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- "===== WINNSBORO, S. CM WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1885. , A Bachelor's Neckties. They lie on my tabic, red. purpx- and errecn; j , Jn fact, ail the colors that ever were seen. Some bright as a daisy, some crumpled and ! soiled. Like my desolate heart, of their freshness despoiled. jl find them in cupboards, in corners and ] nooks, I find them in drawers, in boxes and books. j The wrecks of past fashion, they clearn on j my sight, , Each one a reminder of hours sad or bright. J jgtk Ah! well I remember, poor ribbon of blue. Hfc How my heart beat with hope as I proudly Km donned you. ||& How two lovely eyes on your bright wings were cast. 'Twas a glancc of delight, but 'tis over and BBS* And, royal tie of purple and showy tie of red, ( HHSS5r Beneath you has nest ed a lair, sunny head. rW hope tresses of gold once tne cnarm oi my Now shine on the head cf another man's wife. Andyoar fo^ds of satin, oh, dainty tie white. Were woven expressly for my wedding night. And you. like the others, have been laid aside. And still I am waiting?but where is my bride? HI {rather you all in pay. colored heap. And into the fire you shall go with a sweep: Like my dreams. I am sure you will never come back. And henceforth my neckties shall only be j black. SPOOPENDYKL'S PIE. f 2Ee Shows Mrs. 8. How His Mother Used to Hake 'Em. w My dear," saut Mr. Spoopendvke,' folding his napkin and pushing his chair back from the table; "my dear, . you are a pretty good housekeeper, and ^ once in a while you contrive to cook up a fair meal, but you have no business fooling around a mince-pie. There never was but one woman that could make a mince pie, and that was my j or "I thought this was nice.'" returned Mrs. Spoopcndyke, with jnst a little N quiver resting on her lip. got it out of the cook-book " "And you'd better put it right -br&k in the book as a warning to other amateurs." continued Mr. Spoopendyke. ^ "I don't say that this is especially bad, only it doesn't meet with all the requirements of pie as they were instilled into my young mmd. i ou raigni wont j it on foundling hospitals tuat never had any mother, but it hasn't :he soul i I used to get out of pic when 1 lived at home." "How did your mother make the mince-pies, dear?"' asked Mrs. Spoopendyke. "If I knew what she used perhaps I could get up one of whieh you would eat six slices instead of four." And with this purely feminine dig Mrs. Spoopendyke looked modestly downward and bega^i folding kaifeplaitings in the table-cloth. "Come!" exclaimed Mr. Spoopendyke, jumping impetuously from his chair. "If you've got the ingredients I'll show you how to make a pie that will draw howls of envy from the neighbors," and Mr. Spoopendyke led the way to the kitchen. "Where's your chopping-tray and the apples! Fetch me the hand guillotine and the beef! Look alive now, my dear, and we'll startle the world with some new revelations on th.? abtruse subject of ji? mince-pie!" 'y*- "Let me put this big towel around " "your neck, so you won't grease your clothes," suggested Mrs. Spoopendyke, drag?i:ig out a huge crash towel. "What's that for?" demanded her rfnntftmnlntimr it With no uuduauut wii .-0 -- ?? " amount of favor. "Which end of the pie is that thing supposed to have influence with? If I make up my mind when I get through that this pie wants to be shaved I'll put on this skirt, but in the meantime I want room for all my limbs. Now,1' he continued, as he dumped the beef and apples into the " * ? --S 1? ?4.l_ tray and wen: at tnem vigorously witu the chopping-knifc; "now, you watch the proceedings and note how the pie begins to assume proportions." "Didn't your mother peel the apples before she chopped them?" asked Mrs. Spoopendyke, quietly. "Eh!" ejaculated Sir. Spoopendyke, slowing up a little and looking into N the tray distrustfully. "Of course cot," and he resumed his labors with still more energy. "If you did, there's where you made your mistake. I sup.. pose you peeled the beef, too, didn't ye? Though I don't know," and he stopped short and regarded his work attentively. "It strikes me this meat would chop finer if sotrc one had dropped a pile-driver on it once or twice. Anyway, you don't want your meat too fine, and I guess this wiil'do," and Mr. Spoopcndykc set the tr;?y full' of lumps on the table and rolled up his sleeves. "What will you have now, dear?" inquired his wife tenderly. "Some Hour and water," replied % Mr. SpoopenJyke cheerily. "It's the crust of a pie that is its genius, and I'm going to turn out a slab of pastry that will be a monument to the artist who is weaving this job. Gimme the flour and water while I feel as one up on whom the spirit of a successful pie rests visibly!'* "Anything el>e. dear?"' she asked, as Mr. Spoopendyke wet down his flour and jammed his Ji<ts into the paste. ? "Nothing but profound silence," retorted her husband. "The chief trouble "with the crust to your pie is that you allow your attention to be distracted from it at the critical moment. I, on, - the contrary, vrill stop boxing this overcoat for that mince-meat just at the second it reaches flakiness," and he slammed in more flour and nlunered (again into his ambitious effort in "the j way of crust. There!" said he, when he had fought it to the consistency of sand and mucilage and rolled it out into two thick chunks. "Tnerc is the triumph of pie over puttering! Lend out the pan whom the gods would honor, and let's see how this combination of hereditary intelligence and acquired | brains will go when it is cooked!'' I Mrs. Spoopcndykc handed him a pieK. r>an into which he dropped his bottom crust and then ponrcll in his mince"Got to lift your teeth pretty hifjh to get around some of that meat." he observed, as he tried to poke the lumps into position with :i stick. "I'm not sure whether mother used to grate the meat or crack it with a. hammer, but it don't make much difference. It's \ the crnst that talks, wher you come to I 1 * conversation on pie. Now, you do -J this," and he marked out a sprig on the top crust with hU thumb; and t when you get it on, thus, you pinch it around the edges, so. See? My mother used to have an old wheel out of a wooden clock, and she printed land- j scapes in holes all over the pie. Bnt that isn't necessary. It adds lustre, j but no dignity, to the performance. I Now, we put ic in the oren, this wise, j and in a short time we will have ac- i complished results