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.1 I ♦ TRI-WEEKLY EDITION WINNSBORO. S. 0.. MAY 5,1883. ESTABLISHED 184S FROM THE SAME CANTEEN. There are Bonds of all sorts In this world of ours, Fetters of friendship and ties of flowers, And true lovers’ knots, I ween; The girl and the boy are bound by a kiss, ~ there’s never a bond, old friend, like the same cantean f was sometimes water, and sometimes • milk, And sometimes applejack, fine as silk; But, whatever the tipple has been We shared it .together, in bane or bliss, And I warm to you, friend, when I think of this— We have drunk from the same canteen 1 The rich and the great sit down to dine, And they quaff to each other in sparkling wine, From glasses of crystal and green; But I guess in their golden potations they miss The warmth of regard to be found in this— We have drunk from the same canteen 1 We have shared our blankets and tents to gether, We have marched and fought in all kinds of weather, v Aiid hungry and full we hqve been; Had days of battle and days of rest; But this,memory I cling to and love the best— We have drunk from the same canteen 1 For when wounded I lay on the outer slope, 'With my blood flowing fast and but little hope Upon which faint spirit could lean, On, then, I remember, you crawled to my side, And, bleeding so fast it seemed both must have did, We drank from the same canteen 1 (“v Q2* A SEA OF FIRE. Hot as ever, and hotter too! “When shall we have rain again, I wonder?” “Hold yonr tongue, can’t yon, Dick! whatever sets yon wishing for rain on the morning of a picnic?” “There’s no need to wish for it,” utrnek in the third member of the party, with a grin. “You’ve only got to start ont on a picni , and the rain’s hound to come without being called for!” The speakers were three young Eng lishmen, on a hunting expedition over the prairies of the Far West. Their tour had already lasted several weeks, and their plan for the day was to lide over the prairie to a curiously- shaped hill, or rather bluff which was one of the sights of the district, lunch at its foot, and then, nnless some spe cially attractive game happened to fall in their way, ride back again, before the heat of the day set in, to their log hut, in front of which they were now standing beside their saddled horses. Just at that moment their guide stalked out from behind the hut, lead ing his horse by the bridle; and a very striking figure he was. His sharp vulture-like features, and the coppery hue of his scantily-clad body, showed him to be an Indian. His name of Mahtoohuga (Little Bear) seemed anything bnt appropriate to a man over six feet in height, and so gaunt and sinewy that he looked much more like a prairie wolf tnan a bear. The single lock of coarse hair that stood out from the old warrior’s shaven crown was now white as snow. But old as he was, one could see by his keen bright eye, and the panther like nimbleness of all his movements, that he bade fair to outlive many a younger man yet. He spoke not a word, bnt simply pointed southward, and springing into his saddle, rode off, followed at once by the three Englishmen, while a sturdy figure with hair and beard as red as its tattered shirt, suddenly appeared in the doorway of the log-hut, shouted after them a lusty “Good-fortune to yon, boys!’’ Away they went merrily enough, keeping up a constant talk and laugh ter which contrasted very markedly with the stern silence of the old Indian, who went straight onward without even opening his lips. The three horsemen would gladly have put their horses to speed, and raced each other all the way; but this was impossible among that endless jungle of tall prairie-grass, dry as tin der from the long-continued heat, and so high as in many places to brash their shoulders, “No smoking around here, boys, said Dick Harrison. “If one spark falls among this stuff, there would be a fine bonfier!” “Pooh!” crii*d Tom Melton, “if there were any danger, old Soalptaker, in front there would have been sure to let us know.” “See! isn’t that our bluff away to the right yonder?” “It looks like it!” His two comrades followed his point ing finger with their eyes, and beheld a strange and startling spectacle. Bight in front of them, springing up suddenly from the endless level of the prairie, was the perfect semblance of colossal head—the head of an Indian chief. The chin of the colossus seemed to be Kiting upon the ground, as if the figure were rising slowly out of the depths of the earth. Its mighty face wac turned watch fully toward the east, as though it were standing on guard against the intro sion of the “pale-faees.” “See how old Oopparhide yonder frightening up at the sight of itl prouder if he expects it to get up and jiave a fight with him!” had lightened up strangely at the firs* glimpse of the mighty figure, which doubtless