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ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBKUAKY 2, 1876.
MASONIC DIRECTORY.
Clinton Lodge No. 3. F. A. M
W. H. PARK Kit. W.\ M.'.
J. C. WOSMAXSKY, Secretary.
Meets 2d Monday iu every month.
Hesperian ChapterNo.17,R.A.M.
J. F. C. DiTRE. M.\ E.\ II.\ IV.
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, Ho coiMtaitrly on heiirt a liwr^e lot of the
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.
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CAHPSNTRY.
f
- .The underoijftied hcroSy givi * notice tliut lie
ih prepared to do ail Kin.l-> of
narnRiiffir's Work and Boil fa
He al?, -epaiis OoVyn Oi'J': ra-lif-r* au<l
F.Iv.h. A full -iipply < f ('Hi Material ah\?yr
;-r. 'mud. F.tru?ji> .in- m<j:<hU-<1 to lu'itit
tli? (iins np early in t:ie -?<?! ? > to allow tim<
t<> ' ve tlif>m properly i>:?Mi*ve<l.
Ajjent f'.. fie Taylor ('iito;: (Jin. Lin
J'.r miKh (' iiton and all kinds Ii;i0l>< i
iiud Lualhor tteitii.g.
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STEAM
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F.W.WING, Proprietor,
manrfactri;r.k of
Sash. Blinds, Doors.
VV iiM u\J VV flJIJJ
DOOR FRAMES,
liisiflfi PivotBliMs&SImtters
PILASTERS,
Mantelpieces,
MOLDMS, BRACKETS
Handrails,
N ;:vels,
Balusters
;CfiOLL WOSLof all Description
Why.
1 ilid not lovo him. Long ago,
Inntead of yen, I gave him no.
I diil not lovo liim ; but to-day
I read bin marriage notice. Pray.
Why wax I sad, when nover yet
lla* my Loart known the loai't i?-gret
Over that whimpered no ? and why,
Heading the notice, did I frigh ?
No analyst can giie??t? the cau^e :
A wouwuV roanun laughs at lawf.
Sure. I am glad to know the wound
i gave i* healed, that he ha? found
]j ivo'h hJeccednecfi and pe&co; and yet
A woman never can forget
The man who ouco Ii&h loved her, aud
To-(lav I ireomto fee him etand,
With every glance a nuito caress.
Still pleading for tho longed-for yes.
His early lovo for me in (load?
Another live? in (hat love's stead;
And if ho loves her well, a.- men
Should lovo their chosen ones. why, 1 lion
He must bo glad that long ago.
Instead of yos, I gavo him no.
i'orliai-s that is tho reason why
1 read the notice with a high.
A WOMAN DID IT.
A Touching Lit lie Story.
A hrond stretch of burr en, sandy shore,
covered hero and there with ragged tufts
of sosmty evergreens ; boats lying up on j
the strand like sleeping sea monsters, on '
one side ; and on tho other the eternal !
roar of great white-crested billows, Giug- j
wl.Jtrt olmiriirc n{ anrnv into ilm KJilf,- I
I '"5 " """ " "i j |
1 scented air?this was what Mrs. St.
Leger Haw as she stood on the piazza of j
the solitary hotel, with her husband at
I her side.
" Ls it not grand. Beatrice?"
She shuddered, and drew invounta
i rily nearer to him.
" Yes ; but oh, how dreary ! how sol
i itarv!"
" People don't expect much society in
I a place like this, Beatrice ; health is the
: main object for which we seek, and I
j believe the rosrs are brighter already in
i ?i?1.? ,i Holl i,A?" Uf.
tie Nell is frolicking down on the shore
| with the old boatman and his wife.
| Shall we walk down and bring Nelly
I back ?'*
" You go, Alfred, and I will wait for
I you in the parlor. Don't be long, for
: the sun has already set and the air grows
! chilly."
Little Nell and her female companion
were alone on the shore .when Mr. St.
Leger joined the gronp?the boatman
bnd strayed off in another direction to
look for a missing oar?and the child
ran gleefully to meet bim.
" Taps, papa ! see this pretty pink
shell!"
But Alfred St. Leger saw neither shell
nor chilli. Ho had grown suddenly pale,
i th?Mi crimson.
"Kathleen ^orison!"
The till, pretty young womau threw
j the scarlet shawl back from her head, as
she bowed. "Soyou haven't forgotten
"ur flirtation, Mr. St. Leger ? And you
are married, and this is your little girl.
1 How time pusses.
] St. L<'ger drew a deep sigh of relief as
j Kathleen broke in^> light laughter. If
| ho coutd but have^een the cruel smile
; upon her mocking lips ho would scarcely
| have carried so light a heart in his
bosom.
I * * * * + * *
.
" Mamma, Kathleen says it's the pret
tiest place?a cave, whore tho sand is
, liko silver and the little pink and purple
j shells lie in heaps. Kathleen can row
n.v; out in half an hour. She often
I goer."
j Nolly*8 cheeks were in a flame, and
! her blue eyea sparkling with excitement,
j Mrs. St. Leger looked languidly np
: from her book.
j 44 It is safe, Kathleen ?"
" Quito so, ma'am ; we'll bo back by
teat'me.
' Then I may go, mamma?"
" If Kathleen will take care of you,
pot."
The purple light failed into gray, and
! the gray into ftarry darkness, and the
| raooo rose up solemnly over the tides,
and they did not return.
" Oh, Kathleen, T am so tired. Take
me back to mamma."
" Hush, child ! We're going where
1 the sun shines all the year round, and
von shall gather ripe oranges from the
trees, and the parrots are redder than
ponies. Just wait a minute."
"And can J have a monkey ("
" Twenty, if von likr."
i " I >111< will mamma be there ?"
i J 44 No ; Imt we'll send her a monkey
j iu a letter."
Nolly laughed at tin1 idea; hnt the next
minute li'*r checks grew pale Mfr?in.
> ; 4,I want my mamma, Kathleen. 1
| .lon't ciiic for the monkeys and the par
' i rots any more. I want my mamma."
' | Kuthlem ditl not answer, hilio was in
! ] tentiy watohiug the movements of a
| large vemel lying a little distance ont at
1 | s.'H. Suddenly a tiny while pennon
tlutfrered'out, Jiuil was mstautly witn
dmwu.
| "Tho saints bo blessed!" muttored
j Kathleen. " J begun to think it would
! never como. Nelly, darling, Iktc'h the
! boat; jump in."
"Are we going to mamma?"
"\e?. yes?jump in, quick."
And Kathleen's strong nrm was pull
ing tliem out tu sea iu another instant.
As they r:<n up alongside the large
| I lack hull of the vessel, a voice hailed
' tlieui.
" Is it yon, Kathleeu Where's the
child?"
j " Here."
" The ladder will bo lowered in a
minut". I tell you what, my girl,
? j you've shown courage to day."
The athletic young tar gr, eted her
with a hearty kiss as she stood beside.
? !?i*?? lmt liii* wiK r?n1il ft?i ir?iA ftM
; littl Nelly clung, terrified, to her
skirts.
"Iain revenged !" was the first, the
.'ast, the only thought that whirled
through her brain.
