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THE ABBEVILLE BY W. A. LEE AND HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., & BANNER r WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1876. VOLUME XXIY.-NO. 16. Woman. Ad angel wandering oat of heaven, And a 1 too bright for Eden eveD, Once through the paths of Paradise Made luminous the auroral air, And walking in hid awful guise Met the Eternal Father there? Who, when he saw the truant sprit?, toiled love through all those bowere of light The while within his entranced spell Oar Eden sire lay slumbering near; God saw and said it is not well For man alone to linger here? Theu took that angel Yj the hand ADd with a kiss its brow he pressed, ADd whispering all his mild command, laid it near the tleeper's breast, earth enough to make it human? He ch&iued its wings ana cauea it nomtn. And if perchauoe some stains of rust Upon her pinions yet remain, Tis but the mark of God's own dust, The earth mold of that Eden chain. ?T. B. Bead. THE MOTHER'S STRATAGEM. One sunny morning, a few years ago, Jan Kammerick came np from the cabin of his barge?which his men were slowly wm-lrinn Virnnrrh ft lnffc nPAT thft rmflint. and ancient city of Antwerp?and set his huge feet upon the deck. His first act was to bellow ferociously at the good natured fellows *who were doing their best to get the barge through without even so much as scraping the fresh paint on her side*; his next was deliberately and cruelly to kick a small boy who was ljiug on his back, and looking up at a carved wooden figure whose grotesque head grinned from a side rail. Many of the loungers along the banks of the lock knew old Jau Kammerick for a mean and cruel Flemish boor, who maltreated his wife, his children, his bargemen, and who sometimes flew into such terrific fits of anger that he thrashed his own sides with his round fists. No one in Antwerp?not a market woman on the shore of the Scheldt, nor a bargeman on river or canal?liked the cholerio and brutal Jan Kammerick; many times the wretch had narrowly escaped a duckiDg at the hands of a mob because of his cruelties; and on this oocasion, seeing the pcor child who was kicked begin to cry and to crawl awky toward a refuge under a pile of rope, every one shouted: " Jan Kammerick ! Jan Kammerick ! you are a mean, bad man, and no one will be sorry when jou come to harm I" or "Jan Kammerick! you shall be com r\t (tifl indnro nf tV>? disfricf.1" piftlllPU Vi WV VUV . , The women shook their fists at him, j and the men mnttered that the boy > most be taken away from his crael father and cared for. Kammerick's ; poor wife, who was washing her pots and j kettles on deck, looked as if she in wardly sympathized with the people on shore; but she trembled, and dared say nothing. Jan was in such a dreadful temper that the cries of the people on shore made him more furions still. . "It's none of your business," he shouted, "how much I pound and kick this brat I Ee is good for nothing but whittling and breaking knives. If he craves any more of his pudding faces out of my boat rails, I'll send him adrift. Then you will have what yon want 1 Then, neighbors, you will have a pauper on your hands; and when you feed him in your kitchens, he will carve doll puppets out of your table legs." Then he vanished down the hatchway, followed by the maledictions of the by standers. "If I were you," cried one of them to the boy, "I would run away." The barge went on through the locks, and the boy still crouched in his corner. The tears yet dimmed his eyes, but he had already forgotten his bruises. There was no resentment in his heart toward His wretcnea iatner. ru* miua was nn ed with a thousand beautiful and fan - tastic images?delicate fancies which he now and then sought to embody iu bits of wood that he laboriously oarvei with clumsy knives or chisels. He longed to be free from the rude work whioh he was compelled to do upon the barge, and to study, that he might become a great aoulptor in wood. When the barge passed near some of the curiously adorned old houses of whkh there are bo many in Antwerp?nouses wuose roofs, whose arches, whose doors were richly and profusely adorned with carv ings of birds and foliage, of beaste ami dragons, of mystical figures from my thologies, or oomical transcripts from evary-day Dutch life?he studied them carefully and witn deep adoration. He had never been allowed to go into the streets, and look at them for hours at a time, as he could have wished to do ; for old Jan, who plied to and from a little village on the banks of the Scheldt, at some distance from Antwerp, would never allow his child to go on shore during his tri-weekly visits to th? city. TT~ J r XltJ J't'-KTIIUU iUf tt Ol^Ul ill bUO ginuu churches of wLiich his mother had told him?cathedrals in whose solemn still ness he could stand undisturbed all the day long, drinking in beauty at every pore. The harhhnuss and hardship of his life, the beatings of his unnatural father, would have been as nothing to him if he could have been allowed to learn aomething of art. Hut old Jiin not oiily refused to allow him to work, but had thrown into the river many beautiful images of saints, of birds, of dragons, whidh the child had carved by stealth when the bargeman was not near, and had then offered to the boor, asking him to Rell them and buv tobacco for himself with the mo::ey. " No child of my shall wafcte his life over such mummeries," said old Jan. While the boy was musing bitterly on hi* lot, hi3 mother, who had finished washing her pots and kettles, came to him, and while she wrung out her dish cloth with her lean and blistered hands, he said, in a low voice : "Jan, boy, you are small and feeble, but you are now thirteen, and I thiiik you would be brave and resolute. The good soul down stairs " (she always call ed Father Jan good soul, because she knew that he was aa old brut^) " the good soul has made up his mind that you are to be a bargeman, and he is etern, as you know. Now?do not speak?we must try a new way to get you launched in the world." (Here the mother's tears begun to fall fast, and she thcmght 'of the beatings which she might receive if she carried out her plan.) 4' My child, yon must leave us; you must run away I" The boy's eyes flashed; he rose, and i limped toward his mother. i " Never I" he said. " I cannot leave : yon motherkin ! Leave yon with that 1 mau I" ] " Listen, child 1" she 6aid. " We will i try a little way which Lhe good God has 1 pnt into my head. You will be a genius, ' cay son?one of those great people who 1 3an express just what they want to say. j ?ou will carve out your thoughts in j wood?in stone, perhaps. To-night, j when the barge stops near the lock, I 1 will make an errand for your father on ' shore. I will give you a few pieces of | money out of the sum which we had j saved for Bertha's dowry, and you shall j By. lour latner will not limit lor you; liis htart is hard, and l'o will s y that tie is glad you are gone." The l?oy looked at his mother with wonder in his eyes. But there was no longer any sign of tears in them. A new tire lit them up. " Go," she continued, " to Gasker Willems, in the little street near St. Andrew's. There take a chamber, and may God be with you! Now and then, perhaps, I may come to see you. But it is better that I should not, and that your father should think you gone i.way, no one knows where. But?and now listen earnestly?in a year from this day, toward sunset, I will bring your father to Saint Andrew's church. It was tViof