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^ a 3?. . ^ ^ ^ - - . ? WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1885. . " . ' ; At Night. J. ^ Hark! how the Winter's wind doth whistle i shrill And 'gainst the frosty pane doth sharp impel His warlike :z>;-niery of shot and shell With all the stit-?. ,:b of an unconqnered wilL | The feath'ry pint* with glitt*ring store are ! bright. And nil along . maples" slender 'iubs & Ri:n veirs of silver?suddenly there* gleams Tbrougli & rift?one fair, falct beam of lijrht. The tbwjirted *vi7. - good-night. Now drop# &ir night's pii>. V Hear the loud wind swirling from ice-flelds far, ' And Jo! (KhC.u out-twinkling, star on star, Ba? Tlie lights of home far shine with rays all HBmy magical. How blt^t beyond all knowledge, love, were \r? If but on* .igbt mi?ht glow for thee and me. I II. rnlsee<ii^ .nen should be the storm-swept sky. Unheard the wind, the rattliug of the sleet Against the pane. lor ohl thy presence Thy b*/id?thy voice?thy fond, approving: tye Would make for rae a May in mid-December, t I should not mind the landscape bleak and chill. The shrouded plain, the drift-encumbered p hill. I should forget the Winter to remember. Alas! Alas! that bliss may never be: The Winter with its sr'ooin will pass away. And here, before this window, aow'rets pay. By south winds kissed, up!eaj>-but oh! for nte, In the sad Winter of love's discontent I must l'orever dweil in languishmcnt. ?Ada Iddings Ga!e, in The Current. THE SKW WIFE. "Miss Cherry, Miss Cherry, it is time to come in!" The old stable-clock struck six as Nurse Nancy stood with her hand ^ shading her eyes?the sun was sinking behind the fringe of willows that outlined the river, and the dead leaves fluttered to and fro upon the brickpaved w^lk that extended beneath tihe espalier of pear-trees. And Cherrv Fountain, sitting in a fe ' low rustic chair on the river-bank, nev- I erstirred. L "Miss Cherry," reiterated the old jj? nurse; cold yourself, you might have ^ some consideration for Master Wilfred." "Nancy, don't interrupt," cried Cherry, petulantly; "we are happy here, Willie and 1. Why can't you let us alone?" ^ "But your papa is asking for you, Miss Cherry. * He has come home, he .and vour mamma." "fto find ftic rtpw wife, vou m*jan." said Cherry with a curl of her lip. But little Wilfred jumped up and pulled eagerly at,his sister s dress. "Let's go in. Cherry," said he; "I ? love papa. And I want to see my new ' mammi" ^ Cherry rose slowly and reluctantly, but before she could pick up her books and shawl, a light figure, dressed in some glistening white material, came runniug out to the river shore. ^ "Where are the children?" said a ? ' - - - 4-1 - _ i_ J I soft voice; "1 want to see ids cniiu- i ren." Willie, an affectionate little fellow of eight years old, ran into the arms of his young stepmother, and overwhelmed her with kisses, which were most f -cordially received, but Cherry hung ? \ . hack with defiant glances. ^ "Come here, darling," said ilrs. l fountain. "Why, you are nearly as I tall as I am. Papa." turning acchlj to the bridegroom, who had* followed Y more slowly her flying footsteps, "you ^ never told us that this Cherry of ours was almost a young lady." ^ "Because I didn't realize it myself," | K said Colonel Fountain, caressing one of W Cherry's long brown curls, and think- ! ing, even at that inauspicious moment, I s? . how much like her dead mother she was growing. "Cherry, this is your new mamma- You must be great .friends with her!" The te."rs brimmed into Cherry's her lips quivered Mrs. Fountain's quick eye saw it all, > ' but she had too much tact to interfere. w She only kissed Cherry and clasped < her hand tenderly, and then began to *??Ht oWif hA'infv nf the river, all reddened in the sunset glow. "They are beaut.ful children'' she said to her husband that night "I am jure I shall love them if only they will Wj iet nasi" "I don't think there will be any trouble about that, darling, said the colonel fondly. 2?or would there have been, if Cher' ' i 1 U...1 ry s irans^ generous sum u.v? ucv? to its .own impulses. But the oeigh^ bors had condolcd with her too sym^ pathetically. Miss Darling, who would herself have been glad to console the handsome widower, had said plaintively: "You, dear Cherry, must' remember your mother's memory, although your father seems to have forgotten it." v And Aunt Frederica, the elder sister IV.. of the deceased lady, had ostentatiously L come to the house" to remove ail the t>ersonal belongings of the late Mrs. fountain. during the absence of the colonel on his wedding-tour. "I dare say your new ma will be for flinging all these ia the fire." said she. *'I only hope she will be kind to Willie, ^ poor child!" i "If she is not," flashed Cherry, "she wHI have me to settle with." But Aunt Frederica, only groaned and shook her head. And it was in this spirit that Cherry was prepared to meet her father's second wife. Small wonder' that Alice r fountain found it well-nigh impossible ?o win her love. "This was your dear mamma's favorite flower-bed, Cherry,' said the bride one morning. "Willie told me so. You and I must make it our care to keep the place always bright and lovely." ^ Cherry blushed a Tittle as she glanc V eu UUWil Sb WIC nccu-gtwn u ^VII kvi / W. "There is no occasion for troubling you," said she. "I can take care of it myself." ""But I should like to help you, dear, I am so fond of gardening." r'l prefer to do it myself," said Cher< ry stiffly. Mrs. Fountain looked at her wistful^ ly, but said nothing more just then. In w* the afternoon she came to the little bondoir where Cherry sat reading. "Where are your "books. Cherry?" said she. "Your papa thinks I could , read French and German with you and ^ helpyou in your practicing." r>. / 'JL'banfc.V said unerrv, suaaemy \ straightening herself up; "but I don't I want any help. "I would rather go on with my daily governess. Miss Murray, just as *1 did before." And once more Alice found herself repelled. Aunt Frederica came daily to the house, and sat solemnly in judgment a on the bride's new theories of household management. Miss Darling glided in and out like a shadow, attaching herself markedly to Cherry. There was a decided counter-current is the house, which Alice could feel rathflr than see; and, as the days went by, shb began vaguely to fancy that even her husband was different from what he had been. One morning, sitting at the window, she saw a carnage locoed with trunks v drive up. . . J r* "Dear Felix," she cried, running to where her husband sat in the library, "have you invited company?" Colonel Fountain reddened a little. "Company!" repeated he. "Oh yes, j I see. I intended to have mentioned it before. The fact is, dear, my sister [ Frederica is coming heie for a few j months. lou are so young ana inexperienced that I thought, perhaps, it would be better for her to take charge of the housekeeping, for the present, at least." Alice's damask-rose complexion deepened into scarlet "Have I in any way failed to meet your wishes, Felix?" said she, in a stifled voice. "No, no: but Frederica thought " "I do not want to hear what Frederica thought," said Mrs. Fountain quickly. "And Cherry is getting so lawless, and Willie is positively ungovernable, and Frederica says that the house needs a firmer hand to rule it," went on Colonel Fountain. 