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v - gj ?- i?rn i g ^ ~ '.1lV 111 rv ' '" r"T ~ '" "1 v'"r ' "" ^ '' IIII-I r-1 urmi rn -\ j ni-ii.i ? ? : . ~~~ 7 WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1884. _ ; ; ' ::'J "Whose Scissors Did It? *T was winter. nnd jray Jack Frost had flung ' His sparkliup jeweis on the flelds of snow,? While over the way his icicles hung From ;he cdsrv of the roof, in an even row. My little jrirl looked across the way. At the frozen fringe which was hanging there: And then in soft tones I heard her say: "I -wonder who banned that house's hair?" ?Chandler, in the St. Nicholas. In Primeval "Wood. Jhisdtep, primeval wood?how still! silence bere makes all his own; ^dJ^^^^taj^hapes. with hands upon their lips, about bis darkened throne. flKf-nt pleadine of the trees? it shames the soul's dcspairl ^uiication uK.veless, mute. op th<*:r attitude of prayer. Mi ? John V?nee Cheney, in Century. ft LOVE'S USURY. Bfsure, ma'am, will yez be afther j:c- ^Rliss Susy come-round to Mrs. K the night? It's the pretty KitMf wedding party, aud it's me.self HfAM-f A ? *- i-p* " Ijokeswoman was Irish Kathfaithfiil village washerwoman, Kelly was one of her steady s whom she regarded with pect and admiration. ougfc now the wife of a rich perons farmer, she did not c*oid shonlder to Kathleen, who le over from Ireland in the p with her. On the contrary, s, one and all, made much of >t woman. u let me go. mother," said Su:ty vivacious maiden of six> clapped her hands gleeiully >ugkt. "You've no idea what o Ue at the Keliys when they wry-making. You know yon once before. Don't you re f memoerr is was waea usuv g?vu & we4ding to one of their farm hands." " **Sntv; Miss Susy, yer mother must bring vt-z over hurself, and then she'll see what good cheer a true sou of the *zrvvn sod' will give tohis friends. But I liiu.-n't stand here and wag my tongue. 1 mqst be on the way to geta > su}>!>er for roy ouhl man and the ehild?-r." As soon as Kathleen was out of sight, Susy said coaxingly: "May I g<ymotlier?' Harry will takeurn over, arid ih^n he can stay and see what an Irisir merry-making is like. It will <16 him good, and take some-of the primness ont of him. l'\%e been wondering ever since he came if he had auv urn . d^orsl?:aoL\ Siuy, la sneak so siiirhtof your cousin^ Remember, jj^BfflBMBse. that he h:?> carried oil the hi^hBoiiors of Lii.'ala&s this year,.and. B he has been ordered here by his Bieiim to reeruit hi^icaltluV Bsv tossed her heatf^ " 'Hi: HE Ve were his. relatives before, this Bner, weren't we mother? I don't much- for cousins who only come He us becau.sc they arc ordered to ountrv *for their health.' " B* am sorry, Cousin Susy," said a B voice behind her, "but was I to B what I was missing, by staying B? I assure you that it shall not 00 Bpp&w&s a gleam of mischief in B8^^^o?cf>r?r?^es'as he said this; but ^Bnsy was too much taken aback at hav5BH& bcr speech overheard to look at MBaig g<tys n """y tKirvgg Hes not mean, Harry; so you musn't Bv any atte ntion to her thoughtless iH Brds." M"Aud Susy says a good many things Be docs mean," put'in the said Susy; Hind one of them is 'May Harry escort Hs over to tfic'Kelly Farm!?' " And she looked at Harry with a mer smrle; her momentary discomfiture Hnishing as suddenly as it had come. That will be just as Harry says, Bisy. I" will trust you to his care wlll?^n -Harry says Go," don't you, cousin? BBon will miss it if vou don't.1' IBp't am' a: your service, Cousin Susy. Bat you muse promise to post me a litHo as to how to behave." 7 I Again a merry sparkle flashed into lie usually grave eyes of the young R>Ilegian. But Sosy answered in good < "All you have to do is to sit still and see the lads and lasses take partners for the dances, and to keep from laughmgva$ih,ej?." "I doo/t suppose it wonld be proper for me td get np anrfdarrce too?" ,*>.*??u dance an Irisitjig? I would ? giv? th& world to -see you.'try it!'' "Vmi <shn.ll be orratifiedl and, for-less than 'the world!?that is,. if you would promise to give me some reward for _ . my obedience.1' . , I "Of course I wilL But I will tell * you beforehand that my possessions are -xtoae ofth^m^very valuable." "One; doesn't always oare for expensive things. What yoa^v&hte very I. lightly, I might hold very precious." "Then it is a bargain. To think of my serious college cousin dancing an Irish jig!" And a ripple of merry laughter sounded from Susy's red lips ! Jr as she.left tno room. Early evening found the cousins on theirwav-to theiKeily Farm. The round moon, like a globe of silver light, was just visible above the horizon as they readied Ike long, low, comfortable-looking house. In the daytime it was not a particu\ Jarly rc.pantac looking place;. but it now received a gbunour from the uncertain light -which mellowed -down all uncoutn angles, and brought into _ ^fcminence the Turai surroundings. **9-"-w^be tsU rounded haymows looked * like giint bee-hives, and the few trees which%ad-been held sacred from tho hx on accountof their iage, waved their quivering silver-tinted leaves a rustling welcome to the new comers, who were sufficiently romantically inclined to thus construe, it As is often the ease with prosperous " farmers, the barn was upon a much v> larger scale than the house, and it had .been thoroughly cleansed and made gay with rural decorations. WW " ' Many hands had been busy within it, as Kittio's wedding was a matter of great interest to all the young folks who had been born and brought up near her home. Susy was not native born to the neighborhood, so she was outside the . . charmed circle; but none the less was she welcomed, and made mnch of, the very fact that she had but lately be<*un to learn, the mysteries of country life fg " adding to" the interest with which she was regarded. Surry alsoreceived a cardial reception, and,- much to Susy's- surprise, he entered so heartily into the fan, and made himself so entertaining, that wherever he was there was sure to be a fresh burst-of merry laughter. But the grand finale 01 enjoyment was not reached until after the musicians came and took possession of the seats prepared for them upon a platform, which had been constructed at . the extreme end- of the huge barn, y where the dancing was to-be, as the ar? rangemeuts for feasting the guests bad monopolized the ground-floor of the farmhouse proper. On the way home, Harry turned to Susy. "Have I earned my promised reward. Cousin Susy?" "Yes, Harry, you have, indeed. I What shall I give you?" j "Something so precious that I hardi ly dare j.sk for