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the ftirfuli Xrw ani Hrralii. WINNSBQRO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1884. ' ^ ? Made to be Painted, Xot to be Kissed. "Made to be painted"?a Millias might give A fortune t.-> steady that exquisite face? The face is a fortune*?a Lawrence might live ' Anew in each line of that figure's still grace. The pose is perfection, a mcdcl esch limb. From the delicate foot to the classical bead; But the almond-blue eyes, with their smiling:, look dim. And lips to be Icved want a trifle more red. Bb ; Statuesque? No, a Pcyche, Jet's say, in re. pose? A Psyche ivhose Cupid beseeches in vain? "Wo sigh as th<? nigrhfla^a.'e sighs to the rose [ Tort declines (it's averred) to give sighs back again, * ? * If the wind shook the rose? Then a shower would fall Of sweet-scented petals to gnti?er who list; If a sigh shook my Psjcbe? She'd y wnthat is ail, ' j She's made to bo painted, and not to be . kissed. I NANCY'S DEVICE. A daintily shaped "little head, overrunning with curls, ' enshrouding r. fair, winsome face of perfect oval, that seemed made for smiles and laughter only, and generally fulfilled the expectations it aroused; but on the present occasion it must be confessed that the | prevailing- expression of Hetty Blake's : features was very crcss indeed, as she j sat in the wide window sill, swinging i her pretty little feet and pouting a pair ; of exquisitely-carved scarlet lips, as I she plaited and unplaited the strings of her broad-rimmed gipsy hat. "I don't care." said Miss Hetty. "I | don't lOve Mr. Meredith! And I "don't want to marry him. So there now." j And she nibbled at the hat strings j and frowned under her level brown j brows, like a pretty rebel as she was. j "Hetty, hold your tongue," said La- ; vinia, her elder "sister. - j "You don't know what you're talk- ; ing about," severely uttered Mrs. i Blake, who was mixing up a batch of j bread at the kitchen tabic. "Mr. Mer- J edith has a house and farm worth ten | thousands pounds. And it's a great i compliment for.him to speak to your ? father about marrying you." "Then I wish he'd keep his compli-* & merits to himself," said the incorrigible Hetty. "Look here, Lavinia, why % won't you marry him?" Lavinia, overcome with indignation, \ <kait her roguish little sister a~box on the ear; which Hetty narrowly escaped by a sudden depression of hgrj~T~.i "No, but it would suit?so exactly," said Hetty. "Lgwflfols just that sort ^ "''Hetty, don't be a fool!" said Mrs. Blake. "You should thank Providence that Mr. Meredith is pleased ^ marry you, and put all nonsensical ideas about Harry Waite out of your head at once!" But Hetty frowned and pouted more and more, and tried resolutely to keep the big, bright tears from falling on [ her hands. "What shall I do?" said Hetty to he.rsell "Foul never never can marry that bald-headed oid man who talks through his nose and carries -a yellow silk pocket-handkerchief!. And I;m sure Harry would shoot himself when he heard of it!" j? But^all Hetty Blake's tears and lamentations availed nothing. Her father BSIb^ "* ay.5' g-yrSgnc5vman of- the .world.- Her mother understood the full meaning Taf money, and so the match was to be hurried on, regardless of the feelings : 1 of the bride-elect. But Providence interfered?that kind. ly Providence which has the interests of .true lovers ever under its care, . Mr. and Mrs. Blake had gone to attend a chapel meeting twenty miles :away, with Lavinia in their train! Hetty, being "nnregenerate," was j left at "home to meditate over a volume ' of sermons. "JNow be sure. Jtiectj, vou iooic wen afrer the house," said" Mrs. Blake; I "and see that Nancy feeds the voun<r | cou'y3 regvlarly, and cares for the go? ^the chickens. And lock?up the houst\3,t 0 clock every night, and be sure <ioa't let in any tramps j nor peddlers^' ?ril be very cai"*^^' Sil^ Hetty. ! *'We shall be back' <** Friday,'] said | Mrs. Blake, "without 3,2 ^ ^ 70u { have any leisure time you turn the j sheets in the wash-basket, a-u^^&n1 the j thin places in the back-parlor e&rpet* ! and do any other useful odd jobs about j the house." . ~ - i So Mrs. Blake climbed into the cart, where her husband and Lavinia were already seated, and drove away, calling out directions to Hetty as long as *Ha hnnse was in sierht. The heads of the'family hadnot been j. gone for more than two hours, when ! Hetty came fiying out to the kitchen, j where Nancy was making softsoap. "Oh, Nancy, what shall I dor" cried she. "Here's Mr. Meredith, get- j ting out of *? one-horse chaise at the j door." . j "Why, go up and see him of course," ! said Nancy, who was one of the old family servants, who are becoming, as j a race, extinct in England. "Can't I tell him that father and mother arc gone away?" pleaded Hetty. "Nonsense!"- said Nancy, stirring" desperately away at her monster kettle. "You don't suppose it's your father and mother that he comes to see, do you? Oh, dear; and there isn't a scrap of fresh meat in the house. I j thought boiled eg?s and cold. nam vould. do for oar noon bite." <*Sa it will," saidHetty. "If we vr. "ke tiling ^ agreeable for him, Nancy, ae'ifW^kng.'' _ Nacev Ion *9Bnd in amazement "And do?t y>* *??'* him t0 stay?" said she. cried Miss a startled look, as some un^?a smbfella- : handle rapped smartly on door be.- \ yond. "1 can't endure him, l$&S?y- I I?I hate him!" . I And then she burst icto a storm c* tears. Nancy comprehended in an instant . "Poor dear!" said she. "So that's ! A the way the wind blows, is it? It is a i shaine! Never mind, Miss Hetty; we'll j * 1 / settio mm. / "Settle him?" vaguely repeated the j girl. * / "Hush!" said brisk Nancy. "Go and J let him ic. I know the man. Mycou- > sin, Mary Ann Potts, lived as house- j keeper to him for a year. He's one of j those people that want everything to go : smooth. Never would let " Mary Ann : white wash a ceiling or scrub off a floor with sand and soapsuds. And of all tilings in the world ho abominates house-cleaning. We'll clean house while he's here, Ketty, eh?" ^ The girl's brilliant eyes sparkled throagh her quickly-dried tears; a love iy carmine color mounted into her p'h?pki?