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►»* . - f 4.-^ tm. jl. ., Dumectio Down*.—ENGLAND. All Yorkshiremen are born sports men . Tnere bas been racing on Don caster Town Moor tor certainly over two centuries. It was a great spot in olden times for badger-baiting, oook- figbting, wrestling, ondgel playing and other old English games. There are more acres of land in this country than there are letters in the entire Bible, The people are clannish aud speak with a twang which requires an education to understand off-hand, but, once under stood, grows musical to the oar in exact proportion as the people wax brawny and their ways grow stedy. More than in any other portion-.of England they suggest the Sootoh to the stranger. Foreigners hear much of the old Roman glories of Chester, the historic town within an hoar of Liverpool. But, although but little is talked of it, the town of Doncaster is rich in historic lore. Twelve miles away is Sheffield, which is, as everyone knows, tne seat of cutlery manufacture in England. Near by is Kothersham aud other large towns, from all of which thousands of pedestrians journey by road on foot to the races on the Doneaster Moor. Thous ands also journey by drivers and sun dry conveyances, from donkey carts up to swell carriages, as the social class vanes in grade, while from London flock thousands more by rail. Nothing could have been more per fect than the day of the great Leger race this year. By reason of tue great distance from London it is never as popular a race with the lad.es as Ascot and the Derby. To the latter race flock an exceedingly mixed crowd, every poor little cosiermonger finding euoiiRh money to be on hand on Derby day, while to Ascot come the dames of high degree in superb toilets and gay caval cades. bt, Leger holds her own, how ever, among rich lords and landed gent ry, and iu a business point ot view is doubtless the most important race ot the season. There was not, however, as much enthuiasm as usual this year, iu spite of the baimy sunshine, wnioh loimed an ideal btptember day, For the race oi the day mere were only nine starters, Li rd Falmouth absented him- sell and loaned out his jockey, Frt d Archer, the pet of all race's, wuo rode a horse, R.yal Angus, ou whom there was but Imle faith pinned. Ho was a clean, lithe animal, but had a “trick of going dead lame all ol a sudden,” said tne bystanders. Archer, wnh Ins wiry figure and lace whose plainness is its beauty—it is such a brown berry, de- honnaiie soil ol a face—looked in tre mendous ernest aud a trifle anxious as he shot into the enclosure eu route to the track, which is a good mile and three quartern stretch from ttailing point to winning post. At a quarter-past three, the hour fixed lor the big race, it wai evnleut that the attendance ou the Moor would be one of the largest ou record, although the horses were Ulterior to the usual candidates ou former St. Leger occas ions. It is estimated that there were lully a million spectatoi s, Iu the grand stand weie seen some ot the best-known lords and ladies oi England, iu the press stand, where, 1 am ashamed to say, wiin the usual couscrvative sp rit here, lauies of the press were exolm.ed, ouiy because it was an inuovatmn — “never had been done, you know’’— weie representatives ol all the London sporting journa.s, as also numbers ol provincial reporters of all pa taming to "horsey maiteis.” And in the main en closure, to whch I was admitted through the courUsy of a well-known journalist Ueie, 1 saw more than one modern Bur narcourt Couitiy aud Lady (Jay bpanker, together with sonbbleia galoie. I don’t believe there is a woman lives w ho can stand with her lace pressed to the bais of tha dividing line oi a race track and not feel her heal t bound guy- ly as the hordes dart by no den oy tne satm-jacketed jockeys. And the hoists themscives look so proudly concioa . Indeed, they are cleverer ihau vast numbers of meu aud women we dally meet and smirk and bow and flatter be fore. bince Fetisrch defeated eight opponents, in IbTti, there has not been so small a field. Theio was Cecil Crav en, on whom was heavy betting; Chuci- hursi, the North candidate; Royal AngUF, Highland Chief, Ludislas, Eize- vir, Fiince, who looked from the start most likeiy to win the day; O-siau and Cornheid, who made the first ap pearance ou this occasbn and was lust irom start to finish, save for a few meagre yards. Fred Webb rode High land Chief and felt like winning ou him, but the colt suddenly gave way. There was breathless interest until the win ning point was gained. 'Ihe Duke ol Hamilton, who returned Horn Baden Baden two days belore the race, had wagered heavily ou Ostium He watched the race with intense though supressed excitement At last the bed is mug, there ensues a moment of dead quiet aud suddenly the Duke's face bleaks into a but 11..sb aud up goes a roar ot applause lor Ossian, tne winner oi tUe great St. Lt g. r race for 1883. Tne Duke won $loU,U0 on Ossian and he was wiialy congratulated. During tne day he had personally accepted 2,1X0 to 2iU ou Osstau. Watts rode the winner and takes Doncaster honors for the first time, it will be recalled that Waits rode FoxhalJ, J. W. Keene’s (the Ken tucky millionaire) horse. Tne best runners this year broke down during training. Ciuselhurst had been the best North Country candidate; Ossiun was a South Country horse, but the- true Yerkshiremen is none the lees generous iu his praise to the winuer, aud even those who had lost most heavi ly were most enthusiastio in giving all due praise and cheer. The prince oi Wales, being away irom England, was not at the St, Leger this year, which ia unusual lor him, but there were piesent many well-known personages, to