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f < BY W. A. LEE AND IIUjGrH WILSON." ; ; 5 - / , ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1876. VOLUME XXIII.?NO. 52. . H ;.'? S vv;' | A h: ';; . : .. * ' t ; /V-: ? ' I J* ^MASONIC DIRECTORY. Clinton Lodge No. 3. F. A. M W. H. PARKER. W.\ M-\ J. 0. WOSMANSKY, Secretary. Meets 2d Monday in every month. Hesperian ChapterNo.17,R.A.M J. F. 0. DuPRE. M.\ E.H.\ P.-. J. D. CHALMERS, Recorder. Meets 3d Friday night in every month DeSanssiire Coicil No.-16, R. & S. I J. T. RORERrSON. T.\ 111.-. M.% JNO. G. EDWARDS. Reoorder. Meets 1st Tuesday night in every month. OB. JOHN 3. THOMPSON ^ DENTIST,, Offers his professional services to the citizen 01 ADDOVUie &11U 100 Buriuuuuiug uuuuujr. Office?Over Citizens' Savings Bank, ABBEVILLE, S. C. CUNNINGHAM & TEMPLETO! Have on hand a large stock of Mis' Liii Bosom Sit AT VERT LOW PRICES. A large assortment of .Ladies* and G-ents* ! Merino Vests & Shirts BOUIiEVAED SKIRTS, T Silk Scarfs and Ties GJlfE ^THEM A CALL. The Star Shirt! ri-. r^ k .* 5^ i c *' - r * Having tried these Shirts, we can safely n oommecd them for a good fitting and dnrabi Shirt ?,? ; A \t ? 5 t . ^ _ ; Collars, Linen and Papei LATEST STYLES, With Cravats and Scarfs to Match. QUARLES & PERR1N. Cottage Bedsteads! Two hundred Bedsteads just received, wa ranted all hard wood, at prices from (5 00 < 810.00. j / / , S. D. CHALMERS. Boots and Shoes Oar stock of BOOTS and SHOE3 Is no* ?nitinl?t* m? th? Lowftst Prices for CASH Call early and get a bargain. PuPRE, QAMBRELL & CO. O. E. BRUCE, Boot and Shoe Maker, Over Parker & Perrin's Store, ABBEVILLE, 8. C\, Deeirea to say that he is fnlly prepared to raee U Jemands the public may make in his line He keeps conutantly on hand a large lot of tli ' beat UateriaTJtoff employs only the finfwt woik men. He keeps a fall stock of custom mad Boots and Shoes, and guarantees the mot entire satisfaction in every inatanoe. p. KHfi GOLDSMITH & KIND, T?nnwTiPDCi Aun MAPTmnanii ruunuMio iuiu uuLuuuuoii (PHCENIX IRON WORK-), COLUMBIA, S. C. Manufacturers of Steam Enpnea of all sizei Horse powers, Circular and Muler Saw Mill Grist and Sugar Cane Mills, Flunr Mills. Orni mental House and Store Finut*, Iron Railing Agricultural Implements, etc. braes and Ire Oaatings of all kinds made to order on ehoi notioe, and on the most reasonabletenet Also, mwufscttu-ers of Cotton Prea-os. NORRBL1, HARNESS and SADDLE MAKEE AT HIS OLD STAND Over Parker & Porcine Drug Store, 90'k i i/Gf] i JTTv Hu ? snpply of Northern Harness Loath < and other material for Making and Bepairin Baddies and Harness. ^'CARPENTRY. i ' 11 >} j The undersigned hereby gives notice that i is prepared to do all kinds or Carpenter's fort and Biiiif He also repairs Cotton Gins, Thrashers an Fans. A *11 supply of Gin Material alwaj on band. Farmers are requested to brio their Gins np.early in the season to allow tin to have them pcoperly prepared. Al?o Agent for the Taylor Cotton Gin, tb Brook* Cotton Press, and all kinds of Rubb< and Leather Belting. d; b. smith, Abbeville C. II., 8. C. STEAM PLANING MILL Qoliim.bi.ay G. oaTOu^.!'.^ T1 TTT TTTTVTa4>a ? . W. W11XIX, X~1 Upi 1CLUJ i r. ' j'ii.: - : ' ^ ; '.?]/ i - MANUFACTURER OP Y' ^ p T'i' C? Sash, Blinds, -Doors WINDOW AND DOOR FRAMES i -i . r? . r PILASTERS, * } j m>\ Put " J 1 ' Mantelpieces, lOLSM, BSAGKETi Handrails, Newels, , Balusters ' i. 1 rtixnti: > // : t ft '->i: - > , i i r.?: i All Work Guaranteed A No. 1. Loss in Delays. Hie following quaint but forcible verses are y Robert 8outhal], a poet-of the reign of Elizabeth, exeouted at Tyburn, for hi* religion, in the year 1596 : Shun delays, they breed remorse, Take their time, while time is lent thee; Creeping snails have weakest foroe, ? t Fly thy fault, lost thou repent thee ; Good is best when soonest wrought, Lingering labor oomes to naught. ' i Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure ; Seek not time when time is past, Sober Bpeed is isdom's leisure; After wita are dearly bought,. Let thy lore-wit guide thy thought ' ? ?. ' i - * t. Time wears all his looks before, Take thou hold upon his forehead ;> When he fliee he turns no more, And behind his scalp is naked ; Works adjourned hav6 many stays, Long demurs breed new delays. i nt uuDLin rnuu. A ST0S7 OF THE DI8COVEBY OF THE COMSTOCK LODE. Peter O'Reilly was one of the pioneer miners of Washoe, and one of the dis coverers of the Oomstock silver mines one of the men who turned up to the light of day that glittering ore which was the first of $200,000,000 since taken from the.great vein then hit upon. Before going to work on Six-mile can yon, at the head of which the great sil ver discovery was.ntyde, Peter O'Reilly mined on Gold canyon, a long and large ravine heading on the opposite side of Mount Davidson, a mile south of the canyon first named. There he "wrought with pan and rocker at washing placer gold from the sandandgravel of the bed and bars of the canyon. " Pete " was fond of rambling away alone,' along the meanderings of the stream, in search of rioh spots, where he could be by himself and mine in his own way. Provided he could find a few "colors" (small specks of gold), he would dig and pan awaV for days, quite confident that his luck would at last lead him to the right spot, and that in the end his labors would be richly re warded. , Pete was not only a spiritualist, but also a firm believer in luck and in all manner of signs and omens. The last mining he ever did on Gold canyon was when he started in to prospect a bar on which he found already located <a "squatter,"'in the person of a frog, which frog began in a short time to give him a great deal of tronble. He constructed a small dam or reser voir to turn the small rill running in the ravine into a little ditch leading to his panning-hole near the bar. The reser voir held but about a dozen hogs heads of water, and if was soon after tills was completed and filled* that Pete 5rst had notioe of the "presenoe" on his olaim of the frog. He had sunk a pit: almost down to the bed-rock, and had waahed out two or three pans of dirt that yielded well. He was down, in his prospect hole, digging up and filling his pan with some particularly fine looking 1 1- - 1 J - - -II 1 gravel, wneu ue uetuu a tuuaii, oquetui.^ voice sing out: " Struck it ?" - Pete was at the momont deeply ab *' sorbed ia tKe -work in whieh he -was en e gaged, and the shrill, squeaking voice .. ringing out so near at hand, ana asking e a question that-, so exactly chimed in >t with the train of the thought running through his head, so startled; him, that his pick almost fell from his hands. He >- pricked up his ears and looked about in all directions to see whanoe proceeded the cherry little, voice. He -half expect 3 ed to see a littte red-maatled fairy stand ing in some neighboring clump of wil lows, or peering out at him through a _ tuft of the rank grass growing along C. the margin of the nlL As he thus stood gazing about in g. open-mouthed amazement, the little j,' voice again piped out: " Struck it? k- Strnokitf Strnck it?" V Turning his eyes in the direction S whence proceeded the inquiring voice, ,, Pete presently described a-small green frog, mounted upon a stick .t?at,pro - jected an inch or Wo above the. snrfaoe of the water in his reservoir. The frog was but a rod or two away, and seemed, ( as Pete thought, to be looking inquir L ingly into his ey^ o a < * Struck it?" again ^id the frog*: "It is a good omen," said Pete. " The little fellow says I have struck it. Jr Though he is no countryman of mine, I . believa 1 have struck it in this very "hole." *x'~ So saying, Pete carried the pan of dirt he bad dug to his panning place, tunned it out, and did not get a color. He was not a little astonished at this result, and '0 had a notion to call the frog a liar; but / on turning to look for him, the little fellow was gone. Pete went back to his f nit ond rlntr armf.V??r nn.n nf rlirf?listen >' ing all the time "?