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* / _ __ _s _ ' . " <} THE ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER '* ' ' ?' ' "--- .* ; . *t- .?' % % #.f - < -* Ti *?; i' - ', BY W. A. LEE AND HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., THURSDAY. AUGUST 31,1871. . ;' VOLUME XIX?NO. 19. ? ^ A SUMMER DAY. There's a gaping rent in the curtain, That longs for a needle and thread ; There's a garment that ought to be liu* ished, And a book that wants to be read. There's a letter that ought to be answered, There are clothes to fold away, And I kuow these tasks are waiting, And ought to be done to-day. But how can I mend the curtain While watching thesilvery cloud? And how I can finish the garment When the robin calls so loud ? And the whispered trees are telling Such stories above my head, Tlmt T rein lint hut. tin uml liulon . And the book is all unroaji. If I try to read the letter, I am sure oue half the words Will be in the curious language Of my chattering friends, the birds. The lilacs bloom in the sunshine, The roses nod and smile, And the clothes that ought to be folded And ironed, must wait awhile. I lie in the cooling shadows. And gaze at the summer sky, Bidding the cares and troubles, And trials of l?fe pass by. The beautiful summer blossoms Are falling about my feet, Aud the dreamy air is* laden With their odors rare aud sweet. The honey-bees hum In the clover, The grasses rise and fali, The robin stops and listens As he hears the brown thrush call. A .v.l tl.sv Kiwlo o!n>. f.. h.u u<-vf?lir 411111 iiic uiiun aiii^ iv/ mo o?/iuj , TL'e butterfly flics away? Oh. what could l>e sweeter than living This beautit'ul summer day? PEARLS AND BLACKBERRIES. "No!" said Dr. Darling, slowly? "no! I can't believe tho ovidenco of| my own senses!" And as he euunci- j uted tho words with impressive distinctness ho looked solemnly at Harry Clifford. Ho might have found a worse-looking individual to fix his regards upon lhan this young M. D., who had taken his first lessons in bones, muscles, and human auatomy, with I ho therapeutics belonging thereto, in the JiLtle office across tiio hail, and was juht preparing to hang up a shingle of Jiiaowii; for Harry Clifford was tall and hud a huge auburn mustache, and merry eyes that laughed liko spring* of water in tho Sunshine. 2>r. Doling took off his spectacles, jfoldod ithem, and deliberately placed t'hem in their case, still without taking his eyes from his ceophyto. Hurry Clifiord smiled ; but he looked a little : embarrassed, LOtwithbtanding. "She would have you in a minuto, if you w-?to to propose;" pursued Dr. Darling, dropping great red-hot splashes of sealing-wax over a sheet of blotting paper, and stamping them with his monogram soul in an aimless sort of way. "Yes; but I toll you. Sir, 1 don't want to'propose,"j>uiii Ifarry, staring * at the iiUerwincd D. J. D.'s as if they were the most interesting tilings in the world. "You don't want a pretty girl for a wife?" "Not that pretty girl in particular, doctor." "Nor fifty thousand dollars?" added the doctor, pronouncing the momentous words in a manner that made them sound very weighty indeed. "I w'ould not object to the fifty thousand dollars in itself, Sir; but, as a moro appendago to Miss, Bradbury?" "I believe the boy is crazy," ejaculated Dr. Darling. "Well, well, as the Scotch proverb has it, 'a wilfu' man nmau hao his way,' and 1 shall interfere no farther. By-tiic-way, Harry?" "Yes, Sir?" "You are going to the city this afternoon ?" "That is my present intention, Sir." * "Stop at Depierrc's will you, and leave Mrs Darling's pearl brooch to bo mended. I ou^ht to have dono it a week ago; but a mau can't think oi' every thing." ' Certainly, Doctor;" and Harry Clifford deposited tlie pcarl.brooch? an old-fashioned ornament of massive gold, set with tiny secd-pcauls?in his waistcoat pocket. "fiather a careless way to carry jewelry, young mau!" said Dr. Darling, elevating hio eyebrows. "Oh, I nover loso any thing!" asserted Harry,, in an off-hand sort of way. Tho morning sun was casting bright, flickering threads of gold across the kitchen floor; the morninggloiies and Mad eii vines, trained acrosa the casement, stirred softly in the mid-July air; and Ursula Percy, Mrs. Darling's orphan niece, was busy "doing up" blackberries. Fresh as a rose, with hazol eyes, softened to intonse blackness at times by the shadow of their long lashcp, and smiling scarlet lips, she stood there?her calico dress concealed by the house-wifely apron of white dimity that was tied round her waist, and her black curls tucked remorsely back of hor ears?looking demurely into the bubbling depths of the preserving-Kettle, like a beautiful parody on one of the whitcly scoured pine tables beyond a glittering tin vessel was upheaoed with the beautiful jot-black fruit, each seporato berry flashing like the eye of an Oriental belle. ' Ursula!" The protty young girl started, vcrj nearly dropping hor skimmer into thi prosorving-kettio. 