Via fl-rak oaw mo f.wfintv veflTS ago; there by the great carven pulpit, which you, poor child, have never seen, but which will delight your eyes. Jau, one year is not a long time but you have already doue muoh, and perhaps, before twelve months have passed, you will have done a noble work. Meet us, th-n, by the pulpit in St. Andrew's church in a year from this day, at the sunset hour. Bring with you some delicate carving as an offering to him, and at the same time say that you winh to return to us. Perhaps his heart will have been softened by your absenoe;" and the good little mother almost smiled, and looked very wise through iier " Motherkin," said Jan, " I will obey < _ * 91 you. Then the poor child begun to tremble at the thought of going out alone into the worl I. But his courage came to i him finally, and he kissed his mother ' again and again. " If anything dreadful happens I will i let you know," said she, "but father i Jan must not hear from you, nor see i you, until a year from this day." "Farewell, then, motherkin," said the child; "farewell for a long, long vear. Bv the carved pulpit in Saint : Andrew's, in a twelvemouth !" They took their farewells then and I there, lest old Jan should suspect them, ] if they were crying toward evening. , At nightfall, as the barge approached < the lock again, after its station near a market all day, the. mother went on i 3hore to get a pail of clear water; old 1 aid Jan followed her, btorming and i threatening, as she knew he would be- ( cause supper for the workmen was not 1 ready. The boy took the little bag of slothes and the money which his mother I bad prepared for him; as the boat grazed i the si le of the lock he jumped out, and ' was speedily lost to view in the crowd. 1 Two hours later, he had been received s it the house of GaRker Willems, in the < lime street near ot. auurew a cnuruu. He Blept in an old carven bedstead, whose headboard -was a pictured history of the destruction of Pharaoh's host, whose feet were griflSus' claws, whose curtain por-ts -were lovely angels with uplifted faces. * * * ? * * A year brought sad changes to old Jan Kammerick. At first when he learned of his son's flight, he ascribed it to meddlesome neighbors, and his rage knew no bounds. He stoutly in sisted that he would never try to bring back the vagabond wood hacker. He would not hear the boy's name spoken. Sometimes, when he saw that the moth er loOKer paier man was ner wont, uuu that she wept silently when she was polishing her pots and kettles, his con science smote him. But he would aever have been really sorry if misfor tune had not come upon him. One of his bargeman, whom he had once beateD, scuttled the barge and fled. Jan and his wife had a narrow escape from drowning, and, Lad it not been for friendly aid, would have lost all theii pots aud kettles. Young Jan had been ^nt away to Brussels by the good Gas ker Willems, a ft-w days before this, and knew nothing of it until many days uf.erward. He was busy with his art, in which he made astonishing progress. The next misfortune wh.ch befell old Jan was the loss of his little house on the banks of the Scheldt. A fire burned out the interior, and cracked the stone walls. Old Jan had not money enough to rebuild it. Then his limbs began to ItiU lilLLIy l/UOJ' OUUl'ii uuu i/jl vui The neighbors said: " It is because he kicked and beat his son I" Ard old Jan himself began to be very much of their opinion. He had now only a small barge; was obliged always to live in it, and was very poor and discouraged. Sometimes his heart was softened toward his patient wife, and he would say: ' You will be the first to be kiiled by my poverty. It would have been better for you if I never had seen you in St. Andrew's church." Then she would answer: " No, in deed 1 Our fortune is yet to oome out of that church, Jan." She said this so often, and with such emphasis, that one day he looked at her curiously and said: " Why, Anneken, what do you mean ?" " To-morrow," she answered, M we shall see. Jan, it is many years since we have taken a holiday. We are as good as the rest of the world; let us live our youth over again; let us stay in Antwerp, and at sunset to-morrow let us visit St. Andrew's church, and stand by the carven pulpit where "? " Stuff!" the old man was saying, when the mother pot her hand upon his mouth. He no loDger threatened or beat her; his punishments had sobered him; his h^art almost yearned for his lost son. isy tne carven puipic," continued the mother, "where we may say a prayer for our lost son." " Well, if you will have it so, An neken," he answered, almost gently. * * * * * In the Netherlands there are many churches filled with rare and exquisite carviiigs, with altar pieces, shrines, pul pits, choirs, vestries, fonts, and sacris-. ties laden with a wealth of intricate work, done in wood by skillful hauds; and in Antwerp the richest specimens of this cnrious labor are to be found. In the great cathedral of *St. Jacques, wnere ireier iraui xvuoeua, mo ptuutoi, lies buried, there are hundreds of rich and fantastic carvings, out of which the fancies of the elder artists peer curi ously at the prosaic present. Some times the birds are a little too odd to be real, the dragons are almost too funny for a cathedral, and the flowers and leaves are not constructed strictly in ac cordance with botany; but, on the whole, you feel that if things in nature are not like those in the carvings, they at least ought to be?so charming, so droll, so satisfactory are they ! In St. Andrew's cnnrch, of which young Jan's mother had so many tender memo ries, stands a large carven pulpit, of a peculiarly daring design for artists who work in wood. It represents a rooky crag near the seashore. Just beneath the crag lies a fishing boat, in whioh stand the figures of the Apostles A drew and Peter. Behind them, on t] right, their fishing ne*s hang upon tree. The apostles are looking earnej lj afr a figure of the Savior, whi< stands in an attitude as if beckonii them; as if saying : "Follow me, and will make ye fishers of men." Two the cleverest artists in the Netherlani gave much time and talent to this d lightful carving. Van Hool did tl foliage, the nets, the rocks; Van Ghe the figures of the apostles and the S rior. The latter Fgure seems to ha-1 genuine inspiration in it; the sculpt has wrought marvelously, bringing e fects out of stubborn wood rarely o tained before. 1 When evening light last ray of the declining sun, reflect* mrouga ine smmeu (jiubbcw ui u shurch, anl softened to the delicacy rammer twilight?falls gently upon th jronp, the sacred figures seem to ha1 ill the supreme finish of marble?m more, they appear to live! So thought the good mother Annekei %b on the appointed day, one year fro bhe time whe? she had sent forth h child into the world to give genii 3cope, and to escape from his hai hearted father, she led the feeble ar now quite subdued old Jan Kammeri< into St. Andrew' church. As the coup jame in view of the pulpit, memorie Bndearing and solemn, came to ther the spect?rs of their vanished youl rose up before them, not in mockir 3hape, but as good spirite, come 1 ;heer them on the path of life. 01 Jan remembered ho w tie bad seen tt fair maiden standing near the pulp with her- hands folded and her eyi closed in prayer, and how he had swoi bo win her as his wife. He was glad 1 had come into the church, and then?1 thought of his son. At that moment there was a joyful ci from the mother, and young Jan, wo: flerfully improved in voice, in manne and in health, rushed into her arms. Tri'oaaa an/3 a VialF a Vmriflr* UUUUJCU HiUOV/Dj HUM M MWAk M words sufficed for them; for the goc little mother bad kept herself informs of all her son's progress, through tl medium of old Gaaker Willems. Bi the father was astonished beyond mea are. He stepped back, trembling ; am shading his eyes with his hands, 1 looked long at the youth. "Hey day, son I" he cried; "t thought we had lost you! But here yc ire back again, and no word of roper ance?" Old Jan tried to be severe, but h voice softened at every word. "Father," said the youth, "I brii you a peace offering." Just then Gasker Willems came ho bling up, bearing a large box, which 1 placed upon the cathedral floor. Tour Jan opened it, and took from it a piei jf wood carving. " Qaicklyl" said Gasker Willem ifter he had been greeted; " look this before the beadle sees us, for ifr time when many stroll into the churc! 