben thinks be had a desperate chase after Nell and a narrer escape of her gittin’ into the home den ’long with her big brother, her father and bis mother-in-law; andTve never said a word to him ’bout how she fooled long under the Draw o’ the hill.” An Advanfar* In Calabria. design and period. There are _ „ . .... Cathedral ot the Assumption, iu winch hi. r»li», prayed them to hike tke grekteet | Sj rO Al6 ^ a0r ?, eorlotiok skall taltw place next May; the Cathedral of the Archangel, where the bones of all the Romanoffs up to the time of Peter the Great lie buried; the Cathedral of the Anuunciation, formerly the place of baptism and marriage ot the imperial family; the Church of the ReJeemer, one of the oldest braidings in Moscow, it not in Europe; the Miracle Monas tery, the Asceusion Convent and the Bacristy of the Holy Bynod, where the robes aud sacred vessels of the patri- arclis are preserved. These are the religious edifices. Nixi comes the pal ace, built on the site of the one de stroyed by Rostopehiu’s torches when Napoleon’s army was driven out to freeze in the dread winter of 1812-13 This structure, a large portion of it erected by the Emperor Nicholas—he whose heart broke when his armies met defeat iu the Crimea—contains many magnificent halls dedicated to the various orders of Russian knight hood. In this, too, is the treasury, where, as in a vast museum, are con tained arms, armor, relies, regalia and other. treasures illustrative of the his tory of the ancestors of the Czar. The Arsenal, an imposing structure of iui- of spot of the Russias walks, he surveys care of it and to place it at the head of the bed. He wished, he said, no other pillow. One would have believed he carried the diamonds of the crown—when what caused him such anxiety iu that valise was only the letters of his lady love. The supper ended, the people all left us. Our hosts slept in a room below; an attic or loft raised six or eight feet above the room iu which we had eaten, and to which we climbed by a ladder, was the sleeping apartment that awaited us,—a sort of nest into which we introduced our selves by creeping under rafters laden with provisions sufficient for an entire year. My companion climbed first, threw himself upon the bed, and was asleep in a moment. Determined to watch, 1 made a good fire and seated myself by it. The uight wore away very quietly. I was beginning to be reassnrred and to think my fears and suspicions wholly groundless, when, just before daybreak, as it seemed to ire, I heard the voices of our host and his wife in loud talk, appar ently arguing. Placing my- ear to the chimney, which communicated with the room below, I dearly, distinguished these words from the husband:— “Well, let us see finally, will it be nec cessary to kill them both I” Lulflt mn >,Tmi ki11 NEWS IN BRIEF, I heard nothin# moie^-I stood breath less—my whole body cold as marble, to have seen me, yon would scarcely have known wnether I was ^esd or living. Heavens 1 when 1 think of it even now, I shudder. We two,.almost without srins, against 15 or 20 wbb had so many, and my comrade dead with sleep of fatigue I To call him, to make a sound, I dared not; to escape without him, -1 could not; be sides, though the window was not high beneath it were two great bull dogs howl mg like wolves, imagine, if you can, the horror of my situation! At the end of a quarter of an boor' which seemed long enough, 1 assure you, 1 heard the sound of steps upon the stair case, and looking through the crack of the door saw the husbam , a lamp in one hand in the other one ot his great knives. He ascended the stairs, opened the door, passed the lamp to hiS wife, who had fol- lowed him, then entered with bare feet. Shading the lamp with her fingers, his wife, from without, said to him, “Boftly, go softly." He reached the ladder, mount ed it with his knife between his teeth, and coming to the head of the bed on wUlcn the poor young man was extended uncon scious, helpless, offering his bared throat, with one hand he took his knife, with the other, he seized Ah cousin ! 1 tell this to you because It is the truth he seized a great leg of ham that was suspended trom a beam, cut a large slice from it, and retired as he had come; the lamp was withdrawn, the door closed and I left to my own reflections. As soon as It was daylight the whole family came with a great noise to wake us, as we had desired. A very good break fast was served to us, I assure you; two fowls made a part of it, one of which, said our hostess, we must eat, and the otnet WtiTUtft cany »way with us. On seeing them l ooDllft^lfiBded at once the meaning of those terrible words '“'♦i'll it be necessary to kill them both,” and you, 1 lieheve, have sufficient penetration to divine without explanation what they sig nified. to using it to cure diseases with. Why, do yo^lpiow, they advertise to cure everything wilt electricity* Yowkhow my