'How you startlod mo, HarryI" llarry advanced into the kitchori "with an admiring look at the brigh I face, flush#! with a little blush and good doal of stove-heat. "You' are always at work, "L sula." "I have got to work, Harry, earn my own living," Ursula I'ori answered, with a light uplifting her exquisite black brows: "I a not an heiress, like Miss Era bury." "Confound Miss Bradbury!" c claimed our hero. "I her nothing bi Miss Bradbury tho whole time." "She is a vory sweet young lad Harry," said Ursula* in mildly r proving accents. "T hut?what n. lot ( blackberries you Lave hero, to be sui Ursula?" "Forty quarts," said Ursula, d murely. "Aunt Darling always ci joys them so much in the winter." Harry put a honey sweet globule < fruit into his mouth. "Blackberries are a beautiful frui Ursula." "Very;" and Miss Percy skimmc diligently away at tHo bubbliug ca dron. "Especially whon you are d< ing thorn up," added the young M. D with rather a clumsy effort at cou pliment. Ursula did not answer, Harr walked up to the range and took bot her hands in his. "Ilarry, don't I Tho berries wi burn." 'Let 'cm burn, then ; who carcs?" "But what do you want?" she as! cd, struggling impotently to escapi and laughing in spito of tho grav look phe fain would have assumed. "To sco your eyes, Ursula." Sho lifted tho soft hazel orbs to he fnci; then withdrew thorn with sud don shyness. "Do you know what answer I rea< in I l<ftoo nvi^o dnnvnet 9" Jin w lilUT\r>rr*i Ill llivov VJ V>k?j uwtli VWU * ?IV f? wnfter a moment or two of silence, bro ken only by the hissing and simmoi ing of the boiling blackberries. "2fo." "I read yea /"' "Oh, Ilarry, I dnro not. Uncle ani aunt aro so dgterminod you shal marry Miss Bradbury." "And I am so determined not t marry her. Is a man to bo give away as if ho wore a house and lol or a bundlo of old clothes, I slioul like to know? Ursula?" "Harry, they are burning! I an sure of it. I can smell them. Oh, d< let go my hands!" Ilarry Clifford deftly seized up th< big iron spoon, and stirred the boilindepths vigorously. "It's all your imagination, Ui sula!" . "Xo, it's not; and if they aro tin least bit scorched they will bo spoilet for.Aunt Darling." "13ut, Ursula?" The creaking sound of an opening door beyond suddenty dissolved tin tete-n-telc. Ursula almost pushed liar ry Cl'fford out of the kitchen. "You'll bo on the piazza to-nigh when they liavo all gone to .the con cert?" lie persisted in asking througl the crack in the door. ' Yes, yes, any thing?every thing only go!" And Harry went, beginning to rc alizo that love-making and proservin; do not assimilate. "Your pearl brooch, my dear Oh, I remember now. I gave it L Harry more than a week ayo to hav mended. I dare say it's done by thi timo?" and I)r. Darling turned peetantly to our hero. "I?I'm very sorry/' began ITarr "but the brooch disappeared in th most unaccounlablc manner from m vest pockct. I know I put i there?" "Yes," dryly interrupted tho cldc gentleman, "I remember seeing yo put it there, and you assured mo a tho timo that you never lost an; thing. So tho brooeh is gone VII i -"Yes, Sir, it is gone* But Mri Darling may rest assured," Harr added, with a glance toward thatladt "that I will replaeo it at the ver earliest opportunity." - "Oh, it is of no consequencc at all I said Mrs. Darling, with a count" nance that said plainly. It is of tli very greatest consequence! "Pc: haps wo shall find itsomewhero abot the house." But tho days slipped by one by on a-d the doo:u of the pearl brooch r inained involved in the deepest my tery. JLLany Clifford bought anotht one and presented it to Airs. Darlin who laughed, and piuncd it into tl folds of the thread lace barb she woj at her throat. "But it's so strange what can ha\ become of the other I" said Mrs. Da It was in tho golden month < September that tho old doctor an Mrs. Darling made up their minds 1 invite Miss Bradbury to tea, ' "We'll have pound-cake and pr served blackberries," said Mrs.. Da ling, who always looked at tho m terial side of things, , "And if Harry don't como to terr now. he never will," added her hi i?j ...i,~ UU11U, win; uiuii i/. "Got oat the boat china and tl chased silver tea-service, Ursula," sa Mrs. Darling. "And wear your pink French cali child; it's the most becoming dre you have," said her uncle, with a lc i ing glance at tho bright littlo bi nette. And Ursula Percy, obeyed both J their mandates. Miss Bradbury camc?a handson vnnnrr ladv. with a smoo "J J O ? . : "society" manner that made Urm ; foel herself vory countrified and co raon indeed. "Dciicious preserves those!" si i, Miss Bradbury. t 'cIhoy ai'o of Ursula's raakinj a said Mrs. Darling. And Ilarry Clifford passed his plate for a second suprr ply. "I remember tho day they were to brewed, or baked, or whatever it is ry you call it," said he, with an arch of glance at Ursula. m ~ Suddenly old Dr. Darling crew d- purplo in tho face, and began to cough violently. Every one started x- up. ut "lie's swallowed tho spoon 1" cried Miss Bradbury. y, "Oh, oh !" he's got the appoploxy J" e- scroamcd Mrs. Darling, hystericallj\ "Undo! dearest uncle!" piped up of poor little Ursula, vaguely catching re at a glass of water. But Dr. Darling recovered without c- anymore (dis astrous) sj-mptoms. 