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THE STATE FAIR. A Good Exhibit in All the Departments? Ka'o Interferes, but the Fair Was a Success. The annual Fair of the State Agricultural and Mechanical Society was held ?n Cuiuinbia, commencing on Monday, the 22th inst., and closing on the following Friday. There was a good attendance every day, though the rain on Wednesday interfered seriously. Thursday was the day of the big crowd. The exhibits were quite up to the standard?those in livestock and ma chinery oeing unusually hne. The Columbia Record gives the following account of the scene on Thursday: At tLe grounds there was a much larger attendance today than on yesterday. Everything is well under way and tne buildings are now alive with their thousands of articles. Yesterday and today have been more or less days of preparation, but the real business of the Fair will begin tomorrow with a rush. In the new buildiDg many articles have been added since yesterday. The field crop exhibit is still incomplete, but is very good as far as quality is concerned. The process of bee culture and honey making is one of the attractions of ttie first fioor. On the second floor there has been aeon" tiuual stream of persons lookiDg at the really fine displays of needlework, carpet?, fancyware, jellies, wines, cakes, tomatots, peppers etc. The display of needle work is by far the finest ever made. The picture gallery is well filled with the handiwork of the artist. The exhibits of Columbia's photographers, W. A. Reck iiDg ana vjr. v. nennies, arc excellent huu extensive. There are some excellent specimens of drawing. Ou entering the first floor of the old. building one hears the whirl of machinery. V. C. Badham, of Columbia, exhibits a twenty live horse power Talbott & Sons engine, a feedmill an<* cotton seed pressure combined, also a fifty-saw Lummis gin, feeder and condenser. James Hunter, of Columbia, has a grisi mill on exhibition. Howie & Sons, of Columbia, show : Smith Sons Gin with improved feeder, and condenser. The McCorrnack Harvesting Company exhibit a harvester, a twine binder, a mower and a hay rake. The Southern Farm Tool Company, of Atlanta, exhibit harrows. John Alexander, of Columbia, shows specimens of work from the Congaree Iron Works, such as chairs, railings, benches. At the west end outside the old building is a lively scene, with a half dozen engines running simultaneously and operating scores of machines. W. H. Gibbes, Jr., of Columbia, has a first-class display, managed by Mr. D. A. Childs. He exhibits a "Daisy," a "Challenge" and a "Liddell Tompkins" engine, a variable feed saw mill, a sixty-saw Pratt gin, feeder and condenser, a fifty-saw Winship feeder and condenser, a Raymond corn and cob mill, a Hunter grist mill, a pea huller, a corn sheller, two "PJane', Jr.," cultivator?, a dry well pump, a deep well pump, a Corbett disc harrow with feeder, a "lioss'' cotton press, a "Deering" reaper, a "Thomas" horse rake, an "Empire" grain drill, a "Kemp" manure spreader, a "Massilon" thresher, a sulky plow. Ti:e Cheraw Iron Works have a gocd exhibit, consisting of a 15-horse power engine and boiler, a saw mill in operation, a coin mill, an Acme cotton press, Agent's cotton gin and a Hall's self-feeding g;'r.. Cheraw has reason to be proud of this ex hitk of home enterprise. The exhibit of the Tozer Engine Works of Columbia, in charge of Mr. Win. Lester, is especially fine. It comprises twu agricultural engines and one bed plate entine of the Tozer patent. In this exhibit there is also a miniature engine made by J. Yv. Shealy, an 18-year-old young man woe works in the Tozer round house. He has been here only four months and befor-j coming he had never seen a machinery ihop, yet he has on exhibition a perfect Utile engine made by him at night with tools ; of his own making. Desultory After-Election Thoughts. 1. i nat 11 was a great surprise to both parties. 2. That the Democratic managers lived in a fool's paradise until Gen. Benjamio Harrison drove them out with a flaming sword. 3. That the Republicans got away with the country?lock, stock and barrel; hook, bob and sinker; Presidency, Senate and House. 4. That everybody wonder3 what they will do with it. 5. That Mr. Hewitt "took it out of" 31 r. Cleveland to the amount of just about two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and is glad of it. 6. That the Herald still believes, as it said last November, "that the protective system has as yet the support of the majority of the American people," and. 7. Tnat the Presidential yea? is not a good time to begin the debate on this question, but 8. That nevertheless we had a most interesting and important "educational cam paign," and 9. That the protectionists can't stand another like it. 10. That the Star Exed Goddess is all but her next friend, Major General Watterson, is not as good looking as he was?and, alas! probably don't know aay more. 11. That the country still leans to the Republican party, but will stand no nonsense. 12. That?as everybody now sees?if the Republicans had had sense enough to nominate Mr. Arthur in 1S84 they would not have spent four years in exile. 12. That they can't afford to kick up their heels in tne next four years. 14. That even poor little Delaware couldn't stand Mr. Bayard any longer. 15. That the next Democratic President will probably call only Democrats to his cabinet, because a mixture of fossil Whigs don't seem to work well. 16. That a kitchen cabinet ought not to be taken entirely from Kentucky. 17. That General Benjamin Harrison is not General Garfield, and therefore will not ask Mr. Blaine to take a place in his cabinet. IS. That the Democratic mismanages delighted their opponents when they undertook the stale game of hazarding the whole campaign on Kew York. 19. That Mr. William L. Scott is a great man, but not so great as he thought he was before the election day. 20. That next time the Democrats -will know better or they'll get beaten again. 21. That the country is so closely divided that both parties must put forward their best men and measures. 22. That Mr. Graut ought to make a good mayor, and that Mr. Hewitt will moan in private the rest of his life. 22. That Governor Hill is a good man almost any weight he chooses, but will never be President. 