> hear wirnt tHe-' frog ^ would snynbonA it. "" Nof "a >ftoYd did the rB frog say, however., ig Pete washed out the pan of dirt and ie got nearly a dollar. "Aha!" cried he, " where are ye now ? Ye hadn't a word 3j to say this time I" '1 v 1 Well pleased with his luck, Pete be gan digging another- pan of dirt from the place where he had got the last, ex pecting a rich haul. He had been at _ work but half a minute, when the voice rang ont, sharp and clear:' "Struck it J Struck it ? Struck it ?" " Oh, yea; it's aisy for ye to say, ' 8truck it! Strnck i*! after seein' what T got in mo last pan 1" "Strnck it? Struck it? Struck it?" cried the frog, in what to Pete seemed a triumphant tone. "All right, mo bye!" cheerily ass-?tit-' pd Pete, nodding his head toward the little fellow that sat winking and blink ing on the end of the stick. " AU rig.'jt, me bvc?av conrse I've ftruck-it?'.'. . He carried the pan tq his water hole, washed it out, and didn't get a color. " Te'r the warst liar I iver saw lw cried Pete, rising up from his work and shak ing his fist in the direction of the frog. Not a nign of the frog did he see, how-, ever, the little fellow having very pru ? i:?J A- iU- . L-ii * \ltruuijf XtrtlTCU WJ Ilia uoitom OI 1110 pond. Pete grumbled fo- a time, and tben went and-(|df^r wiathe? pan of gravel. The frog again stack his head above the water and said, " Struck it ?" and again the dirt yielded no gold when washed out. Thus it font on; when the -frog said nothing he gota pood yield of gold, but wheu he made his usual inquiry? sneering inquiry, Pete now considered it to be?no gold was found. At last Pete had washed so many pans of dirt out of which the frog had charm ed all the gold,-that he began to get very angry. He was also not a little 'disconrflfferl. FinalLv. insfc as he beean o ?" ? L to scrape the dirt out of the bottoin of a very promising crevice, and just as he tt? thjiikjthe frpgtujoald time hold Ills tontigi, ent'Ciraie the Htttefallow withhis "Strartk it! struck ftt?" ^ y, "Pete qnjetly Jaid down his ere vicing Bpoon, filvly gathered two or three big rocks, t&en softly, on tiptoe," jfifcgan stealing toward his little persecutor, and just as the frog cried " 8tmok it ?" Pete let drive at him witha rock po hnge that L .1; it couia nave Deen nurieu vy uu ioa??i A jax, missing his mark, but raising a great commotion in the pond. Thinking he had given his bad angel a fright that -would last him a fortnight Pete returned to his work. He had al most filled his pan with very rich look ing dirt, when up came the frog's head and out came his tantalizing "Strucl it ? struck it ?" Pete threw the pan of dirt as far tu he oould send it, and made for the frog determined on its destruction. H< would stand no more of its infernal non sense. Shovel in hand, he waded into: the iriddle of the little reservoir, anc scooped and tore about it with the vig orous venom of a mad bull. Onoe oi twice he saw, or imagined he sa^w, the fro* dart through the disoolored water, and brought down the back of hit shovel upon the spot with such a "spat' that the blow might have, been hearc half a mile away. At length, not seeing anything more of the frog, Fete con cluded that he had killed him. He gavt him a parting curse, and, being no* wrought up to such a pitoh of excite ment and nervousness that he coulc work no more that afternoon, put or his coat and went home. The next morning he returned to hii claim and his work. He had washed out several pans of dirt, and was getting good pay out of them, when suddenly there fell upon his ear the shrill cry oi "Struck it ?" The first note sent a thrill through Pete's frame,-like the sharp shock of ar oleetrio battery; then ft chill fell up or his-hearted rns hah*"almost rose on end. His evil genius, as he now firmly believed the little green frog to be, wa? still there, alive and at his old tricks. lie JUUJiBU uvor me pau ui uirw un mtu dug, and made a rush for the reservoir, the frog "plumping" under the water at his approach. Fete again went into the reservoir with his long-handled shovel, and charged about at a furious rate; but he could see nothing of the frog or anything that looked like it. Being determined to do for his torment or this time, Pete went for his pan an J began trying to bail out the reservoir. Finding this too great a task, he got a pick, dug down, the embankment of dirt and rocks forming ne little dam, and eagerly watched, with, uplifted shovel, for the frog, as the Water ran off. ! The waterfall ran out; but the frog was nowhere to be seen. Fete then waded out in, the oozy bed of the pond, digging and plunging about with his shovel, but he failed to start the goblin frog. He then arrived at the very reasonable conclusion that J.1-' - 1-n.r. 1- _1 J aUw -1. Lilt) ill we imp uuu guuc uuvyii tuo ocrcttui with the body of water that rushed out of the reservoir when it was opened. He craisad about the spot for an hour or two, going down the cWinai of the ra vine, turning. over .rocks end beating tufts.of grass with his shovel, but he saw nothing of the frog. Thinking his evil genius nad been washed down through the canyon into the Carson river, Pete concluded to rebuild his dam in order that he'might hive water ready7: for use in the morning. This job done/is went home, feeling quite sure that ho had either killed or permanently ousted his little enemy. The next day he returned to his work. Before starting in, however, he walked around the reservoir several times,c peer ing keenly into the water and kicking every bunch of grass about its margin. The frog was nowhere to be seen or btarted. Pete then went to his prospeot hole and began to dig, stopping occasionally to cock an eye toward the pond and to listen for the frog. All promised well foT Pete. He had dug a pan of dirt un'fhnnf t.hw Viafori infcprrnntinn. and was on his way to wash it out, when? "Struck it? struck it?" was squeaked from the pond by the goblin frog.' This was too much for Pete. The pan was dropped from his hands, his under jaw fell, and he sunk down upon the nearest rock, where he sat and con sidered the matter. As he was wonder ing if it was possible for him ever in anj way to rid himself of the evil thing thai destroyed his luck, the frog again sung out, cheerily as ever?"Struck it? struct it ?"*' j ' , ' "Ye think so 1" said Pete, and, catch ing up hit? pick, he rushed to the reser voir and began digglDg down the em bankment. Presently he paused in his work, and said : "It's no use. Haven't I tried to gel l:? 