11- "It isn't tho spoon, and I don't como of an apoplectic family," said of he. "But upon my word, this is about tho biggest blackberry I over t, camo perilously near swallowing!" And ho hold out his wife's pearl d brooch, boiled up in tho blackbcrrios I 1- Thcro was a momentary silence j- around the tabloj and then it was broken by Mrs. Darling? ono of i- tliese blessed old ladies who nevor sco an inch beyond their own spectay cled noses. h "My goodness gracious 1 said Mrs. Darling; '-how could it ever have II como into the preserved blackberries? I?don't?see?" "But I do P said Dr. Darling, look: ing provokingly knowing. "Tcsjl j, seo a good many things now that I e didn't see before." And Ilarry, glancing across the tablo at .Ursula, was somewhat eonsolod r to porccivo that hor chock was a - nhado more scarlct, if that were possible than his own. J lie followed the old doctor into his i office when the overling meal was coni eluded?Ursula did not know how - sheerer would have lived through it, were it not for Mrs. Darling's delightful obtuse.ness, and Sophy Bradbury's surface-charm of manner?and plungi] od boldly into the matter. II "Doctor?" ho began, valiantly; but the old gentleman interrupted o him. n "There's no need of any cxplanai, lion my boy," ho said. "I know now .1 ? ! J_?*. i. 1 - u wny you uiuu o warn, 10 luxury iuis* Bradbury. And J don't say that 1 a blame 3-011 much; only I came very 0 near choking to death with Ursula's blackberry jam!" c And Doctor Darling laughed again j until, had his epouso been present, she would *urely have thought a second attack of apoplexy among the inevitables. 0 "Little Ursula 1" ho added. -'Who 1 would have thought of it? Well, you shall have my blessing." The pearls were all discolored, and ; the gold of tho old-fashioned brooch 3 tarnished with the alchemy of cook ing; but Ursula keeps that old ornameiit yet, more tenderly treasured t than all tho modern knick-knacks 1 - with which her young husband loads 1? her toilet-table. Atid every year, when she preserves blackberries, l)r. ; Darling comes to tea, and makes ponderous witticisms, and protends to s- search in tho crystal preserve-dish fer g a "boiled brooch 1" But then jolly old gentlemen will ? liavo their jokes.0 What tlie Microscope Reveals. T,n\*?r?nlir?r>f.lr f?-?!I? n? nf (in inRflfit, y seen with tho microscope, of which o twenty-seven millions would only y equal a mite. it Insects of various kinds may bo seen in tho cavities of a grain of ,y sand. u Mold is a forest of beautiful tree*, ,t with the branches, leaves, and fruit. y Butterflies are fully feathered. Hairs arc hollow tubes. The surface of our bodies is covcr3. ed with scales like a fish; a single y grain of sand would cover ono huny dred and fifty of these scales, and y yet a scale covers fivo hundred pores. Through these narrow openings tho I" sweat forces itself lileo water through 5. a sieve. !C Tho mites make fivo hundred steps r- a second. it Each drop of stagnant water contains a world of animated beings, ..0 i:un,.tn ..O Qj | UllliJIIIU, ?> 11II iio HIUOU lli/UJ VJ CIO I e-1 whales in the sea. s- JSaeh loaf lias a colony of in.sccts >p grazing 011 it, like cows on a mead<r ?w. ic Moral ?Havo some care as to the L>e air you breatho,.the food you eat, and the water you drink.?Home and '0 Heultk. of Remedy for Low Spirits.A phij losophical writer says that exercise Lo for the body, occupation for the mind, these are the grand constic. tuents of health and happiness, the r_ cardinal points upon which evcryu thing turns. Motion seems to be a nrent nreservinf* r>rincinle of na ? I O X it ns tare, to which even inanimate is- things are subject; for the winds waves, the earth itself, are restless, and the waving of trees, shrubs and ,l" flowers is known to be an essential part of their economy. A fixed J-j rule of taking several hours' exer>v_ cise every day, if possible in the u- open air?if not, under cover?will be almost certain to secure one ex of emption from disease, as well as i attacks of low spirits, or ennui? ic, that monster who is ever wavlavinsr th the rich and indolent. Low spirits cannotexist in the atmophereof m* bodily and mental activity. lid * If laughter is tho daylight of the 5," soul, a smile is its twilight. An Exhausted Husband. The following bit of charming pneophistieation, purporting to havo . been written by a young wife in New ; York to her prim and ppeetacled mai- 1 den aunt in Boston, will bo read with 1 curious interest by tho moro onlight- 1 cned reader: 1 My Dear Aunt.?Although, you fnlrl mn wlinn t intriffifl ttaii in mv 1 VV1V? k MVj 1? 