_ "Nancy," she cried, "yon are a second Talleyrand!" , . "Go along with you!" said Nancy, with a chuckle, not at all knowing who Talleyrand was, but quite sensible that a compliment, of some kind was intended by the comparison. Mr. Meredith was standing on the door-step all greasy smiles, when Hetty came'to the door, with her brown ! frizzes tied up in a pocket-handkerchief J and a huge bib-apron eclipsing her | pretty figure. "My dear Miss Hetty, how are you?" ! said Mr. Meredith. "Your father was ; so good as to invite me to come here ' whenever it was convenient; so, as my housekeeper is gone for a week, 1 have : concluded?1' j "Oh, yes, very glad to see you, Tm j sure!"said Hetty, hurriedly. "Walk i in. Father, and mother, and Lavinia i have gone to nereiora to tne opening j of the new chapel that has been built I there for Uncle Jared by his congrega; tion, and they won't be back until the day after to-morrrow. But Nancy is here. Nancy and I are cleaning house." Mr. Meredith's face elongated itself. "Cleaning house!" he repeated, dolorously. "But that's all nonsense. No properly kept house ever needs cleaning." He caine on slowly. A step-ladder stood at the end of the hall?hurriedly stirred-np p:ii:s of whitewash foamed on either side, \vh::c Nancy, in a faded I calico dress, advanced. j "Walk in, Mr. Meredith," said she? ' "walk right, in. We'll try and make you as comfortable as we can. I told Miss Hetty, says I, 'Just, as certain as you pull up the things and go to housecleaning, company'11 come. They always do,' says* L " But Miss Hetty, she does set so much store by house-cleaning. She says she's going to clean house once a month when she has a j house of her own." Mr. Meredith simply gasped, and said nothing. "Oh, yes," said Hetty, artlessly, clasping her hands. "Cleanliness is next to godliness, you know. And I do so delight in soapsuas and whitewashing, and floor-scrubbing, and all that sort of thing. That's right, Mr. Meredith, sit yourself down. We shan't tear this room to pieces until after dinner." "I'm very glad of that," dejectedly uttered the middle-aged swain'. "I think myself that house-cleaning?" 4,And I'll ?ret the dinner at once," , interrupted Nancy. "Hetty is a queer. girL She don't like to cook; she says when she's married she's going to roast or boil once a week, and iiye off cold victuals the rest of the time." ^ - -i "But it seams Ja^s^i^rrtHs^amis- j takenjjis?r>',"^rgued Mr. Meredith, i^i^fyniotlier was a famous cook. She always baked pies fresh every day, and made hot rolls for breakfast; and I've a recipe of hers for chicken and ham pie that I wouldn't exchange for its weight in gold." "I despise cooking!" said Hetty, indifferently. "And I don't mean to slave over the kitcken-grate, to suit the prejudice of any man jiving." Mr. Meredith stared at her once more, and in default of any pitying reply, opened and closed his fat mouth in'a fishy way; even Hetty's eighteenyear old beauty could hardly reconcile him to such heretical opinions as these. Dinner was served. Boiled eggs, cold bacon cut in thin, pink shavings, bread and butter, and tea, weak almost to in.mation, formed the bill of fare. Mr. Meredith ate with a knife of one pattern and a fork of another, and ^ 4-rvo tt?*f! % T-\r?r\rzm cmcrftr ATI bWUJCvCJUUU. IXiO ?* ii-u w- ?.?* ~~ account of the whjte variety, having^ been mislaid. 4'Nothing matters much when you are cleaning house," said Hetty, radiantly. Bat Mr. Meredith, who fully appreciated all the creature comforts of* this world, entertained a very different opinion. After this rather unsatisfactory meal, Hetty set her elderly lover to "beating a hearth-ru^ which was stretched over a clothes-One. 'Tm sure you'd rather be doing something than sitting still," said Hetty, as she put a long hazel sapling into the hands of Mr. Meredith, and adjured him "to beat the thin places carefully. And after you've finished this," she added, with a gracious smile, ''you shall get upon the ladder and help iNancy witc me cuwug: Mr. Meredith worked like a day laborer until the friendly darkness came to his aid. Even then he was set to getting nails out of a carpet with a screwdriver, on his knees, bv the light of a spluttering oil-lamp. "We are getting along so splendidly with the house-cleaning!" chirped Hetty, with an exultant laugh. Mr, Meredith supped off bread-andcheese and beer, and slept on a bedstead which occupied a desolajte waste of newly-scrubbed fioor. He woke up, the next morning, with darting rheumatic pains in all his bones, and came down stair3 with a lowering brow.-' Hetty"was there, in the highest spirits, with he? head already tied up in an apron. - \ "You are just the person we want, Mr. iu.ereu.iixi, j.. wants all the bureaus and heavy furniture moved outside, so than we can begin to clean the parlor at once." "Thee," said Mr. Meredith, irately, I "she will have to get someone else to I do it for her. I hate bonse-cleaning? and I'll have nothing more to do with it!" . "1 won't marry any man who won't allow me to clean house as ofien as -I want," said Hetty, with spirit *1 shail not ask you to make the sacrifice for mo, Miss Hetty," said Mr. Meredith. "I see too plainly that our tastes are not congenial. And having both our interests at heart, I mujt beg to be released from the engagement I was foolish enough to contract" "With all my heart," assented Hetty, and making a low courtesy, she drew the engagement ring off her finger and handed to him. There was an^ end, matrimonially - " ? TT ^4. spea&ng, 01 Mr. Aiercaiui. ae >VCUb | away thinking his stars for the escape j Mo Had nad. "She would have scrubbed and cleaned tie whole establishment into thd workhouse in q, year," said he. "I'm well out of the business. One caa discharge a housekeeper if she don't suit, but not a wife." So Mr. Meredith adhered to the stand- , ard of old lachelordom, and pretty i Hetty married Mr. Wake after all. Bat strange to say, Mr. Waite never ! complained of his wife's addiction to j honsVcleaning rites. And. he never could understand why it was that Mr. i Meredith always cast su--h pitying j glances upon him when they met For Hettv and her faithful confeder- j ate, Nancvj had kept their secret weLL j A lady in New York City has just: finished a silk quilt composed of 14,000 j pieces, each about the size of a 10-cent j piece. The pieces are hexagonal, and j there are on an average ten stitches on I each of the six sides, which makes the j total number of stitches 420,000. It j has taken Mrs. Collins seven years to j make this quilt, -working on it during j her spare hours. It has been valued j bv a dry-goods house on Broadway at : ?500 or'$600. j There are 11,000,000 people within a j radius of S00 miles of Louisville, K* 1 jnii?BBliT Unclc Abe Rccovcrs His Pullet. "Wall," began the old man, "I had i my 'spicions 'bout dis here chicken, | but I r.in't say much. I jis' lie low and j I watch de case. 