it. t "After this evening I should not.be: lieve you would hesiiate at anything, | Harry. So don't make a pretence of i beinj shy in putting forward your j claim- I really believe I do not know ; you at ail! I have thought you to be so | quiet without a bit of fun in you!1' Susy spoke half in fun, but still there I was a ring of truth in what she said. | Harry certainly had a two-sided charj acter. He could be very serious, and he could be very merry. Had she not i seen it with her own eyes? ' "Then, Susy, I will at once say what I I want, and, as you are bound in honor i to give it to me, you may as well pay I your debts at once. I claim a kiss from you as my pay for well-doing." Susy could hardly believe the evij dence of her eyes. i A kiss! the saucy audacious fellow! i Vnr jin instant she .was indignant. j Then her woman's wit came to the resjiue, and the angry flash died out. of (her eyes. ! "I will not deny that I promised yon i a reward, Cousin Harry," she said dej murelyj "but as I did not set any specjffied titae in which* to pay it, I shall I certainlr keep vou my credit for a i while." "Then I shall demand interest, as | well as principal, when it is paid." ; "I have no doubt I shall find you as ; unrelenting as you are surprising. You are really growing to be both a per plexing and interesting study." i " 'Varietv is the spice of life,' ac t cording to the.proverb." j "Well, here we are at home, so we I must postpone our conversation until to-morrow." "Piease have something kind to say' j to me when to-morrow comes, Cousin jSusv. I don't.like to be called a 'per-I plexing study.' " "Then don't deserve it." { "Good-night, Susy." And Harry; ?! held out his hand. But Susy did not take it. This new j Harry must be- kept at a distance, j "Good-iiight," she said, disappear-ling up the dimly-lighted stairway. Harry looked after her with a'smile j hovering about his lips. "What a little darling she is," he I thought, "and how neatly she got out 'of giving me a kiss! But I'll have it j yet. It will be all the sweeter for the [difficulty of getting-it." Sat after this Susy's manner chang| *d. Instead of treating Harry with the sisterly frankness nnil freedom which | had heretofore characterized their ini tereoiirse, she became as shy as a wood! thrush. Harry was rueful enough at the | change. Susy seemed to him the beau j ideal of everything that was good and j lovely, and he feared that he had of| fended her irrevocably. j Had he been better skilled in the workings of a woman's heart lie might have drawn a different inference from her resolute avoidance oT his society. Time fled away on rapid wings, "and j at last brought the day of Harry's departure. * l TTu 11LJ luii^ui ?I L.? ?I iiUQ MWWBB j look which had characterized him when he first came; but was as ruddy and strong-looking as the veriest country lad in the neighborhood; and he looked handsomer than ever when he sought Susy to bid her good-bye. He found her in the rustic summerhfvnse. which was her favorite resort when she wished either to read or write or to be alone with her thoughts. There was a slight flush about her eyes, which showed that tears had been making an unwonted visit to them. But she forced a bright smile as she saw Harry. He put out his hand, and with the parting hand-clasp which he gave to . lier cold little fingers, said: "Good-bye, Cousin Susv, and try toforgive me for the offer.se which has made me such a tabooed sinner in your eyes of late. ' "Please look upon it as a jest which shall cot again be referred to. For if 1 have one wish dominant above all oth a.u-4. T CVS ID mv LUIIiUv is JL uiii-y lira pieasantly in your remembrance." "I shall never do anything but think kindly .of you, Cousin Harry," said Susy Had Hairy been' sufficiently ^master of bis own emotions lo study Susy's face, he would have noticed that a suspicious quiver threatened the continuance of the forced smile upon her lips, and that tears were just ready to overflow tlieir fringed boundaries. But with this cold formal good-bye he . expected to leave her.: So lie turned and walked away. When the gate clanged to, and Susy I felt sure thst he had gone, she had no I longer need for self-possession, and she ! t.hri>w Fiursislf forward. a.nd covered her face with her hands, moaning: "Oh, Harry, I cannot bear"it! I have treated you so dreadfully, and I am. sure I shall never, never set eyes upon your faco ajjain. I shall never, never see you. You will think of me only to hate me. Oh dear, oh dear!" Thus she ran on, unheeding what was passing about her. The gate had .been reopened, and Harry was hastening back; but she took no notice, so absorbed was she in sorrow and selfreproach. "Susy, crying!" came from his lips in surprised accents. Then, with a sadden joyful light in his eyes, he sprang "forward and exclaimed: "Arc you sorry that I am going away? I was too great a coward to say what I felt, Susy, but I have come back to risk it I cannot think of my future "l>"* ? Will tr/Mi nrnmkfl { J UU du?uu 1U urn JVU to be my little wife? I love you so dearly that it must be you don't hate me as you have made believe." "Hate you! Oh. Harry," sobbed Susy; and then and there the happy lover possessed himself of both principal and interest of the debt he claimed from Susy. How many kisses he took we dare not say. But Susy made no resistj ance, for was it not a just claim? ! Queen Victoria, speaking in her new i book of an accident tli.-it ! eiull her and jher gillie, says that alio was "much j distressed" to find "that poor Brown's ! h??n dreadfully cut." What ; shocking1 impropriety! A well-bred J American woman would, tramp all around Robin Hood's barn after the word "limbs."