0/4 T?k?4. .1? tr?. xuac tuc xvcpuuiiuduo nave uia>> u au elephant -with the whole menagerie annexed 25. That there will be a great deal of fun in the next four years. 26. That the old bandanna is as dear to our hearts as ever. 27. That when a nation of sixty-five millions holds a most exciting election in absolute peace and quiet, and the President is the first to gracefully accept defeat, that proves that we are a great people, with an orderly and constitutional future. 2i>. That we are a great people?no matter ->vhat our English friends in England and this country may say.?New York Herald. The Electrical Engineer enumerates for-y three eiectric street railroads in operation m the United States, and forty-eight under construction. A news item states that "seme young nen of Montgomery, Ala., are to keep house without marrying." Well why not? Plenty of young men marry without keeping house "and it's a poor rule that won't wors. WtU waja. I There are eight hundred and fifty mis 1 sionaries in India, an average of ene to | every five hundred thousand people. ? DELIBERATIONS OF THE DOCTORS. President Xallt-yV Address?Proceedings of the Meeting. (Columbia Record, Nov. 15.) The Association of Confederate Medic;:! Survivors of the Army and .Navy met iu the Council Chamber at noon today. The following members were present: Mt-s>rs. A. N. Talley, W. B. Taylor, A. J. China, Wm. Anderson, 11. II. Edmunds, F. L. Frost, Middleton Michel, Thos. J. ilelvie, James Mcintosh, A. S. Salley, Georgt: II. Todd. President Talley delivered an address of welcome as follows: "It is with sincere pleasure that I welcome you on thi3 the first anniversary of our Association and my welcome w?xes warmer with a knowledge of the sacrifices your presence here involves?sacrifices which none but the busy practitioner may appreciate or the patriotic citizen make. That our membership is not moie largely represented we deeply regret, but censure is not an element of that regret, for we are far from suspecting c ur absent friends of waning interest in the objects of our meeting. *In offering you the welcome which it is my province and pleasure to extend, permit me to give expression to a thought T xfAM \ni11 A Qij r? > noifhor n A. HVJ7*/ J vu niu iiviiuvi tuwv vant nor ill-timed. It is true that ours is in no sense a political organization, and that with us the behests of pari}' are subordinate to the instincts of patriotism, but no loyal son of the South?with the iccoliection of the humiliation, deep, dark and damning, to which he has been subjected, yet rankling in his heart and branded upon his memory?can fail to look with anxiety upon our political environment. The clouds which once darkened our civilization and threatened our extinction again appear in our horizon and the listening ear may catch the stealthy steps of change and fear. "Do we not, my comrades and friends, in this menace find an incentive to closer union, the bands of a stronger brotherhood ? Does it not admonish us to cherish the recollection of what we have done and suffered in our country's cause that we may derive fresh inspiration from the recollcc tioa? True it is we may never again be called upon to forsake kindred and home for the perils of the battle field?and God grant that we never ma)'! But should tLe call come, the experience of the past teaches that it will not fall upon deaf cars in tViic 'But let us rather hope that the new era will not be one of stratagems and spoils, of sectional strife and vindictive persecu tion, but that a broad philanthropy and an enlightened patriotism may shape the destinies of our common country." On motion of Dr. Mcintosh a committee was appointed to select eminent surgeons to address the association at the next meeting. The committee consists of Doctors Michel], Mcintosh and Talley. Oa motion of Dr. Cbina the present officers were re-elected. The following lineal descendants of members were elected members of the association: Doctors M. G. Salley, Ii. Andral Braxton, W. T. Edmunds and A. Is". Talley, Jr.. T-N. ? T-* T\ Y\ V 1 T - . T. doctors r. r. rorcner ana .jatncs juciiitosfa were appoiuted acomaiiitee on Necrology. The association then adjourned to meet at 8.30 P. M. at the resideuce of Dr. Taylor, who has tendered the body a collation. THE GERMAN ^AILROADS. Owned or Controlled by the Government, j Military Spirit of the Management. The railways of Germany are, for the j most part, owned by the suite. Such AS I are not owned out and out are controlled j by the government in such a manner as I to practically attain the main object of j j ownership. The government looks upon the railways primarily as a means of ! bringing money into the treasury; lastly, as a convenience to the people. As you travel in Germany you notice that all the officials about railway stations not only j dress like soldiers, but have much of the j grulxness and precision characteristic of j | that class; and the very porters, who i cany your luggage, remind you of the j barrack room, and you are not surprised j to find the station master strutting about with much of the swagger and consequence of the parade ground. tho milwov morj'jrr^nionf" lilfyliAr , up and you find that the military spirit pervades even- department. When a railway is projected the first question relates to its value in the time ol' war, tliu second to its usefulness to the people. The war office must first approve before tiie civil branch of government can take a step. Thus you will see on the map oi Germany many railways leading nowhere, so far as commerce is concerned, and somewhere, only in the event of a war. Lines are radiated from important centers to every point of the frontier, without reference to whether the traffic is sufficient to make such a road a paying investment. So also you find a railway running parallel with a frontier line, purely as a military precaution. A circular railway has just been completed around Berlin, so far from the center as to run most of the wav through a desert of saiid. There is scarcely any travel on the road, but the government maintains it so as to have it handy in case of a siege. The political power which the government exercises through owning the railways is very great. In the first place it comes in contact with manufacturers of almost every variety of machinery goods, for it has nearly 25,000 miles in operation; it has thousauds of