enumerate one-quarter of whome would be dire folly to at tempt. But there were conspicuously observed among the spectators Lord and Lady Somerset, Sir Tatton and Lady Sykes, the Duke of Beaufort, Prince boltykot), the Duke of Portland, the Countess of Feyeroham, Yisoonnt and Viscountess Newport, Baron F. de Rothschild, Captain blingsby, Mr. Reu ben Sassoon, the popular Captain Fish er, of the Tenth Hussars; Captain Fort- escure, Mr. Herbert Vane Tempest aud scotea of others equally well known in Loudon society. Tne Duke of Hamil ton, to whom St. Leger has proven a “mascot'’ this year, had his house in Bentuick street gaily deoorated at the close of the day witn his colors. And tr > Duke of Hamil ton who is regarded oy many as a sort of modern Jack St. Leger, reaviized inhimself, with no dis senting voice, the motto of the St. Leger crowd, which is now, as always, “Honor to the v.otor, no matter whence he comes.” The Earth Where We Dwell. The whole conditions of nature are disposed into circles. Heavenly bodies revolve around each other, or on their own axes. The animal inspires oxygen and nitrogen and expires carbonic acid gas and nitrogen, while the vegetable inspires carbonic acid gas and expires oxygen; which in its turn unites again with the free nitrogen and is again prepared for animal use. And the vegetable, which retained the carbon, is eaten by the animal, and is ready to be transformed for the benefit of the vegetable again. In the action of the waters of the earth and the atmosphere the same law prevails; they constantly revolve in their sphere. The winds are caused by the rays of the sun heat ing the atmosphere at the equator and causing it to ascend, thereby creating a vacuum, and the cold air from the poles entangles its way along the sur face of the earth disturbed by numer ous obstacles calculated to change its course, until it rushes into the vacuum caused by the absence of the heated air, and heated air passes over, aud as it chills falls at the poles into the vacuum created by the absence of the cold air. The waters of the earth are exercised by the same causes. The heat at the equator causes the water to volatilize and ascend into clouds, causing a vacuum in the waters; these are borne on by the winds until they come to the earth at' the poles, aud here they fall and are precipitated into the sea, form ing the great oceanic current which bears them back again to the vacuum created by their absence at the equator. The disposition of the upper currents of air, so far as can be determined by ascent north of the equator, is from the southeast to the northeast, and south of the equator from the north west to the southwest; but above this point it is not unreasonable to think that their disposition is with but little variance from equator to pole ou a straight line. As these waters are the fruitful cause of most of the conditious we have mentioned, it is to this source that we must look for future convulsions aud upturnings. “And darkness was upon the face of the deep,” and the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters, and God said: “Let the waters under tiieheaven be gathered togethered unto one place, and let the dry land appear,” We quote Genesis as an evidence according lo the Bible that the waters were adequate to cover the entire earth, which is the only documentary evi dence we have and which we believe to be true. In the absence of light and solar heal at this epoch we do not suppose that the earth bore living ob jects. If this he true the marine ob jects once possessed of life found iu the interior of continents and on the high mountains could not have been de posited at that time, consequently they must have been conveyed there at some subsequent merging, and how couid this have been done but by some dis turbance which caused the ocean to break its boundaries? We know that by revolving a basin- like receptacle containing water, the water is not spilled, and we understand the waters of the ocean are retained in their place on the same principle, and in oxxier for them to escape and sub merge the land the* revolutions must stop. Has tnis ever taken place? To account for the presence of numerous fossils of marine life upon our moun tains, ihe furrowing of the rocks iu the drift epoch; the wandering rocks resting on the verge of mountain ledges, the sweeping away of the great living terrestrial objects at one stroke, and the reversing of climate from ex treme torrid to frigid, we say to answer yes is the most reasonable way to ac count for it. And how was this ac complished? Simply by the ocean bearing the solid materials from the poles to the equator aud depositing them there, thereby breaking the bal ance, and causing the eartir to seek new centres. It must be plain to every observer that the waters volatilize at the equator take up with them no solid matter, but ou their deposit and transit to the ocean they convey vast quantities, and the great ocean currents sweeping down from the polos to the equator are constantly conveying on and dropping untold quantities which never return. We have only to look at our coast lines to see that all the solid materials of our eartli are being conveyed to the torrid zone. All our shores with a Northern aspect have abrupt banks and cliffs, which are constantly crumb ling into tiie sea, and all those with a Southern aspect are flat and are travel ing equatorward. The same is true from tiie South Pole, and what must inevitably be the result? Simply that tiie poles must go ou flatteuing aud the equator expanding until the pres ent axis is broken, when the revolu tions will cease and the sea break its boundaries aud the great icy harriers of the poles will be broken up aud they will