wife? Well, she thinks ahe has every disease under the sun, and she is a walk ing galvanic battery. I dare not touch her unless I touch a gas pipe or some iron substance first, or a spark will fly from my hands and startle me. Yon haven’t seen her lately, eh? Well she looks twice as big as she ever did be fore, but she is poor from carrying around electric belts and pads. First, she saw an advertisment in a Chicago paper of an electric belt, and she wonldn't be satisfied till I got her one, and to keep peace in the family I took her measure down to Chicago and got a belt, and she pnt it on and ia*d she felt better. Then she wanted a pair of electric insolt s for her shoes, and I got them. Then she wanted an electric supporter, and I thought it would be a good way to support her, and I got one for her. Then she wanted an electric stomach and liver brace, and I got that.- I thought she was pretty well protected against the majority of the diseases the human family is subjected to, bat the saw some more pictures of electric ap pliances in the paper,and I had to buy her some back pads, and breast collars, and electric stockings, and she will want the xest of the harness, including a sur cingle and headstall. Why, John, honestly. I will give yon leave to shoot at my wife with a shot gnn loaded with fine shot, for five cents a shot, and will give you a dollar for eveiy shot that touches Ler person. 8he is enveloped in a perfect coat of electric mail, and she isn’t very well yet. O, I forgot the knee pads and hair crimpers. I expect she will want a telephone line next, and a tower with an eleotrio light of four priMtfcbu with pride a collection of captured tro phies of war, among them 635 cannon taken from the enemies of the Czar. The great bazaar of Moscow is an enor mous structure, covering three squares, three stories high aud intersected by numerous narrow streets and passage ways. In its storehouses it is calcula ted there are stocks of all sorts of goods, amounting in average value to between $55,000,000 and $60,000,000, and this represents only a comparatively small portion of the value of the general merchandise within the city, there being other bazaars and market places of almost equal extent crammed with valuable stocks of goods. The destruc tion of such a city would be an incal culable disaster to Russian wealth and commerce. Whether the Nihilists pos sess power sufficient to carry out thuir threats remains to be seen. It is now almost certain tout the Emperor has abandoned, if he ever entertamed, the idea of making any concessions to their demauds. Tripe. thdw llf UiU 1, UiyUUlU family does any good, —M. Grevy is seventy-fo ir years old. —The population of Mexico is esti mated at 10,000,000. —The king of Portugal receive* the salary of $440,000 a year. —In New Orleans cucumbers are selling at 7 cents apiece. —A company at St. Louis turns out 200 dozen shovels a day. —A closely contes ted election in Eng land costs about $10,000. —Brooklyn has added several chemi cal engines to its department. —Montana claims to have 1,000,000 cattle grazing on her plains. —About one-fifth of the area of Illi- saffi to be mnn>h lands. —PereTlyaointha and his wife intend to visit America daring the summer. —Ada Carr Sturgis, the singer, is seriously ill at her home in Dorham Me. —At the beginning of 1882 107,112 miles of railway were open in Europe, —Governor Boynton, of Georgia, carries his head six feet three inches high. -Ex-Governor Talbot, of Massachu setts, has gone to see the wonders of Texas. •—The Eirl of Dudley, whose income is $6 900,000 is said to be losing his mind. —The Malagassy Embassy visited the tomb of Washington, at Mount Vernon, recently. —The Canadian port of Sarnia shipped 1,800,000 eggs to New York in one week. The thirty-eight savings banks in Rhode Island have 112,472 depositors aud $48,320,671 deposits. —Professor E. S. Dana, of Yale Col lege, has resumed his college duties after a severe illness. —Alligators are becoming scarce in Florida and their extinction is consider ed only a question of time. The firemen of Le Roy have organ ized a benevolent association for disabled firemen with a capital uf $4,300, Charles N. Marsh has been chosen Clerk of the town of Hingiiam, Mass., for twenty-eight consecutive years. —Coinage at the various mints in the U- S. for February, $4,548,330. of which $2,400,000 was standard dollars. Owing to the unseasonable Antnmn in France between 3,000.000 and 4,000, 000 of acres of wheat remain still to be sown. —Sir William Armstrong, the Euglisn gunmaker, has given $750,000 to New castle, Eng., during tne last twenty years. T h§ Ifirinnttnmr .jg- Red Baa UghUiotiM. Raoent investigation* warrant the conclusion that there are iu Cochin China, deposits of gold and silver, beds of lignite and phosphate of lime, with veins of Iron ore. I was traveling at one time m lialabna —a country of bad people who, I believe love nobody, and hate the French with a mortal hatred, and a Frenchman who fell Into their hands was likely to fare badly. My traveling companion was a joung man ot 20. Ihe roads In the mountain* are very precipitous; and it was with great difficulty that -our horses advanced at aiL My comrade rode in front and, taking a path which ttemed to him shorter sad I The Egyptian Government has com- I'.