11VII JL 1U I I WW J vu vv J wedding, that I was too J|pung to marry, and not capable of choosing a mate for lifo properly, and with duo consideration, I know that you may now feel that I was wiser than you thought. In selecting dear Orlando 1 I have gained a most affectionate and 1 attentive husband, and one who has i neither a fault nor a vite. Heavens! What must a girl suffer who finds herself united to a dissipated person, neglectful of her, and disposed to seek the society of unworthy persons, who drink, smoke, and do all sorts of dreadful tilings 1 Thank Heaven, Orlando is perfection ! To-day is my eighteenth birthday, and we have been married a year. Wo keep house now, and 1 can make pretty good pie, onl}r the under crust will be damp. However, 1 think that must bo in tho oven. Onco I put < peppermint in the pudding sauce instead %f lemon flavoring; but then Orlando was trying to kiss me, right before the girl, who didn't much like cither of us going into tho kitchcn at all. Tho flowers are coming up beautifully in the back garden. We sowed a great many seed, but hardly expected so man}- plants. Among tho most numerous is one variety with a very largo leaf, that scratches one's fingers, and don't smell nico. I wonder what it is. Orlando frightens mo by talking about weeds; but weeds always come up, don't they ? Dear Orlando I 1 come back to him again?rso excellent, temperate,. and true. Tell all tho girls to marry as soon as they can, if they can find a husband like mine. ' I havo but one trial?business takes him so much away from mc. A lawyer must attend to business, you know; and sometimes they cany on tho case until two at night. Often and often ho has examined witnesses until halfpast twelve, and eomo home perfectly exhausted. And tho nasty things will smoke, so that his dear coat quite smells of it. And as it makes him as ill as it docs mc, I havo to air it, and cniMi-ilrlo I Itn linino- wif.il rnloimn Wft 1 " "" r> o? ? i Lcr before ho dares to put it on again. ( I had a terriblo fright tho . other ] night?dreadful. Orlando had told mo that .business?I think ho said it was a'case of life and doath'?would detain him late. So I sat up as usual, with a book, and did not worry until one o'clock. After that X was a liLtlo anxious, I confess, and caught a cold in my head peeping through tho upstairs window blinds; for, d\nr aunt, it was not until three o'clock that I heard a cab driving up the street and saw it stop at our door; then I thought I should faint, fur 1 was sure some dreadful accident had happened to Orlando. I ran down to open tho door; a friend of Orlando's who is not, I confess, very much to my taste?such a red faced, noisy man?was just sup- . porting my dear boy up the steps. j "Oh, what has happened?" cried I "Don't be frightened, Mrs. Wliito!" said Mr. Smith. "Nothing at all; only White is a little exhausted. Application to business will exhaust a man, and I thought I'd bring him homo." ' "All right Belle," said Orlando, i "Smith tells the truth?I'm exhaus- ' ted." ' i And, dearest aunt, ho was'bo much. I so that he spoko quito thick, artd i couldn't stand up -without tottering. | Mr. Smith Was kind enough to help him up-stairs; and he lay upon the < l^ed so prostrated that 1 thought ho i was going to die. Then I remembered tho French brandy you gave i me in caso of sickness. I ran to got it out. 1 Ilavo a littlo brandy and water, dear?" I said. "The very thing. Smith is exhausted, too. Give soino to Smith," said he. And so I reproach myself for my not having thought of it before Mr. Smith was gone. But I gave a glass to Orlando, and, under Providence, I think it saved his life; for, oh, how bad ho was! "Belle," said he, quito faltering in his speech, "the room is going round so fast that I can't catch your eye. And besides there's two of you, and I don't know which is which." I knew theso cro dreadful symptoms. "Tako a drink, doar," said I, "and I'll try to wako Mary, and send her for the doctor." "No," said ho, "I'll be all right in tho morning. I'm all right now. Here's your health. You're a brick. I ." And over ho fell, fast asleep. Oh, why do men think so much of monoy-maldng? Is not health bettor .than anything else. Of course he had laid down in his hat, I took that off first. And I managed to divest him of his coat. But when it came to his boots?dearest aunt, did you over take off a gentleman's boots? probably