recalled to him many a star ring mempry of bis past But the mooientpry.glfi, tion faded just as suddenly. By the time they reached the foot of the blnff, the three young sportsmen were as hungry as hawks; and they did fall justice to the good things which they had brought with them. Many jokes were made upon the “big chief” in whose shadow they were feasting, and into whose open mouth Dick Harrison, the wag of the party, proposed to empty what was left of their food. The Inn was at its height, when their mirth received a sudden and terrible interruption. _ All the time of their meal Mahto- ohnga had seemed strangely startled, sniffling the air like a startled deer, and turning his head uneasily from side to side. Suddenly he sprang ap a> at the war-whoop of a hostile tribe, and shouted— “He comes, he comes 1 oar tread has aronsed him, and his face is set this way.” “To hone! pale faces! and ride for your lives!” Overawed by the terrible emphasis of the old man’s tone and manner, the three Englishmen mounted at once, though without the bast idea what was the matter. Bnt their horses evidently knew, even if they did not. Hardly were they in the saddle when their frightened horses darted off across the prairie as If chased by wolves. What oonld it all mean? Look back as they might, they oonld see nothing particular—except, indeed, a tiny cnrl of smoke far in the distance, as if some giant were lighting his pipe. Tom Melton was the first of them to gness the hideous troth. “You were right, Frank.” he gasped hoarsely, “it’s life or death with ns now. The prairie’s on fire!” All that followed was like an ngly dream. They were dimly conscious of scurry ing frantically through a forest of tall grass with the hot breath of the de stroyer coming closer and closer upon their trail, and a glare overhead as if the whole sky was on fire, while past them flew a terrified crowd of wolves, prairie-dogs, deer, ravens, vultures and ever and anon a herd of huge black buffaloes, filling the air with hoarse bellowings of terror. Bnt swift as their pace was, the fire was swifter, and the roar and crackle of the flames came nearer and nearer, till it seemed as if | the conflagration were at their very heels. Frank Sedgwick’s horse . began to show signs of failing; and the doomed men clenched their teeth in desperation. Bat just as all hope seemed gone, there yawned in front of them one of i hose vast deep chasms so common on the western prairies, beyond which lay bare tract that would give no hold to the fire, even should it be carried across the golf by flying sparks, It was a fearful leap, bnt with certain death dose behind them, there was no time to hesitate. One by one they cleared the gap, the ! ndian foremost; but Sedgwick’s tired icrse slipped as it alighted on the other side, and Frank Melton had barely time to seize Frank in his strong hands and literally tear him from the saddle, when the poor horse fell helplessly down the precipice with a shrill cry. “A close shave, boys,” said Dick ; lamson, drawing a long breath. “Yon don’t catch me ont on the prai rie again in the dry season, I can tell yon!” “Nor me either,” cried Tom Melton, nrning away his scorched face as the 1 lames, surging up along the edge of ;he chasm, shot long tongues of fire at them across the golf with a savage roar. v “Nor me either,” echoed Sedgwick; and all three kept their word. Walking Under Water. “First rate; bnt where’s the tele phone?” “This is what 1 promised to show you I “The helmet is the diaphragm, tit’s a my diving apparatus ” telephone of my own. Now then, keep hr lightly. It looked like year eyes ahead, and let’s get into deep ie breast-plate that in the days of water. ’ chivalry took the place of overcoat, The captain leading they walked out except there was a helmet attachment, a distance of probably seventy-five feet It was made of copper, about as long from shore and turned their faces and as wide, bnt larger, as the trunk of northward. The water was slightly an ordinary man. Made to be put on discolored with the sand stirred up by over the head, the bottom '.nd arm open- the recent storm. The bottom was ings were fitted with a thick robber, quite free of rooks and stones, affoi The helmet differed only slightly, and excellent locomotion. They march) that in shaps, from the ordinary diver’s on in silence, passing three or four dark helmet. There was a small valve at the objects built out from, the shore, top, evidently to allow air to escape. Urooeeding it was soon discovered To the back of the apparatus was fas-1 that locomotion had suddenly grown UMuranu tened an attachment like a soldier’s knapsack. From either end of this a wire protruded. “This,” explained the host, handling it proudly and turning it about with ease that indicated its small weight, “this is my diving apparatus. With it