be swept across tiie oscillating earth, which is now seeking now cen tres, rasping and farrowing its solid surface, dropping upon tiie hill-tops their teeth-like boulders; the unchained sea, hearing its living freight, will sweep over the earth, burying in the mountain tops the remains of its occu- pants; and the dwellers on the land only known to an equatorial climate will he entombed where they were cre ated, hut now resting in a frigid zone, and the fossilated remains of the new equator will be the little sharp-toothed caruifors of our now frigid zone. Fanny Davenport. A writer says: As 1 was passim? through Fourth avenue the other day 1 saw a lady, richly attired, coming towurU me whose face was familiar, but whose term I did not recognize. As she came closer she nodded and, turning to me with a bright smile, said merrily: “Ah! i see you do not remember me. Look again. ” I looked, and saw that it waa Fanny Davenport. But bow changed! She bad fallen away in flesh almost to thinness, and 1 couid hardly believe that this was the buxom Fanny of only a few yean ago. “All diet, my dear Man About Town,” she said archly, noticing my surprise. “You see I am to play Fedora on Monday night, and it ~ould never do to present a fat Fe^ dors. 1 took to dieting. You ae what it has done for me- Don't you call that devotion to art!” So when you go to see “Fedora,” don’t be surprised at the change you will find in the fair Fanny. She is no longer fair and fat, but fair and fairy like. Ths New haven Fishwives. Most picturesque of all the figures to be seen in Edinburgh aretheNewhaveu fishwives. With short, full, blue cloth petticoats, reaching barely to their ankles; white blouses and gay ker chiefs; big, loug-sleeved cloaks of the same blue cloth, fastened at the throats, but flying loose, sleeves and all, as if thrown on In haste; the girls barehead ed, the married women with white caps, standing up stiff aud straight in a point on the top of the head; two big wicker work creels, one above the other, full of fish, packed securely, on their broad shoulders, and held in place by a stout leather strap passing around their fore heads, they pull along at a steady strid ing gate, up hill and down, carrying weights that it taxes a man’s strength merely to lift. In fact, it isa fishwife’s boast that she will run with a weight which it takes two men to put on her back. By reason of this great strength on the part of the women, and their immemorial habit of exercising it; per haps also from other causes far back in the early days of Jutlana, where these curious Newhaven fishing folk are said to have originated, it has come about that the New haven men are a singular ly docile and submissive race. The wives keep all the money which they receive for the fish, and the husbands take what is given them,--a singular reversion of the situation in most com munities. I did not believe this when it was told me, so I stopped three fish wives one day, aud, without mincing matters,put the question direct to them. Two of them were young, one old The young women laughed saucily, and tiie old woman smiled, but they all re plied unhesitatingly, that they had the spending of all the money. “It’s a’ spent i’ the boos,” said one, anxious not to be thought too selfish,— “it’s a’ spent i’ the hoos, The mefi, they cam home an’ tak their sleep, an then they’ll be aff ageu.” “It ’ud never do for the husbands to stoop iu the city, an’ be spendin’ a’ the money,” added the old woman, with se vere emphasis. Whoever would see the Newhaven fishwives at their best must be on the Newhaven wharf by seven o’clock in the morning, on a day when the traw lers come in and the fish is sold. The scene is a study for a painter. The fish are In long, narrow boxes, on the wharf, ranged at the base of the sea wall; some sorted out. in piles, each 'chid by itself; skates with their long tails, which look vicious, as if they could kick; hake, witches, brill, sole, flounders, huge cattish, crayfish, and herrings by the ton. 'J he wall is crowd ed with meu. Edinburgh fishmongers, come to buy cheap on the spot. The wall is not over two feet wide, and here they stand, lean over, jostle, slip by to light and left of each other, and run up and down in their eager haste to catch the eye of one auctioneer, or to get first speech with another. The wharf is crowded with women—an army in blue, two hundred, three hun dred, at a time; white caps bobbing, el bows thrusting, shrill voices crying, liery blue eyes shining, it is a sight worth going to Scotland for. The Dune Wttek. Afloat on » Pike-Pole. If the wages of sin is death, some old sinners we know of are a long time drawing their salary. We sometimes meet an original gea- tleman, who if manners had not ex- | isted, would liave invented them. The New Zealander was leaning on his war club with the air of a man tired of civilization aud the refinements of a public museum. The Zulu prince, nine years old, was driving tiie leopard boy across the room as a piebald horse. The fat girl was casting sheep’s eyes at the skeleton, wiiose shadowy affections seemed to be fixed upon tiie Circassian beauty, who sat combing her hair in dreamy recollection of the citron or chards and oriental gardens of the East Side. The man without any arms was acting as private secretary tu the Zulu Queen, and was busy writing with his toes at her dictation a letter to her lov er in Thompson street. A number of visitors were gathered in an interested group iu one end of the room, where a number of people from the East Side were having their minds read by Mrs, Grace Courtland, the “Witch of Wall Street.” She is a lady with the silvery hair of fifty years aud the pink cheeks and blight eyes of a girl of eighteen. Her maimer is vivacious, aud she is a rapid and brilliant conversationalist. “Oh, you are a reporter,” she said. “I suppose the papers and the public are woudering why I came here. Well, it is because I get $500 a week, and if the people don’t like it all I have to say is, witli William II. Vanderbilt, ‘Thepub lic he lia iged.’ You see, Wall street is at a standstill. I am holding losing stocks. I am a bull on a hear market. I am holding wheat, too, in Chicago. The Chicago market lias been terrible. My stocks have shrunken to a mere nothing. 1 received rn offer to come here some time ago. I considered it a long time, and finally made up my mind that rather than to sit iu the Astor house doing nothing I had better be in a Bowery museum. So I came. “Jay Gould, Jim Keene and Russell Sage are coming here to have their minds read and their fortunes told. Jay is very superstitious. He sees his clairvoyant on the sly. I have been the making of Janies Keene iu the market. I saw how shrewd an operator he was before anybody else perceived it. “There, tiie fat girl is coming in to have her mind read. She is eating her dinner, and she has been in such a hur ry to see me that she is nearly choked. She wants me to tell her fortune, for she wants to find out her lover. She is to be married some time this week. I suppose they will want me to be brides maid. The living skeleton will be best man. Standing up with him would he quite a funny experience. There have been crowds here to see me. You must tell slims to beware of me. I horse whipped a slim in Milwaukee. “I lost a fortune hi Wail street. I was there eight years, and am the only woman they never bounced. They couldn’t bounce me. I was too much for them. The managers of the mus eum are rather proud to get Wall St. into the Bowery. Ah, well! I expect they’ll have Jay Gould here before long. Never mind, perhaps Bussell Sage will have to come down to it after awhile. Really, how would this souud: ‘New York Museum. For one week only, Jim Keene, Jay Gotud and Rus sell Sage. Next week the oraug cu- tang.’ “My mother was a Spanish gypsy. You see I am a fortune-teller by birth right. It was easy for me to be taken for a witch. I have predicted the mar ket for the last five years. I predicted the death of President Garfield. When Foxhall was in the height of his reputa tion I predicted that he had seen his Lest days. Six months later he was unfit for the turf. Two years ago I predicted that Jay Gould would try to sell out Western Union to the Govern ment at $100,000,000. No one dreamed of any such thing then. The men of the foundered steam barge Oakland in Lake Erie were picked up recently by the Red Cloud. After cruising for that purpose for some time the meu on the tug discovered far away offGonneaut something white floating on the water. Then came floating over the water a cry for help, and a flag was seen to be waved from the white object as a signal of distress. Immedi ately the tug’s course was changed toward the floating object, and all eyes were strained to catch any indication of life, Nearer and nearer the tug ap proached, until a raft of lumber, con taining four human beings, could be plainly discerned tossing and careening about on the wave". To the persons on the raft nevtr did a lake craft move slower than did the Red Cloud, and woen it finally approached within hail ing distance they sent np a shont of gladness which was answered back by the rescuers on the tng. On the raft were Capt. Stephens. Robert Hanna, Charles Dixon, aud another sailor whoso name could not be learned. They were in a most pliable plight and almost completely exhausted. They had been tossed about at the mercy of the wind and waves, drenched to the skin and almost frozen in the bitter wind which had been blowing almost steadily. Not a thing had they had to cat or drink, aud it rtquired their every exertion to keep from being washed from their frail craft by the mad rash of the waves. All the men, with the exception of Capt. (Stephens, had on their clothes, but the lat er was almost entirely naked, a shirt being the only piece of apparel to pro tect him from the coid and water. Al most dead from cold and exposure, the captain and his oomra iea were lifted on board the tug aud provided with warm clothing and food. The tag then head ed for Ashtabula, arriving there shortly afterward. E. Davis, a little bright-eyed old man, who served on the ill-tated Oakland as steward and cook, and who was among the eight escaping irom the vessel, was found sitting on the edge of a coal barge on the docks recently and he told tne following story: “About a quarter to 5 o'clock in tiie morning we noticed that the Oikland waa listing to port— that is, was keeled over on the p*rt side. The mate, Andrews, was on watch, and he sent the watchman down to the engineer to inquire if there was any water in the hold. The engineer replied that there waa not. The vessel kept listing strongly, and the mate concluded to call the captain, but the latter could not be found. Tne watchman hunted high and low, but no trace of the master could be found. Then it was we thought he had been lost over-board. At that time, a little after 5 o’clock, the lee bulwarks were clear under water and the sea was running high. Jurt then the captain came up stairs from the engineer’s loom, where he had beeu asleep, he having gone there because the sinte-foom leaked badly. He Lad nothing ou but bis shirt. Tue waves in creased in fury all the time, and the vessel tossed terribly. The wind was blowing hard from the north. Just afier the oaptaiu came on deck, two monstrous seas washed aboard, striking the cabin lengthwise and breaking it m as though it was but an egg-shell. Everything iu