'v. "Do you think so, Felix?" "I? Well, no, not exactly; bat you know pet, that you are young to be at the head of a household like tbis." Alice bit her lip. "Why did you not think of that before you married me?" said she. : "Now you are getting childish, Alice," said her husband gravely. "I shall begin to believe that Frederica is ri?fht about your temper!" Airs. Fountain could endure no more. ?>iie turned ana ieit me room. Colonel Fountain looked earnestiy after her. Like most men, he hated scenes, but nevertheless, his conscience pricked ! him a little. He half rose, as if to folj low her, and then he sat down again. "Frederica says I ought not to give way to her in everything," said he. "And perhaps she is right. Frederica thinks the children should receive a little more of my attention. I'll go 1 ??It? TV itK i HUU WU1K> IIIIUU^U buc m?u ! them now*. Of course the poor darj linsrs ought not to be neglected because I have married again." _ Half an hour laler Alice looked out of the casement and saw her husband coming out of the greenhouses with Cherry fondly clinging to his arm, Willie trotting on before, and Aunt Frederica following with both hands full of. the rare white grapes which the old gardener parted with so reluctantly. 441 hey are happy enough without me," she said to herself, with a sharp cml/lori nincr r\t lif>r hparf.! '4I flTVl OnlV , ? 1 * an intruder iiere." j When Colonel Fountain came up stairs to dress for dinuer, he fouijd the room empty, but a little note lay on the bureau. "Dkarest Felix," was what he read on tearing it open,?"I hope you will not blame j me for leaving your house. But I have decided that I cannot live where I am not loved aud trusted thoroughly, if you and Cherry can be happier with Miss Frederica I than with me, I cheerfully abdicate in her j favor. One thing is certain?there cannot ' be two mistresses in a home. And I will | try to be as happy as possible with m v Uncle ( W illouzhby in the meantime.?And please do not forget that I am still vour iovms Alice." Colonel Fountain's first impression was that of hot anger, his second a dull despair. .But Aunt Frederica parsed up her lips. - "Depend upon it, Felix," ?said she, "the girl is tired of you. I do despise these chits that never know their own mind!" "Be silent," said Fountain hoarsely. "You have ruined me! Is not that | enougn."" A week of Aunt Frederica'srule completely disedchanted the whole family. ! Cherry bufst into tears one day when ! the old lady was especially exacting. "I wish'l had my mamma back] | again," said she impetuously. "Your sainted mother, dear child," groaned Miss Frederica, "is in heavfT, " , en. ' | "But I mean my mamma Alice," sobbed Cherry. "1 do miss her so dreadfully! I believe she really loved , me. And?and I do love her, and I wish 1 hadn't behaved so horridly to her. There!" "Can't we bring her home?" shouted Willie.^ "Nobody remembers to help me with my sums, or to cut out paper ships for me, now that mamma is gone!" "We will bring her home," said the Colonel, who was just then particularly exasperated at discovering that Miss Frederiea had been transforming Alice's boudoir into a bedroom for some fourth cousin who was contemplating an uninvited sojourn at the house.* And Alice,, sitting solitary and alone, like "Mariana in .the Moated Grange," was astonished .that very day by the unexpected vision of Cherry herself. "Mamma," said the girl, half bashful, half eager, "dearest mamma, will you. forgive us all, and particularly me? Will you come home to us again? We are so lonely without you, and papa says " But Alice had sprung to her feet and clasped her repentant stepdaughter in iier arms. "Will you really love me, dearest?" Said she." "Oh, Cherry, Cherry, if you could but know how I have pined for your love!" So she came home again, this time to an undivided kingdom, for Miss Frederica and her sisters had politely been turned out of doors; the boudoir Was itself again, and Colonel Fountain was waiting on the threshold to welcome her back. "My dear," said he, 1 have made a fool of myself, I see it all now. It eWJ1 r>r\9- honnfln a EAfWnd time." "Did I do rtebt, Felix ?"she said,timidly. "But, on, it was so wretched!" "Sweetheart," said Color.el Fountain with limitless loyalty, "you are always right!" "Mamma is always right," echoed Cherry and Willie, showering caresses on their recovered treasure. For, by some magic spell, Alice had contrived to convert the whole family at last It was never "my stepmother" again, it was always "Mamma Alice." ^ ? ? A Cleveland (0.) machine company has the first and only auger ever manufactured that will bore a square hole. Its application is ordinary and works on the same principle as roundhole augers. Its end, instead of having a screw or a bit, has a cam motion which oscillates a cutter mounted on a steel rocking-kuife which cuts on both sides. In order to prevent the splint eriugoi IUV rtUUU IUC.CUUO ui v,*... ter are provided with small semicircular-shaped saws which help in cutting out perfectly square corners. It is estimated that this new process will save the labor of three men who work I with chisels. An Ohio man was the inventor. A Montana man comes to the front with a story about finding a cave full I )f petrified rattlesnakes. When the whisky makes a fellow see 'em petrified, it must be of a character simply awfuL Omaha {Stb.) Republican. ?r? V* A SAZ: ( N'C r: SSMAX. He it Slow! IVrir.i.K-iiUnitplf to Death r- ! n:? it* "It isn't ::!! :!i?* j.orfuin'e of flowers and the <>r fair \voiuen to be a member < ' ? : -rrss. W'e don't feed on locusts and wi.