in the immediate | lino nf j "It is really wonderful bow well you ^ remember how your mother made theni." smiled Mrs. Spoopendyke. "You won't feel badiy because it beats yours?" said Mr. Spoopendyke, f ? kindly. "You won't cry?" and he j chuc?ed her under the chin and open- ! ed the stove door, cautiously to see how affairs were progressing. "I'll try not to," replied Mrs. Spoop- j endykc, casting her eyes do*vn and j suppressing something that sounded j like a sob. "Let's see. You stick in a broom- j splint, don't yoa;. when you want to j know if the pc is* "done? Where's your broom? t>how me the happy "broom that is to be immortalized by testing this grand-apothesU of pie!" j Mrs. Spoopendyke. produced the : broom, rind Her husband, carefully se- I lecting one of the splints, jammed away at the upper crust. "It won't go in," he remarked, rather dolefully,- .selecting another with similar results. "The trouble is with i the broom. Haven't you got-a broom that Jcnows something about its business^ or is this 'one of those pious brooms t'.at won't work Sundays?" and he broke up several more splints j in a vain: endeavor to penetrate the I pie. "Hadn't you better try the handle, ; dear?" suggested Mrs. Spoopeadykc. "No, I hadn't better try the handle, dear!" mimicked Mr. Spoopendyke. i 44Comc out here and let's see what's j the occasion for this uncalled-for re- j sistanec!" and Mr. Spoopendyke haul- | ed his pic out of the gfcen and fired it I down on.the tabic.' "Got an idea you are going to be assassinated with abroom j splint, haven't ye? Think yon're a sort of bulwark of American" liberties and bound to resent foreign intervention, don't ye.- Well, yoirahrt; you're only a measly pie, and you are going | to l>ave something slock into - ye, if it j n i nnnnnn!"' rtlld ! Mr. Spoopendyke stabbed at it with a fork, and then with a chopping-knife, without producing the faintest impression. ' You're up in pie, what d'ye s'pose is the matter with the tlnn":?" he asked, turning to his ? o wife. "If I'd been your mother I should have put some lard in the crust," returned Mrs. Spoopendyke complacently. "I don't know how you are going to get lard into a crust that you can t penetrate with a, bayonet!*" retorted Mr. Spoopendyke, upon whom it began to dawn that there was a hitch somewhere. "I've almost forgotten how mot'.er did try pies to see it they were done." "Did she ever try a club?" inquired Mrs. Spoopondyke, timidly. "Xo. she didn't try a eitib!" roared Mr. Spoopondyke. "Come hither, my geuth? pie!" hy howled, planting his . ti*t in the middle of the apparatus. "Listen to the voice of the siren inquiring witiiin!" and he dropped it on tin; floor and planted his heel on it. "Front door closed for repairs; entrance at the back!*' and he kicked the business to the ceiling. "Your mother mn*t have been very vigorous for her age." observed Mrs. Snoopendyke, calmly. "It's those <r:i?tod lumps of meat," snarled Mr. S:>'?o;v:i.Ivke. picking up the pie and ex.uniuing its kiobs and bumps attentive y. thought" they'd melt when subjected to intense heat. Anyway, the inside of that pie is all TMovif if f onnlii o.ilv t!ie lid off. Got anything I can get under the edge" and lift the roof oft* this business? Gimme that can-opener! Give way. now! Whoop! Once more! Ki yah! All together, now! Whe-e-c! There she comes!" And the crust gave way,-" revealing chunks of beef and applcparings, half-cooked and still steaming. " *4I suppose your mother put in the spices and cider after the hired man had wrenched ti:c pic open," remarked Mrs. Spoopendyke, solemnly. . "You do, do ye?" squealed Mr. Spoopendyke. squatting down and resting his hands on his knees, while he grinned in his wife's face. "Thai lump of quicksilver you caii your mind has jrot around to where it transacts the supposing' business, has it? P'raps you don't like the pic! I s'pose you've got some fashionable notion that. you don't care to associate with this pic! Well, you needn't. 1 don't force un- pleasant acquaintances on my wife! I beiieve i:i making home a paradise, I do! Go forth, pie!" and he shied it' through the window, glass, sash, and all. "Tnat suits you?" he yelled. "Does your moral nature "led reiieveu by the absence of the pie you have been instrumental in casting upon the chilled charities of an unsympathetic world?'' "I guess that pie can take care of itself, suggested Mrs. Spoopendyke, soothingly. "The next time i make one I'll try and have it just as your mother used to." "You'll fetch it!" roared Mr. SpOopendyke. stamping up nud down the kitchen and slapping the Hour ofF his coat. "You never have any trouble with things after I have shown you ?nr?n r].iv- T* 11 r?niir lint in vnnr ..W?. . v..v .. .. ^ j . ear. and spice in your eye. and leave you in the oven to reflect on how you'd like to be cut off from intellectual social intercourse, just because you ain't hilf b:iked!M and Mr. Spoopendyke slammed the d^or after him and mounted the stairs with heavy tread. "I don't care," murmured Mrs. Spoopendyke, as she swept up the de-J bris; "Idon't care. If that is the j way his mother made pie I don't won- I der it left a strong impression on his j mind." tl.ic />!,.?rif-ihln nf I biilO VllUitVUViV ? 'V .. w situation Mrs. Spoo cndykc sat down to the consideration of wiJether she'd better make p. false irain for her new blaek silk.?Drake's Traveler's Magazine. Wasn't Libelous. "Do you want a case, Mr. S nedes?" "Certainly, if there's money in it and any show for winning," replied J the lawyer. "Well,, it's for libel. I propose to j sue this infernal newspaper for trajuc- j ing ray character.'' "What has it said?"' inquired the ! lawyer. "Why, it has stated that I am worse than a hog in my family, that I beat my wife and starve my children, and lie when I get a chance, and don't steal because everybody locks the door when I come around, and a whole lot more of the same kind, and I want j damages for it." "Is~that all?" "Isn't that enough?" "Hardly. Yon see there's nothing in the statute against a newspaper tell- 1 ing the truth. When the paper tells j a lie on you come around, :.nd I'll see j what I can do for 3-ou. Good morn- 1 ling." ' The leading bandmaster and' most accomplished violinist of Indianapolis U ic is a uuiitu nt.n^i ii.iii. iiv u the author of a dozpu of the most popular minstrel soiigs'in existence, among which are "Cyarve ^atTossUjaT' and "Daphne Do You Love Mo?1' ;t*i-iW.vc j i: : r: u: . x. His WoimI tiV! Fii-i-.il I) so \Wst i I ::it. ; Ti e folioninsr sSnry in regard <o j Lieut. J)(?r'iv (John Ph??:h>:.i ? 