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- i ,.r, I ji 'BY W. A. LEE AND HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1876. VOLUME XXIV.?NO. 13. j J Be Still! 'Tia better far to epeak no word at all Than murmur a!! tho changing heart may feel! The sweetest words may sometimes taste like g?U, AV*> : ; 'f- ?T And soft heart*? turn to citadela of steel! The silent tlien ard tafest too, for euoh Will never say too little, nor too much. 'Kb better far to leave thy thoughts uncoined In words, for then they cannot be purloined, Nor mixed with baser metal, thus to be Palmed ou the public, a false currency ! A thought uu^oken never loses power Outspoken, it may perish in an hour ! Thy heart is thine own caatle. Lock the gate! 'lis better far if it be desolate To be sole witness of its empty shrine! And if 'tis peopled by a world or thine, Let it be silent I Who can understand The language spoken in that mystic land ? If thoa mu<st epot.k, of others speak bat good, As of thyself. Let this be understood : If thou canst not of them a good recall, 'Twere better far that thou didst not Bpeak at all! * X # Be still! Tho silent are the wisest; such Will never say too little, nor too much ! THE STORY OF A RING. ? t s? r - -t i ? i] ! ? rf;u It seemed to me the most unfortunate position in the world. I had arrived, about ten minutes be fore, at the house of an aunt whom I had never seen, and who was sick. I was to be her nurse and oompanion. Her aerv&ut had shown me ioto this wretched trap, as I now called it, in anguish of spirit, though it was really a pretty, cheerful little r^om, opening by a cnrtained arch from the parlor, in forming me that the housekeeper would be there immediately to conduct me to my aunt And here was I, an utter stranger, assisting at a lovers' quarrel. Two persons had entered the room an instant after I had seated myself. It was twilight, and the lamps were not yet lighted. I was wholly invisible, and they evidently imagined themselves to possess the solitude befitting their con versation. ! . . "The farce may as well end here," had said a woman's voice at the moment of her crossing the threshold. "For my part, I am weary of the play. . I no longer love you, and I will not pretend affection merely to feed your vanity, which is as limitless as your imperti nence in persisting in attentions that you Fee I detest." , It was the most intolerably proud voice that could be imagined. " I still love you, and you know it. And I have far too much faith in your former professions to credit the words put into, your mouth by the anger of an unfortunate moment. You are utterly mistaken in your supposition. My love for you is always "? " Your love for me! Tour love !" with an accent of angry scorn that de fies description. ? Never dare to men tion to me again a word that you cannot oomprehencL It is an insult to me to hear it?an insult that I will not endure. An**> core your apprehension of my repentance, let me tell you that I, who know the meaning of this word that you utter so glibly?I love some one else." She stepped swiftly to the window and threap it open. There was an in stant's Silence. There was audible the rustle of her sleeve as she tossed some thing from her with force. " I have thrown your ring away," she explained, with a nonchalance in extra ordinary contrast with her former vio lence.? ' ""I threw it toward the cistern. Possibly it has slipped through some crevice or other, and gone down into the water. I hope so, In that case it isimooseible that the sight of it can ever again insult me with the remem brance that I bave worn it. Permit me to wish you an exceedingly good even ing I" , : It was easy to imagine the mocking reverence of the courtesy she now swept him; then she w?s gone. Immediately after, and'silently, he also left the apart ment They did not go too soon, whoever they were. A cold perspiration damp ened my forehead; I really trembled. The yohemence of the feelings engaged, the carfcainty felt by the actors of their complete isolation, and my own inno cent guilt in overhearing, all quite over pOWtTOCl UUB. Half a miuute did not elapse after the last sound of the gentleman's footsteps before the parlor door again opened, and a prim littie woman entered, with & lamp in her hand. She looked in all the oorncrs, as one might "search for a dropped pocket handkerchief, and at last perceived the new-comsr. "Ah, miss, I Ifave kept yon waiting quite a time, to be sure ! But your aunt took a sudden notion to pat mustard draughts on her ankles?though Dr. Richardson had just gone, and he never thought of ordering them!?and have 'em Khe must. And I supposed you'd be comfortable here." " Quite comfortable, thank you. The servj-at said you would come presently.' "Well, you'd best have some tea be fore you see your aunt. She told me to give you some. I shall try to find something you like; though what with all these people flying about the house that have got no business here?this company, I mean?I don't know whether I ?ej on my head or feet." I received the refreshments she brought me gratefully, after which I wsh conducted to my aunt's room. Consideration for the feelings of other peoplo was not ono of the old lady's characteristics, and after a few disparaging remarks on my personal ap pearance, I was dismissed for the night. Thii sun was just risen next morning when I took courage to step outside and iook aDoni jae. me grass was verj wet with dew,, but how it sparkled in that fresh ligbt! All at once I.stopped and stared about me. There, glitter ing in the grass, lay a ring. I stood like one fascinated, gazing at it very foolish ly, for I knew well what ring it was. Presently I heard some one caliing far off, and not stopping to think, I picked the ring up, and ran back to the house, all trembling. At breakfast I endeavored to discover the hero and heroine of last evening's drama, 'lwo of the ladies were sisters, tall, languid blondes, very beautifully dressed, and very dainty. They trifled elegantly with their knives and forks, and carried on airy summer morning flirtations with two gentlemen, who were each dark, and, like the ladies, dressed with care a little too exquisite. The third lady, Miss Huntingdon, was a little person, with soft, pleasant, viva cious manners, in whose conversation was always a concealed sarcasm. But it was far too indifferent and too good natured to belong to the lady of last night. Besides, her sweet mocking voice was as different as possible from the deep, passionate tones that had so thrilled me. And of the four gentle men present, oeitainly not one at all re sembled the portrait I had painted for my hero. I was puzzled, and felt sadly guilty again as thought of the ring lying all silently there in my pocket, and carrying everywhere with it a story which I knew and had jdo right to know. Pay followed day, and the days melted gradually into weeks. When the novelty of my position was fever, it proved not nearly so terrible as it had seemed at first. Aunt Agnes said many harsh things, but she did not mean them all, and the goodness of her heart compen sated in some measure for the asperities of her tongue. I saw a great deal of Dr. Richardson. He was more than kind. - He thonght my life loresome and joyless, and brought me many books that I had longed for, and interested himself in lit tle things that happened, talking with me often, and always leaving me hap pier than he found me. But there was cne