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. ^ ^ ^ ^ .. _ . ; ^ ^ , ^gg|| VOL. XLII. -'/' .... WINNSBORO, S. C.. WBBNESDAY, DECEMBER 23 1885. NO. 21. >| * - : - WN > Classes," "No c'asses" hero? Why. that is iile t%lk. The vil!a<o twau fneer- at the country boor; The importuning mendicants who walk Our city streets despise tho parish poor. * The ilnH.v toiler- fit some noisy loom HyJds back her garments from the kitchen maid: Mcanwhiie the latter Jeans upon her broom, * I', c/Mic, i,tiw <> 11>?. v.!-vv 1 li?. !?iinfirf>R<5 made. '1 he tracer's dr.ushtcr eyes the fanner's lass With httughty gianccs. while tlic lawyer's wife Would pay no visits from the trading class Jf policy were not her crced in life. U:o merchant s son nod< coldly at the clerk; The proud possessor of a pedigree H Ignores the youth whtsc father rcs? by ' work? The titl^cekin.y inniden scorns all three. Th?. *.i is. of blood looks down tTpon f s nouveaux riches ar.d in disdain The love~< of the intellectual frown On bo" i. and worship at the sbritieof Brain. ".in v..rt?es hero," the drrsrymnn has said; "We are oik- family." You sec his rasre And horror when bis favorite son would wed Sctne pure and petty player on the stage. SsJg !he v;tin. and natural human way Of vaunsing our weak selves, our pride, our worth! Not till the lonj: flelnyod millennial day Sl'-ttii w?'belio:?l "Ni-elapses" onGod'searth. ? E la W| re er Wj c x. in Town Topios. MY WIDOW. She was the meekest ami most docile little personage you ever saw. That, of course, was before she became my widow. IIow could she become my widow, when I'm hero alive and flourishing to teii my own story? Just wait uutil I've linislicd. and you wili sc?. Snc was very pretty, too, with pink apple cheeks. ::tid eyes of that peculiar translucent beryl-green that you o.IiIiimi o lithft fi'rtire. ovi JV .. ? -e and a step as noiseless as if she wore tbe famous shoes of silence. There was something cat-like about .her?at least, so Fitz-lirown said, but FitzBrown was always prejudiced against Lucilla. Depend upon it. oid lellow. she's married you for your money," said I Fitz-Brown. "It doesn't stand to reasw on that a <;irl of eighteen should tie v herself to a fat o!d heathen of lifty-four ? aniens there is some motive lurking nnf dementi)." "Fitz-Brown." I broke in irritably, you're a fool!'' "i may be a fool," answered that gentleman calmly, "but a singlo fool is not so bad as a married fool, in any point of view yt ti choose to take it." 'J here was no use arguing with FitaBnnvn. He was a stubborn, opinionuted old fellow at best, and he was de termined not to like Luciila from tbe very lirst. H >w he did exult when he came down to ray offiec and told mo that Harry Sykes was spending the evening with Luciila?that same reckless youuir good-for-n:;ught who had been wont to iianjr around her before we were married. Aud Luciila had told me she was going to take lea with her mother. Nevertheless 1 put on a bold face. Well, let him spend the evening," said I. ; "Where's the harm?" "Yes; but?but the curtains were not drawn, and?and it isn't necessary for him to sit on the same sofa, with his arm round her waist." I went straight home, but Mr. Sykes . had departed, and Lucilla ^was darning ^ my stockings by the-lire. "Lucilla," said I sternly. "1 must forbid any more of Henry Sykes's visits here." -Yes, Josiah," said my wife; "Harrr is rather troublesome." "And you will please receive no more "young gentlemen Yisitors in my absence." "No, Josiah." "The fact is, Lucilla, lam afraid yon read too many novels." "Perhaps 1 do," said my wife meekly. "1 will bring up a set of 'Kollins' Ancient History' to-morrow ana some sermons for you to read. All ligfcter literature must be banished at once." "Certainly, Josiah." Could Fitz-Brown himself have expcctcd mor-> complete and dutiful acquaintance in all mv demands? Lucilla wa> preternnturally affectiouate the next two or tlirec days. Sho hung round me in the most bewitching manner, sowed my shirubuttons on, ran for my slippers, and would insist on toast:-ig the oread herself, until her pretty faee wa< the coior of a scarlet tomato, "because cooki;is so careless, and dear Josiah likesiiis tDast browned just CO," "Wl.nf cleill I nrdf>r for dinner.dear? The butcher's man is here. Steaks or a roasting ph-ce? ' "I don't cir<\" I answered mechanically. * Suit yourself." "But you know your wishes are my w* " pleasure, iovc." "Steaks iben." "Aud about the pudding, sweet? Shall I tell cook to make a real old English phtiu. or would you prefer baked suet?" Really it was very nice to hear one's wishes consulted in this sort of manner. And when 1 departed from the office, Lue.Ila herself stood on tiptoe to tie the worsted muffler round my ?i. i iiuu r\. "For if you should take cold, dearest, and anything should happen, it would break your dear little wife's heart." Under these harmonious circumstances that sudden voyage to Indis came like a thunderbolt across the serene hcvizon of onr matrimonial life. I?o*v shall 1 live without you six months, my dearest?" sobbed Lucilla, her lovely beryl eyes swimming in tears. ' J5ut we cannot always control ne^esiity, and. :;fter a mournful farewell, in which my wife fairly succumbed and wentiiiio hysterics. 1 departed on no- ] .cessajry i'ijsiness for tiic firm of Miner .and Morillcie,I myself being the aforesaid Mojrtia&v > yo.w it b?uu*B<ed that my name was ejroneo.visly lugged into tho details of that massacru in which tho barbarous coolies murdered so many of the foreigc population. whe.n 1 was actually tejt wiles ?irther up the .country, I never fcneV, .-and then my long ferer, during which ? found it impossible to write or obtain a a amanuensis, served to complicate matters. When I recovered. I resolved to proceed immediately back to my native land. "I'll not write," I mentally decided, "I'll surprise Lueiila. bless her dear little hear:! liow delighted she will So I took passage in the first Eng' lish steamer that sailed, pretty well cured of ail my romantic ideas of trav* elingin foreign clime?, and thoroughly convinced tiiat when a man has lived fifty odd years in the world his best place is at home. Half-way across, we hailed an English craft, outward-bound, and there was an exchange of newspapers and u>ther civilities. h? As I unfolded a London paper.scarce "!y tiicre tliyji six weeks old, 1 saw, under lie obituary notices, my own > r t ! name. S i I was supposed be dead. A curious sensation, iike the runuiajr of coid water, crept down my spinal cokimu?an involuntary shudder. It is a sudden shock to read of your .own death, and calculate how ion you * *- ' J ... i . \ i nave oeeu uuuer grouuu, ami nut u_v any means an agreeable one. "I don't tnink I'm dead." said I, stretching out ruy arms and iega, giving my so if a pinch, and feeling the strong pulses that projected healthy currents through my veins, "and yet this evidence is certainly vcrv convincing?that 1 was murdered by b.iruarous natives on the night of the25lh of Mny. Poor, dear littie Lucilla! how inconsolable she must be!