'itimorist) was tol ! six! by (.Jen. WilK-.ini I'. Sherno:::;: Yo:i k-ow, there was a f>-w miles from West Point a place known as Benny Haven's. wh<?rcthe boys n-e.l j to go to eat flapjacks and drink !lip. Benny Haven's l!i:> had a i::;tional :??]> j illation, and h's Jla jacks were deli- j cipns. The cadets, however, patronized i I,, -in cvciss i the officers <;f the military school :it- i tempted tojjr.t a stop to it, and very ! few permissions were g ranted them to , go outside of ill.' walls <>f the instilu- j lion. LVr'jy was in especial ba.l favor, j and he know that he could not on or- ' dinary grounds g t a permit. One J time, afier he had been a week or n ore ! without a drink of Ileimy Haven's Hip, j he pretended ;i ?re..t repen-Cisnee as *o his studies :in<i guw out that he w&* going to do Letter. The professor of geology w:is :t cirioiH ol.I follow whom he haii carloone i un croifniiy. and who had a honor of him. To him Derby went, :;n<i with t'-irs 111 i.h eyes i said he was mmtv that iic had wasted j his time i:s {.': past, and lir.it in the | future he intended lo <io better. lie I feared as jt \va-- l-.s would not be able | to pass his e\ minations, Lni t al iio wished to u<e iii< remaining iinu in the academy so li:.-.: when he went out lie would be tit:?d ; > I tattle with She j jyorid. ami i.e :n!en Ji'U to pay special | attention to ^?-?*is?vy. This geological ; professor \va> a:i cut u-;ast, ami very simple ami innocvm -WiMal. He embraced Derby ami co:ir r ttilat<-(l him on his best resolution. Dur.ng li;e next few days Derby came i:;-:o tiie ciassroom wills t lie be>t of lessons. Ke asked many questions and* showed great interest in the subject, thus winning glowing opinions from his professor. lie remained in thcclass-room after the .. . ivs-on ol i: c sourtii nay. ami ioiu ine professor that' one of tins milkmen who supplied the academy hail been tellinghim of some uonderiul petrifactions at a point away uo in tii mountains. He had spoken ot lishes anil the tracks of birds anil other specimens which Derby. having carefully posted himself by the book's, said he supposed belonged to such and such an age. The professor rubbed his hands during the relation, saying "Yes,11 yes,'" ' Very likely, very likely!'' And when Derbv concluded bv savins the milk man bad ollcred to conduct him to the place, he was eager to have him go. On Derby's asserting the doubt that lie would not be permitted to leave the academy, the professor said there would be no trouble about that, and that he would get the countersign and the permit. This ife did, and the next day Derby started out early and struck out at once for Benny Haven's. Here he lay around all that day eating ilapjacks and drinking flip, and carried on his carouse far into the ni<rht. Early in the morning lie camc back to the academy very mellow indeed, but succeeded in passing the guard and tumbling into his room. As he lay down on his bed he happened to i think that he must have. an .explanation.! to give to the geological professor for not having the specimens. He bethought himself a moment and then went down and picked up a couple of stones from a pile which lay by the river side. He brought these to his room, and with a chisel cut into them a number of what looked very much like bird tracks. Going out again he rubbed these with dirt and then came back, laid-them on his table, and went to After breakfast lie took the stones to the professor of geology, who, by the way, was very near-sighted. He told him that the milkmun had failed to keep his appointment, and that he had attempted to find the place himself. He had not discovered the petrified .fishes nor the other fossils described by the milkman, but he had found these stones, with their curious tracks, and he thereupon gave the professor a lucid explanation of the bygone age to which the stones belonged, and how antediluvian birds of a character not now known had made these curious tracks. His disquisition was so well put that the professor coincided with him. He took the stones into the class-room that day, and related Derby's wonderful discoveries. The affair was for a,few days the talk of the class, but Derby could not keep his secret to himself and told it to one or two of his friends. It went all over college, and the result was that Derbv was suspended. He got back again, however, after a time and was graduated.?Cleveland Ladcr. His Idea of a Kangaroo. They are telling a rather amusing story of Mr. PatricK Rooney and Mr. Addison Ryman. Mr. Rooney is a gentleman known to a certain portion of the public as a delineator of Irish characters. Some seasons ago Mr. Rooney became involved in difficulties with Mr. Miner, his manager at the time, and it began to look as though Mr. Miner - - - , C . ^ m m , would certainly get the Dest or me matter. One day when Mr. Rooney put in an appearance on Union-Square he was in. a particularly gloomy mood. In this condition he met Mr. Ryraan, who courteously inquired after his health. "Sure," observed Mr. Rooney, "it's mighty bad I'm feelin". What with quarreiin' ana annKin j. m siu*. ;mu disgusted intirelv. Be heavens, I've half a mind to lave the country." "Indeed?" pursued Mr. liyman,"and where will you go?" "To Austhralia, I believe. It's & fine business I'd be doin' there, so it IS. "Nonsense. There's nothing in the country to play to but kangaroos." "The divil a bit do I care," exclaimed the Ilibernia-i actor. "A kangaroo's money is as good as any other man's." When a young man, Mr. Hastings, the legitimate heir of the Earl of Huntington, met a pretty chambermaid named Betsy Warner, and, becoming enamored of her. vowed to marry her if ever he got possession of the family livinsr. Thirty years passed by. I\lr. Hastings forgot his early love,married, ii! - li-- ?: 1 ii.. lost ins WHO. ana nanny gameu. tuu living lie had always desired. One day the venerable old pastor was astounded by the arrival of Miss Warner, who calmly told him she came to claim the fullillment of his promise, as she had never swerved from her engagement. The result was that the reverend gentleman, landing upon inquiry that his betrothed's conduct had been exemplary r?nns<?nt:od. miblishcd the banns himself in his own church, and married his early love. The Governor of Ihe Island of Samos has discovered a tunnel measuring o,000 feet in length, and constructed at ! least nine