3nirtfelv. and then let us all cro ia u louse." Young Jan stepped to a point ne: ;he jjulpit, where the light still fell wil some sharpness, and held up the catvini Then the astonished parents saw that was an exact reproduction, on a tir ?cnle, but done with surpassing finis] )f the pulpit before whioh they stood i ;hat instant. But this was not all. 1 front of the miniature pulpit, stood maiden, with eyes downcast, and ham :olded in prayer ; and near her, watcl .ng her reverently, with parted lips ar expectant air, was a brave young barg nan, exactly like those one may s< svery day on the Scheldt. In this car ing old Jan and his wife saw the story i hfrtxAi* mflfltincr frVM oq f.VlA mnf.lli had bo often told it to her son. "Father," Baid the youth, "this, an mother like it, have been my year work. The fellow to this has been sol to a prince for a large sum of monej and the priuce wishes, to help m<* 1 *tudy until I can help myself more. Bi [ shall not nped him ; and neither mot Kr nor you will ever work more, for tl prince's bounty, with my fnture wori will be enough for us all. Father, w: yon take my offering?" Old Jan bowed his head, and took tl carving. Ho set it down upon the c theilral floor, and took his son to h arms. * <i T moo on aI/I Kvnffi " )tA OOi/T ** Vir (lid I ever become such a scoundrel ?" On the way to Gasker Willems', whe the party took supper, the good mot er told the husband of her stratage to help ner child. Old Jan said but thi "A good wife i< a good thing ; but have not merited one 1" Gasker Willems, who was bringing i the rear with the carving in his arm said: "Say rather that you have merit< nothing like the rest of us ; but th God is good, and moves in mysterio ways ; and that your tough heart con only have been softened by the strat gem which He sent into the mothei mind!" "Well, well said old Jan, "I mn try and get grace enough to thank Hi properly."?Nicholas. Mind Your Own Business. # When you first begin life make ti resolutions, and stick to them : First, mind your own business; second, to ] the business of other people alone. Those people who are always meddli with the affairs of others are a nuisam and ought to be legally abated like a: other nuisance. We would rather live near a soap i boiling establishment or a petroleum ] finery than near one of them. If you belong to that class of nu ances we ritv von. foryour life is an u easy and unsatisfactory one. You c never be happy, because it is utterly ii possible that you can ever find o everything that is going on i i your < cinity. What is it to you if your neighb does bring home a brown paper packa and a covered basket? You will li just as loDg if you never know wb they contained. It is none of yo business. Suppose Mrs. B. has a new bonne how doeB that concern you f Your lil liberty and sacred honor are in no w inj ured by the fact. Suppose she d T>ftV if a rr* nr* att r? ? j V*v AVI AW* J.UO iUVUCJ U1U JLI come out of your pocket, and cons quer.tly it is none of your business. What if the minister does call on Ai Eliza Smith twice a week ? Why ex< cise your brain over it? What if he oourtingher? Let him court away. Sn pose she has an awlul temper and po ders her face, as you pay he does, h temper will not trouble you. Don't be forever poking your no into everybody's business. If o ypuDg lady "cuts out" another youi lady it is nothing to you. He isi making love to you nor any of yo folks. What if they do have thiee pairs fitookings apiece over at Squire Hill Haven't they a right to ? As long you don't do the washing it need n trouble you at all. If Hill's shirts a three inches longer than common, doi excite youreelf about it. If you hadi been watching the clothesline you nev would have known anything about and "where ignoranoe is bliss, 'tis fol to be wise." Iho Jains of India. The Jains of the East Indies are very peculiar in their ideas of animal life. Thev constitute, perhaps, the most effi cient "society for the prevention of cruelty to an ' in *he world. It ie a cardial duty imposed by their faitb to preserve and earn for the lives of the brute creation. ^?j;.ual food they will not partake of on any account. They have erected hospitals for siok and maimed animals in many places, and de vote a great deal of money and time to this exoessively benevolent object. Their "Pinjrapol," or animal hospital, at Bombay, is a large and conspicuous building in the center of the Black Town, which bears comparison, in point of architecture and spaciousness, with many of the Hindoo temples. The Jain who, as he passes along the city street or country road, finds a wounded beast or bird, is impelled to take it up tender ly, to carry it home and miniater to it, or to convey it to the PinjrapoL This institution is conducted much as are human hospitals. The four-legged pa tient is kept and nursed until it is cured; or, if its injuries are permanent, the hospital is its residenoe for life. Bousselet's brief and picturesque ac count of a visit to the PinjrapoJ is curi UUfl ttUU tUJULUOJLUg J.UU gV/y XJLL first plaoe, into a large court surround ed by sheds, in the midst of which are kept a number of oxen. There is noth ing more curious than this assembly of sick quadrupeds. Some have banuages over their eyes; others, lame or in a helpless condition, are comfortably stretched on clean straw. Their attend ants rub them down, and bring the blind and paralyzed their food, from this court we pass into another of less extent, containing dogs and cats in the same pitiable oocdition. A little further on is an inclosure reserved for bipeds. Aged cows spend their lives peaceably in company with bald vultures and buz zards tnat have lost their plnmage. At the other end of the court a heron, proud of his wooden leg, strutted about in the midst of blind ducks and lame fowls. All the domestic animals, and those that dwell in the vicinity of man kind, have here their representatives. Kats are to be seen in great numbers, and display remarkable tameness ; mice, sparrows, parrots, peacocks, and jackals, have their asylum in this Jain hospital. However ridiculous this institution may seem, it is yet an example of the kind ness and humanity of these people, whose charity would not allow any be ing created by the Almighty to suffer ; and we can forgive what appears to us an absurity to those men who can boast that they have covered India with their ' dharamsalas' for poor travelers, and have enriched the hospitals by theii princely donations." _ Made in Egypt, Egypt furnishes an illustration of her own somber architecture. There were manv niftier casts of Ecrvotian scuId tore, queer brass ornaments, old armor, unfamiliar Eastern products. The sen timeutal effect was marred, however, by the cards of prices affixed to many arti cles. A sti'l greater departure of my mind from retrospective thought, a cor respondent says, was caused by what I saw in one of the glass cases. The arti cle to which I allude is labeled: " Night Shirt?price, $70?Sold to Miss Ord way." The privilege of selling any ar ticle on exhibition is accorded by the managers, the only restriction being that a delivery to the purchaser cannot bo made before the close of the show and that the regular duty must be paid. Miss Ordway's night shirt is beautiful, peculiar and open to objection for use ?V?r??