-' S i it happened, you sec, that 1 was going Home lo comiort my wutow. It was :i cunciH experience, to bo landing :.i last?to shrink away :rom the observation of one's fellow-mortals, as if one li.i.i no ousiness in mis created world; lo Jeel like a ditf-m bodied spirit, come baek to revisit ihe >ceues of its mortality, or a yhost, provylinj aoroad by garish daylight. I si Jink thronzh by-ways of back lanes towards my home, not altogether certain whether someone would not attempt to exorcise me. It ivas late in the afternoou when we entered port, and tiie shadows of the autumn evening were gathering round as I crept up the doorsteps of my own mansion, and entered, stealthily as a robber. Were the shutters down, the windows draped, the house dressed in seemly h -.bilimonts of woo? Not at all; lights glowed brilliantly behind the curtains, gay voices echoed from the parlor, and?eould my car have deceived me? No. surely that was Lucilla's laugh ringing merrily on the air. *A little hysterical, peril a p.^' I thought, but nevertheless instead of Doutiy entering ine urawing-ruum :mu confronting mv wife, 1 instinctively passed on lo tho giaced extension room behind, communicating. u * draperies of purple silk, with tiic largtf apartment?a room where I had been wont to keep niy book*. and which I diguiHed by the title of 'library.' . It was but faintly lighted by t .0 borrowed lustre of the draw inn-room chandelier, and as I entered I stum plea over somemmg?u was iuy u portrait, ignpminiou-dy turned1 with its face to the" wail. - i crept forward with an omiuous forebodiu*?a sudden 'i <a^reeable recoileetiou of Fitz-B.* nvn's croaking predictions. But as 1 put aside tho 'Syrian folds of tho curtain a most tia* welcome vision met my eye. L ;citla in her widow's weeds. j S.ie looked very pretty in them, to j be sure; the close crimped cap could | not nide her clustering ripples of gold en-brown hair,:md her beautiful greeuj gray eyes certainly did not xi;eiu to have wept themselves dim. Moreover, tbet wcro dimpled roses in her cheeks, and smiles upon her lips; and her dress of sombre blaek only seemed to relieve the fair, transparent style of her waxdoll beauty. But she was not alons. Close beside her on the sofa, actually playing with her soft ifttle White hand, and bundiug devotedly -bver the border of the widow's cat), sat Harry Sykes! "Come, L icilla,'' lie said impatiently, "you have tantalised me long ?"nougb. When will you give me tbis liitift triinsurii of a hand, and lot me call you miue?" "What nonswnse, Harry?" said my widow coqueltishly, but she didn't withdraw her hand, "wncn you know that my husband hasn't been dead six months." . ; *Oh, hang the old duffer! Who cares whether he has been deacl six days or six month's? He's gone, thanks to the on.) vvillei) will .ill fhft cash. You know very well you never cared for him, Lucilia." My widow did not contradict this sweeping statement. Bnt the look of the thing,you know', Harry d'c'ur. Dou't squeeze my hand so." I : '-Lucllla* don't you love me?" I ."Oi course I.do," with a charming little pout: - i "Tueu, my heart's qaeea, what is the nse of keeping me in suspense?" "Realiy, Harry." she murmured, don't know \yha"t to say." "Th?n' s:s.v ves." Lucilia's head dropped until the widow's cap nearly toueiied her companion's shoulder. **Yes," she murmured at last. | . .Human. nature could stand this no lonirer. I dashed aside the purple silk draperies, and entered precipitately. on-lhe sc^nc?quite- au unexpected addition to the d unuitis personam. "Not so fast,madame,if you please!" I cricd with a sort of demoniac exultation. "I may be an 'old duffer,' and you may 'never have cared' for me. but nevertheless you and Mr. Sykes here are gettiug along altogether to smoothly. 4 Lucilia sprang to her feet with an cluritca scream. "It's a ghost! it's Josiah's ghost!" Mr. Harry Syktjs stared helplessly at me,'a? it he had been paralysed. "No, madame,iL'3 not Josiah's ghost ?it's his living self. You thought you had got rid of mc, did you? An awfcward mistake to make, under the circumstances. Walk out of this house, sir, and never let me see your counte- | nance ag3in!" Mr. Sykes obeyed sheepishly onough. If there had but'becn something of the supernatural inscrutably mingled in j my sudden appearance" and vehement i adjurations, he might have stood by ; his colors andLueilia. As it was, however, he adjonrnod sine die, without a word of apology to me or farewell to Lucilla. as lor you, madame," I said sternly, turning to my sobbing wife?no lonsror widow?4*vou may go home to. your mother. I want no more of your treacherous wiles. Fitz-Brown was right!" Vehera?ntly ringing the beli, I ordered a carriage and packed the bewildered woman o?F before she conlti remonstrate. That was the end of my matrimoni.il expcriencc, for Lucilla has never yet yrutured to ruiuru to the shadow of ?sy root Fitz-Brown and I arc keeping house together, after an orthodox bachelor fashion. I think Fiiz is sincerely sorrrfqgme.but he hus never yet insulted m? wiG? the truism: I toul you sol" "I am very tirod," said the lady at the head of the boarding-house lablo Monday iuorain2 to lint good.-uatiired minister who sat at" the other end, j "You should n?t be," said the parson; j "you didn't preach a sermon yesterday." "No." said tins iady, almost uncousciously, "but 1 listeued to one." Then followed an oppressive silence, which gave tho minister lime to reflect that he had come out oniy.second best, j ?I hiladdvkia Bulletin. ADUi/n :j \ i i> si>:ci:s. Z* i>per, Cloves. <J *: ", :* ??! MiuUrd A1 D >cr<?r--'l .'<>r (?iin. TJie greater par: <>!' tin; spices sole in this city arc :t?:::i;t?**i. Adulloration lias bvcoiiii* :.;i :ti t in which I lie knowledge o: :in : I no ingenuity of trade are fivviy <-x reiscd. Pure spices are debased for pecuniary i>r??!it by adding to ill- hi iut>r;or or spurious articles. or by hiking (rem !hem one or more of u;?