centuries before the Chris- j iian era. 1 Lctmi a Trade. I'uring a conversation with a foreman of a large manufacturing company lie said incidentally: "We have had no American apprentices in tvvoyears," and in reply to my interrogation said that Allien an parents ?ere more desirous of their sons learning to despise labor than to adorn it. Looking the matter over carefully I have reached the conclusion that lie is right. It is a pity. Young man iook forward a few years. You huve good homes today and homes where every comfort possible to have is in your gras . Yon do not appreciate these tilings. They come to you without effort, they arc retained :o you without effort on your part and you permit yourself to slide along on the greased" pole of confidence in the ability of your parents to provide. Did you ever think that money, sometimes, yes, often, takes wings? Well, it does;, it goes in the twinkling of an eye somelimes and then your father has to work, and you, if you have anything in yonr composition and make up which has the appearance of a man, will go to ivork to help out your father. Now, if you had learned a trade you would not be obliged to search for six-dollar positions as clerks, but could step into, places that are waiting for jnst snch/ men as you might be at a fair salary. Don't think when you light your cigarette and walk down the streot tliot rnn mt thnn iirsrhndr Don't imagine that rhe mechanic as ho passes you envies you. Don't imagine that society eouM not get along without you. You must know that society thinks only of your money and nothing of you, and if your fai her was to lose his dollars to-day that to-morrow would find you knockiug at society's closed doors. And t e mechanic pities you and says, "Well, I would not exchange places with him,1' and he means it. Suppose you put on an old suit of clothes and go down to the machine shop or the factory, or the printing otlice and commcncc at the bottom round and work up. There will be boys that will laugh at your white skin and delicate looks and yet secretly they will admire you for having the good sense to do what you ought to do. l'our employer will advancc you as fast as you deserve and with your natural ability there is no reason why you should not reach the top of the ladder "in a few years. Ttien if your parents should have money and you feel a desire to do something else, do it; and if days of adversity come, as it is very probable they will you will have something to fall back on which will support you una your wiie ana Daoies in comfort. What this country needs is more of its voting: men to learn trades. There ::re enough who will be bound to make fools of themselves aud try to navigate iife without it, and look to the professions for a dry and uncertain living. It is no disgrace to be poor, but it is a disgrace to any young man who, having the opportunity to learn a trade which will be of use to him in after years, throws it away and with it his comfort and that of those dependent or him, to satisfy tbe pride of society which looks simply upon the wealth PJ'd I -of arC< Davis in Arkansaw Traveler. " " The "Good Old Days." "I <ruess these farmers who are groaning about low prices and high taxes, and who are lunging for the good old times, don't remember much about the good old times," said a well-known Orange county farmer of Goshen, N. Y. ,4I can remember when we used to haul our grain, butter, pork, and eggs all the way to Ncwburgh, going one day and coming back the next. We generally got lo cents a bushel tor oats, ant! 10 cents a pound for butter. Seventy-live cents a bushel for wheat was a fancy price. If wc got 6 or 8 cents a dozen for eggs we thought we were doing well. Nice corn-fed pork, dressed, we carted to market for $2 a hundred. The butter wc put on the market in those days was the genuine Orange county article, yellow as gold and as hard as a walnut I have sold tubfull after tubfull of butter for 10 cents a round that would net me 75 cents easy, if I had it, or any Jike it, to sell now. That was before the Eric railway came through here and put us up to selling our milk instead of making it into butter. We didn't have any lime-kept eggs to sell in those days, either. As for taxes I paid $100 for my farm of one hundred acres when I was getting 10 cents a pound for butter. On the same farm now I pay $42.50. and Iinve sold my c itire dairy of milk for what is eq.al to more than throe times 10 cects a pound for butter. There is a good deal of humbug in this mourning after the good old days, and I know it" A Tale of Two Dogs. A friend of the Rccofd has a - very original dog. He came to the family a little, scrawny, mangy, timid yalier dog. He is now a large, fat, well conditioned, consequential yalier dog. There is a beer shop about two blocks from the residence which this dog adopted'for his own, and Buff goes there occnsionallv and drinks the drip pings thai fall from the faucet of the beer ke<r into a tub kept for the purpose. Sometimes he drinks so much of this fascinating liquid that he becomes very drunk and <rocs home in a sad state. When, at dinner time, a long. deep. stentcroiK- grunt is heard from underneath the table at the back of the room and a visitor gives a look of surprise the explanation is., "Oh, Buff is drunk again." Next door lives a handsome setter named Captain. Buff had always whipped him in their chance hostile encounters until Captain learned to give him a wide berth But one day Captain happened to see Buff going home from tiie beer shop in a shocking state of inebriety. He knew that the moment for his revenge had come, and rushed upon the incapable Buff like a wolf on a lamb. Buff made an exceed ingly unsteady and inadequate defense. The"tyrant of the neighborhood was as effectually disarmed as Sullivan was disarmed before Mitchell. He went home dreadfully whipped, and with such a sense of humiliation that he has quite let of? going to the beer shop? until the next time?and has not since molested Captain. The best thing about this story is that it is absolutely true. ? Boston Even ing Iiccord. Gypsies are particularly superstitious regarding portraits, and it is a rarity to. find the photograph of a true Bohemian decorating any art gallery or store window. They consider it most , unlucky to be photographed, and will onlv submit to have their profiles taken in consideration of receiving, without . asking for it, an old shoestring with whifrh thnv can bind thesniritof ill luck certain topursue the person whose likeness has been reproduced. s T THE POW*-:tS OF DYNA3IITJ:. ! It is Greatly OVi-rcstim-i.e I :?a-l s:>'>n to : be Superseded as an K.v;>I-is!v;>. Dynamite in its simplest form closely j resembles moist brown sugar ami is | n:tro-glycerine absorbed in any inert | Iiocm If iu tint- vi>f tvviMitr vonr< nlil. ? . j having been lirst offered for .sale in ! June, 1867. In the form in which it is 1 licensed, dynamite must consist cf 75 { per cent, of nilro-glycerine and 25 p r I cent, of an infusorial earth known as kicselgukr. Of dynamite, properly so calitd. ; there arc only two kin 's. distinguished V i 1 -v- n ^ x-_ i ;is uyniuiuie i^n?. i a;m .m>. -><j. i ; Ls composed o!' 75 pt.