-nced the erection of a lighthouse on one ot Vie rocks in the Red Bea known as the Bro iters. The Brothers are two small coral '. lets in the Red Bea. about one mile from c-Vh other, the depth of water -be tween iem varying from 100 to 260 fathoms. The northern islet is about a quarter of u mle long and 100 yards wide, and a beacon » situated oc it in latitude 26 deg. 18’ 50.07th,and longitude 84 deg. 50, 44 east, and t is In close proximity to this beacon that t e sew lighthouse is be ing constructed. The foundations are now being laid for a circular stone tower, which is to be thirty-five feet in height, with a winding staircase to its summit Rooms tot the lighthouse keeper are to be built in the form ot a sort of coart round the tower. The stone is being quarried and the lime 'mined on the island itself, and an abundant supply of drinking water is provided by » condenser which hu been fitted up on the island. Ihe work will be(complet<)d about tne end of April, when the light—a fixed white dioptric light of Si order, visible at a distance ot fourteen lilies—will he exhibited. Bit of course, due publicity will be given later as to the exact date. —The firet extraordinary flood at Oincinnati on record wa* in 1792, when the water is supposed to have gone above sixty feeW There was not much property to destroy at that period, and therefore little damage corad be repor ted. Occasionally you see a man order tripe at a hotel, tut he always looks hard, os though he hated himself and everybody else. He- tries to look as though he enjoyed it, but he does zot. Tripe is indigestible, and looks like an india-rubbia apron for a child to sit on. When it u pickled it looks like dirty elothes put to soak, aud when it is cooking it looks as thongh the cook was boiling a dish cloth. On the table it looks like glue, and tastes like a piece of oil silk umbrella cover. A stomach that is not lined with corru gated iron would be turned wrong side oat by the smell of tripe. A man eat- ug onpt, botel table looks likes an Arctic explorer dining on'ffi iXJ&S or chewing pieces of frozen raw dog. Yon cannot look at a man eating trips bnt he will blush and look as though ie wanted to apologize and convince yon he is taking it to tone np his sys tem. A woman never eats tripe. There is not money enough in the world to hire a woman to take a corner of a sheet of tripe in her teeth and try to poll off a piece. Those who eat tripe are men who have had their stomachs play mean tricks on them, and they eat tripe to get eyea with their stomachs, acd then they go and take a Turkish bath to sweat it out of the system. Tripe is a superstition handed down from a former generation of butchers, who sold all the meat and kept the tripe for themselves aud the dogs; but dogs of the present day will not eat tiipe. You throw a piece of tnpe down in front of * dog, and see if he doee net put his tail between his legs and go off and hate yon. Tripe may have a value' but it is not as food, it may be good to fid into a burglar-proof safe, with tiie cement afui chided steel, or it might answer to ose a* a breast plate in time of war, or it would be good to use for bumpers between oars, or it would make a good face for the weight of a pile driver, but when you come to smuggle it into the stomach you do wrong. Tnpe! Bah! A piece • ol Turkish towel cooked in axle grease would be pie compered with tripe. but it is a great saving ou fills and things. Before she struck this eleotrio fake it was a cold day when the drag man’s hand-cart did not stop at my boose, bnt now all she buys at a drag store is porous plasters and perfume. Why, she used to have a regular time caia hung ap in her room for taking medicine, and it required the brain of a chief justice to prevent get ting the different kinds of medicine in at the wrong times. I have seen her take seven different kinds of little white pills la a hall day, and never miss a pill or get the wrong kind, and every pill looked just alike, and there was no taste or smell to them. It was a great strain or her mink, and may be this electricity is doing her good, in resting her intel lect. All you have to do is to hackle on the magnetic corset, or snrcinglei and it goes right to work at the drop of the hat, and the same one is good for child in arms or a votran a hundred years old. There is ne doubt iu my miud that science has simplified things wonderfully, and if my wife is not cored it will not be her fault. But no eleo trio light stock for me, H I should carry home a block of eleotrio light stock my wife would buckle it on to her somewhere, and swear she experienced great releif. But I will have to go, as 1 have heard of an electric bullion, per- suaid and corn annihilator a man is sell ing down on the South side, and my wife wants one. Good-day.” WllderneM of Canary Bird*. the cotton crop for the pafiofc ar 6.833.