thing that troubled me much. I sometimes fancied?and with unaccountable distress?that in Dr. Richardson I had discovered the owner of the ring. Certain tones of his voice pierced me like a sudden pain, they car ried me back so vividly to that unfortu nate hour in the dim little alcove. Yet when I looked into his faoe again, and Viin arraa on /?nnt.Ant Rfl frATlltlv hfln py, this imagination melted into a sweeter dream. But it returned again and again, and always with deeper pain. The visitors I found on my arrival were long once gone. Miss Hunting don lived in the neighborhood; and it would, perhaps, be proper to say that we were become quite intimate, had not all the tali and revelation been on her side. J, for my part, had had no ad ventures, and it seemed to me not inter esting to offer theories to one who could narrate facts. One day she upbraided me for my want of confidence, but I really had nothing to tell, until at last I bethought myself of the story of the ring. "How very curious!" cried Miss Huntingdon, when I had ended, her brown eyes opened wide. " Do let me see it. I shall certainly know it if I have ever seen it before. So I took" it from the case where it lay glittering, and put it iiito her hands. And it was with a strange foolish pang that I saw her examine it, and heard her chatter concerning it. She looked at it with unfeigned interest. "It is really beautiful," she said, "and most uncommon. No, there is not one among my acquaintance that I have ever seen wear such a ring. It is the oddest thing ! And it all happened the evening you arrived ?" She had turned quite away from me, and was looking ^out of the window. I could not see her face at all. " Miss Huntingdon," I said, gravely, with an emotion which I concealed as well as I was able, "..will you answer me a question truthfully I" "Any question that a friond should ask, I will answer- truthfully." She did not turn toward me as she spoke. J-VkAvk moo if nof t?Aii wAnrcmlf who threw this ring away V Now she did turn, and looked me frankly in the eyes. "Truthfully, it was not I." . " Thank you?oh, thank you 1" Why did I furtively kiss the ring ? Why, if shehad said " Yes," would I, in turn, have thrown it passionately away? Ah ! the reader guesses. It was perhaps a fortnight after that I sat alone at my window watching tie sun set beyond the hills, white with snow, but seeing it as one sees in a dream. All my thoughts were wandering to ward a happy hour last evening, when Dr. Richardson had asked mo to be his wife. From thence the days fled by like a dream. They were so happy, but so short?that was all I had to complain of; and they too rapidly brought near a day that-1 longed for and yet dreaded. *1 il 5 J * 1 ? 1.1 i duu?in is a baa cuuionsiuu?iur uie first time in my life I looked at myself often in the mirror. It seemed as if I had suddenly grown almost pretty. There was a pink color in my cneeks; my pale eyes had darkened and bright ened. One day?think how foolish I?I really leaned over and kissed my own lips; it seemed so delightful to be a lit tle handsome that i felt grateful to the mirror. "Do not you wish I were beautiful?" I said, one afternoon, to Dr. Richard son, with a wistful longing that he should tell me he thought me so. We were standing near the open door of the parlor, just as he was taking leave. "Indeed I do not," he answered, frankly. "I love you just as you are." That was pleasant, but not what I wished to hear. f. "Bat do not you wish I were as hand some as?as Miss Huntingdon, for in stauce ?" I persisted. "Think how bright, and laughing her brown eyes are 1 And what a gypsy color rises in her cheeks when she is excited ! She looks aflame sometimes." " She does indeed," said Dr. Richard son, Bailing; " but I am not a salaman der. I have no wish that you should resemble her. Miss Huntingdon is too "Too excellent for this world 1" cried that lady's laughing voice outside. Sbe had just entered the hall, and stopped a moment at the parlor door. " Good afternoon, Dr. Richardson. Is the pa tient up stairs better to-day ? I am on my way to see her. I shall not take you with me, Agues, in order to earn Dr. Richardsou's good opinion over again? for once he had a good opinion of me." She 'looked tip at him side-wise and laughed. She was wonderfully pretty this afternoon?all sparkle and glow. There wus an, instant's, but only an instant's, odd constraint in'Dr. Bichard son's manner; then he said, quite gravely: "You havo not forfeited my good opinion, Miss Huntingdon." 44 The truth is, Dr. Richardson," said Miss Huntingdon, her face all lighted with siucy, inward laughter?"tho truth is, you owe me a debt of grati tudo deeper than you can ever repay. Tell me now, frankly, if it were not for me would you be at this moment the happy man you are ?" " J?'rankiy, i wonia not." . Dr. Richardson was very serious. Even Miss Huntingdon seemed to veil some feeling under her gay manner. I was troubled. " Why do you two talk in riddles?" I asked. " Do you not both know that I have no talent for guessing ?" "At least you sbali not cultivate it just now, dear," said Miss Huntingdon. " Dr. Kichardson will tell you when I am gone. 1 must go to your aunt. It does her good to soold me." She tamed away and moved a step or two, and then looked back with a changed face. "Agnes." she said, wistfully, "would you mind kissing me?" " Mind kissing you ? What a ques tion ! But you are not going away immediately?" ; " Oh, I don't know. Perhaps I had better bid you good-bye now. She kissed mo twice. " Good-bye!" she said. Absolutely the spark in her eyes was quenched in dew I "Agnes," she said, with an odd sort of half laughing seriousness, " if you should ever come to think that Ananias was a moral > character in comparison with myself, it would be impossible for you to love me any more, would it not ? But let me 1 assure you, my dear, that some stories are'told with the best possible inten s tions." Then she left us. " What can she mean, dear ?" I asked, turning in wonder to Dr. Bich f ardson. He led me to the chair I had quitted, and placing me there again, Btood before me. " Agnes, she means me to oonfew to vou something that you need neve nave known. And yet, perhaps, it i better that you should. She .means tha I once loved her." He -went on talking for a few minutes but I do not know what he said. M; hands were cold, and objects before m; eyes were blurred. She had deceive* me. It was to her and to him I hai listened that evening so long. He heu loved her. I, who heard him declar it, knew the depth of sincerity in th voice that told her so. Had ho songh my love as a solace for the wound tha she had inflicted ? Friend and lover were both to fail me ? " Have you nothing to say, Agnes Why do you not answer me ?" " Wait for me one moment," I re plied, hearing my voice, but hardly re cognizing it. "I will answer you whei I return." I left him abruptly, going slowly u] stairs, my heart feeling broken. I go the ring, and. came down again, no I trembling at all, quite quiet, with tha dreamui cairn wnicn accepts despair In the blind jealousy of the moment i seemed impossible that he could reall; love me, having once loved her. "It is usual, I believe," I said, witl some sort of a smile, " to break an en gagement by returning a ring. Woulc you like that ours should be broken so This is your ring, is it not?" " What do you mean, Agnes ? When did you get this ring?" cried Dr. Rich ardson, in great surprise. " I