I can walk in the deepest water as long as I can walk on land.” The visitor suggested the need of abundant oxygen to successful walking in any element. “Ibis supplies the air I need and the light also,” qnietly responded the cap tain, touching the knapsack at the back of the armor. The knapsack covered a light piece of mechanism which rattled slightly at the touch. There were two nunnte valves in its onter surface, or at the top, and one below, a wire protruding, and a few small holes were punched in it inside the armor jacket. “This supplies me with air and with ight. A drop of water is admitted through this yalve. The air within it is separated from the other elements and breathe it What remains serves to keep dive my electric lamp, and the small residue is discharged through this valve.” From a large box near at hand he produced another helmet and jacket, the exact duplicate of the first. Then two suits of clothing made of a thick rubber like material, two pair of diver’s shoes with leaden soles, and two small, ordinary looking lanterns were brought forth. While the captain was rapidly cloth ing himself in his rubber-like salt, the visitor examined the lantern. Its globe was secu'ed by brass mountings, and was evidently hermetically sealed. In the place of a wick were two wires, the ends nearly touching. His host attached to it the wire protruding from the knap sack, remarking as he did so that it was a cable with two strands. ’Now,” he said, “before yon get into yon r armor I’ll test mine before yon and show yon its safety.” Ke lifted a trap-door in one oorn»r of the room. A flight of steps led down into a cistern of evidently considerable extent. “I’ll go down there." oontmned the host, “and remain long enough to re move yonr doubts. Yon shall see the operation of thin little Knapsack. He lifted the jacket over his head, and drew it down over his body. Tighten The Poison League. difficult, The firm _ to a sticky mud-like Ix^lotn. It seemed to be made of vile rvfnse, some of it lighter than the rest, floating like the residuum of filthy horse ponds, in oortain-like forms. As their feet stirred up the mass, particles of it floated ap to the surface. They neared the shore. Soon the row of piles that guard it from the waves came in view. The explorers marked the green slime that adhered to this wooden wall, and the embankment of mod formed against it With slow steps, for caution was. necessary here, they walked northward The captain’s follower felt a soft substance yield be neath his foot, Lowering the light, its beams fell on the faofl of a corpse. It was that of a womafig young and well dad. Evidently it had not been m the water long, tor the comely features were not swollen. She lay half sunken in the muddy bottom, her anus resting easily by her sides. Asleep, she seemed. The quiet end of a life crashed by shame and remorse. This was the place where the dark deeds of the city’s seamy side were done. Perhaps Hie sight told of one of those unpublished mysteries, one of those strange disap pearances that newspapers note in two lines. The captain bent over the dead girl and lookedat her intently. “Leave her alone,” he said kindly. “We can do nothing. Pll tell the police where to drag.” He gently lifted the corpse from the mad. and earned it a little distance where the bottom was oleaner. Com posing its limbs the divers gave a fare well glance /d the dead and resumed their march. Feeling their way along the great pier they soon found an iron ladder reaching almost to the bottom. “Monnt.” commanded the captain to his companion. He quickly obeyed, and stood upon the pier with his guide, Literally, they were fish ont of water. That element which supplied them with air and kept the larans slive. pot flowing into tne knapsack reservoir, they gasped for breath, and their light expired. With rapid fingers Capt. Ebbitt then The trial of the men charged with con spiring to poison and with robbing a shoe manufacturer named Merstallinger, having previously rendered him insensible by means ot chloroform, lias been concluded at Vienna. The accused had the tight to speak in their own defense; but only Feu- ken, a self-educated man, who has been working in almost every country in Europe, availed himself of the permission. What he arid in his defense (the corres pondent of the London Times says) seemed to make more Impression than anything said daring the two day’s pleading. He said: “1 have been for the last ten years in the workmen’s movement and have some education, which the prosecution makes a reproach of. When I joined the movement the watchword of ihe latter was, “Workmen, get educated; endeavor to rise to i he rest ot society.’ 1 have imbibed those principles; 1 have zealously studied, and when 1 did not understand the dead letter I said to myteif, ‘Wo out into the world.’ I did so and educated myaeil, and that is to be a charge against me. Ihe French government have sent me away without ever assigning any reason in spite of my demand. If the Swiss workmen nave honored me with their confidence and sent me to the Con gress in London they have no doubt done so In the hope that I would not misuse their confidence. In the whole of that Congress there was not so much said about revolution, assassination and arson as there has been during this trial. The resolutions were not binding. I am noth- but a victim ef the Vienna, police. Scar cely had I arrived in Vienna when I was arrested. As there was nothing against me they had to release me; but 1 was not allowed to go free, like the commonest criminal. Although I had the means of subsistence and my papers were all in or der I was sent by force out of Vienna. I returned to show that I had been unjustly treated, and now I am said again to be playing a part. ” 1’eukert then endeavored to disprove the several charges brought against him and denied the connection of tne workmen’s party with the burglary. The jury, after deliberating for four hours, acquitted all the prisoners except three, who had pleaded guilty to chloroforming and robbing the shoe manufactmer. Two of them were sentenced to fifteen years’ hard labor, and the other to two years. The other men, when released, were loudly cheered by the crowd outside the court. It is stated that within the last few days threatening letters have been sent to the authorities. Central Park Corioeltiee. Thieve* on Hallway Trains. An Optieal Experiment. Many readers may know the experi ment m which a lighted match or can dle being moved about near the side of one of the eyes In a dark room, reveals the net-work of blood-vessels in the retina. A car ions phenomenon of the same order has been lately observed by M. Charpentier, Looking at a sky uniformly illuminated with diffuse white light, he made the two fingers of his right hand (separate about 0.1 to 0.2m.), to pass rapidly to and fro before his eyes, and in abont half a minute the uniform aspect of the sky was greatly changed. On * white background ap peared a mosaic composed of hexagons of violet purple color, separated by white lines. Other persons, he says, have repeated the experiment with success. He gives reason for thinking that the hexagonal imafces correspond to the cones in the fovea snd yell^r spot, which cones, pressed together, form a sort of hexagonal mosaic. The white lines probably oorrespond to loosened the screws, took off his com panion’s armor and as rapidly removed his own, and the two men sat down on the pier inhaling the cold night air again after three hoars’ immersion in its opposite. The captain turned his face toward ing the screws that gathered the rubber inw companion with a smile of triumph, band, which closed it about his waist, “Well,” he said, “have I kept my he picked up the lantern, and walked I word? Have I given yoa a new expari- down the steps into the cistern. The | enoe? r instant his shoulders were immersed the lantern blazed ont, illuminating every part of the cistern, It was abont eight feet deep. Capt. Ebbitt moved abont in it with no apparent discomfort for fifteen minutes. Then he came up the steps, his lantern being extinguished as his shoulders rose above the water. Removing the glass front from his helmet, he inquired if his guest was satisfied. With the captain’s assistance he was in a few moments clothed for his watery adventure, and stood, lantern in hand, a tidier and rather slimmer in the legs counterfeit presentment of that indi vidual. Abont midnight the two gro tesque-looking figures emerged from the honse and headed for the lake. It was scarcely a hundred feet distant. The leaden soles ef their shoes made standing upright difficult, and walking more so. Steadying each other they slowly approached the water’s edge. Nearly every trace of the tempest had diaAppevecL The waves, which tnree days before howled and raged like hun gry tigers, were now kissing the sands and softl yrippling in among the rooks with s musical gargle, and a lamb like innocence. The moon floated in an nndimned heaven and shed its effulgence over the sheet of water, stretching far into the distance till it met and mingled with the horiaon. Capt. Ebbitt screwed on the glass front of his own and companion’s hel met and beckoned him on. They waded in slowly till the water was ap to the breasts, to the necks, till their heads were under, in eight feet of water. The instant the knapsack of the novice was immersed, he heard a faint click, a soft, continuous burr, There has been an Interesting in crease in the happy family of birds and beasts which is assembled around the old arsenal in Oentral Park, New York. The latest comer is a young camel, which began its career of earthly trou