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ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER BY W. A. LEE AND HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1876. VOLUME XXIV.?NO. 12. The Lady and Her Lover. THE LADY'S BONNET TWILIGHT. I know not why I chose to eecm 80 cold At parting from you?for since you are gone I Bee you still; I Lear each word, each tone, And what I hid from you I wish were told. I who was proud and shy seem now too bold To write these lines?aud yet must write, to own I would unsay my words, now I'm alone. From my dark window out upon the world I look. 'Twas through yon pathway to the west I watched you slowly going, while the light Went with you?end a shadow seemed to fall Upon my heart. And now I cannot rest Till I have written?for I said : " To-night Til aanH vnnr answer." Now Fve told VOU alL THE LOVER'S 80XNET?MIDNIGHT. I waited through the night, while annimei blew The breath of rosea through my darkened room. The whispering breeze just stirred the leafj gloom Beyond the window. On the lawn the dew Lay g'istening ia the starlight. No one knew I did not s'.eep, but waited here my doom Or victory. I saw the lighthouse loom Across the bay. The silence grew and grew, And hour by hour kept pace with my suspense. Each ruetling noise, each passing footstep seemed The coming messenger I hoped/yet feared. At last a knock?a throb?a pause intenee; Your letter came. I read as if I dreamed, Almost too great to bear my bliss appeared. ?Galaxy. WHO WAS THE COWARD? "You lie!" Tho speaker was Norman Webb, a burly built, fashionably dressed young man, who had come to college to spend his father's money, and do as little work and have as good a time as possible. Tho words were addressed to Allen Ward; the provocation being an expres sion of opinion by the latter touching a recent hazing affair planned and headed by Norman Webb. Allen's eyes flashed, and his hand some face flushed, as with clenched fists Via modfl n. nt.pn toward his insnlter. Every fiber of him was at its utmost tensioD, and every nerve tingled. It would not have been well for Norman Webb, big and strong as he was, had the two encountered at that moment. But, as if suddenly recalling himself, Allen stopped. "I repeat my words," said Norman Webb, insolently?"you lie!?and more?it is not the province of a beggar to criticise the conduct of a gentle man !" A tinge of the flush which had left Allen's face came back at these words, but disappeared on the instant, and turning from the crowd of students, who had heard them, he walked calmly away. ** nnu/* AAvnnn/1 f" w>A*a tlion ATin wnf_ JLUTO UUTTOXU ; mv/iw vuuu wuu tered. ' Allen Ward had a widowed mother and a sister dependent on him. At 8oHfcJl jli0 ha? won a prize scholarship which gave him his college tnition free; and by teaching in vacations, and giv ing lessons ont of college hours, he was managing to scrape along till lie could enter t he profession he had set his heart on. The discipline of the institution was strict. A blow was ground for expul sion. To resent Norman Webb's insult as he felt impelled to do at the moment, he knew would lead to his prompt dis missal, and he had not the means to enter another college. He thought of his mcther and sister, and of the career he had planned. He could not afford to sacrifice all these to gratify a passing re sentment. But the effort his self-re straint cos*. was little appreciated by those who called him "coward." community, was regarded either as the signal for a blow, or the precursor of a summons to deadly combat. To take it tamely was a thiug not to ba tolerated among gentlemen. Personal difficulties had become so common among the stu dents of the college, that the new presi dent had determined to use the severest measures to repress them. Among hie rules was one that a blow, or other act of violence, except in strictest self-de fense, should be punished by summary expulsion. But college law could not change pub lie" sentiment; and it is not probable that A.lJen Ward, with all his patience, would have brooked so gross an insull ' ?t? iruiu tsueer uiuuivt;.-> vu uucuicuw, in deed, could he have foreseen all?thai his former companions would shun him, , and even Mabel Gray would turn awaj her head when they met?it may bt doubtod if all restraints wouid not have failed, and Norman Webb's insult beer met with quiok resentment. It was plain that everybody though! Allen a coward, Mabel Gray among the rest, and this hurt him most. He and she bad long been friends ; and he had secretly looked forward to a time wlier he might declare to her a sentimenl more tender than that of friendship. Now, she not only turned her back upon him, but began to tolerate theattentiom of Norman Webb, whom she had before slighted. One night an alarm of fire was heard in the village. Everybody ran in the direction of a blazing light which shone out against the sky. "Jt's Mr. Gray's house!" shouted those who first approachoJ the scene. A heartrending spectacle met the Dlgill' III 111U uiutvu biiav ijuii/aaj cio semUed. The flames were blazing from the roof and bursting from most of the windows. Old Mr. Gray, a helples' invali 1, who had escaped from one ol the lower apartment^, stood wringing his hands, a^d beset ching the spectator.*, in pit.-oas accents, to save his daughter, who, pnlo and terror stricken, huued from l ho window of an up} er chamber, whence a leap to the ground would be certain death. Me a rau in search of ladders, but found none, and every moment made the chance of rescue still more difficult. " Mr. Webb ! Mr. Webb ! will not you save her ?" appealed the frantic father, laying his trembling hand on Norman YT CUU O ttliU. "The attempt would be madness." the latter answered; "the staircase is wrapped in flames, and no one can reacr. that chamber save at the peril oi his life." "With a piercing sbriek Mabel fell back fainting from the window. Norman Webb made a movement as il to enter the door, but recoiled at the sight of the fiery path before him, and stood aghast and helpleas. His burly form was brushed aside like a feather by one who shot past, and darted up the blazing stairway with the speed of an arrow. The daring act filled the crowd with afaazement, which had not time to abate before the intrepid stranger reappeared on the burning steps, now crumbling under his U et, b? aring in his arms the insensible form of Mibel Gray, care fully wrapped from head to foot. His hat palled over his face, partly shielded it from the sheet of flame through which, amid encouraging shouts, he once more forced his way, and a wild cry of exul tation rose when Mabel was safely placed iu her father's arms. Then came three times three of the vrildest cheers for Allen Ward, when the stranger raised his hat and revealed his seared and blis tered face. " Who is the coward now ?" he ex claimed, as he sunk exhausted to the ground. No one ever called him that name again; and Mabel, we are sure, never thought his face less handsome for the scars it bore on her account.?Ledger. What a Man Suffered. The Fond du Lao (Wis.) Common wealth says : A man named Holland, living out on the Goss farm, was attack ed with a severe toothache the other evening, and thought his head wauld r\r\ckT% Tin tvmilil oif. rlnvxm fnr a moment, holding his face in one of his ? hands, and groan. Then he would jump j up and pace the floor, and kick at some thing that happened to lie in his course, and then sit down and groan some more. 1 It was a bad case. Everybody in the house was made miserable by the man's - sufferings and lamentations. He tried holding alum and salt in his mouth, and binding horseradish leaves on the out , side of his jaw, but they did no good. Finally somebody came across a recipe book, and therein was a balm for every ill. In two minutes a recipe was select ed and a courier dispatched with it to a drugstore in the city to have it "put 1 up." He returned indue time, and a I dose of the compound, which contained 8 among other ingredients liberal quanti- f - - *? ? J ties oi einer ana cmuruiurm, w?? uu- t ministered. Presently the ioothache i was relieved and the patient felt him- i self gradually being overpowered by [ bleep. The suspicion all at once crossed f his mind that he had been poisoned. 