'links I, Brudder Dick j ; bin a powerful han' on do stealing j ! question, and 1 don't see as how his j j 'iigion dun 'prove him any, so I jis' i : keep my eye on his motions. Jis' now, \ j as I was a passin' his house I hear a i i mighty singins: and patting ob de feet, i like Brudder Dick feel monstrous hap- j ; py. Den I peeps fro' dc crack, and \ | dar, bress God, I seed de old sinner jis' j : a taring de fodders outen dat pullet, i Den I walked back a few step3 and sot i | up a signal, too; and when I gets to j ! his house I hollers out: 'Brudder Dick, j ; is you dar?' ' "Den he answers up, skeert like: | 'Jsc here, Brudder Abe. What's yer j pledger?' Tse cumin' in to sit awhile,' says I, j and I shuffles about, liko there is a i powerful site o' mud on my feet, kase I ; was boun' fur to hab a leetle fun, and i I wanted to gib de olo man time to [ hide de pullet. | "T^hen I goes in Brudder Dick was j jis' a shovin' a basket ob fodders under | de bed. 'Hab a cheer, brudder,' says | he, powerful pcrlite; Tse sure glad fer i. ter see yer. Brins: dat cheer nisrher to do fiah.' " : "Den we talks and talks, and while I was lookin' roun' I sees a piece ob : ! dat pullet a stickin' outen his pocket '"Brudder Dick,'says I, 'dus you carry a rabbit foot for .rood luck?' And | gin a grab fur de chicken, but no, Bress de Lord, the olc man was too peart for mc, nnd lie clap he hau' on his pocket and he holler out: 'Don't touch my rabbit fooc, kase you'll spile all my luck.' " 'Dat's the truff,' says I; den I sot to finking how I was gwino to get dat pullet outen dat pocket. "Arter awhile says I: 'Brudder Dick I'se dun los' dat fine Plymouth Rock pullet what I sot so much store by.' "'You ain't tell me so,' he 'plies, innercent like as a dove; 'how dot dun happen, brudder?' " 'I can't in no wise tell,' says I, but I bress de niggah what eats dat c&^cket?sfcA5c I is dun put de ebil spell *1 ??j 'a. '- f nlnw +a KtinTr On it, anu it js ti?ivjuicu- u.u- imw bone, I is shure dat pullet afore now stan' on its headed walk on its tail.' " 'You ain't say so,' lie 'scrims, and his eyes look like dey wus g~rcine .to pop outen his head, and I see- him hitch back his coat like he was skeert fur de pocket to touch hiru. Tinks\I, ole man, ycu'se all right now, and \I tells him good nite and leabs. \ 4'Den I hides behind a tree fur to see k what he gwine fur to do nex', and } bimeby he comes to the door and peep out; he ain't seen nobody and he gin a 1 run and Hugo; the chicken inter my , yard. Den I hear he say to hisself, 4lf 1 dat dere chicken is conjured I is dun i fixed up ole man Abe's dog, kase Cash j is boun'fur to ^at it afore morninV 1 Den he slips in de house and I gets to' < dat pullet in a hurry and here it is, now ready for de cooking, ole 'oman. { Ha! ha! ha!" laughed the negro. "I is ] cunnin' as a coon; it is hard to kotch t up wid dis niggah."?Fhiladelphia ] Times. ( HfeTCHfew vVneti the Bride iras ^oni' * A rather curious incident occurred 1 lately at the Recorder's oflice. An old, white-haired darky, leaning on his cane, poked his head in the door of the marriage license department and, taking, off bis hat, said: "Scuse me, boss, but I'se looking . for do place whar dey git a license to , marry." " ' 'Come in, then," replied the clerk; 4'you've struck it the first time." , "Come on hyar, chillcn," the old man said, beckoning to some one on the outside. ''These'ere two wants to j get married, boss, and I came 'long wid'em kase this gal ain't got no father nor mother 'ceptin' me." 4'How old is she?" asked the clerk. "She's berry nigh nineteen." "Where's her father?" j "Dead, boss." "And her mother?" "Dead, too." "How do you know .she is nineteen? * She looks younger." T L~n nrr P T tnr\Tcr tocfi T brans her up." j "Where was she born?" "Now, lemme see; her father died befo' de war, and she was born just after Marst' Lincoln was shot." "Why, that was four years after her father's death!" "I know it, dat's right, boss, she was born four years after her father died." "Oh, that can't be!" "But I tell you boss, I knows it. Her mother war living' wid my folks at de time, and it war just four years after her old man died." The clerk was stumped, so he called up Recorder Farrelly to know what he should do. The old darky failed to be shaken in his statement, and as it was certain that she had a father at some time the license was granted and the ' three sailed out to find a preacher.? ; St. Louis Post-Dispatch.Protecting Dogs a;nd Cats, The great yivisectionist, Dr. Claud? , Beraard'was married to a youn^ wo-1 \ man who was extremely fond of dogs |J and cats. As may easily be imagined, I the doctor and his wife "did not agree. Driven to the wall, the poor doctor was obliged to choose between the wife and ! science. He chose the latter, and a separation from his wife followed. Thenceforward Mme. Bernard gathered together all the homeless and friend-' less dogs and.cats that she could find. ' A singular idea moved the wife of the illustrious ap.ostlc of vivisection in this 1 peculiarity. She wished to protect as many dogs and cats as her husband killed, so that when she would meet , him. in the other world she could dis- . play the superiority of her work. Af- 1 ter the death of her husband Mme. Bernard continued her labor of love. She retired to li|ois-Colombes, and shel- I ter.ed in her house all the vagrant dogs and cats of the neighborhood- The neighbors were highly amused at first, ( but finally they began to think the thing was a nuisance. They complain- ( ed to the Mayer, who ordered the lady . to close her "establishment. This she' j Then she was brought . igiUO&U fcV V4.W ijito a police court and fined five francs for a violation of a town ordinance. She appealed tp a higher court, but the . judgment of the court jjolow was confirmed, and all her dogs and ca?s were turned out upon tho cold and cruel' world * A new out door game for ladies and gentlemen called enchantment, is Be- ! coming fashionable in