Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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V* Wv'**' a ^ ':' ?^p w ** .. ?: * V - - , i . m* ? | ? ' ^ ^| r" ^ | ^ ^ f WmfSBORO, S C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26,1884. . " " - ??^ Melody of Musical Maidens. 3*11 *]ag you a sonz of six musical maidens. Whose lives have been long with a cruel decadence. the first, a too frisky, bold girl, christened Scherzo. i , M Once flirted her skirts so?at least, they as sert so? She angered her nervous old chum, Aggie r Tato, First cousin, though weaker, to strong Annie ifato. And then there's a lovely fair maid, Aii7 Oso, i Ann Dante, sedate, and Imposing Mae Stoso. How I tell a tale of six lachrymose lovers; | W ~f A languishing love In their hearts there still hovers. Qe first Is a soft-hearted lad. Con Amore, I A very good friend to the tad Con Dolore, ! ' Precise and exact is the prim Ben Marcato, , And then there's a snappish old boy, Pizzie Cato. Another is gentle, retiring Cal Ando, Jxxst like his first cousin, the mild Alice Tando. Alas for these lovers 1 Confiding affection f Was doomed to a direful and jeering rejection. J With notes that were sweet, and In measuie m i-> o*n??j5:5' - v^^ostotrSlniM.: U^i i i i i1 J-rKT- ' -. ? * w- m- "i i ?T-"| 1?frrm rT~rrwi? i> - ^ asgi filn h*l rrrrmniflnrip^te*agfc^waiil & would wear another and leate=?tete.at VnmJ<^yq^apt>|p^ptpg?'^q^^ took hjM&f'tba ieafllfrtf?fcta^<agiai9ditd&tb little c& - ^Ive^p&par fim^^^^s^:Haid^.:jBa^i^Lriai^ 'I won't open it*&S$arte-^eaaayggf frame.'' lKa$sto*fc$til?2fcjoa^teP-to65 cot it snd sewed ittfttBK-- ?*?*"32 \ ' "I woadcfrwtefcclsftfr" said she. "It gri>w5^S?B^w^5ga onrft ,6itf?re*I k?es^2?-ii &v:y} : ?j?r' ?r.2-&Z-*!?.' !. : "SHe'fook wonder what it really is." Then stie took up the coat. "There was not, much to paendr-after-alU'-^he said. "I, " * v..vVi -^U Wi?U TViot" I UlUUgUb IdlV WM iUUUt iv/nglii. . she laid it on a chair. > * ttL "Tom wouldn't mind; Tm sure its Til just take a peep.'' ^ Then she undid the ribbon, unfolded She paper and saw letters. \ "Dear Tom," said she, "he mupt keep my old letters jet; and he never ^ told me." , The writing, however, Was not here; she saw that - - , "His mother's letters," she said; "he loved, his mother so." : -i: Then she be<*aa to tremble ~a~~little. They did not begin, "My dear aon." s She cast her eyes over" them." They were love letters. . ? | ! Tom has loved some other woman j before he met me," she said. "Obiw&at shall I do?" Then she cried out, *' >, foolish creature that I am! Of course she died; and.he only loves me now. It - _ was all over before we met. I most not mindr"?but there she psused *nd -threw the letter away as though Y was a serpent and had bitten her. It -war dated the past week; it was not.-four days old. "Oh, dear!" cried E^e, *<oh! T (W\t istKAV*! Affll T VTU?? OUOU JL UV. VU> ITUViVT ? go?" v At every cry, a thought pierced her breast like an actual stab. "Tom! my Tom! he is false!' Oh! I have gone mad! No; there they are?those letters! Why do I not die? Do people live through such things as these?*1 ' Then she knelt down on tha floor and , gathered up the letters, and steadily read them through. There were ten of them?such love letters;- they^ere absurd love letters, such as are sometimes read in cases of "breach of promise;" calling him ' 'lorey-dovey," "darling parliiigly," "popsy-wopsy," terms psed by those who have the eompiamt / really bad." ' ' "It's all true," said poor Eve,wring' ' -T 1 ?T *' toff ner nanas. *\l trusted mm so; x believed in him so. Ob, Tom J my Tom, falser^ i^ruel^fcem to thebraast pocket, and hxuag it on "Tom shall never - knowi'jfp&ftriand. c "I wflt not iepipiach- ham*- -I will never goo him again; when heepra#? home, I ?. shall be dead. Xwill not Eye" to Shear this," ' Ci.7 S : -Then of Mack in iho she aromd-drowB her'v?*el? fcjrf -xfcrewnefr "psepte' looi^Bven ^SffiBiOEKaae^gleOBe^e too much afraid of firearms to shoot her. . SOLL TT?ppy thftngh^ ahp wr^TH tatrft r z?wmMitts mmrwmb<&esgm>nid ;;-^?f?tS2fe?3?i.iS^ ^ '^2?^CT^5ome ,"" ii^'-?ferfe4El&3^^ be" ?5ok Eer^eT3f"3own the street to a druggist's shop, the only one in the street, - - and kepb^by a German. The druggist was an old man* with red cheeks and a smiling month; and .: when she asked him for "poison for rats," he said "Just so," and beamed jmowisxglj upon her. . <(l want it veiy strong," said Eve. : *'J!ust so," sail the druggist. "But not to give more pain than is ; accessary;" s*k* see. ' To the wst&y^fcsfced the-droggist. Yes," sui Eve; "<rf coarse; and it must be quick, and not make one black in the-face." " With a grave countenance he compounded a powder and handed it to Eve. She.took'it, "handed him all the coppers she had in her hand, and walked ofE, Oncefcome, she retired to bed, taktag the powder with har^hoping it not be very disagreeable to y tat:e, utit Hading it sweot sho bravely swallowed it I "It is over," said she. "Heaven forgive me and forgive Tom!" and then she laid herself down. Jast as she as she did so, the familiar sound of a latch key startled her. Tom never came home at noon, bat there he was now; no one else could i walk in in that cool way, and now he was calling her. - * " 4 " on "JSvel Jive: i^ve: vvnere are your, Never before had she refused to answer that voice. Why had he - come to torture her dying moments? Hark!i now he was bounding up stairs; now he was even in the room. i ( 'Oh, dear!" said Eve. i * "What is the matter? Arc" you ill, Eve?" he exclaimed. "No," said she, faintly, "only tired.?' "Ah! you look tired, little one," said; he. "I came home to get the over-" coat. I suppose you found out before this that tliat m rue nan is not mine, jt wore Johnson's overeoat-from the office by mistake last night, and he is anxious about it He asked me if the^e?