1 He became greatly alarmed, and appeal- 8 ed to those present, in a frenzy of des- a peration, to save him from his impend- j ing fate. A doctor was immediately T sent for, and while the messenger was E gone the alarm was communicated to t the neighbors. One of the men seized E a pail and rushed out into the pasture, j| where he woke up a cow, milked about 1, a quart, and hurried back to the house. u This the dying man drank, and had just finished when another neighbor came in and said there was nothing so sure an anfidntn for all kinds of ooisons as raw r> eggs. Seven or eight raw eggs were y given the suffering man, and he had b just intimated that it wasn't possible a for him to swallow another, when two g, more neighbors arrived simultaneously j] ?one bearing a can of lard and the c other a tea-saucerful of coffee. The a lady with the lard said that they must si help her to get some of it down him A right away?there wasn't a moment to o lose?and the one with the coffee set & about preparing a cup of that beverage I for the dying man, whioh, she said, n ? ^ 1?mImamm A??/\n/vU Unl/1 T*l W O J LUUttb UV DltlUUg Ciiuu^u lu uviu c*i_i iron wedge. The unfortunate man had got down about three-quarter's of a tea cupful of lard when the coffee was ready, and he unbuttoned his waistcoat and swallowed it There seemed to be just room enough left for it. Another neighbor came in, and insist ed that what the patient needed was an emetic to throw the poison out of the stomach. He said that the quicker they did something of that kind the bet ter it would be for him, and that it was dangerous to delay the matter a moment longer. They had prepared a quart bowl of strong salt and water, and were urging Holland to take some of it, when the doctor arrived. He examined the contents of the bottlo carefully, tasted it, and then said: "Thisis all right; a vorc cnnrl romfitlv for tootha< hfl and neuralgia?gives the patient a rest for a r time from his pain." "And ain't it t poison?" gurgled the man, who was fo p full of new milk, raw eggs, lard, coffee, c and salt water, that he could scarcely ar- a titfulate, 11 a n't it poison, doctor?" a "Well, no ; not exactly; and yet, a o quart or two of it might kill a man?or fi it might not?it would depend a good u deal on his condition. A man of your p health and constitution could easily get a away with a churnful of it." " t The California Mustang. 1 V Speaking of the mustang race in New j. York and the sympathy felt for the?ani- e mate, a I.ate California paper says: The man who undertakes to ride thirty-five ; California mustangs, jumping from sad i die to saddle, must be either a profes- j ; sional vaquero or a petrified post boy of ^ the olden time. But when wo contem- c plate the mustang as an object of com- L passion and humanity, it is impossible s to repress a sardonic grin. The army c j mule is a perfect Chesterfield of an ani- (1 , mal in comparison with the native Cali- r ; fornia mustang. It was the mnstang r - that invented the noble art of bucking. ] ; We are aware that the army mule has c experimented in tnat direction, Dnt no t other animal but the California.mustang fi ever caused his rider to describe a para- e bolic curve of the same extent. Nor can the man who has not been bucked j by a California mustang at all conceive ] the process. The victim, while under- t going it, would infinitely prefer being t delivered to a Hyrcaniau tiger or a s Lernean hydra, or a Numidian lion for a immediate mastication, and when the c operation is completed, and by a merci- ^ ful dispensation of fate ho is landed j upon the crown of his hoad in tho near- r est pile of .road metal, with a dislocated c spiuul columu and a pang in every e nerve, muscle, sinew and bone, he re- ? gards the author of Jris woes with a hor- t j ror a d a detestation fur surpassing the v I emotion that would be evoked bv con- r tomplution of the most forbidding aute- t I diluvian Saurian Prof. Owen ever re- f vived for the satisfaction of the curious. > If Mr. Bergh had taken it into his be . nevolent head to espouse the cause of i the persecuted grizzly or the friendless i ! rattlesnake, we could have descried some \ i gleam of reason in his conduct; but the t * humanitarian who goes out of his way to j r protect the California mustang is throw- c iner svmoathv awav. i The Suez Cnual. M. De Lesseps has returned from his five mouths' trip to Egypt. He has as certained that Port Said is not likely to bo filled in with sand, as predicted, the work done by the dredging machines last year being still open. Iu winter, when the Bitter lakes are full, a tide spts into the canal, which turns the current toward the Mediterranean. In summer, when the level of the lakes has been lowered by evaporation, the current turns in the opposito direction." For merly rain was unknown on this part of the lied sea, but since the building of the canal showers have fallen regularly about onoe a fortnight. The result has ' been to start vegetation up, even on the , Asiatic side, in the most wonderful man ner. Civilization, therefore, changes the climate as well as the face of the , country, and if things go on as they l have begun, the sands of the isthmus ' will be covered with forests in another fifty years. An Original Marriage Notice. Dr. Wise, editor of the Cincinnati I Israelite, announces his own marriage j in the form of a mock advertisement of m a life copartnership. The agreement is a that the firm shall be dissolved three c days after death ; that the doctor shall i deliver all the public sermons, and the a lady all the private ones ; the profits or b losses shall be shared eqnally ; aud that o no papers shall be accepted or indorsed, e especially no love letters, except by t mutual kxieiriedge and express consent. k A GOSSIPY LETTER. lints for Strangers Visiting the Centennial ?Changing their Clothes?The Display of Hats?Meeting Old Acquaintances? Scenes In the .Wain Building, Etc. HINTS TO STRANGERS. A few directions to a stranger coming ;o the Centennial are given by the Her lid correspondent, who says: A per fect stranger in the city and ono not ised to traveling cannot probably do setter than to buy one of the Lodging Eouse Agency tickets, either for lodging it $1.25, or one at 82.50 giving two neals, and then, before going into the Exhibition, to " look around," one ihould take time to make his inquiries, joing from one boarding house to an )ther, and a place will soon be found at reasonable rates, me utai cu search, in view of the fact that one vould naturally like to be in the city, is between Twentieth and Sixth streets, yith Chestnut street in the center?pay ng no attention to this street, for prices )n it are everywhere dear. One good ray is to fake a room, and single rooms veil furnished can, at this time, be had n abundance at $4 a week. Two going ogether will pay about ?6 a week, and )ften there will be two beds in the oom. Meals are to be had at eating louses at a cost not exceeding $6 to $7 l week. Some eating houses engage to urnish two meals a day at 85 a week, rat their bill of fare is not varied. Che best way, however, for home people s to seek regular board, as the food is jetter cooked and it gives better satis action?indeed it is more healthful. ["bus, by taking a little time and looking harp, one will be able