Aiul when, the next morning, long
after the outward bound Sardinia was
'Spreading her white sails t<? thn breeze,
the little boat drifted ashore, people
whispered to one another that old Mor
i-en V daughter and the golden haired
little girl were lost nt sea.
* * * * * * *
Ten years afterwards, Kathleen Mori
| son?a childless widow, st listless exile
now upon a foreign shore?wa* standing
l at her door, where the glowiug Italiau
! sunshiue streamed down through blos
soming vines.
"The saints protect, us from such a
prim faca sis yours, Iv dhlina !" cried a
nvTry i:oif*h>.'-r, balancing a basket of
j tish on h?-r h"ad, as fhe tripped by.
| "Don't you want to hear a bit of news?"
"T inn not so wraoned no in the fine
folk s't the cixstlo as you, Nmetta," said
Kathleen.
"It's ft lovely lady," returned Ninettn,
" and she's dying l?y inches? La Signora
San Legero."
" St. Leger I"
"Ah ' tint's the way the English "have
Up' ' '
: "Go away I I vaat 110 mor<^^^rtT
i,lllo rirmiu J"
i til* sharpness of her neighbor's tongno
and voice; ami Kathleen stood gazing i
i fixedly into the sunset, with eyes that |
I saw not a shade of the carmine glow. i
" I thought once that I should never j
pity her," mnsed Kathleen, " but that J
! was before my babes died. I have felt
' the serpent's tooth in my own heart j
since. Poor lady! and she is dying of a :
broken heart. I wish 1 could die !"
The next evening, as Mrs. St. Leger j
wavS lying on the sofa by the open win- ]
1 1- i i ~ [
HOW WlllCIi IfU Ultt UfJUU uiiuoiu iviiuwo
and velvet-smooth lawns, a slip of white
paper came fluttering down upon her
lap as softly as the floating petal of an
orange blossom. Anil, rudely rcrawled
upon it with a pencil, she deciphered
these words :
" There is one white American flower j
amo::g the pomegranate blossoms at :
Mareo Silvedo's."
Beatrice St. Leger'scheek turned even j
paler than its usual shade of pallor as j
she read the mystic lines.
" Head, Alfred."
" Nelly watt drowned ton long years I
ago, Beatrice."
" Nelly is alive, Alfred ; I kuow it, I |
feel it! Oh, lose no time? iuquiro who i
and where Marco Silvedo is I
"1 will inquire," he said ; "but, Boa
trice, calm yourself. liemember how
often wo have been deccivod before."
" We shall not be deceived again,
Alfred." j
Marco Silvedo sat at liis cottage door, (
smokiug a short pipe of soino dark, j
iiagmut wood ; an old, wrinkle-faced
Italian, with a Pkin as yellow as parch- i
ment, iron-gray hair nnd keen black j
eyes. Two or three children, as dark as j
himself, were playing around him ; ard j
when Mrs. St. Lcger noted the rwhly '
crimson line of health in their cheeks, |
she knew what was meant by the words j
"pomegranate blossoms."
Mr. St. Leger alighted, aud began to i
ollr f/i fVit> nl<l rnmi in Inn own lii!)fn)::cr .
" Are these all your children, Siguor
Silvedo ?"
" Yes, siguor?nil. Two nre with tho
saints in glory?three are here."
Beatrice, listening from the carriage,
felt the blood grow chill around her
heart. Was tho faint light of hope that
had begun to dawn on her life's horizon
but a deceptive mirage, after all.
Mr. St. Leger was about to re-enter
the carriage, when the old Italian rose
pol.tely to his feet.
" The siguor and signora would honor
him by partaking of a glass of his own
wine ? Nay, he would receive no refus
al. Eleua?Nella!"
A full rIhihW mrl of fifteen or there
abouts came to tho door?a girl with a !
skiu as /air as drifted snow, and blue,
serene eyes. She looked wonderiugly
at the strangers.
Mrs. St. Leger uttered a low, smoth
ered cry. All tho changes that had j
passed over Nelly's lioad had not al
tered her to the mother's wistful, loviug
eyes. She was tho "Littlo Nelly" of
tho weary years ago.
"Nelly! Nelly 1" she cried, wildl}',
"don't you remember your mother?"
Aud Nelly St. Leger, with the flood
gates of memory wide open in her heart, j
fell, sobbing 011 her mother's breast.
"I knew I had a mother once, before i
I sailed "(cross the sea," sho faltered, in !
Italian : "but I thought she had forgot
ten me j"
Mareo Silvedo, who had been gazing
iu blank astonishment from one to an
'1 e l 4.^1,1 lw,?,
oiuer, now caino lurwuru uuu wiu uu?
the child hail been loft at his door one
chill November night, how and by whom
ho did not know, nor could tlio be
wildered child tell him.
"I kud just buried my youngest
child," lu? suid, "and it seomed as if
the good saint? meant this oue to take
her place. 1 shall miss her sorely,
though I don't grudge her to the signor."
Kathleen, standing at the door us t.bf
carringo rolled ' by the next ilfty, with
Nelly sitting between lu-r father ruul
mother, smiled darkly to herself.
" I had meant that my revenge should
have lasted still longer," she said to her
self ; " but tho poor ladycanuot live long
? ami, aireraji, sue was doi (u uihiuh.
I5f?sijfs, whoa little Ka&leen died, I
buried almost all tho hitter smart in her
grave. Let tliem be happy wliilo they
CflU."
For Kathleen know tlir.t she wafl j
amply avenged.
Military Resources.
In a new edition of the Eucyelo- j
pedis Ikifaunica " the following tribute |
to the patriotism of tho United States is !
found in the article on "Array," by I
ColoiuO (Jolley : The military history of j
the United States is as strange a.s the)
ris* and rapid growth of tho nation. In
17H0 tiierr.uk and file of the array, as
tixed bv pet of CongresR, amounted to i
1,210 in- n ; r-nd in 181-4 an English ex- ]
pcditioi: of ;j,500 rncu was able to seizo
and burn Washington, tho capital of a J
country which even then numbered .
S,000,000 of inhabitants. Iu 1801, at j
tho commencement of the war, the ,
whole regular force amounted to oiJ.v j
14,(1(11) men. In April of that year the |
I'rcsiiit i.t lor 75,000 volunteers for ,
three months to defend tlio capital,
which was tlirt atoned ; aiul in May a
further call f> r 42,000 was made. In
.Tu'y two culls for 500,000 each were nu
thorizeH by Congress, and a? even this
vafct force proved iiif-uOicient for the j
gigantic struggle which America had ;
now embarked in, it was found nec.es- i
sary to introduce the conscription. In
October, 1803, a h vy of 300,000 was j
ordered, and in February, ISGl, a I
further cnli for 500,000 w:us made. Fi- '
ually, in the beginning of 1805, two I
i further levies. HMountiiur to 500.000
men, were ordered, but were only ;
partially carried out in consequence of I
the cessation of hostilities. The total
number of men called under arms by
! the government of tho United States be j
j tween April, 1801, and April, 18G5,
amounted to 2,752,019, of whom 2,050,- '
053 were actually embodied in the |
j armies. If to these be added 1,100,000 j
men embodied by the Southern Slates
during the same time, the total armed
forces reach the enormous amount of
nearly 4,000,000, drawn from a popula- j
tion <>f only 32,000,000? figures before
i windi tlie ceiei?rat"<i uprising 01 me
| French nation in 17i>3, or the recent ef
' furts of Franco mid Germany in the war
! of 3 870-71, Hi is k into insignificance.