was in the aloove there the nigh that Miss Huntingdon threw it away I found it in the garden next morning I heard all that you both said. She ha! deceived me. She said, when I askec her, that this ring w?8 never hers. Anc you have deceived me; you told me tha you loved me." In another moment the sob in m] voice would have given place to miser able childish tears. But Dr. Richard son folded mo in his arms and kissec me, laughing. __ That comforied m< more than any words could have done, " Poor trusting little one I" he cried, " Tho whole world is in conspiracy against you, is zjul it t ? uuuu pmj uj role to the end, however, and say that ] love you forever. And cannot yon for give Misa Huntingdon? Is not sh( right when she says that I owe my hap pinesa to her ? And she may have told the story that grieves you for the pur pose of making us happy. Cannot yoB forgive her?" Yes. When he had talked to me ar hour or two, paitionlarly when he had reassured me as to the grounds upon which I held his love, I freely forgave her. Sitting there in the delicious twi light, with that dear voice sounding sc lovingly in my ears, whom and whal could I not have forgiven ? ^,.. x And then, in the dusk, I heard hei light footstep on the stair, and the rustic of her dress. "Come in, dear Miss Huntingdon," ] uneu, "" ULIU lOU UO IUOO juu vuw muiv. I have your ring on my finger, and love you more than I ever did in my life." And we have been friends all our days until now. .1 , The Moon a Dead World. Among the illusions swept away bj modern science Tas the pleasant fancj that the moon was a habitable globe, like the earth, its surface diversified with seas, lakes, continents and islands, and varied forms of vegetation. Theo logians and savants gravely discussed the probabilities of its being inhabited by a race of sentient beings, with forms and faculties like our own, and ever propounded schemes for opening com munication with them, in case they ex isted. One of these was to construcl on the broad highlands of Asia a series of geometrical figures on a scale so gi gantic as to be visible from our planetarj neighbor, on the supposition that the moon people would recognize the ob ject, and immediately construct similai figures in reply, extravagant and absurd as it may appear, but the discussion was kept up at intervals, urtil it was dis covered that if there were people in the moon they myit be able to live withoul breathing or eating or drinking. Then i1 ceased. There can be no life without air, Beautiful to the eye of a distant observer the moon is a sepulchral orb?a world o: death and silence. No vegetatior clothes its vast plains of stony desola tion, traversed by monstrous crevices, broken by enormous peaks that rise likt gigantic tombstones into space; no lovelj forms of cloud float in the blackness o: its sky. The daytime is only nigh lighted by a rayless sun. There is n( rosy dawn in the morning, no twilight ir the evening, The nights are pitch dark, In daytime the solar beams are los against the jagged ridges, the sharj points of the rocks, of the steep sides o: profound abysses; and the eye sees onlj grotesque shapes relieved against fantas tic shadows black as ink, with none o: that pleasant gradation and diffusion o light, none of the subtle blending o; light and shadow, which makes th< charm of a terrestrial landscape. Ther< is no color, nothing but dead white anc block. The rocks" reflect passively tin light of the sun; the craters and abysse: remain wrapped iu shade; fantahtii naulro vi'qq ltlro nhflTif/Mna in f.liflii* ryla/?io cemetery; the stars appear like spots ii the blackness of space. The moon is t I dead world; she has no atmosphere. The Claimant Again. Mr. Guildford Onslow and Mr. An thony Biddnlph visited Arthur Orton the Tichborne claimant, in Dartmoo: prison, the other day, and in the even ing they addressed a small public meet ing. Lord Rivers was absent, from in disposition. Mr. Biddulph said he wai more convinced than ever that the claim ant was hi< cousin, and in France Germany, and America there was a con firmed belief that a frightful miscarriagi of justice had taken place in the Tien borne case. Mr. Guildford Onslow sail the claimant, in his degradation, stil retamea tne manner 01 a true-oorn gen tleman and the pride oT the Tichbornea The home secretary had refused Mr Biddulph an extension of time in hi visit, and he (M. Onslow) promised tha he should bring this cm el treatment be fore the constituents of Mr. Cross ii Lancashire, in the hope that they woul< remember it against him at the nex election. The claimant was in far bette health than chey expected to find him for on the last visit it looked as if al hope had left him. A great chang for the better had come over him, am he was in good health and tranquil L mind, not only in his knowledge of hi innocence, but that his friends wouL work till he was released. There wa no doubt that at the next general elec tion the Tichborne question would d made a hustings cry, and he believed th result would be the release of th claimant. . Novel Jewelry. Thomas Jefferson's great-grand daugh ters, who reside, in comparative po\ erty, in Florida, have .contributed to th Centennial several beautiful sets of fish scale jewelry. The material used is th large scales of certain fish found ii Southern waters. These are bleachei and then fashioned into the charmin| brooches, earrings and necklaces no\ displayed in the Women's pavilion.. I] beauty of design and finish they riva the airy filigree work of the Swedes o I Italians. r The Chinese Question. ? The anti-Chinese question on tl ' cifio coast has in all likelihood given more prominence than it desf ' Those who participate in it are ge: ^ ly of the brawling class, small j | cians anxious to curry favor wil a bbrers and artitans whose appr , sions, especially in a time of cod cial depression, are always < aroused, and sensation mongers ea{ , accept the offered opportunity to , up " China town " again and inv few details to snit the occasion, ai] hind them all is tho hoodlum elf f on the alert for anything which ] ises a riot end an occasion for pi In the midst of the turmoil raise these agitators it is not easy fa voice of common sense to be heard 1 principle is very apt to be sway< silenced by prejudice. Neverth ? we venture the prediction thati ? respectable citizens of California . be polled they would, by an overw] ing majority, declare that the pr no A a in no nndaoi tuiii"iu.uju^unt<u uuoauo xotw imu^oi as it is unjust. The Six Companie&iiave, in the peal to the President and people o United States, made an effective pi tation of a strong case; it might been bettered if the signers had cl to go more into detail. There is, I stance, not the slightest fear thai Chinese can ever becomo so num as appreciably to affect our social c litical institutions. Granted thai same rate of immigration which hoodlums effect to consider a sotu danger be maintained for a cen with allowance for increase by ns causes, our Chinese population in would only be 5,000,000 as against many millions of whites ? Besidef anti-Chinese argrrment defeats i for in the same breath that it is r that the Celestials pour in her< myriads it is also charged against, that they don't come to stay an Americanized, Dun as soon as mey made a little money take it an? t selves home to the flowery king The positions are inconsistent, an the Californians elect to stand on 01 must reject both. The economical