?Rochester Democrat. "He's not what you call strictly handi some." said the Major, beaming through ! his glasses on an utterly hideous baoy [as it lay peacefully howling in its mother's arms, "but it's the kind of face that ctows on you," was the indignant ana unexpected reply -of the maternal being. "You'd bo betterlooking if it had." : I WOXDEItFUL INSECT EYES. j Till ere the Gift of Sialic is Most RichI ly Bestowed. | Physicians call attention to the in| creasing instances of defective or ;m| ^erfect sight occurring in civilized countries, anil attribute it to the various conditions of modern life?the overwork of the eyes in childhood, the study of books in small print, and the habit of readiu<r by imperfect light, i and many other causes. It appears } certain that in tiu? matter of eyqsight j the savage has usually the advantage | of the civilized man. . The gift of sight I is one voryunequaLy distributed among ' 1 ~!1 r?"i_ WU "Uiiu. uu^uv, joy it to excess, like the eagie; others are totally deprived of it, like the earthworm. In many other instances the sense of sight, if not actually lacking, is extremely imperfect, as "in the case of the mole. Insects are in many cases far more richly endowed with eyes than even birds or beasts. The little creature called the whirl wig" ( G-yrimis natator), which skims alcng oa the surface of standing water, is furnished with a double set of optics, the upper portion of the eyes (fitted forseeing in the air) being placed in the upper portion of the head, and the lower portion of the eyes (fitted for seeing in the water) in the ; lower portion of the head, a thin divist ion separating the two. | Spiders possess six eyes?some spej cies eight; centipedes twenty, while the eyes of many insects (bees, butterflies, dragon flies) are composed of a number of facets, each eye being, in fact, a cluster of eyes. Dr. Hook counted 14,000 of these facets, in the eye of a dragon fly, and Leeuwenhock found as many as 12,544 in another specimen of the same species. The latter naturalist adapted one of the eyes of a dragon-fly so as to be able to see objects through it by means of a microscope, and found that he could j view the steeple of a church 299 feet j high and 750 feet from the piace where | he stood, he could also distinguish if ! the door of- a house, at the same Uisj tance, was open or shut. Fleas' eyes diniiuish as well as mul; tiply objects, as Puget discovered by j penormincr a similar experiment to th.it of Ljeuwenhock. "A soldier ! viewed through it represented an army j of pigmies. * * * The flame of a ! thousand lamps." Blind or imperfectly sighted human beings may think ; with envy of the beautiful provisions of ' visual organs bestowed by nature on some of- her children; and yet many creatures live happily with but a small share of the blessings of sight. In some of the insects who,possess the largest share of visual organs some other sense?taste, hearing or touch? is deficient. Huber believes their sense of both hearing and taste to be imperfect. On the other hand, the blind earthworm will retreat rapidly into its hole if the light of a candle is thrown upon it, its sense of hearing or smell warning it of the approach of the danger it cannot see. A bat's senses of touch, hearing or smell are so acute that it depends little on the aid of its eyes. Spallanzani tested this by the cruel experiment of destroying the sight of several J bats and then setting them free. In j their flight through the room they j French naturalist, states that there is a species of ants which are entirely blind, but pursue the name mode of life as their sighted brethren.?London Globe. How to Cook Chickens and PotatoesThe lecture at Miss Parloa's school included the trussing and roasting of poultry, different modes of preparing potatoes, and Baltimore pudding with wine sauce. The pudding was first prepared. A cup of Porto Rico molasses was mixed with a cup of chopped suet, half a teaspoonful of salt and a cud of chopped raisins. A tablespoonfuT of cloves, one of alspice, and one of mace, with a grated nutmeg, were added to the dry ingredients. A cup \oi miikt-in:.which a teaspoonful of soda was dissolved, was now added. Finally, three and one-half cups of flour were beaten in and the pudding was poured in two molds and set- in a steamer to cook. If tlie pudding were cooked in one mold, the lecturer stated, it should be steamed five hours, but by Tttifiilirwr tfio tinitt \V!1S | \urxuxu^; vnv - | lessened, and she whs able at - the end l of the lesson to serve it to the class I with a foamy wine sauce. Preparing and trussing a chickcn for roasting occupied a considerable time. . After the fowl had been drawn and rinsed, the lecturer, by deftly, cutting the slcin at titie joint of the leg, pulled out the tendons. She then cut the neck off near the. body, being; careful to leave all the skin, and also removed the tips of the wings. These parts, with tibe heart, liver and gizzard she laid on a platter to be boiled for gravy. The chicken was filled with a light," dry dressing of a quart of grated bread-crumbs, using the white portion of the bread, and a half-cup of butter, which was seasoned with a tablespoonful of salt, a scant teaspoonful of pepper, one of. parsley, one of summer savory and half a teaspoonIfui of sasre. The whole was mixed lightly. When the" chicken was filled the wings and legs were skewered in place and the son of the. neck was drawn down by a skewer on to the back. The chicken was now rubbed with butter, dredged with flour, thoroughly seasoned and roasted an hour ana a quarter. It was basted, dredged with flour and seasoned with salt and pepper lightly every fifteen minutes during the time it was roasting. An interesting portion of the lesson was the various modes given of preparing cold potatoes. The cooked potatoes were cut in cubes, dipped in melted butter and lightly in flour for Duchess potatoes, which were baked in the oven on a greased dish for twenty minutes. Escalloped potatoes were then prepared by cutting cold potatoes in thin slices, and baking them in a crcam sauce with a layer of bread-crumbs on top. Lvonnaise potatoes were also cooked. "Three tablespoonfuls of butter were put on a frying pan, and when the butter was meltua, a tablespoonful of chopped onion was fried in it till it was of a pale straw-eolor, when a quart of potatoes, cut in dice, were added, which were thoroughly seasoned with salt and pepper. When they were hot a tablespoonful of chopped parsley was - ? J 4-rrr^ wJn. | aaaea aau tuu wnuiu cw&.cu mv ^sautes.?N> Y. Tribune. Mrs. Orphia Thompson, a pretty J blonde Quakeress of twenty-three, asked for a separation from Alexander Thompson, who is in the leather trade in New York. Mr. Thompson and herself had married themselves without the aid of clerical or legal officials, and Alexander was not doing well by her. The court decided that, though h? had written to her as his dear wife and signed himself as her affectionate (husband, there was no marriage. ' "S ? ' *T Drunk in a Plug Hat. This world is filled with woe everywhere you go. Sorrow is piled up in the fence corners on every road. Unavailing regret and red-nosed remorse inhabit the cot of the tie-chopper as well as the cut-glass cage of the millionaire. The woods are full of disapi pointment The c'arth is convulsed ; with the universal sob, and the roads j are muddy with tears. But I do not ; call to mind a more touching picture