*!r con?; hucnts. The objects of adulteration :ao to increase the bulk or weight of the :?riic!??. to improve its appearance. to g.vo it a false strength. and to rob it. of its most t.t,'I'll.. nv.u.tu.,, ViUUUUlU tVUH.iutui'. i IJV has grown uith the competition oi trade, and in spile of severe laws prohibiting it. People know so little about spicc that it can be adulterated with very slight chance of discovery. An expert, however, can tell it at once. The head of the spice department of a grocery ? lirrn in -tnis city, says the New York "tin, said: "To be sure of adulteration, one needs only to look at the price-lists issued by firms which sell spices. The price of a ground spice is often iess than that of the unground article, wh'ch is absurd on its face. Unground }) pper can not be sold for less than 14 cents a pound, and yet we find ground pepper offered for 5 and. 6 cents a pound. Ground ginger is offered at 5 cents a pound, while the unground is S cents. This humus that the ground spice has been heavily adulterated with some cheap material. Sumo linns go so far as to advertise adulterated goods, and evade the law by calliug tlieiu compounds. "Biack pepper is adulterated with a substance cal ed pepper dust, made from coconnuL shells, and also with buckwheat hulls, charcoal, white meal, and mustard bran. Cocoanut shells, when ground up very line, arc used very g^ncraljy :-s an adulterant of spices, as mere is no taste to interfere with the flavor of the spice. Buckwheat hulls. ??;liorwiso worthless, are :i source of piolit to millers, as they arc worth 2J fevfts a pound for adulterating purposes. J he charcoal five's a black appcarauee to the pepper." Tfie informant; put a sample of the bjst:.Malaga... pepper beside a -poor I quality of black pepper. Ttie Malaga prppti* could readily bj distin<ruNhed in cause of its lighter color. Mr. Miller mixed some white meal with the ciinmion nenner and it became so like " I~ li ? tiiu best pepper that it could hardly be told apart. "You see," he said, "that I have not only adultered the pepper, but I have, to all appearances, improved its quality." "White pepper is adulterated with white meal, terra alba, and rice flour. Terra alba is line marble dust, ami enormous quantities are exported from Italy for purposes of adulteration. Gypsum, sand, starch, mustard, husks, and various kinds ot meal are aiso used for adulterating pepper, but not to so great an extent, as the things I have mentioned. Cayenne pepper is adul terated with white meal, Venetian red, .and salt, the three being ground together.' The" salt gives a brighturcoior to the red, which is itseif a poisonous article. This doctoring is practiced on African pepper, a dull red pepper, worth only 8 cents a pound, in order to bring it up to the brilliant color of Natal pepper, worth 30 cents a pound. The fraudulent article can be detected by placing a small quantity on a siieet of white paper and ruubing it with the finger. The Venetian red wui make red marks on the paper. "Ginger is adulterated with meal, rice ilour, starch, cayenne pepper, and uianila rope. ; Ginger root has a very line, hair-like fiber running through it, and this is found, in the ground article. Country'people will not buy it unless they sec the fibers, and bits of uianila rope arc used to take their place in the false article. The cayenne pepper makes the laste sharper. A drop of ammonia wiil expose this compound by turning it red. Chrome yellow, a poisonous substance, is sometimes used for coloring. "Cloves, worth 20 cents a pound, are adulterated with ciove-siems worth 2 cents a pound. These clove-^stems are twiffo UIO XifctAV? U ?? 'o? IV MIVII v.-w cloves are pluckcd. Cloves are also ad altered w-iih;:peppcr-d;ist, and all spice is also treated in the same way." "Considerable ingenuity is shown in ..adulterating cinnamon :md nutmeg Old crackers or Hour are baked brown in an oven and. ground up line, and this is mixed with the gronnd cmoa-. moil and nutmeg. In adulterating mace Venetian red is mixed with the cracker dust. "Mustard is adulterated with sago, flour, starch, rice Hour, and wheat. !flour, and coiorcd with aniline colorings. The fraud cau readily be d^., tecled, as the compound becomes bluewhen treated with a solution of iodine.-The common German and French ruus}tard is made up of a compound of .mustard, cracker dust, and cayenne; pepper, and is flavored with sugar, oil,' and vinegar to suit the taste. "Another method of abusing cloves is by extracting their essential oils.. This is done in Europe by boiling therm, and in this country t.y pressing out the oil." ''An llT-Timod Visit. Prof. Jacques, as everybody knows. has been investigating psychical phenomena. . The professor has a brother who isn't so much interested in psychical phenomena as he is. This brother called the other evening to make a faternal visit- He entered*the house, and struck, naturally enough, for the back parlor. The professor stopped him at the door. "Sh-h, sh-h," said the. professor, "don't come in?don't make a noise? there's a lady in here in a trance!" The visitor started back and attempted to go into the front parlor. [ At the door he was juet by somebody ho didn't know, who said: "Sii-h, sh-h?don't come in: there is i a man in here who is just going under the influence!"' Then he started for the library. Somebody else met him as he swung open the door: "Sh-h, sh-li, be careful; there's a seance going on, and you'll spoil the conditions if you come in that way!" | He rushed up-stairs and rapped ! rather briskly at the door of the fauiij ly sittiug-room. It was his sister-iulaw who met him this time, and she | said: c5i.li don't mnke a noise? ! | you'll wake the baby!'' i ~ Then he darted down-stairs took his | I hat andcanc, aad left the honsc.-JJos- i | ton- liccord. Mrs. Tabor, the iirst wife -of. Col or a- I do's millionaire, probably has more | money at command now than her j former husband. She is set down for | S2.000.000. i ? An IronrC'ad Contract."" The actor's lot is not happy one, especially if he be a star actor, respon-sible for salaries to the usuai'^igaatic dramatic combination which -supports him at an average cost of $2Q'aw?ek per individual. It is not Ion?since a' scrimmage between the deputj^sheriff" r%*A +!