-*onnUla /tli'mufA TKa fnrfura 1U liUO uuau^cauio Uliuiavoi AUU wvawiuv is like a web, ho slight that it will inter pose no barrier to sight or cold. Mos quitos will reach between the threads and bite Miss Ordway if they are not too polite. Every breeze will blow npon her body nnchecked. Hand worked npon the gossamer fabric are fanciful figures in gold thread, and the founda tion being so siight, they look at a little distance r>8 though entirely unsupport ed. Miss Ordway, when arrayed in this night shirt, will depend largely upon herself for the beauty of the effect The cloth will not cover her more thickly than a veil, and the embroidery will seem to rest upon her flesh. She will have old leaves and vines on her back, a cluster on each shoulder, another on hei breast, and vines will trail down her arms. The effect will be at least unique. In tile subdued light of her sleeping .1.3 i_ x? i i.i j room?emu omy, wj wrtmj lubeuw miu purposes of appearance, in a few gold leaves and vines?she will depend for beauty, as I remarked before, entirety upon herself. Coming down to a prac tical consideration, I wish to record mj prediction that she will catoh cold. The garment is unsuited to any but Oleo patra's scorching clime. It will cost, with the duty, about 8100, end is short for the price. It must hang in the case until Ootober, to be admired by thou sands of women. Miss Ordway, I lean by inquiry, is a beautiful girl of Read inn Po Transfusion of Blood. Frank Gray was stabbed in th< neok by Thomas Kerwin. at George town, Colorado. He bled so that it wai not believed he conld live, and lay in t semi-unconscious state. The attending physicians determined, as a last resort to try the effect of transfusing blooc ioto his system. Kerwin, who stabbec Gray, agreed to supply the blood, anc the experiment was made. The poor fellow seemed in the verj grasp of death before the operation oom menced. Physicians could detect n< Eulsation whatever at the wrist; to ands and feet were cold and clammy like those cf a corpse; the eyes hac only a vacant stare, betraying no intelli gence ; and when spoken to he appearec entirely unconscious of the import o; the words spoken to him. Blood was drawn from Kerwin's arn: and kept at the temperature of the bod] by immersing the bowl containing it ii water, the temperature of which wa< regulated by a tnermometer. mi fibrine or clot was then carefully re moved, an incision made in a vein of th< right arm and the blood forced into th( incised vein through a small syringe. About four ounces of the blood drawi from Kerwiu's arm were injected ink Gray's and in a short time the pulse was quite perceptible, the extremities re sumed their normal condition and be came warm, consciousness returned, and although he did not attempt tc speak he evinced a knowledge of whal was said to him and replied to questions by manual^signs. The strength given hiir by this acoession'of.blood, probably pro longed his life some hours, but aboui one o'clock the next morning he breathec his last. Singulaji Epitaph.?On a tombston< at Shutesbury, Mass., is the following epitaph, dated 1793: Hie Jaeet Job&bncB 8traw, Who forty years followed the law: When he died, the devil cried, " John, giro as year paw I" A Railroad Sing. American rioh men are of all racet Girard was French; Hopkins was Eng lish; Jacob Barker was Yankee; the Ln ingstones -were Sootch; the Barronswer Spanish; Astor -was a German; an Stewart, Irish; Vanderbilt and Garriso: were Dutch, of Holland stock. Com modore Vanderbilt, without going fa from home, and merely improving th century's great opportunities aa they be gun and consolidated in the waters o New York, gained a gigantio fortune He took to the water in childhood, aroa in the infancy of steam navigation, am lived the whole period actively betwsei the eras of Robert Fulton and Georg M. Pullman, between the stage coac] and the palace car. The extent of rail roads in America in the commodore* eighty-second year of age is 76,00 miles; the earliest American locomotiv engine builder, Peter Cooper, is sti] alive. A tram Ma just passed m eigne; hours from New York to San Francisco or less time than was oommonly require* to go from New York to Washingtoi when Vanderbilt begun steamboating There are in 1876 80,000 miles of rail road in North America, and 184,000 ii the wofld. The heir of the Ptolemie has failed as the owner of a railroad ant a realm, and his sultan is deposed. Indi is full of British railways and so wa Polynesia. Length of days and opportunity conn vastly in the returns of a merchant' life. The steamboat was invented in th eight of Yanderbilt's birthpiaoe, oi Staten Island, and he saw and probabl; knew Robert Fnlton. Up to that tim< he had been a mere waterman and sloo] captain, sailing no further than Ne\ Brunswick, on the Baritan, or Shrews bury, or Kingston. His knowledge o the waters led him to be employed b; the steamboat rivals of Livingstone ant Stevens as early as 1816. He was mon properly a product of Long Island thai of Staten Island, and of NewJerse; than of New York. It is fourteen mile 1 from Staten Island to New Brunswick 1 six miles to New York, one mile to Eliz abethport, and eight miles to the opei ocean. Within these limits the younj Vanderbilt kaew every shoal, current and sounding. He was besides iutelli gent, bold and athletic; so he was im mediately needed when capital and in vention were prepared with the steam boat. Elizabethport was the end of th main road across New Jersey to Ne\ York, rocks and marshes intervenin) above that point so that no road was fi for travel beyond it, when Washington proceeding to New York to be inaugur ated, took a barge from Elizabeth poin to the first capital. The man who ad ministered the oath to Washington oi that occasion introduced Fulton and th steamboat to America. " Vanderbilt's confidence was seen i his driving," says one who knows him " He was so blind he could hardly se the hair on his horse, and yet he rodi out every day, being several time thrown into ihe road. He had just sens enough to believe that if he kept th middle of the road people would get ou of his way. That's the course he too] in all things; he never turned out un less compelled to." The grandeur of Vanderbilt's flnan cial transactions was shown in his Hai lem corner at the close of the war. Th stock was selling at forty in the market par at fifty. If there were 70,000 share it required only $2,800,000 to buy th whole stock. At par Vanderbilt & Oo bought up the whole stock, while th "shorts" offered sixty- Having go the stock, it went up gradnally to $180 at or about which ;3gure the brokers an< I nvmAinola Vin/3 fi% cofllo Krnolr VUOU piUM^/aio UHU WW IUMW*V V* VA VMU making a profit to the Vanderbilt, poo of say nine millions, or nearly thre times the whole amount of the invest inent. One of his greatest