-i honey and sleep on I down." ? id u wi' .ry member as he tilted back it: his chair and brushed aside the in:?*> of letters piled upon his d?sk. Hi* h.-til a hagsrard look in his eye, and hi* rijrht hand hung limp at his side with a pin between his fingers. "If anybody thinks it's clover, let him try it! I >tarted out with the idea that it was mv ihity to answer every letter I got. Well. I involved myself inla nroblem of '- ojr.etrical progression," and he ] oi:.te,l in :i despairing sort of .way at tin; ?J?. >!< before him, the ample waste basket by hia side and the floor about him?aii full of letters. "They are accuimiKiiu^ every day. Every one I answer brings two more, ami I answertlxm :tH. Just think of it! It makes my head swim. When I first came here I used to go out a little. I went to the theater occasionally, or to an entertainment, or to a reception, or to see a friend. Now I go nowhere. Each year I am more closely confined. I Tho -ire olosinc in around me. and, like the man in the 'Iron Shroud,' I am waiting for them to close and crush me. I've stopped going out. I leave my Committee-room at the eapitol only to go to my desk at home. 1 swallow, my dinner whole, as it were. I write late at night?later each night. The progression is working out, and my mail's bigger each day. Presently I shall have to sit up all night; then reduce my meal-: to five minutes; give up f \vrit;i> \vril<>? Oh well?think! 'Tis a terrible doom; slowly to write one's self to death. The pie of letters is up to ray neck. Soon it'll be over ray head?daylight will be shut out?and?then?! ".No, sir; we don't live in clover." And he drew in a long breath and settled himself down in his chair as if resigned to his impending doom. "Why, it started this way?it always has a start: any member will tell you? it started this way: As soon as I got 10 congress J goi a uvui uuu ui iny constituents congratulating me upon my election, and saying that-he knew now there would be some legislation; the constitution should not be violated; I must introduce a bill in the house to prohibit lishing in my district with three hooks to one line? 'twas unconstitutional. I answered that letter, bewailing the utter disregard of congress for the national fisheries, and explaining the utter uselessness of attempting class legislation. I got four'letters from that neighborhood by returning mail, and they kept on increasing unui me enure population was represented by autograph letters. My promptness to answer any and all letters was heralded all over the country, and I was asked to pass all sorts of bills, from one to regulate the length of prayers to one for the suppression of kissing at pound parties. One man wanted to know whether the rope Guiteau was hung with was hemp or cotton. I referred this letter to the department of justice. The attorney general indorsed it to ti?c -warcltra of; the jail, who returned it to me with a minute oflieial description of the rope ?the material, length, and manner of Tl?-o infzirl 1 ornr/?]v fn in. I ILJLiiiO WtUliUUbVU ww *m crease my correspondence. Everybody who had something to_ write about that no one else would notice was told m}' address, with the assurance that 1 loved to write letters. A large number of my letters now are applicants for places under the new administration. One mau want d a place that would take him to Canada. He did not know wiiat particular place. His * * * * - ' - *- y j 1 ca. Coctor toiU niru mac ic woum Deneus his health to live there, and if 1 would just look around and iind a place there for him with a pretty good salary attached he would like it. But, by th9way he had children just growing up. I might take this into consideration, and get him located where t^ere were good free schools. "Another fellow wrote that he frould leave it to me to pick out his place for ! him, but I mustn t get the salary be| low $1,200. He thought I'd be a better judge of good places than he was. j "Some men may refer these letters [ to the waste basket, but it don't do.' They must be answered. I must write; good by. I mustn't waste more time ' talking. I'll have to sit up late to make up for it. I must write, The walls are closing around me." \ "Well, my good fellow, what can I do for you?" and he turned to a suppliant in soldier clothes, who stood at his elbow with persistence i& his. faca aud a glazed cap in hia hand, "I'm an American by adoption. In 'o9 I married an American woman with a mule?her grandfather left it to " But at this point the petitioner was tl.-M.-.r.*' towls* Kf ? Mavioo nancir^npr bill Uisw a&iuv i/j 4Uv<\ivMu who wore three medals and had been a personal friend of Win Scott's, and wanted his pension increased,? Washington Star. A Squirrel and Her Babies. Old citizens of Toledo. distinctly remember the time when there was an immigration of squirrels in this vicinity. On a certain day a gentleman was on ^ f '!'- *> \II1A TT'I?AT> fTlA II1U UIlIJJv Ul .a u'iuiit vitta vtuwu yuw> uumber of squirrels moving was unusually large. Among the squirrels was one that exhibited such motherly care and affection for her two little ones as to prove a most interesting sight She reached the bank of the creek where a crossing , was to be made. The little squirrels were quite timid about going near to the water, but the mother coaxed them until they seemed to be satisfied to do as she wished. She ran along the shore, and finding a piece of bark about a foot long and six inchcs wide, dragged it to the water's edge and pushed it into the water so that I only a small pare 01 one ena 01 me I bark was resting on the shore. She [ then induced her little ones to got on [ the bark and thtiy at once cuddled j closely together, when the old squirrel pushed the bark and its load into the stream,and, taking one end of the bark in her teeth, pushed it ahead of her until the opposite bank was reached, where the young squirrels quickly scampered up the bank T)f the creek, where the mother rested for a few min Uieby V\ UUil IUC ITiW IWUUiVU. Toledo Blade. __ A Minnesota man tells Gath that prairie chickens are even more abundant there now than formerly, but the race has changed; their legt are feath ered, and tb.eir meat, from feeding in the wheat-fields, has become a delicate white. Rocky Mountain squirrels, which are considerably larger than the ordinary American squirrel, with rich golden brown fur and silver-gray heads, are in demand for shipment to England, where they are valued at $50 per pair. J>eeliTie of the Nose. Someone has invented a