locomotives, fieight cars and passenger cars to build; it lias stations and bridges to construct; clotiiing, lymps and instruments of various kind to furnish. The government railway officials favor manufactures favorable to the government, and correspondingly injure the trade of those in opposition. Then at thousands of railway stations are restaurants, the food for which is supplied from the neighborhood?and here is another chance for the government to influence votes in its favor. Then then is an immense amount of money sj>ent yearly in advertising the new time tables in the local newspapers along the lines of road. This money, of course, can only go to such papers as the railway officials deem suitable?and do you suppose that a German official will look with favor upon a newspaper that ventures to criticise any government measures? Then the railway officials can withhold the building of a railway in this neighborhood if they prefer some other; they can make rates of freight different from one point to another without reference to the mileage; they can depress the trade of one place and make trade brisk in another if they choose; and sometimes they may be tempted to do so to ouv? *.i\J?* iu ? w ?ww for government representatives in parliament than for Liberals. Of coarse the government does not intend to do this, but it is done by government officials and the government does not care to look toe closely into the matter. Finally comes the great army of railway employes, laborers, porters, signal men. conductors, engineers, mechanics, masons, carpenters, officials of all kinds, particularly the large number who are expecting situations.?London Cor. Now York Commercial Advertiser. Woman?She shares our griefs, doubles our joys, and trebles our expenses. The manufacture of paper bottles is to be begun on a very extensive scale. It is probably the attention paid it which makes the weather-vane. However short the corn crop may be elsewhere, you can always find a few ker nels in Kentucky. "Darling," he said, "your eyes are as bright as diamonds, your teeth as white as pearls, your lips as red as rubies, and?and . ?" "Yes, George," she replied, sweetly, "and you are as green as an emerald. " ] Then George went out into the jet black night. THE SULTAN'S COURT. HowAlxinl HaniiU r.ost. the of Ills Particms and i'ctiylc. Round the Sultan raovos a little world of marshals, chamberlains. secretaries, dragomans and eunuchs, who interfere in all mailers of staio. The principlo which guides His Maj- . in the selection of these officials ma.: '>e guessed from the mixture of slavish iialtery of his mental abilities and insolent trading on his weaknesses which alone enables them to maintain their posts and influence. All of them have ups and ^ e r uowns ux lavuuusui, um aiuuug Lingua there are invariably two or three sufticiently strong to get the most important measures blocked for weeks if it suits their purpose, and not unfrequently rejected entirely, even though unanimously recommended by the cabinet, the members of which have gradually sunk into mere heads of departments. Witness the recall of the> Ambassador from Rome without the knowledge of either tho Grand Vizier or Foreign Minister, and an order for torpedo boats kept secret from the admiralty. Against the power of this secret council it is futile to struggle, and people dealing with the Government and palace must accept things as they are, and pay court to the parasites, who rapidly acquire wealth by turning their influence to the worst account. Of the Sultan's nervousness, that tremendous lever in designing hands, enough has been written to the English journals, where every body has read of tne fortified seraglio and aud the mosque built at its gates; of the elaborate precautions against imasrinarv conspiracies, and of the host of unscrupulous spies. To his fears and indulgence in costly follies Abdul Hamid owes the loss of his people's respect and much of the bad luck which is dogging his footsteps. At heart he means well, and is probably uuconscious that his selfish whims and fancies are always allowed to outweigh the good of the nation, but the effect is neverikelcss deplorable. Ho erroneously believes himself to bo a reformer, though lie may fairly claim to be an innovator. Pious he is, and sober, uxorious also, and squeamishly merciful toward non- political offenders. He will not sanction the death of the vilest murderer, quite forgetting that, especially in Turkey, leniency to criminals entails misery on the lawabiding. Music is his greatest pleasure, though ho does not despise conjuring tricks and puppet-dancing. But,to do him justice, these are the relaxations, not the business, of life, which is to plot and scheme and labor j to restore the caliphate to its ancient splendor, and the Ottoman empire to the ranks of the leading powers. Ever dreaming, never acting. Abdul Hamid 1 N-Jfin /?7iniofinv on. V<&nrtrtv).& hnor- I O AX* v/fwivwuv-/ VI? I ging himself in the illusion that he is a mighty monarch and spinning, with the aid of soothsayers and toadies, innumerable cobwebs of future triumphs, while the country over which he yet rules is reeling to its foundations, and threatens to overwhelm him and his projects inacommon ruin.?Fortnightly Review. A GOTHAM ROMANCE. An Aaction Sale Behind Which JL.ay tne Tragedy of a Life. A mysterious and striking auction sale took place in New York the other day, in an up-town flat It had evidently been occupied by a woman, young, beautiful and refined, and she had gone out of it without removing even her rings that lay-in the jewelstand on the dainty dressing-table. Every thing was sold unreservedly. A piano, with a pile of songs and sheet after sheet of classical music; a library containing all the best of the modern authors, and many whom the verdict of the ages have consecrated; books finely bound and artistically illustrated, showing that the reader liked to have her mental food served up on dainty dishes; pictures that, while they were not, perhaps, very costly, showed the owner knew the best and appreciated it; bric-a-brac of all sorts and well selected; a table service, consisting of napery-like satin and china, showing the best of the Wedgwood, Sevres and Worcester manu factures. And wearing apparel dainty enough for a Princess?tiny Satin slippers, five-and-a-half