England. It is played with small, light hoops, thrown with wands, something after the manner of grace hoops, though the wand ! is of a novel construction, inyolring a peculiar method of casting the hoojj. A. moderately large piece of ground is . suitable. A Mysterious Sense. Some thirty-two years ago, in Northern Indiana, with a company of perhaps a half-dozen men and boys, I was on a hot August forenoon binding a small piece of grain that had lain several days in swath to dry after being cradled. At tnac season me maasasauga (the-small-brown- and. while rattlesnake of the region) is said to be blind, and does not rattle when approached. The snakes are quite- apt to crawl under, swaths of hay and grain, and to lio there a long time if not disturbed. For some reason?perhaps it looked dike rain?all hands were-set to bind and shack this .little patchy and as something- was the matter with. 030 of my hands so that I could not "bind, I raked, up the bundles ior two.others to bind. Having heard -of the propensity of the mass asauga to : hide under swaths at this season and to keep quiet, I was -careful in-rolling up the swath into a bundle, always to rake the bundle ofi) the swath -before leaving it, lest* a$ binder should gather up a snake in his-j arms. As we were finishing the last of the patch the two whp were binding after me-began to race* and. it was .-almost impossible to, ;gefc._,a bundle- raked up and off the _swath: before; the binder would; be -ready for it.- Still I managed until the-last, and was. very strongly impressed that I must not let the binder?who was jumping- to get it and bind it before the other finished his? catch it up before I raked, it.quite off the ground. He had his band all made and was just stooping, when JL said: "Hold on, Jimmy! There's a snake under this!" "Nonsense!" said he, and gave me a shove so that he could pick np the bundle. But so sure was I that thero was a snake there-ralthough we had not met one in the field?that I struggled with him, each shoving the other, until I got a chance to reach out my rake and pull the bundle off the swath. There lay coiled a massasauga about three feet long, with his head up and ready for business, "and saying not- a word!" A few steps awav in a corn field was a hoe, the snake's head was quickly severed from the body, and my cousin,' the owner of the field, picked the shake up by the tail to pull off the rattles, which, by their number, showed that the reptile was seven years old, The moment he 'cegan to pull the bleeding neck flew up as quick- as a flash and struck him on the under side of the. wrist. Had the head been there the poison fangs would probably have been buried in one of the veins of the wrist. My cousin dropped the body, ^ndwasso faint with fright thathfc: li.ad to lean against, ft- ?, ^?oni6 interesting questions suggest \ themselves: First, why had I such a i certainty that there was a snake under a that last end of the last swath,.al- fi though we had found no other in the Jj aeld? Was there anything like the b telepathy of which our English friends ire beginning to talk? Second, what was the mysterious sense of direction that made that headless neck strike so swift and 4 straight, just as it would had the head j jeen on it? Is there a less necessary jonnection between the brain, and the j est of the nervous system in cold-? flooded animals than in other verteDrates??N. Y. Post. The Trinmpti of Innocence: Two children, a boy of 9 and a girl )f 4 years, came into a Cleveland street jar Saturday. The girl climbed upon the seat and looked out the window. Suddenly turning her face, she, fixed ler gaze upon the face of the boy with i look of eager longing. Throwing aer arms aronnd hi3 neck, she laid her ?ViP<slr Intrino-l-o- ftcfiinsfc his. and in pleading accents whispered, "Bob, say, iave yon got some gum in your month?" Bob returned the caress, gently put her aside, and made no . mswer. In no wise disconcerted, the ittle maiden renewed the attack, appealing to his love, his generosity, his manliness, his chivalry,.to her need, ier helplessness, and independence,' mforcing each argument with melt'ng glances and caressing flatteries, Bob, ;rue to his man's nature, smiled sweety and indifferently and calmly pursued ais thoughts and his task. At last a ook of awful determiuation settled lown on the little face which a mo nent oeiore was wreauieu in emiies. Bracing one knee against the back of ;he seat and the other against the defenseless Bob, she took his face between her two hands, pushed his head sack against the window, struck an atiitude worthy of a first-class dentist, md made a thorough and vigorous elimination of that mouth. Suddenly a .ook of joy flashed across the gloom of hat small countenance, as with an air )f triumph her hand dashed into the nouth and returned with the coveted measure. With an expression of pertect contentment and satisfaction it ;vas transferred to her own mouth, and -i j 1 ;j_ T>~U 4-ltA sUG SUb UUWUl Ut??>4UU JL*UU VilUC i-UVi.u bug . gentle and dependent sister, all smiles md tendernesses. Jxow He Was Hurt, "Poor fellow I poor fellow J" muriitired a sympathizing old lady at the 3road Street Station, as the forfn of a nan all wrapped in bandages was sorn in a litter from an incoming train ;o an ambulance. "Poor fellow! Ho seems to be very much hurt. Do you' snow how it happened?" "No, mum," answered a polite sta;ion hand. "Maybe it was a collision," suggested the old lady. "There has been no collision on the poad that I know of was the reply. "Could he have been run over?" "Ho is not hurt enough for that" ."True. His limbs seem all right The hurts seem to- have come from bruises or blows," added the old lady. "Yes, mum. Looks like it" c,But can't you guess how it happened?1* "I don't know, mum, unless he tried to take up a presidential vote."?Pfiila ielpfua Call. ?he Argo.-dut, of San Francisco, hits off one phrase of modern journalism in this way; "If a barn should blow down," it says, there will be a diagram of the premises; view of ihe barn be* v * -* ?; -z 4.U rore Demg diowh uowa; view vi wie barn while being blown down; view of the mips; interview with the hired , man, who said he always knowed it' was going to blow down; interview arith the owner, with his and other theories on barns blowingdown; interview with Professor Mugwump, tha distinguished Chicago savant, with his views as to the reason why barns blow down rather than up; comparative table of barn mortality in this and other states for the last forty years, showing percentage of barns blowing down compared with the illiterate votes history of loss from the earliest times to the present; statement of loss??