bles on Saturday night. Its first ex perience ot life was a rare one for a camel, for it found itself reposing in a heap of snow. Nevertheless, it did not pine for the hot sands of the Great Sahara, which ought to liave been its native heath, but proceeded to make itself as comfortable as it oonld until day dawned and a keeper removed the youthful quadruped to more comforta ble quarters. Fbr six hours the little Infant was not permitted to draw nour ishment from the natural scarce. The old Mrs. Camel was inclined to be somewhat ongracious towards her little one, and had to be tied ap with strong ropes before she would permit the caresses of hei 1 Said babe is abont the size of a ooit^ wadjjo ngly that if it ever caches sight of r will go off in a dark oorner and di] It consists principally of legs. These are long, lumbersome, and apparently vejy much in their own way. The infant camel has a back just like any other person’s. There is no hemp visible yet. The keeper says that the yonng beast will sprout a hump in the course of time, and be as proud of it as a boarding-school boy of the first down on his lip. The infant’s neck, moreover, is so short that it oonld not eat grass, it there were any to eat, without lying down. This slight in convenience will also disappear in time, and the babe’s neck will stretch out and doable back on itself in the manner meet approved by camels which have reached the years of discretion. This little camel, while it bears no resem blance to Artemns Ward’s kangaroo pud fails to jump or squeal to any pernicious extent, is nevertheless an “amusing little enss.” He will make his bow to the public to-day, and be on exhibition in the inoloenre. He has been kept housed since his birth on account of the snow on the ground. This yonng animal Is the third camel born in the ’ark. His mother was born there before him, and he is therefore a true American. William A. Conklin, Super intendent of the menagerie, says that none of the animals suffer from the cold weather. .was conveyed What may be had in Venlee. The days, it Is true, are past when a majolica plate or reliquary of Vene tian glass oonld be bought for two or filaments charged with crystals, of pig ment, which deftepndp4 from the che (ft truth, Mahtoohuga’* gloomy face, rodianceils. cate machinery in operation, and sensible of a renewal of the air within his armor. At the same time, the lamp he was carrying blazed forth in a small but most brilliant light. He felt no discomfort—the contrary, in fact. Nothing of dampness cr omil permeated his heavy clothing, and his feet felt light as they usually did while on land. i paueedjseveral minutes, heard the burring of bidden wheels in the knap sack, felt the fresh air oironlating about his head. The captain had kept his word, and shown turn a great invention. He felt confident, and ready to follow his guide. That personage locked enormous, such was tne magnifying power of the water. He seemed to fairly tower into the gigantic. ‘How do yon feel!” the visitor heard a voive, apparently inside his helmet, say. He mutely looked at the glass front of Capt. Ebbitt’a helmet for an explana tion. That wizard touched a small wire ihkt connected the two armors from the captain’s right to his own left shoulder. It looked like s telegraph or telephone wire, bat where the 'pnone was located was a mystery. It was certainly not in tiie helmet or jacket. “How do you feel?” repeated the voice. One day a commercial traveler visit ing Albany in the interest of one of the large jewelry jobbing houses of New York detected' a thief in the act of changing the check attached to his trank near the baggage-room of the Union depot. He took to his heels be fore he oonld be captured. The officials having charge of the checking are con stantly on the alert for escapades of this kind. The depots, they say, are hauntoc by these vultures. The plan is to spot a trank the contents of which are known to be of value, and following the owner from place to place, wait for the golden opportunity for subetitating for the check attached another to a different destination. It is reported that severa valuable pieces of baggage have been stolen in this wav. The traveler, whose experience in the depot in this city nearly cost him the loss of a trank worth 380,000, had been pursued for the pre ceding two months by the thief whose cleverness was only by chance dis covered. The latter was a member ol the notorions ‘ Houston street gang,” which has graduated some of the boldee robbers and desperadoes of the country. He was a fellow of the most genteel address and pleasantest moaner. On a previous trip west of Albany the stranger scraped an acquaintance with the trave ler for the New York honse, claiming to represent a firm in Boston whose name was perfectly well known. Suspicions of all strangers, no