j of unavailing misery and ruin and hopeless chaos than'the plug hat that has endeavored to keep sober and maintain its self-respect while its owner ! is drunk. A plug hat can stand prosj perity,*and shine forth joyously ;while j nature smiios. J.nat s me piavv rvuac I it seems to thrive. A tall silk hat i looks well on a thrifty man with a clean collar, but it cannot stand dissipation. ' I once knew a plug hat that had been rcspected by every one and had won its way upward by steady endeavor. No one knew au^ht against it till one evening, in an evil hour,it consent-' ! ed to attend a banquet, and all . at: once its joyous career ended. It met. ! nntVnnir' hnt. distrust, and Cold TlBfflect ! everywhere after that Drink seems to make a-man temporarily, unnaturally exhilarated- During, the temporary exhilaration he desires to attract attention by eating "lobster salad out of his own hat and sitting down on his neighbor's. The demon rum is bad enough on the coatings of the stomach, but it is even more disastrous to the tall hat A man may mix up in a crowd and carry off an overdose of valley tan in a soft hat or a pap, but the silk hat will proclaim it upon the house-tops I and advertise it to the gaping, wondering world. It has a way of getting back on the rear elevation of the head, or over the bridge of the nose, or of hanging coquettishly on one ear that savs to the eagle-eved public, "I am chock-full." 1 can not call to mind a more power ful lecture on temperance than the silent pantomime of a n&n trying to hang his piug hat on an invisible peg in his own hull after he had been watching the returns three years ago. I saw thai he was excited aud nervously unstrung when lie come in, but I? did not fully realize it until he began to hang his hat on the smooth wall. At iirst he laughed in a good-natured ! way at his awkwardness and hung it up again carefully; but at last he became irriuued about it, and almost forgot himself enough to swear, but con-" trolled himself. Finding, however, that it refused to hang up, and that it seemed rather restless anyhow, he put it in the corner of the hall with the crown 110, pinned it to the floor "with his umbrolfa, and heaved a sigh of' relief. Then he took off his overcoat and, through a clerical error, pulled off his dress-coat also. I showed him his mistake and offered to assist him back into his apparel, but he said he hadn't got so old and feeble yet that he ' couldn't dress himself. Later on he came into the parlor wearing a linen ulster, with the belt drooping behind him like the broken harness to a shipwrecked and stranded mule. His wife looked at him in a way that froze his blood. This startled feet in'^hi^surcingle, clutched wildly at the empty gas-light, but missed it, and sat down in a tall majolica cuspfdor. There were:three games of whist going on-^ea he fell,- .and/ there was a good'ifeai of excitement'over the; playing, but2fter:he.had: beenrapniled:: out -of-the atoerSfoiElojQiftg and led away, ererv one ofe'tlie whist-players had 'forgotton. what the trump was. They say- that-he-hss abandoned politics since then, and; ""that" now he don't <sare whether-wc hiwre- any' more November elections^ or- not. I as^ea him-once'STHe-would be -active during the 1884 campaign, as usual, and he said'he-thought not. He said a man couMn?i aflbccfc to be c toe active in a political campaign. Hi? constitution. wouMn't-s-tand it Atthaf time he didn't- care much whether' the American people had a President or not if every-public-spirited voter had got. to work himself up into a state of ncrvou? rxcitabillty and prostration where reason tottered on its throne, he thought that - we needed a reform. - . Those who wished to; furnish' rea-. sons to totter on their thrones for the -National Central Comnritteeatrsomuch per tot coold do so; he, for one, <iidn't propose to farm out his immortal soul ana plug hat to the parly if\6K^O0O,OOO people had to stand four years under the administtation of a setting hen.? Bill Nye in Puck. . m m m "Undo Sam/' A contributor to the Philadelphia Press writes to that journal: Immediately-after the declaration jof the last: war"with England, Elbert Anderson, acontractor of provisions to supply the. I United States array, visited Troy on the Hudson, where he purchased a largo i quantity of beef, pork, etc. The in-', spectors of these articles at this place were Messrs. Ebenezer and Samuel Wilson. The latter gentleman (better known as Uncle Sam) generally superintended in person tho men who were employed in packing and marking the casks containing die provisions. . The casks were marked "E. A?U. S." The work of marking being done by a facetious fellow, on being asked by some of the other workmen what the letters U. S. meant, said he guessed it meant Elbert Anderson and "Uncle Sam," alluding to the said "Uncle Sam" Wilson. The joke took among the workmen and Uncle Sam being present was occasionally rallied i j on the extent of his possessions. jviany 01 tuesc worsiuuu uuumuu soldiers and were soon found in the frontier lines; their, jokes, of -course, followed them, and before the first campaign ended this identical one appeared in print It gained favor rapidly till it was rcco^nized in ever part of our country, and will no doubt continue so long as the United States remains a nation. A Dark Problem. The question for debate at the Sewickley Colored Club last evening was: i "Which is of most benefit to man, the steam engine or the horse?" til. i ??l- ?i.;? JLiie uursu urawt gicw paiv; wuw juxa opponent asked, vehemently: "What am de hoss, anyway? Nuffin but a steam ingine. Did my learned brudder j never see a hoss on a cold day how de ! steam comes out ob his nose? Keep ! dat steam inside an' de horse would | bust." "An' when we come to die," said the horse orator, "how'd we look goin' to de cemetery in a> steam hearse? Dat would be puffeckly 'diculous!" This turned the tide and the horse side won. ri > r - ; i . ' J PEIiCIVAL, THE POET. j 'lie Man Who Made Webster's Die I tionary and Died in Poverty. When the young and accomplished widow-of Fairfield, made the attempt to support herself and children by the publication and sale of Percival's poems. the nious effort was. announced in ; an organ of the Boston literati nnder the heading; "Bay a Broom! Bay a | Broom!