the steward’s and cook’s departments, bags and baggage, was washed overboard, aud all the fires were put out, luotudiug the one in the engine. Tueu it was that we thought of leaving the craft to her fate. The small boat was lowered, and eight of us, inoiudmg the mate, sprang in. the captain refused to go with us, say ing the boat was over-loaded and would founder before we could reach shore. Three of the sailors concluded to stay wnh the captain and nsk it on the Oak land. We bade them good-bye and pushed off, For live long, weary hours we were tossed about by the wind aud waves, almost every sea that rushed by striking us and, aside from drenching us to the skin, filled our little cockle shell boat with, water. We kept bailing constantly, and all were rapidly be coming exhausted, We had a pike- pole on board, aud this was fixed up la the bow aud attached a quilt to it for a sail. This drove us before the wind, and between 10 and 11 o’clock we landed off Gonueaut light, turned our boat up on its side on the beach and laid down to recover from our exhaustion. We never saw the Oakland but once after we left it, aud that was after we had got about two miles away, Then ad we cou.d see was the colors at the mast head floating about two feet above the water. We concluded then that the captain aud the three sailors had been iosu” Pentellan Marbis. Although Fentehan marble and ail monuments made of it have at first a beantiluliy wmte and brilliant appear ance, yet after a while, sometimes with in a tew months, sometimes not for years, they exhibit reddish brown spots and stains, and marble columns of Pen- teliau marble gradually become covered with a reddish brown film of oxide of iron. The color comes srom sulphide of iron (pyrites) that frequently occurs in fine streaks in this marble and is ox idized in the coarse of time by the action of air and water and can then be recognized, very disagreeably, by their dark color. The spores of cryptogam- ons plants, such as freeh and salt water alg«, germinate in these red streaks. The new academy at Athens was built of such Pentelian marble, and while hundreds of the blocks used still remain perfectly white and will probably re main so a long time, others already show yellow, brown, and even black spots. On the other hand, Parian marble, from which the old sculptors Praxiteles and Phidias chiseled their statues, has the property of remaining always white, because it contains no iron. Both kinds of marble have this excellent quality, ramely, that they do not weather, lose t» eir lustre, and look like the shells of boiled eggs, as is the case with Carrara marble. The name of marble, from its Greek derivation, signifies a stone that glistens on the broken or fractured surfaces. To im part to new marble tne appearance of old, which is neoeashry in repairing injured antiquities, it may be painted over with a very dl nte solution of oholoride of irun, whereupon the new pieces acquire a fine yeilowish-red color, similar to that produced by the influ ence of air and water for centuries upon the old marble. Dreams. What is a dreamt Is it a temporary frolic of the brain, which, released from the guidance of reason, relaxes from rules and laws aud indulges in a little mco herent amusement of Us own, as the chairs and tables are said to do when the family have gone to bed and the house is still? Does it originate and in vent its fantastic images, or are they merely the shadows and echoes of past events? Is it a psychological influence or a spiritual one, or a blending of both! There certainly have been dreams that foretold events which came true, and how then did the sleeper get his premonitory knowledge? B ittlos of hot water placed to the feel will produce certain impres sions and dreams of a vague and unsatis factory nature. Ice applied to the temples will give happy dreams, in which rare colors appear before the dr* amens eyes. But these are effects caused by the bodily sensations, and are communicated to the brain by nerves and not by occult intelligence. A French writer is quoted as saying that to dream gloriously we must act glo riously while we are awake, and to bring down angels to converse with us in our sleep we must lab^r in the cause of virtue during the day. There can lie no possible doubt that the same idea or train of ideas which pursues us through the day follows ua into the land of dreams, and runs up and down the ladder of sleep with a persistency which often is annoy ing and wearisome. Sometimes the idea that eluded us in the day comes to us at night. Musicians have found a lost chord in their dreams; mathematicians have decided abstruse calculations by the correct figures which their waking minds could not grasp, but which came lo them clearly when they were sound asleep, and were with them when they awoke. Franklin had several of his projects decided for him by dreams. Sir J. Hei- schel composed poetry In his sleep, wmch he committed to paper on awaken ing. Goethe says In his memoira: “The objects which had occupied my attention during the day olten reappeared at night In connected dreams. In the morning 1 was accustomed to record my dreams on paper.” Coleridge composed his poem of the “Abyssinian Maid” in a dream, and it was said of Lord Jeffrey that, although he went to bed at night with events, plans and dates all in a whirl in his head, during sleep “they crystallized around their proper centres. ’’ li is considered among people of edu cation and refinement a vulgar habit to relate dreams or attach any importance to them; yet we are told of Lord Bacou that he himself records a dream in which he saw his father’s bouse in the country plastered all over with black mortar, and he had no doubt on awaking