considerations o question hardly merit serious atten If the Ohinese pay their taxes, rent fares, and earn and purchase that v they wear and consume,'the commi must be a gainer. . If they worl less wages than other people, then I is a saving of capital which will other investments and open newfiel industry. Inasmuch as the most ] denunciations of the Chinese < from people who do not work e: when menaced by starvation, flhinoatx lin.ro rnflior fliA liel.fcer of argument. So with the. moral and social fea ) of the question. The prison stat: . of California and San Francisco i the average of crime among the Ch to be lower than among the rest o: ' population. If their residences are lio nuisances, why are not the nuist 1 abated by those charged with pre ing the public health and morals ? they any worse than some of the < ters frequented by other foroign dents ? Whenever those who no | loudly declaim against Chinese i: gration are able to answer such < j tions as these, it will be time to i them to take the next step and i ! cause for excepting one particular [ ule from the operation of our lawi competition in our markets. It is by no means flattering to on tional pride that in tlus cente year such a discussion as this sboul waged, and that all the courtesy cogency should be displayed on the of the uncivilized heathens.? New Times. - ; The Saltan's Downfall. The tragic fate of Abdul Aziz im renewed interest to the story of hi from power. The incidents whici tended his overthrow and impr ment appear to bo as follows : The isters assembled at the residence ol grand vizier, and discussed the sta fjublic affairs. They concluded tha ess some radical measures were ad< general rebellion and a total coliar: the state- would result. A resol was adopted ombodying these v and a petition to the sultan was il up praying him to abdicate in ord save the country. The sultan rec the petition with affected com pa and said he would consider the mi There was a great popular demoi tion in the streets. The trade gi headed by the softas, marched t< sultan's palace, unopposed by the tary, who were evidently disaffe The crowd cheered for Murad anc manded the downfall of Abdul Aziz the.meantime Murad having bee: leased from his own house to whic had been confined by the sultan conducted to the mosque and as S Qaam affnr L luuiau uuo. xxjuu* kivwu. mawi. f Suleiman Pasha, accompanied by sol 5 and officers, informed Abdul Aziz i the nation had deposed him, an* 1 should surrender the palace to hif 5 cessor. The attitude of the troops 3 vinced Aziz that resistance was in ; sible. Accordingly he with his fa 1 Lousehold, and fifty-three boats i with women left the building, and i conveyed under escort to the Tchei palace. Immediately after his overthro ports were current that the sultar been murdered. His fate created concern in the royal courts of Eu ? Queen "Victoria took steps at once r assured of his personal safety. The - iety was aliased by a telegraphic < lar from the porte wherein it was s - that the ex-sultan would be treated 3 the consideration and honor due t - WAWI/Vn Ttilirvw Kalnr?m?? f pCJiOUi-l. JL UC jJLX T iiiUU kroxuugUJg ? ? Toheragan palace, on tlie Bosph had been assigned him as a reaid 3 This building is a wooden struc with a fine platform built out befc 1 to the water's edge. Despite thi 1 cial assurance rumors have been cu - that the ex-sultan would be sent to Minor, where it would bo out o power to disturb the government. 8 may halve been fears of this step, a t as the hostility of the new vizier, i " led Abdul Aziz to oommit suicide. 1 leading incidents of his career, in i are as follows: He was the sou of i ^ guinary despot and was born in r He ascended the Ottoman throi I Iftfil onrl fnr aovprnl troaro crftVft T1P( - "'^"* 1 ~~~ ? j ? o- - r ~ 11 of being a wise and prudant rnler. ? failed, however, to carry out the r< * he initiated and allowed the sta a drift into insolvency and disorder. ? ing his reign there were revolts in ^ and Herzegovina. The weakness 1 8 trayed in dealing with the latter c the disaffection which resulted i e fali. 6 His death removes all pretext fo 0 recognizing his successor on the g: of informality. It was understoo< Servia would refuse to paytribi Sultan Murad until that questio: settled. 6 VICISSITUDES OF JLiIV-E.?auiy r Ding, the negro minafcrol, died; ix 9 cago at the age of forty-itoo. He 1 menced life on a canalbaat, then 3 an omnibns in Cincinnati, and at ? the same time appeared Of the stf v an amateur performer. -He to a negro minstrelsy and was &0 ,fchorc 1 suooesaful that he aooumuliAed i t tone. But he squandered all of ; left his widow penniless, Health Maxims. The observance of the following nan tary regulations would doubtlesa pr< long many a life: 1. The first step toward the reductio of diseases is, beginning at the begii ning, to provide for tfie health of th unborn. If the intermarriage of dii eases were considered in the same ligl as the intermarriage of poverty, th hereditary transmission of disease woul be at an end in three, or at mont fou generations. 2. Greater care than is at present man: fested ought to be taken with wome who are about to become mothers. 3. In meeting the- nncontrollabl causes of disease, the special influenc of season deserves particular attentior In September it is right to add to th clothing, and to commence a little es cess of food; in summer, not only to n duce the clothing, but to eat less foo than in winter. 4. The best means of preventing th spread of communicable diseases is, pei feet and instant isolation of .the infected ana removal ana puruying 01 au cioixj ing and bedding -which have been i contact. 5. The mortality among persona of ad vanced life is best prevented by provid ing against sadden vioissitades of hea and cold. 6. The true danger of every form o mental exercise is the addition of worry 7. Physical training, while it flhonli be moderately encouraged, should b secondary to mental training. 8. The combination of mental anc physical fatigne is extremely injurious Long journeys eaoh day to and from th sphere of profession or business, ar hurtful. 9. The passions should be held u subservience to the reasoning faculties 10. To escape the tjvils arising fron the use of alcohol there is only one- per feet course, to abstain from alcohol alto gether. *' 11. The use of tobacco in every forn is a habit better not acquired, and whei acquired is better abandoned. 12. Indulgence in narcotics?opium chloral, chlorodyne, absinthe?is an en tire departure from natural law and i certain means of embittering and short ening life. 13. A man's food should be selecte< so as to insnre variety without success The amount of flnid taken should no exceed an average of twenty-four ouncei per diem. 14. Air charged with, offensive sub stances should be excluded from rooms and tho average temperature of th3 roon should be about sixty degrees Fahren heit. 15. A certain amount of rest and re creation is essential in any occupation. 16. Enforc d idleness by those whe have acquired wealth is always an erro: so Ions as the health is good. 17. Th ft Tin fur ill duration of sleeD ii eight hours out of the twenty-four; bes taken from ten o'clock until six. 18. Dress should fit loosely, shonlc be light, warm, and porous; should b< throughout every part of the olothing upper and under, frequently changec ancLkept clean. 