>/-* f n^on/l nn/iW hnnEA J anu IUC ilUUI/ VA bUV V?? ? i made quite a 3tir. and the mattd? is ' still somewhere about the courts* The courts resemble a trunkmaker's yard? ^ they are full of cases, and a great majiy ! rot before they are called into action. ! I should not wonder if that one went I the same way. There is a moral, in ' this story. A noted star, having failed ! to draw at $1.50, made up his miodto i try a week at "popular prices" before leaving town, and he thought ho would secure himself. The theatre he 8?r lected had been a prey to sheriflk' officers. So at some expense he&red a lawyer to draw up an ironclad, riveted contract, which should prevent the ubiquitous deputy sheriff from grabbing the receipts for what debts were outstanding. This contract jjas indeed an iron-clad one. It gave him charge of the box-office, charge of the tickct entrance, charge ef all the money that came in, and charge of all the property within a four-mile radius. This document ho posted np .in a prominent place, and/theo* he began to sell tickets. The orchestra was playing its wild, independent music,'each instrument having chance. Tn$ tfombone is not allowed there to blow louder than the date, unless the man with the flute can blow as hard as tho trombone. The violinists are at liberty to play what thoy darn please as long as they don't drown the 'cello. It is a go-as-you-please orchestra and gives an enormous variety of music at tho same moment. Well, this ..match among the instruments was about through on the first night when three* deputy sheriffs danced up, to tho box office -window, singing Throf! Little DuDuties Are We.T' As they prepared to grab their six eyes fell on the iron-clad contract- It was too much for them. They stood dumb. Just then a roan came up to'buy a ticket. He planked down four bits. The coin was taken by.the ticket-seller, placed in: a tin-cup, and?flip?by mer.ns of 5a rubber attachment it dis-^ appeared, banging faco toward a holein the wall. 'The coin vanished and the cup came back. The deputies stared with very open eyes at this new dodge. Then one of them turned to,' the others. v7r-1 "This beats us. They've got an attachment stronger than any we've got." j The ticket-seller smiled blandly upon them as they left. The star was safe. 1 A hole had _ been bored between the bar-room "and the box-office and each coin as it was taken in disappeared in- j to the charge of a man at tne otner I side of the hole. The receipts came in undisturbed by the sheriff, and agent counted up the house with his employer with as much satisfaction as could be derived from $40. 'The schcrue was quite successful but. fur onj thing: Tne man at the other side of the^h6le had skipped with the. tuonc}".?*an Francisco Citroncle. ?Hearer* UTiw With Him. "I was in Custer City three years ago, and as dead bro.ve as a skinned wolf," he said, as the boys pumped him to tell how ho got such a scar on his face. . . "No. sir, I hadn't a blessed nickel, and I didn't kiiow a human being in. that town. There was no wockr no way to gfetrout; and I leatfod against a dead wall and wondered how much my revolver would sell for. and which way I should head if I had $10. Tell you, gents, I was foeiing powerful hliirt wlrnn Hone cum scooliuir >aroU'id the corncr to pat mo on tiie-T>aek and give me a boost. Jf you remember, the poet says its. always the darkest just afore dawn, ami somebody has written that Proridence never goes back on a man who means to do the squar' thing." ' \ Who was llopc?" asked one. "She was a female?a woman. I don't rememut^whctlier she was as pirrty as an anjrel' or :fif homely as a Diirger squaw. Sue flew up to me and says, says she: ' 'Do I address a gentleman?' Madam, you I.nven't made any i L'i? '. ?.** ! ,4r?. ^ *Ektve yx)tV.-got s:i ml H' -madam.' "" ^2E^p\Vid^ wuut to make $50?' r- ~ 'if I: doS^tV?0??ir^Tt^4ajun never bfea?fccfcii [ r ' With Uwt j^itNj|jnri5ji^^jfeii-dollar ;brils in mypaSv, fcai^GSJo.the corner, "atttl, pi 111ijiir the Sl [ Louis lied Front ^ibfoiirT^nn'ners: p'~:; ^ He's in limrtjp (i? and shoot ^ r zL$V " *.> 'W'ho might3t:'b$ nia'.nn?1 ' ' . My:.iiusband! ..'lie's a urate and a mo outdoor* at -ftlie ny^e^r**i(;i^f<jftv?*r! He's a big, ^d-^ac^-^l?o!<tJWtii a broken nose. ' Go, an^.^y'h'eiw^ii be with ton.' " certingly,' saja I; and! makes-dPbee -ftne for the Rod Front. 'The-tyrannical husband was prepared for me. When I waj a hundred l'eel away he takes a dead squint on me and pops off his gun. The bullet rips open niv cheek, as this 'ere scar makes affidavy. 1 was whirled around and sent to grass, but 1 whips over on ray stomach, gets a quick sigfo on him. and before lie- could squint agin he was my meat. That 'e^o woman's appeal to heaven was answered." "Kill him at once?" "As dead as this 'ere eurbstun! He never kicked around or mussed up the saloon abit. T?einjoorcd wife climbed over him and took possession, the coroner canic to eonduot the' funeral, and a chap with a lot of slicking* plaster lixed up' my hurt and said Custer's great need was a dozen Romans like myself."?X Y. Sun. Growth <>f H tir on a Dead Body. Two years ago Willi^n? A. Walters was buried in the Stone Chapel cemetery, in Woodcock valley, Huntingdon county, Md. The other day the body w:.s exhumed to bo taken by friends of the deceased to Williamsport for reinterment. When the coffin was reached by diggers they discovered that it had sprung at the joints, and out of the crevices the'huir on the skull protrud oil in all directions. ua opening uie casket the Iiuir on the head was found to measure eighteen inches, the whiskers eight inches, and tho growth on the breast six inches, notwithstanding tho body had been cleanly shaved when prepared lor burial. .' A similar inr stance occurred in 18?2, at the Cassor viHe ccmetery, -fifteen mil-cg froqj't herer Upon e^huij)ing the reining of Jagob Bresswoil tho skeleton, " which had bee# buried lor teu years, had ..hair on it ten' to twelve incites in length and as firm as during life. * STOCK-TIJ AN* ACT IONS. Cash V*la? of Anitinl Tr*nH5?ctlon-? In tlir Jf-.-w York Stock Exchange. The cash value of thu annual transactions of New York stock-brokers denes ordinary comj.r -:ii??nsion. On Feb. 25. 18S1. 721.30:5 sir r*s of stocks, on tno regular iist were soi.l on the Hoot of the i?xchuti?c. 848.9-10 shares on No^. vember 22. 1882. asui 3 022.407 in the week ending Marc* 26. 