days was lab in December, 186?. He had purchase* nr ormf.rollftH fthnnt ISO.000 shares 0 New York Centred stock. Getting to 1 gether a quorum of directors in nigh session, they declared a dividend o eighty per cent, and announced it'nex morning. The stock almost instantl; jumped from 120 to 165, and the flhor interest had to pay over five millions o dollar# to the commodore's coterie. Hi great age befriended him; for he mad 1 tbe bulk of his fortune after he was sev enty years old. In a Boy's Pocket. A teacher's letter contains the follow ing: A noise one day breaking th silence of the schoolroom, the offende was swiftly brought to justioe, and hi , spool confiscated. Another minute, an anoiner noise irom me same ueuuqueu ?this time a file. Reflecting the economy of time might be useful in th case, I desired Master George to brin me all he ha,d, and reluctantly there wa poured forth sach an unending streai of treasures that I dispatohed an assisl ant for the saucer of a flower pot i which to place them. A list is in ordei A rubber ball gnawed at one side, ton yards of twine, three peewees, two slat pencils, a piece of soap, a copper, si board nails, a pickle, a fishhook, a bur a letter which had once been pink, be now, alas !?five lozenges, a top, a doll' boot with the handle in it, a gold stu weepingly confessed to be "My man mie's," a patent lock, key attached, niece of arum with tooth impressions, leaf from a. speller round a treacheroc piece of tar, two kite-knobs, a scissor, watch key, a pipe bowl colored an scented after the latest epioorean styl< a shoestring, a whistle, four scarl< beans, an inch doll, two bobbins, a Irishman's jackknife, a lampwick, thre pieces of rainbow coal, five jacks:onei a photograph, a tack hammer, a ring, skillet leg, a metal toe,-a rabbit's tai Total, sixty-five I 5 Floating. | These plain directions from the San . tarian, if remembered, may save the lid L of one who falls into deep vrater, eve f if he has not learned how to swim: Me are drowned by raising their arms abo\ water, the unbuoyed weight of whic depresses the head. Other animals ha\ neither notion nor ability to act in a sin ilar manner, and therefore swim natt rally. When.a man falls into deep wa er, he will rise to the surface, and wi continue there if he does not elevate hi l^nds. If he moves his hands undt water, in any way he pleases, his hea will rise so high as to j:ive him free lit erty to breathe; and if he will use hi legs, as in the act of walking (or rathe walking np stairs), his shoulders wi rise above the water, so that he may tu ihe less exertion with his hands, or aj ply them to other purposes. Floods Id Switzerland. Eastern Switzerland is suffering s< verely from floods caused by heav rains and melting snow. The canton c Thurgau, whioh is entirely inundatec is 384 square miles in extent, and h? about 95,000 people. The serious dan age the railroads have suffered is one c the worst effeota of the mountain to; rents, since it will retard the aid that ; sent to the homeless THE INDIAN WAR. The FUtht with the Slonz on Roaebnd Creek A Deaperate Conflict?The riloux Pre pared lor Deaperate Flchtlnr. An important battle has been fought at the head waters of Rosebud creek, be tween the hostile . Sioux, numberiug 2,500, under Sitting Bull of the North, and the column under the command of Brigadier General George Crook, com posed of 1,800 mounted soldiers. The fight lasted five hours, and resulted in the discomfiture of the savages, although not before 'Jiey had inflicted on the troops a loss of ten killed and twenty wounded. On their own side they sac rificed by the bold attaok which they made about one hundred warriors and an equal number of ponies, but thereby saved for the time being their village, which, according to the guide, lay a dis tance of only six miles from the battle flnlrl Tinfailfi nf f.ViA hftkMfl ATA on'vAn ftfl follows: The troops left the camp early in the morning and had marched abont ten miles np the valley of the creek, when a sndden halt was made at a wild signal of the friendly Snakes, with the troops galloping np and shouting: " Sioux I Sioux!" at the same time shots were fired rapidly beyond the low hills bor dering on the stream. The Snakes and Grows, numbering 250, with the troops could not be kept back but dashed forward at once against their ancient enemy, charging the Sioux, and on the first onset made them rapidly reoede. Then ensued a desultory fight for half an hour, the troops in the val ley being delayed from rendering sup port by the necessity of saddling their animals. Oaptain Kane's, infantry com pany was the first to advance to the crest of the ridge north of the valley and there opened fire. Seeing the Grows j and Snakes pressed back by the masses 1 0 of Sioux and flying before them?a high, a steep ridge being peopled by them, and ? their Are deadly?the infantry charged g directly np the narrow backbone, stop ping at every crest to level a volley at : ' them, but saw them retire only to hold 1 2 against them still higher points beyond. , , The Siooz had taken a magnificent position on the stream, commanding the 1 1 ravines through Vhich the troops would ' . probably have passed, and where they < might have been slaughtered like sheep \ . before a charge could have been made. , 0 The conflict was almost a hand to hand v flght, the Sioux oonfldent in their large : ? numbers and the position whioh they 1 \ held. At a moment when the advanced ' line of troops had gained a decisive ad- ] ' vantage and the soldiers were eager for ( a cuargw, mi uruer uauiw iium vjbu. Crook to fall back and connect with the a right of the line, so as to concentrate 1 B and make a general advanbe. This i movement was disastrous. < a The Sioux held all the highest ground, and from several points swept the lower g ridge in our rear with a terrible enfllad ing fire which pressed the line of retreat. 0 As the cavalry retreated elowly on foot 0 and skirmishing, the Sioux made re ? peated charges on the flank and were re j. pulsed by the resolute courage of the ^ men, who, although principally recruits, stood their ground as bravely as veter ans. In forming a junction with the main command a wide hollow must be crossed, which was swept by a rain of e fire from the bluffs, and the Sioux were already preparing to charge from both ' ends. They made every exertion to keep Q the command divided, and their fight ing at this moment was masterly. * Colonel Royall sent to General Crook to t ask support, but before an infantry , company took( position to protect the j retreat he was pressed back so that his men found themselves suddenly in the hollow, the Sioux charging upon them B on two sides and a dropping fusillade cutting them down. Nine men were lHllnrl hflro n.r>H fwflnfv wrmnrlAr?. j Captain Henry was horribly wounded ^ in the head. The infantry, taking posi K tion behind the west incline of the f. ridge, opened fire. At this moment j Captain Hindall, seeing the peril of t the cavalry, set the Crowe and Snakes ? at full speed into the hollow and the lat \ fcer fought the Sioux nobly. One of I them, after Captain Henry bad fallen, s stood and protected him until the sol 0 diers made a dash and bore him off. r_ Sergeant Von Moll separated in the re treat from his company, and, surrounded by Sioux, was rescued by Old Crow, single handed. As soon as the Junction of the line was effected the Eiioux began r- to yieli, and the infantry, under Majors D n4 lrto4. UU1IUWD CUJU JL>LLL l/| U1UVC UULOLLL OU XUOU from the high cone