19. Perfected action of the skin cai only be obtained by thorough ablutioi of the whole body, which should be per formed once in every twenty-four hours 20. The diseases arisiDg from irrita tion and moral contagion are best avoid ed by removing the young and impres airmnhlo frnm t.hfi snnrneB of dancer. 21. Automat^ phenomena of diseas are best removed introducing int< the sufferer's daily life such amusement as will keep him from thinking too mucl of himself. Maxims of the Chinese. It is the rich who want most things. Groat souls have wills; others onl; feeble wishes. When a song gives much fame virtu gives very little. All is lost when the people fear deatl less than poverty. Ho who lets things be given to him i not good at taking. Who is the crreatest liar. He wb speaks most of himself. ' < The court is like the sea?everythinj depends upon the wind. One forgives everything to Mm wh< forgives himself nothing. The tree overthrown by the wind ha more branches than roots. Receive your thoughts as guests an treat your desires like children. One never needs one's wits so mucl as when one has to do with a fool. For him who does everything in it proper time one day is worth three. He who wishes to secure the good o others has already secured his own. A fool never admires himself so muc] as when he has committed some folly. The less indulgence one has for one' sen ino more one may nave ior otuers. Towers are measured by their shadow and great men by those who are enviou of them. At court people sing that they ma; drink; in a village people drink that the; may sing. The dog in the kennel barkd at hi fleas, but the dog who is hunting doe not feel them. We must do quickly what there is n hurry for, to be able to do slowly wha demands haste. The truths that we least wish to hea are those which it is most to our advar tage to know. What a pleasure it is to give I Ther would be no rich people if they wer capable of fooling this. The way to glory is through the pa] aco, to fortune through the market, t virtue through the desert. Who is the man most insupportable t us? Ho whom we have offended an whom we can approach with nothing. The prison is shut night and day, ye it is always full; the temples are alwaj open, and yet you find no one in them. The rich find relations in the moa remote foreign countries; the poor nc even in the bosom of their own families Whoever makss a great fuss aboti doing good doe3 very little; he wh wishes to be seen and noticed when h is doing good will not do it long; hewh mingles humor and caprice with it wi do it badly; he who only thinks of avoic ing faults and reproaches will never at quire virtues. Displays at the Exposition. The following stated displays will I held during the Centennial exhibitioi the dates having been recently revised Early grass batter a nd oheeao.. June 26 to July Early summer vegetables June 20 to! Honey June 20 to ! Raspberrioa and blaobborriea .July 3 to Southern pomologioal products...July 18 to! Melons Aug. 22 to 1 Peaches Sept. 4 to Northern pomological products.. Sept. 11 to Autumn vegetables Sept. 19 to! Cereals Sept 25 to I Potatoes and feeding roots Oct. 2 to Grapes Oot. 10 to Autr.mn butter and cheoso Oot 17 to Nute Oot 23 to Nov, Autumn honey and wax Oct. 23 to Nov. Mowing machines and hay rakes. June 15 to Reaping machines. July 5 to Horses Sept 1 to Dogs Sept 11? Meat cattle ..Sept. 21 to Oot. Swine. Oot. 10 to Sheep Oot. 10 to Poultry Oct. 27 to Nov, Fashion Notes. i- Black hats will be worn only for dem )- toilet. Perfumed hate are a novelty attemptei n in Paris. x~ Saturday morning weddings are agah ? in vogue. Silks are ruinously low, say the mer e chants in London. d Fancy millinery silks command a bet ir ter price than dress silks. Bustles are so small at present tha i- they are invoiced"'' invisible." 11 The fashionable fancy work for sum mer resorts will be lace making. e Quaking grasses are mingled with al t the bonnet trimmings in London, e Yiolet wood fans are novelties intend ed to take the place of sandal wooc j- ones. u ireaxi gray lames, irimmeu wuu iruot ed gauze and with Spanish blonde, art ? very popular. Gold and silver threads are introduced ' into all the embroideries of evening ^ dresses' ia Paris. Bridesmaids wear gauze dressei [_ trimmed to correspond with the brida l_ dress of repped silk. t English round hats with broad brimi are worn by the ultra fashionables foi if promenade costume. Silver sautaohe is used by Frencl i modistes for trimming silver gra] e camel's hair costumes. . None but very handsome women, witi small and regular features, can wear th< ' hair in the French twist style. 0 The abilers of wedding dresses art made of heavy repped silk covered wit! j seed pearl and chenille embroidery. Fashionable dressmakers say thai 1 every lady is ordering a black grenadine - suit for weaf at the summer resorts. French or Italian chip of the palesl 'shade of cream is the full dress midsum i mer bonnet for Newport and Saratoga. 1 All the bridesmaids of Mile. d? Tfc.Ai? -i. xwmsctmuB wore, at uia wouiuug iu ' Paris, dresses of bine silk and bint gauze. The large, long, or square pocket, in evitable on all costumes, is now placed j back of the left hip and rather low down. There is a tendency to revive high coiffures. The French twist, worn very small and high, is to replace the Greek coil. . . The brims of the English round hate are rolled instead of being closely pressed against the sides of the crown, as last season. Yery dressy hats from Yirot's are turned up only on one side, and have a coquettish face trimming of velvel bands and flowers. Education of To-day. The New York Times, editorially commenting on education, says the old theory that students could not study toe much, even if their health suffered, hat been proved fallacious, as no amount oi culture will compensate for ruined con stitutions. It advocates the substitu tion of Frenoh and German for Latir and Greek; denying the assumptior that the dead classics strengthen anc invigorate the mind more than the standard literature of the day. It as serts that the chief defects of educa tion, just now, are in method and ir discrimination. Teaching is a rare gift, Not one in a hundred well instructed persons can master it. They may have abundance of knowledge, without anj clear notion of how to impart it; the talent for taking in and the talent foj giving out being in no wise kindred, Teachers, for the most part, become such from circumstances rather thai from fitness; more by accident than re flection. They adopt some old 3ysterr without examination, and for no othei reason than that it has been used before, They judge all their pupils alike, mak ing little or no allowance for individuali ty, difference of capacity or tempera mental bent. Consequently, a mere routine is established, and instructioi goes on from day to day, from week te week, from month to month, after th( manner of a steadily ground organ whicl plays half a dozen fixed tunes. Th( aptitude or inaptitude of the pupils foi certain branches is not taken into ac count. They are all tanght the sam( thing, at the same time, in the same way; and each must do the best he can under conditions generally unfavorable, Education becomes a mere formula, which is mechanically gone throng! with. " What thoy should reason oul they learn by rote; what is designee to develop their thinking faculty gets te be a matter of memory; and so the sole object in view is continually and abao lutely defeated. Habits. The most universal cause of dyspepsu is eating too often, too fast, and