process fot :ho reduction of large noses. The inventor was struck by the alleged fact >that noses on which spectacles are worn are, as a rule, small noses. He thereupon formulated the theory that the pressure of the spectacles on the bridge of the nose interferes with the fvun rtironl'itirxn nf HIrind flnr! that thlS interference deprives the nose of nourishment and prevents its growth. In accordance with this theory he now proposes to reduce the size of any given ..nose by placing a metallic clamp on the bridge. This clamp, if worn every niijht, will, as he believes, reduce the ia:gest nose to moderate proportions within a reasonable length of time. --There are two or three weak points * - '? ? - A sriiout ims anegeu invention, uae ui thtsse is that the theory on. which it is founded has no^suppfort in fa6t. Some ? ?' our most emineatTioses are those on which spectacles have bt^n worn for a I .Mime, afftf among-<Snr?smal!e;t nos^s are ioraf on^ which spectacles ~*nev?rhave rested. That spectacles of one sort and another are wofli much niSrd' if.'nerally now than they were fifty WMrs ago, and that noses have undoubtedly grown smaller during the same period, is undoubtedly true, but it does not follow that theje is auy con- . section between the two facts. The gradual decline of the "tarnan nose is the result of the introduction * ami o-eneral use of handkerchiefs. The i o?. ~ - ,,/ ilomans never "used handkerchiefs, and^ tlmir noses, as we all know, were ofc inc largest and finest type. .Moreover, they were., less liable to coldsHiri"*the , he id than are people of-tire present t'rme, and their noses enjoyed almost a sinecure. As- civilization advanced northward from Italy the inhabitants ; of the cold and variable climate of northern Europe found-that their noses were constantly called into activity, aud as a consequence the average European nose fell below the Romanstandard. Within modern times the handkerchief was invented, and a new and prient factor in the reduction of tloses thus came into existence. Constant friction will wear away the hardest stone, much more the soft and cartilaginous nose.' Under the friction of handkerchiefs the noses of the present century have steadily diminished, until small noses are worn almost as-much as spectacles. It is a question whether it is desirable ever to reduce fche size of the nose. Greatness of intellect has in all ages been closely allied to greatness of nose,und the man who, having been gifted by nature with a nose of true nobility, should desire to dwarf it and his inteK lect at the same time, would deservt no assistance in his foolish purpose.? <V. Y. Times. What la a Savage? No one would call the ancient Brahman's savages, and yet writing was un known to them before the third century B. C. Homer, quite apart from his blindness, was certainly unacquainted with writing for literary purposes. The ancient inhabitants of Germany, as doscribed by Tacitus, were equally ignorant of the art of writing as a valiicleor"' literature; yet, for all that, we could not say with Gibbon, that with them the nobler faculties of the mind had lost their powers, the judgment had become feeble, and the imagination * * ./l.t languid. Anu we una mai me use ui ieiters is by no means an indispensible element to true civilization, we should arrive at the same conclusion in examining almost every Irscovery which has been pointed out as a sine qua non of civilized life. Every generation is apt to consider the measure of comfort which it has reached as indispensable to civilized life, but very often, in small as well as great things, what is called civilized to-day may be called barbarous to-morrow. Races who abstain from eating the flesh of animals are apt to look on carnivorous people as* savages; people who abstain from intoxicating drinks naturally despise a nation in which drunkenness is prevalent What should we sav if we enter ed a town in which the streets were neither paved nor lighted, and in which the windows were without glass; where we saw no carriages in any of the thoroughfares, and where,inside the houses, ladies and gentlemen might be seen eating without forks and wearing garments that had never been washed? And yet even in Paris no street was Kofnre. Tn T.nnflnn Hnl Lorn was first paved in 1417 and Smithfield in 1614, while Berlin was without paved streets far into the seventeenth century. No houses had windows of glass before the twelfth century, and as late as the fourteenth century anything might be thrown out of the windows at Paris after three times calling out "Gare l'eau!" Shirts wore an invention of the Crusades, and the fine dresses which ladies aad gentlemen wore during the Middle Ages were hardly ever washed, but only refreshed from time to time with precious scents. In 1550 we are told that there existed in Pans no more man wree carriages? one belonging to the Queen, the other to Diane de Poitiers, and the third to Rene de Laval. In England coaches (so called from the Hungarian kossi) date from 1580, though whirlicotes go back to the fourteenth century. So far as we know, neither Dante nor Beatrice used forks in eating, and yet we should hardly class them as savages. ? Max Muller, in the Nineteenth Century. The Sun of a Woman's Life. An occasional personage in societyis the young woman who does not in the lease care for the companionship of other women. To her an afternoon tea or a "hen lunch" is like soup without salt It doos not at all matter that the women may be bright and clever, leaders of fashion or notables in a worldly wav; after all they are but women. and all the bright talk, all the ready smiles, all the grace and charm of manner that are current coin at such gatherings, are but awful wastes of raw material. If she is a person lacking in renncmens sne aoes not nearly disguise her impatience, her'abr solute weariness, her conviction that hours spent with them are lost And even if she is tactful it is ofteH apparent that her mode and manner intend gracious patronage, and the gentle endurance of a boredom that she cannot escape. When the men come in it is like the lighting of a theatre by electricity. All the dimly guessed at femi? s? ? *1 - : tl 111X16 auracuuiis mtsii jlulu view, iucic are smiles, laughter comes readily, repartee is auiok, and archness most arch. To this young woman the man is as a glass of champagne He is lit- ' erally and figuratively the sun of her existence.?Neio Orleans Times-Demovat. Eveiy year 126,000 wooden spoons are turned out in Russia, in the manufacture of which about 32,000 cubic fathoms of wood arc consumed. _ CHAMOIS. Something About th?