not, as you aro a 6inglo lady?what a task I IIow do they ever got on? I pulled and r?nlln/l nml nlmnk and wrifrflrled. and 17W,,vw) ? - DO 1 ? gave it up. But it. would not do to leave them on all night; so I went at it again, and at last one came off so suddenly, and over I went on the floor, and into his hat, which I had nut down thoro for a minuto. ?could havo cried. An3 the other came off in the wamo way, juat as hard and just as sadden at last. Then I pat soft blanket ovor Orlando, and sat my sewing chair all night. Oh, ho heavily ho broathed! And I had,: you may fancy, the most dreadf fears. Ho might havo killed himsc by his over-application to business, f all thft I knew. Tho perfect ones { first, it is said. Oh *how difforcntlv shnnlH T felt had anything happened to ray b loved Orlando, lie has not had i jxhausting a day since, and I thir bo sees the folly of overwork ; thouj if courts will kocp open so late, wh :-an poor lawyers do ? I think it srery inconsiderate of the judge, svonder whether he has a wifo?tl mean old thing. Sterling Advice. A lady makes some sensible suggc Lions, in a London journal, on tl subject of marriage or celibacy, a fo which wo anuox, and say th [here is a great deal of trutU^ ihem : "When a girl marries alio ought, a certain extent, givo up her acquain mces, and consider tho company bor husband tho best company si 2an have. Tho young wtfe must leai looking carefully, if she does not i ready have a good knowledge of 01*A montr /irnnl1rtn+ aaaItai i-ilVi w W* V iumi*J VAWIIVIIU wvaui oooks, but she must not follow the mplicitly. My own' plan, for eon lime after I was married, was to tal jome recipe given, and note careful tvhat ingredients could bo dispens< svith. Tho second time I general managed it at half tho expense, iseful plan is to keep a blank book ihe kitchen table drawer, and whe jver a deviation from the orthod< jookery book is made, to jot it dow Do not wait .till you have waahi four hands; let tho book be fingc narked rather than lose an idea. Y< ivill thus learn more of househo jconomy than if you trust to momoi done ; and when your daughters gro jp, what a fund of practical inform ,ion It will bo for them 1 "To a great exten^ tho celibacy )ur young men is owing to the wt n which girls are brought up.' IMirougb mistaken kindness mothc >ften themselves do what tlioy oug .o make their daughters do.. L ;hem.teach house-keeping on a fixe nethodical plan, and they will th< earn their history, French and raus ill the better. It is natural and rigi -hat a mother should wish to see h laughters well educated ana eve nighly accomplished; and it is a ml ,ake that good and careful. educati< jhould unfit a girl for the homely d iies of cooking, dusting, otc. On tl iontrary, those duties would bo bett icrformed if mothers would, at tl tame tiino that they seek talented i itructors for their daughters, impa ,o them some of their own culinai .alent; thero would be moro go< ivives and marriages. Littlo gii jhouhl he taught, as early as possib! perform simple household duti fiOQ'..Jy ; and as they grow older, I .hem become .gradually acquaint with the theory of house-keeping such a manner that, when they a carried, they will bo ablo to ada hemsclvcs to their circumstanc< ind be useful as well as pleasing coi panions to their husbands." The Ruts of J4fe. , Get out of them if 3*011 wish to li long. Men and women must ha rccrcation, must havo amusemet must havo diversion. It is who] some for the mind tD break awi from its daily vocation or emplo mcnl every night. The man wl goes from his pouutiug-house or 1 work-shop at tho close of the da and docs not leave it behind him, b sits at the family table in moodinei broodingovcjpastoccurrences, weig ing probabilities, casting conjecturi laying plans, and when the meal over sits thinking, thinking, thinkir by the hour, and goos to bed to tc and tumble* and worrj', cannot li long, the brain or tho heart m_uat,?i way. "I1? TqInml nf Pnlin flin wiirri JL II L11 ioiivuvt v. 0 roads lead over hills mado of liir stone; the wheels havo run in t samo track for generations and ha so worn into the solid stone that t hubs scrape the surface, and there no getting out of tho rut until t bottom of the hill is reached. So the lives of many, the mind, und tho influcnco of worldly care, gots run in a particular track; in otb cases, tho occupations arc of such insufferable samenoss from ono yea end to another that its workings I comes mechanical, and out of th< lines they cannot work at all; ben 1 ho stupidity of such a largo norti of the farming population of all cot trios; tho peasants of England a Ireland, Franco and Germany a Ilussia as well. . . And our wives, in largo towns a cities, swoop and dust, and arranj and wash and sow and provide, in o incessant round, summer and wint xt_ ?tlinv rrrnw thin n.nfl on. XM O WUliuwi ~ ...... worn, and woak and nervous. 