-1 was any one in the house who would be apt to meddle with papers in the pocket. I said I thought not. I hadn't a jealous wife?eh? What's the matter, Eve?" "Oh, Tom," cried Eve, hysterically. "Oh, Tom, say it again. It was not your coat?" "My coat? No. Why?" "Oh, Tom! Oh, Tom!" "Why, what is the matter, Eve? You must be ill!" cried out Tom. 4?rkV T am o Tuiol-orJ tmmftn " she cried. "There were letters in the pocket?love letters. I read them. I thought you were false to roe. I took poison, Tom. I'm going to die, and I, do so long to live. Oh, Tom, save me!" / Yes, yes," cried Tom. "Oh, good heaven, what poison." "Mr. Hoffman will know. I bought | it of him. Perhaps he can save me," ' t?tta . * < , I VllOU JUTV* And away went. Tom, as white as death to the old druggist's .shop.7 s He burst into the shop like a whirlwind. "The lady!" he gasped. "The lady who bought poison here an hour ago! She took it by mistake! Can you save her? Is there no antidote? She is dying!" J.. "No, no!" said the old German. "Be 1 calm! Be at rest! No! no! she cannot die of dak When a lady asks mo for 1 - * I poison aat win not turn ae rats uiaus. in de face, I say to myself, 4So, I smell | something!' and I give her in de paper just a little sugar and somethings She could take a pound. Go home and tell., her so. I never sell poison to vomen dat cry, and do not vish de rat to ' become black in de face. So "be calm." So Tom flew home again, and Eve rejoiced; and hearing that Johnson was a single man who admitted himself engaged, she did not rip the patch off the coat, as sne at nrsc mieuaeu; as bud kissed Tom, she mentally determined not to let her curiosity lead her in the future into a predicament in which she had so nearly, as she thought, lost her life, as well as her temper.?Every \ Other Saturday. Hebrew Divorces. Although s " set" or religious divorpe j is practically unknown among educated Jews, inquiry shows that the practice is prevalent anions the Polish and Bussian Jews in New York and at least one rabbi has the reputation of deriving the larger part of his income from fees for divorces. Rabbi Ash said to a reporter: "3. greac many cuvuirues arc giouicu. The wife cannot secure a divorce, and if she wants one she must induce her husband to apply for one. If the husband wants a divorce and the wife; is not willing, none can be granted,. ho matter what complaint he has against her. The rules of procedure are fouhd in the 'Getten' in the Talmud. Both parties come before the rabbi. It is his duty to inquire the cause of disagreement, and to try to reconcile husband and wife. If he succeeds he gets no fee, and so some rabbis grant the 'get',, without asking the cause of the trouble. The divorce being granted, the scribe is directed to write it. It is then signed "by the witnesses ana delivered to me husband, who makes a tear in it and delivers it to his wife. She receives! i? in her joined .hands, raises it to her fore-* head and then returns it toiler husband. She is then a free woman.** Rabbi Ash exhibited a "get" It is beautifully written in Hebrew upon a sheet of paper of foolscap size. Its purport was as follows: "The ?? day of the week, day of the month , the year 5644 since the world began, according to the count we have kept here in New York, the town which is situated on the sea and on the river by name Hudson. I am willing, of my own free will, with the greatest willingness, to leave you, my wife, by the name , the daughter of , who lives here in New York, which is by the sea and on the river by the name Hudson. And you were my wife before till now, and now I make; vou free and drive vou awav that you'f shall be free to get married to every" one you like, and nobody shall be able to hinder you from this day forever, and you are free to every person, and this paper which you shall have from me shall separate you from^me according to the lawof Moses and of ~IsraeL-*' , The woman iscaUedVgresha," which meansfeist aside." * Tne^divorce fee is from $5 up. It costs less money and trouble to divorce a second "wife than a first. A wife divorced by "get'.' rarely makes trouble if the husband remarries unless he greatly increases in worldly prosperity A gentlemanly farmer from Onion Creek, who happened to be in Austin last week, called at the office of a distinguished Austin law firm. Both members of the firm were in, but the granger only knew one of them. "Comeacross the street and take a drink," said the farmer. - "As soon asXput on !my overcoat" "You don't need: an overcdat It's warm out doors.*' ~"0, yes; I do." "What for? .Puttin' on style, are you?" "No; it's not that," whispered the lawyer, as soon as they got outside; "but you saw my partner in there, didn't you? Well, if I were to goout and leave that overcoat there *riS? Tiim whAn T mm a hart it ^wonlri I be in the pawnbroker's office.''"'?Texas Sifting$. . -" Jones?"That man Brown is the smartest fellow I ever saw. He can make more money in one month than Jay Gould can in a year." Smith? "Why, "what has he; struck now?" Jones?'Totr know that'rinder the new law in Illinois no authority caniegslize a saloon within two miles of a town." Smith?"Yes, but what of that? Brown is not in the liquor business." Jones? "Certainly not If he wore hewonld not make so much; but a3 It is he is on the high road to a fortune that would make the eyes of old Croesus water." Smith?"But in what way?" Jon6s? "He has gone to Illinois to sell bicydes."?FnUaddphia Call. On the Endings of Letters. That thd>end crowns the work la a true saying, and nowhere is. Its truth more apparent than in the matter of endings letter. -"The-'iaost bald, disjointed epistle is sometimes raised from the low level of the commonplace by a felicitous and smoptlrrflowmg termination?while, on the other hand, jaf realty admirabla-piece'of. epistolary composition may be mulcted in half its effect if the writer ends up with an "l must now conclude, as the post is going but"' - ->A * * Apropos of this particular terminal tion, wfit may remark tfyatwe ourselves should he disposed to warn our readers against saying anything about "now icanclBding.%- * >.. "> In all letters of form or cpurtesy-lhey shoul&fco frame their fcomniimicajaons that their signature should constitute _tbe closing words of the fin^l^sentence, -&nd this nhal sentencebe- intimately connected with the oody of the letter. The .foHowing^ instances taken at: "randoni frbnr sbme * or the oesf -letters - j. _ *1. - "O 1 ttm 11 or. exwinb XLL LUC JLiU^liSLL l?ii^uagB r, ui v*emplify our meaning. ' ' Samuel Johnson, in that famous let-' ter to Lord Chesterfield inwhleh hVso indignantly denies that ho is under any obligation to the noblo lord, ends thus: . - *i23:.'iiy? v <'/_ "Havinjr carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to -any favorer of learntog-,1 shaUniot'be'disap'poitrted though I should conclude It?If less be possible?with less; for I have been long wakened from that dream-of hope^ifc which !' once -boasted myself with so much exultation, My Lord, Your. Lordship's most humble; most obedienfcservr.