-r cent, of nitro- j glycerine and 25 per cent, of tiie in- I fusorial earth kicscUjuhr; No. 2 of IS j per cent, nitroglycerine and 82 per j cent, of a pulverized j reparation com- | posed of nitrate <>f poiash, charcoal, | and paralfine; a ra'xlure introduced to replace gttn-powder i i coal-working A \T~ 1 imifAl*. fill. Nitro-glycerine is a very pale-yellov. i liquid, about half as heavy again awater. It is simply a cold mixture of one part of nitric acid and llirce parts of sulphuric acid. It lias no smell, but a sweet aromatic taste, and, though it is not in a strict sense poisonous, yet a single drop placed on the tongue will filniAct nrnf?iif?r> n vimnnf headache; even the handling it. before the dynamite cartridges were in 1870 wrapped in parchment, would do the same. The "dynamite headache" is a disorder very well known in the trade. The dis ovcry of dynamite was not due, as has been generally supposed, to accident, but to direct experiment. The first made consisted of charcoal and nitro-?lvcerine. and. be'orex the porous siiica known as kiesclgtihr was finally adopted, numerous trials were made of various other absorbents, such as porous terra cotta, sawdust, and ordinary and nitrated paper soaked in the liquid explosive and rolled into cartridges. During the siege of Paris, when the kicsclguhr ran short, the l icu^u ivuiau wwi oiiv^ir tute to lie iu the ashes of Boghead coal, and. next to that in pounded su<iar. The hours of the supremacy of dynamite are numbered. The explosive of the future is undoubtedly gelatine, the latest invention of Mr. Alfred Nobel, of Edinburgh. Alreadv on the eonli- i neat the manufacture of this new agent has assumed important dimensions. Many of the later operations of the St. G-othard were carried out with pure blasting gelatine, and in Austria, the richest of all the European countries in mines except Great Britain, the factories whei'e dynamite was formerly made are now given over to its manufacture. It is simply dynamite (a base actif) containing 93 percent, of nitroglycerine, with a base of 7 per cent, of collodion wool, that is itself an explosive in place of the inert kicselrjuhr. As a blasting agent it is more homogeneous than dynamite, and on account of its elasticity is less sensible to outward impjjessions, while in handling or cuttin?.|hc carl ridges there is no \^?s of the matcriiih as sometimes occtus w?'h dynamite. *Tls'forther advantage* are "Mat the gTtses- -explosion are . lighter and thinner and leave no dust, UCV'UlUlSUlg tU catuv wuoiuuiable more power. Taking the power of dynamite at 1,000 and nitro-gly erine at 1,411, blasting gelatine is represented by the ligures 3,555, in addition to which superiority iL is capable, unlike dynamite, of retaining its nitroglycerine whc.s brought into contact with water. The destructive power of dynamite, which, contrary to the common opinion, does i:ot>act downward, but equally in all directions, and with tlte greatest violence where ti.ere is the greatest resistance, h::s been greatIv exaggerated. Although it has from 'live to seven C # times the explosive power of gun pOWUPI", 1L js uoiii|i;u;um:;v muiu^ ill its cllecia :it even short distances. The dynamiter, willi :ill his (hiring and cunning, has, al'ler all. succeeded in doing us no more damage than gas has often done before. Jt would be better for him, if he desires to continue his warfare, to return to his ancient allv gunpowder, wYieh above grourd is a much more noisy and demoralizing agent. Dynamiters <-an not by any'means at their disposal lay a whole oitv in ruins ?nor even a sti*eet. They may injure special buildings, and that is the most they can do. The dynamite employed for these purposes is, in the majority of cases, of the kind known as Iignindynamite, a wholly unlicensed explosive, composed of sawdust and nitroglycerine, and in its effects considerably weaker tlmn that in common use. ?CornhiU Magazine. Norwegian Honesty. In the house where I am now writing there stands in th* dining-room, ana accessible at a7! Limes of the day, an open case of cigars and cigarettes, postage stamps, and stationery. On the sideboard are bottles of seltzer water and wines. When the bills arc made out the guests report how many they have used. On a steamer trip a friend went to tiie pursers office to pay for his tickct. Being suddenly called oiu, me purser uncouix-muuiv left the gentleman alone in the office with piles.of loose money lying about him on the desk. At another place, 1 overheard' the proprietor of the hotel saying to a party that they need not change their plans for want -of ready money, for he would very willingly lend them some without security until they should arrive at Christiana. At the same place, arriving and leaving again in the night, I wished to have a teiegram sent for me the next day. My telegram and money were laid on tiie center-table over night. Other bits of money were also upon the table, probably for other errand?. In Norway the doors of rooms have for the most part no loi-ks. We have i found in some places locks, but the | Keys coma De useu oniy irora me omside, in ca5c the people are :ill absent ( for several weeks: but to lock a door and remain inside is to them foolishness. In Bergen, at the public eoncerts and entertainments, the outer garments and appurtenances are laid aside in an outer room, ns otherwheres in Europe: but there is no checking ( system in Bergen, not even any one in attendance that I could find. After an j; entertainment- we attended, the men j went to a corner of umbrellas and ] canes, and each took his own. It must have been so, and must usually be so; I omerwise sncn a svsieui, tu jatu <_>l I , system, would not exist. I took my j i hat, coat, and cane, and crept out, j < feeling as if I had stolen something, j < and longing to tell somebody officially j that they were really mine.?lion's j Herald. In Dakota on a frosty day a conver- j sation can be carried on with perfect j ease between persons a mile apart Str.