0 out of the ruts, all of you?pay neighborly visit throo nights in week, or for two afternoons Jot th< bo a ' let up." Get out of the rut, reader, two throo hours a wock, and thero will no time lost by it in the long run; it givos activit}7 to tho moral natu it cultivates tho affections; it wal up observation ; it exorcises compi son ; it gives breadth of view on subjects; it makes a man moro m ly ; it malcos a woman moro worn ly.?Haifa Journal of Jlculth. a Work Daring Sleep, in w Thoso eases in which thq?fcajn is hard at work during sloep, instead oi "J. being totally oblivious of ovorything, may be called dreaming or somnamor bulism, according to the mode in 5? which the activity displays itself Many of thorn are full of interest. 70 Some men have done really hard menie" tal work while at sleep. Condorcet finished a. train nf nnlnnlnlinnfl in his 'k 9leoj> which had much puzzled him during the day. In 1856 a dollegian . noticed tho peculiarities of a fellow18 student, who was rather stupid than 1 otherwise during his waking hours, 10 but who had got through some excellent work In geometry and algebra during sleep, Condillac andjFranklin both workod correctly during some oi their sleeping hours. Tho work done partakes in many ss- cases more of the nature, of imagina ae tivo composition thau of scientific w calculations. at Thus a stanza of excellent -verse u in in print, which Sir John Ilerschel if said to have composed while asleep to and to havo recollected when he it- awoko. Goethe often set down or of paper, during tho day, thoughts and he ideas which had prosented themsolvcf rn to him during sleep on tho preceding il- night. A gentleman ono night dream' it. cd that he was playing an entirety ry new gamo of cards with threo friends m when ho awoke tho structure and fio rules of the game, as creatcd in the *e dream, came one by ono into his mem ly ory and ho found them so ingcnioui 3d that ho afterwards frequently playcc ly the game. A Coleridge is said to have composoc in his fragment of "Kubla Khan" du n-N ring sleep. IIo had one evening boor >x roading Purchas' "Pilgrimsome o n. tho romantic incidents struck his fan 3d cyj ho wont to sleep and his busj sr- brain composed "Kubla Khan."? sn When ho awoke in tho morning h< Id wroto out what his mind had inven ry ted in sleep, until interrupted by i w visitor witn whom he conversed foi a- an hour on business matters; bat alas! ho could never again recall th< of thread of tho story, and thus "Kubli \y Khan" remains a fragment, Dr. Gooc ? mentions the case of a gentlemar rs who in his sloop composed an .odo ir lit six stanzas and set it to music, et Tartini, tho celebrated Italian vio d, linist, ono night dreamed that th< )n devil appeared unto him, challenged ie him to a trial of skill on tho fiddle bt and played a piece wonderful for its er beauty and difficulty; when Tartin jn awoko ho could not remember the ex is- act notes, but ho could reproduce th< >n general character of tho music, whicl a- ho did in a composition ever sinci he known as tho "Devil's Sonata." Lori er Thurlow, when a youth at college hfi funnil ViimunIP nno ornninrt nnnKln f< wuuvt uiiugvi* vii v v< vniit^ uu^tvtv w< n- finish a piece of Lalin eompositioi rt that he had undertaken ; ho went t< '*y bed full of tho subject, fell asleep finished his Latin in his sleep, romem la berod it next morning, and was com lc, plimontcd on tho folicitous forn cs which il presentod.?All tfie Yea et. Round. sd in ro Benefits of Sunshine. pt iS? Seclusion from sunshine is ono :o n" tho misfortunes of our civilizcd life The samo causo which makes the po tato vinos white and sickly, .whei grown in tho dark cellars, operates t< produce the palo, sickly girls that ar< reared in our parlors." Expose cithoi y.Q to tho rays of the sun, and they be vo gin to show color, health and strength lt Ono of tho ablest lawyers in oui country, a victim $f long and hart ly brain labor, camo to mo a year ag< suffering from partial paralysis. Thi l",0 right leg and hip were reduced in size jja with coustant pain in tho loins. II< ? was obliged in coming up staira to lif up tho left foot first, dragging th< 3S right foot after it. - Palo, feeble, mis h' erablo, he told me he had been failinc ?fl for several years, and closed with "jg "My work is done. At sixty I fim myself worn out." 'k* r j. j i. P. 1 .1... )ss I airccteu mm 10 iic uown unuur i vo large window and*allow tho sun t< whine on every part of his body; a "tfcst ten minutes a day, increasing-tin time until ho could expose himself t< 1C_ tlio direct rays of the sun for a ful |1C hour, llis habits wore not essentially vo altered in any other particular, li j10 six months lie came running up stair }8 like a vigorous man of forty, and dc [,e clarod, with sparkling eyes, "I hav< jn twonty years more of work in me." er I havo assisted many dyspeptic to neuralgic, rheumatic and hj-pochon er driacal pcoplo into health by tho sui an euro. I havo so many facts illustra r>R ting the wonderful power of tho sun' 30, dircet rays in curing certain classe ,80 of invalids that I havo serionsl; iCe thought of publishing a work to b on denominated tho *"Sun Crfro."