% Come Buy of a Wandering | Bavariah a Broom!" The gentle, sensitive Percival barely escaped falling a victim to this mode of-attack.. Shortly after-the first publication of his poems and the criticisms upon the same, he was found insensible in a stone quarry, where he had sought to rid himself of the brains which had proved his curse by butting, his head against rocky walls. His literary, assassins represented this attempt at self-destfipetion as the resist of disappointment'in JoVe, but there was not an incident connected with his social relations to Justiiy OT;giye;CCJk>rto this conclusion, . His- was .eminently an ethereal nature?Mjc d without passion. He pu?'she?i- nc more bat devoted himself Entirely-to scientific pursuits, I for whijch he- bad- a- remarkable;; apti tude, until his physical necessities compelled him to' bccomc a hack writer for distinguished literary men of -more practical ability. He-was the sole author, compiler and' editor of the first editionof Webster's Unabridged- Dictionary; giving not only the definitions; bat the root and history of-over 16,000 words derived from other languages, including- all the written languages of the worla?thirty in number?of every one of which he must have had some rtflfinoWnz-wiTTlo/l ?*r> 1? p irsr*} erf- in this Iteht, ft Is the most wonderful literary lanor ever performed by one man. No other lexicographer ever accomplished it Dr. Johnson was the literary won der of *his a^e. Horace Walpole says of hinjjf "His dictionary is a surprising worktop one man, but sufficient examples? in foreign countries show that the wfri; is too much for one man, and that afisociety alone pretend to publish a sta&dard dictionary." Webster's first ^iptionary was only a compilation from standard.authorities, with the adr ditiorfof"purely American idioms and noitlioy nnrnnali CfcjfiiiWjfijr, vau?u.^I- ... o : ity n?r research, boiug adapted only to the u^e oi schools?to the learners and not Mi the learned?and was rejected . as a 'Standard by thb British institmtions*of learning on account of the slangs phrases, with onlya local siguifocatioii, which it attempted to introduce into the common English language. Iri* regard to derivative words, which comprise so large a share of our language* the dictionary edited by Percivul and published in the name "of Noah Webster, is now. adopted as the highest standard authority by all the "universif tics of Great Britain and America. The great-fortune of Ifoah -Webster in life; and'his world-wide fame as- the groats est lexicographer of any age, are. based solely upon the unrequited labor of James G. Percival, who died in poverty in a miner's cabin in Western Wisconsin, "unwept unhonored and unsung." , The only remuneration which Percival eye? received for this unparalleled work was a bare subsistence?which i Art v.?ar~ ing'toolJ, books of reference. That he "lived in a garret after the manner of the old poets," was probably true of his student days, but when he undertook the work of the dictionary his employers built him a study after his own model. It was a small building, without window or door facing any public thoroughfare, lighted from the top?a sort of monkish cell in which* sucrounded by his books, he could pursue his labors uninterrupted by idle curiosity. It was reported?with what truth I cannot vouch?that this study and the library which had been furnished him, when he had finished the work, were reclaimed bv his employers. They were not nominated ~ in" the bond.1'?Son. Beriah Br cum, in- the Seattle (W. T.) Herald. Matthew Arnold vs. American Culture. We dare say it in fact makes very little difference to most people what our English cousins think of us :tnd our culture, but there is no d.ouiit: that?while, they give us full-credit f<>r our material greatness?they rather sni-iwestimate our finer acquirements. Mr. Matthew Arnold is certainly a great ue.-u more than an avexage exponent of English, intelligence, but oven he has betrayed considerable ignorance of American culture. At a dinner not lon<r since, in conversation with the lady next to him,, he happened to mention Wordsworth, adding in an apologetic way, that he supposed very few A*'vricaos knew anything of that poet. The iady, who happened.to bo n wry good specimen, of the vera Jmt.ica:iu, cot:Idn't quite endure that r rt ct.on on her country I XQCU UIIU W;Jw ?lf * "j'ltuu tv uujo i statement, inforzninr ' irre.nt -man [thathe-wasmistr.k u.* To Nvrtify her assertion she siiii sue diilii*: brieve there was a guest at th" table who hadn't a copy of Woid.-w-- h!? poems in his or her library. Mr. A acting on the 'txiygetiioii. :i rotated, each one on the sti! j Vt.. . ?? *is surprise he learned from ;h-> r-?;>i:e.i that 1 oTOTOnno Z'thtk MrtT-i.it-ii'M-: iieran-ex~ "' v r j ceptional one or ?mn* of :> membersfearing to be found iivli-4- u ) c aimed to possess thepoetV work.-. We- sayfearing; to be found ddlic:?ut because, under such eircumsianc an American worthy of th?> naulo had any doubt as to whether lu< owuett the books, he would h.wcjrivon i itu.-elfthe j benefit of ?it to. aid in the eon/uskm of ! the Britisher Whoshould-qu.'stion that ! any Ameriean assemblage should not j be thoroughly acquaint, d with Words| worth's writings. Wo say ho. met with : an affirmative answer to his question, j and only-wish to use the ccurrenee to i ofttfAWAnf fV\ot nnr tru ncrJATV*. j j^uiuu mu obabVAUvuu iui*v uu* | tine friends do not give us credit for. i the cultivation we really do possess. ! We would venture to make the further i claim, and think we could support it, j that, take our people and compare them I class for class with the English, and? : they will be found to have :is thorough i an acquaintance with what is really j best in EDglish literature as the Eni glish themselves. We do not wish to j talk spread-oagle too much, but think | our cosmopolitan spirit is giving the American people a truer and more genI eral culture than Englishman can ever j attain, unless they aEacdou their insu! lar prejudice which makos them skep| ticai of any cultivation but their own. j ?Modern Age fur March.' The Brooklyn Bridge Railway can only accommodate about 6,000 passengers an hour, and it is urged by many that this capacity should be increased ten timer_andjearn nearly all the bridge t income, while toils fortiWfoot bridge should be abolished and those of the j carriage wavs reduced one-halt L Early Birds. | In the curious lithographic slate of ; Solenhofen we have preserved for us a great number of fossil forms with an extraordinary degree of peri'ection; and among these are several which help us on greatly from the reptilian to the vaian structure. The lithographic slate is a member of the upper oolitic form- ation, and it is worked, as its name implies, for the purpose of producing stones for the process