gloves, stockings like silk cobwebs and handkerchiefs as fine?quaint, picturesque, made evidently for a tall, slim woman; Eastern shawls, delicate lace-trimmed lingerie ?all the beautiful things with which a high-bred and luxurious woman surrounds herself. Apparently no selections had been made, nothing kept back, and the woman had walked away beyond a doubt with nothing but the clothes she wore. The auctioneer said, briefly, in answer to all interrogations, that the owner had suddenly determined to go into a convent, and had directed that the entire contents of the flat be disposed of for the benefit of the institution she had entered. It was plain that the great tragedy of a life lay behind it, but what it was, the details of it, will never be known.?N. Y. Co*. San Francisco Argonaut. Somebody has been looking up the history of cancs in this country, and fiuds that Ihey were originally a part of the repertory of the leade s of the church, being the principal badge of the deacon. The cane was about five feet long and one end was embellished with a big knob, the other with feathers When the small boy rebelled he got a rap on the head with the uncharitable end of the cane. If the head of the famiiv got to dreaming of the happy days ir. the oiil home, the turkc} 's plumage on the deacon's <ane feathered him into life again. There is a complaint that ihenvw movemovement amoog women Las produced a dearth of the maiden aunt. Instead of devoting h< r time and strength to the ueeds of her relatives she is wiiiing, or clerking, or teachii g, or in any other direction devoted to the enlargement of her sphere; all of which is pleasant for the maiden aunt, but inconvenieut to her relatives, who feel an affectionate claim upon her services without pay. There is truth in the remark that a bag if empty hangs loosely by its string, but the more there is put in it the closer is the mouth drawn, and tbe h.-irder is it to get anything out. So, often, as men have more means to give, is it more difficult to obtain money from them. "Kas the town grown much in the last ten yeurs, Mr. Snaffles?" "Grown? My, yes Why, this very lot we're standing on I paid ten thousand dollars for in '72. I sold it in '81 for two thousaud dollars, and had to buy it back on foreclosure for fifteen hundred dollars. Stranger, you can see tbis town grow, but the trouble is it's an ingrowing town. Jynks?Well, old man, how do you like your Dew lodgings? tfynts?me rooms are nice enough, but the attendance is something terrible. Why, this morning tue servant girl left me a towel that was so wet that I washed on it and dried myself in the water! He?My darling, I really believe my rheumatism has wholly disappeared. She ?0 I am so sorry! Now we shall never snow when the weather is going to change. A race across the Atlantic?The English. TWO KINDS OF BOYS. The Plain, Awkward Youth and HU More Graceful Contemporary. The plain, awkward boy always j stands in great awe of the handsome : and graceful boy. The dapper, grace| ful, trim, lithe youngster, who glides I about among the admiring girls like ! Apollo among the nine graces, who i knows how to lift his hat with all the ! grace of a London dandy, and who twirls his cane like a Beau Brummel? such a one looks with a sort of refined horror upon the awkward boy, with much the same feeling a bright American lad might look upon a young Hottentot And the plain, studious awkward boy looks upon his more graceful contemporary with a feeling very much akin to envy. The awkward boy is at home in the barn, but an embarrassed foreigner in the parlor; he is graceful enough in the shed, but put him in the drawing-room and he will fall over the chandelier. He is as frightened as a deer at bay at a party. If some good old lady speaks to him, he can not find a half-dozen words out of the 115,000 in the dictionary with which to answer her; and if a pretty girl speak9 to him, those half-dozen take flight, and he stands as dumb as a sphinx, but immediately falls in love with her, and nourishes a hopeless passion for the next ten days. The graceful boy has no such trouble. The old ladies whisper: "How polite and gentlemanly;" the young ladies axe charmed; every body likes him socially; he is intensely popular. But there is no reason that the awkward boys need be discouraged. Smart boys are m03t always awkward. Shallow boys, as a general rule, are graceful. In a few years, when the awkward boy is walking, or possibly riding, down to his place of business, he will Vin vonr liaWo t/\ naes Vii? rival of an earlier date carrying his dinner-pail to his work. When he is mayor, the graceful boy will come ?not half as gracefully as in the old time?and ask him for a chance to work on the streets. When the awkward boy goes to Congress?and awkward boys have a way of getting there ?his graceful chum may possibly aspire to become his private secretary, but it is probable that he will not even have risen to such an estate as that. The awkward boys have a very graceful knack of rising in the ranks. Perhaps it is the youthful habit of stumbling about that enables them so often to stumble into our thirty-eight Gubernatorial chairs, or into the White House. But this is not written to glorify awkwardness. Awkwardness is perhaps natural to the callowness of thoughtful youth, but a boy should get over it as he gets over the measles. Youthful awkwardness projected into middle life sets as wretchedly as baby dresses on a full-grown man.?Yankee Blade. PARIS COUTURIERES. Dress-Makers of the Future Will Be a Most Wonderful Product. Parisian dress-makers, or couturieres, have always had a reputation for taste and skill. They were, however, generally trained in a rather irregular fashion, much being left to their intuitive, or their imitative, faculties. Nowadays, however, the apprentice couturieres are educated professionally in a most methodical manner, and it is predicted confidentially on this account that the dress-makers of the future will be the most wonderful products that the world of fashion has ever seen. In all the professional schools of the city of Paris girls are taught not only sewing, hut Euclid and drawing. Then the embryo dress-makers receive elaborate lessons in design. Their teacher, the maitress couturiere, is a skillful geometrician and designer as well as a perfect needlewoman and