to see the show ,t the lowest possible rate. It was snp )osed, the correspondent says, that chat is called the " Granger Encamp aent" would supply thewant indicated, hat is, of supplying accommodations, iot to exceed SI. 50 per day, but now it 3 reported that the terms will not be 3ss than 82 a day, which is decidedly insatisiactory. CHANGED THEIR CLOTHES. It will be remembered that one of the hief attractions at former exhibitions ras the many colored dresses of the undred and one different tribes, sects, nd people who were for the time as embled together. Of course no one uagined that such a display of what is ailed national costumes would be made t Philadelphia. Still it was only rea onable to suppose that an occasional Lnstrifin mountaineer. French officer, r Eastern dignitary would enliven the cene by his peculiar dress or uniform, t is to be much regretted that they do othing of the kind. On the opening ay a large number of Turks, Japanese, Jhinese, Spaniards, and Germans ap eared in the costumes worn by their ountrymen, and, as has been already nnounced to the credit of the somewhat lixed crowd that thronged Fairmount ark on the tenth of May, they were reated while in the grounds with the tmost respect and courtesy. Of course bo Turks and Egyptians were stared t, but they were not made to feel out of lace or uncomfortable. On the streets, owever, after the opening ceremonies, L iL.l |. t Hppeuru l/UUL tUCll licubuicui viu.n fvij ifferent. They were followed by large rowds of idle boys and men, who hoot d and shouted at them as if they had een animals of a strange species in tead of visitors who were entitled only a the most courteous attention. It is :nown that in at least one case tho silken obes of a Chinese official wer^ nearly orn from his back by some mnlicious erson. Because of this kind of treat lent all the Turkish, Chinese, Japanese, nd Egyptian commissions and attend nts have abandoned the striking dress f their native countries, and with but ew exceptions have made themselves mcomfortable and unattractive by ap tearing in the conventional coat, vest, nd trousers of " the great Yankee na ion." The Japanese take remarkably rell to their new dress, and appear to >e quite at home in the high silk hats >-i ti 1 1 : V1UCIL llivjr aiiiiurtu mvauauij new, wuu he Chinese Beem to be out of their lemeiit THE display OF HATS. It has usually been admitted, says a ?'3W York Times correspondent, that all he queer shaped high hats in New York oake their appearance on St. Patrick's lay. The display which is made on the eventeenth of March, however, is not a lircumstance to the truly remarkable ixhibit of high crowns, low crowns, nar ow brims and broad brims, which is iow being made in Fairmount park. :"Yom the depths of many a box and sloset in the mountaias of Tenneasee or he prairies of the West these wonderful pecimcns of head covering have been ixhumed, and now, brushed aud polish id until they shine again, they are made o do duty in new and strange places. 3ut even more different and peculiar ban the hats are the men who wear hem. They come, as I have already itated, from all parts of the UDion, and ilthougli they are clad in no national iostume, they bear the mark of their rarions sections of country stamped >lainly upon their faces and in their naoner. And still they are all Ameri suis ; they have all come hundreds, ome thousands, of miles to be present ,t the nation's Centennial, and though hey live far apart aDd appear in coats vhose cut and fashion differ as much as lo Hungarian jackets from French jlonses, they are all animated by one eeliug. MEETING OLD ACQUAINTANCES. We are told by a correspondent that t is a frequent occurrence for old friends 7lio have not seen eacn otner lor years 0 meet on the Centennial grounds. A >arty of farmers?all strangers?wero liscussing the merits of a machine in Agricultural hall, when one of them, a oily faced littlo old fellow, dressed in a )lue coat, buttoned up to his chin, nod ling to his neighbor in a friendly way, tnd smiling pleasantly, said: "Well low, that's not bad, but would you be ieve it, I have on my place a well post hat has stood for nigh on eighty years, ;nd is just as sound as new oak?" 1 Well now, that is 'markable," said the Western moq? " Yes," continued he of he blue coat, "but the funniest thing bout that post is that the top of it is Jive and has branches springing from it u all direction?." While he was telling his apparently simple little story, I no iced that the wife of the Western man egarded him with an earnestness which fas altogether out of proportion to the nterest of the narrative. As he con film nuked him: "Where be rou from, sir?" "From New Jersey, aam," was the reply. "And is your lame Sam B., questioned the lady. "Mercy me, of course it is, and who xe you ?" exclaimed the little man. " Mary Ann T., that used to be," re flied she, and then the little New Jersey armer put his arm around the neck of hat little Western woman and kissed ier as if he meant it. Then the pair ex >lained to the good humored but some what astonished hnsband that Sam was , cousin, and had been an old playfellow >f Mary Ann, " and," said she, "I knew t must be you the minute you told bout that old pump post with the ranches." Then the whole party went iff together, telling each other of the trange things that had happened to hem during the many years they had >eea separated, SCENES IN THE MAIN HALL. The Main hnll continues to be th center of attraction for the genera public, and it is daily becoming mor worthy of attention. In it visitors o every turn of mind can find instructio: and amusement. The ladies and chi] dren appear to be particularly interestei in the truly wonderful groups of wha are called wax composition figures which are displayed by Norway an* Sweden. One of these groups repre sents a party of Swedish peasants gath ered around a dying reiudeer. The ani mal, a beautiful preserved natural speci men, has sunk upon the moss with deadly wound in its side and a terribl gash across the neck. It almost hum&i eyes look appealingly into the faces o the hunters, who appear resting on thei guns after the chase. A peasant woman who stands a little behind the men, ha one arm thrown protectingly around i little child dressed in the old fashione* costume of the country, and with th< other points to the dying reindeer. Thi whole group is strikingly true to nature and juBtly excites universal admiration The same may be said of a group rep resenting a peasant wedding in in or way. The bride appears with the grea gold crown, which is part of the mar riage paraphernal, and the groon leans lightly upon the heavy steel-point ed staff which indicates his power ant authority. In addition to these an< other groups representing various scenei from peasant life, Sweden has sent i number of really admirable figure which show the different styles of uni form which are worn by Swedish officer of the present day, and which wen worn in the fifteenth and sixteenth cen turies. One of these figures, represent ing a major of cavalry, is so natural anc lifelike as to deceive oven those wh< make a close inspection of it. A fe? days ago I noticed an old lady wh< would not believe until she had touchec the cold wax hand that the figure wai not alive. This morning a smart younf ? a?j;?i. iaay, pussmg uy wutj owcmcu uo^>aiu ment, pointed to the figure and said ii an undertone tofR companion : " Lah Mary, just look at that; he thinks he'i awful rice, don't he ?" Shortly aftei she had passed out of sight one of tkos< overdressed women who imagine the] Know everything, exclaimed to her es cort, after closely examining the figure " I declare, I never did see such life like sculpature." A Bear Actor. The latest sensation at a Cincinnat theater, is a blood aud-tlraoder melo drama, which includes a Jrontiersman'i firrVito fnr Viia liffl wit-.h T7nited Statei military, with Indians on the war-trail with border desperadoes in a gambling saloon, with a rival for the affections o an unattractive maiden, and finally witl a "grizzly bar." This frontiersia mai called Wild Bill, and the announcemen that Wild Bill wonld have . a real figh with a real "bar" drew a pretty fai house. The bear comes in daring th< second and last acts of Wild Bill. Bill in the play, is simultaneously assaultet by a whole nation of Indians and i "bar." The "bar" is a fat little blacl bear, wnicn is certainiy weu trtuueu. -a. the proper moment it lushes from be hind the scenes, over mimic rocks an< cascvdes, and attacks Bill with tremen dous fury. For about five minutes Wil< Bill and the bear hug each other ver fiercely, until Bill munages to stab th animal with a remarkably bright bowl knife. Then the bear rolls Bill on th stage, and both continue to roll over am over until at last the frontiersman i seen lying uppermost, but still in th bear's terrible hug, when the curtail falls amid frenzied applause. 