$oG0." Hot Weather Precautions. Noj* that the hot weather has set in, and ifcis time for the reappearance of that jarge class of amiable people who can fever meet without telling you franhfy "what one ought to do," it may not of out place to quote the "regulations?iwhich were published by the Moniteur dc V. Armec as official advice to French troops going to Canton in 1859.^ - The Times gives the following t-roriclnfirtre of tVuvm nr)li<Vh I llflVR eOHje upon.accidentally; the rnles arc certainly'amusing, and secrn just as applicable to Amcrica as Asia. W&ave warm clothing in winter. IP-Sever remain in damp or wet clothes, unless you are at work. 3. Jn summer wear light clothing of soft wool. Bo careful to wash this clothing when it is soaked with perspiratory 4. ffiesr flannel both as a waistcoat | ^^^^d the abdomen. Never leave ^^^^Bt'ct sleep on tho baro ground. '28 ^^vk'under your feet when you Tkst 6.tin summer put a little straw upon youiplank. ?3Never drink water, always tea. . 8iClarify your water when muddy witMrock alum... S5 Drink in moderation the spirits of the country, taking care to warm them first,;-.; 10.; Eat moderaiely. Never eat ducks. 12T Eat but sparingly of sweets and fru$s. The sugar-cane is almost the . onl? wholesome sweet thing. All" othgra are either too heating or set cold bn p.? stomach. y-As soon as you arrive in the coiptry, acquire the habit" of eating ri^-as the natives cook it When you smoke, spit as little asgssible. ' At night take care to cover your i begat well, and mpre particularly yonr jjfc In hot weather avoid cold places; dr&ughts are always dangerous. jfik in spring and autumn take care n^ver 10 gen wewooiea m xne morning. ife Never take a nap in the day jplfotr bad advice on the whole, and irarth following at the present time, jfhsn wo are on the eve of the Coney < Iffisnd season, the fall campaign, and &3er risky experiments.?Cor. N. Y. i - Wild Dogs. Vs&bont eight miles from Poughkeep?ie is the most'"remarkable -breed' of tefld dogs, or rather half dog and half JrQd beast ^According to the stories^hiaSSTfafmers ilH^tvicinity, a female 1 ^Newfoundland dog, aYgg^ears ago, j' gave Dirifl to a nuer m xne wooas. j.n<r l. jdogs grew up wild' and it seems took * &>running with foxes and animals of 1 [like kind, which resulted in another jbreed of animals, part dog and part jfox, which are the terror of that part M the country. There-are about fifty [In all, as near, as they can judge, and they run from the size of a Newfoundland dog down to a small fox dog. - They run in companies, and it 'is extremely dangerous for a man to come across them, 'for they are ferocious. TSSsMcs they have the cunning *of- the fox added to the higher intelligence of the domestic dog, which is such an assistance to them that it seems aimost impossible to kill one of them, unless a man goes alone, and then, although he may shoot one, the rest of the pack will make short work of him. Hunters would much rather ran across a pack of wolves than these dogs, for in this wooded district they come upon them unawares, kill their hunting dogs, and if the hunters do not beat an immediate retreat will attack them. In several cases hunters have been in tills piigut, ana iorcea to ciimo trees * in. order to save their lives. Many : stories are told of the remarkable cun- < hing of these animals. Instead of cun- ? ning, perhaps, a better word would be * "intelligence." When a party of hun- ters undertake to hunt these wild dogs, j they are never able to find them, for < seemingly they know very well their own strength, and through they may be * a match for one or two men, they can- c not cope with adozen.?Kingston (N. T.) Freeman. An Arkansas Divorce Case. * < Several days ago a young negro and i l'if rrritA onnoirod KofAVl^ Simian "Pflt.fAr. f AAXO ITU^ ayuVMi*vu wv*v*v ?. M??v? . A son, a black knight of the rural Arkan- I saw bench, and demanded a divorce. ? "Whut's de trouble 1 twist yer?" ask- i ed old Simon. i "I kain't lib wid her an1 she kain't 1 lib wid me," replied the husband. . j "Why kain't yer?" i "'Cause she ain't eddycated up ter ? my standpint." "Ise better eddycated den he is, Jedge, case I ken read an' he kain't," said the woman. "Oh, she mont Lab more book larnin' * den 1 has, boss, but her knowledge ain't dekino whut suits de undersigned. ' She ken spell cat an' dog, but she kain't ( spell biled cabbage ter suit me. Ebery ? time I comes ter de house, I finds dis ' 'woman han'lin her book, but I doesn't i ? ii ' i) [ J Smeu UUW2U m uc yuu "Ef yer wuster fctch suthin' in dc j house, yer -would' smell hit bilin in de ! pot," rejoined the wife. "Oh ' dat ain't my lookout. De j 'oman's duty, ef I un'erstans de case, j is ter furnish suthin' ter eat Dat's whut I married yer fer. Kain't 'speck me ter keep up dc pepertation o de family an: iiussle for bread. I 'longs ter de s'ciety." "Madam,'' said the Justice, "de case is ergin yer. De Bible says dat er 'woman musT mind whut her husban' says. Ee he tole yer tor put suthin' in do pot, an' yer didn' do hit, why den, yer's laid yerselfliabL Mr. Clerk, write out er 'vorce fur dis gennerman, but dean' gin one ter de lad\\"?Texas Siflinqs. Railway Salaries and Wages. The amount expended by the railway j companies in managing, working, and i upholding their lines for the past year | was about ?37,000,000, of which ex- [ actly one-half, or ?18,500,000, was paid : for salaries and wages aloae. The ! nfAinorrr cliirnli/VMpTX received in the I _ year ?14,000,000 by way of dividends ; 1 on their holdings, or between ?4,000,- ' 000 and ?6,000,000 less than they paid their employes. The fact that the lat- I ter have thus larger pecuniary interest ; in the railways, and absorb considerably 11 more than one-fourfh of the gross earn- 1 ings before payment of any interest or j 1 dividend whatever, makes the wages 1 question the most important to be dealt , with in the administration of the rail- ] ways. From a social point of view the , * subject is, of course,-.one of great!' magnitude, for it would appear that j* the annual aggregate exceeds the sum { voted for pay and allowances to the !