?Horn in. and Health. nd nd "{Stay by all jjieans.a ujncir nd nati dentist, who had become nervou jo, by frequent burglaries in his vicinitj no was somewhat startled recently b; er. having a man come daily at the sam re- hour each evening, and sit on hi rot doorstep. lie finally suggested thai a if it would bo all tho same to him, h a would bo pleased to have him divid 3ro his attentions, and sit on some neigl bor's doorstep for a while. or "But it wouldn't bo tho samo, bo shouted tho visitor in roturn, "no nnvthincr liko it. You are a dentis' j -- 0 - ro; and I havo an iufernal aching toot ics that I haven't tho courage to hav iri- pulled. I como horo every afternoo all trying to make up my mind to have au- out, and as soon as I come in sight < an- your hotiso it stops aching, and j long as I sit on your door step, wliei the confounded thing knows it can get pulled if it gives trouble, I have j somo rest. Now, if you vfant me to c go to another dentist, I will." "Ob, no,". was "the tfeply "under ' those circumstances, stay by all ' moans, my friend." ? Wond8rftil Sagacity of a Dog. I The Portland (Me.) Press says: l "The following story, strange as it i may appear, is vouched by several witnesses whose testimony is uni impeachable. A short time ago a i female Newfoundland dog was in the habit of coming.to the house k of a lady in this city who would j. throw to it pieces ofuold meat, which the dog would eat, and, hav, ing satisfied its hunger, go away . again. So confirmed did this hab? it becom6, that at* a certain hour . daily the lady would expect the j dog and the animal would put in J an appearance. A few days ago, ? before feeding her, the lady said to her, 'Why don't you bring me one ' of your puppies V' repeating the question several times as .she stood \ at the window, the dog looking at ; her in the face with an expressifm r of intelligence, as if it understood I every word the lady said. The I next day, to the lady's astonishment i at the usual hour, the dog returned, - and lo, and behold! was accompa5 nied by a little puppy. The lady 1 fed both dogs, and then took up . the duddv into the window, when the old dog scampered off and did not return for three days. . At tho > end of that time the dog again appeared, ?vhen, after feeding it, the lady said, 'Next time bring all your puppies, I want to seO thqin^ and yesterday morning, sure enough-, the dog returned, accompanied by three Newfoundland pups Several of the {neighbors saw the ' whole transaction, and . declared that they considered this one ol the most wonderful proofs of the sagacity of the dog they have evei known. Where the dog came from and to whom it belongs is hot known, but we have the name ol the lady and " also of those who were eve-wituesaes to tha occurrences as narrated by us." i " Hints for . Warm Weather.?a } little very simple knowledge would gc 1 a great way in warm weather". Hen 2 are a plenty of amateur sportsmer 1 coming home in disgust on account o > mosquitoes, and thousands of stay-at 5 home, who find life almost uriondura 1 blfc on any terms for flies. If eithei 5 party knew it, carbolic acid is th< ') sovereign remody for all their troubles * A few drops of evaporated or pouret l" upon the clothes will keep the winget 1 pests at a eafo distance; and if th< r pure crystallized acid is used, no grea annoyance will result to human be ings. Eestaurant .keepers ought t< know this, and keep the swarms o: flies away from their windows, "When f.hov sflf.t.lfi nnrf hnzz in t,ha torment oi J ? i passers. The musty taste of tho Cro tou water complained of by those - who "mako its acquaintance ncrtvlj i every summer, may be corrected by 5 throwiug a few scraps of sheet-iron 3 into tho water-tank or cooler. Thif r provonts water from decomposing - and keops it pure and sweet. It will oven prevent tho water from growing <* offensivo and unwholesome on long 1 sea voyages. People are constantly } rushing about in tho- hot sun, com3 plaining of headaches and giddiness, > when all they need for safety and 3 comfort is a wet handorchief in the t crown of tho hat. 9 . * ? "Ain't Got 'Eir."?Three ol ' the dirtiest, most ragged little ragamufiin^ in this city entered one oi x magnificent drug stores iii the place 3 Marching up to the counter, one t said: a. "I wan't a cent's worth of root 3 candy!" 1 "Get out,you ragamuffin! We ' don't sell a cent's worth of rock 1 candy." 