that ho should hear bad tidings. it actually proved true, as his father died ou the very night on which he dreamed When Postmaster Jewell was dying he awoke from a sleep and inquired U any thing was wrong In the family of—, mentioning his brother-in law's name, they told him there was not, when he remarked, “Very strange!” and added that he had dreamed there was. Dis brother-in-law had just died, but the tamily deemed it beat to keep the news from him, fearing fatal results. in the old Bible days young meu saw visions and old men dreamed breams, and great importance was attached to them, as the history of Joseph shows. The Egyptians and Babylonians governed their lives by dreams, as ihe Chinese do to-day. Ignorant people fortify themselves with what is called a dream-book. By reading it for an interpretation we find that to dream of snakes denotes an enemy; to dream ot money denotes good lues; to dream of a looKing-glass, treason; to dnflfhr of receiving letters is a good omen; to dream of pearls, poverty and misery; to dream of peanuts, you will be poor, con tented, hearty, and happy; to dream of a wedding is a sign of a funeral, and to dream of a funeral you will go to a wed ding. It is believed that certain days aud conditions will regulate the quality of the dream. Fortune, marriage, aud death are the events which the dreamer is always en deavoring to interpret. The first two belong naturally to those who are begin ning liie. Gamblers think a great deal ot their dreams in regard to cards, but as it is nard to control those erratic mes sengers, & class of people called fortune tellers do the dreaming for a consideration, and predict luck. The queen of hearts is considered favor able to marriage and riches. To dream of this card is great good luck. The jack of npadea is an ill omen. 1'bere are condi tions attached to the obje its dreamed of. If a young man dreams of marrying a pretty girl he will be sure to marry a sim plelon; and if a girl dreams she has a nice- looking lover, it is a sure sign she will lake up witn a putty head. There is tins peculiarity of dreams: they all stop just short of fulfilment. It we dream of a banquet we awake just as we raise the viands to our lips. We dream of thirst but not of quenching it. We dream of flying, and just as we launch out aud are about lo enjoy the delightful sen sation of floating in space we awake with a bumped head from having come in con tact with the floor. AB English Hedgerow. A woman should never accept a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her judgment. The greatest happiness in this life Is to be thoroughly resigned to providence, a resignation which constitutes the true repose of life. J<et us pause for a moment and took at one of these August hedgerows, which in their confused mingling of straggling stems and shoots and sprays have a beauty proper to this season atone. Behind a oitch filled and bordered with flowers, bracken, grass, and brambles, rises a dense growth of hazel and young oak, with long hawthorn sprays desenbing a slender curve against the sky, and here and there the fresh green ot some vigorous rose-shoot showing amid the darker foliage. The wild rosea, loveliest of climbing hedge flowers, are over now; but the honey suckle twines its red tinged sterna and honey-colored flowers among the nut trees, Hud everywhere the bramble is spreading —the bramble, which with its red, thorn- studded shoots, set with bright green five-leaved sprays, us pale, downy buds and delicate crumbled pink-and-white blossoms, holds us own among the more beautiful of onr wayside plants. Where some hidden spring feeds the earth with moisture, the feathery spikes of the meadow-sweet scent the air. More con spicuous still, the great hemlock heads rear their tough, s'rong stalked growth in every ditch among the drooping grassea. But it is the time for red flowers as Spring ia more especially the time for yellow. Dandelions are. indeed, of all seasons, and the shining gold of the BL John’s won abounds. But thistles of every shade, from deep crimaon to pale lilac-pink, are in bloom; the foxglove ia not yet over; mallows open large rooe-colored flowers on the grassy banks; red sorrel and the starry pink ceutaurea are conspicuous among the terns and bracken, while the vivid red of the young oak shoots glows against the sunlight and the sky. it is the latest bloom of Summer, and seems to hare gathered to itself some ot the warmth and color ot the most ardeut moments of the year. Ths Flagns at Ssa. In the gray light of a July morning we made a sail dead ahead, close upon the outskirts of retreating night. In twenty minutes we heard the report of firearms from her deck and saw that her flag was at halt-mast in token ot distress. A murmur of excited sympathy ran through the great throng upon the deck of the steamer. There was another, of disap pointment, when the purser told us it was a Spanish brig. It was as if we had wasted our compassion—an impulse natu ral to the Saxon breast. Iiorn of the fierce blood of those who peered through the stormy passes of the Alps into the Elysian fields o! Latin foes. The steady throbbing ot the screws slackened and ceased a» we closed upon the quarter of the helpless brig. In a light western air, she lay with topsails backed and her jibs and spanker idly swaying to aud fro. Four men were on her deck, and as we approached, lowered s boat astern, hauled it slowly alongside, and entering it left the ship. She was apparently deserted. They rowed pain fully toward our steamer, and we gath ered on the port side where the rope ladder had been hung, to catch the first glimse of their faces. This we could not do; the four wore wide sombreros and bent to their oars feebly