* ant - Samuel Johnson.-' tWalter Savage Landor, in an irate letter to Lord ^Nbrmanby, concludes thus: , ; "We are both of us old men, My Lord, and are vergtag-cir decrepitude and imbecility, else my note might be more energetic?1 am noran unobservant of distinctions. You by the favor of a Minister are Marquis of Normanby; I by the grace of G-od am "waiter ravage xi&uuor. Then again, Pope, writing to Mrs. Arabella Fermor about his poem, tho "Rape of the Lock," winds up thus: 'uf this poem ha$ as many graces as' there rare in your person or in your mind, yet I TK>uld never hope it'should pass through the -world halfsouncensured as you hare done. But let its fortune he what it will, mine is happy enough to hare' given me this occasion of assuring you that Lam, with the truest esteem* madam, your most obedient, humble servant,-'' "Al Pope." . . Turn also to that, remarkable- specimen of irony, the letter sent to Oliver Cromwell by the. author of "Killing no Murder.'.' The whole of this curious epistle is devoted to pointing out tho various benefit's' which* will accrue to the nation on Cromwell's death, and it" closed thus: ' * "That Your Highness may be speedily ini this security is the earnest wish of your grateful country; this is the desire and tho prayer of-the good and of the bad, and, it may be, is the only thing wherein all 6ecta "and factions do agree in their devotion, and Jtiaonr. only common prayer.. But among ail that nut In their reouest and suDslication for Your Highness' speedy deliverance from all earthly troubles, none. is more assiduous nor more fervent than he that, with the rest of the natiocu hath the honor to'"be (may it please Your Highness) Your Highness* present slave and vassal, ?- "Author of 'Killing no Murder.'" In every one of the above instances the letter runs on naturally to its conclusion, and the impression is given that the writer has finished all that ho wants to say. '' Now; in writing; to strangers, whether in the spirit or friendliness or anger, thisi?3p| th&.fiort of impression we' rmal%^+A.zifvn-&Arr f' Tt> lpt.tftris 'tHprpfnrp" , ?? ? , to persons with whom wo*are> ?ot intir mate, we should aim at endings of this sort. . Whei? however, we arc wri-7 ting to near friends, and our tetter may be one of an interminable series, we c&n be far more-careless about the way in which we end" it. We can break off as abruptly as we please*passing from the most stirring narrative of public events to a simple goodbye, good-night, farewell, etc. This is What Horace )Walpole constantly does iahis correspondence with Sir. Horace Mann: /Sflr.ili dnwn.o,or*T)nr?h. ess,) is dying?butwfco can tell? Last year she had Iain a long-while ill without speaking;her physician said,.'She mue$ bebjistered or. she willdie.'*- Sfre^ tailed ontr'I won't b6*blls> tered,and Iwon'tdie^ If .she takes the same, resolution faow-,1 don't* believe she will. -Adlexw-iiayiJeBr-cbildt. I hkvejtutrooni to' tay, yours ever, "Horace Walpole." It will be'seen -tliatwe have drawn the above .instances from . the. correspondence of the past 4ge,' butwe have done so because it .is among bygonefViof* whr'*1 tlifl <yrAftf gcuuiauuuj VIkiCfrV n ^ AWA. IVA vuv giwwwest excellence in the art of epistolary composition. - At' the same ^ time 5 we must caution our readers against & slavish imitation1 df -such" models. For instance, it is now extremely old-fashioned to sign yourself^ ito-an ordinary letter, "Yours obediently," or "Your obedient serromt^-^When^ybu ate addressing strangers, even though they De superior w* -yooreeu iu smjiai puoition, "yours faithfully" is the correct thing:to put; w&ile, should you be corresponding with' sozhe "one with whom you are, slightly acquainted, "yours sincerely;?'jp? truly," will be* most appropriate. Should you wish toj infuse a shade more warmth into your' employ; sfflCenriy^oufs^ teing a degree more genial, because lesff hackneyed, than "yours very sincere^ ly."?A. H. Br, in CasselTs Familifk . ., She Knew Her Business. Z t&M t ;il . - :kw l J J "Oh, some one is coming uj) the" steps, ma," exclaimed Miss Pyrkins tal her mother, who kept a boardinghouse.7; f'Shall I go to the door?" "No, indeed,11:> answered Mrs. Pyr-ej kins, bustling; around. "It is a voung? man who is pr&bably looking for board.Go down into the parlor ana be play- ' ing a dreamy air on the piano when ha. comes in." > "Yes, I know; but some one must attend to the door. There goes the bell now." J ^Well. T will run to the kitchen and send Jane to open-the door, and while.; you. are playing and Jane is. ahowing-j him in, I will be pounding on the tablewith a rolling-pin." "But what for, ma?" ..j i "It will sound as ifjve had two ser-' .vants and were going to have beefsteak for lunch.?Philadelphia Call. 1 ... Indecision. , There is such a thing in- the conduct of life as too much caution. One maul: will spend a long time considering which ofrlwo oj>en courses of action is the better ior him to take, and will at last take" aeither; another man will AZnfvAn,1 Ana /?nnraA rvf im_ (jUiV/&Ljr uvviuv^uyvu vuv % VM*WV V* **U mediate action, and having completed ond-w&ile-the blood-of-the-Jess positiye fellow is stagnating in- cautious inao'tivity.' It Is not always an easy thing to draw tfae line between due considering "and undue considering" before action; but when one sees that his lack of swift decision is about to- close all - opportunities of action, against him he has reason to" feel;thai his "immediate duty is decision rather than deliberation, forJt is much better to do the lesser of ?wo things than to do nothing at all. - * . w."' An Oyster Party. Wilson's wife had given him a com-* mission to execute, and although her: was not the purchasing member of the" firm, she thought she could trust .hini*, to get her some oysters for Sunday djn- -' ner. . " i L? "Now dear," she said, "you must,*' von mnst withdraw vour mind from those stupid philosophical studies and.; don't Jet the oyster man get ahead. of you, for he'll do it if he sees the chance. , Now mind, I want three pints of balk oysters." .. .. 