80 far a we could observe, says a reporter de scribing the scene, the bear was no muzzled, neither were his claws cut He is doubtless an intelligent and gooi natured animal; but some night it migh come to pass that Bruin would lose hi temper, and that Wild Bill might sud denly. find himself seriously in need of more formidable weapon than a fcii bowie knife, whilo the audience wouli yell and cheer and smoke their cigars and wonder "how they can make tha seem like real blood." Novel Experiments. A. JNGW jersey agriuuinLriBu 10 menting upon forcing tlio growth of po tatoes by means of steam pipes unde: the grouiid, and has succeeded in fore ing a growth of fifteen inches high ii two weeks from date of planting. Thi potatoes, however, have always turne< out small in comparison to the vine This is a new idea, but the practicabilit; of forcing vegetables by electricity date* back as far as 1841, when a Mr. Pell, o Hyde Park, on the Hudson river, forcec the growty of tomatoes so that in a weel from the date of planting the ph;nfc bore small ripe tomatoes an inch ii diameter. The following was the wa; it was done: A row of tomato plants forty feet long, were set out; at one em a sheet of copper an eighth of an incl ?- -? ? 1 J1--1 _:.i_ J (HICK, iourteeu luuuuu Wiuo nuu lull feet long was placed perpendicularly two feet in the ground, leaving two fee in the air; at the other end a zinc plat> of same size was similarly placed; a wir< carried over poles, was fastened to eacl of these plates, the earth completing th< circuit; an abundance of manure wa used, and in one week the result was a; above stated. This crop was also fol lowed by three other weekly crops o the same sizewithin a month. Of eour& it is not necessary to limit the length o the row to forty feet, and as it is a sim pie and easy thing to do, perhaps som< of our readers mil make the experi ment. win tuiuuiuuuic Tuuuciwaru win* There is little to be found, says a Not York paper, to confirm the story tha Mr. Vanderbilt has, aside from his be quest to Wm. H. Yanderbilt, wiliec $1,000,000 apiece in Central, Harlen and Lake Shore stocks to each of abon fifteen heirs, with a proviso that one third of the net income shall be annu ally reinvested by trustees in the stocl of those roads, though he is known t< have said on at least two occasions that, no matter what might beoome of him the Central road would not come tc harm. For a period of ten years he hat been in the habit of making a new wil every two years to suit the changinf condition of hia property, and of fre quently adding codicilB. Every snmrnei before he went to Saratoga he executec a codicil. Nevertheless, it is sunnisec those who have known his senti ments that the main features of his wil have never been materially alte;ed. II was the changes in his affairs rathei than in his intentions toward his heirf that dictated the alterations. Young Salmon. The Bangor Commercial says : Ai the result of the eggs that were halchec in our river last season, the Penobscot if full of young salmon. The boys ai Veazie are catching them with hooks, They vary in length from four to twelv( inches. Mr. Stillwell laid on our table a beautiful specimen taken by a young Spencer boy at Yeazie. It was a little oyer seven inches long. If this young school of salmon is not destroyed, ii two or threeyeare our river will again bt crowded with salmon as it wm wvonty five years ago. The Shipworm. 6 A reporter visiting a shipyard took up j a piece of wood to critically examine it. e It could be compared to nothing more f fitting in general appearance than a Q wasp's or hornet's nest, so thoroughly [. was it perforated, and, like the nests in dicated, it was of ashen color, t Some of the insects still remained in the cells. They seemed to be of a whitish color and were encased in a shell . like substance an inch in length; their . heads wjre shaped like a pod auger, as . if intended by nature to be great bores. . In the case of a vessel in the dock they had completely perforated the outer sheathing or planking of the hull, the place of the entrance being small and needle-like, until they reached the framework of heavy trees, when they tnrned back and continued their work of destruction. The holes they make in crease in size from tyat of a pin's point to an aperture that a man's thumb would not fill. While the reported was examining the wood a venerable carpenter with adze in hand joined him [and said: "I will give you a bit of information about these worms that notmany people know. You see this wood is pnnctored right up to a hair's width of the place it joins an other plank. Now the worms never cross a crack, and vou see they have gone right through tne outer planking, but they have not touched the frame or the ceiling of the bark; if they had, you never would have seen her on the dry dock here." A well known spar manufacturer and shipwright joined the group and added his valuable information. He said in effect: "Aspinwall is considered by shipmasters and owners to be a very worpiy port; I have heard of vessels that have only laid there for the space of six weeks to sink at their anchorage. There is a marine copper paint that sometimes acts well as a defense against these de stroyers, but abont the only sure refuge is metal sheathing. I have sent vessels before now on a ten months' voyage to Rio Janeiro and they have come back with their hulls sound and clean, and have sent others down to Texas and their bottoms have been fairly eaten out by the worms." Coal tar and other coverings for hulls have been tried, but the only sure de fense seems to be metal. There is a composition now very generally used in stead of exclusive copper; it is mainly composed of spelt, tin and copper. The worms are even found in New York har bor. but thev do not usuallv do as much damage, tfhey will boro" until they reach a crack or seam which is made by the joining of planks, and will not cross it. An Experiment in Co-operation. In 1872, says Chas. Barnrid, in Scrib ner'8 Monthly, a large manufacturing firm in New York called its workmen together, and announced that after a certain date every man would receive over and above his wages a share in the profits of the business, be they more or * ii _-i._ mt t less, accoraiDg to ine saxes. j.uo uiuu 1 received the statement with incredulity ! and returned to their work. Six months i passed, and the firm announced that it t had $4,000 to divide among the men in . proportion to their wages. The imme 1 diate result of the actual division of the . money was gratifying to all concerned. 1 The men resumed work with remarkable jr animation and industry. Every one be 0 came jealous of his neighbor's work, a every one became his fellow's overseer. 