tailoress. She makes her pupils sketch on paper, or on cloth, with graphic and symmetrical precision the costumes which taey nave uiumaieiy to construct m solid stuff, and teaches them to transform various articles of feminine attire by rapid strokes of pencil or chalk from a rotonde to a mantelet, and from a corsage or a basque into a pelerine; but the cultivators of the young dressmaking idea do not stop at drawing or geometry. They also aim at making apprentice couturieres water-colorists, in order to help them combine color with form in the matter of building up dresses. M. Gustave Congny, who has devoted his time to writing a book on this highly interesting subject, on the artistic dress-makers of the future, goes into oKnuf fVin nam o Vvl a vnAfn i. uui. vo uuv/uu vuv i t-ixici/i x\ el- yio uiDla 1 morphosis which fashion is likely to undergo at the hands of the aesthetic couturieres who are to come. What lovely sartorial symphonies, he seems to say; what dainty and delicious harmonies in flounces; what Arcadian poems in petticoats will be evolved from the brains of the highly-trained seamstresses who are on their way to rejoice mankind. A couturiere will, in future, be a veritable artist, ranking with thft dnfitorASRAfl in mftflirtinp. n.nrl physics, and "distancing" all the members of the minor callings and pursuits which are nowadays taken up by females.?Minneapolis Tribune. ?It is stated that vessels built of African teak wood have lasted 100 years, to be then broken up because of faulty models. Its weight is from forty-two to fifty-two pounds per cubic foot; it works easily, but wears the tools rapidly on account of the quantity of silex in it. It also contains an oil which prevents the iron in contact with it from rusting. So mi; physicians have warmly endored the suggestion that "massage," as an employment, is particularly suited to the capabilities of the blind, in whom the tactile sensfi is so strontrlv develoDed. Indeed, in Japan massage has for a long period of time been practiced by blind men, who go about the streets with a flageolet, drawing attention to themselves and their occupation. A glance in the places where women take luncheon shows that, unlike men, they rarely indulge in steaks, chops, roasts or such substantials. "What they mostly have before them are salads, ices, patties, eclaires, pickles, soup and coffee. A man at Grass Lake, Mich., carried an egg in a pocket inside his waistcoat for twenty-one dajs, on a wager of ten dollars that it would hatch from the natural warmth of his body, and wfcile he was talking with some friends the peep of a chicken announced that he had won his wager. It is said that the first thing a "Washington Territory Indian buys is a huge trunk. Then if he has money enough, he fills it. This trunk acts as a storehouse for trinkets as long as the lock holds good, then it is turned into a cradle, and when its owner dies he is buried in it. South Africa, Ceylon and India are new paying much attention to tea raising, and China's great monoply seems to be on the wane. ; THE DREADED" SIMOOM. Its Generation and the Terrible Incidents of Its Career. The most remarkable of the hot winds is the Simoom (sambuii, samun, shelook, etc.), the violent whirlwind, with or without sand, which affecte the deserts of Africa and southwestern Asia. The great heat of the soil passing into the atmosphere causes an appreciable expansion and lightening of the latter, resulting in the formation of small cyclonic disturbances. The surrounding atmosphere, in the never ceasing natural struggle to maintain an equilibrium, rushes in to fill the space vacated by the expanded air, and in its turn undergoes the same process, until at last there is a powerful current drawn into the vortex, frequently * * - -J? 1 J cringing wiui it quantities ux iouoe sanu, and the cyclone then becomes visible? huge columns of sand whirling round and moving forward at the same time. The air, already very dry before the simoom originated, now becomes still more so from the presence of the dense cloud of dust Away goes the storm across the desert; at first it is seen as a low haze on tho horizon, but quickly spreading the cloud advances, sometimes slowly, sometimes rapidly, the tall pillars being visible a long way off darkening the atmosphere, and bringing with them great-destruction. In the whirl the wind blows with the force of a hurricane, hills of sand are taken up, and are either scattered or are again gathered into new hills wherever the storm chooses to deposit them, so that the desert is dotted with frequently shifting sand ranges. Under these are buried whole caravans of traders, travelers and even armies. The simoom is supposed to have annihilated the armies of Sennacherib and of Cambyses. So terribly dry is the air in these storms that it is fatal to vegetation, while the density of the dust cloud makes it almost impossible for human beings to breathe. This gives rise to the idea that the wind contained a deadly poison; hence the Arabic simoom, signifying a poisonous wind; but it is no more poisonous than otitt ifa -fo+al AiiQlififiQ hmncr simply the excessive dryness and the quantity of fine sand with which it is loaded. The temperature of the air lias been known to rise to 133 degs., and its desiccating effect is seen in dried up mouths and nostrils, in skin cracking, intense thirst, painful aiid difficult breathing and inability to sleep. The time occupied in passing a given spot varies between a few minutes and twenty or twenty-four hours, the blast leaving behind it unmistakable evidence of the path it. has traveled. The hot parching air of the simoom, almost as soon as the breath is out of the body and before decomposition has time to set in, causes the flesh to lose all its firmness and consistency, so that it drops or may be taken off the bones easily. A party of officers sleeping on the roof of Gen. Jacob'8 house at Jacobabad thus recount their experience of the simoom: "They were awakened by a sensation of suffocation and an exceedingly hot, oppressive feelinc in the air. while at the same time a powerful smell of sulphur pervaded the atmosphere. On the following morning a number of trees in the garden were found to be withered in a remarkable manner. It was as if a current of fire about twelve yards in breadth had passed through