ol lithography. But the same properties which make the slate in its present condition take so readily the impress of a letter or a jsketcb, made it in its earlier condition take the impress of the various- organisms imbedded as they fell1 in its soft, mud. Even the forms- and petals of early flowers washed .by JJoods into the - half-formed mud bank have been thns ' preserved.for us with wonderful minu teness. Most interesting of ali'fbr onor present purpose, however,are the bones of contemporary reptiles and birds which this nature-printing rock inclines for the behoof of modern naturalists;GneSuchreptile,: known as compsognatisas, may be regarded as-filling among tktvn class" the -pi ace fllted among pLng mammals by_rtbo ka* ; garoo.. It was a rather, swanlikc, erect , saurian, standing gracefully upen its v <hind paws* with its fore legs. free,, and pro bablV dragging its round tail be- , hind it "on the ground as-a support-to ( steady its gait. The neck was lon?: and-arched, and the head small and i bird-like in shape, but the jaws are , armed- with, sharp and powerful teeth, ' as in the pterodactyls. Altogether, .1 compso^nathus must hare* looked in [ outward appearance not at all- unlike -r such birds as the auks and the pen- j guins, though its real structural affinities lie rather with the emus and the- , cassowaries. The apteryx or kiwi of ) New Zealand, which is a bird that does , not fly because it has no wings worth mentioning to fly with, approaches 1 even Nearer in the combination of both ] points in this-very bird-like oolitic rep- ', .tile. Even compsognathus himself, . .however, though very closely allied to ( the true birds, cannot be held to stand 1 at an actual point in the progressive , pedigree, because in the very same Sol- , - cnhofen slates we find a real leathered ] bird in person. Accocdingly, as the two were thus contemporaries, the one j coald not be the direct ancestor of the 1 other. Nevertheless, it is from some , form closely resembling compsogna- 1 thus that the 'true; bijrds have descend- . ed. We have only-to suppose such a ] reptile to acquire fOrestihe habits and , to begin jumping freely from-tree to , t:TAp in tn sf>t nrrthfl soriaaof ! changes by which a-true bird might be . j produced. But.the first historical bird1 j of which wc know anything; the arcb- t . oBopteryx' of the' Solenhofen slate, still remains in many points essentially a ^ reptile. It is only bird-likc; in two. _j main particulars, its posscssipnof rudimentary wingsr' and its possession of j feathers,. From the popular point "of . viow these two particulars are'decisive in favor of its being considered a bird; . j but its anatomical structure is sufficient? ? to make it at least half a reptile; and j. eminent an thorities^bavc" difiered (with; . their usual acrimony), as-to whether it; ought properly to be called abird-Uke .saurian, or a lizzard-like bird. There is nothing like a mere qircstion of Words such as this to set scientific men or r ^i. >1, 'I T Tr "f a century together.? Krom Longman'a * Maaaz'ne. 1 The Brown-Stone P?-iod of Ar erican- "* Architecture. In a paper on "Old Public Buildings ^ in America." the March Qndury. Kich- g ard Grant Whito says: "The rows of! O unhomelite and even unhouselike <8 dweliing-places -which are generally' c spoken of as 'brown-stone fronts*? f phrase unlovely, and therefore most 1 fitting?may properly be regarded as i manifestations and embodiments of the f spirit of our domestic architecture in. J the second and third quarters of the * present ccntury. In them thefatuous I frivolity and obtrusive vulgarity of that f oeriod found complete expression. As 'J geologists designate the various stages I of the earth's formation as the Eocene t and Pliocene periods, and the like, so f we may well designate the stage of & house-building through which we have t lately passed?and from .which we are a slowly emerging, but with struggles t and lingering throes of adhesion?is ^ the brown-stone period of American: ? architecture. How firmly imbedded t we have been in this stratum of old t red sand-stone, thin laminje of which t seem to have cropped up out of our ^ soil, through on r very souls,. as veneer- f ing to our. styiish' domiciles, may be 1 inferred from a two-part story, as dual c as a pair of trousers, which reached I me through two architects. c *'A certain, very costly mansion: in a one of the principal avenues in New 8 York was designed by its architectto ? be built of a li^ht-colored, grayish * stone; but the client, although he ac- ^ cepted the design, rebelled against the 1 proposed material, and insisted on hav*- t mg his house in brown stone 'like ? Other people.' Then another projector * of a 'palatial mansion,' a' dweller in * California, but a native of JJew Iork, * astonished his architect by declaring _.t that his house , must, also be built of '( brown stone, although "the country' s around' him abounds- m- stone more s beautiful and Sn .every way better for': c building,?assigningas: his reason that - i he 'wanted to nave a brown-stone house t ' % AW -?Mrn**no ^v Vow I il&U 1HU Of VU - Wl VUUV) 4.1VVV x York,'??the elaborate structure before mentioned; wherefore, poor building 1 material for. a-hoase in San Francisco I was transported from New York. This < disposition to copy New York has been 1 deplorably injurious to the architectural t las well as to the moral aspect of the. t ;whole country." t 5 j . Sarins a Nary. , I i "Well, since you haven't heard of it, I will give it to you. and you may nave it-exclusive?excepting, of course, the Mexican newspapers. It happened , just this way: On January 2 the entire * Mexican Navy was lying-at anchor in Frontera Harbor; when there came up * one of those terrific *northers,' or what v -they call in Buenos Ayres the 'pam- pero.' The Libertad, the largest of the c Mexican warvessels, was lifted Up as 1 by a tidal wave and swept ashore, and , there she lay until we arrived at Fron- f tera and pulled her offl I expect the 1 Mexican Congress will vote me an or- 3 der and other honors for my distin- % j guished services in saving their navy. \ t Any other vessels go asnorer wny, f bless you, no. . I said half of the Mexi- } I can Navy was almost destroyed, and 1 they only have two vessels.'' A Chicago journal modestly suggests ) that the celebration of the fourth cen- '3 tennial of the diseovon* of America J should be held in that city, because it "is the pivot city of the Uuiicd States." Chicago is the pivot ciiy iu-the sense , that they get everything turned around 'there.?ifosfcw