which they had held so long. The Snakes caused their final flight and pursued a party of four Sioux two miles, killed them all and took their scalps. At one o'clock the firing had ceased, and the whole command followed in pursuit; but after moving three miles forward the country appeared so danger ous that General Crook determined to fall back to the point where the battle begun. Meanwhile the Crows were counseling on a bluff abotit the ciroumstances of the fight, and expressing the belief that the soldiers had not promptly sup ported their first advanoe against the Sioux (which was true), and had deter mined to return home. The ammuni tion, only one hundred rounds to the ?i? LLltiLl, wua iXttlJL CJU_U?U3tUU, auu vrcumai Orook conolnded to retorn to the camp and mat e another advanoe after giving rest to the troops, meanwhile hoping to conciliate the discontented Grows. In this he did not succeed. They left for their village, which they fear the Sioux have visited during their absence, Uhe Snakes still remain, but their steadfast ness cannot be relied on. Some of the minor incidents of the fight were horrible. A small squad of cavalrymen, acting as a rear guard on the maroh, were ordered to hold a point on the left. The Sioux surrounded tliem and shot them in the face, only two escaping. Private Richard Bennett's body was disemboweled by the savages and the bands and feet cnt off. The troops behaved gallantly in res cuing their dead and wounded. A corporal of T company, Third cav alry, made a gallant oharge to rescue a comrade from the scalping knife. The Sioux only obtained one scalp, while the friendly Indians captured thirteen of the Sioux, who dragged many of their dead from the field behind their ponies. General Crook reports nine white men killed and fifteen wounded in the Third cavalry, two wounded in the Second cav alry, three wounded in the Fourth in fantry, and Captain Henry, cf the Third cavalry, severely wounded in the face. Tho loss of the Indians cannot be es timated, but thirteen dead' bodies were Inf* An fUfl fl on/1 wnnir Vio/l V?nAr? iuiu ua vuo auu tuuiij uou 10 moved. ' How tocbtstaxijze Fruit,,?Pick out (;he finest of any kind of fruit, leave on their stalks, beat the whites of three eggs to a stiff froth, lay the fruit in the beaten egg with the Btalks upward, drain them and beat the part that drips off again, select them out one by one and dip them into a cup of finely powdered etc ?ar; cover a pan with a sheet of fine pf.per, place the fruit inside of it, and set it in an oven that is cooling; when the icing on the fruit becomes firm pile them on a dish and set them in a cool place. A Forced Execution. Near Clermont Mills, in Hartford county, Md., Almira Street, the young est daughter of Roger Street, was mur dered by Christian Klotz, a youth from the Maryland house of refuge. The Streets are one of the largest and most respected families in Hartford county. Miss Street was seventeen years of age. Her body was found at the foot of the cellar stairs of the house about half past seven o'clock, with the head nearly severed from the body, and an ax, with which the deed i!s supposed to have been committed, lying near by covered with blood. The victim had been en gagaged preparing breakfast and had gone into the cellar for something, when she was attacked by the young man with the ax, who dealt her repeated blows, as was shown by several gashes left on the neck of the corpse. * "Rofnrn fJia arrival nf nhflriff ftTld State's attorney, Klotz confessed the crime and said he had no motive for killing Miss Street, bnt that he com mitted the murder oat of pure wicked ness. A rope was procured and Klotz was taken to the woods, about one hundred yards from the house. The rope was placed aronnd his neck, the end of the rope was thrown over the limb of a tree and, he was pulled up from the ground. Some persons in the crowd objected to banging him and he was cut down be fore he was strangled. Klotz, seeing that death was inevitable, asked for a gun that he might shoot himself. It was then suggested by him that he might just as well hang himself, and he agreed to do so. He climbed the tree unaided and placed the rope around his neck. He then asked if it was properly ad justed. Upon being informed that it was, he coolly tied the end of the rope around the limb on which he sat and saying "good-bye," let himself drop. uramie in suing* A letter in the London Monetary Ga zette says : I was walking along the canal banks in the town of Bolton a short time ago and my attention was called to i barge load of a pearly white snbatance. On examination it proved to be china slay, and in my innooenoe I asked where the porcelain works were located, as I bake great interest in such manufactures. My inquiry was received with loud laughter, and I was informed the kaolin was consigned to Messrs. , a well known firm of cotton spinners. Apropos of this little incident, and somewhat of & commentary thereonr let me add that a gentleman who professes to be ultra ?1"?*V?/r aIVio* slarr fliaf. an reilglUUD bVlU rue *vuo uvuwa vmw* aight-pound shirting now never contains more than six pounds of cotton, and on my asking him if he traded in this fash ion he piously added: "We must go with the stream." Perhaps the machin istea (sewiog machines) are not aware that the frequent breaking of their needles is mainly caused by the resist ance and friction of this mineral adul teration, which is found in abundance in almost all the cotton they sew. Geolo gists tell us that china clay is decom posed granite; no wonder, then, that it should be gritty and break needles. It 11- 1 U1 J."L ? also manes eminently umietuuiy uuo w cnpation of the mill hands, a fact which I recommend to the special attention of the society of the protection of women and children. Manchester, Manchester! this china clay adulteration will be thy death 1 - The Tree Question. Notwithstanding the heat of India, there is, incredible as it may appear, a daily growing demand for fael in that country, and it is suggested by the In- | o/w/?nlf?i*iofn tViftf. nnfriA 1a.?r fihonld I be framed for counteracting the effects of the wasteful destruction of trees for burning and constructive purposes. Id some countries the laws enforce the duty of planting trees. In Japan every per son who cuts down a tree is requiied to plant another in its stead, while in Bis cay a land owner has to put down two plants for every tree he may fell. In Java a fruit tree is planted on the birth of each child) and is carefully tended as the tecdrd of his or her age. In the dis tricts of Azimghur and Goruckf ore the late Mr. H. 0. Tucker greatly encour aged the cultivation of trees by suggest ing to the land holders that they should plant six trees on the occasion of every marriage and two trees on the birth of every child. Such a practice, if en forced by law or encouraged by advice, would commend itself to the population of India, whose natural tastes incline them to it, and in the end lead to bene ficial results, especially if the more talu able description of timber trees were cultivated. The Battle of Waterloo. Sixty-one y< ars ago on Sunday, June 18, 1815, the Emperor Napoleon at tacked the Duke of Wellington at the Belgian village of Waterloo, on the very same ground where a large French division had been cut off from the main army by the Duke of Marlborough on August 1?, 1705. The allied forces numbered 6?, 664 men with 156 guns. The English resisted the fierce French onslaughts from ten A. M. till five M., when 16,000 