the garden in a straight line, singeing and destroying every green thing in its course. Entering on one side and passing out on the other, its path was as defined as the course of a river." Palgrave was overtaken by one of these scourges in northern Arabia. After some preliminary remarks on the advance of the simoom, he proceeds: ''So dark was the atmosphere and so burning the heat that it seemed that hell had risen from the earth or descended from above. But at the moment when the worst of the concentrated poison blast was coming round we were already prostrate, one and all within the tent, with our heads well wrapped up, almost suffocated, indeed, but safe, while our camels lay without like dead, their long ner;ks stretched out on the sand, awaiting the passing of the gale. "We remained thus for ten minutes, during which a still heat, like that of a red hot iron slowly passing over us, was alone to be felt. Then tjie tent walls began again to flap in the returning gusts and announced that the worst of the simoom had gone by. My comrades appeared more like corpses than living men, and so, I suppose, did I. However, I could not forbear, in spite of warnings, to step out and look at the camels; they were still lying flat, as though they had been dead, and the air was yet darkish, but before long it brightened up to its usual dazzling clearness. During the whole time the simoom lasted the atmosphere was entirely free from sand or dust, so that I hardly know how to account for its singular obscurity."?Cornhill Magazine. The Italian Colony of London. The recent investigations, and the facts brought to light concerning Italian immigration, suggest to me how comparatively little that race have colonized here in proportion to some of the greater European cities, and particularly London. where, in certain Quarters, tliev have successfully besieged and ousted its former inhabitants, and taken possession of their tenements with slow though certain acquisition. The settlement in London is bounded on one side by Saffron Hill, and on the other by a street tliat i3 familiar to the Londoner who takes an occasional prowl about out of the way places, as Leather Lane, Black Hill, Summer street, and Eyre street hill (for you see I have a memory), are all included in its precincts, and are all overcrowded with swarthy faced organ grinders, ice cream venders, ragpickers, nicturesmie olivfi skinned woman nnd dirty faced children. Wrinkled old crones in gay attire exchange salutations through the windows of the dilapidated and filthy houses that line these narrow thoroughfares Nor does the masculine element lounging about the doorways entirely discard its native drees as it does here. The men cling to -their poniards, to rudely embroidered cloaks and waistcoats and wear felt hats tilted to one side and adorned now and then with a faded feather. The younger blades amuse themselves with all manner of curious games, though I have never observed among them the mania for tossing pennies, for which sport our little bare headed lazzarone bootblacks seem to have such a passion. The shops of this odd Italian colony of London, too, are as much in keeping with the race as are those of the Chinese quarter in New York. The fancy stores display various objects of native manufacture, earrings, beads, images of devotion, cheap looking trinkets and silken kerchiefs of brilliant hue. The grocer exposes for sale yards of dusty macaroni, lengths of crusty bread, and red, yellow and green liquids in clumsy bottles sealed with wax. As a rule, be it said to their credit, these fellows of the London Italian quarter are much more peaceable than those here. They mind their own business, and the weapons so conspicuously displayed in their belts are never made use of; certainly not to the extent that they are in New York, at all events. ?Jolm Preston Beecher in New York News. He?My darling, you must be mine. I yearn for you every day. She?That's all 1 right; but what I wan't to know wiil you earn for me every day after we are mar j ried? ] Paris is said to be full to overflowing ] with ladies from all parts of the world 3 seeking the lastest fashion. It is fashionable now to have oat meal I j mush for breakfast. That's what causes I j the stir in the kitchen. 1 g WOODCHUCK'S BURROWS. A Sportsman Who Examined Them Tells Hon- They Are Constructed. Through some parts of the State of Connecticut it would be hard to pick out a clover field of any size that did not have a woodchuck burrow in some part of it. Sometimes they choose a site somewhere under the stone wall which surrounds the field, or if there is a large rock, as is often the case, anywhere about the middle of the field, the animal will burrow under this as a very choice location. Finally the roots of an old apple tree or other tree are often chosen for its stronghold, the burrow being dug down among them, the owner seeming to possess a realizing sense that no one would ever dream of attempting to dislodge him from such quarters. As is the case with the excavations made for their habitations by most fossorial mammals, the burrow of a woodohuck at first descends obliquely into the earth, then passes nearly horizontally for several feet, rises moderately for the last half of its length to terminate in quite a spacious and round chamber, which constitutes the 'living room" of the entire family. In it the female brings forth her litter and the young remain there until thev nair off and dig their own homes elsewhere. Such a burrow may be at least thirty feet iu length, so long that one never thinks of digging a woodchuck out, but I have seen farmers bring up two or three barrels of water on a cart and drown the occupant of this subterranean establishment on a short notice and rejoice most heartily if the pair and perhaps seven or eight quartergrown young are caught in at the same time. Very often I have captured them in steel traps set at the mouth of the burrows, taking the precaution to sprinkle it carefully over with fine dirt. One old woodchuck, I remember, constructed his burrow almost in the center of a twenty-acre clover lot, and every attempt to capture him in any kind of a trap utterly failed. It was the rarest thing in the world to even catch him standing up at the entrance of his burrow during the day, but frequently we would see him just head and shoulders out of it It seems to me I must have fired thirty or forty times at him under such circumstances from the outer side of the stone wall which surrounded the field, and that, too, with a heavy old-fashioned muzzle-loading Kentucky rifle, which at seventy-five to one hundred yards was good nearly every time for all small game. But here every shot failed; a cloud of dust would pull up at the very entranoe of the burrow each time and I would confidently walk over to pick him out, but no, next day at noon he was there again, looking out as smiling as ever. He was captured finally by my cruelly tying a Colt's revolver to a stout stake driven down within a few feet of the burrow and training the aim down the entrance and then tying a long string to the trigger. 