( army and navy together, -both for effec- j1 tive and non-effective services.?Lon- \( don Railway Newi. |1 i When Abe En ford. Scalped a Man. In the spring of 1854 or 1855 I ran up to Lexington to attend the races at the center of Eden's garden, and, of course, General A'ue and Colonel Tom Buford were there with their invincible thoroughbreds. Colonel Tom, from a sudden quarrel that grew oat of the ! excitement of the race ccurse one afternoon, played a duet-on pistols with an adversary whoso name I cannot now recall. General Abe, his brother, and I were standing abotit forty or fifty feet off when the fusillade began, and remained apparently unconcerned, for, though his brother was hotly engaged, the old hero was williDg, according to the rules of Kentucky chivalry, to see a fair fight and let the best man win. Colonel Tom struck his adversary once or twice in several shots, not seriously wounding him. When ail the chambers of his enemy's pistol were emptied a friend who stood near, and not having the fear of brother Abe before his eyes, ran tip and thrust a fresh weapon into the hands oi /ikj^JBuford's. .assailant General Abe,' beftevfhg 'too: "fair play" to thus permit two men to combine against one, and that one TATTI " it lArlrni^ Ant n knife of glittering blade and made a rush for the too busy interloper. More quickly than it takes to tell it, General Abe, with one hand had seized the poor fellow by the hair, Jind, like a flash of lightning and with the dexterity of an Indian, "made a circular incision on the crown of his head, and. giving tho hair a sudden twist, lifted off as neat a scalp as one would go a day's ride to see. "How d?n you," said General Abe, as he coolly tossed his Indian trophy to one side and released his victim? 4'nowgo, a?n you! I guess a hair restorative won't bring out the wool on your.head again soon." The frightened fellow, never having experienced that kind of warfare, gathered his head in both hands and ran off yelling as if Captain Jack and all the Modocs were close upon his heels. I was horrified?it being the first scalp I had ever seen taken?and riding home that evening I asked General Buford how he-could do such a barbarous thing. "He ought to have attended to his own business," he replied; was willing, though my brother was engaged, to keep hands off and let 'em fight it out, and when he ran up and handed his friend a pistol to kill Tom with I would have been justified in killing him."?Nashville World. To Beautify the Pair Sex; "One of Dan Bryant's jokes, and one that always brought cfowr the house, was his prize conundrum 'vYhat is a woman?'" But wero he living now I do propound it. NoDody could guess it ^J47-Cul<lhave to rive it up, ""and with an inward cFIn<JBS5-r ;he photographer, for he it was who vouchsafed the above to a reporter for 'Che New York Mail and Express, turned >nce more to his nitrate of silver bath md collodion. "I should imagine from your actions md statements, however, that you' 5ould answer the question?" "Once I coultl?but now?well times ire not what they once were. Why, a / ady came in here to-day to siFTor her jhotograph, and, do you believe me, ibe had false lips." What?" . "'Pon my honor. And that was not Ql. She had false eyelashes, and an irtinciai nees. ana luroat. "Oh, you must be-mistaken." "So I thought until I was convinced. Che beautiful tinted shells, skins, or :overs, whatever you may call them, or arms, face throat, and neck are nade .of very thin rubber. The neck md bust is fitted closely over the latural neck, and the edges made up ifter the manner of the actors painting >ut their wigs. When the false front, , ! should call it, fits under the chin a )lack velvet ribbon is worn over it. Die proper degree of roundness Is given o the improvement after adjustment )y inflating it with air." "Well, that may all be so, but the , ips and eyebrows you speak about I . :an not believe." "No; then I will prove it to you." ! lere he took from a case a small deli:ate-looking little bit of rubber that 1 lad more tne appearance 01 me anger . )f a surgeon's post mortem glove than : mytbing else.. "Here, you see, is a J ull red under-lip. It was given tome , the lady who bad the sitting to-day. She is the agent for these improvenents. If you notice, the fullness is n the center. Toward the corners the ip is merely a filmy skin of gutta >ercha. This is capable of being held n its position by the tightness of- its : idges." ? . ; Bouncer Struck By Lightning. *'I saw a paragraph in the 3un," ;aid Farmer Silas Wagner, of Baycnne, 'about a dog that was killed by a hunderbolt, and the suggestion of the Jog's owner that dogs attract lightling. I don't know how that maybe, jut I learned once that a dog with a ;teel collar around his neck is a nasty tnimal to have at your heels during a nnnrl^r-<;tnrm About two vears a<?0 Souncer taught me this. He had ona jrand new steel collar, and was with ne and two men in the field when a ;hun dor-storm broke over us. Bouncer vas greatly frightened, and headed, us is we ran toward the house. Suddenj I noticed a ring of blue flame around" lis neck. He noticed it about the same ;ime himself, and, turning around, he :an yelling toward, us, as if for protecion. But we turned and ran too. Peraaps we didn't yell so loud, hut I beleve we ran nearly as fast as he did. [ know we had covered three miles of rough ground before he overtook one Df tne men who had stuck in a hedge. 5e appealed so pitifully for assistance that we returned to help him, and cound the dog lying exhausted beside him. The bine fire was out and the collar was gone, but its imprint was on its scorched neck, and looks exactly like a steel collar to this day. The iair has never grown over it, and while Lhe dog seems proud of his ornament, jio always slinks into the cellar three lays before a thund&r-stcrm, and can't be tempted cut until the sky is clear igain."