1881. The lar;ro*t single sale recorded is that ol IV II ... _ if* xju r ?iuuuiviit i\; *i iiuiuuiv vx American and foreign bankers and .'railroad operators. Pub ic sentiment being decidediy averse to tiie control of the N?w York Central Railroad by a siuglo family, he, in dfftsrenec to it. sold less than haif his intercut in it. But what he did sell amounted to Hie enormous sum of thirty miilion dollars. One hundred and fifty thousand shares, at 120. were sold outright, and the option of a hundred thousand more at 'the same price was subscqueutiy taken tip by the same purchasers. The securities dailr bousht and loaned are ?:ii<J for by ehccks on city banks. Tiio yearly business of the Now York Clear lug-house' exceeds lil'ty billion dollars, and. the principal part of thisls from the transactions of the New York Stock Exchange. The London system of .settlement twica a month by the payments of differences has failed of adoption in our chief money mart, and is certainly neither so safe nor so judicious as that of cash payments. ' The .methods of business in this nnuonai monetary institution arc precise. positive, and suited to its nature. At 9.50 A. m. the members may enter the lioard Room; :it 10 the gavel of the presiding officer announces that it is open for business; at S p. M., precisely, it is closed. Ji line 01 lifly dollars is imposed for each oiFense in public trading before or after these hours, and nuy contract thus made will not be recognized or enforced by the Governiug Goinmittee. Collected in groups, like spring chickens in a rural boarding-house keeper's hen-yard, New York Central, Northwestern, Milwaukee fr St. Paul, ueing special points of attraction, no sootier does the omvci fall than a dozen bieuding thunder-storms break loose. 'Hie 3ir is rent by explosive cries, shrieks, yells, noots, irregularly rising and falliug in gust ungovernable, brokeu ouly by the deep bedowings of broad-chested sons of Boanerges. And tliiw for live long hours the icmpest rage*, with accompaniments of Hitting fv/rm.*, fierce gestures, uplifted bauds, tossing heads and other inexplicable confusions that shroud the innocent spectator in appalling mystery. Here and there arc individuals cool and collected as if in church, but they only throw the anarchic uproar into more strikiu? relief. "Alad, sirs!?mad. as ?? ? T tn "t>-.*. 41 ?k-'.i ftiarcn flares: jdul mere is wouuruus tuethod ia this madness. Each offers the slock he has to sell?cries itloudiy, number of shares, price. Buyers name i be prices and conditions, they bid for do?Hed stocks. Hundreds arc vociferating at the same moment; every ear is attent to what the owuer wishes to catch.. The brokers take it all in, sometimes buy and sell without looking at each, cither, so familiar are they with f each other's voices; cry out whilescrib bling memoranda, "Take 'em." Sold," "I bought500 of you at 97," and afterward report to principals wno the active traffickers were, thus supplying them with di'ta for guessing at the trend of the market In the Bond iioom comparative order reigns. All ;are seated. Occasionally manners are free, laughter loud, and jokes practical. The bids and oilers to sell are intelligible. Between bond calls the brokers who deal in these securities transact , business in one corner of the Board I Koom, to which they descend by an elevator, with the stock-brokers from wnom they receive orders. There the ; voices of the traffickers are torn into | tattered shreds of sound, which convey.no more meaning to the uneducated ear thau the gutturals of so many Cuoctaws. 1 At times the noise is terrible, especially ki -panics. Heard by participants in tho crushing throng, the sounds arc distinct onmiork "TTir* hundred fNew York Central] at 85?at 4f." "Take 'em," shouts a buyer, "One hundred [Chicago and Northwestern] at 84, cash.1' "Eighty-three and three-quarters for 100,'\with shako of uplifted hand fror& buyer. "Sold."* rejoins the seller. "Five thousand [Northern Pacific Preferred] at 42, buyer 30." "I'll give 41 for the lot." "Sold." Hundred [Lake Shore] a&J, buyer 3." "Three-eighths, seller 3, for 100*" (Delaware, Lackawana, and Western) "?any part of 1000 at J cash." "One hundred at "I will give 117 for 500" (Chicago, Burlington, &Quincy). "Sold tne lot." "I'll give J [41 J] for 300." (New Jersey Central) "I'llloan 200." "I'll take 100, flat." "Fifty [Rock Island] at ; '10}." "Hundrad at f." "I'll sell 500 more." "Take 'em." "Give it for 500 more." ?'Sold." "What's the price?" (Lake Shore). "Three-eighths "What f?" "*Vhy, 64?." "I'll 3 #/v?. 1 AAA V fKrt 1 r?r " TCiHa I giTC f IVi IVVv*. * K/ViU wuu aro monosyllabic as possible. Names of stocks are not vocalized in the localities where the stocks are sold. Brokers waste no breath in trading. All offers made and accepted are binding. The securities on the free list are not called unless asked for. Sales are either; for cash, in which case delivery is made on the same day at or before ?.15 p.m., or in the regular way, when delivery is made on the l/rmin/v ai* nh tirrna 1>cn??]lr fhrAP \xaj vi vu wixiv, ten, thirty, or sixty days. More frequently option sales are for three days: when stock is cliqued they may be for thirty or sixty days. In option sales the delivery of the stock within the specified time may' be at the buyer's option or at the seller's option. It must be wipbin sixty days at the longest. In ail option contracts e*tendin?; over threo days twenty-four hours notice must be given, not later than 2 p. h., before securities can be delivered or demanded.?R., lVficulley,in Harper's Magazine fur November. A pretty Ijttlo st?ry is told of the way Herr Cohn. the private banker oJ. the Emperor of Germany, gained the imperial favor. Years ago, when the present Empress was still a Princess n( Prnccifi clio turnip n lviilw.1V inlirtlGV to Dessau. On the way i.er feet got cold, so she sent, out au attendant at the next station to procure a flask oj . hot water. Unfortunately the cook at the railway restaurant had just used up every drop of hot water in making fresh poffee for those who had just arrived on the train. The respaijrateui was in despair, when one of the guests suddenly got up, seized the pot ol fresty coffee, and poured it into the imperial flask. The attendant hastened away \yith it, but soon returned, as the gmpress wished to l^now the name oJ the man who had h^4 ihp happy thought of utilizing the cofl'ce- A.nd she did not forget him. I I Ail OM-Time Southern Supper. It was a treat to sit down to a Southern, supper the other da}*, where there . were half a dozen ladies of tho old s . school?their respective a^cs being be- t tween 70 and 85. Ah, there were rem- t , injscences for you! Courteous of man- e ner. happy and with no thought of yet v . yieldiuir up their days; dressed in black i with snfr. lnees; everv head silver- t . crowned?indeed ilicy were a joy, and I ; presented a picture worthy of prcscr- r vation. Four of tliena had" been neigh- i bors and intimate friends of General v Jackson, and all had the kindliest ap- r precision