* Alpine Antelope. That chamois are capuble of passing places that even a cat would hesitate at is well known to every one who has wandered much the hijh Alps. A few months ago I \\ a< i:i tin: wild and desolate region of Piz Vadred. w.'^re it overiiangs the <rre*it Grhtlelsch Glaciejj, in the Canton ties Grisons. From this glacier I traced chamois-tracks, higH up .over some very steep jm'ow slopes, to -where the slopes ended, at an absolutely vertical waft of rock. This wall projected like a buttres-, and was probably fifty or sixty feet broad, and 400 feet to its base, while :il! a^ove w;:s notlripg but overhanging cliffs. On ti e otiier'side of the buttress the snow-slope wasi .continued, and here the tracks reconmienced exactly on a level with the othgr'ones. How had the chamois ?j a.i no "On.u.,,l ptLSdCU Llillt >VUW. XL1JI LUUjr j^aooed it was-certaiu..' Ifit was by a leap it.mu?t have been a territic one, and in their flight tKc-y would have had to descrilj^ aT horizontal curve like a bow. The more likely explanation is they found cracks in the face of the rock, for their wonderful feet, though even with the aid of a good field-glass I was unable to detect the presence of the slightest ledge in the precipice at that spof In spite of their surefootedness, however, these animals do sometimes .come to grief. Mr. Whymper, in his **Ascent of the Matterhorn," relates now ne iouna a cnainois in inc neiguboriiood of the Stockje, at the bead of tlcZmutt Glacier. The animal had slipped on.the upper rocks, rolled over and over, down a slope of debris, without being able to regain its feet; and, its horns catching in a notch in the rock, it was unable to free itself, and had starved to death. Kecently I met a hunter with a chamois of forty pounds over his back, toiling painfully down the lower slopes of the Aiguille Vert, near Chamounix. He had been on the mountain for two days, the result being the one animal, which he had only recovered wi.'ti great difficulty after he had shot it, as it had fallen over the precipice. This is a common occurrence, but it is seldom a hunter will leave his guarry behind him. Three years ago some Germans mountaineering in the Bernese Oberland found the decomposed body of a chamois resting on.a ledge of rock about fifty feet below them; and a few moments later they were horrified to observe the body of a man on a grass slope several hundred feet lower down. By makir.g a detour they managed to reach the spot. The poor fellow was lying on his back, his gun-barrel bent r)/?rihlo nnrl tliA stnnk smashed to SDiin ters. His body was terribly mutilated, and the face was decomposed beyond air recognition. His bony hand still grasped the lock of his gun. The position he was lying in, and the chamois up above, told their own story. He had shot the chamois. It had rolled over on to the ledge, and in endeavor-' ing to recover it he had lost his footing and must have been lying for many weeks where he was found. If'once tho sentinel buck of a herd of chgmois catches sight of- a man, all hoy rif coming up with them that day la Si arr'-autir u ndc-rsticli~cir"cui5astances a hunter will often follow the tracks over snow and ice all day, pass the night in the shelter of some rock, take up the trait again on me louowmg morning, when possibly patience and perseverance may be rewarded. One of the number is always in advance, and another one some little distance in the rear. These are the advance and rear guards. Occasionally they st;p, sniff the air, and scan the mountains, and at the slightest indication of danger they give the signal and the whole lot go bounding away as if they had been ^ aught up by a whirlwind. If they happen lo be on a glacier or snow-tieid when startled they almost invariably make for the rocks. This is probably the result of some inofinnf wlii^h teaches them that theil tawny color renders them less .liable tc be seen amongst thg dark rocks thaD on the snow.?London Graphic. Professional Dignity, Doctors are fond of talking about the dignity of the profession, and do their J best to uphold it An eminent London physician once told me, in conversation, that he makes a point of never thanking hjs patients for his fee when he take's it, but simply pockets it as a matter of course as his due.. I presume he would similarly disdain to ask for it should'the patient depart without off?rintr tn nav. Thev sometimes do o ~ ~ r ?J v this. A friend of the writer, who was once treated thus by a lady richly at? tired, stopped her just as she was making her exit, and in the blandest of terms begged to'be allowed to look at the prescription again for a moment . He looked at it for a few seconds, and then, tearing it across, threw it into the fire. "Ladies in silks and satins." he said, "call generally afford to pay," and calmly rang his bell for his servant to usher in the n'-xt patient, Doctors occasionally get the worst of it, though, when they stand too much on their dignity with patients. A local practitioner in a country town was one day sent for to visit a child in the family of one of his patients. On arrival he found his little patient had been ailing for some days, and asked why he had not been called in before. "Oh," said the mother, "we have been giving it a bottle of E?-'s stuff," mentioning a patent medicine prepared by a veterinary surgeon well known in the country, and a bottle of which she had obtained at the chemist's. "What!" exclaimed the doctor, "expect me to attend after a horse doctor?" and he marched off in great indignation. The father of the child was a baker, and supplied the doctor's family with bread. . Next day no bread was delivered at the doctor's house. The doctor s wife put on her bonnet and shawl and went out to call on the baker, respecting the omission. On.entering; the shop she saw the baker's better-half, and politely intimated that she had called to say that no bread had been left as usual, and she would bo glad to have some sent. "Oh, no," was the reply, "your husband won't attend us as a doctor, so we sha'n't supply him with bread," and they didn't. The doctor was forced to deal with another and inferior baker, as similarly the baker had on the previous day been forced to send for another doctor. The consumption of copper throughout the world has practically doubled during the last twenty-five yerirs, having increased from 100,COO to 200.000 