1 waited behind the wall till he again showed himself, when the success of the device sealed his doom.?Forest and Stream. TRAINING CHILDREN. The Importance of Instilling Into Their Hearts Richt Motives for Action. While we are making- beautiful ornaments for our rooms, and lovely pictures to hang on our walls, to delight the hearts and eyes of our ohildren and friends, are we trying, also, to adorn the lives of our children by instilling into their hearts and minds right principles and motives for action P Let us remember that memory's hall is a spacious chamber, capable of containing many pictures, and that the scenes being1 enacted, daily and yearly, before our children's eyes, and in which they are taking part, are forming pictures; and, unlike those on our walls, they are to remain there through life. If they are not pleasing they can not be exchanged or effaced; so, don't you see how important it is that we are very careful in their formation? How muoh better it will be in after years, when they grow up, to be able to call up pictures of green meadows, murmuring' brooklets, the delightful woods, filled with harmless and beautiful creatures, and fragrant wild flowers, than to remember these places only as they were represented to their youthful mind3 as the lurking place of something dreadful: toads, worms, bugs, and, as I have heard children say, "wildcats as big as a cow." Let us try and teach our children to be happy and enjoy their childhood while it lasts. Sympathize with them and try to call out all the good and beautiful in their natures by calling their attention to some of the thousands of wonderful and lovely objects all around them. Tell them of the butter fly and the changes through which it must pass before it becomes the gorgeous creature sailing among the flowers, and of the nests of the robin or brown thrush, with their treasures of eggs or young birds, to be sought for, looked at and admired, but not harmed. Teach them the names of all the trees and plants, and the different kinds of birds in their vicinity, with something of their habits, and they will soon learn to love the study of nature, and their minds and hands will be occupied ?for There's beauty all around as, If but our watchtul eyes Oau trace It 'mid familiar things and through their lowly guise. ?Hours at Home. ?A lady of Wrightsville, Ga., put n-n a. Int. of nreserves and seasoned them with what she supposed to be ginger. What was her horror to find afterward that instead of ginger she had used snuff. When ouce the car stove is completely banished, railroad managers as well as travelers will wonder that it was so long endured. And so with the aerial wires. "It is terrible!'' exclaimed an old lady, upon reading of a premature burial; "and I know that when I die I'll be worrying all the time I'm in the grave for fear I've been buried alive." As street dresses will no longer be loaded down with jet, the average woman will be relieved of a considerable handicap. The average weight of a heavily jetted dress is twenty-five pounds. "What's this 'wheat corner' I see so much ab >ut in the papers?" she asked her ynung man, when he hitched his chair a little closer, as they sat behind a screen on the north side of the bay-window. "I don't exactly know," he said. "I'm more . luiercsicu xu mis sweet w:uci jmt uun ; and the usual explosive sound heard on | such occasions immediately followed. Americans will not feel sensitive because J Lhey are charged in a new English book on America with ' 'eccentricities of diet, excess : in smoking, unhealthful heatiDg of their 1 houses, and excessive shaving." The time ias passed when any foreign criticism in3ames the country with rapture or indig- \ lation. Hote1 keepers are grumbling over the ncreased cost of everything incident to 1 heir business, from rent down to a bag of t talt, WHS OF THE PAST. Famous Englishmen Who Said Some Tory Sharp and Pat Thine#. The late Mr. Alexander, the eminent architect, was under cross-examination at Maidstone by Sergeant, afterward Baron, Garrow, who wished to detract from the weight of his testimony, and, after asking him what was his name, proceeded: "You are a builder, I believe?" "No, sir, I am not a Duiiaer; l am an arcmceci;. j "They are much the same, I supposeP" | "I beg your pardon, sir; I can not admit that; I consider them to be to\ tally different" "0, indeed! perj haps you will state wherein j this great difference exists?" "An ! architect, sir," replied Mr. Alexan! der, "conceives the design, prepares ; the plan, draws out the specifications ?in short, supplies the mind; the builder is merely the bricklayer or the carpenter. The builder, in fact, is the machine; the architect the power that puts the machine together and sots it ; going." "0, very well, Mr. Architect, j that will do. And now, after your very | ingenious distinction without a differj ence, perhaps you can inform the court i who was the architect of the Tower of I Babel?" The reply for promptness j and wit is not to be rivaled in the f whole history of rejoinder: "There was : no architect, sir, and hence the confusion." One evening at Carlton House the I Prince Regent observed the author of "The Heir-at-Law." "Why, Colm&n, you are older than I am." George replied: "Oh, no, sir; I could not have taken the liberty of coming into the world before your Royal Highness.w When a subscription was proposed for Fox and some one was observing that it would require some delicacyand wondering ho*./ Fox would take it, Selwyn said: "Take itP Why quarterly, to be sure." To all letters soliciting his subscription tc any thing, Erskine has a regular form of reply, viz.: "Sir, I feel much honored by your application to me and I beg to subscribe"?here the I reader had to turn over the leaf?"myself your very obedient servant," etc. "My Lord," said Dr. Parr to Erskine, whose conversation had delighted him, "should you die first I mean to write your epitaph." "Dr. Parr," was the I 1- "-"i in reply, "10 JLS a tcm]juaiiauu uu wnmmt suicide.