Prussians reached the field, * 1 frt UlCreiiblLlg ujr dovou kj uivA>A w with 104 guns, with Field-Marshal Blucber at their head. The French were completely routed amid immense car nage ; so fierce was the struggle that the allied armies had nearly 23,000 men placed hors de combat. The ohanges since that day are great. But few of the surviving veterans graced the Waterloo banquet with their presenoe in London. Not only the principal actors in that great historical tragedy are long since gone, but a second JYench empire and another Napoleon have been over thrown. Let us hope, too, the world has grown a good deal wiser and better. A New Industry. The employment of corn cobs for fire lighters has given rise to quite a consid erable trade in Fracce, one of the estab lishments for manufacturing them?that i of La Societe des Alhanettes Landaises, j in Paris?employing a large number of workmen to produce the immense quan tity of tiie article demanded, these light ers being employed with advantage and economy both in private houses and for lightiug furnaces. In one of these pro cesses, they are first steeped in hot wa ter containing two per cent, of salt peter, and, after being dried at a high tempetftture, are saturated with fifty per cent, of resinous matter. By another process, the cobs are immersed in a mixture of sixty parts of melted rosin and forty parts of tar, after which they are taken out and allowed to dry, and then subjected to a second operation, which consists in spreading them out on a metallic plate heated to a temperature of 212 deg. Fah. They are finally as sorted according to size, and tied in bundles for the trade. A Beautiful Lore Story. The young lady was Miss Mary M. Cochran, of Boston. She is a remarka bly fine looking person, apparently twenty-one or twenty-two years of age. She was very stylishly dressed, and pre sented a most interesting appearance. It seemti that two years ago this spring Miss Cochran, accompanied by her moth er and a number of friends from Boston, went to Europe to spend the smnmer. During a brief stay in Carlsruhe, Ger many, Miss Cochran became acquainted with a young German named Charles A. Brandenburg. He was a young man of great ability, well educated, and of re spectable parentage, although they were quite poor. The many noble qualities of heart and head completely won the heart of the young American, and she fell desperately in love with him. This feeling was mutual, and during the in terview this young man related the con dition of things at his father's house. The family was in the hands of a cruel house owner, who not only owned the small house in which they lived, but was also proprietor of the nulls in which the father, sou, and brother earned their scanty pittance. On account of some difficulty, which occurrcd some years before, this man, whose name was titein man, cherished a deadly hatred against the Brandenburg family. So deep was this hatred that he would do everything in his power to keep them down, al though some of the greatest improve ments in his mill had been made by the elder Brandenburg. He so exercised his authority that they were kept in pov erty, and every effort they made to bet ter their fortune was overthrown by the relentless land owner. At last Charles, the eldest bod, determined to come to Amerioi, and try to do something to help himself and family in this country. Snch was the state of affairs when she knew him first and loved him. Two months after they plighted their troth, and Brandenburg sailed for America. Soon after Miss Cochran retnrned to' Boston. A correspondence wan kept np' for over a year following their separa tion. Then the young German, who had been working in New York, and Phila delphia set out for the West and the let ters came less frequently, and finally there were none at all. Daring all this time the young lady remained true to her first love. When she heard no more of her lover she was almost crazy, and as the time grew on, her suspense be came almost insupportable. At last, about two weeks ago, she learned through a roundabout way that the ob ject of her affection was in Indianapolis. She determined to ascertain the truth of fVm unnrf Sn nVifl and her mother left Boston for Indianapolis. She was bound to find her lover, and if he cherished the same sentiments as he did two years ago, when they last met, and seven months ago when she re ceived hnr last letter,* there would be a marriage. The wish was gratified, and the young oouple, who*loved each other devotedly, are now united for life.?Toledo Blade. An Indian Lover. it-seems mas Bumuuiuug uiuio uw^u ing than his pay as a scout has indued 1 the half-breed Kanaka to offer his servi- f J ces to the government and join the ex- s pedition against the Sioui Indians ; ?Jid j qnite a romantic story is afloat concern- I: ing the motives which prompt him to * risk capture, and certain torture and 6 death if caught. - From various .souroes it has been gleaned during the past five years, that ? in Crazy Horse's village there was a cap- I tured white girl, now grown into beauti- 1 ful but untutored womanhood. Indeed, * so young was she at the time of her cap ture, that she appeal's to have no knowl- t edge of her situation, and no recolleo- 1 tion of her past. She is respected and a even reverenced by the Indians to such ' an extent, that none of the young men of the village are permitted to become her suiters ; and she remains as pure as when she was born from the embrace of father and mother. Doubtless she won ders at her fairer complexion, more del icate physiognomy and softer hair, nev er having seen a white man or woman since; but it is thought she attributes the possession of these to supernatural interposition, whereby she was created a princess among her people, in which belief she is encouraged by their unre mitting attention and respect. She.is called Petah San, or the "White Cow. Such is the singular history of this unfortunate young woman, for the truth of which Frank Gruard vouches. More over, he confesses that her beauty and gentleness first won his admiration, and subsequently, as his cupidity progressed, the warmest attachment and devotion, which were in a measure reciprocated. To him she owes the only revelation of her condition; but they were either in explicable, or else she scorned to receive them. Frank was, however, untiring in ? i 1 l <1 , ins anecnon ana zeai xur nox ircu?o, and before his escape, made as many as twenty unsuccessful attempts to carry her off. Last winter he led the troops to what was supposed to be Crazy Horse's village, but it is believed now by most of the officers who participated in the campaign and fight, that it was that of Little Big Man?the instigator of al most a massacre at the Black Hills coun cil last year?and his band of renegade Oheyennes and Sioux. The three scouts will set out on their mission as soon as it is dark, and will travel only at night. To llestore Drowning Persons. 1. Lose no time. Carry out these di rections on the spot. 2. Bemove the froth and mucus from the mouth and nostrils. 3. Hold the body, for a few seconds only, with the head hanging downr so that the water may run out of the lungs and windpipe. 