1 /, , "How d'ye sell the oysters?" said"' Wilson to the Teutonic fossil who was head clerk and proprietor of the Oyster shop. "Vorty cends by a kwart," replied* the fossil , . . ? j "Gimme three pints, then." * "i The oysters were.duly dumped inter his tin pail, and^a silver dollar handed1 over-the* counter in return. After con- j ' 1 ^ w nonfa *1 sideraDie mental nguruig, luiigr werehandedback inchange.- Another^ mental calculation, this time on Wilson's part ' "How's this," he exclaimed, "Iwant SO cents more." ' Y-e-es, I pelief dots so," said the'. German, scratching his head in a puzzled way.,. "No; noli on. You got dree bints, ain't it?" .. "Yes." . "Veil,- dots vorty cents py a kwart, und dree bints is den sixty cents; aint dot so?" v.:; v . "Why, no, of course not," said'Wilson."There's four pints in a quart, ain't there? So three pints would only . be thirty, cents." ."JJdine friend, you cand .blay dot {game on me. Ven.I wend on der I schule, der vos only dwo bints in a kwart." "Why, you old fool," retorts Wilson, "I can prove it by anybody. Here Brown, come in here a minute. How many pints are there in a quart?" . "Eight!" exclaimed Brown readily.: ; "Vots do mettcrmit you?" asked the vender. "Oh, Mr. Shonson, chust . come auf de sthore vonce und dell de chentlemens how many bints vo9* in a kwart." "There's six," exclaimed Johnson,., "either six or four. I don't just re- ) member which." 1 ^ r "Gott grashious!" exclaimed the ex-,1 asperated fish monger. "You dinks a , Dutchman vas a geese. I glean de-; whole sthore mit you oud." During the racket which followed, a. policeman, entered, and upon being told that the oyster man was trying to sell three pints of oysters for a quart " and a half, he remarked that the new superintendent was down on all these ' cheatin' hucksters, and so marchedjhe German off to the calaboose, and Wilson went home triumphantly and told his wife about the man who had tried to sell oysters two pints to the quart?,. Indianapolis Scissors. False Prophets. The false prophets of Islam have been many, and not a few of them have en deavored to follow the example of Ma^ hornet, and to found an empire by force of arms. Not one of them, however^ r UZW UCCU, pciiucu^c:uwjr ^i4vwww*w, ?? if the Mahdiescapes capture or assassination he will he more fortunate than most of his forerunners have been. Mosellama, who raised the standard of religious revolt during the lifetime of Mahomet, was defeated and slain during the reign of Abu Beer by Khaleb. Ebn al Walid and A1 As wad, who set up in the year of Mahomet's death, was almost immediately betrayed and decapitated. It was on that occasion that Mahomet declared that ere the day of. judgment Islam would bertroubled with tanrty otner impostors. c>oon aixer xoleiha Ebn Khowailed arose, but seeing the error of his way, recanted, and Sejaj Bint al Mondar, an early exponent of woman's rights, led many af.ter her. In the reign, too, of the Khalif al Mohdi, Hakem Ebn Hashem, called A1 Mokenna, and well known as the Veiled Prophet of Korassan, gained some successand might have gained., more had he not despaired and committed suicide^ ancL-in the reign of Al Motasem the still more formidable pre/I Am' P o Vvn a wflfl Vviif nn_ tCUUCl ?Y CfcO CA^I>UV^U| UUU JJlVfW Ull"til he had. slain a quarter of a "million of his enemies. Then came the Karmatians and. the Ishinaeli&ns or Assassing.'and the followers of A1 Motanabb? and of Baba the- Turkoman, and of many more; so that,if Mahomet's thirty impostors have not already appeared, and' disappeared again; the mahdi must surely.be nearly the last of: the series. If, on the other hand,, all the falsa, prophets have come. and gone, who is the Me*4i?; si?ist fep?3pa;probab&?that Islamje^&le&st a^-grcrat'parts of it, will xus&er th? audSiorf^yF proclaim y? ~?M. SPiie Pare-vv^l Kiss. ii^cg^fc^onfq^l^is^s^ho were noticed a^^^Ta^^m^.ibi^2^wi?e. Their marked-Tcontewtwith . _ t&?: ^I&r ^^eij^rs.. \The . timir Wj^ih&VhAd ^feeifc^fl-iSIiera'waa. -c^^bare'dLlgjjtbeg^ijbcS lfagfar%lsnched' *a^t$f|^bakQ^^iealfcetf .the peril -movejcc^^jntlscJ^S''- o^fwrVes was pr^Q<^,-^j^eichilKxi^'atmosphere. Ifcsy stood olose together* their.. hands cfetspe&fo" eactf;:olh(?j 'aa^f -^bont to lcjba3$enn)la^efCTr6l^b:j^ig^e^4e^-^ufti$~thii? f&lUl trbsaarii^UQW' of standing by ;e$c]i Jife's .fortune's .-jafid'/gusf^tiuies.- ';M the wreck careened" with tate~gaie from, ope side io the. oUieiv. a?drwh2e:{E?'spra^and waves -u^re 4^Chii^*h^T^ every; moment, theiiusband tnrned -and imprinted a kiss-jupon .the compahion of his -life, and w^ile- thn^"-embraced a hea??ysea." bi*>ke oyer the wreck and ;?f!i ? -.: ~ -t r*r~. -" * .? DOUtyere Tvasaetc avsuiy - iuia --uuu atsvu aiterwm&~^Jfa-:'Gaok..says thescene gBaiwhi^T --r^sin ind&libly ' i?ejnbry ~'?u^I his dying" iaj^Bostoh BeralcU_ '. ' ? ~tzE55r?!$f*~5 H?' ? ' ?' ' : Twins iii JHis Family. He .3id- look dejected enough; us he -st5od at>th i-doc^ #ith his rtoes straying out of his hoots, the praying joint of his trousers worn very thin, and his coat of mail^in so'many .pieces that it would be classed as third-class postal matter and. sent by freight. His voice was of. that tenuous character which bespoke sympathy, as he said to the lady of the house: . Please, ma'am, I'm an unfortunate bein'. Won't you buy a box of corn salve. I have twins in the family, And?". " : . "Oh, certainly, if you are in needy circumstances. I don't feel the need of corn salve. Are the twins pretty? How old arc they?" Not very handsome, no. They're boys. Seventeen years old, last June;: Much obliged to ye for the nickel!"-H> Hartford Post. ^ ^ -- -T / e. Surprising To Northerners. A Palatka (Fla.) letter in the New j Tork Sun', says, At almost. any; book" store in this State yon can buy a score of books, pamphlets and jreriodicals devoted exclusively to Florida topics.. Some of them contain a good deal of information. Tut, having read all of tfcqjto, the northerner in Florida is coiitahually coming upon. facts that aire:, hew and surprising to him.1 "You inay_ ibe surprised: . ... J. To observe th:rt a region, which was; discovered nearly four ^obdrtd'^ycaijs-'1 ago, and is said to bo so iavitmg'tbf; Jinaxt; has found so few to accept the in-;!/j | ** find, (notwithstanding all yon ggad concerning Florida; winters) like SWttttaay sun so warm at midday. . ^ff>?nd (in view.