toe much. The general rules should be : 1. Eat thricc a day. 3. UU uj Ul'Uiix uchyccu rncuio. P 3. Nothing after two o'clock but ? ^ slice of cold bread and butter and oU( cnp of hot drink. a 4. Spend "half an hour at least ir s taking each meal. 5. Out up all meats and hard food ir o pea sized pieces. t 6. Never eat enough to cause tht slightest uncomfortable sensation after r ward. t_ 7. Never work or study hard withir half an hour of eating. The most universal and infallible in 6 dication that a person is becoming 0 dyspeptic is some uncomfortable sensa 1'? * n f oflrtV Dion COUll.Ilg Uii UlillUiiUlJ amux vuv*. meal, whether that be in the stomach throat, or anywhere else. The forma tion of wind in the stomach, indicated by eructation, belching, or other wise, demonstrates that dyspepsk is fixing itself in the system. Ther there is only one course to pursue, anc that ,is infallible : eat less and less a each meal until no wind is generated anc no. uncomfortable sensation experience*; in any part of the body. No medicin< ever cured confirmed dyspepsia ; eating plain food regularly and living out o doors industriously will cure most cases A Remarkable Egg Story. Mr. A. D. Warren, of Worcester Mass., has a remarkable production ii the egg line, which is attracting mucl attention and causing considerable dis cussion. Mr. Warren is a well knowi poultry fancier, and his game bautami have attracted a great deal of attention A day or two since he noticed that on< of his hens was in trouble, she having the appearance of having had an eg( broken in her. She was accordingly killed and opened, when a perfectly formed egg, as large as a goose egg 22 26 9 16 23 30 i 7 14 21 1 1 30 15 14 > 8 4 18 18' , 6 was discovered, .ims npon ueuig pu in the scales was found to weigh fou and three-fourths ounces. The egg wa then blown, and after the white am yolk had been forced out it was fount that inside was a second perfectly form od egg, which was also blown, and foum to contain a yolk and white in thei proper proportions. The only diffei enoe between the outer shell and th shell of an ordinary egg is that it is ej ceedingly brittle, and has to bo handle *ith the .utmost care to prevent it breaking. The hen was but two year old, and weighed, before the egg wa removed, two and one-half pounds. CENTENNIAL CORRESPONDENCE, Agricnltnrgl Hall?Foreign Exhibit?Iotth ?The Aquarium?Rolling Chairs, etc. Agricultarai Hall begins to assume form and comeliness, thongh many boxes are still unopened, and many sec tions are yet incomplete. Here are ten acres devoted to a display of the pro ducts of the soil and the implements used in its'cultivation, and in preparing all that is of earth for human use. Here, are the various forms of food in its natu ral or prepared _ shape, vegetable and animal giving one a vivid idea of how mankind doth live. The foreign exhibit, in this hall, oc cupies much space, and much of it is of a superior character, each country gen ii 1 It- 1. Tj v? i - ufouy oiiuvviii^ uuarauwjriauu ivuu uoou 1 productions. Several countries ore not 1 yet ready to exhibit their goods. Ku-sia : . has a large space filled with unopened I 3 boxes. Spain and Portugal are each in a chaotic state. ] , Brazil has a large and creditable ox hibit of hor staples, of which she ex- i * ports, of coffee, 864,000,000 ; sugar and ] cotton each over $15,000,000 ; hides, ] 3 88,000,000 ; India rubber, 86,500,000, 1 1 and of tobacco nearly 84,000,000. She < also exhibits 300 varieties of wood, i 3 many of them very valuable for cabinet j r and ornamental work. I Portugal has a large pyramid of cork i i and cork wood near tbe oenter of the I r main aisle. Also a good showing of 1 seeds, grain, beans, in which she takes ' the lead, nuts, fruits, wines, silks,-etc. 1 1 Sweden exhibits wheat, rye, oats, < 3 1 ?1 J 11.. " 11. J _ uiixtwy uiiu me graeooa in ouau iuju m jars, superior leather, and samples, pre- I served in glass jars, of all the kinds of 1 fish abounding in her waters, making the best exhibit of fish in the hall. Her plows have taken many medals at national fairs. Bermuda shows large sized potatoes, konions and tomatoes, grown in the open air; bananas, plantains, yanis, limes, co coanuts, cocos and sweet potatoes. Jamaica exhibits oranges, shaddocks of the shape and color of oranges, but very much larger, .pineapples and mangoes. Canada, on our north border, has a good collection of grains, seeds, fruits, salt, flax, conserved meats, tongues, roast fowls and all kinds of roast meat, fish, eto. A large^ollection of butter flies and stuffed birds. Also a fall and creditable assortment of agricultural i implements?reapers, thrashers, cultiva- j i tors, etc., etc.?including potato diggers, and plows of enormous length of beam , and bandies. Great Britain and Ireland have a large space assigned them in this department, but their agricultural exhibit is small ( and is not yet in shape. The prominent articles displayed are bottled fruits, table ! jellies, canned meats, wool and its sub ' stitutes, from Liverpool, wire cloth and mining wire, sheep shears, edge tools, china ware, plain and gilt, tiles, scour ing bricks, mill stones and road locomo f tive and wagon. Italy's chief exhibit, at present, in , this h&l, is wines. She makes amends , for defects here by decorated porcelain vases and rare jewels in tbe Mom build ing, and by a magnificent display of paintings and sculpture in Memorial hall, and especially in the annex to Me morial hall, which is the gem of the whole Exposition. Its extent and beauty surprise and delight all who see it. Un pretentious in exterior, it dwarfs, by its excellence, its most imposing neighbor. The United States surpass all other countries in agricultural machinery. Iowa, which has three hundred varieties of apples, seventy-five varieties of corn ?sixty-four in the ear of so large a size that nineteen ears fill a bushel busket? eighty varieties of wheat, rye, oats and barley; sixty varieties of grasses, thirty of grass seed, two hnndred of vegeta bles, and one hundred and sixty varieties of wood, besides minerals, sand and ochers in the annex to the Main build ing. She has thirty-five samples of soil, six feet deep, in large glass cylinders, from as many counties, in the four sec tions of the State, which show, at a glance, its amazing fertility and produc tiveness. Just south of this is the Aquarium, consisting of a long series of tanks in which large fish and small fish, --1" (nwonitiD anA hnrflpsliops CCiCJj L>1 U UDj Wiiu^tuu WUV4 disport themselves, to the great amuse ment of gaping crowds. A great convenienoe?pronounced by some a great nuisance?is the rolling chairs, without which large numbers could not see, or but partially see, this Exposition. Even persons in ordinary health get tired out loDg before-they have made the rounds of the principal buildings. It is within bounds to say that the aisles within and walks withoat exceed fifty miles, and though it is not necessary to traverse them all to see the principal sights, and get a good general idea of the Exhibition, yet those who have but little time to speud hero, find it an agreeable change, when their limbs fail them, to drop into a chair and be 1 TtrVioro^ror t.lifiv Hat. ' nuouiwu TT JUU. w . w- ? There are eating and drinking places in abundance, on the grounds, where one can get refreshments at a reasonable price, but to show the indisposition*of the Centennials to shave the visitors, there is but one barber shop in* the whole grounds, and as I had some trou ble in finding it, I will state that it is in the Telegraph building, north of the west end of the Main building. S. M. B. His Deep Sympathy, A man with long hair and a red nose entered a New York saloon one Sunday, reached out his hand to the proprietor for a shake, and feelingly observed : " Sir, you have my sympathy, and, believe me, sir, all free-born Americans will sympathize with you." "Yes, the Sunday law will hurt us bad, replied the saloonist. "It is base tyranny?it is nothing more nor less than downright anarchy? it is enough to chill a freeman's blood 1" exclaimed the stranger. "I will now take a little sip of your best whisky." " No drinks put on the slate," quietly remarked the saloonist. "I say that this Sunday law will cause the grass to grow in the streets of New York I" shouted the long haired man. " But I will stand by you. As soon as I sample your best brandy I'll go out and * 1*? 