I And within three years tho whole of
i these vast forces were peaceably dis
i banded, and tho nrmy had sunk to a j
i nominal strength of only 150,000 men.
In liis Pocket,
Familiarity with dangerous things en
i geiulers careli-Ksuess; heuce numerous
I accident*. A while kjjo a lecture on ex
plosives was to bo given iu ft neighbor
ing city, and illustrated by experiments.
Just before the time for the lecture to
begin, one of the committee of arrange
ments approached the lecturer, and ex
pressed his regret that no package of
matt rials had arrived, and suggested
that something else be substituted for
the proposed experiments. " It is nil
right," smilingly replied the lecturer ;
"I have the nitro-glycerii>e an 1 ?il the.
other things with me, in my pockets."
The committee man retired to a safe dis
tance from the platform.
Dividends.?The dividends paid in
Boeton January first amounted to near
ly rr'.<'ft0.00Ci Tu II?ir?.foi J. CcO)U.,
ti i 1. ,5
THE CATACOMBS OF PARIS.
(>rnre ( rernwoori Trlln an all Abont Thei
In the Mont Interenlln* Mnnnrr.
The famous catacombs of Paris wi
always be a subject of interest. In
letter to the New York Wmc.s, Qrac
Greenwood tolls us about them as fo
lows : Onr party en tor oil the catacomb
at the old Barricrc d' Enjcn. At thi
point each visitor, after being provide
with a candle, descends nearly ono hut
drcd steps of a dark winding stairwa
to a narrow passage, damp, and of cours
utterly dark. From hero wo wnlko
through a perfect labyrinth of othe
narrow passages, all doubly sombe
from tbo hatvy coating of caudle smok
on the rock overhead?walked for noarl
half an hour before coming to the gren
depository of bones. On each side, a!
the way through the old quarries, opene
other arched passages, leading off iufc
awful distanoo and darkness?wav
barred by chains or marked " daugei
ous." We passod caverns like "drifts
in mines, and once we came upon a rail
iyg surrounding a pit, whoso gloom
depths we vainly sought to sound wit
the trembling lights of our caudles. T
those in the rear the cffecte of tho loiij
line of lights flickering, waving, passinj
m una um ui vuu vmuv aiuK??,
and doubling, was sometimes strangol,
weird and awful. All felt oppressed b
ihe groat darkness and silence which w
were so boldly invading. For our part
we were inclined to sneak low, and t
watch anxiously each her bit of caudle
for no friendly echoes of our voicescam
Lack from the gloomy passages, onl;
a dull, waruiug roar, and the heav,
night, beaten back for a little space b;
our tapers, scorned about to rush upoi
and overwhelm them and us. Surcl;
there is a ditferenco between the dark
ness of ever so somber a spot whicl
at some time ban known daylight an<
that of a place which no ray of sunshim
has ever reached. The darkness her
was of tho kind which " cau bo felt''
somethiuc menacinsr. sullen, almos
savage?a hopeless, blind night, whicl
never dreamed of the day. So 6ombe
and solitary, bo unearthly, thong]
earthy, was all this weary, winding way
bordered with gloom and mystery, tlin
it was ft positive relief when we reachci
the ossuary.
Here, nt least, were the representative
of what had once been life; for in thesi
long, wide galleries, these subterraneai
Rtreets ami courts are gathered th
bones of 3,000,000 human beings?th
yellow harvest of tine, of pestilence
and of revolution. In these dism:i
coulisses stand silent at last the actor
of many a fearful tragedy of French bis
tory; but out 'of tboso eyeless socket
stares such a straDge look of watchinj
ami waiting ami fellowship tbrrt it nl
most seems as though they al'c reaily t<
rush back ou the stormy soene and taki
up agaiu the roles of tho counpirato
and the revolutionist. This giganti
Golgotha, this mighty magazine o
death, is arranged with frightful regu
larity aud system. It seems to mo tha
it forms a sort of ghastly complement-^
the city overhead. The great passage
are named after the streets and boulo
yards whose course they follow, am
suggest, by tho contrasts of stillness
darkness, and immutability, the uproar
tho brightness and the rush of the bus;
day above. -They suggest, with mor
overpowering force, the great, the dreat
mystery 01 ueoin wmcu ium?w uuu?
lies oiu- life. Dorp, beneath heautifu
churches, fragrant with incense, gor
goous with pictures and marbles, be
neath nltars bright with tapers, ani
gleaming with golden vessels and cruci
fixes, are chapel-liko chambers, cut ii
the rock, whose air is heavy with fch
odor of mortality, whose ceilings an
darkly frescoed with smoke, on whosi
rough columns are solemn inscription
in black lettering, whose walls bon
crosses of skulls, set in mosaics of bones
There is even shown here a singular col
lection, arranged by a celebrated sur
goon, of diseased bones?a sort o
osseous hospital.
The catacombs were consecrated as
burial placo before tho first revolution
but tbo bout's?nrougni iruni iiii'viuion
cemeteries by night in fuueral cars, wit!
religious riles?were shot down :i slmf
ami loft in a mighty iudistingwishiibl
hcai>. It was not till the tin'e of Nape
Icon?the man of men to bring orde
out of chaos and to discipline even deat1
?that the present system was adopto
and tho luusH t?f comingled mortal r<
mains ranged into ranks. Sineo the
inscriptions have been placed over over
new oection, telling when and from wlui
cemetery th"y wore removed. This i
all tho distinction now. Hen; only i
../ .r.1 1T? rr> vi.l
11 . v, ...
by side, ure heads which ouco toil oil n
tho great problems of science and hr
mauity, a:ul heads that onco plotte*
small thefts ami assassinations; head
that ouco woro coronets, heads th:.t fe!
uuder the kuifo of the guillotine, head
once pillowed on the breasts of prince.'
heads that have lain on tho black sla
of tho morgue. Here are skeleto
hands that were once soft and fair nn
glittering with jewels; strong liaudt
once dripping with blood; cunnin
hands of musicians, rude hands of ext
cutioneers; feet which marched in a
the campaigns of Napoleon, foot tbr
tramped tho weary ways ot want, ice
that have gone on pious pilgrimages.fe<
that have danced at tho Mabille. Pom
padour may here have mingled her hone
with those of some g?ntlo sister c
mercy.
Sta'e Legislatures.
The following table gives tho nunibr
of representatives in the Senate an
Assembly of each State Legislature:
//(Jl/**.
7?>N
101
Arkaiiha*
21
82
l.
CaliforieH.
40
SO
ii
Connecticut
21
211
2(
Delaware
9
21
'
Florida
24
.VI
'
Georgia
-11
175
2!
Illinois
.. ..25
!>')
11
Iown
40
100
1
Indiana
r,o
!I8
1!
Kanwaa
25
75
1(
Kentucky
38
100
i:
Louisiana
SO
101
lr
Maine
31
151
i>
Maryland
24
80
l:
Ma*"acliuuott?
40
210
2t
Michigan
32
100
1!
Minnoiiota
22
47
(
112
lr
.WMOim
^IU
&S.