11 vr~ ?i t i LULU 111 ttli WttJB I 11U , WUOU X LUC water off he'll be gone. He's no human frog ! I'll jist lethim howld possession, and I'll hunt me another place." Pete began to gather up his clothee and tools with $he intention of vacating the place, wh6ir he" stepped and gazed wistfully at bis prospecting hole. " A promising place it was, too, in the main," said he. "Now, shall I be tor mented away by a dirty little baste like you? No ; I'll give him a warmin' yet, and all the likes of him. I'll peppei bim to-morrow 1" So saying, Pete put on his coat and struck out for home, turning to shake his fist toward the pond as he departed. rru~ i JLiitJ UCAb UlUilUlJg IUIU >YI U L tip C? J Johntown and borrowed a shotgun ; he then bought a quantity of powder and shot and returned to his claim, saying as he strode aloDg: 41 I'll kill th?t f*>g, if it's anaougst the possibilities I" Ou reaching tho claim, he crawled to a rock near, the edge of the pond, and, seating himself upon it, watched for soLun uuurcj, uui: tuo ^uuuu u.ug woa neither to bo scon nor heard. "He has run atvay," eaid Ptite ; " but I'll kill him, if ho in anywhere on the face of the gvcen earth!" He then moved along down the canyon, an<lpresently paw what seemed to be his tormentor. Ho blazed away and stretched the oivatnre- doad on the margin of the hill. Ho was just begin uing to rejoice over tho victory ho had gained, when up from tho spot sprung i another frog,' the" "vary picture, of that ho hrfd killed."' Tote looked at this new app&ritioD, and then turned and gazed upon tho slaughtered animal to be sure it was dead. Finding it was etrotcliod lifeless on the ground, ho went after the second frog. This wasfJnallyslaughter ed, and he continued his hunt down the HI t.liofc ilov Via hunter} frno*L UrtUJ'UU. ii" wui?? v.?j ? ' ? _ 0^, blazing away at everything that moved in the water, or that looked at all like a frog. " ' The next day he bought more ammu nition, and again went on the war-path along the canyon, firing so frequently that Rom'* of the miners above tboughl that the Piutes had attaoked the eetfclerf ! at the north of the oanyon. The nexl ! day and the next, and right along for t | week, Pete hunted, the canyon, alwaye j beginning with the pond on his claim, i and keeping up a murderous fire at often as he raw a frog or the suspicion of one. Not satisfied with this, ho hunt ed the banks of the Carson river for a mile or two up and down about th? mouth of the canyon. ~?ie tamed o] nothing/but faogfj! for-a fortnight, bought and fired away -whole sacks ol shot and pound after pound of powder, and seemed to be almost insane on frogs, But ho at. last concluded that he had cleaned .them all out, and the goblin frog among thfe rest. 'i.votl ? .<1 ; One morning, to the surprise" of liif neighbors in the camp, who had beet watching him curiously for some days, instead of. starting out with his gun, h< took his pan'and crovicing spoon anc departed down the canyon in the direc tion of his claim, .i; An hour later Pete came tearing bad to camp. " I'll niver strike pick info the canyon again I" cried he. "Thai imp is still there on me olaim I J w&i but liftin' me dirt for me second pan whin he raised his head from the watur and says : ' Pete, have ye struck it f' sez he. I'll niver strike pick into it agin'. No more I will. That frog is no human frog." Pete kept his word; he nerer mined in the canyon again. He left for Six mile canyon to hunt a place not haunted by a demon frog, and fie had not mined many weeks before he and his partner ?Pat McLaughlin?struck it I Struck it! ?struck the great Oomstock silver lode, the hidden treasure house of the gnomes, and the wonder of the whole mining world. He was, aa he always believed, driven into this great good fortune by a "goblin frog." w A Retrospect of Centuries. One hundred years ago; American independence. Two hundred years ago ; King Philip (the Indian) defeated and slain; habeas corpus in England. Three hundred years ago; massacre of St. Bartholomew; Spanish Armada preparing. Four hundred years ago; printing invented; Isabella the ooming queen. i Five hundred years ago; the days of Tamerlane the Turk, and Chancer the English poet. Six hundred years ago; Baliol and Brace, Bicbard Baoon; St. Thomas Aquinas, Houbo of Haspsburg founded. Seven hundred years ago; Bichard Caur de Leon and Saladiu, sultan of Egypt, measuring swords in Palestine. Eight hundred years ago; William the Conqueror. Nine hundred years ago ; Hugh Capet the Frenchman. One thousand years ago ; Alfred the Great. Eleven hundred years ago; Charle magne and Haroun A1 Rash id. Twelve hundred years ago ; Mohame danism making lively work in Constanti nople and other places. Thirteen hundred years ago ; Old Chosroes, the Persian, lives by murder, and the Pope is made a secular judge among kings. Fourteen hundred years ago; the Saxons lively in Britain ; Clovis estab lishes the French monarchy, and the Visigoths oonquer Spain. Fifteen hundred years ago; the Boman empire, having legislated many years in favor of capital and against la bor, begins to fail to pieces. Sixteen hundred years ago; the world ; has nothing better to do tnan to broach and denounce heresies and get up , religious persecutions. Seventeen hundred years ago; Marcus Aureliufl, Tacitus and 3?lutarch. Eighteen hundred years ago ; Jerusa lem destroyed, and Herculaneum and Pompeii buried. Eighteen hundred and seventy-sis years ago; all the world at peace and Christ born. Six thousand years ago} Adam rose to the dignity of & large real estate owner, J but by poor management was driven into involuntary bankruptcy.?Chicago i Tr\<%rt 1 r\f r^r\mrneven J\JVW /frl%V \SJ VVIIVffWi vv> Canada at the Centennial. The Toronto Globe says: There is every indication that Canada -will be well represented at the approaching Centennial exhibition in Philadelphia. In every department, metallurgy, manu factures, education, science, maoiiinery, art, agriculture, horticulture, and others, the representation will be very n^mrvlutii flinnali in nnmA rpRnftC.tfl t,hfi 1/UUi^lbVC) VUWUQU *M WW ?X work of arrangement would be greatly facilitated if intending exhibitors would ' only send in their applications as early as possible. Some time ago the advi sory board of Ontario sought the assis tance of agricultural societies and others in ttrder that the products of the field might be represented in the Ontario sec tion by counties. Hie response to this application has not been aa cordial as could be wished, auQ a second circular has been issued urging still greater ac tivity for the purpose of compassing so desirable an eDd. Great credit is due to tho Dominion premier and his ool lcagues for the perfect and liberal ar rangements which have been mado for the transportation, accommodation, and safe keeping of the articles to be placed on exhibition. The glass cases intended ^o contain such articles as require to be inclosed, and the glass covered counters on which they are to be displayed, will be made in Canada, and in such a way that they can be taken apart and packed 1 together with ease. When the exhibi I tion is over they will be brought back ' to the capital to aid in the fitting tip of a national tntisettm at Ottawa. One 1 special train from Ontario and another from Quebec will carry the articles sent 1 by these provinces direct to Phila delphia. Those from the maritime ' provinces will be taken by a government 1 steamer, the crew of which will be em ployed in arranging the department, while