of his uiuch-wonnded wife, r whom he so loved. The uncle of one e had something io do with Jackson's o duel, and a relative of another per- I formed one 01 Ulil Hickory's marriage i ceremonies. A lady, hale in her a eighties, who rejoices in her sccond o sight, :md reads everything, scorning t spectacles, and possesses line couver- o saiional powers, related reiuembrances u of Aaron Burr. He had come to Ten- L nessce, ::ud was. wined and dined about p all the srrand plantations. Her uncle s entertain ml him. and she well reiucm- y hers her father and mother being in- ti vitcd to dinner during the time. They *1 rode' oFer ,on horseback, her father o carrying her in front of him. She was rt four or live years of age, and it was at si an era when parents "went abroad" n (as they denominated visiting), and s the children were never left at home, b Siie was perched up at the table beside o her mother, and stared to her content ii at the handsome lion of the day. h This was after his retirement from q the Vice Presidency?JefTersan -having b been President? and -his maneuvers in a the Southwest gavw rise to the snspi- f( cion that lie was organizing an cxpedi- c tion lo invade Mrxico, with the pur- y i.f jiof.il.iLdiiitif r? 1 liurn tl jn/.iv vi iMitbwuowiu^ an ?> winch should embrace some1 of the a S >uthwestern Slates of this confcuh-ni- o i*y. lie v.rre-sSed for treason at w Iiicitmou-1, Vii., nuil tried for treason be:or.; Justico Marshall and ac- r qu.tted iu 1807. p Tne stately matron, who continue I si lu };rutv iui;ic i-iutjuuui. u?ui uiu liimuuo Adonis and statesman, betran after tl awhile to give mucu interesting history w ot Jefferson's private life?her departs b ed husband having been an inmate of li that great man's home for several years li oi Jus boyhood. c: Another of the dames had been a so- d cial leader at Washington?had dined p frequently at the Wuite House with r; moiv Iliaii one President and had en- h tertained distinguished people from all e: lands, including heirs to thrones. - vt And Jut husband was Congressman B during Buchanan's Administration, and t< yet another related to that President I and to his magniliccnfc niece, who presided so grandly over the White House, si and was so admired by Victoria at the o Cuurt of St. J.imcs. T ;ey gave vivitl a: (le.-crij?tious of Miss Iiarr.et L ine uuit n Mrs. Douglas, Mrs. W.;ii- r ami Mrs. a; McClellun sind others who queened it n ever the realm, and witnessed every Ji move mad:.}- ilx.; Piiuce of Wales li wnen lie- was a ga.;st ol li:e President a ?zuu Franc. Cj / oaf. < 11 M <r & Giving PccpleT- ffy I).?es no Good. .Mi My son, If I sTio'uld publish a daily j'j paper for twenty years?if }-ou can just l( strain your credulity to the point of w believing that I co:i!d keep a daily pa- n per going longer than s'x weeks?if I u. should publish adaiiy p i:?cr for twenty rears. and in all that time take ocea- ,, sioii to mention yon about twice a j' week as "our distinguis icd fellow L townsman" ami "that eminent man of * letters and merchant prince," ami ** should say every time you crossed the ^ ri\r( r on the ferrv that you had "de- j parted" for the East, and when you u cam" back I should notice that "our justly-popular fellow-citizen" had "rc- _ turned;" if I should in all these years praise your do^. your horse, year goods, your wife and babies, your clothes, and your character, and then some day, when 1 was away attending cl a conversation, my local o iitor should es call the attention of the Town Marshal h' I to the tiltliy comution or 1110 sirooiaiiu ?? sidewalk in front of s'.o:v, would in 3*ou ever forgive me? Would. you? w You would denounce the panel as a I "scurrilous sheet'7 and its editor as a al "iyiug scaadai-niongcr that ought to hi be whipped out of the "community." In That is the reason my son why there, are but two kinds of editors. One is a b' meek, smiling', timid littie scrivener, ei wiio pays ali the bills and allows his M neighbors to edit the paper; the other t-1 editor is a truculent savage, who .vi- ...pj ciously scratches out the nice little .in personal the local editor has written' "?v about your arrival home, and sends it ;pi in?"By some inscrutable decree of a l>i * - * - v* 1 ?i t 1 stern and relentless rrovmcncc,. om | *?.' J.ikc Diffenbaugh has been-permitted lc to come b:ick homo alive," ami then' g; meets you at the head of the stairs w with a blackjack ami pounds the top tl of your head i:i when you come to see si about it.?Burdcllc iu Brooklyn Juij-'e. sc Couldn't Account for It. sc ,bv Two gentlemen of color, interested ij, in a living in North Minneapolis, were pj recently overheard having the follow- jl; ing conversation: "Sam, I hear dat . daVs a good many spring chickuns sc bein' tuk from de roosts in Highlan' Park. 'JSuat so?" U; "Yes, niggah, dat am de sad fac.' in An' ise berry sorry that such cr .rep- jji .oration is a-gittin out 'bout dat subub: c; 1 libs dar mysel'." iD *Dat so? It am do truff den." : "Yes, Sam, it am the truff. I hab fj-n seen de proof will dese berry oeuler ; sc Uemcrstrations mysei. . . , ; vc "How's dat?" -j.te "Well, ycr sec olc man, Ise got,a i fc smart string ob ciiickuns mysei' an' I | st reckons dey's a-in-ereasin' right 'long ! n< all de time. "Most cbery mawuin'l la linds two or three moali uhick'uns in a my ooop dc-n da v,-as do night befoali. he How's dat? Why it makes dem chicle- to uns, specially do spring uns, so scart-j fu to tinks dey's gwine lo bo stole dat fu dey just sueaks 'way in de night an', ch comes ober to my roost whar (leys safe. jSobodyM ;ink ob lookiri' darfoah spring (. iiiykuns tor .steal, an' when iley g??n ?lar Ise bound tcr pahtcc 'inn. 1>jats nil now scaht <Jem j ehiekuns giis!" ?Minneapolis Mail. ' ' -st S1 A novel use is being made out of ovStcr shells by a Hartford, Conn., man, j? who is coining money in iiis new cn- j ei tcrprise. Tiie s' sis are placed in a j vv patented mill and ground. It has a j f:1 capacity of live tons a day. By an in- | ja genious arrangement sieves are kept i eI at work assorting the dust into fine, j c; ! pqarsc and insufficiently treated. The j line and the coarse arc taken by elc- j j0 ; vator belts to the floor below, where m I fhv/Min-h nnnrnc n'hnfoc iVxrtllntoH hv I wooden slides, barrels are rapidly fill- wj ed. The product "is sold for chicken j f0 feed. Twenty tons and more are sent bl yearly to San Francisco, orders are. till- ! p, ed from Western states, and Bermuda j ]c and the Sandwich Islands have been j p( supplied. j HOW NOT TO DROWN. Keep Cool :?n<* IStraggle. Fonr years ago i was floating in the urf at Atlantic City, gazing up into be sky and thinking oaly of its beauias. when. ff?elinor somewhat tired. I ssayed to stand up, but failed for the cry excellent reason that I had nothng to stand on- I had, without noicing it, floated out beyond my depth. am a very indifferent swimmer, and ake it a rule not to venture into the vater when I cannot secure a foothold rhen I need onf>. Yet I found myself, lot through any foolish venturesomeless, beyond the furthest lineofbathrs. Of course I immediately struck mt for shore.