N< hnu>ka
.... 18
3!)
f
... in
as
Now Hampshire
.... 12
an
New Jernov
CO
New York
.... 32
12S
11
North Carolina
.... nil
12')
1'
l(i")
1
Oregon
... 1(1
3-1
1
Penimvlvawa
... 33
100
l:
Ulioiio hlaiul
at:
72
n
South Carolina..
.... an
121
1,
Tt>im<woo
.... 25
75
r
T;x;w
.... 30
(*> ')
\Yrmout
211
2
Virginia
. .. t:t
132
i
\V?*t Virginia
. ... '21
C,
WiecjiK'in
100 1
All Almuf Annies.
If the United States Congress ciirrii
out its purpose to reduce the; army fr>
25,000 to 15,000, it will 1j?; tins sirmllo
army of any nation, wiyN tin: Now Yoi
liVcuw*** itnf.li n nminlntinn i
30,000,000, lias a standing army of 30?
000 men ; Grout Britain, with a joj>n]
tion of 32,000,000, has au army (: U2:'
000 ; Germany, with a population of 41
000,000, has a peac? establishment >
274,000. Mexico, withluiii
9,000,0|00, maintain
The Uptown Schoolmaster.
At a social sit-down, following, and
attendant upon, a teacher*' convention in
Carroll comity, N. H., an old clergyman,
who had been a pedagogue in his young
er days, related an auecdote, for the
truth of which ho said he could per
sonally vouch.
It was in those times when, in the
country, large girls, and larger boys,
attended the district school. In fact, it
txrna ma rmiiaiin 1 thine for bovs to attend
the winter term until they were twenty
one, ami tlio girls until they wero
eighteen. And in those days, bo it re
membered, flagellations woro moro com
mon than they are now. The armament
of tho rod and ferule was the toacher's
sine qua von.
In a certain school in New Hampshire
one of the oldest, largest, plumpest, and
fairest girls hnppenod to violate one of
the teacher's rules. Sho was one of
thoFC laughter loving, irrepressible
damsels so thorning to tho pedagogue?
always good nntnred and never at hom6
under the restraint of the school-room.
The master, a prompt, energotic, power
ful young man of two-and-twenty, sum
mono,! tlin fnir delinnuent into tho
^ j middle of tho floor, and, as was usual,
|! in such cases, the attention of tho whole
? ' Rchool wns called from tLio lessons to tho
J! scene on tho floor, it being expected that
* j the girl would receive a scvore punish
') ment.
p j After a brief but severe harangue, tho
! ( master took from his desk a huge ferule,
g j such as is seldom seen nowadays, and
told tho damsel to hold out her hand,
y i She hesitated, and hung her head. With
L nu angry stamp of tho foot tho master
* j cried out:
..! "Will you givo me your haud ?"
"Yea, sir," hIio promptly tliougn
j [ somewhat shyly replied, looking up, not
I frightened, but with ft twinkling smile
' j {(laying around the dimples of her face;
! " and my heart with it!" at the same
_ l time holding out her plump hand.
^ | A dead silonoo reigned for a few mo
^ i ments in the school-room. The master's
j faco flushed, and a moist light was in his
Ij j eyes. Finally the ferule was laid back,
j unused, upon the desk, and tho now
j. blushing damsel was told that she might
j I take her seat, but to remain after school
I was dismissed.
8 j That schoolmaster lived in another
' town, and when he went away that girl
J wont with him as his wife; and after tho
c j lapse of many years,- ho had never had
. i occusion to regret bifl acccptance of the
hand so quaintly given him.
Funny Incidents in the Pulpit,
* At ti clerical dinner party some time
ago, says Applc/on's Journal, the ques
tion went round to each, as follows :
" Were you over so plaoed in public in
the performance of a service as to lose
all sense of the solemnity of the occasion
and be compelled to laugh in spite of
your more serious self?" and the follow
ing are somo of the replies that wero
mado : A very solemn clergyman and
his assistant wero disturbed in their
chancel by a miserable looking street
cat, which had come in in some unknown
way and was rubbing itself up againt
their leers, me-owiu/7 piteously. The
'A rector beckoned to tbo assistant to pnt
y j the cut out, which lie did, but in a few
0 ' moments 6he was'back again. Upon
j; this the very solemn rector placed the
_: poor creature under ono of the heavy
j: box stools in tho chancel, and, placing
. his foot on the improvised kenne^ gave
out the hymn beginning : "^V charge to
j keep I have."
The last experience mentioned was
j that of a clergyman at his first baptism
L, of infants. He was then very young in
,? years, and had never before held a baby
2 that he could remember of, much less
~H i hold a baby and a book in tho presenco
I of a church full of people. Tho first
; infant given into his arms was a big,
Hfi ruling boy of thirteen months, who
immediately begun to corkscrew his way
: through elotjies and wrappings. The
minister h?ld on bravely, nut in a few
moments the child's face disappeared iu
the wraps and his dangling logs beneath
were worming their way to the floor,
j Seized with the horrible impression that
i the child was tunneling his way through
his clothes and would noon lei on the
floor in a state of nature, ho clutched the
clothes violently by tho sash band, and,
straddling the child upon tho chancel
rail, said to the mother : "If you don't
hold that baby ho will certainly be
through his clothes and I shall have
nothing left but the dress to baptizo."
ilnw in fnlenlate Interest.
The following rules are so simple and
so true, according to all business usages,
that every banker, broker, merchant or
elerk should post them up for reference.
There being no such thing as a fraction
in it, there is scarcely any liability to
!s j error or mistake. ]3y no other arith
<t ! m-itical process can the desired informa
b | tiou be obtained by so few figures :
11 j Six per Cent.?Multiply any given
il j number of dollars by the number of days
of interest desired ; separate the right
g | liiiiid nguroaDa cuviuu uy mia , ium iraun
>-) is the true interest on such sum for sucli
li ! number of clays at six per cent,
it Eight per Cent. - -Multiply any given
:t | amount for the number of clays upon
;t which it is desired to ascertain the in
tere.Rt, an 1 divide by forty-five, and the
!8 ! result will bo the interest of such sum
>f I for the time required, nt eight per cent.
Ten per Cent.?Multiply the same as
above, and divide l?y thirty-six, and the
I li .?-11 H..X nf nf
result ?m w iuu auiwiiuu v/a. iuwivwK ,??
,r ; ton per cent.
cl! What it 'will do.?If a mechanic or
I clerk hiivcs only two and throo-fourth
; cents per day, from the fime ho is twen
13 ' ty-ono until ho is threescore ami ten,
JO i the a?gr$gate, with iuterest, will amount
!0 1 to 5:2,000 ; ami a daily saving of twenty
>2 I seven ami one half cents reaches the im
;2 I portant sum of $'20,000. A sixpence
l9 | saved daily will provide a fund of $7,000
15 ?sufficient to purehaso a good farm,
in There are few employees who cannot
j save daily, by abstaining from the use of
jg | cigars, tobacco, liquor, etc., twice or ten
[7 ; times the amount of tlio six cent piece.
<2 ! Every persou should provide for old age,
1" I and the man iu business who can lay by
JJ I a dollar a day will eventually iiud him
!j( i self possessed of over $100,000.
?^j A Brutal Husband.