tons per annum. Of this amount America produces about 40,000 tons and Chili 30,000 tons. The present low prico naturally stimulates consumption, and will cause copper to bj used in other directions than has been hitherto the case. The peculiarity of the copper production is that it must go on, as mines oncc opened can not be abandoned at every depression of the market. Curing a Cold in the Head. The commonest type of cold is that called "eold in the head,'' to distinguish it from "cold on the chest." This "cold in the head'' has certain wellmarked symptoms?a feeling of general malaise is experienced, often accompanied by a slight feverish sickness. Then comes a sensation of fulness in tiie neaa, mere is sneezing, a proiuso flow of tears, an irritating and copious discharge from the nose. This means that the mucous membrane of the nose is inflamed, and if this spreads down the back of the throat, the sufferer becomes hoarse. The best way to treat this troublesome complaint is to take a "hot drink." An orange sliced and put into a large citp with a little sugar sprinkled over it> and boiling, water poured upon it, and then drunk as hot as .possible, is both pleasant and bene ficial. The feet should be put into hot water, with or without a little mustard. The foot-bath should be taken at the bed-side; the patient should be well wrapped up, and a blanket placed across his knees should be drawn outside the bath, so as to confine the steam. After keeping the feet in the water for from five to ten minutes, the patient should lose no time in getting in i-n Vipi-1 wlifim he will nrobablv derive great benefit from the general feeling of warmth, and from the flow of perspiration which has been'induced. If ' possible, at this stage, the patient should remain in bed for two days, with a fire in his room, which should be well made up at night, so as to keep alight till morning. But keeping in bed' will do little good if the patient persists in holding a newspaper or a book to read, for thereby he is more dangerously exposed to the cold than if j he were up, dressed and going about as usual. The main point is to Keep thoroughly wrapped up and constantly warm. Even an uncomfortable degree of heat may be beneficial. A small piece of camphor chewed and sucked, is very good. So is lhe inhalation of sulphurous acid gas?a remedy which was found to be in constant use by the weavers of Kircaldy, who had it among the materials of their work. Buy two ounces of sulphurous 1/mi! fdilntpA from n. chemist, and then take out the cork and inhale? through the nostrils only, of course?the pungent gas which is given off. Some use Ferrier's snuff, and find benefit therefrom; but it must be used cautiously, as it contains a powerful drug?to-wit: morphia. Ten or twelve grains of Dover's powder taken in gruel at bedtime is good for an adult, but should not be administered to children, a3 It contains opium, which should never be given to them without a doctor's prescription. To avoid an unpleasant excoriation of the nose and upper lip during the course of a cold in the head, they should be often washed thoroughly with soap and lukewarm water, and a little vasaline should be applied. If the throat feels sore, a chlorate of potash lozenge should be sucked occasionally. ?The Family Doctor in Eonseho'ld Words. Honors to the Dead in China. Wh?n-a roan dies, the first care of his friends is to place at the door of the house a cup uf cold water, a custom for which no satisfactory reason is assigned. Then a suit of 'really good clothes must bs burned, together with most of the dead man's wardrobe?his. boots and shoes, bed and bedding, opium pipe, horses, houses, sedan chair, and any other possessions which he is likely to care to have with him, for he will require all these things in the spirit world, and his reception there will be . considerably better if he arrives well clothed than it would be should he appear in beggarly want. It.is considered that genuine articles should be sacrmcea lor ins original oucnt, tnougn ]>aper representations are equally efficacious later. For the same reason it is most important that all funeral I arrangements should be the very best that can be procured: and the survivors often impoverish themselves for years to provide what is considered a decent burial. The corpse must be arrayed in new clothes,with a cap and satin boots, (such a dress as the deceased would have hired for the day had he been go mg to attend a feast.) The coffin, too, must be handsome and expensive. This, however, is so very important that persons who can possibly nfibrd it pur c-tiase tneir coinns uunng mcir me; anu. r the most acceptable gift which a dutiful son can ofler to his parents is a fine solid set of "longevity boards,1' that they msy have the satisfaction of superintending the making and varnishing of their own collins! In like manner I the provident Chinaman likes to secure his grave and that of his family during his lifetime. So a geomancer is cmployed, at a high rate of pay, to ascertain at what spot theFungShui is most favorable, and there land is bought, vaults are prepared,- and a mound in the shape of a horseshoe is erected rto /-?U /vrftrrn T t flm JLU 10 \JX uuv importance to secure a'spot well shielded from the baneful, lighting influences of the north, but fully exposed to all sweet influences from the south, Such a grave is so well pleasing to the dead that the prosperity of the family holding such ground is almost assured.? i The British Quarterly Review. The Destruction of the Homestead. The old "gambrel-roofed house" exists Ho longer. I remember saying oAmoikirir in nnn nf a ceriAc nf nanprs iii \S**v W* v? V w published long ago in this magazine, about the experience of dying out of a house?of leaving it forever, as the soul dies out of the body. We may die out of many houses, Sut the house itself can die but once; and so real is the life of a house, so real to one who has . dwelt in it, more especially the life of the house which held him in dreamy infancy, in restless bovhood, in passionate youth?so real, I say, is its life thot it seems as If something like a sojI of it must outlast its perishing fr:;me. The slaughter of the "old- gambrelroxfed house" was, I am ready to admit, a case of justifiable homicide. Not the less was it to be deplored by all who love the memories of the past With its destruction are obliterated some of the footprints of the heroes and martyrs who took the first steps in the long and bloody march