the vessel will serve during ine exhibition as a boarding house for em ployees. The government bcoomcs re sponsibl for the safety of every article delivered by the proper time and in 1 proper condition. The Queen of England. Queen Victoria, in her address to the English Parliament, speaks as follows : My relations with all foreign powers con tinue of a cordial oharacter. Thein snrrectionary movement which during the last 3ix months has been maintained in fViA TVirtisli r?rr\irir>fv?n nf TCnania (Mid Herzegovina, and which the troops of the sultan have up to the present time 1 been unable to repress, has exoited the ; attention and interest of the great Eu 1 ropean powers. I have considered it ' my duty not to stand aloof from the _ efforts now beifog made by the allied and ; friendly governments to bring about the [ pacification of the disturbed districts; and I have, accordingly, while respect 1 ing the independence of the Porte, | joined in urging on the sultan the ex pediency of adopting such measures of adminis'rative reform as may remove all reasonable cause of discontent on the 1 part of his Christian subjects. j The humane and enlightened policy constantly pursued by this country in 1 putting an end to slavery within her own dependencies and in suppressing the slave trade throughout the world makes | it important that the action of British ' national ships in the territorial waters of ' foreign States should be in harmony [, with the great principles. I have, therefore, given direotions for the issue of a royal commission to inquire into all treaty engagements and other interna tional obligations bearing npon this sub ject, and all instructions from time to time issued to my naval officers, with a view of ascertaining whether any steps onght to be taken to secure for my ships and their commauders abroad greater power for the maintenance of the right of personal liberty. Fresh American Beef in England. For the crop year ending November 1, 1875, there were shipped from New York Great Britain, of pork,' 46,917 barrels; of packed beef, 60,883 barrels and tieices, moro than one-half of which went to Liverpool. During the same year the total foreign exports of pork from New York amounted in pounds to 3,600,100, against 31,662,300 pounds of beef. The total exports of beef from al other United States ports foot up 4,374, 237. A very considerable amount of tbe pork sent abroad goes from other ports; namely, 24,642,448 pounds. The Paabody Dwelling Houses in Len don. According to the London Daily News, there are now ten blocks of improved dwellings for the poor of London, to testify of Ihe wisdom and generosity of George Peabody. The last, still in the course of erection, promises to be the largest of all, for it stands on five acres of ground .and numbers thirty-six blocks, twelve already far advanced. Of the completed oongeriea of homes already opened, the latest is in, South work street.. It is a substantial building of twelve blocks, and, taking the aver age of four in eaoh family, will supply house room for about one thousand per sons. In eaoh block there are twenty two tenements, a few consisting of one room, some of two, and many of three, but each absolutely self-oontained, and all as private as if they were flats in Vic toria street, or in the Bue du Faubourg St. Honore. The three room tenements oonsist?to take an average example?of a kitchen Ifteen feet by twelve, a bed room sixteen feet by fourteen, and a second bedroom twelve feet by sixteen. _ n l J.J ? AUtt uuun ttlt) UUUIUOU UYOi, wo nuu are cemented, and all are at present beautifully -white. There is a fireplace in each room, that in the kitchen being furnished with a capital oven and boiler. There are several cupboards, one in the kitchen having over it a meat safe, with doors of perforated sine. In th6 pas sage outside is a coal bin of neat and in genious construction, capable of hold ing half a ton. On each flat there is a laundry, with copper boiler, a wringing machine, and mangle. This is devoted to the use of four families, who have the privilege of occupying it by turns one day a week. Each flat has a dust shoot, the tenants having n6; further trouble than to open it and drop down the con tents of their shovels. /. Nor does this conclude the list of special accommodations in these won room of each tenement there is a capa cious bath, to which the tenants have access without charge, and as often as they please, there being no other neces sary preliminary than that of calling at the superintendent's office for the key. Gas is provided in the wash houses and through the roomy staircases, also at the expense of the trustees. The rent of a three-roomed tenement is $1.88 a week; for two rooms, $1.08, and for one room, seveatv-two cents. A striking feature of the management of these dwellings is the absence of ar bitrary interference with the liberty of the tenants, the few simple rales en forced looking simply to the order, oleanlineM, and general good of the oommunity. Rente are insisted on weekly in advance, and the houses are always full. The tenants are striotly of the laboring classes, it being an im printed rale of the place that no man earning more than $5, or at most $6 a week, is eligible for admission. Noth ing else is required of an incoming ten ant farther than a voucher of his re spectability, generally sought at the hands of hia employer; and other things being equal, tue superintendent manes a practice of giving the preference to families ^vhere the bread winner is en gaged at a distance not too remote to prevent his returning home to tako his dinner with hifl family. In the aggregate, the population of the Peabody buildings is already not less than ten thousand persons. As the buildings pay a small interest on the money invested, and there is besides the interest on $2,500,000 to be used in fchft ATArttion of new buildings of the sort, their increase of capaoity is almost limitless. On Time. When we remember the vexations de lays at Vienna, says the New York Tri bune, we may be pardoned for looking with some oomplaoency at the condition of things nt Philadelphia. The opening is three months off, and already the placing of the goods has began. The main exhibition building is finished and swept, and only a little of the garnishing remains to be completed. The machinery and horticnltnral halls are substantially finished, and workmen nro setting np some of the machines. The art building is oocuDied bv plasterers and decorators. The exhibition* building of the United States government is complete, and con tains already a large part of the remark able collection of mineral specimens from the Pacific slope, which will form one of the most interesting features of the fair. The agricultural building is so nearly done that there can be no doubt nt i to hoinn 1-oniHv 1 fin Or KfifrNI-A if, 1H nfifld 4WJ MUUlg ? ed. The roads are getting into oondition as fast as the weather will allow, and the grounds are adorned by a multitude of pretty buildings for special purposes, among which the charming little red tiled Elizabethan country house of the British commission standB modestly con spicuous, as if a small fragment of Shropshire had somehow been trans ported to the banks of the SohuylkilL Outside the. grounds the bustle of prep aration is incessant. The railway