One of the most brutal crimes over
34 committed was iu New York, on Christ
r,() mas nifilit. The victim was an unfortu*
; r.atc invalid, the wife of John Nannery,
J* ! No. 81) South Fifth avenue. Nannery
wj . beat her to death as she lay in her bed,
is helpless. Such a sight as this poor wo
r>7 man afforded when discovered is, hap
1 * ? . ,?ii l
I".1 j>ily, raroiy nu t wiui nniong oivmscu
^ i.rings. Whole hamlfuls of hor hair
75 hail boon torn from tlic scalp, hor face
kii whs absolutely unrecognizable, blnoil
covered almost every portion of hor
body, anil her scaut clothing was burnt
almost to the flesh. Enough of it, how
-i:" *- ?lw.? *linf .t l.o.l
'H ever, nun lummucii n< r>m
in ! been thoroughly saturated with kero
=t i sene. She was uuablo to articulate a
k single wonl, but a subdued moaning,
jf that pierced one to the very heart, con
j staidly escaped her lips. The brutal
i-1 husband had saturated her clothing with
kerosene and set it on tire, bat the po
i lice succeeded in quenching the flames,
ji ! but the poorwoman shortly after died.
She was only 28 years of ago and very
)>r<>tty. Her husband jvas not drunk,
but hin conduct vfi's the roBuIt of Mhcer
Clay and Bowie.
Honry Clay used to tell a story of hi
own experience. Upon a certain occa
sion, in his early manhood, Mr. Cla;
was traveling in a public stage coach ii
Tennessee. His fellow passengers wer<
a young lady and her husband -the lat
tor e eideutly an invalid?and a man ii
the front corner, so muffled np in a fnr
lined cloak that his features were con
cealed. He appeared to be rather nude
than over the medium size, and was evi
dently enjoying a refreshing slumber
Bv-and-bve a bit?, brown-faced, brawns
Kentuckian got into the coach, sinokioj
a rank, coarse-grained cigar^ He gazec
around fiercely, as though ho would im
press upon the minds of his new com
panions that he could chew up and swal
low any one who dared to interfere witl
him. In short, ho waa "half horse am
half alligator, with a goodly sprinkling
of panther and grizzly bear thrown in.'
Ho ptilfed forth huge volumes of &mok<
without the least concern for tho com
fort of his companions.
Presently tho lady, who seemed to b<
growing sick, whispered to her husband
and tho husband, iu tho politest manne:
possible, asked tho stranger if ho woulc
not throw away his cigar, as the smoki
greatly discommoded his wife. Witl
an impudent, swaggering stare the fellov
replied, interlarding his speech witl
several oaths:
"I reckon I'vo paid my placo. I'l
smoke as much as I please. I'd like t<
at\fk tt of nil mn !"
He looked very dangerous as h<
glared around, and it was very eviden
that he was used to quarrel and strife,
and, furthermore, a struggle with hin
might have been a deadly one. Tht
young mau vrlio had spoken to hin
shrank back, and was silent. Tho ladj
lowered th# sash by her side for a breatl
of fresh air.
Mr. Clay felt evotr gallant instiuct ol
his soul aroused. He considered for i
moment whether he should interfere
and found himself reluctant to drav
upon his own head the brutal violent
of the gigantic ruffian. In that ther
lawless country he knew that his life
might be sacrificed unavenged. H<
know himself to be physically unequa
to tho contest, and he thought, after all,
it was not his business to risk his life ii
BU V^lliAULIU ik UiUUiiOl*
Clay was settling back, with pity foi
the insulted and disgust for the insnlter,
when, suddenly, but very quietly, the
cloaked figuro in the corner assumed ar
upright position, suffering tho furret
mantle to fall back without a particle o:
excitement, thereby revealing the small
but well-knit, muscular frame of a mai
plainly dressed in a closely buttonec
frock coat, with a face rather pale, and i
pair of bright gray eyefl that gleamet
like polished steel?and those strangf
-"""'"lriTT f.lin attention oi
jra.ju.va., -
ho ferocious Kentuckian.
With a terrible calmness this quiel
man passed his hand under his collar al
th6 back of his neck, and deliberately
drew forth a long, glittering and uglj
looking knife from its sheath in that sin^
gular place.
" Stranger," he said, "my namo if
Colonel James Bowie, well known ir
Texas and Arkansaw. If you do nol
put that cigar out of the window in les;
than lifteon seconds, I'll put thif
knife through your heart, as sure a?
death I"
Clay said that he could never forgel
the expression of the colonel's eyes ai
that moment. They told, ha unmistaka
bly as signs can tell, that tbo threal
would certainly bo fulfilled; and thif
conviction evidently impressed itsel
upou tho mind of the offonder. During
a very few seconds his eyes met thjso o
Bowie. With all his brute strength h<
WU8 LI1C WCUKCl' Hit 111, uuu uvj ijuaucu
With a muttered curse bo threw th<
cigar away, upon wliich Col. Bowit
coolly returned his knife to its sheath
unci without another look or word re
folded his cloak about him and lay bad
us before. At the next stopping plaw
tbo Keutu' kian got out and took a seui
with tho driver.
The Deacon's Order.
Deacon S., residing in n town adjoin
ing Worcester, Mass., was a good, pioui
mrtu, but sadly illiterate. One day h(
gave to .'10 singe driver a slip of pnpei
nnon which he had written an order foi
some books, which ho wished the drive]
to bring him from tho store of Mr. A.
in Worcester. The driver railed at th<
designated store, and handiug the slij
to the nearest clerk, informed him tlml
it was an order for some books whicl
Deacon S. wished sent to him.
Tho elerk examined tho paper criti
cully?turned it up and down?bu
could make nothing of it, and he pasaec
it to tho bookkeeper, who was seldon
stack by blind ehirography. But tLi<
bookkeeper met with 110 hotter succesi
than had attended the efforts of th<
clerk. The proprietor was called, am
he, too, soon gave tho scrawl np ia do
spair ; and it was finally concluded bos
to send the paper back to the deacon fo:
further elucidation.
As tho stage coach approached tin
village tavern the deacon was waiting
upon the stops.
"Well, driver," lie said, as the coacl
stopped, "did you get my books I"
"Books I No, of course I didn't
There wasn't a man in Worcester couh
read your old spider tracks!"
"Couldn't read 'ritiu'? Let mo sei
if you gnvc 'em tho right paper."
The driver took the paper from hi
T*niw on/i if nvftp. and the dea
con, having put on his enormous silver
bowed spectacles, liclil tho memoran
dum at a favorable distance for reading
" Why," ho exclaimed, " it's as plain a:
the nose on your face. See here,"?am
> 11 i ....a l? (t i T./
I1G spciiOil out, iuttcr uj lcji/i/vj.? ?
8-a m B-r-x '?Two Psalm Books
Gracious mo! I guess them Worcestei
folks had better go to school and lean
their letters!"
Perhaps the deacon thought tho laugl
which followed from the bystanders wa
in response to his cutting sarcasm upoi
tho iguorance of "them Worceste
folks."