matter what their external display might be, the jewelry agent was happily chary of his confi dence. He, however, accepted an invi- oi some deli- | tation to smoke in the oar provided for that purpose several oars ahead. Having ohatled quietly for some time, the strau- ’ stood up and crossing the aisle en- ivored to torn over or double one of the seats, in order to provide a place on which to stretch oat his legs The usual difficulty with the look prevailed. After feigning to be quite pat oat about it, he” casually asked the jewelry agent if he would loan him his cheek a moment. He wanted to slip it down upon the catch in order to throw it ont of place. He Heo seer the seats unlocked in that way. The agent declined to allow his check to go out of his posseesion, a refusal which angered tne stranger. The agent, getting ap. said: “You have get the wrong pig by the It will be a cold day when you get my oceok.” He then qnit the ear. The thief would hare exchanged checks under the pretense of it to unlock the seat. This ruse is a clever one. it has been operated successfully in several esses in the West. Not one person in a hundred ever notioee the number of his check. Halt a teaspoonful of carbolic add in a gill of milk is recommended by Mr. J. A. Dodge, in the Journal of Agricul ture, as an' exoellemt remedy tot hog khoiera. do torn np now they fetch hundreds of pounds, and as for old Venetian glass, it has literally disappeared. Yet the shops, numerous as they are, contrive to make a fair show. The Italian loves color and instinetively understands its harmonies. A poor display of worthless things is tastefully and attractively arranged. The latest craze is for rich brocades, small pieces o! which, quite useless for any purpose except to make a banner-screen, sometimes sell for several Euglish pounds. These things are very effective in the decoration of the shops, as are also imitation majolica, and forged bronzes, to say nothing of the mock jewelry of the last century, much of which now comes into the muket and attracts the ordinary tourist. These articles help to keep the onriosity shops open; but the finer works that still remain in the country are seldom seen among them, except perhaps with a few large dealers, who, possessing sufficient capital, can aflord to wait for the wealthy collector. The good things come chiefly from remote places in Umbria, and are the private property of old families, who are forced to sell them by reason of the compulsory division of property on the deaths of the heads of houses, or are tempted by hearing ot the great increase of prices. Among such things was lately to be seen, for instance, a plaque or tile of Gnbbio ware, the indubitable work of Maestro Giorgio, minted with a Madonna en throned, r jd saints on either side, deli cately drawn, gorgeous in color, fall 0! gold lustre and the precious and inimi table ruby red. It was certainly beautiful object, and a few years ago might have been valued at as mnoh as thirty or forty Napoleons. The modern price is £800. This is not to be seen in shop, nor is a plate by the same master for which 1,000 francs is asked. Some Strange Heltefe. The String* of Sound. The Chinese bill tribes believe that man has only three jouls, and these are satis factorily disposed of. One appropriately and conveniently remains m the 'grave, another takes up his position at the an cestral board, and the third roams about unrestrained in the spirit world, and not necessarily upon earth. Many ot the hill women are fond, as in India, of giving their dead child a dog, or (by dint of prayers and supplications) the departed spirit ot an old and experienced person as a guide, that the wanderer may not miss its way on the path to the spirit world. For this reason It was that the Mongolian: sent slaves to accompany their dead prin ces. The Chinese, however, have a more humane idea. They believe that since It is likely that the dead man wrl be unable to find bis way safely to the world of spirits, and may as probably as not stray irom the right path, the kings of the under world would turnish him with a little devil to act tne part of guide and servant to the newiy-disembodied spirit on Its Journey. The Poles used to have a notion, of a similar kind, though they, like the Chinese, did not display it in snch an un pleasant way far survivors. It wss their custom to lay bears' claws in the grays to serve the cNuf man ss hooks, with the help of which he might climb the great glass mountain. According to ths com mon notion among the Karens tin dead renew as “pin pho” In the world of Pin, under the sovereignty of the grant King Cootay or Theedo. the occupations which they had followed while as yet mortals upon earth—• curious hint at the o ! sys^m ot the Hindoos, which has no place I with the Karans while they are