The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, April 26, 1883, Image 1
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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