Ail Important Case.
une 01 inv ziiuf.ii iui^un.w? ***..
has comn before the United States bu
premo court for years will noon bo ar
gticd in that court. It comes from tin
district court in California, and involve:
the right of any State to enact a statu t<
excluding certain persous from landing
within her borders. Some years age
California passed a law prohibiting tin
landing of Chinese women in that State
Subsequently twenty-two Chinese wo
men were taken in an effort to land
Judge Field, of the supreme court, whili
holding court on his circuit, dischargee
twenty of the woun 11, retaining tli<
others in onler that the case might b
brought to the supreme court. On ac
count of its importance it has been ad
vanceil ou the caleuilar. Attorney Gen
eral Pierrepont will argue the ease a
against the Sfato of California. The ili
roct bearing of the case 11 011 our trout,
stipulations with China, and raises th
question whether a State cau say wli
shall and who shall not land 011 th
shores of the United States. Jiulg
Pierrepoufc will urgue that the action c
California not only violates our treat
provisions with China, but also the Fei
end authority. Chief-Justice Tune
o:;co decided a cams of similar charactc
dmjaS Mu> exipteuco of slavery, hoMit)
had the /?ght to ejtfclml
"Ugm tier territory,
SETTLING ACCOUNTS.
3 A View of.llnttcrn nuri Thin** nt the End ol
the Year.
J Bisliop Clark writes to the Ledger as
1 follows : The eml of the year is the
2 time for settling our accounts. Wo look
- into our affairs to see how wo stand in
i the world. And how are you getting on ?
- I hear, in renly, all sorts of voicos in the
" air, sorno quite cheerful and others very
r oriil
The firat to which I give hecil ia
neither joyful or mournful?the mau
7 says : " I hold my own; I owe no one
? anything that I cauDot pay ; I have
1 been ablo to obtain food and raiment for
- myself and my family, and therefore I
snpposo I ought to be content. I con
fess, however, that I would like to have
1 laid up something against a rainy day ;
1 I would liko to have made some little iu;
I vestment that would bring me an income
without working for it so hard; I would
3 liko to put up something for my chii
dren, as I see ruy neighbors cloiug around
me." There are few of us who would
not sympathize with this feeliug. Jiut,
if your work has been well done, you
have gained something besido food and
clothing ; the liber of your soul has
been mado stronger, and if you can
leave your children the legacy of a good
example, put them straight upon their
feet to earn an honest living as you have
done, they will be better off in the end
than if you bequeathed to them the i
means of living in idleness and luxury. ;
The strong men are those who find their J
.-t ! mid (!fmi credit I
I UUjUUli IXI tHULL
by their comluet. These are the men
I who rule.
From another quarter I hear a more
doleful sound, ami the voice says: "I
have not becu able to hold my own. I
nm worse off tliau I was when tho year
began. I had nothing then, and I have
less than nothing now, because I have
accumulated debts which I am unable to
pay." This is bad, very bad; for we
may sentimentalize about the moral
beauties of poeortyasmuch as we please,
when wo get at the real thing, with its
daily hnngerings and shiverings, its piti
ful make-shifts and dismal contrivances,
skulking around corners, or slipping
quickly into doorways to avoid the inex
orable creditor; its efforts to Keep up i
appearances ami liiial abandonment of
all regard for appearances; I say, when
we get at the real thing, it proves to be
a very disagreeable and repulsive thing.
But it may bo your own fault that you
have not succcedcd any better; you may
have folded your arms while otliers were
working ; waiting for opportunities in
stead of making the opportunity, as all
successful people do; laboringonly when
you felt liko it, which may have been
very seldom, saying to yourself, because
you have been so unfortunate as to be
born into the world, therefore the world
owes you a living, whereas it really owes
you only what you earn. Or, perhaps,
* 1-1 4. U..4.
yon nave not oeen very muuieiii/, uut
have lived carelessly and beyond your
income, contracted debts, without know
ing how they wore to be met, and in
dulged in luxuries which you could not
afford. You hoped that somehow mat
ters would come out ngijt, that some
thing favorable would turn' uj., L
year has closed and brought no relief.
We may be sorry for such disappointed
men, but wo do not altogether regret
that they have some anxiety and suffer
ing, because this may lead them to do i
better in th? future. To persist in this I
kiud of life will inevitably lead not only I
to social degradation, which is no slight !
t calamity, but also to the utter deteriora- j
5 tion of personal character, which is a i
f thousand times worse. The youug mau j
' who begins with running in debt is in j
f danger of running into something worse j
3 than debt before long. It is a pitiable
sight to see one trying to live by his !
3 wits, with perhaps a very slender stock j
3 of wit to draw upon. To be rich and
> and torpid is bad enough, but to be
" poor and torpid is sure destruction.
^ The next voice that we hear 13 in
3 another tone; the note is still sitd, but
k the roughness is gone. This man says:
" It is not my fault that I have failed to
better my position. I have done the
tlirik I could. I have toiled hard,
lived carefully, expended frugally, but J
every tiling has turned against uie. If I j
had received my dues as faithfully j
as I havo tried to pay iny debts, if;
I hau had the same return for my labors |
that others have had, I would not com- j
plain. As it is, I am disappointed and j
disheartened. I do not like to ask for !
favors; I will not bo dishonest. I am i
trying to do my duty in the stato of life |
whero God has placed me, but I meet I
with 110 encouragement and no success. I
The new year comes to me dark with '
clouds; it brings with it a heavier load '
than I am able to bear?my faith in 1
Providence is almost gone." Beware of 1
j that! To lose your faith would be far '
I wnrsn tlmn to loso vour money. I do !
not know why yoft are thus sorely trieil,
but God docs, and you will liud it out
by-and-bye. The best fruit does not
always grow in the riclient soil. Awhile j
ago, I saw a man removing the mollow j
eartli from the roots of a tree, and sub
i stitnting in its place cinders aud ashes
?the tree was growing ioo luxuriantly, ;
and tho vitalizing sap ran to wood and i
leaves. I do not mean to say that you I
are to sit down doggedly and look for j
I >?i fiirt.ii.-ir wnrldlv nrosneritv: it rather
I UW A V ' ( .
becomes you to believe that if, with a I
1 buoyant heart and ft strong will, you '
persevere iu well-doing, a change for
2 the better will aoou come, l'ou will not
be tried beyond your power of endnr
3 ance. Some of those who have been '
" I most prosperous in the end, met with (
' j the severest rebuffin the beginning.
" I One further voice breaks the stillness,
and that is brisk and jocund. It says :
3j"I have prospered abundantly, I am
1 I much richer than I was a year ago, !
1 | whatever 1 touch turns to gold." I trust !
| tnen that you have touched nothing that
r is deteriorated by turning into gold. I
1 ! trust that your conscience lms not be- |
j come metallic. I trust that there (ire no
1 | widows or orphaus to cry out against
H I you. I trust that you havo not kept
1 | back tho hire of the laborer. I trust
r j that yon have not advanced your pros
perity by over-reaching. I trust that
i - I- i?i. .. i,? i
I you CIIU iOOK LUlCHi. ujiwm win piuu nn uj
j whicli you have grown rich, with as
t much satisfaction as yon regard the
. wealth you have secured. Ami I also
- hope that you nre prepared to use the
9 ; means at yonr command for the benefit j
s of the world. Men often lay out sph-n
2 did projects of beneficence, which they i
^ 1 intend to carry into cffect as r.oon as ]
> ! they get rieh; but when the riches come '
a j other uses are found for the money. If, j
. however, yon have grown rich houestly,
: and if your whole nature has expanded
. i with the expansion of your estates, then !
u you deserves to be congratulated. For
1 ' it is n good thing to have the promise of
r> ! the life that now is, as well as (if that j
e which is to come. It is pleasant to see
the work of our hauds prosper. It is in- j
. vigorating for a good man to feel that ho J
. carries power. They who sneer at riches :
n are glad to take all which thny can fairly
i- get. Very few men are sorry, when a I
y new year comes round, to find a balance
(> i in their favor.