alive. Violin, guitar and banjo strings and in fact all sorts that oome under the general head of “gut” aie made from entrails qL lambs and cattle, from ueucate TfirSaMs moa ror eewtuK racket ball covers to the half inch thick round belts. After a lamb is 7 months old its entrails are no longer fit or making strings for violins; conse quently this branch of the manufac ture can only be carried on a few months in each year. Few people have any idea of the many uses to which gut strings are now put. They are used to hold np clock weights, for belting, for the Lacing of lawu tennis and racket bats, for lacrosse scoops, for weaving flue white covers, for sew ing covers on balls, for jewelers’ drills and for a thousand things, I suppose, that even 1 do not know of. All the work of making gut strings is about the same, but greater care has to be exercised in preparing those in tended for musical instruments than others. The process of manufacturing those is comparatively simple, but far from easy. Wheu the entrails, for whieh a good price has to be paid, are thoroughly cleaned, they are split with a razor. Oaly one-half is fit for use in violin strings. That is the upper or smooth halt The lower half is fatty, rough, and of unequal thickness. Tne strips are put through rollers turned by hand for eight or nine days, to take all the stretch out of them. 1|hen they are spnu or twisted. Five or si^ strands go to make an E string, eight or nine an A stnng, and twelve are pat into a D string. Then they go through a bleaching bath of snlphor fumes. After that they are twisted again. Then they are softened in pearlash water, again subjected to the action of the snlphor fames, twisted again, dried, and finally rubbed down smooth with pumice stone. Altogether it takes ten or eleven days to make a string. When done, they are each seventy-two inches long—four lengths for a violin— and thirty of them coiled separately tied together make np the “handle’’ of the trade. There is one maker in Italy who, by some secret process of his own, secures and guarantees perfect accuracy throughout for every string he makes. He does not make more than sixty or one bandied bandies a year, but his strings oommaod $10 per han dle here—cost that to the importer- while other Italian strings are worth only #3 or and others only 32,50, Presentiment*. “It may not have been fifty years ago,” said a gentleman whose yean did not seem to warrant the belief that he was in active life much longer than fifty yean ago, “and it may have been longer, when Dr. Linn was the colleague of Colonel Benton in the United States Senate. 1 was reminded by a chance pircumstance only a few dajrs ago of an incident in which he and Mrs. Linn played » part. She, like her husband, was a great fa vorite in Washington society, and de servedly so—not more on account of her personal attractions than her Intellectual qualities. On the occasion when the in cident to which I have referred occurred Senator and Mrs. Linn were to be the guests at a formal dinner by the Presi dent at the White House. Early in the evening Dr. Linn, feeling somewhat ill, concluded to remain in his lodgings. Mr. Webster calling at the moment, he wss re quested to escort Mrs. Linn and convey to the President hU regrets at not being able to one of his guests. At the proper hour Mrs. Linn, escorted by Mr. Webstetg her carnage to fine he company h&i' not been table when Mrs. Linn rem&rke(MwTS^n^38iiiJiyvfhoee side she was seated, that shA feared •he h not done right la Ittvlng the Doctor, and that she' felt an iracUnation, if she could do so without enuring the oocasloH, to return to her n>tel. Mr. Webster made some observati A designed to dissuade her from departing Khen, say ing that if she felt so disposedwhe could leave at an earlier hour than tKe rest of the company. So strongly dic^kthe im pulse to go grow on her that s^Ln after she made it known to Mr. Webt^w, and so urgent was she that he did as 1 quested, and made known to the dent her wishes. Mr. Webster accotn^ pamed her to the carriage, and at her request returned to the table. Her in struction to the driver was to proceed rapidly to her home, and twice on the way she enjoined him to drive faster. AraviDg at the spot, without waiting for the groom to open the carriage door, she m the quickest manner opened it herself and hurried to the room where she bad left her husband. As she en tered she beheld her husband on the bed and the clothing in flames. A moment more would have been loo late. Dr. Linn was in a stupor, and in some manner which wss never perfectly explained, the bed clothes had taken fire. He was ill for a number of days. His life was saved apparently through his wife’s presenti ment, which 1 think was as remarkable as any on record. Mrs. Linn related the facts to Mr. Webster in my presence, on his calling