4.' Loosen all tight articles of clothing about the neck and chest. fi. See that the toncrue is pulled for ward if it falls back into the^hroat. By taking hold of it with a handkerckief it will not slip. 6. If the breathing has oeased, or nearly so, it must be stimulated by pres sure of the chest with the hands, in imi tation of the natural breathing; forcibly expelling the air from the lungs, and al lowing it to re-enter and expand them by the elasticity of tho ribs. Remember that this is the most important step of all. To do it readily, lay the person on his back, with a cushion, pillow, or some firm substance under the shoulders; then press with the flat of the hands over the lower part of the breast bone and the npper part of the abdomen, keeping up a regular repetition and relaxation of pressure twenty or thirty times a min ute. A pressure of thirty pounds may be applied with safety to a grown per son. 7. Rub the limbs with the hands, or with dry cloths, constantly, to aid the circulation and keep the body warm. 8. As soon as the person can swallow, give a tablespoonful of spirits in hoi water, or some warm tea or coffee. 9. Work deliberately. Do not give j up too quickly. Success has rewarded | the efforts of hours. Items of Interest London thieves carry a piece of ooal in their pocket, believing thai it gives ;hem good luck. Of the 117 young women in the Miehi Sin University only four have taken to e legal profession. A Cherokee husband and wife, aged linety-flve and ninety-two, died within in hour of each other. Mexico offers $60,000 to any one wbo nil establish a woolen factory then rith a capital of $100,000. Man may learn wisdom from a postage tamp. It sticks to its legitimate btud 1688. Letters profit by it. In Bath (England) abbey ia to "be sees he following: ' Here lie* Ann Mum, he lived an old maid and died an old Una." Forty-seven million pins made daOy n the United States, andyet if a man rants one iie Has to torn cue uoojbo uy ide down to get it The first prize in English composition t the Hopkins grammar school in New laven, Conn., has been taken by Spem er Laisun, a Chinese lad. An English doctor says thai a strong, assionate love will bnng on heart dia ase, and it therefore stands ns all in and to lore mildly and with a good eal of lethargy. Shooting affrays have become common i Dallas, Texas, and the Commercial ays that " the gentle bnzs of the bullet ivals the bee that bumbleth and the losquito that hummetn." Richard Grant White says there is no aoh thing as "in our midst;" but we rould like to know where he would lo ate the pain , that makes paregoric a opular beverage among the young. ' In five States the law of hanging has ow been abolished. These are. with lie dates of their abolition, as follows : lichigan, 1846; Bhode Island, 1853; Wisconsin, 1863; Iowa, 1873; Mains, 876. Aunt Ell wood, a motherly old oolored roman of Boston, responds to s soldier rhoasks the number of her children: 11 have three, honey, that I has to raffle for?and three as can scuffle for homnnlvflfl." Of tlxe fourteen tunnels between Los jigelos and Oaliente, GaL, the SanFer ando is the largest, being more than a lile and a qnarter in length. It will be omplcted bv the end of July at a cost f 83. TOO.OOO. The Spaniard drinks little but water, at the bulk of the suooulent vegetables nd fruit eaten by him is. surprising; alf a pound of bread, an ordinary soap late filled with stew, and a pound or wo of grapes, would be no more thin an versge meal. A neighboring city can boast of on* f the best boys in the world. He sits n the back porch and watches the birds nd sings: "There is rest for the reary," while his mothor breaks-her iaok prodding around in the onion bed nth a casetouie. " My son/'^said an affectionate moth ir Jto her son, who lived a little way torn her, and expected in a short time oget married, "yon are getting very liiiL" "Tea, mother,"he replied, "I nn, and when I come naxt I think you rill see my rib." The desert of Sahara oovero about 1,000,000 square miles. Moist, of it if ibont 1,500 above the sea Wei, bat a jortion covering 126,000 square miles is >elow the sea level, and a project for nundating it from the Atlantic ocean is leriously talked of. In Shetland, which is the part ot Scotland whence Shetland ponies origin ally came, some of the ministers live on (100 a year. They are expected to be as tardy as the ponies, and to live as oheap y. One minister, who has a wife and our children, gets abont $125. A Kanww City man got angry with a >anker of that place for demanding a teavy discount, and when the banker aserted it was "business," replied : 'Business? Business? You sit here all lay and rob a man barefaced before-hi* tack, and call that business 1" ? It is a well authenticated fact that dean uffa have an unaooountable tendency to ecrete themselves somewhere in the im aediate vicinity of the elbows, while irtv ones exhibit a willful and exaa >erating determination to rtMMun ob ruaively in the vicinity of theTfiucklee. Circumstantial evidence: " Oiromn tances alter cases, yon know," remark* d a Scotch lawyer to an old farmer lient " Terra true, sir/' replied the inner, "and cases-alter ciroumstanoes s weel; for, man, I mind when ye were onng and had bnt few cases, your dr ums tan oea werna ower braw." , George G. Whittier, an old man of eventy, rode into Biddeford, Me., the ther day, attired in the regimentals rhioh he used to wear to "general train tigs" fifty years ago. Some rude boys brew stones at his horse, the old tain ras thrown off, and received injuries rom which he shortly died. Erwin Davie was a San Franciaoo took operator in 1868; Balaton caused lis failure; he went in penury to London nd operated; is said to have financiered o as to produce the Herzegovinan war; las returned rich to California; thinks he Sutro tunnel will save the Comstock; le will attack Flood and O'Brien for su jremacv. ' However doctors may differ as to the )roper methods of treating diseases, all leem to agree as to the importance of he proper regulation of diet as a sani ary preventive. The extreme warm leather admonishes to eat sparingly of neat and other heating articles of food, md to substitute, as far as possible, good fresh vegetables and fruit, milk and bread. T e banns of Daniel Sullivan and Miss Qribben were twice published in a roledo church, and at each assembly fer j wedding Daniel was absent, putting iVfian rh*ihrwm to shame and astonishing the guests. His excuse was a presenti ment that they would not live happily together. After his last offense she rood him for breach of promise, and got a verdict of $10,000. When a man, says an exchange, has baen paying devoted attentions to the lady of his choioe for about two years, and she suddenly writes to thank him for all his kindness and to say that she has given her hand to another, it is the eminently proper thing for the rejected lover to write a most oordial letter of congratulation. It don't mean much, but it reads well in the family circle. St. George, Utah, where Brigham Young dedicated a new Mormon temple, has a population of 1,500 souls. It is located in almost a desert, and was^ built on the strength of a special reveiauuu from the Lorato Brigham. The tempi? is a hnge, ungainly looking structure, _ . without the least pretension to beauty, and the estimated cost is $6,000,000, to raise whioh oppressive titbings have t been collected from the faithfuL A man working in a well in Lock]and, Ohio, was covered with a fall of stone*. Although imprisoned, he was unhurt, and could talk to those who set about res cuing him. A new peril appeared, how ever, in the rise of tne water in the well. Slowly the doomed man was submerged, and the exertions were redoubled to get him out; but tffe water reached his face and drowned him before he oouid be saved. His prayers and straggles to escape were pitiful.