?c I Look Out for Fires!
e ; About this time look out for fires
f -1- Imtin linmi iivnvpltfpil liv !l
U WlllUIl iiuiv, uot'u ...
y ; littlo ordinary care, is never an untimely
I- J warning, but it is especially timely at I
y '' this season of the year, when untried
tr j heating apparatus and that whieh has j
g . become imperfect or untrustworthy by
o j Hervy'al monthn of disupe, in taxed to its
j unmujst capneity in HtoreH?ud dwellings 1
JIM WH A LEX'S DEATH.
The Ntory of u Brnve Pilot?How ho Died.
" It makes mo feel kinder sad," 6aid
the pilot, pointing to the bank as the
boat was plowing the current near Lake
Providence, seventy-five miles above
Vicknburg. "When they buried him,
twenty years ago, the grave was a dozen
rods from the wuter, but the treacherous
current has eaten and eaten at the bank
till acother week will float poor Jim
awav."
The passengers saw the end of a coffin
sticking out of the bank, six or eight
inches above water. It is a lonely spot
on the river with no sound to break the
desolation except the beat of paddle
wheels as the steamers hurry along.
"It was Jim Whalen," continued the
pilot, as the passengers turned to him
for an explanation. " He had a wife
and babe in Orleans, nud was a straight
man. Ho knew every snag and bar in
the river, and ho could put his boat
through any shute in the darkest night
you over saw. Jim didn't brag, and
some of the pilots called him a chicken.
Chicken! Ho was the biggest eagle
that ever flew n? or down this creek.
and that ar' coffin proves it I"
Ho shoved tho boat out a little, an
swered a signal from an ascending steam
er, and continued :
" I was a cub then?just learning tho
business of Jim. You never seed a
man who'd do his level best for a boy as
kindly as Jim would. No sweariug or
cussing or culling, but as quiet and soft
spoken as a born lady. When they laid
him away down there I couldn't have
felt worso if tho old man himself had
been pitched into heaven."
Ho asked for a. chow of tobacco, and
having settled it against his left cheek
he- sniil:
" Over thero by that gloomy cane
bmke, at midnight, nigh on to twenty
vnnrs nrm. the Oenprnl Tavlor took tiro.
I was asleep in the texaa, Jim at the
wheel, and a hundred passengers were
asleep. How the fire started no one
knew. The whole boat blazed right up
in a minu to, scorchiugand roasting people
afore they .had heard the alarm. Whew 1
but wasn't it awful ? I went overboard
with nothing on but my cotton, and my
heels blistering, and passengers and
crew tumbled after."
The pilot rolled up his sleeve to ex
hibit the marks of the flame, and then
continued :
" Not all of 'em. Thirty or forty ran
for'ard. wild like, and afraid to jump.
The texas was aitire before I jumped,
and as I floated in the river I saw tlie
red tongues of flames leaping around
the pilot house. Jim was thar', and
thar' ho staid. The water was up, the
current heavy, and the wind blowing
agin us, keeping the fire back. If Jim
went overboard it was good-bye to fifty
human souls. He saw it, and that's
where glory covered him from head to
foot. He held her dead level up?she
ran till the engines stopped?till half tho
boat was burned?till the flames burned
every hair off his head, and roasted him
as the women serve a piece of meat.
Wh^n tho engines stopped tho boat
dti.'l :-.! down, and at last help came from
other steamers. Jim was picked up in
the river, swimming like a auT1; but
died in five minutes." ' "~"cn
There was a long pause, aud then he
added :
"Jim Whaleu's backbone saved all
them folks. He died afore they could
thank him. There wasn't a passenger
or deck hand who didn't cry like a child;
but all they could do was to bury the
poor roasted body and press the sods
down lightly. Year by year tho river
has been eating i's way to the grave,
and while wo shall miss it, we'll all feel
as if the big river had more right to the
colli a of brave .Tim Whalen than the
shore. It's only his bones lying there?
only his dust which will float away ; ior i
though the gate of heaven u narrow, it
was open plenty wide enough for Jim
Whalon to go iu with all steam on."?
I 'icksbvry Herald.
Stoned to Death.
The details of the receht terrible mur
der of a Jew iu Hamailan (Ekbataiia of
tlio ancients), in Persia, have been re
ceived. A wealthy Persian owed a
large sum of money to the Rabbi
Chnjini, who asked the Persian to repay
him one day when they chanced to meet
in a bazaar. A quarrel ensued, and the
crowd which had collected asked the
Persian what the cau:?e of the trouble |
was. Ho determined to get rid of his
creditor, nnd turning to the crowd, said:
"If this man had merely insulted me I
should have kept silent, but ho has
abused our religion and blasphemed the
prophets. I cannot, therefore, be
silent." The crowd fell upon tho rabbi
and threatened to kill him. He took
refuge in the neighboring house of a
rich Persian, to whom he appealed for
protection. The latter concealed the Jew
in an inner room and barred tho doors
of the house. Tho crowd demanded his
surrender. Tho noble Persian refused,
and the doors were broken down. The
lawless rabble poured in, found tho
fugitive, dragged him into tLie street,
and stoned him to death. The dead
body was dragged about the town with
jeers and finally brought into tho market
place, where the mouth was filled with
1.? ?.,,1 -irnsa lilnwn ill I
puwui'r uuu ?uu __
pieces. A fire was then kindled and the
corpse was burnt up. Four Jews, who
had fallen into the hands of the mob,
were ill treated and severely wounded.
The dwellings of the Israelites were
plundered, and a general massacre of
all the Jews?and Christians likewise?
would have followed had not the authori
ties intervened. The Jews of the city
have sent a deputation to Teheran to
appeal for protection to the foreign
ministers there, as they have 110 hopes
of any aid from the shah.
A Western Joke.
Tin-re is nothing half so funny ns a
praotio.il joke, anil this, as told by an
Eastern paper, is a regular rih-tickler :
"Frederick Walker and Peter Kohler,
of Guttenbnrg, N. J., stuffed an old
suit and placed it against a lamp-post.
About midnight they began an imagin
ary quarrel in a loud tone, and continu
ed it until a number of the people were
aroused from their beds. Then they
shot the imaginaiy man. The body fell
down, and the young men ran away. The
neighbors thinking murder had been
committed, chased the young men, and
Kohler was shot in the leg before the de
ception was explained." Think what
solid enjoyment Mr. Kohler will have
laughing at that for six weeks while ho
nurses his leg ; and what a screaming
farce it would have been for his whole
family if he had been shot in the head.
Incurable Heart Disease.