>>:r '';t Kisjlity. Mr. D.ivid Policy Field: "My tveipe for self-preservation is cxcrci.se. 1 am a iirm believer in exercise. I will tell you my mo:!e of life. I am a very temperate man. ami have always i eon so. I have taken care of myself, and as I li:ive a ?joo:I constitution I suppose i \xf tlw* T nr\-% on \\ /* 1 Vaii i must ask the Almighty why I have lived so long. and how long 1 shall iive. I am perfectly healthy and strong, and. though I have nominally retired from trie law, I am busy as you see from morning until night. Another reason I am so well is that my mind has always been occupied. I am never idle: in fact I have no time to be ill. "When I was a young man I had very severe headaches. In 1846 I bought a horse, and I have not had a headache since. Every morning I arise ' > (I a'/iIaaU r CA years. 1 take an ice-cold bath, dress myself, jump on a horse at 7 o'clock, and rsdv.- for an hour. I then breakfast and work at my house until 11 o'clock, when I walk d->wn-towu, a distance of four mile*. I remai i at my ollice until 3 o'clock, then waik home, and dine at 6. At 7 I sleep for an half hour after which. I am ready for anything. I retire between 10 and 11 o'clock. I have clone this lor over forty years, i attribute my hardihood to horsebackri !i:j;r. Have I ever taken a drink? No. sir, never, except a glass of claret at dinner. Like Pere Hyacinthe, I must have my claret at dinner. Whisky, \ brar.dy, or any liquid of that kind I ni'vnr fr>iir?Ii. "My :u!vice to young men is to get | ci^ht hours sloop every night, and j drink o:ily chocolate. eollee, and tea. I The young men of to-day arc too fast. Tin: candle can not burn at both ends and last long, i have never smoked lobaceo in any shape and never will. Do as I have done, and you will be strong at JSO. i.iui probably at 90." Mr. Field was at his oillco busy with so: no* details of his civil code now before ti.o legislature. "The code," he said, "is favored by a ?reat number of lawyers. There are some old fellows, to be si;r.\ who are opposed to it. What they w:inL is a large library. I 'i ij-;v- seiMn to think tliat a civil code is a:; alteration of existing things. By no ii'i -.ins; ii is a condensation, and is caieuiiled to save much labor and re'I1.?... ?? .?1?J laornn/1 Lliii law in o.;o way, and they believe in a civii co !? about as much as a -VI ohaiunr-dan b.'lit'Vi*.* in C'hris;ianity. ? _ York i'un.mcrr.iftl Ad:crli*cr. Poor Economy. When you make a brea I pudding of your stale crusts, my dear young housewife. you fancy you ha\e done an ceo noraicai tiling, auuougu nan me puuding is thrown away, bccause "John" doesn't like plain puddings. It would be better economy to throw the tread away instead of wasting your time in making something no "one wishes to eat. Now, although I don't adviso anyone to throw away a plateful of stale bread, it is sometimes the most eoocofirieal thing to do with it, especiaito%h?t weather, when it is very .antjj^iould. At other times T_shon5d_ tmvise tot: to- cut-off -rmy "brown cmsts, break in small pieces, and dry, not toast, it in the oven when the lire is very low. men pounu or von it miner line, ami put it in a paper bag which should be hung in a cool, dry corner of your pantry. You will find it very convenient to use in preparing scalloped oysters, meat, eggs or tomatoes. for all of which it is much nicer than cracker crumbs, for bread sauce, and many other things. The bread may be used in various ways. If the slices arc not broken or too thick, they make delicious browned sandwiches. which I make very often. Spre; d each slice of bread with chopv\rwl rvirkof AAl'nr Wlfh O nf VV/I V4 ItikU ?.?, 4UVV V* VAV??V?. and press together. Proceed in this manner tiii all the meat and bread is used, and cut each sandwich in halves. Piacc them on a plafe and pour the mill; and e^s: over them until it is all absorbed. Put a heaping teas?oonful of butter on a largo griddle or fryingpan, and when it begins to brown place the sandwichcs carefully upon it. When niccly browned add :i liLtic more but- . ter and turn tlicm. lot tin i them brown quickly on the other side. Serve as soon as possible. This makes a delicious breakfast dish, and may be used to advantage to "help out-" a scanty dinner. Wo often use the stale slices of bread without the meat, just soaking them in the egg and milk and browning nicely. It is one of the favorite methods of using stale bread in our family. Indeed, a plate of stale ' Uieau is a puriccri ijjujo ui uumiiin surprises. *?- - -<? The Highland Feather. Highland regira^nis are at ia-t easy in their minds. The feather bonnet, for the .present at any rate, re. to be retained. Col. Stockwcli, commanding <<>0<%*? ? U T-T i ?r!i l?i )i?w an oiHciiil intimation that the feather bonnet will this year be given to his battalion. Then; is a great deal r.o doubt in cs/>rit <i'c coriis. But it is a little hard to understand why Highlanders should consider it a part of their national cult to wear a bonnet of ostrich feathers. The ostrich is not indigenous to Scotland, and its plumes, were certainly not carried in their bonnets bv the .Scots \v..o bled with Wal lace :md were led by Bruce. lint there is 110 accounting for these quasi-heraldic fancies. Tin-re is not an Irishman? not a single Mulligan or O'Donovan? in the whole of I he Scots guards who would not become patriotically indignant if the red and white checked tartan were taken from his forage cap. And, after all. there is a good deal of human nature in thvj.sc fancies ajid whims. Uniformity of uniform is ihc- ! ful enough i:i actual warfare; but every regiment iikes it own distinctive ! badges upon parade.?St. fiiities's dazeit'':. < msp- * In remembrances of George Eliot re- ! : ccntly published it is stated that at one time she was much interested in phrc- i noloory. and had a cast of her head taken. Her head was a very large one, twenty-two and one-quarter inches round. Tho tempeiumont was nervous lymphatic- liiat is. active without endurance?a::: I her working hours were never more than from a. m. to 1 p. < I. hi her hrain development the In- j: te:lcct :Iv predominated. In the j ; feel'ngs ti;e iniinai and moral regions : wore about eipial. Tiio social feelings I ] wore very active, particularly the