1: ? get up an indignation meei/iuy. "Cash down," Raid the barkeeper; "you old soakers have beaten me out of hundreds of dollars." The mau felt in all his pockets, looked under the lining of his hat, and backed to the open door, where he halted and growled in a deep bass voice : " Dare but to open this door the millionth part of a hair's breadth next Sunday, and I'll spend millions of dol lars to put you in the cooler !" A Tramp's Ride. Michael Ryan has ridden trom Chi cago to San Francisco for nothing and made a dollar on the road. From Chi cago to Omaha he rode under the head light of the engine, and from Omaha to Reno part of the time stowed under the baggage of some Germans who from time to time provided him with food and water, and part of the time on a coupling of a freight car. At Reno he bought from an immigrant the unused piece of his ticket for $1, but having an opportunity to sell the coupon for $2 he did bo and "beat" his way onward to San Francisco, which he reached after b?ing ejeoted from the cars a score of times. Giggling Girls. A lady writer gives the following well merited remarks on what she terms "giggling girls": The Tehes. Per haps you don't know them by that name. Well, then, suggest a better. They are the salt of our society, in one sense _ girls of good minds?minds that will be good if they survive the giggling age girls of good families, well dressed, polite, and fine looking, but possessed of the insane idea that they must laugh upon all occasions, whether there is any thing to warrant it or not?else they are not jolly, gay girls, and lively company. A bevy of them cameinto a public library one day. One had just had an ad venture, which was to be recited. She dropped into a chair, bent over, and held her sides, and they all chorused in. They hadn't heard it yet; but of course it would be awful funny when it was told. She was coming up the street when she stepped on a rotten plank?te he The! chorus, te he!?and down she went. Oh, dear!?te he I he!?and her foot got tangled?full chorus, te he I he! lie!?and a men came along with a horrid check shirt on?he! he! he I? big checks ; perfectly horrid !?he md helped her up?he! he ! he f Then i waving of the bodies back and forth, mda grand te he ad libitum, all to gether. They were splendid girls!?I ?.1? T>Mi. an atUM. ! ipeaK. BUJU?rt!ijr. uuo wuai au tionl I saw an old graybeard take a book he didn't want and hurry away, rhen another girl took it up, and said ler book was so comical she just howled jyer it?he! he! They most all read it ?they would laugh so. As if that was ;he end and aim of a girl's existence. When a man is amused ne laughs with jrufito, and then straightens his face till ;he next time. And it has some mean ng. But the perpetual grin or giggle s detestable. Ala lecture recently I saw iix young ladies seemingly oonvulsed ffith laughter fo:r five minutes or more it the accidents dropping of a paper >f candies over the floor. I think I can jo into a social parlor and select the groups of married ladies from those of he girls?not by their faces nor by their Iresses, but by the amount of giggling lone. Matrimony subdues the snickerer. iTory. To furnish the ivory which is im )orted into England alone, 50,000 ele )hant8 have to be killed every year. The jest ivory comes from Zanzibar, the pro luct of the African elephant; it is jpaque, soft, easy to work, and free rom cracks and other defects. That rom Ambriz, the Gaboon river, and [outh of the equator, is called " silver jray it remains white, and never be iomes yellow, as is the case with the Asiatic ivory ; it is, therefore, the most valuable of any ivory in the market. Hie usks from Siam are translucent, and be ng soft grained, are preferred for orna nental work. The fossil tusks of the nammoths found in the Arctic regions ind Siberia, form a not inconsiderable imount of the ivory trade; some of ihese tusks are in as fine a condition for working as the very best of modern vory, which js very remarkable, as some )f these elephants or mammoths have seen preserved in an ice crust, and have flmained imbedded for unknown ages, arobably since the glacial period?some 150,000 years ago. If this is so, it goes x> show that the change of temperatnre ;ook place rapidly in a then tropical cli nate, where these animals previously flourished, and overtaking them sud lenly, and covering them with an ice ;rust, were the causes of their .perfect observation. Losing a Customer, The following very Parisian story is x>ld by an exchange : A wealthy bach elor, who breakfasts every morning in ma. nt ryinof. fon>u"on?.hl? rftHtftirrftiits )f the Boulevard des Italiens, is, or rather was, very attentively served by a waiter whose palm he generally crossed. Df course the wealthy bachelor always lad the same seat, a seat by the window ooking on the ever animated boulevard, lot plates, dishes served promptly, but lot too fast; in fine, Benedict had an sxcellent servant. But, during the last iveek, Benedict had been unable to get ihe excellent servant; another servant langs around him, and tries his best to mpply all his wants, still the new face is lot the old face, and whi.? annqys Bene lict most is, that he occasionally catches jlimpses of the old servant, who gives lim most sorrowful glances. Benedict las examined the matter, and has dis sovered that his old servant is addicted o gambling. One evening, having lost ill bis money, he staked his best ens ,omer?Benedict?and lost him. Pet Birds in the Woods. A writer from Florida says : We wit ledsed a novel and beantiful sight a few lays ago at the farm of Mrs. Hildreth on he North river, about two miles above he city. Mrs. Hildreth, in the course )f a few months, has succeeded in taming he wild birds that fly about the place. iVhile we were in the house Mrs. lildreth went out to the door and called ;o the birds, which were then, in the niddle of the day, in the adjoining ,'orest. In a few moments a dozen or nore bluebird? and mocking birds came lying around her. She then came into ;he house and handed each of our party i raisin, which we were requested to lold oat in our fingers. We remained still for a few minutes, when the birds lopped in at the door, flew upon our lands and picked the raisins from our ingers. "We were astonished, and could not help wondering the more when we yere informed that none of these birds lad been caged, but were thus tamed Dy the gentleness and art of this lady. How to Treat Children. To gain obedience, you must first