Dr. C. M. Durant, in the liritish
Malical Journal, gives the following
?i.:? ah L^,,i
JllUU'lOllH :n I ? ?li llll^ nuvi
ilt'ii and harried motion must l>o avoid
od. I'luinugod trawling by railroad is
highly prejudicial, iueais muouici uu
small in quantity, of easy assimilation
an<l frequent repetition. Especially late
and hearty Rippers should be avoided.
Cold liquids should l>e sparingly taken.
Tea and colfce, iu moderation, and not
to< strong, ore not injurious. Sexual
infereour.so should b?t absolutely forbid- J
Exposure to coJd wiud? or ex.vs- |
siv. lv coJd weather, bo r,s to b<
eudi.'only cIuIIvj^Ik i;;.; be nv;\dcdv
Eva's Eyes.
Oh, fair and stately maid, whose eyee
Wore kindled in the npper skies
At the samo torch that lighted mino ;
For so I must interpret still
Thy sweet dominion o'er my will,
A sympathy divine.
Still let mo blameless gaze upon
Features that seom at heart my own ;
Nor foar those watc - ful nenlinelis
Who charm the moro their glance forbids,
Chaste glowing underno&th their lids,
With fire that draws while it ropels.
?Ralph H'aMo Emerson.
Items of Interest.
rr I-" nofi'mnffl r\( nnttjlll
JL LIU UllilCLiv i/ovim?w v* vmv
crop of 1875-G is 4,100,000 bales.
Buggins says that the most thorough
way of keeping a house warm is to board
your mother-in-law.
Iu 187-1 in tho cemeteries near New
York 28,068 j>eopIe were buried. In
1873 the number was 29,107.
A bill for compulsory education re
cently received only one vote in the
House of Delegates of West Virginia.
" Every man fancies lie can do threo
things?farm a small property, drive a
gig, and write an article for a review."
The strike of the Sydney (N. S.) coal
miners is over, and the meu have re
turned to work at the reduced wages.
A wearied young lady hastened the
departure of a tedious caller by remark
ing, as she looked out of the window:
" I think we are going to have a beauti
ful sunrise."
The British court of common pleas
decides that a person formerly a proctor'a
clerk, now living mainly on an allowance
from his mother, legally may describe,
himself as a " gentleman."
It has boea discovered that the same
kind of coloriug matter which poisons
the striped stockings is also uiaji! to .
color bad whisky. In both eases it g.?'s . '
to the legs aud ruins the understanding.
As old Mr. heaved the la?t scuttlo
of four tons of coal into his cellar, bo
was heard to remark : "If they had
been boys instead of girls, it wouldn't
have been thus. One ton would last all
minfiir 99 y
General Sutter, on whoso land i*
California gold was first discovered, '
eighty years old, and lives in a poo
cottage at Litis, Pa., where ho is edu
cating his grandchildren in a German
school.
To bo resigned when ills betido,
Patient when favors are denied.
And pleased with favore given ;
Most surely this is wisdom's part,
This is that incouee of the heart,
Whoso fragranco smells to heaven.
The mercury stood five degrees below
zero outside when Jones feelingly re
marked: " 1 wouldn't turn a dog away
to-night. Browu. Would you?" "W?
wall, no." replied Brown, hesitatingly.
"At least not if he was worth any
thing."
A man has solved Mrs. Livermori's
query: "What shall wo do with our
daughters?" Ho has purchased two
washing machines and will take in wash
ing. Hie wife and seven daughters are
are to do the work, and ho will superiu
?md the business.
are unreasonable, find
you may have remarked that uhtftt QJ10
of them sits down in a new oilk dress on
a chair where a little boy has carelessly
deposited two cents' worth ol taffy, sho
will go oil about it just as Dad as n it
were two dollars' worth.
A Nova Scotia farmer who sent a sam
ple barrel of apples to the recent fruit
exhibition at Birmingham, England, has
been informed officially that, " though
there was an exceptionally good show
of English apples, the American fruit
beat thorn iu tuzo and very far indeed in
color."
J. Clancy Dempster, of San Francisco,
has chivalrous regard for the other set.
He saw a woman in the street surround
ed by drunken loafers, who had fright
ened her into fits, lie drew a revo.yor
and a knife, went to her rescue, shot
~tiro nnd brtfo kur
UiltJ 11T11V >v , Obawwu w.fw, 1T UL1 _
triumphantly away in his arms.
A plucky woman is Mrs. McKcen ol
Belfast, Mi>. Her husband, who com
mauded a Philadelphia vessel, dying on
the voyage to Genoa, she assumed com
mand, put in at Fayal and procured a
metallic colliu, in which she placed tho
remains, continued in command to
Genoa, and attended to disposing of tho
cargo.
Yice-Prosideat Wilson's brain weighed
forty-nine and one-half ounces. That is
rather above tlie average weight?which
is, in this country, probably about forty
- .
four or lorty-uve ounces. jyuiiii i ?? tw
stor's brain has been mentioned iu a
news2>aper paragraph, published Home
years ago, as having been fouuil to weigh
sixty-three ounces.
Do not think of one falsity as harm
less, ami another as slight, and another
as unintended. Cast them all aside.
They may be light and accidental, but
they are an ugly soot from the smoke of
the pit, for all that; and it is better that
our hearts should be swept clean of
them, without over care as to which is
the largest and blackest.
That t_e French aro determined to
have every available man under arms is
shown by Gen. Cissey's last order, re
quiring the registration, for military
purposes, of all males uorn oeiweeu
January 1, 1835, and December 31, 1871,
Defaulters will incur a line varying in
amount from sixteen to two hundred
francs, besides imprisonment frorj
lifteen days to three months.
The Arizona Citizen says that there is
in that Territory a monster named Sheri
dan who makes it a business to entice
men to go with him to the mountains
upon tho pretense of showing them rich
mines, and it is seldom that persous so
enticed are ever heard from afterward.
It is believed that ho has lured away and
murdered eight victims within '.he past
year. Gov. Hafford offers $500 reward
for his capture and conviction.
Extracts from a report of proceedings
of county commissioners, (Jineago: -mu
chairman of this board knows ho took
mo to a desk in that committee room
and solicited my signature to a report l>y
which he could take $1,700 from tho
county treasury." " You know you aro
a liar when you say it." "I hopo the
gentleman will not be personal." ,lI
can't heli> being personal when a man
stands up and tells a straight-out lie."
','1 " in E norland who,
after his establishment in a parish,
preached the same sermon to hiscongre
Ration Sunday after Sunday?a very good
sermon, but always the same. At last
tlie farmers sent a deputation to request
a change. " Wry well," said the rector,
J " but now let any cue of you (ell me all
about that sermon." Not a person
could give an account. "Tiien," re
sumed the clergyman, " I'll oontimio
to preach it till I'm sure you all know
what it contains."
At the annual Christmas sale of fat
stock belonging to Queen Victoria there
wn-s a large attendauco of buyers. The
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J shorthorn aud polled Scotch ox<'U and
! heifers, which realized from ?30 to
four hundred lino wether sheep, tuo
South Downs fetching from ?1 lis. to
X'."j 4s., the ( hoviots ?2 19a. to X-'i In.,
and lambs xJ. j'As. t" ?"> 2s. (Id.; andj
fifty hncca I> ?g? at-1 porkers, the
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