ad- j ? ' L_' . . > rt I 1 fit "Si VCULVSr?. OiU? w iirs KJI ;i iuv^L am U" I tionatc disposition, always rr-rjuir'is^ ; some one to Iran ;:pon. She saw ah j ' sides intellcctuallv. j < _ ] A oiler oi sJO'j has been refused by ] a citizen of Taomas C'o;inry. Georgia, j for a i?adstone which he found in | , Montgomery County while on a visit there recently. it is eg^-shaped and about half the size of a hen's egg. Expert Counterfeiting. U. S. Detective W. G. Bauer, who ; secured the arrest and conviction of the | celebrated counterfeiter Martin Ogle, ; recently explained to a reporter of the } Louisville Post the processes of this | accomplished felon which certainly display a wonderful amount of ingenuity and delicate workmanship. Ogle had procured a genuine 810 bill and split this in halves, this being in if-splf a remarkable oneration. The two sheets thus made were so thin that they j were transparent. He made a plate of | copper and brass, a little larger than i the bill, and spread one of the sheets j on top of it. With a steel tracing pen- j cil of his own manufacture he engraved through the sheet its exact counterpart j on the plate. The other half was engraved on a different plate in a similar manner, and then he was ready for printing his spurious money. This method of workmanship looks very simple, but it is the iirst time it ha;? been done by a counterfeiter, as it is almost impossible to split the bill. The method always before used is as follows: The workman took, say, a SUA lit!! onil enrnid nvar if o r.f transparent gelatine paper, and traced the figures of the former on the latter. The metal plate was next put in use, and was coated with a solution of shellac. On this the gelatine was pasted, and when torn off it left on the shellac the outline of its fibres. By MJllUWill" lliL'SU JiJ tilC S?J*UUUU tllCJr were also traced in delicate lines on the plate. The shellac then being washed oil" the latter they could be cut to the right depth, and the counterfeiter was ready for his work. Ogle's method obviated these three or four methods and rendered the engraving on the plate far more accurate, as the correctness of the lines was necsssarily lost through so many transfers. 'J his man thus accomplished a piece of work alone and unaided, with, tools of his own manufacture, when the National Government paid over >!100,000 for a steam machine to do the same thing. Detective Bauer showed Ogle's tools, which were tilted to roi.gh wooden handles, but possessed points as sharp it cI-pa! He nlsn riisnlnveri thp conning bill split in two sheets, and perfectly j transparent. He had on a table several! packages of bills of Ogle's manufacture, | amounting in all to $30,000, in tens j and twenties. They were all on the Third National Bank of Cincinnati, but the new plates were intended for the Queen City Bank. "Ogle,"'said Detective Bauer, "is the first man who has issued any spurious money during the last six years, and he has shown an almost unexampled skill and astuteness. His brr.iher, who has been returned to the ' Pennsylvania Penitanthirv. knew nolhin<? about this I / T o I workmanship, but was merely a kind of head servant to Martin. The latter did all his work on a liatboat, and scattered the money chiefly at river points. He turned over to me in all >$180,000 of about (he best counterfeiting I ever saw." Th<? Wntnin Who Wint Hftmfl. I notice, s:iys a Chicago lady, that in ail of this talk about what is "designattine work of the housekeeper is ignored. There is no reference to the work of the women whose lives arc passed in home-making and home-keeping. They arc not considered as active workers. They arc regarded as a negative, nonproductive class. Yet the profession of the house-keeper is regarded as the most natural aud proper avocation of women. Th?*re is no other trade so complex. None more difficult. Add to thi-i the cares of motherhood and what else can a woman engage in which will as completelv absorb every energy Ui WliUJU iO V^iV^MViV. XV i*> ^wu housewife and mother is by no means the occupation of an idler. Perhaps my notions are obsolete, but I think the woman who creates a comfortable home and raises children worthy manhood and womanhood is the noblest work of God, and is unite as much of a producer as l!i*; woman who writes a book, invents some machine, or follows a profession. 1^ Tar in the Deacon's Hat. Col. Yergcr. meeting the Rev. Wharigdoodie Baxter on Austin avenue, asked him: "How is A'our congregation coming on?" 'We am goin* right ahead, sah. Since we lias quit passin' de hat we has taken in lots o'o money. De Kcrlecshuns has increased wonderfully, sah, wonderfully." "I dor t understand how you can take up collections if you don't pass the hat." "We passes de plate now." "Well, that's the same thing as passing the hat, isn't it?" "Xo. sah. hit hain't de same thing. Deacon Webster passed de hat for moah dan .1 yeah, and do kerlcc.shuns was mighty small :but now I passes de plate myself, ami de money just rolls in. Deplate am much more reliable dan de bat." ' How is thai?" 'Deacon Webster put tar in de top ob his hat." ^ - * <*? , The Belle of WasJiinjton. ti.? at/?. i x liv; v^i. i! JO Falls, and she is as beautiful as an houri, whatever that might be. She has the real Titian gold -hair, and it ripples and curls ail over her shapely head. She has violet eyes, large and clear, shaded by long, silken, black lashes, and her oval face is tinted like a red, red rose. The rosy lips arch in a Cupid's bow over perfect teeth, and her smile and gracious sweetness complete her ab-olute sway. She has a lithe and willowy ligure, rounded to perfection, and altogether she is as bonny as ever was maiden in any age. Small danger that her dancing card would remain long unfilled, and as she moved over tlie iloor, ner blue satin | train over her arm and her satin-shod j feet showing beneath her white satin | petticoat, she was as lovely as a pout's j dream, howsoever extravagant.? Wash- ! ingloii Xcivs. Three performing seals are to be seen at the Westminster Aquarium in ! London. They perform on -ueh music- j : :il instruments as tin: banjo, guitar, | ' drum and cymbals: ti;oy smoK'.