the next morning. ” “1 am reminded by this,” said another of the company, “ot what the Hon. N. P. Talmadge, many years a Senator from Senator WnghC told me several years after he had retired from public life. He had moved to Fond du Lac, Wia., where he became a Spiritualist, of the school of Robert Dale Owen. *006 morning,’ said the ex-Senator, ‘my daugh ter, with much agitation, Informed me that she had, during the night, seen In her sleep a steamer on Lake Michigan go to pieces in a gale; when a large number of persons were drowned, and among them her sitter, whose return home from New York was expected about that tune. All tne particulars were vividly impressed on her mind, and were narrated with the greatest minuteness. It was the season of gates, late in the falL I was and am now a believer in presentiments. Taking a hasty breakfast, my d&ughther and myself started in a carriage for Sheboy gan, the port near which the vision lo cated the disaster. It was a drive of reveral hours. On reaching the place we found the entire community out on the ' lake shore, drawn thither by a wreck. The propeller Pioneer had been wrecked the night before in a fearful gale. Be- -tween 50 and 100 lives were lest. Among the lost was my daughter. The particu lars were in nearly every respect as they had been previously related. The facta were substantially In agreement with the vision or presentiment.’ Mr. Talmadge was all the more firm in his belief in supernalurallam after that, and with Mr Owen pursued his investigations into its mysteries, which the latter related subse quently In his book entitled ‘Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World.’ ” Guardian and Ward. In deciding a petition for leave to ex- paud money for the Flade minors of Philadelphia. Judge Hanna gave some important advice respecting the duties of guardians in the management of their wards’ estates. A guardian, the Judge said, was entitled to the custody of his ward, and was bound to maintain him in a style suitable to the ward’s means and condition in life. If either or both parents were living they were entitled to Ihe custody of the child for n’trfure and education. It was also to be remembered that as the father was oouhd to support his own chklrea, not withstanding they possessed a seperate estate, he could nqt, although guardian, appropriate toe income from their prop- •erty for that purpose, much less disturb the principal. But if his private means and income were small, he would be allowed assistance from their fortunes to enable him to bring them up in be coming ‘dyle; and where a mother was unable to propferly support her children she would, upon sufficient reasons being shown, not only be reimbursed the cost of their past maintenance but also gran ted an allowance for future support. The Pig and the Dog. On account of his unsocial disposition, the greyhound is so troublesome m to be excluded from many kennels. A game- keeper in the North having one of these animals given Into his charge, was for a while tormented by its noise and miscon duct, and at lost became obliged to turn him out to wander wherever be pleased. Now, there happened to be s pig on the same premises which also enjoyed free dom. To the astonishment of everybody, these two formed a fast friendship, so close that they fed together, slept together, and kept constantly in company, without the one ever showing the slightest hostility toward the other. The dog, that had formerly kept up a perpetual quarrel among his own race, now seemed anxious to accommodate himself to the ways of his new friend; while the pig m his turn seemed equally willing to stand high in the favor of the hound. After this state of tilings had gone on for some time, they came to understand something of the natural gifts of one another. Living on the condnes of a moor where hares and rabbits abounded, they soon began to do a little quiet hunting ou their own account. The bound being guided by sight more than by scent, found most difficulty in starting his prey; and here the pig; which appears to be endowed with an excellent scent, came to bis assiatanoei Knowing what was required of him, piggy would Unco the hare or rabbit to its lair, and tuea wait for his companion to do the rest. Thus guided, the hound would sometimes take the prey with one bound, or if he failed in that, he gave pursuit: and when the hare or rabbit was captured, re turned with it to the pig, which immedi ately tore it to pieces, to be amicably de voured between them. ^ The keeper, obliged to pat a stop t> this poaching, confined the pig; but the bound showed his constancy by following his friend to the sty, where he lived with him ward on the best of terms, the hound oonld leap over the with the gresteat esse, he never ted to supply the I bans or rabbits. '■ HHI -Sr*-! - % ■ y >;