set yourself to desorvo it. Whatever you promise your little one, however small ;he thing seems to you, and whatever ;rouble it costs you, perform it. Never et the doubt once enter that innocent nind that you say what you do not nean, or will "not act up to what you iay. Mako as few prohibitory laws as pou possibly cm, but, once made, keep ;hem. In what is granted as in what s denied, compel yourself, however rrmortr nr wnrrifid or impatient, to ad minister always even-handed justice, rids id a system much more likely to jeoure your child's red affection than all :ka petting and humoring so generally indulged in, to give pleasure or save trouble, not to your little ones, but to yourself. (Joing to the Bad. About eight years ago Emmet, before then a negro minstrel, started out as a " Dutch" comedian,and won popularity and a fortune in a play called "Fritz. He is said to have mado $150,000 iu five years, as his ability to draw large audi ences enabled him to dictate terms with managers. Drunkenness was one of the results of his success. During his last engagement in New York city he was often perceptibly intoxicated when on the stage. A letter in the San Francisco Post says that on the stage of the opera house in Melbourne, Australia, he was recently so drunk that he fell while try ing to dance, and soon afterward fell asleep iu the midst of a scene. The starts manager roused him and led him behind tho soeneB, and the audience do parted in disgust. Items of Interest. Ihort of change?the man with bnt i shirt. 'he man who makes himself ridicu 3 prevent?) many others from becom 80. 'on can't oat enongh in one week to a whole year, and yon can't ndver on that plan either. 71 'he Boston Globe nominates Honesty Vice-President. We respectfully line, says the Norristown Herald, he girls of Fulton county, HI, had leep sheading match the other day, the winner sheared thirteen sheep wo hours. n English settler in C^pe Colony, Lib Africa, has in four yoars cleared 5,000 by maing ostriches and selling ir feather,}. [atilda Eeandry, of Oohoes, N. T., led $150 to her lover, became insane tVinf aVio onnM nrtt aat it 'U 11 t,t Ig VUMV WUV Wtk4-M ?4V? QV* *? k, and di*)d in an asylum. . neighboiing tanner notifies %3 pub that parlies leaving their bides will e them thoroughly tanned and dresa n a satisfactory manner. Miss Sliewart, of Hamilton, On-; 3, has recovered $700 damages from >ver, wh<< forsook ber titer an en ement of twenty-six years. Baltimore jury gave a young lady a Uot of ^11,000 against Joseph A. 4S, a well known Baltimorean, for, ich of promise and seduction, ews has been received that three, ich Catholic missionaries, sent out m Algerian society, were beheaded last of January, while on the road imbuctox a examiiation of a large lake re ly discovered some forty miles west Laramie, W. T., disclosed a thick r of sulphate of magnesia in a pure i at the bottom. oly six persons- have been hanged in necticut during the last thirty years, only two of these for offenses corn ed out of prison, the other four ng taurdered prison officers. , wading,* Pa., has sixty building aaso ons, whose joint receipts are -about 000 a month. The rapid and sub tifll progress of the city is ascribed local paper to their operations, machine has been invented, after a y of ten years, for making"seamless ir boxes. It rolls them from the i, and will make 600 an hour, no er whether they are large or small, id or square. lady, who lately returned from jpe, was waited upon by a friend had also Deen aoroau, auu wuu pxo td this request : " Can you give me .rquis' card ? I can give you two vis its in exchange," Cleveland councilman voted in favojt ratting new seats in the council aber, because, as he said, "whena r slipped from under a member the >rs said he was drunk." He wanted rs that wouldn't slip. is torn house officers are stationed at y door of the Exhibition buildings je that no dutiable articles are car away. This makes a good deal of ble for visitors with bundles?the It of previous shopping. 'hen air balloons were first discov " --1?J ~TW. !,. some one nippauujr u?cu xjv. lklin what was the use of it. The oeopher answered the question by ng another. " What is the use of w-born infant? It may .become a . ft T ' man being tried for assanlt and bat in Virginia City, Nevada, when id by the judge if he had anything? say by way of defense, replied': 'ell, your honor, I saw but little of fight, as I was underneath most of time." j - contemporary, apropos of recent its, gives the following sage hint: ice to public men : bo conduct , private business correspondence you shall not be frightened half out our wits when there is a chance of eing made public. siting magistrate (to pauper lunatic) Well, William, you have been here ly ten years; I suppose you would to be discharged. ?" P. L.?" 'Deed rir; you don't think I am so crazy as iat, do you ? I'm very comfortable,* k your honor 1" bankrupt astonished the judge and f one else in the Cambridge county tin England by suddenly drawing i a bag with 800 sovereigns and. ling it to the judge for safe deposit, aid he had no faith in the trustee, had, therefore, secreted the gold. Well," said the captain, " before can be a sailor you must be able- to a tiiree ends to ciiai piece U1 X Ujyu# it." "All right," stud the young " here is one end, here is another, (ohucking it overboard) there is a I." The captain thonght he would i Ohio editor says of a contemporary had assumed the part of a mummy dramatio performance: He was jed to put a little animation into ielf to come up with the. character, to wear more recent linen; but that about all. Nature had admirably ified him to act the part. stupid young man, supposed to be k brained, who was slighted by the i, very modestly asked a young lady she would let him spend the cven withher." "No," she angrily re 1, "that's what I won't." " Why," ied he, *#you needn't be so fussy ; dn't mean this evening, but some ny one when I can't go anywhere ora Tempie s umu um uc^ucu.^ i beaten. The following is a list: Ismith Maid, 2:14; American Girl, Lula, 2:16}; Occident, 2:16}; ter (dead), 2:17; Dexter, 2:17}; Net J:18; Cloud, 2:18; Lady Thorn, }; Lucy, 2:18J ; Judge Fullerfcon, ; George Palmer, 2:19}; Bodine, }; Oamors (dead), 2.19}; Flora Tem 2:19}. writer in the London Gardener accidentally discovered that two >8 of geranium and calceolaries, sh stood in his window, the window g always open to full extent, top and om, kept his sitting room free from , while every other room in the neigh lood was swarming with them. He ks the discovery ought to encourage ?r gardening. he word "derrick" is an American , and yet it had its origin in Eng I. Early in the seventeenth century, m the office of hangman in England no sinecure, one Derrick held the U3, and among Puritans and cavaliers e, his name became associated with gallows. The Puritans brought the d hither, and gradually it was ap id to hoisting cranes by a very nat l process of metonymy. The word ears only in American Qiuuumuiv... 'he following specimen of English, are and undefiled," is from tho Liv ool Times : A doctor was lately imoned to a cottage at Harwood, in Bclale, and fonnd a boy in need of services. "Put out your .t<?pgue," I the doctor. The boy etarcd Hke an . " My good boy," said fee medical 3, " let me see your tongue." alk English, dootor," said tho moth and then, turning to her son, she I: " Hoppen thy gobbler and put thy lolike." Tho boy'e tonffrto wn? in a moment."