9 No idleness now, no " one-handed 1 work," no shirking and dilatory pipe s lighting, no guards to watch for the e foreman, no waste of material and time, a Never before had so much work been g performed in a day; never had such i- skill, economy, aptitude and intelligence t been shown at the benches, and never i. had better goods been made. The men 3 were apparently satisfied, and the firm ? ??? /?nmr\or?aofarl ff\V f.llfl 1T1 Wttfl JLUUIO ifLiau tviu^/uuuwvuu av* vmw m creased outlay by the improved qnality of tho goods. Several months passed, aDd the house announced that in a few weeks it would have a surplus of ten thousand dollars to divide among the workmen. Suddenly led away by some epidemic of unreason, the men struck for a reduction of time to eight hours. The proprietors would not consent to this, and as a consequence for two weeks che shops were closed. In vain were the men shown the money coming to them; in vain was it demonstrated that they were making more money than men in the same line in other shops. They persisted in the strike till they could hold out no longer, and then resumed work as before. The firm declined to proceed further with the co-operative experiment, and what had been fair with promise was thus brought to a disas trous end. Visiting a Fashionable Cburcb, Some years ago, being in Philadel phia, John Cockerill, of Ohio, received an introduction to a prominent divine of that city. The reverend gentleman in vited John to attend his church on a certain Sunday, which invitation was accepted. They entered the sacred edifice to gether. It was one of the first churches in the city, and its members were fash ionable and aristocratic in the extreme. The minister put John in an elaborately furnished pew, well to the front. John nestled comfortably down into one cor ner of the same, and looked about as in teresting and contented as a toad under 1 a cabbage leaf. ? After a while the owner of the pew ar * rived, and at once gave signs of intenoe disgust and indignation at the presence 3 of the interloper. He looked at John, " looked at the pew, scowled magnificent ly, and finally, after fumbling through his pockets some time, drew forth a card and wrote on it with a pencil: ? "This is my seat, sir 1" and, with an air t of the loftiest contempt, tossed it over - to John. 1 The latter took it up, read it with i lamb-like meekness peculiar to him t self, and tnen, witu cue most aengiiuui - coolness, wrote in reply: "It's a very good seat! What rent i do you pay?" and tossed the card back ) to its owner. , The latter took it, looked at it with the , mofit profound artonishment a minute or > two, and then a broad grin oyerspread i his countenance. : it.. ? 1 Me evidently enjoyeci sue buujuuo > brass and coolness of his new acquaint - ance, and when service wan over he ap r proached John, apologized for his rude l ness, invited him to his house, Rave hi:n [ the best he had, and treated him with - tho utmost respect and consideration I during his sojourn in the city. What a Penny Did. About a year ago a young girl resid ing in the town of Villewood, Out., swal lowed a penny. No unpleasant results were experienced until several months ago, when she was attacked at times with violent pairis in her stomach. Phy sicians were called but they were unable to afford her any relief, and for some time she has been failing rapidly, and it is thought she cannot survive long. For three weeks or more she has taken no nourishment that she could retain. Her mouth, she says, tastes just like a penny, and the saliva from the stomach is of a greenish color and strongly, impreg nated with the smell of oopper. About the only thing that sh? has relished is a lemom _ UNRAVELING A MTSTERT. Murders of Ninety Yearn Ago Brought t< Light?Latoarette's Cabin In the Woodi ?Disappearance of the Family of i Rival. In 1790 Sir William Pnltney Jiavinj placed in the market his vast posses sions in which is now Steuben county, *N. T., hundreds of immigrants from th( East flocked to the section to take up land. One route to the Pultney Patenl passed through Pennsylvania, and th< old ruined road near Knowland was i part of the route. About that time a Frenchman namec Pierre Latourette built a log cabin ir the above road, two miles west of Know land. In his employ was anothei Frenchman called Pepow, and his wife, The location of the tavern was Buch thai it became a favorite stopping place foi immigrants. Latonrette was an olc Frenoh soldier, and his disposition wat snoh that he was very unpopular with Lis guests. He had not been long ii this tavern before stories of an ugly na^ tnre became ctirrent among the immi grants. Many of them were robbed ai the Frenchman's of money and valu ables. Cattle left in his inclosnre at night would be missing in the morning, and could not be found until the ownei paid Latonrette for. looking them up, he claiming that they had escaped and were foaming in the woods. It was also alleged that men stopping at the tavern had mysteriously disappeared, and were never heard of afterward. Some months after the Frenchman put up his inn, a man named Vail, with his wife and two children, were among a party of immigrants on their way to the DnlinAvi XTrtintliof flic X lUUUCjr J^lUJLTOi. VJ XlVUAVUig vuuv vuv. Frenchman was a grinding landlord, and only patronized from necessity, con ceived the idea of bnilding a house near by, on the road, for the accommodation of immigrants. He secured some land about three-quarters of a mile fur ther west, and erected a tavern. This took nearly all of the Frenchman's business away. Three months afterward there was a temporary lull in the travel. The tide soon started up again, and one night a party stopped at Yail's, but found the house closed. Eeturning tc Latourette's, the immigrants were told that Vail had become tired of keeping tavern, and had gone to Steuben county. Nothing was ever seen or heard oi Vail or his family afterward, however, and it was generally believed that La tourette had murdered Vail and hif family and pillaged the house. Latou rette remained in the tavern until immi gration had almost ceased, and grew rich. Pepow died on the place, and his wife continued to live with Latou rette. At the breaking out of the wai of 1812 Latourette sold his property, and departed in company with his late assist ant's wife. The old log tavern was de molished years ago, and the site is now occupied by a farmhouse. The above reminiscence of nearly a century ago have been recalled by a startling discovery made a few daye since. A hooppole cutter named Hoff was walking in the woods about two miles from the site of the old Latourette tavern. In clearing away a thicket at tlio foot of a ledge of rocks he came upon a large flat stone standing up on its nrlrra nnroinut tlio rnflfU Ollfc nf ullfl f?T1 riosity he pried it over, and was sur prised to sec that it had concealed an opening in the ledge, some three feet in circumference. Hofl crept in the open ing on his hands and knees and found that it gradually grew larger. He went in several feet, when his hand came in contact with a bard, round substance. He brought it out into the light, and was astounded to find that it was a human skull. Hoflf dropped the skull, and hurried to another part of the woods where two other choppers were at work. They returned to the cave with him. One of them lighted a pine knot, and crawled into the opening, fol lowed by the others. They found n cavern where they could stand upright, and about twenty fee* in circumference. By the glare of the torch they dis covered four human skeletons lying on the floor of the cave, 'lno men nastny retreated, and came to this place, and told of their discovery. Several men repaired to