-ofaH you'have; ireftdj). Sdjfew wild or cultivated .ttOTSoifnp &j?ing in the sun's ray3, iand io little^ fi^^ance in them. : *?2o find so ffew birds;. barring . hawksSlid other birds of orev. warmed into voiceful mood by tEesemi-tropjcil sun ?to find so few birds of any descrip-" Con. ; ; That the duration of twiliglrt is sia brief. L To find how little covering yon require on vonr bed upon retiring, Sad to find how much covering you wishr you had when you wake up toward morning. . . , . ~ | To see, upon going outdoors, that the ground is not covered with frost, and that the flowers (such as' they are) jurenotkilled. To note how little soil there is, and how many empty tin cans there are above the sand. To see orange trees, with rich green leaves and loaded "with yellow fruit, growing out of the gray. sand. To come across gardens in which plants and' vegetables, are growing in great variety and luxuriantly in this same sand. To observe that so few persons' have these flourishing gardens, and to bo told that not many can afford to buy the quantity1 of fertilizer this luxury.. calls for. " To find the sidewalks shaded by orange trees weighted down by tempt in<* golden fruit. , ... . ... > > To discover that this golden fruit is. ^d oranges and very sour. ,, .., , " To be told that strangers shouldbe careful about drinking much of the water at first. To le'am how little self-denial the observance of this caution calls for. . .* To see how yellpw most of the native and acclimated citizens are. To discover before long that you are turning yellow yourself. To note how. few persons there are who are past 70 years of age. To see so many idle negro men; to observe that nearly all wear heavy ? ***<1 f/i lonvn 'Kof fVo?* WOU1C2J. (UiU IV vuwv VUVM heads are still cold. To be told by so many of them that they were "ban in the norf." That the negroes in the docks can't work without making such a bedlam. * That they can do any work while slaking it To discover that your water-tight that-^etybo^s toots and ~l^o^coi> '; tain more or less sand. To be forced to the conclusion that' ]' wherever there is sand there are red ants also. . To hear the voice of the nocturnal mosquito in midwinter. To wait in vain for him to settle down and bite*, so that yon can get a Whack at him,, and to be told in the morning that mosquitoes haven't energy enough in. winter to do much biting. To find yourselves wondering whether they, too, are yellow and bilious. "! To be assured by a plain and candidappearing wblte man that the mosquitoes were so thick here last summer that they not only darkened the air atr high noon, but put out the lamps which were_ugiiu;a iii ine ctuica. To find that there are bigger and leasharmless liars than he in nearly every neighborhood. To have to fight so many flies in the' houses in the winter. To bo told that the flies do not com? into the houses in the summer. To reflect that you permitted yourself to be.snrrrised. at this information, when-it would have been so much more reasonable to assume that your informant lied. To come face to face in the sandy wilderness with a pack of gaunt, bony, shaggy beasts of almost" every color and resembling nothing you have ever seen before. - To be informed afterward that they were Mr. Julius Lemon's ahoats. To be assured that Mr. Lemon and his family contemplate eating thenr ultimately. ^ ^ : English Cookery. In England very little benefit is fextracted from the "presont long list: of' vegetable substauces. Bread and potatoes, cabba-e, and in tho agricultural districts, beans, with a little bacon and cheese, and milk for the children, almost exhaust the lis'* of food attainable by the working Tillage population, . What is cauea Duiccers me? ramy makes its appearance in the cottage of an agricultural laborer, but it is quite, e'ertain that if the bumble and wholesome materials at his disposition were more skillfully treated, he would be; greatly the better. In manufacturing towns, great quantities of food are destroyed, rather than consumed, owing to the ignorance of the women of the. ; most elementary principles of cooking A hastily made fire and a frying pan,. a "lump" of butter of Indefinite size. some bacon ana a tew eggs ot aonontu freshness, compose the culinary preparations of a family earning between ?2 and ?3 per week.?London News. Whittier as an Editor. "I remember that well," said Grandfather Gray,looking up from thepagetf of his magazine. "I was about lSthen; and was working at . the case in the " ? ? ?.l : ttw _ oia mercury omce wnen \t miuor u?mo down, to Hartford to edit the New England Review. When work was -dull in onr office I used to go over- to the Beview office and piece out the week by helping the boys to set that up. It was quite a paper for poems ana literary articles, - and I. liked the. eopy .for & change from what we had on the Mercury, which was fighting John Quiney Aiiams as hard as it could. ..r\ n n ? ?V? ?J!i? "Vreorge u~ rrecuuw was wd cwwr at first, bat he went down to Kentucky., to .write Henry Clay's life, and. John Greenleaf Whittier came down to take, his place on-the i&wew. WMttier was about. 21 then and had what seemed to me the most intellectual head I. had ever seen. He didn't wear, the .Quaker garb then,- and. was a favorite tfith all the boys. His editorials, were .tathet mild politically,' and he. worked some good poetry into the paper aloiig.with them. He only stayed about a-year and - a half* and then the paper, waft ; given up.?Concord Monitor. The Monjnla. During all the-.time that; Brazil rej mained a dependency of Portugal, the "fatherland lfctroduced'biit one labor-. ' saving machine Into the-empire. No race, of people* on the globe could better any mechanical; contrivance devised' for the saving of physical exertion. The Brazilians are, 'constitutionally arid Mteioaslyy opposed to everything : having the least appearance of labor.If they; could live their -time; in entire,ariinternip.ted idleness,, an.d; pay their. : Undivided attention to: the proper con: sumption bf villainous cigarettes, un-' alloyed happiness and contentment" would be theirs. The people mriS* haye possessed the same; trait of character ; while .under ;th$'reign of' the first Dom ; Pedroj1 yet'the Portuguese were so neg-r ligeniof ihewealof their South Ameri ;pan footer chil^re^:???!; %:4u9E$ggn}$d< .toe demands, oft&e.racewhicji desiredlabbrisifers ajai'was'so spring of la*bor, 1 fhey cohldrft make the - labor ' savera, that but one idea Was exported into the"1 empire,;. Ejom tjie earliest dajs.Qf.tlie: country #ie. people .had.ground theirc. ' ?%*1A*irliAAA' ' (?/%?* r?