com Eanies are extending their tracks-; the otel companies are putting the finish ing touches to . their huge temporary houses of entertainment; thrifty house holders are getting ready their spare bedrooms. Wo may be sure that in every particular Philadelphia will be ready in ample season for the entertain ment to whioh she invites us. Whatever else may be needed to complete tne suc cess of the Centennial must be done by the people themselves. Longevity of Veterans. The Worcester Spy says : The ex traordinary longevity of the survivors of the war of 1812 is certainly a curious fact well worthy of notice. That was not a great war; not many troops were engaged, and no very large force mus tered into the service of the United States, and the war came to an end al most sixty-one yeatn ago. Yet the com missioner of pensions reports 15,875 survivors of that war on the rolls of the pension office. Very few, indeed, of these can be less than eighty years of ago, and the number must be nearly if not quite ten per cent, of the whole force mustered for service. If the veterans of the late civil war prove so tenacious ot me, nearly x.wo hundred thousand of them will survive in the year 1926. We should be very glad to believe that all of them would live much longer than that, but we can not expect it, for it is against the course of nature. It iti hard to resist the con viction that a large share of the fifteen thousand veterans of 1812 are impostors. How It Woult^Look. A bill has been introduced into the California Senate which provides that " all original articles or correspondence hereafter appearing in any newspaper or serial" published in that State, "sli%ll be printed in said newspaper or serial with the full real name ot tne autnor or each article or correspondence." "Fancy," says the Inter-Ocean, " see ing something like the following in the daily issue of a metropolitan news paper : John Brown is Btoping at the Brevoort House. John Jaefer Jenkins. The school teachers were paid yester day. Peter Admon Watts. Sarah Jones was masted yesterday for stealing a firkin of butter. Abraham Bartholomew. Ire Tfe U Hare an Indian War! In an article on the Indian question the Kew York Herald. says : It looks as though we are to drift into a war with the Sioux Indians, of the Black Hills, unless something is don* to avert it. The Dakota, or Sioux, is by far the strongest of the uncivilized tribes of the West. Gen. Ouster computes that in case of war they could put from eight thousand to ten thousand warriors in the field, but the number has been raised by others familiar with Indian affairs to fifteen thousand. Contrary to the case of other tribes they have increased in numbers during the past twenty-five years and are well armed. They are as brave in fighting as Indiana led bv able chiefs, and but for the fact that the. leaders of the different bands are almost aa jealous of each other as of the whites we should have had war along the line of the Northern Pacific railroad long since. The irruption of adventurous miners into the Black Hills as soon aa the win ter is over will probably lead to trouble, the negotiations with the Sioux for the purchase of the hills last year having come to naught. While many of the shrewd old chiefs, who would like tc make what they would think a good bar gain with the government, will try to' restrain their f<mowers, it is to be feared that some of the young braves of the roving bands will descend on the miners and so precipitate hostilities. T*i J />ti IhA or tnoona and as cunning as serpents. -D1UUU UUUC OUOli uu vu^< WAUV4, more blood to be shed, and unless the government is very alert we may find ourselves in the midst of a war to which the Modoc straggle will be a mere baga telle, and which will cost millions in money and possibly thousands of livear. It is, of course, correct to take the be/st military precautions, and General Ous ter is a good man to intrust with them, but the best efforts must be made to prevent hostilities by seeking fair peade terms with the Indians. In the present at ate n f frfl/1 A A Tftnid infiTPflHA UV^VWMVV* ? XT SJ-; of territory available for settlement is not our greatest desideratum, bat while these grand regions remain to tempt those wno have failed in the East we may be certain that the energy which hard times keep latent will endeavor to assert itself oni; there. ' The cry of " gold " raises an insatiate hunger at any time, and now it is likely to be doubly effective, no matter how miserably the diggings may " pan out" Danger will not deter the adventurous. The prudence of neither Indians nor miners can be relied on. While there is yet time let the government do all in its power to prevent a war. This is a na tional and not a political question. Infernal Machines.: In oonneotion with the recent dyna mite horror, a recent article in the Scientific American upon this subject is of particular interest at this time. Thomas' contrivance is described aa consisting of four zinc boxes containing dynamite, and placed above one anoth er. Between the second and third were placed a clock, so arranged as to causo a thirty-pound hammer to. strike a blow every ten days. Three years ago an attempt, fortunately unsuccess ful, was made to ship an infernal ma chine on. board. of one of the Message ries Imperiales steamers at Bordeaux, consisting essentially of a needle-gun, which was to be fired at a fixed period by a train of clookwork, and thus ex plode a quantity pf nifcro-glycorine. The coal-ehell is more familiar, consist ing merely of a hollow brass casting, containing some explosive substance, and made to resemble a lump of coal. " Hats " are of two kinds, one for iron ships and one for wooden ones. The "iron rat" consisted of a pig of iron, similar to those used for balliist, but i a ?l noiiowea (JUL uuuiie muoau no vu wimuiu a hollow boring tool filled with acid, and so arranged as to act on the ship's side by the motion of the sea, sooner or later making a dangerons leak in a very inaccessible place. The " wood rat" is mnch more ingenious, consisting of a box containing two npright cylinders, connected with another disposed hori zontally. The upright cylinders were partly filled with water, ana the horizon tal one oontained a piston, or plunger, provided with a stuffing box. The mo tion of the ship sent the water into one and the other npright cylinder alternate ly, producing lateral motion in the pis fnti. whin! i was a eared to a ratchet-drill provided -with an atiger. When a hole had been made in the ship's bottom the anger dropped ont, clearing the hole for the admission of water and impairing the evidence of the nature of the ma chine. Fieschi's apparatus for the as sassination of Lotus Phillippe -was an arrangement of thirty-five gun barrels, sp contrived as to be fired. all at onoe, while Orsini's bombs were aimply hand grenades. . y. - About Pork. Mr. Sayre, of Lexington, lisps a little, and a good story is told of him, the bet ter for its truth. Some years since an overseer on one of his forms told him he , needed some hogs. Says Mr. Sayro ; " Very well; go kid buy fonr or five thowtli and pigth right away, and put them on the farm." TJae man, accustomed to obey, ana that without questioning, asked; "Shall I take the monoy with me to purchase them ?" " No, thir. They all know