Post. * v - ' - " '*1 "'* *** t -V- '"';--vh A WEBSTER STORY. j How a Lawsuit Was -Won in New Hampshire. . Daniel Webster was fond of a good story, and told a few illustrating his early life in New Hampshire. One evening at a convivial party, where he and several distinguished lawyers were present, the conversation happened to turn on the legal profession. "When I was a young practitioner," said Mr. Webster, 4 there was but one man at the New-Hampshire bar of whom I was Afraid, and that was old Barnaby. There were but few men who dared to enter the list with him. On one occasion Barnaby was employed to defend a suit for a piece of land,-brought by * little, crabbed, cunning lawyer, called Bruce. Bruce's case was looked .upon a? good'as lost when it was ascertained that Barnaby was retained against X1UU. iue SUib VOULU UU 1UJL U.1W, OUU Barnaby found tliat Bruce had worked hard, and left no stone unturned to gain the victory. The testimony for the plain tig was* very - strong; and unless it could be impeached, the case of the.defendant was lo& Tits principal witness intritouc^rirt^c plaintiff wore a red; coat In swnningupfor the de- ; fense, old Barnaby commenced a furious attack on this witness, pulling his testimony all to pieces, and appealing- ; to the jury if a man who wore a red: coat was. und?>r ai>y circumstances, to: | be'believed. \\rid.wiio is this red-coat- | ed witness?1 exclaimed Barnaby, 'but , r descendant of our common enemy,: | who has striven to take from us our ; liberty, and wou:d not hesitate now to: deprive, my poor client of his land, by ; making any "sort of fed-coated state- *' mcnt!' Whilst, however, Barnaby 1 was gestionis:in;* and. leauing forward 1 to the jury in uis eloquent appeal, his^ jhirl-bosom qponed slightly, and Bruce; .1 accidentally discovered thai-. Barnaby -i wore a red "undershirt. Brucc's conn- 3 tenance brightened up. Putting both i liands in his coat-pocketsi he walked to the bar wiiii great conlidence, to the ; astonishment of his client and all look- \ ars-on. Just as Barnaby cconcluded \ Bruce whispered in th^ car of his client, j 'I've got him?your case is safe;' and, approaching the jury, he commenced: , lis reply to the sijioghterinir argument , af Iris mlversary. -Brnec gave a regular; history of th? xncostry of his red-coated witness, proving his patriotism and de- < fotion to the country, ai^d his charac:er for trntjt and v? r ;eity. 'But what. 1 Tentiemen of the jnrv.1 broke forth 1 r> .. i t * ? 1 Druce in a jouu .-ira si oi. cioqucnce, while his eye flashed tire, 4what are * fou to expect or :i man who stands here J ? d? fend a fcitase tuwed on no foiuadaaonot right or j notice whatever; of a nan who uaderu&es todestcoy our tes- j imony on .the croirnd that.my witness t vears*a red coat,, when, gentlemen of* r ;he jcry?when, when, when, gentle- t nen of the .Jury!' [iiere Brace made a ipring,fand, catching Banraby by the-; g )osom of tue shiru tore it open, dis- s jlaying Iris red flahnel], 'when Mr.> e 3srnaby;- himself wears a red flannel a 5oait'concealed Hinder a blue one?' The j iffect was electrical; Bamaby was', eaten at his own game, and Brace rained the causc." > ? ? I j Oi!jr KecoHections, .; ' r~ - S Mr. Drape, the1 real estate broker, ead ?pjgeron oil prodngjfcn and con-. ttrLn. if ?o <% . er>hr/?fi rtf .TjrrtnH^rfnl I ^ ' IVlIiiV iu %? OVUIVO VA - * ; . evenue to the judicious operator, it is X the same time a rapidly depleting 8 Dree to the bonk balance of the novice. . ?he origin of petroleum is involved in 1 greater obscurity than the origin of ? oat Some contend that it is a sub- ^ tance of organic origin; while others v Iaim it is of a mineral origin. The d iist oil company of which we have any 1 -nowiedgeearisted in Yenango county l 1829. A couple-of men gathered a ? ew barrels of oil from Oil creek, and, 1, >rocurin? a horse and wagon, began ? ending It inrougnuui'iue uuu.uujr as a rii aedicine. The name was derived from I p teiro a rock; and oleum, oil, or rcok oil f ihe Egyptians recognized its valus 1700 ( I C. On one of the Ionian islands here is an old fountain that has flowed . or over 2,000 years: General Hays n tates that in 1806 he purchased the en- n ire product of the Franklin region, ^ .mounting to sixteen barrels, ana re- * ailed it in this city at $1 per gallon. ^ Chis was probably the first corner in iiL In 1846 Lewis Peterson, Sr., ^ >rought a sample bottle of petroleum o this city from his salt well at Tarenum. He, Morrison Foster and David F Lnderson experimented with it and " ound that itcosld be made an excellent ? abricator. It wa3 used in the Hope 0 otton factory for ten years, the pro- 1 >rietors being the only ones cognizant c if the fact. The Pennsylvania Rock P )il Company was formed in this year, 1 md experimented in the neighborhood 0 >f Titusriile. On August 28, 1859, oil n large quantities was first discovered, s Che first cargo was brought down on ? he steamer Venango in 1860 by Cap- y ain Reynolds. The cargo was readily t lisposed of at 32 cents per gallon. This j deky venture stunded the keynote to i he oil interests in Venango- and other I aunties, and the entire district was r hrown into a blaze of excitement Oil 1 2ity, Fithole, Tidioute and other cities prang up with mushroom rapidity, 0 aid Oil creek became the centre of "0 :easeless-activity. The first oil carried a icross the Atlantic was in I860, and $ akenover by_a canny Scot in homeo- ]j >athic doses. The traffic lias increased. ? o such an extent that now several a lundred vessels are engaged in trans- { jorting it across the sea. In 1861 the s ixports amounted to 80,000 gallons, yhile in 188$ the shipments amounted ' o over 492,000,000 gallons. During ? he past twenty-five years, the raw ma- ; erial has fluctuated in price from 41 sents to $20 per barrel, with an aver- ? ige price of $2,-50 per barreL?Pitts- ? rurg (Commercial Gazdte. The Hare and Chipmunk* ? tr? " Qttr) ^ iare, when the were after him, o the Chipmunk, who begged that he a eould stop and crac k a nut of gossip ? pith him; "but' if you will take my * lace and let mc have yours, so that I an overlook the country, I'll stop and j ? est awhile.." * . I "All right," said the Chipmuak, jc ioppin<r down from the tree. with a ant a "V. ? -I' 1 ..S.W h? D'CUB liWUbij* i ?A; .U vt *>o wioucu iv * ee a March hare. But you are not a err mad one* arc you?" 11 4'Ob,.not'1 replied the Ka:? rinning; I've all my wits about mc, ..s yon wul i >resently perceive." And at, that mo- fi neat the do^s burst through the boshes I md pounced upon the poor Chipmunk, I eho exciaimcd with his last breath: x 'What a line thin^ it-is to-be smart! g That gray Hare will never go down t nth sorrow to the grave."