but persistently, never looking up. Our captain hailed them impatiently—they only waved their hands between dippings of the oars. They were now alongside, and the bow oarsman clutched the ladder and begun to climb to the deck. Two others followed mm, all three banging like spiders on the narrow way, resting at every round. The most intense excitement was visible in every face that watched them from the steamer s deck. Our captain hailed them from the bridge, and as before, each man waved a hand in a mechanical way. Then the captain came to the ladder awaiting their coming. The fourth uiau sat still in the boat, but those who noticed saw him bending forward as he sal until the broad brim of his hat touched the gun wale, and the black locks of bis hair showed from behind. He seemed help less or asleep, but attracted little attention as the others climbed closer to the deck. At last the uppermost had his hand upon the steamer’s rail; a few more steps and he would be ou deck. A hundred hands weie ready to aid him in what seemed a task beyond his power. But the captain thrust them all away, and reaching foiward lifted his hat from his head. A general exclamation of horror broke from our eager group. There, not two feet from the rail, looked up the visage of D^ath—a yellow, shrivelled face, and eyes that burned with the weak and cruel fire ot wasting life. Long and matted hair and mustache sweeping down made the picture beyond faul*. it was the look ot the baser man, after the divine and humau elements ot his nature die away In hunger, thirst or bodily distress, leaving to his useless frame the reptile ouiy, from whose depths the strict Darwinians claim ascent. An impulse of terrible diead sewed all who looked into the sallow face, askant in all the fear of sudden death. The captain motioned back the maa. He trembled like a leaf and spoke for ihe first time: “Piedad Cielos-1” “Que qiiere V.?” And the answer came in concert al most from the three: “We are dying, senor.” “Of what!’’ “We do not know.” But the captain knew, and we shrank as if from the flames at the words: “They are dying of yellow fever.*' It we had doubted this, the next moment would have proved his judg ment right. The mau remaining in the boat rose suddenly from his seat with a quick, sharp cry, “Saulo Dios! ” and fell upon his back dead. The captain ordered (he others back, promising aid on board their brig. They swore they never would return, aud began climbing with the haste of desperation. Never will I forget the struggle that ensued. The leading Span iard, clinging with both hand-i to the rail, held back by the broad bauds of the cap tain, seemed the active personification of (he plague, doing battle with the lives ot all on board. He was like one mad; he cursed and snapped bis teeth, filling the air with bitter oaths, drawing his feet under him to the highest 'found he could reacii, and throwing all his strength into a final effort. He made it, and was thrust down again by the same strong hands. But his feet had beeu drawn as close to his body so that they slipped from beneath him—and for a single instant he hung above the others. Then he fell, striking the next man and the third, and carrying them with him into the sea. They stnk like plummets, in a moment more there were but three broad hats floating upon the place of their descent. The captain consulted with his first officer, a well thrown pig of Iron crashed through the bottom of the boat, and the bell rang out, “full speed ahead.” When the snn came up the Spanish brig stood (or an instant against its disk and disappeared in the dazzling radi ance of its later rays. Florida Building Material. A collection of the woods of Florida has been forwarded to Louisville, in cluding 180 d fferent kinds, about one- fifth of all in the United States. Tue greater part of them are distinctly Southern woods, but a few are notices ble as being found generally much fur ther north. Among them are sugar .naple, crab .apple, slippery elm, syca more, mahogany, itoxwood, lignum vitas, satin wood and others. The specimens are shown in small segmental blocks, one-half of each polished, exposing the dressed surface, the rough wood and the bark, and will make a very interesting d»8play. In the concrete or “Tabby” houses built in Florida, coarse oyster shells and lime made of the same kind of shell is used instead of, or sometimes in conjunction with, cement. The shell- lime is excellent for the purpose, and, with no other material except for floors and partitions, such a house can be built without the aid of skilled labor, which is very durable, and, compared with brick building, is very cheap. This building material must not be confounded with the ‘ -coquina” of which the antiquated St. Augustine wss built 'Ibis substance, which is peculiar to that neighborhood aud seems to have been furnished by Provi dence to meet the wants of Die Spaniards, who came before the day of saw mtiig and were, perhaps, too indolent to hew timbers from the pines at their elbow, is not as may be supposed, the result of man’s ingenuity, but a conglulinale maw of small pieces of shell, found in the salt lagoons, and always under the surface of the water. It is taken out soft and plastic and may be cut into blocks for building or carved into unique shapes of pitchers, va-.es, paper-weights and brie a-brac, which wcigut the trunks of all touriaia who lake in this city of romantic remem brance. it »ioR bar lens after exposure to the al;, and is tolerably impervious to the w t and so durable (bat relic seekers have made ■> ore Inroads on old Fort Marion tb n Father Tims himself. THE VERDICT -or- THE PEOPLE BUY THE BEST! Mk.J.O. Bom-Dear sir: I bougnt the am Davis Machine sold by