me. Thend them here?l"l j>ay for them, or give you money to pay when you get them." The overseer went his way, and in two weeks returned, when the following con versation took place : " Well, Mr. Sayre, I can't get many pigs. I havo ridden all over the country all about, and can buy only between eight and niue hundred." " Eight or nine hundred what ?" " Eight or nine hundred pigs." " Eight or nine hundred pigfch ! Who told vou to buy that many pigth ? Are you a fool?" . . : . " fon told me to buy them, two weeks since. I have tried to do it." " Eight or nine hundred pigth ! I never told you any thuoh thing." " But you did?you told me to goand bny four or five thousand pigs." " I did no thuch thing ! I told you to go and buy four or five tliowth and their little pigth, and you have done it, I thould think !" Mr. Sayro had pork to sell in the autumn. ? Red Tape. ' Mrs. 0. M. Burnham, of Des Moines, Iowa, fnrnishes a specimen of army red tape tbat far exceeds in length and con - volutions that which enfolded Patrick Nooimn's breeches. Mer lather, Asa Sprague, was a soldier in the war of 1812, and at the capture of Ogdensburg lost all his clothing and p<nrsonal effects of considerable value, being at the time dangerously sick with fever. He es caped by being drawn by Ida two sisters on a hand sled to Hewvelton, seven miles distant. The exposure cost him three ysars of severe illness, from which he never fnlly recovered. His claim for his lost clothing was allow ed in 1848 or 1849, and took its slow, tortuous conrse in charge of "the office" until Decem ber, 1874, when he finally reoeived 850. This was about five months before hia death in June, 1875, at the age of eighty seven years. Domestic Bankruptcy. He had been telling her for weeks past, says the Detroit Free iVeaa, that times were tight, money scarce, bank ruptcy stalking abroad through the land, and so forth, and she had consented to the disoharge of the nurse girl, and up stairs girl, and had wheedled the cook into doing general housework. That wasn't enough. He came home one night and said he wasgoing to discharge the hostler; that money had gone up to thirty per cent.; that he could j't afford to cany his life insurance any longer; that she mustn't ask for any more new clothes for a year. She went over the house and pinched expenses down again, and things ran along until the other day, when ne remarked: 4' We're got to reduce still further or bust I" She was pondering over his remarks late tnai evening wnen ne came nome. xx? was so long getting his overcoat off that she went into the haLL He gave the eoat one awfnl jerk just then and fell oyer. " What on earth ail) yon I" she ex claimed, as she tried to help him up. f Noraing," he replied. As he got np she peered into his face. The fact was as plain as if it had been written on a whitewashed fence with tari "You are drunk!" flhe said, as she drew back. He &azed at her without replying. "Here you've been yelling'reduce 1 reduce {' all winter, and while I am try ing to rednoe you go and get drunk! You'd better reduce your whisky I" "Vi said anyring 'bout rejucel" he asked. li "Yes, you have!" Whazwant rejuce for?" "Only to-day you sail we'd either got to reduce or bust." " <4Di say zat?" "Yes, you did." "Well* ju rejnoo?" " Nothow could I ?" . " 2en didn't I bust I" Jjnerlcan Officers in Egypt. I was told the other diiy by a very good authority. Buys an Amencan officer Serv ing m Egypt, that there1 is a Russian general here intriguing with the viceroy to have the American officers dismissed and himself and some of his fellow countrymen appointed in their places: and my informant added that the general said , that the viceroy had taken his proposition into consideration. The general may be very old, but he must be Very simple not to know that a Turk never says no. ' He is too polite, and out of pure kindness of heart leads you to believe that he is going to do as you want when he has not the slightest idea 0/ doing anything of the kind. The reasons whicn weighed with the khedive when he selected American offioers to raise cue sianaaru ui ma uicjj. mo ^tuvc as potent to-day as they were six years ago. Tho kliedive chose American' offi cers in preference to Europeans lor two reasons; first, because they were easily 'obtainable on the oonelusion of theeivil war, and secondly, because he thus avoided wounding the delicate suscepti bilities of any of the great powers. Further, ia the event of complications in Europe, American officers are not likely to take sides nor have any other desire th$n to serve his highness loyally. The appointment of a Russian general in the place of Gen. Stone would be tantamount to a rupture of relations between England and Egypt. It is quite probable that the viceroy made the usual stereotyped diplomatic reply to the Bussian general, that in case he saw it to the advantage of his govern ment to have the general's services He would not fail to avail himself of the general's offer, and npon that the old general is boilding his castles in the air. Reputation?When It Begins, A young man wrote to his brother complaining that certain persons had done all that they could- to injure his reputation. His brother?in most un brotherly mood?replied: "Have you got a reputation f You did well to gain one?and you so young I" And this young man appeals to know whether a person has to arrive at any certain age before he can get a reputation. % ? n iL.i ;? I We repiy, says me ijeagtr, uint w many instances a child pnly four years old has already began to make its repu tation. Ton may see two children, brothers, one four years of age, and the other six. The family, the relations,, and some of the friends and neighbors* are intimately acquainted -with these two children. They know the one to be peevish, fretful, selfish, and ill-na tured. They know the other to con trast strikingly with him in all these particulars. Have not these two chil dren reputations f Reputation is what one ia reputed to be. These two little brothers are reputed, by all who know them and have ever spoken of them, to i be the very opposite of each other?the one. a morose, uncomfortable, disagree able child; the other, lovely, sweet, and winning. And it' is Very likely tha these different reputations will follow them, respectively, all throngh life, and after they are laid in their graves; only the repafcations will extend, as they become more extensively known, like the enlarging circle caused by throwing a. flfcnrm into a deaj. still lake. It will be useful to young persons to keep thesa reflections in mind, whatever they may be doing. Their acta now, as well as in later life, all go to make up and to establish their reputation. A Mysterious Disease, An epidemic, supposed to be typhoid fever, broke out the other day in thb village of Eggley, in England, and has sinoe spread to Bolton. Several deaths have occurred, and over one hundred -"--i-a 1? A persons nave Deen aiiacKeu uy iu. a. swelling of the tongue and eyes, accom panied by sickness and, in some cases, insensibility, is the primary symptom. Various 'causes are assigned, the most probable being that the village milk was supplied from animals affected by the foot and mouth disease. To the foul ness of the water, defective drainage, and lead poison the outbreak is attrib uted in others. The