?XL Nichcb v oj, for March. . p J J * s: Johnny,rMorris, of Eminence, Ky^ t' inly ten. years of age, weighs 117 Ig eimds. _ 11 i . % < WIT AND HUMOSp when Winters fcroeze Denudes the trees And nature settles down to freeze; - When round the door . . ' The wild winds roar ' -? And- cold comes through the craved old Our friends forget to shut the door. ?Oil CUy Blizzard. . . ; v sj Elgin, HI, has a butter ring. Next f. S:%3? thing we know we shall hear of a. napkin ring, or dinner-bell ring. Teacher?"What happens* when a light falls into the water at an angle ot }, sagas forty-five degrees?" Pupil?"It goes out. "?Der Scftalk. "The city must put its foot down on such corruption, shrieks an excited contemporary. But it can't, yon know, Corporations have no soles.?Life. A woman in.San. Francisco has been appointed to the. position of conductor on a line of horse-cars. At last the *'dream - of "fare' woman!' is realized. iieap year is a good time to engrave indelibly upon the hearts of thejoung , men that much misery is caused "by not sayiag "no" at the right tame.?Buffalo ; At the coming feajg^^ b^some of the ladies propose t^fern-a liveinouse , ? 'oose in the room, just to see. the "poor. jmid gentlemen jump up on the cnairs and squeaL A Nashville 'man was' fined $800 for kissing a school-teacher. If it hadn't * been for two or three of the scholars who caught them at it she wouldn't K have charged him a cent. A burglar who has climbed up to a garret window on a ladder is arresteel by a voice shouting, "Hello, there; rtrbat do you want?" "May I ask you ~ [or a glass of fresh water?" When a youngs woman is in love she Lurns to the poet's corner-fiiston picking up the local j>a$er. After she is Harried she turns'first tathe advertisements of the dry goods stores. Ladies imagine tnat rouer-sjarting is . : -g i fine- way to workoff superfluous fleshrhe - belief seems well founded. - One ^oung lady dropped 127pounds at the ring recently,, and dropped.it hard. A sewing-machine agent was-recent* y attacked by a fierce catamount near \?ilford. Strange as it may appear, ;he catamountreseaped without buying - ? >rie of the machines.?Philadelphia Call. "Sagacious," said Mr. Griph, "why hat dog of mine was the most proud, loble and sagacious dog that over iyed! Why, when anybody was lookng he'd pretend not to Imow mes."?Boston Post. Patti, they say, is an inveterate onionlater. If we have ever said anything igainst Nicolini, we take it back. How , rue it is that one-Twit.the world cloes ' tot know what, the other .half has torgo hrougn with. Sometimes I get discouraged,'" . igned Parson Jones; "for aught r eam ee men are as bad as ever. "How!Vi;r," he continued.. "if they- should ill become perfect, I don't know what n should do for a living." 1 They do say that the photograph of , ^olor^do Senator got mixed into a - ;f " } >ack of cards in use at a game In Washington and wasn't noticed for ight hands, everybody -playing it for he J ack of spades.?Bostor, FosL , There is an old'man. in Clay County, JiutijT putt Ajil} fij ^ - tame of Alexander Gumbleton RtdSe^ on Scuffieton.Oberda Whittleton Southnhall benjamin Franklin Squires. The average, citizen wants the cMmleys in his house plastered inside and ut to make them fire proof, and yet ie empties ashes into a barrel in the roodshed and ejects Providence to- V ' louse on the water-in case of fire.? * Teircii Free Press. Pa, what are all these men doing?'* ' 'That is whore the hotel burned down ast night, my son." "Bat what.are hey digging up the ashes everywhere or? Dpthey expect to find anything, a?" "Yes, my sou, they are; looking or the clerk's diamonds."?Louism& Icuricr-JoumaL A girl out-westis said to have refused , telegraph lineman three times in as iany" months because he was "too inch of a wanderer?he wandered rom 'pole to pole' and from 'climb to limb, and if he should come home e'd be so 'insulate' that he'd make ne's hair stand up straight and there'd e no end to 'batterjes and crossies.'" ^ Footprints of men and women, suposed to have been left on the harden-v ng-soil fifty thousand years ago, have sen discovered in Nicaragua. Those f the women are distinguished from hose made by the men by the freqnen y with which they wheel-about and Kunt in the opposite direction when heir owners turned around to see what ther women didn't have on. .. # The man who is poor puts on lots of tyle, and pretends he is rich, while . he man who lays away thousands every ear says he is losing money, and ex- .. iects to go to the almshouse shortly. 7h.is accounts for the hotel clerk wcarog. a huge diamond, and the "bondLading statesman going around in eady-made clothes that don't fit himr ooking sadly in need of a hair cut ; . A little girl-in school being asked the ither day. by a member of the Board f Education, "Who make our laws?- . ? aswered, 44Congress." *rAnd howis ^ t divided?" asked.the gentleman^ The ? - .-3 ^ 1J. - Lttie giro, nesnatea, uui many wuu; 'Into civilized, half-civilized, and sav- . ge, sir."" "Very good, " said the gen leman; "butI ao not seewiry you hould have hesitated in your fepfy^5 "Will you be home to dinner?" askd a Chicago woman of her husband s he was about starting for business. UTo, I think not," he answered. "I crpcct to be very busy; Besides, a new aloon is to be opened just around the orner from my olfioe,.and'I"wni drop a there and get a little ireelnnoh Well," said his wife, while a wave of ?* "?KA AAfafnl car SWttpb OCIV33 UC1 MV NAUV4U4 . Lot to get hurt in theTask." It was a fireman's parade, beaded by r-m , brass band. As they tamed the cor- , ler Gns Caesar, who was holding up a itching-post, spelled out the letters, E. P-l-u-r-i-b-u-s TJ-n-u-m,'1 painted n the head of a big drum, ^ow, "ake, now, wha-what's that?" ho asked i a lank negro standing under the wiling with Jjiis mouth open.. "Don't er know nuffin?" was the reply. Can't yer reaa." usi i ae name 01 xne aan wot made dc drum.?Life. ' ^ Says the New York correspondent of be Detroit Free tress: "Trnsr thing is -Tip oing too far. We began .with English Lvenes on our coachmen; then we got inglishways andhabitsinto our clubs"; text came coaching in the regular En;lish style; after that an inxititkm. of be gait and make-up-of English nobs; re have had English books and English (lays till we can't rest; our social uptarts want to be Engiish in eretything hev da and now. "hansrit! hero we are up fogs in the English style,