?New York Sim. * i m "Wanted Information. - "Man does not conceive the magnitude of a billion," remarked the lecturer; "why, a billion sheets of paper placed one on top of another would inake a pile nearly 50,000 miles high." At tuis juncture a very solemn 100&ng party with a largo Adam's apple, rose'up from the back seat and said; "Yes, but how are you going to pile ;hem up?" And because the lectarer wouldn't jxplain the solemn party sailed majes;icaliy out the of hall, thumping his jane angrily all the way,?Rockland Courier. Towing a Hand-Car. Our train stopped at a way station; by the side of the track stood a hand- I car, with the name "The Bird" painted on it. The section boss and his men were there waiting for the passenger to get out of their way. "How did you conic to name your car that?" was asked of the boss, who puffed at his black clay pipe and replied: "That was the result of an incident, your honor. 'Twas a good many years ago, whin I was a jpreen'un on the section. One evening I was in a hurry to get from the 342d mile-post, where we had worked that aay, into town, Xe see, 1 had a girrul thim days?the same what's now down there in the cabin attindm' to the idds. It happened the track inspector was helpin' of me align a bad curve, and so whin No. 8 come along he signals her and gets aboard* it being a Saturday .night and him anxious to git home over Sunday, yo know. An idea struck me all of a sudden, and so I said 'Get out the rope, byes, and hitch her on behind.' The boys did it; too, and. soon we were whizz^g. ^toward town. <The 'iafcies waa^t be. cold this night,' said one of the byes gleefully, <xhis beats worMn1 of our passage all to the devil,'said another. At first we enjoyed it, but purty soon we: got to going iaster and faster, when.it. wa'nt so mnny. The handles of the machine went up and down like mad; we had to let go our hold, an' if one of 'em had struck a man of us it 'ud killed him dead. We had to hang about the edges of the car an' it bobbin' up. an' down an' jumpin' around, like a rubber ball I had just VYHijjpOU. UUO illj ft>ilAJLP bV WUtl UU.Q iU^iO with, whin, begob, a wonderful thing took place. The hand-car just raised up herself off the rails and sailed right out behind like a flag. Up in tire -air like a streamer, three fut if an inch from the track?an'- it's the God's truth I'm teilin'ye?we flew along like a birrud. The handles stopped workin', 'cause tho wheels didn't touch nothin' but air, an' the danger of bein' brained' was over. Wo was a-runnin' a mile a minute thin, an' for six miles we sailed in air lik a balloon. When she slacked up we was so lucky as to have the wheels of our hand-car come square down on tho rails. Thin I cut the rope, glad, you kin bet, to roach the end of my first and last journey in the air. That's how my car come to be named 'The Bird. '?Chicago Herald "Train-TcAk Life at Cannes. All the world drives about in the afternoon?the carriage cither following the winding coast" roads to cast or west or climbing- tho surrounding hills by a succession "of sleeps and zigzags, each of them opening up fresh glimpses of the scenery?pulling up in. some rugged gorge or some quiet sylvan" valley. Thence you may scramble., up t?e winding through the thickets^T^Sagrant scrub that grows breast high, or through the thick lir wovds thai, clothe the sides of the rocky dells, with the streamlets murmuring somewhere out of sight in the bottom, and here and there coming out into light and evidence, where they fail in tiny sheets of silver over the faces of the lichen-cov-v ered cliffs;^Then, emerging from the thickets of fir, where the dwarfed trees have begun to struggle and die down, you come on some Drown hill-shoulder, which shows you a broad panorama of the rolling ranges of hill and dale that sink into shadowy plains in the middle, ; distance beforo they rise into the blue- , black mountains skirting the northern horizon. But of all the objects that fill the foregrounds of the views, Cannes ; itself is the most striking and original. : You see fine scenery elsewhere?you may see loose agglomerations of hand- some bouses in their gardens?but ! nowhere on this side of the Atlantic, j nor, indeed, as we "believe, on the 1 nf-.hpr Hn vnn saa Rnr-.li a nnlTection of I , enormous hotels monopolizing the most ! commanding situations. They certain- j ly do not run to the proportions of the monster establishments in Newport or Saratoga, yet the biggest are big enough in all conscience, and there are many more of them. There are over sixty of them now?there were only two" small posting-houses when Lord Brougham discovered Cannes ? of which a third or so arc said to be first rate; all have sprung up in the Last five-and-twenty years, and all are said to be fairly prosperous.?Blac'cwoocFs Magazine. i ? Fishing With Dynamite. In England the use?or rather the abuse?oi dynamite at sea preceded its abuse on land; ana several years Defore the worshipers at the shrine of 0'Donovan Rossa had forced the English parliament to prohibit the clandestine manufacture and possession of explosive, an act had been passed forbidding the use of dynamito as a mode of fishing." In Spain, on tha contrary, the idoa of blowing up fish appears to have dawned upon the people as a development of the practice of exploding bombs in the public streets. At any rate, the "employment of dynamite in fishing operations," to adopt the euphemism of the Spanish government, has become so general off the coast of th? Iberian peninsula that a law is about to be passed to put an end to it. Whether the food supply of the sea is "inexhaustible" or not, the use of dynamite is most certainly not a legitimate mode of fishing. The explosion absolutely destroys more fish than it enables the fishermen to secure, while those that arc captured are rendered unfit for food. In the evidence given before the commissioners, annointcd to inauire into this practice in England, six or seven jears ago, it was stated that the fish in the immediate neighborhood are so shattered and bruised by the violence of the shock that they are rendered flavorless and rapidly putrify; while those further away have their air-bladders broken, and struggle away to die a lingering death. In the case of gregarious fi'sn lite the mackerel and herring, the effect of an explosion is to break up the shoal and effectually drive the fish off the coast. A few days of unrestricted 'dynamiting1' may spoil the fishing for weeks afterward.?SI. James's Gazette. "O - > The present average of speaking in the United States Senate is about 150 words per minute, though there are several speakers who utter more than 200. Among the fastest speakers at present are Senators Beck, Hawley, Plumb, and Morgan. Beck leads the . list. Senator George, of Mississippi, is perhaps the slowest. Daniel Webster was a very slow talker, and he would not average over 100 words a minute. Henrv Clay spoke much faster, rolling out about ?50 words a ! minute. Calhoun was also ?iow until he became roused up with enthusiasm of his subjcct, when his words would flow more rapidly.? N. 0. Times Democrat - ' 1 ? ' ? GLEANINGS. Tom Green county, . Texas, has a new town called Damsight. . -y.