health officer, who has analyzed the milk, can discover no trace of lead, though he has detected the presence of other impurities. He is inclined to the belief that either the cans in which the milk was supplied have been washed with polluted water, or the milk has been adulterated with water from an impure stream. This view of the case is supported by the fact that the disease from which the persons are suffering is developing into typhoid fever. Near to one of the farms there is a small stream of water, which is not only charged with the drainage of ma I IIurcti UC11U7) uuw tvuiuu JUJ wuvnuuuuwu with homo sewago, slops, etc.,'and this is the water which the cattle on the farm have to drink. i , A Destiny aboTe Bolls, We met a little girl crying as though her heart would break," ? What's the matter, sissy?" we asked. "Brother Dick stole my doll and grtVe it to Lizzie King," she said; " and she don't need any doll, 'cause brother Dick and her are going to get married and run away and start a circus." She toddled on, with the big tears running down her oheeks, while she munched a section of gingerbread that seemed to have no effect whatever in calking up her sor rows. MRS. CUMINGHAM'S LIFE. Her Aecaant of It After the Burdell Ofartfer ?A Tlforeai Denial of Guilt u to that Traced?. A sho rt time sicoe an exchange pub lished some singular storioj relative to Mrs. Cunningham, whose name was as sociated with the mnrder of Dr. Burdell in New York many years ago. A re porter visited Mrs. Williams Hate Mrs. 0.) and talked with hor. She said: Never have I been let alone sinoe the murder of Dr.' Burdell, and not me alone, but my poor children hare been dragged before thepublio and slandered. Look at this paragraph : " Her son supports himself and sister through working on a ranch near Loreto, in which village the latter dwells with her child, although unmarried, a haggard woman of thirty-Are, from whoee face all traoe of her former beauty has flown." This is hard to bear. lfy. daughter, who lives with her brother at ?he ranch. has no^jhild, and never had any, and this is the first time that she has ever been brought before the public for any other offense than being the daughter , of Mrs. Cunningham. She is in delicate -health, and has been for years, but it is not true that she is a "haggard woman " from whose faoe all traoe of her former 1 beauty has fled. After my trial for the murder of Dr. < BnrdeU, I came to California in the same 1 ship with the Rev. T. Starr Xing', and 1 landed in San Francisco in 1800, with two sons and two daughters, leaving one daughter in New York. I met Hyde in San Francisco. Af or I married Hyde I purchased a half interest in the oopper mine at Loreto with my own money, j and afterward secured the whole. Short ly alter marrying Hyde I went to Lore to with my family and remained there until July, 1863, when I returned to Sail Francisco, leafing my family on the ranch. Here I remained until 1867, when I sued for a divorce. Hyde re turned to San Francisco and lived with me until I got the divorce. No Mexi can superintendent ever had charge of the copper mine, nor did I ever 44 bolt with a Mexican " or any other superin tendent. I never sold my mine for an "immense sum," or for any mm* but own it still. It is not true that I had no son at the time of the Bordell trage dy. I had then two sons and three daughters. Nor is it true that my daugh ter Angusti is living in Jersey Qity, the wife of a dentist. JJeporter? wnac is me name 01 yuur ranch, madam ? Mrs. Williams?It is the Sauce ranch, and is located about midway between the towns of Loreto and Comondu in Lower California. It consists of 40,820 acres, and npon it are two valuable oopper mines, the Giantess and the Sauoe. I believe these mines to be worth from $1,000,000 to $2,000,000, and do not in tend to sacrifice them, bnt will keep them for the use oi my surviving chil dren, the whole of v hose lives have been clouded and darkened by that horrible New York tragedy. I have at last, thank God, a good, kind, disinterested hus band in Mr. Williams. No one can 1 charge him with marrying me Jor my 1 wealth, for before we were united he ' persuaded me to make over to my chil- .! dren all my property. Reporter?Mr. Williams is your fourth husband ? 1 Mrs. Williains?Yes; that is, I have i been married four times, though in reality I have had but two husbands worthy of the name?Mr. Cunningham and Mr. Williams. I have told you what Hyde was; and as for I)r. Burdeli?but I would rather not speak about him. It was my marriage with him that i has blasted my life and made the name of Mrs. Cunningham familiar, to the world. Now, for twenty years, every little while, paragraphs concerning the Burdeli mur^gr, my name always men- , tioned in connection with it, go tho rounds of the press, and one would sup pose from the tone of them that the world believed me guilty of his assas sination, notwithstanding the verdict of \ acquittal by th jury, un, it is nara to bear, and I wonder that I have not been crushed. As it is, I am nervous and weak, as you see by the way I ray, but I have an abiding faith that my life will be spared until the whole truth pf that dreadful murder comes to light. Reporter?I should be glad to have your theory of the tragedy, if yotf have one. Mrs. Williams?I can scarcely say that I have a theory, though I have always had some suspicions and knew some facts which, if they had been acted upon at the time, might have led to the dis covery of the murder. But the au thorities had made up their minds that he had fallen by my hand, and treated with scorn what I had to say. Indeed, they paid no attention whatever to my utterances, but from the day that Gor? oner Oonnery took charge of the house " "'i Wr?+. rntj anil mv fomilv nrisonexs in omv4 ??? ?-v y A. a room, they regarded me as the mur deress, and only sought to provoke ex pressions from me that could be twisted and distorted into evidences of some guilty knowledge on my part. A Mistake All Around. A farmer living near Washington, N. J., was awakened early one morning by the noise of seme one entering his house. Spring from his bed he sallied out to meet the intruder, and as he en tered the kitchen he saw the form of a man standing in the room. Determined to defend his property at all hazards, he called to his hired man, who slept in an adjoining room, and seizing a chair aimed a deadly blow at the burglar's head. The darkness interfered with his aim, and the chair struck the upper part of a door, and splintering to pieces, fell at his feet. Before he could recover himself, the hired man made hfrap i i i * pearance, ana misuutmg mo au|iiv;u for the burglar?who had suddenly die- I appeared?struck him with another chair \ and knocked him down. Lights were i soon produced and the whole family ] aroused, when it was discovered that the supposed bnrglar was an employee on | the same farm, who had been out on a , "sparking" expedition, and had en deavored to gain access to his room with out awaking the family. His employer informed him, as he caressed the bruise L'* 1?Un.AnfloK Via olinnM Ull 1UD LHAijr, tJLUkt U^JLUUI WJl ami w**w?a*v? take i\ nightkey or keep better hours. He thinks he Hill. Pare Harana Cigars. It is stated that not a steamer leaves New York for Havana that does not take out from 2,000 to 5,000 reams, or in oc casional instances as high a&[30,000 reams, of coarse brown wrapping paper. What fchia paper was used for was for a long time a mystery; but it has recently been revealed that it enters largely into the manufacture of "pure Havana cigars." It is said that when saturated in the juice of tobacco stems, the straw paper makes a "filling" almost equal, if not superior, to the genuine leaf. In fact, it is impossible to detect the delicate film of paper interlapped with leaves in ----- 1.1 the finished cigar, or neauy ioimug iue exterior. For this purpose it serves ad mirably, the paper, under oombustion, leaving no residuum other than a pure white ash. To such a refinement of art haa this business been carried, that by the use of machines rolled over the sheet of paper, an almost perfect im press of the tobacco leaf is obtained, the peculiar "spots" being printed as on calico. JL Warning. B?