the spot, and an attempt was mado to bring the skeletons out entire, but they fell to pieces on being dis turbed. Dr. Kennedy examined the bones, and said-that they were the re mains of three males?one full grown? and of one fomale. They were brought to Knowland, and, after being viewed by hundreds of people, were buried. All the old stories connected with La tourette tavern, which have been hand ed down for several generations, were at once set afloal;. There is no donbt in the minds of any that the skeletons are those of the Vail family, who were mur dered by Latonretto ninety years 8go. Tlie Mystery of Marshal >"ey. A cnrions story is going the rounds ot the Western press to the effect that Marshal Ney was not shot, ns history tells us, but that he came to the United States and lived for many years in the South, where he was known as Peter Stewart Ney. The story is not a new nna flnma fimo nhnnt. Mia vptir lfiSO. (1 VUO' U4"*v i,*'vv*v J 7 ? French gentleman, known as Peter Ney, resided in Darlington or Marlboro' district, South Carolina, and pursued the profession of teaching. Many old citizens are still living who were his pupils. Some curious facts are related concerning this gentleman which tend to corroborate the suspicion that he may have been the Marshal Ney of the first empire. At the time referred to he is said to have been exceedingly reticent as to his personal and private history. In conversation, however, he showed a remarkable familiarity with all the events and battles'of the Napoleonic wars, and very frequently commented upon them, admitting freely that he had taken an active part in them. His mar tial bearing, style of dress, and the saber scars upon his head, showed that he had known military service. He is nr.: A In VidTTfl Kaon fwvriorttllv rflRMrVflfl flTl (1 DaiU MJ W?TO MWU quiet in his demeanor, but fond of a so cial chat' -with men of his age. At times he relapsed into fits of profound melancholy, which occasionally ended in a spell of intemperate drinking. He seemed disposed to court ret'rement, but on one occasion, when on a visit to Columbia, he attended a military re view on horseback, when his distin guished and soldierly bearing attracted much attention. The story goes that some French travelers, who were in the town at the time, declared most posi tively that it could be no other than Marshal Ney. This gentleman, more over, always betrayed a marked interest in every item of news connected with Napoleon in his exile, and one day, sit ting in his quiet schoolroom reading a newspaper which he had just obtained, he suddenly dropped from his chair in a swoon. The paper on being examined was found to contain the news of Bona parte's death. A Sudden Death. What they call a sudden death in Minnesota may be inferred from this paragraph from the Winona Republican: Frederick Peuser, one of the oldest citi zens of New Ulm, died very suddenly one Sunday morning recently, from the effects of a gunshot wound received on the memorable nineteenth of August, 1862, when the Sioux Indiana m*do thoir attack on that place, The Death Penalty. Samuel J. Frcst was executed at tl ' county jail in Worcester, Mass., for tl I murder of his -wife's brother, Frankl P. Towne. The murder was commits r on Sunday, July 4, 1875, in the barn ( ^ the farm owned by Towne. After coi mittiug tbe cNfcid Frost went to tl house and assisted his wife to get tl children, four in number, ready f< church. After they had left the hou he returned and buried the body und the barn. Several times after this ] removed the body, cutting it into piece At the execution, as soon as Frost w; seated upon the fatal platform, Rey. M Lamson offered a short prayer. Ii mediately at its close the sheriff read tl death warrant, and when he had utter< the closing words pressed firmly up< the spHng, releasing the drop. Fro had risen from his chair when the reai ing of the warrant was begun, and tl J?1- Kim V?orl faofat\c uttpubjr HI1C1J-U ucuuiu mill UUU the straps around his legs and arms, ar before the reading was finished ht shut out the light from him forever t drawing the black cap over his heai There was not an instant's delay, ar less time than five minutes had pass* between the time the doomed tcx his first step upon the gallows stairs ar that in which his body was thrown dow ward by the release of the drop. T1 drop fell with hardly an audible soun< and the light body of the murder* brought the rope to a strong tensioj The first thrill of a shudder had not it through the more sensitive of the spe tators when the body was seen spinnii at the end of the rope, almost headlea a fearful tear extending over the fro] of the throat, and the blood gushing 01 in streams. Every eye was riveted c the startling and unexpected spectae as the body turned round, first disclo ing and then concealing this gash. T1 blood, forced upward by the arteri movements, spurted fountain-like upwai from one to two feet, the stream fallii to the floor in a circle round the han/ ing body. This circle extended even i the framework of the gallows, which wi in many places sprinkled with the bloo< ! The welling life-blood ponred from tl ' wound down the front of the body au | trickled frcm the feet, forming a po directly beneath the body. TMs recifc donbtloss seems full of horrors, but , falls far short of the realities of tl scene. For some two minutes ti arterial gushings of blood continue* ' and the slow dripping of the blood froi the body continued a little longe: Physicians then stepped under the ga r lows and made their examination of tt body. The knot of the rope had bet placed behind Frost's left ear, almost i the center of the neck. Frost was a ma of 110 especial muscular developmen and though he weighed but one hui dred and twenty pounds, the drop wi enough not only to break his neck, bi to sever the spinal column entirel; leaving the body hanging by the h teguments of the rear portion only. Tt body was allowed to hang a few minut< after the examination by the doc ton when it was lowered and carried fro: beneath tho gallows. In twelve minut* from the appearance of the executio party the eyes of the murderer wei closed forever. About one hundred an fifty persons were present. A Reformation Wanted. A report of the New Tork State boar of charities has the following : Ilfis bi liAVfifl t.lmt, fchfl cloomv and Drison-lifc , character with which some of those ii etitutions are invested should be S( aside. The grated windows of tb , prison seen from afar, as the boy a] proaches the reformatory, the high wal of gray stone that surmount it, th i formidable gateway at the entrant i throngh which, as ho passes, he liea: i behind him the clash of bar and bol i falliDg upon his ears like the sentenc of an irrevocable doom, the passage oi , ward throngh massive doors that swin heavily close behind him, till he fine himself at length in his little roon closed with a grated door and fastene with a massive bar and lock, in win seems to him a felon's cell, must powe: , fully affect the vivid imagination of tl young, no matter how hardened he ma i be, and tend to break down pride < character and self-respect. The boy ui der such circumstances must feel thi i fcho world has turned its bacK upon nw that he has lost all; that every man hand is against him, and that henci i forth his hand must be against ovei 1 man. The shock once over, and fct mind of the boy accustomed to the terr ble ordeal, what dread has Auburn ( Sing Sing for him ? It is believed thi i a large proportion of tne coys commi t ted to reformatories do no, require thee ? forbidding restraints, and that sort different and milder treatment combinin in some way the family system should t adopted for a large class of juvenile d< linquents now being sent to the hous< of refuge. If under this method