*i"Waii*ttVv* iliauluuvoi -uuux ujr bug .fvasvofo a rude mortar.0 u?Ms! requires don-' ; siderablephysfcai efieartibn^ ^evefl for: f ivslave,. #^1&o483p4t)$$on of. a; cheap . substitute, .was", probably. (hailed; /wjwi r delight;' The'ihonjiirals^he^ name 'of theaonfcrivance deisigned to do this work{ and to-day youwQl see numbers-of thethings oyer thojempire?doicg their work with an appearance., of laziness yeryv much. Uf .^eepiiig ' with the . natives. ShallIdescribeF-tnis great labor saver?" Hera it is: A beam twenty or thirty leet loug is balanced horizontally ..on on nfiriirlit nncf. mhin}i m*U7 Ha r?f #T>r hefejitlrom six to ten feet One end . of tnis beam terminates in a sdrt of a. hammer or pestle, which is m juxtapo-" sition with a rude wooden mortar set . upon the grptiSdr c1St the. opposite end ; of the "beam is a" shallow wooden box' . that is filled with water directed, into, it. by a series ;of water-works",'ditches and troughs. The "water pours into the" box until it is filled when it< overbalances the pestle end and-falls,, This movement empties the box when the beam'retu^hs to its posijfios and drops into the mortar, dealing a heavy blow to the mandioca roots placed there tobe ' pulverized, The box fills. again and:i by .this alternate filling and emptying >, and consequent lifting and dropping; of., tho wooden triu-hamm'er the mandioca* is finally grdtuid with no'more manual cxertion.toan is. needed, to tplace the raw material 4nto_the mortax1?nd take 'the finished flour' therefrom after the monjula has done its work. In this way this intricate piece ' of machinery thumps away, killing time and crushing mandioca. Tne patent on this machine has probably expired so you need have no fear of prosecution for infringement if you should choose -to1 manufacture them.?Will Wayward, in the, Hoosier. No Banjo on the Plantation. '' : The banjo may be the typical instrument of the plantation .negroes,'but I have never seen a plantation negro nlav it I have heard .them ;make &weet. jnusifc with., the quills?Pan's japBsjiriEaveTheard them piay passablywell on the fiddle; tiie jife, and;.the Ante; aud i have heard them blow a tin trumpet with. surprising. skill;/ but I have never seen a banjo or a tamboufine, or a pair of bones in the hands of a plantation negro. This statement; however,.should not be misunderstood. It covers an experience which was lim-- ' ited to plantations in the counties of Pn tn * m .Tasner. Morcan. Greene. Han cock, and Jones, in- middle Georgia. [ The banjo may .have; been greatly in'' rogue on .other plantations, and in othgr parts of the south; bnt, if on other " plantations,, why not in middle Georgia? In the connties I have named there were hundreds of Virginia negroes?negroes pf. every stripe and kind. If th&banjo.had been a favoriteinstrument among rthe negroes of, any part of the" country^ surely it would : hive been in vogue inmidcjle -Georgia; surely - Ifci would hive been played on some of the Putnam plantations on the Oconee. . I have seen, the negro atwork ' and I have seen, him at play; I have attended his corn-sHuckings, his dances,. arid&Is frolics, I hase' hoard. him give ihe'wonderful. melody, of his songs to the winds; I have heard him fit barfcar1c airs, to the quills; ,1. have seen him scrape jubilantly on. the fiddle; I have seen him blow wildly upon the'bugle, * and beat enthusiastically on the. triangle: .but I have never, heard him play oh the banio.?Atlanta (Go.) CoiistitiUion.,. A Good Time to Paint Houses. ? There fs no better time to paint . buildings than during the pleasant days in winter. Paint- spread in; cold weather jnakes a. better.- coyering'; ior thew-ood than if laM on when.the wocki is hot, and excessively dry, tS6; that .the oil-is immediately absorbed,iearvingthe )ead or other material used asr'achalky jsubstance on the surface; readyin a few months to rub off 'or be washed off. by raina. It will require -a little more ipaiht at a single. eoat in cold than in warm weather, sls the oU'wiD be fhiclj:&bed-, a little by; tife cold, but 'then it TnU atav where it is but, "and:/a second coat will "be lessneecTed. One advantage in p wanting- now ;s the absence of flies ana'other small insects-which in warm; weather often male, freshly-laid paint look anything but ; attractive.- 11 there is; ^'pow on the ground jto ?over: the earth' and prevent dust and leaves "from being "blown into the paint,-al}- the better. III the very coldest weather it may be well-to the materials in a warm room, as the paint will spread more easily" thdn If 'cold enongh to freeze water; It is a good plan, too, as far as mav be, to keep on the sunny side of buildings^^painting the east sides in the morning and tae west in | Ttin nnpf1> Cl'npd mfl7 U1C7 OX W4 UWU* AMV w?V>Vw , J .. be. painted in the middle of pleasant days, and the*south side when it would be too cold to work anywhere else.? New England Farmer. One Chinaman Who Got In. . In the case of Chew Fonz Lee, who appHed for admission to. tnis country this week, on the grounds that he'"was . - +v>*> loomor? wrtcm asked ? A AMiUVAU^ vuvr. *v.p. .. ^ j ??. counsel, for. applicant-what' art or profession Lee w?s studying. .4'He is, .your.. Honor, conducting a series; of. experiments, .and inxestiga.tions inartofdesiccatang and freeing, irom moisture the toenailed decapod crastaceans- which, inhabit the waters of our beautiful- bay; also in pnlveriz-: ing the pa&rnon vn^aris and utilizing .thecaranxof the xaacronral and the oephalotnroax of the anomoural species as an: article of food." . ?r. .. 4 That sounds. very good,.", ^aid . his. Honor. "I wished, they were-ail seized with the same desire to benefit scienee." , ^ andfsm^t^rabs ou t at t^^^erp. and jay&'^Myjiar:all same ; welly smart; man."??a? Francisco News-Letter. I Gigantic. .Comparisons. - The United States owns within her two ocean frontiers more than three million. squar&mile^oLland; a fourth peart of a million square miles.of water, either salt or fresh; a range of Alps, a range of Pjrennes, a range of Apen-. hines| forests, by the side of which the Schwarzwald and tho Ardennes would be no more thanGerman toys; rivers, exceeding the Danube and the Bhine, asmuch as 'these rivers exceed the Mersey and'the Clyde; truly the'republic is a ;big- country! Here & England we have no-lines of sufficient length, no areas of, sufficient width, to convey tULij iuco ui ^10 oiZiC. yui xxuo ij :that running from Land's Edge to Berwick, & line which is some miles shorter than the distance; from Washjn^ton . to", Lesingtbjb! Oar' broadest vmey Is '^at of the Thames* "the whole of whichwould lie hidden4 from sight in> fl?e,Siefra Madre! The state of- Ur jegorri^ bigger than England!