*ntiful, 788 ; bat thejblnsh will.fade, The light grow dim which the blue.'eyes wear; * The gloss will vanish from curl and braid, And the sunbeam die in'the waving hair. Tom from the mirror and strive to win Treasures of loveliness still to last; Gather earth's glory and bloom within, That the toal may be bright when youth past. ?Mrt. Osgood. Items of Interest. When birds soar they warble, but when a throat's soar it doesn't. Of the 1,711 newspapers issued in Great Britian, 808 are penny papers. Tlx* Mormons propose to nvrv uwu tennial of their own in Salt Lake City. How to carry the least virtna and get the most credit for it is a problem of the age. The sting of a bee oarriee conviction with it It makes a man a bee-learer at once. " Should eld acquaintance be forgot!" Certainly not, if they behAve them selves, ' One of onr merchants sat his umbrella against a tree while he stepped into a store to ask a question. When he came out the tree stood there. Ko one had taken it. A Vqtb V/?lr nnrreonnnd ant of the SL Louis Republican says' that Dickens was a cold, cruel father, seeming to have no care for his children, He xnB Also a good writer. A* counsel was asked by the judge for whom he was concerned. He answered: ' I am concerned, my' lord, for1 the plaintiff, but I am employed by the defendant." Minnesota Falls, Minn.,-was oi-ganised as a town oyer three years ago, and al though the population is over three hun dred, not a death has oc cured there dur ing the three years. said : "No^^chMren, who' loves all men ?" The question was barmy pat before a little girl, not four years old, answered : " All women." . ' There baa been a . good deal ot fun made over the Chinese birds' neat sonp, but it is said by Americans who hav? tasted of the dish that it wuh yet be served at our restaurant*. The Swiss exhibit at the Centennial cnll' be small, but complete and well slasajfied. Among manufactured arti cles watches will occopy the flrgt rank, but the show of laces wm excite special idmiration. The Courier-Journal properly ranks ?? '??^ a if? -n?:i. .1 % Dir. XTU1LS aou WD. XXU1U3 VI iinnmiii unong the first Fruits of the earth; the ane being 118 and the other 111 years aid. The old gentleman neither jgnokes nor chews, of coarse. A man tamed a dog that somebody sent him, until the docile creature would Bat of his hand. At least it-ate off about three-quarters of his thumb, but died of ooncussion of the brain before it oould finish the hand. A very successful swindler'ia John Collins, who has sold a half interest in a mythical patent to about filty pensons in various Western cities, making there by more than $10,000. He will also get f ome maintenance in prison. < Two boys of Venango county, Penn., had a dispute as to which should get out of bed first, one morning. One finally shoved the other out of bed, when the ousted one took a rifle and shot his brother through the leg, inflicting a painful but not dangerous wound. An exchange, in giving to girls some sensible advice about the care of the feet, including the folly of wearing boots that are too small, remarks: "Learn this lesson: no one cares about the size of your foot except yourself; therefore be oomforfcable." ( A newspaper contains an announce ment to this effect: "Wanted, at this office, a bulldog of good size, 'sound teeth, and ferocious disposition, that will attend to his business, and take his pound of flesh from the man who soils 3ur floor with tobacco juice and steals 3ur newspapers." A little fellow being told by a young man to get off his knee, that he was too heavy to hold in that way, made quite a lAnwitinn am one the oersons I) resent by pelling back: " Too heavy, hey ? Sis ter Sal weighs a hundred pounds more than I, and you held her on your kne? For four hours last night." The unusual torture of freesjuBgand burning to death was the lot of a color ed girl in Gumming, Wis. Her clothing 3aught fire, burning her fatally rand then she ran out of the house, almost naked, and the extreme cold fcelped to till her before she oonld reach a neigh bor's house, for whioh she had started. Wolves are killing sheep in great numbers in localities in Clearfield county, Pa., in which the beasts have not been seen for fifteen years. An old resident says he has heard wolf music for fifty years, but he has never haard jo much as this -winter. Some formers have lost aa high as twenty sheep in one night. It may be of interest to the public to state that of the six hundred and fifty sight soldiers who were discharged iunng the war on account of losing their voices, exactly six hundred and If ty-eight of them regained their voiced within fortv davs after their discharge, ind some of them within forty minute When plants have been froet-bitten, :he thawing oat should always be fraduaL One of the be3t things to do is to sprinkle the foliage with cold water, uad put the plants in a room where the temperature is allowed to rise slowly to i suitable degree. Plants while in a Erozen condition should be very carefully bandied. A gentleman was urged, the other day, bo embraqp religion, but he replied, aneeringly; "Mr. Winalowwasa Chris tian, I believe; I don't want mat Kina of religion." The answer he received was : " I don't blame you. but suppose you try your mother's kind ; youknow what a blessing her hope was both to her and to you. Deaoon 0., of New Jersey, furnishes bread for communion service in his church. He saves the dice-like bits that remain when the sacrament is over. The other day, while the communion bread plate was passing, his little son said * "Ma, they are taking quite a good deal,' and you was goin' to have bread pudden to-morrow. Ain't they mean ?" When a man with a double team of fast trotters invites you to go sleighing with him, you had better comply. We_ know ol nothing which contains ou uuu^ variety to the square inch as such a rid;?. There is a healthful excitement in won ing if the n^xt ball thrown from the horses' heels is going to knock out seven of your teeth, or merely destroy the eight of one eye for life. A Norristown man dreamed that he was the chief of the Pawnees, and get ting up in his sleep he procured a large cheese knife, gave an ear-piercing whoop, and removed his wife's hair with as much neatness and dispatch as if he had been a persecuted red man from his birth. It was a fortunate thing for his wife that her hair was hanging on the back of a chair and not on her head.