- 000 bales. —In 1860 uot a hundredweight of wheat was exported from India; last year 9,379.225 owt., were consigned to the United Kingdom. —Baltimore, Md., has abolished her board of fire commissioners, and has given the control of the department to a fire marshal. -The fireman's fund of Rochester, now amounts to $47,000. It is for the benefit of disabled firemen and their families. —During the month of January there were throughout the country twenty- three fire* involving a loss of at least $100,000 in each instance. —The Chinese are going home, More than 5,000 departures and only twenty arrivals are recorded since the restric tion law went into force. —The deepest sea soundings yet taken in the Pacific shows a depth of 27,935 feet, or about five and one third miles. The deepest Atlantic soundings are 2T.- 366. —The armament of Germany has been compieted. It was begun in 1873. The expenses have amounted to $132,000,000, paid oat of the French war indemnity. —The amount of deposits and cash balances in the joint-stock banks of Ireland in Jane, 1882, was £30,667,000, an increase of more thaa two millions over the previous year. —There are 1286 school buildings in Arkansas, valued at $264,217,129 of the number were erected during last year. The school teachers number 2418, of whom 471 are colored. —It is announced that the late Prince Charles of Prussia left a fortune of more than six million dollars, of which three millions is bequeatned to his son. —Ohanncey Warner, of Cambridge, The reoent imnuSTreporToHt-srSjii ^ aggyasgumia-to. i -A pair of bald eagles eagles have mode i/Point, Mich., on for their home near Stony! the margin of Lake Erie, for many years, and it is believed that they are nearly if not quite seventy years old. helm Board of Trade closes the chapter on the purchase and sole of animal pro- ducts with an allusion to a branch of trade no longer uncommon within the sphere of its action. The firm of C. Reiche, in Alfeld, dealer* in animals, origins ly raising and selling canary birds only, but ol late years a rival of tho groat Hamburg house of Hagen beck appended a detailed statement of sales ol wild beast, ruminuiis, pachyderms and birds, which it* ravolers in Africa and Australia had purchased, as well as of canary birds bought and exported to countries beyond the seas. The increase in the importation of foreign Binging and ornamental birds during 1882, over 60 per cent, of which were resold to foreign countries, was a marked one. The firm bought in Germany 42,000 male and 20. 600 female canaries, besides 4800 wild birds, a total of 66,900 birds, of which 48,200 were sent to the United States, 1500 to South America, 1200 to South Africa, 13,000 to England; the remain ing 3000 died. O.foreign aniihals there were imported by the house 90 wild beast, ruminants and pachyderms, 200 long-legged and other large birds, be sides 9350 ornamental and singing birds from America, Africa and Australia, of which 60 per cent, remained in Ger many, the rest going to France, Belgium, Holland, England and the United States. The food consumed by tne birds alone amounted to the respeolabio quantity of 27 tons, viz., 19 tons of rape seed and 8 tons of hemp, millet and other seed*, besides ante’ eggs, 1200 pounds of bis or it and 9600 hen egg the town of St.'Alban's with a $30,000 house for ose as a free hospital. He will provide a $25,000 endowment fund, also. Servia is dependent on foreign countries for century meus pair presented supplj stimulate explorations the Government offers a prize of $80,000 to the discoverer of a workable salt mine in the kingdom. —A large canoe in excellent condition has been found near Bex, 4,000 feet aboye the sea level and nearly 8,000 feet above the volley of the Rhone. No Lacustrine relic* have ever before been found in Switzerland at such an eleva tion. . —The daily earnings iu the cotton factories of the United States ore nearly double what they wore in 1849. The total number of spinning spindles is 40,653,435; of looms, 225,750. The actual consumption of oot:on last year was 1,760,000 bales. —it is estimated that there are 200,• COO vagabond and beggars In the Ger- Empire, including thieves, pick pockets, and other swindlers, and the authorities estimate the annua' loss to honest people by their operation at the enormous sum of $25,000,000. —Until the latter pan of the sixteenth knitted stockings were unknown in England. ' ’ to Queen by am. Montague in 1660 knitted silk; and they pleased the coquette so much that sUe di much vi hemence shd would cloth one* *qy **’'we