{. T-ejtas is larger thaa' France!,: fi the United States were p?rte<r into'equajlots, they :Wbtfl$*;make~; fifty-two' '-Tangfroins'-fas* large as England- fourteen empire^ asi ;large.asErance! i Then-.loo^U&&their'riyers, ..and you will *Je.. at>le,oto forii, InmpiS&t as 'to' fe6M^^fit'.ancfcsije1 in-'taffia?^bf; this - country. steamboat can.go SO nailer up Ithe* Thamiss^ 200 ;up.the'. Seinej f550u-miles* up':-the' Ehin?.. In America the. Thames Would be a' 'creek,' "tire'i*Seino' a"t>]ft6k,*>'the. fihme^ 16eal'streaa5,:: soon '36&fr'in !'i. mightier riyerl vSome, of: these great, rivers, like .the Kansas .and,the \J?Iat$e, flowing tfijousfi boundless' plains, are: nowhere deep'^eatfugh' ^or Steamers,. though they- are - sometimes miles' 'in width, yet -thg iitf^gabie length of many of these streams is -a ' surprise,' The:'Mississippi is.'five times lobger than, the Ehine; the j Missouri is, .three times longer than the XJanabfc.i the, Cpf: lumbia is four tim'es longer than' the: Scheldt! -F?om the s&a tolForf Snelling the Mississippi is.-plougfced.by steam-' ers a distanee of'2431 miles, yet ah$is; but the .second ^er./ m/jhe United Statesl * Jjpoldng art tfte'ni&p we caUnoi ] faS to notice the group4of great JSorth J American .Jakes. rOnr". English - notion of al^ke ^derived from . Cqniston; j Killamev, Lomond* Windermere, ?& inanor Ga'rda.' Bat b these' sheets -of i water give us idea <xf what- Hnron. ahd Superior are li&e; Goniston^ JSllames,JLomond, Windermere, Leman,' and Garda, all put together, would not cover a tenth*part* of the surface, occupied-by the smallest of' the five grea^ American: lakes !v All/the waters .'%ing in English, Scotch, Irish,. Swiss, -Xtal-, ian,. and,German lakes, Might be pour-. ed'intoLake Michigan without'makW any perceptible addition to the waters! Yorkshire might be-shnkout of sight in Lake Erie! Ontario drowns:as ;mufiH land as would make two duchies equal in area to Schleswig 'and Holsteinf Denmark could be washed by the waters of Lake Enron! Many of the mi-; nor lakes in . America would be reckon-? ed inland seas in the. old world! /For instance," Salt Lake, in'Utah, has a stirface 'of-2,000 square miles,' 'while 'that of Geneva, has only i380; that of Como only 90;,that eof Bliarney .only >:Sj;;a. kingdonilikeJSaxoiiy^adnehv like Co*_ "burg, IT^own'jn one^e^Tmto 'take Superior, irpgfit add -an island, to. its beauty, but wbuld'be no more conSpict' nous in its vast'expanse of waters than coie of those pretty green.islets which adorn JUocn ivomona.?angusn,. js,z. The Wealth of America. . A supplement io.Bradstreet's contains some interesting inforniatioh, obtained from advanee prdbfs of theoensns volnme relating to wealthand manufactures,, now- in press, (In,-1880 the total number, of traders .in..business, .or rather of business (enterprises, was 703,328; The commerciaFhotises and manufacturing firms had a/, -capital invested of $3,334533,498;;real estate, $2,811,417, 515; total wealth, including capital invested, personal property and real estate, $7,1)19,260,812. The capital-paid in of incorporated manufacturers was $974,666,335; real estate, including fixed machinery,. $457,811,529; total wealth, $1,158,'245,020. The grand total of the -wealth of the two'classes enumerated is $8,177;505,862. . . The aggregate wealth of , the United States January 1,1889, was $43,642,- j 000,000, of wtacn $iy,iyy,wu,uw, or nearly one fourth, is in farms. ' The value of household furniture^ paintings, books, clothing, jewelry, household supplies of food, fuel, etc., is put down at $5,000,000,000. At firet glance this seems large, "but when it:is remembered that there are about 10,000,000 families in the cowitry, and -this would allow an average of but. $500 for each, the estimate appears moderate rather than excessive. ' The other items which go to make up the total are:- Residence and business real esj?te, .capital employed in business including water: power, $9,880,000,060;. railroad and equipment,$5,536,000,000; live stock, farming tools and machinery, $2,406,000,000; mines and supply of product on hand, $780,- 000,000; average supply of agriculture and manufactured products on hand,: $6,160,000,000'; churches, schools, asylums, ' public buildings of all kinds, and other real estate exempt from taxation, $2,000,000,000; specie, $612,000,000; miscellaneous items, including tools of mechanics, $650,000,000; Of the aggregate capital, equal to' $8,177,505,862, invested, in industry and commerce in 1880, over one-fifth, or $1,822,000,000, was /the share of New York; Massachusetts was second, with $1,041,000,000; Pennsylvania third with $867,00U,0UU; umo lourm, wiui $595,000,000; IHinois fifth, with $485,000,000, and Michigan 'sixth, with $300,000,000, Connecticut being seventh, with $296,000,000, California, Missouri and Maryland following next in orrbr and being, the only other states with over $200,000,000 each., .: Among tho cabinet ladies at Washington . Mrs. Lincoln is the prettiest, Mrs. Brewster the Handsomest, and Mrs. Chandler the* most popular. The first is a tiny little thing, with clearcut features and a complexion like an opaL The second is" massive, with superb dark, eyes, white hair, and great repose of manner." The third-named is of medium height, stout,and has bright,' dark eyes, a.vivacious manner, and an abundant flow of conversation, which is light, witty, gay or grave, as occasion requires. New York has a catering company which sends meals around in a wagon so constructed that the whole, is heated by steam, and the cooking goes on as the vehicle is moving from place to ? 