*' One of Curran's friends, a notorious and lucky gambler, getting entangled in conversation with him, gradually lost his temper, and at last said, with great vehemence: "No man, sir, shall trifle with me with impunity." Curran corrected him by saying: "Play with you, you mean.11 An old lady residing in one of the charming villas near Tours, observing that her watch had stopped, told her maid to see what o^iock it was on the sun-dial in the garden. In a few minutes Mile. Nicole returned, quite out of breath and carrying something heavy in her apron. "Ma foi, madame," said she, "I can't make out what it says, so I have brought it here, that madame may look at it herself," Bushe, the Irish Chief Baron, made this impromptu verse upon two agitators^who refused to fight, duels, one on account-of his affection for his wife and the other because of his love for h^ daughter: Two heroes of Erin, abhorent of slaughter. Improved on the Hebrew command; One honored his wife andtfe? other hia.daBghter, That his days might be lo^ia the land. Dr. Croly said very smart things and with surprising readiness. At his table one day when one of the guests inquired the name of a pyramidal dish of barley-sugar, some one replied: "A pyramid a Macedoine." "For what use?" rejoined the other. "To give a Philip to the appetite," said Croly. At the breaking up cf a fashionable party, one of the company said he was about to ''drop" in at Lady Blessington's; whereupon a young gentleman, a perfect stranger to the speaker, very modestly said: "0, then, you can take me with you; I want very much to know her, and you can introduce me." While the other was standing aghast at the impudence of the proposal and muttering something about being but a slight acquaintance himself, eta, Sydney Smith observed: "Pray oblige your young friend; you can do it easily enough by introducing him in a capacity very desirable at this close season of the year?say you are bringing with you the cool of the evening."? London Society Times. Indian Mounds in Iowa. According to intelligence from that state several Indian mounds were recently opened in the country around Dubuque, "all seeming to confirm the theory that these mounds contain the relics of a prehistoric race, differing greatly from the American Indian, and a vastly superior order of intelligence and civilization. Last week several skeletons, in a perfect state of preservation, where taken from a mound a mile from Dubuque. They have been articulated and are now on exhibition. They are of huge stature. Another lai-ge mound, at Charles City, in Floyd County, has also been explored. Here the skeletons were in a trench, instead of on the ground, and a quantity of pottery, arrow-heads and stone implements of peculiar design were also found. The most curious relic was a vase with a rim ornamented in the same fashion as vases found in ancient English mounds and described in the report of the United States Bureau of Ethnology. That report states that specimens of this kind are exceedingly rare in this country. Further explorations are to be made." THE BARONESS. Miss Maud would marry a title, So she went far over the sea; "While there she married a baron, And a baron indeed was he. For barren was he of money, And of lands most barren was he; His title, too, it was baron? ^ But spelt with a double r-e. 0 marry for love, young maiden. And not for a Ion? pedigree; The foreign noble has nothing Which he holds in common with thee. Then think of Maud and her title? Far better a spinster to be, Than marry and often be sighing For the dear oid home 'cross the sea. Study well the human body; the mind Is not far off. There is a cheerful ring in an engaged girl's laughter. The merchant often adds to your possessions by taking a weigh. Some of the new muffs have a place to I fasten a bunch of violets or other flowers, fifty type-writing establishments in New York in charge of women. There is a great deal of talk in the papers ] ;hese days about marriage being a failure. K dam and Eve were the first to find it so. ? The United States is said to be tlie moit ] 'ully represented among the tourists .hrough the oldest land where civilization 8 las trod, which is Egypt. / t r .. I HELP IN TIME OF NEED. When a man is downing he will grasp at straws, but straws will not save him. Extend to him life-boat and his rescue is certain. Mr. James A. Greer, of Athens, Gx, (endorsed fcy ; the editor of the Athens Banner-Watchman) makes J the following statement: "I am first cousin of the late Ex-Governor Alex ander H. Stephens, and have been postal clerk on different railroads since 1868. For ten years I have r AMPCD been a sufferer from a cancer oa CANCER my fac6j which grew worse g until the discharge of matter became profuse and very offensive. I became thoroughly disgusted with blood purifiers and pronounced them humbugs, as I had tried many witnout reuex. Finally I was induced to use Botanic Blood Balm, (B. B. B.) The offensive discharge decreased at once and the hardness disappeared. It became less aid less in size until nothing remains except a scar I jjained flesh and strength, and all who have seen me bear testimony. 1 cannot say too much in its praise." A. H. Morris, Pine Bluff, Ark, writes: "Hot Springs failed entirely to cure me of several terrible, indolent running ulcers on mv legs, with which I have been troubled for many years. Several doctors also attempted to cure me but failed. I HOT SPRINGS (made in Atlanta, GaO and theerfect has heen truly healed and I am cured after everything failed- My general health is also improving, appetite and digestion good. I sleep soundly, and never felt better. Doctors told me that I could not be cured. I refer to every merchant or professional man of Pine Bluff. fy Any one interested who desires to loiow more about the wonderful merit of B. 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