the ! be still found incorrigible, they migl i then be transferred to a more secui - place and be put under stricter disc pline. It is thought, however, that ( the experiment was once tried very fe . would need to be so transferred. At the Centennial. TI10 following are the days fixed fc the agricultural exhibits at the Oentei nial : Strawberries, June 7th to 15tl Early grass butter and cheese, June 13t 1 to 17th. Early summer vegetables, Jur 20th to 24th. Honey, June 20th to 24tl Raspberries and blackberries, July 3d 1 8th. Southern pomological producti July 18th to 22d. Melons, Aug. 22d t 1 26th. Peaches, Sept. 4th to 9th. Nortl em pomological products, Sept. 11th t 18th. Autumual vegetables, Sept. 19t to 23d. Cereals, Sept. 25th to 30tl Potatoes and feeding roots, Oct. 2d t 1 7th. Grapes, Oct. 8th to 16th. Autum butter and cheese, Oct. 17th to' 21s Nuts, Oct. 23d to Nov. 1st. Autum honey and wax, Oct. 23d to Nov. 1st. Applications for entry should be ac dressed to Burnet Landreth, chief of tb Dureau 01 agriculture, jjiuuuti are to be shown on Wednesday of eac week. The field trials of mowing mi chines, tedder and hay rakes will tat place on ground near Schenck's statioi on the Pennsylvania railroad, betwee Philadelphia and Trenton, from Jim 15th to 30th, and the trials of reapei from July 5th to 15th. The bureau of agriculture offer tb following prizes : First best cow, $25( second befit cow, $100. For first be; herd, $300. The scale of points to b adopted by the club is founded upc that of the KoyfJ Jersey Society. Forgot Something. There was a lawsuit lately whic called in a scoro of people. Ilyorig nated from the sale of a horse, jmd th defendant's wife was one of the wi nesses, or rather made a statement undf oath. She testified thus and so, an left the stand. Several other witnesse had been yworn, when, all of a sudder she asked to be recalled, telling th lawyer that she had neglected an in portant portion of testimony. She too the stand, and he said : "Well, Airs. , you can tell th jury anything further you have bearin on this case." "Well, what I wanted to fay," sh bluntly replied, "is that the complair ant's wife has the reputation of wearin false teeth and doing her hair up in pt pera to make it curl I I forgot to r< fer to it when I waa up hero before." THE EXHIBITION. A BIrd'a-Eye View of the Main Balldlni The Panorama Irom the Naye and Tri ept. The Exhibition spreads its leaves a blossoms like a lilac, showing every c something new nnder the sun. Ai pageant it becomes more and more tractive. To-day, says a World lett the interior of the Main building, rii ing with music and gey with trophi presents from any point along the nt a gorgeous and exhilarating sight. 1 colored archways and pavilions s mounted by heraldio blazonry of I different nations, and the aisles on ev< side hemmed in by various products beauty and of use, are animated by ? siderably more than the usual numl of visitors. The floors, except wh ?Vm nonlrinff Vu-tTflO and atViiV UUUUpiCU UJ in course of preparation, are bw< cleaner than ever heretofore, and looks bright, bewildering and fair. The stroll through this imme: building from end to end is, if one d not physically exhaust himself by i profitable sideway excursions, still lik enough to fatigue his powers of obser tion and memory, and irritate or <3 the edges of his tastes. Happy the n whose knowledge or conceit or insti enables him to pass by the vast mass things whioh he perceives to be?' worthy, and to occupy himself only w those objects here which denote on 1 instant tne fullest, ripeet developm of the industries of thirty natio Otherwise the resources of his o country even will oppress him so t when he has passed them in review will be as dazed as an owl at noon. The universal Yankee nation trium] over every other in its extent and vei tility, and in some respects in its sh Its display of silverware, of househ furniture, oI colored and tinted marb] of arms, metals, musical instramer minerals and cotton fabrios, is supei to that from any foreign country. *So American carpets, too, and imitat laces hold their own contrasted w their respective grades in Engla Everywhere aloug the left for w seems a quarter of a mile until they rei the transept, the successes and failw ? ?.?>- ? ? ??-1 r\4 TTni tnogtiius U11U IUO uuuimoo v> uuu UU States exhibition keep people star with eyes mostly fish-like, but occasi ally admiring or detective. In contr to the perfumeries that vainly seek rival the scents of Cologne and 1 tapestries which show their sharp hi and sheen in cases which none but 1 judges and a few intending purchas are likely to compare with the magn cent modern tapestry work in the Spi ish pavillion?besides these and mi other showy but inferior American p ducts there are things of excellent me in the form of jewelry, bijouterie, soa toys, "magic lounges," mirrors, and thousand or two articles else. The sh of books and bindings is not what mif have been expected. That of iron a granite is superb. While there is iron in America like the Swedish (wh osirt he twisted, cold, into ropes a cables), some of our processes rent iron sufficiently malleable. And he in piles of rails and pyramids toweri near to the ceiling, its uses, and th< of steel, brass and copper, are express to the admiration even of some of < British cousins. Of surgical inst ments, and surgical a'pplicances affis to models and shining with silver, p ished steel and fine embroidery, th< is an exhibition which might reconcil belle in the dancing season to a brol limb, and which a snrgeon who has gc through the building tells me outrai in merit anything of its kind from I other countries. To the right the panorama of Mexi< the Netherlands, Brazil, Belgium, Swi erland and France and her colonies ? peacs. Glimpses of the costnmes, it rics, minerals, vegetable products a models of the architecture of the turl lent bat rich and advancing republic our Southern border; of the .great ma of Holland and its dykes, which conci the further illustrations of its industrii of the Belgium exhibit in chaos, and the unique Swiss woodwork and otl: ornamental work, constantly engage a occasionally enchant the eye. T T?ror?/?Vi Axhihifcinn arrests it. and it difficult for any one to pass through tl comparatively ephemeral display wii ont yielding to the seductive demands makes on the attention. L javing out view for the present those articles legitimate use and luxury in the mar facture of which the French are withe peers, some of the objects here set foi satirize most shockingly the taste some of our leaders of fashion. The are dresses here that'would make a Fii avenue matron stare with horror, hosie which she would order off her dang ter's feet if she ever caught it on the: and gloves which she would fling ii the grate or withal gratify her waf woman. Of the splendor of the si] and laces; the rich carpets; the se vases and jewelry of silver and gold; t inimitable trinkets; and at last the cos bronzes of the French exhibition, soi dazzling appearanoes are caught as y approach the grand circle under t central pavilion of the building. Bound about at the four angles of t pavilion are the advance ornamental < hibitions of the United States, G many, Great Britain" and France. 