8 Slowly and sadly they filed ou1 " of the store. On the sidewalk a D consultation took place. Tliey re , entered the door. ' "Mister, do yon sell three cent'i i worth of rock candy ?" . "Yes." s "Well, we ain't .got 'era!" auc s tho proccssioa moved out again. Y o ' * t A saw-mill is the last gift accep ted by Mr Grant. It may be han dy to have in the house to ge board. i8 ? r, Smiles and Frowns.?It is al y ways in your power to make \ o friend by smiles; what a folly, then 8 to mako an enemy by frowns. e 0 Keep Away from Bad Habits ?No person ever got stung by hor ?? nets who kept away from wher< ir they were, it is just bu mm um t habits. U1 h ? True Friends. ? Value th it friendship of him who stands b; rf you in the storm; swarms of iii is sects will surround yon ju the sou o shine. SCRAPS. v '< . v.;* A Londoner has boetv arrasi x. for forging American bonds. The hair of a six-year old girl fti TW ;* Xr, + : . ZJ^ * ' 10 tuniiujj ' :r ' ' 1 4 , ; T . ?* An Indiana cat attacked .a .copperhead snake last week and killed it. . %s f ' The Tailors' National Conveft tion holds forth in Philadelphia.' The bosltfires in Canada ere be coming numerous and destructive * V* The American Scientific Association assemble at Indianapolis - today. .< . i Crops in the "West of England; have been much damaged by than- . der storms. 1 V*f Tlio &11an>1ianv fllftr riftnn/111 in JL11V JJ.JlVg.lUUJ Vl?J . ' broke up the other night in rough-and-tumble fight. , ~ . "West Virginia is to have a A*:- ;i railroad entitled the Chariest#* Ripley and Parkersbarg.- ^ , The Waverly Centennary was generally celebrated in Great Brittwo, . * Canada and the States. { They run a sewing machine-atr** Cincinnati by hot air?Hotair bc-v ing the girl's name, r Japan has adopted a^golct ao& silver coinage corresponding. to that which was once ottra. ? A Burlington young, jladjr says the armless woman ofBarhtnn's 8hoWr"writcs a very good foot. The board of health of NewOrleans arc prosecuting their,n^^ men because they don't shingle their cows. [ An old gentleman being, asl&l . ? what be wanted for dinner, replied : t **An appetite, good * company, " something to eat, arid a clean" Bd|> 1 kiu." ; * ' i " ? ' ? Wisconsin man applied for- a * divorce on the ground that His wife y . had become weak, and^couldu-1 p work on the farm as"she used ib.'' C* v?.r Benefit your friends that they may love you still more*dearly; L benefit your enemies that they M&y J become your friends. Xiuuvauuu 10 iin;uiujittwuio \Yim ' self-indulgence, and the impulse 6f vanitv is too often mistaken for the ; impulse of nature. 3 Difficult; excites, the . mtnd to ' the dignity which sustains and fi! naHy conquers misfortune, and the B ordeal refines while it chasMri^. ^ Complete returns from all but ' six counties ,in Kentucky make p Leslie's majority 36,0000, and that > of other Democratic candidates f 39,000. ^ '* , - * * | Mr. A. T. Stfwart never once sat . for a portrait or photograph. -Noth. ing will induce him to do so; and a personal request -from the.H^n. T11.? 1 x j uouu'xmgui, was puuujijr, uut-uiiu, ly, refused. ' . I - * ...r. ; (. Some time ago the lecturers at \ 'Surgeons' Hall, London, resolved ' to admit women students to. their lectures. Since that time, how> ever, they have reconsidered that * ' decision, and now the women will ' not be admitted. King Amadeus, of Spain, is indeed surrounded with difficulties. f He is not only unpopular witli his " people, who cannot findsrstaud ' *him, since he camyt speak their language, but no private 5 fortune, he is compelled to live oil his civil list alone. Papa Jesse R. Grant, according ! to the Cincinnati Commercial, "ex: presses a willingness, in view of tlic : pressure upon mm, to -resign tfce k CoviDgton postoffice, but' insists 1 npon naming hie successor." IT " this privilege is granted him, a Mr. # Miller clerk in the office, is repre3 sented as the favorite individual, who will probably "divide." I Mr. John Hopkins is reputed as the richest man south^ of Masou and Dixon's ]iue. He-is the largest stockholder in the Baltimore - and Ohio Railroad, and ttorth $8," 000,000, much of which be has t given to endow the John Hopkins University, on the outskirts of n i,! n:i_ tt_ .j Dam mure ^iiy. xlo cumuieiiceu . life in Baltimore many years ago a as a small grocer, and by industry, honesty, and perseverance amassed ' his collossal fortune. A new and timely toy has been invented by'aningeniousjmechanic ' of New York oity; It is a miniaj ture steamboat, the machinery of [ which, on being wound up, explodes by means of a spring, scatteeing portions of the bpat and the little men, women and children e by which it is occupied in every y direction. The object of this'pleasi ing toy is to familiarize children i- early with contingencies of stcaip boat travel,