whicn lea us through the wilderness to the promised land of independent nationality. Personally, I have a right to mourn for .it as a part of my life gone from me. ?Dr. Holmes in the Atlantic, Some of our looal Jenkins have adopted the new style of writing "society news" as follows: "I dropped into Mrs. Astor's reception, etc.," "I looked in at Mrs. Lorillard s ball, etc., "and I happened in at Mrs. Goelet'steaand so forth." "I" forsooth! If they "dropped," "looked" or "happened" in it was to deliver ice cream or tell the servant Mrs. Jones1 carriage was ready.?Hotel Mail DISRAELI'S APHORISMS. Rong-h and Un gallant Reflections on Woman by Lord Beaconsfield. Lord BeacoHsfield once publically declaimed, writes a correspondent to the New York World, that he ruled mankind by despising it, and his books, his and his actions combine to prove that his cynicism was real and not merely assumed for occasional use. Nothing more distinctly shows his habitual tone of thought than the contents of a well-thumbed little MS. notebook which a literary friend of mine has recently had the good fortune to light upon while overhauling a box of miscellaneous rubbish in a small shop in the neighborhook of Clare Market, London.' This important "find" is a small oblong 12mo volume of 120 pages, bound in faded Russia and somewhat stained bv damp. Inside the cover is Disraeli's autograph, and ninety-eight of the pages are closely written over on both sides by the same hand. It is difficult to assign a date to the MS., but I should fancy from internal evidence, that the greater portion of it must have been set down about the year 1855. Every line of it is interesting and eminently characteristic of the writer. It is clear, however, that the contents of the note-book were not in tended for publication, at ail events in their present form, for Disraeli more than once in his books dwells upon the necessity that exists for the man that desires to succccd to keep on good terms with the fairer sex, and it is perfectly certain that many of these witty cynicisms are enough to set every woman in the world in arms against their author. I am permitted by my friend to transcribe some of the _ more striking en- ' tries in this unique and commonplace book, and I propose in the present letter to collect those which more particularly deal with the ever attractive subject of woman. Let me, however, disclaim sympathy with the more rough and ungallant of the sentiments expresssed. I think that Disraeli has treated the sex abominably. Still I can not avoid occasionally laughing * * - ' i fl-.i.: At wini mm, ior nis reflections, tuuugu not always just, are generally amusing. Here is the first budget of extracts: . "Coquettes give their blossoms to their lovers ana their thorns to their husbands. "When a woman has lost one battle she rarely wins another against the same foe" "A blush often announces the departure as well as the arrival of shame. "Why do the Germans make the moon masculine? Surely we are justi tied in regarding her as feminine, since she is essentially changeable. "Men are people who make rules, women are people who make exceptions. "It is recorded that God said: 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.' It would, perhaps, have been impolitic in Moses to hint more directly that woman was made in a very different mold. The conclusion, however, is obvious. "There is no marriage in heaven, io O n TT ViOXT&Vt in . riage. "A beauty without wit seems to me to resemble a bait without any hook in it "I believe that there are some women who wear petticoats simply lest they should be mistaken for men. "There is this difference between passion and love?the one breeds headaches, the other breeds heartaches, but neither would be dangerous if there were no fools in the world. "Love certainly increases the population of the world, but I doubt whether it adds much to that of heaven. "Of all the women whom I have known I chiefly remember tnose wno forgot themselves. "It is quit possible for a man to respect a woman so much that she shall despise him. "If a man does not take his wife to church the chances are that, sooner or later, he will be obliged to follow her thither. "Adam in Paradise must have slept very peacefully?until he had the misfortune to lose his rib. "A woman is flattered by the love even of a beggar in rags. "Marriage is much like a spacious bird-cage set in a garden on a winter day. The ins would be out and the outs would be in. "Love, like a fire, is liable to be extinguished by overmuch stirring. "It is often not until a woman feels that she is too old to be loved by man that she seeks to be loved by God. "The word 'curious1 means quaint as well as inquisitive. Woman, in both senses of the word, is a curious animal. "Man is a substantive; woman is an adjective. "Addition is the bounden duty of a bachelor; when he has mastered it multiplication will follow as a matter of course. "The two most difficult things are to paint a picture on running water and to convince a woman who does not wish to be convinced. "Man sometimes calls a woman a goddess, but he would not love her if she were one. This fact, doubtless, accounts for the partiality which was shown bv the sons of God for the daughters of men in the antediluvian period. The daughters of God must have been a little too ethereal. "It does not speak well for the fairer sex that, as a rule, he best succeeds among women that has the lowest opinion of them. 4'It is perhaps extraordinary ttat more marriages do not turn out unhappily, since the woman generally marries to get into the world, while the man as generally marries to get out of it . "ine great argument against tne admission of woman to public positions is her inability to be punctuaL "A woman may not have a religion, yet she always has "a deity. "Most women feel .flattered when they are charged with little weaknesses of which they are not guilty; perhaps because they know that her faults are so often a woman's chief charm. -i "A man will return rather to her who has deceived him than to her whom he has deceived. "It is well to remember that a wo- . man's eyes and ears are not all at the same side of her head. "If a'woman were by nature what she tries to make herself by art she would be terribly discontented." Rev. Dr. Todd, of New Haven, says: "If I had my way I would merge all the colleges of the country in two?one of these for the East, the other for the West. The Western one I would put in the Sandwich Islands, the