1 matchless silver array from Tiffan and the Gorham manufacturing co pany's, the Konigl Porzellan manuf turer's highly creditable collection German porcelain, and Elkington Co.'s exhibition of silver and gold, co plement the Paris bronzes which fla the mantelpiece of Merchard. To the left again the glittering A trian and Hungarian spectaole appea Beyond that a few Russian goods (I Russian articles have not half arriv< _ I oirrnifo fcVio Honntiog nf tho nrnmif Russian exhibition iu the combinati of marbles, jaspers, chalcedonies, la lazuli and other stones used in the fat cation of vases for which the visi must seek somo distance back. 1 gloomy and rather tawdry inclosure the Spanish exhibition; the partially cupied spaco of Turkey; Egypt's sh of heavy and vivid Oriental stuffs a objects of antiquity; the bright portal the pavilion of Denmark; the exhibiti of Swedish arms and warlike elBgi and the magnificent exhibition of 1 empire of Japan, all pass in review 6 */-? +ho Inft. f!hinn on/1 TiATf n opposite these Sweden and Norway, the thnuder clouds shut out the lig and the rain now begins to descend torreuts?cooling and even chilling 1 draught that sweeps through the gr western doorway?the sight of the n furs from Greenland and the robes eider down- from far Sweden is delig fu^to the gathering crowd of ladies, -n are calling for their shawls and u brellas, and who almost pity the vagu defined bronze figures which appear the shadowy front of the Italian exhi tion, unprotected against the waft the storm. A Lono Imprisonment.?a man \ lately released from Ludlow street jt New York, whero he had been confiii for six years for debt. He looked thi years older when ho camo out than wL he went in. A merchant went homo the otl night and said cheerfully to his wi "Well, my dear, I've failed at las " Oh, that's good I" exclaimed the wi with a radiant face; " now we can go the Centennial, aure," A Bale for Preaching. Begin low; r? Go on elow ; ln* Riee higher, And take fire; I When moat impressed, y Be aelf-posaesBed; < a * At the end wax warm, er And ait down in a storm, >g- * ====== es, Items of Interest. 'he " Great Unknown "?The mer ?? chant who doesn't advertise. There are thousands of patents to facilitate labor, but few to facilitate rest. Of the 33,000 tersona employed in watchmaking in Switzerland, one-third are women. The manner in which William Perm obtained land from the Indian bnreaa is about to be investigated. The Norristown Herald thinks thev call it insurance because the company is in, sure, if anything happens. A Salt Lake Oity paper asserts that the recent gunpowder explosion caused one hundred premature births. It is a fact of much significance that Japan has adopted the first day of the week?the Christian Sunday?as a day of rest. It has been figured out that the aver age American is worth $350. It is there fore something to be an average man in this country. A medical journal states that a pebble carried in the moutii excites tne salivary glands to act with audi energy that thirst is not felt. There is a time when a man gladly gets a pail of water or an armful of wood for a woman. It is when he is a boy, and she is a teacher. Mistrust the man who finds every thing good, the man who finds evertbing evil, and still more, the man who is in different to everything. "Madam," said a gentleman to his wife, " let me tell you, facts are very stubborn things." "What a fact you must be," quoth the lady. A girl was asked by a very thin gentle man if she didn't think she could learn 1 l:. unri two a I/O JLUVU illUif JL UII^UU u jwu nw stuffed " was the laughing reply. A number of American girls in Cali fornia have married Chinamen. They get husbands who are economical house keepers and willing to do their own washing. Patient (to doctors after consultation ?" Tell me the worst, am I going to die?" "We are divided on that ques tion, sir; but there is a majority of one that you will live." Annie Starck, aged thirteen, of Som erville, N. J., found a rusty revolver in a barn and rapped it on a stone to knock off dirt that had accumulated on it. The charge went off and killed her. Child?"JFapa, Mr. wineio turn tuea went to heaven, didn't he?he taught in the Sunday-school?" Papa?" We will drop that subject, my child, Mr. Winkle was president of a gas company." We read about a Louisville gentleman who took his wife to the rink, and be cause of her want of skill became enraged and at the top of his voice called ner " an old bow-legged kangaroo on skeets." It appears that Britain has already had an empress named Victoria. She lived A. D. 270, was the wife of Beno sus, and contemporary with Zenobia, being called the Empress of the West in contradistinction to Zenobia's title of Empress of the East. The Albany Journal says, anent the Philadelphia Exposition: Massachu setts shines conspicuous among the States represented in Machinery ball; no other State has anything like her variety of manufacturing mac bines?special ma chines for special work. An English officer who recently tried to get a divorce from his frivolous wife only succeeded in drawing from the judge a lecture on feminine flirtation. His bonor remarked that there had of late yeaid been an alarming increase of this silliness among wives. The people of Akron, Ohio, are hurry ing up as much as possible to get their new lunatio asylum completed. A grand " musical festival" will be inau gurated there, in which twenty-five brass bands are expected to take part, all contending for prizes amounting to 8350. We witnessed a touching scene the other day. A full grown, healthy look ing married man was going towards the suburbs with a base ball clnb over his shoulder, and, in a few minutes there after, while passing his house, we no ticed his wife sawing wood in the back yard. An intelligent foreigner, passing iV.mTT<vVi fVia cfrvWa nf Philft/Jfilflhl l. took out his notebook at the end of along walk, and made a little memorandum to the effect that " eighty-nine per centum of the population of Philadelphia are members of the powerful family of Roomstolet." Some one writing for an English pa per a description of the Centennial grounds at Philadelphia says that Bel mont avenue divides them into two zones, the "tempers,te" and the "in temperate." On one side are all the fountains and the lake; on the other are the restaurants. A St. Joseph man, one year married, says there is a great deal in the expres sion of a back comb to denote the state of the domestic atmosphere. When his wife's comb nesftjg quietly in its proper place, all is wellwfliinim, but when it is lifted and leans forward, he says: "Look out for squalls." (Pleasant for George, who is enter taining "the governor " with the latest college gossip.) Pater.?"Now, George, tViia 4a oil t7ott7 troll abont the foot-ball, the prospeots of the cr jw, and the rest of it; now suppose yon let us know about the Greek and Latin, and this afternoon we will go over all your bills." Years ago, before dams and mills ob structed the shad on their passage up the Merrimac, spring found the head waters full of these fish. They were caught by the cartloa^aad used by the farmers for manure. The old rule was: "A shad to a hill of corn."' "They con niir.oTiViftffl nf the early days. fbllfUbCU buu jyuvu^/UH.v >-- - ^ A centennial incident: " An' bow far might a square be?" paid a patriot stranger to a patriot driver on a street car. " Sure, and if ye was a Philaydel pbian like meself, ye would know it was to tbe next corner." "An'is it thiD," exclaimed tbe patriot stranger, " fwhat we New Yaarkers call a block ?" " An* it is." From Burlington comes news of a little girl only nine years of age, wbo bas developed a wonderful talent for sculpture. Sbe chiseled a carbuncle on the side of ber brother's head with a screwdriver so neatly that her friends " * A- f/1 ll.ire think ot sending ner iu X1U1UU VV ? ^ hor learn to mangle marble in the Italian ej language. fty A mad ox broke from liis driver at iea Dijon (France) drove him up a tree, and then attacked the carriages in tlio road, making the horses boit. For two ler hours traffic was entirely suspended, fe: many persons seeking shelter in the t." trees, when, at,last, a squad of gendarmes fe, with rifles drew near. The bull charged, to I but received a volley of musketry at I twenty yards, which quitted him,