you over five years ago (or my wife, who has given it a long and (air trial. I am well pleased with It. It never gives any rouble, and ia as good as when tlrst bought. J. W. 0OMCK. Wluusboro, S. C., Aprh 1888. Mr. Boao: You wish to know what I have to say In regard to the Davis Machine bought of you three J ears ago. I feel i can’t say too much In Its favor. made about (80,oo within live months, at times running It so fast that the needle would get per fectly hot from fncUon. I feel conlldenl 1 could not have done the same work with as much ease and so well with any other maebine. No time lost In adjusting attachments. The lightest running machine I have ever treadled. Brother James and Williams’ families are as much pleased with their Davis Machines bought ot you. I want no better machine. Aa I said before, I don’t think too much can be said for the Davis Machine. Kespet tfully, Ellbn .stsvbnson, Falrfl“ld County, April, 1888. Mb. Boao : My machine gives me perfect astls faction. I dnd no fault with It. The attachments are so simple, i wish for no better than the Davie Vertical Feed. Respectfully. Maa. R. Millino. FalrOeld county, April, 1883. Mb. Boao: 1 oougnt a Davis vertical Feed ewiBg Machine froui yon font years ago. I am •lighted with it. It never has gtveu me any rouble, and has never beeu the least out of order. D Is aa good aa when I drat bought it. I can cheerfully recommend It. Respectfully, Mas. M. J. Kibeland. Montlcello, April 30. 1883. This la to certify that I have been using a Davis Vertical Feed Sewing Machine for over tw > years, purchased of Mr. J. o. Boag. I haven’t found 11 possessed of any fault—all the attachments are ao simple. It never refuses to work, and Is certainly ths lightest running In the market. I consider it s first class machine. Very respectfully. MINNIB M. WllXINUilAM. Oakland, Fairfield county. S. O. Ma Boao : i am wen piesaeu m every pamcui with the Davis Machine nought of you. I think a flrsi-olass machine In every respect. You knew you sold several machines of the same make t< different members of our families, all of whom, as far as I know, are well pleased with them. Respectfully, Mho. M. II. MCSL57. Fairfield county, April, 1883. This is to certify we nave na i in constant uas the Davis Machine bought of you about three yean ago. As we take In work, and have made the price of it several times over, we don’t want say better machine. It is always ready to do any kind of work we nave to do. No puckering or skipping stitches. We can only say we are well please J and wish no better machine, UATBBRINE WTUB AND 8ISTBB, April 85, 1888. I have no tsuIt to find with my machine, anil don’t want any better. I have made tne price of It severe times by taking to sewing. It Is always ready to do its work. I think It a first-class ma chine. I feel I can t say too much for the Davis Vertical Feed Machine. Mas. Thomas Smith. Fairfield county, April, 1883. Mr. J. o. boao—Dear Sir: it gives me much pleasure to testily to the merits of the Bavls Ver tical Feed Sewing Machine. The machine I got ol yon about five years ago. has beeu almost In con stant use ever since that time. I cannot see that it is worn any, and has not cost mo one cent foi repairs since we have had it Am well pleased and don’t wish for any better. Yours tru'y, „ Kobt. Crawvord, Granite quarry, near Wtnnsboro 3. C. We have used the Davis Vertical FeeJ Sewing Machine for the last five years. W# would not have any other make at any price. Ths mao tuna has given us unbounded satisfaction. Very respectfully, Mrs. W. K. Tdrnbb and Dauohtshsi Fairfield couaty, S. C.. Jan. *1.1888. Having bought a Davie vertical Feed Sewing Machine from Mr. J. o. Boag some three years ago, and U having given me perfect satisfaction U everv respect as a tamily machine, both for hea j and tight sewing, and never needed the least re pair in any way, i can cheerfully recommend it to any one as a first-class machlnr in every particu lar, and think it second to none. It is one ot th« simplest machines made; my chil Iren use It witn all ease. The attachments are more easily ad Justed and it doei a greater range of work bi means of its Vertical Feed than any other ma chine I have ever seen or used. „ , Mrs. Thomas Owinos. Wlonsboro, Fairfield coguty, s. c. We have had one of the Davis Machines ab four years and have always found it ready to dc kinds of wont we nave nad occasion to do. Ci see mat the machine is worn any, and works well as wnen new. Mrs. W. J. Crawford, Jackson’s Creek, Fairfield count?, b. i My wife Is highly pleased with the Davis chine boughi of you. She would not take dc waat sne gave tor It. The maculae haa been out of order since she had it. aud she ca any kind of work on It. Very Respectfully, Jab. F. Fhei Montlcello, Fairfield county, s. o. The Davis Sewing Machine Is simply a lr« ur * „ „ Mrs. J. a. uoobWT* Ridgeway, N. C., Jan. 10, K>83. J.O Boao, Kao., Agent-Dear Sir: My i has oeen using a Davis sewing Machine const ly for the past four years, and it haa never nei any repairs an t works Just aa well as when bought She says It win do a greater ratur practical work »nd do it eaaler and better any machine aho uas ever used. We cheer! recommend it ae a No. 1 family machine, Your tnuy, I have always found my Dai i of to work I have i Ma. Boao : . chine ready do all kinds < uasion to do. I cannot see that the m<y-- worn a panicle and it works as wed aa whi Respectfully, . Max R. C. Doom Winns boro, S. C., Apnl, 1888, Mb. Boao : My wife has been constat] the Davis Machine bought of you about 1 a«o. I liave never regretted baying It always ready for any uladof family sewt heavy or light. It Is naver out ot tlx or repairs. Vary respectful) Fairfield, a C., March, 180. **■