17*- -1- L-TJ? A 1 place. -Ei&cn waguii uoius twavc meaia but on account of the'number of courses served, meals for one will answer for twe, meals for.three will suffice for five and meals for six will do for ten. The prices are not particularly inviting,J however. Two meals a day are furnished, and the rates are $22 a week for one person, $18 for two, $20 for three, and soon up to six persons, for which number the charge is $38. (GLEANINGS. Tin has been discovered in North Carolina.._ '11^'' . - Government telegraphy does not pay in Canada. ... The cropa in Ireland have_ fallen off because of theemigration' of laborers. New York is beginning to talk about a World'8 Fair eight years hence. .. A.,blacksmfth at.Mokeltunne Hill* CaL, after a .Heavyrain the other day, picked up'a: $70 nugget in the street Oscar Wilde is telling the people of England' that American prairies' are . shockingly .devoid of artistic finish., i, Transportation, and commission cost the Sout&Borida^orange raiser. $1,800 for oranges that , are,' sold for $3,000 ^ ^? Sritolesale. * ;; 'i' A- ? New Jersey people are dispensing with the lur^Jyf'oT afiState taxthis year, and' there ii $200,0(X) iri the treastiry beside. - ; ~ , ittsii-' y,* > ' Tittts-Sheard, -thenew speaker oftke .. JJe w- -?ock .(^so?mtty,4vrrived..iJi JJew r PiL, ! "^'de^d^^S^ewYCTk-hibl^ omingroom because he-founVP&MduSe-'in Ins oyster soup. ?? ? ?-? I^^w/ttifweait^f* :tarer of Indiana,-predicts th^:gaswoIls < will revolutionize the maaufacfamng ;jtosmeBspf&fcaSlSte^ofosi& si . General Jackson, was ,tfce .?rs$, President['to ahau?t^te"the' cjuftoxn of 'shakin# the hands of-aH who came to his tpnoliclevees; f> i^-.:;rv5 -^The Ctaca JSerald estimates'that the .new Capitol feaildinspat Albany, 23. X., will cost $25,000^)00 before it.isr completed. * tm": m-: ii Beer brewed. ial888: .; In^lSew.York im st "trnis/modo;^itt BifobklylJ, j8S6r;<500; in 'Chicago, 676,*000. ' ~ * &*} ??__ -* The FhiladeJpMa'C&rsays that Mnr^^ dPiatt has writtea a poem to show^thkt te only happy, .woman is dead. ^She oulcl now write a poem io sfiow that uk? oaiy iittppjr mail woo jiovcj. uviu. xv'I'lro ' cigarette'rnust go:' H It' does tiOt;;tfce*8midlboy-w3L- - Where eigar*ette^sSaoking ;<ioe& '/not kilt boys, it .stunts t-them,' and. this country has Enough" hints. Eteht veara^ftgo ^jpoor 3?Tew York .mechanic, inventedjTgloje fastener?a jpiece of cord ahout ax mches long and X ilozen littkrhobksor buttons. mi ' wns a block' of houses that would sell-for SSOtyOOO. -*U its. i ovThe Jesse James .show was refused a IiMn?p. in Npw TTavati nn tha orornid that "Jesse James,, being a nqteiJ thief, 'robber and murderer, a recital of his lawless acta Would have^a pernicious influence upon.the minds gf onryonthr3' a'c Mississippians.. feel ,very oroud of their, st^te library. in the.Cfapitd. at Jackson. It comprises 38,000 volumes, which' include the legal text books and olT Afl ofofoo wi < UViU W* vuv 0IMW9 AM ?UV WMAVMf making a coUection which racks third ia completeness in the whole ..country. ?JL?bill kaa bcca^ixitirodnoed, in the Mississippi LegsI^TOfor the aDcUitt6g of "city goveramelit^or Jackson,-.the capital city of the state. Prominent citizens signed the petition to that escl, complaining that the city, is? ran by gamblers, prostitutes, and riff-rafil 1 4- 1 . . ? VAJiliiW WVUV^ 1A Wjrcu OtLC ? VlCUiWU with the expression of the opinion that the state tramp few is not a success, as the tramp has only to swear that -fee is looking for work, or trying to work his way to his .home, to escape conviction fcy a jury. : - . The negro population of the Union \-a>( increases fister thin the white. eighty-one years, at the present?a?tf*oF Increase^ it toU ;fce-larger wt&an. our whole population at the list census. In 1980 the black population, of the,rep ub? lie will T>e, according to estimates, 192,* 000,00a . " ' Tlie- most remarkable, if not $e largest, collection cfphotogrsphs in lie United States is ownedby Detectiyo Henry "Weyl, of Philadelphia. It contains 2,000 pictures of "crooks," and with them are newspaper dippings describing th^^TT^Sr. exploits, reports of trials^ and/other memoranda. : Dnmk'aris in Germany will for the future be sternly looked After by the State. Each town- must kei&p a record of all.the hard drinkers, aadthecity medical men are found to report those VI_1 L_n ' WHO iraoibuiuijr UUUIUC UJ uliCBO, ov that the authorities may subject them to a strict course of treatment. , Maine is,.becoming-quite :a; cottonmanufacturing State, -jshe has .twentysix cot ton-mills, with. 786,182 spindles, and requiring an * investment of* $12,- ' , 987;400. < *$h e'yards <A goods manufactured las^ year aggregated 142,788,685, besides 980,184pounas q? other goods, 60,000 quilts,' ?060#00 bags and 2;540,911 pounds of bags. ~ ' The Hungarian. patriot,Kossutfc, is ' AA w*MMV Akul, llVOO iiuw. uigujy-vuu. jfcoiA w ac<^ <wm mi w quietly in TVfjfan. . Ha neither believes in the alliance of the Latin races nor la that of 'tho Teutonic. " He fancies that " Austria and Russia will ere- long- be at . daggers drawn, .and fancies that, as he has no infirmities save those of old age, . ^ache may lira toy? Jn the stores of Paris, glas?- is- -taking the place of wood for flooring. T$ costs more than wood, but it lasts longer? and, besides being fcepi dean, allows enough iigfci -to: j# ttauasiittBd through its, rou^hened/snrface for the employes w wtuta.. m.. tuc, uwi uv -neath. The giass-is cast' in. ^gna^e# and set in-strong iron-frames, Arthur Orton, alias Castfoj ^.-claimant of the Tichborne .estates,now serving fourteen. years' imprisonment, is about to be released, and many of his faithful followers, whose-stupid'faith in his cause makes a curious, chapter .in the history of impositions, propose to buy'a public inn and set him to earning ahvins. - - ' J> "What do circus "people doinihe ^ winter?" asks a contemporary. Tho y down devotes the soason-to.gleaning a >' ircsh crop of jokes from the almanac-, printed prior to the American revoKi ? : n? lien, ana vccaaiunimj London comic., weeklies;.; slpAl- the "strong man," who splitsHSlCte with his fist, secures emplpyment-in a.cheap boarding house at hammeritt^ tough beet No doubt the . others' mid em* plovment adapted to their respective talents. ^ ^ Every man. has his favorite story, and the Hon. Rowell P. Flower teUs the following: 4 One day an old negro clad in rags, and carrying a: burden on his head, ambled: into nie executive chamber, and dropped his load on. the\ floor. Stepping toward the governor, he said," 'Am you de gubherj sah?' Being answered in the affinnative, he . said: 'If dat am a: fac5 Fsglad tec meet ^ r i; i. _ _ __ j_ _ _ j_ yer. xer aee ^uuajway up uar .ui uo back of de conntxy, and ?aa poor man, sah. I hr'aridar is somepervishtinir in de cons'toiiQn fer de culled mam, and I am liar to git some ob 'em, sab.' " .