other one in Nova Scotia." Twenty food-reform societies are now flourishing in England. GLKAXINGS. There are ninety different styles of collars in u<e by gentlemen ia this country. A mine of magnetic ore has been found in Fresno County, California; also a spring near it that cures the itch. fM ir i x ^uesmre, iuass., nas two large usm eagles which hare their nest high up on the side of a rocky cliff. The hunters and citizens generally, with a sense of pride and patriotism, leave them unmolested. The mongooses imported into Jamaica to eat up the rats having accomplished their task, the burning question now is how to get rid of the mongooses, which the blacks havo a superstitious fear of killing. Massachusetts has 1,973 miles of railway, of which 667 miles are double track." Of street railways there are 809 miles in the state. Last year the former Rftrried 66.517.000 t>assensrers. while tlie latter carried 95r000,000"passengers. The statistics of the salaries paid Congregational ministers in Connecticut show that of the 298 churches only fifty pay $2,000 a year or more and 128 pay less thau $1,000. The average erf all except the first-named fifty is sbout $980. The lowest salary is about $400 and the highest $6,000. The Nevada gold-seekers have discovered a new use for fowls. The hem are picketed, and, being hungry, begin to scratch and eat. After "three or four - ?!_ 115I1.J J (lav's Honest toil xney are siuea ana. their craws examined for gold- As much as $8 has been found in on? craw.?Sew Francisco Alta. Tcscarora, Nev., has a small tree growing in a, gulch, the foliage of which at certain seasons is said- to be so luminous that it can "be distinguished a mile away in the darkest nignt In its immediate vicinity it emitssumcient light to enable a person to read the finest print. Its luminosity is said t? be due to parasites. B. P. Shillaber. the venerable Mrs. * Partington, is one of the few friends of Rcr. Adriondack Murray who stitt has < a kind word to say for that notorious back-slider. "He is? as Father Taylor said of his son-in-law, Judge Bussell, 'not much of a saint, but a sweet sinner.' The world has been muck too harsh with him."?Boston Traveller. That absolutely fireproof buildings can be huilt, suitable for any comfortable occupation, is very much of a delusion and a dangerous one. Proper and scientific methods may reduce the danger to a minimum. But what is mostly needed is that the tenants and nAAimiors clinllW VvOTTrt fironrrtflf vation, diligence and method.?Philadelphia Ledger. The following is a description of a submarine terror recently invented by a Mr. Middleton: "The boat invented by him was of the cigar shape, not unlike the Whitehead torpedo. Its peculiarity was its power of carrying men beiow water. The boat could be propelled with funnels without either steam or electricity, and the 'conning tower1 is above water. When within gunshot of an enemy's ironclad irt could be sunk to any distance below the surface, and, guided by the electric light, could be brought within thirtv yards or less of the ironclad, at whiek range a percussion shell fired from the submarine boat could knock a hole of several feet in the ironclad, too large for any pump to remedy and sufficient to sink ft" "There is more money in Bibles than ? in anything else," said Mr. J. B. Jones of Philadelphia, one of the largest Bible printers in i;he United States. "There is a gteady, reliable trade for the good book, and I think I have made 2,000,000 of the different grades since I have been in business. The price ranges from 10 cents for the kind given away by the Bible Society to the ?30 one bound in velvet and ivory. I have nearly ceased printing other books. _ As a general thing thej don't pay. Unless you can get a wort by a great author or a noted politician the sale of any book does not reach beyond a small edition. I paid Alexander K. Stephens $33,000 royalty on the 'War Between the States,' but only about $6,000 for his 'History of the United States.' " The introduction of open fireplaces makes the preservation of the com plexion a necessity, therefore handscreens similar to those used by generations-passed away s.re again added to the luxuries of the times. Naturally these screens are lighter than fans. Some of delicate gauze are mounted on bamboo and exquisitely painted with objects from opera bouffe; Hero folding the torch for Leander; Diana in a hunting dress, taller than her attendant nymphs, with a bow in her hand, a quiver suspended^across her should* ers, a silver crescent over her forehead; birds, butterflies, flowers, are also represented, painted or sometimes embroidered on gauze, silk or kid, and mounted oil sticks of tortoise shell, bamboo, ebony, ivory or violet wood. Others are of plain silk or gauze decorated w ith a detached lace spray or quite covered with a piece of antique lace and coquetiisn Knots 01 riDdon doited about, or spray of flowers. The Phoenicians, who were a great commercial people in the young days of the world, are thought to have given the present name of most of the countries around the -Mediterranean Sea. The Phoenician language contained the words Europe, Asia, Africa, Italy, Spain, Gaul, Britain, .aEtna, Sardinia and Siberia, as well as many others ?Attr >tiiA mir? Ar UV/n uovu ao biiv uuiduovi uiiuvji Europe, in Phocni-ian meant "white complexion," and was applied to the country north of the Mediterranean because the natives were a lighter complexion than those of Asia or Africa. Africa signified "the land of corn,'4 and Asia meant "the middle land," being so named because it was between Europe and Africa. Italy was the "country of black pitch;"" Spain was "kriH r>f rnhh^s?" ftaul. or the "land of yellow hair;" Britain, the "country oi tin;" ^Etna, "the smoky furnace;" Sardinia, "a man's foot," and Siberia, "thirsty land," because it is so dry. A rom:intic young waiter-girl at a hotel in Ontario,Can., came near losing her life the other day by trying a foolish experiment. She had heard'an old say ing that any girl who swallowed "a ' chicken's heart raw would have for a husband the first male person sbs shook hands with, and, believing the proverb, attempted to swallow a chicken's raw heart, but failed. T;:e heart stuck in her throat and would not move either way, down or up. A doctor was called in and arrived only in season to save the deluded girl from an untimely death by choking. Mark Twain's mother and brother live in Keokuk, Iowa. Mrs. Clemena is eighty-three years of age.