* After swimming until f/Jh flinrniT?r;ilv T fnnnH hat I had made very little progress, nd I also discovered that the bottom f the ocean was too far beneath me o be of any practical benefit as a basis f traveling. Now what would you do nder-such circnmstanccs? 'Shout for telp, you say. Exactly! That, I suppose, is what any well-conditioned, ecsible human being would do, and et I found myself actually ashamed j o do it. I was positively morally j rc:iK enpugn tp permit a consiaerauon f what my fellow-men would think of ; jc to overpower the natural sense of * 1 elf-preservation. I fancied that I' j light be laughed at for crying for asistance before 1 was .actually sinking ] eneath the waves, and so I struggled ( u until a sudden convulsive twitching ] 1 the calf of my leg told me that I ad a cramp. Then I shouted Help!" mto lustily, and shouted thrice.; No- 1 ody heard me, and nobody, paid any , itentioa tome. Thanks to my good ? :mujic, nowever, i rercamea periecuy oo!, else I would not be talking to 1 ou now. I was able to recognize.on t ae shore the faces of people I knew, i nd, although I experienced : no sense f fear, I felt fully satisfied that I x ronid never see them again. # j Now,".by all recognized. rules and- 'j emulations in such cases : mad,jif*labd rovided, the events of my entire life ^ hould have passed before me in in- ^ tantaneoiis review. I'll .guarantee c :iat you never read a novel 'dot that, hen the hero or villain was sinking iinosfli. tli0 tCfiCAa V>A t.Mntc tcith t ghtning-like rapidity, of every, aotia * is career. "And, as Reginald" felt*the s rnel waters closing abovo^him, all the 1 ceds of his life, both good^and bad, assed before bim as Siough a pano- 1 una was being moved by some magic t and." That is about the way it gen-, a rally reads, you know, and that is I 'k*t. shnnM hw? 'Viannenpri tn me. ut I am iconoclastic and cruel enough ^ > say that I had no such experience. E found that my mind was absorbed ^ rith but one thought, to the exclu- s .on of all other sensations. I thought ? absolutely nothing but of getting shore just as soon as possible. After , ly lirst unheeded cries for help I , gain felt ashamed to call again, but i:idc another effort at swimming. In ly cramped condition I found this uitiess, and so I again cried out for ssistance, but kept perfectly still in n ic water while 1 did it Had I strug- 0 ieu 1 would have, lost breath,, and 0 ilk it ..my life. My. last shout was 0 card. JTsaw. a sudden ,excitement on E ic beach? I saw nTen point their arms s >ward me. I saw othersrnn inV>/the ater. I saw a man bring a coil of z jpc. I could identify the individuals i< ho were doing these things. I watch- i< .1 them coming toward me and sim- o iy emleavored to keep as quiet h ussible. In this way 1 managed.,to p ccp afloat until they got meanddrag- t ud meashore. p What 1 wish to demonstrate is that a ie very poorest swimmer among you c perfectly safe, iu the water if he.only s . cps cooi and docs uot struggle when" ti -*r liinn- !o f/\ K?? (roin/wl l?v ennh nfTnrfc n J wv WW VJ KIUVU V?^ Fhiladclj-hia hews. ; J, The Problem of Huiuau Flight. . 'The subject of- my^aper?flylng-raa- ^ lines?in. a general way. is of inter- a it to everybody. But, ...to-.tlio-w who b ive given it more particular attention,' n is not only interesting but faseinat- E ig, and a little dangerous. The path- V ay has. been .strewn .with wrecks; and e fear there is.a,.fce]ing prevalent t ;at. t( 'ter ail, it leads nowhere in narticu- a r, unless it be to the almshouse - or, P malic asylum, .... ' a ^liik-.thoro :ito times rvhen we hearti-: b envy the bmte, their wonderful pow- 2 . I remember iiT'r^iiUng:,' U think. ^ !r. Wallace's book'bii the Amazons, r< iat he was once standing on the siioire k : the mighty river, :.confrontcd by an' d iipetieir.iblc \vajl of green, concealing itliin itself doubtless no end of ,ne,w h lanis and beetles; and when a ga.vjy' n :iinted\.macaw cmuc sailing iazRV E .ong and. disappeared bcl}jj>d.tho tree- " ps witfiput any sort jifr rouble, 'the- a iVc vent-emplf.ftlBally to the general ii ish to fly,- and to a'feuling of surprise it tat apparently so simple'.a problem cl lould have ' remained so long un- n )ived. h I prop'ose here to give ail account pf tl ?me of.the attempts to liy that have e< 2cn madc..in the.past, .and are ncrw is ing made; and to.)ryr {^explain the' c rinciples involved,'and w'Ijv ' success. is :is? not been achieved. tl The old;Greeks and * Romans very p iisib]y.4X>pear ;to _ha\je, been. content li ? give.tliu gods and.birds.aiuJ abutter- e< cs a monopoly of liie air; Jor, except- ,. g the story of' Dai.kiiui and Icarus, ^ ttle mentioa-has-beeu^madc b-y classi- ^ il writers of aUpmp.ts to fly,.p/r.o? fly-' 'd ig-machines. /_ . *. II,,. si Dajdalus, it seems, had-'killed a man C; Athens, and with* his unfortunate in fled,to,Crete, where K^ng Minos ?? ;ry property uetameu mm; out, ue- p rmined to-escape,'he made wings, of 0 tiiers.cemented,with.wax, and, iu- ti ructing.Icarus.to lly neither. too liigh ^ K- too low,1 Tillt lb closelyjlbllow him,** unched Himself into'tHe air, and took'' <j boo^ijit*.forjtieeece; The young man, n jwever, was .ambitious, and, T flying, 0 o near the sun., the wax incited, and' ^ : perished1 iir'the sea?a warning "to r? in re -r 'generations. ? "2''lyihg-Ma- a iucs,:i 6.7 TyrW:-. Mathert -in Popular ^ z.cncc Moi\tklijjas\.Xav(uiiba\- j. Statistics show til it tlio.people of the o - ? 1 'C?.. .