\ a:ia, ; in the comic part of tusiir performance. a blind member plays the part of the ! < needy knife-grinder, while another, ! < left to rock a cradle.overturns its baby- j charge into the tank. They dive fro a- . heights carrying sticks out of the water ! as retriever dogs do, and catch lish and J j take them unhurt to their master. And : one of them has been taught to save | life. A man is launched on a raft into j ! Llie tank, and when the raft capsizes j 1 cniim liim liv nf hi<5 i coat and. swimming on its back, so as | , with the lower portion of his body to I keep the man's head above the water, j lows him to shore. ' * "WINGS. ' Dy n amite has thirteen times the force of gunpowder. In the spermaceti whale the teeth are fixed to the gum. uiiuauA v* in u.iu. >r a distance of sixty miles a day. In Southern California the pomegranate flourishes as it does in Italy or in the Holy Land. George ilurst, proprietor of the San Francisco Examiner, owns 48,000 acres of land in CaliforniaIn Thibet one woman may have two, three, or even four husbands, but never more than the last number. i\ove!s constitute nme-tentns 01 tne books read in England, and nineteentwentieths of the books read in the It was formerly the prevailing opinion that the bodies of persons killed by lightning did not decompose and become coviupf. A French scientist has written s pamphlet which proves theoretically that the fu :ure man will have a large brain, but no natural teeth. At the University of Virginia there is no proscribed course of study, no Antrnn/irt n/N T?OAofinr* AV cept the summer one, and but six holidays." The C.nilian miner is considered the strongest man in the world, and he lives principally on the lentil, the cheapest and most nutricioas food known for its weight. Over 300 styles of stoves are now in actual use, and the number is Constantly tu?? inn JLUC1C <110 1JCU.1 lj ,-LVV kinds of fireplace heaters, differing from one another mainly as regards the grate. The late Mark Pattison, speaking of the desirability of condensing as much as possible in writing, once said: "I think it must have been thescantysup- r , ply of pap%r which made the classics wiiat they arc." A Onn.o A'* i >\o rl" KafnrAnw -x. hvvmv.iv [/*u iuiun aj vvu Minneapolis and St. Paul, now in process of construction, will be the only neutral ground between those two cities, which were fifteen "nles apart ten years ago. The musk beetle, according to an English observer, has the power of emitting or suppressing its odor at pleasure, but when dying the scent is continuous and after death more powerful than :it any time during life. The discovery has been made in London that .-nails, wi en bruised in milk and boiled, are used in the manufacture of cream. A milkman who has retired from, the business pronounces them to UL ui'J ixiw ? iuiii-aciuu MIU>> U. A Beren County N. J., farmer has in * his possess'0:1 between $500 and $600 in Continental money, which he found. It is supposed that the father of the present owner received the money from Washington's army for supplies when it passed through {he Saddle River Vailev. The so-;*:'.iled tlving-iish, contrary to the general opinion, are not capable of living, ami liiO mjjiglso to whlok. they owe?TfiETr long ""sUooting passage " J through tho air is delivered, while they are still it: the water, by the powerful masses of muscle on both sides of their ^ botly. Susan I>. Anthony is cow sixty-four years o!>!, and her face is do more wrinkled than when she was fifty. Her Ii-im- ii"> ! few orav strands mivp?? with its black. ar.d she combs it down over lie:* cars in an artistic curve, and winds it up into a -rood-sized waterfall at the back. On Cape Cod anil in other districts along the New England coast it is firmly believed that a sick man cannot die until the ebb tide begins to run. Watchers by beds of sickness anxiously note the change of the tides, and if the pa tient lives until the nooa begins to set in again ho wiil live until the next ebb. Dr. Fiualy, the Cuban physician, believes that he has demonstrated that inoculation with yellow fever may bo made by the sting of the Cuban day mosquito, and that the fever thus imparted will vary in duration and intensity in proportion to the number of punctures and the quantity of poison retained by the insect's sting. A Newville, Md., man has a $1 note oi Vyonunuuuu iuonev, -upuu wutcu is printed the following: "This bill of $1 shall entitle the bearer hereof to receive gold or silver at the rate of four shillings and sixpence sterling per dollar for"the said bill, according to the resolve of the Provincial convention ~of Maryland, held at the city of Annapolis, the 7th day of December, 1775." a i.\e\v uneans aocior cans attention to a very simple fact which merits attention from medicine takers. If the medicine is mixed with veiy cold water. and a few swallows of the water be taken as a preparatory dose, the nerves of the organ of taste become sufficiently benumbed to make the medicine nearly tasteless. The method will not disguise bitter tastes, but acts well in oils and saiines. It has been discovered by a Dutch scientist that the gum which collects on the branches ox certain trees?especially the cherry, peach plum and others bearing stone fruit?is due to disease of the tree. The disease is produced by a highly organized fungus, whose action cause the formation of the gum, and it is quickly reproduced in sound trees when they are inoculated with pieces of the gum containing any of the fungus. In spite of the annual expenditure of over $730,000 for repairs and the building of new jails, Russia is much exercised how to find room for the overgrowing number of prisoners, who amounted in 1S82, to 95,509, and in 1883 to 97,837. In Siberia great suffering is caused by the want of accommodation for the 12,000 convicts distributed over the mining districts, especially as the enormous number of exiles crowd the houses of correction. Hezekhdi Williams, colored, was exhibited ::t a Philadelphia museum as "the wilii man from the jungles of Africa." He was chained to the floor, onil t'l.-i iinlinfl in trtvforrtrl r>n ennnn. sition that he was a maltreated idiot. Tnc removal of his false hair and beard revealed a perfectly sane negro. The magistrate sani that Williams could exhibit himself as a wiluman or any other kind of a m:m as he hurt no one. Dr. Dio Lewis is quoted as saying that some years ago he laid some 1,000 feet of paper pipe two inches in diameter. to convev water from a SDrin?r to his house and barn in the country. It Iras never leaked, and has never imparted any perceptible taste to the water. This pipe is made of strong paper wound into pipe form and thoroughly soaked in tar. It becomes so hard and strong that it will bear a pressure almost eaual to iron.