-T A new kind of beer is made from - : ~ . rice in a Bavarian brewery. .? . >: Talmagc has been made a D. D. by the University of Tennessee. ^ The old Garfield Memorial Cirarch at Washington has been sold for $132. Nearly 5,000 women are employed in the various government offices in England. ' " V v! Queen Victoria was instrumental in causing women to be employed in telegraph offices. A convict from Clark county, in the Ohio Penitentiary, cut off two fingers to keep from work. George Augustus Sala says that he M has written during his journalistic career of 35 years more than 7,000 .Sj newspaper essays. James Watts' workshop at Heathfield Hail is preserved just as he. last went out of it?even to the leather apron thrown across the vise. Out of Jap sn1 s total population of 80,000,000 there are only 10,050 paupers, and of t hese more: than 1.000 are ac losio, in iae woni-iiosise. . The forests of Europe are estimated . to cover 500,000,000 acres, or nearly 20 per cent of ths surface of the continent Turkeys are in demand among the . vine-growers of Fresno, CaL, who want them to range the vineyards and catch the slugs that are now attacking ^saesa. the vines. There is a concerted movemen^H among actors in "combinations" to sew cure the abolition of the Wednesday matin fin whrah-thev sfcertt-io bold in special detestation.* Pretty little baskets for sending flowers by post are the latest novelty in England. They fasten with a pad- _ ^ lock, the person sending-and the person receiving each having a key. Croquet threatens to come again into fashion in England, lawn tennis being objected to as making ladies dreadfully flushed, and as too rapid in its movements for adequate flirtation. In the eighteenth century the growth of population in Denmark was so "small as to be scarcely notioeable. During increased fromoiw minion "to nearly A man iu Arizona is_ suing a loeal naner hecanse it announced that he was the father of a thieving boy a week old. The editor meant' to say 'thriving," but fate and the type-setter ordered otherwise. There is a fortune in so small a thing as a device for fastening a neck* ' tie. One Oi thft patents 117 hasJtttbeej}-~$8kti<y a company for $^4)Q9^06in cash, and royalties that may amount to as much more. c Baron Tennyson very properly refuses to be bored. He announces officially throngh the London Times that he will not answer the multitudinous letters sent to him. will not look-at? manuscripts nor even return them. V ~ Johannes Scherr, the German critic^ insists that "in the; wide world there > \tn are perhaps hardly three women who know, honor and love Shakespeare. Why? -Uecause he calls things by their name; becatise he is natural, like nature." Coal is cheaper in Boston, 354 miles from the coal field?!, than it is at Philadelphia, only 90 miles fromthe fields. Bostonians pay $5.25 per ton of 2,000 pounds and Philadelphians $6.50 per <$& Long ton of 2,240 pounds, or $5.90 for 2,000 pounds. The story of a North Carolina ruby Is thus set forth by the AshevSXe Ob* ten: "Mr. Daniel Selford found a ruby in C: ay county which he sold for $15. It next sold for $8,000, then for $6,000, and a lapidary bought it, and after working upon it, sold it for $18, A peculiar reptile is tie homed rattlesnake now on exhibition in Los Angeles, It is about fifteen inches in length, and has two horns which pro- ^ leot from its head just above the eyes. Be has only five rattles and a button, and was captured at Iridio Station, on , tbe Colorado Desert Between the ages of fifteen and forty-five a woman can grow about seven crops of hair. It averages about four ounces to the crop, and when oi the. prevailinz popular color brings a handsome price.. The total annual crop is estimated at 100 tons,:gathered from 800, COO-heads. The most successful . counterfeit of .ho <?irr?n ia ??>i^ tr\ lv? cljlSU mixed with some base metal Sy a process unknown to ordinary workers^ in. metal and glass. The counterfeit looks exactly like the genuine lG-eent Mj piece, but on being struck with .a ham- ""*8111 mer it is croshed to picccs. The Mormon Mil should be extended so as to include Kentucky, or at the very least to include Dr. Hizschberg, of Louisville, in that state. He has married, successively, a - German, & French girl, an Irish maiden, a mulatress, and six young American . ^ damsels. He is now, vesy, properly, in the cold cmbrace of p. jail. m yaeensiana, immuwry irom punishment induces the white men to think nothing of taking the lives of natives, and the latter are killed for stealing a few pieces oftobaceo, as was the case with a swapper afr Dnfaure Ireland. For a trining theft he shot three men whom he suspected. The amount of the deposits .in the English postal savings banks last year was $200,000,000, and that of the French banks was a little lower. The rats of interest in England is. 2J per Wmm cent, ana deposits of a shilling and upward draw interest By this system the poorest depositor has a stake in the integrity and prosperity of the ."f Government In a certain cemetery in a town in Connecticut can be found a lot con tainin^ five graves?one in. the ce?ite2V_. '/ :Vr? the others near by at the four-points of the compass. The inscriptions on the latter read, rcspcctively? .after the. name of the deceased: "MyX Wife," "My n. Wife," "My IIL Wife," "My ~ nil. Wife," while the "center stone W0 bears the brief bat eloquent expression. ~ "Our Eusban^ " Every one has heard of condensed milk, but condensed, or rather solidified, drinks of a more potent nature are a novelty. An ingenious French chemist has discovered a method by which any wine, spirit or malt liquor can De soiiumca mw a. um wuw olate, and so conveniently carried in m tho pocket of the tbirstvA doctor, writing to a New. York pa- ,/^H per, deprecates the..publishing .by the press of oases of hydrophobia, he said, in nine eases out of ten the fear of the disease brought it on. _ JH