*\f ft,A U llCU OUUU>'iIUlU UU1 ii^-vuv V/l 144W irdcsftlriiil^ulj ri'atVons.arc becoming uoug t-iic iitoit sparine- consumers of' ,fi >irittiQus liquors.. W.iica Dr. liusii," b 1785, bc^ati hidattack upon intern- n irance, whisky and 'rtiiii were regard- t< 1 us among the necessaries of life, and b uri> ?v>Tmi\ct >\s.. f! ??!? n? writer." In S nil labor ardent spirits were a regu- n r daily r:\tion- Jt is related by writ- I \s of the period that "in the 'country n ergymon drank as'hard as their par- n hioners; that women and children h ined.iti tiie revels, ami that it was no h ore uncommon lo meettipsy cler- a . man thau to see a woman or half:o\vn bov slavering under an'.over" ' --? i j i? K :ut ol spirits, or a iaira nana lying iiui drank by tiiu roadside." In i' winsyvvanin there Were in 1790 hq <x as than o.OOO siiiis in operaUo3 in a *s jpui.iliun oi 4:34.373^ ay aae still for ai rerv eightv-jspven or the inhabitants. C1 - r g] MISSING LINKS. The prison population of Great Britain was twice as large in ISoO a? it is now. Levi P. Morton has .nine daughters everyone of whom is, said to be a beauty. ! ' It is reported that the Princess Kung of China has been converted to Christianity. Miss Lillian Kussell says she lias received as many love letters from ladies as from gentlemen. Lady; Carnarvon, wife of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, is diligently studying the Irish language. The hair of President Cievaland is thinning rapidly, and it is prophesied he will yet be as bald as Bismarck or Ben Butier. The skull of Douglass, the Ute In yy t\k Jvii 10 aotu iio a weight by the editor of the Gicnwood, (Col.) Echo. . ; . Dr. Butler, who retiresfrom the head mastership of Harrow worth $500,000, is "the most successful school-teacher in the world." Sarah Bernhardt is said.to-be still 8150,000 in debt She hopes to make the amount with h^snrplus in her coming American totjr. The best gravedigger in Yirginia is named McNamara arid^he is 83 years jld. He has buried, over 7/000 persons. He gathers theifi Beacoasfield talked-Jo. a soft, low roice*. Gladstone in medium tones, ivhiie Lord Salisbury, not t being so jreat. talks moro loudly. A North Carolina farmer recently jought a tract df .land for ?2,200, and he very next daysoid from it a towerng walnut tree for $1,800. Old Spot, the horse -tfyat Gen. Grant iscd at Vicksburg,1 was sold last year [or ?11,' by order of theQriartermaster, ind has "now pitied a circus. Mr. Isb, of Waco, Tex., wears as a vatch-charm a bit of ore dug 2,000 feet )elow the surface, and that assays },200 worth of gold to the.tQu. It is curious that General Curtis Lee. hough a grandson of Mrs. Curtis, )c:?rs a most marked and striking reemblance to the pictures of Wusliingon. A dashy girl at one of the Saratoga totels wore a white silk bali' dress on he folds of which were hand-painted cenos "from our country seat in Caliornia." An American girl, traveling in lu[ia, gqt hot water with which to mix a Doming toddy, by stepping, mug in tand, to the locomotive and serenely eeking it of the astounded stoker. " ..... ; The prominent sheep raisers in Tcntessec have resolved to abandon the msiness, owing to the want of a dog aw, asserting that-300,000 sheep cuniot be maintained against 500,100 10?5. President Cleveland is a prudent aan. He lias liad insurance policies m his life for some time to the-amount if $16,000. Recently a policy for.$10.00 more, was taken out. Insurance - nen have considered presidential lives omewhat hazardous. M. Grevy," president of the French epubiic, is said to be rather parsimon3US. The latest, anecdote about him 3 to the effect that at Vthc.Odeon the thcr evening a stranger presented imself and asked at what time be exacted the president lo arrive at the ueatre. "The president is not extViic ovpniii<r " v/?r*iin/] flirt ger. "Who told you''that he was oming?" ' "No one," returned the tranger, "but I had seen in the paper hat you were giving a performance toight at reduced rates." A correspondent says,of Lester Walick, the veteran- gallant and actor: :Very. careful is Lester Wallack about Lie usages of good society. He ran way with the daugher of an English obleman, whose acquaintance he had lade while an officer in a crack regilent of the; English army. When Wallack lost Montague, who gave him tire satisfaction, ne was compeueu 3 lake Osmond Tcarle. One morning t rehearsal Tcarle committed the faux as of lilting his coat-tails as he sat own to. make love to a young lady in er drawing-room. - Wallack was disusted.with the act. 'Let me tell you, tr. Tcarle. that a gentleman's wardobe is sufficiently large to permit of is rumpling as many coat-taiis in a ay as lie pleases.-'*" "From what I have seen," said the eir to tho titles of the.Rmian Coloixas/whcf, with iiis.wife (formerly Miss !va Ma. key), is now in San Francisco, this country lias resources incomparbly.surccHjr/ to. those of any country l.the. old world. As regards sceuery, has many striking features. Tftc hief feature of American scenery, H1 lay call'' it so, is its originality. J. ave visited the Rocky mountains, seen jose tremendous canyons, and ciimbd some of the highest peaks. There i a severity of aspect, a rug^edness of haracter in the landscape. Everything i conducted on a scale of immensity, ic lines arc bold, and the cffect of tho icture sometimes astounds the sense, a Europe there is less of this conducti on a magnificent sealc.*' When"Mr. Forties','who recently camc UUiC XI Vlil s\ >I3JV CV tuu idlUUUd JJIU? 1 the "dark purpied spin res of sen," rew near Timor L-.uit his steamer was addenly surrounded by a tieet, of anoes. All at once Use wild Papuan oatmen set up. the cry, "Laru. land'* Giu, .gin!'' The village wns found alisaded all round. A small portion f the fortification was removable 0:1 ic shore side in iho daytime, and the roiuul outside was closely set with amtipo spikes, the place being on its cfence. From a branch of a high tree ear by hung-a 'human' arm, hacked uL by the shoulder blade. The money xere is a kind; of bead, made of soft 2ii stone. IJolu sexes eicatnve their rms and shoulders with sniali. spots v means of red hot stones. This is lid to" be :m "iihitation of small-pox larks, with the intention of warding ff that disease. 'i'he Indiaus^f .Alaska are said to be ine silversmiths, and their silvci racelets in partiotilar are in great demand. A lame workman has an cxsasivo repute, a.iu he selis dozeus oi racelets, upon the arrival of cach teamcr, at $3 per pair. Some specimens he gets $25 a pair for. The lame ndian artilicer is a very rapid workian, and will from a piece of coin lake.a beautifully chased ring in an our or so with his rude tools. The iv j _ - * ; - - i r.. ? t oaus ox aunuais auu.iuuian characters re included in his designs. i Chorus choirs -of male voices have eeo.mc tho fashionable church niusic l New York. There arc six or seven jngregations which will begin this ill their first experience in male ehoirs, ad the chorus of boys' voices is inreasing in popularity. It is quite Enlish. ... * J